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Under the city of Renqiu, the attack of Yuan Shao's army, which was surrounded on all sides, was once again repulsed, corpses were all over the city, blood stained the city walls, and there was no other sound on the battlefield except for the occasional screams of wounded soldiers who were on the verge of death.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers in and out of the city were panting, and everyone was waiting for a respite before a repeat of the fight.

Yuan Shang and Yan Liang were at a loss when they stood on the position outside the city, and it had been ten days, and the tragic attack had lasted for a full fifty days, and their own army had not gained anything.

Now, judging from the rolling logs and thunder stones dropped on the top of the city, the rolling logs have house beams, rafters, purlins, thunder stones, stone lions in town houses, stone tablets of dead people, and stone bullets that have just been thrown into it by their own catapults, and still carry flesh and blood. And those who stood at the head of the city to fight, judging from the clothing, there were not many Shanglu family troops who were more from the original Yuan family army, and a large part of them were ordinary people. From this point of view, Lu Peng has reached the point of exhaustion.

But the Yuan family's army was dressed in clothes, and the soldiers who killed the original master, the original robe was even more ruthless than the original. The people who should have been forcibly requisitioned to the city, and whose houses and courtyard walls were demolished, did not complain and resent, and fought no worse than the soldiers.

What's going on? Could it be that Lu Peng really has magic, can he really be so deceptive?

"Catapults ready, ready to bombard again." Yuan Shang shouted loudly, he had already entered the point of madness. This is also too embarrassing, he reorganized an army of 120,000 people, and in the face of the Lu family's army, which was obviously only 20,000 horses, he attacked for 50 days without an inch, how could he explain it to his father?

More than thirty hastily built catapults were operated by three or four thousand soldiers again, and the horn of pulling the rope sounded on the position again, and one huge stone after another was put into a leather pocket, and with Yan Liang's order, thirty huge stones rose into the air and flew towards the blood-stained Renqiu city wall.

Yuan Shang stared at those stones nervously, and secretly prayed in his heart that the gods and Buddhas in the sky must have an effect this time.

It may be that Yuan Shang's prayer had an effect, thirty stones, more than a dozen fell outside the city, smashed several large pits in the hard frozen soil, and three stones flew into the city with a roar, but in the end, no less than five stones fell on the city wall, and a section of the city wall collapsed in the flying earth and stones.

Immediately there was an earth-shattering cheer from the city, which was indeed worth cheering, it was the best effect of the catapult in the past ten days.

"Give a reward to the soldier of the catapult, and do so, and give him three or five more rounds, and this section of the wall will collapse, and we will be victorious."

But just when Yuan Shang was excited, he saw that on the city wall, where part of the collapsed part, suddenly there were hundreds of people, including old people and children, and a group of women, who carried boxes and cabinets to block those things in the original gap, and then a group of people carried buckets of water and poured buckets of cold water on them, just in the inexplicable wonder of Yuan Shao's army, a white ice wall flashed dazzlingly in the cold wind of winter, and then there were bursts of cheers from the people in the city.

A gap that had been painstakingly broken open was patched by the enemy in such a short period of time, which was simply dumbfounded.

"That's not the way to do this, let's have a pile of dirt and fill the city." Counseling for painful allocation.

"The north is already in full swing, and I'm afraid it's too late to fill the city." Tian Ji also said bitterly, but he was not really in pain, because it was not his own troops who were attacking the city here, his original remnants and the reinforcements of 10,000 soldiers who were urgently transferred later were arranged to monitor the Lu family army that might go south in the north, and the dead and wounded here were all other people's troops, and they had nothing to do with themselves.

But now he is really in a hurry, because if it takes time to pile up soil, then it will take time, and once the Lu family army under Fanyang City succeeds and goes south, then he will bear the brunt, and the combat effectiveness of the Lu family army can be regarded as a comprehension, what kind of horror is that? Once you go south, you can't resist it no matter what.

Yan Liang felt sorry for his soldiers, in the past ten days, he had lost a full thirty or forty thousand horses, if he continued to fight according to this number, the 100,000 troops he brought would take Renqiu, and there would be not much left, this is all the family of the eldest prince.

In the end, in a quarrel, the method of trial and matching still prevailed, so tens of thousands of Yuan Shang's army immediately changed their profession and changed from soldiers to civil porters. Started digging the soil and carrying the bag to carry out the mound work.

If you carry a bag of dirt in your hands, you cannot hold a shield to protect yourself, and a soldier who carries dirt is like a lamb to the slaughter under the blow of a bow and arrow in the city.

Therefore, Yuan Shang ordered that each soldier carry a bag of soil and a reward with meat flatbread, and cash it on the spot and never default. He also ordered the slaughter of cattle and sheep for the officers on the spot, and ordered to set up a pot and stove in front of the battle, and cook meat with bread.

Meat, that's the patent of scholars and wealthy families, when have these bitter soldiers eaten it? They no longer knew what meat tasted like, and as a result, a large number of dead soldiers were immediately recruited.

However, they also have a request, that is, to add meat flatbread first, and then carry the mound of earth. If you don't die under the city, you won't be able to eat meat, won't this be a unjust death?

Yuan Shangshang insisted on coming back and sending it at first, so that you can save some meatloaf, and the most important thing is that if you eat meatloaf but throw the soil halfway, then I won't die?

Seeing this situation, the judge really couldn't cry or laugh, this is a battlefield, not a child's house, you are a dignified third son, what do you call a group of soldiers who are about to die. So he had to stand up and contradict Yuan Shang's childishness, and said justice for those soldiers.

Just these few fluttering words of justice, this actually brought a burst of cheers and gratitude from the soldiers. This really made the judge feel like crying without tears. His original ambition was to save these people from suffering, but now he wants to drive them to death, but now he has to pay a fresh life for a piece of meatloaf, and he is just a person who eats meatloaf and is about to die, but he is grateful to himself, and the price of this kindness is too small.

A soldier resisted a bag of soil, then took a piece of meat flatbread, squatted on the position and devoured it, eating heartily, eating the flatbread, carefully adding the residue on his hands, the soldier stood up, raised his head and squinted his eyes towards the sun, took a deep breath, seemed to try to suck all the last sunshine of his life into his chest, and then roared with a resolute face: "A piece of bread in life, content." Then he picked up the dirt bag and strode towards Renqiu City.

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