Yuan Shao, Lü Bu, and Cao Cao attacked the city from the west, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao attacked the city from the south, while Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei from the east only strengthened their vigilance, but did not participate in the siege.

This is also a helpless thing, Gongsun Chan and Liu Bei brought elite cavalry, it was too wasteful to attack the city, and Gongsun Chan promised in the big tent of the coalition army to guarantee that the 20,000 horses of Yanzhou City would not enter Puyang, and the princes reluctantly agreed to Gongsun Zhan's proposal, because everyone knew very well that if the 20,000 horses of Baoxin in Yanzhou City entered Puyang, the strength of Puyang City would definitely increase greatly, and it would be a very cost-effective thing to block Zhuang Shaoyou's 20,000 troops with 25,000 iron horses.

Under the city of Puyang, the battle became more and more intense, the crossbowmen on both sides were firing at each other, the coalition side was desperately filling the moat, and the defenders of the city were trying to stop it, and the battle was in a stalemate for a while.

Seeing that the newly dug moat was shrinking inch by inch, Zhuang Shaoyou was also a little anxious, the ballista troops had lost their effectiveness, how to suppress it?

"Tai Shici, transfer your cavalry to the city to help in the battle!"

Tai Shi Ci was overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately knelt down on one knee and saluted: "Subordinates obey orders!" ”

In a few moments, 5,000 dismounted horsemen quickly ascended to the west and south of the city.

Tai Shi Ci ordered coldly: "Free fire!" At least one person will be shot to death, and whoever dares to embarrass General Ben will bear the consequences! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou was a little crying and laughing when he heard the news.

With the support of the cavalry archers, the morale of the defenders in the city was greatly boosted, and the firepower increased greatly, overwhelming the coalition forces under the city.

Yuan Shao, who was on the command vehicle, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered the second echelon to come forward to support.

The second echelon of the coalition army was divided into two roads with Yuan Shao's military orders, and they actually made a big circle, attacking Puyang at full speed from both sides, Zhuang Shaoyou in the city was a little surprised, and praised:

"This Yuan Benchu really took a lot of thought! Pass on my military order, the fire crossbow battalion suppresses the reinforcements of the coalition army! ”

The rocket ballista was researched by Mo Qiao, the president of the Academy of Science and Technology, and was later banned by the Mo family giant Moshi because of the injury to Tianhe, but Mo Tie, the director of the forge, secretly built dozens of units, and then this kind of ballista showed its might in the naval battle of Changsheng Island between Goguryeo, and helped Zhuang Shaoyou defeat the strong with the weak and hit the Goguryeo sailors.

After this battle, Zhuang Shaoyou ordered to go all out to build a rocket ballista, and the fire crossbow battalion made great contributions in the Qingzhou battlefield and the first Puyang bloody battle, and the rocket ballista land and sea battles are rare weapons, so they have been particularly valued by Zhuang Shaoyou, second only to the research and development of the six-masted warship.

After three years of accumulation, the Academy of Science and Technology has re-improved the rocket ballista, the original bulky volume has been reduced by one-third, and the required operator manpower has also been reduced from eight to six.

In order to improve the mobility of this army, many fruit horses were deployed to drive them, and the Academy of Science and Technology also changed the wheels of ballistae and fire crossbows to large wheels. As a result, the tactical strike force has greatly improved its mobility and is absolutely able to keep up with the rapid march of the infantry of the large army.

Now the grassland near Liaodong is peaceful, and only one Yuwen Ministry is left to occupy a large area of grassland, and an important figure in the Yuwen Ministry is to herd horses in southern Liaoning, whether it is a war horse or a fruit horse, it is raised by the Yuwen Ministry, and in exchange, Zhuang Shaoyou provides daily necessities for the Yuwen Ministry. In a sense, the Yuwen Department has become a subordinate tribe of Zhuang Shaoyou.

