Xuansu City, many people may not understand. The city has also not left too many traces and stories in history.

But here, a city that will rise from the ground in the future, Shenyang, must be more familiar.

That's right, Xuansu is the approximate location of Shenyang now.

As the center of the Liaohe Plain, Xuansu is named Xuansu because it is located in the northernmost part, which means the tiger of the north.

As an important town that chokes the Liaohe Plain and radiates the entire forest, sea and snow fields, it must not only prevent the Zahu in the north, but also resist the mountain city people in the Changbai Mountain in the east.

Therefore, the Han family will build the city high and deep pond of Xuansu, and there is a zigzag pit outside the city, inserting a sharp pile inside, covering the bellflower, and covering it with soil.

There are trenches on the inner side of the tunnel, with fence wood and spikes, and this kind of city defense can be placed on this land of Liaodong, which is already very tight.

You must know that whether it is Sushen, Buyeo, or Goguryeo, there are indeed elite soldiers and warriors, but it is really difficult for these tribes and clans to let them attack the city.

And on this day, this city met its first real test since its establishment.

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In the second year of Taiwu, August 23.

The Taishan army rode 12,000 to Xuansu, and the situation inside and outside the city was very favorable to the Han army at this time.

One is that the Han army has a strong city to defend; The second is that the Han army waits for work; The third is that the Han army brakes statically; Fourth, the Han army had sufficient food and straw.

But that's it, the Taishan army still launched an attack on Xuansu in this situation.

On the first day of the first battle, the Taishan army took the lead in launching a tentative attack on the west gate of Xuansu with wooden planks, ladders, shields, and chariots.

Although the Taishan army attacked the city with great fanfare on the surface, the actual plan was to avoid the city battle, lure the enemy into battle, and then annihilate it.

Therefore, during the siege of the city, Zhang Chong ordered all the troops to feint and expose flaws to lure the enemy in the city.

But Zhang Chong didn't know, because the speed of his light cavalry was too fast, and he didn't know how much confusion and fear it brought to the Han army in the city.

When King Zhang led the main force of 12,000 to cross the Liao River, Xuansu's sentinels had already discovered it, but at that time Xuansu believed that the Taishan army would have at least four or five days to reach Xuansu.

But no one expected that the Taishan army had arrived at the west gate of Xuansu on August 23.

Fortunately, Tai Shou Ji Gao arranged a sentry thirty miles outside the city. These people came back desperately and sent the letter back, only to give Xuanwu a little time to buffer.

After receiving the news, Ji Gao immediately ordered the commander Li Man to rush to the west gate with 400 Han troops to defend the palace, and then sent the Su Shen battalion to organize the second round of defense.

At that time, there were a large number of various tribes outside the city, and they were all ordered by Ji Gao to go out of the city to clear the wilderness.

But it turned out that Ji Gao's order was to let them burn grain.

But seeing that the millet fields outside the city are about to ripen, who is really stupid to burn? After these tribes left the city, one was counted as one, and they were all busy cutting corn and transporting it back to their own warehouses.

So, when Ji Gao ordered them to return to the city quickly, there were two evil consequences.

The first is that most of the Awata that was originally scheduled to be cleared was left outside, and the second is that some of the powerful tribes who were far away were intercepted by Zhao Yun and the Flying Dragon Army on the way back to the city, and all of them were annihilated, and the forces in the city were weakened as a result.

In the end, he really returned to the heroic and powerful tribe in the city, with 800 Han Yong and 1,000 brave people.

In addition, Ji Gao's own core armament in the city, 200 ironclad soldiers, and 1,000 county soldiers belonging to the county government. This is the entire strength of the Xuansu City at this time.

As soon as the Taishan army arrived at the west gate, they launched an attack and tried to seize the city gate.

Li Man, who was in charge of the garrison of Xicheng, was from the Li clan in Liaodong and was a member of Li Min's clan who died in the Zhongren Pavilion.

At this time, the Taishan army was in front, and the national enemy and family hatred were there, so he came to Yashi in person, commanded and dispatched, and finally succeeded in repelling the enemy army.

But they didn't know that the Tarzan army was just making a feint.

On the other side, after the Taishan army's strategy of feints to lure the Han army out of the city failed, it was decided to set up a general camp on Qipan Mountain in the northeast outside the city.

In this process, the Han army in the city still did not choose to attack out of the city, and there was no night attack that night.

In this way, Zhang Chong understood that the Han army in the city chose to clear the wilderness with strong walls, and did not have any plans to go out of the city to fight.

But at this moment, there was chaos in Xuansu City.

Because the wealthy families lost a lot of troops when they went out of the city to clear the wilderness, on the one hand, in order to replenish their strength, and on the other hand, to express their dissatisfaction with Ji Gao, these people began to draw troops in the city.

The so-called drawing of troops is to draw Ding according to the household to forcibly recruit the Lu People's Association in the city to defend the city.

This kind of brutal method naturally caused chaos in the city, and in the end, Ji Gao dispatched ironclad soldiers and killed a group of Qianshou Lu people to stabilize the situation.

That's right, he killed the Lu people, not the Hao clan.

At this time, Ji Gao understood very well that he could only rely on these heroes to defend the city, so he could only suffer these Lu people.

But what Ji Gao didn't understand was that many of the heroic and powerful tribes who killed people were savage warriors from Sushen, Goguryeo, and Buyeo, while almost all of the Lu people who were killed were Han Chinese.

This turns the problem of bullet pressure into a Hu-Han problem.

Ji Gao's move made him lose his prestige in the hearts of the Han people in the city.

