Li Shengjun's actions began after the end of the naval battle. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Of course, the preparation for the operation was done much earlier. An army of 100,000 men, known as 150,000 horses, was assembled in the depths of the grassland, about 500 miles from Yanmen. They are Han Chinese, but they are mostly ordinary herdsmen, and they appear as ordinary tribal people in the grasslands within a radius of 100 miles. Because there was already some distance from Yanmen, there were not many spies wandering here, and under the deal of a few regular Huns, those scouts did not find any problems and left. Subsequently, in the report to Cao Wei's high-level officials, it was said that five hundred miles northwest of Yanmen, there was a large tribe of nomadic herders here, and they had a deep sense of disgust for Li Sheng, and they belonged to the object of wooing.

“…… God help us! "That's what Hao Zhao, the governor of Great Wei and the military commander of Anyuan, said so.

Thirteen years has been able to change many things, after the older generation of generals died one by one, the new generation of generals of the Great Wei gradually grew up, the most representative of which is known as the four generals of the Four Thorns: Hao Zhao of the Great Wei and the Prefecture Assassin General An Yuan; Cao Zhen, the general of the Great Wei Liangzhou Assassin History, led the expedition to the west; Zhong Hui of the Great Wei Jingzhou Assassin Shi led the expedition to the southern general; The Great Wei Yangzhou Assassin Shi led the Zhuge birthday of General Jingyuan. Although among these people, except for one Hao Zhao, the others are all hairless children under the age of thirty, but some people say that the strength of these people is not below the previous Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Dun and others, but they are rare talents in a hundred years. This...... Is it true or not? The veracity of the rumors is no longer verified, people only know that they are the protagonists of this era, and the older generation of generals such as Zhang Jaw and others who still exist are also under their orders. Although the titles of these veterans are very high, once they are sons of heaven and courtiers, the edge of those veterans is destined to be covered by newcomers, because those newcomers have grown up with this prince, and they can be said to be the prince's henchmen.

Cao Wei's preparations for an attack on the grassland in order to attack Li Sheng, the behind-the-scenes ruler of the grassland, and the realization of the so-called Great Loop strategy is not a secret in the whole world. A full 200,000 troops set up a character formation in Bingzhou and Youzhou: Hao Zhao, the assassin of Bingzhou, sat in Yanmen to lead the army of 50,000 for the left wing, the cavalry general Zhang Hetun led the army on behalf of the county with 50,000 soldiers for the right wing, and the right general Xu Huangtun led the army of Zhongshan Guo as the middle road to lead the army of 100,000 governors of the entire northern war situation. Although Cao Wei's explanation for this arrangement was a defense of his own inner abdomen, and it was a normal posture of garrison, no one would believe this statement. Because, more than half of the 200,000 troops are cavalry with powerful attack power. Have you ever seen someone defend a city with cavalry?

"Cao Wei's words are not credible." Everybody says so.

This arrangement was completed three years ago, but it has been delayed until now due to the national funeral, and it is naturally known to the world. However, for this known to the world, Cao Wei did not take it to heart. After all, in their opinion, the people of the world can only guess the fact that they are going to attack Li Sheng from the north, but they can't guess the time when this fact will be launched. The monarchs and ministers of Cao Wei were very confident that once they launched on their side, they would bring a new shock to the grassland like a thunderbolt. The shaking came so suddenly, but no one could resist it.

"Two hundred thousand tigers! At the beginning, Emperor Wu's expedition to Wuhuan was not even a fraction of this, and we used so many troops today, it can be said that we used a knife to kill chickens. Cao Rui is full of confidence in this.

