According to the rules of war in those years, Zhou Yu first sent a messenger and sent a letter of persuasion to Zhang Xi.

First, this is an ancient etiquette, if you can directly persuade you to surrender, of course, it is better, if not, it is also in line with etiquette to start fighting again.

Second, this is to let the envoy come over to find out the truth and reality, at least to find out who the defender of this city is, and can make a siege plan according to his style weaknesses.

But Zhou Yu miscalculated this time, because the person who guarded the city was called Zhang Xi, who was the new governor of Jiangxia.

Who is Zhang Xi?!

Zhou Yu said that I don't know, and asked all the generals in the army, but no one has ever heard of this person.

If you haven't heard of it, you haven't heard of it, anyway, the unknown general Zhou Yu has also encountered a lot in recent years, most of them are goods with no ability, so don't worry too much.

Seeing that the persuasion had failed, Zhou Yu immediately began to prepare for the siege.

The first is to let Lü Meng lead an army to the southeast corner of Echeng to contain Wei Yan's troops, so that Wei Yan can not meet the defending army in the city in time, and then command the army himself and start to attack Echeng.

This is a very conventional way to march, and Zhou Yu didn't plan to use any tricks at the beginning. In these years, only the disadvantaged side will frequently use the strategy, and the superior side will crush the past in a dignified manner.

The first attack was a tentative attack, and Zhou Yu commanded his soldiers to go into battle with hooks and ladders to test the weak points of the city defense on both sides.

The geographical location of Echeng is quite special, it is a riverside to the east, and a riverside tidal flat outside the city.

Now that the Jiangdong Navy was cut off in the south, and Wei Yan was blocking in the southeast corner, the Jiangdong Army had no way to bypass Wei Yan, nor could it launch a tidal flat landing battle from the river, so the East Gate was not attacked by the Jiangdong Army.

The north is the inland of Jiangxia, and the other side of the river is Di County, and it is impossible for Zhou Yu to risk the possibility of being attacked from the front and back, and send soldiers to the north gate to attack.

Therefore, Zhou Yu's main attack was the south gate and west gate of Exian County.

The tentative attack would not last long, and in about half an hour, Zhou Yu withdrew the attacking army.

At present, this nameless city guard named Zhang Xi also has some skills, and after half an hour of tentative attack, Zhou Yu did not find the so-called defensive weakness. The defense of Echeng was quite methodical.

However, this is also within Zhou Yu's expectations.

After a quarter of an hour's rest, Zhou Yu sent the siege force again, this time not a tentative attack, but directly brought most of the siege equipment and officially began the siege.

Zhang Xi stood at the head of Echeng City, looked at the Jiangdong soldiers who were densely surging under the city, and swallowed his saliva to relieve his nervousness.

Zhou Yu's first tentative attack, Zhang Xi was actually quite nervous, this was the first time Zhang Xi felt the battle of defending the city, seeing so many people like ants, densely rushing up to his side, Zhang Xi was really scared.

Whether it is fighting Cao Ren or fighting Li Dian, although Zhang Xi has gone out with the army, he is only a deputy general, and the main general is Zhang Fei, and all the command arrangements are made by Zhang Fei, Zhang Xi is just following orders and checking and filling in the gaps.

The only chance to command, that is also Zhang Fei arranged everything and handed it over to Zhang Xi, what Zhang Xi had to do was to continue Zhang Fei's battle plan.

But now, Zhang Xi is a city guard, everything is decided by himself, and all the arrangements for defending the city are made by himself. If this is swept down by the Jiangdong Army, I am afraid that I will have nowhere to run, and if I am not good, I will die.

In this case, it's no wonder that you don't get nervous.

But fortunately, Zhou Yu only launched a tentative attack, and Zhang Xi also delegated the right to defend the city to Kou Feng early, so he was not affected by Zhang Xi's tension this time.

And now, although the Jiangdong Army has invested more siege soldiers than the first time, and there are a lot of siege equipment to help, Zhang Xi is not as nervous as the first time.

After the first battle to defend the city, Zhang Xi found that his strategy for defending the city did not seem to have any major problems, at least he repelled the first attack of the Jiangdong Army, which made Zhang Xi finally have some confidence in his heart and not need to be so nervous.

