The sky was dark, and wolf smoke was rising outside Hedong City, and torches lit up the sky.

When Hedong Taishou Ren Jun got the news, the state army had already approached the city.

Zhao Yun led 10,000 people to attack the north gate and west gate, and Gao Shun led 10,000 people to attack the south gate and east gate, besieging Anyi City.

There were 6,000 defenders in Hedong City, Ren Jun woke up from his sleep, hastily deployed the army to defend, and the archers carried bows and arrows to hide behind the battlements and fired arrows continuously at the charging Bingzhou army, trying to stop the other party's charge.

Zhao Yun was dressed in light armor, carrying a gentian gun, leading three thousand dead soldiers to charge first, all the way forward, waving the spear in his hand to shoot arrows, a spear danced without leakage, and the rain of arrows from all directions was shot down to the ground one after another, without threat.

The soldiers did not have Zhao Yun's martial arts, but they had shields to defend, and they carried huge wooden shields on their shoulders, approaching step by step, and after crossing the moat, they could put the ladder on the wall and charge.

"Archers, concentrate your arrows and shoot them at the banner!"

Ren Jun saw a big banner with the word "Zhao" at the head of the city, and the speed of advancing was obviously much faster than that of other places, so he loudly ordered more crossbowmen to block Zhao Yun's advance.

With Ren Jun's order, three hundred archers moved from other places and shot at the charging soldiers, a wave of crossbow arrows poured down like raindrops, and the wooden shield shot made an "aggressive" sound, under the dense rain of arrows, the momentum of the state army's charge was contained.

Not far away, under the light of torches, ten thunderbolts were arranged. The huge meteorite is mounted on the launch stand, ready to go.

Ma Jun waved the yellow order flag in his hand and ordered loudly: "Launch, smash towards the city with all your strength, and cover General Zilong to enter the city!" ”

With Ma Jun's order, ten thunderbolts crackled towards the city, and huge stones carried the sound of the wind and fell on the city, and those who hit them all turned into powder, and the wall battlements were also smashed and collapsed.

This half a year's time. Ma Jun led the craftsmen to build more than 100 catapults. It is used to siege the city, and it is powerful; This time to attack Hedong, he threw in 60 thunderbolt carts and smashed them on the city wall from all sides of Hedong City.

After a shower of stones. The crossbowmen at the head of the city were stoned to death six or seven hundred people. Wounded four or five hundred. The rest were terrified, hiding behind the covering wall and not daring to come out, so they could only watch as the Bingzhou army charged towards the city wall.

I saw that the rain of arrows on the city was gradually thinning. Zhao Yun ordered the soldiers around him to blow the horn, three short and one long, which was to signal the catapult to stop shooting, so as not to hurt his family by the boulder.

"Charge the whole army!"

After the thunderbolt stopped firing, Zhao Yun took the lead in stepping on the temporary pontoon bridge on the moat to the bottom of the city, commanding the soldiers to put the ladder on the city wall and launch a fierce attack on the city.

Just when Zhao Yun's troops arrived under the city wall, they suddenly found that the fire had broken out on the east city wall, the suspension bridge on the east side had also been cut off, and the huge sound of the siege vehicle hitting the city gate was clearly audible......

"Shhh...... Gao Shun's trapping camp is powerful, my side has just come to the city wall, and he has already landed in the city, no wonder everyone in the world says that Gao Shun is good at using soldiers! ”

Zhao Yun stepped on the ladder to climb up, while looking to the east from time to time, muttering to himself in his heart, admiring Gao Shun's way of using soldiers.

Raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, work hard!" General Gao's troops in the east have already reached the city, and we can't lag behind! ”

Under the encouragement of Zhao Yun, the soldiers behind him all fought bravely, one by one, and launched a fierce offensive towards the Hedong city wall. The archers at the head of the city had already been killed by falling rocks, and their defenses were obviously insufficient, and the threat was more than half of what they had been before.

In a few moments, more than 200 soldiers followed Zhao Yun onto the city wall, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat.

Zhao Yun's spear was flying, unstoppable, and every time he stabbed out, he would inevitably see blood, like a tiger in a flock, and stabbed to death more than 20 soldiers in an instant. There was no one enemy, invincible, and the corpses were all scared, and the Cao army was all frightened and retreated.

"Whoever dares to retreat will be killed!"

Ren Jun, who knew that the city was not safe, raised his knife and cut down the two deserters, glared at him, and urged the soldiers to fight to the death in a hoarse voice.

"Shoot people and horses first, capture thieves and capture kings first", Zhao Yun saw Ren Jun's identity, and when the spear flicked, he led twenty soldiers and rushed towards Ren Jun, "General Cao is not quick to arrest him, so that you will not die!" ”

Ren Jun sneered repeatedly: "The Taishou under Cao Gong only has the ear to the death, how can there be anyone who surrenders lightly?" ”

Turning his head and shouting, he said: "Soldiers, please fight to the death with me, the city is here, the city is broken!" ”

Encouraged by Ren Jun, one hundred and ten soldiers mustered up their courage and followed behind Zhao Yun to greet Zhao Yun.

After a bloody confrontation, Zhao Yun single-handedly killed more than 20 Cao Jun, and the first soldiers behind him were all warriors with one as ten, with fewer enemies and more enemies, and easily killed the corpses of nearly 100 soldiers behind Ren Jun.

"So-and-so fought with you!"

