The reason why Yuan Shu withdrew was not only because the army was unfavorable for attacking the city, but also because of the news that Zhang Xun sent back. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.] After Zhang Xun was defeated and retreated, he did not dare to say that the army failed because of poisoning, but said that the reinforcements of the imperial court suddenly came out from behind, and the Yangzhou soldiers were defeated and retreated.

Yuan Shu heard Zhang Xun say this, coupled with the sudden appearance of reinforcements on the head of Yangzhai City, so that Yuan Shu did not doubt Zhang Xun's words, but only regarded the severity of the imperial army as if it had arrived, and suddenly attacked and defeated the 5,000 soldiers and horses of the camp in the west of the city. In order to avoid attacks in the south and north of the city, Yuan Shu could only retreat first and gather the army in one place.

When Yuan Shu was attacking the city, Yuan Shu suddenly withdrew his troops and gathered the army in one place, which made the army quite resentful and demoralized. Especially the army of Lejiao who attacked the south of the city, when they had already established themselves on the city wall, but they suddenly received an order to withdraw their troops, which was aggrieved.

Unlike Yuan Shu's army, Yang Zhai's city guards and people were full of smiles at this time. Reinforcements are coming, how can they not be happy? If they didn't believe that the imperial court would send reinforcements before, but now they believe it, don't they see that the imperial lieutenants of the dynasty are all in Yangzhai City?

After night, Ye Mo sat alone in the study of Yangzhai City County, carefully looking at the topographic map near Yangzhai. This habit was Ye Mo's in his previous life, as a liberal arts student who was quite good at geography, Ye Mo's secret was to look at the map, and later he developed the habit of looking at the map first every time he went to a place.

At this time, Huang Cong came over after dealing with the affairs on the city wall. Huang Cong was released from death row by Ye Mo, and now that Ye Mo has come to Yangzhai City, Huang Cong naturally wants to think about Ye Mo's report after he is idle. What's more, Ye Mo is a lieutenant, and Huang Cong should also want Ye Mo to report the specific situation of this Yang Zhai City.

"Lord Taiwei, the guilty general Huang Cong asks to see you." Standing outside the study, Huang Cong whispered.

Ye Mo was in the study, although he was looking at a map, but he would not reach that state of concentrating on ignoring external objects, not to mention that it was already night at this time. Yang Zhai City has imposed a curfew order since Huang Cong arrived, and the people also know that the situation is critical, and they will not run out at night.

After Ye Mo heard Huang Cong's words, he glanced towards the door and said, "Come in." After speaking, Ye Mo began to lower his head and study the map on the desk.

After Huang Cong came in, he saw that Ye Mo was still looking at the map, so he asked, "Lord Taiwei is injured, you should rest early." ”

Seeing that Huang Cong cared about his injury, Ye Mo raised his hand and shook it and said, "A doctor has already dealt with it, but it is only a flesh wound, not a meridian bone." When he felt pain in his arm, Ye Mo put his hand down and asked Huang Cong, "General Huang came late at night, I don't know what the matter is?" ”

Hearing Ye Mo ask this, Huang Cong remembered the main purpose of his coming, and said: "My lord, according to the report of the spies, the enemy troops in the south and north of the city have withdrawn, and they will be in one place with the main force of Yuan Shu's army, I don't know what tricks Yuan Shu has." ”

After listening to Huang Cong's words, Ye Mo thought about it for a while, and then said with a smile: "General Huang is too worried, this is just that Yuan Shu is worried that his division of troops will be broken by us and suffer losses." Although there are many strategists and generals around Yuan Shu, they can't work together, and it is normal to make this decision. ”

In fact, it is indeed as Ye Mo said, when Yuan Shu wanted to withdraw his troops at the beginning, Yan Xiang expressed his opposition, Yan Xiang thought that there must not be many reinforcements from the imperial court, and Zhang Xun's defeat was due to lack of vigilance. However, Yang Hong insisted that Zhang Xun was telling the truth, and there were countless reinforcements from the imperial court, which caused Zhang Xun to suffer.

Yang Hong once won Zhang Xun's favor because he helped Zhang Xun say good things, how could Zhang Xun fall because of a failure before he saw the benefits at this time? Therefore, Yang Hong insisted on saying good things for Zhang Xun, hoping that when the time comes, Zhang Xun can also stand up and help him if these strategists and scribes make trouble.

Although what Yan Xiang said was true, but in this way, the strength of Yuan Shu's Yangzhou soldiers was too weak, how could Yuan Shu be happy when he heard it? On the contrary, it was Yang Hong's words that it seemed that Zhang Xun's subordinates failed because they were outnumbered, and they retreated from these people, indicating that even in the face of a large number of enemies, their Yangzhou soldiers still swore to die. In this way, Yuan Shu naturally believed in Yang Hong, so he withdrew his troops and gathered the army in one place.

