Three Kingdoms King of the North

Facing Yuan Jun's formation in the distance like a forest of swords and guns and like a cloud of flags, he was slowly pushing towards the city.The soldiers guarding the city quickly blew the horn to warn the city.

Han Zhan, who was in the prefect's mansion, felt a sense of relief when he heard the ox horn outside.He stood up and said to everyone: "Yuan Shao's army has finally come to attack. Zilong, Gao Lan!"

When Zhao Yun and Gao Lan heard Han Zhan calling their names, they hurriedly came out and replied, "The end is here!"

"You lead three thousand infantry and one thousand strong crossbowmen, follow me to the south of the city to meet the enemy!"

"The last general takes orders!" After the two answered, they retreated into the queue.

Han Zhan then ordered: "Dianwei led [-] infantry and [-] strong crossbowmen to guard the east of the city; Xia Houlan led [-] infantry and [-] strong crossbowmen to guard the west of the city; the remaining infantry and strong crossbowmen hand, guard the north of the city."

Regarding Han Zhan's plan to meet the enemy on the south wall of the city, everyone acted normally. Only Gao Lan stood up and asked, "My lord, do we still need the strong people in the city to help?"

"Does it need to be said, one more person is more strength." Han Zhan asked Gao Lan, "How many people can you summon?"

"About 2000 people." Gao Lan said with some embarrassment: "The melee at the top of the city was too bloody a few days ago, and many people were frightened, so they refused to listen to our call at all."

When Dian Wei heard what Gao Lan said, his eyes widened immediately, "In my opinion, anyone who refuses to come out to help the battle will be chopped with a knife. Whether it's my knife is sharp, or their necks are hard."

"Lieutenant Dian must not do this." Hearing what Dian Wei said, Guo Jia hastily persuaded him, "If we do this, it will inevitably lead to a civil uprising, and we will not be able to defend Guantao when we are confronted by enemies."

Han Zhan ignored the conversation between Dianwei and Guo Jia, but looked at Gao Lan and said, "Lieutenant Gao Gao, you gather all the recruited people on the school grounds, and I want to have a few words with them."

After a stick of incense, Han Zhan came to the school grounds with a group of martial arts. He was a little disappointed when he saw the crowd of people who were crowded together and had no formation at all.I thought it would be okay for these people to help transport some rolling logs and stones and treat the wounded, but if they fought, it would probably have the opposite effect.

Just when he retreated a little bit, he heard Gao Lan say: "My lord, all the two thousand people have gathered here, and you can give them a lecture."

Seeing that it was difficult to get off the tiger, Han Zhan walked up to the high platform.After the people below were quiet, he said loudly: "Fellow folks, what is behind you?"

What is behind us?Hearing Han Zhan's question, almost all Min Zhuang instinctively looked back.Many people saw the numb-looking folks behind them. Only those standing in the last few rows could see the buildings in the distance.

When everyone turned around again, Han Zhan continued: "Behind you is your own homeland. Now Yuan Shao is leading an army to attack here. Once the city is broken, they will take your property and food and kill you. parents, and take away your wives and children. Are you willing?"

After Han Zhan finished speaking, there was silence on the field first, followed by a thunderous reply: "No, we don't want to!"

Seeing that his words had an effect, Han Zhan struck while the iron was hot and said: "Fellow folks, you went to the city to help the battle, not to fight for some honor, nor to get promoted and get rich. These have nothing to do with you. As I said just now, Yuan Shao After the city is broken, it is your city that will be looted. After he enters the city, what he wants to burn are your houses, plunder your property, and what he wants to occupy are your wives and daughters. You are fighting for everything you own! Are you willing? Come with me to the walls and fight to defend your home?"

There was silence again.Then sporadic voices sounded: "We are willing!" Then the surrounding voices responded louder and louder, "We are willing to go to the city to help in the battle and defend our home with Tinghou."

"Okay, since everyone is willing to fight side by side with our soldiers, the Marquis is here to assure everyone that as long as one of us is alive, we will fight to the end for Guantao. If Yuan Jun wants to enter the city, he can only step on our feet Only corpses can enter the city!"

Han Zhan's words mobilized the enthusiasm of the people in the school grounds, and they all raised their arms and waved: "Blood battle to the end! Bloody battle to the end!"

Han Zhan stepped down from the high platform and said to Gao Lan: "Lieutenant Gao Gao, immediately arrange manpower to bring these people to the walls of the city, but help our army let go. Yuan Jun is coming here, your time is running out. "

Guo Jia stood aside, muttering in a low voice: "This lord really makes me more and more incomprehensible. I hope that when he faces Yuan Shao's siege army later, he can still behave as calmly as he is now."

