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In the second year of the first peace of the Han Dynasty, on the sixth day of the first month, Xiaohan.

At this moment, the whole world has entered a period of severe cold, that is, the coldest time of the year in various places, and it is in Xihe County, Bingzhou, on the border, which is naturally no exception.

The wind stopped for a while, the snow stopped for a while, and the originally thick snow on the streets and city walls was swept away by the soldiers and the people, Lu Bu originally wanted to put salt on the side of the road to accelerate the melting of the snow, so as to prevent ice and make the road slippery and difficult to walk, but considering the hard-won and precious salt in a place like Bingzhou, he really didn't have the ability to turn decay into magic through the protagonist, and he could easily make a lot of salt, and in the end he still had to rely on manpower.

To be honest, fighting in such weather is not a good thing, but for Lu Bu, now is the best opportunity, because no one would have thought that he would launch an attack on the prince force of Zhang Yang next to him at this time, when he had just entered the annexed state and had not yet gained a firm foothold, and it was precisely because no one thought that he could temporarily ignore the other enemies on the side, and only concentrate on dealing with Zhang Yang, but it would be difficult to find a place if he didn't grasp this kind of opportunity.

On the surface, it is Zhang Yang who takes the initiative to attack him, but only he and his henchmen know that this war is actually deliberately guided by Lu Bu himself, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he started it first.

Zhang Yang may also know, but he has no choice, because he also knows very well that for him, this is also the best and most suitable opportunity for him to get rid of Lu Bu, in fact, even if it is a trap, he may jump in without hesitation, at least he can fight, and it is unknown who will kill the deer.

As early as a few days ago, Lu Bu ordered the people to collect the people's excess quilts and cotton clothes in the whole city, although most of the people in the city are not rich, but the necessities of cotton clothes will not be lacking, and it is not difficult to squeeze them out, so he quickly collected thousands of quilts and thousands of sets of cotton clothes, these objects have naturally been moved to the city tower at this moment, maybe if the war in the next few days is tight, even Lu Bu himself will have to rest directly on the city tower.

The soldiers were probably the most tired and cold. There are many things going on at this time. But the armor they wear is not only not cold, but also from time to time there is a cold wind drilled in, it is not easy to do a tight fit, stuffing a few more clothes in it will hold up until the armor is not easy to wear, in short, if you want to give yourself a comprehensive protection, you can only withstand the cold, wear good armor, this is really a helpless choice. After all, it is impossible to wear a quilt and cotton clothes when fighting.

It is not far from the county government to the city gate, after all, the city of Pingzhou is not big as a whole, there are only more than 1,000 households in the city, and Lu Bu and others are riding horses, so it is only a moment from getting the news to rushing here.

With Jia Xu, Lu Cui, Cangci, Bailidu, Hao Meng, Wei Xu, and Song Xian (Khan, I found out that there were some chapters before that "Song Xian" was written as "Hou Cheng". Here's a note, after all, the VIP chapter is not easy to change, everyone knows it, just tolerate it) and other civil and military cadres, as well as local county officials, county lieutenants and others directly climbed the city tower, separated by the city wall more than a foot wide, Lu Bu looked not far outside the city.

That was the place where Zhang Yang's army pressed the border, and Zhang Yang poured 20,000 troops to come this time. It almost exhausted most of his strength. It can also be seen from this that he gambled widely.

Among them, there are 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry, which means that there are generally only 10,000 people used to siege the city. After all, using cavalry to attack the city is such a strange thing, and the Huns did it.

It's not that the cavalry can't attack the city, on the one hand, Zhang Yang also wants to keep some of the living force in case Lu Bu secretly cheats, obviously from this point of view, his caution makes Lu Bu feel a little headache; On the other hand, it is really a waste to use cavalry to attack the city, not to mention that the Pingzhou garrison is estimated to be no more than 5,000, which still includes those people who are requisitioned to help carry things, so Zhang Yang will not use these 10,000 cavalry unless it is absolutely necessary.

As for the villagers who originally lived in the military camp outside the city and Zhouzhou, Zhang Yang also knew this, but he didn't take it to heart, with these people, Lu Bu didn't want to cause any obstacles to himself at all.

