The tragic offensive and defensive battle lasted only three days, but for the Jizhou army besieging the city, it was like three months.

Because the scale of the city is too small, and one side is adjacent to the big river, the strength of the Jizhou army is somewhat unusable. If you want to improve the efficiency of siege warfare, you can only speed up the rotation and use repeated attacks to form the maximum pressure in the shortest possible time.

Now the walls of this lonely city are stained with human blood, and in the cold air, the blood stains quickly turn from red to black, and the walls of the city also turn black. Only when a bolt or stone falls, the black disappears for a moment, flying into the sky like smoke and dust, dissipating into the air, but soon a new red fills the void and gradually becomes the same black.

Pale sunlight, monotonous reds and blacks, this is definitely not a pleasant view. Even if it's only three days, it's enough to make people feel sick.

However, the tragic offensive and defensive battle is still going on, from morning to night, without interruption. If it weren't for the fact that it was too cold at night, with General Yuan's anger, it would not be impossible to fight at night.

Even so, in three days, large-scale night raids were organized at least three times, once a day, but the vigilance of the army defending the city was too high, and each time it was just a breeze and grass, it was ready for battle, and the night raid was nothing except for the loss of troops and the defeat of generals.

Even if it is a small soldier, he has been fighting so far, and he can see something somewhat, the preparation of the defenders is not ordinarily sufficient, they are holding back their strength, and they want to explode all their strength in this battle to defend the city.

On the first day, the Jizhou army, with its huge manpower and military strength, drove more than 10,000 people to the battlefield, covered the sand with mud, and built a Yuliang avenue, leading directly to the city.

Tiny Gao Tang City. It seems to be broken.

As a result, the defenders had already prepared, they used wooden fences and sandbags to divide the city wall into small sections, and the Jizhou army that attacked the head of the city either stood on the city to endure the feather arrows from the enemy towers on both sides, or continued to move forward and jumped from the wall of more than two zhang. If you want to expand the results on both sides of the city, you can't.

And in the inner part of the city, near the walls, the defenders dug numerous trenches and demolished all the houses near the walls. Look outside. The city wall is more than two zhang, but when you get to the city, this height is at least one zhang more!

Even if there is the courage to jump into the city, eighty percent of them will only fall to their death. Even if you are lucky enough not to die and drag your tired body, you will not be able to achieve any results, and you will only end up with a chaotic knife and a corpse.

In the siege battle on the first day, the general Wang Zhao died like this, according to the rout who escaped from the city, Wang Zhao relied on martial arts. He jumped three feet to a height without being injured, but after falling into the trench, he could not climb up, and was stabbed to death in the ditch by a group of pikemen. The dead are incomparable.

The 3,000 troops that attacked the city with him lost their main general, and then they collapsed, and no matter how the army was killed, it could not restore the morale of the defeated soldiers. A military horse suffered nearly 1,000 casualties and completely lost its combat effectiveness. Pay such a price. but they were not able to widen the gap in the city by half a cent.

Having learned the lesson of Wang Zhao, in the ensuing battle, Yuan Jun tried many methods, such as: carrying the soil bag to the city, trying to build a fish beam avenue in the city, or carrying a ladder to the city, and then climbing down from the other side......

These tactics are not unreasonable, but they are useless in the face of the defenders' better preparations.

The sandbags that were thrown down were loaded and retreated by the people in the city in small carts, and turned into a stone to defend the city; The ground in the city was deliberately dug deep, and the ladder was not long enough. Even if the special extra-long ladder is useless, the guards above and below the city all hold long hooks in their hands, and with just one hook and one pull, a tragedy of ladder destruction and death will happen.

In desperation, Yuan Jun could only give up the relatively convenient method and use the most stupid method to attack the city, under the cover of a strong bow and crossbow, the ants attached to the siege and attacked in an all-round way. While besieging the city, the fence and fortress at the head of the city were demolished to expand the results of the battle.

The siege battle entered its most tragic stage.

Although it was tragic, the effect was still not great. In this kind of hard-fought offensive and defensive battle, even if they are unprepared, the defenders have a great advantage, not to mention that they are ready to wait?

The defenders are-for-tat and dismantle.

The besiegers used strong bows and crossbows to shoot, and the defenders either counterattacked with a tooth for a tooth, or fought with the siege army in one place, using the enemy's body as cover; Yuan Jun climbed to the top of the city, and in the process of removing obstacles, he had to pay a great price, and every step forward, he had to pay a lot of blood.

All of the above is not what Yuan Jun fears the most, their biggest nightmare is the fierce man who is as black as coals.

Now, everyone knows who the man is.

On the first day of the siege, he swung his Zhangba spear and made a thunderous blow, smashing the famous Hebei general Su You with a spear down the city, and when he let out a loud shout, the name of Yanren Zhang Yide had already resounded throughout Hebei and shocked the world.

After three days of attack and defense, countless Hebei heroes broke their souls under this spear, and they were killed fifteen in battle, and there were more than 100 souls under the spear! In a sense, Gao Tang City's easy defense and difficult attack are at least half of the credit of this person.

In the special environment of defending the city, the role of individual martial arts has been magnified to the extreme.

Where the city is tight, there is a figure of this person, and everywhere he goes, there is almost no one who joins him. In his thunderous roar, I saw figures flying wildly, blood splashing, and the warriors who ascended first were like a group of moths fighting fire, only courage, but could not change the final outcome.

