At noon, after the Youzhou army had a full meal, they began to walk out of the camp in the order of the queue. Under the command of the commanders, they were arranged in a neat array. Everyone's body was full of murderous aura, and their eyes were staring at the city wall of Yuyang. Their commander, Ao Lie, gave the order for the entire army to assemble and prepare for the siege.

Yuyang City has four city gates, southeast, northwest and northwest. The county soldiers from all over the country and the men and horses of the right Beiping were mixed together, divided into two groups to feint the east and west gates of Yuyang, Ao Lie led the main force to attack the south gate, leaving only the north gate without besiegement, forming a siege of the entire Yuyang City. In doing so, Ao Lie also accepted Jia Xu's opinion, and deliberately vacated the north gate to prevent the rebels in the city from fighting the trapped beasts. At the same time, the other three city gates of Yuyang all lead to the counties of Youzhou, and only the direction of the north gate leads to Wuhuan. Ao Lie was also afraid that after Zhang Ju's army was defeated, he would wander to the counties of Youzhou and harm the people, so he vacated the north gate so that Zhang Ju had a way to escape. As for if Zhang Ju can escape to Wuhuan after the defeat, whether the Wuhuan people will kill Zhang Ju to avenge their king is not within the scope of Ao Lie's thinking.

Looking up at the noon sky, the sun scattered with dazzling light, Ao Lie couldn't help but sigh softly again: "One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither" Jia Xu behind Ao Lie heard this, and was just about to step forward to persuade Ao Lie to say a few words, wanting Ao Lie to focus on the overall situation, but saw that Ao Lie suddenly seemed to be a different person, and the compassionate look on his face disappeared without a trace in an instant, replaced by endless ruthlessness and killing. Obviously, Ao Lie has automatically adjusted his mind and brought himself into the role of battlefield commander.

This is also where Jia Xu deeply admires Ao Lie, no matter when and where, no matter what happens, Ao Lie will not guarantee that he will not make any mistakes, but Ao Lie seems to be able to quickly adjust his mentality and get back on the right track.

Reaching out and pulling down the dragon mask on the helmet, after the hideous dragon head statue, Ao Lie's cold voice came: "Order, siege!" ”

At the same time, in the so-called palace built by Zhang Ju privately in Yuyang City, people were already panicking, and the palace maids and attendants were whispering, discussing how to save their lives. The name of the little overlord Ao Lie, who doesn't know it on the ground in the entire Youzhou? Want to rely on the 50,000 soldiers in the city, trying to keep Yuyang City under the 100,000 army commanded by Ao Lie, what is the difference between it and the Arabian Nights?

As Zhang Ju's palace powerhouse, there were originally more than 50,000 horses in this area, but since Zhang Ju ascended the throne and became emperor, he took his life very seriously, so he scattered his 300,000 military horses to various places to form an iron bucket array to protect his old nest Yuyang. Who would have expected that he would be overwhelmed by Ao Lie all the way, and within three days, most of Zhang Ju's soldiers and horses were scattered in the three counties of Lianke, and now Zhang Ju can't do it even if he wants to take back the scattered people and horses.

What's more, Zhang Ju had no intention of taking back the soldiers and horses at all. After becoming the emperor, Zhang Ju lived a life of glittering wine and wine every day, and died drunk and dreamed of dying in the wine pond and meat forest. Zhang Ju ignored all the affairs of the outside world, and handed them all over to the prime minister he canonized. However, this prime minister was originally an incompetent person, relying on nepotism to marry his sister to Zhang Ju as a concubine, coupled with all kinds of sycophancy means, won Zhang Ju's favor, the news of the defeat in front was detained by this prime minister and concealed and not reported, so far, Zhang Ju did not know that Lu Dao Ao Lie had come to the city, and only thought that Zhao Yun's suspicious soldiers were clamoring.

As usual, Zhang Ju, supported by four or five delicate maids, staggered towards the garden with a bottle of Zephyr spirits, and every day at noon he would take a nap in the garden. As he walked, Zhang Ju suddenly heard several guards not far in front of him talking in a low voice.