Chapter 0139 See Tricks and Tricks

When Yuan Shao's army was still [-] steps away from the city, they were blocked by densely packed earth pits.These pits are five feet wide and three feet deep, and the distance between each pit is less than one foot. Not to mention that siege equipment such as rams and well rails are impassable, even the formation of cavalry and infantry is difficult to pass through. will be disrupted.

Seeing Yuan Jun blocked by the pit, Han Zhan standing on the tower couldn't help showing a smug smile on his face. He turned to Guo Jia and said, "Feng Xiao, if Yuan Shao's army wants to approach the city, they must find a way to get close to the city." These pits are filled, but the excavated soil has already been transferred to other places, and it is not an easy task for them to find soil to fill the pits."

Just when Han Zhan was complacent, he suddenly heard Gao Lan shouting loudly: "My lord, look quickly, what is Yuan Jun pushing out?"

Han Zhan hurriedly looked towards Yuan's army column, and saw that the originally neat queue suddenly gave way to more than [-] passages. Groups of soldiers came out of the passage pushing wooden siege equipment as tall as a person. The line stopped ahead.

"Feng Xiao, what is this?" Han Zhan looked at the other party's siege equipment, and asked Guo Jia with some puzzlement: "Is it Jinglan? But it's too short, right?"

Unexpectedly, when Guo Jia saw the siege equipment launched by Yuan Jun, his face turned livid. He quickly rushed to the edge of the city wall, stood in front of the crenel, and looked forward with the awning in his hands, muttering: "My God, the catapult is actually a catapult, and Yuan Shao's army actually has a catapult!"

Zhao Yun walked up to Guo Jia, and asked him with a sideways face: "Mr. Guo, did you see clearly, is it really a catapult?"

"No mistake," Guo Jia nodded, and said with a serious expression, "I've seen a catapult before, and that's it."

When Han Zhan heard that Yuan Jun actually had a catapult, he couldn't help being a little confused. Among the defensive equipment prepared during this period, there was really nothing that could restrain the catapult.As soon as he thought that the opponent could throw overwhelming stones onto the city wall, his legs began to tremble non-stop.

The soldiers and minzhuang standing around also pointed to the catapult in the distance, and began to discuss in a low voice.Because most of the people were seeing the catapult for the first time, they didn't know the power of this kind of siege equipment, so they were very calm.Some people even brag to their companions, saying that when this kind of siege equipment reaches the foot of the city, they will definitely be able to smash some of them with rolling logs and rocks.

After the catapult was in place, the big and round loader picked up the round stone bombs piled up next to them and put them into the wooden basket.As the order was issued, the thirty soldiers standing in front pulled the rope downwards at the same time, using the principle of leverage to throw the stone bullets in the wooden basket.More than twenty stone bullets drew a beautiful arc in the air and flew towards the city wall.

But because the distance was too far, the stone bullet was still twenty or thirty steps away from the city wall, and it fell down due to exhaustion, and hit the ground heavily, smashing the ground into pits one by one.Although the stone bullets did not hit the city wall, the soldiers and civilians at the top of the city were still frightened by the powerful stone bullets, and they all stared at the catapults in the distance dumbfounded.

Feng Ji, who was staying beside Yuan Shao, saw that the stone bullets failed to hit the city wall, so he quickly explained to Yuan Shao: "My lord, we are too far away from the city wall, as long as we push the catapult forward another 150 steps, the stone thrown will fall The bullet hits the target."

Yuan Shao nodded and told Yan Liang, "Yan Liang, lead 150 infantry and escort the catapult forward [-] steps." Looking at the Guantao city wall in the distance, he gritted his teeth and said, "In case the little ones of the Han family jump over the wall in a hurry, send the catapult [-] steps forward." Men came out to snatch the catapult."

"The last general will obey!" Yan Liang promised, and then urged his horse forward to lead people to protect the catapult.

The earth pits all over the place caused trouble for Yuan Jun's catapult to move forward, but Yuan Jun was so powerful that they moved the catapult 150 steps forward in less than two sticks of incense and finished it. Ready for launch.

Seeing that the catapult was already in place, Guo Jia hurriedly shouted to the left and right: "Yuan Jun is about to throw stones, everyone, find a place to hide, find a place to hide!"

When Guo Jia started yelling, Zhao Yun dragged Han Zhan back to the gate tower, which was safer than staying on the city wall anyway.As soon as Han Zhan stepped into the house, the stone bullets fired by Yuan Jun's catapult roared towards him. Hearing the loud sound of the stone bullets hitting the city wall from outside, and the screams of soldiers and minzhuang, Han Zhan grabbed Zhao Yun's body. Arm, commanded incoherently: "Brother, Feng Fengxiao is still outside, you hurry up and save him."

