Zhao Yun took his soldiers to guard the east gate of Xiangcheng, and it was very strange that they waited for an hour, but they did not see Yuan Shu's army coming to attack the city.

According to the practice of the past, even if it was already dark, Yuan Shujun would refuse to ride live targets and attack the city everywhere.

Zhao Yunzheng was puzzled, and suddenly heard a shocking shout of killing, but saw Yuan Jun killing the world again. For some reason, seeing the killing of Yuan Jun, Zhao Yun breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"All armaments!"

Raising the spear in his hand, Zhao Yun shouted in a deep voice. At this time, the other three city gates also had Yuan's army fiercely attacking the city.

At the south gate of Xiangcheng, torches illuminate the whole land as if it were day. Guan Hai looked at Yuan Jun, who was obviously much more than usual, and his face was a little gloomy.

"Siege!"

This time, the commander of the Yuan army, who mainly attacked the south gate, was Ji Ling, the general under Yuan Shu. He looked at the city wall not far away and shouted loudly.

"Knock knock!"

The dull sound of war drums sounded, and Yuan Shujun walked with neat steps and shouted to the top of the city wall.

Guan Hai raised the big knife in his hand and shouted: "Brothers, kill all these turtle sons!" ”

Seeing that Yuan Jun had already climbed to the top of the city wall, Guan Hai took the lead and killed several people one after another. It didn't take long for many Yuan Shujun to climb onto the city wall after a fierce battle.

However, quite a few pikemen were waiting on the walls. Those Yuan troops who climbed the city wall were already poked to death before they could gain a firm foothold.

Guan Hai ruthlessly threw a corpse of Yuan Jun as a rolling log. The corpse rolled down one of Yuan Jun's ladders and smashed several Yuan Jun who were climbing the city wall in a row.

Looking at Yuan Shujun who fell from the top of the ladder and was screaming by the fall, Guan Hai couldn't help laughing.

However, Yuan Shujun was too much, and he couldn't kill them all. One wave of Yuan troops was driven off the city wall, and the other group rushed over again, and the battle lasted for half a night before the Yuan army slowly retreated.

At this time, Guan Hai was already covered in blood and was a little tired and a little prostration.

"Can you finally take a break?"

Guan Hai gasped, and the hot air in his mouth sprayed into the air, turning into a white mist under the action of the cold air.

When Fang Cai was fighting, he didn't feel anything, but now that he was quiet, the sweat on his body was blown by the cold wind, and Guan Hai suddenly shivered.

"Damn the weather!"

Secretly scolding, Guan Hai came to a bonfire to warm up.

At this time, there is not much firewood in the city, otherwise, even if there are no arrows or stones in the city, you can still boil the water, and when the enemy army attacks the city, use the boiling water to break the enemy.

However, this method is too firewood-intensive. Now it is a time when the weather is cold, and the people and soldiers in the city also have to consume a lot of firewood every day to keep warm.

In this way, Xiangcheng was besieged, and the soldiers under Chen Xu's command had no way to go out of the city to cut down trees. As a result, the timber in the city can only be spared.

Moreover, countless Yuan troops would attack the city every day, and even if a dense cauldron was erected on the city wall, it would not be able to supply enough boiling water.

Therefore, the strategy of defending the city by repelling the enemy with boiling water is a bit of a chicken rib.

In the Yuanshu village, a golden tent is the temporary palace of Yuan Shu. There are many exquisite gold and silver utensils in the big tent, and even the big tripod used for sacrifice is placed in the big tent.

At this time, Yuan Shu's subordinates gathered together, but the atmosphere was a little dull.

Although during this time, the life of **** in Xiangcheng was not easy, but the situation of Yuan Shujun was not very good.

As Tian Feng said, Yuan Shu's 30,000 troops consumed an astronomical amount of money and food every day. Especially after Sun Ce announced the severance of relations with him, Yuan Shu lost the big granary of Jiangdong.

Now Yuan Shu, the logistical pressure is also very great. Otherwise, he would not have ordered a storming of Xiangcheng day and night.

Fortunately, before Yuan Shu led the army to the expedition, he had already collected a lot of grain and grass, so it could support it for a while.

Yang Hong took a step forward and said to Yuan Shu: "Your Majesty, although our army is outnumbered, it has been storming Xiangcheng day and night for several days, and the soldiers are already exhausted. ”

In addition, if it is freezing today, many soldiers are even more complaining. If you urge them to attack the city again, I am afraid that it will cause the soldiers to mutiny. ”

Zhang Xun and Ji Ling also came out of the class and said: "Please also ask Your Majesty to suspend the siege of the city, so that the soldiers can rest and recuperate." ”

Yuan Shutie's face was blue, and his eyes were a little tired.

Although he has now become the emperor, he has not been recognized by the people of the world. First Liu Bei attacked Yuzhou, and then Cao Cao attacked Yanzhou, and Sun Ce took the entire Jiangdong land out of his control.

The current Yuan Shu is attacked on three sides, if he can't defeat Chen Xujun as soon as possible, it will be used to deter the princes.

Once he revealed his flaws, Yuan Shu had no doubt that the princes who were eyeing him would all pounce on him and bite him fiercely, just like hungry wolves seeing delicious prey.

