In this way, the battle on Liyang's side is going on day by day, every day Zhu Weijun and Yuan Shangjun have a thousand or even thousands of casualties, so far Zhu Weijun has lost more than 10,000 troops, and Yuan Shangjun's military strength is definitely only a lot more.

More than half a month has passed, and Zhu Weijun has gradually reached the front of Liyang City.

However, Zhu Wei did not plan to directly attack Yuan Shang hiding in Liyang City, but prepared to clear all the Yuan Shang garrison camps outside Liyang City first, after all, it is not easy to attack the city, only by clearing the Yuan army outside the city first, can we better deal with Yuan Shang in the city.

At the same time, Zhu Wei prepared to clear a passage outside Liyang City, which could join the Pang Yan Xionglu camp located south of Liyang.

In this way, Zhu Wei can concentrate the army in his hand and deploy it, and Zhu Wei can also directly provide food and grass supplies to Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion, and Pang Yan in the province also needs to transfer grain and grass materials from the rear of Luoyang.

Of course, if the main Northern Expeditionary Army on Zhu Wei's side converged with Pang Yan's Xionglu camp, it also means that Zhu Wei had already cleared out Yuan Shang's army near the Yellow River in Liyang.

In this way, Zhu Wei can use Gan Ning's Jiangjiao battalion to draw troops from Puyang and Luoyang at any time to supplement the loss of troops in the war, so that Zhu Wei's military strength will only fight more and more, and will not reduce the number of soldiers because of the loss of the war.

In addition, after Zhu Wei converged with Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion, he could also form a certain encirclement posture against Yuan Shang's army on Liyang's side, preventing Yuan Shang from easily retreating back from the Liyang battlefield.

And with the development of the war to the present, Yuan Shang's side has also been beaten a little shrunken.

It can be said that Yuan Shang's defensive counterattack tactics at the beginning have been beaten by Zhu Wei's step-by-step pressing tactics without temper, and Yuan Shang has also organized several counteroffensive battles before, wanting to destroy Zhu Weijun's thunderbolt catapults and other war equipment.

However, on the frontal battlefield, Yuan Shangjun's counterattack could only kill himself, and Zhu Wei naturally sent a large army to protect his war equipment, but several Yuan Shangjun's counterattacks had been repelled before he could get close to Zhu Wei's war equipment within 100 steps.

But now that the large camps that Yuan Shang constructed on Liyang's side have been cut by nearly half of the range, if this trend continues, in the end, in addition to Liyang City, the other camps will inevitably be cleaned up by Zhu Weijun.

Yuan Shang was also very distressed about the development of the war, the current situation was completely beyond his initial expectations, although he had also overestimated Zhu Weijun's combat effectiveness before, but now he felt that he was still a little underestimated.

Up to now, Yuan Shang has also consulted with Feng Ji, trial and other strategists many times, and he also wanted to send several troops to bypass the frontal battlefield and kill in Yanzhou to disrupt the rear of Zhu Wei's army, hoping to attract Zhu Wei to withdraw.

However, Ganning's Jiangjiao battalion patrolled the Yellow River, and Yuan Shang couldn't find a suitable time to send troops across the river, so it can be said that the Yellow River became a natural obstacle to Yuan Shang's troops.

Besides, now Yuan Shang has no generals who can lead the army independently, although Yuan Shang still has many generals in his hands, but most of these generals can only serve as generals, but they do not have the qualifications and ability to take charge alone.

If Feng Ji and the trial are allowed to lead the troops out, it will make Yuan Shang less military advisors and strategists who can be discussed, so Yuan Shang studied several plans, but in the end he could only give up.

Such a problem can only return to reality, how to continue the battle on Liyang's side and block the strong attack of Zhu Wei's army, we can't wait for the outer camps to fall, and there is only one Liyang lonely city left to resist the siege of Zhu Wei's army.

Although Liyang City has also increased a lot of defenses under Yuan Shang's cultivation, Liyang is not a big city in the first place, and it can't accommodate the more than 100,000 troops that Yuan Shang now controls, so will the extra army be slaughtered by Zhu Weijun outside the city at that time?

But this problem still makes Yuan Shang feel inexplicable, although there are still many camps around Liyang City that can garrison troops, but if Zhu Wei's army continues to fight like this, these camps will also be gradually broken by Zhu Wei as before.

It is impossible for Yuan Shang to let the extra army withdraw to Yecheng, and now it is a little difficult for him to resist Zhu Weijun with these troops in his hands, how can he still weaken the army in his hands.

In the end, Yuan Shang and his subordinates Feng Ji, Xian Pei and others discussed many times, and after thinking about it, they could only come up with one way, that is, to reduce the strength of the troops through the fighting on the battlefield, that is, to let his army fight hard with Zhu Weijun, and exchange the lives of his own army for the lives of Zhu Weijun.

In this way, when the two sides are almost fighting, Yuan Shang will not have to worry about the problem that there will be too many troops to enter Liyang City at that time, and it is estimated that he will almost die.

And with the loss of troops on both sides, in the end, Yuan Shang can still have Liyang City to rely on, so Zhu Weijun may not be able to pose a threat to Liyang City because of the lack of troops, so he can only withdraw his troops.

Although such a hard-fought strategy is also a loss for Yuan Shang, there is no other way now.

Therefore, in the following battle, when Yuan Shangjun faced the attack of Zhu Weijun, his resistance was significantly enhanced, even if there was some irresistible retreat on the frontal battlefield, the overseer army arranged by Yuan Shang in the rear would still forcibly urge the retreating soldiers to kill back again.

At the same time, when Zhu Weijun faced the arrow tower fortress built by Yuan Shang in the camp, and was ready to temporarily stop the offensive and call the thunderbolt catapult from the rear to throw stones to destroy the arrow tower fortress, Yuan Shangjun would also resist the threat of falling stones from Zhu Weijun's forced counterattack, so that Zhu Weijun could not smash those arrow tower fortresses safely and could not easily advance forward.

It can be said that in the past, when Zhu Wei's army attacked again and again, the daily losses of both sides were about 1 or 2,000 troops, but now the number of troops lost by both sides has increased to at least 4 or 5,000.

Although Yuan Shangjun's losses may be more than Zhu Weijun's, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 self-inflicted losses, so Zhu Weijun has no tricks to do in such a frontal battle.

At the same time, Zhu Weijun's offensive trend was indeed somewhat suppressed by Yuan Shangjun.

Under Yuan Shangjun's desperate counterattack, Zhu Weijun even lost several thunderbolt catapults, and I have to say that the rabbit bites people even when he is in a hurry, not to mention Yuan Shangjun, whose combat effectiveness is not weak.

In the face of Yuan Shangjun, who had become a little tough, Zhu Weijun slowed down his offensive and stopped for a few days.

This is like in a basketball game, when one side comes up, it shouts a timeout, so that the opponent's momentum is interrupted, and the battle continues, which can also weaken the opponent's combat effectiveness.

Anyway, Zhu Weijun has other plans here, so he is naturally not afraid of the waste of time, so now that Yuan Shangjun is a little urgent, let the other party breathe a sigh of relief......