Yuan Shao and others reached an agreement, and Tian Feng repaired a letter and sent it to the Wang's family in Bingzhou, in which he expressed sympathy for their situation, and then exaggerated the situation in Jizhou, and then hoped that they could be patient for the time being, and when they stabilized the situation in Jizhou, they would send troops to attack Bingzhou. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The head of the Wang family, who received the letter, went to Linghu's house overnight to discuss the next move with the head of the family, and the conversation between the two was unknown, but after tonight, all the big and small families in various places fell silent.

Zhang Zai wished that the family would not come out to find trouble, after the establishment of the academy, without the hindrance of the family, Zhang Zai was completely idle, except for dealing with some official affairs every day, basically nothing to do, and now the state can only focus on the development of agriculture.

In the blink of an eye, the year has passed.

According to Zhang Zai's prediction, this year, the grain produced in the Hetao area will be able to feed back to the prefecture and pastoral government, and at the same time, Zhang Zai has expanded the army, and the total number of troops in his hands has reached 80,000 at this time, excluding the county soldiers in various places, there are at least 50,000 soldiers in his hands.

However, Zhang Zai's power has developed to a bottleneck, and the army cannot grow anymore because of population restrictions, so Zhang Zai can either implement a strategy of elite soldiers and focus on training the army, or he can only expand his territory.

Wanting to capture the surrounding land, Zhang Zai's eyes swept over the map, and there were only Youzhou, Jizhou, and Sili adjacent to Bingzhou, and then set his sights on Shangdang.

The war with the outside world, the division is unknown, Zhang Zai can only occupy the entire territory of the state first, but there is still a summoning authority here.

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, even if it is Zhang Yang, Zhang Zai does not want to capsize in the gutter, so he sent someone to start the spies of bad people in the party, and this part of the people began to operate.

A month later, the troop configuration of Shangdang County had already appeared in front of Zhang Zai's desk.

Looking at the deployment of Shangdang's troops, Zhang Zai roughly estimated that he needed to use all the soldiers and horses in his hands to almost take Zhang Yang, there are mountains between Shangdang and Taiyuan County, there are many passes, easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the pass is captured, if Zhang Yang will lead the army into the mountains and harass Zhang Zai's grain road, it will also be a big problem, unless every time the grain is transported, there are generals to escort it, even so, there will be a loss of grain and grass.

In addition, the only way to attack the eldest son from the rear was to use cavalry, and as long as the front and rear flanking attacks eliminated Zhang Yang, his troops would surrender without a fight.

The next day, Xue Rengui rushed to Yanmen with his personal guards, he was going to replace Zhang Liao and Ran Min, of course, this was Zhang Zai's order.

Zhang Liao has been following him since Zhang Zai came to the Eastern Han Dynasty, except for the initial siege of the Xiongnu, following Xue Rengui to rob the camp, so far, he has been staying in the rear, and now it is time for him to appear, and after Ran Min was rescued, he was also stationed at the border, and now it is time for the two to make them famous.

On this expedition, Zhang Zai still plans to personally lead the army, and the entourage is not only Ran Min, Zhang Liao, but Xiong Kuohai and Wang Meng.

The soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, and all the grain and grass and materials of the state pastoral government were all in operation, waiting to be mobilized, and at the same time, a piece of paper was passed on to the county of the head of the party rule.

A few days later, Zhang Zai's soldiers and horses gathered, and Zhang Zai swore to march in Jinyang.

Speaking of Zhang Yang, he deliberately waited for Zhang Zai at the pass to the county, Zhang Yang also knew that he was not Zhang Zai's opponent, and the combat effectiveness of the troops was not at the same level, so he couldn't go out to fight in the field, so he planned to use the terrain to maneuver with Zhang Zai.

Half a day later, Zhang Zai was already in front of the mountain pass.

The pass is built between two mountains, the peaks on both sides are high and steep, and it is impossible to attack from top to bottom, and the walls are nearly ten meters high, made of rammed earth and bluestone, and there seems to be no other path than a strong attack.

"Zhang Zide, why did you violate my border for no reason?" Zhang Yang stood at the head of the city and watched Zhang Zai shout.

Zhang Zai looked at Zhang Yang at the head of the city, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, the two had a relationship and were friends, but they didn't expect it to develop to the point where they are now.

Zhang Zai settled down and replied: "You don't respect the orders of the state pastor, you oppress the people, causing the people's grievances to boil, and today you are here to eliminate harm for the people." ”

Zhang Yang laughed: "Listen to the orders of your state pastor's office, I'm afraid I don't know how he died in the end." ”

Zhang Zai was silent, if Zhang Yang surrendered, then he really didn't know how to deal with it, seal him a fictitious official in name only, and then imprisoned for life, and even kill the killer, and many things were no longer up to him to decide.

"Uncle Zhi, surrender, a certain guarantee will not hurt your life." Zhang Zai still hopes to win without a fight, and then occupy the party without a single soldier.

"Don't think! If you have the ability, you can break the level, and if you want to surrender, it's impossible! Zhang Yang refused.

The majestic sea beside Zhang Zai was already impatient to wait, and said to Zhang Zai: "Lord, what do you have to say to him, just break the city gate, arrest him, and dispose of it with the lord." ”

"In that case, there's nothing to talk about." Zhang Zai pulled out the saber at his waist, pointed the blade forward, and shouted: "Beat the drum, march." ”

"Knock knock ......" With the sound of war drums, the first troops began to step on the drums, push the ladders, and siege vehicles, under the command of the majestic sea, and walked towards the city wall.

Siege warfare is always brutal, especially on the besieging side, where the soldiers have to go through the baptism of various defense tools, rolling stones, logs, hot oil, and gold juice.

Although it was only a tentative attack, in just one hour, Zhang Zai had already lost hundreds of people, and he had not yet reached the top of the city.

Seeing that the attack was not going well, Zhang Zai immediately ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

The next day, Xiong Kuohai began to bring people to challenge in front of the pass, but Zhang Yang knew that the people under the pass were fierce generals who could compete with Lu Bu, so he ordered that no one should go out of the pass to fight.

So, no matter how Xiong Kuohai called the battle, no one was engaged in the battle, and the angry Xiong Kuohai immediately returned to the barracks and asked for the order to attack the city.

With the vast sea as the head, the siege troops began to push the ladder again, and the siege vehicles began to attack.

The rain of arrows from Zhang Zai's covering troops was even more intensive, and the defenders of the city couldn't raise their heads until Xiong Kuohai and others ran a few feet away from the city wall.

The suppressed defenders began to counterattack, closing the arrows and stones, and the besieging forces began to meet resistance.

"Get out of the way!"

Xiong Kuohai saw a soldier pushing a siege engine being hit in the back by a boulder, vomiting blood and falling to the ground, casually moved him away, and then took his place himself, pushing and hitting the city gate.

After a few bumps, Xiong Kuohai felt that he couldn't use his strength, so he said to the soldiers beside him: "Get out of the way!" ”

After the soldiers around Xiong Kuohai left, he picked up the cooked copper stick in his hand and smashed it towards the city gate.

"Bang! Boom! ”

A few hits hit the gate with a few hits, and a layer of dirt and ash fell.

Xiong Kuohai was still not satisfied, threw the copper rod in his hand, then took off his helmet, took a few steps back, and slammed his body into the city gate.

With a loud bang, the city gate began to crumble, and the huge solid wood bolt inside, overwhelmed, made a crisp sound, and seemed to be about to break.

The guards who closed the gate immediately rushed up and pushed the gate hard, trying to resist the force of the impact of the mighty sea.