The beacon is full of fire, the war in the south of the Yangtze River is everywhere, from Shu to Chu, and then from Jiangjiang to Jinling, there is almost no place where the boundary can be peaceful, but the surrounding area of Yangzhou City has always seemed very quiet.

But this quietness has also quietly changed since October.

On the fourth day of October, Han Jian sent additional troops and horses from Jiangdu to besiege Yangzhou, and at the same time carried out a tentative siege at two gates in the west of Yangzhou, the two armies were killed and wounded in the battle of the day, but the soldiers and horses of Jiangdu could be stopped, and after determining that they could not capture the city head for the time being, they only threw a large amount of gravel at the city tower with catapults, causing a panic among the defenders in the city.

In the end, the dead and wounded were counted, five soldiers and horses in Jiangdu were killed and six were wounded, Han Jian estimated the casualties of the defenders in the city, it should be around a hundred, and the specific number is still unknown.

After a slight tentative siege, the defenders in the city were already panicking. In the next two days, Han Jian attacked and harassed the other three directions of Yangzhou City except for Nancheng almost day and night, and there was no too substantial attack, and it was also a shallow taste. The defenders in the city have formed a habit of going to the back, but whenever they hear the sound of war drums outside the city, they will shoot arrows out to prevent the soldiers and horses outside the city from approaching the city, and every time it works, the defenders in the city are frightened day and night, and to the back, the arrows released on the city wall are much less.

The city of Yangzhou has been completely isolated in Jiangbei.

After Zhu Tongjing transferred troops to the south, the defenders in Yangzhou City have been unable to form an effective organization, before Yangzhou Taishou Sui was killed, Zhu Tongjing arranged for his cronies to take charge of Yangzhou's defense, because Zhu Tongjing did not care about Yangzhou, and he still had to rely on the defense system in Yangzhou City to defend the city. Sima's initial arrangement of a series of measures to defend the city came into play at this time.

On the seventh day of October, a new batch of siege equipment was transported to Yangzhou City, and Han Jian immediately started to use this batch of new equipment to play a tentative siege of Yangzhou City.

Han Jian was like a loser, after plundering a large amount of grain, grass and materials in Jiangnan. The soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty were neat and well-organized, the materials were sufficient, the food, clothing and bedding for the winter had been prepared, and a large number of materials from the north were transported south, Han Jian was like a cat playing with a mouse, waging a rather draining war against Yangzhou City.

If it were other generals, they would not dare to attack the city in this way. It's easy to hit confidence, but Han Jian has enough guts.

Han Jian can say that he completely formed several layers of encirclement network in Jiangbei, and with the powerful warships and naval army, it was difficult for the Southern Dynasties to send troops across the river to aid Yangzhou. And the soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou City are living in panic every day, and Han Jian still has to surround but not fight, or retreat after a little battle. Han Jian simply regarded Yangzhou City as his testing ground, and the wind and rain in the south were endless, Han Jian seemed to have to pit himself in Yangzhou City, that is, to inspect the military affairs of various armies every day. Let the soldiers know the existence of the emperor, and let the soldiers understand that the siege of the city is not an overnight thing.

At this time, Sima Yi's soldiers and horses in the south were gradually moving north, and they were about to engage the main force sent by Zhu Tongjing at any time.

In Shudi, the soldiers and horses led by Lin Zhan were attacking Chengdu, and the battle situation had reached a stalemate, and the efficiency of Lin Zhan's attack was much higher than that of Han Jian's side. But this did not affect the morale of the Yangzhou and Northern Korean armies in the slightest.

On the eighth day of October, Han Jian received information from the south. Zhu Tongjing sent several stragglers, wanting to test the reality of Sima's main force in the Chinese army. launched several attacks on the camp, but they were easily defused by Sima Yi. At this time, Sima Yi had taken the opportunity to occupy several prefectures and counties in southern Zhejiang, not by storming, but by relying on the prestige of Xiao Yang and Xiao Ling, after receiving the stragglers in the place, he would either take advantage of the chaos to enter the city. Either directly accept the surrender of the local city.

Han Jian was very afraid that he would have to fight Sima Yi on the battlefield in the end, and what he couldn't give up in his heart was the righteousness of his former friend, but he faintly looked forward to Sima Yi defeating Zhu Tongjing and competing on the battlefield, and appreciating the changes that Sima Yi had changed over the years.

In the past few years, Han Jian has hoped that Sima Yi can return to the north as soon as possible. But even if he had set foot in the land of Jiangbei and had the opportunity to stay, he still chose to return. Now that Sima borrowed his own banner and had actual military power, this made Han Jian feel entangled in his heart, and it seemed that a head-on battle with Sima borrowed was inevitable.

