The 50,000-strong army under the command of Badun frantically launched an offensive against the city of Beiping on the right side of Lu. If someone could stand in mid-air and look down, they would be shocked by the brutal scene in front of them.

50,000 people, not much, but not much. When 50,000 people lined up in formation and launched an attack in the same direction, the feeling was undoubtedly extremely shocking. Youbeiping, which was frantically attacked by 50,000 rebels, was like a majestic ancient beast, opening its mouth to ruthlessly devour the invading rebels, absorbing their souls, and then spitting out their bones.

After the battle lasted for more than two hours, Zhang Liao came to Xun Yu's side covered in blood: "Sir, can you start?" ”

Xun Yu observed the battlefield carefully for a while, and said slowly: "After holding on for an hour, an hour, act according to the plan." ”

Hearing that he would have to hold on for another hour, Zhang Liao hesitated a little: "But sir, now the army of Badun is crazy, and every moment our army insists on, it will have to pay the price of blood!" As the first general to follow Ao Lie, Zhang Liao knew that the army of Youbeiping was the capital of Ao Lie's future pacification of the Quartet, and all of them were good hands, if according to the current situation, if they held out for an hour, I am afraid that there would be great casualties, which was not what Zhang Liao was willing to see.

Xun Yu saw Zhang Liaodi's hesitation, but now he didn't have time to explain, so he simply said directly: "General Wenyuan will go to supervise the battle quickly, and Yu will be responsible for all the consequences." ”

Out of trust in Xun Yu, Zhang Liao didn't know what to say, and turned to leave.

Under the city, Ton looked at the city wall of Beiping on the right, and said grimly: "Damn, what kind of battle is this fighting?" If it weren't for the order of King Qiao, I would never have fought such a grievance battle! Pass on my order, tell the sons and daughters to work harder, after the city is broken, everyone can plunder the city for three days! ”

Badun was also a little anxious, so he threw out such a bombshell as a bombshell that he plundered for three days at will, hoping to re-inspire the courage of the soldiers and strive to take Youbeiping.

As soon as the order was conveyed, everyone who heard this order with a bounty became excited, and it seemed that their bodies were filled with infinite strength, and they screamed desperately to launch a more fierce attack on Beiping. Groups of rebels climbed the ladder one after another, hoping to give birth to wings and fly to the top of the city.

After all, there are only 30,000 Han troops in the right Beiping, after ten days of perseverance, more than 4,000 people have been killed in battle, and then minus those who were seriously injured and can not fight again, now there are only more than 20,000 Han troops on the city wall, facing the onslaught of 50,000 rebels, and gradually some are powerless. Some places where the troops were weak began to be broken through by the rebels, and they climbed to the head of the city to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Han army.

Seeing that the rebels began to climb the city in small groups, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and other generals commanded the soldiers under their jurisdiction to encircle and suppress the rebels who climbed to the city, and the two sides fought at the head of the city. The Han army formed a small battle formation, and three axemen and three pikemen were combined to fight the rebels to the death.

A rebel had just ascended to the top of the city, and before he could see the form in front of him, he was cut by a Han saber and axeman, who let go of his weapon, covered his throat with both hands, and his eyes widened unwillingly, and then he saw a Han spearman dodge behind the axeman, stabbed himself off the city with a shot, and then he lost consciousness and fell into endless darkness. The body of the rebel fell from the top of the city, knocking down three or four rebels who were climbing the ladder along the way, and finally fell to the ground like the rebels who were smashed by his corpse, turning into meatloaf.

After fighting, the Han army gradually regained its inferiority and drove all the rebels who climbed the city wall, whether alive or dead, from the city. After the fierce battle, the Han soldiers at the head of the city breathed a sigh of relief, but just when the Han soldiers wanted to celebrate, the rebels under the city launched an outlaw offensive again!

