Xun You looked at it from afar, and his heart was happy.

Xun You has always believed that siege stations are the most difficult and fruitful thing in war.

But the siege force in her own hands completely subverted her concept. The war concept of this siege army is not to capture the city wall at a heavy price, but to attack the short with its own strength, to destroy the enemy's confidence and will in the shortest possible time, so that the enemy feels that he is a sheep on the ground, and the Yanzhou army is an eagle in the sky, even if he wants to fight to the death, he can't even touch the hair of the Yanzhou army.

Just like in front of them, Yi Jing's defending army and the Yanzhou army have been completely stunned by the Yanzhou army until now, and every move of the Yanzhou army is something they did not expect.

And the siege method of the Yanzhou army is even more impossible to defend even if you want to. Take climbing the city wall as an example, the most powerful way to defend the city is to throw the rolling wood and stones, but now the Yanzhou army has not even climbed the city wall, and has not even come to the vicinity of the Yijing city wall, what is the use of these things?

Xun You turned his head, looked at the three Gao Ran brothers, and said with a smile: "General Gao Lan, I see that it's almost over, and when they enter the city and fight in the streets, they still need General Gao Lan, Xian Kunzhong, and the three of them to exert their might." ”

Gao Ran said in a deep voice: "I want to do what I want." Xun You smiled and said: "I have long heard of General Gao Ran's marksmanship, so let Gongsun Zhan's defenders see it!" ”

Gao Ran nodded in agreement, and then ordered his two brothers to be responsible for the attack on the other two gates, while he was personally responsible for the attack on the south gate. And so the three brothers went.

At this time, more and more Yanzhou soldiers climbed the arrow tower. Began to swing up and down the ladder in an orderly manner. Where did Yijing's defenders think that the Yanzhou army would attack the city in this way? Seeing this situation, under the command of the guards, he began to rush madly towards the city. In order to push away the ladder that was placed across the city wall.

In fact, it is absolutely wishful thinking to do so, you must know that the other end of these ladders is a huge arrow tower. Without the concerted efforts of dozens of people, this kind of arrow tower would not move at all. But the problem is that one end of the ladder is too narrow, and there is simply nowhere to focus. Even if you use your sword to cut off the ladder. Not at all, after all, the ladder was not made of wood but of iron.

Of course, they can also choose to kill the Yanzhou army with the help of a ladder like a monkey leaping over a tree.

But it is also unrealistic, because these Yanzhou troops do not walk on ladders, but leap back and forth under ladders, and if they want to kill them, the first step is to rush to the wall. Shoot with a bow and arrow. Although at this time, the Shenarm archers of Qingzhou had stopped attacking, so as not to accidentally injure the Yanzhou army that was besieging the city, but the problem was that the city was now on fire. And there are ten strong crossbowmen in the arrow tower of the arrow tower opposite.

Although judging from the size, Yi Jing's defenders can see that there will definitely be no more than fifteen people in it. But in reality, the situation is beyond their imagination. The strong crossbowmen in there didn't know what kind of divine weapons they were using, but they could shoot a rain of arrows in an instant. Based on the number of arrows, the tower would have to hold at least fifty people, but judging from his size, this was simply impossible.

With the effective shooting of these bows and crossbows at parallel distances, the defenders of Yijing City simply could not approach the head of the city. Although the defenders of Yijing City have launched many fierce and death-defying charges in a vain attempt to recapture Yijing City, the effect is really not ideal. The crossbow bolts continued to shoot at them, and the defenders of Yijing City fell in a pool of blood. Even by chance a few soldiers came to the head of the wall. is also helpless because of the strength of the lonely.

In just a few moments, the soldiers of the Yanzhou Army who were besieging the city had quickly arrived at the head of Yijing City with the help of ladders. I saw them put their hands on the city wall, and they supported it with their hands, and their feet glared at the surface of the city wall. The whole group rose to the city wall of Yijing City.

Although the city walls in Yijing City are now very hot because of the burning flames. But because these soldiers wore animal skin gloves on their hands, they had a good thermal insulation function. After these Yanzhou soldiers climbed the city wall, they pulled out their sabers with their backs. Then he took out a bulging skin bag in his arms and opened it. So he poured it from head to toe, and when he looked closely, it was filled with water.

