On the second day, the two sides officially launched the offensive and defensive battle of Sujube City.

Yang Xuangan's army attacked from all sides, mainly attacking the west city gate, because the sour jujube city was small, so the defenders were not too scattered, Li Yin walked around with the personal guards, calmly dispatched.

Splashing water, throwing rocks, and rolling logs, the defenders were a little flustered at first, but after a while, they slowly became proficient.

Because Yang Xuangan's army has no other siege equipment except for the simple ladder and the four crashing vehicles that have just been built, and they basically have no siege experience, so the sour jujube defenders fought quite easily, more than an hour later, Yang Xuangan's army has killed and injured more than 800 people, but few have climbed the city wall.

"Duke Chu, leave this small city of sour dates and go to attack the capital Luoyang!" After the first round of attacks was fruitless, Li Mi once again persuaded Yang Xuangan.

"If we can't even attack this small sour jujube city, how can we attack Luoyang, the eastern capital!" Yang Xuangan's eyes were red.

Li Mi continued to persuade: "How can this be compared? Collect the people all the way, with the prestige of the Duke of Chu, there will be 100,000 people near Luoyang, and then collect the armor and equipment, which can be described as a big thing, but if we stay in this sour jujube city for one more day, our hope will be reduced by one point! ”

Under Li Mi's almost crying persuasion, Yang Xuangan's determination to continue the siege was a little shaken, but in the end he still said: "At this time, I am afraid that I will be ridiculed by the people of the world, and the matter of retreat should not be mentioned again." ”

Subsequently, Yang Xuangan ordered people to make large-scale siege equipment, and on the other hand, he once again commanded the army to launch a second attack on Suozao City.

When it was getting dark, Cui Wenxuan saw that the people patrolling the streets were still his own people, and he knew that Sour Jujube City was temporarily defended, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, so he went out of the house to organize people to reward the army.

After a day of attack and defense, Yang Xuangan's army lost nearly 3,000 people under Suojube City, while Li Yin's army only suffered more than 300 casualties, and the battle loss ratio was 1 to 10.

Although he lost a lot of people, Yang Xuangan still planned to continue the siege tomorrow, and there were two reasons why he continued to attack the city, one was that after working day and night, they had now built a siege tower and five catapults and more than a dozen ladders, and the other was that a group of 5,000 thieves came to join him, making his troops 2,000 more than before the battle, which made him more confident.

However, Li Mi felt a little dead to Yang Xuan because the army stayed in this senseless sour jujube city for two days, and had a feeling that "the erector is not enough to plot with him", and wanted to leave immediately, but he was unwilling to give up the opportunity to show his ambitions, which made him feel very depressed.

"Perhaps, only when I obtain the military power myself, can I truly display my ambitions!" Li Mi looked at the vast night sky and suddenly thought of this.

At this time, it was late at night, and Li Mi was about to rest in the camp, but suddenly saw a burst of fire on the west side of the camp and a faint shout of killing.

Li Mi was stunned for a moment, "That location seems to be the place of siege equipment." Li Mi immediately rejoiced instead of sad, "This fire burns well!" ”

Yang Xuangan shouted angrily at this time: "What happened? Send someone to put out the fire! ”

After a while, Yang Xuangan knew that it was the soldiers in Suzuo City who went out of the city at some point and set fire to the siege equipment that he had hoped for.

After Yang Xuangan saw this situation, he was so angry that he spit out a mouthful of old blood, "Has the enemy caught it?" ”

"I ...... By the time we found out, the enemy had already run into the city......" replied the general who was in charge of the equipment.

"Come on, pull me out and cut it off!"

"Duke Chu spares his life, Duke Chu spares his life!"

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After Li Yin returned to Sujube City with his men and horses safe and sound, he shouted: "Go back to the camp to rest!" ”

"Obey the generals!" The soldiers replied and left in an orderly manner, and Li Yin immediately returned to his residence.

In the battle of defending the city, blindly defending is not in line with military reason, and the good defender must be good at finding the most appropriate time to go out of the city and harass the enemy army, because this can not only improve the morale of his own army, but also hit the morale of the enemy.

Li Yin's sudden attack tonight, burning all the enemy's siege equipment, is just a small test, he plans to attack again tomorrow night and sneak attack Yang Xuangan's Chinese army!

However, Li Yin's plan soon fell through, because when the next morning, the spies came to report that Yang Xuangan's army had left Sour Jujube City at the dawn of the day.

"General Li Lang, are we going to pursue the enemy?" County Lieutenant Liu Tong asked Li Yin with a hot look in his eyes.

Yang Xuangan rebelled, the world shook, Suozao County can successfully drag them for two days, it is already a great achievement, if you take advantage of the victory to pursue and defeat Yang Xuangan, then this credit will be great, and then he Liu Tong will definitely be able to be promoted to a big official.

But Li Yin shook his head, "Although the enemy army retreated, the morale is still there, and the retreat is orderly, so it is not suitable to pursue." ”

After hearing this, Liu Tong felt very disappointed.

Li Yin patted Liu Tong on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, County Lieutenant Liu, we will still fight with Yang Xuangan." ”

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Yang Xuangan finally led the army out of the sour jujube realm, although he was eager to continue to capture the sour jujube city and cut Li Yin with a thousand knives, but the only remaining reason told him that he could not continue to spend in the sour jujube city.

The large-scale siege equipment that was finally made was burned, and it would take at least more than a day to remake it, and then it would take another three or four days to continue the siege of sour jujubes, and by that time, Yang Guang might have learned the news and began to lead the army back from Liaodong, leaving him with a very tight time.

Therefore, under the hard persuasion of Li Mi and others, Yang Xuangan gave the order to retreat unwillingly.

After Yang Xuangan's army left Suozao County, he traveled all the way to the west, passing through the two large counties of Yuanwu and Xingze, and the county orders of these two counties were Yang Su's protégés and former officials, and they had a very close relationship with the Yang family, so they opened the city gate for Yang Xuangan.

Yang Xuangan not only made up for the military mothers from these two counties, but also obtained many weapons and accommodated more than 5,000 displaced people, which swept away the haze of the whole army under the sour jujube city.

Subsequently, Yang Xuangan led his army to bypass the well-defended Xingyang County, Xingyang County, and continued to march to Luoyang, and finally reached Yanshi (Jinxian County, Henan) north of Luoshui, and sent his fourth brother Yang Jishan to lead 3,000 troops from the south of Yanshi to march from the west along Luoshui; Then he sent his third brother Yang Xuanting to lead an army of 4,005 people, preparing to cross the mountain from Baisimaban and march from the south, while Yang Xuangan himself led the remaining more than 10,000 people, followed by him, about ten miles apart, claiming to have an army of 100,000.