This time the offensive was even more fierce than the last, as Bunton made a jaw-dropping decision: all the cavalry dismounted and attacked the city with the Synchronists! It is important to know that the cost of cultivating a cavalry is much higher than that of cultivating infantry, and the cost of cultivating cavalry is often more than five times that of infantry! In other words, a cavalry of a thousand men is worth more than an infantry army of five thousand! No one has ever been willing to let the cavalry abandon their horses and mix with the infantry to launch a battle, which is simply a tyrannical thing!

Badun sent all his men and horses out to attack the city, and such a crazy move brought great pressure to the Han army defending the city. To make matters worse, the city's stockpiles of rolling wood and other equipment are running out. Once there is no support for defending the city with sharp weapons such as rolling wood, thunder stones, and fire oil, the Han army will fall into the dilemma of defending the city with swords and guns, etc., in that case, the situation will be very unfavorable.

Looking at the dense rebels climbing on the city wall, Jia Xu suddenly came to Zhang Liao, who was closest to him, and said in a low voice: "There is fire oil on the city wall and the ground nearby, and the corpses of those rebels are said to be easily ignited. ”

Zhang Liao glanced at Jia Xu, and then suddenly realized that he really didn't expect that the oil could be used like this. When defending the city before, the Han army had spilled a large amount of fire oil, resulting in the remnants of fire oil everywhere under the city walls. But the effect of those fire oil is to burn and burn the rebels and hinder them from attacking the city, after Jia Xu's reminder, Zhang Liao immediately understood that fire oil can be ignited with torches! Zhang Liao immediately ordered his soldiers to light hundreds of torches and threw them all down the city wall.

As soon as they landed, some torches ignited the corpses that had been eroded by the fire oil at the landing point, and some of the torches fell directly on the remaining fire oil, or spread with a hula, igniting the remaining fire oil and corpses connected nearby, and of course some torches did not fall to the open space and did not cause the slightest spark.

Seeing that the torches could ignite the oil that was poured out, the rest of the Han soldiers also understood, under the unified command of Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, the Han soldiers set fire to everything that could ignite the city, and then threw it down the city wall. In an instant, the fires under the city were connected, and the flames burned everywhere to their heart's content, and the more they burned, the more vigorous they became. Some of the flames also jumped up the rebels' ladders and began to burn from the bottom to the top, not only causing burns to the rebels on the ladders, but most importantly, burning down part of the rebels' ladders, fundamentally curbing the rebels' siege path. The burned ladder made a tooth-aching creak, and the rebels on the ladder fell headlong into the sea of fire, and the rebels who had no time to react were immediately swallowed up by the sea of fire, and only had time to let out a series of screams and wails.

The rebels who were climbing on the ladder were frightened when they saw the miserable condition of their comrades, and tried to retreat from the ladder, but the ladder was so wide that at most two people could only crawl side by side. Some people jumped directly from the ladder and tried to escape from the fire, but those who were closer to the ground successfully ran out, but those who were high from the ground were screaming again and again.

There were also some rebels who did not have time to climb the ladder, shouting and wanting to retreat, but they were blocked by the fire, and seeing that the fire was about to burn completely, some of the rebels who were lucky enough to find the weaker part of the fire and escaped; Other rebels, seeing that they were surrounded by flames, simply relented, risking being burned to death, and threw themselves through the flames in an attempt to return to their camp.

The fire under the city burned quickly and fiercely, causing a large number of casualties to the rebels, and also burning a part of the ladder, which was a huge blow to the morale of the rebels.

But just by burning the corpses with fire oil, the fire is bound to not last long, just like a rootless duckweed and a castle in the air. In less than half an hour, the fire gradually stopped. Only a blackened corpse remains, symbolizing the arrival of the violent Flame Monarch.

A fire played two roles, the first was to achieve the operational plan formulated by Xun Yu and successfully delay the offensive momentum of Badun; The second effect is to completely anger Badun.

From the time the fire began to burn, he gave the order to suspend the siege, and then stood in the carriage, looking at the sudden fire under the city with an iron face, and witnessed his soldiers struggling and howling in the fire one after another, and finally burned to death. According to rough estimates, the fire killed at least a thousand of his men, and countless others were burned.