And so it goes. It is very effective in preventing them from receiving severe burns when they pass by the light of the city.

These first Yanzhou troops to climb the city wall did not rush to attack, but went to a safe place after crossing the fire and waited for their companions to ascend the city. More and more Yanzhou troops climbed the walls of Yijing. In this way, at the head of Yijing City, the Yanzhou army quickly formed a strong force.

These Yanzhou troops formed groups of three or five effective fighting groups and began to launch a massacre attack on the defenders of Gongsun Zan at the head of Yijing City.

When they began to expand the territory of the Yanzhou army in the head of Yijing City, more and more Yanzhou troops came to the city, of course, some of these soldiers were javelinmen, some were archers, and so on. After landing on the top of the city, these soldiers quickly plunged into the battle, and began to cooperate with other soldiers, launching wave after wave of attacks on the defenders of Yijing City like the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves. The fall of the head of the city of Yi made the defenders of the city of Yi chaotic, and they continued to send soldiers to reinforce the city.

In this case, the Yanzhou army began to hit the city gates on three sides.

First of all, the Yanzhou army's door-smashing car slammed into the city gate, which made the ten soldiers who were in the city against the city gate exhausted, and more people were shocked to the point that their arms were numb, and their blood was churning. At this time, a group of stone trucks adjusted their angles and directions, and after the door cars retreated, under the roar of the hair leader, all the stones were fired in unison. and struck upon the gates together.

The power of this kind of machinery is simply not something that ordinary people can calculate, so after a burst of boulders, the gates of Yijing City are no longer able to resist the onslaught of the Yanzhou army. There was a creaking sound, and in a roar, the gate fell to the ground.

Screams rang out one after another. The soldiers of Yi Jingcheng behind the city gate were all crushed under the city gate. Blood splattered. Some of the soldiers were better, they were crushed to death, and some soldiers were shaken to death in the north when the boulder hit the city gate. Some soldiers even flew out directly after the shock died. Became a "trapeze".

But there were also many soldiers who began to turn and run at the same time as the city gates fell. Because the speed was too slow, it was directly pressed down by the fallen city gate. Broke his arms and thighs. All of a sudden, the ghost cried and the wolf screamed, and screamed again and again. Seeing this scene, the Yanzhou troops who were still on the ground shouted and began to swarm towards the gate of Yijing City.

Not much. The three gates of Yijing City were taken by the soldiers of the Yanzhou Army.

The one who took the lead was of course Gao Ran and his two younger brothers, Gao Ping and Gao Huai, and Gao Ran naturally didn't need to say it. Although the other two are not first-class generals, and there is an unattainable distance from Gao Ran, they are already rare masters when they are placed here by all the guards in Yijing City. Gao Ran waved the spear in his hand. In the sunlight, a golden light swayed, and the marksmanship like a pinprick on a cactus under the desert sun immediately pierced the throats of all those who tried to stop him, and the enemies in front of him often only looked at the small light in front of him, and his neck was cold, and then blood sprayed wildly. It fell to the ground like a fountain.

At this time, Xun You urged the army behind and began to fully capture Yijing City.

The defenders of Yijing City are retreating one after another, and it is impossible to gain a foothold in the inner city of Yijing City again. The thing that shocked and frightened the soldiers of Yi Jingcheng the most was that there was a kind of madness in the attack of the Yanzhou army, and in addition to that, there was a kind of calmness in it.

The Yanzhou army will never rush to the top. Those strong hands and divine arms always stand on the high ground and shoot calmly. And specifically to pick those generals and generals to shoot and kill, the purpose is to make them leaderless.

There were not many companies in this army, but they were definitely the most suitable to be assigned to the siege soldiers of the three gates, and they stood behind the shieldmen. Began to shoot non-stop, and broke the confidence of Yijing's defenders with incredible speed. When they stopped shooting, the javelinmen stepped forward quickly. Looking at the enemies who were coming like a tidal wave, he threw a javelin with great power.