Zhao Yun knew in his heart that Guo Jia was Han Zhan's right-hand man and absolutely nothing could go wrong.So he nodded and said: "Second brother, please don't worry, I will go and rescue Mr. Guo right now!" After finishing speaking, he rushed out without looking back.

When Han Zhan heard the commotion outside, he couldn't help feeling flustered. Just as he was about to walk to the door to see what was going on outside, a stone bullet hit the eaves of the gatehouse, and he saw broken wood and tiles crashing in front of him. After falling down, Han Zhan was so frightened that he hurried back into the house.

When Zhao Yun came to the city wall, he saw the soldiers and Min Zhuang hiding behind the battlements, everyone was panicked.Yuan Jun's stone bullet either hit the city wall and made a huge rumbling sound; or it flew over the city wall and landed in the residential area behind.Zhao Yun looked around and saw Guo Jia hiding behind a battlement, trembling all over, he rushed over, grabbed his arm, and said loudly: "Mr. Guo, my second brother asked me to rescue you, you follow me!"

Although Guo Jia was afraid, he still politely said to Zhao Yun, "General Lao Zilong is here!"

Zhao Yun dragged Guo Jia and ran into the city gate when a stone bullet hit the battlement where Guo Jia was hiding just now. His head was bleeding, and he fell to the ground, rolling back and forth, screaming.

Another heavy stone bomb hit the city wall, shattering the bricks covering the wall.Dozens of blue bricks fell to the bottom of the city with a whirl of smoke.Gao Lan, who was hiding not far away, cried out secretly when he saw this situation, and rushed into the city gate tower, and told Han Zhan, "My lord, Yuan Jun's catapult is very powerful. It will smash down our city walls, and Yuan Jun soldiers will be able to rush in later."

One after another, the stone bullets fell on the city wall, smashing the defensive equipment placed on it to pieces, and smashed the soldiers hiding next to the equipment, breaking bones and tendons, and bleeding into rivers.

"My lord," Gao Lan said anxiously to Han Zhan upon seeing this situation, "The last general is willing to lead a hundred cavalry to go out and smash these catapults, please allow me, my lord!"

When the catapult was advancing, Han Zhan saw that Yuan Shao sent heavy guards. Let alone Gao Lan led 100 people to attack, even if he brought 1000 people, he might not be able to get close to the catapult.

Guo Jia had already regained his strength at this moment, he sighed and said: "Yuan Jun's catapult is really sharp, it poses too great a threat to our army, we must send someone to destroy it."

"Mr. Guo, Yuan Jun may have guessed that our army will attack the catapult, so he sent heavy troops to guard." When Zhao Yun said this, he stared at Gao Lan, "Don't say a hundred cavalry, even a thousand cavalry, We may not be able to get close to the catapult. We must know that in order to prevent Yuan Jun’s well fence from approaching the city wall, the outside of the city was dug with potholes, which is not conducive to the galloping of the cavalry.”

Hearing what Zhao Yun said, Han Zhan suddenly felt like he was in a cocoon. He originally thought that digging more holes outside the city would prevent Yuan Jun's wells from approaching the city wall, but now he wants to send cavalry to destroy the catapults. It also inevitably affects the mobility of the cavalry.

Seeing Han Zhan's delay in making a statement, Gao Lan repeated his words again, and finally emphasized: "My lord, the situation is critical, and I can't hesitate any longer. Please make up your mind early."

Using a hundred cavalry to destroy the catapult, they not only had to deal with the three thousand infantry of the Yuan army in front, but also tens of thousands of horses who came to support at any time.No matter how Han Zhan looked at it, he felt that Gao Lan's move was a moth to the flame. Even if they were all dead, they might not be able to destroy Yuan Jun's catapult.He even turned his head to look at Zhao Yun, thinking that even if his elder brother stepped in, the situation would not be optimistic.

Although he knew that Yuan Jun's stone bombs could not be unlimited, if he didn't stop them as soon as possible, the morale he had finally built up would collapse, so Han Zhan gritted his teeth and asked, "Feng Xiao, what do you have?" good idea?"

Guo Jia knew in his heart that Gao Lan led the army to destroy the catapult, but if he let it go, when Yuan Jun's soldiers began to climb the city wall, it is unknown whether the frightened soldiers and Min Zhuang still have the courage to fight up.Therefore, after hearing Han Zhan's question, he thought for a long time before he said, "Lieutenant Gao Gao, I remember that there seems to be a lot of kerosene stored in the city, right?"

"Yes, there are indeed a batch." Gao Lan nodded and said, "It is used to defend the city, but it has not been used yet.",