Zhang Yang thinks so, also because of his understanding of Pingzhou City, although Pingzhou City is on the border of the two counties, it is not a strong city, at most it can be used as a bridgehead to enter the West River.

On the four sides of Pingzhou County, it is a low city wall made of rammed earth and tamped, the city wall is only seven or eight feet high, in essence, a city wall outside is not even a city wall at all, seven or eight feet is a big shorter than Lu Bu's size, and even his vision can not be blocked, at most he will stop the cavalry from stepping over so much, but Zhang Yang still has 10,000 infantry, and it will also be the main force of the siege, it is impossible to block this part of the enemy army, even if there is an obstacle like thistle terrestris outside.

However, this is only the outer city wall, the design of Pingzhou County is wonderful in that there are two city walls inside and outside, which separates it from the inner city and the outer city, in fact, Jiuyuan City is also structured, the outer city is basically the farmland of the people in the city is included, the most valuable thing about Pingzhou County is probably here, not only can be self-sufficient, but also can have a surplus, if necessary, you can support the neighboring counties.

However, it was already winter, and the harvest in the fields had already been harvested, and part of it belonged to the people themselves, and the other part was handed over to the government, and it was also moved to the granary to be stored for emergencies.

At this time, the outer part of the city was just set up some obstacles, such as horse rejection piles, wooden fences, and natural obstacles, that is, the snow on the ground, of course Lu Bu would not be so kind to send people to clean it, the snow could already drown people's entire feet, and it was also difficult for Zhang Yang's army to advance smoothly.

Generally speaking, Lu Bu did not put the hope of resisting the iron hooves of Zhang Yang's army in the outer city, because he knew that it was unrealistic.

However, with the obstacle of the outer city, there is still a certain disadvantage for the siege of the Zhang Yang army, at least it has a great impact on the march of the army, although it is irrelevant to arrange the formation when attacking the city, but if the road ahead can be unimpeded, at least when resisting the attack on the city tower, it will not be distracted, otherwise you must be careful of the rain of arrows above, and you must be careful of the traps below, no soldier can withstand such a double blow.

And the first thing Zhang Yang did when he came to this city was not to launch a siege order, but to let people demolish the outer city.

Anyway, with so much money down, I don't care about spending so much time to remove these obstacles and make the next siege road go more smoothly.

Of course, Lu Bu is even more unlikely to let Zhang Yang achieve his goal, so before the two sides officially clash under the city. In this outer city, there have been some tentative comings and goings.

In order to atone for the sin. This task of harassing the enemy army was still handed over to Wang Cheng, but this time Ji Zhao cooperated with him.

The two had cooperated once before when they were against the Black Mountain Thieves, and they had a tacit understanding, but this time Lu Bu paired them together again, and neither of them had any opinions, but when they arrived in the outer city, the two people who seemed to be born to be in tune immediately began to divide labor. On the one hand, they had to follow Zhang Yang's orders to clear the obstacles in front of them, and on the other hand, they had to be careful of being attacked by Wang Cheng and Ji Zhao, and they had to be distracted from time to time.

However, both Lu Bu and Zhang Yang knew that this kind of small means could only be delayed for a while, and it was only a matter of time before the outer city was destroyed. It can buy more time for Lu Bu's side.

This tug-of-war has been grinding for two full hours, until the outer city wall was finally completely demolished, and the horse rejection piles, thistles, fences and other things in the outer city were also demolished one by one, but the snow on the ground was directly ignored, although this road to the inner city gate is not a flat river now, at least it can be pressed by Zhang Yang's army.

Lu Bu on the city tower couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene, after all, he was still a little rushed in time. So there is no way for him to prepare more. Otherwise, such weather can also be used, and it will also be a heavy blow to Zhang Yangjun.

But that's enough for now. He was ready, and he knew that the next step was to enter the official prelude to the war, and Zhang Yang was about to launch the first wave of offensive.

Woowoo......

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the mournful horn to sound over there, which was a sign that Zhang Yang's army was going to attack.

Looking into the distance, a tall horse, Zhang Yang sat upright, pulled out his sword, and waved it forward, which was an order, and then shouted "kill" from the mouth of Zhang Yang's army, which was magnificent, and shook the snow flakes on the city wall.

