At this time, the first wave of soldiers of the Yanzhou army had approached the head of the city wall, and these soldiers were all holding sabers in their mouths and climbing the ladder with both hands, and the speed was extremely fast.

As soon as these soldiers climbed on the top of the wall, the soldiers of the Cao Army pushed the huge shields in their hands on the lower edge of the thick city wall head under the same neat slogan, with the obvious intention of pushing these soldiers of the Yanzhou Army off the wall.

When boarding, the wall of Huai'an City seems to have an additional moving city wall, which is difficult for people to cross.

It didn't matter if the Yanzhou army was invulnerable, no one could fall from a high place and not die, so Cao Jun retreated and used this method to drive the Yanzhou army out of the city. The worst part is that the edges of these shields are all trimmed with sharpened metal, and even if you want to hold the edges of these shields with your hands, you can't do it. Otherwise, it will end up being cut off your fingers, and at the very least, you will be cut off your palms and lose your combat ability.

Zang Ba saw it from a distance behind, and couldn't help sneering: "Sure enough, as I expected, Cao Jun wants to bully me and has nowhere to start?" Although the army led by my Zang Ba is not a special siege force in Yanzhou, but the true nature of the thieves is still there, and flying walls and walls are even more housekeeping skills, and using such carving insect skills to deal with my Zang Ba army is really too underestimate my Zang Ba. Before the words were finished, I saw that the Yanzhou army that was pushed by the shield to gain an unstable foothold was in danger, they pulled out the tools to the waist of the back, and each person had a steel "eagle claw", these Yanzhou troops took advantage of it, and hooked the "eagle claw" to the edge of the shield, not only stood firm, but also someone took advantage of the situation to tear off the shield defense. He handed the Three-Eyed Crossbow to the ground door of the shieldmen who had lost their defenses by surprise. Raise your hand and it's a crossbow. Before those Cao soldiers could even shout, they fell on their backs to the sky and fell on the city wall. Killed. Zang Ba laughed when he saw it, and said to Huan Fan: "The pampered strategy is nothing more than that. It's not worth mentioning at all. ”

Huan Fan disapplauded and said: "Although Man Chong may not be the wise man of the world, but he can be a top strategist, although the general's design is wonderful, but it must be in the expectation of Man Chong, if Cao Jun, who was defeated in Lingbi City and Sicheng, told him that the people who attacked the city were General Zang Ba and General Sun Guan, Man Chong could not come up with a corresponding strategy." That Cao Cao is too visionless. ”

Zang Ba was a little unconvinced, so he was about to speak, but the form of the battlefield changed. The Cao army defending the city let out a huge cheer, which was earth-shattering, and then behind those shield soldiers rushed out of groups of Cao soldiers. Each of them was armed with iron chains. One of these chains, with an iron hook, rushed over with shouts and shouts of killing.

Those soldiers of the Yanzhou Army who had just gained a foothold had not yet understood what was going on. Surrounded by those soldiers, the Cao soldiers quickly threw out the iron hooks in their hands, and accurately grabbed the rattan armor of the Yanzhou army A piece of the rattan armor on Yanzhou Army was firmly hooked by those iron hooks, and quickly took the horse chopping knife from his mouth, and slashed at these chains with a knife.

The sword was extremely sharp, and there was nothing to be done in the face of these chains, and a strong force came, and these rattan beetles were pulled to the ground one after another. Dragged into the city walls. He hasn't stood up yet. There were strong Cao soldiers on the side who came up with iron halberds. Regardless of the location, it is a slamming of the head and face.

On the city of Huai'an, the Yanzhou army screamed one after another. Spread over the entire battlefield. Not long after, the body of the killed Yanzhou army was thrown from the head of Huai'an City, and it was originally unrecognizable. In this way, it is even more flesh and blood.

In the first round of charge, more than 300 people who took the lead in climbing the city were without exception. They all died unexpectedly. Although it is only the beginning, there is an indescribable tragedy.

Zang Ba stood under the city. Seeing this scene, I was so angry that my heart was broken. I couldn't even speak, but my body trembled slightly, and I couldn't speak by pointing at the city. In the past many years of marching and fighting, he has made countless meritorious contributions under Xu Ji, although there are also many casualties, but he has never suffered such an unexplained loss.

What's more, these soldiers are his brothers. The brothers trusted him and gave him their lives, but he died for no apparent reason, so how could Zang Ba swallow this breath?

Huan Fan looked at Zang Badi's expression, understood his feelings, sighed, stopped talking, and just ordered his soldiers to withdraw their troops. The Yanzhou army, which was preparing to continue the siege, heard the order, and immediately retreated quickly like a low tide, and its quality was so high that the Cao army soldiers were dumbfounded, and they had always thought that the quality of their army was very high, even if it was a certain distance from the Yanzhou army, it was not far away, until they saw it with their own eyes, and they understood that there are people outside the world, and there is a truth outside the sky.