On the night of the eighth day of October, Han Jian once again dispatched troops to launch a bluff attack on Yangzhou City. On the premise of encircling the three runs, Han Jian also sent some scattered cavalry to harass the direction of the south of Yangzhou City, and captured many generals in the city who wanted to cross the river at night, and Han Jian also got a lot of information from these people.

Just after the siege on the night of the eighth day of October, both the defenders in the city and the soldiers in the Jiangdu military camp thought that the night attack had been explained and that it was time to go back to their homes to rest, and a real siege battle began in the early morning of the ninth day of October.

In the early morning of the ninth day of October, the moon was dark and the wind was high and the night was lonely, and the defenders of the city, who were secretly glad that they had not lost their lives because of the attack in the first half of the night, were still dozing off in the dark.

In the previous few days, although the soldiers and horses outside the city may come to make trouble day and night, they also adhere to a principle, that is, in the second half of the night the two armies should stop fighting and rest, it is under this inertial thinking, the defenders in the city did not expect that the Jiangdu soldiers and horses that attacked in the first half of the night have withdrawn to the main camp, but will regroup to attack the city in the second half of the night.

At the beginning of this siege, it was a sneak attack without any war drums, and when the defenders in the city reacted to release arrows, they found that the situation below was not right, and under the black oppressive environment, it seemed that the city was full of people. The Jiangdu soldiers who came to attack the city were holding very thick shields, and their travel speed was not fast, and they could not tell how many people were under the shields in the dark night.

How did the fire start, the soldiers at the head of the city didn't see it clearly at all, Han Jian's siege this time was to take advantage of the lack of moonlight at night, and it was a cloudy and dry night to attack the city.

Wait for the fire outside the city wall, the fire soon spread from the moat of Yangzhou to the moat, and even the city head was spread by the fire, with the fire, the entire Yangzhou city seemed to be illuminated by the fire, the soldiers on the head of the city knew that it was not the soldier holding the shield who moved slowly before, but a "big net" woven with a straw rope, how big the net was at all, originally the grass rope down the Jiangdu soldiers were pulling, and after the grass rope approached the moat, the soldiers withdrew, and the big net was ignited. Because the straw rope was full of tung oil, the fire could not be contained.

Yangzhou City because of these two months for the Northern Dynasty soldiers and horses trapped, the weeds outside the city are very deep, except for the official road to the south, the rest of the city walls are basically covered by weeds. The fire was initially started from outside the moat, but was soon accompanied by the burning of weeds. Even the walls were filled with fire. The ensuing smoke filled the city, leaving the soldiers at the head of the city in a state of torment.

The soldiers of the defenders did not know why there was so much smoke and so choking, it was not as if weeds were ignited, but more like the smoky smell of some choking ingredient being ignited. The soldiers were coughing violently, and they were also looking for cloth and water to cover their mouths and noses, and many of the soldiers who had been holding on to the city at this time also fled down the city to avoid the choking smoke.

"Go back, go back!"

Sima's defense system. In addition to the soldiers on the walls, there are also swordsmen and overseers around the walls, just in case there are soldiers retreating in battle. But at this time, the city wall was really full of smoke and choked the mouth, and even the knife and axe hands and the people of the war team felt that they could not bear it on the city wall, and they felt that at this time, the soldiers and horses of the Wei Dynasty outside the city were attacking and disturbing the defenders of Yangzhou City in a disgusting way, not for the purpose of really attacking the city, so there were more and more people going down the city tower in the back.

The outside of the city is being set on fire. Obviously, it is not possible for the soldiers and horses outside the city to cross the fire to attack the city, this is basic common sense. Even some high-ranking generals. They all felt that they should go down to the city to avoid it at this time, lest they be choked to death before they could fight with the Jiangdu soldiers and horses outside the city. But no one would have thought that in this case, in the formation of soldiers and horses in Jiangdu outside the city, the siege of the city had officially begun.

Weeds on the ground. Although it was many, it was only one layer, and as the fire spread with the wind, where the fire passed, soon there was only a layer of grass ash left on the ground, not to mention the cavalry. Even the infantry could not stand in the way. At this time, from the east, west and north of Yangzhou City, no less than 60,000 siege soldiers and horses suddenly poured out, and at the same time launched siege battles in three directions of Yangzhou City.

Ladder trucks, building cars, rolling wood ...... But all the siege equipment in the Jiangdu military camp emerged for a while. The people of all walks of life are moving forward, that is, to take advantage of the fact that the city is still being smoked and burned, and launch an attack on it when it is unprepared.

