In Guo Jia's letter, from another angle, he explained to the potters the main reasons for not alliing with the Liaodong Gongsun clan and Xianbei.

The Gongsun clan headed by Gongsun Du has been stationed in Liaodong for many years, they are far away from the center, recruiting troops and horses, and setting up their own doors, even if they have won their support at present, but in the future, if the pottery merchants defeat Yuan Shao and the troops go south, Liaodong will not stick a knife in the back, no one can say.

And if Liaodong has an anti-will, its place is too far away from the center of the pottery merchants, if it is an expedition of laborers, there are too many troubles, it is better to finish its work in a battle, take this opportunity to introduce the main force of Gongsun Du into Hebei, once and for all annihilation, after the north is pacified, the pottery merchants have no worries in the north.

As for the Xianbei tribes, since the death of Dashan Yu Tanshihuai, their tribes have been divided, and they have fallen into endless civil wars with each other, but in recent years, there is a young leader named Kebineng, who has gradually begun to unify the Xianbei tribes, so that the Xianbei have a trend of unification, if the Xianbei is unified, the strength cannot be ignored...... Of course, even if it includes the current Southern Xiongnu and Wuhuan, if it gradually becomes stronger in the future, it will also be a disaster for the potters.

Before the assimilation of the foreign race, after all, it is still a foreign race.

Guo Jia's meaning, instead of uniting all, it is better to unite partially, and take advantage of this opportunity to let the pottery merchants send the Southern Xiongnu and Wuhuan Three Kings to transform the military peak, attack Xianbei, so that the northern tribes can merge with each other, weaken their power, and the grassland tribes are internally consumed, so that Middle-earth can have the ability to absorb them one by one and solve these potential threats once and for all.

Compared with other people's ideas, Guo Jia's method is more troublesome, but it is more far-reaching, and the ghost's thinking is so deep that the potter admires it from the bottom of his heart.

He decided to arrange it according to Guo Jia's words.

The potters immediately gave an order to Zhang Yan of the Montenegrin army to garrison them in place, ostensibly threatening Jizhou with troops, but secretly paying close attention to the eastward direction of Liaodong, once Gongsun Du's soldiers and horses entered Youzhou, the Montenegrin army could immediately turn their guns and declare war on the Liaodong army.

The soldiers and horses of the Southern Xiongnu and Wuhuan Three Kings turned their heads to contend with the Xianbei tribes, and Sima Yi stayed there to supervise the march.

In this way, on the Jizhou side, in addition to Liu He and other old Youzhou troops, it was the Jinling army of the pottery merchant who confronted the Jizhou army head-on.

But for this, the potter is still very confident.

Although Yuan Shao has more soldiers and horses than him, he believes that his 100,000 Jinling army is the real elite of the world, and he will definitely not lose to Yuan Shao in a head-on confrontation.

The school officials reported that Yuan Shao asked the trial and senior cadres to garrison Yecheng, and he took his three sons and led the main army to leave Yecheng and come to a decisive battle with the pottery merchants.

Now the Tao merchant army has entered the hinterland of Jizhou, the peak of the army to Guangping, his next goal is to first lay Handan, as a base to connect the rear, dredge the grain road from the east to Jizhou, and then in Wei County, and Yuan Shao's main force decisive battle.

The generals who are currently guarding Handan are the three generals under Yuan Shao, Zhang and Guo Yuan.

Yuan Shao had sent these three people to lead the army to defeat the defeat, which was used as bait, and at that time he and Zhang had a small battle with Huang Zhong, although the goal was indeed achieved in the end, but Zhang was shot by Huang Zhong with an arrow, which was also a big loss.

After recruiting the returning troops, Yuan Shao had them temporarily stationed in Handan as a barrier in front of Yecheng.

The potter immediately summoned the generals to discuss: "Now that he is recruiting and Zhang, the two generals are guarding Handan City as a barrier to Yecheng, which one of the generals dares to attack the city?" ”

The first person to stand up was Huang Zhong.

"Prime Minister, Zhao Zhao and Zhang Zeng fought a few times with the camp led by the old man, both sides were testing each other at that time, and did not do their best. The old man wants to ask for an order to fight! ”

Huang Zhong took the initiative to ask for help, and the potter naturally trusted him.

"Since this is the case, I will ask the old general to bring a group of soldiers and horses to the siege city, and on the side of the siege equipment, Tao will naturally supply all of them, and the points will be exactly right."

"No!"

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After Huang Zhong received the order, he immediately led his troops to Handan.