Seeing that such a well-trained Yanzhou army was forced to retreat, the Cao army at the head of the city immediately remembered the cheers of the waves, which resounded through the heavens and the earth. Li Dian, who was in charge of defending the city, shouted: "Take your shield, the Yanzhou army has not retreated yet, be careful of their archers." In one sentence, the soldiers of the Cao army at the head of the city came to their senses, kept the formation outward, and returned while the Yanzhou army went.

Seeing that because of the retreat of the Yanzhou army, Li Dianchang breathed a sigh of relief, but smiled bitterly in his heart: Although the morale of the Yanzhou army has increased greatly, how can the Yanzhou army, which has suffered losses, give up? The novel tactics of the Yanzhou army are endlessly changing, and the following siege tactics can be seen. Zang Ba under the city had calmed down at this time, turned to look at Huan Fan, bowed down to the ground and said: "Zang Ba is a mouse, I don't believe in the words of the military advisor, there will be this shame and shame in my life, what should we do next, please teach me." ”

Huan Fan hurriedly helped Zang Ba up and said sincerely: "Why should the general blame himself? The strategy of staying here to deal with us is indeed clever, not to mention the general, even if he was helpless just now, he could only watch those brothers die, and his heart was very sad. “

In a word, Huan Fan brought his relationship with Zang Ba very close. If Zang Ba's previous compliance with Huan Fan's military orders was only because of the strict military law in Yanzhou and the habitual obedience of subordinates to their superiors, then now Zang Ba admires and likes Huan Fan in his heart, so Zang Ba said briskly: "Mr. Zang Ba was very moved by this sentence, what is the order." I also asked the gentleman to instruct his subordinates to go to the soup and fight the fire. ”

And that's what Huan Fan wants.

Huan Fan knew very well that his seniority in the army was very shallow, and if he did not have the majesty of a superior, it would be difficult to command an army like an arm. He didn't have this kind of problem in front of Ji Ling. Because Ji Ling, as a general, although he also had to be reused by Xu Ji, due to the problem of identity and time, his qualifications in the Yanzhou Army were still too shallow. But the Zang Ba in front of him is different, not only a veteran task. And there was a fateful friendship with Xu Ji's henchman Bocai, although Huan Fan had Xu Ji's orders. But I still don't dare to make a mistake. That's why he was respectful to Zang Ba.

Now that he can win Zang Ba's recognition, Huan Fan is naturally overjoyed.

Huan Fan said in a deep voice: "General Zang Ba doesn't have to be polite, indeed, the strategy left by Man Favor was beyond our expectations, and there was actually an iron hook to limit the advantage of our army. However, our army cannot stop attacking the city, and must make the illusion of attacking Huai'an City with all its strength from the dry road, so as to coordinate the whole situation! Zang Ba was stunned when he heard this: "Could it be that Mr. hopes that our army will attract the attention of the defenders of Huai'an City." Ordered General Zhang Ji's army to attack Huai'an City from the shore by water? ”

Huan Fan shook his head and said: "That's the most undesirable, Zhang Ji's army is a typical northern army, and there are very few people who know water." Surface combat capabilities are naturally poor. Attacking from the waterway with Zhang Ji's army would only cause incalculable losses, and even if Huai'an City was taken as a result, the gains would outweigh the losses. Zhang Ji's army actually has other uses, and we attract the attention of the defenders of Huai'an City, which is to facilitate Zhang Ji's army. After a pause, Huan Fan said again: "What's more, we can first find out the enemy's tactics for defending the city by attacking the city, and then crack it, and the destruction of the city will naturally be done with half the effort." ”

Zang Ba was puzzled and said, "Do we still want to make siege tools?" Not to mention that time may not be in time until we try it out. It's just in time, the other party is now a policy of clearing the wilderness, where do we have the materials to make siege equipment. ”

Huan Fan laughed and said: "If we are used to make engineering equipment, then what is the matter with the lord transferring Mr. Xun You from Youzhou?" Zang Ba was shocked and said: "Could it be that Mr. Xun You is after attacking Huaiyin." Do you want to turn around and attack Huai'an City? ”

Huan Fan nodded affirmatively, and said in a deep voice: "Let's make a touchstone for the siege of Mr. Xun You's army." ”

Zang Ba and others responded with a bang. Huan Fan looked into the distance, but thought in his heart: Lord. It's Chang'an, you should be upside down, right?

