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On the ninth day of the first month of April, more than 10,000 dragon and wolf soldiers divided into two roads, mighty and mighty, from the west and south two directions to the north, the soldiers approached Yecheng, and camped five miles away in the southwest.

Although he has seen it many times on the drawings, and even imitated a section of the city wall, when Ma Han stood on the high slope of the horse and overlooked Yecheng, the shock brought to him by this Xiongcheng in Hebei was still quite strong: Guocheng was three zhang high, four zhang thick, and there were urn cities at the four city gates; On the city wall, an enemy tower is placed every fifty steps, and there are more than a dozen horse faces protruding from the city wall, and the four corners are high corner towers; Under the tall city, the surging water flows around the city, and the water surface of the moat is poured into the moat, which is as wide as three zhang; Between Guocheng and Zicheng, there is also an inner city moat with a width of two zhang. Even if the enemy army captures the outer city, it will be stopped by this moat.

On the east, west and south sides of Yecheng, there are triple chest-high sheep and horse walls, and the wood fence is planted on it, and the forest is like a forest. This sheep and horse wall can not only delay the enemy's charging speed, but also arrange soldiers to hide behind the wall and block them with bows and arrows, which is equivalent to adding a perimeter defense. A mile southeast of Yecheng, a gate city with a circumference of half a mile rises from the ground. This kind of Guancheng is equivalent to a miniature version of Yecheng, although it is only one-tenth of the size, it is a purely military walled city, and any attack on the east and south of Yecheng will face the flank attack of this Guancheng, which is quite tricky.

Under normal circumstances, to capture Yecheng, there must be several steps: 1. Clean the periphery. uprooted several small towns in the surrounding area one by one, and destroyed all the triple sheep and horse walls; 2. Drain and fill in trenches to open up offensive channels; 3. Capture Guocheng and then drain and fill the trenches; Fourth, break the sub-city.

Only by completing these four steps can Yecheng be truly broken.

According to the military observer group's deduction, according to the conventional fighting method, at least one to twenty thousand soldiers had to pay for their lives, which took half a year to a year, and millions of stones of grain and grass were indispensable, and all kinds of siege weapons were readily available. Then use the strategy of attacking the heart - in this way, there is a fifty percent chance that the city will be captured.

This is equivalent to saying that if Ma Han hadn't developed a big killing weapon that was enough to destroy the withering and decaying, this battle would not have been fought.

In mid-April, the Dragonwolf Army began to methodically carry out the first step: clearing the perimeter.

Within dozens of miles around Yecheng, there are several satellite cities, Pingyang City in the east, Wucheng in the south, Jiuhou City, Dirty City and so on in the west. Each of these cities had between 1,000 and 2,000 men and horses. You can attack the dragon wolf camp at any time as a surprise soldier.

Ma Han's first step was to take these cities first, that is, to eliminate the threat, and to use them as a stronghold to store food and garrison troops, and to defend against possible enemy reinforcements from the east, west, and north. These cities are about the size of a fortress. But the defense was not as strong as Guancheng, which was a purely military walled city, and the city had far more civilians than garrisons.

The generals sent by Ma Han to attack the city were Zhang He and Gao Lan. The troops led by Zhang He were the strongest euphorbia soldiers in Hebei. Zhang He was originally the commander of the Euphorbia. Now that he is back in charge of the old department, it can be said that there is no hindrance, and he will soon form combat effectiveness. The troops led by Gao Lan. It was more than 1,000 Hebei soldiers who surrendered in the Battle of Guandu.

Obviously, Ma Han sent these two people to seize the city, playing the trick of both political and military affairs. At the same time, Dong Zhao was also temporarily appointed as an envoy and entered Yecheng to try to say that Yuan Shang would be surrendered.

Zhang He and Gao Ran progressed smoothly, and went down to the second city on the fifth day, only to be rejected by the guard general Yin Kui in Pingyang City.