To be honest, Cao Rui has lived a life of pain and excitement over the years. He didn't like Jiangdong's "wife" who was "snatched" by Li Bin, because they had never met at all, he had only seen her portrait, although he thought she looked pretty good, but he didn't feel anything after all. It's just that he doesn't like it, but he is extremely painful about the robbery of his wife, because he feels that his dignity as an emperor has been trampled on because of this incident. No matter how "wife" is, how can she be my emperor's "woman...... The hatred of taking his wife and the hatred of killing his father are side by side, in order to wash away this shame, Cao Rui naturally has to constantly train himself. He studied, and from Jia Xu, the powerful minister in charge of the government, he was hungry to learn everything that was useful to him. This was the main reason why he tolerated Jia Xu's "power" until his death. In the spring of this year, Jia Xu left, and Cao Rui was able to grasp power. At this moment, he was naturally excited, and the pain in his heart was naturally clearer because of the acquisition of his own strength. As for happiness, I'm afraid that he won't feel it until Li Tang is officially exterminated.

When important ministers who care about state affairs are dying, they will generally give their lords a few advice. Guo Jia was like this in the past, and Jia Xu is the same today. It's just that Cao Cao trusted Guo Jia very much and completely complied with Guo Jia's last policy, but Cao Rui, who always had a complicated and inexplicable attitude towards Jia Xu, the prime minister who had robbed him of power for several years, did not fully follow Jia Xu's last policy because of his own ideas: he quickly united with Sun Wu, and completely handed over the naval army to Sun Wu's command in exchange for Sun Wu's attack on Li Shengzhi's Ryukyu, so that the war started less than two months after the end of the funeral.

"Your Majesty, you're in too much of a hurry." Taiwei Manzhong persuaded Cao Rui like this.

"How can I not be in a hurry?" Cao Rui said. He was desperate to hear the voice of Li Sheng's defeat. In his opinion, if there is no such voice around him, he is afraid that he will go crazy.

As a result, Cao Rui insisted on what he had seen, unexpectedly launched an attack on Li Sheng's side, and completely annihilated Li Sheng's Oriental Fleet. Undoubtedly, this is a "wise" move by Cao Rui, and Cao Rui is complacent about it. In the situation that the battle at sea was in a predicament because Li Tang's response was already in place, Cao Rui was ready to launch an attack on the grassland.

In three days, he issued ten edicts to the three generals in the north, telling them to launch an attack on the steppe within ten days. Because Li Shengjun has been gathering heavy troops in Guanzhong, there is no small war in the big war, and he keeps making trouble with himself. Cao Rui instinctively thought that Li Sheng's two directions of attacking him were either Jingzhou or Guanzhong. As for the grassland, he thought that it was something that Li Sheng had not paid attention to. There seems to be only oneself to fight others, and no one else to fight one's own share - it is obvious that this is a delusion, and Cao Rui, who was stimulated by the news of the success of the previous sneak attack, took this delusion seriously. It's really impulsive and reckless as a young person.

Just when everything was thought to be as smooth as he imagined, Li Shengjun's attack began. Just as the combined fleet of Cao, Wei, Sun and Wu attacked the military port of Li Sheng in the Ryukyus, Li Sheng's attack on Yanmen also began with the cooperation of Neiying. The time is the middle of the night, and the location is a famous place in history, Mayi City. In the past, the Han Dynasty was preparing to plan a strike against the Xiongnu here, although it failed due to some kind of information leakage, but this place was recorded as the precursor of the Han Dynasty's counterattack against the Xiongnu. As for the present, of course, there is nothing worth paying attention to here, except for one family - the Zhang family in Mayi City, which is the family of General Zhang Liao of the previous dynasty. With the prestige of General Zhang Liao, the Zhang family in this Mayi City has become a famous family in this Yanmen place.