At this time. Xu Ji, who was missed by Huan Fan, was leading a thousand shadows under his command. Riding the wind and waves, on the way to Shouchun. A few days ago, after arriving in Runan, I changed to take a big boat, went down the river, went straight to Shouchun from Yingshui, and went there to see Liu Xuan.

After entering Runan, the most satisfying thing for Xu Ji was that Zhang Ji had put all the clans gathered in Yuzhou under house arrest, making them unable to contact the outside world and waiting for Xu Ji's disposal. Of course, Xu Ji doesn't have the time and energy now, but he clearly realizes that after Zhang Ji does this, the market price of the big families in the northern Central Plains has completely declined.

Either it was eliminated by itself, or it was reformed by itself, and it could not occupy a leading position in the economy, politics, and academics, which means that the gate valve system was strangled by itself as soon as it sprouted. In this way, he completed his most important task in this era, that is, to eliminate the internal causes of the division of China during this historical period. Maybe people now have no way of knowing this important meaning, but for Xu Ji, there is a huge sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Of course, so far, what Xu Ji is really concerned about is the Central Plains War.

Cao Cao is definitely a person who has turned his hands into clouds, turned his hands into rain, and turned the entire battle situation in an instant, and Xu Ji naturally did not dare to be a little sloppy against Cao Cao. A few days ago, when Deng Ai had already anticipated Sun Ce's intentions, Xu Ji knew that he didn't need to stay here, although Sun Ce was powerful, but with Deng Ai here, Xu Ji was very relieved.

Now the Yanzhou merchants in the northern part of Jingzhou are constantly evacuating, and Nanyang's army has also made a posture of defending the city, naturally in order to confuse the other party and make the other party think that Li Yan's army is stationed in Nanyang to open up a market for trade with Jingzhou.

When Liao Li's army, which had gained nothing in the Nanxiang area, came back, Sun Ce would immediately fall for the scheme. Therefore, Xu Ji's mind was all on Cao Cao.

Although Cao Cao has always hoped that he would leave Chang'an, but now he has left Chang'an as a victor and rushed to the Central Plains to meet Cao Cao, which is probably the last thing Cao Cao wants to see.

For the fact that he had known him since he first came to the Three Kingdoms era, but now he has become a friend of the enemy, Xu Ji is calm in his heart, if he catches Cao Cao in the future, he will definitely cook wine with him. Talking about the heroes of the world. Looking back, Nanyang and Runan have long been invisible. Shouchun in front of him is already in sight.

It didn't take long for Xu Ji's big ship to dock in the lower reaches of the Huaishui River north of Shouchun City.

After being inspected by the river defense soldiers sent here by Zhang Ji's army. led a thousand shadows into Shouchun City. At this time, Shouchun City had completely restored its tranquility, because the Yanzhou army was strict and the military aircraft were strict. Therefore, there is absolutely no trace of the post-war invasion on the streets.

The people of Shouchun City also had smiles on their faces, as they were now under the control of Yanzhou.

The word Yanzhou means to live a good life, and in this troubled world, the common people are required to eat three meals a day, as for the rest. They won't think about it so much, Yanzhou is indeed their best choice. Therefore. When these people saw Xu Ji's army on the street, they didn't have the slightest sense of fear. Because they know that the military regulations of the Yanzhou Army are absolutely innocent.

On the contrary, they were very curious about this special outfit, and the Yanzhou army exuded a fierce aura all the time, and pointed at the side.

Xu Ji was very amused and didn't care at all. The group came to the Thorn History Mansion in Bangchun City, Xu Ji got off the horse and reported his name, and naturally there were soldiers guarding the mansion in a panic to report.

Not long after, Lei Bo, who was left behind by Zhang Ji to help Chuncheng, hurriedly came out to see Xu Ji.

Xu Ji helped Lei Bo up and talked to him cordially.

Since Yuan Shu died. After Lei Bo surrendered to the Yanzhou Army, Xu Ji and Lei Bo met for the first time, so they were naturally very cordial. Lei Bo was a little trembling, after all, Xu Jiwei was becoming more and more famous. The whole world is in awe of it.

Xu Ji held Lei Bo's hand, which made the latter's heart feel more stable, and the two walked in together. Xu Ji talked and laughed, and Lei Bo responded respectfully.

Of course, Lei Bo knew what Xu Ji's purpose was. Therefore, he did not let Xu Ji to the living room, and directly led Xu Ji to the courtyard where Liu Ji was. When Xu Ji entered Liu Xuan's courtyard. Liu Miao and his subordinates were sitting under the warm sun with their eyes closed.