But Ji Gao is not without good news. That is, his reinforcements are also arriving.

As the news of Xuansu's siege spread throughout the county, the two cities of Houcheng and Goguryi, which were closest to the city, received the Xuansu Beacon Fire Alarm and each led 500 troops to help, and successfully camped at the west gate of Xuansu County.

Similarly, Zhao Jing, the lieutenant of Liaoyang County in the lower reaches of Xiaoliaoshui, also set off with 500 battalions and 500 county soldiers. They set out all the way north along the south bank of Xiaoliaoshui, and finally camped at the south gate of Xuansu County, looking across Xiaoliaoshui from the city.

Originally, Ji Gao was very happy to see Zhao Jing leading more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to help, but the last time he saw that the grandson on the opposite side was actually camped on the south bank of Xiaoliaoshui, separated from him by a river, not to mention being able to resist the Taishan army outside the city.

In this regard, Ji Gao can only call him a rat, and then cry out in vain.

However, unlike Zhao Jing's timidity, the reinforcements from the upper reaches of the Xiaoliao River were much more bold and aggressive.

They were reinforcements from Sigaima (Fushun).

Xigaima is located in the upper reaches of Xiaoliaoshui, and Wang Fu, the county governor of the city, led twenty longboats along Xiaoliaoshui all the way south, and finally camped outside the east gate of the county.

In this way, with the arrival of reinforcements from the remaining four cities in Xuansu County, at this moment the pattern of 3,000 soldiers in the city and 3,000 reinforcements outside the city was finally formed.

In this process, Zhang Chong did nothing except order the assault cavalry to defeat and annihilate a reinforcement from Gaoxian (Tieling), and sat back and watched the Han reinforcements arrive one after another.

The reason for Zhang Chong's move is not complicated, in fact, he used Xuansu City as a magnet to attract troops from the entire Xuansu County here.

And in order not to let these reinforcements be frightened, Zhang Chong even refused the request of his subordinates to surround and send reinforcements.

The reason why Zhang Chong did this was to avoid the city battle and settle the Xuanwu with a field battle.

Through such tactics of mobilizing the enemy's troops, Zhang Chong also unexpectedly found a little opportunity, that is, in the process, the weakness of the lack of unified command and the lack of coordination between the four counties in the northeast was fully exposed.

The reason is very simple, Xiangping (Liaoyang), the county seat of Liaodong County, is actually not far from Xuansu County, and the news of the siege here should have been known to Gongsun Du for a long time, but until now, not a single soldier has been sent from Liaodong.

And Zhang Chong's insight is very keen, in fact, the problem of the four counties in the northeast at this time is even more serious than this.

Gongsun Du has a certain foundation in Liaodong, on the one hand, because his family is entrenched in this place, and on the other hand, because his father-in-law was the Taishou of Liaodong and has deep political resources in the county.

But even so, Gongsun Du is not the only one in Liaodong, and the Li family in Liaodong alone can stabilize him.

However, after the Battle of Zhongrenting, not only the situation in northern China was profoundly affected, but even the remote eastern part of Liaodong was profoundly affected.

With the humiliating death of Li Min, the head of the Li family, in Zhongren Pavilion, the reputation of the Li family plummeted. Those Liaodong children who fled back to their hometowns all said that Li Min drank and made mistakes, which caused the tragic death of 3,000 children in his hometown.

You must know that in the first battle of Zhongren Pavilion, all families in Liaodong can be said to hang white flags, and these children who died in the battle are the heirs of the small wealthy families in each family.

When such news came, the Li family could only rely on Gongsun Du to survive even if they wanted to survive.

And the idea, Gongsun Du successfully took eight hundred white horses from Liaodong to Liaodong and became a powerful faction.

He even brought back the golden knife of Lu Zhi, the former general of Zhenbei, so he became the leader of the remnants of the Zhenbei Army.

Even Li Min's son Li Xin was attached to Gongsun Du's account and honestly became a halberd man.

But this is also the fame and prestige of Gongsun Du.

The rest of the two counties, such as Xuansu and Lelang, actually didn't care about this grass head Taishou, especially the Lelang Wang clan humiliated Gongsun Du several times and called him an arrogance.

That is, the strength of the subject country of Liaodong is weak, and the Gongsun family in the territory is also the head of the Gongsun Du of the same clan, which makes Gongsun Du the leader of the four counties.

But this dominance is very fragile.

It may be that over time, Gongsun Du can integrate the four counties in Northeast China, as well as the Wuhuan, Sushen, and Fuyu people in the territory, and establish a real government in Northeast Asia.

But it's a pity that Zhang Chong came too quickly, and history didn't give Gongsun this opportunity.

Zhang Chong outside the city found this problem, why couldn't Ji Gao in the city find out?

In fact, he was also panicking at the moment.

He didn't expect that Gongsun Du of Liaodong really didn't care about him at all, wasn't he really worried that he would open the city and surrender?

But does Ji Gao dare? He didn't dare, because the remnants of the Han army in the city, and the princes and scholars who fled from Youzhou, were forcing Ji Gao and the Taishan army to fight to the death.

Otherwise, do you Ji Gao really think that you can protect yourself with your two hundred armor soldiers?

If you can't vote, you can't fight.

What is the level of troops outside the city, Ji Gao knows it clearly. No one believed that these people could survive the advance of the Taishan army.

At this stage, the Han army no longer has illusions about the combat power of the Taishan army.

So how?

That can only grovel and beg Gongsun Du for mercy and reinforcements!