Yan Liang and Wen Chou are sworn brothers, who wandered around the Hejian Country when they were young, and mixed up with the title of "Hejian Shuangxiong", which was many years ago.

"Hejian Shuangxiong" has been regarded as the left arm and right arm by Yuan Shao since he took refuge in Yuan Shao, although he was humiliated by Guan Yu and Dian Wei, and was once robbed of the top spot among the generals by Zhang He, but now everything has passed, Yuan Shao's conquest of Qingzhou has to rely on these two brothers.

Under Qingzhou Kong Rong, there were brave generals like Tai Shici in the past, but it has long been a thing of the past. Now Kong Rong's military generals are mainly Wu Anguo, Mu Shun, Yang Chou and Zong Bao, and there is only one strategist, Wang Xiu. Among the generals, except for Wu Anguo, who had experience in participating in the war, the other three were just inaccessible characters, and it was naturally difficult to maintain the peace of the entire territory of Qingzhou with the strength of the four of them.

Kong Rong is also a real person, knowing that he is outnumbered and weak, he will definitely not be able to defeat the group of wolf-like fierce men under Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, so he simply let Mu Shun, Yang Chou, and Zong Bao lead 10,000 soldiers to retreat to Le'an State, which is close to the Bohai Sea, and let Wu Anguo and Wang Xiu lead 10,000 elite soldiers brought back from the Jin State to defend Linzi. Kong Rong believes that as long as Linzi is not lost, and the military port purchased by Tai Shici, the commander of the Jin State Navy in Le'an, is still there, then he will be able to turn over sooner or later, and at the worst of all, he will be rescued from Qingzhou by Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing promised Kong Rong that once someone did something to Qingzhou, the Jin Congress would come forward to uphold justice, otherwise Kong Rong would not have been so obedient all these years, allowing Zhao Xing's people to do business and open mines in Qingzhou, recruit soldiers, and operate Qingzhou as the back garden of the Jin Kingdom.

The 60,000 troops under Yuan Shao were divided into three parts: Yan Liang as the main general and 20,000 people from the left army as the military division; Wen Chou as the main general and 20,000 from the right army with Feng Ji as the military division; and 20,000 from the Chinese army led by Yuan Shao himself.

The territory of Qingzhou is not large, only two counties of Pingyuan and Donglai, plus the four counties of Qiguo, Jinan, Le'an and Beihai, together there are six counties, and the area is less than one-third of Jizhou. However, because Qingzhou is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, it is densely populated, developed in agriculture, rich in products, and has not only huge gold mines, but also many mineral resources, enough to feed the 60,000 troops brought by Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao's army of the Third Route broke into the open-minded Qingzhou like a vicious dog, and after some ravage, they occupied the entire Pingyuan County, most of the northwest of Jinan, and more than half of Le'an. Xiahou Yuan, who sent troops from the direction of Mount Tai, occupied a small part of the southeast of Jinan, a part of the Qi State where Linzi City was located, and most of the Beihai Kingdom.

The territory that is still under the control of Kong Rong, in addition to the radius of dozens of miles north of Linzi City, as well as the area of Shouguang in Le'an Kingdom, and Donglai County, which is surrounded by the sea on three sides in the east, has not been occupied by the Yuan Cao coalition army for a while because of the complex terrain and difficult roads.

Yuan Shao, who had almost divided more than half of Qingzhou, suddenly discovered a problem that made him very depressed. Although Cao Cao occupied a small territory, but just blocked the road to the southeast of Qingzhou Xuzhou Langya County, if the Yuan army could not occupy Donglai County, which is surrounded by the sea on three sides, then it would depend on Cao Cao's face to attack Xuzhou in the future. This was obviously not the result Yuan Shao wanted to see, so he ordered the left and right armies to quickly march to Linzi, take this state city in the shortest possible time, and occupy Qingzhou in name only.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou, the two generals who received Yuan Shao's order, rushed to Linzi City with their troops, thinking that with the 40,000 male soldiers under their command, they could take Linzi City in three times and five by two, but as soon as they came up, they were full of bags!

Although Linzi City is not as tall and sturdy as Yecheng, it is also the seat of governance in Qingzhou, and it has its own uniqueness compared with ordinary small cities; although Wu Anguo, the general who defends the city, does not make a statement, he is also an excellent student who has graduated from the Crouching Tiger Lecture Martial Arts class; the most important thing is that the 10,000 soldiers who defend the city are a group of veterans who have fought with the Xianbei people with real swords and guns, and can skillfully control all kinds of large-scale city-defending equipment produced by the Jin State Ordnance Research Institute.

Although Yan Liang and Wen Chou are fierce, and they are also scheming people, they attacked Linzi City, which is like a turtle shell, and Wu Anguo, who is willing to be a "big king", so Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who are destined to be arrogant all the way, finally suffered a big loss.

The defensive design of the city of Linzi City was personally designed by the civil engineering experts sent by Kong Rongyang at the request of Zhao Xing, and now it comes in handy. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it is divided into two parts: the Acropolis and the main city, there are Acropolis arch guards outside the four main gates of the east, west, north and south, and there are several zhang wide moats around the periphery of the Acropolis, so it is extremely difficult to attack the city.

Yan Liang took the lead in coming to the city, and shouted at the head of the city, Wu Anguo was naturally too lazy to take care of him, and directly ordered the soldiers guarding the city to greet him with a giant bed crossbow.

Fortunately, the accuracy of the giant crossbow's shooting head was not high, and Wu Anguo didn't really want to Yin Yan Liang, so a giant arrow that was one zhang long just flew past by Yan Liang's side, although Yan Liang's war horse was frightened at the time, but Yan Liang still returned to the formation in a cold sweat.

Since no one responded to the call for a heads-up, Yuan Jun had no choice but to attack the city together, and now they stabbed the hornet's nest. Wu Anguo can spare Yan Liang's life, but he will not let the army that dares to attack Linzi City have good fruits to eat. Last year, when Tai Shici escorted the Qingzhou soldiers back to Gaotang, there were 20 large ships that were not loaded with soldiers, but the bottom of the same pressure was very deep, and they were full of all kinds of weapons and equipment to defend the city, and this time they finally had a chance to play a role.

The Qingzhou defenders at the head of the city first used giant catapults and bed crossbows to shoot at the siege equipment pushed by the Yuan army under the city, and then when the Yuan army carrying a ladder approached the city wall of the acropolis, they used military crossbows with a very high rate of fire to attack the Yuan soldiers. What made Yuan Jun feel even more painful was that the archers in the city used a large bow that was about the same height as a person, which could shoot a terrifying distance of 300 to 400 steps, and harvesting the lives of the people under the city was like a sickle for mowing grass.

After a round of fierce counterattacks, the Yuan army besieging the city injured thousands of people, and now Yan Liang and Wen Chou knew that it was powerful, and they no longer dared to support it, so they hurriedly invited two military advisors to conspire on how to attack the city.

The military advisor said: "Since the Qingzhou soldiers defending the city are so powerful, we have no choice but to use the weapon that has been hidden!"

When Feng Ji heard this, his face trembled, and then he whispered: "In this way, everyone in the world knows that our army has a terrible killer weapon, but I am afraid that the lord will face the entanglement of many forces in the future." ”

"Since you have to use it sooner or later, it's better to use it early than late, and now it's a matter of life and death, so you can't hesitate any longer!" said the judge with a resolute face.

After Yan Liang and Wen Chou heard this, they nodded heavily, and then got up and started the preparation of the new ** city.