Three Kingdoms King of the North

Min Zhuang, who had not been on patrol, saw arrows like locusts in the city, and fled in all directions. The officers and soldiers guarding them killed more than a dozen people in a row, and then stopped the rout and put them back on the top of the city. .However, there was no hope for them to fight Yuan Bing who rushed to the top of the city. They could only be responsible for carrying rolling logs and stones, and treating the wounded.

Facing Yan Liang's ferocious offensive, Gao Lan had a hard time arriving, and was about to order people to transfer troops from the east and west of the city to help in the battle.But he saw a subordinate running over in a hurry, knelt down on one knee in front of him, and reported in a panic: "Qi report to the captain, general Yuan Jun has an ugly army of 1 horses, and he is attacking the west of the city."

"Report!" Gao Lan had just received an urgent report on the military situation in the west of the city, and another small school rushed over to report, "Qi report to the captain, Yuan Jun's trial and distribution department is attacking the east of the city, and the army Sima has insufficient troops, so I am specially ordered to come." Get rescuers."

Gao Lan snorted heavily, and said: "You two go back and tell your army Sima that the situation here is also very dangerous, and no one can escape. Let them defend it no matter what. If the city is breached, they will immediately See you later!"

After listening to Gao Lan's stern order, the two small schools agreed, and then trotted all the way to the east and west of the city, preparing to convey Gao Lan's order to their army Sima.

In the south of the city, since Gao Lan was personally in charge, although Yan Liang's offensive was fierce, he could barely block it.The judge who commanded the siege in the east of the city was only to contain Gao Lan's troops, and did not really want to break the city, so they fought for more than an hour, still wandering around the edge of the moat.

As for Chou in the west of the city, seeing that his subordinates suffered heavy casualties during the siege, he immediately became angry.Regardless of his own safety, he took a risk and climbed up the city wall along the ladder.Seeing Chou rushing up the city wall, Sima, the army guarding the city, rushed over with five or six men, brandishing weapons, trying to drive Chou off the wall.

After less than three rounds of fighting, the spear in Chou's hand pierced Jun Sima's chest, and then he picked it up in the air, throwing his body off the city wall.Seeing Chou so fierce, the soldiers who besieged him were stunned.Fortunately, there was a garrison chief who was calm in the face of danger, commanded the seven or eight archers to shoot arrows at Chou, and asked ten pikemen to attack Chou in units of five.

Although Chou is highly skilled in martial arts, he seems a bit overwhelmed by the long and short attacks of pikemen and archers.Two Yuan soldiers jumped in from the crenel. Before they could get close to Chou, they were shot to death by random arrows. They fell back and fell directly to the top of the wall, smashing the bones of several Yuan soldiers standing below. Tendons folded.

Seeing that he couldn't take advantage of any advantage, Chou could only stand on the crenel, swung his gun to deflect a few cold arrows, swung away two stabbing spears, turned around and jumped off the city wall.Fortunately, there were quite a few corpses facing him below, and he was not injured when he landed.

When Guantao City was in danger, the [-] cavalry led by Huang Zhong were only [-] miles away from the city.The dispatched scouts galloped to report: "Report to Colonel Huang, Yuan Jun is attacking Guantao ahead."

Hearing that the city hadn't fallen, Huang Zhong heaved a sigh of relief. After he ordered Tan Ma to report to Han Zhan, he turned around and shouted to his subordinates, "Brothers, follow me!" He led three thousand cavalry and went straight to Guantao.

Huang Zhong led the cavalry straight to the east of the city. The reason why he chose this direction was because the terrain was flat and easy for the cavalry to gallop.He didn't expect that his choice would save Guantao City by accident.

The army led by Shenpei, who attacked the east of Guantao City, had no intention of attacking the city at all. The reason why he led his troops to make noises below the city was to attract the attention of the defenders, so that they could not allocate troops to support the critical situation in the south or west of the city. .If the other two directions break the city, he will also change the feint into a strong attack, and go to the city to get a share.

When Tanma, who escaped from the north of the city, reported to him that there was a large cavalry force rushing towards the east of the city, he was frightened.The judge quickly ordered people to gather the troops, preparing for the cavalry that was already rushing towards him.

