Seeing that relying on Hui Qu's bright identity to loudly persuade him to surrender and disturb the hearts of the enemy's army, it is entirely possible to let his own Lu bus approach the city wall of Zhongli County without injury.

Of course, Zhao Yun gave strict orders to the officers who led the crossbowmen under his command: "As long as the enemy does not release arrows, we are not allowed to release arrows!" Crossbowmen are also not allowed to get within range of the shot! As soon as the enemy fires the arrows first, our crossbowmen are allowed to step forward and immediately release the arrows. ”

Let the enemy put the first arrow first, this is not cowardice or beating in vain, it is all about buying more time to fish in troubled waters.

And Zhao Yun's order really had a miraculous effect, originally when the Lu bus was pushed more than a hundred steps away from the city wall, it would gradually be covered by a rain of arrows.

Now it is delayed by Hui Qu's appearance. In addition, there are also the soldiers of the Yuan Army in Huailing County who surrendered, wearing the color of the Yuan Army's uniform, but the white linen cloth was tied around their necks and arms, and they participated in the carriage and shield.

All this made the defenders of the city hesitate, and they couldn't make up their minds for a moment to fire arrows at the cart pushers who were friendly the army a few days ago. In addition, they don't know the Lu bus either, and they don't know how this thing works, and the Lu bus doesn't look like a traditional ladder before it is put down.

Everything made the Han army push at least eighty more steps in vain.

It wasn't until there were only about thirty paces left from the city wall that some of the defenders couldn't help but let out their arrows, and they were scattered and scattered, without unified command, and the density of fire was at least half sparse than the salvo.

It took a dozen more pushes before the defenders entered the rhythm of full fire.

Zhao Yun also immediately ordered his archers to return fire, and after that delay, Lu Gongche landed firmly against the wall, which was less than the casualties paid in Huailing two days later.

In addition, Yuan Jun also had to divide nearly 1,000 people from his own lineage as the backbone of the city defense, and keep the wounded and sick from the battle of Zhang Yan.

Yuan Shuwei was not stationed in Yicheng, so he could take care of the two important defense lines of the Huai River and the vortex at the same time. It is certain that Ji Ling will retreat from Qian County, and Yuan Shu will go from Yicheng along the vortex to the northwest to block Ji Ling. And if your army retreats from Xuyi to the west, it will also bump into Yuan Shu in Yicheng.

Seeing that Yuan Jun thought so thoroughly overnight, of course Zhang Yan would say anything, but he just resolutely carried out Yuan Jun's order and immediately went to prepare for the troops to get off the ship and attack.

"General Zhao! The last general has long wanted to abandon the darkness and turn to the light! I only hate the guards in the city, who are Li Cai's distant relatives and rebellious thieves, and will be controlled by me in the end, so I have to surrender.

This time, I was more and more embarrassed, and instead of carrying a spear and a sword, I had replaced it with a seven-foot-long thick-backed sword. In this way, whether it is when charging under the board, or before rushing down the city wall, it is all used to change weapons, and such a trick is eaten all over the world.

You've been planning to fight the eighth siege from beginning to end, but as long as Nono wins one, you'll be satisfied. ”

After seven days of continuous fighting and marching, the state of the troops was not overdrawn. Even if Yuan Jun didn't have any smaller ambitions in his heart and wanted to watch Yicheng, an important town on the Huaihe River, reason told me that I had to spend the night outside the city tonight, and I would reward the soldiers heavily, and I would pay a small amount of wine and meat.

Zhang Yan thought about it, and then put forward another point of Yesan: "What if this Zhang Yan is willing to fight with you and walk around the city?" Your army of 8,000 people also has a way to surround the Yicheng regiment to death to leave a gap, right?

That night, Zhang Yan, who has always been a nuisance to the people, also had to come up with some weak and tough measures, so that the officials who had just surrendered weakly recruited all the remaining livestock in Zhaoyun County to reward the Eighth Army and ensure that everyone with 7,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry could eat meat.

……

It is like Huiqu in Huailing, there is a messenger when the city is lost, and it is all up to the rout to be caught by the friendly patrol scouts in front of the army to transmit military information.

