In addition to the north gate, there is no moat in Xiangyang City because it is facing the Han River, and the other three sides are protected by moats. The widest part of the moat in Xiangyang is as long as 50 zhang, and it is still difficult to cross the river by the Hao Bridge alone. Therefore, Dayong spared his life and squeezed several large warships into the moat, and then built a Hao bridge, so that the soldiers could cross the river through the Hao bridge.

In addition to the north gate, Pangtu, located in the south of the city, is under the greatest pressure. Not only does he have to guard the south gate, but he can't let the other party occupy Da Xian Mountain. So he personally led the infantry out of the city to meet the battle. Fortunately, his reputation for bravery is outside, and there are not a few generals who have fought with him, especially near Xiangyang, he is almost undefeated, which makes many Dayong generals frightened.

Before Pang Tu led the troops to battle, he raised his arms and shouted: "These powerful people in Dayong have bullied us for so many years, and at this time, we must teach the Yuwen clan to know how powerful we are!" Everyone follow me out of the city to fight the enemy, and if you don't fight to the death, what kind of man are you? ”

The people under his command were aroused by his words, and when they saw him shouting majestically, they responded in unison, and each raised his sword and ran with him outside the city to resist the enemy.

Pang Tu held a spear in his hand, killed soldiers when encountered, and killed generals when encountered, but whenever there was an obstacle in front of him, a few spurs, he would pick people aside. Under his leadership, the soldiers guarding the southern city also showed their housekeeping skills, and fought with Dayong's soldiers one after another, not giving Dayong the slightest chance to get close to the south gate or Da Xian Mountain.

As for the east and west sides of Xiangyang, they can be regarded as open areas. But Bai Qingfeng and Sun Wei used two completely different tactics. Sun Wei was in charge of the Yue cavalry, and was good at using the cavalry as the vanguard, killing all directions, and then using the infantry to sweep the battlefield.

In addition, the east of the city he guarded was the place where Lan Jing'an commanded the cadres to defeat Wu Daoming last time. So he adopted a similar style of play as last time, using offense as a defense, taking the initiative to snipe the enemy outside the city.

And Bai Qingfeng was not keen on going out of the city to face the battle. He is introverted, good at defense, and familiar with all kinds of weapons and equipment to defend the city, so he also adopts the defense of the inner city as the mainstay. He has the least number of Dayong attacking here, but the number of defenders is also the least of the four. So the pressure on him is no less than that of the other three.

However, he did not have masters like Qiu Shaoze and Yin Quan under his command, and the shadow guards were all sent to the north of the city to cooperate with the main battlefield on Lan Jing'an's side. Therefore, he did not choose the same strategy as Lan Jing'an, but saw the opportunity, opened the outer gate of the urn city, and let all the enemy troops enter the urn city.

The enemy army did not expect to enter the urn city so easily, and was ecstatic, trying to break through the inner city gate. Unexpectedly, Bai Qingfeng ordered people to close the outer city gate. Catch turtles directly in the urn, push buckets of boiling oil down the urn city, and then throw down torches to burn the people of Dayong.

Dayong's people saw that they were deceived, where did they care about attacking the inner city gate, and fled outward, and for a while the ghosts cried wolf, and in less than two quarters of an hour, there were only about a hundred or so charred corpses left on the ground of the urn city. Bai Qingfeng hurriedly ordered people to pour the water that had been prepared long ago on the inner courtyard of the urn city and the inner and outer city gates to prevent the city walls and city gates from being burned down.

General Zhang, who was in charge of attacking the west of the city, saw that Bai Qingfeng was scheming, but he hesitated and only dared to use the most traditional method of ant attachment to attack the cadres on the city wall by relying on cloud ladders.

And this time, with the help of the people in Xiangyang City, the cadres and the people poured the buckets of boiling water together, and the Dayong soldiers on the hot ladder fell down one after another.

February 20 in the early years of Yankang was a cruel day for Xiangyang. On this day alone, more than 10,000 people died in Xiangyang City. The Han River is full of fragments of warships, and the moat is even more miserable, with floating corpses appearing in every section of the river.

