Another day.

Liu Zheng's army finally came to the city of Lecheng County.

Tens of thousands of troops immediately surrounded Lecheng County.

As soon as the army arrived, Yuan Xi and others in the city had already thought that Liu Zheng would come.

However, it was precisely because he knew in advance that Yuan Xi did not withdraw from here, but stayed and stationed in the city, waiting for Liu Zheng's arrival.

Yuan Xi can be withdrawn, but if he withdraws, from Hejian to Youzhou, it will be a plain of Pingchuan.

In such a plain, in fact, as long as there are cavalry chasing from behind, Yuan Xi's army has no way to escape.

At most, if you walk for a while, you will be caught up by Liu Zheng's headquarters behind.

Although Yuan Xi could use the cavalry to retreat first, Yuan Xi's men were not all cavalry, he still had a lot of foot soldiers, and those foot soldiers were pursued by Liu Zheng's cavalry.

There was no possibility of escape.

Therefore, once he escapes, Yuan Xi will only lose more soldiers and horses, and he will not be able to completely retreat.

Since he couldn't get out of the way, staying and fighting with Liu Zheng's men and horses became a good choice.

At the very least, they can still be in an advantageous position if they rely on the city walls.

As long as Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses are not several times more than them, then Yuan Xi will have a great advantage and be invincible.

Waiting for Liu Zheng to take the initiative to attack, they just need to defend.

Once Liu Zheng attacked with all his strength and lost his troops, Yuan Xi could still take the opportunity to counterattack.

Besides, Yuan Xida never thought of escaping from the beginning, and in Yuan Xi's opinion, he still had a trick, and his spies had already gone to help him deliver the letter.

The Xianbei cavalry, which was ambushed in the Hedong region, would not be long before they came to their aid.

Yuan Xi only needed to hold on to this city for a few more days before he could wait for the cavalry of the Xianbei tribe.

Tens of thousands of Xianbei cavalry are a big killer, even if it is Liu Zheng, they may not be able to stop it.

When the time comes, if Liu Zheng is destroyed, the world will be at your fingertips.

After arriving at the city, Liu Zheng led a group of cronies to appear in the camp under the city tower.

They didn't get too close, and if they got too close, they could easily be targeted by the good shooters in the city.

Although Liu Zheng did not believe that Yuan Xi's subordinates had archery masters, there was no shortage of such possibilities.

These soldiers of the Northland are all nomads on horseback, and those who ride horses can more or less know some archery, and some of them are even good at archery.

If he gets too close, Liu Zheng will inevitably be targeted by archery, and if he is shot, it is not a joke.

As the emperor, Liu Zheng still has to think about his own safety.

"Yuan Xi is on the city tower?"

After glancing at Nale Cheng County a few times, Liu Zheng asked Tai Shici, Xu Huang and others beside him.

Tai Shi Ci nodded.

"Back to Your Majesty, Yuan Xi and Badun are both in this city, as long as we take down this city and capture Yuan Xi and Badun alive, this Youzhou rebellion can be quelled, and at that time, our people can easily recover Youzhou."

Tai Shici still attaches great importance to Youzhou, after all, this is the gateway to the north, the Central Plains, and the first line of defense against the northern nomads.

Although it is now occupied by Yuan Xi, Tai Shici believes that under the leadership of Liu Zheng, Youzhou will definitely be recaptured.

As long as you recapture Youzhou, you can rely on the terrain of Youzhou to build a pass and keep those nomads out of the pass.

Liu Zheng listened to Tai Shici's words and nodded.

"Send someone over to call the formation, first test and test, see if Yuan Xi and the others are here, it is best to test their soldiers and horses here, and how the current grain stock is."

This past day, Liu Zheng's grasp of the situation has been more, and he even knows that Zhang He burned a large amount of grain and grass on the road to Zhongshan.

Now in this Lecheng County, there are only some grain and grass that Yuan Xi snatched from this Hejian County.

These grains and grasses, in Liu Zheng's opinion, can't make Yuan Xi's army last long.

It would be great if you could find some useful information from the content of the conversation.

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, Tai Shici immediately received the order, and was about to go over to call the battle in person, but Yuan Shang, who was beside Liu Zheng, was moved.

Hurriedly stood up, planning to go with Tai Shici.

"General Tai Shici, but you want to go to the city to call for battle?"

"Huh? What is the history of Yuan Shang's assassination? ”

"Then Yuan Xi is my second brother, I want to follow you and see if I can persuade him to surrender under such circumstances."

Yuan Shang asked Tai Shici.

Tai Shi Ci thought about it for a while and felt that it was still okay, so he nodded and agreed to Yuan Shang's proposal.

Soon, Tai Shici led Yuan Shang together, walked out of the camp, and went straight to Lecheng County.

Tai Shi Ci is a master of archery, so he can naturally understand that if he shoots on this city tower, where he shoots, there is no lethality.

So at a position still some distance from the city tower, Tai Shici stopped.

shouted at the city tower.

"Yuan Xi's dog thief, can be in the city."

Tai Shici's arrogant words immediately provoked Yuan Xi's curse on the city tower.

"Bold, dare to call our lord a dog thief, I think you are a dog thief, a thief of the country, dare to be presumptuous!"

I don't know who responded on the city tower, but there was a feeling that some dogs were jumping off the wall in a hurry.

Tai Shi Ci didn't care, and was about to continue to speak, but he heard Yuan Shang on the side speak one step ahead of him.

"Yuan Xi, I know you're inside, come out."

Yuan Shang, as Yuan Xi's younger brother, called Yuan Xi so and called him by his name, which was still a bit disrespectful.

But the two have long turned against each other, even if they are brothers, it's nothing.

After all, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang originally had some contact when they were dealing with Yuan Tan, but later Yuan Xi was arrogant and directly turned his back on Yuan Shang, which completely collapsed the brotherhood, which was not harmonious.

In addition, recently, one of the two brothers occupies Youzhou and the other occupies Jizhou, and both of them have been having a lot of friction.

Originally, such a small friction was still acceptable to Yuan Shang.

But now Yuan Xi is menacing, carrying tens of thousands of troops, and attacking in a big way, at first glance, he wants to be unfavorable to Yuan Shang.

The only remaining brotherhood is gone.

New hatred and old hatred came to his heart together, making Yuan Shang's hatred for Yuan Xi no less than anyone present.

Even the people here, no one is more ruthless than Yuan Shang.

If it weren't for Yuan Xi, Yuan Shang might have secured the identity of the head of the Yuan family a long time ago, ruling Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and the land of Sanzhou to fight against Liu Zheng.

Where will it fall to the current point, and can only take refuge in Liu Zheng to survive.