Domination of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 28 Siege
At dawn the next day, Lu Zhi ordered to bury the pot and make a meal. After the three armies had a full meal, they would attack the city on a large scale. Originally, Lu Zhi planned to adopt the tactic of encircling the three and missing one, because this tactic has always been the classic strategy of attacking the city. .However, Gongsun Xu suggested that the 7 troops should only attack the east gate. In order to make Gongsun Xu give up, Lu Zhi ordered the [-] troops to gather at the east gate. caused great psychological pressure.

Zhang Niujiao rushed to the east gate immediately after hearing the sound of the drum, and now he couldn't figure out why Lu Zhi wanted to detain all 8000 troops at the east gate. Logically speaking, Lu Zhi was not an idiot, and it was impossible to adopt such a childish method. In the end, Zhang Niujiao could only think that Lu Zhi was playing some tricks. He ordered the number of guards at each city gate to remain unchanged for the time being. The number of guards at the east gate was increased to 5000, and that of the other gates was 2000, leaving [-] as a reserve team.

Outside the east gate, Lu Zhi accepted Gongsun Xu's suggestion that the army be divided into seven teams, with 1 people in each team responsible for attacking the city for an hour, but there was no interval in between, and each team detoured to ambush at other city gates after retreating. Although Lu Zhi didn't understand what Gongsun Xu wanted to do, he felt that he had no effective way to capture Jizhou City, so he agreed to Gongsun Xu's suggestion.

From the time of Chen, Lu Zhi's army will attack the city. Since each team is only responsible for attacking the city for one hour, the task is not difficult. Every general of a team of ten thousand people will only attack the city with all his strength, but only one hour When you arrive, retreat immediately, unless you have already attacked the top of the city and want to continue to fight for the top of the city, otherwise, every general will not be vague.Although Dongmen is fighting very hotly.

But Zhang Niujiao didn't dare to summon soldiers from other city gates. After three hours, the Yellow Turbans at the east gate had lost nearly 4000 people. The reserve team in the city had already been dispatched to the top of the city. The most important thing is that the shield soldiers cover the archers under the city wall and shoot towards the city.

So the loss was not too great. After three hours, Zhang Niujiao found that his soldiers were exhausted. Most of them were very tired. The gate might be breached, and now he was sure that Lu Zhi wanted the whole army to attack the east gate, just as Zhang Niujiao was preparing to send 2000 men from other gates to support.

Chu Feiyan, Zhang Niujiao's adoptive son, immediately said: "Father, my son found that the retreating officers and soldiers were not in the phalanx outside the east gate. They seem to have withdrawn from the battlefield at the east gate. Could it be that this is Lu Zhi's conspiracy?"

Hearing what he said, Zhang Niujiao suddenly found that there were 5 fewer officers and soldiers outside the city. Although there were still [-] to [-] people, it was obviously a decrease. Now Zhang Niujiao was more sure that Lu Zhi wanted to attract soldiers from other city gates. , and stormed the other city gates.

After another hour of attack, the pressure on the top of the East Gate City was even greater. At this time, the official army replaced another [-]-man team. People took them to the south gate to ambush.

Now there are 2 officers and soldiers ambushing outside the gates of the other three cities, as well as [-] civilians. Gongsun Xu looked at the sky. He knew that this battle was about to enter a fierce stage, so he ordered the remaining three soldiers Thousands of people formed three square formations and moved forward slowly. They stopped and shot eighty steps away from the city gate. There was an aisle in the middle of the three square formations. There is a lack of supplies, so there are no defensive equipment such as giant crossbows. The main reason is that the technology of this era is not developed enough to make such a big killer.

Zhang Niujiao also found out that the officers and soldiers had changed their siege formation, and he became even more nervous. There are less than [-] yellow scarves that can fight on the city wall. It was even more certain that Lu Zhi was going to attack Jizhou City from the other three city gates, so he resolutely refused to use the yellow scarves of other city gates. In order to boost morale, Zhang Niujiao went back and forth on the city wall to cheer up the soldiers and promised great rewards.

The Yellow Turban Army also insisted on continuing to fight. The two sides shot at each other with bows and arrows for half an hour. After that, Gongsun Xu suddenly ordered to blow the horn. Then the 1 infantry outside the east gate withdrew to the other three city gates, leaving only Gongsun Xu's more than [-] cavalry and [-] infantry.

Seeing the [-] soldiers outside the city withdraw like this, Zhang Niujiao finally heaved a sigh of relief. There were [-] soldiers at the other city gates. He did not believe that Lu Zhi could capture them. Zhi spent almost all of his bows and arrows today, and now he can only take human lives to capture Jizhou City.

Zhang Niujiao was very excited. He felt that he still won. He felt that Lu Zhi had not confused him psychologically. The remaining 4000 Yellow Turban soldiers on the east gate wall were also relieved. Lying directly on the city wall to rest, some of them slept directly in the pile of four. After fighting for nearly four or five hours, even the most hard-working people should be tired.

