In just one night, Xu Ji took the eldest son city, which was impregnable in Zhang Ji's eyes.

Most of Zhang Ji's troops stationed here were captured after being defeated by Xu Ji's command, and only a small part escaped from the city of the eldest son. And these people who fled will bring bad news to Zhang Yang: Yu Fuluo sent people to capture the city of the eldest son.

It was impossible to take this matter lightly, because the geographical location of the eldest son city was extremely important to him. Once the city of the eldest son is captured, then the entire defense line of Changzhi will be pierced a hole.

This is especially true for Zhang Yang, who is at such a disadvantage, his troop deployment is only to defend against the army of Fuluo and Gaoshun, so especially the north is the top priority, and the eldest son city in the south is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is guarded by Zhang Yang's elite troops, Zhang Yang thinks he can sit back and relax.

But now that it has been captured by Xu Ji, it is equivalent to cutting off the back road of Zhang Yang's army, in other words, in the future, Zhang Yang's army will have no chance to flee south, and the only way to retreat is Yanzhou in the east.

But here's the problem, Yanzhou in the east is the territory set by Xu Ji, although it is not very stable now, but there is no room for publicity. Therefore, you don't need to think too much, you can also be known, Zhang Yang will definitely transfer heavy troops to find a way to recapture the eldest son city.

But Xu Ji didn't pay attention to this matter, he was now standing on the city wall and looking out to the north, with Zhang Hu and others standing beside him. It's just that I don't see Leyi.

Xu Ji inquired and learned that it turned out that Leyi heard that there was a hill behind the eldest son city, where there was an underground spring, which was cool and quenched his thirst, so he went there to play.

When Zhang Hu said this, he saw that Xu Ji was not unhappy, so he put his mind at ease. So he smiled and said to Xu Ji: "Actually, this eldest son city has a great history. ”

Xu Ji came and said with interest: "Oh? ”

Zhang Hu said eloquently: "If you talk about the eldest son city, you have to start with 'Shangdang' first. This Shangdang is located in the southeast of Shanxi Province, in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, at the southern end of the Taihang Mountains, the backbone of the world. The terrain is extremely steep, and Jizhou and Yuzhou are all under it. My lord, we might as well go to the top of the mountain and have a look, where we can see it more clearly. ”

Xu Ji nodded, so Zhang Hu led Xu Ji to the hill as he spoke. Then he said: "The place where General Leyi went is called Fajiu Mountain, which is the southern source of many water flows in the Shangdang area, and it is this water that flows from Fajiu Mountain in Changzi County and is injected into the water of the Zhanghe River. And because the local people read Nuwa's merit of governing the Zhanghe River, so they are worshiped as the god of the Zhanghe River, this water flows east to Changzhi, turns to the north, passes through the suburbs of Changzhi, the west of Lucheng and then enters Xiangyuan County, and joins other water sources in Gancun. It's a beautiful place. It is very normal for General Leyi to stay and forget to return. ”

Only then did Xu Ji realize that the legend of Nuwa actually came from here, and he couldn't help but be moved and praised two sentences.

Zhang Hu said with a smile: "In fact, there are many myths and legends of the Shangdang, such as Tiantai Mountain, which is the place where 'Nuwa mends the sky'. Sanjun Mountain is the place where 'Yi shoots for nine days', and Baigu Mountain, Sheep's Head Mountain, and Liling are the places where Shennong's tastes a hundred grains, teaches farming, and builds a 'Qi country', especially the Baigu Mountain, which winds and falls. Towering green and stacked, the momentum is magnificent, Taihang, Wangwu Mountain are connected with it. Left behind the myth of Yugong moving mountains. There is also the legend of 'Jingwei reclamation' in this Fajiu Mountain, and Lucheng is the fief of Ginseng Lu, the descendant of Emperor Yan. That Pingshun Aozhi Village, Lucheng Dayu Mountain has the "Yu traces" and legends of "Dayu to control the water". If you talk about it, then the Shang Dynasty is the Li State. During the Warring States Period, Korea built a separate capital, and it was only in Qin that it was placed in the party county. These sermons are well-founded and reliable. ”

Xu Ji was dumbfounded when he heard this, he didn't expect that the earliest activities of the Chinese nation were concentrated here, and at the same time, he was also secretly sighing in his heart, as one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, this place was actually looked down upon by foreigners in all dynasties, and it was attacked by foreigners from time to time, which was really a shame for the Chinese nation.