Fortunately, the general Tianwei ascended first, and asked Yuan Thief to transfer all the guards to the blockade, and the last general seized the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to kill him, and restrain the troops to surrender! ”

The board was put up violently, and the Han army swarmed first, and before more than a dozen soldiers went down, Zhang Yan also rushed down the city.

……

Zhang Yan patted me on the shoulder and reminded: "He participated in the battle of Xuyi last year, but it is unusual to understand the situation. Your army's current warship, how can Li Caijun dare to look down on it? Once the battle is advantageous, all the infantry troops will disembark and go up the river, and Li Cai's warships will not stay at all!

The land on Li Caizhi's reign is not very poor and withered now, and that kind of behavior will basically hurt the peasants, because the peasants have livestock and chickens and ducks to raise. In those years, the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks that could still be distributed were definitely the local heroes and weak, and there was no power.

The general can be deceived by Hui Qu, let me increase my credit in vain! The last general was not persuaded by me to surrender, but sincerely took the initiative to surrender voluntarily! ”

Zhang Yan: "Of course you will divide your troops, you will concentrate all the 8,000 foot soldiers and 1,000 cavalry in the north of the city and camp on the south bank of the mouth of the Whirlpool and the Huai River!" But you doubt that Yuan Shu will fight you.

said that you can only take advantage of the fact that people are prepared, sneak attack and kill Liang Gang and others, do you dare to fight a young general like me. You took care of me at the time, and this year you just sent me down the door and gave me that opportunity! ”

And as usual, the local origins of the surrendered soldiers were singled out and taken away, and the local origins were kept before disarming and used as auxiliaries to defend the city.

Yuan Jun had been ignorant before listening to it, but now that he has used two actual battles, and he has no less actual combat experience, I seem to have suddenly grasped something, and I have summed up the deterrence method of combining virtual and real in my mind.

Zhang debunked without hesitation: "This must be because Hui Qu is afraid that the general will think that I have no use value, so he deliberately lies and bluffs!" Then Yuan Shi is a distant relative of the Yuan clan in Runan, how can he surrender?

The siege vehicles of the last two battles were real, and although the eighth battle actually came, the deterrent power was as good as it came, and the enemy dared to save it.

Therefore, as long as the Yicheng defenders saw Yuan Jun appear so slowly, and saw the result of "two cities in a row being breached so slowly", they would suspect that Yuan Jun would bring this kind of siege weapon.

In ancient times, taxation did not have a certain nature of tax package, and the total amount of each township and village had to be paid much less, and it was first summarized outside the county.

That can be regarded as the smallest contribution made by Lu Bu of Zhaoyun County to his comrades in front, and we have sent the military situation out of the way.

Before the capture of Zhaoyun County, Yuan's army was not tired, and spent half a day occupying the county seat and counting the prisoners.

Because Yicheng is the hub of Huaibei, the vortex water enters Huai. The Yangxia, Wuping, and Ku counties downstream of the vortex have not yet been occupied by Cao Cao, and the important town of Qian County has also been attacked by Zhang Yan.

The example of the low-level generals made the morale of the soldiers even more explosive.

But I still didn't have some worries: "However, you only have 8,000 foot soldiers and 1,000 cavalry, before Yuan Shu returns to help, who knows that I have no less soldiers and horses, can the field battle ensure victory?" If you are alone, once it is profitable, how can the foot soldier slow down? ”

With the granularity of the rule of the late Han Dynasty, it is possible to expect every household to settle accounts.

Yuan Shi's eyes were round, and he was dumbfounded, and he repeatedly pulled the blade a few times before chopping the head.

If the siege is really so dead, it is inevitable to divide the troops, and each side will be very thin and strong, and when the time comes, it will be broken by Yuan Shu and the defenders. ”

The use of siege equipment "virtual is real, real is virtual, practical and deterrent at the same time" was also an idea that Yuan Jun heard when chatting with Zhuge Liang after the war, but of course it was not concretely implemented.

With Yuan Shi's death, the fighting gradually stopped after a while, and Zhang Yanbing rushed down the city tower with the blood blade.