The north gate defended by Lan Jing'an was the most severely attacked place in the four cities, and layers of corpses were piled up higher and higher under the city walls, and there were also many severed arms and stumps on the city walls. The entire city wall, no matter up or down, was stained with blood everywhere. But Dayong's soldiers were still surging like angry waves, stepping on the corpses of robes and continuing to attack the city.

The battle continued until dark, and although everyone was exhausted, both sides were in a state of madness.

Yuwen Junping thought that it would not be easy to attack Xiangyang, but he didn't expect that he would attack seventy or eighty thousand people at the same time, and he couldn't even break through a city gate. Like an angry lion, he personally led the attack on the eastern part of the city, where the terrain was most open.

Yuwen Junping's arrow wound on his right shoulder, the wound was infected at the beginning, and the condition was serious. Although I have recovered a lot after a month of recuperation, it still hurts to pull up the bow. But at this time, he couldn't care about it, so he personally held a bow and shot an arrow at Sun Wei.

Sun Wei heard how powerful Yuwen Junping's bow horse was, and turned around and fled. With the assistance of the lieutenant of the Tun Cavalry, he was able to escape.

Yuwen Junping was furious in his heart, and he took another arrow, shooting directly at the Tuncai captain who blocked his feather arrow. Before the Captain and Sun Wei could wake up from the panic of the previous arrow, the Captain Tuncai was shot off the horse by Yuwen Junping.

Seeing that the deputy general was shot to the ground, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead, they hurriedly carried the captain of the Tun cavalry and quickly returned to the city to hide. Sun Wei knew that he was not Yuwen Junping's opponent, so he didn't dare to fight, so he led people to retreat to the east gate. and sent someone to ask Lan Jing'an for help.

Lan Jing'an heard that Yuwen Junping personally led people to attack the East Gate, and he didn't dare to be careless. Busy ordered Qiu Shaoze to take the shadow guards over to increase the number of personnel. Qiu Shaoze was a little hesitant, he was afraid that he would leave, and Lan Jing'an would have no one to guard here.

Lan Jing'an didn't care about etiquette at the critical moment, and reprimanded loudly in a hurry: "If the East Gate is broken by Yuwen Junping, you and I will have to die in Xiangyang!" What's the use of you staying by my side any longer! Qiu Shaoze was enlightened, and without saying a word, he led people straight to the east gate for reinforcements. And his place was temporarily replaced by Feng Shen.

In order to give the soldiers at the East Gate more time to arrange, Qiu Shaoze personally took the shadow guard out of the city to face Yuwen Junping. Yuwen Junping is not Qiu Shaoze's opponent, and after killing more than ten rounds, he realized that people like Qiu Shaoze must not be ordinary level figures. Unless they attack in groups, he will lose his life here sooner or later just in such a one-on-one battle.

As soon as Yuwen Junping realized that something was wrong, he immediately retreated behind the layers of guards and changed to attack the city with artillery vehicles. Qiu Shaoze saw that the other party pushed the artillery cart over, and hurriedly fled back, hid in the east gate, closed the door, and dealt with the enemy outside the east gate according to the defense method of the north gate.

Yuwen Junping saw that the east gate was hopeless in a short period of time, so he had no choice but to return to the north gate.

In the vast twilight, thousands of torches were lit inside and outside the city, illuminating the inside and outside of Xiangyang City as if it were day. Xiangyang City is full of attacks and fierce battles, very tragic, drums and trumpets fighting, a burst of sound.

This battle was fought from early morning to late at night, and in the early spring, when the moon was in the sky, the stars were shining, and more than 100,000 people sacrificed their lives and forgot to die. Dayong has a large number of people, but the cadres and troops occupy a geographical advantage.

In the end, it was Dayong's side that sounded the horn of a temporary truce first. Siege is important, but Yuwen Junping and Wu Daoming don't want to bury all their men outside Xiangyang City in vain. Since we can't attack it today, we will camp nearby and attack it again tomorrow. One day, Xiangyang can be breached.

Therefore, Da Yongming Jin collected his troops and temporarily camped in the wilderness east of the city, while at the same time sent people to garrison in the north of the city.

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