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Han Sui's army and horses were stationed outside Ji County, and one day later, Ma Teng also led the army.

This time, the military discussion was held again, and Han Sui made people excited: "At the moment of breaking the enemy, it is time to work together, Shoucheng has not come out of the discussion several times, and he is disgusted?" Afraid? ”

Ma Teng couldn't hold back his excitement and finally appeared in the big tent. Han Sui ignored the faces of Yang Qiu and the others in the tent, and said to him first: "Zhuhao and Qiang Qi are afraid of Sizhou's soldiers, and they can't move forward in case of trouble. If you want to break Ji County, you and my brother still need to make a difference! ”

is used to being an enemy, and it is difficult to adapt to this tone for a while, Ma Teng did not answer with a heavy face. Cheng Gongying interjected: "Zhang Liao is capable, Ji County may be difficult to break for a while!" The soldiers of the long-term battle will be tired, and Deng Ji will be followed by the second army of Tai Shi Ci and Zhao Yun, if we fight hard when we attack Ji County, it will be difficult to stop! ”

After several defeats, although Ma's power is not as good as Han Sui, the military strength and influence in Liangzhou are not comparable to Yang Qiuchengyi's peers, and he is still one of the two bigwigs in Liangzhou.

Since forcing his father to become an enmity with Deng Ji and joining forces with Han Sui to raise troops as he wished, Ma has been cautious and laborious to curry favor, trying to make up for the rift between father and son, and easily no longer interjecting in front of Ma Teng, but at this time, he saw that he was embarrassed in the account, fell into a stalemate, and was afraid of big things, so he had to come out and say: "Deng Muan is in vain to block the Xiliang army with a lonely city, and his skills are poor!" The people of Sanfu are dense, not more remote than my Liangzhou, and they moved the people of the two counties of Hanyang in Longxi to Sanfu, only a temporary plan, but it is difficult to move the people of Sanfu to other places! Recently, there has been a horse exploration report, the people in Sizhou, Deng Muan only Yangwu Fort to block the West Liang Xiao ride, which is really a ridiculous move! If Ji County is difficult to break for a while, it is better to leave the army to surround it, and the army will go straight into the pass, disturb its realm, and force Taishi Ci Zhao Yun to fight a decisive battle. Break Chang'an again! ”

Cheng Gongying high-fived in agreement: "A certain has also had this intention!" Only the elite of the Sizhou army, and all of them are riding, they really dare not leave Zhang Liao in the back road! Therefore, Ji County should be surrounded by a large army. made the partial division into the three auxiliary attacks and harassed, forcing Deng Ji to be distracted. It's hard to send Tai Shi Ci Zhao Yun again! However, the division has passed through Ji County, and there is still Chen Cang, and the Taishi Cijun is stationed here, so you need to be careful! ”

The horse was just to buffer the embarrassing situation, and at this time the goal had been achieved, so he rushed into a male jaw and retreated behind Ma Teng to stand down.

Before crossing the river. When Han Sui and others determined the route of the march, they all thought that it was best for the army to enter the pass through Xiao Pass and attack Chang'an along Jingshui. However, Xiao Guan is in Anding County, and Yang Qiu Chengyi is in control. If the army goes south through this, and the way back is in the hands of the old brother, Ma Teng is unwilling and vetoes it.

Guarding against each other very much, Han Sui didn't dare to leave Ma Teng in Xiliang's old nest. His own family took Sizhou alone, and Ma Teng was unwilling to go to Xiaoguan, so he had to march along the Weishui Basin, and after passing Ji County, there was Chen Cang in front of him.

Of course. In order to prevent the Xiliang army from going south from Xiaoguan, Deng Ji was stationed in Qi County by Jingshui before Zhao Yun's cavalry army, and he had to be scouted to report that there were no soldiers and horses to attack, so he was transferred to Yongxian County to assist in defense.

It is called Guanzhong, which is among the four passes, the east is Hangu, the west is Sanguan, there is Xiao Pass in the north and Wuguan in the south. The pass is in Chen Cang, and it is also in the hands of Deng Ji, but unfortunately this pass is guarded against the direction of Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and it can't stop the Xiliang army.

Bypassing Chen Cang with a partial division, the three auxiliary generals will no longer be in danger to defend, and Han Sui and Ma Teng don't believe that Deng Ji's Mintunwu Fort and the low county city wall built in Youfufeng this year can really do anything.

