At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

But there is absolutely no such thing as joining Dong Zhuo. Doesn't this mean that Yuan Shao is a traitor?

With this big hat off, wouldn't Yuan Shao's character set that he had worked so hard to maintain for decades simply collapse completely?

Is this still available?

The judge was worried, and realized that Guo Peng really came to Jizhou with the intention of a decisive battle this time.

It is not yet known how strong Guo Peng is. If it is really very strong, Yuan Shao will be in danger.

But no matter what, as a minister, he must try his best to protect Yecheng.

As long as the city of Ye is not lost, Guo Pengxiu wants to go north and continue to attack Jizhou, threatening Yuan Shao's rear.

The judge still doesn't know that Yuan Shao has wiped out Gongsun Zan, and is negotiating terms with various powerful landlords in Youzhou in Jixian County in Youzhou to occupy Youzhou.

The judge only knew that he had to defend Yecheng well, and he must not let Guo Peng succeed.

That night, Guo Peng wrote another letter and shot into the city, trying to recruit the judge to surrender. The judge was furious, and immediately wrote back to Guo Peng, scolding Guo Peng bloody.

What kind of yellow-mouthed children are arrogant and self-defeating, what is the right way to retreat and apologize quickly, etc., if Guo Peng needs to recognize his own background, he dares to slander the family of the fourth generation and the third father, etc., see Guo Peng laughed out loud, very happy.

What does it mean to be determined?

This frankly made the bastard eat the weight and become determined.

The narrow-minded Guo has already sentenced the judge to death, but on the surface, he still pretends to be magnanimous and shows this letter to the civil servants under his command, mocking himself, saying that he is 28 years old and still called Huangkou Xiaoer, Really failed.

Early the next morning, someone from Guo gave the order to attack the city.

Dozens of trebuchets are fully loaded and ready to go.

Someone from Guo gave an order, and a large number of stone bullets flew into Yecheng, hitting the walls and towers of Yecheng, or flew into the city and smashed into the buildings in the city.

For a while, the defenders of Yecheng, who had never seen a catapult attacking the city, were in a panic, and the young residents in the city were also in a panic.

The judge was shocked, never expecting Guo Peng to have such a big killer, and immediately ordered the elite guards to step forward to stabilize the order, no matter what to do to protect the city wall, it must not be lost.

The judge now seems to understand why Fanyang County was taken by Guo Peng so quickly.

It's not that Gao Lan and Yan Liang don't work hard, but they really can't beat them!

broken!

The judge looked at the huge stone bullets flying in the air from a safe place, his face was full of worry, and he couldn't think of a way to deal with it. He could only watch the stone bullets hit the city wall and the city, and watched the soldiers run around. And the will to fight was instantly destroyed.

Guo Zifeng...

This is bad.

The judge was biting his back molars, wishing he could swallow Guo Peng alive.

After the trebuchet attack, it was a crossbow shooting, and then the infantry destroyed the advanced, filled the gully, advanced forward with a large shield, fought on the city, and tried to break through the city wall.

At this time, the trial and distribution still played a role. Seeing that the trebuchets stopped attacking, the trial and distribution immediately mobilized elite soldiers to climb up the city wall to defend, and fought a battle with Guo Peng's army.

Fighting from noon to dusk, Guo Peng Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the day's battle was barely over.

After a little inventory of the battle damage, Guo Peng learned that more than 300 soldiers had been lost in the half-day siege, and all the wounded had been properly resettled, the main force still remained, and the will to fight was strong.

Guo Peng found Xi Zhong and Guo Jia, and discussed with them the main points of the siege.

"The city walls of Yecheng are obviously taller and thicker. They are not comparable to the city walls of Fanyang County. There are more defenders, better defenses, and sharper weapons. It is normal for our army to lose more."

Guo Jia said so.

"Normal is normal, and I understand that, but Fengxiao, they are all soldiers and horses I trained, and everyone is my painstaking effort. I can't bear the loss of hundreds of them."

Guo Peng sighed: "Seeing hundreds of them die in battle, my heart hurts like a piece of flesh has been ripped off. They are my cornerstone."

What Guo Peng said is true. These elite troops are the cornerstone of his aspirations to the world.

It took countless time and money, and a lot of money, to train such a capable and capable Zhendong army. If there are too many losses under Yecheng, it will not be worth the loss.

"Is it worth it to lose so many soldiers and horses for a city?"

Guo Peng asked this question.

Xi Zhong and Guo Jia looked at each other.