Just as the woods are big and there are all kinds of birds, although the Zhang family of Yanmen Mayi City has become a big family in the county following the prestige of Zhang Liao, the personalities of the children are also uneven, among them are both humble gentlemen, there are also martial artists, and there are more oppressive and good gentlemen. A humble gentleman treats himself to others, and a martial artist is also very likable, but only that gentleman is very disgusting. The people naturally don't like them, but because the Zhang family's power is huge, and whether it's good or bad, they are all together, and the people don't have anything they can do, even if there is a contradiction, they are suppressed by the Zhang family's forces. Of course, this pressure is something very unpleasant, so a folk song circulated in Yanmen: "The bow handle is crooked, the bowstring is positive, and it is still a bow." ”

"The bowstring is positive, which means that although Zhang Liao Changfang's vein is scarce, they are all upright people. The bow is crooked, but it is said that there are always many unscrupulous people in the distant relatives of the Zhang family. As for the last partiality or a bow, it is said that the people of this Zhang family are very protective, no matter what happens to their own people, no matter what they do is right or wrong, they use their own family power to protect them, and do not let outsiders have any behavior against their own family. "The folk song is compiled by Li Sheng's white clothes, and they are naturally familiar with the bits and pieces of the words in the words of the folk song: Zhang Di, the word goes to evil, Zhang Liaotang's nephew, born timid and lustful, and often more than a dozen rangers wander in the township, stealing chickens and touching dogs and doing everything, because his father Zhang Chen is a close confidant of the patriarch Zhang Shou, so no matter what he does, someone has come forward to settle for him, and for a time the township and village called him "Zhang Da Shao" without a name.

"This person may be the focus of our breakthrough. The villain is easy to woo, but the gentleman is easy to bully. Thousands of miles of embankment, collapsed in the anthill, we don't stare at their cracks, can we find another way? Because of the order issued by their boss, the people of the white-clothed Yanmen branch quickly saw this goal and began to plan.

Beauty schemes, kidnapping, coercion, and inducement all kinds of despicable conspiracies were carried out, but Zhang Di quickly succumbed. So, by virtue of Zhang Diqi's identity, three hundred "Huns" entered Mayi City in a grand manner, and chartered an inn to live. At this moment, Zhang Shou, the patriarch of the Zhang family, was invited by Hao Zhao to Yanmen to discuss the matter of the labor army, but it was Zhang Chen's turn to be the master of the entire Zhang family. This was a good opportunity to launch, and the white-clothed Haoyue keenly grasped this point, and immediately sent someone to notify the "Huns" five hundred miles away.

And so the day passed. That night, the 300 "Huns" opened the gate of Mayi City with the cooperation of Zhang Di, and the "Huns" army galloping from 500 miles away swarmed in. After a short battle, 100,000 troops occupied the place, and then Li Tang's golden dragon banner was raised. The so-called "Huns" army is Li Shengjun and Zhao Yunbu, who have been dormant for many years.

Zhao Yun raided the city of Mayi with an army, attacked the city with light cavalry, and surrounded the outside of the city with a large army, and then closed the four gates, leaving a road of men and horses to guard it, so that the news of the city was seized did not leak out. And he himself had to lead all the way to deceive the defeated army of Mayi City, and went to Yanmen to seize the city, but he had the idea of taking advantage of the gap to seize Yanmen.

Zhao Yun's idea is very good, and the arrangement he made to block the news has indeed achieved the point that the Yanmen side is unaware. However, Hao Zhao, who was guarding Yanmen, observed carefully, but he really saw through Zhao Yun's deliberate disguise. Under Yanmen City, he drank through Zhao Yun's strategy, and then ordered the arrow feather attack to shoot more than half of Zhao Yun's troops to hold the city, and quickly prepared to defend to the death.

Stubbornly, of course, stubbornly defended. After confirming that the enemy commander who led the army to encircle him was Zhao Yun of Li Shengjun, any matter of breaking through and asking for help was vetoed by Hao Zhao. Breakthrough? That's a nice thing to say. But can you really break through? Zhao Yun's best at attacking the city is to besiege and kill the city. I think that in Nanzheng, Yizhou, and the grassland, every time he attacked a stronghold, he used a part of his troops to wander outside the besieging army, so as to intercept and kill anyone who tried to enter and leave the city.

