Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 107 Siege accident
The young couple was overjoyed, and turned their heads to see that it was a young man about thirteen or fourteen years old, with a sallow complexion and exhausted spirit.

The young man was wearing tattered sackcloth, his feet were bare, and the blood was all over it, and it was about to fester.

His eyes were bloodshot, but shone with an incomprehensible light.

The young woman said: "From your accent, are you from Taishan County?"

"How did you end up in the plains?"

The boy's eyes darkened, "The whole city was slaughtered, I ran out."

The young man sighed: "Indeed, Cao Cao's army is too vicious. Now Yuan Jun is colluding with them to attack our Pingyuan. It's really bad luck for you."

The young man lowered his head, then raised his head again, and said resolutely, "Counting me, there are two men."

He pointed to the girl: "So you can take her into the city."

The young couple looked at each other with joy on their faces, and the young woman said: "But if this is the case, you will be dragged to defend the city when you enter."

The young man said: "As long as you enter the city, no one can escape, can't you?"

The young man said: "In that case, thank you little brother."

As the team moved, the four of them entered the city smoothly. The young woman led the girl into the city gate. When she looked back, she saw the previous couple leaving sadly with the two girls in their arms.

As soon as they entered the city, the young men and teenagers, together with a dozen people, were to be taken to the top of the city immediately.

The girl pulled by the woman started to cry. The young man came up and whispered a few words to the mother and daughter. Then the soldier shouted, and the man had to follow.

Seeing that the young man was about to leave, the young woman hurried over, handed him a piece of bread in her bosom, and said, "Keep it."

The young man squeezed the bread tightly, waved his hand, turned his head and followed the soldiers towards the city.

He put the still warm bread into his arms, and followed the soldiers up the cold bluestone steps, the pain on the soles of his feet became more and more obvious.

The soldiers brought more than a dozen people to the top of the city, and several corporal leaders came over and picked them up one after another. The young men were also taken away.

When the last old corporal leader came over, there were only a few men left, including the young man, all of whom had been picked out. The old corporal leader looked at it and sighed: "Make use of it, come with me."

The boy walked on the cold wall, his feet became more and more uncomfortable, and his posture started to limp, the veteran brought them to a wall, turned around and saw the boy, and snorted coldly: "You don't have any shoes? "

"When your feet are frozen at night, can you still walk with one hand?"

He looked around, walked up to a wounded soldier, tore off half of his clothes with a thud, found another hemp rope and handed it to the young man, saying, "Wrap your feet."

The wounded soldier cursed and said, "Old Wu, you want to freeze me to death?"

The old Wuchang scolded back: "It's all like this, I'm still eating here, hurry up and go down by yourself, don't cause trouble for me."

The wounded soldier was swearing, but he didn't dare to reply. He was not suitable for guarding the city, and he just leaned on the city wall so that he could have two meals. .

The boy tore the hemp rope into two strands and wrapped his feet with rags, which made him feel much more comfortable.

The old corps leader looked at the five or six people standing crookedly in front of him, sighed, and said, "What you have to do is to push the enemy down when they attack the city."

Someone said: "Are there any weapons?"

The old corps leader snorted, "I have it, I gave it to you, do you know how to use it?"

"When the time comes, people will come from the top of the city, and they will be the ones who rob them."

The man cried bitterly: "How can you grab it with bare hands?"

The old corporal pointed to a few bamboo poles on the ground: "Think of a way to sharpen them yourself, just poke them at people."

"You guard the top of the city tonight, and you will have food tomorrow morning."

After he finished speaking, he ignored the crowd, found a shelter from the wind, curled up and took a nap.

Everyone could only stand at the top of the city muttering and blowing the wind, the young man walked to the edge of the city wall, and with the afterglow of the setting sun, he saw a thin line across the sky in the distance, it should be Jishui.

