On the morning of the 29th of the first month, Liu Chong of the Northern Han Dynasty personally rushed to the Longshan camp to preside over the oath meeting.

The prince of the Northern Han Dynasty and Liu Chengjun ascended to the heights and shouted: "This battle is not won, and I vow not to return to the north!" After the most Lu pulled out his sword, cut off his long hair on the spot, threw the long hair into the air, and then raised his sword and swore an oath: "In this battle, the Northern Han Dynasty will definitely fight to the death!" Cheng Jun will fight side by side with every Han warrior, if Cheng Jun is in the battle for timidity, it will be like this, please kill the soldiers on the spot! ”

Liu Chengjun's resolute posture, coupled with a messy hair flying in the cold wind, completely changed the original elegant image in the hearts of the soldiers, and also inspired the blood of a group of soldiers from the depths of their hearts, and shouted in total: "This battle is invincible, and I vow not to return to the north!" ”

After the swearing-in meeting, Liu Chengjun immediately bid farewell to Liu Chong and led the team to set off. Seeing the army marching towards the south in a neat formation, Liu Chong was not idle and began another mobilization. In the past two days, the father and son have repeatedly discussed many times with the important civil and military ministers of the Northern Han Dynasty, and under the strong leadership of Liu Chong, they unanimously decided to expand the scale of the Jinju War again.

Although he didn't show it on the surface, Liu Chong was indeed frightened by Lin Feng's prediction of "Lin Banxian" about the life span of three to ten years in the Northern Han Dynasty, and it was his only remaining son who led the army south, Liu Chong also let go and decided to transfer another 8,000 people from all over the Northern Han Dynasty as a war reserve; At the same time, all the warships and large merchant ships in the country were recruited, and capable generals were sent down the Yellow River and Fen River respectively, to clean up all the Zhou ships, and then patrol along the waterway, while eliminating reinforcements from other places, completely trapping the three states of Xi, Ci, and Jiang, and supporting the Jinju War by waterway.

For a while, there was a lot of noise in the Hefen area, and there was a tense situation.

On 1 February, Liu Chengjun led a 10,000-foot cavalry army to cross the border between the two countries, and then divided his troops into Fengcheng and sent 1 to 2,000 soldiers to surround the small counties along the way.

The news that the Han army divided its troops to surround Jiexiu, Lingshi, Huoyi, Hongdong and other places successively reached the ears of Wang Yan, the envoy of Jinzhou Jiedu, and Wang Yan laughed at the case: "Arrogant child, the army is already weak, and he dares to divide his troops ignorantly, and watch me take the life of Jinzhou City!" ”

It's no wonder that Wang Yan is so confident, Jinju City originally had more than 2,500 soldiers defending the city, and he brought 3,000 elites on this trip, nearly 6,000 people to guard a fortified city, and the puppet Han sent thousands of people to think about taking down the city, isn't it a fantasy?!

Subsequently, Wang Yan pressed the emergency reports of the counties for help and did not mention it, but only ordered the soldiers of Jinzhou City to prepare for war with all their might.

On the afternoon of the third day of the second lunar month, the vanguard of 2,000 cavalry of the Northern Han Dynasty rushed to the east gate of Jinzhou City, camped three miles away from the city gate, and sent a small team of cavalry to patrol the north and south gates of Jinzhou City respectively, and besieged the city on three sides. However, the gates of Jinju City were only closed, and there were not many soldiers patrolling the city walls, and they were all in a state of panic.

Early in the morning of the fourth day of the second lunar month, Wang Yan, who was sleeping soundly in the palace of the Jiedu Mission, was awakened by a rapid knock on the door, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of foreboding in his heart.

Opening the door, one of the captains guarding the east city wall was sweaty, and said eagerly: "The enemy drove a large number of people to gather outside the east gate urn city!" ”

Wang Yan was startled, immediately got up and left the house, and rode straight to the east city gate. When Wang Yan threw off his saddle and dismounted, and hurried up to the tower of the East City Gate, the miserable cry and the scene of the crowd from under the city wall made his body tremble, and he couldn't help but hold on to the railing.

