The defenders of Guangling did not sit still, and the soldiers who were able to follow Yuan and still follow him to defend Guangling today were all real warriors. They know what loyalty means and they know better what bravery is. In the face of the overwhelming offensive of the Yan army under Xu Huang and Tian Yu, no one did not have depression in their hearts. What is really depressing is not that those generals and nobles listen to the heralds report at any time where the Yan soldiers are going; What really brought oppression to the entire city was the impact of those people's words on the advance of the Yan army.

It was a group of wounded soldiers brought back from outside the city, the wounded soldiers pushed by the cart with dull eyes, bloody pictures and meaningless wails of missing arms and legs everywhere, and the neighing of horses that had lost their owners galloping outside the city with blood stains and arrows on their backs from memory, until they fell exhausted and fell on the ridges; It was the rising price of grain, and it was also the headless body of the merchant who was cut off by the Yuan soldiers and fell in the commercial market; It was the people in the city who ran out madly but couldn't get out, and it was also the people who killed people along the streets and the clashes were increasing day by day, but there were no officials to stop them.

The whole city is facing a loss of control.

These are the things that really make people feel the despair of the impending war.

During the day, people circulated about the short and violent clash in the camp in the southwest corner of the city yesterday evening, a military marquis of the Yuan clan led troops to run rampant in the market, blocked outside the camp and threatened to set fire to the camp if Xue Zhou did not come out of the camp again, and then the camp was full of arrows, Yuan Jun fought back, and in less than a moment, a curved department of more than 700 people was crushed by a strong bow and crossbow, leaving more than 200 corpses and retreating.

The internal and external difficulties were trapped, and the army outside the city was about to be overwhelmed, but there was still a national soldier of Guangling County who was an enemy and not a friend in the city. Those thieves from the sea in the past used to strengthen the camp by all means, but they could not storm it, and the dense perforations could not be burned, like a wild boar covered with barbs, both powerful and terrifying.

But this is no match for the threat from outside the city.

When Yuan Shao heard that Chen Deng had escaped from Guangling, he was furious. In fact, the intimate staff had persuaded him more than once to flee from one city after another like Liu Bei in the past, which started when he was still in charge of Xiapi, but Yuan Shao never agreed once. This general, who was born in a famous family, may have such and such shortcomings, whether he is indecisive or stubborn, but whenever a major event comes, he is like those who are born recklessly, and he is open-minded.

Open-minded, sometimes it is not a good character for the leader.

The sergeant sent by the Yuan army to block the Yan army came back, went out to a captain's department, scattered ambushes between the main roads, and finally only one Qu department came back, reducing more than 300 personnel, which could not be called complete; And the results of the remaining three parts speak for themselves, and the blocking failed.

The poor Yuan's sailors rowed their small boat back to the city along the Masegou, followed behind them was the swift warship of the Yan clan, behind which there were huge and slow fighting ships, at the mouth of the Masegou and the moat junction Shunzheng hull, in the blink of an eye, the seven fighting ships became more than ten stone cannon bases, huge stones were thrown in the moat, and the people who tried to escape back to the city were sunk one after another.

Even if the accuracy of the stone throwing is extremely low, far less accurate than the stone cannon on the flat ground, but even if the boulder cannot directly hit the enemy ship, the huge waves that explode around it are still enough to shake the small impact out of control, and then only need to quickly drive into the moat and lightly collide, and the ship will be destroyed.

Due to the fact that Guangling is not a coastal city, the boat cannot be driven into the river, otherwise this water battle will be more fierce and exciting. Tian Yu's army had arrived, and the waters of Guangling gave the sailors a chance to show their skills, and hundreds of warships would attack the city from the moat at the first order, although such a battle was a pity for Tian Yu, but he was not discouraged.

There is a city in Jiangdong named Chaisang, and the city stands on the south bank of the river, if they really want to resist stubbornly, Tian Yu's building ship will have the opportunity to show their skills.

Guangling City is full of defenders, not only Yuan's soldiers, but also the people who have been forcibly recruited, have been sent with weapons to stand on the city to garrison, the Yuan army that was scattered all over the place earlier have been called back, and there are tens of thousands of defenders standing on the four city walls, not counting the people in charge of planning under the city.

Of course, it is indispensable to leave more than 4,000 military and civilian soldiers in the southwest of the city to garrison the county national soldiers.

Guangling is also well armed, even if there are many enemy troops, it will not fall in a short time, Yuan Shao's worry is nothing more than the combination of inside and outside to attack his city, so this county army must be carefully guarded.

In the blink of an eye, from the evening to the evening, Xu Huang's troops set up simple defensive camps on both sides outside the city that could prevent Yuan's army from going out of the city to raid, and Tian Yu also set up camps in the east of the city, placing water villages along the river.

However, their mission is not to attack the city with a big crossbow, in fact, this thing is extremely powerful in water warfare, but it is not easy to make a strong crossbow mounted on a ship, and it is not easy to shoot left and right, and the angle adjustment up and down is extremely simple, if you want to shoot so high at the head of the city, I am afraid that you need to drive the ship to the opposite shore, but if you are so far away, the lethality becomes minimal. These ships were used to rescue their own overboard soldiers after a battle, as well as to attract enemy arrows and deplete the defenders' armament.

The moat gave rise to Xu Huang's idea of bombarding the city wall with stone cannons, which meant that the siege had to be done with real swords and guns, and the horn of the attack had not yet sounded, and the ships that were swimming in the moat were not attacked by many arrows.

War.

The guards on the city gate tower had just thrown a rain of arrows to the city, followed by those who were wandering in the moat, and the figures jumped out of the cabins of the ships that were wandering in the moat, and they returned fire to the city head with bows and crossbows, shouting and killing one after another, taking this opportunity, the daredevils set up the cloud ladder on the city head, and then a large number of soldiers attacked the moat from the suspension bridge, and climbed to the city head with the cloud ladder to attack the city head in various parts of the city wall.

At the same time, more foot soldiers relied on the ships in the moat to be used as pontoon bridges, rushed to the head of the city, and gradually formed a siege and stormed the city.

After Yuan Shao mobilized a reserve army to transfer away a thousand people, Xue Zhou and others under the leadership of Chen Deng fought out of the southwest corner of the city, and rushed to the outside of the camp to far exceed their garrison, and at the same time killed from the city to the west gate and seize the city!