Regardless of the various shocks caused by Li's involvement in Sichuan and Sichuan, whether the courage to resign and throw down her sleeves was given by Mrs. Liang, just say that before the winter came, Zhang Ze in Hanzhong was like a man at the gambling table The gambler who had lost all his cash was looking red-eyed, wondering whether to stake his own arms and legs or the wife, children and children around him.

Don't expect gamblers to be humane when they are red-eyed, and you certainly can't expect Zhang Ze to surrender voluntarily. If others surrender, they will be coercive at most, which can alleviate some of the guilt, but Zhang Ze himself knows that since it is Death, why not try again?

Yangpingguan surrendered.

Under the attack of the Vulcan Stone Cannon, they could only pick up soap and be pushed down and humiliated over and over again, which made the Zhang soldiers at Yangping Pass extremely painful. Then, after receiving the news that the peripheral Di people had been wiped out, they were psychologically That little bit of expectation was completely shattered. In addition, the so-called reinforcements Zhang Ze said were not seen for three days and three days, and then another three days. However, after the news of the tightly sealed Shangyong's fall spread, Zhang at Yangping Pass The soldiers were almost in complete despair...

Therefore, nearly ten days ahead of schedule, Zhang Liao advanced all the way to Nanzheng, launched a campaign to recapture Nanzheng, and at the same time dispatched soldiers to contact Wei Yan's troops.

Zhang Liao's plan is still to besiege the city and mobilize reinforcements.

Although this strategy is old-fashioned, it has been proven time and again in China, or in the military history of the world, that it is indeed easy to use and effective, and even if they know it is a trap, people still keep jumping to it. …

At the foot of Nanzheng City, part of Zhang Liao's cavalry roared back and forth, occupying key points on the battlefield. Then every day, some of Zhang's surrendered soldiers came to Nanzheng City to shout, persuade them to surrender, or abuse Zhang Ze, or call out to relatives and friends in the city. The morale of the defenders in Nanzheng City dropped a little bit.

The Zhang family from Hanzhong Beidaying came to help, but was critically hit by Zhang Liao, and collapsed like a piss...

The infantry on the march were attacked by the cavalry before they could form a formation, which was a disaster. Especially when there was a first-class general like Zhang Liao, the elite cavalry could fight ordinary infantry, even if there were no Soap is just as smooth.

In fact, strictly speaking, less than 15% of those who were directly killed or wounded in the battle were actually defeated. However, Zhang's defeated army was completely destroyed, and not even 10% of them escaped. Among them, a large part of Zhang's army was defeated. In the process of escaping, his soldiers simply ran away, threw away their armor and weapons, and went into the ravine to become deserters.

However, Beidaying did not know this situation, or even if it knew it, it could not do anything. Therefore, after rescuing Nanzheng once, it did not dare to send reinforcements again. After hesitation, and after a few days of delay, I waited until Wei Yan came to check the water meter with a smile.

Immediately, the Nanshan Army Stronghold was once again breached. Zhang Liao, Wei Yan, and Zhu Ling surrounded them and gathered under the Nanzheng City. The Zhang family, who had a sense of luck at the top of the city, fell into despair.

Zhang Liao and Wei Yan made arrangements for Nanzheng's attack plan. After all, if Zhang Ze really resisted, he would probably enter into street fighting. After breaking through the city wall, if the fighting group was confused due to the order of entering the city, it would lead to inefficiency in street fighting. , or it may lead to excessive casualties among the people, and even if they win, it will not look good.

Mainly because it doesn’t look good hanging in a martial arts hall.

Therefore, Wei Yan and Zhang Liao would naturally seize the time to discuss with each other and strive to make the most complete and comprehensive plan. Zhu Ling also knew this and wisely did not point fingers in front of Zhang Liao and Wei Yan, which would be annoying, so he borrowed In order to avoid the reputation of observing the Vulcan Stone Cannon, he also took on the responsibility of patrolling and guarding the perimeter.

In the engineering camp, a lot of siege equipment has been manufactured, the most common of which is the chrysanthemum.