Zhang Xi, who has confidence, always pays attention to the situation on the battlefield to see if there is any emergency situation on which side, so he can quickly send people to support, and if there are any defensive measures that are not in place, he also quickly finds a way to remedy it.

Finally, nothing went wrong.

As long as the commander is calm and can give the right order in time, the soldiers will not panic, and the soldiers will not be chaotic and act according to the law, and naturally the besieging side will not have any opportunity to take advantage of it.

After all, for the besieging side, the defending side is really taking advantage.

Now for Zhang Xi, the first test has come - the Jiangdong Army's rain of arrows suppression.

During the siege, the besieging side will shoot a shower of arrows to cover the besieging soldiers as they approach the walls.

At this time, the soldiers defending the city will also shoot arrows to prevent these enemy soldiers from approaching.

The first round is a battle of bows and arrows.

The defenders have an advantage in that the defenders have city walls, the soldiers stand high, and the bows and arrows shoot far, which is easy to cause fire suppression.

Moreover, Echeng also has a big weapon to defend the city - the bed crossbow.

The bed crossbow is far from the range, but it is also powerful, and a crossbow arrow can often penetrate three or four soldiers, which is simply the artillery of this era.

But it's a pity that the bed crossbow is scarce, the rate of fire is slow, and it is not easy to move, and it is generally used for fixed-point strikes, and it cannot be suppressed by comprehensive firepower, and it will still be approached by the enemy soldiers after all.

And Zhang Xi didn't dare to use it more, for fear that the enemy army had a catapult machine crossbow, it was too troublesome to operate, not to mention, it was not very convenient to move, and if you destroy one, you will have one less, and if you can save a little use, try to save a little use.

When the Jiangdong soldiers approach the city wall, the suppressive firepower of the arrow rain will weaken, and this is the time for the soldiers on both sides to fight desperately.

At this time, Zhang Xi will face the second test - Jiangdong's siege equipment.

Hook ladder this kind of thing, Zhang Xi has prepared a fork rod, although it is said that there is a hook at the head of the hook ladder can hook the city wall, but a few more pushes can always push some, so that all the hook ladders are so clever that they can jam the brick joints of the city wall.

In addition, the head of the fork rod is the head of Changge, even if you don't push the hook ladder, you can still kill the enemy with the head of Ge.

If there are fewer people, push and pull flat on the wall to prevent the enemy soldiers from climbing up, and if there are more enemies, then venture closer, smash down with rolling stones and sassaches, or simply pour gold juice.

As for the ladder and the rush, Zhang Xi had already taken countermeasures, and he didn't mean to start Wei Yan for the time being, but let the crash go on the field to see how the crash worked.

The result made Zhang Xi overjoyed, and the crash was simply the nemesis of the ladder.

It doesn't take much, as long as you hit it four or five times, the ladders of these improvised ladders will fall apart, and the ladders don't have ladders, how can you climb the city wall?!

As for rushing cars, it's a nuisance.

Zhang Xi's only way was to shoot with a bed crossbow when the rushing car did not approach, and strive to destroy the rushing car on the road.

But if it can't be destroyed, it is necessary to let Kou Feng lead the guards to kill the car when it is about to approach the city gate, try to kill the enemy, and burn the car rush.

This is actually very dangerous, if Kou Feng does not have time to kill the enemy, but is surrounded by enemy troops, then the city gate will be very dangerous.

Therefore, Zhang Xi handed over his guards, a total of fifty Mandarin Duck Array soldiers, to Kou Feng, and only these soldiers were sure to kill the Jiangdong Army in a short period of time and burn the rushing car.

It's just that this kind of thing can only be one and the same. Zhou Yu is not a fool.

For the first time, you can say that you bullied Jiangdong Jun and didn't know the power of the mandarin duck formation, so he was caught off guard and burned the rushing car.

But in the second attack, if Zhou Yu didn't deal with it, he would have left a great reputation in history.

The cooperation and combat effectiveness of the Mandarin Duck Array are naturally not said in this era, but the problem is that Zhang Xi has too few people who can handle the Mandarin Duck Formation.