Therefore, Gatton was completely furious, and after the fire stopped, Bunton gave the order to launch a general attack. The whining of trumpets sounded again violently, and this time, without making any adjustments, he threw all his forces into battle.

In addition to his anger, another reason that forced Bunton to make such a decision was that the King of Cliffs had just sent someone to inform him that he would take Youbeiping before sunset tomorrow at the latest! Obviously, on the Jijun side, King Qiao also suffered a big loss, so he was in such a hurry to gather men and horses in order to save the battle.

Under the dual effect of the encouragement and heavy reward of the rebels, the rebels regained a certain level of morale and began a new round of offensive battles. The rebels re-erected the ladder and climbed desperately. Under the leadership of Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others, the Han army kept shooting arrows at the head of the city, and sent powerful soldiers to push down the ladder.

Looking at the reaction of the Han army, a hint of joy appeared in his eyes, and he said to the henchmen beside him: "See, after these days of perseverance of the Han army, the materials and equipment in the city have been almost consumed, not only are the rolling wood and thunder stones exhausted, but even the arrows shot are so sparse." ”

The henchman said with a smile: "If you want to say that this group of Han troops is really tough enough, it is completely different from the Han army elsewhere, and fortunately, it is the leader that you came to attack the city, and if you change the other leaders of the clan, I am afraid you may not be able to defeat it." ”

Badun smiled and said, "You kid is easy to use with this mouth." Hurry up, pass on my order, and let the brothers take Youbeiping in one go, and go to the city for dinner. ”

After another moment of fighting, Xun Yu nodded slightly to Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao understood what Xun Yu meant, so he took out the white flag that had been prepared for a long time, walked to the battlement of the city wall, raised the white flag, and shouted to the city: "Leader of Badun, don't fight, we surrender——! ”

The henchman who had been standing by Badun's side ran over to confirm it, then returned to Badun's side and said with a smile: "Chief, the Han army is about to surrender." ”

He snorted coldly, got out of the carriage, came to a war horse, turned over and got on the horse, and then came to the foot of Youbeiping City under the protection of the guards. Looking at Zhang Liao at the head of the city, he suddenly raised his voice and asked, "Who are you?" Can you do the lord of the Han army? ”

Zhang Liao pretended to be helpless and said: "A certain is Zhang Liao of Yanmen, and a certain person has the final say on the affairs in the city." ”

After hearing Zhang Liao's self-report, his heart was clear. He had long known that Zhang Liao was Ao Lie's most trusted general, and in Ao Lie's absence, Youbeiping was indeed Zhang Liao's oldest qualification, so he took it for granted that Zhang Liao could be the master of the house. And the real fact is that although Ao Lie trusts Zhang Liao, he knows how to make good use of people, and before leaving, he temporarily handed over the power of Youbeiping to Xun Yu, which was unexpected.

Despite this, the always cautious and cautious Bun Dun still asked: "How many people and horses, how much grain and grass, and how many people are still in Youbeiping City now?" The reason why he asked this question is to confirm whether Zhang Liao has the final say in this right Beiping, and if Zhang Liao can answer it smoothly, then there is no problem; If not, it means that Zhang Liao is cheating.

What can be thought of by Bundun, how could Wang Zuozhicai, Xun Yu, and the poisoner Jia Xu not think of it? The two had already discussed a number, neither too much nor definitely a lot, more afraid of being suspicious, less afraid of abandoning it. When Zhang Liao heard Badun's question, he secretly said in his heart that Xun Yu and Jia Xu were like gods, and said loudly: "Chief, there are still 8,000 soldiers in the city; 120,000 grains of grain and grass; It has a population of 16,082 households. Now that the grain and grass have been sealed, a certain person has been sent to deliver it to the gate of the city, and the chief will be asked to enter the city to count it later. ”

Hearing Zhang Liao's answer, he suddenly relieved himself and said loudly: "In this case, you let the soldiers in the city throw all their weapons off the city wall, and then open the city gate." ”

Zhang Liao obeyed his words and ordered the soldiers on the city wall to throw all the weapons in their hands down the city wall, and then slowly opened the city gate.