At this time, the soldiers at the head of the city had long been choked and couldn't open their eyes, and the people who had been hiding from the city tower still hoped that these people could provide information, but because the marching speed of the Jiangdu soldiers and horses outside the city was too fast, coupled with the smoke and fire, there was light around the city wall, and it was dark in the distance, and the vision was blurred, until the siege army of the Jiangdu soldiers and horses had passed the moat, and the alarm was gradually issued.

The soldiers hiding in the city were anxious to sit down and rest, and suddenly received an alarm that Jiangdu's soldiers and horses had attacked under the city wall, and the fear generated in everyone's hearts was also unprecedented. The soldiers took up their weapons, and before they could reach the top of the city, the sound of the city gate was already ringing in their ears, and the siege men and horses outside the city were not only hitting the city gate, but also the city wall, and the soldiers on the city wall could feel the trembling under their feet.

"The enemy army has entered the city!"

A shout, with the arrival of the siege ladder vehicle, the soldiers of the Northern Dynasty have set foot on the city, the height of the siege vehicle has been specially adjusted, in order to match the height of Yangzhou City, in the darkness and smoke, the soldiers came one after another, the already chaotic situation on the city wall, only from the beginning of the war, it showed a one-sided.

At first, the Warlords and Axe Men could also serve as a deterrent, but as the war progressed, more and more deserters were deserted, and even those who enforced the law joined the ranks of deserters.

With the most solid city wall of Yangzhou City, it was lost after only a short time after the war.

The besieging soldiers have begun to attack the city from the head of the city, the sound of the exchange of weapons is piercing, and there are not many defenders left on the city wall to the back, this is not the situation of a city head, but the bitter situation encountered in three directions of Yangzhou at the same time.

The soldiers who entered the city were covered with a black cloth on their faces, which was specially used to resist the choking smoke, because the defenders in the city were not prepared in advance, and many people had lost their combat effectiveness by choking on the smoke, and the sharpness of the siege soldiers could not resist at all. In less than half an hour after the battle, the three walls of Yangzhou City were lost, and seven gates in Yangzhou City were opened, and more soldiers entered the city, including a large number of light cavalry.

The war turned into street fighting. But at this time, the guards in the city also knew that they were powerless to return to the sky, since they knew that it was a siege of three and one, the direction of the south of the city could still escape from the city, and the soldiers and horses defending the city began to congestion in the direction of the south of the city.

With the opening of the three city gates in the south direction of Yangzhou City, the only remaining defense force in the city is only the soldiers who can't find the north to hide in the streets. The street fighting was just the beginning, and it suddenly stopped, it seemed that the city was full of soldiers and horses of the Wei Dynasty, and there were shouts of killing everywhere, but there was no fighting.

Some important yamen in the city were lost one after another, and the besieging soldiers and horses encountered some difficulties on the front line of the city wall, and the rear was completely harvested, and they did not encounter any difficulties. Those soldiers and generals who didn't have time to flee south all chose to surrender, hoping to get leniency from the emperor of the Northern Dynasty, but at this time, Han Jian was still hiding in his big tent of the Chinese army, holding Ke Qu'er in his arms to enjoy the warmth of beauty. The war in the city seems to have nothing to do with Han Jian.

The battle reports in the city came one after another, which also disturbed Han Jian's "good deeds" many times, and in the end, Han Jian could only come out of his sleeping tent very disappointed, put on his clothes casually, and simply tidy up and came to the Chinese army's big tent.

At this time, the big tent of the Chinese army seemed very wide, because there was only Han Jian inside, but then Fa Ye, who was dressed in military uniform, also walked in. The main generals of Han Jian's side were basically sent out by Han Jian to attack the city, which is also an assessment of the siege drills of all walks of life these days, Han Jian also made it clear that as long as the siege is successful, both generals and soldiers will be rewarded, but those who retreat from the battle will be killed.

Originally, there was no need for Han Jian to give this kind of order, the soldiers of Jiangdu had long been accustomed to asking for rewards for meritorious service, and suddenly knew that they were going to attack the city in the middle of the night, and immediately their spirits came up, as long as they could attack the city, it would be a very real military achievement, which meant a reward, money, land, military rank, and even infinite glory in their hometown, and they could become a man from a country boy overnight.

I have motivation in my heart, and I firmly believe that this is a sure victory, and I don't want to rush forward, and my legs and feet don't agree.

It turns out that this war is indeed devastating, as long as you rush into the city on two legs, you may not even see the appearance of the enemy, and you can wait to receive the victory. (To be continued.) )