"General Yu, Sun Jiao is in Poyang City, not in Shuizhai." In the evening, after setting up camp twenty miles east of Poyang City, the scouts sent out came back to report.

"Since this is the case, then we must break Poyang City as soon as possible, if we can capture Sun Jiao alive, then the big thing will be decided!" Zhao Feng said to Pang. Pang Tong nodded, thought for a while, and suddenly smiled: "General, if everything goes well, then you may not be able to take Jiangdong before the year." ”

"Why did Shi Yuan say this?" Zhao Feng felt that Pang Tong was a little carried away by the victory again, for fear that he would make the old mistake of underestimating the enemy again.

As if guessing what Zhao Feng was worried about, Pang Tong smiled slightly and said: "According to what I saw and heard in Xindu County before, it can be seen that the Sun clan has reoccupied Jiangdong, and the people's hearts have not been attached. Among its garrison, many of the sergeants recruited by us in the past have been reorganized. Such an army is usually self-defeating, and once a war starts, it is easy for the army to be unstable. In the battle to defend the city, the most afraid of people's instability is the heart. After we take Poyang, the defenders of Wujun and Huiji will inevitably be frightened, and if they can go down with one blow, they may not be able to fight quickly. ”

"It's good to be fast, but it's better to be safe." Zhao Feng has always been more inclined to take a safe route, and seeing that Pang Tong felt too good, he hurriedly mentioned something. Pang Tong nodded again and again and agreed not to mention it, and at that moment Zhao Feng ordered the army to rest overnight, and then attack the city again.

While Zhao Feng's army was asleep, Sun Jiao in Poyang City couldn't sleep all night. "Alas!" After a long sigh, Sun Jiao put on a coat and walked out of his room to the courtyard to breathe. Looking at the semi-circular moon in the sky, Sun Jiao was very confused about whether he could see the moon tomorrow.

Zhao Feng's army came, without the slightest cover-up, and came to Poyang City with such fanfare, making it clear that he was bullying you for not having enough troops. Sun Jiao also knows his own affairs, he only has thousands of defenders under his command, half of them are just recruited county soldiers, and they have been trained for less than three months, relying on them to resist Zhao Feng's tens of thousands of elite soldiers, Sun Jiao can figure out with his toes, what the result will be.

In fact, when things came to this point, Sun Jiao already had a faint premonition in his heart, feeling that Sun's rebellion this time was going to be unpleasant. But now there is no turning back, from the moment he kidnapped Zhang Zhao, it means that he can't stay out of the matter like Sun Fu, and he can only closely link the fate of the entire Sun family with his own fate.

"Husband, it's cold, be careful of freezing!" A cloak was draped on the back of Sun Jiao, who was in a trance, and Sun Jiao turned around to see that it was his new wife Xu. Looking at the delicate wife in front of him, Sun Jiao's irritable mood was also slightly relieved. The couple are very affectionate after marriage, but unfortunately now they are in great trouble, and I am afraid that they can only be husband and wife for less than a year.

No matter how melancholy Sun Jiao is, this night will eventually pass. In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Feng's army Shi Shiran set up a formation outside the city with a big grin and prepared to attack the city. Nearly 200 of the latest trebuchets were set up 400 steps away from the Poyang city wall. Strangely, however, the soldiers in charge of the trebuchet did not load the stone bullets, but shoveled clods of earth on the spot and stuffed them.

"My lord, what are they doing here?" A lieutenant beside Sun Jiao asked in surprise. The trebuchet is no longer a secret that no one knows, everyone knows that Liu Bei has a trebuchet and Cao Ying has a thunderbolt. But no one had ever been seen to throw dirt into a trebuchet, for even if the dirt were thrown at the head of the city, it would at best make the enemy disgraced, and it would not be easy to smash the head.

"I don't know, but Zhao Botao is good at using soldiers, so we need to be careful." Sun Jiao also didn't know the essentials, so he had to take one step at a time. I don't know if it's fortunate or unlucky, Zhao Feng didn't let him wait too long. Two hundred trebuchets threw the rammed clods of earth out of the city, not at the defenders at the top of the city, but at the moat beneath the city.

The sound of "poof" sounded continuously, and two hundred large clods of earth were thrown into the river, and then the next round continued. After only two or three rounds, Sun Jiao understood what Zhao Feng wanted to do: "Does he want a trebuchet to fill the moat?" Sun Jiao was really angry and laughed. This will be slower, but the defenders will not interfere with their actions, so the besieging troops will not suffer any casualties during the entire reclamation process, unless something happens to them.

"General, you are amazing!" Pang Tong was also surprised to see Zhao Feng using such methods. "I'm ashamed, it's better to die fewer people in the war." Zhao Feng said with a smile. Tens of thousands of people will die if you fill a moat, Zhao Feng really can't accept it.

"But I guess the general is not just about reducing casualties, right?" Pang Tong is somewhat meaningful.

"I knew I couldn't hide it from you Shiyuan, that's right, I did have other intentions." Zhao Feng didn't need to deny it, and said with a smile.

"What is the General's intention?" Gao Ran on the side couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this. Zhao Feng pointed to the defenders at a loss at the head of the city, and said to Gao Lan: "General Gao, you see, most of these defenders are new soldiers. I filled the river with such fanfare, but they had no means to fight back, so they could only watch us fill the river. In this way, it will be a great blow to their morale. Once the morale of these recruits is low, then the combat effectiveness is not to be feared! ”

Zhao Feng's hand is actually psychological warfare, which is a steady and long-lasting blow through trebuchets, which makes the defenders frightened, thus making the subsequent siege more smooth. At least for now, it's working out pretty well.

