Early the next morning, Gao Shun led the main force of 17,000 troops in Qingzhou to Linzi day and night, and participated in the memorial ceremony of the Linzi Defense War presided over by Guo Jia with Lu Bu, paying tribute to the souls of more than 5,900 church guards and more than 2,700 people who died in this tragic battle, and praised the righteous deeds of the people of Linzi in the battle.

Guo Jia said: "The Battle of Linzi is a battle to be proud of, and all those who contributed money and effort and even paid their lives for this battle should be recorded in history." In this battle, the people of Our Lady proved to the world with their conviction and fearlessness that we are invincible, and at the same time proved to the Mother of Heaven that our faith is unshakable. Our Lady will delight in us and draw us into his kingdom after we die. There, we will surely see those relatives and friends who died in this battle, such as ...... Our esteemed Patriarch of Qingzhou, Lord Luan! ”

The first half of Guo Jia's sermon tends to be uplifting, and in the middle of the conversation, he begins to bring people back to those who died tragically in this battle, such as the venerable Luan Tao, and the ordinary couple who died with Yuan Bing. People mourned, mourned, and angry.

They hated the executioners from Hebei.

Guo Jia's speech came to an abrupt end, and Lu Bu stood up at the right time, raised his arms and shouted, "Cut off Yan Liang's head to sacrifice the souls of the dead." ”

The 20,000 Qingzhou army and tens of thousands of people echoed in unison with fire in their eyes, "Behead Yan Liang to sacrifice the souls of the dead." ”

On the same day, the whole army of Qingzhou went to Beihai, and more than 10,000 people volunteered to serve as people's husbands to escort the baggage for the army, and embarked on the road to the east.

It is said that Yan Liang went south to Xuzhou, and Yuan Shao allocated him a total of 45,000 men, but now he has lost nearly 35,000 people under Linzi City. The remaining 10,000 people need to be stationed in the two big cities of Puyang and Beihai.

The military advisor Xin commented on Yan Liang, saying: "Our army has few soldiers, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to defend the two cities. Why don't you abandon Beihai and defend Puyang alone, and at the same time ask the lord to bring rescue troops to help, and then try to follow? ”

"Move the rescue to the lord?"

Yan Liang immediately imagined the scene of Tian Feng and the likes of Frustration laughing at him for being "brave and unstrategic". He did not hesitate to reject Xin Ping's proposal, "No need! A certain family of 10,000 horses can still hold two big cities. Subsequently, he ordered the general Han Meng to lead 5,000 men and horses to garrison Puyang, and himself to lead another 5,000 men to guard Beihai.

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Bu led the Qingzhou Church army to the outside of Beihai City.

Different from Yan Liang. When Yan Liang led his troops to besiege Linzi, Xin Ping suggested that Yan Liang only surround three city walls, and set aside a gate for the guards and people guarding Linzi as a living gate, so as not to trap the defenders of the city and fight to the death.

Yan Liang didn't listen to Xin Ping's words, and as a result, the people of Linzi were trying to survive, which led to the army and the people being united and defending Linzi City.

Now, the church is attacking the city, and Yan Liang is defending the city. Guo Jia also suggested to Lu Bu, "Sun Tzu Youyun: 'The siege of the army must flash, and the poor do not chase', the general should not dodge the side, so as to make the retreat of Yuan's army." ”

If someone else made such a suggestion to Lu Bu, Lu Bu might not listen to it (including Chen Gong), but he would definitely listen to Guo Jia's words.

Why?

Lu Bu's thinking is very simple, his perception of people and the 21st century Apple President Stephen? Steve Jobs was exactly the same – there were only two kinds of people in the world, genius and shit.

And Guo Jia's extraordinary military talent in the past in the process of teaching soldiers and horses to fight, especially the unexpected military tactics in the battle between Yanzhou and Cao Cao, established his position as a genius in Lu Bu's heart. Lu Bu was immediately shocked and praised him as a "little grandson" alive.

It is precisely because of this strong admiration that Lu Bu is so obedient to Guo Jia.

This also explains why Guo Jia is such an important figure, Luan Yi did not take him with him, but sent him to assist Lu Bu. Because, only a figure like Guo Jia can suppress Lu Bu.

On the other hand, the reason why Yan Liang didn't listen to Xin Ping was because he was not convinced by Xin Ping. In addition, in order to prove that he was holding back his strength, the lust for profit finally led to evil consequences.

No more gossip, down to business.

Lu Bu's army surrounded Beihai on three sides and set up camp unhurriedly. At the same time, imitating Yan Liang's attack on Linzi, he also piled up dirt mountains and erected a distance.

Standing on the city wall, hearing this news, Yan Liang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He really wanted to lead his troops out of the city to destroy all the distances, but the number of soldiers and horses under his command was too small, and even if he went out of the city, he couldn't form an effective threat to the distances, so he had to give up! The dirt mountains outside the city are getting higher and higher day by day.

In order to conserve physical strength, the church army built the moat very slowly, only piling up three zhang a day, and never doing much. In case of rainy weather, the soldiers were asked to stop work and rest, and let the soldiers play in the camp.

At first, Yan Liang was puzzled. I wonder why Lu Bu came in a hurry, why didn't he rush to attack the city? After observing for a long time, I realized that Lu Bu's intention was that the drunkard did not mean to drink...... In front of him, this tall moat was not only piled up outside Beihai City, but also pressed on the hearts of the guards guarding the city.