The Anhui vehicle is in its basic form. It can be regarded as a tank chassis. It can be modified into a crash vehicle, a ditch-filling vehicle, or a long pole to transform it into a Hungry Falcon vehicle according to needs.

The second is Yunchongche.

Then there is the most eye-catching catapult, the "Vulcan Stone Cannon".

The number of these devices increased day by day, making everyone in Nanzheng feel a real sense of pressure. Even breathing was not so smooth, and they felt anxious and uneasy.

Some technical soldiers, holding wooden tablets filled with key points in their hands, inspected equipment everywhere, guided craftsmen to place equipment, and standardized the placement of dangerous goods...

These soldiers have mastered basic writing and learned some basic arrangements of manpower and items in this way. Then after accumulating merits several times, these soldiers will reach the standards of local inspections, and some people will Will choose to leave the army and go to the local area, officially becoming a small official under the hussar to manage the local area.

Some other soldiers were leading Zhang's soldiers to dig out soil and pack it in the surrounding area as preparation for filling the gully to protect the city.

"Move quickly! If you can't finish the amount of soil today, everyone's food will be halved!" The soldier in charge shouted loudly, "My general is merciful and didn't ask you bastards to go up and fill the ditch with meat. It's a blessing for you." !If that guy is sneaky, let him be the first to fill the moat when the city is attacked!』

"Move quickly! Hurry up!"

Several soldiers were supervising and shouting when they suddenly saw a catapult rolled out of the engineering camp...

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Are we going to attack the city?"

"No, this is probably a test range measurement?"

Sure enough, after the catapult was deployed and fixed, three stone bombs were thrown, and one flew in from the top of the Nanzheng city wall. I don't know what it knocked down, but I heard a horrified shout from the city. Then the second one hit the city wall and made a hole. The green bricks and mud powder fell down one after another. The third one successfully landed on the gate tower of the city wall and hit the wall of the gate tower. It went in and created a huge hole.

The city gate tower shook, and the tiles on the roof crackled and fell like rain. The Zhang family defenders on the city wall turned pale, staring at the hole in the city gate tower, as if everyone's heart was being smashed. It's like there's a hole in it.

Catapults don't actually do much direct damage, but they cause a lot of psychological harm to the soldiers...

……⊙﹏⊙……

In Nanzheng City.

The outside of the city was besieged, and the entire city was naturally under martial law.

Li Cong stood on the wall of his yard, looking at the street in the distance.

More than twenty Zhang's soldiers were dragging some strong men who had been captured from the houses in the city towards the city wall. Behind the strong men came some crying women and children, who were then stopped by these soldiers, kicked down, and finally fell to the ground crying...

…

Li Cong withdrew his head from the wall, his face looking rather ugly.

As the saying goes, rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests.

So what does it mean when a rabbit starts eating the grass next to the nest, or even the grass inside the nest?

"Ms. Zhang is going crazy..." Li Cong murmured.

Li Yuan seemed to emerge from the shadows, and seemed to have been in the shadows all the time. "No, he has gone crazy."

Li Cong glanced at Li Yuan and remained silent.

"I've seen a lot of people like this..." Li Yuan said with a sneer, "Anyway, they're all dead anyway, why not drag a few more backers? I bet this fool named Zhang will be killed in the inner palace in the past two days."

Many people...Am I right?"

Li Cong glanced at Li Yuan and nodded slightly.

Under the huge pressure, it is natural to be upset, and then the surrounding servants, Ji Nu, etc., spilled water on the floor, left foot entered the door first, a hair hung down by the ear, and lowered his head slowly,

It's so low...

Not to mention the servants who dared to talk back or were disobedient, every one of them would die.

What's the reason not to kill anyone anyway?

It is said that the number of corpses of servants thrown out of the Zhang Mansion in the past few days is more than the previous three years combined!

Among the dead, there was even the beautiful girl who was said to be Zhang Ze’s favorite before...

Perhaps before Zhang Ze killed Mei Ji, he probably had a thought in his mind, such as why he couldn't keep it for others to take advantage of, or why you dared to look at me before I fell completely, etc.?