Xu Ji saw it and laughed at it. Thinking about it, it seems that this is the second time I have seen Liu Xuan, the first time I met was when the princes allied forces against Dong Zhuo, and then Liu Xuan served in Yangzhou, but he returned to Chenliu after experiencing the wind and frost in Luoyang, and now thinking about the transformation of the relationship between the two, Xu Ji only feels that life is like a dream, which is very absurd.

At that time, Liu Xuan, who was famous and ambitious, wanted to win himself over, after all, Xu Ji was the husband of the princess at that time, but he fell to Chen Liu's one-third of an acre, but at that time, Xu Ji's heart was already on dominating the world, so it was naturally impossible to accept Liu Ji's solicitation and solicitation, and then as Xu Ji grew step by step, the relationship between the two sides continued to change, and Liu Ji gradually needed to appear as a collaborator. And now it has been replaced by Xu Ji who wants to make Liu Miao submit to himself, it is really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. Xu Ji stretched out his hand to stop Lei Bo, who was about to say something to call Liu Miao and the others to get up, and came to Liu Ji's side lightly, looked at Liu Miao with his head down, and said softly: "Brother Zhengli, Xu Ji has come to see you." ”

Although the voice was soft, it made Liu Miao and the others open their eyes.

Zhang Ying and the others flew away and came behind Liu Ji and looked at Xu Ji hostilely. Liu Xuan, who was still sitting in his seat leisurely, said to Zhang Ying and the others: "You don't have to be nervous, if our Lord Sikong wanted to kill us, he would have done it behind his back a long time ago, and he would have waited until now?" Isn't it Sikong-sama? ”

Xu Ji heard the sarcasm, and said with a slight smile: "Brother Zhengli, it's really not easy for you and me to meet each other, now it's not on the battlefield, you and I are a family, why do you want to talk about two families?" ”

Liu Miao smiled and said: "It is indeed a family, turn me Liu Miao into this appearance, in the future, the land and army north of Yangzhou will be owned by Wen Lie, of course we are a family." Xu Ji knew that the other party had a deep prejudice against himself, and he didn't defend himself, but said indifferently: "Brother Zhengli's words are wrong, everyone in the Liu family is responsible for the 'Guangwu Testament' to run around for the world, I, Xu Ji, am just a poor family, but I don't want to be resigned, since Ning'er told me about it, I know that once the world is in chaos, there will be no peace, so I have to do this." ”

After a pause, Xu Ji continued: "People say 'I'd rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world', Xu Ji is nothing more than that, but the world is like chess, who would have thought that my little humble scholar would be forced to embark on such a road?" The first emperor cherished only me before allowing Ning'er to marry me, if he was a man, if he couldn't protect his family, what kind of face would he have to see the first emperor? However, the situation in the world is changing in an instant, I Xu Ji just want to be partial to Yanzhou and can't get it, everyone wants to replace Xu Ji, just ask Brother Zhengli, if you are me, what should I do? ”

Liu Miao was stunned when he heard this, and then said categorically: "How can a husband be held hostage? I should be a seven-foot sword garrison! Xu Ji smiled bitterly and shook his head and said: "Brother Zhengli is the body of the imperial family, but Xu Ji is just a poor scholar in Yingchuan, if he really killed someone with a sword, but who knows about my suffering?" What's more, the world is in turmoil, how can I survive in this chaotic world? You and I are all taught by Confucianism, and the rise and fall of the world is also an unshirkable responsibility. Besides, Brother Zhengli's family is in Qingzhou, and my parents must miss you very much, I have no choice but to kill Gongshan, but I don't want to hurt Brother Zhengli's life again. ”

Xu Ji's words are naturally half-truths and half-truths, but Liu Ji can't see the truth at all, after all, what Xu Ji said is basically the truth, and the only falsehood is about the first emperor, Liu Ji naturally couldn't guess that Emperor Han Ling, the short-lived emperor, was calculating the truth that Xu Ji was countercalculated.

In this way, Liu Miao naturally has nothing to say, he really has no way to deal with it, and he doesn't even think that he can do it to the extent of Xu Ji, which is equivalent to saying that Liu Miao chose to give in, Xu Ji talked about the topic of his family really shook him, since the death of his brother, Liu Miao rarely returned to Qingzhou, and now he finally put down these worldly preparations to go back to serve his parents at home.

And Xu Ji finally let go of his worries, in fact, he was not completely sure to convince Liu Xuan, he was actually ready to kill Liu Xuan, but since Liu Xuan had made a choice, Xu Ji was naturally happier, after all, he could justifiably accept these generals and soldiers under Liu Xuan. Only Zhang Ying refused to continue to serve as a general as a general, and he wanted to return to Qingzhou with Liu Xuan, which Xu Ji naturally agreed, after all, one or two people can't make any big waves. (To be continued......)