"Have you heard, there are 100,000 troops attacking the city outside the city?"

"Hey, that's not all, do you know who is the leader of the army? The famous little overlord Ao Lie! ”

"It's over, I'm afraid our lives won't be saved."

"If I want to say it, it is not necessarily, if Yuyang City can be defended, we will defend it; If we can't hold it, we will surrender, Ao Hussars have never killed prisoners of war, haven't the brothers in Yongnu and other three counties been released. ”

"Yes, yes, what Lao Zhang said is reasonable."

Zhang Ju listened to the conversation of the guards, and unspeakable despair suddenly rose in his heart, a cold sweat instantly overflowed from his back, and the brain that was anesthetized by the wine also cleared up a lot. Stretching out his hand and pulling out his sword, Zhang Ju pushed away the maid who was supporting him, walked quickly to the guards, and shouted angrily: "Thief! Lone is not thin on you, why are you spreading rumors and messing with our army's heart! "Because Zhang Ju claimed to be the emperor privately, he didn't dare to call me me, but called him lonely.

Several guards saw Zhang Ju coming violently, so frightened that they hurriedly knelt on the ground and said: "Shengshang, we are not talking nonsense, Ao Lie did come with an army of 100,000, I am afraid that this will already start to attack the city, if you don't believe it, the Shengshang can ask the prime minister, the prime minister knows about this matter." ”

After listening to the explanations of several guards, Zhang Ju, as a generation of heroes, suddenly understood that it must be his prime minister and brother-in-law who was greedy for life and afraid of death to conceal the military situation. "Thief, I'm angry!" Zhang Ju shouted angrily, and then he didn't care about anything else, he raised his sword and ran in the direction of the city wall, he wanted to see with his own eyes whether the Ao Lie, who was powerful in the northern Xinjiang, was really here.

When Zhang Ju took a team of personal guards and galloped to a place dozens of steps away from the south city gate, he heard the shouting of killing outside the north gate, Zhang Ju's heart immediately sank, he had vaguely determined that there were indeed people attacking the city, and there were quite a few people, otherwise the sound of shouting and killing would not have been so loud into the city. can respond to the boundary of Youzhou, except for Ao Lie, who is in the limelight, Zhang Ju can't think of anyone else. From this, it can be concluded that the siege should be Ao Lie.

Suddenly, a boulder slashed across the city wall, and then, with inertia, smashed straight down towards where Zhang Ju and the others were. One of the guards reacted quickly, and hurriedly pulled the reins of Zhang Ju's war horse to the side to avoid it, and just barely ran out of the coverage of the boulder, he heard a dull rumbling sound accompanied by a violent tremor of the earth, and the boulder smashed into the place where Zhang Ju was originally standing with a whistling, and several guards who followed behind Zhang Ju didn't even have time to snort, they were smashed into the ground, smashed into a pair of minced meat, and sporadic minced meat splashed out and splashed onto Zhang Ju's face.

When the dust dissipated, Zhang Ju stood stunned on the spot, and asked slowly, "This, what is this?" Where did it come from? ”

The guard who pulled him away swallowed a mouthful of saliva, touched the dust off his face, and replied in shock: "This may be a boulder thrown by a stone-throwing machine under Ao Lie's command." ”

"How is that possible? Can a catapult shoot such a distance? Zhang Ju roared angrily.

The guard didn't speak, but he was thinking in his heart, is there any miracle in the body of the little overlord Ao Lie that he can't do?

The guard guessed correctly, the boulder that almost killed Zhang Ju just now was the boulder that Shi Jian commanded the sergeant to throw with a stone thrower. At this moment, the men and horses under the command of Ao Lie have begun a full-scale siege of the city, and the boulder just now is Shi Lian covering for Pang De, who is playing the striker.