The two fire crossbow battalions on the west city wall, a total of 200 fire ballistas, were divided into two teams on the left and right to suppress the fire of the coalition reinforcements, although the formation of the coalition army was very tricky, which greatly weakened the role of the ballista, but under the ultra-high rate of fire of the fire crossbow, the casualties were still heavy.

At the cost of 2,000 casualties, the reinforcements finally arrived at the foot of Puyang City, joined the battle group, and began to shoot at the defenders at the head of the city, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate again.

The two sides fought from early morning to three poles in the sun, and then to noon, and in a blink of an eye, noon had passed.

The moat was mostly filled, and both armies were exhausted, when the last sandbag was filled into the moat, the coalition army finally withdrew its troops, and the coalition soldiers dragged the shield cart and slowly retreated, slower than when they came, but it was safe, and the later reinforcements retreated quickly from the flanks in two ways, Zhuang Shaoyou naturally couldn't let them go easily, and it was another salvo, leaving thousands of corpses.

Although the coalition did not directly attack the city, they also buried most of the moat, and the well-trained crossbowmen also inflicted heavy casualties on the defenders at the head of the city, so the coalition still had a slight upper hand in the battle.

After the battle, the casualties were counted, and the coalition army lost 15,000 soldiers, and the defenders of the city also paid the price of more than 3,000 casualties, and the losses were not small, and this was not yet the official siege of the city.

After the end of the war, Yuan Shao was very happy, although he lost thousands of men and horses, some flesh pain, but the pay was greater than the loss, it was obvious that Zhuang Shaoyou's army was suspected of poor donkey skills! This is a good sign!

Yuan Shao stared at Puyang City in the distance with burning eyes, it seemed that he was not far from entering Puyang! I was in a trance, and I began to think about how to take the important town of Puyang into my pocket after defeating Zhuang Shaoyou.

If Zhuang Shaoyou knew Yuan Shao's current thoughts, he would definitely scoff: Thinking too much!

After the first battle of Puyang City, the news spread quickly all over the Han world, and for a while, the coalition market was bullish, and the princes and heroes who were watching everywhere couldn't bear it and were ready to move.

On February 16, the famous guards of Hedong once again poured out of the nest and sent 20,000 horses to join the coalition army and march to Puyang! Yuan Shao's former supporter, Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang, sent 15,000 elite soldiers to join the coalition army.

After Han Fu fled from Jizhou, Wang Kuang was also very dissatisfied with Yuan Shao, and he had been careful to be vigilant, very worried that he would be swallowed up by Yuan Shao by accident, so he had a bad time in the past few years, so Wang Kuang did not join the coalition army for the first time.

On February 17, Qingzhou Jinan rebelled! Later, Le'an and Qi also moved when they heard the wind and launched a rebellion, and the total number of rebels reached more than 30,000 people! And open the vault to recruit troops, the ruffians, hooligans, and bandits at the northern foot of Mount Tai in the land of Luxi are all admiring each other, and the rebels are very powerful!

After Zhuang Shaoyou in Puyang City learned the news, he immediately summoned Qingzhou and ordered the Fourth Army and the Second Army to act cheaply!

After a brief discussion, Zhuge Jin, the commander of Taishan County, and Xun You, the chief of staff of the Fourth Army, immediately launched an operation.

On February 18, Wenpin, who had disappeared for many days, raided Yicheng County, an important town in Huainan, and annihilated 5,000 defenders in the city.

On the same day, the four five-masted warships of the Moyu Naval Division went up the Huai River, passed through Xuzhou, anchored at the south wharf of Yicheng, and sent ships to begin to explore upstream, once it was determined that the river was navigable, the four warships would sail directly to the north bank of Shouchun, with these four warships, it was equivalent to four more mobile batteries, the base camp of Yuan Shu was divided into two, blocking the men and horses of Shouchun, and Wen Ping could be tossed vigorously north of Shouchun.

