Soon after, news came from Zhang He: the army of Gongsun Zhan had been successfully blocked north of Fanyang City, and the elite members of the Shadow had defeated the 30,000 reinforcements sent by Fan Yang with 5,000 men.

However, Zhang He did not kill them all, because he received Xun You's order to defeat rather than destroy.

Fan Yang's reinforcements fled back to Fan Yang City in panic and began to hold on to the city. Because the shadow of Yanzhou that they encountered not only crushed their army, but also their confidence and will, making them completely lose the desire to fight with them. It was like a mantis arm as a car and a grasshopper shaking a tree, and after fighting with the Yanzhou army, they found that they had no way to shake each other at all.

Strength, speed, coordination, skill, and desire to fight are completely unmatched.

In the face of such an enemy, the only thing they want to do is to run away and hide in a relatively safe place to survive. This is exactly what Xun You wants, he doesn't want Xu Ji to be in the way when he is dealing with Gongsun Zhan. Of course, in his plan, the people Zhang He had to deal with were not just Fan Yang's army.

After defeating this army, Zhang He began to run rampant north of Fanyang City, because there were still several Gongsun Zhan's armies in the east, and Zhang He was also responsible for entangling them.

After commanding the Shadows, Zhang He found himself losing lust for commanding other armies. This is an extremely strong army, all along, Zhang He has always believed that the root of war is people, no matter how well an army is equipped, if there is no military morale, it is equivalent to holding broken copper and iron, and it cannot win the battle.

But anything that goes to extremes is a big mistake.

In the army of Yanzhou, there is no question of morale at all. And actually. Any good army. Under normal circumstances, there would be no morale problems with the morale of an army. The responsibility is definitely not on the soldiers, but on the generals of this army.

The same morale is high and the army is indestructible. At this time, an army's tactics become the key to whether an army is victorious.

Zhang He never imagined that weapons and equipment would have such a great effect on changing the tactics of an army. Let's be honest. If this Phantom doesn't have any of these equipment on it. Well, a lot of the tactics of this Phantom are stupid, and strategically, some of the targets are simply incredible.

But with these equipment. That's just turning decay into magic.

Or it can be said that this method of warfare is only applicable to the army in front of you, and if it is replaced by another army, the ghost land is not applicable at all. The impact of the shadow on Zhang He was shocking.

For the first time. Zhang He understands what it means to be a real professional soldier in the true sense.

At the beginning, Zhang He was still thinking that if he had such an army, he must pay attention to secrecy, and this team would definitely give the enemy a "surprise" when the battle reached a stalemate. But later. Zhang He felt that in fact, there was no need for this army to be secretive. What if someone knows about it? Could it be that the tactics of this army could be imitated?

Apart from Yanzhou, who else in the world could possibly build such an army?

Zhang He knew that he didn't have many opportunities to command this army, so after defeating Fan Yangdi's reinforcements, he cherished his opportunity to lead the troops this time. Although he may not be able to meet this army for the rest of his life, he is eager to learn the fighting philosophy of this ghost. Able to apply it to their own tactical command according to local conditions.

In this moment, he has become a learner.

Outside Fanyang City, this shadow became even more erratic and unpredictable. And this also made Xu Ji have no worries.

Zhang He's piece of beautiful jade is finally about to mature. And that's exactly what Xu Ji wants to see.

Subsequently. Yi Jing also sent news to Xu Ji that Xun You finally showed his hideous face after lurking for a long time, and Xun You's army suddenly appeared outside Yi Jing City and attacked Yi Jing. A textbook siege was staged there.

Xun You's army arrived in Yijing as soon as he arrived. Then he began to besiege the city on three sides, and began to attack.

Such a corner-only style of play was of course forcing the army defending the city to abandon the city and flee after it could not resist it. Although Yi Jing's guards were very strange why Xun Yu suddenly launched an attack on Yi Jing, after all, according to Guan Jing's analysis. Now Xun You has a different heart for Xu Ji, and Xu Ji has been motionless in Renqiu for so long after coming to Youzhou. Of course, it was caused by the changes in the Yanzhou army in Youzhou.

Xun You, who had been standing still now, suddenly launched an attack on Yi Jing, which was simply incredible. Unthinkable. But there is no time for them to think about it right now. Faced with the sudden appearance of the Yanzhou army, Yi Jing's defenders prepared to fight back.

Yi Jing's guards encouraged his soldiers even louder, telling them: Why did the Yanzhou army besiege the city on three sides, leaving only one gate? That's because Xu Ji's mother is in his own hands, and the Yanzhou army doesn't dare to act rashly, so it's a big deal that we can abandon the city and escape, as long as there is Xu Ji's mother, what can the Yanzhou army do to me? Some people even suggested that Xu Ji's mother should be escorted directly to the city tower, and the Yanzhou army would retreat without a fight.

