With Zhao Yun's strength, he made sufficient preparations in advance and built a large amount of ammunition with a large amount of reduced weight of 20 times and a dozen times in a few months. After the light grape bombs dropped by the stone tool, as long as he thought, he could actually take Yulin City within three days after the general attack was launched.

At least that's how Zhao Yun himself estimated.

However, Zhao Yun also knew that it was not important to have a position like Yu Lin, who was fast and slow. It was still close to Zhao Yun's base camp and it was convenient to replenish supplies. However, the enemy's main force in Jiaozhi could not support Yu Lin.

It would be even better if Yu Lin fought a little slower, and could force the enemy to recognize the prospect of his undoing defeat, and let the enemy general shake his heart and abandon the city and flee, that would be even better. If the enemy general refused to escape, Zhao Yun could at least use this time to induce the enemy into a more wrong judgment, in short, there is a trick to get a back-up.

Therefore, Zhao Yun did not want to suffer too many casualties for the sake of quick attack. Ning, "Fuze is the bombing force", let the team's iron-armored troops constrain their firepower, and did not give the defenders a space to hide from the wall, and bombard them with scattered array grape bombs in the rear.

From the attack on the fifth day of November to the ninth day of the siege, after five days of attack, the defenders suffered as many as three or four thousand casualties, which was already in danger. However, only a few hundred people were injured by the siege.

However, the attacking side suffered a lot of manpower and materials, and the pebbles and small stones within a dozen miles of the nearby Pearl River were cleaned and used as ammunition.

If it were normal combat, the morale of the defenders would have collapsed long ago with such casualties. The reason why they have to survive until now is actually Shiwu's statement that "the long-range weapons of the Han army are afraid of getting damp, and the Han army will be poisoned by mosquitoes after persisting for a few days." This deceived the defenders' morale and gave them a false hope to hold their last breath.

Zhao Yun gave him a chance, but did not see the warrior Hui breaking out of the city, so he ordered the general attack on the tenth day of November. Today, he must take down Yu Lin in one go.

"I gave you a chance to run away. I originally wanted to cover up and eliminate it halfway, so I had to force me to go straight to the city to fight. Forget it, just fight the streets. The losses will definitely be more than chasing along the Yushui Valley in the wild, but it is acceptable." Zhao Yun thought to himself.

After listening to Zhao Yun's order, Wei Yan, Huo Jun, Shamoke and others were ready to beat. They had been so hungry that they had been so hungry that they had been overwhelmed by the "firepower preparation" of the past five days.

The Han army used gravel-spouting thieves before, which did not mean that the Han army did not have large thieves available, but the purpose was different. Just because of the already broken Yulin City Wall, the Han army really made up its mind to break through, which was not a matter of minutes.

Moreover, because of the paralysis a few days ago, Zhao Yun took the opposite approach when siegeing the city. In the first five days, the Han army's siege troops rested on time at noon, and came to fight again in the afternoon, taking a nap to avoid the scorching sun at noon. They were used to being unable to move.

After five days of paralysis, the defenders also formed such a rhythm. Especially after the soldiers were killed or injured, the reserve team gradually became less than enough. In order to avoid accidents, the Shijia Army kept all the troops on guard in the morning and afternoon, and was always ready to block the mouth.

They are not afraid that soldiers will be on guard for a long time in armor and patrolling the city to plug leakage, which will cause them to consume too quickly, because they can also take a nap.

Unexpectedly, on the last day of the siege, Zhao Yun first sent Wei Yan and his armored soldiers to firepower to reconnaise, suppress the city, and exhausted the entire army in the city, and it was time to go back and take a nap.

Zhao Yun suddenly took out Shamoke's three thousand Wuling barbarian forces and joined the decisive battle in the city - this is not because Zhao Yun did not give Wei Yan a chance to make contributions and suppress Wei Yan, purely for the sake of overall consideration.

Because the weather was too hot at noon, Han soldiers were prone to death by heatstroke. The barbarians in the rainforest in the southern mountainous areas of Shamoko were relatively heat-resistant, and Shamoko's troops were not used to wearing iron armor to fight. So they let his troops sleep for a morning, get up for breakfast at around 10 o'clock, wait for the food to fall into their stomachs, take a walk and warm up, and go to the noon siege in full swing.

As soon as Shamoko came up, the defenders on the city were completely in desperate situation. The soldiers of the Shi family had no time to drink water, and were driven to block the mouth like ducks being driven on the shelves. Some soldiers even got dehydrated and heatstroke and fell to death by hitting them.

Shamoko only fought the second wave of charge, and paid the price of more than 200 people killed, and tore the city defense and entered the city and entered the street fighting state of chasing the dead and chasing the north.

