At night, Gongsun Zan and his generals acted in full accordance with Liu Cun's strategy, and attacked in turn, continuously launching a feint attack on Fanyang City, and the 20,000 crossbowmen who were used intensively rushed to the city with the help of night, and constantly shot rockets at the head of the city, and more than 20,000 cavalry were also divided into two, galloping around the city, making the defenders in the city busy and exhausted.

Liu Yu on the north gate tower, wearing armor and holding a sword, stood all night, and hundreds of defending generals still gathered around Liu Yu, pointing at the feint enemy under the city with great anger and scolding.

Seeing the effect, Gongsun Chan and his generals and colonels made persistent efforts and began to dispatch troops to pose for a general attack, and the defenders in the city dared to relax when they saw this, and immediately beat the drum and sounded gold, and launched the whole city mobilization again, all the soldiers and young men in the city flocked to the four city walls, and thousands of women, children, old and weak hurriedly sent buckets of water and food to the city walls.

Who knew that the shameless Gongsun Zhan's army had put on a siege posture for two hours and then Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the more than 20,000 defenders who were waiting at the head of the city understood it one after another, and they were so angry that they scolded and cursed repeatedly.

Just after noon, the defenders in the city who had been nervous all night and half a day were still eating, Gongsun Zhan's 40,000 troops rushed out again, nearly 10,000 cavalry crossed the formation, and the soldiers rushed to the front of the east and west gates in two ways, tens of thousands of foot soldiers carried long ladders, brandished knives and guns, and followed closely.

The gongs sounded again in Fanyang City, and the drums sounded.

The hungry defenders had to throw down their jobs and rush to the city again, this time the tossing scene was even grander, and Gongsun Zhan's more than 40,000 soldiers really launched two rounds of tentative siege battles. In the end, seven or eight hundred corpses were thrown down again, and the gongs were sounded to withdraw the troops.

Thousands of defenders on the tower gasped and fell to the ground. No one cheered anymore. Under the banner of hunting, Liu Yu, whose face was scorched and his eyes were red and swollen, finally exhaled turbidity, wiped off the beads of sweat on his head and looked up, and suddenly found that the sun had sunk into the western sky.

In the middle of the night, the noise and dense sound of horses' hooves outside the city gradually disappeared, and the lights on the city to prevent the enemy's sneak attack were exceptionally bright, and thousands of soldiers were either vigilant from afar or patrolling in groups. Stubbornly guarding the city, most of the exhausted defenders under the walls could finally lie down and rest.

Suddenly, there was a sharp exclamation on the east city wall, and the south city soon sounded a rapid gong and drum, and the alarm of the enemy attack instantly spread throughout the city, the cries of children and the exclamations of adults came and went, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves outside the city shook the ground and trembled, and the dense rockets fired from three directions outside the city illuminated the night sky of Fanyang City. Rush to the Dongcheng Tower, where the killing sound shook the sky.

On the high platform less than three miles outside the east gate, Gongsun Chan and more than a dozen generals looked at the Dongcheng Tower, where the flames were raging and fighting. Liu Cun, who was standing beside Gongsun Zhan, looked relaxed, but his heart was extremely heavy.

Liu Cun has a very light view of the conquest, for life and death, the soldiers on both sides who died in the war in Liu Cun's eyes died well, but for the "same origin of the Han Emperor" Liu Yu, Liu Cun did not have much good impression in his heart, on the contrary, Liu Yu's collusion with foreign races to sell territory and national interests made Liu Cun very disgusted, even if there was no Gongsun Zhan, Liu Cun would eventually face Liu Yu for his own hegemony, but the way of slaughter was more ingenious. Liu Cun is now sad for the tens of thousands of people in Fanyang City, and thousands of innocent people quickly died under his scheme.

"Brother Xian, why are you stunned?" Gongsun Chan pulled a chair for Liu Cun ha.