"Unless, we really have a fierce general who can defeat Zhao Yun, otherwise ......" Thinking of Zhao Yun's brave prestige, Hao Zhao, who has always boasted of being superior in martial arts, couldn't help but fight a cold war. Others have only heard of Zhao Yun's prestige and have never seen Zhao Yun kill, but he Hao Zhao has witnessed everything with his own eyes, although at that time he was only a mere 100 generals in the army.

"Zhao Yun has besieged the city, and we can't break through, so what do we do to deal with Zhao Yun? Hold on? How long will that last? Hao Zhao's subordinates couldn't understand Hao Zhao's method of not taking the initiative to ask for help, and questioned their main generals one after another. They are Hao Zhao's generals, but they are not Hao Zhao's retainers, so they have the right not to send the main general to death.

"We're going to defend it, but we're not going to defend it. Hoarding the grain and grass of Yanmen, it is not a big problem to guard the soldiers and horses for the last month. And at that time, General Zhang Jaw and General Xu Huang around us will lead the troops to rescue us. Although we have no way to release the news of the call for help at the moment, as long as it takes a long time, will the enemy's huge actions still be hidden from the world? That's just a dream. Hao Zhao gave his men a detailed explanation, and it took a while to strengthen their confidence.

"Half a month? That's no problem for us at all. Hugh has to say half a month, even if we stick to it for two months, there will be no problem. Hearing that Hao Zhao had set such a time for himself, his generals immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Some of the brainy guys thought carefully about what Hao Zhao said, and quickly savored the key to it: Cao Wei was planning to launch an attack on the grass after all, and once this offensive plan was implemented, Cao Wei's army would spread its wings north and then north like a winged roc. Although this kind of development is definitely not as strong as imagined after the plan is launched, Cao Wei, who is currently planning to launch the plan at the same time, will definitely link the connection between the three parties by some means. In such a connection, if one of the three parties has a problem, then the other two parties will definitely get the news a few days later. Even if the time to get the news is postponed by a few days, plus the time when Cao Wei sent troops, it seems that no matter how full everyone is, it will only take a month to defend. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that. A lot of grain and grass in Yanmen have been hoarded, which is enough for the needs of Yanmen's 50,000 troops for a year. As for the materials for defending the city, although he did not deliberately hoard them because he was the one who planned to attack, even in terms of the original reserves of Yanmen, it was enough for his own people to consume. As for the number of troops, it is 50,000 on its own side, and 100,000 on the other side. 100,000 soldiers attacking a city defended by 50,000 soldiers, where can this be beneficial? The war book is very clear about the number of troops to be fought: ten times the siege, five times the attack. And now the opponent's forces are only twice as many as their own, so what is it? It seems that this can also be ignored.

As for whether they could hold the city, Hao Zhao and his men were full of confidence in it. On the second day after the siege of the city, he and his men went up to the top of the city and prepared all the soldiers for the enemy's attack.

However, something unexpected happened, Zhao Yun outside Yanmen City didn't know whether he had already ordered not to attack without authorization, or because he had his own ideas and support and was not in a hurry to attack himself, but he directly closed his besieging camp outside the city, hoarded all the men and horses in the camp, and put on a similar defensive appearance against Yanmen City, which had already made a defensive posture.

"What do they want to do?" Hao Zhao didn't understand much about such a strange posture, he had already browled his brows tightly, and a question came out of his mouth, but it was directly at the subordinates around him.

"Hmm...... Maybe today's battle won't be fought. Looking at the smoke and dust behind their camp, I guess they were building siege equipment. Yesterday I took a closer look at the troops they were attacking - all of them were cavalry. Hao Zhao's chief bookkeeper Liu Jin said that at the age of twenty, he not only gave birth to a pair of natural bright eyes, but also had a very detailed understanding of all aspects of war. On the bright side, he is the eldest son of Liu Yan, the general of Pingnan Zhonglang, and he is a gentleman who relied on his father's Yu Yin to achieve this position, but in secret, he is not only a person who has a grudge against Li Sheng, but also the most outstanding disciple of the late Great Wei Prime Minister Jia Xu.

