Three Kingdoms King of the North

Seeing that there was no objection, Yuan Shao stared at Jiang Qi and said indignantly after thinking for a while, "Death is inevitable, but life is inevitable. Drag him down, and he will be severely punished!"

Jiang Qi heard that Yuan Shao had changed the beheading into a staff punishment, and quickly knelt on the ground to salute Yuan Shao, saying: "Thank you, my lord, for not killing me, thank you for not killing me, my lord!"

Standing on the city wall, Han Zhan and others could clearly see what happened in front of Yuan Jun's formation.Especially Gao Lan, when he saw the development of the matter, it actually developed according to Guo Jia's analysis, he couldn't help giving the other party a thumbs up, and said repeatedly: "Mr. Jiang Qi."

Guo Jia smiled slightly, and then said to Han Zhan: "Jiang Qi received the cane in front of the battle today, and he must be resentful towards Yuan Shao. If we send someone to Yuan Shao to persuade him after dark, maybe he will succeed. .”

Although Guo Jia's strategy sounded very attractive, after a moment of joy, Han Zhan became worried again: "But, who should we send to contact Jiang Qi, and how can we sneak into Yuan Ying?"

After deliberating over and over again, Gao Lan said hesitantly, "My lord, there is one person under the last general who can go to Yuan Ying to deliver the letter."

Hearing what Gao Lan said, Han Zhan suddenly felt his eyes light up, and quickly asked, "Who is it?"

"A military Sima under the last general's surname is Deng Mingsheng, and he is from the same town as Jiang Qi." Gao Lan said cautiously: "If we send him to deliver the letter, I think we can definitely deliver the letter to Jiang Qi."

"Lieutenant Gao Gao," Guo Jia, who was much calmer than Han Zhan, asked Gao Lan, "Yuan Jun's camp is guarding the forest. How do you plan to let Deng Sheng get in?"

Gao Lan already had a draft in his mind, and when he heard Guo Jia's question, he quickly replied: "I asked Deng Sheng to disguise himself as a businessman, and go out of the city overnight to the south of Yuanying, and it won't be too late to play by ear."

"Lieutenant Gao Gao," Han Zhan ordered Gao Lan to be on the safe side, "General Sima Deng Sheng was summoned here quickly, and the Marquis has something to ask him."

After a stick of incense, Deng Sheng, who was sticking to the east of the city, came to the city gate tower under the guidance of a soldier.He looked at Han Zhan, then at Gao Lan, not knowing who to greet.In the end, it was Gao Lan who helped him out: "Deng Sima, the lord has something to tell you, so please greet the lord first."

Hearing what Gao Lan said, Deng Sheng quickly knelt down on one knee to Han Zhan, cupped his fists and saluted: "Little Deng Sheng, see the lord, please greet the lord!"

"Deng Sima, no courtesy!" After Han Zhan stretched out his hand to let Deng Sheng rise, he asked kindly, "I heard that you and Jiang Qi are from the same village?"

"Responding to my lord's words," Deng Sheng quickly and respectfully replied upon hearing Han Zhan's question, "Exactly!"

Han Zhan nodded, and said to Deng Sheng: "The Marquis intends to persuade Jiang Qi to surrender. Here is a letter to persuade Jiang Qi to surrender. I wonder if you are willing to take the risk to visit Yuanying?"

Instinctively, Deng Sheng turned his head and glanced at Gao Lan. Seeing that the latter nodded slightly at him, he hurriedly stepped forward to bow to Han Zhan, and at the same time said loudly: "The little one is willing to do his best for the Lord!"

Chapter 0141 Rebellion

After the staff blamed Jiang Qi, Feng Ji and Shen Pei persuaded Yuan Shao: "My lord, all the catapults of our army have been destroyed, and the spirit of the soldiers has been lost. Why don't we retreat for now and continue to attack the city tomorrow?"

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shaochong and the two rolled their eyes and said stubbornly: "No, I will not give up if I don't capture Guantao today! Yan Liang, what's ugly?"

Hearing Yuan Shao call his name, Yan Liangchou, who was standing aside, stepped forward quickly: "The last general is here!"

"Yan Liang led two generals Lu Xiang and Lu Kuang with [-] troops to attack the east of the city; Chou led Meng Dai and two generals led by Qian Zhao to attack the west of the city with [-] troops. If we don't destroy Guantao, we will never withdraw our troops!"