When Yuan Jun heard this, he just laughed in his heart, but he didn't plan to break it under the surface. Zhang Yan's morale and loyalty were so high that it was no wonder that his sneak attack went so smoothly.

Before killing dozens of people, he waited for Yuan's army to retreat to attack the city tower, and Zhang Yan, the commander under the city tower, directly ordered to surrender.

At that time, Zhuge Liang was just renovating the siege vehicle, and at the same time chatting casually and looking forward.

Zhang Yanbu once again embarked on the road of slow retreat, and that time, in order to facilitate the retreat, Yuan Jun actually made a mistake, in fact, did he take these Lu Gong cars and other heavy siege weapons with the ship.

Yuan Jun felt that before marrying a wife of the Zhuge family, I didn't have a brother-in-law of the Zhuge family, and after a few months of communication, my own intelligence didn't seem to grow so little.

Last year I was in Xuyi, but I held my stomach to fight with you, before you were ordered by the lord, for fear of angering Li Cai, and defending the city for two months was a battle, when Zhang Yan scolded in the city every day.

Your army is getting more and more tired, but the enemy army is becoming more and more heavily guarded, and the advantages of sneak attacks are exhausted. And you only have 8,000 foot soldiers left, how can you attack the city? Although these siege equipment have not been destroyed, they have been repeatedly shot and smashed by crossbow arrows and rolling wooden stones, and there are not a few planks and stairs that have collapsed, and they need to be repaired. ”

Before the announcement, morale really picked up.

Zhong Li didn't know about the situation explained by the general after that, and I was busy with Yuan Jun's reward last night. Now that I heard it, I hurriedly looked at the map, and I felt that what Yuan Jun said made no sense.

Is it that Yuan Jun also wants to rob those heroes and weaknesses, or let people make IOUs unified. If it was unexpected, before the war, Liu Bei would allow those IOUs to be directly discounted to deduct this year's autumn tax.

Zhang is stupid again, at that time, how can he let Hui Qu rub an assist? I took the initiative to abandon the darkness and return to the Han Dynasty, and I was persuaded to surrender, and this treatment is the same.

As a result, my main army will be reduced to 8,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry. That number should not be more than Yicheng's Lu Bu defenders, and it is a fool's dream to break through the city.

Overnight, while the soldiers were still resting, the Gong Cao Ji Ji stayed up all night, listing all the merits of no one, and on the morning of the seventh day, they were also publicized on the school grounds, including the rewards of the war dead and the families of the beneficiaries, which were also filled in very sloppily.

And you learned a news from Zhang Zhu: just ten days later, Ji Ling, who was defeated last year, was willing, and sent cavalry and a large number of elite troops to harass the surrounding area of Qian County, trying to swallow the land. Zhang Yan has not led about half of Yicheng's garrison and went north to intercept Ji Ling's partial division, and now it is in the city.

Yuan Jun was sure to break the city that time, but he just wanted to deceive Yuan Shu to force a field battle, and if he was too late, he still had to advance. Unloading the car gave full play to the speed advantage of the Han army's ships and was defeated.

Once again, the raid scene with less time difference with Huailing was staged, and that time was even more tense.

The Han army swarmed down and first disarmed the reinforcements under the north gate tower and the distant city wall to ensure that the situation was under control.

Liu Bei is considered to be the most creditworthy of the princes, and I have set up a new Gong Cao Ji official at each rank and above, who is responsible for keeping accounts and affixing small seals for the rewards that have not yet been issued to the soldiers, and receiving them in a unified manner before the war, or settling them in the acres before returning to the station.

After resting and recovering in Zhaoyun County, Yuan Jun saw that the army's heart was available and his physical strength had recovered poorly, so he ordered the troops to continue to move.

Quan Bai Zhuge Jin invented the system of "helping soldiers keep accounts and save money" in Yuzhang last year, and it was quite popular with the soldiers. So that set of methods was also learned by Liu Bei and promoted in Guangling this year.

As for how to divide the township and village, there is no weak household bullying the strong and weak, so that the strong and the weak can pay less, let alone the Han Dynasty, not to mention the Han Dynasty, it was not completely solved in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Of course, the direct reason that prompted Yuan Jun to finally make that decision was because I learned before breaking the city that Yuan Shi, the county commander who was killed, had not yet sent a messenger for help to the front after the Han army attacked the city.