Huang Zhong was a little surprised when he saw that there were a large number of Yuan Jun soldiers in the east of Guantao City, but seeing that the opponent was in a panic, he was immediately overjoyed. He raised the big knife in his hand high and swung forward. Waving: "Follow me to kill!"

"Kill!" The three thousand cavalry behind him responded loudly, sweeping towards Yuan Jun in the distance with an unstoppable momentum.

Huang Zhong's cavalry had already rushed into their ranks before the subordinates of the examination and dispatch had time to complete their formation.The huge impact force of the horse knocked countless people into the air, and after flying for a certain distance in the air, they fell heavily again, knocking down a group of soldiers.The cavalry were in the ranks of Yuan's army, slashing and stabbing with knives and guns, causing Yuan's army to flee in all directions.

Seeing the opponent's cavalry approaching fiercely, the judge knew that even if he had a lot of people, he couldn't stop them, so he hurriedly rode his horse and left.Seeing that the judges had all run away, the soldiers around him also ran away; the soldiers in the distance saw that the banners were all running back, and they also ran back when they were still thinking about fighting.

Huang Zhong saw that the enemy's formation had been disrupted, so he led the cavalry in a strict formation to charge continuously, forcing them to flee to the south of the city.

Army Sima standing on the city wall couldn't help but heave a long sigh of relief when he saw Yuan Jun running like a wolf. He knew that the troops without the establishment could not block the cavalry's impact at all.He left 200 people here to continue guarding, and then took the rest of the people and ran along the city wall towards the south of the city.

At this time, Gao Lan was almost at the point of exhaustion. Yuan Jun's soldiers had charged up the city wall several times, and were finally beaten down by his own men, but the number of defenders on the city was getting smaller and smaller.He thought pessimistically, at most two sticks of incense would pass before the city would fall, and he would have to die here in battle.

Just when he was pessimistic and desperate, suddenly a soldier shouted loudly: "Reinforcements are coming, our reinforcements are coming!" He shouted and pointed to the east.

Gao Lan looked along the defense line of his fingers, and saw a large group of Yuan Jun infantry, driven by an elite cavalry, rushing towards Yuan Shao and Yan Liang's position like a tide.While Yan Liang's troops were attacking the city with all their strength, suddenly a rout of soldiers rushed out from the side, immediately disrupting their positions.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Feng Ji quickly grabbed Yuan Shao's rein and said loudly: "My lord, this place is not complete, hurry up and come down with my subordinates." running in the direction.

Chapter 0135 The reason for dispatching troops ahead of schedule

Seeing Yuan Shao's big banner retreating, and Han's army's cavalry charging again, the troops that were attacking the city were in chaos, and everyone rushed to the distant camp. Yan Liang beheaded several deserters , trying to hold their ground, but unable to hold back more and more deserters, their escape triggered a greater rout, and Lian Yanliang was coerced by the crowd and retreated.

After Huang Zhong defeated the Yuan army in the south of the city, he led his army to the west of the city to attack the ugly army in order to break the siege of Guantao.Gao Lan on the top of the city saw that the attacking Yuan army had receded like a tide, so he left behind a hundred soldiers and many civilians, and took the rest to the west of the city for rescue.

After Huang Zhong's cavalry rushed to the west of the city, they rushed the ugly army's formation to pieces.The last time Ugly met Huang Zhong when he was ambushed in the canyon, he fought with Huang Zhong for a long time, not to mention that he lost the eldest son Yuan Tan, so that he still doesn't know his life or death.At this moment, the enemy was extremely jealous when they met each other, he roared, and rushed over while waving the spear in his hand.

Don't look at Chou who consumed a lot of his physical strength when attacking the city. Huang Zhong was not much better. He led the troops for a long-distance attack, and then went clockwise from the east of the city to the west of the city. His physical strength was also exhausted, so When the two stood together, it was still too late to tell the winner.

Standing at the top of the city, Gao Lan saw that Huang Zhong and Chou were fighting inextricably under the city. He was afraid that Yuan Jun would make a comeback, so he hurriedly led people to go out of the city to help in the battle, but after walking a few steps, he found that the big knife in his hand had been there for several days. In the bloody battle, the rolling blade can no longer be used.He threw the broadsword on the ground and ordered the soldiers beside him: "Come here, carry the gun and prepare the horse for me. I want to go out of the city to help in the battle."

