The clay pot shattered, and there were no nails bursting out of it, nor other murderous weapons flying out of it, but a large pile of small pieces of colorful paper fluttering around. Some soldiers were quick to move, so they copied one of them and presented them to Yuan Shao with both hands. Yuan Shao took a look, and there were a few big characters written on it - the military and civilian book of Yecheng. These colorful pieces of paper are actually leaflets, listing Yuan Shao's crimes one by one, calling on the soldiers and civilians in the city not to continue to work for Yuan Shao, and to abandon the darkness and turn to the light as soon as possible.

Yecheng is too close to Sili, and the headquarters of the research institute in Xiangyang has been moved to Chang'an, especially in Chang'an and Luoyang, where printing workshops have been opened, and these leaflets were printed in Luoyang and sent to the front overnight. In the past, the war was famous for its division and often issued inscriptions, but the number of hand-copied inscriptions was extremely limited, and it was possible to scatter a large number of leaflets like the Han army.

After reading the leaflet, Yuan Shao was immediately furious, tore it to pieces in three or two, and said loudly: "Pass the order, no one is allowed to look at these things, otherwise there will be no forgiveness!" ”

At this time, many black clay pots had already flown into the city, and many clay pots fell directly on the roof, and leaflets fluttered in the wind, everywhere, how could they be forbidden. Although there were not many literate people, whether in the army or in the city, many people secretly hid the leaflets. Because everyone knows that leaflets are "written" on paper, and paper is extremely precious in the four northern states.

After this round of clay pots were thrown into Yecheng, the Han army did not make further movements, the cavalry was still cruising outside the city gate, while the infantry had already begun to set up camp, posing as if they were going to trap Yecheng. In fact, it was not that the Han army failed to attack the city, nor that the stock of stone bullets was insufficient, but that Xu Huang understood that after these leaflets were sent to the city, they needed to give a little time for the soldiers and civilians in the city to "digest" the contents of the leaflets. At the same time, the Han army never retreated, not only to put pressure on Yuan Shao so that he did not dare to spare too much strength to prevent the soldiers and civilians in the city from reading the leaflets, but also to pass on the pressure to the soldiers and civilians in the city to make them understand their situation.

As it got late, the Han army outside the city finally withdrew to the camp, and Yuan Shao was afraid that the Han army would set up an ambush, so he did not dare to send people out of the city to pursue, but he immediately mobilized his cronies and soldiers to search the whole city for the whereabouts of those leaflets, so as to stabilize the army's heart.

Some people who secretly hid leaflets were found out and immediately taken to the entrance of the vegetable market to behead the public, but more people hid the leaflets tighter, and some literate people also began to privately recite the contents of the leaflets, and Yecheng was already an undercurrent.

These people have been ruled by Yuan Shao for many years, and they are afraid of Yuan Shao's prestige, although they do not dare to rise up, but it is inevitable to make them passive and slack off, and this is exactly the effect that the leaflet wants to achieve.

In the early morning of the next day, the first rays of exposure from the east shone on the head of Yecheng, and the city that had been in chaos all night slowly quieted down. A flock of jackdaws flew from the ruins of the castle tower that had been bombarded by the Han army's trebuchets yesterday, perhaps their nests had been covered under rubble. Seeing all this, the defender soldiers couldn't help but palpitate, and they didn't know whether the Han army would fall stones or leaflets today, of course, in their hearts, they still hoped that the leaflets would fall.

Suddenly, there was the sound of horses' hooves outside the city, and the Han cavalry galloped around Yecheng again, and columns of Han crossbowmen began to press down on the city. Standing at the top of the castle and looking into the distance, you can clearly see the "big spoons" of trebuchets standing up in rows like arms. Seeing this scene, the defenders, who were very calm just now, suddenly panicked.

Sure enough, a loud "boom" sound came, and the trebuchets of the Han army attacked again. Countless white things fell from the sky and landed on the head of the city and within the city with a dull sound. A few of the soldiers were unable to dodge and were hit by these things in their helmets, and immediately let out a scream, only to find themselves safe and sound. Some good deeds picked up those white things and looked at them, and they were all white-flour steamed buns.

Yuan Jun's breakfast was very simple, only some barley mush, which couldn't fill the belly at all, but he didn't expect Han Jun to send them fragrant steamed buns, and some people were already drooling. Some soldiers were still hesitating, others were already biting. Soon, there was chaos on the head of the city, and many people were scrambling for the steamed buns that fell around, and there were some fights for this, and the captains drank again and again, but where could they stop.

Someone pulled open the steamed bun and unexpectedly found that the steamed bun was also mixed with leaflets, but it was to publicize how the people in the area ruled by the Han army now have enough food and clothing, and steamed buns like this are their most normal breakfast. The news quickly spread among the Yuan troops defending the city, and some people had already begun to discuss surrendering the Han army outside the city.

Wen Chou, who was patrolling the city, soon noticed that something was wrong, raised the horsewhip in his hand, and beat the soldiers who were gnawing on the steamed buns, ordering the soldiers to throw the steamed buns outside the city. He had just eaten a large plate of roast mutton in the morning, and he naturally didn't look at these steamed buns, but he didn't know the suffering of ordinary soldiers.