It's a pity that it is now in the dry season, and the water level of Huaishui is low, and the Wuwei warship of Xia Cai will not be able to navigate!

After some careful consideration, Wen Ping made up his mind to attack Xia Cai with the cooperation of the sailors, and the five thousand defenders of Xia Cai did not dare to resist at all when they heard the news, and fled across the river to Shouchun.

After taking Xia Cai, he took a short rest, Wen Ping left the sailor to block the river, and then led the army to advance westward, and the west was Runan County, Yuzhou, which was also the ancestral home of the Yuan family.

Yuan Shu, who was still in the south of Puyang City, was like thunder, and he wanted to immediately lead the army back to exterminate Wen Ping, but he was persuaded by his subordinates, if Yuan Shu acted impulsively, it would be an escape, and this alliance leader would not have to be! It just fits Yuan Shao's thoughts.

Therefore, in order to prevent Yuan Shao from wishing, Yuan Shu could not return to the division to rescue, so he could only think about how to take Puyang City as soon as possible.

After the previous few days of testing, the coalition forces have not moved, and it seems that they are waiting for new troops from all walks of life to join.

On 19 February, Hedong Weijia and Hanoi Wang Kuang arrived outside Puyang City and joined the coalition forces on the West Road.

On the same day, another team of iron horsemen came on the north bank of the Yellow River, with a number of 5,000, and after some investigation, it turned out to be Zhang Yan's men and horses in Jinyang!

Hearing this, Zhuang Shaoyou's expression was very complicated. This Zhang Yan is Zhang Jiao's old department, and he has always had a crush on Zhang Ning, so he fought with Zhuang Shaoyou, and then escaped alone when the Yellow Turban Army was destroyed, and there has been no news since then.

Later, Zhang Yan fled into the Taihang Mountains and went to the north of Jin to become a bandit.

This time the coalition army crusaded against Zhuang Shaoyou, Zhang Yan remembered the hatred of taking his wife back then, and couldn't help but send a team of cavalry to Puyang to join the coalition army, and the introducer was Yuan Shao.

Although he looked down on Zhang Yan's background, in line with the principle of having more people and more strength, Yuan Shao enthusiastically introduced Zhang Yan to all the princes, with the posture of my people.

It was night, the sky fell a light snow, although not very big, but for the Puyang defenders is a great good thing, Zhuang Shaoyou had a whim, remembered a good idea in a certain corner of the memory, and then ordered the soldiers to go out overnight, splash buckets of well water on the city wall, wait for the wall to freeze, do it again, and so on.

In the early morning of the next day, Puyang City had turned into an ice city!

After receiving the news, the coalition forces gathered together to discuss countermeasures, discussed and discussed, and found that there was only one way: wait!

The 210,000 allied troops outside Puyang City began a long wait.

Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao mobilized the princes of the coalition army to do the same thing: call friends and friends!

Jizhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Sili, Huainan, and Bingzhou mobilized again, and under the coercion and temptation, many powerful people still sent people and horses to drive towards Puyang.

Yizhou Mu Liu Yan specially announced: Yizhou is far away, the soldiers are few and the generals are outnumbered, and the heart is more than enough but the strength is insufficient, but he promised not to attack other princes during the siege of the coalition army.

These words were naturally said to Liu Biao, the pastor of Jingzhou, and when Liu Biao learned the news, he gritted his teeth and mobilized 15,000 crossbowmen from Jingzhou to Puyang.

Yuan Shu's nest was stirred up by Wen Ping, so he couldn't send reinforcements anymore, and the rest of the princes began to increase their troops as long as they still had the strength left, because everyone had a hunch that this time, they might win! In order to be able to distribute more benefits in the future, it is necessary to place more chips now.

It was a big gamble that swept the world.

And although all this was a bit unexpected by Zhuang Shaoyou, it didn't deviate too much from the original plan, but the second phase came ahead of schedule!