It's a pity that this is not possible.

Because Gongsun Chan had an order before leaving, unless Cheng Po and himself came back to give this order, Xu Ji's mother and the people of the Yuan family would definitely not be able to leave half a step.

And the people of the Yuan family would not agree to them doing this.

How did they know that the Xu Ji mother in front of them and the masters of the Yuan family were a group of impostors?

I thought the trump card was in my own hands! Because of this, the defenders of Yijing City are really imposing.

However, I don't know if they are lucky or not, because they met a Yanzhou siege force that completely showed their strength. This army is not something that can be defeated by a single unit, and the terrible thing about this army is that it is completely impossible to adapt to his attack, and it is full of pride and strength. But there is nowhere to vent.

As soon as the siege began, the defenders of Yijing wanted to give the Yanzhou army a dismount. So when the Yanzhou army was still standing 1,500 steps away from the bow and arrow, it began to prepare for the attack. On the head of the city of Yijing City, it is natural to be equipped with a huge strong crossbow, which has a range of more than 1,200 steps and is extremely lethal. With this kind of huge crossbow, it is completely possible to realize the cross-defense of Yijing's firepower. According to common sense, any army besieging a city will pay a heavy price for it.

This huge crossbow on Yi Jingcheng's head was of course expected by Xun You.

At the beginning of the siege.

Xun You ordered the shield bearers in the army to move forward slowly. This way of besieging the city is not Xun You's Dao Chuang, and it can even be said that there will be such steps in general siege. But what makes Yanzhou military unique is the peculiarity of these shield bearers.

The shields these shields are held in their hands as full-body shields.

This full-body shield is made entirely of steel. And it's very thick, and this kind of shield can be encountered even by the huge bow and crossbow with great penetrating power at the head of the city. There is also helplessness. But at the same time, because of the excellent defense, this kind of shield is very heavy. If it is the power of a single person, even if it is an innate divine power. I'm afraid it won't last. However, the Yanzhou army installed a chariot wheel under each of these shields, and of course, if you look at the standards of later generations to measure automobiles, these shields with wheels have very low bottom plates, and on the inside of the shields are mounted handles with non-slip cooked cowhide. In this way, the shielder holding the shield can move quickly on the ground with the help of push. This undoubtedly saves the shieldman a lot of physical strength, allowing him to use his strength entirely against the enemy's bow and arrow. To make sure that the left and right edges of each shield are concave and convex into the grooves, so that goes. All shields can be connected together, fixed with mechanisms, and with neat commands, all shield-bearers advance together, forming a steel fortress that cannot be breached without even the slightest gap.

In the Yanzhou army, this shield unit was used entirely to deal with the huge bows and crossbows used to defend the city, because the crossbow's attacks were straight, so this shield army considered the ability to resist attacks head-on. On top of each shield is a small shield that sits across the top of the shieldman's head. In order to prevent some of the large crossbows from being designed to be inaccurate, they fall downwards after reaching the limit of distance after being thrown high. Smashing the shield from above, of course, this kind of shot also has a good preventive effect on the Divine Arm Bow.

After all, the Divine Arm Bow is not a too complicated design, and it is different from other Yanzhou weapons. It can easily be copied in future siege stations. The Yanzhou army may not be attacked by such archers in the enemy, and it is of course a precaution to do so now. As soon as the shield troops of the Yanzhou Army appeared. History surprised Yijing's defenders, but from such a distance, they couldn't see the material of the shield in the enemy's hand, so they began to attack the Yanzhou army on three sides of Yijing City at the same time and began to shoot.

When the huge crossbow arrows whizzing and sharp hit the shield on that side, there was a crisp sound, and even in the daytime, the sparks could be seen splashing on the surface of the shield. The strategy of the Yanzhou army was extremely successful, when the whistling of crossbow arrows was heard, under the unified command, some shield bearers stopped and hid behind the shields in a stride posture, if people took off the shoes worn by these soldiers, they would be surprised to find that these soldiers were wearing spiked shoes. Reading the ground has a strong grip.

This design was of course inspired by the shoes worn by the people Xu Ji saw in Luoyang when he was kicking the juju, but with a slight improvement.

No matter how the huge crossbow shoots, this steel fortress will not move. Unbeknownst to Yi Jing's defenders, behind every shield they couldn't see, in addition to the shieldbearer, there was also a soldier with a god's arm bow who was holding the handle of the shield to help the shieldholder defend against the attack of crossbow arrows.

After Yi Jingcheng's huge bow and crossbow shot the first round of crossbow arrows, he began to work busily on the crossbow arrows.

