On the upper floor of the Dongcheng City of Exian County, the sound of fierce battles is still continuous, at this time it is already a mess, in the middle of the war, the defeated side of the weak soldiers has always been someone who will flee, and someone will hold on.

Those who flee are naturally for their own lives, and those who stick to it can only say that they insist on it for the sake of those righteous solar terms in their hearts, and it is obvious that the rebels who are guarding the east gate of Exian County at this moment are the latter kind. Of course, they don't have so many lofty ambitions in their hearts, they just don't surrender, after all, what if they do, will they endure the torture of the tyrant's exorbitant taxes again?

Guan Yu stood sideways, looking at the more than 100 stubbornly resisting rebels above the Dongcheng Tower, the contempt in his eyes was obvious, he looked left and right with cold eyes, and then said coldly: "You and others will bring crossbowmen to support, and you can't delay the city tower." ”

"No!" The left and right military marquis immediately saluted and responded, they understood the meaning of their main general, and knew that Guan Yu was already dissatisfied with the slow speed of the city tower to destroy the enemy army, so they hurriedly selected dozens of crossbow soldiers to support them.

Since Fuquan sent Guan Yu to guard Langzhong, Guan Yu's name has become more and more admired in the hearts of the Ban Yu barbarians, even though the Ban Yu barbarians are obviously sinicized in terms of language life, but after all, they have been hunting wild beasts since childhood, growing up between the mountains and forests, and they are naturally afraid and respected for the strong.

Therefore, Guan Yu, who has the ability of 10,000 enemies, has naturally become the hero of those barbarian soldiers as his prestige in Langzhong becomes more and more famous. At this moment, without Guan Yu saying more, his one look made the group of barbarians under his command like tigers, and after receiving his order, he didn't dare to slack off and go to support the city tower.

At this moment, on the tower of the city, the rebels have a defeated army of about 100 people, still struggling to hold on, and most of these defeated soldiers are Jiangxia Wushui barbarians. They were disheveled, dressed as barbarians, with their faces and bodies covered in messy splattered blood, apparently fighting for a long time, and there were only a few Han people in the crowd with crowns, hats, and scarves.

Of course, the appearance of these Han people at this time is actually only slightly better than the barbarians, after all, compared to the barbarians' force, these Han people who were hurriedly shouted by Huang Sui to revolt and responded to the assembly are still a little worse. After all, most of them were just farmers in the countryside who couldn't stand the oppression of powerful landlords in the countryside before the uprising, and it was obvious how much strength they could have.

The so-called end of the road, at the moment, is worthy of the name of these Han barbarian rebels, they do not want to surrender, but they can't escape, they can only guard the city gates, sit and wait for death. After the Han army attacked the west gate of Exian County, they could not escape with their Qu Shuai because of the lack of information, and then when the Han army completely broke through and controlled the west gate, and attacked the whole city with the west gate as the center, it was too late for them to escape.

"The lackeys of the Han Dynasty, suffer death!"

The fierce battle on the castle tower continued, and a barbarian in tattered leather armor swung a large hammer in his hand, knocking several Han soldiers who were squeezed up along the stone stairs on the castle tower directly to the ground. The first rebel soldier who was hit by the sledgehammer was beaten with several mouthfuls of blood on the spot, clutching his abdomen and howling, looking like at least a few ribs in his abdomen were broken.

It's just that although this barbarian is no matter how brave he is, the Han soldiers who are constantly squeezing into the city tower will not retreat because of his ferocious blow.

"Whew! Shout! In the blink ......of an eye, when the barbarian swept another Han soldier to the ground, I don't know how many crossbow arrows made a continuous sound of breaking through the air, shooting straight at the barbarian, and soon the barbarian was shot into a hedgehog. Even if the barbarian was wearing leather armor at the moment, but after all, the Han army armor he captured was old, although he was usually envied among his companions because of this leather armor, but the leather armor that he had always regarded as a treasure still could not withstand the sharp crossbow arrows of the Han army at this moment.

After that, I saw that the barbarian opened his eyes angrily, pointed at those Han soldiers with his mouth open, and seemed to scold these Han soldiers for being shameless, and he didn't even have the courage to fight among men, and he didn't dare to fight alone, and then he closed his eyes and died, and his burly body fell quietly on top of the city tower with blood.

