With Zang Ba's order, on the walls of Licheng, archers mounted arrows one after another, opened their bowstrings, and looked up to the sky to shoot.

Outside the city, Yuan Jun rushed over like ants, carrying ladders, pushing various siege equipment such as wells, rushing carts, giant ballistae, and trebuchets.

Zang Ba frowned, for ten days in a row, Yuan Tan did everything, almost launched two or three strong attacks every day, Licheng has become a lonely city, in the face of the storm of Yuan Jun, constantly swaying.

However, the soldiers in the city were united in their hearts and swore to resist to the death, and they had held out for ten days, and in the face of a round of onslaught launched by Yuan Tanxin, the soldiers realized in their hearts that this was another vicious battle.

No one fled, no one feared a strong enemy, and no one thought of surrendering.

More than 10,000 soldiers in the city, under Yuan Tan's soldiers, were completely twisted into a rope, unanimously defended to the outside world, and did not retreat.

The fierce battle began again, Zang Ba and others still insisted on fighting under the strong blow of Yuan Jun, repelling waves of enemies who came to attack, the sound of fighting shook the sky, Zang Ba and others even shouted hoarse, raised the blade in their hands, and kept slashing towards the enemy's head.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

"Whoosh Whoosh ......"

Yuan's wells, ballistas, and trebuchets were already in range, firing arrows, giant crossbow arrows, and huge stones at the towers, attacking the defenders like a raging storm.

The defenders on the city walls were killed one after another, and as soon as one fell here, the gap was immediately filled in behind, and no one took a step back.

The castle tower has long been riddled with holes. At this time, it was again subjected to this onslaught. Finally overwhelmed. With a loud bang, it collapsed directly, and the military flag fluttering in the wind on the city tower was also broken by the boulder, and the stone chips on the city wall flew wildly, and the sand and dust rolled, making people unable to open their eyes.

The screams kept ringing out, right now. The two sides have entered a white-hot state of war, and for this city, you fight for it, and no one wants to let it.

The arrows were like a dense rainstorm, and one after the other shot at the tower, and the defenders were very frequent, but they were not in the line of fire with minor injuries, and they still fought with their wounds until the end of their lives.

Outside the city, Yuan Tan rode on horseback. I was also anxious to watch, for ten whole days. He launched more than 100 strong attacks, but he did not capture a single city, and the loss of troops was as high as more than 20,000 people.

Not only that, but the morale of the army has also been affected by this, and now the morale is low, and the soldiers are physically and mentally exhausted, if he can't capture this city today, he really can't explain it to the whole army.

Xu You, Guo Tu, and Xiao Ji are all around Yuan Tan, the mood of these three strategists is the same as Yuan Tan, in the past ten days, they have exhausted all methods, dividing the plot, digging tunnels, disturbing the morale of the army, etc., it can be said that they are doing everything, but every time the strategy used, Zang Ba saw through it, and in desperation, they had to launch a strong attack. But there were no more than 100 strong attacks, and he couldn't even capture a piece of the city.

Looking at the ruined city walls of Licheng, everyone frowned, and attacked day and night for ten days in a row, and their troops took turns to fight and couldn't hold on, and the defenders were like iron people, fighting with them to the end without sleep.

At the head of the city, wave after wave of attacking soldiers were repulsed, and the distance from the moat to the city was already a sea of corpses and blood, and the wells, giant ballistas, and trebuchets could only be pushed to the edge of the moat, assisting the soldiers to attack the city and suppress the defense on the city tower.

However, to everyone's surprise, despite such a fierce blow, the defenders still did not flinch in the slightest, but became more and more brave the more they fought, all of them were red-eyed, and continued to slash and kill the soldiers of the Yuan army who climbed the city wall.

In addition, what made Yuan Tan and others even more troublesome was that the arrows shot by the archers on the well were easy to injure themselves by mistake, although the huge crossbow arrows launched by the giant ballista had a long range, they were extremely complex to launch, requiring more than ten people to operate, and they also needed strength, with the consumption of physical strength, the number of crossbow arrows fired by the giant ballista became less and less, and a group of people were tired enough.

The trebuchet is the most troublesome thing for Yuan Tan, because the boulder launched is not accurate, so he often accidentally injures his own soldiers who rushed to the city, Zuihou had to stop the launch of the trebuchet, and simply relied on the archers on the well to shoot accurately at the defenders on the city wall.

But using a bow to shoot arrows, still need strength, at first the soldier shooting speed, strength, accuracy is very high, but with the consumption of physical strength, the strength on the arm is getting less and less, the average soldier, shooting four or five arrows in a row is already good. Shooting arrows non-stop and shooting with precision requires a skilled archer.

Among the many archers in the Yuan army, there are few archers who have a hundred steps to pierce Yang's technique, and basically there may not be one person among a hundred people. Therefore, the threat of arrows is getting smaller and smaller for the defenders, and the arrows shot are becoming less and less powerful.

After about a stick of incense, the enthusiasm of the soldiers of the Yuan army was hit, and their morale gradually declined, and they lost the bravery they had when they charged.

Yuan Tan knew that this charge would end in failure again.