The hanging bridge was lowered, and the closed city gate was opened. Gao Lan led more than 500 soldiers out of the city.Under the repeated charge of cavalry, the ugly army outside the city had already become the last straw in the crossbow's crossbow, and Gao Lan, who was rushing out of the city at this moment, became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Seeing that his subordinates were defeated like a mountain, Chou didn't want to fight. After driving Huang Zhong back with a gun, he pulled his horse and fled.Huang Zhong joined forces with Gao Lan and re-entered Guantao and the like.

On the way back to the city, Gao Lan asked Huang Zhong curiously: "Lieutenant Huang, when will the Lord's army arrive?"

"My lord's army will only set off tomorrow morning, and it will take three days at the earliest to arrive at Guantao." Huang Zhong replied, "He was worried that Guantao's soldiers would be too small to withstand Yuan Shao's [-] troops, so he ordered me to lead the cavalry in the starry night." Come to support."

Gao Lan asked with a smile: "Lieutenant Huang, I wonder how many troops my lord has brought this time?"

"6000 infantry, [-] crossbowmen, and [-] cavalry." Huang Zhong stroked his beard and said, "the horse infantry has a total of [-] men."

After hearing the number of soldiers and horses Huang Zhong said, Gao Lan's smile froze on his face.Although Yuan Shao lost a lot of troops recently, there are still at least 6000 soldiers and horses from all over the place, and the reinforcements are only [-], which means that one is equal to five.

Seeing Gao Lan's expression, Huang Zhong immediately guessed what he was worried about, and quickly said to him: "Don't worry about the high school lieutenant, don't look at the lack of soldiers and horses of the lord, but if you want to defeat Yuan Shao, according to Huang's speculation, it should not be What a problem."

"That's good, that's good!" Hearing what Huang Zhong said, Gao Lan immediately thought of the past when Han Zhan led three thousand soldiers to fight on the way to attack Guangping City. Let's say [-], so why is it impossible to use [-] to fight [-] now?Thinking of this, Gao Lan raised his heart in his throat, and finally fell back into his stomach.

Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses attacking the city were attacked by Huang Zhong, and they were beaten and fled in all directions. However, because Huang Zhong had too few soldiers and horses and needed to fight in different locations, Yuan Jun's damage was limited.Yuan Shao took in the defeated soldiers, and out of the 3 men who attacked the city, more than 1000 came back.

Seeing that only [-]% of the soldiers and horses went to battle had been lost, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.Feng Ji said to Yuan Shao: "My lord, don't see that we were caught off guard by reinforcements from the Han family today, but if Ji hadn't miscalculated, the number of reinforcements is too small to dare to challenge our army head-on, so we can only retreat In the city. Tomorrow we can divide our troops into three groups and attack the east, south and north sides of Guantao at the same time. Their strength is limited, so they will definitely not be able to stop our army's strong attack, and they will break through the city just around the corner."

"Wait a minute, my lord!" Seeing that Yuan Shao was moved by Feng Ji's persuasion, Xun Chen hurriedly persuaded him: "Although our army is numerous, most of the soldiers have not returned to their hearts, and when we attacked the city, we couldn't even use half of our combat power. Later General Yuan Gonglu has many soldiers and generals, so we might as well ask him for help and ask him to send troops to reinforce us!"

Although Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are brothers, after Yuan Shao captured Jizhou, Yuan Shu sent someone to ask him for a thousand horses, but Yuan Shao refused.For this matter, the two brothers turned against each other.Xun Chen believed that now was the best time for the two brothers to rebuild their old relationship, so he proposed this suggestion to Yuan Shao.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Yuan Shao snorted heavily, and then said: "I have cut off all ties with him, You Ruo, you don't need to mention asking him for help." He turned his head and asked Feng Ji, "Yuan Tu, where else can we go?" Can soldiers and horses be mobilized?"