In the face of the besieging church army, Yuan Jun, who had just suffered defeat, was already afraid. Now that I see the siege weapon, the distance tree, in front of me, maybe the construction will be completed one day, and the flying general Lu Bu will be introduced into the city to take their lives.

In Yuan Bing's eyes, the distance has become a life-threatening talisman, and the day when the distance is built is the moment when the deadline comes.

The dead end is in front of him, and he is getting closer to himself every minute and second. How could Yuan Bing not be afraid? If it weren't for the fact that the North Gate, which had not yet been besieged by the Church army, had the Inspector Warlords, they would have fled long ago.

Five days later, the distance was finally completed, and the hearts of the Yuan soldiers were also raised to their throats.

At that hour, a loud drum beat broke out in Lu Bu's army, and the army assembled outside the camp. Singing the unique military song of Our Lady, a group of guards climbed the distance with neat steps, hiding in cowhide bunkers to spread a rain of arrows to the head of Beihai City. Yuan Jun hid behind the women's wall and other bunkers to fight back.

Just when Yan Liang thought that the current battle to defend the city would turn into an extremely tragic war of attrition, more than a dozen strange-looking carts appeared in the church army formation at some point. With a fierce roar, the cart actually threw a boulder from a hundred paces away.

More than a dozen boulders went straight into the void, smashing the city like meteors falling to the ground, and even the earth trembled under the huge impact.

The guards at the head of the city fell on their backs. Got up, after seeing a section of the female wall being smashed down by a boulder, and a robe died from the flying stone. They freaked out. Not only them, but Yan Liang was also frightened.

He had long heard of a stone machine in the Church Army called the Thunderbolt, but in his opinion, the stone machine was nothing more than an opportunistic thing. It's okay to scare and scare people, but if you really want to fight, you have to rely on a knife and a gun. So I didn't take it seriously.

Now that he saw the thunderbolt, he realized that the trebuchet had such a great power, and Yan Liang felt that he couldn't regret it.

In the line of sight, the thunderbolt on the ground kept throwing boulders to the city, and the distance above kept throwing arrows down, and the Yuan soldiers who smashed the two intersected had nowhere to hide, and they couldn't stop it, hugging their heads and running away.

At this time, the thunderbolts stopped bombardment, and the church guards connected the moat with a fence. Yuan Bing, who defended the city, also wanted to use Ge and an iron rod with a hook to overturn the fence like the church guarding Linzi in the defense of Linzi. But when he lifted it, he was surprised to find that there was a row of card slots on the grid laid by the church guards, and the card slots were tightly buckled on the city wall, and they could not be lifted at all.

The devil is in the details.

The Yuan soldiers could only watch as the murderous church guards pounced on the city.

The church soldiers and horses responsible for launching this general attack were none other than the trapping regiment led by Gao Shun.

The guards of the trapping regiment were dressed in foot armor, and the armor weighing 40 catties covered their bodies tightly, and the guards of the city wall could not penetrate and could not move. However, the trap guards were reaping their lives with their sharp swords every moment, and soon took a place in the city.

Lu Bu issued an order for a general attack at the right time, and the more than 10,000 church guards under the city shouted "For the glory of the Virgin" and launched a charge.

This time, Yan Liang reacted very quickly, and gave the order to retreat before the cloud ladder could reach the city wall.

The Yuan soldiers did not look back, and fled in embarrassment.

Coming out of the north gate, he ran out for more than thirty miles in one go. Yan Liang just wanted to take a breath, but he heard a Malay report that a large number of soldiers and horses were coming from the north.

Yan Liang was excited, and he also said that it was an ambush set by Lu Bu. Later, Fang Zhinai was the general Han Meng who led the defenders of Puyang to rescue. He took the initiative to step forward and said gratefully: "If it weren't for Han Meng coming in time, my life would have been suspended." ”

Han Meng was sincere, Xiao Zizi scratched his head, and said honestly: "Meng doesn't dare to take credit." If it weren't for the general's timely call for help, Meng wouldn't have come so quickly. ”

Yan Liang was stunned when he heard this, "When did a certain family ask you for help?" ”

Han Meng was also stunned, "Early this morning, there was an oral training from my own sentry horseman, saying that the situation of Beihai was in a critical situation, and I asked me to bring someone to the rescue." How is it wrong? ”

"Where did I send a sentry?" Yan Liang asked in surprise.

"But that man is clearly from our army. I've met him several times, and I remember his name being Yang Rong. Han Meng said.

"Oops! Medium-minded. Yan Liang slapped his thigh and looked up to the sky and sighed. He also knew Yang Rong, who had disappeared since the defeat of Linzi that day, and he was afraid that he would descend to Lu Bu. Now it seems that it must be a fake general's order, in order to lure Han Meng out of Puyang, and then lead the church's soldiers and horses to attack the ...... In this way, Puyang can be won without a fight.

Thinking of this, Yan Liang anxiously urged, "Quick, go to Puyang!" ”

The two men and horses were combined into one, and the fast horses whipped straight to Puyang.

Sure enough, when it came to the city of Puyang, there was still a trace of the "Yuan" banner at the head of the city, and all of them were replaced with the blood red cross flag symbolizing the church.

Cao Xing, one of the eight strong generals under Lu Bu's tent, saw that Yan Liang was late, and looked up to the sky and laughed, "Yan Liang'er, your Puyang City has been obtained by my military division. Still not tied up? ”