"Sima has an order, no matter life or death, Suke City Tower." When the burly barbarian died, the rear with crossbowmen to support the military marquis hurriedly shouted, and then led people to rush to the city tower, where the rebels, it must be a crossbow arrow, not to give you a chance to fight hand-to-hand at all, with Guan Yu's order, the soldiers under his command naturally did not dare to slack off, and did not use any means, as long as they could eliminate these dead rebels, soon the city tower at the east gate of Exian County really fell, and a bloodstained "Han" character flag was inserted.

Before long, Guan Yu took dozens of soldiers to step on the blood all over the ground, and finally climbed to the tower of the city that he had been ordered by Fuquan to conquer. At this moment, there was a choking smell of blood on the city tower, but Guan Yu turned a blind eye to it, and looked around coldly at the corpses in this place, he knew that it was normal to have a smell of blood, after all, more than 100 people had died here just now, and the victorious Han army had not cleaned up the corpses on the city tower, could there still be no smell?

"Come on, quickly clean up the city, close the city gates, and don't open the city without an order."

"No!"

Thinking of the reason why he was so eager to break through the four gates, Guan Yu hurriedly summoned his soldiers and ordered them to act according to the plan. However, not long after the words were spoken, the Han army at the gate of the city had just stuck the city gate, and a group of soldiers and horses came outside the city.

Soon, there was a Jingzhou army general to visit the city gate, just like the West Gate where the story re-interpreted, outside the West Gate Guan Yu refused the Jingzhou army general's request to enter the city, no matter what the other party said, Guan Yu is a sentence "The city is initially decided, no one is allowed to enter the city" and sent away, making it clear that they will not be allowed to enter the city at all, and the other party has no choice but to return in a huff.

Prior to this, the south gate and north gate of Exian County also had the arrival of Jingzhou soldiers, and the reason why the Jingzhou soldiers came late at the east gate was because the distance to come here was the farthest. Of course, the situation of these three gates is the same, before the Jingzhou army came to the city gates, the Yizhou army, which had firmly controlled the city gates, did not pay attention to the various requirements of the Jingzhou soldiers at all, that is, they guarded the city gates tightly, and let the other party say nothing and not open the door.

In the end, the Jingzhou army, who was ordered by Zhao Kai to go to the other three gates to see if there was a chance to pick peaches, looked at the soldiers of the Yizhou army who were waiting on the city tower, and could only sigh that they had no meritorious life, and ordered the army to evacuate, and the whole army returned to the west gate to meet Zhao Kai, the assassin of Jingzhou, who was facing the west gate.

After all, the Yizhou army has already occupied the four gates of Exian County, and unless the Jingzhou army uses force to open the city gate, they can only stop the city and do useless work. Otherwise, if they want the army of these big Han people to storm the city of their colleagues, not to mention whether anyone will dare to do this, after all, it is like a traitor, but no one dares to do this, that is, someone really dares to do this, but the hundreds of Yizhou defenders on the opposite tower will also make them discouraged and dare not act rashly.

Since ancient times, the defenders of the city have always had an advantage over the besiegers, generally speaking, the besieging side has several times the strength of the defenders to attack the city, but for the current Jingzhou army, their strength is not superior to the Yizhou army.

It stands to reason that the Jingzhou army of nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses originally had an absolute numerical advantage over the 4,000 Yizhou barbarian soldiers under Fuquan, however, with Wen Shang's rebellion and the wrong way, the more than 10,000 Jingzhou troops were completely unable to besiege Echeng, and the remaining 7,000 Jingzhou soldiers and horses naturally could no longer have an overwhelming advantage over the 4,000 soldiers under Fuquan's command.

And they have just separated from Zhao Kai, and were ordered to go to the other three gates of Exian County to find an opportunity to pick peaches, and Zhao Kai can not bring them many soldiers and horses, that is, about 1,000 people at each city gate, this point of strength is obviously not enough to attack the city compared to the number of defenders of the remaining three Yizhou troops, so what can they do if they don't retreat? Do you want to stare at the Yizhou soldiers on the city tower?

