Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 181 Attack and Defense in the City
Gongsun Zan fled back to Yijing City full of bewilderment and unwillingness.

The thousands of cavalry he brought with him when he left the city were less than a thousand when he returned.

But the deadliest thing was that in order to meet them, the gates of the city were opened wide, and Yuan Jun, who had been prepared for a long time, followed them in with all his might and broke through the gates!

What the two sides are now facing is a street battle where every inch of land is contested!

Gongsun Zan looked down from the watchtower, and Yuan Jun was rushing in from the gate of the city in the distance, which made his face even more ugly.

He hasn't recovered from last night's defeat, but the opponent obviously won't wait for him.

At this juncture of life and death, a trace of sternness appeared on his face, and he began to issue orders one after another.

After Gongsun Zan's soldiers got the order, they rushed into the watchtower to defend.

The soldiers of Yuan Shao's army poured into the city and were shocked by the sight in front of them.

Dozens of huge watchtowers are guarded by hundreds of small buildings several feet high. This is the watchtower formation specially built by Yi Jing for defense!

When Yuan Jun was a little dazed, archers from Gongsun Zan's army popped up from the top of hundreds of watchtowers, pulled their bows tight, and shot arrows at Yuan Jun in the open space downstairs. Arrows rained down for a while.

Yuan Jun, who were crowded together, was caught off guard and fell to the ground with arrows one after another. The rest of them quickly raised their wooden shields and blocked them above their heads.

The soldier who was injured by the arrow could only scream while crawling desperately on the ground, trying to find a place to cover his body.

Someone aimed at the soldier blocking the shield and wanted to crawl under the opponent's body to avoid the arrows. As a result, the standing and lying soldiers were in a mess, and the formation was in chaos. Come.

At this time, Zhang Yun had already rushed into the city gate, and shouted loudly when he saw this: "Crush into the watchtower of the other side, don't stop!"

A group of soldiers just woke up like a dream, shouting and rushing to the nearest watchtower.

As soon as a Yuan Jun soldier rushed in with a knife in his hand, he let out a scream. The people next to him watched him fall back, with several long spears tied to his body, and the ends of the guns pierced deeply into his body.

Several Gongsun Zan soldiers held long spears and pushed him out forcefully. The soldier's screams became weaker and weaker, and he fell to the ground and died.

Everyone was shocked, there were soldiers dedicated to defending under the watchtower!
With this dazed effort, the top started to shoot arrows downward again, and Yuan Jun fell into a dilemma.

The city that Yuan Jun attacked before was full of low flat houses. Wherever he encountered such tall watchtowers, he was at a loss for a while.

Zhang He led his troops into a watchtower, and several long spears were aimed at him. Zhang He dodged sideways, shot a soldier who was trying to sneak attack him, and killed a soldier.

He led the people to fight bloody all the way, and finally rushed to the top of the watchtower, killing all the archers on it.

He watched from the top of the building, and the soldiers, led by various generals, fought the enemy inside the watchtower. The most conspicuous one was another fierce general, Wen Chou.

He rode on a horse and was fully clothed, and he rushed into the watchtower directly, using the momentum to knock all the soldiers inside away, and then slashed with the long knife in his hand, beheading all the enemy soldiers to death.

Seeing the small watchtowers fall one after another, the tallest dozens of tall watchtowers in the center finally started to move.

Gongsun Zan's soldiers tightened the ballista, pushed out the huge ballista, and pointed it at the small watchtower below!
Zhang He raised his head and saw it, yelled and cursed, and quickly hid in the building. As soon as he left, a huge crossbow arrow shot down from above, piercing the floor beside him, making Zhang He break out in a cold sweat.

With the help of ballistas, Gongsun Zan's army pinned Yuan Jun to the periphery of dozens of tall watchtowers. Seeing that the offensive was blocked, Jushou, who was behind the formation, ordered everyone to retreat temporarily and look for obstacles to hide.

Ju Shou stood at the gate of the city and ordered the soldiers to push in the siege equipment such as the chariot. However, the city was narrow and the siege equipment was inconvenient to rotate, which blocked the way of his own soldiers.

The most effective weapon to break through the tall watchtower should be the cloud tower. Although this thing is not as tall as the watchtower, it can still allow soldiers to shoot at each other. If they get close, they can also take the opportunity to jump to the opponent's watchtower.

However, due to the obstruction of the city gate, the Yunlou cannot be pushed in, unless a section of the city wall is completely demolished.

Either the components of the Yunlou will be transported to the city and assembled on site. I don't know how long it will take to install it.

Jushou Xindao is the current strategy, only digging holes is used.

Thinking of this, he was still surprised that Yuan Xi went with him. Why did he change so much in the past three years?

You must know that three years ago, no one would have taken a liking to this weak bastard!
Ju Shou asked Zhang He to urge the soldiers to build the fortifications steadily, while he himself withdrew from the city and returned to Yuan Shao's tent.

At this time, there were only a few people in the camp, and most of the generals and advisers were supervising the battle. This battle of Yijing was the largest troop dispatch in recent years. Afterwards, meritorious deeds were rewarded, and no one wanted to be left behind.

Yuan Xi was talking to Yuan Shao, when he saw Ju Shou came in, he turned around and said: "I have seen Mr. Gong and Mr."

Ju Shou nodded, and first said to Yuan Shao: "I have seen the Lord." Then he said to Yuan Xi: "I have seen the Lord."

Seeing that Jushou took a few steps back and stood aside, Yuan Xi came back with a fight in his heart. It seems that Jushou began to separate himself from Yuan Shao at this time.

