Taiyuan city is tall and strong, well guarded, when the Anshi Rebellion, hundreds of thousands of Shi Siming's army besieged Taiyuan, Li Guangbi led the army to fight Taiyuan for more than 50 days, Taiyuan City is not falling, it can be seen that the siege is difficult.

Outside the city, the drums sounded, the horns sounded, hundreds of healthy cattle pulled three huge nest cars slowly towards the city wall, this is the real sense of the nest car, and the western siege nest car is not the same thing, in fact, it is a tall wooden platform, the height exceeds the city head, there are more than 100 soldiers on it to shoot arrows to the city head, covering the attacking soldiers.

The moat below has been filled in more than 100 zhang, and the soldiers are swarming up with siege ladders, and the rolling logs and stones on the city head are falling like hailstones, and the soldiers on the wooden ladders are constantly being hit, screaming and falling down the city.......

Zhu Tao's army has been attacking the city for five days, and it has never been able to capture Taiyuan City, but it has lost its troops, and only 20,000 people are left of the 30,000 army that set off from Youzhou.

The Youzhou military camp is three miles away from the north of the city, consisting of more than 2,000 large tents, stretching for nearly ten miles.

The Youzhou army also built a large wooden platform as high as five zhang away from the city wall about a mile away, as a command and lookout, at this time, on the high platform, Zhu Tao looked at Taiyuan City with a gloomy face, the trebuchet on the head of the city was extremely sharp, and destroyed all the dozens of ladders they carried, and now they can only rely on the siege ladder to play a role.

The scene that made Zhu Tao most worried appeared again, barrels of fire oil were poured down on the city, and then the torches were thrown down, the fire was blazing, the flames engulfed the siege ladder, and the soldiers on the ladder were burned so badly that they jumped down one after another.

At the same time, the trebuchet threw out clay pots filled with oil, and the pots hit the nest cart, and the oil flowed on the nest cart, rockets were shot one after another, and the huge nest cart was set on fire, and the city was cheered.

Zhu Tao was so helpless that he had to order: "Withdraw the army!" ”

'When! While! While! The gong sounded for the withdrawal, thousands of soldiers withdrew like a tide, and Zhu Tao also left the big wooden platform and withdrew to the barracks under the escort of hundreds of personal soldiers.

Drums beat loudly and cheers resounded throughout the city.

Looking at the blazing arrow tower, Yuan Lu couldn't help but laugh proudly, and he gave a thumbs up to a young lieutenant and praised: "Good advice, I will be rewarded heavily!" ”

The young lieutenant proposed to use clay pots to project oil and then use rockets to set them on fire, destroying three wooden arrow towers one after another, and in fact, he proposed to use fire oil for defense.

The lieutenant is called Zhang Dayun, needless to say, everyone guessed that he is Zhang Yun, Zhang Yun is a native of Taigu County, Taiyuan Prefecture, can speak fluent Taiyuan dialect, Yuan's recruited soldiers, he was a captain of the Ma Sui army, led thirty of his subordinates to join the army, was appointed as a brigade commander, and soon stood out in the battle and was promoted to captain.

After he found that there were 2,000 barrels of fire oil in the Taiyuan warehouse, he suggested that the city be defended with fire oil, which immediately worked wonders and was appreciated by Yuan Lu.

Yuan Lu immediately ordered, promote Zhang Dayun to Lang general, command a thousand people, in just one month, he was promoted from the brigade commander to the Lang general, so that others envied, his subordinates also served as captains, brigade commanders and other positions, firmly controlled the thousand soldiers, Yuan Lu never dreamed that his army actually had a thousand Hexi Army.

At this time, the city gate was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and Zhang Yun and the other troops went out of the city to clean up the battlefield, which was the height of summer, and if the corpses were not buried in time, it would lead to the occurrence of epidemics.

Zhang Yun took out a letterbox, quietly stuffed it to a confidant, and said in a low voice: "Find a chance to slip away, go to Sanjin Manor, and make Jun estimated that he has arrived." ”

The soldiers went out of the city to clean up the corpses, and quickly retreated to the city, closing the city gate, at this time the sky gradually darkened, the sky was dark, Zhang Yun's men left the battlefield under the cover of night, and ran towards the Nanlin Inn, where there were horses that could help him.

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The 25,000-strong army led by Guo Song marched day and night, and four days later, dawn approached, and the team arrived at the Sanjin Manor, which was only fifty miles away from Taiyuan City, and was the best place to ambush and wait for the opportunity.

