On the first day of the attack, Huang Zhong easily took it, which was also Ju Yi's attack was not violent.

The next day, as soon as Ju Yi came up, he sent an army of 30,000 to start a fierce attack on three sides.

Huang Zhong could only send all the rest of the army except for the archers, and Huang Zhong also felt struggling.

The 30,000 men were divided into several waves, and wave after wave began to attack.

"Quick, as soon as the enemy approaches, attack with a bow and arrow, and the stones and rolling logs are ready." Huang Zhong walked around the city, directing the battle.

The two sides fought fiercely, and Huang Zhong ordered his soldiers to attack with bows and arrows at a distance, and with stones and rolling logs when they were closer.

Huang Zhong predicted that the defensive materials prepared in the city would not be used up in two days, so he did not have any restraint, and when the enemy attacked and killed, he ordered a fierce counterattack.

The counterattack was fierce, arrows flew wildly, and stones and rolling logs fell.

The enemy is also very brave, wave after wave, like a tide.

Ju Yi commanded the battle, his brows furrowed, and the resistance of the Youzhou army was completely beyond his expectations.

Ju Yi originally wanted to take the lead in snatching people, and he brought 100,000 soldiers and horses to kill, and the momentum was violent, and this first city should be captured with the power of thunder to deter the enemy.

That's why Ju Yi arranged it like this, and as soon as he came up, he used a large army to tear down the city.

As a result, the resistance of Youzhou's army exceeded his expectations, and he won this battle, and his troops suffered huge losses.

The loss of troops is large, Ju Yi doesn't care very much, what he cares about is whether the loss of troops of the Youzhou Army is equal, because the strength of the Youzhou Army is at a disadvantage, and it is impossible to fight for his own consumption.

But at present, it seems that the situation is not very optimistic, although it is not known how much the Youzhou army lost, but the proportion of visual battle losses is absolutely unequal.

Three or four thousand people died themselves, but the losses of the Youzhou army were definitely not thousands.

After fighting for a long time, the most losses of the Youzhou army were defensive materials such as arrows and stones and rolling wood.

"This city must be taken. If not, go up to the dead first. Ju Yi made up his mind that if this first city could not be captured quickly, then the next battle would be even more difficult to fight.

Juyi intensified his attack, and of course the casualties increased sharply.

Huang Zhong commanded at the head of the city, and he always aimed to kill and injure the enemy, and he didn't care about the consumption of supplies at all.

Generally speaking, once the materials for defending the city are exhausted, then it is quite dangerous, so the generals will not use it without scruples, but Huang Zhong has no worries.

He has been holding on for a day and a half, and as long as he holds on for another day and a half, he can retreat, and the materials do not need to be dropped or taken away, it is a complete waste.

The two sides attacked and defended fiercely, and the soldiers attacked the city wall in waves, and the army of Youzhou also went to the city except for the cavalry.

On the third day, Yuan's army fought with huge casualties and finally climbed to the top of the city, but was soon driven down by Huang Zhong and his people.

The two-day attack cost Yuan's army as many as 7,000 men.

This is just a county seat, an ordinary county seat, and the army in Youzhou has only more than 10,000 people.

Ju Yi clenched his fists, this Youzhou army was difficult to gnaw to such an extent, which made him a little unexpected.

Another high-intensity offensive morning.

Huang Zhong was at the head of the city and had already begun to prepare for retreat.

"The lord asked me to hold on for three days, and now there is still half a day, but at this time, Yuan Jun is too crazy, and if it goes on like this, the casualties are a little big." Huang Zhong thought to himself.

At this time, many soldiers were about to lose their strength, and they were all holding on with a will.

"The lord asked me to hold on for three days, in order to fight the enemy's morale and kill the enemy's living force, but also to save myself," Huang Zhong thought.

After a while, Huang Zhong's face froze, and then he ordered his own soldiers to prepare and prepare to retreat.

Yes, Huang Zhong was ready to withdraw from the city.

He already understood that the Yuan army on the opposite side was going to capture the city at all costs, no matter how heavy the casualties were.

There is no fear of large casualties, the problem is that it cannot be consumed meaninglessly.

So Huang Zhong planned to retreat temporarily.

Now there is still a lot of depth in Youzhou, after this battle, Huang Zhong knows that it is impossible for Ju Yi to fight like this, and if he continues to fight like this, let alone Youzhou, it will be impossible to continue before he occupies the entire Dai County.

After preparing for about half an hour, Huang Zhong ordered the north gate to be opened, and then retreated.

The retreat of Youzhou's army was very sudden, and the fierce resistance a moment ago would have been a sudden retreat.

Ju Yi was completely unprepared, and was even more afraid of an ambush, so he did not dare to order a pursuit.

In fact, there was indeed an ambush, Huang Zhong's cavalry had not been used, and they were ambushed on the road, and they were about to kill for a while, but Ju Yi did not chase after him.

It doesn't matter if he didn't chase him, Huang Zhong led people to retreat safely.

Ju Yi finally occupied the county seat, but he was not in a good mood at all.

A county seat, filled with seven or eight thousand people, there are so many county towns in Youzhou, and there are many county seats, how can this battle be fought.

Ju Yi did not rush forward, but stopped to rest and recuperate, and then reformulated the countermeasures.

"The lord's goal is to take the state, I have 100,000 soldiers and horses, and it is not a problem to take the state, but it doesn't make much sense if it is just to take a few counties of the state."

Ju Yi is not a person without a plan, he understands very well that if 100,000 soldiers and horses are killed in Bingzhou, Ye Chen will definitely choose to retreat.

But a very poor county with a small population in the north of the state was not worth defending with a large army.

If you don't send a large army to defend, the strength of Youzhou is still there, and when they retreat, the Youzhou army will kill back.

Therefore, Ju Yi's strategy is to attack Daijun and kill and injure the army of Youzhou, so that he can hold it for a long time.

If you don't annihilate the enemy's army, you have to send a large army to defend yourself, but it's really not worth it.

Juyi's strategy is not wrong, even very correct.

But all the conditions for this to be achieved are that he can kill and injure Youzhou's army in large numbers.

In the first battle, after the engagement, Ju Yi found that he had suffered huge losses, and the army of Youzhou had killed more than 3,000 people here.

Huang Zhong retreated ahead of schedule and took the rest of his troops and horses to the city behind.

Ye Chen received specific information.

"Okay, it's good to retreat, save your strength and slowly deal with them."

At the beginning, he ordered Huang Zhong to hold on for three days, but Ye Chen also left a relatively large space for the front-line combat troops to maneuver, and did not give the order to die.

Huang Zhong judged the situation, preserved his strength, and led the troops to retreat, Ye Chen felt that he had done a very good job.

"Second brother, Han Sheng retreated, but he inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, if Ju Yi was smart, I am afraid that he would not have rushed so violently in the back." Tai Shi Ci said.

"Well, Ju Yi is not simple, it is certain to change his strategy, I'm afraid he will set his sights on a few counties in the state." Ye Chen judged and said.

This is indeed the case, Ju Yi began to study how to take the annexed state and force Youzhou to change.

"Attack and merge the state, encircle the point to send reinforcements, and hope that Youzhou will send troops to rescue."

Ju Yi frowned, if Youzhou's army was like Huang Zhong, all cowered in the city, then it would be a protracted war of attrition, which was very unfavorable to Yuan's army, so Ju Yi wanted to force Youzhou's army to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with them.

Ju Yi knew that Guan Yu was Ye Chen's favorite general, and if he fell into a desperate situation, Ye Chen would definitely devote all his forces to the rescue.