Cheng Gongying's strategy can be described as excellent, and when he heard his words, everyone admired them together. Han Sui wanted to mend the relationship with his old brother, and praised Ma Teng: "I have always only known that Meng Qiyong is the champion, but I don't know that the insight is also extraordinary, and he is a hundred times better than the dogs in my family!" My brother has this good child, which is enough to comfort the old man! ”

Unexpectedly, when he praised his eldest son, Ma Teng remembered the tragic death of his wife and young son, and he didn't appreciate it at all, turned his head and glanced coldly at the horse standing behind him, "hummed" in his nose, and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

Everyone in the tent didn't know why, no one broke the siege, Han Sui could only laugh dryly, no longer put a hot face on the cold buttocks, and turned to Zhu Haoqiang and Qiang's head and ordered: "This matter is decided!" Since you and others attacked the city unfavorably, the various departments led their cavalry to attack Guanzhong, and they were temporarily under the control of Yang Qiu. The foot soldiers will stay here, and help me and Shoucheng to break through Ji County! ”

There are Yang Qiuchengyi and other Haoqiang and Qiang Qi cavalry who broke into the three auxiliary attacks and disturbed, and the two families left behind are much safer, listening to his order, Ma Teng still closed his eyes and recuperated, ignoring the others.

Han Sui knew that he had acquiesced in this arrangement, and continued to say to Yang Qiu and the others: "Now you and the others should know that the Sizhou soldiers need to deal with it carefully, and they should not gather in one place after entering the customs. ”

"Whoa!"

Xiliang Duoma, all left the foot soldiers, Yang Qiu and other Haoqiang and Qiang Di also have nearly 40,000 horses, Deng Ji still has only two armies in Sanfu, even if both armies are rare elites, it is not good to attack and disturb Guanzhong, and it should not be difficult to retreat.

The two bigwigs in the tent were awkward, the atmosphere was very weird, Yang Qiu and the others didn't want to stay for a long time, and after receiving Han Sui's order, everyone sang in unison, and Shi Li withdrew to prepare separately.

In fact, only Han and Ma really participated in the military discussion in this big tent, and the rest were echoing insects, and when the generals withdrew, Han Sui asked: "How about breaking this Ji County, how about asking Shoucheng to contribute more?" ”

"Two things, why do you contribute more?" Without thinking about it, Ma Teng immediately refused.

Although the army is ten times stronger than the enemy, if the internal fight continues, the siege of Jixian County may evolve into the previous situation, and Han Sui has no choice but to promise heavy benefits: "You and I take turns to attack the city, and change it every day!" If the city is broken, where will Hanyang County belong, and how? ”

For Ma Teng, the army of Benxi Liang can enter Sizhou for the third time after Dong Zhuo and Li Wei, and the land of Hanyang County is also very crucial! This place is adjacent to Jincheng Wuwei, Han Sui has Yang Qiuchengyi and other control of Anding County in hand, not to mention, Longxi will not give the Ma family, if you have to enter the Sizhou, Han Sui does not lack a road connected to Jincheng's nest, but he Ma Teng can't do it, if you want not to be rootless duckweed, the only thing you can fight for is this Hanyang County.

Sizhou is still only the moon in the water, no matter what the result is, it is a great good thing that the return of the army can be in his own hands first, Ma Teng is satisfied with this arrangement, and finally opened his eyes: "That's it!" ”

Tempting Ma Tengken to exert his death force, it will be done today.

When the heads of the envoys sent into the city to persuade them to surrender were hung high on the city wall, a bloody battle began under the city of Ji County, which lasted for more than a month.

After the real fight, I learned that the Xiliang people are known for their toughness, but the Sizhou soldiers under Deng Ji dare to be proficient in the battle before they can win by three points!

For the rest of the month, Zhang Liao, who was stationed in Ji County, used troops to surprise Han Sui and Ma Teng, from beginning to end. The four caves in Ji County were not blocked with civil engineering, and when the battle was in full swing every day, there were hundreds to two thousand iron horsemen rushing out from it. Specializing in destroying siege equipment, and never entangled with the cavalry of the two families. Whenever an iron cavalry soldier went out of the city, the horn on the city wall to command the advance and retreat sounded non-stop, and he could always control the results and damage of the battle.