"Hold on! Hold on! You guys, come with me and cover to go to the water gate of Nancheng to break through the siege!" Yu Lin prefect Wu happened to be in charge of the army at the top of the city that day, but he was unlucky and collapsed. He tried his best to restrain the defeated soldiers but failed.

At this point, who would still be willing to break through the Shi family and become cannon fodder?

Shiwu's yelling made his target more distinct. After Shamoko in the distance noticed, he immediately led his personal troops to the stables in the city. Many barbarians shot their hands charge and shot arrows, and you were fighting for a bloody road in the streets that were not wide enough on the front of the battle.

When Shiwu heard the shouts of killing behind him, he almost threw away his armor and rode a horse on the ground, and was about to go straight to the South Gate Wharf. Seeing that he could not catch up, Shamoke had to let all the arrows shoot at the horse riders.

For a moment, the arrows were like rain. Shiwu screamed twice and was stabbed several times. I wonder if it was shot by Shamoko himself. Fortunately, Shamoko's soldiers also used a barbarian bow with a fibre string, and the kinetic energy was not very powerful.

Shiwu was wearing leather armor at least, so the arrow cluster only had a few inches of flesh, but it stopped when it encountered bones. Even the barbs of the arrow cluster could not get stuck in the flesh and could be pulled out more easily.

Shiwu gritted his teeth, rode on the horse and made a cruel decision. He pulled out the two arrows and threw them on the ground. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and thought he would have escaped.

Unfortunately, while he was running, he had not yet arrived at the south pier in the city, and suddenly he was dizzy and fell off his horse, looking disbelief: "Despicable villain! Zhao Yun is known as a famous general, but he actually coerces poison on the arrow cluster like our Nanman! Uh--"

Shiwu cursed at this point, screamed, his head tilted, and he died of poisonous anger.

...

Before Uncle Fourth died in battle, Shi Hui had already received news that the city wall was broken. His will to resist was actually much weaker than Uncle Fourth, so when he found something wrong, he immediately took a small number of personal soldiers on a horse and rode a boat, opened the south gate and fled on the waterway.

There are few horses in Jiaozhou. At least those who can equip horses in the breakthrough battle are officers above the garrison. Ordinary soldiers do not have established cavalry at all. Therefore, there are not many people who escaped with Shi Hui, and they took horses on more than a dozen small boats and left.

Yulin County is on the north bank of the west river of the Pearl River. The south gate is directly the water gate. It leads the river water into the gate and stops the ship, so the siege troops cannot surround the city from outside the south gate.

Unfortunately, I just arrived on the Pearl River and tried hard to row sails upstream for only a few miles. Because of the slow speed of sailing against the current, I was soon caught up by Zhao Yun's small number of cavalry troops.

Zhao Yun's men rode and shot arrows on the shore, shooting more than a dozen Shi Hui's personal guards. Shi Hui had to let the ship go south and row towards the center of the Pearl River, and stayed away from the shore and left Zhao Yun's range.

It was raining all night long. Shi Hui hid not long ago. There were some Han navy soldiers who were also composed of light boats in the upper reaches. After all, Zhao Yun and Lusu ruled Nanhai County in Jiaozhou and other places for a short time, and the local shipbuilding industry had not yet been developed, so only small boats were available.

Shi Hui saw that the enemy's ship was not as good as his, and he was brave and ordered to break through: "Crash them away! If you rush over, you will have a way out!"

After a moment, there were waves of small wooden boats colliding, and several small boats on both sides broke and soon entered and sank. However, the water quality of the Han sailors was much beyond Shi Hui's expectations. Shi Hui thought those people would be drowned, but he didn't expect that his steps were very steady, so he jumped to Shi Hui's ship to chop and kill.

One of the generals held a wooden shield and an ancient ingot knife in his hand, wore light leather armor, and stepped forward, and cut the four fingers of the sword with one knife, directly capturing him alive.

"If General Annan hadn't wanted to use you, he would have chopped you up with one knife." Zhou Tai threw Shi Hui onto the ship in disgust and ordered him to withdraw his troops.

That night, Shi Hui was tied up and sent to Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun was still a little relieved when he saw him: "I didn't expect that your fourth uncle was so careless and he didn't have a chance to capture him alive. Fortunately, I gave orders in advance that if you can capture him alive, you can capture him alive--

How about it? There are five or six counties in the source of Yushui here. You will be tied to the city and persuaded you to surrender and open the door. If you can do it, you will be let go back. Such a waste, there is no threat to go back anyway. It will not enhance Shi Xie's combat power, and you can also let you tell the old man.