While speaking, everyone has come to the hill where the battle took place last night, at this time Xu Ji and others are in the ancient platform flat uplift, shaped like an "iron", the landscape is peculiar, at this time Zhang Hu said: "This place is said to be built by Danzhu, the eldest son of King Yao, so this city is called the city of the eldest son." ”

Xu Ji looked at this raised platform, but his heart was full of emotion, as a person from later generations, of course, he had long known this place, so it was impossible to command the battle so easily in last night's battle, it was this platform in front of him, which was demolished by the Japanese during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in later generations, and it was a great shame for my Han nation.

However, Xu Ji firmly believes that now that he is here, he must not let this happen again.

Thinking of this, Xu Ji couldn't help but sigh and said: "Go to the party, and the sky is the party, how can you give it to the Huns?" ”

At this moment, Zhang Hu still had the pride in his heart when Xu Ji told him last night that he wanted him to go to the Western Regions, and nodded and said excitedly, "That's right!" Feng Fengshi, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, is a native of Licheng, Jingbian Anbang, and his achievements will go down in history. That's how it should be! ”

Xu Ji glanced at Zhang Hu and nodded, but he was thinking that this place is not all heroes, as if the Empress Dowager Cixi, who was a disaster to the country and the people of the Qing Dynasty, was born in Changzhi and spent her childhood here. This can be regarded as a discredit to this place.

Zhang Hu concluded at this time: "That's why I said that the lord is eloquent and strategic, rare in the world, and our capture of the eldest son city is really the most critical point in the entire Shangdang campaign, as long as the eldest son city is in my hands, then Tunliu, Lucheng, and Huguan are all in the hands of our army, and Zhang Yang has absolutely no way to escape." If you flee north to Xiangyuan, you are afraid that you will be killed by General Gao Shun in Lao Yeling. So as long as I stick to the city of the eldest son, it will be tantamount to a problem for Zhang Yang's henchmen. ”

Xu Ji said with a smile: "Or you Zhang Hu knows me, I mean exactly this, now Zhang Yang has always thought that we are Yu Fuluo's people, and he has been holding on for so long because he is afraid that our 'Yu Fuluo's army will repeat its old tricks and lure them out of the city, and now we have stormed the city of the eldest son, Zhang Yang must be shocked inexplicably, he must now be very afraid that Yu Fuluo's army will come here and enter the city smoothly, using this as a breakthrough to capture Shangdang." So Zhang Yang will already make a desperate decision to take the eldest son city. In this way, we will contain a lot of Zhang Yang's troops, and the movement of Gao Shun's army will be much faster. ”

Everyone nodded yes when they heard this.

At this time, Le Yi ran up excitedly. With a mysterious face, he said, "Lord, do you know what we found?" ”

Xu Ji smiled: "What can you find?" Can you still find dinosaurs? ”

Le Yi was stunned and said, "What dinosaurs?" Then he was not interested and said, "Forget it, lord." You'd better come with me. ”

Xu Ji led everyone down this hill and followed Leyi out of the eldest son city. When they came to a village not far away, when Xu Ji and the others entered, they saw a lot of people gathered there in front of them, talking about it.

Xu Ji and the others walked in in a crowd, and they were immediately startled, only to see a collapse in front of them, and in the collapse, a pillar-like thing was exposed, all yellow. It's mottled on it.

Depend on! Make no mistake! What did they find? I'm afraid that dinosaur fossils will be discovered.

With Xu Ji's eyesight, he could immediately judge that this was a fossil at all, and it was a fossil of an ancient tree.

How could such a thing be? When I asked, I realized that it was a natural collapse.

However, the opinions of the villagers were not as excited as Xu Ji, according to them, it was a symbol of evil. And there was a scared look on his face.

Xu Ji didn't care so much, and threatened these villagers first, telling them not to move, otherwise there would be disaster. Of course, the villagers were so frightened that they nodded their heads in agreement.

Xu Ji laughed secretly in his heart: To deal with a superstition, the best way is to make people believe in a new superstition.

It's just that Xu Ji doesn't know that because of him, the fossil group in the Shangdang area of the later world has been well preserved. In later generations, in Wuxiang, Tunliu and other places in the Shangdang area. Fossils of paleovertebrates, complete dinosaur skeletons, fossils of saber-toothed elephants of the Yellow River, fossils of rhinoceros, three-toed horses and other animals, as well as fossils of fish, dinosaur eggs, ostrich eggs, ancient leaves and other animals and plants have been found. and even three Paleolithic cultural sites. This can be regarded as a small contribution made by Xu Ji to China.

However, now Xu Ji didn't expect that there were so many, he only had one idea. Shangdang, and Bingzhou, this place has too much magic, and you have to protect this place well!

Subsequently, Xu Ji began to deploy in the city of the eldest son.

Standing on the wall of the eldest son city, Xu Ji felt the strong defense capability of the eldest son city, and felt that he was a little lucky to be able to successfully take the city in the cold weapon era.