"Duke Ming, if we don't take Yecheng, we won't be able to move north. The soldiers and horses of Yecheng will cut off our food supply at any time, and Yecheng must be taken."

Xi Zhong said so.

Guo Jia also nodded.

"I'm not saying leave Yecheng alone. Yecheng is definitely going to be taken, but is there any other better way than taking so much time and so many lives of the army?"

Guo Peng suddenly recalled the first time he participated in the war, which was the battle with Zhang Liang's army near Yecheng, which was nearly ten years ago.

"But speaking of it, back then, under the leadership of my teacher Lu Gong, I defeated the yellow scarf army led by Zhang Liang on the bank of Yecheng. In a blink of an eye, it was almost ten years ago. There is a chance to come back here again.”

Guo Peng shook his head: "I haven't seen the teacher for a long time, and I don't know how the teacher is doing. After this battle is over, let's go to Shanggu to see the teacher."

Xi Zhong and Guo Jia did not speak, and walked behind Guo Peng for a while. As they walked, Guo Peng suddenly stopped and stopped moving forward.

"Ming Gong?"

"Brother?"

Guo Peng turned around and looked at Xi Zhong and Guo Jia.

"In the whole of Jizhou, how many cities are there that have high walls, deep walls and sufficient defenders like Yecheng?"

Chapter 323 .320 Two Aren't You Crazy?

Guo Peng asked this suddenly, but Xi Zhong didn't react for a while.

Guo Jia actually came to his senses, but he didn't know what Guo Peng meant.

"Yuan Shao doesn't have that many soldiers, so the cities with a lot of garrisons are Fanyang, Yecheng and Gaoyang, right? Other counties and counties probably don't have many soldiers, at most a few hundred."

Guo Jia answered Guo Peng's question.

"That's right, at most there are hundreds of soldiers defending the city, and when a large army approaches the city, it is only a matter of time at most, and the city will be destroyed. In this case, why not sweep those cities, but focus on the surrounding area of ​​Yecheng and be bound hands and feet? "

When Guo Peng said this, Guo Jia and Xi Zhong frowned, not understanding what Guo Peng meant.

"Duke Ming means to leave some soldiers and horses to surround Yecheng, and then divide the troops to attack other cities?"

Xi Zhong frowned and thought for a while: "This is somewhat dangerous. We only have [-] soldiers and horses. How many soldiers and horses are appropriate to surround Yecheng? If there are too many soldiers and horses, the mobile force will not be enough. If there are fewer, I am afraid We can't stand the trial and lead the main force out of the city."

"Then the judge will not be able to lead troops out of the city, and completely turn Yecheng into a dead place."

Guo Peng thought of a way.

How could a city of Ye hold him back?

On the second day, the third day, and the fourth day, Guo Peng attacked the city for three consecutive days, but the offensive was not as violent as at the beginning. He failed to capture the city for three consecutive days, which made the judge relax a little bit, and spread the news in the city that Guo Peng lacked military supplies. The news of the imminent withdrawal of troops will stabilize people's hearts.

On the morning of the fifth day, Guo Peng did not attack the city.

Instead, 8 or [-] troops, auxiliary soldiers, and civilian husbands were distributed around Yecheng, dug ditches, connected together, and surrounded Yecheng on all sides, with a perimeter of [-] miles long.

The ditch was dug relatively shallow, but relatively wide, about three feet long.

The judge received the report from the soldiers defending the city, went to the city to watch, and found that the soldiers of the Zhendong Army were digging trenches. They thought it was a tactic of relying on trenches to fight, but it seemed useless. It was so shallow that it could be overcome. past.

Shen Pei is a rigid head, he can't figure out why, but he can't think of any way to deal with it, so he laughed loudly on the city wall, mocking Guo Pengqian for his lack of skills, and there is no other way.

Then let the soldiers on the top of the city mock Guo Peng together, laughing and scolding Guo Peng for being incompetent, and calling the Zhendong Army useless.

So the appraiser patronized and scolded, and didn't and didn't think about going out of the city to obstruct Guo Peng's actions.

Then when night fell that night, Guo Peng ordered the whole army to mobilize and dug the large canal with a [-]-mile enclosure to a depth of two feet overnight, and then directly connected it to the Zhangshui River near the city of Yecheng.

The river that was once used by Lu Zhi to deal with the Yellow Turban Army was now used again by Guo Peng to deal with the judges.

