In the seventh year of Jian'an, the tenth day of June.

That is, Xiahou Yuan chiseled through the southern part of Langya County with 20,000 people from Li Dian and Sun Guan, cut all the way to the coast, and occupied Rizhao Port on the third day.

Xiahou Yuan himself personally led Zhang He, Gao Lan and 20,000 Cao troops to advance the battle line to the outside of Juxian County, and surrounded Juxian County in three directions, east, west and south-

Of course, the west of Juxian County is Shushui, so the encirclement on the west side is surrounded by the river, just to prevent Liu Beijun from breaking through from that direction, and to ensure that the Shushui channel is cut off, and the follow-up will not launch an attack on Juxian County from this direction.

During the whole encirclement process, Xiahou Yuan didn't seem to be in a hurry, he obviously wanted to leave enough time for the guards to be afraid and shaken, and feel the process of the noose slowly tightening around his neck.

After completing the siege on three sides, Xiahou Yuan asked Zhang He to prepare siege weapons, and let Gao Ran take the lead, first sent a bunch of scolding players and drums to cheer, and went to the city with shields to persuade him to surrender:

"Yuan Tan'er's thieves will listen! The imperial court army has rebelled so far, and Yuan Shang of Jizhou has also returned to the imperial court, and Cao Sikong has killed Yuan Tan! The whole territory of Qingzhou will be powdered in a few days!

Surrender as soon as possible, and General Xiahou will ensure that you do not commit any crimes in the whole city! Otherwise, in a small town in Juxian County, on the day the city is broken, the chickens and dogs will not be left! ”

Gao Shun, the defender of the city, only felt funny in his heart when he heard this scolding and persuasion, but he could also understand why the other party did this-Cao Thief still turned a blind eye and pretended not to pay attention to Yuan Tan and Liu Bei's territorial transactions and garrison cooperation in defense. Obviously, Liu Bei's soldiers were already in the city, so he pretended not to know and pretended to fight as Yuan Jun.

Anyway, this kind of engagement is more flexible, easier to improvise, and there is no need to pay a price.

And for the ordinary soldiers of the Cao army, this is also beneficial, because the Yuan family has been beaten down by the Cao army several times, the Cao army has won successive battles against the Yuan army, and Yuan Tan is the relatively weaker side after the split of the Yuan family.

Telling the soldiers that they were going to fight Yuan Tan was more conducive to boosting the morale of Cao Jun and making the soldiers feel that they were fighting a good fight.

And the flag that Gao Shun hung at the head of the city was indeed the banner of Yuan Tan's camp, so he cooperated with the other party and scolded:

"Xiahou Pifu! I have heard for a long time that you are illiterate and don't read history books, but today it is! I am Juxian Xiongcheng in the world, you dare to despise it so much, if you have the courage to attack the city, let you and other thieves who bully the king rise and learn a lesson! ”

After Gao Ran was scolded, he was at a loss for a while, but he came to scold the battle first, and the siege weapons were not ready, and he really couldn't attack immediately, so he couldn't help but suffocate his momentum, and he had to tell Xiahou Yuan what happened on the front line after he went back.

Xiahou Yuan was also confused when he heard it, he really didn't read much, but the common sense of the art of war and the skills of commanding the troops were still quite good, as a generation of brave generals, he had dabbled in everything he should read.

Xiahou Yuan: "Who is the head of the city?" What did he mean by that? ”

Gao Lan: "It seems to be Gao Shun, but he is under the banner of Yuan Tan's general." ”

Xiahou Yuan touched his beard: "I personally went to inspect the siege position to see the situation." ”

Xiahou Yuan wants to patrol the attack position, of course, he is very cautious, he will bring escorts, some people will hold shields to cover them, and he will be far away from the range of the crossbow arrows at the opponent's city.

After a while, Xiahou Yuan heard that there were countless scolding fighters at the head of the city, insulting one after another, popularizing history to the besieging soldiers in preparation.

"At that time, Le Yi led the five-nation alliance army to attack Qi, and more than 70 cities under Qi within half a year, and even Linzi fell to Qi, but there were only two cities left in Jimo and Juxian, and the siege lasted for five years. Until Le Yi was replaced by King Yanhui with a cavalry robbery, and Tiandan counterattacked and regained Qi, Juxian County did not fall!

Xiahou Yuan, don't you think that my Ju County is only a small county in Langya County, so you dare to despise our army? Piff, how are you better than Le Yi back then? If you are not afraid of death, you can just crash to death on this wall! Let Er and other Cao thieves see the danger of Mengshan and the solidity of Yishui, how easy it is to defend and difficult to attack! Hahahaha! ”

The soldiers shouting at the head of the city, the allusions shouted out were actually quite historical, and they told historical stories to the siege soldiers, which caused some morale blows.

It is estimated that someone had educated the soldiers before the war, and told the "glorious history" of defending the city in Ju County, and it seems that the defenders have done a lot of homework.

Xiahou Yuan is a soldier, but he really doesn't read much history, and he is a little confused when he listens to it, and after returning to the camp, he hurriedly invited Guo Jia, a military advisor specially sent to him by Cao Cao, to ask for relevant historical materials:

"Mr. Fengxiao, this small town in Juxian County is really so difficult to attack? Before I came, I thought it was just a small county in Langya County. ”

Guo Jia heard that Xiahou Yuan was suddenly interested in history, so he had to answer truthfully: "It is true that Le Yi did not capture Jimo and Ju County back then, but he was able to do it for five years, obviously because Le Yi raised his own self-respect, and did not want to die, he just wanted to slowly control the hometown of Qi and make his own fame and fortune."

