After hearing that Zhang Ji surrendered, Guo Yan immediately waved his army south, and the Runan army fought a big battle with the Xiliang army in Jingshan, and the two sides suffered damage to each other, but because the Runan army retreated in time, and Guo Yan was afraid of being ambushed, so he did not pursue. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this way, the first target of the Xiliang Army was to put down Yangzhai City.

Liu Zhi brought more than 10,000 troops from Runan, and at this time collected and surrendered 3,000 of Zhang Ji's troops, plus the county soldiers of Yingchuan, the total strength was close to 20,000.

Yingchuan Taishou Li Min is also very interesting, knowing that he is not the material for war, so he happily handed over his military power, Yingchuan's county soldiers are quite numerous, there are more than 3,000 people, but the combat effectiveness is relatively poor, such an army can only be used as auxiliaries, not for war.

Not long after Zhang Ji's troops surrendered, Liu Zhi must not dare to send them out to fight, he scattered the 3,000 troops, and 1,000 of them joined Xu Chu's cavalry, forming a cavalry force of 2,000 people, and then sent them out of the city to threaten the rear of the Xiliang army, so that they could not attack the city with confidence.

Yangzhai is a small county town, and there are no residents in the city at this time, and the entire population has almost moved before.

The Xiliang army surrounded the city, but did not attack it immediately, but was building siege equipment, and the battle of Zhongmu made them realize that if there were no powerful siege equipment, they could not easily take a city, even if it was just a small county town.

And this time, they are even preparing to build a batch of trebuchets to knock down Yangzhai's city walls.

Of course, Liu Zhi, who Guo Yan could think of, could also think that he had already ordered to recruit craftsmen from all over the country, transport a large amount of wood, and come to Yangzhai by water, and then build the wood into a trebuchet in Yangzhai.

However, the area above Yangzhai's city wall is not very large, so it can't put too many trebuchets, so in addition to the ten trebuchets placed on the north and west city walls, the remaining ten trebuchets are placed in the city, Yangzhai's city wall is not high, even if it is launched from the city, it can also launch the stones, but the accuracy is much worse, after all, there is no way to aim directly when launching.

The Xiliang army was not far behind, they actually made more than ten trebuchets overnight, and the action was quite fast.

However, compared with the wood used by the Runan Army, the Xiliang Army is freshly cut wet wood, and such wood will not take long to crack due to water loss, so the life span is limited, while the wood of the defenders is dry wood and has already been dried, so there is no such problem.

The day after the siege, the Xiliang army began to line up outside the city, apparently wanting to attack the city.

I saw that they formed three huge phalanxes, each of which had about 5,000 people, which meant that they would throw an army of 15,000 men to attack.

Liu Zhi stood at the head of the city, looking at the murderous Xiliang Army not far away, the expression in his eyes was very firm, since this battle could not be avoided, let it become a battle for him Liu Zhi to become famous all over the world!

Hundreds of soldiers of the Xiliang Army set up fifty big drums, one by one muscular and powerful strong men naked and naked, waving the drum hammer in their hands, and beating on the drum surface made of cowhide again and again, making a loud noise, the sound of fifty war drums is very huge, the sense of rhythm is clear, the morale of the soldiers of the Xiliang Army is gradually prompted by the sound of these war drums, one by one is full of war intent, the huge murderous aura is coming, even Liu Zhi can feel it in the city.

"Lord, the Xiliang Army is about to attack, it's very dangerous here, you better go down first!"

Dian Wei saw that the Xiliang army seemed to be about to attack, so he urged.

"Champion, look at how far the formation of the Xiliang Army is from us, if we throw stones at them from here, the range of the trebuchet is enough!"

Dian Wei didn't have a word, so Liu Zhi gave him a word, called champion, taken from the word "Yongguan Sanjun".

Dian Wei squinted his eyes, shook his head, and said: "I've seen enough, the Xiliang army is very thieves, their formation is almost three hundred and fifty steps away from us, our trebuchet can only barely hit three hundred steps, and it can't reach it any farther." ”

The unit of measurement in the Qin and Han dynasties was li, zhang, step, ruler, etc., of which 1 li = 180 zhang = 1800 feet = 300 feet, one step = 6 feet, and the one foot at that time was not the current length of 30 centimeters and one foot, "Sun Tzu Sutra" has a record: length unit: 1 zhang = 10 feet, 1 foot = 10 inches, 1 step = 6 feet, 1 li = 300 steps = 1800 feet, 240 square steps for one mu, at that time 1 foot = 23.1cm.

In the Tang Dynasty, this length changed slightly, and one step became five feet.

Therefore, the three hundred and fifty steps mentioned by Dian Wei is almost about 485 meters, this distance is already very far, even in later generations, the general assault rifle can only barely reach, in ancient times, there are very few weapons that can shoot more than three hundred steps, generally only large bed crossbows and large trebuchets can reach.

Liu Zhi nodded, he had seen that the morale of the Xiliang Army had gradually risen, and he was going to use trebuchets to harass them remotely to suppress their morale, but since it was out of reach, forget it.

Liu Zhi knew that he had no martial arts, no courage, and no recklessness to continue to stay on the city wall, and left the city wall under the protection of Pei Yuanshao.

With the beating of drums and three links, the morale of the Xiliang Army has reached its peak, and Guo Yan gave an order, and the two phalanxes of the Xiliang Army immediately attacked Yangzhai City.

In order to prevent the attack of the Runan army, Guo Yan arranged a cavalry on each flank of the army to suppress the formation of the army.

And he himself commanded and dispatched in the Chinese army, the 10,000 troops of the two phalanxes of the Xiliang Army came murderously and went straight to the city wall, behind their phalanx, more than ten trebuchets were also pushed slowly by hundreds of soldiers, their range was not as good as the trebuchets of the defenders, and they had to advance to a position of two hundred steps to be able to get the defenders on the city wall.

Looking at the Xiliang army surging like a tide, Dian Wei shouted loudly to cheer up the soldiers, and at this time, there was a burst of war drums in the city, and this drum was like a signal, and the thirty trebuchets on the city wall and the city fired at the surging Xiliang army.

Thirty large stones weighing more than 100 catties roared and smashed into the formation of the Xiliang army, and the soldiers of the Xiliang army shouted, and they all hurriedly dodged, wanting to avoid these boulders falling from the sky, but their formation was very dense, and there were many people, and nearly 100 soldiers were broken bones and tendons smashed by the rolling boulders, screaming again and again, and for a while, the formation of the Xiliang army became chaotic.