This time, with the cooperation of Liu Qitong Guò Deng Zhi and Chen Zhen, Shun Lì beheaded more than 50 military officials such as Zhang Shun, Zhang Yu, Liu Can, Niu Chu, and Wang Heng, completely controlled this reinforcement team of 10,000 people, and according to the establishment of Chen Zhen and Deng Zhi, a group of junior officers such as Du Bo and Junhou were newly promoted from the army, so that this team regained its combat effectiveness.

Due to the mutiny caused by Zhang Shun and others yesterday, the morale of the 10,000 new reinforcements was not high, so Liu Qi decided to rest for three days and wait until the 10,000 soldiers had fully recovered their combat strength before attacking the city.

And Liu Qi's method of restoring the combat effectiveness of the 10,000 soldiers was not only the normal domestication encouragement, but also allowed them to participate in collective drills and feel the rainbow momentum of the Jingzhou army under his command.

It was only at this time that the 10,000 soldiers really felt the strength of the Jingnan Army commanded by Liu Qi, not only the military appearance was neat, but the kind of bearing that looked down on the world and gave up on others could make the opponent feel frightened.

"No wonder General Fenwu was able to pacify the three counties of Jingnan in such a short period of time, and occupied the two counties of Nanhai and Cangwu in Jiaozhou, and it was really not lucky, such a team is not inferior to those most powerful elites even if they look at the world, such as Sun Ce's Danyang soldiers, Gongsun Zhan's white horse Yicong, Cao Cao's Qingzhou army, Ju Yi's first camp, Gao Shun's trapped camp, etc., now think about it, General Zhang Yun doesn't know how strong General Fenwu's army is, and he dares to rashly provoke, which is simply self-inflicted." Deng Zhi and Chen Zhen looked at the majestic army under Liu Qi's command, and they couldn't help but feel a shock from the soul, and at the same time, they also felt that it was really the wisest choice for them to defect to Liu Qi's account.

This is not only because they escaped by luck, but more importantly, let them see the hope of making contributions, and they feel that following such a masterpiece, their lives will not be in vain. Just like what this young general said a few days ago, he should not only seal his wife and son, but also leave a name in history.

So the two of them all held back their strength and shouted to the soldiers under their command: "Brothers, have you seen it? is also a soldier, everyone can pick the three of us, if it is a group cooperation, we are not a little worse, the same Jingzhou children, are we willing to be compared to others like this? ”

The soldiers also felt a kind of humiliation, and they all shouted loudly: "Unwilling." ”

"Yes, don't say that everyone is unwilling, even the two of us are unwilling, we also grew up eating the water of Hanchuan, and I don't believe that they can have more heads than us! What they can do, we can do. Starting today, all of us must strictly observe military discipline and practice assiduously, so that they can see our strength in the shortest possible time. ”

Deng Zhi's words immediately had a huge repercussion in the army, and these soldiers all worked hard to train, and their morale was high all day, even if they were tired and tired, they did not say a word at all.

In this way, the entire army of 10,000 trained hard for two days, and although the lineup and morale were still not comparable to those under Liu Qi's command, they had already undergone radical changes compared to two days ago.

The current thousand men and horses can be said to be in a neat formation, strict discipline, and greatly improved combat effectiveness, and now they are holding a breath in their hearts, this siege battle will definitely be superior to other legions in Jingzhou.

Early the next morning, Liu Qi ordered the army to cook food on the fourth watch and eat on the fifth watch, and launched a siege battle as soon as the sky was bright.

"Kill......"

As soon as Liu Qi gave the order, the entire 60,000 troops immediately roared and began the siege battle.

Since most of the army had not fought for several months, the siege battle entered the white heat as soon as it came up, and hundreds of newly built ladders were pushed under the city, and then the brave Jingzhou army climbed to the top of the city wall by means of the ladders.

However, the enemy army was obviously already prepared, under the command of the defending general Du Zheng, calmly responded to the battle, the Jingzhou soldiers were far away, they greeted with bows and arrows, and when the Jingzhou soldiers were close, they used defensive equipment such as stones and rolling logs to guard, and for those soldiers who rushed to the head of the city through the guò ladder, they were directly greeted by guò hand-to-hand combat.

Even later, Du Xun discovered the weakness of the ladder, lit the torch with a bow and arrow, shot it on the ladder, and burned more than 20 ladders in less than half an hour.

"Kill." Deng Zhi and Chen Zhen led 10,000 Jingzhou disciples to start a fierce siege of the city, this 10,000 army climbed the ladder without fear of death, and climbed towards the enemy's city wall, but they didn't expect the opponent's defense to be so tight, and they still couldn't climb the enemy's city at the cost of thousands of people.

"Kill." Wei Yan saw that his 10,000 horses had also lost hundreds, and he was already red-eyed, and immediately led the army to attack the city in person, but immediately attracted a dense rain of arrows, if he hadn't dodged in time, I am afraid he would have been shot into a hedgehog.

"I really didn't expect the opponent's defense to be so tight, and he paid special attention to greeting our generals, this guy called Du Raid is not simple." Wei Yan reluctantly pulled out the feather arrow that had hit his shoulder without him noticing, and said through gritted teeth.

