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Gu Rubing knew that the Iron Pagoda could not hold out for long and would ultimately have to rely on their talented siege men.

Hesitating that the progress was too slow, Wei Yan went up to the city wall himself, trying to open a breakthrough, but there were too many soldiers fighting back, and Wei Yan was forced to go down the city wall.

However, just when Gu Rubing didn't know what to do, Captain Younu sent him an important piece of information.

That is, Wang Yue was no longer in the city at this time, and the defense of the city had been completely handed over to a deputy general.

A main general is surrounded by many deputy generals. If there is no main general in defending a city, loopholes can easily appear if only relying on the deputy generals.

Thinking of this, Gu Rubing immediately ordered everyone to stop attacking the city and the entire army rest for a day.

Wei Yan knew that there was only one possibility for Gu Rubing to give such an order, and that was that the general attack was about to begin.

For a whole day, Gu Rubing and his men did not take any action.

The deputy general thought that Gu Rubing and his men were planning a night attack, so he simply kept his men awake at night to guard the city.

They dared not sleep during the day and could not sleep at night. In this high-intensity city defense situation, anyone would feel tired. What's more, the one who gave the order was a deputy general, which immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the surrounding soldiers, and more and more people kept disobeying the deputy general's orders.

Those who had been obeying orders began to doubt the deputy general after they had guarded the city for a whole night and found no trace of Gu Rubing and his men.

However, what they didn't expect was that the deputy general still required everyone not to sleep during the day.

This made the already dissatisfied soldiers explode completely.

Many soldiers threw away their weapons and went to find a place to rest.

When the deputy general saw this situation, he could only sigh helplessly.

However, at this moment, the deputy general saw that Gu Rubing's army had begun to mobilize. The army that was originally attacking one city gate had begun to spread to the surrounding areas, obviously preparing for a siege.

The total number of soldiers that could be mobilized in the city was less than 15,000. It was very difficult to guard the four city gates. In addition, the soldiers had been dispatched without stopping. The deputy general had already begun to figure out which gate to break out from.

As the commander, he no longer had the will to fight, and the other soldiers were even less motivated, and their defense was quite lax.

At this moment, Gu Rubing sounded the clarion call for the general attack.

Under the leadership of Wei Yan, the attacks on all four sides of the city began.

The deputy general kept directing the defense.

However, the soldiers, who had not had a good rest for a day and a night, had long lost their mind to defend.

Soon the East Gate was breached.

When the deputy general heard the news, he thought he could not bear it any longer and immediately ordered a retreat.

As for whether the city can be defended, in fact, there is no problem in holding it for at least a few days. After all, there are 15,000 people. Even if they lose, they can't lose so quickly. The main reason is that this deputy general has no intention of defending the city at all.

When giving the order to attack the city, Gu Rubing deliberately left the West Gate as a weak point in the siege in order to prevent the other side from having the idea of ​​fighting a trapped beast. The deputy general led the remaining 10,000 people and broke out directly through the West Gate.

Gu Rubing did not chase them, but let them go.

After taking over Zhongshui City, Gu Rubing immediately asked Tiefutu to come back.

However, at this time, the Iron Pagoda was also engaged in a fierce battle.

Wang Yue personally rushed to Fanyang City to transport grain and fodder in order to lure out the Iron Pagoda hiding in the dark.

Li Feng saw another grain team passing by, and without paying attention to who was responsible for escorting them, he just rushed out with his men.

When Li Feng saw that the leader was Wang Yue, he was completely stunned.

Isn't Wang Yue in Zhongshui City? Why is he here to escort the grain?

Thinking of this, Li Feng suddenly realized that he might have fallen into a trap.

He turned around and called Tiefutu to run into the woods.

As long as they entered the woods, even Wang Yue would not have the chance to get rid of them all.

However, Wang Yue had obviously thought of this. The moment Tie Futu and his men approached the woods, countless arrows shot out from the woods.

The Iron Buddha was unable to prepare in time and suffered countless casualties.

Seeing this, Li Feng immediately turned around with Tiefutu and wanted to leave.

However, Wang Yue had already prepared everything, and countless ambushes appeared around him.

"Surrender, you are doomed to fail."

Hearing this, Li Feng looked at Wang Yue who was walking over and snorted coldly.