Yin Kui is the veteran of the Yuan Group, and has always been regarded by Yuan Shangyi as a city cadre, and he can be coerced into submission by non-local pressure. So Zhang He and Gao Ran jointly attacked. The attack power of the halberd warriors is strong, and the dragon and wolf besiege Ye City, the defenders are panicked and have no intention of refusing to fight. However, within a few days, there were city gate guards who opened the city gate at night to welcome Zhang and the sophomore general into the city. Yin Kui didn't even have time to put on his boots when he heard the news, so he walked barefoot over the wall, and fled back to Yecheng under the protection of a few henchmen.

Zhang He and Gao Ran succeeded one after another, while Dong Zhao stayed in Yecheng for seven or eight days, and when he finally returned from the city, he was empty-handed. He only brought back Yuan Shang, to be precise, the actual commander of Yecheng at the moment, and summed it up with only one sentence: "Let's see." ”

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In late April, Zhang He and Gao Ran had taken the four surrounding strongholds as originally planned, cut off all escape routes in Yecheng, completed the encirclement, and the battle of attacking Ye officially began.

The breakthrough chosen by Ma Han is Ximen. First, it is close to the big camp, which is convenient for attacking; The second is to avoid Nanguan City.

There is also a half-pull project not far from the West Gate, which is half of the Xiguan City, and the wall is only five feet high, and all kinds of defense facilities have not had time to be prepared, as a result, the Dragon and Wolf Army will attack on a large scale, and the Xiguan City will naturally be abandoned.

At the end of April, the defenders of the west gate of Yecheng found that the enemy had sent hundreds of men armed with pickaxes and shovels to destroy Xiguancheng.

That night, Yuan Shang, Xianpei, Feng Ji and others received a report that the enemy army was moving. The three of them climbed to the top of the city together, and all they heard was the sound of hundreds of people running and the clatter of dumping mud and rocks in the dark night hundreds of paces away. Estimating from the sound distance, it should be at the location of the first sheep and horse wall.

In order to see the situation clearly, and also to prevent the enemy from attacking, the trial asked 300 archers to shoot thousands of rockets. Although most of the rockets went out when they landed, the only remaining sparks were enough to illuminate the scene hundreds of paces – indeed enemy soldiers dumping dirt.

The wooden fence on the sheep and horse wall has been pulled down, and countless servants have poured all the mud and stone clods that demolished the gate city behind the first sheep and horse wall to fill in the high ground, so that the first sheep and horse wall is directly ineffective.

Yuan Shang looked anxious: "The first wall was broken, how can this be good?" Do you want to send troops out of the city to attack and kill the enemy? ”

The judge shook his head: "No need. The dragon wolf army is fast in bow and horse, and it is the best at raiding, and it is really unwise to attack in the dark. Moreover, even if you kill more enemies, you are just a servant, so what good is it? ”

Feng Ji also said: "Even if the Dragon Wolf Army fills in the first sheep and horse wall, what can it do?" Tomorrow I can dig a deep trench into the second wall of sheep and horses, and see how much earth they have to fill. ”

At dawn the next day, the defenders found that all the destroyed soil of the city had been dumped into the sheep and horse wall, and the first sheep and horse wall as high as a human chest had been filled.

Thereupon. In order to prevent the dragon and wolf army from filling the wall again, the defenders dug the second sheep and horse wall into a trench one zhang deep and two zhang wide. Half of the excavated earth is piled up in front and half in the back. It not only raised the front, but also made the wall of the third sheep and horse wall more than one zhang high, increasing the difficulty of the attack.

Yuan Shang was very happy to see it, and Feng Ji was also complacent.

But just before their joy passed, the enemy's next move made everyone scratch their heads - the servants of the dragon wolf army kept picking up a large amount of dirt and rubble, filling in higher and higher. There are also people who use grinding stones to crush back and forth. Since the first sheep and horse wall is more than 200 steps away from Yecheng, bows and arrows and ordinary crossbow arrows cannot be shot, and only some hard-bowed crossbows can reach this range, but who would be stupid enough to shoot these servants with precious strong archers?

In this undisturbed situation, by the beginning of May, a huge earthen platform with a height of five zhang, a width of three zhang, and a length of thirty zhang had been built. Afterwards, the servants erected tall wooden fences. As if to build a walled city, the outside of the wooden fence was covered with lime mud to prevent enemy rockets.