Guo Peng used the deep ditch to surround Yecheng with river water on all sides. The large canal, three feet wide and two feet deep, was comparable to a new moat. It surrounded Yecheng on all sides and directly cut off the connection between Yecheng and the outside world.

Yecheng was trapped to death.

It doesn't matter if you can't beat it, I don't want it for the time being, but you just stay here obediently, don't move, if you move, it will be miserable.

First of all, you have to have the means to cross the canal three feet wide and two feet deep. Should you swim or row a boat?

It doesn't matter, when you cross the river, it is when my army attacks you indiscriminately, don't even think about crossing the river.

Guo Peng also ordered people to surround the ditch with a circle of refusal horses, set up a crossbow, and told the judge clearly, you are finished.

After receiving the report from his subordinates, the judge immediately ran up to the city wall, and when he looked outside, he was stunned.

what is this?Guo Peng gave him a moat?

No!This is to introduce Zhangshui into the ditch, turning Yecheng into an isolated city!

The internal and external traffic of Yecheng was cut off!

Yecheng will not receive any food, military aid, unless they can break through here.

Before that, Guo Peng would...

All surrounding counties and counties will be swept away, and the deterrence of Yecheng's soldiers and horses to him will basically disappear. He can safely mobilize troops and horses to attack the city, and then completely turn Yecheng into an isolated city, a completely isolated city!

The judge was dumbfounded.

Now that the plan was completed, there was no time to wait. That afternoon, Guo Peng sent troops to attack.

Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, and Cao Chun were dispatched to attack separately and sweep the counties of Wei County around Yecheng, asking them to completely isolate Yecheng.

Then Guo Peng personally led the army around Yecheng, swaggering like a demonstration, then patted his ass and left, and went directly to the north.

Target, Handan.

You come out, you come out to stop me!Are you crazy?

Guo Peng laughed triumphantly.

Then he led his troops to the north, stayed loyal to the Governor-General Yecheng's offensive and defensive affairs, left Li's three generals to him, and took the rest of the troops away to attack the city.

The trial match completely panicked, realizing that he had been tricked by Guo Peng and would pay a heavy price.

And this price is unbearable for him, and it is also unbearable for Yuan Shao. The whole Jizhou is likely to be overthrown by this, and he cannot accept it!

So he immediately ordered the soldiers of Shanshui in the general to organize, but found that there were not many soldiers of Shanshui, and there were no more than a thousand soldiers at all times.

But there was no other way, I could only drive the ducks to the shelves, randomly selected a group, gathered 3000 people, and prepared to cross the water to launch an attack and try to destroy the ditch.

He ordered a batch of simple ferries to be built, and let the soldiers of Shanshui drive them, ready to break through.

Xi Zhong directly ordered the troops to take their positions, and protected the crossbowmen with their large shields across their horses to shoot. The soldiers who tried to cross the river and shot them turned over on their backs, and were either shot to death or drowned.

The judges did not allow them to retreat, and they wanted to attack by force. As a result, there were no other results except for leaving more than 900 corpses.

The loss was too great, and the judge had no choice but to order a retreat back to the city, and tried to build a super long plank to cross the river. As a result, they were crushed and beaten by trebuchets before leaving the city.

The trial match still refused to admit defeat, and sent troops to try to cross the river to open the gap at night. Unexpectedly, Xi Zhong had expected it a long time ago, and commanded the army to beat the drums to fight back. Quite a few were trampled to death.

Apart from leaving a place of corpses, there is no other meaning.

There was nothing the judge could do, and neither could the guards in the city. They could only watch the ditches outside the city in a daze, sitting and eating.

Although there is a lot of food in Yecheng, there is also a large population in the city, especially before the strong walls and clearing the fields, which intensified the large population in the city, which made the pressure on the city's food storage very high.

Faced with such a situation, the examiner had no choice but to order a reduction in rations. Soldiers and strong men can eat more, while the elderly, weak, sick and disabled can only eat less.

Because they don't have enough to eat, a large number of old, weak, sick and disabled can only choose to lie still in bed to reduce their hunger.

Under such a predicament, the judges could not come up with any solution.

However, Guo Peng took advantage of this opportunity to aggressively attack the counties around Weijun and occupy the place.

Chapter 324 .320 Three Conquests of Hanoi (Revised)

Without the deterrence of Yecheng, the counties around Yecheng were like weak lambs, allowing Guo Peng to wreak havoc.

The generals of the various armies set off in all directions and blossomed in full bloom. If the counties could not resist for an hour, they would be breached, occupied, and then swept away by the Zhendong Army.