Yang Xi taught Gan Ning a lesson, but there was a purpose, because Yang Xi specially called Gan Ning, and there was a very important thing for Gan Ning to do.

"Xingba!"

"The subordinates are here!"

"I ordered you to take 3,000 from your headquarters and defend the city for fifteen days, you can do it?"

Gan Ning didn't think about it, so he responded: "Subordinates obey the order!" ”

But it's not right to think about it, 3,000 soldiers? Defend the city for fifteen days? To thirty thousand?

"Childe? That, well, three thousand for sure? ”

Yang Xi said: "You have three thousand here, and five thousand in Lu Jun's hands, which will also be under your command, don't worry, I am reluctant to let you die." ”

Gan Ning smiled embarrassedly and said: "That's about the same, there are 8,000, even if you come to 30,000, you will not lose the city." ”

"I have handed over 5,000 crossbow bows, 5,000 sets of armor, and 10,000 steel shields, and the city will be fully armed at that time, what you have to do is not to defend the city, but to minimize casualties."

"Yes!"

"Cai Kao! You lead the headquarters, follow me north, and sneak into the territory of Longshu. ”

"Subordinates obey!"

A few days later, Liu Xunjun arrived in Shu County, and Long Shu guarded Han Dang, who was ordered by Sun Ce to lead 5,000 soldiers to the city.

Liu Xun originally wanted to transfer Han Dang to lead the soldiers and horses defending the city and march west with him, but when Han Dang refused, he did not force it. Liu Biao of Jingzhou did his best at this time, and Huang Zu of Yixian County was also ready to move, Liu Xun didn't believe it, Lujiang County could still withstand the siege of more than 20,000 people.

So Liu Xun gave up Shu County, and only ordered Han Dang to be in charge of grain and grass, and he drove his troops to Juchao.

At the same time, Tai Shici of Zongyang, who received Yang Xi's order, left Zongyang early, but did not come to help the nest, but went east and took Linhu directly.

The giant wave fleet is eight catties, and it has reached the shore of Linhu County, and half of the six thousand ship guards are directly down, and the three thousand men and horses are handed over to the commander of Tai Shici.

According to the plan given by Yang Xi, Tai Shici led 6,000 people to surround Linhu City.

There are only 1,000 soldiers in Linhu County, where can they withstand the 6,000 army, Tai Shi Ci ordered people to shoot at the head of the city with crossbows, paid thirty or forty people, and finally let the defenders in the city open the city and surrender.

So Tai Shici did not stop, and drove his troops to the east to take Xiang'an, leaving only 1,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Linhu, and the defenders of Linhu were disrupted and incorporated into the army.

There are no defenders in Xiang'an at all, and in the hinterland of Sun Ce, there are only 300 county soldiers, and they surrender to the wind.

Tai Shici left another 1,000 people to guard Xiang'an, and he led 3,000 troops and 2,000 sailors to Shu County.

At this time, Yang Xi and Cai Kao were under the city of Longshu, ordering people to bury pots and cook every day, and every half an hour, they shot some crossbow arrows under the city, so that the defenders in the city were exhausted.

There were two thousand defenders in the city, and they were not afraid of Cai Kao's three or four thousand men, so the two sides were in a stalemate.

At this time, the small city has been surrounded by Liu Xun's more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and it is impermeable.

Liu Xun looked from afar and found that the big banner with the word Yang was planted all over the city, so he asked Yan Xiangdao, the accompanying military teacher: "According to what Mr. saw, who is the person guarding the city at this moment?" ”

Yan Xiang said: "The general only needs to send a group of men and horses to test the siege of the city, and the reality in the city will be clear." ”

So Liu Xun ordered the vanguard Yuan Yin to lead 10,000 troops and go to the city to call for battle first.

But Yuan Yin screamed for a long time, and there was no response from the city.

Yuan Yin knew that Yang Xi's standard weapon was a crossbow, so he specially controlled the soldiers and horses outside the range, and put the shield soldiers first.

Seeing that there was no reaction from the city, Yuan Yin drove his troops forward, and more than a dozen cloud ladders were escorted out by shield soldiers.

After walking more than ten zhang, suddenly behind the city wall, more than a thousand armor were clearly displayed, and thousands of crossbow arrows flew down, and the Yuan army suddenly lost hundreds of people.

Yuan Yin was much relieved in his heart, and he was only a thousand people.