"The last general leads the army!" Yan Liangchou agreed, then turned around and ordered his troops to leave.

After the two left, Yuan Shao rushed to a general not far away and shouted, "Where is Zhu Ling?"

"The last general is here!" Zhu Ling, who has been playing soy sauce, hastily trotted over when he heard Yuan Shao's call.

"You lead [-] troops to attack the south of the city." After Yuan Shao ordered Zhu Ling, he turned his head and glanced at Jiang Qi who had just received the punishment, and added: "You also lead your troops to attack the city with Zhu Ling. If I am retreating and avoiding the battle, and I will be punished for both crimes. I will never let you go. Do you understand?"

Jiang Qi was frightened into a cold sweat, and hurriedly replied: "The last general takes orders!"

Seeing the dark Yuan Jun approaching the city wall, Han Zhan acted extremely calm.He called Jiang Fan, Sima of the Strong Crossbow Battalion, to his front, and said, "Jiang Sima, divide the crossbow soldiers into three rows, and as soon as the Yuan soldiers come into range, they will take turns to shoot. Do you understand?"

"Subordinates obey!" Jiang Fan promised, and was about to assign tasks, but was stopped by Han Zhan again.

Han Zhan asked with some concern: "Judging from the situation of Yuan Shao's division of troops, there are also heavy troops attacking the city from the east and west sides of the city. Are there enough crossbowmen there?"

"Please don't worry, my lord." Jiang Fan replied, "Although there are only [-] strong crossbowmen in the east and west of the city, the Marquis of Chu and Marquis Chen are all battle-hardened men. Crying for father and mother."

Seeing that Jiang Fan was so confident, Han Zhan felt more at ease. He waved at the other party, indicating that he could leave.

After Zhao Yun waited for Jiang Fan to leave, he came over to Han Zhan and Guo Jia and said, "Second brother, Mr. Guo, this time is too dangerous, you should go back to the prefect's mansion. I will send someone to report to you at any time about the battle in the city." of."

Hearing what Zhao Yun said, Guo Jia smiled and said nothing, but looked sideways at Han Zhan, wanting to hear what he had to say.Han Zhan shook his head and said, "Brother, no matter how dangerous the city is, can it escape the attack I just led? If I stay here, even if I can't kill the enemy with my own hands, I can stabilize the morale of the army and boost morale. It's Fengxiao who has no hands. It's too dangerous to stay here, big brother, send some people to send him back to the prefect's mansion."

"Thank you, my lord, for your kindness." Guo Jia first laughed when he heard what Han Zhan said, and then said, "Since my lord wants to stay with Mao Shishi, how can we as subordinates be greedy for life and afraid of death? Jia has made up his mind to Stay here with the lord!"

Seeing Yuan Bing under the city entering the range, Jiang Fan raised his right hand high and shouted: "Strong crossbowman, get ready!"

Following his shout, three hundred strong crossbowmen raised their crossbow bolts and calmly aimed at Yuan Bing who was moving under the city.

Jiang Fan shouted: "Let go!" At the same time, he swung his hand down violently.

Three hundred crossbow arrows pierced into the ranks of Yuan's army below from the top of the city. Most of the crossbow arrows were blocked by the sword and shield fighters in the front row with shields, but twenty or thirty soldiers were still shot by the crossbow arrows and fell to the ground with a plop. on the ground.The soldiers behind hurriedly quickened their pace and filled the gaps left by those soldiers.

After the first row of strong crossbowmen retreated, the second row stepped forward again. Under Jiang Fan's order, they fired another round of crossbow arrows at Yuan Jun under the city.Since they aimed at the spearmen who were not covered by shields behind them, the results achieved were greater than those of the crossbowmen in the first row. At least nearly a hundred soldiers fell to the ground with arrows.

Soon, the third row of crossbowmen fired another round of volley, causing more Yuan soldiers to fall.However, the archers following behind the sword and shield soldiers also raised their bows and set up arrows, and shot towards the top of the city. Although most of the arrows shot by Yuan Bing below the city were blocked by the sword and shield soldiers standing on the crenel, there were still a few The unlucky crossbowman was shot in the face and fell to the top of the wall.

After Yuan Jun reached the edge of the moat, dozens of passages were immediately opened up in the neat queue.The soldiers carrying the long ladder, in groups of six, rushed from the passage to the edge of the moat, and those who rushed ahead put the long ladder in their hands on the moat.The soldiers behind hurriedly rushed across the moat on the bamboo ladder, rushed to the corner of the wall, and put the long ladder on the city wall.