After throwing the javelin. They took out something from their backs that looked like the discus in later sports competitions, and their bodies spun in place at a rapid pace. This is a round wheel that is thrown with arm strength. The edges are thin and sharp, shining brightly, more lethal than a crossbow, and even a shield can't stop it. A strange sound sounded from the hands of these soldiers, and when the soldiers who rushed up to kill Yi Jingcheng without fear of death still couldn't figure out what was going on, the soldiers who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another, and the shouts of killing from their mouths were immediately cut off because of their sudden death. It's like a guzheng that suddenly breaks its strings while playing.

When I looked at it again, the soldiers who fell to the ground were all in different places, and their heads were cut off by the flywheel, and a few others had their arms cut off from time to time, and these soldiers were even more miserable, their faces were pale, and their bodies were shaking, but blood kept gushing out from the broken places, forming a blood mist in the sky. It's terrible. However, the Yanzhou army was unconscious, and immediately carried out the third round of attacks, and the Yanzhou army with singing voices formed a gun formation, marching forward quickly with neat steps, and the swordsmen were shuttling back and forth in it, advancing and retreating, and after killing some soldiers of Yijing City, they immediately retreated back without looking back, and each time they could always retreat to the gun forest behind them just right, but they would never be injured by mistake.

Although it seems simple, it shows a high level of unity and cooperation.

has become completely unbearable, and the defenders of Yi Jingcheng have no choice but to retreat.

They came to the inner city, took Gongsun Zhan's family, together with the masters of the "Yuanmen family", and Xu Ji's "mother", to open the north gate of Yijing City. In a hurry, he fled from the road.

Many of the soldiers in Yijing were captured and recruited by the Yanzhou army before they could retreat.

Many of the soldiers were routed and began to flee blindly. The Yanzhou army captured the impregnable city of Yijing in less than a day, creating a miraculous and brilliant victory.

When Xun You Shi Ran entered the city, Gao Ping and Gao Huai were busy directing the soldiers to clean up the corpses in the city, Gao Ran saw that Xun You had entered the city, so he walked forward with a laugh and pulled Xun You's horse bun hard.

Xun You hurriedly dismounted and took Gao Ran's hand. Talking and laughing, he walked inside.

"Mr. Xun You, today's battle is really enjoyable for his grandmother! I never thought that siege warfare would become such a enjoyable thing, with this army, I believe that there is no city in the world that our Yanzhou army cannot break! There was an unconcealable joy in Gao Ran's expression.

You smiled and said, "What General Gao Ran said is extremely true! But that's just the surface, have you ever thought about it? Why do these engineering tools only appear in Yanzhou? ”

Gao Ran was speechless for a long time, after all, Gao Ran was just a general, and his task was to conquer the city, for other things. He is a layman, Xun You said proudly: "To this day." In fact, the thing I am most proud of in Yanzhou is the new 'Five Virtues Forever' created by the Lord! It is because of this doctrine that there is. People who have always only valued Confucianism are gradually noticing the importance of other industries, if this idea is not implemented in Yanzhou, then we would not have invented these siege weapons today, and it is the lord who has made people from all walks of life know their importance. Let them do their best in their own work, and this is why we have such brilliant results today. And this is something that other princes will never learn. ”

Gao Ran was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then began to think about it. However, he knew that this kind of thing was not his forte, so he diverted the topic and said, "By the way, Mr. Xun You." Do we need to go out of the city to pursue Gongsun Zhan's soldiers in Yijing? ”

Xun You shook his head and smiled: "We don't have to worry about this matter." However, because of the siege of the city, many of the soldiers in this Yijing City have fled to various places, and we should take the opportunity to recruit these soldiers so that the lord can use them in foreign wars in Youzhou in the future. ”

Gao Ran agreed. He ordered people to go out to Anmin, and then went to recruit those soldiers who fled to various places after Gongsun Zhan was defeated by the Yanzhou army. Xun You turned his head, looked into the distance, and said silently in his heart: Lord, I have already captured Yijing City, and the rest is up to you.