Of course Li Cong didn't know what Zhang Ze thought. If Li Cong knew about it, the whole Zhang family would indeed be doomed.

"Brother Xian, you haven't thought about it yet?" Li Yuan sneered and said, "If you don't think about it anymore...it will be too late..." Li Yuan said the word "late" very strongly. I don't know whether it was "late" or "late".

It's "finished".

Li Yuan had persuaded Li Cong before. Although Li Cong did not report to Zhang, he did not indicate that he would follow Li Yuan's arrangements and take any measures.

Li Cong took a deep breath, cupped his hands and said, "Brother, the city is currently under martial law and there are soldiers guarding everywhere. Even if I am willing to follow, I don't have many weapons in my hands... So what should I do..."

"What's so difficult about this? Haha, I'm going to pull the civilian husband today... I'll meet you guys tomorrow... then you can act openly... Hahaha..." Li Yuan said with a smile, "The opportunity is now in front of you...

…』

Li Cong was stunned.

"As soon as the city gate opens..." Li Yuan's voice was low but full of temptation, "It will be a great achievement... Think about how many fertile fields, how many industries and how many villages the Zhang family has around Nanzheng.

...Haha, when the time comes... Even if I look down on these idiots, why don't I think about my own family? My descendants also need to eat..."

At this moment, a confidant of Li Cong hurriedly came from the front yard and said in a panic: "Master Qi, Zhang sent someone to ask us to send thirty men to help defend the city."

!』

Li Yuan put his palms together and smiled.

Li Cong's eyes condensed slightly.

……(?▽?)/……

When Zhang Liao and others launched an offensive against Nanzheng...

Smoke and dust billowed above the city, making the view blurry.

The smell of blood is mixed with the smell of earth, the smell of sour rot produced by ruptured internal organs, and the smell of burnt rotten eggs. It's like stinky tofu, stinky mandarin fish, stinky herring, plus one that has been worn for more than a month and is rancid.

The smell of smelly socks with green fur mixed in with other things.

Zhang Sheng grabbed a half-burnt intestine that jumped out of nowhere and stuck to his face, and threw it aside...

There were roars and screams everywhere. Some of Zhang's soldiers, who had obviously suffered a nervous breakdown during the attack, were staggering on the city wall like zombies, screaming in despair, and then walking, there was a

He fell down at the foot of the city, or was knocked down by arrows or gravel.

Zhang Sheng, the leader of the team, dragged a wounded man and slowly moved on the ruined city wall. He didn't dare to stand up. He didn't know when the arrows and crossbows would be thrown out of the fireworks, but it was relatively safer under the battlements.

.

Even these battlements have been tattered by catapult attacks...

Waves of screams came from the air again, Zhang Sheng screamed and shrank his body into a ball.

A moment later, he heard a painful groan from the city wall beneath him. The entire city wall seemed to be shaking violently. The mouth of the battlement not far ahead was hit by a stone bullet, and the entire city wall collapsed.

The stone statue erupted in all directions like a fountain, hitting Zhang Sheng's helmet, like the god of death knocking on the door with his fingers.

After the initial kerosene bombs were exhausted, Zhang Liao and others switched to stone bombs. Although there was no fear of the leg-weakening burning effect, the destructive power of the stone bombs was not much inferior to that of kerosene bombs.

, in less than two days of destruction, Nanzheng changed from the fragrance of autumn to the beauty of flowers.

Zhang Sheng's heart almost jumped out of his chest. He curled up as much as possible. After finally waiting for the burst of stone bullets to stop, he continued to drag the wounded. Now he just wanted to go to the city tower and leave this terrifying city wall through the city ladder.

. He just wanted to escape, but he was also afraid of being killed by the supervising team, so if he brought a wounded person with him, it could be regarded as an excuse.

Not far away, there were some corpses or stumps strewn about, some were soldiers, and some were civilians. Some of the corpses were relatively fresh, and they even trembled when Zhang Sheng dragged the wounded past.
To be continued...