Not to mention the city wall, just the defense tools prepared in the eldest son city are complete and abundant, which makes Xu Ji and the others feel very relieved.

Bows and arrows, rolling logs and stones, flying stones, and huge crossbows for defending the city...... The whole nine yards.

Le Yi sighed on the side: "The most powerful thing in this is this city guarding crossbow." It's a pity that these repeaters are fixed and can't be moved at will, otherwise they will be able to attack the enemy at different angles, and the power will be doubled! Everyone nodded in agreement.

When Xu Ji heard Le Yi's words, he couldn't help but have an idea, and exclaimed, "I thought of it." ”

Everyone looked over in amazement, not understanding what Xu Ji was thinking.

Xu Ji smiled: "Have you ever thought about flattening the bottom of this repeater, and then loading the wheel under him?" In this way, isn't it possible to move at will? ”

Everyone was refreshed when they heard this, and they all admitted that this was a good idea, but Zhao Gaofeng, who was on the side, shook his head and said: "The problem is that the wheel of the car can only move but cannot rotate, and it is very bulky......"

Xu Jiha said with a smile: "You said the wheels of ordinary ox carts and carriages, right?" Have you forgotten that this problem does not exist in our carriages in Yanzhou? ”

Only then did everyone remember, nodding yes, Zhang Hu said excitedly: "I'll go to the city now to find his mother's batch." There will definitely be a carriage from Yanzhou in the big family in this eldest son city. Just bring the carriage, unload the wheels, and simply modify it. ”

Leyi shouted, "I'll go too!" ”

Xu Ji nodded, then turned his head and looked out of the city, waiting for Zhang Yang's arrival.

Sure enough, Zhang Yang was immediately shocked when he heard the news that the soldiers who fled back to his territory told him that the eldest son city had been captured, of course he knew the importance of the eldest son city of Lu Dao, and what he was most afraid of was that Yu Fuluo's army drove straight in, so he immediately began to transfer people from the various defended counties and began to besiege the eldest son city, naturally hoping to take the eldest son city before the arrival of the Fuluo army.

At this time, Yu Fuluo had already received the news from the eldest son city, and his heart was ecstatic. I want to turn around and attack Zhang Yang.

As a result, he was stopped by Xu Huang, and Xu Huang made a statement to Yu Fuluo. He believes that he should not attack Zhang Yang now, but should continue to adhere to the original plan. Ambush Wang Kuang's army in the middle of the road. Xu Huang's reason was because the Eldest Son City was taken, and Zhang Yang would definitely send someone to inform Wang Kuang, asking him to march day and night, rush to Shangdang, and block Yu Fuluo, who was taking for granted in Zhang Yang's mind and was heading to the Eldest Son City. After Wang Kuang got the news, he would definitely march in a hurry, and he would definitely not prevent the enemy who might appear on the way, so Yu Fuluo could completely eliminate Wang Kuang first, and then turn his head and calmly advance to the party.

Yu Fuluo thought so, so he settled down and ambushed in the middle of the road. Prepare to ambush Wang Kuang.

In only two days, Zhang Yang sent troops from all walks of life to surround the eldest son, Gucheng. Begin a desperate siege of the city.

However, Xu Ji's subordinates were well organized and calmly responded to the battle.

Zhang Yang first sent generals to rush the city, but only half of the way out of the city was shot and killed by the huge crossbows used to defend the city.

The enemy was horrified to find that the huge repeaters in the city of the eldest son seemed to be enchanted, and they could change their angles at will, so that attacks on the various walls were hindered. This undoubtedly discouraged them from storming the city with the courage of flesh and blood.

Even more worrisome is the fact that the enemies in the city not only have such huge repeaters. There are also strong bows and crossbows with a long range, far beyond their cognitive range. There are even many soldiers who died inexplicably under this strong bow.

However, Zhang Yang's army still relied on the strength of the crowd and forcibly rushed to the city wall, only to be horrified to find countless crossbow arrows shooting from the city wall. Judging by the number of crossbow arrows, the defenders in the city will definitely not be less than 20,000 people.

Zhang Yang was so angry that he immediately arrested the soldiers who had fled back from Eldest Son City a few days ago. Collectively beheaded on the grounds that they had misrepresented the military situation. "What, only a few thousand?"

These people died unjustly, including Zhang Yang. Who would have thought that there would be a system of two crossbows for one person in the world? I wouldn't have thought that Xu Ji also made the so-called repeating crossbow, although it may not be as good as the one that Zhuge Liang made later, but by virtue of the geographical advantage, even if the power is greatly reduced, it is enough to deter the besieging troops of Zhang Yang.

In this way, the offensive of Zhang Yang's army immediately slowed down, and since there were so many people in the city, where could they still be moved?