The mountains of corpses and broken siege equipment that had piled up under the city had been cleaned up. Although it is cold today, allowing so many corpses to rot under the city may still cause epidemics. Therefore, Han Zhan saw that Yuan Shao did not attack a few days ago, so he Manpower was arranged to clean up these corpses and dig pits to bury them.

Seeing the long ladder on the city wall, Yuan Jun shot upwards with archers to suppress the defenders at the top of the city.Ordinary soldiers rushed quickly from the long ladder on the moat, rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and began to climb up the long ladder leaning against the city wall one after another.

Seeing Yuan Bing climbing up the long ladder, Zhao Yun quickly issued an order.The defenders who were manipulating the mace quickly untied the ropes.The Wolf Fang shot that fell from the sky smashed the long ladder below, and smashed Yuan Bing on the ladder until his bones were broken and his flesh was mutilated.Then the soldiers pulled up the mace again, preparing to wait for Yuan Jun to climb a new long ladder before launching the next round of attack.

Yuan Jun at the bottom of the city also learned a lot from a ditch. Seeing that the defenders' spikes were so terrifying, he quickly changed the position of the long ladder to avoid the attack.Seeing that the wolf tooth racket could no longer continue to attack Yuan Jun, the defenders quickly used the fork pole, pushed hard along the ladder, and used the horizontal blade in front to cut off Yuan Bing's hands and feet on the long ladder.

As for those Yuan soldiers who had already emerged from the crenel, they were stabbed with long spears or hit with flail sticks to beat them down from the top of the city.

Since the defenders at the top of the city had sufficient defense equipment, those Yuan soldiers who climbed up the long ladder fell towards the city like dumplings.Some fell and hit the soldiers holding the ladder below, making them scream.

The casualties of Fengji and Shenpei in the distance were so heavy that they couldn't help but say to Yuan Shao: "My lord, our army doesn't have enough siege equipment, so we can only let the soldiers die in vain by attacking the city like this. It's better to withdraw the troops for now. , wait until tomorrow to fight again?"

Seeing that Yuan Shao was indifferent after hearing this, the appraiser quickly winked at Xin Ping, motioning him to help him with a few words.Xin Ping nodded, came in front of Yuan Shao, and said, "Master, what Feng Yuantu and Shen Zhengnan said is very true. We don't have enough siege equipment. Such a strong attack will only increase casualties, so it's better to stop the army for now. Wait." Tomorrow fill up the earthen pits outside the city and attack the city with wells and chariots, and the pottery will be destroyed."

When Yuan Shao heard Xin Ping say this, although he was a little moved, he didn't agree immediately, but called two small school principals, and said: "You hurry up to the east and west of the city, and see how Yan Liang and Chou are. General, have you ever broken into the city?"

The two small schools took the order, and then rode away.

Not long after, the two small schools came back from the east and west of the city one after the other, and reported to Yuan Shao, "My lord, the defense of the defenders is too strict. Generals Yan Liang and Chou never attacked the city wall."

Yuan Shao let out a long sigh and ordered: "Ming Jin withdraws troops!"

Hearing the sound of gold ringing from behind, the soldiers who were attacking the city were relieved. They immediately stopped the attack and retreated in an orderly manner.

After dark, Deng Sheng took a box of gold cakes and a bag of jewels and went out from the east of the city. After making a big circle, he came to the south of Yuanying.

A senior officer outside the gate saw Deng Sheng in commoner clothes leading his horse approaching, stepped forward to stop him, and said loudly: "The important place of the military camp, trespassers will die!"

Deng Sheng cupped his hands at the other party, and said politely: "This military lord, I am an old friend of the school captain Jiang Qi. If I need to see you urgently, please be accommodating." The bag was stuffed.

He took the cloth bag containing the money, weighed it with his hands, and found that there was still a lot of money in it, so he changed his smile and said to Deng Sheng: "Brother, Jiang Xiaowei's camp is not far from here, I will take you there." Bar."

The Chief Shi led Deng Sheng into the barracks, and walked towards the place where Jiang Qijun was stationed familiarly. At the same time, he was still asking Deng Sheng: "I don't know what kind of friendship is between Xiongtai and Captain Jiang?"