As Liu Biao alienated Cai Mao, Wu Ju Lai Gong also felt Liu Bei's sincerity in delegating power for the first time, and Liu Beijun's rule over Jingnan was basically stable.

There is only one last chess piece left yet, and that is Changsha City.

As mentioned earlier, in June and July, because of the hot weather, the soldiers could not bear the scorching heat in the south, and many of them had diseases, so they could not undertake the task of attacking fortified positions with heavy physical strength and intensity.

After entering the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the weather turned slightly cooler, and Zhao Yun also re-intensified his attack on Changsha.

After more than ten days of fierce attack, the core fortress that Zhang Xian had been operating for eight years was attacked, and finally reached the stage of a kick in the door.

It was late August. The siege force of nearly 20,000 people has surrounded Changsha to the ground.

The four gates of the city were equipped with wells, trebuchets, ladders, and carts.

The outer ditches and sheep and horse walls have also been completely destroyed, replaced by makeshift wooden houses, large rattan shields, and other bunkers to hide the defenders' arrows.

After months of trial and consumption, although the defenders have not yet run out of food, they have already suffered from a shortage of medical treatment and arrows.

The original battlements of the city were also badly damaged, and only some temporarily repaired rammed earth mounds filled the gaps in the city's head defense line.

However, these substitutes for the temporary ramming did not cut arrow holes, and the inclination angles on the sides were often irregular, allowing the defender crossbowmen to hide directly behind the battlements and fire diagonally. The defenders could only stick their upper bodies out and shoot at the besieging troops, which undoubtedly greatly increased the casualties of the defenders' crossbowmen.

And after being suppressed by the well for more than half a month, the well-trained crossbowmen in the defenders suffered very serious losses. Now the recruits who have filled in are mostly the people in the city who are casually pulled, and they go into battle with a bow, and their archery skills are sparse, not only the accuracy is not enough, but even the strength to pull the bow is not enough.

The arrows fired were crooked, and they didn't float far before they fell to the ground, and the drop in arrow speed also led to a great attenuation of armor-piercing ability.

Then since yesterday, Zhao Yun suddenly discovered that the steel-filled armor first-ascending elite soldiers he sent out were already completely immune to bow and arrow damage, even if he used a steel armor-piercing cone arrow, it was useless.

Only a small number of equipped crossbows can still pose a threat to the first warriors.

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"Soldiers, Zhang Xian is already at the end of the crossbow! They can't even pull their bows anymore! Achievements are being made today! ”

With the arrival of another early morning, the siege troops launched an offensive again with high morale under the command of Zhao Yun after sufficient rest and rotation.

Zhang Xianjun's crossbowmen couldn't show their heads and fire arrows at all, because the well carts built by Zhao Yun were already very complete.

There were four main gates, and each gate could be divided into four wells, making a total of sixteen in the city. The height of the well is one zhang higher than the city wall, and the defenders of Changsha did not have trebuchets to destroy the well and could only be suppressed in vain.

Under the suppression of the rain of arrows and the gravel of the siege trebuchet, the warriors of Xiandeng once again wore steel-filled armor and rushed up to gain a firm foothold in the city.

Zhao Yun now has a high status, of course, he will not personally participate in the siege and killing.

But Wei Yan, who was only the Marquis of Qu Jun, took the initiative to ask for battle, hoping that Zhao Yun would give him this opportunity and let his Qu be in charge of the position corresponding to a Ge bus.

Zhao Yun agreed to this request, and Wei Yan divided fifty soldiers to push carts, and the other four hundred soldiers waited in the rear array, of which the first 100 soldiers were mostly elite veterans composed of army commanders and even chiefs, all of whom were equipped with steel-filled armor.

Wei Yan also cherished this opportunity to perform, and energetically pressed the formation behind this group of steel-filled armor elite soldiers, ready to rush to the city wall together. It's not too risky, and it's a chance to make a difference.

Since he joined Liu Bei's camp, he initially relied on helping Xiang Lang and Huang Chengyan lead the way, which can only prove his position, but not his ability.

Later, after studying hard for half a year, during the Battle of Baqiu, he offered a strategy to Zhao Yun, which was a little proof that he knew the army and had the potential to cultivate.

And Wei Yan is also confident in his personal bravery, but he has never had the opportunity to stand out.