Like a tidal wave, Zhang Yang's army slowly advanced to the city and crossed the outer city.

On the city wall, those soldiers guarding the city stood up trembling at this time, seeing Lu Bu frowning for a while, although he was not worried about his safety, after all, he still had a lot of back-hands, but putting these soldiers on such a front-line battlefield was not without a little experience, but their appearance made him feel a little disappointed, but he was a little disappointed, but he was thinking that most of them were new to the battle formation, and now the weather is too cold, it is difficult to bear, And there are still some old people among them who can barely hold on and make a good example to the recruits next to them, but it is not too ugly.

Saying that these people are recruits is not that they are really newcomers who have just been recruited into the army, but that most of them encounter such battle scenes for the first time, some of them are the original garrison of Pingzhou, and there has been no war in Pingzhou in the past few years, although there is a Hun in Xihe County who is not too peaceful, but Pingzhou is still far from the battlefield, and it is the first time that it has been used as a frontal battlefield like this, they have no experience in actual combat, after all, no matter how much they usually train, they have to go to the battlefield to see the truth; And the other part is from the Black Mountain thieves who are more honest and have no courage to be brushed down by Gao Shun, although it is not the first time to face the war, the opponent in the past is also the official army, but usually as a thief to loot around, like now is guarding the city is still the first time the big girl is on the sedan chair, today is a test for them, but the beginning is obviously not satisfactory.

"Archers ready to ......"

Wang Cheng and Ji Zhao have returned, since the outer city has been destroyed, their task is not necessary, seeing that Zhang Yang's army is approaching step by step, and is about to enter the range of fire, Lu Bu gave an order, and suddenly the archers who have been practicing for the past two days came up in the front row, raised the bow in their hands, and at the same time pulled out the arrows and put them on the bow, and then forcefully pulled the bowstring into a full circle.

Looking at these new faces, Lu Bu was somewhat emotional, even if he was a person who had just experienced the battle formation, but if he had been trained by Cao Xing, he would definitely be more than half a little better than now, although he was very accomplished in archery, but he was just a person, but when it came to training archers, he really didn't have that talent, I am afraid that he only relied on his own identity and force to deter them, I am afraid that these people will not even learn how to draw a bow.

Lu Bu said calmly: "Release the arrow!" ”

The soldiers' faces turned red and pulled into the bows of the full moon, and they loosened their bows. Suddenly. The rain of arrows in the sky was dense and like locusts eroded towards the enemy.

"Shieldman!"

Zhang Yang waved his sword again, the formation of the army changed slightly, and the shield hand held his shield in front of him and continued to move slowly.

A large number of arrows like locusts hit the shield and fell directly to the ground, but the force of countless arrows also caused the shield phalanx to tremble a lot, and it still failed to break through this layer of defense after all. But just then, the shield-bearers suddenly dispersed, and ladders were pushed out, surrounded by a large group of soldiers.

Less than five steps away from the city wall, ladders were finally erected up the tower.

"Archer, prepare ......"

On the city wall, another round of volleys passed. Lu Bu had already handed over the herald to Wei Xu, and his characteristic voice swirled in the air of Pingzhou City, ringing in the ears of a row of defending archers: "Release!" ”

Whew......

Suddenly, there were enemy soldiers who were climbing on the ladder and under the city who were constantly hit by arrows, or fell down from the ladder and fell into flesh, or were pushed to the ground by their companions who were swarming up from behind, and then trampled mercilessly by the feet of their companions, until finally they could not see the shape clearly.

War is brutal. Sergeants in war are even more aware of this cruelty. At this moment, life doesn't seem to be his own, and he may be quietly harvested by the waiting death at any time.

There was a steady stream of arrows on the city. After one round, a total of three rows of archers opened their bows one after another, so that this dense rain of arrows showed no signs of stopping, as an important strategic reserve, although the county town of Pingzhou was small, this was unique.

However, this does not mean that it can be issued endlessly, not to mention that defending the city is not only a sharp weapon like a bow and arrow, after all, Pingzhou is only a small place, and the strategic position is also low, bows and arrows are conventional resources, and trebuchets are relatively "high-end" ordnance, but there is no machine qì and manpower, there is a mountain near Pingzhou, Lu Bu has long ordered people to carry a lot of stones from there back to hoard, which is just in handy at this time.