Compared with Tian Feng, Jushou is actually more awkward, Tian Feng just has a bad temper, while Jushou almost completely broke with Yuan Shao in the later stage.

Yuan Xi speculated that this might have something to do with Ju Shou's refusal to hand over Jizhou to Yuan Shao when he was under Han Fu's command.

Yuan Shao is a person who holds grudges, and this incident is very likely to make him hold grudges.

And from the perspective of later generations, although Jushou was proficient in battle formations, few of the strategies he proposed were adopted.

Because Jushou's strategy is based on the premise of calculating defeat.

Whether he proposed to flatter Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, or oppose Yuan Shao's separation of the three sons, or the strategy of exhausting Cao, or the slow-advance tactics of the Battle of Guandu, they all considered Yuan's disadvantaged position.

But in the situation at that time, the Yuan family was in full swing and might seize the world at any time. Of course, Jushou's idea of ​​finding a way out was not accepted by Yuan Shao and his advisers and generals who wanted to ascend to high positions early.

In fact, Yuan Xi had just rushed back, and it was Yuan Xi's soldiers who pretended to be the Black Mountain Army who set fire to lure Gongsun Zan's army out of the city last night.

In fact, he arrived with his troops the day before yesterday, and asked the soldiers to change into the clothes of the Black Mountain army defeated in Beixincheng. He also asked hundreds of cavalry to appear first to confuse Gongsun Zan in the city.

As expected, Gongsun Zan was tricked into leaving the city, but was ambushed instead, and finally fled back to Yijing, causing the city gate to fall.

Yuan Shao showed a look of relief at this time: "Xianyi has made great contributions again this time, if you defeat Yi Jing this time, you will surely be the first."

"However, you were able to guess the content of Gongsun Zan's secret letter, which really surprised me."

Yuan Xiqian said: "It's all thanks to the spies in Father's City, and I just guessed it by luck."

What he said was true, he only knew that in the history of the previous life, Gongsun Zan was lured out of the city, but in this life he had no clue how Yuan Shao managed to succeed.

So after he caught the spies and found the secret letter with the code, his head grew dizzy.

How do you guess?
According to the records of his previous life, he roughly knew that this letter was to ask the Black Mountain Army to ambush him in the northern mountain col, but the key issue, he didn't know which night it was.

He discussed with Guo Jia for a long time and came to the conclusion that first of all it could not be that night because the time was too short.

Secondly, it is unlikely that it will exceed three days. If it is too late, there will be changes. The Black Mountain Army is likely to be surrounded and wiped out by Yuan Jun.

In this way, the most likely ones are the second and third days.

But even with two options, it's hard to choose, and if you get it wrong, you'll be alarmed.

In the end, Yuan Xi still went to see Yuan Shao, saying that he had been forced to interrogate some contents of the secret letter, but he could not confirm the time.

When Yuan Shao heard the words, he called Xun Chen and asked him to contact the spies in the city.

In the evening of the next day, a secret letter was sent from the city, saying that Gongsun Zan was fully armored and seemed to be taking action.

After Yuan Shao and Yuan Xi got the news, they knew that it was probably tonight!

Yuan Jun immediately raised his fire and issued a signal. Gongsun Zan was fooled and led the cavalry out of the city. He was defeated and fled back to Yijing.

After Yuan Shao and Yuan Xi finished speaking, they turned to Ju Shou and asked, "How is the battle in the city?"

After hearing this, Jushou immediately stepped forward and told him about what was blocked by the watchtower in the city.

In the end, he cupped his hands and said: "In the current situation, if you want to solve the battle quickly, you can only adopt the strategy of digging holes and attacking with fire proposed by the young master earlier."

When Yuan Xi heard this, his heart moved slightly. When he proposed this strategy that day, Yuan Shao told him in private afterwards, and Ju Shou also made similar suggestions.

Ju Shou now gives all the credit to himself, is it because he doesn't want to compete with himself, or is he frustrated with Yuan Shao?
Lenovo Yuan Shao likes to kill the heroes who are too big to lose when he has a big advantage. Yuan Xi guessed that Jushou's good days are coming to an end.

Yuan Shao said at this time: "In this way, according to the previous plan, let all the peasants enter the city and dig the city as soon as possible."

"Within three days, all watchtowers must be destroyed!"

Yuan Shao was also a little anxious at this time, because apart from Yuan Xi who came back earlier than expected, there were changes in the other two routes.

Yuan Tan blocked Zhang Yan's most elite middle lane all the way, stuck firmly in the main lane, but he fought quite hard.

But Yuan Shang's road to Yecheng was even more embarrassing. The Black Mountain Army looted around Yecheng, and Yuan Shang sent Gao Lan out of the city to intercept, but with little effect.

Now both sides are waiting for Yuan Shao's army to return to aid. Thinking of this, Yuan Shao is a little lucky. Yuan Xi, who was the least favored before, was the first to come back, and changed the situation of the battle!

Standing on the watchtower, Gongsun Zan watched Yuan Shaojun's soldiers and peasants rush into the city under the cover of the chariot, and pushed the flat cart to the edge of the mound below the watchtower.

Then these people started digging the soil like they were digging a city wall.

Tian Kai said: "They want to dig down the watchtower!"

A general heard this and said, "If that's the case, wouldn't they be crushed to death too?"

"I don't believe they have the guts to die. It's actually so easy to dig the foundation of the watchtower. The bottom is full of deep piles."

After hearing this, everyone nodded their heads one after another. Suddenly, someone noticed that black smoke began to come out from the bottom of a tall watchtower.

(End of this chapter)