Three Kingdoms King of the North

"The two of you stay in the city to help defend Jizhou City, and at the same time provide food and grass for the expeditionary army!"

"Zilong, Dianwei, Hansheng, Xiahoulan!"

The generals whose names were called by Han Zhan all lined up and replied neatly: "The last general is here!"

"Two days later, the Marquis will personally lead three thousand cavalry, three thousand crossbowmen, and ten thousand infantry to Guantao to rescue Gao Lan. The four of you will go out with me!"

"The last general will obey the general's order!" The four replied at the same time.

Han Zhan finally turned his gaze to Zhang He who was standing in the queue, and said to him with a smile, "General Jun!"

Seeing that Han Zhan had finished allocating manpower and that he had not been included in the expedition, Zhang He guessed that he was the one who stayed to defend the city.Hearing Han Zhan calling himself, he quickly stepped out and replied, "The last general is here!"

"General Jun, I will leave you five thousand troops to guard Jizhou City." In order to attract Zhang Yun's attention, he also specially emphasized: "The defense of Jizhou City is of great importance, and there must be no loss. Once Jizhou is lost, our The army will collapse because of the lack of food and the cut off of the rear, do you understand?"

"The general understands." Zhang Yun replied with a solemn expression: "Please rest assured, my lord, as long as Zhang is alive, he will never let Jizhou go wrong."

After Yuan Shao's army stationed outside Guantao City, he immediately sent Fengji to the city to persuade Gao Lan, trying to capture Guantao without a single soldier.Feng Ji received Yuan Shao's order, and immediately led a dozen servants towards Guantao City.

The soldiers on duty at the head of Guantao city saw a small group of troops coming out of Yuan Jun's camp, and hurriedly reported to the group leader.When the team leader came to the top of the city, it happened that Feng Ji had also arrived at the moat.The team leader shouted loudly: "If you come, stop, if you take another step forward, we will shoot the arrow!"

After warning Fengji, the team leader shouted to the surroundings: "Archers are ready!"

Following his order, more than [-] archers standing at the top of the city immediately drew their bows and arrows, aiming at Feng Ji and his party at the bottom of the city.

Looking up at the top of the city, Fengji said loudly, "Quickly go and report to your high school lieutenant that Shi Fengji, the chief of the Marquis of Beixiang, wants to see him, and ask him to open the city gate immediately and let me in."

Hearing that the person below was Feng Ji, the team leader in the city quickly ordered the archers to put down their bows and arrows, and then ordered a soldier to report to Gao Lan.After the soldiers left, he leaned on the battlements and rushed down and shouted: "Feng Changshi, please wait a moment, I have already sent someone to invite my captain, he will be here soon."

When Gao Lan heard that Fengji was coming, he quickly ordered someone to notify the team leader on the top of the city, and opened the city gate to let Fengji in.

After the team leader heard the report from his subordinates, he immediately ordered loudly: "Put down the suspension bridge and open the city gate!"

Seeing the suspension bridge slowly lowered and the city gate opened, Feng Ji had a smug smile on his face. He felt that he could use his sharp tongue to persuade Gao Lan to take down Guantao without bloodshed.

Under the guidance of the team leader, Feng Ji came to Gao Lan's mansion.As soon as he saw Gao Lan with the helmet on, he walked over with a smile on his face, and at the same time greeted loudly: "Lieutenant Gao Gao, long time no see, are you okay?"

"It turned out to be Feng Changshi." Gao Lan had greeted Feng Ji many times when he was in Jizhou City in the past. Naturally, he knew each other. He asked politely, "I don't know why Chang Shi is here today."

Seeing Gao Lan greet him with a smiling face, Feng Ji felt that the chances of persuading Gao Lan were higher. He pretended to be mysterious and said: "Feng Ji came here to save the life of the captain!"

"Save Gao's life?" Hearing what he said, Gao Lan had a confused expression on his face: "Why did Chang Shi say that?"

"Didn't the high school lieutenant see the army outside the city?" Feng Ji felt that Yuan Shao's army was behind him to back him up, so he said confidently: "My lord led an army of [-] to come here. It will be won. If the college officials know the current affairs and turn against each other, they will not lose their glory and wealth in the future; if they want to resist stubbornly, wherever our army goes, everything will be smashed."

After Gao Lan finished listening, he sneered, and then asked, "Have you finished what Feng Changshi said?"

