However, due to the infantry, a large amount of grain, grass, baggage, and siege equipment, the speed of the army was not very fast.

There are not many cities left in the Yan Kingdom now. This time, Xiao Jingxuan's first attack was Shenzhou. In addition to Shenzhou, there are only four relatively large cities left in Yanguo, Yizhou, Baicheng, Luzhou, and Dazhou, and the rest of the places are mostly sparsely populated.

It is late autumn now, and there is not much time left for Xiao Jingxuan.

In order to resolve the battle as soon as possible, Xiao Jingxuan ordered Gongsun Sheng and Hu Yanzhuo to set off first to solve the county towns and villages around Shenzhou. At the same time, the connection between Yan and Shenzhou was cut off.

It took the army about 12 days to reach Shenzhou, which was already under martial law. The gates were closed, and the towers were guarded by a large number of soldiers.

Xiao Jingxuan did not rush to order an attack, but set up camp first, and at the same time surrounded Shenzhou.

In order to prevent the enemy from resisting to the death, Xiao Jingxuan deliberately left a gap in the northeast and did not encircle him.

After the army rested for the night, Xiao Jingxuan had someone shoot a letter arrow into the city. Tell the defenders in the city to surrender and not kill.

However, the Yan army in the city did not accept Xiao Jingxuan's proposal, and, after that, the defenders on the city tower increased a lot.

Seeing this situation, Xiao Jingxuan didn't talk nonsense, and immediately ordered Qi Biao and Qu Qingshan to lead their troops and horses to attack Shenzhou.

After receiving the commander's order, Qi Biao and others immediately ordered the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to assemble the trebuchet and arrow tower.

With Fan Yang's ample transportation capacity, this time, Qi Biao and others brought a large number of trebuchets and tools for building arrow towers.

As the trebuchet was assembled, it immediately launched an attack on Shenzhou. And the arrow tower is also being assembled quickly.

In addition, there are a large number of crossbow arrows, which are not ordinary crossbow arrows, but large crossbow arrows made of cow tendon giant wood.

The arrows of these crossbows are spears. It can be said that the power of these crossbow arrows is not inferior to that of trebuchets.

Such a fierce attack also made the defenders of Shenzhou quite depressed, because the defenders were basically unable to solve this long-range attack.

If the opponent does not have enough troops, you can still lead your army to attack, but. In front of the enemy's formation, there is the famous Fan Yang Iron Cavalry.

Moreover, the total number of defenders in the city was only 20,000, and most of them were infantry.

Although it was more obscene, Xiao Jingxuan was very satisfied with the long-range attack of the infantry.

Moreover, in order to make the attack more fierce, Xiao Jingxuan even ordered a part of the cavalry to help the infantry collect stones and wood.

Hins Siu's purpose is simple, that is, to minimize casualties. For this purpose, it doesn't matter if you spend a little more time.

As time passed, the number of trebuchets increased, and the attacks became more violent.

Because the infantry is responsible for the attack, Xiao Jingxuan is still quite idle.

In addition to practicing every day, he looked at the Kanyu map in his hand and studied the next strategy of the army.

Two days passed quickly, and Shenzhou City at this time could be said to be full of holes.

In the face of such a strong attack, the defenders' psychological defenses quickly collapsed. That is, when Xiao Jingxuan was about to launch a strong attack, the Yan army guarding Shenzhou finally put up a white flag and surrendered.

Because they know very well that after the city is broken, it will be difficult for 20,000 old and weak people to stop the brave Fan Yang Tieqi.

As a famous Yan army walked out of the city and handed over the weapons in his hands, the army under Xiao Jingxuan finally entered the city.

After entering the city, Xiao Jingxuan immediately ordered the army to take over the defense of the city, and posted a notice to announce Fan Yang's policy to the people in the city.

After dealing with these things, Xiao Jingxuan really had a headache for these captives.

For these people, they dare not use it, and they can't kill them. I don't dare to put it. What a conundrum.

Finally, after consulting with his subordinates, Xiao Jingxuan first selected these officers who had been demoted to the army and above to form a separate unit and act with the army.

Then the old, weak, sick and disabled in the remaining army were selected, and those who were willing to unload their armor and return to the field were given travel expenses, and those who were unwilling were charged into the Tuntian soldiers and tuntian near Shenzhou.

As for the young Zhuang in the surrendered army, some of them were transferred to Shenzhou, some of them were transferred to Pingzhou, some of them were supplemented to Qi Biao and Qu Qingshan's command, and the rest were filled into the Tuntian soldiers.

After solving the problem of surrendering troops, then the next step is to govern Shenzhou, Shenzhou is newly attached, and there must be an important person to appease the people.

After all, this time his plan was not only to kill Yan, if the opportunity was right, Xiao Jingxuan didn't mind destroying Yan Kingdom.

In order to better win people's hearts, first of all, the tax policy must be the same as that of Fan Yang.

The field tax of twenty taxes and one can allow Xiao Jingxuan to quickly appease the people, but the Yan country is bitterly cold, and only one season can be planted in the field every year. It seems that more needs to be found for the grains grown here.

In addition, there are many policies that require a heavyweight to come and take charge.

After thinking about it again and again, Xiao Jingxuan planned to temporarily transfer Ding Weiran to Shenzhou, and at the same time, a group of officials from the newly admitted officers were transferred to Shenzhou to take up posts. At the same time, he promoted his own New Deal.

