As the saying goes, thousands of people are in the city, and thousands of people are in the wilderness. 50,000 new soldiers surrounded the east, west, and north sides of Meiji City, leaving the south side alone. On average, there were 15,000 people in front of each wall. Outside the northern city alone, in the eyes of the soldiers and soldiers of Bingzhou who defended the city, not to mention the old soldiers of Zhao Jun in the distance, even the new soldiers of Zhao Jun in front of the city outside the city, they were also overwhelming, like black clouds pressing down on the city, and a heavy depressing atmosphere was coming.

Of course, as the main attacking side in the north, there were 30,000 new soldiers outside the city, and on the east and west sides, there were 10,000 soldiers each. For Shi Lin, who defended the city, although there were no enemy troops in the south, the east and west sides could break through the siege. However, he could not leave. Not to mention that there are more than 50,000 soldiers of Zhao Jun outside the city, including nearly 20,000 cavalry. Even if there is no Zhao Jun outside the city, he can't and dare not abandon the city. Otherwise, the more than 50,000 merger state troops in the north and the northern army of the merge state will be completely finished.

In addition, Shi Lin still had 15,000 soldiers in his hands, more than 5,000 local county soldiers and township soldiers, and 20,000 young and strong people were recruited. Counting the troops, it is possible to defend the city, but it is possible to fight. However, when he saw the actions of the Xiaoguo Army, Shi Lin's information about himself began to waver.

"Damn, if only the moat outside the city was still there!" Shi Lin couldn't help but muttered secretly as he looked at the moat outside the city that had been raided and filled in at night during the days when the Zhao army was besieging the city.

Before today's siege, the Zhao army also attacked the city tentatively many times. Although there was not much momentum, the moat outside the city, which was almost three feet long, had been blocked and filled in under the operation of Zhao Jun's vans and sandbags. In other words, the first checkpoint outside the city, the moat has lost its effect. In this regard, Shi Lin could only scold secretly, but he was helpless.

Outside the city, the land of the Zhao army.

"Pass the order, catapults, bed crossbows, prepare for action, bow and crossbow ready for battle! Tell Xu Le, the general of the former army, and let him take unified command. Seeing that these new soldiers could approach Meiji City well in accordance with the military order, Zhao Xun ordered in a cold voice.

"Stop! Stop! Xu Le looked at the distance between the heavy infantry and the city wall, and ordered sharply.

"Boom!"

A whole thousand hoplites came to a halt two hundred paces beyond the city walls, and then slammed their shields to the ground. There was a sudden explosion between the heavens and the earth, and there was a loud sound like a landslide cracking the ground, almost as if the hoplites had just lined up in formation. A huge catapult has followed under Zhao Xun's military order. They are all composed of the baggage soldiers of the army, except for some of the original baggage soldiers of the Zhao army, and half of them are retired from the soldiers, those who do not meet the requirements of the Zhao army.

If other forces were to be dissatisfied with this arrangement, they might be dissatisfied with the surrender of the soldiers, but among the Zhao army, these soldiers were not only not dissatisfied, but had a sense of joy. Without him, all those who join the army and soldiers, the monthly salary is not low. In addition, each soldier has been allocated land in his family, but he no longer worries about the situation at home, and participating in the baggage army can not only get rid of the battle of life and death, but also get a lot of income. For these unqualified soldiers who are accustomed to the battlefield and are not accustomed to farming, it is not a good way out.

"Catapults, crossbows, attack!" The iron spear in Xu Le's hand slashed down fiercely and roared.

"Put! Put! Put ......"

Hundreds of officers and colonels standing beside the ballista battalion and catapult gave a cold order. Thousands of crossbowmen set up bed crossbows at the same time, loaded them with arrows, and then loosened the hooks, and thousands of crossbows the thickness of the baby's arms shot out. These bed crossbows are all a crossbow with several arrows. At the same time, in the rear of the crossbow battalion, thousands of baggage soldiers struggled to pull the ground cable in their hands at the same time, and the proximal end of the catapult fell fiercely. Suddenly, hundreds of boulders the size of millstones were thrown high, screaming with a terrible scream, tumbling towards the walls of the fortified Meiji Castle.

"Tweet ......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The crossbow is lost, and the boulder hammers the city. The loud sound of breaking and crashing sounded in an instant, and the entire northern city wall began to groan and tremble, and many of the soldiers and soldiers of the state were pale with fright, and their bodies were like chaff.

"Jumping ......" blood splattered, flesh and bone shot fiercely, and the crossbow lost the first place, and in an instant, hundreds of Bingzhou soldiers who couldn't dodge were disintegrated by the crossbow.

Immediately afterwards, the huge stone projectile fell on the city wall, and countless soldiers who had just escaped the crossbow were directly hit by the stones, breaking bones and tendons, and dying tragically, and the stones smashed into the burning oil pot with a bang. The pot was broken and the oil was splashed, and the flames were churning, and more than a dozen soldiers from Bingzhou who were guarding the oil pot could not avoid it, and they were engulfed by the raging fire in an instant.

