Xiangping City can be said to be a fairly large city in the entire northeast region, or in Youzhou.

Liu Yu made peace with Karasuma this time, and the biggest bargaining chip thrown out was Xiangping City, and he was ready to lend Xiangping City to Qiu Liju temporarily.

In Liu Yu's heart, Xiangping City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it really takes a month or a few months to attack Xiangping, if Karasuma and those Shan Yu start to participate in this battle, Youzhou will no longer be peaceful, and there will be chaos in the north.

After the rebellion of Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju, Youzhou could no longer support such a large-scale campaign.

Although Meng Yi and Gongsun Zhan are brave, it will take a while to complete Xiangping City.

In terms of food and salary, he can barely support it for a month and a few months, but in terms of grain and grass, he can't get it out, and he can't transport it.

Xiangping City lent it to Qiu Liju, and Qiu Liju's status in Karasuma will be embarrassed, saying that he is Shan Yu from the Karasuma people's side, and Qiu Liju has not gone back to Karasuma to graze, nor has he been to that kind of nomadic life.

Before Qiu Liju was in Xiangping City and there was no rebellion, it was nothing more than a change of place, and Liu Yu had already found an excuse for Qiu Liju to get rid of his crimes, that is, he was tempted by Zhang Chun, who claimed to be the king of Zhongshan, and was deceived for a while.

That's it! All sides rejoiced.

The imperial court will have a lot less worries about the war in Youzhou, and Youzhou will be able to support the imperial court after a period of recuperation.

There will also be an irreparable rift between Qiu Liju and Karasuma Nanlou and the rest of Shan Yu, after all, there are huge differences in living customs and various other aspects.

Liu Yu thought very clearly, the attack on Xiangping City will definitely cause big turmoil in Youzhou again, the tax is high enough, if the tax is increased because of this battle, there should be many people who will not be able to survive this year.

The economy of the Han Dynasty is declining, and it will not give support to Youzhou, no money, no food, this battle really can't be fought.

Especially the two generals Gongsun Zan and Meng Yi, their exploits have gone against the sky, and if this continues, the two of them will expand their power, and the tail will not be good.

Liu Yu is one of the few people in the Han imperial court who can understand the current situation, he knows that the Han Dynasty has fallen into a stormy stage, and can no longer withstand the toss.

These things are beyond the imagination of Gongsun Zan and Meng Yi Gongsun Xu, even if they think of it, they will not compromise with Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun as Liu Yu said, they are military generals, and they definitely don't want to see such a shameful thing happen.

The Han Dynasty was a majestic Han Dynasty, and the soldiers of the Han army were the best soldiers, and they would not allow rebellions like Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun to develop in Xiangping.

In their hearts, they will not consider the overall environment and the influence of Youzhou on the court of the Han Dynasty, Liu Yu is the pastor of Youzhou, just send them money and food so that they can concentrate on fighting.

It is precisely because of their different starting points and different considerations that there is a rift between several of them.

At this time, Gongsun Chan and Meng Yi had already faded out of the two people stationed in Xingcheng, and they were looking forward to Liu Yu changing his mind every day, or Qiu Liju's side and the adults of Karasuma joining forces to attack their side.

As for the 5,000 people who said Gongsun Xu, the two of them really didn't pay much attention to it.

Xiangping is a fortified city, and if Gongsun Xu and those 5,000 people can defeat Xiangping, it is really impossible.

The number of people besieging the city must be several times more than the number of people defending the city in order to be able to capture such a fortified city.

Gongsun Zan and Meng Yi both valued Gongsun Xu more at this time, and wanted to give him a chance to lead the troops, it was best to take Xiangping, and if they couldn't take them, they wouldn't lose anything, and they could disgust Liu Yu and put Liu Yu in a dilemma.

They didn't expect that Gongsun Xu, who they were not optimistic about, actually made a super killing weapon trebuchet, and quietly defeated the two largest bandit forces entrenched between Xingcheng and Xiangping, and the number of soldiers under his command reached a terrifying 10,000.

On the first day of the ninth month of the fifth year of Emperor Zhongping of the Han Dynasty, Gongsun Xu ordered the army to march and officially advance to Xiangping.

Gongsun Xu led the army on the road for a week, and finally arrived at Xiangping City.

Along the way, Gongsun Xu also made a further understanding of Xiangping.

Xiangping County originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and was formed in the Warring States Period. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there were counties first, and then counties, and the counties were administered separately and did not belong to each other.

Xiangping was in the southeast of Liao, and after the middle of the Warring States period, it evolved into a county system. In the later period of the Yan Kingdom, the eastward expansion of the Liaohe River valley was opened, and Xiangping City was established at the same time as the establishment of Liaodong County.

Xiangping is located on an alluvial plain on the east bank of the Liaohe River, between the Hun and Tai rivers, and the geographical location of Liaoyang (Xiangping) that Gongsun Xu is familiar with in later generations is very different, and it should have undergone countless years of changes and changed the location of the Xiangping Plain.

Xiangping belongs to Youzhou, with 55,972 households and 272,539 mouths. The scale is magnificent and magnificent, the stone square city is built, each side is set up with gates, there are neat streets in the city, and some luxurious buildings are built.

Fifteen miles southwest and Longshou Mountain, the city is square, the inner and outer two city walls, the inner city has two and three storey buildings and pavilions, when the department is the official office, the outer city is the commercial area. East and west opposite, double-storey gatehouse. The city wall has corner towers, pheasant moats, female walls and other buildings. There are also two high-rise buildings in the northwest outside the city.

After Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju rebelled and occupied Xiangping, the population of Xiangping did not decrease because of the war, because in places like Liaodong, the Han people did not occupy the majority, and there were people from various ethnic minorities such as Manchu and Khitan.

Who governs Xiangping, they really don't have much reaction, as long as they can live in peace and pay less taxes.

Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun retreated to Xiangping City, cleaned up some scattered troops on the way, and recruited some soldiers in Xiangping City, the number of soldiers under them was about 4,000 to 5,000, and the specific number of soldiers, I'm afraid only Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju can know.

These were all things that Gongsun Xu had learned from his men and the scouts he had sent out.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can survive a hundred battles, and if you don't prepare for analysis in advance, it will be quite difficult to win a battle.

If he wants to take Xiangping as quickly as possible, he must find out the situation of Xiangping, before suppressing the bandits, Gongsun Xu sent nearly 100 soldiers to let them blend into Xiangping City and do some rumors and chaos in Xiangping City.

After the trebuchet was powerful, coupled with these people spreading rumors everywhere, even if there were more soldiers under Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun, there was only one way to retreat.