"Build siege engines? Not...... This is also understandable. After all, although the cavalry is powerful, there is nothing to do with the strong city. From ancient times to the present, I have only seen infantry climb to the top of the city, but I have never seen cavalry come on horseback. Hao Zhao thought about it when he heard this, but he agreed with the statement of the chief bookkeeper Liu Jin: "It seems that we still have at least time to go to heaven." Eventually, he made such a judgment and gave the order: some of the men waited in the city to watch the movements below, and some of them returned to the city to rest. The enemy is now preparing for such a long time, and it is conceivable that the more prepared they are, the more intense the fighting will be in a few days. Although it is still certain that they will not be able to break through their own city, how many of the brothers around them will survive to the end in the fierce siege battle as imagined? Hao Zhao didn't want to think about it, and he didn't dare to think about it.

Three days passed quickly. Everything was as Hao Zhao had expected, and Zhao Yun began an attack on the third day of the siege. Dozens of trebuchets built in three days were lined up one by one, and they quickly threw one boulder after another onto the city wall under the command of their respective lieutenants. Under that bang, the grinding disc-sized boulder smashed the wall of Yanmen into a lot of ugly marks, scraped off a lot of fragile soil ash, and compacted a few unlucky soldiers.

"Damn ......!" Hao Zhao cursed secretly. He originally saw that Zhao Yun had put on a trebuchet, put out archers, and lined up the city soldiers, so he thought that Zhao Yun would attack the city in an orthodox order: that is, after the city ordered the city to surrender to no avail, let the bow and arrow suppress the bed crossbows and archers on the city head, and use catapults to bombard the city wall to open the gap, cover the attack of the city climbers, and a series of means to deal with him. This was originally a very normal thing, and Hao Zhao also made a series of measures accordingly. But I didn't want Li Sheng to start the battle with bow and arrow suppression, but directly used trebuchets.

"Aren't they afraid that our bed crossbows will destroy their trebuchets?" Hao Zhao wondered. He estimated the range of Li Sheng's trebuchet, and found that although the range of their trebuchet was fifty steps farther than the range of the trebuchet on his own city, it was still not as good as the range of his own bed crossbow, and the other party lined up his own trebuchet but was a more clear target for himself, as if he clearly told himself, "Come and hit me!" "This is really arrogant! Do they just think with certainty that our Yanmen doesn't have a bed crossbow? Hao Zhao felt that he was being underestimated, and his face suddenly became serious.

“…… Can you destroy their trebuchet in the first round of shooting? I don't know what the other party is going to do, Hao Zhao has to follow his own wishes, since the other party has listed all the targets for himself, how can he not entertain them well, so he called Chen Yan, the hundred people who were in charge of the bed crossbow over there.

"I'm afraid it's hard. The enemy is stationary, but scattered and separated. At such a distance of nearly two or five hundred paces, it would be difficult to destroy them in one go with the thirty or so bed crossbows we have at the moment. Unless the general allows me to transfer some of the bed crossbows from the other walls, and let me use the Exploding Arrow. Otherwise, there is really no way. Chen Yan, who was born with a bitter gourd face, seriously suggested to Hao Zhao.

"Really......?" Hao Zhao said lightly, looking at the boulders that kept flying up the city, listening to the roar that couldn't stop bursting in his ears and the temporary wails of the soldiers, and feeling the trembling of the city wall under his feet, he gritted his teeth and gave an order: "I will completely leave the work of bed crossbow scheduling to you, and it is up to you to decide how many soldiers are needed and what arrows to use." All I ask is that you smash the damn thing in front of you as soon as possible, I don't want to see them throw stones at us. ”