The defenders looked at it one by one. I'm completely confused, I don't know what the Dragon Wolf Army is doing.

The three giants in Yecheng discussed for a long time, and preliminarily determined that this was Ma Han's toddler in Handan. I also want to build a wooden tower of arrows to suppress the Yuan army behind the sheep and horse wall, just like the lord did in the battle of Guandu. I have to say. This trick is indeed ruthless enough. In the end, the three giants unanimously agreed to withdraw all the more than 1,000 soldiers behind the sheep and horse wall, and demolish the wooden fence and other defensive facilities.

The two sides did not send a single soldier to fight, but only used civil engineering to confront each other, and finally the triple sheep and horse wall was completely destroyed, and the defenders were initially defeated.

Although Yuan Jun was deflated, he was not half depressed, but secretly happy. According to this rhythm, if the Dragon Wolf Army wants to break through Yecheng, I am afraid it will be protracted. As long as you survive half a year, as soon as winter comes, the other party must retreat.

Although the dragon and wolf army did not have many troops, but the Yuan army, no one dared to go out of the city to face the battle, and everyone knew that the dragon and wolf horsemen who were killed from the land where the Hu cavalry was raging in Liaodong were strong in field combat were needless to say. No one would be stupid enough to give up the advantage of a fortified city barrier and fight the enemy in the field.

On the ninth day of the fifth month, it has been five days since the Dragon Wolf Army built the wooden fence, and the wooden building arrow tower that Yuan Shang and others thought had not been seen, but the Dragon Wolf Army had stopped working, and this stop was five days. The situation was a bit abnormal, and Lu Weihuang, the general of the West Gate, was uneasy, and sent sentry spies to quietly go out of the city from the north and south gates several times, wanting to get close to find out. As a result, a hundred paces away, he was slashed by the dragon and wolf who came out of nowhere, and he fled in the wilderness, and he never found out what was going on the earth platform and behind the wooden fence.

As soon as the sky was bright, Yuan Shang was woken up by the attendants and reported a piece of information: "The dragon and wolf military camp is brightly lit and the cooking smoke is everywhere, so it is very likely that it will attack if it is buried in the pot so early." ”

Yuan Shang propped his hands on the edge of the couch and was stunned for a while, the situation of being both scared and worried finally came.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the hour, almost the entire battalion of the Dragon Wolf Army was dispatched, and 5,000 cavalry were arrayed two miles away. On the side of the wooden earthen platform, there are at least 1,000 sergeants on standby.

The defenders also began to get busy: a group of soldiers climbed to the top of the city, and entered the enemy towers, women's walls, horse faces, and corner towers, and waited for them. The servants carried the rolling stones and logs to the edge of the city, and piled them up high; A mouthful of large iron pots slipped along the line, the bottom of the pot was blazing, and the hot oil in the pot was boiling. In the meantime, the servants brought buckets of dung juice and poured it into the boiling water, and the whole city was filled with an indescribable stench.

The east wind was blowing, and the thousands of soldiers of the Dragon Wolf Army arrayed in the west were so smoky that they almost vomited out their breakfast. But that's not the most terrible thing, just thinking about the filth that will be poured on the body that is enough to rot flesh and bones, everyone's scalp can't help but tingle.

Lu Weihuang, the guard of the West Gate, was dressed in armor, standing on the gatehouse, and was patting his chest to Xin Bi, the governor of the supervising army, and assuring: "If the enemy army does not come, dare to attack the city, and die as many as he comes, and there are no dead corpses, all of them will be meat sauce......

Before the words fell, a loud bang was suddenly heard from the opposite side, and the busy servants let out a burst of exclamation, interrupting Lu Weihuang's bold words.

Lu Weihuang turned his head in annoyance, and was about to scold, when he suddenly saw a small black dot flying out from behind the wooden fence of the earthen platform on the opposite side, heading straight for the gatehouse. Under the stunned gaze of Lu Weihuang, Xin Bi and the others, the black dot became bigger and bigger, falling from the sky...... (To be continued......)