When the chief steward heard that the master had come in person, he hurriedly came out to greet him.

Guo Song heard Dugu Youlan talk about this Wang steward, Wang is just his mother's surname, his real name is Dugu Fuyun, he is the veteran of Dugu's servant Fu generation, from the Dugu Xin era, Dugu Fuyun's ancestor is Dugu Xin's horse servant, passed down from generation to generation, his great-grandfather is still the big housekeeper of Dugu Mansion, and his grandfather and father are the big steward of the manor.

Dugu Fuyun has been in Sanjin Manor for thirty years, even if Dugu Youlan has to call him a grandfather in front of him, treat him as an elder, this is Dugu's family rule, and Dugu's children must respect this kind of domestic servant who has followed his master for generations.

Dugu Fuyun is very satisfied with this uncle, he has seen a lot of things, knows countless people, Guo Song's kind of monarchical bearing impresses him, and he is so young, he is really a rare son-in-law in the world.

Dugu Fuyun stepped forward and knelt down and kowtowed, "Old slave Dugu Fuyun to see my uncle!" ”

Guo Song hurriedly helped him up, and said with a smile: "Thanks to the assistance of Fu Ah Gong, my subordinates can gain a foothold in Taiyuan." ”

"Isn't that how it should be? The uncle is the owner of the manor, and of course the old slave has to do his best. ”

"It's all my own people, Ah Gong doesn't have to be so polite!"

Guo Song smiled and said, "I brought 25,000 people this time, and I am really a little worried about the problem of grain and grass materials. ”

Dugu Fuyun smiled slightly, "Uncle don't worry, there were a lot of materials hoarded in the manor, and the grain harvested last year was not sold, but hoarded in the warehouse, about 50,000 stones, and the old slave specially accumulated 100,000 loads of forage." ”

Guo Song was overjoyed, the grain and grass were enough, and he hurriedly asked, "How much is the big tent?" ”

"The big tent is a cloth tent, about 2,000 tops, as well as armor, weapons, pig iron, wine, cloth and other materials, in addition, the manor also has 5,000 sheep, as well as a large amount of cured meat."

Guo Song's heart was relieved, and he hurriedly asked the marching Sima to take hundreds of soldiers to follow the chief steward to carry things.

He then ordered the manor to be sealed off, and no one was allowed to go out.

A large tent was erected in the manor, and Guo Song sent dozens of scouts to monitor all over the place, he not only had to pay attention to Zhu Tao's attack on Taiyuan City, but also to pay attention to the Yuan army's support of Taiyuan City from all over the country, and even to pay attention to Li Huaiguang's imminent move.

For three days, Guo Song was paying attention to the offensive and defensive battles in Taiyuan City.

In the lobby, more than a dozen generals gathered together, Guo Song said to the generals: "The Youzhou army's attack on Taiyuan City is a mirror, it tells us that it is very difficult to attack Taiyuan City, Zhu Tao is fully prepared, there are fifteen cloud ladders alone, and there are a large number of siege ladders, and we don't carry a single ladder, what weapons do we use to capture Taiyuan City?" ”

Guo Song laughed when he saw that everyone understood it, and he also smiled: "Iron Fire Thunder is indeed a good thing, it can help us break through the city gate or blow up the city wall, but what about after capturing the city gate?" I'm more concerned about this issue. ”

Everyone fell into deep thought, Guo Song said slowly: "Capture the city gate, the next must be a difficult street battle, the army guarding Taiyuan is the most elite 20,000 troops of the Yuan family, the combat effectiveness is very strong, judging from their performance in the past few days, well-trained, brave in battle, I think if they go out of the city and Youzhou army to fight to the death, they may not lose, with their familiarity with the streets and alleys of Taiyuan and occupy the favorable terrain in advance, I am afraid that our battle is not optimistic." ”

"Envoy, don't we have a chance?" Li Bing couldn't help but ask.

"There's a chance!"

Guo Song smiled and said to everyone: "I just received a letter from someone sent by Zhang Yun, which is unexpected!" He actually defended the city and was named a general by Yuan Lu. ”

All the generals were stunned, and then burst into laughter, Guo Song waved his hand to silence everyone, "Our scouts are indeed very good, and they can perform well everywhere, but I want to tell you that Zhang Yun is the key to our victory this time." ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, this is indeed the case, since he is appointed as a general, there must be 1,800 soldiers under his command, which is enough to cover the Hexi army into the city.