The combined armies of Yan and Jin were spread out outside the north gate of Yecheng. The soldiers shuttled through the gaps between the deep trenches and high fortresses not far from the suspension bridge. They were lined up densely. At first glance, they looked like long lines of people.
dragon.
Beside the suspension bridge, Marquis of Yan Gao Fei and Marquis of Jin Lu Bu stood side by side. Gao Fei was riding a dark cloud-riding snow horse. He was wearing a steel armor and holding a dragon spear in his hand. He looked at the broken north gate of Ye City with a heroic posture.
, looking in from the north gate and seeing countless white flags with "Revenge" written on them, he frowned and said to himself: "Could it be that... Yuan Shao is dead?"
Lu Bu was riding a red rabbit horse and holding Fang Tian's painted halberd tightly. Hearing Gao Fei's casual words, he hurriedly turned to look at Gao Fei and asked suspiciously: "What did you just say?"
Gao Fei said: "This morning, all the soldiers in Ye City were wearing sackcloth and mourning. If Yuan Shao hadn't died, there wouldn't have been such a big movement in the city..."
"Hahaha, regardless of whether Yuan Shao is really dead or not, once Yecheng is captured, I will kill him with my own hands. It doesn't matter if he is dead now or later, it will save me the trouble of doing anything. He is dead.
, Yecheng must be leaderless, now is the time to attack." Lu Bu laughed loudly with a happy face.
Gao Fei seemed much calmer. Ever since he unexpectedly saw Yuan Xi on the city tower yesterday, he had a vague feeling that something had happened in Ye City. The white flag was hung in Ye City this morning, and the soldiers were all wearing sackcloth and mourning.
This implicitly confirmed his guess. However, he couldn't understand why Yuan Shao, who was in good health, died suddenly.
He turned his head and glanced at Lu Bu beside him. Seeing Lu Bu's high spirits, he thought to himself: "Yesterday Wen Chou surrendered to Lu Bu, which means that Lu Bu has one more strong general under his command. If we have to deal with Lu Bu in the future, there will be really many."
I got a troublesome person. But it’s a pity that a strong general like Wen Chou actually surrendered to Lu Bu. If he were under my command, he would definitely become a rare general in our army..."
While Gao Fei was thinking, he suddenly heard Lu Bu's hearty voice: "Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, start to attack the city. Taking advantage of the enemy's leaderless situation, they attack the city in one go."
Gao Shun and Zhang Liaolue seemed to hesitate for a moment, and asked in unison: "My lord, the situation in the city is unknown. If our army attacks the city rashly, we will probably suffer heavy losses. I think we can send a small group of soldiers to take a look at Zhao Zhao's city first."
Military strength comes first."
"Why don't we have so much trouble? Just attack the city in one go and let the soldiers of the Zhao army experience the power of our army, so that they will be frightened when they see our army in the future!" After Lu Bu said this, he paused and turned to face
Gao Fei said, "Our army has few siege equipment and needs your army's assistance. Please use catapults to cover our siege. Once Ye City is captured, I will give you half of the food and grass in the city!"
Gao Fei nodded, but there was a sneer in his heart, and he thought secretly: "To put it lightly, it seems that Ye City has become your possession. Although Yuan Shao is dead, the city is not leaderless. Yuan Xi
, Jushou is in control of the overall situation, just go and attack, if I don’t let you suffer a little, you won’t understand how difficult the siege is."
Lu Bu's face was full of spring breeze, he waved the Fangtian Painted Halberd in his hand forward, and shouted loudly: "Attack the city!"
The crisp orders were followed by crisp actions. Gao Shun was the first to say "promise" and led Cao Xing, Hao Meng, Li Feng and more than 1,800 soldiers trapped in the camp to jump off their horses.
Holding various weapons in hand, they quickly passed the suspension bridge and were scattered on both sides of the city wall outside the north gate. They carefully looked through the damaged north gate and looked into the urn city.
Gao Fei raised his right hand and waved it down hard. Huang Zhong, who was standing behind him, immediately understood and ran back on his horse, loudly giving orders to a hundred catapults that had been prepared.
"Push all the catapults to the moat, aim at the urn behind the north gate, and hit me hard!" Huang Zhong shouted loudly.
Chen Dao had full command of the catapults. Each catapult was composed of five strong soldiers. Five hundred people simultaneously pushed the heavy catapult to the moat, fixed the catapult in position, and then began to divide the work.
Fixing the launch angle of the catapult and loading large rocks into the leather trough, everything was completed smoothly and skillfully.
"Get to your positions! Prepare...to launch!" Chen Dao held two mandarin duck swords in his hands. As the soldiers controlling the catapult were all ready, he gave the order.
After the order was issued, a hundred catapults simultaneously launched the large rocks in the leather troughs, and threw them far into the sky. The large rocks crossed the north gate wall and hit the urn behind the north gate wall.
There was only a constant muffled sound, mixed with the screams of soldiers.
Gao Fei noticed that Gao Shun, who had reached the city wall, started to take action. The sword and shield soldiers were in front, the crossbowmen were in the middle, and the spearmen were behind. They passed through the north gate in an orderly manner and rushed in.
