Youzhou is located in Jixian County, which belongs to Yuyang County.

Go south from Yuyang County and go directly to Fanyang County, and you can directly confront Hejian County in Jizhou.

Therefore, Youzhou is very close to Jizhou, and when Yuan Xi's army started to the time when the news reached Yuan Shang, the people and horses of Hejian County could not be defended.

Fortunately, they had already taken some precautions before, Yuan Shang once sent Jiang Qi to lead an army of 20,000 to garrison in the Hejian area, and mobilized some soldiers and horses from nearby Zhongshan Kingdom, Anping County, Bohai County and other places.

Only then did he stop Yuan Xi, who was frantically heading south near the river.

When Yuan Xi attacked, he only brought his own soldiers and horses, and they were not the main force, and the rest were some Karasuma people-based cavalry, these people did not completely obey Yuan Xi's mobilization, and after the army set off, they plundered all the way.

They don't fight cities, but they rob people and food and grass.

However, after a few days of frenzied raids, these people realized that something was wrong.

They thought they could return with a full load, but after a sweep near Hejian County, they didn't even find a single hair.

In addition to a few county towns in Hejian County, there are a lot of people moving, and there are few people in some areas outside the city, let alone villages and small towns, and there are no caravans even in the wild.

Without the population outside the city, the Karasuma people would have to fight the castle if they wanted to plunder.

But most of these Karasuma people are cavalry, and in the field, they may be invincible and invincible, and they have a great advantage.

But when it came to siege, they died down.

After all, the tall city walls still have a great deterrent effect on the nomads like them.

They were not very good at siege and did not have much siege equipment, but relied on horses to dominate the plains.

If you must attack the city, you may be able to defeat it with the strength of a large number of people. But the losses will definitely not be small.

The Karasuma people couldn't make much money in the wild, so they slowed down the pace of their attack and began to gather around Yuan Xi.

Because Yuan Xi is a Han Chinese, his tactics and control of siege are much better than these Karasuma people.

Only by following Yuan Xi were the Karasuma people able to break through the city and loot a large amount of grain and grass in a short period of time.

So after a few days, these soldiers and horses gradually gathered in the main city of Hejian County.

Lecheng County.

This is the seat of governance in Hejian County.

Due to the invasion of foreign races in the north, the soldiers of Hejian County were evacuated from all around to the county seat.

Only by hiding in the county town and relying on the strong walls of the county town can it withstand the attacks of these nomads.

The few counties in Hejian County have thousands of soldiers and horses stationed.

Lecheng County, where the seat is located, has more than 20,000 people.

Although only half of these men and horses were sent by Yuan Shang to support the elite troops in Hejian.

Some of the remaining people are nothing more than temporary conscripts.

However, more than 20,000 people are stationed in this county, which is enough to pose a certain threat to these nomads outside the city.

After all, if the people outside the city want to attack the city, the 20,000 people on the tower of the city will throw stones, and it will also form a certain pressure, and they will not be able to directly cross the city wall and enter the city.

Jiang Qi is the general in charge of guarding Lecheng.

Jiang Qi himself is more energetic and a radical general.

However, in the face of the attack of these nomads, no matter how radical Jiang Qi was, he could only retreat into the city and did not dare to go out of the city at all.

Even in the face of these centaur attacks, he could only resist with all his might.

Prevent the city from being breached by the cavalry of these nomads.

When Yuan Xi led the soldiers and horses to launch the first round of attacks on Lecheng County, Jiang Qi struggled to lead people to resist, relying on the strength of the city and the struggle of more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city to block, but he barely blocked the men and horses sent by Yuan Xi to attack.

However, it also lost some manpower, and also depleted some of the equipment used to defend the city.

The ability to defend also decreased, and if Yuan Xi sent someone to attack again. Jiang Qi wanted to block it again, but it was not so easy.

As time passed, Yuan Xi, who originally planned to attack with lightning and take Jizhou in one fell swoop, wasted many days in Hejian County.

The whole Yuan Xi also began to become more and more impetuous.

He knew that the longer the battle dragged on, the worse it would be for him.

So he ordered those Karasuma people to increase the pace of attack, and even built more siege equipment in just a few days.

In another day or two, when he is ready, if he goes to attack Le'an City again, he will be more certain.

Just take down one or two cities and loot the grain and grass in the city.

Although they will lose some troops, they will also make this trip worthwhile.

Seeing that Yuan Xi was about to lead people to attack again, Jiang Qi, who was stationed in Lecheng County, was so anxious that he was anxious.

Fortunately, at this time, Yuan Shang, who knew that the front line could not hold on, mobilized, and the soldiers and horses of Jizhou ordered his general Wen Chou to come to support Jiang Qi again.

Jiang Qi had led only a part of Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses before.

There are also some of the villagers recruited by Jiang Qi on the spot. Yuan Shang had an army of nearly 50,000 under his command.

The rest of the people were originally intended by Yuan Shang to defend Yecheng.

But he knew that if Hejian County could still hold on to it now. Then it is unlikely that Yuan Xi and Karasuma will hit Yecheng.

In addition, Yuan Shang already knew about Liu Zheng and mobilized soldiers and horses from Yangzhou.

It was possible to reach Jizhou in a short time. It was precisely because of this decision that Yuan Shang had the courage to send Wen Chou and lead his remaining soldiers and horses to support Hejian County.

Originally, under Yuan Xi's attack, he could only support Jiang Qi, but with Wen Chou leading 30,000 soldiers and horses to support, he had a way to live.

Of the 50,000 troops, some of them were stationed in Lecheng City, and some of them were camped on the mountains outside the city.

Helping each other can also bring some threats to Yuan Xi.

Yuanqi only brought 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses in the middle of the offensive season this time.

In the early offensive, more than 10,000 people have been lost.

The remaining manpower is actually similar to Jiang Qi in the city and Wen Chou outside the city.

The odds of winning are not high under an all-out attack.

Yuan Xi didn't attack with all his might for a little food and grass.

After all, if he said that he wanted to attack, Yuan Xi would not send his own soldiers and horses, but let those Karasuma people take the lead.

But those Karasuma people aren't stupid.

knew that Yuan Xi sent them over to send them to death. did not follow Yuan Xi's orders.

The two sides were thus temporarily delayed. Buncho's support also kept the battle going in Hejian County.

It lasted almost 10 days.

Yuan Xi's army did not cross the line of defense in Hejian County either.