In this gap, the Yanzhou Army Ground Shield Player began to move forward again, waiting until the huge crossbow bolt was ready to start the next round of shooting. Once again, the Yanzhou army stopped to defend. In this way, the Yanzhou army had advanced to a place 700 steps away from Yijing City.

It's not about when. The huge arrow tower used in the engineering behind the Yanzhou army began to move forward, because the design of the wheels below was improved, so although this arrow tower was larger than the general arrow tower, it was much faster in moving.

Because he advanced another three hundred paces, he was on the attack of resisting the huge crossbow arrows of Yi Jingcheng. The Yanzhou shield players began to feel the pressure gradually. Of course, it wasn't enough to stop it. However, the defenders of the late capital city would not be afraid, even if the Yanzhou army in front of them could come to Yijing intact. So what? No matter how strong the shield was, it couldn't resist the steady stream of rolling wood stones that were thrown down on the Yi Jing City. Even if it's an earthquake. It will also shock these Yanzhou troops to death.

As for the arrow tower, his role is to attack imminently. And definitely did not dare to approach the city walls.

However, the arrow tower in Yanzhou is very strange. There is actually a ladder in the front, which seems to be fixed to the arrow tower by some mechanism, I don't know what it is for. And the general army siege chariots were not seen at all.

However, for a city like Yijing City, which was built with all his might by Gongsun Zhan, rushing the car would not have any effect at all, and it would be destroyed by a boulder under the city wall.

The Yanzhou army must have a back-up move. But the defenders of Yijing City have not noticed anything wrong until now.

At this time, the huge crossbow arrows on Yijing City began the next round of loading arrows. This time, the shield bearers of the Yanzhou Army did not take advantage of this period to move forward as usual, but continued to stay in place.

What is the Yanzhou Army doing? Gongsun Zhan's subordinates were puzzled.

At this moment, the shields of the Yanzhou army were suddenly dispersed, leaving some gaps between the shields and shields. In this interval, Yanzhou's Divine Arm Archers swarmed out, stood in front of the shield and began to shoot at a distance of seven hundred paces - projectile.

And it's a rocket attack! Immediately, the burning smell spread throughout the sky!

The Gongsun Chan soldiers who were busy installing huge crossbow arrows on Yi Jingcheng were completely defenseless, and before they could understand what was going on, they were stunned by this unexpected rocket attack.

Except for the lucky ones who were shot directly without a sound, the soldiers who were shot but did not die rolled on the ground and wailed. The walls of Yijing were filled with the stench of burnt flesh and skin. Those rockets have a special treatment on them, and once ignited, they are very difficult to extinguish.

The most troublesome thing for the Yi Jing defenders was that the wooden giant crossbows that were originally sharp weapons to defend the city were all burned. Instead, it became an obstacle to the defense of the city.

There were a lot of soldiers who were not shot, though. However, it was ignited by the flames on the giant crossbow and began to shout in all directions, which undoubtedly increased the panic atmosphere of the defenders of Yijing City. The follow-up troops of Yijing's defenders hurriedly stepped forward and began to extinguish the fire for their comrades who were screaming from the fire. Where can it be extinguished in a moment? Rather, it was because of carelessness. Some of the soldiers were not paying attention but were implicated, and their bodies were also burned, and they became too busy to take care of themselves.

This time. The Divine Arm Archers under the city began a second round of throwing, because of the relationship of time. They did not have time to ignite the rockets, and only used ordinary eagle arrows to eject them.

Because the soldiers standing on the tower were busy putting out the fire. They were all standing, so there was no room to dodge at all, and they were overturned by such an indiscriminate burst of covering shots. While the soldiers in Yijing City were panicking, the other soldiers of the Yanzhou Army began to throw themselves into battle. Like ants, it poured towards Yijing City like a tide.

The soldiers were each dressed in chain armor, with two oval shields on their arms and a downward chopping knife behind their backs.

Of course, these are all basic equipment, and the weapons and equipment carried by different siege troops are slightly different. And the siege weapons in the various Yanzhou armies also began to move forward.

The defenders of Yijing City became even more panicked when they saw this scene.

I don't know who shouted first: "Cut down all the soldiers who are on fire!" ”

As a result, the soldiers on the wall of Yijing City who were on fire were cut down to the ground one after another.

Although cruel, this is indeed the courage of a strong man. Yi Jingcheng was in a mess, and Xun You had already seen it in his eyes. Seeing this, he sneered and said: "Sure enough, it is Gongsun Zhan's soldiers, and they are all as ruthless as their enemies. ”

When the Yanzhou army was gradually approaching Yijing City. The flames at the head of Yijing City have been extinguished.