When the sun rose on the second day, Yuan Shu's army gathered in front of Yangzhai City again. Although there were many casualties in the siege before, there are still more than 20,000 people in Yuan Shu's army now, if it weren't for the 5,000 people under Zhang Xun who were put down by Niu Wa, Yuan Shu's army would have more people, and even at this time Yang Zhai had been taken.

In Yangzhai City, although there were five hundred two-handed swordsmen brought by Ye Mo, after yesterday's battle, they also lost more than 80 people. And the original defenders in Yangzhai City also suffered heavy losses, the 1,000 guards are now only more than 200 people, and the people are only more than 2,000 people. As for the people in Yangzhai City who wanted to contribute to the defense, considering that they had not been on the battlefield before, Huang Cong just asked them to help carry defensive equipment such as arrows in the city.

On the east wall of Yangzhai City, several cauldrons have been erected, and a fire is also burning under the pot. This was made by Huang Cong according to Ye Mo's instructions, and these cauldrons were originally available, but Huang Cong did not use them, because there was not enough oil in the city. Now what is heating in the cauldron is not oil, but golden juice.

What is Gold Juice? To put it bluntly, it's dung. After the feces are heated and poured on the human skin, the human skin will be burned, and then the things in the feces that are not good and disgusting will enter the human skin, so that the human body will be infected by germs, and then this era is almost incurable.

If Yuan Shu's army had been well prepared, such as having a trebuchet, Ye Mo would not have done so. But Yuan Shu is too confident, and trebuchets are indeed difficult to get, generally there will be a little inventory in the big city, and if it is not preserved, it will be blind.

When Yuan Shu's army attacked, everyone on the city wall picked up the arrows soaked in the cauldron, of course, only the arrows were soaked. This is another poisonous scheme, the arrow is soaked in gold juice, and after being shot into the human body, the effect is similar to that of being splashed on the body by hot dung. Even if you don't get killed by a bow or arrow, you will still die if you are infected.

Yuan Shu rode on his tall horse, looked at the cauldron erected on the Yangzhai city wall, and smelled the smell of dung in the air, and immediately smiled. Of course, the reason why Yuan Shuxiao laughed was not because he smelled the smell he liked, but because the defenders of Xiaoyang Zhai couldn't even make up a few pots of oil, so they could only boil dung. In Yuan Shu's cognition, the cauldrons on the city wall were used to boil oil, and after heating the oil, it would not only burn the siege soldiers, but also ignite the enemy's siege equipment.

Yuan Shu's face was full of excitement, but Yan Xiang and Yuan Jian on the side were not as optimistic as Yuan Shu. The Great Han Dynasty has existed for more than 600 years, and the peace has been too long, and many of the siege equipment that were originally commonly used are now lost. Boiling gold juice to defend the city, the two of them always felt that they had seen examples somewhere, but they just couldn't remember them all of a sudden.

"Kill me!" Yuan Shu sat on his horse, drew his sword, and waved it forward, and suddenly the war drums in the army rang out. With the sound of war drums, the infantry army came out with a ladder, and next to it were soldiers with large shields guarding them. After that, a group of archers followed. After the archers, it was Yuan Shu's army that prepared to attack the city.

Seeing the enemy carrying the ladder over, after waiting for the range, Huang Cong ordered the army to release arrows. Even with the protection of a large shield, there are still many soldiers who fall to the ground with arrows. But these people are used to this kind of procedure, that is, people are constantly being hit by arrows, and they also keep walking forward, knowing to lean the cloud ladder against the Yangzhai city wall.

After the ladder was put up, those surviving soldiers began to climb Chaoyang Zhai City, and they wanted to be the first to climb Yang Zhai City, get a bounty, and be promoted to an official position. While these soldiers were climbing in Chaoyang Zhai City, the city kept falling stones and rolling logs to smash these soldiers down.

Seeing this, the archers sent by Yuan Shu began to throw arrows at the city wall. Huang Cong saw that Yuan Shu's army was still attacking the city, smiled disdainfully, and shouted: "Pick up the plank!" ”

All of a sudden, huge wooden planks appeared on the city wall, which Huang Cong did at Ye Mo's orders, not only to resist the arrows fired by the enemy, but also to have other uses. As for the wooden panels, they are all numbered and removed from each house. The two panels are put together, and then wrapped in two layers of cloth, which can be well resisted by the enemy's arrows.

After Yuan Shu's army stopped throwing arrows, Huang Cong and his soldiers who defended the city came out from under the planks and continued to attack the enemy troops on the ladder. When Yuan Shu's army began to attack the city, Huang Congyou ordered: "Pour the golden juice!" ”

Thereupon. A pot of dung poured down from the city wall, and the Yangzhou soldiers who were splashed suddenly cried wolf howls and fell directly down on the ladder, and those under the city also screamed and tore off their clothes and armor, bringing up pieces of skin and flesh.

After Yuan Shu saw this situation, he was even more furious and said, "Beat the drum, kill me!" ”xh118