Lu Bu had a look of joy on his face. When he saw Gao Shun rushing in first, he immediately said to Zhang Liao behind him: "Wenyuan, be ready to attack at any time!"
Zhang Liao made a "promise" sound, turned the horse's head, and said to Hou Cheng and Song Xian who were leading behind him: "Follow me!"
Hou Cheng and Song Xian each summoned a thousand cavalry, followed Zhang Liao, and quickly crossed the suspension bridge to the foot of the city wall at the north gate of Ye City, waiting there as a reserve for the trapped camp led by Gao Shun.
Gao Shun held up his shield and held a long knife. As soon as he and his soldiers walked out of the north gate, he saw the soldiers of the Zhao army on the Wengcheng, each in a tight formation. However, only a very small part of the wall of the Wengcheng was hit by big rocks, and there were even more injured soldiers.
It was very small. There were all the crossbowmen on the city wall, and all the arrows were strung, but they were not fired, but were waiting there quietly.
"Stop!" Gao Shun noticed an unusual aura, immediately raised his arm, stopped, and ordered his subordinates.
Cao Xing held a bow and arrow and led the archers behind Gao Shun. As soon as he saw this formation on the wall of Wengcheng, he immediately drew his bow and arrow and aimed at the Zhao soldiers on the wall of Wengcheng.
Li Feng was still in the city gate with his spearmen. When he saw the troops in front stopped, he didn't know what happened, so he hurriedly asked: "Why did they stop?"
The voice was like silence, Li Feng didn't get the answer he wanted, and he stopped asking again.
Gao Shun's eyes were bright and clear. He glanced at the Zhao soldiers on the barbican city and saw that the Zhao soldiers had angry anger on their faces. That kind of spirit was not what a leaderless soldier should have.
The two sides were at war with each other, but did not engage in battle. The Zhao soldiers relied on their powerful arrow formations to put a lot of pressure on Gao Shun.
At this time, Jushu revealed his head, pressed his hands on the battlements, looked at the trapped camp led by Gao Shun below, and said loudly: "Is the person coming here Gao Shun, the general of the Jin army?"
Gao Shun stared at Jushou and saw that Jushou was very elegant and had the air of an elder, so he replied: "Exactly. Who are you?"
Jushou said: "I am Jushou, the Prime Minister of the State of Zhao. I am lucky enough to be able to see General Gao's face today. But I would like to advise General Gao that you have been surrounded by archers and crossbowmen on three sides. If you dare to take even half a step forward, I will let you go."
Taste my Jizhou strong bow
The hard crossbow is very powerful. There is no enmity between your army and our army. It’s just that the Marquis of Yan deceived you with his sweet words. If your army is willing to retreat, our army will definitely give you a large amount of gold and silver treasures as a reward for your army.
Labor expenses..."
"Stop talking nonsense! My lord has already made up his mind and will not give up until Ye City is captured. If you want to sow discord, just stop it!" Gao Shun directly interrupted Jushu's words and shouted loudly.
Jushou shook his head, sighed, and said to Gao Shun: "Since General Gao doesn't understand current affairs, don't blame me for not dissuading him. Let's shoot the arrow!"
Following Jushou's order, the crossbowmen on the three walls of Wengcheng all released their long-strung arrows, and the densely packed arrows shot toward the doorway of the north gate like dense raindrops.
When Gao Shun saw such a dense rain of arrows, he made an immediate decision and shouted loudly from behind: "Retreat quickly!"
Although the words were shouted, they did not travel as fast as arrows in the air. In addition, after hearing the order, the soldiers still had to think about it in their brains. It would take a second or two before they could truly react.
Not to mention those who were far away. In this short period of time, the arrows of the Zhao army soldiers had already cut through the sky, whizzing and flying towards the soldiers trapped in the camp.
Gao Shun and the sword and shield soldiers blocking the front row immediately raised their shields to form a tight shield wall. However, the archers led by Cao Xing suffered a loss. They had just released their arrows and had no time to dodge and retreat.
After that, he was hit by dense arrows in the body. Some of the archers in the front row were hit by dozens of arrows and were shot like hedgehogs by the Zhao army soldiers.
Cao Xing's reaction was quite quick. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately hid behind a soldier, using the soldier's body as his shield, and managed to escape.
After a burst of arrows, the sword and shield soldiers trapped in the camp were basically unscathed, but more than 300 archers were killed.
Seeing that Zhao Jun was prepared, Gao Shun shouted again: "Retreat to the doorway!"
After giving the order, before the soldiers had time to retreat, they saw many large rocks flying in the air. Some of them were not strong enough. Before they hit the city wall, they landed on a large open space in front of the Wengcheng gate, and immediately fell to pieces.
, only a dozen large stones hit the target, but they were already at the end of their strength. Apart from killing a few soldiers, they had no effect on the walls of Wengcheng.
Gao Shun and his soldiers had just retreated into the gate when they suddenly heard the sound of people jumping on their backs from outside the city gate. The cavalry team led by Zhang Liao, who was the reserve team, retreated towards the moat. The sound of war horses neighing could be heard in the north gate.
. He was startled and asked hurriedly: "What happened next?"