During the Battle of Baqiu, he participated in the final ambush and cover-up, and in the darkness he did not make many gains, and the enemy fled at the first touch, without fierce resistance and without showing his ability. Now that Changsha City is about to be breached, if it is not performed, there will be no chance during the entire Jingnan Campaign.

"Wealth and wealth are in danger, and now they are just a military marquis, if they don't take advantage of their young position and work hard, will they still wait for the future to take the lead?" Wei Yan tightened the steel knife in his hand, encouraging himself.

Soon, the Ge bus he pressed down on was progressing smoothly, and dozens of ironclad soldiers successfully tore a foothold in the city.

Wei Yan also held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and jumped up. The steel knife flew and slashed, killing several rebel soldiers.

The defenders hastily sent in reserves to try to plug the gap, all of them stabbing with spears of citrus wood and inferior cast-iron spears.

Wei Yan used a large hardwood shield wrapped in forged iron to block the collision, vigorously fired five or six spears, and slashed left and right.

The pioneers around him were also inspired by this, and they all realized that they should use various tactics to deal with it, and they all raised their shields to collide.

Although some of them were not skilled and incomplete, and were stabbed in by the guards through the gap under the shields, and fell to the ground in the calf, most of the warriors who ran with the shields succeeded in breaking through the spear formations of the defenders and fell into a hand-to-hand slash and kill.

The follow-up siege troops are coming up, and as the crossbowmen at the head of the city have been completely suppressed and more and more positions are occupied, the follow-up siege soldiers no longer have to hold shields, and the weapon mix is more balanced.

With the multi-arms siege force, the battle in the city's head became more and more stable, and the end of the Changsha rebels finally came.

Zhang Xian knew that he had no way out, so he personally brandished his sword to supervise the battle on the city tower.

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In the end, when Wei Yan led the team to kill in front of him, he also swore not to retreat, and he did not want to be captured. He knew that he had no luck and did not want to be humiliated, so he chose to cut himself.

Seeing that Taishou was dead, the remaining troops completely collapsed, the four city towers surrendered and were captured one after another, the city gate was opened, and the reserves of Zhao Yunbu outside the city also swarmed into the city and occupied all the key points in the city.

Huanjie, who had finally escaped from Baqiu and returned to Changsha, had to seek a chance to break through again.

He took a team of soldiers from the Zhang family who had a strong desire to survive and were too close to Zhang Xian, and instigated them that "Zhao Yun will definitely slaughter all the people close to Zhang Xian, even the slaves and family members will not be spared", and then used this group of people to fight to the death to help him break through.

It's a pity that the siege force was too tightly surrounded this time, and Huan Jie finally didn't have a chance to replicate the successful experience of the last time. In the end, I had to choose to take my personal guards and find a position where the moat outside the city was not filled, and I wanted to escape from the river after jumping off the city-

Even if the siege force wants to destroy the moat, it is impossible to fill in the entire river, and the amount of work is too large, and it is generally where the siege weapons need to be passed, only a section of the place is filled. If you are not ready to attack, there is no need to fill in the position.

Huanjie is not good at martial arts, he broke his leg directly when he jumped out of the city, and begged the guards not to abandon him under the severe pain, and the guards took him to the moat, and then swam across the river to escape.

How do you swim with a broken leg? Eventually, he drowned and fell unconscious, only to be caught by the besieging soldiers patrolling along the river.

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An hour later, Zhao Yun initially suppressed the situation in Changsha City.

Zhang Xian's head was also cut off from the corpse, sealed with lime pickled alone, and prepared to be sent back to Wuchang for meritorious service.

When counting the results of the battle, capturing and surrendering the prisoners, Zhao Yun inquired and found Huanjie.

And when he saw Huan Jie, the other party was already a foolish waste.

"How did it get like this? You won't be deceived, will you? Is this really a Huan Rank? Zhao Yun couldn't believe it.

The officer who captured Huan Rank hurriedly patted his chest and promised: "General rest assured, this must be Huan Rank, at that time, he brought dozens of Xian Jia Ding dead soldiers who tried to jump over the wall and swim in the river to break through, but were intercepted by us!" In the fighting, more than a dozen of Zhang Xian's family members died, and the rest were captured.