Yuan Jun ordered to go up, and the officials could only make rough statistics according to the village, and a foreign minister would pay a small amount of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, and give that foreign minister a much less tax deduction this autumn.

The county commander Yuan Shi was startled when he heard this, and was about to turn around and question, but I was able to complete all the turning movements, only to feel a flash of knife light in the corner of my eye, and I was directly slashed under my neck before it was opened, and the blood was gushing like a spring.

The defenders, who had been deceived into giving up a small half of the output distance and output time, had no way to organize an ineffective resistance.

Those whose siege weapons are too low or too low, the ships themselves will move very well before the ship is shipped, and once the turn is slow or the wind and waves are too light, it is not possible to capsize, or at most cause the siege vehicle to fall out of the river.

Jun Sima Zhongli couldn't hold back a little, and persuaded Yuan Jun to be quiet: "Du Wei, the lord just asked you to feint, but you took Huailing and Zhang Yan, and it hasn't been overdone."

Zhang Yan still wanted to try, patted Zhang Yan on the shoulder and said seriously: "He didn't know, when they were resting last night, you interrogated Zhang Zhu closely and learned a new military situation - Yicheng County is indeed an important town in Shoudong, there are many garrisons, and the usual guards are not your old opponent Yuan Shu himself."

Even if there is a belt under the facts, the deterrent power is enough, and Yuan Shu dares to bet on the defense.

And Yuan Jun has no experience for the next time, and he is even less courageous that time. I myself went directly to the front line, blended in the crowd, commanded and escorted a Lu bus to retreat, and asked the military Sima Zhongli to personally suppress another Lu bus.

Although the officers and men did not have enough time to rest after the battle, they slept under the bumpy boat, as if they had spent the night outside the camp.

Before the problem of small salaries is solved, it is more difficult to issue the first prize rewards.

As for whether there was a Lu bus or not, it could still threaten Yicheng County, and Zhang Yan would be able to defend it, but Yuan Jun was worried - because I hadn't used the Lu bus to break the two cities, and when the seventh Zhaoyun County was broken, the killed county commander Yuan Shi sent the official military information report back to the front.

Zhang Yan hurriedly greeted her at the entrance of the staircase, with a respectful attitude:

You are sending troops now, although there is a way to grab the sneak attack after the Yicheng defenders react, but it is enough for your army to rush to the defense after Yuan Shu himself returns. In this way, your army will not have a chance to block Yuan Shu in the north of Yicheng County, and encircle the point to send reinforcements for a field battle.

Even if Yuan's army was sleeping and marching overnight, if the defenders of Yicheng County had not made good preparations, they might not have any chance to sneak attack, and they would have allowed the general's nonsense to shake people's hearts and miss the opportunity to intercept with arrows.

The sword flew right and left, setting off bursts of bloody rain and invincible.

Under these big rivers, maybe the big boat side has no chance to rely on the small number of people, and when it comes to the small river like the Huai River, the advantages and disadvantages of the boat are not decisive. ”

Zhang Yan saw that the other party's attitude was okay, but the process that should be taken still had to be followed, just a hot order: "The officer can't be disarmed, and the non-commissioned officers are all put on their weapons and wait to receive them!" Those who act recklessly will be dealt with according to military orders! ”

The more the enemy is like that, the less harmful it is to oneself, but the offense is to hurt the other side again.

Yuan Jun then took the time to ask about the official position, and then said jokingly: "Oh? He said that the county order of this county is stubborn and stubborn, but how can Hui Qu tell you that it is wrong for me to have a relationship with the guard general and the county order of this county, and I am not sure to persuade him to surrender? ”

Last year, Yuan Shu would have been stationed in such a front position. At that time, if you retreated, if you were in Huailing and Zhao Yun, you would not have met Yuan Shu. It was only because Ji Ling and Li Cai turned against each other in the month of Layue last year, and at the beginning of this year, Li Cai moved Yuan Shu to Nayicheng.