In the situation where the people in various places rose up and the heroes rebelled, Zhang Qi suddenly discovered that when Yuan Shao's army came to Julu City, the Julu City where he was located suddenly became a lonely city. Due to the spread of Yuan Shaojun's conspiracy, it directly led to a short period of time, most of the merging state troops in other parts of Jizhou were too busy to take care of themselves, and I was afraid that it was impossible to come to the rescue of the giant deer!

In the face of the current dangerous situation, Zhang Qi did not panic, but calmed down.

Since the crossing, Insolence has experienced more than once a situation that is even more dangerous than the current one. In Xuzhou, Cao Bao and Chen Deng teamed up to attack Zhang Qiang; In Bingzhou, the elite cavalry under the command of Yu Furo almost rushed to the arrogant side; In Jizhou, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were also killed in front of insolence.

I have experienced so many winds and waves, and the current situation is not the worst, so what is there to panic about being arrogant?

Although Yuan Shao's army came to the city suddenly, there were nearly 10,000 elite soldiers directly under the central government, as well as the strong city defense of Julu City that could be relied on. With these capitals, no matter how many people Yuan Shao has, if he wants to capture Julu, I am afraid that it will not be possible in one or two months.

Insolence is not an arrogant person. However, being forced to this step by Yuan Shao, he was also determined to fight. Although the people of Jizhou rebelled, the arrogant soldiers of Jizhou were still strong. The outcome of the future battle is not yet known.

On the other hand, the current situation is not an opportunity for insolence. Yuan Shao's main force attacked under Julu City, if Zhang Shao can take the opportunity to break Yuan Jun and hit Yuan Shao hard, then look at the entire Jizhou, who else can stop Zhang Shao from taking Hebei?

Of course, just relying on the state army in Julu City, they wanted to defeat Yuan Shao. The strength is still insufficient. But don't forget that Zhang Qi had already dispatched a powerful reinforcement from afar in advance and rushed to Jizhou as soon as possible.

Although the combat power of the support army is not very clear, he is quite confident in them. As long as the reinforcements can arrive in time, it is impossible for Julu City to be breached. Until then. Even the possibility of taking the opportunity to defeat Yuan Shao is very great.

Of course, if you want to wait for the reinforcements to arrive, you have to hold on to it in Julu City for a month. After all, the place where the support army was stationed was indeed a bit far away.

In the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" nine years ago, Julu City experienced fierce offensive and defensive battles between the Yellow Turban Army and the Han Army. Later, in order to cut the grass and root the Taiping Road, Huangfu Song built a "Jingguan" outside the city. Almost killed seventy percent of the city's inhabitants in one fell swoop. Even after the vigorous recovery of Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou, there are only more than 2,000 households and more than 10,000 residents in Julu City today.

As for Julu's city defense, it was repaired once by the successor Jizhou Mu Hanfu. Moreover, because of listening to Tian Feng's statement that "the Bingzhou army caused the plague", the people of Jizhou were disgusted with the Bingzhou army. Not many locals fled to the giant deer for refuge.

The disadvantage of this situation is that there are not many Ding Zhuang drawn from the residents of the city. It is used to assist in defending the city [although these Jizhou people are actually very unreliable due to rumors]. The advantage is that the population in the city is smaller, and the military rations can support it for a longer time, and even if Yuan Shao should exist in the city, it is difficult for them to make too big waves due to the small number of residents.

Insolence since the crossing. He has experienced a hundred battles, but most of them are mainly attacking, and he has never defended the city seriously. And among the few generals in the city, none of them had experience in defending the city. Therefore, in the arrangement of city defense. Zhang Qi had to consult some low-level officers who surrendered from Jizhou, and according to their suggestions, arrange the equipment and personnel to defend the city.

The interior of the Han Dynasty has been comfortable for hundreds of years, and many of the original siege and defense equipment and skills have been scattered. And the border counties generally deal with the Hu people, and they don't use these offensive and defensive equipment. However, some basic defensive skills are still circulated in the army.

The city wall of Julu City is made of rammed earth, about four zhang high, the foundation is five zhang wide, and the top shrinks upwards to about three and a half zhang. At the top of the wall, there is a seven-foot-high female wall. There are battlements and shooting holes in the women's wall, which can cover the defenders from firing arrows downwards to counterattack. Outside the city wall, there is a ditch more than three zhang wide and more than one zhang deep.

According to the method of defending the city that has been handed down since ancient times, the arrogance made people build a war tent with watered planks and bamboo chips every five zhang; Every twenty zhang, a wooden arrow tower with a height of about two zhang is built on the city wall. As for the wooden stands, grate fences, plug boards, secret doors, chacha signs, plug door knife cars, wooden women's heads, wooden women's walls, fork rods, resists, crashes, iron hitting wood, squirts, falling stones, wolf tooth beats, water bladders, hemp ties, pumps, flying hooks, iron hooks, winches, horse rejections, antlers, gold juice, etc., also try to hurry.

Especially at the most critical gate of the city, Zhang Qiang also based on his little historical knowledge, behind each city gate tower, which was the most fiercely contested, temporarily rushed to the low urn city, in order to deal with the possibility of the city gate being breached by the enemy.

Defending the city is the most taboo to defend. In view of this, when Yuan Shao's army began to try to besiege the city, Zhang Yan asked his generals to lead troops out of the city to challenge, so as to deter and interfere with Yuan's siege activities.

The one who was ordered to lead the troops into battle was a burly young general with a fierce expression. Anyone who has seen this youngster once will be impressed by him. Because, the two eyebrows of this young general are completely white.