Liu Cun found that roasted whole sheep and Langya wine had been placed behind him, smiled slightly, thanked Gongsun Chan in a low voice, and sat down with peace of mind to raise a glass and drink with Gongsun Zhan: "Is my brother planning to drink until dawn?" ”

Gongsun Chan laughed: "This season, we have an early dawn in Youzhou, and when we finish drinking these bottles of wine, I'm afraid the sky will be bright, haha!" ”

In less than half an hour, the gong to collect the troops sounded again, and the feint attack launched by more than 10,000 cavalry ended. ”

Gongsun Chan nodded confidently: "Ready, the resistance on the head of the city has lost half of the momentum of the day, haha!" ”

At dawn, with the order of Gongsun Zhan, 50,000 well-recharged foot soldiers suddenly launched, 20,000 cavalry turned over and galloped out, firmly blocking the periphery of the four city gates of Fanyang City, more than 500 driving crossbows were pushed to the front of the north and south city walls, a huge rocket quickly shot into Fanyang City, the defenders piled up on the top of the city oil and wood ignited a raging fire in a blink of an eye, and more than 20,000 Youzhou elite foot soldiers who had already been ready to go lifted the heavy ladder, put on a wet blanket, and ran to the foot of the city wall with all their might in the deafening sound of killing. The phalanx of bows and crossbows moved in front of the drums, and soon a rain of arrows shot down the city walls.

The cheers rang out, and Liu Cun on the stage immediately looked at the blazing East Gate Tower, and clearly saw a string of Youzhou soldiers wearing blankets successfully rushing to the city, and thousands of Youzhou soldiers followed up like ants, and soon controlled the entire city wall in their own hands, and the cheers under the city were higher and higher.

Fanyang City was finally breached before the rising sun.

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Two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Fanyang, there was chaos inside and outside the city of Lunu.

Thousands of foot soldiers, wielding clubs and scabbards, maintained order, and dozens of cavalry galloped back and forth around the thousands of refugees, constantly chanting such words as "no noisy noise, sit still", "build a tent for an hour", "all lean against the wall, and do not trample on the wheat fields".

On the city tower, Liu Bei, who had just returned from leading the troops from the north for less than two hours, scanned the chaotic people under the city with a sad face, Guan Yu, who was standing on his left side and was in full armor, kept sighing, and Zhang Fei, who was standing on Liu Bei's right, opened his chest arrogantly, pondered for a moment, and once again issued his own sigh to Liu Bei, as if the thousands of refugees under the city who were still fleeing from the north and south had nothing to do with him.

"Gongsun Chan is really a hero, Lord Liu Yu led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to defend Fanyang City, which is extremely strong, the grain in the city is piled up, and there are three arsenals full of ordnance, I thought that I could defend it for at least three or five months, but who knew that it was broken by Gongsun Chan in the blink of an eye, it was really unexpected."

Liu Bei withdrew his gaze from the wheat fields that were trampled under the city, turned sideways, and faced Zhang Fei, who still couldn't figure it out:

"Although Brother Fool obeyed General Gongsun's orders and led his headquarters to guard the area twenty miles south of Fanyang, and did not participate in the siege battle, Brother Fool still found out a lot of confidential information...... Within three days of General Gongsun's siege of Fanyang City, huge quantities of grain and weapons were being transported from Qingzhou, including hundreds of large ballistas that Qingzhou had never sold to the outside world. ”

"A few days before the city was broken, Liu Zijian suddenly arrived, and General Gongsun swore an oath to cut horses, the army's morale was greatly boosted, and then the siege tactics changed, and tens of thousands of soldiers under the command of General Gongsun in two nights and one day, constantly launched virtual and real feints and harassment, and fought in turn, taking turns to rest......"

On the third day, General Gongsun suddenly ordered the whole army to launch a general attack, and the tens of thousands of exhausted soldiers and civilians in the city could not resist at all, and Fanyang City was breached in less than an hour...... If Brother Fool's estimation is good, Lord Liu Yu is no longer alive now, alas! ”

Guan Yu asked with some surprise, "Could it be that my brother is suspicious...... The battle of breaking the city was commanded by Liu Zijian behind his back? ”

"Even if it's not far away, otherwise, with General Gongsun's ability, how can he break through the solid and thick Fanyang City with a radius of six miles so quickly? General Gongsun and his generals are best at field warfare and cavalry raids, and over the years, they have never heard of them breaking through any city, and the so-called breakthrough a few years ago was just the surrender of the opponent! ”

"Alas...... Judging from the current speed of Yuan's army, it will not be able to reach the area south of Fanyang City for at least five days, and the Youzhou army after the victory will have plenty of time to prepare for battle. ”

Liu Bei patiently said his analysis.

Guan Yu nodded frequently, even more jealous of Liu Cun in his heart, and became more and more worried about his current embarrassing situation.

Zhang Fei seemed to know what his second brother Guan Yu was thinking, and said his opinion with a wry smile: "Liu Zijian has always been trustworthy, since he chose to swear an oath with General Gongsun at this time, he must be ready for a decisive battle with Yuan Shao...... In this way, Jizhou will be in flames, and we may not be able to avoid it anymore! ”

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