Otherwise, if the city is besieged for five years, as long as the people in the city are besieged and there is no respite and no food left, the people in the city will starve to death! As for Juxian, the situation is more special than that of Jimo. At the time of the Warring States Period, Juxian was an important frontier town in the south of the Qi State, and the rest of Xuzhou in the south belonged to the Chu State at that time.

Therefore, the defense and military strength of Juxian County were indeed important in the Warring States period. And at that time, the state of Chu did not want the state of Qi to be completely destroyed, and Le Yi could not enter the realm of Chu to cut off the grain road on the south side of Ju County, although the history books did not clearly record, but I suspect that in those five years, there were Chu people to transport grain to the Qi people, and Le Yi was unable to attack it for a long time.

If the historical stories spread by the enemy army today have indeed hit the morale of the soldiers, the general can also let people tell historical stories in our favor in the battalion, so as to eliminate the soldiers' concerns about the strength and difficulty of Juxian. ”

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Xiahou Yuan felt that it was very reasonable, and on the same day, he asked the soldiers in the battalion to tell stories, diluting the blow to the morale of the enemy's rumors and scolding, and telling the soldiers that "Juxian is actually not difficult to attack at all."

However, how much effect the propaganda war of the two sides can have will have to wait for actual combat verification.

Anyway, being thwarted by such a small episode and twists and turns, Xiahou Yuan also completely put away his heart to persuade him to surrender, he knew that the enemy army was very confident and would definitely defend to the end, so give up the illusion and attack directly!

And since the other party mentioned Le Yi, Le Yi was worried about the relationship between Yan and Chu back then, and failed to encircle Ju County in four faces, so he must learn the lesson of Le Yi's failure and besiege Ju County in four ways!

Originally, it was planned to surround the three missing one, so that the defenders could see the hope of escape and hit the defenders' will to fight, but this attempt was even abandoned.

The lesser of two evils.

Because otherwise, Gao Shun would definitely tell a story to the soldiers in the city: Back then, Le Yi was surrounded by three missing one, Xiahou Yuan, an idiot, learned Le Yi's style of play, and his ability was not as good as Le Yi, and he would definitely lose!

That kind of encouragement to the hearts of the defenders may be greater than the depression brought about by the lack of one of the three encirclements, and the intensity is greater.

When you fight, what you fight is the morale of the people!

……

After four or five days of hastily preparing siege weapons, Xiahou Yuan asked Zhang He Gaolan to launch the first wave of tentative assault.

In such a short period of time, heavy equipment such as Ge buses and wells must have been built in time, but small ladders and rushing cars are definitely enough.

Since knowing that Yuan Tanjun had mastered the tactics of cracking Ge Bus's fortification, Cao Jun's expectations for Ge Bus's attack have also decreased. What's more, this time it was Liu Bei, and the Ge bus was invented by Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang, so there is no need to waste time on a weapon that will be restrained with a high probability, just rely on old-fashioned equipment.

Xiahou Yuan also figured out the scale of the defenders in the city, and there were only a few thousand people, so he still tried to see if he could rush up in one go.

Cao's army, which numbered more than 15,000 men, was deployed in batches and launched an orderly assault from multiple directions.

The defenders at the head of the city, under the strict command of Gao Shun, frantically threw rolling wood and stones, and bows and crossbows rained down like arrows.

Juxian is located in a mountainous area, because the height of the city wall in all directions is relatively large, so it is impossible to build a moat - if the moat is dug, then the west side of the city near Shushui has the lowest terrain, and the moat bed on the eastern slope of the city will definitely be drained, and the water will flow to the west.

However, there is no moat, and Juxian is easy enough to defend and difficult to attack.

The west of the city was too narrow to attack.

After Cao Jun in the east of the city tried for a day, Xiahou Yuan also found that the place was too rugged, the slope was steep, the heavy siege equipment was very poor, and many ladder trucks overturned on the way to the city wall because of the unevenness.

There are also all kinds of pits dug by the defenders in advance according to local conditions, and they also rely on the blessing of natural terrain, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

After a whole day of trying, hundreds of people were killed and many more wounded and sick in vain, but there was no progress in the eastern direction of the city.

After assessing, Xiahou Yuan knew that it would not work to fight like this, so from the next day, he gave up the offensive in the east of the city, and only focused on attacking from the north and south along the trend of the Shushui River Valley.

Zhang He is in charge of the south of the city, and Gao Ran is in charge of the north of the city. Each led 10,000 troops and attacked in turns.

The Shushui River valley is narrow, and the terrain outside the city suitable for deploying troops is not spacious, and it is impossible to rush up when there are too many people, so they can only fight a wheel war and a war of attrition.

But Gao Shun's combat power in Jiancheng, how could Zhang He and Gao Ran be able to win it with a short-term strong attack?

With each wave of offensive being repulsed, Gao Shun is very good at taking the opportunity to boost morale, telling everyone the allusions of Tiandan Fuqi back then, the soldiers are more and more relaxed, and they are willing to listen to stories, and their confidence is more and more bursting.

Every morning, after the Cao army suppressed the bow and crossbow arrows and stones, and sent troops to join the city, Liu Beijun shouted a fierce battle, did not retreat, frantically released arrows and threw all kinds of killing consumables, and repelled wave after wave of Cao army's offensive without moving.

After the fight, every time the Cao army retreated, the sound of war drums and horns at the head of the city was still endless, and the soldiers without drum music also roared and shouted, and the sound of killing shook the sky. The retreating Cao army was frightened, and morale became more and more low.

After many days of storming, killing and wounding and reducing thousands of people, Xiahou Yuan did not make any substantial progress, and he finally had to change his strategy and adopt a siege of Juxian, and then divide his troops and make another plan.

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