Yan Yan settled on a plan to startle the snake. Therefore, after the army left the southern part of Nanshan Lagu, he was not in a hurry to command the troops to attack Kunze City, which seemed to have begun to "tremble", but tried his best to create some movement on the east and west sides of Kunze, hoping to attract the attention of the barbarians in Tonglao and Guchang.

In fact, even if Yan Yan did not rectify these movements, the troops stationed in Tonglao and Gu Chang would come to fight his idea. It's just that the troops in these two cities just took the time to come over to "cameo" as the main force, and they didn't really have to fight Yan Yan to the death, so Yan Yan's ambush plan was destined to hit the cotton bag with one punch and not hurt anyone.

After staying near Kunze for a few days, Yan Yan commanded 20,000 troops to begin the siege, while the remaining 30,000 men were divided into two teams, one ambush on both sides of the road leading from Tonglao to Kunze in the east, and one on both sides of the road from Guchang to Kunze in the west.

According to the characteristics of the barbarian rebellion in the past, as long as the regular troops of the Han army besieged the city by more than 10,000 people, the barbarian soldiers occupying the city would definitely panic, and within a few days, they would either abandon the city or raise a white flag to beg for mercy, and would never blindly stubbornly fight to the end.

This time, however, something went wrong. After 20,000 regular troops of Yizhou surrounded Kunze, they began to attack the city step by step, only to be frantically counterattacked by the barbarians in the city. I don't know where these brutes learned the skills of making large bed crossbows, thunderbolts, Simon knife carts and other defensive equipment, although the Yizhou soldiers carried ladders and pushed wells to rush under the city wall, but they were all blocked by the screaming bed crossbow arrows and "whooshing" boulders at the head of the city.

The 20,000 siege troops of Yizhou fought hard for three days, losing 5,000 soldiers, and they did not even get close to the city of Kunze once!

At this moment, Yan Yan realized the seriousness of the problem. Standing in the woods outside the city of Kunze, he squinted his eyes and re-examined the city in the distance that blocked the way of the army, and thought to himself, could it be that there were tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers hidden in the city? Or maybe there were Han Chinese among the barbarians who served as military advisors? If not, how could the southern barbarians, who had always been chaotic and only knew how to plunder, be so orderly this time, and how did they learn to make large defensive equipment?

Before Yan Yan could find an answer, the troops ambushed on both sides sent back the news, but it made people even more annoyed. The barbarian soldiers hiding in Gu Chang and Tonglao City did dispatch, but they were very few, and only 2,000 people came out each. Moreover, these two thousand barbarian soldiers were all cunning and cowardly, and as soon as they found that there was an ambush in front of them, they hurriedly retreated to their respective cities, and did not engage in any struggle with the Yizhou army.

At this time, Yan Yan suddenly remembered a person, this person was his military advisor Fa Zheng, Fa Xiao Zhi. Originally, Yan Yan led the army to the south this time, wanting to take Fa Zheng with him. Although his military advisor is not very old, his ability is first-class, and he is deeply respected and recognized by Yan Yan, whenever it is difficult to make a decision, Yan Yan will definitely listen to Fa Zheng's opinion, and basically never refute it.

However, when Yan Yan led the army through Chengdu, Fa Zheng was left behind by Sima Yi for another appointment, so Yan Yan felt a little upset and irritable now. Fa Zheng was appointed by Sima Yi as the chief general of the newly recruited 100,000 Yizhou recruits, and he took these 100,000 recruits to Yiling to support Zhang Ren's army. This time, Sima Yi was determined to attack Jingzhou and occupy several counties before he would give up.

Originally, he wanted to play a game for the southern barbarians, but it didn't work, Yan Yan simply stopped wasting this strength, he directly ordered the 30,000 troops set up in ambush on the east and west sides to return to Kunze, join with his own troops, and then attack Kunze with nearly 50,000 troops. Because he had already suffered the loss of the barbarians defending the city before, this time Yan Yan adopted the method of encircling three and missing one, leaving the south gate of Kunze City to the barbarians, hoping that these guys who did not know the height of the sky would accept it when they saw it, and quickly fled back to their respective tribes from the south gate with their tails between their legs.

This time, Yan Yan's idea fell through again. Seeing that nearly 50,000 troops were approaching Kunze, the dense soldiers and the earth-shattering shouts of killing could be heard for many miles, but they did not frighten the barbarians in the city.

The barbarians who defended Kunze seemed to be fighting with Yan Yan, and they refused to evacuate Kunze for half a step, and they simply relied on inferior troops to defend Kunze without leaking. And the barbarian soldiers who fled back to Guchang and Tonglao are now also energetic, launching sneak attacks from behind the besieging army from time to time, making it difficult to catch these barbarian soldiers who have come and gone without a trace.

Now, Yan Yan felt that Kunze City was a fish bone stuck in the throat of the Yizhou Army, and if he wanted to swallow it, he couldn't swallow it, and he couldn't spit it out, so he was stuck so hard, it made people want to hit their heads against the wall in pain.

At the beginning, Yan Yan also felt that Sima Yi sent him to the south of Yizhou to quell the rebellion was a bit underestimating his skills, but now he can't even take a small Kunze City, let alone subdue Dianchi, the seat of Yizhou County. If you can't recover Yizhou County, it means that you can't recover the four southern counties of Yizhou. It can be imagined how much pressure Yan Yan is on now and how bad his mood is.

Seeing that the army brought to Kunze had lost more than 10,000 yuan, Yan Yan's heart began to drip blood, and he finally understood that if he stared at Kunze City like this, he would be consumed to death under this city sooner or later. Therefore, Yan Yan was extremely unwilling to order the army to retreat and head towards Guchang in the west of Kunze City. Yan Yan didn't believe that Guchangcheng would be as difficult to fight as Kunze City, as long as he took Kunze and let the army rest for a while, he made a detour from the southwest side of Dianchi Lake, first occupied Lianran, then fought Jianling, and finally went around to the back of Dianchi Lake to capture the most important city in Yizhou County.

Heaven had made up his mind this time not to let Yan Yan feel better, and when he led his army west to Guchang City, suddenly a shocking news came from Mu Mi, who stored the grain and grass of the army.

"More than 10,000 barbarians from Yongchang County are attacking Mumi, and now the 10,000 soldiers left behind can still support for a few days, if it is too late to return to help, this group of barbarians will break through the city and seize the grain and grass that the army can use for half a year!"

Yan Yan was stunned by this sudden military situation. He knew very well that if Mu Mi was broken, even if he took Gu Chang and Lian Ran and other cities, the army would be unsustainable, and before the southern barbarians were cleared, the Yizhou soldiers would be hungry. Don't expect that after capturing Gu Chang and Lian Ran and other cities, the barbarians will leave a rich grain reserve for the army. The reason why these barbarians are despised and hated by the Han people is that they are extremely greedy, and wherever they pass, they are as clean as licking with their tongues, how can they leave rations for the Yizhou soldiers?

The Southern Barbarians don't eat people now, and they have been transformed and evolved a lot.