Geyang City, as the closest city to border Zhao from the northwest, Zhao Fu had to make sure that it was in his own hands. In case the battle in Zhongzhou is blocked and the supply of military supplies cannot be obtained in time, the supplies will still have to be transferred from the northwest, and this Geyang City will also become an important temporary transportation center.

Geyang City is not unimportant, Zhao Fu needs a stable rear. And if you choose to take a detour, take the nearest one of other border cities for a day's journey, and you can't afford to delay a day at this time. What's more, Zhao Fuduo has a guess, if the other party has made preparations in Geyang City, then most of the other cities will do the same.

"It's not your person?" Zhao Fu turned his head and asked Zhao Qian.

"No, absolutely not, I told them that I would put a green flag on the city gate to indicate safety, and a red flag to indicate danger." Zhao Qian said.

It is clear that the red flag, which symbolizes the danger signal, flutters in the wind on the gates of Geyang Castle. It seems that those people arranged by Zhao Qian were prepared before being replaced.

"Got it...... Zheng Yuan, you take someone to understand the surrounding environment, and then estimate the time it will take to siege the city. Zhao Fu ordered Zheng Yuan.

Zheng Yuan nodded, and directly beckoned hundreds of cavalry to divide into nine teams and probe far beyond the range of the crossbow arrows in Geyang City.

"Siege? Not very well, why don't we go around it? They didn't dare to go out of the city anyway. Zhao Qian felt troublesome, siege warfare was not an easy thing, not to mention that they brought light cavalry, since ancient times, cavalry siege has been a difficult thing, Zhao Qian is not willing to waste time here in Geyang City.

"No, it'll be fine soon." Zhao Fu didn't mean to waver at all.

Soon Zheng Yuan came back, and he briefly introduced the combat power of Geyang City estimated from the outside.

According to the size of the city, there are about 2,000 defenders in the city, and there are only 100 people scattered on the various walls, which is not a difficult opponent.

"Master, let me come." Zheng Yuan took the lead in asking for help.

"Go ahead." Zhao Fu asked Zheng Yuan to investigate before, and this kind of small city was just handed over to Zheng Yuan.

"Good!" Zheng Yuan immediately began to mobilize troops after receiving permission, although he had not been on the battlefield for a while after the pacification of Beihu, but Zheng Yuan was still the number one cadre under Zhao Fu.

Soon, all the 30,000 Hu cavalry brought by Zheng Yuan took action, and for a while, thousands of horses galloped outside Geyang City. The 30,000 cavalry ran together, seemingly disorganized, but in fact these cavalry quickly entered their predetermined combat position.

They slowly surrounded Geyang City, and always kept a safe distance outside the effective range of the crossbow arrows, which is the quality of a good Hu cavalry, because most of the guys who can't remember the range of the Han crossbow arrows can no longer ride their horses. Zheng Yuan's Hu Qi was carefully selected from the elites of the major tribes, and this balance was always well mastered.

But they didn't immediately attack the city, but waited quietly for something. But that's the case, just quietly marching under Geyang City also brought a great psychological burden to the defenders of Geyang City at this moment.

Soon, the answer was revealed.

There were several columns of centaurs coming from not far away, carrying countless ladders that had just been made.

As early as when Zhao Fu asked Zheng Yuan to investigate the intelligence, Zheng Yuan had already sent another group of men and horses to the nearest woods to cut wood to make ladders.

And at this moment, the tens of thousands of troops under the city are waiting for these simple props.

The Hu people didn't have any bells and whistles siege equipment, they relied on this simple ladder that anyone could make, but with this kind of "big road goods", the Hu people climbed one after another Han people called unbreakable fortified cities.

Although Zheng Yuan led the Hu cavalry, he also received the orthodox Han art of war, and he knew how to operate the catapult and the tower, but it was too hasty to prepare these in a short period of time.

What's more, what is this in front of him, Zheng Yuan of Geyang City still doesn't care about it. The short city wall is not good, and Zheng Yuan will also talk about the leap after his luck.

Those giant siege machines are for big battles, and in Geyang City, the ladder is enough!

What's more, the Hu people relied not on equipment to attack the city, but on courage, the courage to move forward. Behind Zheng Yuan, there were already two hundred pioneers, all of whom were sturdy men, and in the next siege battle, they would take the lead and take the lead in breaking through the defensive front of Geyang City.

Of course, before the battle, the two sides still raised their flags to each other very well.

A cavalryman on Zheng Yuan's side, with a small colorful flag on his back, broke into the range of the crossbow arrows on the walls of Geyang City. But there was no sight of ten thousand arrows firing at once, and the cavalryman was relieved, and then he took out the red and white flags, the white flags waved three times from top to bottom, and the red flag waved twice from left to right.

It means to warn the defenders of Geyang City that it is still too late to surrender, and if we do not surrender, we will not guarantee the personal safety of everyone in the city.

This is the last persuasion.

It's just that there are also soldiers waving flags on the walls of Geyang City, and when the two red flags collide together, the meaning of the defenders of Geyang City is also obvious.

Don't surrender, come to war.

Then the cavalry angrily gestured a few curses with the flag, and hurriedly slipped back, knowing that if he was one step too late, the crossbow arrows that had been aimed at him would tremble collectively.

Just after the cavalry returned to their formation, the war was on the verge of breaking out. Although they were all cavalry, none of these warriors carefully selected from the Hu people were veterans who were familiar with siege warfare, and they were the best foot soldiers when they dismounted. About 10,000 people dismounted in full motion.

"That's it?" Zhao Qian was stunned from the sidelines, this was also the first time he had experienced the battle on the battlefield so closely.

Originally, for him, war was nothing more than a mathematical game, and the addition and subtraction of numbers was the life and death of countless people in the war, and the addition and subtraction of numbers was the lost land or the wealth gained.

But at this moment, Zheng Yuan personally staged a siege battle in front of him, which directly corrected his prejudice against war. Only those who have experienced war up close know that war is a hungry ghost that devours all life.

When the original cold digitization becomes one soldier after another, and in front of one soldier after another, it returns to the cold corpse, this is war.

(End of chapter)