Although Yuan Shu is somewhat capricious, he is not a real straw bag. It can be said that Yuan Shu, who has received a good education, has no doubt about his talent.

Moreover, as a prince, Yuan Shu also has extraordinary skills for the control of the generals under his command. Otherwise, when Yuan Shu became emperor, the civil and military forces under his command might abandon him.

Yuan Shu's love for Sun Ce is undoubted, but he also knows that Sun Ce has great ambitions and is difficult to control. This is also why, he constantly suppressed Sun Ce and did not let him out of his control.

But Yuan Shu thought about it, he didn't expect that Sun Ce would be able to defeat the entire Jiangdong with more than 1,000 soldiers and horses.

At that time, Yuan Shu knew that Sun Ce was already fledgling, so he did not arrogantly ask Sun Ce to hand over the Jiangdong land he had beaten. On the contrary, he also made Sun Ce a general to reassure him.

In terms of using soldiers, although Yuan Shu does not have a high talent, he is also decent. And this kind of person, coupled with the huge number of responsible troops, is often the most difficult to deal with.

Otherwise, it would not have made Chen Xu, who had been on the battlefield for a long time in Xiangcheng, as well as Jia Xu and Tian Feng, who were full of wisdom, helpless.

It wasn't until after fighting Yuan Shu that Wen Zhao knew that this was a prince who had been seriously smeared and weakened by history.

At this time, hearing the report of Wenwu under the account, Yuan Shu sighed. He waved his hand and said, "In that case, let's suspend the siege in the evenings of the next few days." ”

"However, no matter what, Xiangcheng must be surrounded, and Chen Xu and others cannot be allowed to break through."

"Now they don't have food and grass to support, and they definitely won't be able to support it for long. As long as the city runs out of food, this victory will be ours. ”

Seeing that Yuan Shu agreed to the proposal of himself and others, everyone was overjoyed. Attacking the city day and night, not only those soldiers, but even the generals under Yuan Shu were a little tired.

And what Yuan Shu said is also very reasonable, as long as he can kill Chen Xu, who is in full swing, the princes of the world will not dare to provoke Yuan Shu easily. At that time, Yuan Shu, the position of the emperor, was slowly firmly established.

Yan Xiang immediately offered a plan: "Your Majesty's words are very good, Chen Xujun came in a hurry, and he didn't carry too much grain and grass, and the grain and grass in the city must not last for a long time." ”

"In fact, our army can rely on the superiority of troops to build a camp outside the four gates of Xiangcheng, without going into battle, as long as blocking the way for the defenders in the city to retreat. In less than ten days, the city will collapse without a fight because of the lack of food. ”

"If Chen Xu wants not to starve to death, he can only attack our camp to break through. At that time, they lost the city wall as a support, but we could rely on the strong camp to block the **** outside. ”

As a result, there was no food and grass in Xiangcheng, and they could not break through. If Chen Xu does not surrender to His Majesty, there will be only one dead end left. ”

Yan Xiang's strategy was not without viciousness, and it completely cut off the survival of the defenders in the city. But there are many prerequisites for this strategy to be implemented.

First, there should be far more troops outside the city than the defenders in the city, so that four camps could be divided without fear of being broken by the defenders in the city one by one.

Second, there is not much grain in the city. Otherwise, instead of exhausting the grain and grass in the city, he will exhaust his own grain and grass.

Third, it is necessary to determine that the grain and grass of the besieging side can be supported for a longer time than the defenders in the city.

It can be said that Yuan Shujun completely met the three conditions at present. After Yuan Shu heard about Yan Xiang's strategy, his eyes suddenly lit up.

He is not like Wen Zhao, who attaches great importance to the people under his rule, and refuses to requisition the rations of the people because of the war. Otherwise, Chen Xu would not have been able to gather an army of 100,000.

Yuan Shu was born in a famous family and had an innate superiority over the people. This time, he recruited 300,000 troops to go on the expedition, and he did not control the life or death of the people under his rule at all, and almost looted the grain and grass in the territory.

Therefore, even if he had a large number of soldiers, he could hold out for two months.

Yuan Shu adopted Yan Xiang's strategy and began to let people build a camp in the starry night. With Yuan Shu's order, all the Yuan troops moved again.

They set up camps outside the four gates of Xiangcheng and completely blocked the road for **** to break through. As long as **** opens the city gate, it will definitely alarm Yuan Shujun outside.

Even if there are four camps, there are more than 70,000 people in each camp. In addition, they occupy the advantage of the camp, and even if they are eager to go out, they will not want to attack the village.

In the early morning of the next day, when the scouts informed Wen Zhao of Yuan's movements, Wen Zhao was immediately shocked. If Yuan Jun really made up his mind to trap Xiangcheng, the soldiers and civilians in the city would sooner or later collapse without a fight due to lack of food.

Wen Zhao looked closely at the Yuan army camp outside the city, and shouted sharply: "Open the city gate, and the troops will follow me out of the city to call for battle!" ”

This time, Chen Xu was really a little panicked.

He didn't discuss with Jia Xu and Tian Feng at all, so he wanted to lead his troops out of the city, and took advantage of the fact that Yuan's army camp had not yet been fully built, and led his troops to rush and kill for a while.