"Indeed!" Huang Zhong also nodded in agreement when he heard this, and everyone raised their eyes to look at the defenders at the head of the city, and many people had already begun to talk to each other and scratch their heads. Although some petty officers are trying their best to restrain their subordinates, the effect is not very good, and the blankness on the faces of many people is obvious.

In this way, the river was filled in so beautifully, and in the afternoon, a large section of the moat was finally filled. During this period, except for the sergeant who was riding the trebuchet and the scouts scattered around to take precautions, the rest of the people were very leisurely, sitting on the ground in twos and threes and chatting, and some even urinated on the defenders at the head of the city, which showed disdain.

"My lord, these guys are so blind that they are willing to lead all the way out of the city and destroy all these trebuchets!" A school captain was filled with righteous indignation, and finally couldn't hold back and asked Sun Jiao to fight.

"Captain Li, don't act rashly, Zhao Botao has already prepared, if he sends troops, he will be ambushed!" Although Sun Jiao was also anxious, he still tried his best to restrain him.

"But if they are allowed to fill the river so easily, the morale of the defenders is really very problematic! General, you see that the enemy army is now extremely slack, and he is willing to lead hundreds of dead soldiers out of the city and destroy all the trebuchets to thwart his spirit! Captain Li was obviously unwilling to watch the other party fill in the river like this, and continued to ask for his life.

"The other side seems to be loose and tight now, and once we move out of the city to meet the enemy, we will be immediately surrounded and annihilated. Captain Li, we still stick to it! Sun Jiao said in a deep voice. Captain Li knew that he had made up his mind, so he sighed and stopped talking.

"General, do you want to go to the city wall over there to fill the river again?" Seeing that this wall was almost filled, Gao Ran seemed to be unsatisfied, so he took the initiative to ask.

"No need, give the order and prepare to attack the city!" Zhao Feng suddenly said. Gao Ran was a little surprised when he heard this, but when he turned his head to look at the defenders at the head of the city, they were indeed demoralized and had no intention of fighting. At that moment, Gao Ran sent 2,000 elite soldiers, carrying the ladder and rushing directly to the city. The defenders did not expect that the opponent suddenly stopped filling the river and began to attack the city with real swords, and this time they were in a hurry, and hurriedly threw the rolling wood and arrows and hot oil down. However, the power and accuracy of the arrows fired in a hurry were greatly reduced; The hot oil, which used to boil, is now cold. Just relying on rolling wood and stones, under the premise of long-range fire suppression by the Xuzhou Army, how effective can it be?

As Zhao Feng expected, this defender is now not a strong outsider or a middle-class cadre. Under the premise that people's hearts are broken and their morale has plummeted, so that their combat effectiveness, which is not very helpful in the first place, will now be discounted again. As a result, Gao Ran's besieging force only paid hundreds of casualties, and the rest of the more than 1,000 people climbed to the top of the city and fought fiercely with the defenders in close combat. Then, Gong Du and Liu Bi also led more people to follow and kill the city, which made the pressure on the defenders even greater.

"Dang!" With a bang, Sun Jiaoge opened Liu Bi's chest and slashed it, but Gao Ran's sweeping leg couldn't dodge after all, and he was kicked to the ground this time, and he was held down by several people just when he wanted to get up.

"The kid's kung fu is good, better than that Ma Zhong!" Gao Ran nodded. Although Sun Jiao was captured, he couldn't laugh or cry when he heard that Gao Ran actually compared his martial arts with Ma Zhong's two swords.

The city gate opened with a "crunch", and Zhao Feng immediately led the army into Poyang City. Liu Bei was very strict in governing the army, and Poyang was also under his rule before, so there were not too many unpleasant things after entering the city, but the common people saw the Xuzhou army breaking the city, but some people spontaneously came to work the army. "People's hearts are like this, Sun Zhongmou will be defeated this time!" Zhao Feng sighed.

"General, that Sun Jiao has been captured, and his family has been controlled, what are you going to do?" Gao Ran asked at this time. Before the war, Zhao Feng had told them that it was best to capture Sun Jiaosheng alive. Although Gao Ran didn't understand why, he still did as he said.

"Prepare a quiet room for me, I have something to ask this kid." Zhao Feng ordered when he heard this. Gao Ran nodded and said, "There is no other quiet room, just in Sun Jiao's own home?" ”

"Okay!" Zhao Feng nodded in agreement. Since he didn't want to disturb the residents, Zhao Feng naturally wouldn't requisition the people's houses to interrogate Sun Jiao, and the surname Suo was also done in his house.

At that moment, Zhao Feng took Niu Jin and more than 100 guards to Sun Jiao's mansion. Sun Jiao's family has been confined to the room and is not allowed to go out without authorization, Zhao Feng himself sat down in Sun Jiao's study, and after a while, Sun Jiao, who was tied up, was brought to.

Looking at Sun Jiao, who looked at death in front of him, Zhao Feng said slowly: "Sun Jiao, I have something I want to ask you, if you can answer it." Even if the lord wants to kill you, I will give you a good time. If you can't answer, then you're welcome. ”

(To be continued)