Suddenly, there was another loud noise outside the city, and I saw a white object flying in the air, but it was the Han army that only started a trebuchet. When some soldiers saw the white object, they thought it was a large steamed bun and rushed over to grab it. When the white object fell to the ground, everyone realized that this time it was a cloth bag, and there were traces of blood on the outside of the bag, but it had already turned dark red.

A captain had already walked over with a knife, drove the troops away, picked up the cloth bag and wanted to throw it under the city, but suddenly felt a strange smell, hesitated for a moment to open the cloth bag, and rolled out a human head from it.

Everyone was shocked, and some of the brave people stepped forward to pick up the head and take a look, and couldn't help shouting: "Oh no, this is General Yan's head!" ”

Wen Chou and Yan Liang have always been good friends, and the two are called brothers. A few days ago, Yan Liang led the army back from Liyang to aid Yecheng, but was ambushed by the Han army halfway, and there has been no whereabouts since then, Wen Chou is very anxious about this.

Now, suddenly hearing the soldier's shout, I couldn't help but be surprised, when I stepped forward to look, it was really Yan Liang's head, although he had been dead for many days, but the Han army had salted in lime, and his face was still lifelike, especially a pair of leopard eyes, which was really dead.

Wen Chou looked up to the sky and shouted, suddenly fell to the ground, hurriedly rescued each other left and right, and woke up after a long time, and said hatefully: "Liu Xin, the hatred of killing my brother is not the same as the sky, Wen must take your head to sacrifice my brother's spirit in the sky!" ”

Since the day he lost the news of Yan Liang, Yuan Shao had already known that Yan Liang was more than lucky, and now he heard that the Han army threw Yan Liang's head on the city, but there were not too many accidents, sighed, and ordered people to live well. Because only the head had no body, he had to order someone to take incense wood to carve it instead.

Wen Chou cried a lot, and asked Yuan Shao for his life: "Lord, please let the last general go out of the city to fight and avenge his brother!" ”

The judge hurriedly persuaded: "General Yan donated his life, and we also choked for it, but the Jingzhou army is menacing, we should temporarily avoid its edge, and ask the general to mourn!" ”

Now that Gao Ran and Lu Yi have been imprisoned, Wen Chou has become the only reliance in Yuan's army, and Yuan Shao didn't dare to let him leave his left and right, so he had to wave his hand and said: "This is Liu Xin's trick, if you want to take the opportunity to disturb our army's heart, the generals must not be fooled." I only hold on to the city, forgive him for only more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, what can I do? ”

Suddenly, there was a burst of shouts outside the city, and after listening carefully, it was someone who was preaching that the four acropolises of Wucheng, Dirty City, Jiuhou City, and Pingyang City and the surrounding counties had been captured by the Han army, and Yecheng had become a lonely city, which would be broken sooner or later, so it was better to surrender early! This cry was chaotic and subtle at first, but gradually became louder and more neat, and spread all over the city.

Xu You listened for a while, and suddenly shouted, "It's not good! This is the embattled plan of the Jingzhou army, he must have made the sergeant pretend, and asked the lord to tell the three armies quickly, don't fall for them! ”

It turned out that these shouts outside the city were all accents of the northern states, Qingdao, Hebei, You, and all the states, and Liu Xin's soldiers and horses should all be from the south and northwest, but now they are all accents of these four states, doesn't it imply that the soldiers and civilians in the city have been captured by Liu Xin. There were still 360,000 Yuan troops in the city, but most of these people's families still stayed in the township, and when they learned that their hometown was captured, who didn't worry about the safety of their relatives, where did they still have the heart to fight. It's better to be in the city now, but if it's camped in the wilderness, I'm afraid many people will have fled.

When Yuan Shao heard the words "embattled", he also suddenly realized, and hurriedly sent someone to pass the order. In fact, it was good that he didn't give the order, and the soldiers' shouts to the Han army outside the city were only suspicious, and as soon as this order was conveyed, the soldiers' doubts were even deeper. If you listen closely, you can see that the accents of those who are shouting outside the city are very authentic, and they cannot be imitated in the short term. And these cries were not shouted by one or two, but by thousands of people in unison. If the Han army did not occupy those places, where would they go to find so many northerners?

In fact, these people who shouted were all Yuan Jun's pawns. These Yuan soldiers came from the four acropolises, and after they became prisoners, they lived a good life, with a full breakfast, and meat for lunch and dinner. A few lieutenants had just arrived, and they had them shout in succession according to these words. Those who shouted well continued to stay with the Han army to eat and drink well, and those who shouted badly were immediately deported back to their hometowns. None of these soldiers are willing to give up their current good life, so naturally the more they shout, the harder they work. They were originally from the four northern states, and the accents of the shouts were certainly realistic.

Seeing that the defenders were getting more and more agitated, Yuan Shao was anxious, and killed several of them one after another, saying that they disturbed the morale of the army, but the movements of the other three gates were getting bigger and bigger, so he had to let the judges, Xu You, and Xin Ping go to the bullet pressure respectively. At this time, the city, which had just been quiet for a while, was in a commotion again, and when Yuan Shao looked up, a group of people came down from the city, carrying a white flag.