"Moreover, even if our army sends a large army to rescue Yecheng again, how do you know that this is not Qin Feng's trap? Tens of thousands of horses have passed, what are the chances of victory? If there are too many soldiers and horses, there will be instability in various places, so there are two suggestions below! ”

Cao Cao raised his hand: "Let's talk about it!" ”

Xun You said: "Find a way to send the order to General Li, let him lead the army to break through as soon as possible, and the prime minister will send someone to meet him; Secondly, the imperial court can't let Qin Feng live too comfortably, and he has to find some trouble! I heard that Qin Feng not only embezzled Gan Ning and 5,000 elite soldiers sent by Jingzhou to support him, but also seized Wen Ping, a general sent to take over the defense, and even sent people to collect the taxes of Nanyang counties without consulting Liu Biao, presumably Liu Biao and the principals of all forces in Jingzhou were very dissatisfied with him, why didn't the prime minister send people to lobby Liu Biao and his subordinates to send troops to recapture Nanyang? ”

Cao Cao heard it, this is a good way, originally these things have been going on for a while, Liu Biao didn't get angry and sent troops to find Qin Feng's trouble, outsiders don't mention it, Liu Biao naturally doesn't want to cause more trouble, but now the form is different, he led 50,000 horses and horses were defeated by Qin Feng, which also shows that Qin Feng's strength has grown to a certain extent, which is not good for Jingzhou.

Cao Cao has been defeated, and there is no threat to Jingzhou for the time being, but the external threat to Jingzhou has not been lifted, but is getting closer and closer, and the rising Qin Feng is even more threatening to Jingzhou because it is close at hand.

As long as someone lobbied in front of Liu Biao, Liu Biao would not fail to see the sinister nature of the situation.

After analyzing it in his heart, Cao Cao cared very much about Xun You's suggestion, and immediately consulted with several people, and decided to send someone to Jingzhou to lobby Liu Biao, to provoke the relationship between Liu Biao and Qin Feng, if only Liu Biao could directly send troops to attack Qin Feng.

The official Ding Yi was assigned to him by Cao Cao to persuade Liu Biao, and Cheng Yu explained: "Ding Gong, Liu Biao may not easily agree and express his position, if Ding Gong encounters resistance or things do not progress, you can try to contact the Kui family brothers and Cai family brothers in the Jingzhou family, and now these two families have a friendly attitude towards the court and the prime minister, and Brother Ding may be able to have unexpected gains when they contact them!" ”

"In addition, there is one more thing to remind Brother Ding, when you arrive in Jingzhou, you must guard against the Huang family, the Huang family has always been a staunch main battle faction against the prime minister among the Wenchen generals in Jingzhou, Brother Ding may encounter assassination and trouble from the Huang family when he arrives in Jingzhou, you must be careful!"

Ding Yi arched his hand: "Thank you Brother Cheng for telling me, I will be careful in the future!" ”

At this time, Cao Cao said to Ding Yi: "Ding Yi, tell Liu Biao that as long as he needs it, the imperial court can send troops to attack the traitor Qin Feng again, and we will attack Nanyang from the south and the north, After the traitor Qin Feng is exterminated, Nanyang will be owned by Jingzhou, and the imperial court will not be placed, and Jingzhou will be in charge of the appointment and dismissal of officials, tax collection and garrison!" ”

Ding Yi was stunned, guessed that Cao Cao was planning to draw cakes for Liu Biao, and promised: "Remember the Prime Minister's entrustment!" ”

In Ye City, Qin Feng's siege of Ye Cheng continued.

Fighting, whether it is an encounter in the field, or a head-to-head confrontation between the two sides, or a siege or defense battle, for a commander and a general, it is a process of accumulating experience in commanding wars, and only in the accumulation of time and time again, military generals can grow up step by step, and people who are born to fight are very few after all.

The three-day siege has already made the defense of the prime minister of Yecheng, a small county town, in tatters, and Qin Feng's posture in this siege battle is completely treated with the military configuration of attacking a big city, only the trebuchet is equipped with sixty planes, and four pairs of siege ramsticks are used.

So far, no heavy siege equipment such as well railings and bed crossbows have been used.

On this day, Qin Feng planned to put these few siege weapons to use to test their power.

"Xi Ji, add two appetizers to the defenders today, and use the well fence and bed crossbow as well!"

After getting Qin Feng's order, Xi Ji agreed: "Obey!" ”

Qin Feng instructed Chen Zhi again: "Uncle Zhi, give you 1,000 elite soldiers of the headquarters, let the captives attack the east gate and the west gate, you lead the elite soldiers of our headquarters to attack the north gate, and then the trebuchet, siege ladder, ramshell, bed crossbow, and well fence will go in turn, and then you command the soldiers to attack!" ”

"No!" Chen Zhi received this military order and agreed very happily.

The infantry has practiced siege warfare and defense warfare for a long time, but there are not many opportunities for actual combat, although the soldiers have been very proficient in drilling, but they do not know what the effect is without actual combat, and this is a good opportunity to test.

A new siege battle was fought again, and the Flame Army, as the besieging party, normally carried out a half-hour trebuchet bomb first, and the already dilapidated walls were ravaged for an hour.

After the bombardment of the trebuchet is over, it is the bed crossbow that is powerful, and the bed crossbow shoots out a spear-like crossbow arrow, which shoots into the city wall with great force and speed, revealing a thick arrow shaft, which is convenient for the soldiers to climb the city wall, as a support tool for the body on the city wall, the efficiency of sending personnel to the city wall is too slow only by the siege ladder, plus the crossbow arrows on these walls, the efficiency of force projection is much higher, and the defenders also need to arrange more troops to garrison, otherwise they will not be able to cope with the enemy attacks on the city wall climbing the mountain continuously.

Then a large number of soldiers carried siege ladders, a large number of soldiers pushed carts and rushed to the city walls and gates, and the overwhelming shouts of killing spread in all directions.

The north gate, which was originally attacked by the captive army, was now replaced by the infantry of the Flame Army to attack the city, and as soon as the Flame Army attacked, the defenders felt obvious pressure, and the captain guarding the north gate felt that something was wrong, and immediately sent someone to report to Li Tong.

Li Tong hurried over, he observed and found that this was not a captive army, but a flame army, the trebuchet's bomb and the infantry's attack were very tacitly coordinated, the infantry's offensive charge was very orderly, completely different from the chaos of those captive troops, these sergeants were very rhythmic in attacking the city, the personal protection was very meticulous, and the protective actions were in place, just using a small shield to shroud the whole body in it.

"Trouble, I can't imagine that the infantry of the Flame Army is so elite! Send the order down, let the people carry more arrows and stones, and go! Li Tong ordered loudly.

"Yes, General!"

Li Tong didn't think at all, it turned out that the siege battle could still be fought like this, this Qin Feng was really not an ordinary person, he actually trained the soldiers and horses to such an elite level, he deduced that according to the Flame Army's style of play, Ye Cheng was only afraid that he would not be able to hold it for two days and would have to be breached, and the three- or four-meter-high city wall was already crumbling at this time, and then attacked by such an elite infantry, the soldiers under his command whose morale was not high would definitely not be able to withstand for long.