With the abundant water sources around Jinyang City and the land of the Basin Valley Plain, it is completely possible for criminals such as yellow turbans, bandits, etc., who once hid in Montenegro, to start a new life in Jinyang again.

It can be said that when Jiang Wan went to Montenegro to meet Zhang Yan in person before, he used such a depiction of the prospect to move Zhang Yan, and the military order sent by Zhu Wei personally also gave Zhang Yan a formal promise, so Zhang Yan naturally paid attention to Jinyang City.

Although Zhang Yan was worried that the Montenegrin army he brought would be used as cannon fodder at first, but now it seems that he is too careful, so what else can he think of, and try to attack the city to show his value.

Zhang Yan knew very well that only if Zhu Wei showed his value on his side, then he could better protect the population from Montenegro and live well in Jinyang.

In addition, Zhang Yan didn't know what the combat effectiveness of Zhu Weijun was, so he didn't know if Wei Yan's side was attacking the city with all his might, anyway, now with the assistance of various siege equipment provided by Zhu Weijun, Zhang Yan's Black Mountain soldiers had better weapons and equipment, and Zhang Yan's side could be regarded as using all his strength to launch an offensive against Jinyang City.

On the side of Jinyang City, the combined forces of Wei Yan and Zhang Yan also had no less than 60,000 troops.

Even though Wei Yan's Jingnan battalion had somewhat restrained the strength of the siege, Zhang Yan had 40,000 Montenegrin troops attacking the city for his future homeland, so the battle in Jinyang City was relatively smooth.

Coupled with the assistance of siege equipment such as thunderbolt catapults, mobile arrow towers, cave house vehicles, siege ladders, etc., which Zhu Weijun made here, Gao Gan was indeed a little unable to resist in Jinyang City.

It's just that it will still take some time to completely capture Jinyang City, even if Wei Yan is worried about the battle situation on Luoyang's side, there is no way.

Of course, Zhu Weijun's counteroffensive against Yuan Shaojun on the Luoyang side is not something that can be achieved in a short period of time.

Now it is the height of summer, since ancient times, summer and winter have not raised troops, also because the weather will cause a lot of unnecessary war damage to the war, especially in the summer, heat stroke, infectious diseases and so on are all hidden big troubles in the war.

It can be said that after Yuan Shao captured the Zhuwei army village on the north bank of the Yellow River, he temporarily slowed down the offensive, which was also affected by the weather.

Of course, this is not absolute, Cao Cao intended to sneak attack Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass, but he wanted to take advantage of the bright sky at night in summer, so that he would still mobilize troops and horses to fight in the scorching summer weather in August.

But now, even if Zhu Wei has the intention to launch a counterattack against Yuan Shao, he still needs to take into account the weather.

To tell the truth, Zhu Wei's nearly 100,000 troops gathered in Luoyang, and they also encountered a lot of heat stroke incidents every day, and it was also thanks to Zhu Wei's earlier attention to medical workers, so when he came to Luoyang, he also brought a lot of medical workers, which made Zhu Wei's army relatively stable.

At the same time, Zhu Wei also thought of the method of making ice with saltpeter, anyway, Zhu Wei has begun to use gunpowder as a military material, so saltpeter, which is gradually used as a raw material for the preparation of gunpowder, is naturally prepared as a lot of military materials.

Now, in order to prevent the heatstroke, Zhu Weijun's military village can also use saltpeter to make ice, and make a lot of ice cubes for the soldiers to use to cool down.

In addition, the summer of these years was not affected by various greenhouse effects like later generations, and the high temperature was 37 or 8 degrees at every turn, or even above 40 degrees, and the highest temperature in general was 34 or 5 degrees, and it was only 31 or 2 degrees in peacetime, so the army could still withstand it in peacetime.

But in this kind of weather, it will be a bit troublesome if you want to start a big war.

There must be no fighting during the day, and the soldiers on both sides are arrayed under the sun, and it is estimated that they can faint more than half without fighting, after all, one person standing under the sun and tens of thousands of people standing under the sun are completely different concepts.

If it were to play at night, it would not be very realistic.

Although the sky is not completely dark at night in summer, you can see the distance of dozens of meters around at most, and it is still dark in the distance, so it is a big problem to tell what army is coming from the opposite side, not to mention the command of the flag and the battle.

Unless you send troops to attack, it is better to stay in the camp with peace of mind, and it is not too late for everyone to fight after the summer.

It can be said that siege battles like Jinyang in Bingzhou and Liangfu in Xuzhou can still persist in fighting a dozen at night in summer, anyway, the siege at night is not too much impact, but if it is a head-to-head duel of tens of thousands of troops like Zhu Wei and Yuan Shao, it is still a province.

In this way, Zhu Wei really did not plan to send troops in the summer, but only gathered troops around to prepare for the next battle.

It just so happens that the Huns on the Southern Xiongnu side also need time to collect, Zhang Liao led his troops to Shangdang County and also needed to temporarily recuperate in the summer, and then harass Yuan Shaojun's logistics supply line, Zhuge Liang and Pang Yan were still stationed at Yanjin Ferry, and Tai Shici and Huang Zhong also needed to make some preparations for the aftermath in Taishan County before they could turn to Yanzhou and march.

Therefore, although Zhu Wei was preparing for a major counteroffensive, in fact, he was still making various military movements and did not really start a war.

The current situation can be regarded as a dark calm before dawn, and it is only when the weather cools down and autumn arrives that the war will really break out.

Of course, Yuan Shao, who is located on the north bank of the Yellow River during this time period, is also dedicated to escaping the heat.

Yuan Shaojun did not have many means from Zhu Wei's side to escape the heat, and he could only rely on his body to resist the heat, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the military camp on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Although Yuan Shao also mobilized medical workers, it was impossible to treat ordinary soldiers too well, so Yuan Shao's army inevitably suffered some non-combat losses.

At the same time, because the war was not very smooth, the morale of the soldiers in Yuan Shao's army was not very high, and there were inevitably rumors in the army that they were here to help Cao Cao fight Zhu Wei, and now that Cao Cao has withdrawn, why are they still fighting here.

This rumor was not secretly spread by Zhu Wei's school office, but an intention conveyed by Yuan Shao when he had the intention of retiring from the army earlier, but later Yuan Shao was persuaded by the military advisors such as Fu Zhu and Tian Feng, but ordinary soldiers did not think about long-term things, but they just felt that they should retire and go home for the summer now.

Faced with such a situation, Yuan Shao could only warn the generals of the army to appease the army or something, to be honest, Yuan Shao himself was a little hesitant.

Yuan Shao also felt hot, originally on the side of Yecheng, Yuan Shao naturally had cellared ice cubes to escape the heat, but now in the front-line army, he doesn't know any means of saltpeter ice-making, even if he wants to transport ice from Yecheng, it is difficult to ensure that it is safely delivered to Yuan Shao's big tent on the front line, most of which melted halfway.

With such a scorching weather and the turmoil of the army's morale, Yuan Shao knew that if he retreated, it would be difficult for him to have an advantage with Zhu Wei in the future, but he was afraid that he would lose the overall situation of the world's hegemony.

But Yuan Shao still had some plans to return to Yecheng in his heart, and at the same time, there were also strategists who figured out Yuan Shao's thoughts, and said some reasons for Yuan Shao to withdraw his troops......