"Iron Pagoda, charge!"

As Li Feng's voice fell, the five hundred Iron Pagodas rushed towards Wang Yue without any fear.

"Do it!"

Wang Yue shook his head helplessly upon seeing this and ordered the soldiers behind him to charge forward.

The melee between the two sides officially began.

Wang Yue only has ordinary soldiers under his command, so it is very difficult to kill Tiefutu completely.

It would be much easier for Tiefutu to break through.

Soon, Tiefutu reached the edge of the encirclement.

Seeing that Tiefutu was about to run away, Wang Yue drew out his sword and appeared in front of Li Feng like a ghost.

Wang Yue could see that Li Feng was the current commander of Iron Buddha. In Wang Yue's opinion, as long as Li Feng was eliminated, Iron Buddha would inevitably be in chaos.

After Li Feng killed a Hun cavalryman, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck.

At first Li Feng didn't care, but suddenly he heard people around him shouting, General Li.

Li Feng then realized something was wrong. He reached out and touched his neck, but all he saw was a hand full of donated blood.

Only then did he realize that his neck had been cut by Wang Yue.

Wei Yan’s words at the time kept echoing in Li Feng’s mind.

After you die, I will bury you with my own hands.

"General Wei, I really can't go back now. My lord, do you know if I have completed my mission?"

After muttering to himself, Li Feng fell off his horse.

The Iron Pagodas around wanted to step forward, but Wang Yue just stood by and stared at them.

They knew that they were definitely no match for Wang Yue.

A centurion took over the command and immediately shouted: "Iron Pagoda, retreat."

As the voice fell, all the Iron Pagodas, led by the centurion, completely broke out of the encirclement.

Wang Yue did not expect that the Iron Pagoda without a commander could still have such execution ability.

Looking at Tiefutu's leaving back, Wang Yue couldn't help but feel a little envious.

Wang Yue was wondering when he would be able to have such a team.

Wang Yue immediately led all the Xiongnu cavalry and chased after the Iron Pagoda.

The Iron Pagoda was a heavy cavalry. Although it had strong combat effectiveness, it was still slower than the Xiongnu cavalry.

In an hour's time, the Xiongnu cavalry was about to catch up with the Iron Pagoda.

Upon seeing this, the centurion immediately took his men and left behind nearly a hundred iron pagodas to cover their retreat.

Seeing this, Wang Yue wanted to lead his men and rush over directly.

But the centurion did not try his best to stop Wang Yue and refused to let Wang Yue leave no matter what. This led to the large army being stopped by these hundred people.

After running for a day and a night, Tiefutu finally approached Zhongshui City.

When they saw the flag with the word "Lie" on it on the city wall, smiles appeared on their faces.

After hearing the report from the soldiers guarding the city, Gu Rubing immediately brought Wei Yan to the city gate after Tiefutu returned.

Looking at the five hundred Iron Pagodas, less than two hundred of them returned, which shows how fierce the battle was.

"My lord, we are back, but General Li Feng was killed by Wang Yue."

When Gu Rubing heard this, Li Feng's appearance appeared before his eyes.

Wei Yan's eyes were even redder.

"Inside the body?"

"He was left on the battlefield. We were being hunted down and couldn't get General Li Feng's body back."

"Where is it? Take me there."

Wei Yan's eyes were red and he was about to mount his horse.

"Wen Chang, where are you going?"

"My Lord, before Li Feng left, I told him that if he died, I would bury him myself!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Rubing stopped talking and could only let Wei Yan take the Iron Pagoda out again.

Wang Yue finally managed to deal with the Iron Pagoda of a hundred people and chased them to the outside of Zhongshui City. When he saw the flag with the word "Lie" on it, Wang Yue knew that the city had been lost.

Although he had expected the city to be lost, it was lost too quickly. The city was guarded by more than 10,000 people. How could it be said to be hopeless?
At this time, Wang Yue even wanted to kill the deputy general.

In the end, Wang Yue had no choice but to leave in disappointment and rushed to Fanyang City.

Under the leadership of Tiefutu, Wei Yan came to the battlefield where Li Feng died. Li Feng's body was still lying on the ground, with his eyes open before he died. It was obvious that he still felt a little unwilling to this world.