Although Handan was the capital of Zhao during the Warring States Period, it has not repaired the city too much over the years, and it is not as tall and heavy as the walls of Yecheng, and it is relatively low, so it looks like it is easy to attack on the surface.

But that's just the surface.

Huang Zhong carefully looked at the city wall for a while, and felt that there was nothing special, so he ordered his soldiers: "Beat the drums, attack the city!" ”

"Knock knock!"

The drumming of the Jinling army sounded, and the previous troops, with ladders and rushing carts, began to rush towards the city of Handan.

And on the city wall, the general of the overseer was the general of the Yuan army, Zhang.

Zhang viciously looked at Huang Zhong who came to attack the city, and gritted his teeth and said: "Huang Zhong old horseman, last time the secret arrow sneaked up on me, this time I have to let you taste the bitterness of whatever the general says!" ”

The Jinling army, with a ladder and a shield, gradually rushed to the range of the city's arrow rain, and Zhang did not hesitate to immediately order the arrows to be released.

The rain of arrows did not kill the Jinling army with shields very much, and after a while, the Jinling army was seen to set up a ladder under the city, and the soldiers began to climb the city wall.

Zhang didn't show any panic, and ordered: "Smash it with a rolling stone, and the gold juice, pour it hard!" ”

The soldiers on the city wall began to throw rolling stones and gold juice downwards to block the attack of the Jinling army, but there were still Jinling troops who boarded the city, but in the face of the Yuan army holding swords and shields, they still could not stand on the city wall for a long time, and they were cut down after a while.

Huang Zhong couldn't help frowning when he saw this situation, and said, "Yuan Jun under Zhang is really brave. ”

Liu Bi followed Huang Zhong and said: "Although Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses are not as elite as Cao Cao's drills, they are all northerners. ”

Huang Zhong looked at it carefully for a long time, nodded and said, "It's really brave." ”

Although the attack of the Jinling army was fierce, the combat power of the Yuan army was indeed beyond imagination, and during this time, Zhao Zhao and Zhang were extremely well prepared in Handan, arrows, gold juice, and rolling stones were enough to defend the city, and the Jinling army stormed for half an hour, but it was still unable to take the city pass.

Huang Zhong frowned, and secretly said that he took the initiative to ask Ying, if he couldn't take the city, wouldn't he let his colleagues laugh when he turned back.

At that moment, I saw that Huang Zhong ordered someone to take the short knife and said, "The old man will attack the city personally!" ”

Liu Bi was startled when he heard this, he looked at Huang Zhong hesitantly, and said, "General Huang, this 、...... It's not enough to go into battle in person, right? ”

Huang Zhong ignored him: "General Liu will press the formation here for me, the old man will go by himself, and he will be back in a moment!" ”

At that moment, he saw Huang Zhong personally commanding the soldiers and horses to attack the city, and behind him, Liu Pi ordered people to beat the drums vigorously to cheer for him.

Huang Zhong personally participated in the siege of the city, and the morale and fighting spirit of the Jinling army were naturally greatly enhanced.

Zhang naturally also saw Huang Zhong, he smiled coldly, and said, "Okay, old man Huang, this time you are looking for death by yourself!" Shoot me hard, smash it hard! Aim at Huang Zhong and smash! ”

All of a sudden, rolling stones, arrows, gold juice and other sharp weapons to defend the city came towards Huang Zhong's head and face.

Huang Zhong held a short knife in his mouth, holding a shield in one hand and a ladder in the other, climbing towards the city, fortunately, the quality of the iron shield in Jinling City was passed, and the shield was big and hard enough.

Those arrows and rolling stones were isolated by shields, but it was also thanks to Huang Zhong's bravery, if it was someone else, he would have been smashed down by a heavy stone bombardment.

Although Huang Zhong is old, his strength is indeed extraordinary.

But after all, he is also almost fifty years old, and the right arm holding the shield is more sour and numb.

"Get out of the way!"

Zhang roared and pushed aside the people in the city, and personally came to the place where Huang Zhong climbed to look down.

He squinted his eyes for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand to the soldier next to him and said, "Give me the burned gold juice!" ”

A soldier next to him handed him a scoop.

Zhang looked down, but saw Huang Zhong climbing up, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Huang Zhong, you have fallen for my family's plan to lead the general, and the general has already divided a group of soldiers and horses outside the city, just waiting for these Jinling dogs to attack the city, and then take your rear formation! Don't you know yet? ”

Huang Zhong was taken aback when he heard this, and subconsciously turned his head to look behind him.

Your own rear formation is the same, and there is nothing abnormal,

And at this moment, that scoop of hot gold juice poured towards Huang Zhong from top to bottom.