So Yuan Yin ordered all the people to attack the city, and the generals shouted and rushed towards the city wall.

At this time, there was a change in the city, and on the city wall, which was originally only more than a thousand defenders, suddenly there were two or three thousand more heads, and dense crossbow arrows fell like rain, and the people under the city suddenly turned over on their backs.

When they arrived at the bottom of the city, the distance was close, and the lethality of the crossbow arrows was undoubtedly revealed, and a large number of siege soldiers threw down their corpses, and in half a moment, they left two thousand corpses.

Before Yuan Yin could react, he was still driving the troops forward, and a large number of soldiers fell.

The nest city is small, the attacks are dense, and it is fast even for the dead.

10,000 horses, attacking 3,000 people, couldn't get on the city wall, Yuan Yin finally reacted, his equipment was too poor, and he needed more people, so Ming Jin withdrew and showed Liu Xun the situation.

Liu Xun listened and asked Yan Xiang.

Yan Xiang said: "In this way, Yang Xi must be in the city, there are three thousand defenders at the east gate, and there must be a lot of the remaining three gates. ”

Liu Xun said: "In this case, why don't I bypass the nest, go straight to Wancheng, and cut off its grain route." ”

Yan Xiang shook his head and said: "No, if you abandon the nest and go to take Anhui City, then the nest is not on the back road of our army, where will our army's food and grass come from?" He Yang Xi has been operating here for several years, once he is short of food, he will shout and send his own grain and grass, and the general has no foundation here, unless he takes it by force. ”

So Liu Xun ordered to rest for the time being today and attack the city tomorrow.

Yang Xi heard the news of the attack on Juchao in Longshu, but he was not in a hurry, but ordered to continue to garrison outside Longshu City.

Cai Kao said: "Son, people are attacking our nest, but we are playing here, what does this mean?" ”

Yang Xidao: "I have ordered Tai Shi Ci to lead the troops, arrive in Shu County, Shu County Han Dang must not be Tai Shi Ci's opponent, if he sends grain to Liu Xun, Tai Shi Ci will hit it, if he does not send grain, Liu Xun will send someone to take it personally, and Tai Shi Ci will rob his grain and grass, which is equivalent to cutting off his grain channel." For more than ten days like this, how could he Liu Xun stand it. When the time comes, you, Tai Shici, and Gan Ning will all come out, and he Liu Xun will be chaotic. ”

"Childe wants to weaken step by step, peeling the skin little by little?"

"You just figured it out, after this battle, he Sun Ce and Yuan Shu will find that the entire Lujiang County will become ours, I have blocked the riverbank and taken the second county by the riverside, Sun Ce is anxious to pass, now it is equivalent to catching turtles in the urn, our army is here, there is no shortage of food and grass, see how he consumes with me."

"However, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and we can also assess the situation, wait for the right time, and change our strategy."

Under the nest city, 20,000 troops shouted and charged, arrows rained down on the city, in this small nest city, stalemate for three hours, Gan Ning stood at the head of the city, kept bending the bow and shooting, Lu Jun was in another city, ordering the people to keep transporting arrows and boulders, and the nest city became a meat grinder.

There were also people in the city who kept shooting arrows into the city, but the soldiers in the city were all armored, and there were few dead.

When the three Chen rivers came down, the soldiers were already very tired, and some people were constantly shot by arrows and fell.

In the afternoon, the city could not be attacked for a long time, Liu Xun had to Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and fight again tomorrow, after counting the number of people, Liu Xun found that his side lost more than 5,000 people today, plus yesterday's losses, it was up to 7,000 battle losses.

Ganning's side was also not comfortable, and the 8,000 defenders also lost thousands of people.

It was the first day of fighting.

Liu Xun and Yan Xiang didn't expect that they would fight like this.

Suddenly, another army came to report, saying that a large number of soldiers and horses had appeared in Shu County in the rear, and it was suspected that the other side had reinforcements, and the number was five or six thousand.

Yan Xiang said: "It's bad, this is the other party's desire to cut off our army's back road." ”

"The military division doesn't need to worry, Han Dang's 5,000 men and horses defend the city, forgive him Yang Xi's little soldiers and horses, and he will not capture Shu County, wait for me to send the pioneer Yuan Yin, lead the army of 5,000, go to Shu County and Han Dang should join forces with the outside world, and eat the 5,000 soldiers and horses."

Yan Xiang thinks about it, what role can 5,000 soldiers and horses play.