Xiao Jingxuan wrote an official document and handed it to the guards, asking him to forward it to Zuo Chang Shi Ding Weiran.

After getting all of this, Xiao Jingxuan began to discuss the next move of the army with the generals.

After a period of deep thought, coupled with the suggestions of the generals under his command, Xiao Jingxuan planned to divide his troops and move all the way to Luzhou.

Luzhou is close to the sea and the fishery is very developed, which can well solve the lack of meat in the territory and provide an outlet for the next strategy.

However, Luzhou is not a big city, and Xiao Jingxuan ordered that it was enough for Huangfu Song and Yang Xiong to take their headquarters to attack.

As for the destination of the army on the other road, Xiao Jingxuan set his sights on Yizhou, the capital of Yan State.

Yan now has about 150,000 troops, of which 20,000 are stationed in Shenzhou, almost 5,000 in Luzhou, and 60,000 in Baicheng.

In addition, because Dazhou borders the country, it also garrisons 40,000 troops.

In other words, the total strength of Yizhou at this time was only 30,000. With the 50,000 army in Xiao Jingxuan's hands, it is more than enough to deal with the 30,000 army.

So, after Xiao Jingxuan transferred 5,000 troops from each battalion to garrison Shenzhou, he led the army to Yizhou.

As the saying goes, the three armies have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. Xiao Jingxuan did not seize a large amount of grain and grass in Shenzhou.

Not only was it captured, but because of the need to help the people and appease the surrendered troops, Xiao Jingxuan also consumed a lot of military rations carried by the army.

For this reason, Xiao Jingxuan had to transfer grain from Yingzhou. If it weren't for the bumper harvest in Fanyang this year, it is very likely that this time the cutting of swallows would end hastily.

After the army arrives in Illustration, look at the towering walls of Illino. and the dense garrison on the towers.

Xiao Jingxuan also had a headache, and took the commanders of each battalion around Yizhou City, but he didn't find any weaknesses.

For this reason, Xiao Jingxuan also had to adopt the old method and attack from a distance. But fortunately, Qi Biao and Qu Qingshan brought all the siege equipment used to attack Shenzhou before.

And so, the vigorous long-range attack began.

However, the walls of Yizhou City are thick, and Xiao Jingxuan is not sure enough to rely on these things to break through Yizhou. So, Xiao Jingxuan took another method at the same time, that is, digging tunnels.

In order to hide people's eyes, Xiao Jingxuan ordered the camp to be set up less than five miles away from Yizhou City.

The tunnels were also dug in the camp under the cover of the barracks. In order to go smoothly, Xiao Jingxuan ordered that five tunnels be excavated at the same time.

Facing Yizhou City, the capital of Yan Kingdom, Xiao Jingxuan did not have the luxury of hoping to be able to defeat it in a short time.

As long as it is possible to resolve the battle by next spring. Now the Zhao State and the Great Wei of the Yuwen Valve are now newly determined, and they still need to stabilize the hearts of the people for the time being, and they are unable to attack.

However, after next year's spring ploughing, it will be different. Before that time, he had to return to the army to sit in Fanyang.

The days passed like this, and as soon as it was dawn every day, Qi Biao and others began to launch a long-range attack on Yizhou, and it was over.

As for the tunnels, they were dug in shifts every day, without stopping for a moment.

In between battles, there was also an endless stream of emissaries from both sides. Even, as the attacks became more and more violent, the number of messengers came and went.

The conditions for Yan to sue for peace are also getting higher and higher. From the beginning of the compensation for military expenses, to the later cession of land and vassals.

However, in the face of these conditions, Xiao Jingxuan refused, not because Xiao Jingxuan was not moved, but when the strength of Yan Kingdom was not greatly weakened, all the conditions were empty.

On this day, Xiao Jingxuan was cultivating in the tent, and there were scouts outside the tent to report that there was a reinforcement from the Yan Kingdom in the direction of Baicheng. After scouting, the number should be around fifty thousand.

After hearing the news, Xiao Jingxuan immediately ended his cultivation and asked the scout to point out the location of Yan Guo's reinforcements on the Kanyu map.

This time, the reinforcements of the Yan State have 30,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry.

Although the speed of the reinforcements is not fast, they should be able to reach Yizhou City in two days. Hearing this news, Xiao Jingxuan immediately convened the generals of each battalion to discuss the matter.

After discussion, Xiao Jingxuan personally led Hu Yanzhuo, Gongsun Sheng, and Ye Xiong's 30,000 cavalry to quietly leave the camp at night and go to intercept and kill Yan Guo's reinforcements.

The remaining 20,000 infantry continued to disguise themselves as a large army and continued to attack Yizhou City, confusing the army of Yizhou City.

After the plan was agreed, that night, Xiao Jingxuan quietly left the camp with the army and marched in the direction of the Yan army's reinforcements.

There are many plains in the north, and there is no terrain suitable for ambushes such as valleys, so they have been explored by scouts. Xiao Jingxuan chose a mountain forest to cover up the army's movements.

This time, Xiao Jingxuan did not plan to sneak attack, and as soon as the enemy's reinforcements arrived, Xiao Jingxuan would lead the army to charge. Fight the enemy in a head-to-head fight.