Anyway, even if you refuse, I will escort you to attack the city until you are shot and killed by the defenders. The defensive forces of the other counties in Yulin are not worth mentioning at all."

The imperial court suppressed the rebellion and took the title of righteousness, and the military and martial arts were all instantly killed. Those small counties definitely did not have much will to resist.

Shi Hui also knew that Zhao Yun was telling the truth. After Yulin County was captured, all the small counties along the Yushui coast in Yulin County were not worth mentioning, and it was impossible to stick to it step by step.

"I am willing to surrender! Please General Annan to spare me a way out!"

"Drag on, let the soldiers rest for a night, and tomorrow I will persuade the four counties to surrender to Yinping, Huaian, Changping, and the four counties!" Zhao Yun waved his hand and his personal soldiers took Shi Hui down.

After the other generals left, the young and steady Huo Jun couldn't help asking: "General Annan, after taking down the Liandao, as long as he leaves the Yushui River and travels south for more than 80 miles, he can go to Hepu County, Hepu County. Hepu County is an important seaport in Jiaoxi. If Hepu is taken down, Shixie's naval fleet will not penetrate further east in the future."

Zhao Yun waved his hand and persuaded Huo Jun with the words he had persuaded Wei Yan a few days ago: "No need, we just want to give Shi Xie an illusion, making him feel that the advantage of controlling the sea route is still in his hands, and making him firmly believe that we will only drill through the assault along the Yushui."

...

The next day began, it was indeed "the momentum was like a broken bamboo, and after several minutes, it was solved easily." In just a few days, Zhao Yun almost took down all the counties along the Xijiang River at the speed of the marching.

Those county towns with only hundreds or more than a thousand people guarded by county soldiers, after seeing Shiwu's head and the Shihui tied up in many flowers, plus Zhao Yun's reputation and great reputation, they almost all opened the city without blood, so they bowed to him.

Although this area only accounts for one-fifth of the entire Yulin County, it is a narrow river valley area. But it is enough, Zhao Yun has no interest in the primeval forest in the Wuling Mountains to the north.

After ten days of waterways marching against the current, Zhao Yun went deeper than a thousand miles and finally arrived at Lang Son, the border of Vietnam in later generations, and it was also the border between Yulin County and Jiaozhi County.

The Shixie army at the pass on the mountain did not surrender directly. Zhao Yun asked Wei Yan to suppress Shixie, who was tied up in the mountains, to attack the city without saying a word.

Because this place is not far from the mooring point of the Han army fleet at the source of the Pearl River, Zhao Yun can directly unload all the catapults on the ship and transport them to the front line for assembly. Therefore, the catapults of the Han army are still very powerful, and it caused major casualties to the defenders of Lang Sang Pass in half a day.

After suffering, Zhao Yun put Shi Hui back to lobby again, and was not afraid that Shi Hui would run away - he even hoped that Shi Hui would run away.

After seeing Shi Hui, the guards of Lang Sang Pass could hardly believe their eyes: "Third brother? Zhao Yun actually let you back?"

It turned out that the guard at Lang Sang Pass was Shi Hui's second brother Shi Zhi.

Shi Hui was a little surprised for a while, digesting his luck of escaping from death, he persuaded Shi Zhi: "Second brother, listen to my advice. I have seen Zhao Yun with a small stone catapult to attack the city these days. He also took advantage of the opportunity to be a prisoner and pretended to be convinced. In fact, he observed secretly and discovered a major drawback of Zhao Yun's tactic!"

Shi Zhi calmly asked back: "I would like to hear the details."

Shi Hui: "After Zhao Yun miniaturizing the catapult, he could completely overcome the lack of being unable to use a powerful crossbow when fighting in a humid, hot and smoky place. The long-range power is very strong.

At the same time, this small stone catapult was reduced to the point where three or four strong men could barely carry parts and move them, but manpower could not move them for a long distance. Therefore, Zhao Yun relied heavily on water transportation, and manpower was only responsible for moving the stone catapult up and down from the boat, and transporting it slightly dozens of feet at most at most hundreds of feet. If it was transported by hundreds of feet, the soldiers would be so tired that they were panting and almost exhausted.

If we guard Langshan Pass now, we will only be a few miles away from the source of Yushui. This time, Zhao Yun was very excited and forced to transport so many stone casters to the pass without caring about the strength of the soldiers. We are fighting with him here, that is to seek death!

If you give up and retreat to Long Weaving, there will be more than 300 miles of mountain roads behind it, and it will be rugged and cannot be opened to traffic. What will Zhao Yun use to transport these catapults to Long Weaving? He will not be transported all the way back to Nanhai County with the ship!