"I understand!" Chen Yan, who was in charge of such a heavy weapon as the bed crossbow, naturally knew why his own Shangguan Hao Zhao hated the enemy's catapults so much: "Although these catapults could not completely smash the defenders on their own city, they could use huge stones to smash the entire city wall. It is a weapon aimed at destroying the city defense itself, and the city defense is the key to the current confrontation with Li Sheng's 100,000 army. If you want to hold the city, you must stop them from firing these catapults. Hehe, I'm the only one who can do that right now. Chen Yan knew that Hao Zhao handed over the power to himself, not only because he valued his ability to command the bed crossbow, but also because he looked at and promoted his fellow countryman. As a veteran soldier who has been unmotivated for more than ten years, he certainly knows that he can't live up to such trust and care. So, patting his chest and reassuring Hao Zhao: "Everything is wrapped up in me." ”

Under the guarantee, Chen Yan naturally exerted a lot of strength. In the midst of the flying boulders, countless soldiers who braved death slowly moved a bed crossbow from its original position and installed it on the top of the city. After that, the shield was erected diagonally, giving the bed crossbow a less reliable protection. Of course, this kind of protection has no effect on the flying of boulders, but it does have a good protection effect on the crossbow arrows fired from the city to the city.

Everything is ready. Chen Yan solemnly raised the yellow flag in his hand, and with a bitter gourd face, he shouted an order that only the bed crossbowman could fully understand: "Hang five degrees high, shoot three arrows in a row, release!" As the last voice fell, the yellow flag in Chen Yan's hand also fell. All the bed crossbowmen invariably pulled the mechanism in their hands, and "grabbed" in one piece...... Snatch...... Snatch! More than 100 huge bursting arrows spread out, and a visible arc swept through the air, sinking heavily into Li Shengjun's catapult array.

"Boom!" An earth-shattering explosion was issued as the fuse on the crossbow bolt burned out, and the hundreds of branches that landed exploded at the same time, wildly releasing their hidden power. Gravel and iron sand swept everything like a storm, tearing apart the seemingly tall and fragile trebuchets - just as Hao Zhao had hoped, the trebuchets were destroyed with a single blow.

"Hey...... I broke your catapult with a bed crossbow! Zhao Yun, I'd like to see how you attack the city next. The catapult was dealt with, a smile appeared on Hao Zhao's face, and he looked at Zhao Yun under the city and his heart was full of self-satisfaction.

"Huh...... Hao Zhao, you were fooled. Catapults are such old men, how can I, Zhao Yun, put it in my eyes? Like Hao Zhao, Zhao Yun also had a faint smile on his face, and he didn't seem to take the loss he had just suffered to heart at all. The scrapping of dozens of high-quality catapults seemed to him nothing at all. "It's just a pile of wood." Zhao Yun thought so, and with a slight wave of his hand, he let the soldiers who were lucky enough to escape with their lives under the attack of the bed crossbow quickly retreat, and then divided the formation behind him, letting a group of sergeants who were dressed differently from others push more than ten four-horse carts up to the battle. They stood in front of Zhao Yun, and a few soldiers leading horses came to the side of the box car to operate, but they pulled the box car open. After that, a black pipe that seemed to be poured with copper and iron was presented in front of everyone. Three or five soldiers stood as straight as javelins on either side of the tube, not shining knives and guns in their hands, but a long stick and a burning torch.

"What a very strange move? What exactly are they going to do? Hao Zhao didn't know what that pipe was, and naturally felt that Zhao Yun's behavior was as weird as that witchcraft.

"It's not good...... Hao Zhao didn't know the things below, and he Liu Jin could see it clearly. The real things that were displayed under the city soon overlapped with the things he remembered in his mind. He knew the power of this thing, and immediately secretly screamed "not good", and opened his mouth to persuade his superior: "Hurry up and avoid it!" ”

However, it was too late for him to open his mouth slightly, and a dull roar was heard from below. More than a dozen thick black smoke rose under the city, and more than a dozen black balls flew up into the air and crossed an arc and rushed straight towards the city where they were.

"It's over...... This wild goose gate can't be guarded. Seeing that he was a step slower, Liu Jin had no choice but to take care of himself, so he hurriedly found a place to hide.