The Yanzhou Army's Divine Arm Archers were still throwing non-stop, and behind them there was naturally a steady stream of spare carved arrows sent to the front. lest these god-armed archers and skillful women be cooked without rice. At this time, the head of Yijing City had been completely suppressed by the projectile fire of the Yanzhou army.

The defenders of Yijing City knew that the next step was for the Yanzhou soldiers to start climbing the city wall, but the Yanzhou soldiers who were approaching now had no choice, because they had no way to stand up and use bows and arrows to stop these Yanzhou troops.

The soldiers were all crouched behind the walls. Cover the top of your head with a shield. Even the occasional soldiers who were not afraid of death stood up and used the joint construction to design the Yanzhou army under the city, but they could not aim because they were in a hurry. It is simply impossible to effectively inflict damage on the Yanzhou army.

On the contrary, because of their own adventures, many such soldiers after shooting bows and arrows. Before he could squat down, he was shot to death by the Yanzhou army's divine arm bow.

And so it goes. No one did it at all to stand up. The only counterattack was a counterattack by some crossbow archers at the head of Yijing City, who counterattacked the Yanzhou army below the city through the battlements of the city wall.

But they were surprised to find. Their crossbow arrows did little damage to the Yanzhou soldiers, although some of them fell in pools of blood. However, most of them are caused by being shot in the leg by an arrow at the end of a falling crossbow. This damage is really limited.

The defensive power of the chain armor on the Yanzhou army against the arrows is really good. What's more, the crossbows in the hands of these Gongsun Zhan's soldiers are not the strong crossbows in the hands of the Yanzhou army, so their power is naturally more limited.

It is safest to crouch and hide under the shield. Even if the bow and arrow fall, it will not be able to reach itself.

"Immediately prepare to roll wood and stones, boiling oil and boiling water. When the soldiers of the Yanzhou Army began to climb the city, we began to put it in, if anyone wants to die, they will stand up later! Of course, this is the kind of decision made by the guards of Yi Jingcheng after weighing the pros and cons.

And there is no way to do this.

looked at the silence on Yijing City. Xun You couldn't help but sneer, of course he only knew what this group of defenders were paying attention to.

"Order, attack when the stone cart begins!" Lu Xiao said categorically. The stone cart made in Yanzhou is actually the thunderbolt car invented by Liu Ye in the history of the Three Kingdoms, but this kind of stone cart has been improved by the craftsmen of Yanzhou, not only has a longer range, but also the stones are specially polished stones, and each stone has been polished into a ball.

It is conceivable that once this round stone falls on the early lapis slab, it can not only kill the enemy directly. It can even scatter the stones and injure the soldiers on the side, even if they are not thrown into the city, and directly smashed on the city wall. The destruction of the most ramparts was also enormous.

The herald went down to give the order, and the Divine Arm Bow soldier continued to shoot and suppress the head of Yijing City. Not much. The flying stone carts of Yanzhou approached Yijing City.

The ——! of the stone cart roared.

Suddenly, a pile of spherical stones of the same size flew straight towards Yi Jingcheng.

The huge stone was like a meteor out of the sky. It rained down on top of the shields held aloft by the defenders. For a while, flesh and blood flew!

Another burst of stones!

The three walls of Yijing City are completely out of order.

At this time, the Yanzhou Army's stone cart was replaced with a bullet. Over there are "incendiary bombs".

This kind of thing is woven from rattan grass and has some flammable materials in it. As soon as this thing was thrown on the city, it began to burn, and the fire at the head of Yijing City, which had just been extinguished, was ignited again.

Yi Jingtou was in chaos again. Those defenders couldn't stand it.

At this time, the arrow tower of the Yanzhou army quickly approached the city wall of Yijing City.

In the turret at the top of each turret is a man, a machine man, ten crossbowmen, five crossbowmen, and five repeaters. Their mission was to kill any defenders of Yijing who wanted to get close to the city at close range.

In other words, at the moment when they made a move, the control of Yijing Jingtou had initially been in the hands of the Yanzhou army.

In the light of the fire at the head of Yijing City, these crossbow archers randomly shot and killed the soldiers of Gongsun Zhan who approached the city head intentionally or unconsciously.

At the same time, the ladder on the top of the arrow towers of those arrow towers that didn't know what to use was slowly lowered under the control of the machine operators in the tower, and it was placed on the head of Yijing City. At the same time, the soldiers who were preparing to attack the city did not climb the city wall, but climbed the arrow tower in an orderly manner, and after arriving at the ladder that crossed the arrow tower and the city wall, they put on animal skin gloves, like an ape swinging around on the branches, their bodies hung in the air, holding each stool of the ladder with both hands, and quickly moved in the direction of Yijing City.

It is conceivable that it will not be long before these Yanzhou troops will occupy the head of Yijing City.

The war has only begun, and it has already ended! (To be continued......)