Let me listen to my advice. Let’s take advantage of the dark sky and the familiar terrain tomorrow night to secretly concentrate most of the troops and retreat with great strides. I have witnessed the fate of the Fourth Uncle who fought to the death in Yulin County."

Shi Zhi looked solemn, and thought about it again and again: "But if such a sharp weapon can be transported as long as there is a ship, even though Yushui has come to an end, what if he flows thousands of miles back to the South China Sea and then transports stone catapults from the sea to siege the city?"

Shi Hui shook his head: It is impossible. When I persuaded to surrender to Liandao County, it was only eighty miles south from Hepu Port. Zhao Yun did not go south to seize Hepu Port, which was guarded by his third uncle and fifth brother. Moreover, I was captured for many days and had known the enemy's strength. His main force was here, so he was rushing to go to Hepu again without any remaining strength.

As long as Hepu Port is in our hands, the route of Zhuya Strait is destined to be in our hands. Even if Zhao Yun transports the catapults back to Panyu first, it will take ten days, and then go back to the sea and land. If you have to go to Long Weaving, the vast sea will be less than twenty days or even a month?

Zhao Yun's sea boats are not as good as us, but the inland fleet in the Pearl River is stronger than our inland fleet in Yushui. The reason why our sea boats in Hepu were unable to enter the river and counterattack was because Panyu County and other counties that guarded the river mouth were in the hands of Zhao Yun, and it was not that our sea boats could not beat Zhao Yun's river boats.

If he couldn't pass the Zhuya Strait at that time, he would think of dividing his troops to attack Hepu Port and opening up the shipping route. He would go back and forth, and winter would have passed! That was the expedition of more than 1,500 miles of Lao Shi's expedition, so how could he have such a back and forth? Therefore, Zhao Yun was destined to only attack the main attack direction of Langshan Pass to Longbian.

It's almost the twelfth lunar month now, and he has no time to change plans. When the first lunar month is halfway through and the weather gets hotter again, it will be detrimental to him for one more day."

After his brother's repeated persuasion, Shi Zhi felt that what his brother said was indeed reasonable, and the weakness of Zhao Yunjun observed these days when he was captured did indeed exist. He finally made up his mind to retreat.

After all, the enemy's catapult formation left the Zhujiang River, it was like a fixed turret and could not move.

Since it is a fixed turret, I know you can't chase it, so the shark arm stays within the range of the fixed turret to fight you. Of course, I will step back and retreat outside the range.

In addition, we must mention some knowledge points here: that is, the ancients in the late Han Dynasty, even those who know a little about navigation in Jiaozhou have not yet discovered the entire terrain of "Zhuyazhou", that is, Hainan Island, and they do not know how big it is on the south side of Hainan Island.

So they only knew that they had to go from Jiaodong to Jiaoxi to Qiongzhou Strait, and they never thought that they could go around the entire coast of Hainan Island. Including Zhao Yun, they didn't know, so as long as Zhao Yun stayed behind Hepu County and let the Shijia Army see their hope of blocking the narrow Qiongzhou Strait, they would never worry that Zhao Yun would go to the Longbian Front to transport supplies from sea and land - they felt that there was no place to smuggle around such a narrow strait.

"Let's go! Withdraw troops immediately tomorrow night. We cannot repeat the mistake of the fourth uncle who died for his country!"

Shi Zhi was indeed timid and gave Zhao Yun the natural danger at Langshan Pass for vain. After all, Shi Zhi's troops did not want to carry the logistics supply disaster of mountain roads from Longbian to Langshan. They retreated to Longbian Cage as soon as possible to defend the city. They relied on the second season of this year and were all harvested into the warehouse. They just starved Zhao Yun, who had neither siege weapons nor military ration supplies, to starve to death.

On the second day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhao Yun's troops successfully captured Lang Shan, and then used Shamoko's troops as the front, opened roads across mountains, built bridges across water, and advanced quickly and lightly in the primeval forests in tropical mountainous areas.

Everyone only brought dry food for fifteen days, no convoy of supplies, no ships, and no carriages. In theory, after fifteen days, Zhao Yun's entire army would starve to death in Hanoi, Vietnam, which was later!

However, Zhao Yun dared to do this, of course he had already contacted him in advance.

Five days later, with Zhao Yun's troops still having ten days of food left, they finally crossed the two hundred miles of mountain, walked nearly a hundred miles of Honghe Valley Plain, and came to the city of Longbiao.

Shi Xie had already received the news and felt unbelievable. He took one of his younger brothers, three sons, a number of generals, as well as all the mobile troops that could be gathered in Jiaozhi County and militias that could be mobilized to defend the city of Longbian County.
Chapter completed!