And at this time. Xu Jizheng received a piece of news that made him feel very happy: in Yuzhou, Yuan Shu had been completely defeated, and Yuan Shao's army took the lead in attacking, under Guo Tu's repeated tactics. Yuan Shu's army was defeated and retreated, and was robbed by Zhang Yan's army, which had been in Hongze Lake. Yuan Shu was defeated, but what made Yuan Shu even more angry was that his own Lei Bo army in the Yang part of the Western Front actually lost contact with him, according to intelligence, Lei Bo's army has always been stationary, and it is precisely because of this situation that Yuan Shao has no worries when attacking.

Yuan Shu escaped overnight, under the injury of the Qi belt, depression became ill, less than three days, he died in the wind and food and sleeping, a few months ago, he was still one of the great princes of the Central Plains, but in less than half a year, he fell into the situation of being ruined and discredited, and dying in a foreign land, it was really unspeakably miserable, but this was definitely Yuan Shu's own fault, Yuan Shao did not care about the death of his younger brother. What he wanted was the jade seal in Yuan Shu's hand. It's a pity that the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and this piece of jade seal fell into the hands of Zang Ba.

At the same time that Yuan Shao began to attack Yuan Shu. Zang Ba also launched an attack on Yuan Shu, and Zang Ba's army suddenly appeared in Yuan Shu's camp from the north, and in less than two hours, it completely crushed the confidence of Yuan Shu's army.

It can be said that the reason why Yuan Shao was able to quickly defeat Yuan Shu's defenders at the front was entirely because of the fall of Yuan Shu's camp in the rear. After Zang Ba attacked Yuan Shu's promise, he got the jade seal that Yuan Shu didn't have time to take away.

This incident made Han Meng, the general of Yuan Shao's subordinates who came later, know that he wanted to pursue in anger, but he had no choice but to retreat Zang Ba's army, and Han Meng did not dare to act rashly, so he had to retreat.

Zhang Yan's army was instructed to occupy Bangchun City, which was already panicked at this time, and recruited 10,000 soldiers of Yuan Shu's army who were not led there, and their strength increased greatly. Yuan Shao vomited blood angrily after knowing these two news, but at that time he had no choice but to write a letter to Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, asking him to use Xu Ji's mother to threaten Xu Ji in Youzhou immediately, and ask Xu Ji to promise a few things that are beneficial to him. For example: let Shouchun go. Return the jade seal.

It's a pity that this letter fell into the hands of the Yanzhou army, which is called ironclad evidence.

With this letter, the Yanzhou army can start a war with Yuan Shao in a grand manner, but because the time has not come, after all, the matter in Youzhou is not over yet, and the Chang'an Rebellion is not chaotic enough, so Xu Shu thinks that Zang Bajun must endure for a while first. That's why I sent this letter to Xu Ji. Xu Ji naturally knew that he had to speed up his actions,

What made Xu Ji feel even more warm and unexpected was that Mrs. Zhang, who was in Yecheng, also asked someone to bring a letter, and there was a lasting friendship between the lines, which made Xu Ji's soul disappear.

At this time, Xun Yu once again came with the news: Yijing City has been captured,

And the scouts sent by Xu Ji also showed that Gongsun Zhan and Yi Jing's remnants of the army would be defeated, and Xu Ji was relieved: it seemed that the matter in Youzhou had reached the final stage.

When everything was done, Xu Ji officially unified the north of China!

Although Qingzhou is not currently under Xu Ji's control, this is obviously not difficult for these advisers under Xu Ji's command, as early as when Xu Ji captured Jizhou, Liang Xi and Guo Jia both wrote to Xu Ji to pay attention to the affairs of Qingxu and Xuzhou, Xu Ji of course also realized the importance of these two states and counties to his future unification of the country, and Xuzhou because of Mi Zhu in Xu Ji is actually very relieved, but he has always kept the matter of Qingzhou in mind.

Until the matter of Jizhou, after Guo Jia was transferred to Xuzhou, Xu Ji simply handed over the seizure of Qingzhou to Guo Jia, and now, Guo Jia has already quietly included Qingzhou in the jurisdiction of Xu Ji. (To be continued......)