Just as Yuan Tan was about to open his mouth to order the withdrawal of the army, a scout suddenly came to Yuan Tan's side, escaped from his arms with a secret report, and said loudly: "The eldest prince, the lord warrants!" ”

Yuan Tan looked at the secret report and did not move, since he led the army to break into Qingzhou, except for the smooth battle situation at the beginning of the game, he reported to Yuan Shao, but the news of the attack on Licheng for ten days has been blocked by him and has not been reported.

This secret report came suddenly, and Yuan Tan's heart chuckled, secretly wondering if Yuan Shao already knew about the battle situation here and wrote a warrant to reproach him?

"The eldest prince, the lord's warrant!" Guo Tu whispered in Yuan Tan's ear, he was Yuan Tan's confidant, and he could basically know what Yuan Tan was thinking, and it was also his idea not to report the battle situation.

After such a reminder from Guo Tu, Yuan Tan immediately took over the warrant, and after opening it, he immediately looked at it, and his brows wrinkled into a Sichuan character.

Seeing this, Xu You, Guo Tu, and Xiao Ji first looked at each other, and they all thought in their hearts: "Could it be that the lord has already learned the news here?" ”

Xu You, Guo Tu, and Xiao Ji were the three strategists appointed by Yuan Shao, and let them assist Yuan Tan, the Eastern Route Army was not in good shape, and they had no face on their faces, and they were likely to be punished.

Yuan Tan immediately handed the warrant to Guo Tu beside him, and said: "Zhao Yun led an army to secretly break into Jizhou, and Yuan Shang, who stayed in Yecheng, could not resist, so that although Zhao Yun was alone, he was able to sweep through the counties of Jizhou, and is now stationed in Ganling City. However, our army's attack here has been blocked, and if it is withdrawn, it will give Zang Ba a chance to breathe...... Do you have any suggestions, gentlemen? ”

Guo Tu, Xu You, and Xiao Ji gathered together to watch Yuan Shao's warrant, and saw that what was written on it was basically the same as what Yuan Tan said, which showed that Yuan Shao didn't know the battle situation of the Eastern Route Army at all, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

Hearing Yuan Tan's question, Guo Tu first said: "Zhao Yun's lone army is deep, but it doesn't matter for the time being, the top priority is to eliminate Zang Ba as soon as possible, as long as Zang Ba is eliminated and Licheng is captured, our army can gallop in Qingzhou, and even break into the territory of Xuzhou and attack Pengcheng." ”

"Then ignore Zhao Yun?" Yuan Tan asked.

Guo Tu said: "Let's let Zhao Yun run rampant in Jizhou for a while, not to mention that the third prince is in charge of Jizhou instead of the lord, the greater Zhao Yun's destruction in Jizhou, won't it seem that the third prince is incompetent?" ”

Yuan Tan nodded and didn't speak again, he hated this third brother extremely much in his heart, because there were rumors that Yuan Shao liked Yuan Shang, and even had plans to make Yuan Shang his heir. Of course, these are internal information, which is extremely difficult for outsiders to know, and Yuan Tan has never mentioned it to anyone. Guo Tu is the only one who knows about this.

"Eldest prince, I thought that Zhao Yun's lone army would definitely not stay in the governor of Ji, so it was better to immediately send an army to garrison Gaotang to prevent Zhao Yun from leading his army to the south and sneak attack our army." Xu Youdao.

"Even if Zhao Yun crosses to the south, it is impossible to come to Gaotang, in my guess, Zhao Yun is very likely to go to Puyang and sneak attack the lord's army. Now our army should attack the city with all its might, and leave other things alone. Guo Tu said.

Xiao Ji hurriedly said: "The lord's order, don't disobey, our army has a lot of generals, even if you want to attack Licheng, you won't need so many people." If the eldest prince does nothing, if the lord finds out, he will inevitably blame the eldest prince. It is better to send a team of soldiers and horses into Jizhou, at least to prevaricate the lord and let the lord know that the eldest prince did send an army into Jizhou to conquer Zhao Yun. ”

Yuan Tan turned his head and glanced at Guo Tu, who immediately said: "What you said about joining the army is very reasonable, but it is at a critical moment here, and you can't draw elite soldiers and strong generals, so why don't you join the army and lead an army and go to Jizhou?" ”

Xiao Ji is not a fool, he can naturally see what Guo Tu means, and he doesn't like Yuan Tan in the first place, so it is not a good thing to be able to leave at this time. He immediately clenched his fists and said: "At an extraordinary time, I can only do this extraordinary thing, I am willing to lead an army into Jizhou." ”

So, Yuan Tan immediately ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, temporarily withdraw the siege troops, and dispatched 10,000 troops that night, let Guo Tu hand them over to Xiao Ji, and let Xiao Ji take them to Jizhou to snipe Zhao Yun.

Xiao Ji didn't have any opinions, but when he saw the 10,000 troops he brought, he felt a little deceived, the army was full of old, weak, sick and disabled, tall, short, fat and thin, how could such an army resist Zhao Yun's army?

In desperation, Xiao Ji had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to Jizhou with this army of 10,000 wounded soldiers. (To be continued......)