Thousands of scouts were scattered in Liaodong, and there was nothing that could not be heard, Zhang Ning felt that the time had come, so he rushed to Zhao Yun for eight hundred miles, and asked Zhao Yun to gather his troops and horses and defend Xinchang for a month. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Yun originally had 50,000 soldiers and horses, and lost more than 3,000 people when he controlled Xinchang City, and later recruited 15,000 people from Liu Yi's old department, and some of the remaining remnants fled, and some unloaded their armor and returned to their hometowns.

Since the enemy he faced was an army of 100,000 and could be regarded as the main force of Gongsun Du, Zhao Yun still didn't dare to support it and sent a message to Tai Shici.

Tai Shi Ci left 5,000 soldiers and horses distributed on various ships, and the rest of the soldiers landed ashore to assemble and reinforce Xinchang City.

Gongsun Du thought he was doing it very secretively, and he also went to Liaoyang to inspect the defense with great fanfare, which was nothing more than to show Zhang Ning and them, and he Gongsun Du dared to leave the base camp during the war, indicating that Xiangping was impregnable, and Gongsun Du was not worried about Gao Shun and Zhang Ning attacking the city.

It's okay to pretend to be X, but if it's big, it's dead.

When Gongsun Du was boosting morale in Liaoyang, the herald sent an urgent report, Gao Shun and Lu Yi launched an attack on Xiangping from the west and north, and Bian Xi and Zhenggu, who had rested in Changli for many days, went straight to Liaoyang.

Gongsun Du was shocked, hurriedly retreated to Xiangping with soldiers and horses, and was intercepted by Lu Yi's crossbow soldiers on the way, flying locusts all over the sky, shooting the soldiers of Gongsun Du's heart, Gongsun Du did not dare to hesitate, and led the troops to rush and fight, galloping south at any cost, Xiangping only had 50,000 troops, how to face Gao Shun and Lu Yi's more than 100,000 troops? And it's also a soldier and horse equipped with a "big killer" trebuchet array!

But it backfired, Gongsun Du couldn't go back at all, Xiangping was already full of Jiang Sheng's soldiers and horses, and the battalions were all distributed in a zigzag shape, scattered on the vast Liaodong Plain, and the crossbowmen of Lu Yi were still wandering around as a mobile force, Gongsun Du secretly shouted that it was over, and he could only withdraw to Liaoyang.

The two departments of Bian Xi and Zhenggu, who attacked Liaoyang, were originally to contain the defenders of Liaoyang, and Gongsun Du came just in time. They don't attack the city anymore, they camp outside the city and watch, as soon as you get out of the city, I will attack the city, as soon as you beat me, I will repel you, Gongsun Du can only be trapped in Liaoyang.

Xiangping did not have Gongsun Du's dispatch, and relying solely on Zhonglang's command of General Yangyi, he could not organize an effective attack at all, and Xiangping became a lonely city trapped in it.

Gao Shun's heavy infantry had already set up defensive formations outside the city gates in Xiangping, and the defenders of Xiangping had no chance to leave the city at all, and the entire city gate was blocked by the ballista array of Gao Shun's trapped camp.

In cold weapon combat, arrows are precious resources, but in the armies under Jiang Sheng's command, crossbow arrows are enough, Yangyi organized several sorties, but they were all shot back by dense crossbow arrows, and finally they didn't dare to move.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of the two routes attacking Xinchang had fallen into the situation of being attacked from both sides, and Gongsun Kang was on the east road, followed by 15,000 Xuanjia cavalry, and then 15,000 Xuanjia cavalry on the west road.

The 50,000 army was cut in two by the 30,000 Xuanjia cavalry, and then it was entangled in death, although Gongsun Kang had many troops, but he was led by the Xuanjia cavalry, and he did not move half a step towards Xinchang City for several days.

Gongsun Gong picked up a leak, just as the Xuanjia cavalry on the west road went to attack Gongsun Kang, Gongsun Gong came to Xinchang City smoothly, but saw that Zhao Yunqin led 20,000 troops under the city to form a formation, just waiting for the arrival of Gongsun Gong's department, the bustling defenders at the head of the city are definitely not fake.

To fight or not to fight? Gongsun Gong was undecided, how could there be so many soldiers and horses in this Xinchang City? Could it be that Zhao Yun's reinforcements are coming? So where did the reinforcements come from?

Zhao Yun's task was to hold on to Xinchang City for a month, but he abandoned the defense and changed the attack, turning the defense of the city into a movement war.

Zhang Ning asked Zhao Yun to stick to it because he was worried that Gongsun Du would give up Xiangping and go east to attack Liaodong and Lelang, Xinchang City must be the first to bear the brunt, but he didn't expect Zhao Yun to use troops flexibly, and he was stunned to drag down the 100,000 Liaodong army.

In this way, Xiangping will be easy to fight, and without these 100,000 worries, Gao Shun and Lu Yike will let go of the fight.

Due to the large city of Xiangping and the large number of people in the city, Zhang Ning considered Jiang Sheng's name of benevolence and did not want to kill and injure innocent people too much, otherwise it would be meaningless even if he won Xiangping, so he gave up the plan of covering the trebuchet array with "artillery fire", and changed to the strategy of persuading surrender and strengthening the attack.

Without the coverage of the trebuchet array, Gao Shun's siege battle was very hard, Xiangping City is also the largest city in Youzhou, even Zhuo County is not as good as it, the reserves in the city are extremely rich, originally for 100,000 troops for two months, now 60,000 soldiers and horses in the city, support for a few months is not a problem.

The defenders in the city rely on sufficient material reserves, although the whole city is now sealed, but the morale has not been affected much, although they can't take the initiative to attack, but it is not easy for Gao Shun to attack the city.

Zhang Ning, Gao Shun and others studied for several days and decided to attack the city tentatively first and try the combat strength of the defenders.

Gao Shun ordered the light infantry to change into all the armor, cover their faces with black veil, and then approach the city wall by night, and then assemble the ladder carts, these ladder carts have been painted with a similar color to the city wall, it is the end of the month, there is no moonlight, these ladder carts under the city wall are not easy to distinguish.

After the assembly was completed, the ladder cart was placed against the city wall, and it was not obvious to look down from the top of the city, in order to avoid being discovered by the defenders, Gao Shun ordered each battalion to beat drums every day to attract the attention of the defenders.

In this way, it lasted for a few days, and the ladder carts under the city wall were ready, so tens of thousands of archers took advantage of the darkness of the night to lurk under the city wall, and slowly raised the ladders, which were like the fire ladders of later generations, which could be extended three times. The top of the ladder is supported by a stone slab of the same color as the stone of the city wall.

The soldiers who were patrolling the city at night did not notice at all that there was an extra stone slab outside the battlement, and when they looked down from above, they thought it was part of the city wall.

Zhang Ning's camouflage strategy seemed to be in place, and the soldiers under the city wall rested all night, and at dawn, they all took out dry food and ate it.

At dawn, the battalions of the Gaoshun army began their routine drumming action, and the defenders at the head of the city looked at the camps of the Gaoshun troops not far away, and there was no change, so they continued their routine patrols.

After nightfall, a patrol appeared among the defenders at the head of the city, and another pair of patrolmen passing by apparently did not know them, but only greeted them politely.

Now the biggest official in the city is Zhonglang General Yangyi, who took his own soldiers to the city to check the night watch.

Yang Yi turned around and said to herself, "Why is there an extra team of patrolmen tonight?" It seems that the soldiers are still conscientious, and the strong enemy is outside, so they can spontaneously increase the patrol density, and they only hope that the lord will come back as soon as possible. ”