The city walls of Fanhe and Liqian were covered with ice and snow, which caused great trouble to the siege troops.
Fortunately, Lin Feng had already transported hundreds of wells from the rear and covered a large area of the city with firepower. Countless arrows beat the Ma Jiajun so hard that they did not dare to show their heads.
On the first day of the siege, no major results were achieved. They only destroyed most of the defensive weapons on the city head, clearing the way for the next day's siege.
When the setting sun was about to set, Lin Jun ordered his troops to retreat and stopped attacking the city.
After returning to the camp, General Lin Feng summoned the subordinate generals of Dong Jun and encouraged and praised them one by one, making all the generals smile with joy.
As night fell, Jia Xu called Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Yan Liang and Wen Chou to the commander's tent.
"We attacked two cities today, but the two tiger generals Ma Chao and Yan Xing have not been seen. Apparently they are no longer in the city. The four of you need to be more careful tonight to prevent Ma Chao and Yan Xing from hijacking the camp at night."
The night passed without incident, and the expected Ma Chaojun did not appear.
As the sky brightened, Lin's army continued to attack the city.
Fan Chou was so excited that he actually participated in a battle to climb the city.
Although he was eventually driven off the city by Ma Jiajun, Fan Chou also received a commendation from Jia Xu who informed the entire army.
This stimulated all the new generals to become angry and drove their troops to attack the city regardless of the cost.
The battle became more and more fierce.
The city of Fanhe guarded by Ma Teng was in relatively good condition, but the city of Liqian guarded by Han Sui looked shaky and could be breached at any time.
Fortunately, I persisted the next day.
When Lin's army retreated like a tide, Han Sui sat down in a pool of blood at the top of the city, not caring about his usual appearance and courtesy.
It was so tragic. During the offensive and defensive battle of Liqian City, at least nearly ten thousand soldiers had fallen. The blood had dyed the ice and snow on the city top red and bright, shining with a scarlet light in the sunlight.
Lin's army also suffered heavy losses, losing at least twice the strength of Ma's army.
Originally, the casualty ratio between the offensive and defensive ends was almost eight to one, but because Lin Feng kept raining arrows on the well regardless of the cost, the siege team got enough cover and retained more elites.
Jia Xu issued an order to surrender the army and attack for three days. If the city is defeated, three levels of merit will be added. If the city is not broken, the Western Army will take over and continue the attack.
Li Jue and others also knew clearly that Jia Xu was using the lives of their soldiers to pay for their subjugation with the Ma Jiajun. However, war has always been so cruel. If you are afraid of death, don't become a communist. Bah, if you are afraid of death, don't become a soldier.
The next night, Dian Wei and others still hadn't waited for Ma Chao to attack the camp, but the smile on Jia Xu's face became brighter and brighter.
The brutal siege battle was staged again.
On the third day, Zhang Ji’s general Hu Cheer became the most brilliant
The star in the eye.
Before noon arrived, Hu Che'er led a suicide squad to the top of Liqian City and successfully defended a section of the city wall that was more than twenty feet long.
Lin's army continued to attack the city based on this, and no matter how Han Sui drove the soldiers in the city, he never drove Lin's army off the city.
At dusk, Hu Cheer expanded the controllable city wall to more than 40 feet, and had built a fixed wooden path to climb the city wall, so that Lin Jun no longer needed to go up the ladder, but could follow the wooden planks.
They built a slope and trotted up to the top of the city.
Seeing that the situation was over, Han Sui had no choice but to lead his troops back down the city wall and prepare for street fighting in Liqian City.
When the Liqian City Gate was pushed open in the night, countless Lin troops rushed into the city with shouts and firmly occupied the city gate.
Han Sui was furious in the city guard's palace. Zhang Heng was so frightened that he lowered his head and did not dare to say a word.
Han Sui didn't scold Zhang Heng for his disadvantage in defending the city. The situation was just like this. It wasn't Zhang Heng who didn't work hard, but Lin Jun had Gundam.
He was scolding Ma Chao and Yan Xing. These two guys took away 10,000 of the most elite cavalry in the Ma family army. There has been no news since they left the city.
Liqian City is about to be captured by Lin's army, but there is still no news of being attacked outside the city.
Could it be that Ma Chao led his army back to Jiuquan County and simply gave up Zhangye?
No, with Yan Xing around, even if Ma Chao wants to have his own way, he can't do whatever he wants.
So where did Ma Chao and Yan Xing go?
They now took advantage of the cover of heavy snow to open a road through the wilderness, avoiding all villages and counties, and had already arrived in Wuwei County.