Zhang Yang's general Chang Lin proposed to return the other way, and suggested that Zhang Yang send people to attack people from the hill in the north, Zhang Yang thought so, and sent people to attack the hill at night, Chang Lin and Chang Yu personally led the men and horses to attack.

Who knew that Xu Ji had already prepared, and had already sent heavy troops to guard it here, but as a result, a huge repeater and sniper crossbows shot the sneak attack troops.

Chang Lin and Chang Yu were both killed.

And Zhang Yang attacked the eldest son city here. Gao Shun's army began to suddenly exert force, and captured Zhan County in one fell swoop, Zhang Yang's general Yang Chou wanted to escape, but was attacked by his henchmen behind his back, and beheaded Yang Chou's head to Gao Shun.

After Gao Shun's army captured Zhan County, it did not rest for a moment, and took advantage of the victory to attack the northern counties of Shangdang.

Yushe, Wuxiang, and Qinxian were conquered one after another.

At the same time, good news also came from Yu Fuluo, and Wang Kuang's army was ambushed in Zhongdu, Jingling, and Jiexiu.

Wang Kuang's army suffered heavy losses, but Wang Kuang's army was obviously not comparable to Zhang Yang's army, and in this case, it was still in danger, and broke through after the most rear, showing extremely strong fighting quality, which surprised Xu Ji, who later asked Xu Ji to hear the news.

Judging from this situation, there must be talents under Wang Kuang's hands, but Xu Ji really can't think of who is under Wang Kuang, a passer-by of the Three Kingdoms in history.

Wang Kuang's army went all the way to the south, but he definitely did not mean to rescue Zhang Yang, but ran directly out of Bingzhou and returned to Sizhou and Hedong County, Wang Kuang's base camp to restore his strength.

Of course, the news of the rout of Wang Kuang's army made Zhang Yang panic. He didn't expect that the powerful reinforcements he had hoped for day and night would be so easily routed by the enemy.

Now Zhang Yang's only choice is to return to the party's place of governance.

Zhang Yang then began to withdraw his troops and ordered reinforcements from the defenders of Gaoping and Lingchuan.

But Zhang Ji didn't expect that Gao Shun's army would not give him this opportunity at all, and carried out a blocking battle on the way to Zhang Yang's return to the army, but Gao Shun's army did not eliminate Zhang Yang in one fell swoop, but surrounded but not annihilated. The intention is even more obvious, that is, to surround the point and send reinforcements.

This is the so-called yang conspiracy, Zhang Ji's identity is destined to the defenders dare not abandon it, so the defenders of Tunliu saw Zhang Yang in an embarrassment, and immediately sent troops to rescue, Gao Shun's army deliberately showed weakness, dragged the defenders of Tunliu, and always gave the army of Tunliu the feeling that they could immediately break the siege.

At this moment, Yu Fuluo's army began to rush towards the city of the eldest son.

At the same time, Xu Ji's army, which had been pretending to be the Fuluo army watching the fire from across the river, suddenly poured out of the nest and began to attack Tunliu City. It only took half a day to take Tunliu City.

The defenders of Tunliu City had no choice but to flee south, but they were attacked by the few remaining troops of the Eldest Son City in the middle of the road, and they were even more panicked. In this way, most of the scattered soldiers were naturally absorbed by Xu Ji's army.

After a series of battles, Xu Ji had collected more than 10,000 soldiers from Zhang Yang's hands.

Xu Ji directly handed over these captives to Yan Rou and asked him to train these people.

Yan Rou knew that these people were the foundation of his future expedition to Youzhou to conquer the Qiang people, nodded solemnly, and immediately began to train these people.

At the same time, Gao Shunli used the encirclement point to send reinforcements, and easily defeated the defenders transferred by Zhang Yang from Gaoping and Lingchuan, and Zhang Yang also fought to break through at any cost, and escaped from the encirclement after paying heavy casualties, and fled to Jincheng with the remnants of the army, but this was naturally a slump.

At this time, Xu Ji and Gao Shun staged a play for Yu Fuluo, Xu Ji's defenders in Tunliu pretended to provoke Gao Shun's army, Gao Shun's army pretended to be angry, and divided his troops to surround Tunliu and Changzi City, claiming to take revenge.

Yu Fuluo was overjoyed when he heard the news, because according to the letter of "Yuan Shu" brought by "Yuan Huang", as long as the Gaoshun troops of Yanzhou County were eliminated, the state would be his world in Fuluo.

Now that Gao Shun's army is all focused on the eldest son city and tunliu, and he doesn't care about him in Fuluo, how can he not be ecstatic?

Therefore, when I heard the news, I rushed overnight.

The battlefield of Bingzhou has finally reached its last moment. (To be continued......)