Gan Ning led his elite to storm the city, but was also shot back by the rain of arrows, and secretly sighed that the enemy generals were too wise, and they were able to order the enemy army to attack their own generals in time.

Although Huang Zhong has completely attached himself to Liu Qi, but now that he sees that what he is attacking is Linxiang City, and the bow and arrow in his hand are shooting at his former comrades, he is always a little unbearable and hesitant in his heart.

At this time, Yu Ban walked over and said to Liu Qi: "General, the thief army is large, and it is a little difficult for our army to attack it, and now there are more than 3,000 casualties. ”

Xu Shu also took the opportunity to speak: "The last general thinks that what General Wen Ze said is very reasonable, we should decisively stop attacking the city, otherwise once the other party has the advantage, we will face a severe situation." ”

Liu Qi looked at the precipitous city, although his heart was full of unwillingness, but he still reluctantly ordered to stop the siege: "This hateful Du attack is so good at defending, my 60,000 army has been attacking the city for half a day, losing two or three thousand people, and dozens of ladders have been burned, this is the first big loss that I, Liu Qi, have suffered since I led the troops." ”

Liu Qi was quite helpless to retreat, and gathered all the civil and military forces under his tent to discuss the strategy of breaking the enemy.

"I really didn't expect Du to attack this guy to have such a strong defensive ability, today's first attack on the city by our army, it actually suffered such a setback, even the ladder was burned dozens of planes, so that when the people in the city are all harvested and returned, and then assist Du to attack and defend the city, wouldn't it be more difficult for our army to have a chance of winning? Ladies and gentlemen, do you have a trick to break the enemy? Liu Qi sighed and asked slowly.

"Maybe we can dig tunnels." Xu Shu was silent for a moment, and then said suddenly.

"But since Du Xi is so good at guarding, he will think that he must know how to crack it." Liu Qi shook his head and said with a wry smile.

"Hehe, we are just asking him to crack it, just like this, and worry that the enemy army will not break it?" Xu Shu attached himself to Liu Qi's ear and said so.

Liu Qi was overjoyed when he heard this, so he immediately ordered Gan Ning to lead the army to dig the tunnel, and asked him like this.

Gan Ning immediately received the order and led the soldiers to dig the tunnel.

However, it was said that in Linxiang City, Zhang Xian saw that Du Xian led the army to win the victory in the battle of defending the city, and he was overjoyed, and ordered people to congratulate him with wine that night, and accompanied him with Huanjie, Zhang Yi, Han Xuan and others.

"Haha, with Du Zixu here, although Liu Qi's army is strong, why should I worry? Come on, let's have another drink with Zixu. Zhang Xian looked proud, and raised his glass to Du Xian and said.

A hint of a smile also appeared on Du Xian's calm face, and after thanking Zhang Xian, he slowly drank a glass of wine, and then reminded: "Lord Taishou, the last general is sure that the enemy army will definitely not give up, and will come up with other ways to deal with us, so we must not take it lightly." ”

Huan Jie nodded and said, "Zixu expected that, and asked Lord Taishou to send someone to defend it closely." ”

Zhang Xian saw that Huan Jie and Du Xian both said this, and he agreed with this in his heart, so he said to Du Xian: "Zixu's words are reasonable, and I will leave everything to you to deal with." ”

Du Xi was moved in his heart and hurriedly thanked him.

At this moment, I suddenly heard that Xiao Wu, the military marquis under Du Xian's command, came to report: "Lord Qi Taishou, Captain Du, we buried a vat in the city according to Captain Du's method, and sure enough, we heard a sound coming from the underground in the south of the city, so we conclude that Liu Qi's army must have dug a tunnel at the south city gate." ”

But he heard Du Xun say unhurriedly: "You don't need to worry about this matter, Xiao Wu, you dig a deep ditch horizontally outside the city gate, and order the sergeant to guard in front of the ditch, and once the enemy army shows up, kill it immediately." ”

"No." Xiao Wu immediately hurried away, and then ordered someone to dig a deep ditch, waiting for Liu Qi's army to throw themselves into the net.

But seeing Du Xian slowly stand up, he said with a smile: "Today, please see how Lord Taishou will break the enemy in the end, right?" This time, Liu Qi's army will definitely be defeated. ”

After finishing speaking, he arched his hand to Zhang Xian and the other generals, and then got up and went to the city gate, Zhang Xian, Han Xuan and the others were also curious, seeing how Du Xian broke the enemy this time, only Huan Jie's eyes showed a thoughtful look.

When Zhang Xian left the Taishou Mansion and came to the gate of the southern city, he saw that Du Xian led an army of 20,000 troops, all of which had already gathered in the city gate, and it looked as if he was waiting to go out at any time.

"Zixu, what's going on? Can't you rob the camp tonight? But Liu Qi's army is full of wise and resourceful people, how can he be defenseless after today's defeat? Zhang Xian couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly asked strangely.

But seeing Du Xian's mysterious smile, he said softly: "Lord Taishou, please rest assured, this time the last general will definitely be victorious and kill Liu Qi by surprise." ”