Both Qin and Yan had already arranged the offensive and defensive arrangements, and the battle was about to begin.

Wang Jian was in the big tent with the generals, and suddenly the colonel came to report: "It has been proved that King Yan has led hundreds of thousands of people such as the civil, military, civilian, and royal families of Jicheng to move to Liaodong, and now Jicheng is just a city of fortresses and soldiers."

When Ji Wu heard the news, he said to Wang Qian: "General Wang, it seems that King Yan intends to consume our troops in Jicheng, so he sent Liu Xiang to lead the army to stay here, and we should divide our troops to attack the Liaodong Peninsula all the way."

"I didn't expect King Yan to be so prepared, but Liu Xiang and the others and the soldiers and horses here are just sent to death, Guan Fei, your strategy is very good, Li Xin, Ling Chuan, and Ju Cheng listened to the order, and allocated 100,000 horses and horses to attack Liaodong, and be sure to capture more land and cities, so as to reduce the pressure on our army to attack in the future."

Li Xin, Ling Chuan, and Ju Cheng heard Wang Qian's order, and after taking it, they withdrew from the big tent and sent troops to send them, and Wang Jian immediately ordered the vanguard soldiers and horses to do their best to attack the city.

Guan Fei and Zang Chao led the vanguard army to launch a fierce attack on Jicheng, these 100,000 vanguard troops belonged to the Qin army, and the soldiers were only dressed in close-fitting soft armor and marched lightly.

But what Wang Jian didn't expect was that as early as when King Yan led the people to migrate, he had made sufficient preparations for Liu Xiang's garrison, just saying that the city wall of Jicheng City Pass had been raised by one zhang, not to mention that the Yan army had replaced a batch of heavy weapons, and the hands on the city tower were either crossbows or artillery crossbows, and more than a dozen bed crossbows were erected.

The soldiers of the Qin army finally rushed to the city under the rain of arrows regardless of the casualties, only to find that the ladder they carried in their hands could not reach the top of the city tower.

Since Liu Xiang was determined to defend the city, he had made full preparations, and the Qin army had a team of men and horses on each side of the siege echelon supporting a rushing car.

As a result, as soon as they reached the edge of the city, they fell into the pit, and all of them died under the sharp bamboo at the bottom of the pit.

The city was poured hot oil again, and the soldiers of the Qin army were first drenched for a while and then attacked by rockets, and then the rockets like raindrops ignited these fire oils, and the city burned on all sides.

Guan Fei saw that the casualties of the soldiers were too great, so he had to order the whole army to abandon the siege and retreat, and the siege ended hastily, and the Qin army abandoned more than 10,000 corpses.

Returning to Wang Jian in front of him, Guan Fei said: "I didn't expect that the Yan army has increased the tower of Jicheng a lot, and our army's ladder can't reach the top of the city tower at all.

"General, the last general thinks that since King Yan has soldiers and horses left here to consume our troops, how can we make them satisfied, it is better to leave a few soldiers and horses here to deal with it, and lead the army to attack Liaodong, if Liaodong is urgent, Liu Xiang will lead the army to rescue him, and then he can annihilate them in one fell swoop in the wild."

Hearing what Zhang Han said, Wang Jian shook his head and said: "Although there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Liaodong, there is no leader in the army, don't worry too much, the 100,000 army sent by the old man will soon come with good news, and Liu Xiang is the enemy we want to take first, if there is no Liu Xiang, we will be able to recover Liaodong and destroy Yan next month."

Wang Jian climbed a high ground to look at Jicheng from afar, and saw that the city wall had been heightened as Guan Fei said, so he waved the golden knife in his hand, and Wang Ben led the crowd to crowd out fifty catapults.

The generals were all happy to see so many siege weapons, Guan Fei and Zang Chao immediately led their troops to pull the catapult to the outside of the city, and the defenders of the city were smashed by the rocks before they could react.

In the midst of the wails, the part of the city wall that had been raised was completely destroyed, and Guan Fei saw that the Yan army had no room to fight back under such an attack, so he did not order the soldiers and horses to charge and continued to attack with stones.

Under the attack of the Qin army's catapults, the Yan soldiers on the city tower had to passively dodge, and after a while, the Qin army launched a charge, and their catapults continued to roar and attack.

After two quarters of fierce fighting, the Yan army finally repelled the besieging Qin army under heavy casualties, and at this time, night gradually fell inside and outside the city and became calm.

Liu Xiang inspected the city tower and saw that the city pass had been turned into devastation, and that the battle just now had lost more than 2,000 people, and he wanted to send out a fire in his heart.

At this time, Ye Zhao came to Liu Xiang's side and said: "We only hold on like this, which leads to low morale, and the catapults of the Qin army just now have also added a lot of pressure to the psychology of many soldiers."

Liu Xi, who had just gone out of the city to investigate, came back and said to everyone: "I didn't expect that the camp at the front of the Qin army is fifteen miles east of us, and I have already found out that all their catapults are there, but there are some soldiers and horses guarding them."

"Since the Qin army is so arrogant, this is obviously a fat meat given to us, and tonight a fire will burn down their catapults, see what they will do tomorrow to attack the city."

Seeing Liu Xiang's order, Qiu Hao hurriedly said: "What they did was so conspicuous, if our army attacked by surprise, they would be ambushed."

"This is a great opportunity to boost the morale of our troops."

After that, Liu Xiang did not listen to Qiu Hao's suggestion, and insisted on personally leading a group of men and horses out of the city to attack the Qin army.

Liu Xiang led the army to the outside of the Qin camp, and in order to prevent emergencies, he directly launched an attack, which made the Qin army chaotic in just one moment, and the army quickly killed the center of the camp.

Seeing that dozens of catapults were really neatly placed, Liu Xiang ordered the soldiers to start setting fire, but before they could do anything, they suddenly saw a cannon sound, and a Qin army rushed out from each wing of Dazhai.

Seeing that the Qin army was ready, Liu Xiang hurriedly led the whole army to meet the enemy, and here, as soon as Liu Xiang's army walked out of the city, a Qin military captain who had been lurking for a long time launched a signal in the city.

The elite of the two or three hundred Qin troops lurking in the city were like ants gathering, and they took advantage of the fact that some of the soldiers and horses in the city had already been allocated, and each quietly climbed the tower of the outer city with his sword.

Liu Xiang led many horses out of the city to sneak attack, the defenders on the tower of the city pass did reduce a lot, it was the dead of night, the defenders were also very tired, these Qin soldiers touched the city tower, three times five divided by two to control the entire outer city pass.

The Qin soldiers quickly changed into the uniforms of the Yan army and hid the corpses of the Yan soldiers, wanting to stand guard on the city pass as if nothing had happened, and when they saw that the time was ripe, they quietly opened the city gate and lowered the drawbridge.

Guan Fei, who had been waiting outside the city for a long time, saw this and said to Zang Chao beside him: "In order to prevent the Yan army from being infested with soldiers and horses outside the city, I will divide two-thirds of your troops into the city, and I will lead the army to continue to ambush here."

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