Wei Yan dismounted and walked in front of Li Feng, then closed Li Feng's eyes.

"Brother, go with peace of mind. Your mission is accomplished."

Afterwards, Wei Yan carried Li Feng onto his horse.

Took Li Feng back to the city.

He personally dug a grave for Li Feng.

Gu Rubing stood in front of the grave, watching everything Wei Yan did, his eyes full of sadness.

Gu Rubing has not made any moves these days. The siege has really exhausted everyone. Gu Rubing asked them to relax these days.

Gu Rubing realized that it was too tiring to take advantage of those timid princes.

After this battle, neither side suffered heavy losses, but Gu Rubing felt that it was more tiring than fighting five battles with Cao Cao.

After resting for a few days, Gu Rubing left some people to guard the city, and then took the remaining 60,000 troops to Fanyang City.

Fanyang City is the last big city in Zhuo County. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. As long as they take Fanyang City, there will be no place in the entire Zhuo County that can stop them.

The most important thing is that all of Shi Xie’s food and grass are in Fanyang City. In other words, if someone wants to besiege the city, Shi Xie is not afraid at all.

Gu Rubing rushed to the city of Fanyang, looked at the tall city walls in front of him, and started to besiege the city directly.

There are no more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Fanyang City now. According to Gu Rubing's guess, as long as he attacks the city with all his strength, he can capture the city in five days at most.

But soon, after a day of siege, Gu Rubing found that his imagination was too rosy.

It might be because Shi Xie was too timid. He prepared a huge amount of supplies for defending the city and forced Gu Rubing to not even climb up the city wall.

Moreover, it seemed that Shi Xie’s supplies for defending the city were inexhaustible. Kerosene was continuously sprinkled under the city, and the fire under the city never stopped.

"My lord, this siege method will consume too much of our army's resources. We must find another way."

Hearing this, Gu Rubing rubbed his nose bridge with his hand, looking a little tired.

Of course he knew about this, but even if he knew it, what good would it do? Faced with Shi Xie's behavior of hiding in his shell like a turtle and refusing to come out no matter what, Gu Rubing really couldn't think of any other way except to attack the city by force.

Looking at the map in front of him, Gu Rubing thought for a long time and suddenly found that he had overlooked a point.

Why do I have to attack Fanyang City?

Now Shi Xie, Wang Yue and the man called Shi A are all in Fanyang City. All the troops and supplies are in Fanyang City. If this is the case, if we bypass Fanyang City, wouldn't all other places belong to us?
As long as he swallowed up all other places, what would the use of Fanyang City be?

After figuring this out, Gu Rubing laughed out loud, and immediately ordered Wei Yan to disperse the army, leaving only 30,000 men to surround Fan Yang City, and the remaining 30,000 men to disperse and begin to occupy other surrounding cities.

In just two days, Gu Rubing had occupied six counties around Fan Yang.

And the city of Fanyang has completely become an isolated city.

Gu Rubing's actions in the past few days have been seen by Wang Yue and others, but they have no way to deal with it. With the few people they have, they might be able to attack the city, but it is definitely impossible to counterattack.

"Wang Yue, do you still want to fight? This is an isolated city now. It won't be long before our supplies run out. If we continue to fight like this, we will surely die. You are not still counting on Sun Jian's support, are you? Now we are trapped in Fanyang City. Even if Sun Jian wants to support us, he can't."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yue looked at the map and sighed.

He didn't know how the battle turned out like this.

Wang Yue even began to doubt whether he was really no match for Gu Rubing. If he continued to assassinate him, would things get better?

However, the current situation did not allow Wang Yue to think any more.

The best way now is to negotiate with Gu Rubing and at least let them go out first.

However, now all the advantages are in Gu Rubing's hands, and they have no way out. How could Gu Rubing possibly negotiate with them?

After sending away the messenger sent by Wang Yue, Gu Rubing sneered.

"You want to just leave like this? Are you kidding? Why should I waste my time here with you when I can kill you?"

Another three days passed.

Gu Rubing has already taken control of all twenty counties in Zhuo County, with only one city, Fanyang, remaining in his hands.

Fanyang City was already in a desperate situation. Everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before Fanyang City was conquered. Moreover, Fanyang City had all of Shi Xie's elite troops, as well as his generals, and even himself. (End of this chapter)