"Boom!"

A loud bang sounded at Zang Ba's feet, and the boulder hit the ground and stirred up countless stone chips, and Zang Ba hurriedly used his shield to protect his body and block those stone chips.

At this time, Zang Ba was a little apprehensive, if he hadn't dodged in time just now, he was afraid that he would have to be stoned to death by this boulder.

The ladder had been erected, and Zang Ba bit the blade of the long knife with his teeth, holding a shield in one hand and holding the ladder in the other, and quickly climbed Xiangshang.

As soon as he climbed halfway through, Han Meng pushed the ladder away from the city wall with all his might.

Zang Ba's body fell backwards with the ladder, and at the moment when the ladder was about to land, he jumped down from the ladder first, and as soon as his feet landed, he took advantage of the situation to roll on the ground.

"Whoosh ......"

A few arrows were sharply inserted into the ground where Zang Ba was rolling, and if he was a little slower, he was afraid that he would be shot by the arrows.

There were many dangers, but Zang Ba was not afraid, took the long knife in his right hand, and while blocking the arrows with his shield, he waved the long knife and rushed under the city wall again.

Han Meng, who was on the city tower, saw that Zang Ba was so athletic, so he shouted to the archers behind him: "Aim at Zang Ba and shoot him to death!" ”

With Han Meng's order, Zang Ba immediately became the target of everyone, and the archers opened their bows and arrows one after another, shooting arrows at Zang Ba.

Zang Ba held the shield, his body had been curled up tightly under the shield, and he did not dare to show his head in the face of arrows that came like a torrential rain.

Zang Ba was like a flat boat in the giant sea, he was enduring the invasion of huge waves, a small shield could not carry his huge body at all, he tried his best to protect his body, and quickly retreated backwards.

"Formation!"

Suddenly, a loud shout sounded in Zang Ba's ears, and a figure with the same shield instantly appeared beside Zang Ba, it was his subordinate military Sima Wu Dun.

Wu Dun held his shield and snuggled tightly in front of Zang Ba, and with his shout, more and more shield soldiers gathered towards Zang Ba, and the shields were closely connected, and soon formed an impermeable defensive wall, blocking all the arrows from the outside.

At the same time, Sun Guan led the archers to rush over and fire arrows at the defenders on the city wall, while Chang Feng led another wave of soldiers to rush to the side of the city wall, set up a ladder, and began to climb.

Zang Ba's efforts were exchanged for the indignation of the whole army, and Wu Dun, Sun Guan, and Chang Feng all led their own troops to rush over and launch a fierce attack on Gaotang County!

"Good! Now that everyone is here, let's go together, no matter what today, we must capture Gaotang County! Zang Ba was much relieved to see such a scene, and said loudly.

"Whoa!" The crowd replied in unison.

The morale of the Xuzhou soldiers suddenly improved a lot, and all the people rushed over together, leaving only hundreds of cavalry to watch from a distance, but the horses under the seats were also restless and eager to try.

Under the cover of the shield wall, Zang Ba, Wu Dun and others began to advance step by step, Sun Guan held his bow and arrows and led the archers to shoot arrows at the city wall, while Chang Feng led people to rush to the city gate, dozens of soldiers held a huge log with sharpened heads, and slammed towards the city gate.

The ladders were erected one after another and erected on the city wall, and the Xuzhou soldiers were desperate to climb Xiangshang.

For a while, the offensive of the Xuzhou soldiers became fierce, and Han Meng, who commanded on the city tower, was also the first to take care of, while letting people pick up the boulder and smash it towards the city gate, while directing the archers to shoot arrows, and on the other hand, letting people push away the cloud ladder.

The boulders were thrown down one by one, but the Xuzhou soldiers persevered and fearless, one was stoned to death, and the other was replenished, and continued to violently hit the gate of Gaotang County.

Under the city wall, a ladder was pushed down, and another ladder was erected up, and the Xuzhou soldiers moved forward bravely, quickly climbing the ladder, or were killed by arrows, or were pushed down together with the ladder, fell to the ground and were injured.

Zang Ba and Wu Dun soon came to the bottom of the city wall, under the cover of the shield wall, Zang Ba suddenly handed the shield in his hand to Wu Dun, and he himself held a long knife, and ran to the left side of the city wall with a stroke of smoke, and then got into the crowd.