"Back to my lord," Feng Ji hurriedly leaned back and replied, "Bohai County is now under the control of the young master and Xu You and Xu Ziyuan, and can still gather [-] troops. However, the road leading there has been cut off by Gongsun Zan. We couldn't send anyone out there to get in touch with them."

"Damn Gongsun Zan." Yuan Shao punched the table in front of him heavily, and said bitterly, "If he hadn't raised an army to attack, how could the youngest son of the Han family sneak in and seize Jizhou and kill my second son? When he got angry, he seemed to have forgotten that if he hadn't betrayed his promise, refused to give Gongsun Zan the land of Jizhou, and even sent someone to kill Gongsun Yue who came to contact him, how could Gongsun Zan have fought against him?

Xin Ping listened for a long time, then interjected, "My lord, after observing the battle for the past few days, I found that the reason why our army has been unable to enter Guantao is not because the soldiers are unwilling to use their lives, but because the siege equipment is insufficient. .”

When Feng Ji heard this, he immediately retorted: "Zhongzhi's words are wrong. Our army has used ladders and chariots to attack the city in the past few days, but they were all broken by Gao Lan. What other siege equipment is available?"

"Today, my lord and I watched the battle under the city," Xin Ping continued, "I found that our army used bows and arrows to suppress the defenders on the city at the beginning of the attack. If our army uses the well to suppress the city wall when we attack tomorrow If there is no defender on the ground, then our soldiers will be able to ascend the city smoothly."

"Zhongzhi, don't forget that there is also the moat outside Guantao City." Feng Ji frowned and said, "Every time we cross the moat, we will lose a lot of soldiers."

The judge suggested: "We can send people to fill the river with soil. As long as the moat is filled up, our soldiers can rush directly under the city wall."

"Carrying soil to fill the river is time-consuming, and the bows and arrows, rolling logs and rocks on the city can cause a lot of casualties to our soldiers." Xin Ping shook his head and said, "Do you still remember that at the Jieqiao At that time, when Gongsun Zan's army attacked the stronghold, he used a flying bridge. This kind of flying bridge is simple to make, using two long logs, nailed planks on the top, and two wheels on the bottom. When in use, it is built on the moat. It is a simple Trench Bridge."

"Mr. Zhongzhi." Although Yan Liang was brave and foolish, he listened very carefully when Xin Ping introduced these siege equipment.After Xin Ping finished speaking, he hurriedly asked, "Are there any other siege tools?"

"There is also a catapult." Xin Ping was afraid that Yan Liang would not know what the catapult was like, so he introduced it to him specifically: "The structure is also very simple. A huge long log is fixed on a frame, and the long end is Dozens of ropes are tied to the short ends of stones loaded in leather sheaths or wooden baskets. But when the order is given, dozens of people pull the ropes at the same time and throw the stones out.”

After listening to Xin Ping's introduction, the muscles on Yan Liang's face couldn't help twitching violently a few times, and he asked a little dumbfounded: "Mr. Zhongzhi, a trebuchet requires dozens of soldiers to operate. I don't know if it can be used to attack the city." What's the use?"

When Xin Ping heard Yan Liang's question, he hesitated for a moment, and then said: "General Li Xin of the Qin Army attacked Chu. The Chu Army secretly prepared a large number of catapults. When the Qin Army was crossing the river, they suddenly launched them at the same time. It hit the Qin army like a dark cloud, causing the 20 Qin army to be completely defeated."

"Zhongzhi," Yuan Shao suddenly realized when he heard this, "I understand, if we use catapults to launch against the city wall when attacking the city, we will surely beat the defenders to nowhere to hide; coupled with the cooperation of Jinglan, We will be able to conquer Guantao."

Although Xin Ping's ability is slightly inferior to Jushou's, his political wisdom is extremely high. He has not explained the usefulness of the catapult to Yan Liang for a long time, but he deliberately mentioned the old story of the Chu army defeating the Qin army, just to arouse Yuan Shao's attention. Notice.The same thing, said by Yuan Shao himself, is much more effective than making suggestions by himself.

"My lord is wise." Xin Ping hastily cupped his hands and saluted: "This subordinate just thought of this tactic, but I didn't expect that my lord has already prepared it. It seems that the capture of Guantao is just around the corner."