Not to mention the rest of the three gates in Exian County, the lost plot of the Jingzhou soldiers who came in a hurry and left in disappointment is the west gate of the troops led by Zhao Kai himself, and at this moment it is also a burst of peace that cannot be seen in the smoke of gunpowder. At this time in Jingzhou, Zhao Kai took the four thousand Jingzhou soldiers he left behind, standing in front of the West Gate Tower, and looked coldly at Huang Zhong, who ignored the Jingzhou Army on the city tower.

"This Huang Han has been promoted to become a native of Nanyang, and he doesn't even leave this little affection, which is really a shame for my Jingzhou." Zhao Kai scolded angrily, directly scolding Huang Zhong as a native of Jingzhou, in his opinion, even if Huang Zhong and the Jingzhou army are their own masters, they shouldn't be so ruthless, at least they should support them and give some face, right? After all, they are all from their hometown, they are all easy to talk to, so they don't ignore it so much, but at this moment he forgot that he himself is not from Jingzhou, and with the things he has done against Fuquan several times before, it is strange that Huang Zhong can give him a good face.

The civil and military forces around him knew Zhao Kai's temper and knew that they must not provoke Zhao Kai at this moment, so they didn't say anything, waiting for him to be angry. Soon, after scolding, the anger in his heart disappeared, Zhao Kai regained his calm, listened to a lot of sporadic fighting in the city, and hurriedly asked everyone: "Is there a way to break this situation?" ”

Obviously, Zhao Kai still hopes to be able to pick peaches, after all, as long as Exian County is not conquered by all the Jingzhou soldiers, and there is still a stubborn rebel army in the city, he still has hope. Because as long as he entered the county town of Exian during this period, he casually found some corpses of rebels as evidence of entering the city and fighting with the rebels, and when the battle report was sent to the imperial court, no one could tell whether these people were killed by the Jingzhou army or the Yizhou army, and he could still get credit.

At this moment, Zhao Kai is like a gambler, he was cheated by Fu Quan, and after winning everything he should have at once, he kept looking for new countermeasures, hoping to get new opportunities, trying to turn the tables again. However, Zhao Kai's question was obviously unanswered, and the crowd around him suddenly fell silent, because there was no answer to this question at all.

The current situation is that Fuquan has taken the initiative, as long as they can't enter the city, then the credit for the county seat of Exian can only be taken by the Yizhou soldiers, and they may not have the hard work of attacking the city for days. If they want to take credit, then they can only enter the city, and now that the Yizhou army is guarding the city gate like this, they don't even have a way to enter the city, what way to break it?

Of course, from the beginning to the end, these people did not dare to propose the method of storming Exian.

Because, they don't dare, isn't this like rebellion?

How could the Great Han allow his own army to attack another army?

In the end, as if he knew that he had done useless work today, Zhao Kai did not ask again. It wasn't until the soldiers who went to the other three gates to investigate the military situation of the Yizhou soldiers came back that they learned that the four gates of Exian County were blocked by the Yizhou soldiers, Zhao Kai waved his hand and let his subordinates give an order, ordering the troops to return to the camp.

The more than 7,000 Jingzhou soldiers who received the order were very happy, after all, they had not eaten breakfast until now, and it was entirely by their momentum that they insisted on coming here. Now that the county town of Exian cannot be attacked, in their opinion, it is better to return to the camp as soon as possible and make plans after a full meal.

The dust in the distance gradually left, Huang Zhong looked at the Jingzhou soldiers and horses who had disappeared from sight at this time, and after confirming that nothing would happen, he ordered a close soldier to go to the county seat of Exian County to inform Fuquan, who was encircling and suppressing the rebels at the moment, and report the situation at Ximen.

In this battle, Fu Quan completely slapped Zhao Kai in the face. When Fuquan eliminated the rebels in the city, he immediately wrote a letter of success, with various words about the difficulties of his siege this time, and then quietly reminded that the Jingzhou assassin was incompetent, and the 20,000-strong army could not break a city. And in the course of his 4,000 days, he only lost a few hundred soldiers before the city was broken, and it was clear at a glance which was better or worse.

In order to show the authenticity of the matter and make this good news more convincing, Fuquan also asked Yang Xuan to come and ask him to play a letter to the imperial court with him to tell the story of the recovery of Exian County.

Three days later, an urgent report, carried by a knight, entered the city of Luoyang......