Zhou Yu doesn't have to fight you, and he sends five hundred people to surround you, which is enough for him to command the chariot to break through the city gate.

Therefore, when Zhou Yu sent the second batch of rushing cars to attack the city gate, Zhang Xi decisively asked Kou Feng to send a signal and summon Wei Yan to help.

As for Wei Yan, there has been no movement until now, and he has maintained a confrontation with Lu Meng, as if the Jiangdong Army is attacking now, not the city of his own commander.

But after Zhang Xi issued the order, Lu Meng realized that something was wrong.

The Wei Yan camp in front of him still didn't move, and the soldiers in the camp still made a posture of sticking to the camp, and there didn't seem to be any way to move.

At that time, Lu Meng was still wondering, was this the Jiangxia army infighting, and the generals in this battalion didn't want to save Echeng at all?!

Then, Lu Meng found that a team of men and horses suddenly appeared behind him, and they did not go to rescue Echeng, but directly killed his rear army.

Because the scale of this camp was not large, Zhou Yu judged that the number of soldiers in the camp would not exceed 1,000 at most, so the number of military horses for Lu Meng was only 2,000.

There were not many people in Lü Meng, and when he suddenly encountered an attack from the rear, Lü Meng immediately ordered the whole army to turn back to meet the enemy.

But before Lü Meng's order reached the rear army, he saw the camp gate in front of him open, Wei Yan rode a horse and held a sword, rushed out first, and went straight to Lü Meng's general banner.

Wei Yan's timing was just right, it was when Lu Meng had just finished issuing the military order, but the military order had not yet been fully conveyed in place.

And Wei Yan's direct rush towards Lü Meng also caused a trace of confusion among Lü Meng's pro-soldiers, who were anxious to move closer to Lü Meng to protect Lü Meng.

As a result, Lü Meng's army suddenly became chaotic, the front army approached Lü Meng in a hurry, while the rear army did not know whether to turn to meet the enemy or rescue the main general at this time, and was waiting for Lü Meng's next order.

At this time, Lu Meng was also a little flustered, he didn't expect the enemy to appear at such a coincidental time and march so quickly. Before Lu Meng could completely coordinate the military orders of the front and rear armies, Wei Yan had already killed to a distance of only about thirty steps from him.

At this time, Lu Meng was not the later Lu Meng who attacked Jingzhou. And to be honest, even Lu Meng, who has read military books for a few years, has not seen this product show any strategic vision, which means that the command ability of the unified army is a little stronger than now.

But now Lu Meng faced this sudden situation, and he couldn't effectively command for a while, he was flanked by Wei Yan back and forth, and then rushed like this, and suddenly the formation was chaotic, and it didn't take long for Wei Yan to kill the formation, and he had to flee back to Zhou Yu's main formation in defeat.

And Wei Yan did not have Lu Meng's restraint, and immediately ordered the other soldiers to return to the camp to hold on, and he led two hundred soldiers to fight from the southeast corner, and went straight to the south gate.

After that, Wei Yan continued to fight back to the southeast corner of the camp, and Kou Feng also safely retreated to Echeng.

Only Zhou Yu, the teeth of hatred are itchy.

Originally, Zhou Yu had calculated, and sent out the rushing car formation again, and after the rushing car formation, he also arranged about a thousand soldiers as a response, once Kou Feng went out of the city again, these thousand people would quickly besiege Kou Feng, even if they couldn't kill him, they would trap him and create an opportunity for the rush to storm the city gate.

But Zhou Yu never thought that Lu Meng would be killed by Wei Yan so easily, and Wei Yan actually had the spare strength to lead everyone all the way from the southeast corner to the battlefield, and united the receiving team that the defenders in the city had dispersed, and then even returned to the southeast corner camp safely again.

What kind of fierce general, where did the Jingzhou army find it?!

After the two sieges, Zhou Yu didn't remember Zhang Xi's name, but he remembered Wei Yan's name first.

At first, Zhou Yu thought that Wei Yan, the camp in the southeast corner, was an ordinary army, and it would be good to send Lu Meng to lead the army to contain it.

didn't expect that it was such a ruthless character, and even Lu Meng was not an opponent.

In this case, Zhou Yu can't sit idly by.

(End of chapter)