This person is naturally the head of the "Sixteen Young Eagles" who have been carefully cultivated by Zhang Qiang for seven or eight years, and who has been "enlightened" from the younger brothers of Taiping Dao, and is known as Yin Gang, who is known as the "White-eyed Eagle".

Of course, there are actually only eleven of today's "Sixteen Young Eagles" left. In the battle of Xiaquyang half a year ago, Yan Liang and Wen Chou killed three "young eagles". After that, Zhou Cang's strategy against Zhao Guo was unfavorable, and a "young eagle" died under the trickery of the trial. A few days ago, Yuan Jun made a surprise attack on the people, Guan Yu's lieutenant general, who was also one of the young eagles, was beaten to death by Chun Yuqiong's personal guard from the "Thor's Hammer".

In the more than half a year since the start of the war, the number of soldiers and generals who have lost arrogantly is already enough to make him feel painful. This shows that Yuan Shao is powerful and difficult from another aspect.

Yin Gang has been recuperating in the rear since he was seriously injured by Wen Chou half a year ago. At this moment, Yuan Shaobing was in the city, Yin Gang's injuries were just recovering, and he was immediately eager to try, in front of Yuan Jun, to avenge the serious injury of Wen Chou before.

"The giant deer Yin Gang is here! Yuan Jun rats, can anyone dare to come to a fight!? ”

The soldiers led by Yin Gang are all soldiers who have grown up and are equipped with heavy armor. These people have strong combat power, but their mobility is not high. Therefore, in the face of the people who were sent by Yuan Shao to build a siege camp, Yin Gang did not take the initiative to attack, but only scared the people away.

The two armies are at war, and morale comes first. Yin Gang doesn't need to pursue more cannon fodder for the enemy, as long as he suppresses the morale of the enemy.

In the face of Yin Gang's provocation, Yuan Jun, who occupies a dominant position, is of course impossible to show weakness. However, although Yin Gang is known as the "head of the young eagles" in the Bingzhou army and is regarded as the strongest rising star in the army, due to the lack of famous achievements, few people in the world know how powerful he is. In Yuan Shaojun, Yin Gang is regarded as an ordinary nameless general.

As for the record of being beaten half to death by Wen Chou and almost dying?

Well, don't bury people. Even if Wen Chou is very powerful, it does not mean that Wen Chou's subordinates are also very powerful. Yin Gang can't explain every time he sees a person, but he has been pestering Wen Chou for a long time, right?

Yuan Shao's subordinates, the most famous generals, should be Chun Yuqiong and Lu Yi. However, Chun Yuqiong is in a high position, and in recent years, he has basically not taken action in person. Koji Yi is far to the north, and the name of the confrontation and state will be banned.

Chun Yu Qiong and Lu Yi below, is the "Hebei Four Court Pillars". It's a pity that Yan Liang and Wen Chou are dead, and Zhang He is the deputy general by Lu Yi's side. In today's Yuan army camp, there is only one Gao Ran who is at the bottom of the line.

It's just that the challenge of a mere nameless person, Yuan Jun is going to dispatch such a world-famous general as Gao Lan, doesn't it seem that there is no one in Yuan Jun's army?

Considering these, Yuan Shao finally sent out to deal with Yin Gang's challenge was Lu Xiang, a brave general in the army who served as the military commander.

Lu Xiang and his brother Lu Kuang are both heroes of Qingzhou Plain County. Later, Yuan Shao sent his eldest son Yuan Tan to attack the plains, and Lü Xiang and Lü Kuang took the initiative to join Yuan Tan and became Sima in Yuan Shao's army. This time, Yuan Tan returned to Jizhou, and Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang followed him into Jizhou and went to Yuan Shao's account to listen to it.

The Lu clan of the country is a family heirloom with martial arts, and it can be regarded as a small general in the county. The two brothers, Lu Xiang and Lu Kuang, have practiced the martial arts handed down by their families to the fullest, and their strength has also stepped into the level of "Thousand People Broken". If it weren't for the fact that the two of them had been in Yuan Shao's possession for a shorter time, they would have been able to mix up a lieutenant under Yuan Shao.

The enemy general led no more than 500 troops, Yuan Shao relied on his extraordinary status, and he wanted to stimulate the morale of the army, and refused to bully the less, so Lu Xiang only brought 500 elite soldiers to fight. Of course, for the sake of safety, Lu Xiang's brother Lu Kuang led a thousand elite soldiers to press Lu Xiang in the back. In case the state army secretly came up with something moth, Lu Kuang would take action in time to rescue Lu Kuang.

After the troops were ordered, the confident Yuan Shao did not go to watch the battle in person, but just asked the military advisor Tian Feng to supervise the battle. With an army of more than 50,000, it is not easy to move. The things in the army, Yuan Shao must be sorted out before he can rest assured.

After half an hour, Yuan Shao finally gave instructions on the case and dealt with all the documents, so he had the leisure to pour a cup of flower dew to drink. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the figure of the military advisor Tian Feng, Yuan Shao didn't think much about it, and opened his mouth to ask:

"Yuan Hao, have the thieves been sent away?"

Tian Feng's face was as pale as iron, he made a salute, and said hatefully:

"Lord, his subordinates are incompetent, and Lu Sima was killed by the thief!"

Yuan Shao let out an unexpected "oh", put down the flower dew in his hand, and asked:

"How so? Which one is Lu Sima? ”

Hearing Yuan Shao's question, even with Tian Feng's temperament, he couldn't help but hesitate for a moment before he replied in a deep voice:

"The two Lu Sima were both ...... by thieves"

Hearing such an unexpected answer, Yuan Shao's expression suddenly froze. (To be continued......)