Wei Kang was not good at military affairs, so he handed over the responsibility of defending the city to Yang Fu and his cousin Jiang Xu.

This Jiang Xu is also a relatively famous character, he is Jiang Wei's uncle, and Jiang Wei was raised by him. Jiang Wei is now nine years old, and he is still raising it in his house!

There are many of Wei Kang's subordinates, all of whom are known in Liangzhou, Jiang Xu's younger brother Jiang Yin, Zhao Ang, Yin Feng, Yao Qiong, Wu Xin, and Yang Fu's younger brothers Yang Mo and Yang Yue. There are also Li Jun and Wang Ling from Wudu, Liang Kuan from Anding, Zhao Qu and Pang Gong from Nan'an.

These people have all been recruited by Weikang over the years, and they are all some outstanding people in Liangzhou. Their abilities are not bad, but they are just ordinary talents. You must know that so many people fought with Ma Chao, and even seven people besieged Ma Chao were killed, and only Yang Fu survived, but he also suffered five heavy injuries.

There were only three or four thousand soldiers in Ji County, although Yang Fu organized people to stand on the city wall, but because the weather was too cold, the cold wind in the city was too strong, and the soldiers were frozen.

Outside the city, Wei Rui looked at the appearance of the soldiers in the city, and immediately paid attention to it. He began to let several generals each lead a team of soldiers, each for half an hour, to attack Ji County in turn, but there was no need to attack too strongly, it was good to bluff, and the most important thing was to lure the enemy army to the city wall.

In this era, warmth generally relied on the fluff of livestock and beasts, and there was no cotton, so many people would not use soldiers in winter. But animal skin jackets are a luxury for soldiers, they can't afford them at all, and Wellcome won't be able to afford them, a leather jacket will cost at least three thousand yuan, and the ring head knife will cost five or six times more expensive, and buying a leather jacket can equip three or four soldiers. Three or four thousand soldiers, all wearing leather jackets, would require as much as 10 million yuan, and Wei Kang could not afford to buy so many leather jackets even if he used all his family wealth.

But Zhang Yi's soldiers are different, they are each with a down jacket. After Zhang Yi arrived in Shouchun, he encouraged the people to raise poultry, chickens, ducks and geese. Raising chickens, ducks and geese has several advantages, one is that the people have meat to eat, the second is that down can be made into winter clothes, the third is to prevent locust plagues, the fourth is to allow girls to become laborers, the fifth is to promote the development of the veterinary industry, and the sixth is to promote the handicraft industry.

In the past ten years, there have been countless chickens, ducks and geese under Zhang Yi, and every year Zhang Yi can make hundreds of thousands of down jackets by collecting these downs. Each down jacket is carefully sewn, at least three or four pounds of down, and then worn wooden armor over the down jacket, which is very suitable for fighting in winter. Although the protection of the iron armor is stronger, it is too cold to wear in winter, and although the protection of the wooden armor is a little weaker, it can block the cold wind.

For three days, Wei Rui attacked Ji County back and forth, and the soldiers of Ji County were not at peace, although there was a rotation, but they often needed to go to the city wall, and after changing the guard, they hid in the house to roast the fire. Such a cold and heat made the soldiers of Ji County reduce their ability to bear, and many people were infected with wind cold, and because they were gathered together, they could not be ventilated, and many soldiers were infected.

Seeing the non-stop sneezing of the city soldiers, Wei Rui knew that the time had come. He immediately waved his army to attack the city, and the generals immediately attacked the city cleanly.

The city wall of Ji County is not high, and only a cloud ladder is needed. Wei Rui didn't bring too much siege equipment, and he didn't bring much well, only two or three. Even these two or three are fine, with the cover of these two well railings, plus the cover of the crossbowmen around the well railings, the soldiers quickly attacked the city wall.

The defenders of the city, because of many diseases, reacted slowly, and were easily attacked by the city soldiers.

Zhang Yi's soldiers have always been on the city wall, and they have basically determined that the city is broken. This time was no exception, the soldiers in the city could not stop the courage of Zhang Yi's soldiers at all, and they were soon attacked into the city.

Yang Fu and others resisted desperately, but they still couldn't resist, and in the end, the soldiers broke up, and they were all arrested.

Wei Rui entered the city, saw Wei Kang, Yang Fu, Yan Wen and others who were arrested, and said to them: "If there is chaos today, people will have a choice. I know that your heart is towards Cao Cao, but I will not kill you, nor will I let you go to assist Cao Cao. ”

Yang Fu has a strong personality, and he said to Wei Rui: "Cao Gong adheres to the Han family, and you don't want to serve the country, but you come to help the traitors, I won't serve you!" ”

After Wei Rui heard this, he couldn't help laughing, "Cao Cao is the prime minister of the Han family, and he has indeed done a lot of things that are beneficial to the Han family. But he also did a lot of things that were not conducive to the Han family, his people were cruel, slaughtering Xuzhou, Shidong County, pit soldiers, and killing ministers. And now he is named the Duke of Wei, so that the prestige of the Han family does not exist, and it is not as great as you say! ”

After Yang Fu listened, he fell silent. Wei Rui said that these are Cao Cao's shortcomings, if Cao Cao in the past few years was indeed very good, but Cao Cao, who was crowned Duke of Wei, is basically not much different from the "name Han Xiang, but he is actually a Han thief" propagated by Liu Bei and others.

Yan Wen said righteously: "If it weren't for Duke Cao assisting the Han family, I don't know how many people in this world would be kings and hegemons." ”

Wei Rui smiled coldly, "The Han family already exists in name only, and Cao Cao is just letting the Han family delay for a while." He is now the Duke of Wei, and he will definitely be the King of Wei in the future, and it will be much simpler to usurp the Han Dynasty later. ”

"Full of nonsense!" Yan Wen said disdainfully.

"But it's nonsense, if there is no such nonsense speculation, why did he become the Duke of Wei?" Wei Rui asked rhetorically.

"I wonder what you want to do with us?" Wei Kang interrupted their conversation, he knew that Cao Cao had sealed the Duke of Wei, and he couldn't explain it clearly.

Wei Rui said: "I will send you, along with your relatives, to Shouchun, this is how we treat everyone." When you arrive in Shouchun, you will be re-evaluated by the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and then you can decide whether you can continue to be a scholar. If you can't go out, you will retire in Shouchun! ”

Wei Kang nodded, "Thank you to the general for not killing." ”

"Our army does not have the habit of killing prisoners of war, after you arrive in Shouchun, take a good look at life there! When the time comes, we will know who is the master, to be honest, we have no illusions in the Han family for a long time. If it weren't for the fact that my lord didn't want to bear the infamy, we would have already made a northern expedition to the Central Plains and seized the country. ”

Wei Rui sent more than a dozen people plus hundreds of their relatives, all of whom were sent to Wudu, through Hanzhong to Xiangyang, and then along the Han River and the river to Shouchun.

Wei Rui took Ji County here, and immediately sent someone to pick up Li Hongzhang, so that Li Hongzhang would come to Ji County to preside over the overall situation of Liangzhou. Then Wei Rui led the army north to Xianqin and Luoyang to support Longxian. Cao Cao led his troops into Hanyang County, and Yan Yan and others stationed troops in the street pavilion with Han Sui and confronted Cao Cao.