Hearing what Gao Lan said, Feng Ji was taken aback for a moment, but he soon understood that Gao Lan had no intention of surrendering at all.However, he still said unwillingly: "Lieutenant Gao Gao, there is a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides. If my lord attacks the city, it will take two or three hours at most to break through the city. Please think twice, Lieutenant Gao Gao. Make pointless resistance, or it will be too late for regret."

Gao Lan said seriously: "Gao was originally a subordinate of the Han family, but because Jizhou was taken by Yuan Cheqi, Gao temporarily surrendered to his command. Now the son of the Han family, Zhangshui Tinghou, has regained it. After arriving in Jizhou, Gao will naturally serve the old master. Thanks to Feng Changshi for his kindness! If Yuan Cheqi insists on attacking the city, Gao is willing to accompany him to the end." After finishing speaking, he ordered that Feng Ji A group sent out of the city.

After Yuan Shao heard Feng Ji's report, he suddenly became angry from embarrassment, and immediately ordered Yan Liangchou and the two of them: "You two will lead [-] troops and attack from the east and west of Guantao at the same time. You must take it before dark. city."

"The last general takes orders!" Yan Liangchou agreed, and went out of the tent to order troops.

As for the south of Guantao, Yuan Shao personally led the army to attack.But at the north gate, only some scouts were sent to monitor, so as to detect the breakout actions of the defenders in the city in time.

But Yuan Shao underestimated Gao Lan's ability to defend the city. Whether it was the south of the city that he supervised personally, or the east and west of the city that Yan Liangchou was in charge of, after two consecutive days of attacking, the soldiers were killed and injured, but they didn't even attack the city wall.

Seeing that Guantao was unable to attack for a long time, Yuan Shao was furious in the big tent. He yelled at Fengji, Shenpei and others: "A group of waste, a hundred thousand troops attacked a city with only five thousand guards, and more than 7000 people were killed or injured. You haven't even climbed up the city wall, you are simply a bunch of trash."

Chapter 0134 Reinforcements arrive

After Feng Ji waited for Yuan Shao to finish his anger, he hurriedly came out and said: "My lord, Ji Qian went to Guantao without success, and I feel ashamed. Now I would like to sacrifice my life and go again to persuade Gao Lan to surrender to the lord."

Hearing Feng Ji's words, Yuan Shao immediately turned his anger into joy: "Gao Lan is a fierce general, if he can serve him, why not be afraid of the young son of the Han family. Yuan Tu, you go to Guantao quickly, and speak out in terms of advantages and disadvantages. Be sure to persuade him Gao Lan surrenders to me."

Gao Lan didn't close his eyes for two days because of Yuan Jun's attack on the city.After lying in the tower for a while, a subordinate came to report: "Qi report to the captain, Yuan Shao's chief Shi Fengji is asking to see him at the bottom of the city."

Hearing that Fengji was coming again, Gao Lan hurriedly got up and followed his subordinates to the city wall. He leaned on the crenel and looked down. He saw Fengji standing alone on the opposite side of the moat, and asked loudly, "Mr. Yuantu?" , I don’t know why I’m here today, why?”

Feng Ji heard Gao Lan's voice from the city wall, and quickly raised his head and said loudly: "Lieutenant Gao Gao, listen to my advice: You are guarding an isolated city with only a few thousand soldiers under you. ? If you don’t surrender today, you will regret it in the future. May the high school think about it.”

What Feng Ji said in the city still moved the hearts of many defenders on the city. Although more than 2000 Yuan Jun had been killed and wounded in the past two days, the defenders in the city suffered nearly [-] casualties.Everyone focused on Gao Lan, wanting to see what decision he would make?

Seeing Fengji's words, Gao Lan shook the morale of his subordinates and couldn't help being furious. He aimed at Fengji in the city with his bow and arrow, and said loudly, "Gao has made up his mind, so you don't need to say anything. Hurry up!" Get back, or don't blame Gao for being ruthless with the bow and arrow in his hand."

Don't look at Feng Ji's loud voice when he spoke just now, but it was actually just a stern look. Seeing that Gao Lan on the top of the city aimed an arrow at him, he was afraid that the other party would really shoot the arrow, so he quickly turned his horse's head and fled towards the camp.

Seeing Fengji leave, Gao Lan put down the bow and arrow in his hand, sighed inwardly, and said, "Master, if your reinforcements don't come again, this Guantao City may not be able to defend."

Feng Ji returned to the camp and reported Gao Lan's refusal to surrender to Yuan Shao.Yuan Shao was furious after hearing this, "I'm so rude, do you think Yuan can't take down this city?" Then he asked the judge, "Zhengnan, according to your judgment, how many defenders are there in Guantao City?"