Urn City, also known as Moon City, Quchi, is an ancillary building attached to the city gate in the ancient city, connected with the city wall, mostly semicircular, a few are square or rectangular, the round one is like an urn, so it is called the urn city; Fangzhi is also known as Fangcheng. When the enemy invades the urn city, if the main city gate and the urn city gate are closed, the defenders can form a "turtle in the urn" against the enemy.

Among the ancient Chinese cities, the setting of the urn city flourished during the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty. Because of its extremely important geographical location, Jinju Fortress has a circular urn fortress at the East Gate Gate.

At this time, outside the urn city, a group of ragged people shouted, driven by the fierce Northern Han soldiers, were gathering in front of the urn city, roughly estimated, at least thirty or forty thousand people. From time to time, some of them were beaten to the ground by the soldiers because of their slow steps, and then they would be surrounded and beaten badly, and then they would be driven up and join the slow march. Behind these civilians was an endless array of Han soldiers, at least 8,000 to 10,000 men, all on foot.

"Liu Chengjun, you are so ruthless!" Liu Chong slammed his fist on the railing, and suddenly understood in his heart, while he was hiding troops to show weakness and confusing the other party, others were also confusing themselves! This Liu Chengjun ostensibly divided his troops into various places, but in fact, he just let his own side get the wrong concept of dispersing the troops, and then he must leave a very small number of cavalry to watch the city, and the rest of the troops drove the people along the way from north to south, just today, all of them rushed here, and then drove tens of thousands of people to be victims of the siege, consumed the defensive materials of the defenders, and then took advantage of the chaos to attack the city!

"Why are there only old people, children and women, why don't you see a young man and a strong man?" An aide exclaimed.

The same question also surfaced in Wang Yan's mind, and when he looked closely, he still rarely saw a young man.

It was here that the rapid sound of war drums sounded under the city. The expressions of the groups of Northern Han soldiers became even more vicious, their hands were whipped harder, and their mouths loudly scolded the people to speed up their pace. At the same time, groups of Northern Han soldiers carried long ladders, shields, and siege vehicles, and slowly moved forward not far behind the people.

Knowing that attacking the city was a dead end, but the steel swords, bows and arrows behind them were a more imminent threat, and as the crowd moved forward, the cries became more and more miserable, and bursts of fire reached the ears of the soldiers in the city.

These are all the people of Da Zhou, what should I do? All the Hou Zhou soldiers guarding the urn city and the city wall couldn't help but turn their eyes to the city tower at the gate of the main city, Wang Yan could even feel the hot gaze coming from the surroundings, weighed it in his heart, and ordered again and again:

"Be on alert! No arrows are to be released without an order! ”

"Pull up the gate of the urn city and let the people enter the urn city!"

One order after another was quickly passed on, and all the soldiers at the head of the city were busy.

The gate of the urn city was hung up with a creak, and the people who ran ahead rushed to the door with cheers.

The soldiers on the walls of the city immediately divided into two parts, one of them nervously stretched out their bows to face the outside of the city, and the other part turned their arrows to the inside of the city to prevent these people from mixing with the enemy soldiers.

If you run into the urn city, you will have a chance to live! The thought sustained the people who shouted in fear as they quickened their pace and passed through the doorway like a flood.

The Northern Han soldiers in the rear also stopped, waiting for the people in front to enter the city outside a stone's throw away.

Seeing that most of the soldiers had poured into the urn city, the Hou Zhou soldiers on the city wall shouted, pulled the turntable and put down the gate of the urn city, and several people with weak legs and feet fell behind, and pounced in despair, banging on the gate, and crying in their mouths.

The drums of the attack became more and more urgent, and the Northern Han soldiers suddenly shouted in unison, and rushed under the city wall with all their strength.

The brutal siege battle has officially begun!