As a result, Gaotang City is small, and it has actually become an advantage.

Hebei is not without brave generals, but after the disappearance of Lu Yi and the death of Yan Liang, the real first-class generals in the Yuan army were only Wen Chou and Zhang Jaw. Wen Chou is currently leading the cavalry, patrolling and guarding the perimeter to prevent the Qingzhou army from coming back, but Zhang Jaw has been fighting bloodily and attacking the city several times, but in the end he was beaten down, and there were a lot of injuries on his body.

Although the besieging side has the overall military superiority, after reaching the top of the city, it is often outnumbered. If there is a brave general to open the way, it is very likely to be in one go, but once the momentum is blocked, even if it is a fierce general, it is impossible to resist the siege from all directions.

What's more, among the besiegers, there is also an amazing Zhang Fei?

Although Zhang Jaw is also very desperate, he can only barely save his life in the end.

"General. Can't attack anymore, such a small broken city, neither blocking the way, and no naval army, just surround it with thousands of people, it won't take three months, the food and grass in the city will be exhausted, why attack so hard? The poor brothers fought a strong enemy in the plains, and they held out for several months in the county. It was easy to save my life, but I was killed and injured under this Gaotang City, I, I ......"

Once again, Zhang Fei was driven down from the wall, and Zhang Jaw was about to regroup his position. But he was surrounded by several lieutenants under his command. One of them wept aloud, struggling to suppress his sorrow as he offered advice. Halfway through the words, he choked up.

The 5,000 men and horses in Juan County have now been folded by nearly 2,000, and in the eyes of the captains, the death of the brothers is really too unjust. How much strategic value does Gaotang City have? Where can there be room for so many troops?

Attacking is the next step.

"Yes, General, the brethren are here for you. And not Yuan ......"

"Say no more!" Zhang Jaw snorted angrily, interrupting the next persuasion.

It is the practice of this era that soldiers will be there for generals. Just like the first battalion of Lu Yi, the descendants of the troops under Zhang Jaw. It's also enough to build a battalion on its own. As a military general, he can not have the favor of the lord. But he can't lose his descendants, because that's what he can do to make a living in troubled times and gain fame.

The loss of the descendants was like cutting flesh on him, and it broke his liver and intestines.

But what about him?

As Tian Feng admonished, although he did not take the initiative to participate, the undercurrent of political disputes in Jizhou still mercilessly swept him in.

Other troops can rest more or less during the siege, but their own troops are always fighting on the front line; At least half of the losses of the other troops were caused by the rout, and none of the brothers under his command were killed on their backs when they were killed! Even if there is a wound in the back, it is also caused during the siege, not when he turns and runs away, he is attacked.

Because of their courageous style and repeated battles in the first place, their troops were called the first battalions, so how bad was their own troops?

hateful and cunning, Guo Tu is shameless, and he doesn't dare to persuade the lord not to raise a teacher out of anger, but he repeatedly slanders in front of the lord, squeezes himself for his guilt and meritorious service, and uses siege warfare to show his heart!

Your own heart? If it weren't for his loyalty, how could he attack the plains and contain Wang Yu in the first place? If it weren't for his own restraint, the people who slandered in front of the lord would have been captured and killed a long time ago, right?

The result?

The sub-line is a mountain wolf, which is indeed very reasonable. If it weren't for himself and Lu Yi to support and subdue many generals in Jizhou, where would Yuan Shao be so easy to enter Jizhou?

Hateful!

"No more!" Zhang Jaw waved his hand to stop the generals from arguing, and said in a deep voice: "I wait for my wife and relatives, all in Yecheng, once there is a change, it is inevitable that the jade will be burned, Zhang Yue!" ”

"The last general!" A lieutenant came out.

"You take your soldiers and horses, take all the war horses in the camp, leave at night, and secretly sneak into Yecheng. Yecheng is far behind, and the eldest prince is busy transporting grain and straw, so he will not be prepared. A certain letter is with you, after you enter the city to contact the families of your brothers, leave Yecheng quickly, what is the destination......

"Is it Qingzhou?" The eyes of all the generals lit up, although the people of the world all admired loyalty, but there was also a saying that good birds choose trees to perch. Although Yuan Shao is powerful now, if his own general strikes back at a critical moment, it may not be able to turn things around. In this way, the petition is also available, and the crisis is also freed, which is very good.

"No!" Zhang Jaw categorically vetoed: "When the battle is defected, it is not done by loyal people, first bring people to Yanzhou, and what exactly they will go depends on the specific situation." ”

"Whoa!" Zhang Yue should go.

Zhang Jaw raised his head again and looked at the murderous head of the Tang Dynasty, behind him, the sound of the horn to promote the battle was endless, with endless anxiety.

Now that he has gone to his mind, he naturally will not be stupidly working to the end, and when he is thinking about how to delay, he suddenly sees a lot of dust and smoke on the south bank of the river. When I looked closely, it was the ugly rangers who fled to the ferry like a desperate person!

The sound of the horn suddenly stagnated, and the exclamation crossed the wide river, overshadowed the sound of the waves and water, and clearly came into the ears: "The Qingzhou army is coming!" Wang Pengju is here! ”