Ren Jun couldn't help but despair, and waved the single knife in his hand and pounced on Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun flashed sideways, and the spear in his hand stabbed Ren Jun's throat.

Ren Jun waved his knife to block, only to find out that Zhao Yun was a false stab, saying that it was too late, and it was too late to change his move to block, Zhao Yun shot backhand and slapped Ren Jun's back with the barrel of the gun.

Ren Jun, who only hit, spat blood from his mouth, staggered and couldn't stand, one knee was weak, and he fell to the ground.

Zhao Yun pulled up a spear, collected the bloody spear, and ordered at the soldiers: "Come on, tie up this Cao general, escort it back to Hanoi and hand it over to Lord Thorn Shi!" ”

"No!"

A wolf-like soldier rushed forward, tied Ren Jun up and pressed down the city.

Ren Jun was captured, more than half of the defenders were killed, and the remaining Cao army rushed left and right, unable to kill the city, so they could only disarm and surrender, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy.

At dawn, the banner on the head of Anyi City, the Hedong Governance Office, became a banner with the character "Yuan".

Hedong, the ancient city with fertile water and soil, changed owners overnight.

Zhao Yun and Gao Shun completed the collection of prisoners and went out to appease the people; Then he sent a fast horse to escort Ren Jun and went to Hanoi to ask for instructions. On the one hand, the troops were divided to conquer the counties in Hedong, and everywhere they went, they were all invincible, and the county orders in various places either opened the door to surrender, or abandoned the city and fled south, but in one day's effort, Hedong was all in the hands of Yuan Mai.

Yuan Mai was overjoyed to learn that Hedong had been taken. After discussing with Xu Shu and Fu Zhu, he issued an order and ordered Jia Kui, who served as a county governor in Pingyang, to go to Hedong to serve as a taishou and pacify the people.

First, after taking Hedong, Pingyang has become the rear and no longer borders on Cao's army, so the defensive pressure will come to naught, leaving only Fu Hu alone, which is enough to ensure safety.

Second, Jia Kui has been an official in Hedong for many years and is already very famous in the hearts of the people; In addition, he grew up in Hedong since he was a child, and he knows the geographical situation of Hedong well, so he is really the most suitable person to sit in Hedong County.

"Ren Jun, what do you have to say about being captured this time? If you are willing to surrender, you must be entrusted with reuse! ”

Yuan Mai sat on the steps of the conference hall, stared at Ren Jun, who was tied up by five flowers, and asked in a deep voice.

Ren Jun held his head proudly, with an expression of looking at death as if he were at home: "The general of the defeated army, there is nothing to say, only to ask for death!" The generals under Cao Gong are only decapitated generals, and there are no people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, please kill me quickly! ”

Seeing that Ren Jun had no intention of being greedy for life or afraid of death, he knew that this kind of person was a hard bone, and it was almost impossible to surrender, so he stroked his beard and said: "Since Ren Jun is bent on death, he will push it down and behead it, in his name!" ”

Yuan Mai's eyes rolled, thinking about what to do with Ren Jun?

Whether in history books or romance, this Ren Jun is a nobody, and he doesn't have many achievements, and even such a number one person can't be found in various games in later generations; But Yuan Mai remembered seeing such a name when he was studying, saying that he was one of the important promoters of the Tuntian system and had served as a pawn farmer Zhonglang general.

Since Cao Cao trusts him so much, it means that Ren Jun has a certain weight in the Cao Group. Speaking of which, this is the most important military general under Cao Cao that he has captured so far, how can he be easily killed, first temporarily imprisoned, and left for later, maybe it will be of great use.

"It's useless to kill, leave him alive for the time being, and make a decision later!"

Yuan Mai waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to put Ren Jun in prison, so that he could take care of it and wait for it to be dealt with in the future.

Two days later, Jia Kui was transferred to Hedong to serve as the Taishou, and went out to appease the people, repair the city walls that had been damaged by the war, and crack down on the hooligans and bandits who took advantage of the chaos to do evil, and within a few days, the order in Hedong was stabilized. With the passage of time, Yuan Mai's control of Hedong became more and more stable.

Hearing that Hedong was lost, Xiahou Yuan, who was guarding Chang'an, led his troops to help, vowing to recover Hedong, invade Hanoi, and capture Yuan Mai alive, but was intercepted by Xu Sheng's water division on the bank of the Yellow River.

Nearly 1,000 Cao Jun's small boat was attacked by Xu Sheng's half-ferry, and collided with the boat with a medium-sized ship, occupying an absolute advantage, a water battle, Cao Jun's boat sank most of them, and the soldiers on the boat drowned countless people, and the rest fled back to the south bank of the Yellow River.

Looking at Anyi, which was only a few dozen miles away, but could not cross the Yellow River, Xiahou Yuan could only look up to the sky and curse angrily, leading his troops east into Luoyang, preparing to assist Yu Ban to resist the invasion of the state army.

Zhang Liao and Wang Shuang entered Henan, originally just to make a feint and attract the attention of Cao Jun's attention to Luoyang, so as to cover for a sneak attack on Hedong. Since Xiahou Yuan brought troops to help Yu Ban, he followed Yuan Mai's order, pulled out the camp to the east, entered the Xingyang area, and stationed in Wuchao, which was only fifty miles away from Yuan Shao's camp.

Wuchao, where 500,000 stone grain and grass are hoarded, supplying the daily diet of more than 100,000 Yuan soldiers, and the victory or defeat of Guandu is maintained on the body of this projectile land. (To be continued......)