However, just when the Yellow Turban Army felt that they could breathe a sigh of relief, the earth shook suddenly. Chu Feiyan saw two groups of red-robed and white-robed cavalry galloping seventy steps away from the city gate. The nearby cavalry had already started to shoot with their bows and arrows, and then the rain of arrows was about to fall. The Yellow Turban Army suddenly found that some officers and soldiers began to climb up the city wall.

There are yellow scarf soldiers who are not afraid of death, ready to fight back, but they are greeted by arrow rain and hand axes as soon as they raise their heads. This is Gao Shun's trapped camp attacking the city wall. Worried that they would be shot by the bows and arrows of the cavalry below the city, the soldiers trapped in the camp did not rush to attack after attacking the city wall.

The Yellow Turbans continued to counterattack, but they were all blocked by the shields and swords of the soldiers trapped in the camp. Now the cavalry under the city have stopped shooting arrows, because there are already more than 1000 soldiers in the trapped camp attacking the city wall. If they shoot again, they will hurt own people.

Zhang Niujiao commanded the soldiers to counterattack, but they were all blocked by the big shields and swords trapped in the camp, and the number of soldiers trapped in the camp continued to increase. Gao Shun attacked the city wall as early as the first batch, and watched almost all the soldiers trapped in the camp come up Hou Gao Shun roared angrily: "Fall into battle."

"Invincible." The soldiers trapped in the camp roared in response, and Gao Shun roared again: "Advance, attack."

The soldiers trapped in the camp moved forward with neat steps. The soldiers in the first row carried big shields and advanced together. The soldiers in the second row cut their swords from the gaps in the shields every step forward. Not every soldier trapped in the camp Every knife can cut people, but what the Yellow Turban Army saw was that there were blades flashing through the gaps in every shield, and their brothers were constantly being cut in two. Throw it at the moment you are aiming at.

Zhang Niujiao wanted to continue to fight back only with the Yellow Turban Army, but the soldiers trapped in the camp successfully suppressed the Yellow Turban Army. In less than a quarter of an hour, the Yellow Turban Army had only 3000 people left, and there were [-] more soldiers behind the trapped camp. The infantry were throwing hatchets.

Knowing that the situation is over, Chu Feiyan grabbed Zhang Niujiao, who was about to fight for his life, and begged: "Father, the situation is over, we should save our strength and report everything to General Tiangong, we must not lose our lives here."

The yellow turban generals around Zhang Niujiao begged Zhang Niujiao not to let the soldiers die again. Zhang Niujiao knew that the defeat was certain and had to order: "Retreat, withdraw from Jizhou City through the west gate."

After finishing speaking, he ordered the Yellow Turban Army to withdraw from the city wall, and Chu Feiyan led five hundred dead soldiers to cover.Due to the limited space on the city wall and many dead soldiers blocking the progress of the trapped camp, Gao Shun knew that Zhang Niujiao had already escaped, so he ordered: "Ten people in a row, push the shields forward, there is no need to fight."

The soldiers trapped in the camp immediately changed their formation and moved forward. Chu Feiyan's 300 dead soldiers soon only had [-] left in this formation. Seeing that most of the Yellow Turban Army had retreated, Chu Feiyan also ordered to retreat.

These five hundred dead soldiers were all trained by Chu Feiyan, and they all practiced kung fu such as light body skills, so they quickly pulled down the city wall and ran away. Gao Shun's trapped camp is good at attacking cities but not good at chasing them. Gao Shun didn't force it, but ordered: "Leave a thousand people to guard the city wall. First, go down and open the city gate to welcome the lord into the city. The rest will rest immediately for a quarter of an hour."

After the city gate was opened, Gongsun Xu commanded Zhang Fei and Guan Yu to lead the army into the city, and then he and Zhao Yun led their cavalry to the other city gates. When Lu Zhi saw that Gongsun Xu really captured Jizhou City, he immediately sent an order to withdraw. The [-] troops who had gone far came back and entered the city from the east gate. Soon, the yellow scarf army at other gates of Jizhou City were defeated and all followed Zhang Niujiao to retreat from the west gate.

When Zhang Niujiao led the remaining 1 Yellow Turbans to retreat from Ximen, they did not encounter much resistance.There were more than 1 officers and soldiers in Ximen, but they did not pursue the Yellow Turban Army. Zhang Niujiao was wondering why two cavalry suddenly appeared behind his army.

It was the cavalry team shooting under the city wall. One red and one white rushed towards Zhang Niujiao's army from two directions. Zhang Niujiao didn't want to be dragged back, so he could only order a quick retreat, but how could he run past the Youzhou cavalry with two legs? Soon, the cavalry of Gongsun Xu and Zhao Yun caught up with Zhang Niujiao's army, but Gongsun Xu and Zhao Yun did not charge forward, but kept shooting arrows at a distance of forty steps, and the Yellow Turban soldiers kept falling to the ground with arrows. Seeing that his team is about to be defeated.

Zhang Niujiao shouted at the generals around him: "Follow me to fight back." After speaking, he led his [-] soldiers to Gongsun Xu's team, Chu Feiyan was unambiguous, and immediately led his [-] dead soldiers and [-] soldiers The elite Yellow Turban army rushed towards Zhao Yun's direction.