A piece of boulder does not need money to smash down, there is already gravitational potential energy plus the strength of the soldier who smashed the stone, so that a piece of boulder smashed down even if it does not kill people, smash people down the ladder will fall directly to death, even if the luck is better not to die, it is also a serious injury, loss of mobility, and then the next moment the stone comes down again, or can only obediently wait for death, and is broken into a ball of flesh that cannot see the original shape.

In fact, in addition to stones, fire oil is also a big weapon, but Lu Bu also knows that this is difficult for a strong man, and fire oil is not easy to carry, so he did not carry it with the army, and it is unrealistic to expect such reserves in a small place like Pingzhou, not to mention that it is still this kind of weather, and the effect of fire oil may also be greatly weakened.

In addition to the stones, there were also giant trees, which were also held high and thrown down by the soldiers in the city, and suddenly smashed down many Zhang Yangjun who were struggling to climb up.

But in such a siege battle, it is not easy to completely control the footsteps of the enemy, there are still Zhang Yangjun soldiers who climbed the city tower, but it didn't take long for them to be bombarded by the defenders, and then someone climbed up, and then they were bombarded, and even Wei Xu finally ran to fight in person, after all, at this time, there was not much point in archers, and it was just a waste of arrows to go down.

For a while, up and down the city wall, there was a piece of flesh and blood, and all kinds of terrible wails sounded.

Zhang Yang looked at Ping Zhou from afar, his eyes were awe-inspiring, and suddenly he waved his big hand again, the sound of war drums suddenly changed, the sound became more urgent, and the rhythm of Zhang Yang's army attacking the city faintly accelerated.

Behind them, another cloud ladder was quickly pushed to the city wall, and then another soldier climbed up the cloud ladder, and the speed was even faster than Fang Cai, but Lu Bu sneered when he saw this scene.

This Zhang Yang is indeed smart and knows how to take advantage of the psychology of the defenders of the city, but he doesn't see that the soldiers on his city are constantly rotating?

The reason why he maintained this rotation was so that the soldiers would not follow the rhythm of the other party's siege.

In fact, if you are not familiar with such a routine, I am afraid that you are really defenseless, after all, many times people have inertia, just like when attacking a city, if the enemy's attack rhythm is relatively slow, naturally their own response will gradually slow down, and when they adapt to this rhythm, the other party suddenly consciously accelerates the rhythm, it is likely to be caught off guard.

However, the opponent Zhang Yang met this time was Lu Bu, and he didn't notice anything wrong at first, but he just felt that the enemy's posture didn't look like a desperate attack on the city, and gradually figured out some of Zhang Yang's intentions, but the most important thing is that he always attaches enough importance to Zhang Yang, if he really thinks that Zhang Yang doesn't know the military, he must not know him, although Zhang Yang is a civilian official, but he can gain a foothold under Ding Yuan's account and finally lead the party, his military ability is not bad.

The only thing that missed the calculation was that the opponent he met this time happened to understand him and could restrain him.

Seeing that the change of his rhythm did not cause the other party's panic and played its due role, Zhang Yang naturally knew that the intention was seen through by the other party, since this is the case, it is not a matter of playing falsely, anyway, now the scene is half a catty, and Zhang Yangjun still occupies a certain advantage, in the case of casualties on both sides, the Pingzhou defenders are relatively small, as long as the personnel are consumed to a certain number, that is the time to collapse.

After all, although the county seat of Pingzhou is divided into inner and outer cities, even the walls of this inner city are not tall compared to Zhang Yangjun, and if it weren't for the lives of Lu Bu's soldiers, they would have lost half of their control rights long ago.

Lü Bu and Zhang Yang knew this, so one of them tried their best not to let the city wall fall and the enemy attack, and the other side constantly drove the soldiers to rush up and forward.

As time passed, the battle gradually became white-hot, and the soldiers on both sides were red-eyed, but seeing that this time was gradually passing, and the sky was about to darken, they still couldn't decide the winner. (To be continued.) )