Zang Ba gathered a group of soldiers and whispered something to them, and the soldiers nodded and immediately set up a ladder on the city wall.

He climbed the ladder without hesitation, holding a knife in one hand and holding the ladder in the other, climbing at the fastest speed.

Yuan Bing, who was defending the city, hurriedly came over and pushed away the ladder, and at the same time, another ladder was erected on Zang Ba's side, and he jumped directly on the ladder with his strength, and continued to climb.

Seeing this, the archers of the Yuan army also hurriedly shot arrows, but they were all blocked by Zang Ba with a knife.

Seeing that Zang Ba was about to climb the city wall, Yuan Bing suddenly panicked and hurriedly came over to push the ladder away. Unbeknownst to him, as soon as Yuan Bing's hands touched the ladder, Zang Ba jumped again with his strength, jumped directly on the ladder that was erected on his side, stepped on the ladder, and continued to climb, already getting closer and closer to the city wall.

Yuan Bing was taken aback, this way of climbing the city was the first time they had seen it, and in a panic, a few people hurriedly ran over, wanting to push away the cloud ladder that Zang Ba was stepping on.

But at this time, it was too late, Zang Ba had already climbed to the top of the city, jumped up, waved the long knife in his hand, hacked a Yuan soldier to death, and landed directly on the city wall, becoming the first person to climb the city.

As soon as Zang Ba boarded the city wall, he immediately swung his knife and killed Yuan Bing, but the Yuan soldiers couldn't resist it, and they let Zang Ba kill a place of standing cones.

One after another, the Xuzhou soldiers followed closely behind Zang Ba, climbed the city wall from the cloud ladder, fought side by side with Zang Ba, and killed Yuan Bing together.

Han Mengshang was commanding the soldiers to defend above the city gate, and suddenly heard a series of screams from the right side, and immediately turned his head to look over, and saw Zang Ba and Xuzhou soldiers fighting hard, which surprised him.

"Boom!"

A loud bang came from the city gate, and the Xuzhou soldiers led by Chang Feng finally knocked the city gate of Gaotang County open after unremitting fierce impact.

As soon as the city gate was opened, Wu Dun and the others under the city wall immediately rushed to the city gate, and rushed to the city along the city gate.

For a time, the head of the city was lost, the city gate was knocked open, the morale of the Yuan army suddenly plummeted, and Han Meng was even more annoyed, but the matter had come to this point, and there was nothing to be done, in the face of the powerful Xuzhou soldiers, they had to retreat to the city and engage in street battles with the Xuzhou soldiers.

"Whoosh!"

An arrow pierced the sky and flew straight towards Han Meng, he was taken aback, and hurriedly dodged, although he avoided the vital point, he was still shot by the arrow in the left shoulder socket, and the blood flowed straight down the iron armor.

Han Meng was injured and looked in the direction where the arrow came from, but saw that the person who shot him was Sun Guan, and Sun Guan saw that one arrow did not kill Han Meng, so he made up another arrow, and the second arrow was flying towards Han Meng quickly.

Han Meng picked up a long knife in his hand, directly blocked the arrow, looked left and right, saw that the general trend had gone, and he was injured again, turned around and went down the city tower, and retreated to the city under the escort of his own family.

Thousands of Xuzhou soldiers poured into the county seat of Gaotang, and Zang Ba led his subordinates to quickly capture the city tower, he slashed Daxu with his sword, and planted his own military flag on the city.

The soldiers of Xuzhou saw the military flag fluttering, and they all marched forward bravely, and under the leadership of Wu Dun and Chang Xuan, they went to the city to kill.

Outside the city, the hundreds of cavalry also rushed into the city, Zang Ba ran down from the city tower, turned over and rode a war horse, inserted the long knife into the scabbard, picked up a spear, and led the cavalry to the city.

For a time, there was chaos in Gaotang County, and the sound of fighting was endless, and the Yuan army, which had been defending for two days, continued to insist on fighting with the Xuzhou soldiers in the streets and alleys under the leadership of Han Meng, but the Xuzhou soldiers were numerous and unstoppable, and Han Meng was defeated and retreated.