But when they were about to get close to the opponent's cavalry, the opponent's cavalry suddenly divided into three teams, one team stayed behind to entangle them, and the other two continued to chase the large army of the Yellow Turban Army. Niu Jiao rode his horse up first, and Dian Wei and his soldiers followed. Soon, Gongsun Xu and his [-] brave soldiers ran into Zhang Niu Jiao's team.

The remaining [-] soldiers wandered outside and kept firing arrows. Gongsun Xu's spear and Zhang Niujiao's spear collided quickly. Zhang Niujiao did not expect that this young general of the Han army was so powerful. .

Just when Zhang Niujiao was about to make another move, Gongsun Xu's long spear was less than half a meter away from him. Zhang Niujiao had no time to change his move, so he had to roll off his horse to avoid this killer move. Since it was a horse fight, Gongsun Xu made two consecutive moves. After the move, he distanced himself from Zhang Niujiao. It was Zhang Niujiao who had just got up and hadn't had time to catch his breath when he heard a roar: "The thief will eat me with a halberd."

It was Dianwei who threw a small flying halberd ten meters away from Zhang Niujiao. Zhang Niujiao instinctively threw away the spear and pulled out his saber to strike at the flying halberd. Zhang Niujiao let out a muffled groan and then vomited blood. , Dianwei's flying halberd was too powerful, Zhang Niujiao was seriously injured after receiving the move, Zhang Niujiao's lieutenant next to him immediately supported the unconscious Zhang Niujiao and shouted to retreat, the remaining less than [-] Yellow Turban soldiers immediately embraced Zhang Niujiao retreated.

Here Chu Feiyan was also stabbed twice by Zhao Yun after ten moves with Zhao Yun. Although the injuries were not serious, he was obviously not Zhao Yun's opponent, so he could only order to retreat.Looking at the defeated Yellow Turban Army, Gongsun Xu ordered: "The poor should not chase after them."

When Zhao Yun was about to ask why, Gongsun Xu said: "Leave them to report to Zhang Jiao. The [-] yellow scarves we feared will just disturb the morale of Zhang Jiao's men. The whole army will return to the city and intercept those who have not yet escaped." Yellow Turban Army." After speaking, he led his army to Jizhou City.

At the west gate of Jizhou City, [-] officers and soldiers put up formations to block the west gate after letting go of Zhang Niujiao's army. There are still nearly [-] Yellow Turbans in the city who have not escaped and are robbing the gate. Intercepting, the eight thousand routs had no way out. Gongsun Xu just arrived, and when he saw the group of Yellow Turbans still wanting to fight to the death, he ordered his cavalry to shout: "Yellow Turbans are rout, surrender and don't kill them."

No one wants to die. Now these 8000 people have been besieged to death. In order to survive, the Yellow Turban Army threw down their weapons and surrendered to Gongsun Xu. A few diehards wanted to continue to incite the Yellow Turban Army to resist, but they were quickly shot into hedgehogs.

Jizhou City was captured in this way, and Lu Zhi's team did not suffer much loss. After supplementing from the heavy soldiers, it quickly recovered to 7 people. Gongsun Xu's soldiers, except Gao Shun's trapped camp, In some losses and in the contest with Zhang Niujiao and Chu Feiyan's soldiers, dozens of people were killed, the rest were slightly injured, and only a dozen were seriously injured.

After Lu Zhi wrote the battle report, he sent someone to send it to the imperial court. Now Gongsun Xu's prestige in the army has skyrocketed. Lu Zhi is also very grateful to this apprentice in his heart. The hundred cavalry were temporarily subordinates, but Gongsun Xu politely refused and gave Liu Bei [-] war horses. He asked Liu Bei to find a way to recruit cavalry, and then sent soldiers to train Liu Bei.

Three hundred war horses are simply unimaginable to Liu Bei now. For this generous nephew, Liu Bei was not unhappy at all, and immediately ran to recruit his own soldiers.

In the evening, Gongsun Xu invited Zuo Feng to the big tent to present five boxes of treasures and said: "Xu was away in the battle, and I didn't have time to prepare gifts. This was just rewarded by Zhonglang from the adults. Please pass it on to my father. In addition, my master's I'll leave things up to my father."

Zuo Feng is now afraid of Gongsun Xu. This young general has his own way of marching and fighting. Such a strong Jizhou city can be captured as soon as he says it is captured, and the loss is not too big. In addition, he is sophisticated in the world. , Zuo Feng knew that this young man was not something he could offend, and maybe he would depend on him for his prosperity and wealth in the future.

So he immediately said with a smile on his face: "General, please rest assured that there is absolutely no reason for the Yuan family to replace Mr. Lu Zhi, but Dong Zhuo's general needs to spend some time. Tomorrow, within five days, the imperial court's reward will come down, so I would like to congratulate the general first."

Gongsun Xu smiled knowingly, saying nothing.

(End of this chapter)