He vaguely saw that there seemed to be many ants wriggling on that thin line, and wondered if someone was crossing the river?
Now that the Yellow River's Jishui is dry, and the riverbed is exposed in many places, it seems that Yuan Shao's army will definitely come to attack this place after crossing the Jishui.

When queuing up to enter the city just now, the boy heard from others that the army occupied Pingyuan City these days, crossed the Yellow River, and occupied several cities between the Yellow River and Jishui.

Now they are going to cross Jishui and attack the counties south of Jishui!
Thinking of his parents who were killed in Fei County, he couldn't help clenching his fists.

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

The young man has already adapted to life in the city. Although he has two meals a day, and each meal has half-cooked dough mixed with wild vegetables and coarse grains, it is much better than when he fled before, eating wild fruits and grass roots.

But such a good day came to an abrupt end one morning.

The man guarding the top of the city with him just stood up straight and stretched, when an arrow pierced his neck.

The young man saw the arrow stick out from the back of the man's neck, bringing out a stream of blood, the man fell to the ground, his limbs twitched a few times, and then he died.

He yelled loudly, and several dozing soldiers woke up, and were immediately covered by arrow rain.

Immediately, a warning drum sounded from the top of the city.

The young man was lying behind the city wall, watching a few people who couldn't dodge being shot through by the rain of arrows. At this time, the old corporal rolled over and hid beside the young man, cursing: "Why are you attacking the city at this time, why don't you let people sleep?" Good night's sleep!"

The boy stood up and wanted to see the situation outside through the arrow hole, but the old corporal held his head down and shouted: "You are crazy!"

Before they finished speaking, there was a loud noise behind them. Something hit the top of the city, and the stone chips flew into the air, and then fell to the top of the city, and the ground was covered with gravel.

The old corps leader cursed and said: "Damn it, there are trebuchets!"

The sound of stone bullets and arrow rain breaking through the air continued for half a quarter of an hour before it gradually slowed down and then stopped.

Immediately, a loud voice rang out from the bottom of the city, roughly meaning that the Yuan family came to rescue the people of Yuling in the name of the Han Dynasty. If the people in the city surrender immediately, everything will be safe.

After hearing this, the old corps leader sighed: "Looking at this, the county magistrate is afraid to surrender."

The boy wondered, "Why?"

The old corps leader sneered, "You don't even look at it, until now, except for you cannon fodder, no regular soldiers have appeared anywhere, and they are all hiding under the city."

The boy was dumbfounded: "Are we cannon fodder?"

The old corps leader said disdainfully, "What else?"

"I'm afraid that a lot of the money for the armor and equipment of the city guards will be stolen. You can't even get a neat guard of hundreds of people. Otherwise, how could you be tricked into going to the top of the city to defend the city?"

The boy was even more shocked: "Then why are you still here, old man?"

The old corporal sighed, "Isn't this someone at home who wants to eat, so someone will come here to die."

The boy was speechless.

Yuan Xi was at the foot of Lingcheng at this time.

He rode a horse and waited on the left flank, with Zhang He on the left and Zhao Yun on the right.

In the past half a month, Yuan Tan has conquered five or six counties in a row, ran wildly all the way, crossed the Yellow River, crossed Jishui, and led the army to the Yuling County.

After reading the reports from the spies, Yuan Tan felt that the county was vulnerable, so he didn't even advance step by step and set up camp. Instead, he took advantage of the darkness and ran for more than a dozen miles, directly hitting the city, thinking of taking Yu Ling directly, and then the army Into the city to rest.

Yuan Xi has learned a lot these days, but he still vaguely feels that things are going too smoothly.

In these five or six county towns, the largest number of people in the city is only a few thousand, and the total number is no more than [-], and this is not counting that many of them are ordinary people.

But what about Tian Kai's soldiers?

A majestic governor of Qingzhou, who was able to put out tens of thousands of people to confront him before, but now he doesn't defend the city?
He mentioned it to Yuan Tan last night, but Yuan Tan just didn't take it seriously and said, "Even if Tian Kai's whole army goes out, I'm not afraid of him, there's nothing to worry about."