Soon, Zang Ba rushed to the front line with his cavalry, ordering Wu Dun and Chang Xuan to return to the two flanks to outflank, while he led the cavalry to rush forward and threatened to capture Han Meng.

Han Meng saw that the general situation had gone, so under the escort of more than 100 personal guards, he fled to the stable, mounted his horse and fled through the north gate.

Twilight, the sunset has completely sunk into the horizon, in Gaotang County, the Xuzhou soldiers are clearing the tail, after Han Meng led his relatives to escape, the remaining hundreds of Yuan soldiers could not resist for long, and before nightfall, they had been completely wiped out by the Xuzhou soldiers.

Zang Ba led the cavalry and searched all over the city, but he never saw Han Meng's shadow, until the scouts came from outside the city, and then they knew that Han Meng fled east with the remnants of more than 100 cavalry.

Since it was no longer possible to pursue, Zang Ba had to order a rest in the city, counting the number of dead while burying the corpses.

When night fell, Yuan Tan and Guo Tu led more than 1,000 remnants of the army into the boundary of Gaotang County, and learned from the scouts that Gaotang County had also been captured by Xuzhou soldiers.

The county seat of Ande is located on the north bank of the Yellow River, but there is also part of the land on the south bank, and there is a Yellow River crossing, which echoes the ferry port in Gaotang County.

Since Gaotang County had been occupied by Zang Ba, Yuan Tan, Guo Tu and others did not dare to venture easily, so they chose to go east to Ande County, preparing to cross the Yellow River north from that ferry and enter Hebei.

As long as they enter Hebei, Yuan Tan, Guo Tu and others can be regarded as truly safe.

The group went to Ande County in the starry night, and along the way, they met Han Meng, Chun Yuqiong, Jiang Qi and others, and the others were all defeated miserably, and they were all dwarfed.

When I arrived at the ferry port in Ande County, it was already the ugly hour of the second day, but fortunately there were some ferries here, but because it was dark and the night was difficult to distinguish, everyone was tired, so they decided to rest here and cross the river the next day.

At dawn the next day, more than 2,000 people, including Yuan Tan, Guo Tu, Han Meng, Chun Yuqiong, and Jiang Qi, led the crowd to cross the river in batches.

Suddenly, a group of soldiers and horses rolled in from a distance, dusty, Yuan Tan and the others were all frightened, and they all secretly guessed, could it be that the Xuzhou soldiers had crossed the Yellow River and were waiting here?

Yuan Tan immediately ordered the whole army to prepare for battle and be ready for battle.

When the soldiers and horses gradually approached, Yuan Tan saw clearly that the soldiers and horses that came were playing the military flag of the Yuan army, and the first person was Xu You.

It turned out that Xu You returned to Hebei and expected that Yuan Tan would be defeated, so he went to Ganling and persuaded Jiang Yiqu, the general of Yuan Shao who was stationed there, to borrow 3,000 troops and come to help.

Who knows, as soon as Xu You led the army into Pingyuan City, he heard that Gaotang County was captured by Zang Ba, and Yuan Tan and others were nowhere to be found. So he guessed that Yuan Tan would inevitably cross north from Ande County, so he led the army to meet him.

After Yuan Tan learned all this, he regretted it, if he had followed Xu You's advice at that time and retreated as advance, he might not have suffered such a big defeat.

Seeing this, Xu Yu hurriedly said: "The matter has come to this point, and it is too late for the eldest prince to regret it." The eldest prince led an army of 30,000 to fight for Qingzhou, but now he has returned defeated, leaving only 2,000 remnants of the army, and the lord will inevitably blame the eldest prince. The eldest prince should think about how to deal with the punishment of the lord first! In addition, the eldest prince should quickly block the ferry along the river to prevent the Xuzhou soldiers from crossing north, otherwise, once the Xuzhou soldiers gallop into Hebei, the lord will definitely not spare the eldest prince! ”

After Yuan Tan heard this, he immediately did what Xu You said and sent troops to block the ferry. After that, together with Xu You, he entered Pingyuan City, and according to Xu You's suggestion, he took the initiative to write a letter of guilt and sent someone to hand it to Yuan Shao in Yecheng, while he waited for Yuan Shao's punishment in Pingyuan City......