When the actual siege equipment was brought up, only a few of the soldiers in the city participated in the resistance, and some of the remaining people simply abandoned the city and fled in the other direction.

The reason why he escaped so decisively.

Of course, it was also because the guard in Yanjin County had no intention of resisting, and after he discovered the tens of thousands of troops led by Zhao Yun, he knew that there was no way to live in the city, so he immediately fled from the city on horseback.

As soon as the guards run, where will the remaining soldiers really defend desperately?

Naturally, the county seat of Yanjin did not arouse a large number of soldiers to resist, and it was directly attacked.

Zhao Yun didn't even show his strength, and the city was broken.

After the first city was laid, it greatly boosted the hearts of these soldiers under Zhao Yun's command.

For a time, morale rose seriously.

With high morale, Zhao Yun only left a small part of the soldiers and horses stationed in Yanjin County, waiting for the follow-up soldiers and horses to arrive and take over here.

He himself and Ma Chao led the remaining more than 20,000 soldiers and horses to Liyang County.

After laying down Yanjin, the next target is Liyang.

Liyang County is very close to Yecheng.

As long as the county seat of Liyang is defeated, then the next goal is to attack Yecheng directly.

The county seat of Liyang is equivalent to guarding the sub-county seat near Yecheng.

Liyang County, like Yanjin, is only a small county seat.

It is a bit reluctant to say that Liyang is a county seat, because Liyang is not a city where ordinary people live, but a military camp.

This place is a standing barracks in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It is composed of elite soldiers from Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Sanzhou personally mobilized by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, and there were only 1,000 standing troops here in the early days.

It is a direct subordinate unit of the central government, mainly cavalry. The emperor personally appointed the generals and mobilized the soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses in his military camp were all elite soldiers of the three states.

The role is naturally very clear, that is, to guard against the north.

However, later, after being occupied by Yuan Shao's men and horses, they must have been in Yecheng, and Liyang, as a barracks closest to Yecheng, gradually expanded and became a military town with half soldiers and half people.

It has some similarities with the nature of Yanjin, but after all, Liyang is relatively close to Yecheng, so there are still more defenses than Yanjin.

In particular, Liu Zheng had already instructed Yuan Shang, and Yuan Shang had also transferred Wen Chou, Jiang Qi and others back to Yecheng from Qinghe County a long time ago.

Now, the people stationed in Liyang are Jiang Qi and Chun Yuqiong, two generals.

These two are already the most trusted generals under Wen Chou.

Guarding Liyang can give Yecheng some buffer time, and another reason is that the soldiers and horses from Yanzhou will not attack Yecheng directly, and it will be better to put the battle in Liyang than directly in Yecheng.

Liyang can be lost, Yecheng has full preparations to mobilize troops and horses to support, and can also ambush soldiers and horses from the surrounding mountains and forests in a short time.

Not only are there 10,000 Jiang Qi's men and horses stationed here in Liyang, but in the middle of Liyang and Yecheng, there are also 20,000 troops of Zang Ba.

Even, more than 20,000 people hired by Wencheng are also rushing to the vicinity of Yecheng, which is not far from Liyang, and it is enough to arrive in a day or two.

Once the battle started, Liyang only needed to hold on for a day, and Yuan Shang and Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses would be able to rush to Liyang in a short time.

Then, in just one day, more than 60,000 troops were assembled.

With these 60,000 people here, Zhao Yun and even the soldiers and horses brought by Zhang Fei and others from Yanzhou will definitely not be so easy to defeat Jizhou.

On Zhao Yun's side, morale was high, and with the fall of Yanjin, they had now quickly killed outside the city of Liyang.

Liyang City is guarded by Jiang Qi, Jiang Qi is not an ordinary general, he has experienced a hundred battles, and he can be regarded as a tiger general, at least now in the hands of Yuan Shang, when no one is available.

Jiang Qi, a second-rate military general of the Three Kingdoms, can also play a big role.

"Soldiers, let's take this city in one go. This Jizhou is no problem, follow me! ”

Zhao Yun is the main general, but he has no frame at all, not only takes the lead, personally leads the army to charge, but also cheers for the charging soldiers in front of the army.

Boost morale.

Those soldiers who rushed to the front were either Zhao Yun's cronies, or they were felt by Zhao Yun's brave spirit.

The fighting spirit was majestic, and one by one they were not afraid of death at all, and rushed to the city without fear.

The war horse trampled on this land, causing the thunder to roll, which was enough to make Jiang Qi on the city tower feel the pressure.

Jiang Qi is a general who guards Jizhou, but he has seen a lot of cavalry, not to mention anything else, Yuan Shang's subordinates also have a lot of cavalry.

But surrounded by tens of thousands of cavalry, the scene of charging is still rare.

It is precisely because Jiang Qi knows the power of the cavalry that after seeing the enemy's cavalry, Jiang Qi will be even more pressured.

Moreover, the cavalry under Zhao Yun was not those Karasuma cavalry, but the cavalry that was personally trained by Zhao Yun and blessed with the artifact of stirrups.

More ferocious and lethal than those Karasuma's light cavalry.

Accompanied by low dark clouds, Jiang Qi, who was standing on the city tower, could only see the sky in the distance, and the yellow sand was rolling all over the sky.

The sound of knock is from far to near.

A black line, slowly growing.

"It's coming!"

Jiang Qi's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the distance, and he knew that Yanzhou Liu Bei's men and horses had finally made a move.

Although Liu Zheng had already sent people over to tell Jiang Qi to be on guard, Jiang Qi would inevitably be a little frightened when the soldiers and horses on Yanzhou's side really came over.

The defenders on the tower of the city clenched their weapons one by one.

"Come on, Brother Jiang, Liu Bei is not a good person, he has no friendship with us, before he killed Yuan Tan Gongzi, I knew that Liu Bei was ambitious, and now we are also Liu Zheng's people, we can only block him and prove our strength to Liu Zheng."

"Otherwise, if Liu competes for the world in the future, he will definitely despise us people."

Chun Yuqiong was by Jiang Qi's side and reminded him.

For Chun Yuqiong, he and Liu Bei don't have much friendship, and even have some disgust with Liu Bei, because when Liu Bei debuted, he was just a civilian in a remote county, and Chun Yuqiong and others were captains of Xiyuan in their early years.

Now that Liu Bei has actually mixed up with the position of a general of a country, Chun Yuqiong is somewhat jealous of Liu Bei.

is hateful, and he can't say it, Chun Yuqiong can only defeat Liu Bei's people, so as to prove his ability.

And Jiang Qi on the side also thought the same.