The castle tower was suddenly in disarray, but no one escaped. It's not that they don't want to, it's that they can't. The stone bullet is not a crossbow, flying in a straight line, round stone bullets, but he is catapulting everywhere, and everywhere he goes, it is miserable......

"Boom!"

A boulder almost passed by Shi Lin, who was hiding behind the female wall, and smashed heavily on the castle tower, suddenly smashing a pit on the blue-brick castle tower. Several pieces of the hard green bricks were also smashed, revealing the mottled loess underneath. Not only that, but the next few stone bullets smashed a large area of the women's wall in an instant, killing and injuring the soldiers hiding behind.

"Damn, where did Zhao Jun get so many catapults and bed crossbows, when will he be the head. If you go on like this, let alone defend the city, I'm afraid that all the soldiers will lose their courage. The general who was hiding not far from Shi Lin couldn't help but curse secretly. Not only him, but many officers and colonels around him had ugly faces. For such a suppressive attack by Zhao Jun, the blow to morale was fatal. And they were on the side of defending the city, they originally had an advantage, but now, they were helpless.

"The Zhao army broke through the northern land of Bingzhou, and there were thousands of craftsmen and craftsmen from Youzhou alone, plus countless soldiers and family privates of the local gentry, it was not a problem to assist Zhao Jun in building their own equipment. Don't forget, in the territory of Zhao Jun, the status of craftsmen is very high. A middle-aged general said in a muffled voice.

Hearing this, Shi Lin sighed secretly. In the past, Zhao Xun improved the status of various occupations such as merchants, craftsmen, and farmers, and all the learned people in the world thought of it and despised it. But now it seems that the effect led by Zhao Xun's approach has finally appeared. Most of the territory of the Zhao army, with the exception of Jizhou, was barren, harassed by foreign enemies and taken from the Hu people. However, now in the territory of the Zhao army, the people have their fields, and there is never a shortage of grain and grass; The business is developed and the water conservancy is convenient; The armor equipment is unparalleled in the world. Why is this the case? Shi Lin knew it in his heart, and others knew it in his heart, but now among the princes, there are very few people who can follow suit. Now, Shi Lin also secretly sighed at the profundity of Zhao Xun's methods, as early as the very beginning, he laid an indestructible foundation for Zhao Jun, and has been implementing it to replace the old status quo......

"Crossbowmen, shoot! Infantry advance, siege! After the catapult swept Meiji City hard, the former army general Xu Le gave a sharp order.

Suddenly, outside the northern city of Meiji City, Zhao Jun poured towards the northern city like a flood that broke the embankment......

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Leping, the moat passage leading from the Wei River to the outside of Leping County was finally blocked, and Xue Qinglan also launched a strong attack. There is no way back, and there are strong soldiers in front. Xue Qinglan attacked the city during the day, and he harassed it. In less than three days, the defenders were exhausted. Seeing this scene, the generals in the army built yì and persuaded the soldiers defending the city to surrender in order to reduce the losses caused by the enemy's stubborn defense of the city.

Xue Qinglan listened to the construction of the general school under his command and sent an envoy into the city to persuade him to surrender. At the same time, Xue Qinglan also used arrows to fall the Shangdang Mansion, and the Zhao army crossed the Taihang Mountain and swept the southern provinces of Bingzhou into the city. Although he did not know the situation in the south, Xue Qinglan still advertised in the letter that Situ Tai had fled and was preparing to retreat to Yongzhou and abandon the land of annexing the state.

At this moment, the defenders of the city suddenly rioted. The Zhao army crossed out of the Taihang Mountains and entered the southern part of Bingzhou. That is to say, in addition to the army of the Zhao army in front of them, behind them was also the army of the Zhao army, and Situ Tai, the governor of the prefecture, was defeated and retreated. These news were enough to demoralize the soldiers defending the city in Leping. General Leping also did not expect that Zhao Jun would shoot letters and the city at the same time as the envoy arrived.

Although he was unwilling, the envoy of the Zhao army said loudly: "The general wants to defend to the death, more than 10,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of young and strong people must first get rid of the general to repay the family's life." The boss has abandoned you and fled, what's the point of holding on? ”

The envoy of the Zhao army also said that if it did not surrender, the Zhao army would attack together and would not accept surrender. The generals who had already had no intention of defending and were bought by the Zhao army persuaded the defending generals to finally sacrifice the city. After all, this Lepyeong is now the isolated city of Jinju north of the Wei River. At this point, the door of Jinju Mansion was wide open and its arms were opened to Zhao Jun.

Xue Qinglan appeased the pawns, let the civil officials take over the city, and announced tax reductions on the spot. And said that after the treatment of Zhao Jun, more than 20,000 people were reduced, and most of them were willing to join the Zhao army. Subsequently, Xue Qinglan waved his army south and crossed the river to attack the Jinzhou Prefecture in the south of the river.