"Back to the lord," Shen Pei replied after thinking for a moment: "Although our army suffered more than 3000 casualties, the casualties of the defenders in Guantao City were not small. The subordinates estimate that there are at most [-] people."

After hearing this, Yuan Shao sneered and said, "A mere three thousand troops can withstand my one hundred thousand troops. Yan Liang, immediately rectify the troops and attack them before his rescue arrives!"

Yan Liang agreed, ordered his troops and horses, and went to attack the city again.However, the direction of his attack this time is no longer the east of the city, but the south of the city where Yuan Shao personally led the army to attack in the past two days.

Seeing the broken siege equipment and the corpses of men and horses under Guantao City, Yan Liang learned the lesson of the failed attack of the previous two days, and adopted a step-by-step tactic to let the army approach the city wall step by step.Hundreds of sword and shield fighters stopped thirty steps away from the city wall and erected shields that were half as tall as a person, while the archers hid behind the shields and shot arrows towards the city wall.

Seeing that the defenders at the top of the city were suppressed by the dense arrows and did not dare to stand up, Yan Liang ordered the infantry to attack again.Following his order, countless soldiers carrying ladders rushed out from the passage made aside by the sword and shield soldiers.Yishi Yuan Bing rushed to the bottom of the city wall carrying a ladder, and put it on top of the city wall with all his hands and feet.Several strong soldiers were holding the ladder below, and the remaining few agile soldiers, led by Shi Zhang, climbed up the ladder.

A team leader on the city wall saw a ladder leaning against the wall. Several Yuan Jun were climbing up the ladder. Just as they stood up straight, before they had time to ask their subordinates to throw rolling logs and rocks, they were shot by an army from the top of the wall. The arrow shot from the crenel hit the throat, covered his neck and fell on his back.A soldier next to him saw him fall, and hurriedly crawled over to rescue him, only to find that he had already died of exhaustion.

"Sword and shield hand, block Yuan Bing's bow and arrow with a shield!" Gao Lan, who was standing on the top of the city gate, saw the arrows below the city like flying locusts, so he asked his subordinates to hide behind the battlements and dare not show their faces, and quickly shouted: "Pikemen, prepare for close combat!"

After shooting more than a dozen arrows in a row, the archers under the city suffered from sore arms. The speed of shooting arrows gradually slowed down, and the threat to the defenders at the top of the city was greatly reduced.However, more and more ladders have been erected on the city wall, and hundreds of Yuan Bing are climbing up along the ladders.

Seeing that the bows and arrows under the city were not so densely packed, and there were sword and shield hands blocking the sporadic flying arrows with shields, the defenders on the top of the city stood up one after another, and threw rolling logs and rocks at Yuan Bing who was climbing, and pulled them off the ladder. Up and down.For those Yuan soldiers who climbed up the crenel, they stabbed them down with long spears.

Yuan Shao came down to Yan Liang's place with a group of helpers, and asked coldly, "How's the situation?"

"Report to my lord." Yan Liang, who was directing the siege, saw Yuan Shao approaching, and hurriedly reported to him, "The defenders fought tenaciously, and our army suffered a lot of casualties."

Seeing more and more corpses piled up under the city wall and the screaming wounded, Yuan Shao couldn't help frowning. He didn't expect that Gao Lan's resistance would be so tenacious that he suffered so much damage at Guantao's place. soldiers and horses.

The judge approached him and said in a low voice: "My lord, after careful observation, Gao Lan probably deployed most of his troops in the south of the city. At this moment, the other three sides of the city are empty. Why don't we divide our troops to attack there?"

Yuan Shao agreed without any hesitation to the proposal of trial and match.He called Chou and said: "Chou, you lead ten thousand soldiers to attack the west of the city. Even if you can't take it down, you have to restrain the defenders so that they can't spare manpower to reinforce Gao Lan."

"The last general takes orders!" Chou agreed, pulled his horse and went back to the camp to gather troops and horses.

"Zhengnan," as soon as Chou left, Yuan Shao said to the judge again: "You also lead ten thousand soldiers to attack the east of the city. It must be that Gao Lan can't look at each other."

"This subordinate takes orders." The examiner agreed, and went back to the camp to transfer troops.

After two days of hard fighting, there were less than 1000 defenders left in Guantao City, of which [-] were deployed in the south of the city, and the other [-] were led by three army Sima, and were deployed in the east, west, and north of the city. direction.Although Gao Lan organized thousands of people to help in the battle, compared with Yuan Shao's military strength, there was still a huge gap.