Ma Chao discussed with Yan Xing that with only these 10,000 elite troops, they would not be able to cause much trouble to Lin's army, which had more than 200,000 troops.
After all, not only do they have a meager force, but there are also several unrivaled generals among Lin's army. If they are caught by enemy generals when attacking the camp, they may not only fail to attack the camp, but also risk being eaten by Lin's army.
Therefore, the two of them overcame numerous hardships and hardships and sneaked into the territory of Wuwei in order to cut off Lin Jun's food route.
Once the food route was cut off and the 200,000 troops had no food or drink, even if Lin Feng captured Fanhe and Liqian, they could only retreat to Wuwei sadly and give up the fruits of victory.
Otherwise, if the lack of food leads to a mutiny in the army, the 200,000 troops can escape completely overnight.
Ma Chao looked at the vaguely visible Xianmei City in the distance and sighed: "Yan Ming, before fighting Lin Jun, have you ever thought that there are so many brave and invincible generals in the world?"
Yan Xing's temperament is not much different from Ma Chao's, and he doesn't like to talk much on weekdays.
When he heard Ma Chao's question, he just looked at Ma Chao blankly but did not answer.
Ma Chaoyuan did not expect Yan Xing to reply and continued: "My Ma family inherited the inheritance from our distant ancestor General Fubo.
Ma Yuan was brave and rampant in the northwest, but he unexpectedly turned into a frog in the well."
Yan Xing made a dull stab: "It's not too late if you know."
Ma Chao glanced sideways at Yan Xing, stopped communicating with the piece of wood, and looked at Xianmei City from a distance, thinking about whether to feint attack.
A figure flashed in the distance and soon came to Ma Chao.
But it was the military detective he sent out to find out the news.
"Reporting to the Major General, nearly two hundred large vehicles entered Xianmei City from the south today. It is obviously a new round of supplies and baggage arriving. We have left a few brothers to disguise themselves and sneak into the city. Once there is a convoy heading north,
The news will be reported quickly."
Ma Chao nodded, "Very good. Let's see how Lin Jun will respond after setting fire to the grain and grass sent to the front line."
The battle ahead was obviously extremely tense. The baggage train that arrived at Xianmei City left the city on the second day and headed north, with more than two hundred carts pulling out a queue that was several miles long.
Ma Chao and Yan Xing prepared themselves neatly, mounted their horses, and led their troops to lie in ambush at the foot of a mountain, waiting for the arrival of Lin's army's transport team.
It was obviously impossible for the 10,000 Ma Jiajun to hide in a tight ambush and avoid Lin Jun's outpost vanguard.
Therefore, when the baggage train entered a position visible to the naked eye, it suddenly stopped moving forward, and began to slowly form a circular defensive formation using the carts as a barrier. Ma Chao raised his leg, took off his silver gun, raised it above his head, shouted and urged
The horse took the lead and killed him.
The Ma family cavalry behind them shouted in unison and followed closely behind with howling and strange sounds.
General Lin Jun, who was escorting the grain and grass baggage, was obviously experienced in many battles. Before Ma Chao led his army to kill, the baggage team had already formed ten large defense circles in groups of twenty carriages, interacting with each other.
To rely on, archers can be seen flashing out from behind the carriage.
Arriving in front of the defensive formation, Ma Chao stretched out his hand to rein in his horse.
"Hey, who is the general in the army? Come out and take charge. Put down your weapons quickly and don't resist. I can guarantee that no one will be harmed. If you don't listen to good advice, once the swordsmen meet, the world will be full of corpses and blood.
It flows like a river, but don’t blame me for not predicting what I said. It’s too late to regret it.”
Yan Xing led his troops to charge out from another direction, and Ma Chao was like two iron pliers, locking Lin's army firmly in the open space at the foot of the hill.
However, the Lin army did not panic. A general behind the cart replied: "There has never been a general in our Lin army who has surrendered without a fight. Don't use your words to confuse our army's morale any more. If you want to intercept our army's food route, come forward."
Let’s test whether our army’s arrows are sharp.”
Ma Chao laughed loudly: "I respect you as a man. Please tell me your name. I will die under my silver gun later, so that I can erect a monument and biography for you, so as not to become an unknown person wandering in the wilderness."
ghost."
Two carts in the circular defense formation slowly opened a gap, and several generals of the Lin Army rode out from the middle. One of the leaders pointed at Ma Chao and said: "The horses in the northwest of the capital are unruly and unruly. Today Lin
So I have to try to see if I can train him with my own hands."