The time was fast, and it was time to make an appointment to do it.

At noon the next day, among the Cao army, the war drum was beaten, Cao Cao ordered, attack the fortress in front of him, due to the terrain problem, only more than 1,000 people can be arranged to attack, the open space before the fortress can not accommodate too many people, otherwise the Cao army will kill it together, it is almost a horizontal push, there is no need to be so troublesome.

After the attack, the guards on the fortress were alarmed, and immediately rose up to defend, drawing their bows and shooting arrows, which covered Cao's army, but were easily blocked by their shields.

There were also guards who picked up the sassal wood and stones and threw them at Cao Jun, but they couldn't stop the attack.

"Feint!"

"Don't attack too hard, just play slowly, let the enemy know that we are attacking, just attract their attention."

Cao Cao commanded.

Since there is Zhang Yan in the rear, there is no need to fight too seriously at this time, slowly play with the soldiers of the fortress, so as to avoid too many troops being consumed here, after this order is passed down, the officer in charge of the attack will arrange it immediately.

The intensity of the attacking Cao soldiers immediately dropped.

They didn't fight very hard, indeed.

Meanwhile.

Hearing the sound of war drums coming from the east side of the mountain, the time for the attack was agreed, and on the west side of the mountain, Zhang Yan understood that the opportunity to attack had come, and gathered the people around him to start acting.

They used to be in Montenegro, climbing up and down, and they used a lot of tools for climbing.

The military fortress in front of you is a section of the city wall, the city gate is tightly closed at this time, the city wall is not very high, but this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, most of the military fortresses in Taihang Bacheng are like this, a fortress is stationed here, it can be very effective to block foreign enemies, prevent people from outside from coming in.

"Do it, quick!"

Zhang Yan: They prepared the tools for climbing.

They have a hook that is easy to climb and can be fixed by hooking it to the wall, and a thick rope is tied to the hook that can be used to climb smoothly.

The walls of the fortress are not very high, in the range where the hook can be thrown up.

Several Montenegrin soldiers with rich climbing experience quickly made all preparations and fixed the rope, and the follow-up soldiers immediately climbed up.

At this time, the guards of the fortress were still resisting the attack of the Cao army, but they didn't think that there were also Cao troops in the rear, and no one found out about the situation in the rear until Zhang Yan and they climbed up, but it was too late.

Zhang Yan climbed up and slashed the person who found him with a knife.

Other soldiers climbed one after another, and dozens of people were on board in an instant.

In the entire fortress, there were only more than 200 people.

Part of them had to resist the attack of the Cao army, and part of them had to defend against Zhang Yan, who was killed in the rear, and they were in a hurry in an instant and couldn't deal with it.

"Kill!"

Zhang Yan shouted loudly and raised his knife to kill him.

"Not good, hold on!"

"Kill the people behind first!"

The officers of the fortress, eagerly commanded.

But in such a situation, no matter how hard they tried to command, it was useless, and they were quickly killed in all directions.

There were also soldiers who went down and opened the city gates to let Cao's army enter the fortress.

The military fortress inside Jingcheng was successfully taken by Cao Cao.

"Get in!"

Cao Cao shouted, and the army quickly entered it, made the final sweep of the remaining guards, passed through the fortress, and reached the west.

"Meet the Lord!"

Zhang Yan walked over and bowed in front of Cao Cao.

"General Zhang doesn't need to be polite, how is the battle situation now?"

Cao Cao asked.

You must know that the current scouts, in the various mountain roads in Jingcheng, it is not very convenient to walk.

He hadn't received news from inside Taiyuan for a long time.

"Back to the lord, Zhang Wenyuan has already defeated Yuci, set off to Jinyang, and Ma Mengqi attacked Jinyang, as for Xiahou Yuan, let them also march into Shangdang, but there is no news back for the time being, but it is not very difficult to take down Shangdang!"

Zhang Yan immediately reported the specific situation.

Cao Cao nodded and said with satisfaction: "Very good, everything is well done, let's enter Taiyuan first, and then Jinyang." ”

Receiving his orders, the army moved again.

After walking out of Jingcheng, there were still many people in the nearby county towns, and they got all kinds of news, knowing that Cao Cao had led troops in, and they also knew that they were not Cao Jun's opponents, so there were still many people who were willing to surrender, and they gave up their cities one after another.

Cao Cao arranged for someone to take over, continued to rush in the direction of Jinyang, and at the same time asked someone to contact Xiahou Yuan.

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Outside Jinyang City.

Zhang Liao and Ma Chao met and looked up at the city.

"It's not easy to fight!"

Ma Chao said.

Jinyang is the seat of governance of the entire state, there is a certain defensive capability, and the city wall is not low, although there are not many defenders in the city, but it can still be done to defend for a period of time.

Zhang Liao shook his head and said: "Then don't fight, open the city gate in the way of persuasion, let's write more notes, let people shoot into the city, and persuade the people in the city to surrender." ”

Ma Chao asked, "Is this useful?" ”

"It works!"

Zhang Liao nodded affirmatively: "The Yuan clan is gone, the high cadres are also dead, and there is no owner in the state, but the lord is about to become the master of the state, and there are almost no warlords in the entire state who can beat the lord, and they can accept our strong attack in addition to opening the city gate and surrendering." If we attack by force, the loss is not a lot, even if the defenders in the city are unwilling to surrender, but the families in the city are not necessarily! ”

To know the existence of the family, it is more special.

They don't have the idea of co-living or dying with the city, they only value their own interests.

The Yuan family is gone, Gao Gan is dead, it doesn't matter to them, as long as their family is still there, if a boss dies, then change the boss to take refuge, defending the city is a loss for them, and they are definitely unwilling to support the defense of the city.

"Before coming in, we sent people in advance to release the news in Bingzhou, and now the people of the entire Jinyang must know that the Yuan family has fallen, and if we persuade them to surrender, they will open the city gate!"

Zhang Liao was a little confident, withdrew his gaze from the city wall, and said: "Since it is not easy to fight, then there is no need to fight, and the soldiers will surrender without a fight." ”

"Good!"

Ma Chao pondered for a while and found that he still had a certain gap compared to Zhang Liao.

But it's normal, he is younger, still young and vigorous, likes to be in the limelight, is more brave and ruthless, not as calm as Zhang Liao, if he can precipitate for a few more years, he can become the next Zhang Liao, but now it is still a little worse.

They prepared a letter of surrender, arranged for archers, drew their bows into the city, and shot them in.

At the same time, it continued to spread the news that the Yuan clan was gone, and Gao Gan died in battle, which by the way disturbed the morale of the troops in other cities in Taiyuan, making them afraid of the Cao army, and when facing the Cao army, there was no morale and fighting spirit, and there was no cohesion.

A large number of letters of persuasion continued to be shot into the city.

The soldiers or officers who picked up the letters, read the letter of surrender, and they felt hesitant and struggled to open the city gates and surrender.

Cao Cao is so strong, even Yuan Shao was defeated, Cao Jun could still be silent, suddenly hit Jinyang, Yuci was also lost, it doesn't seem worth it to continue to resist!