As in the attack on the previous counties, it was still Pang De who led the infantry to rush to the front, and Shi Jian used a stone thrower and arrow tower to suppress the rebels on the city wall in the rear, creating conditions for Pang De to approach the city wall. It's just that because Ma Dai stayed in Yongnu, in the center of the queue, the person who commanded the archers was replaced by Huang Zhong, who was more accurate and ruthless than Ma Dai's archery, and his command was more in place.

After throwing three rounds of boulders, the stone thrower stopped attacking, because Pang De had already quickly approached the city wall of Yuyang with his forward, in order not to be injured by mistake, Shi Jian could only order to stop the projectile. Instead, he began to prepare the sergeants on the arrow tower.

About fifty steps away from the Yuyang city wall, Pang De stopped and commanded his soldiers to start an all-round siege. A team of sergeants rushed to the city wall of Yuyang with the ladder on their shoulders, and then worked together to erect the ladders on the city wall. The sword and axe hand that followed took the sword to his mouth, and then climbed the ladder, alternating his hands and climbing quickly to the top of the city, trying to reach the top of the city in the shortest possible time. Some of the ladders used by Ao Lie's command are also specially improved, and they can accommodate three people to climb at the same time, which greatly reduces the speed of the soldiers under the city to climb to the top of the city, but at the same time, it also increases the risk for the soldiers. This is also a matter of no way, this is what wars are like in ancient times, victories are fought with their lives, Ao Lie has avoided risks as much as possible, but it is by no means that there is no need to take risks at all, even in the later generations, if there is a war, someone will definitely die in battle, which no one can avoid.

Dozens of ladders were erected side by side on the city wall of Yuyang, and countless soldiers worked hard to climb along the ladders, looking down from the sky, these climbing soldiers were densely packed like a colony of ants ascending.

In the face of the dense Han army, the rebels in the city were slightly confused. The reason for the confusion was that the rebels did not agree on the same thing. A considerable number of them were only forced to follow Zhang Ju to rebel out of desperation, and now in the face of the famous Ao Lie commanding an army of 100,000 to come to conquer, these people really lack confidence in their hearts, so they have the idea of surrendering.

However, there are still some of Zhang Ju's diehards, and these diehards are shouting with all their might: "Now the big guy has to fight to the end, otherwise once the city is broken, no one will end well!" Under the cries of these die-hard loyalists, the rebels at both ends of the rat had to be resolute and reluctantly joined the ranks of defending the city. It has to be said that sometimes appropriate psychological suggestion plays a crucial role, especially when the number of people is large, and herd psychology is a very common phenomenon. If someone takes the lead, someone will follow suit.

The rebels picked up the rolling wood and thunder stones that had been piled up on the top of the city to defend the city, and threw them at the ladders erected on the walls. Boulders and logs fell from the top of the city with a roar and great inertia. The Han army, who was climbing on the ladder, was immediately killed and injured by these rolling wood thunder stones. Some of the Han soldiers who were unfortunately hit fell from the ladder with a scream, and fell to the ground from the air with a series of tail notes, until their bodies touched the ground and were smashed into meatloaf, and then they stopped calling. Some Han soldiers didn't even have time to scream, they were hit in the head, and their brains suddenly burst to death, and their bodies fell weakly. The other Han soldiers who were climbing, seeing that the robe Ze, who was still talking and laughing with them yesterday, died on the spot, and at the same time, the anger in their hearts reached the peak, ignoring the rolling wood and thunder stones thrown on the city, and struggled to climb towards the city.

Seeing that the soldiers besieging the city in front of him began to be traumatized, Ao Lie's face hidden behind the dragon mask became gloomy, and he said coldly to the herald beside him: "Tell Shi Lian to put all the arrow towers of our army into the battlefield, and under the condition of ensuring safety, get as close to the city as possible, and teach the rebels a hard lesson to Benhou." ”

The herald who had been waiting for the order next to the Snow Dragon Horse in the Night, after receiving the order from Ao Lie, immediately raised the order flag in his hand, and accurately conveyed Ao Lie's order to Shi Lian half of the battlefield.