I pressed them separately, and they all said that this was Huanjie, but they fell into the city and broke their legs, and drowned while crossing the moat. After we learned that his identity was valuable, we hurriedly asked people to carry it upside down and choke on water, probably because he had drowned for too long and became an infatuated person. ”

The ancients did not understand medical knowledge such as "if the brain is deprived of oxygen for five minutes, irreversible damage will occur, and if the brain is deprived of oxygen for a quarter of an hour, it will definitely die", but common sense also told them that if the brain is drowned for a little longer, the mind will be broken.

It is estimated that the hypoxia time of this stage is between five and ten minutes, and this is the case.

Zhao Yun was also very helpless, so he had to let people be imprisoned first and escorted back to Wuchang for execution: "It's cheaper for him, but you don't have to experience the fear of execution." ”

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Zhao Yun spent a few more days in Changsha to clear up, and it was only on the third day of the ninth month that the Jingnan campaign was completely ended, and then the troops returned to the north.

In the battle of Jingnan, Liu Beijun used a total of 40,000 soldiers, a lot of people, but most of the battles were not fierce, mainly because the area was vast, and the manpower was spent on staking and clearing the place.

It is also necessary to fight against the scorching summer heat in the subtropical region of the south, and the non-combat attrition rate of soldiers is relatively high, and two or three percent of soldiers are recuperating from illness at any moment and cannot be put into action. However, this is the only time, and many soldiers can form a certain resistance after recuperating from their illness, which can be regarded as a harvest.

In the future, if it is still possible to use troops against Jiaozhou, these veterans who have been baptized by the battle of Jingnan will be able to adapt to other troops, and then they will specially transfer troops from these places to participate in the war.

After Liu Bei confirmed the results of the battle, he also held a banquet in Wuchang to celebrate the achievements of the generals. In this battle of Jingnan, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun's combat achievements were considerable, and Zhang Fei was slightly better - although Zhao Yun fought more territory, Zhang Fei killed the enemy's main force in two annihilation battles.

Zhang Fei couldn't continue to stake his land in the future, just because he was reckless, and he needed him to inspect Jiang Fang's black face to prevent Liu Biao from infiltrating if he was not calm.

In the end, Liu Bei decided that Zhang Fei was the first merit, Zhao Yun and Gan Ning were secondary, and the rest of Xu Shu and Wei Yan also performed well.

Xu Shu's original official was only the county magistrate of Exian County, and Liu Bei planned to transfer him to Guiyang County next year as a county magistrate to monitor Zhao Fan, and in fact, he would act as Zhao Fan to deal with a considerable part of local government affairs, which could be regarded as a training for Xu Shu.

Xu Shu's qualifications are credited, and it is still a little difficult to be promoted to a county in a wealthy area in the mainland, and it is not easy to convince the public.

But Guiyang is the hottest of the counties, and the population and land are far inferior to that of Lingling Changsha, so no one is jealous.

In addition, Li Yan and Dong He, who had surrendered to Zhang Fei and assisted in the elimination of Xing Daorong in turn, also received the highest promotion in Guiyi's civil and military affairs as representatives of Guiyi's ministers, and were also promoted from the county order to the county commander.

Li Yan went to Lingling County to assist Lai Gong, and Dong He stayed in Wuling to assist Wu Ju. They are all loyal to Liu Biao, so they can't talk about "surveillance", but in fact, it is obvious that Li Yandong and Wu Ju are more loyal to Liu Bei than Lai Gong and Wu Ju.

At least for now. Whether Lai Gong and Wu Ju will be slowly pulled over in the future is a later story.

Wei Yan contributed to Baqiu and participated in tackling tough problems in Changsha. However, the strategy he offered when he was in Baqiu was not perfect, and in the end, it was Zhao Yun's inferences and perfections that he succeeded.

Coupled with Wei Yan's Qu Junhou, who had just been promoted at the beginning of the year, there was no other accumulation of qualifications in the middle. At present, Xu Gong is still not enough to be directly promoted to the military commander.

After all, Qu Junhou is only a middle-level officer who leads 500 people, and the military Sima level can lead thousands of soldiers, and the span is a bit large, so he needs to save more credit.

Liu Bei gave the full amount of rewards, and recorded the progress of the meritorious service, indicating that Wei Yan would be promoted to military Sima if he had meritorious service next year.

And Zhao Yun's troops, after withdrawing to Wuchang, rested for a while, left the wounded and sick soldiers behind, and singled out the remaining part of the good state, which went down the Jiangdong and prepared to participate in the final battle against the Jiangdong Sun clan.

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