Compared with the use of soldiers, the martial bravery of this defender is rare in the world. When Han Sui's army attacked the city for the sixth time, Cheng Gongying had a clever plan to trap a thousand cavalry teams killed in the city, and Zhang Liao personally commanded the men and horses out of the city to rescue, under the gaze of tens of thousands of soldiers. After leading the direct killing of more than 7,000 elite soldiers and rescuing the fallen companions, he was responsible for personally cutting off the queen, but the blood-stained robe was still as usual. shouted loudly, so frightened that more than a dozen generals in the Xiliang Army did not dare to step forward.

Moreover, this opponent's temperament is also too calm, since Cheng Gongying's plan failed, every time Ma Teng's army attacked the city, Ma had to challenge under the city. insulted in every way, and even sent people to send women's clothes into the city, but I didn't see a single rider come out and put it right, only the city head greeted it with cold arrows.

The siege was in vain again and again, and no one expected it to be a stalemate. Facing such an opponent, Han Sui sighed several times: "Deng Mu'an's account is not only two tigers? ”

In addition, the lives of the people in the city are also the only ones seen in the lives of the two Xiliang heroes. At first, after Han Sui persuaded the envoy to be killed, he sent people to shout under the city, saying that if he did not surrender again, he would slaughter the city after breaking the city, and then the two families took turns to attack the city, and the head of the city was strong and damaged a lot, but the resistance encountered every day has never changed, and the strong are all holding the sword and the bow and gritting their teeth, and the city wall damaged by the stone-throwing giant crossbow was always repaired to be solid on the second day. After waiting for a month, there was no secret communication, but Cheng Gongying made people make fake letters and shoot them into the city, wanting to damage the morale of the defenders, but they were all recognized.

After that, there are plenty of supplies in the city that make a pair of old enemies blush and helpless. Yan Xing Pang De had been ordered to send arrows up three times, but the rain of arrows from the defenders on the city wall seemed to be endless, and they could never be finished; Most of the soldiers were covered with fine fish scale armor, which could reduce most of the damage in battle, and with the female walls guarding the city, the daily casualties were always small.

At first, Han Sui took Hanyang County as the first two companies to break the city, just to force Ma Teng to die first, but to fight until later, seeing that the Ma Teng army that only replenished the strong Ding when he went south was really powerless, Han Sui's own military horses also made a bloody investment, and the county town of Ji was still indestructible after the loss of soldiers.

Coupled with the infantry left by Yang Qiu and others, there were more than 60,000 Xiliang troops besieging the city, and more than 20,000 lives were filled in after a bloody battle.

Of course, at this time, Zhang Liao, the commander of the Weilie Army in Ji County, was not at all relaxed and under great pressure.

Although Ji County is the seat of Hanyang County, it is not a big city, but the city wall is higher than that of the general county seat. The reason why he has been able to hold on until now is related to his Zhang Liao's desperate efforts, but it is also inseparable from the early preparations made by the lord Deng Ji and the two military advisors.

In order to cope with this battle, the money, food and materials transported by Sizhou to the city of Ji County are abundant and not lacking, but the Xiliang people are not paper paste after all, tens of thousands of troops take turns to attack the city every day, and the casualties caused to the Weilie Army are also very great, and the schools have at least died more than one song, and the Guoyi School, which has the greatest loss, is more than half, and only more than 800 horsemen are still available.

The sturdy men who assisted in defending the city had no armor and suffered greater casualties, as did the more than 20 county officers who had gathered. If it weren't for the fact that the Xiliang people have always been cruel, and the beneficiaries of the fourth-class people who were naturalized by the people, Wei Kang and Zhao Ang were able to dispatch them effectively, and at the same time promised heavy benefits, Zhang Liao did not believe that the Weilie Army alone could hold on to the present.

Only now, the difficulty of defending the city has become more difficult day by day, and the tired soldiers can even fall asleep on horseback.

Zhang Liao didn't know when this last string would break.

"I've been guarding the city for a long time, why hasn't the lord seen any movement?"

Before the siege of Ji County, Deng Ji's last order to Zhang Liao was "Hold on to the city for less than a month and lose the city, and the responsibility lies with Wenyuan; The city is lost due to the full moon, and it is my responsibility! ”

Not to mention a month, counting the siege of the city before Yang Qiu and others, Zhang Liao has been guarding Ji County for almost two months.

This worries him.