Yuan Xi felt a little uneasy in his heart, but he just couldn't express it.

Is there really no one coming from Xuzhou?

And isn't Yuan Tan going too smoothly, is he a little too impatient after crossing Jishui without setting up a village?
Yuan Xi understood that Yuan Tan was trying to save time, and this time it went smoother than expected, but more than half of the food in the army had been consumed.

It's ridiculous to say that it was because the war was so smooth that fewer people died and more people were left to eat food, so the food and grass were consumed faster than expected.

Originally, according to estimates, at least 1 people should have died, but now only a thousand people have died, and there are many wounded soldiers.

When Jushou mentioned this issue last night, he shook his head again and again. For this situation, he had no good countermeasures. He could only send people to Yecheng to adjust grain, but soon the Yellow River will be filled with water, and it will not be possible for a while. Transported to.

Yuan Tan saw the soldiers yelling for a long time in the city, but there was no response from the city. Suddenly, the city gate opened wide, and an army of hundreds of soldiers rushed out, heading straight for Yuan Tan's main formation!

The one who took the lead was a partial general, and he charged straight towards Yuan Tan with his horse and gun raised!

Yuan Jun didn't expect the other party to have such courage, and suddenly there was an uproar. At this moment, a general rushed out from Yuan Jun's main formation.

Everyone took a closer look, it was Yan Liang!

In his hand, he dragged the two zhang sword on the ground, and pulled out sparks, directly facing the enemy general!

When the general saw him, he shouted loudly and charged forward, the two riders were getting closer and closer, when there was still a distance of several zhang, the general shook his hand and thrust his spear at Yan Liang's face!

The next moment, Yan Liang yelled loudly, his arm swelled a few points in an instant, the long knife bounced from the ground like lightning, and slashed fiercely at the waist of the enemy general. Spraying wildly, it was already dead when it landed.

Cheers sounded from Yuan Jun's side, and Yuan Xi secretly sighed in his heart, this is the number one fierce general in Jizhou, the generals who dared to come out to challenge in the previous cities were all instantly killed by Yan Liang!

Yan Liang rushed into the enemy's formation, as if he had entered an uninhabited land, Qingzhou soldiers wanted to flee back to the city, but they didn't expect that the gate of the city had already been closed, and they immediately cursed.

The old corps leader on the top of the city sighed to the young man: "You see, those who die first are honest people."

Seeing this, Yuan Tan shouted loudly: "The whole army is attacking the city!"

Tens of thousands of people rushed towards the city wall with their earth bags on their backs.

Teams drove out to surround the city gates, and Yuan Xi also led Zhao Yun to block the east gate.

As soon as he arrived at the place, there was a hasty sound of Ming Jin retreating from the front line.

problem occurs!
Yuan Xi immediately ordered the team to change formation back and forth, and slowly retreat to the main formation.

Along the way, he saw the besieging soldiers running back in disorder, and the generals tried their best to stop it. It took a lot of effort to avoid a rout.

Seeing this, Yuan Xi heaved a sigh of relief. If they really broke up and their own people trampled on each other, and they were defeated before they even fought, that would be a real joke.

This is the difference between leading hundreds of thousands of people and tens of thousands of people. The more people you lead, the difficulty of command will increase exponentially. Once there is a problem, the consequences will be more serious.

He asked Zhao Yun to straighten out the team, rode to Yuan Tan's side, and asked, "What happened?"

Yuan Tan's face was gloomy: "The enemy's reinforcements are here!"

"One way is three ways!"

The generals talked a lot, and Yuan Xi understood after listening for a while. The scouts reported that the three-way army was coming here, forming a siege to Yuan Jun!
Along the way are Tian Kai's Qingzhou soldiers, at least tens of thousands.

Along the way is Kong Rong in Beihai, with at least [-] people.

In the end, the banner of Xuzhou Liu Bei was held all the way, with at least five or six thousand people!
(End of this chapter)