Although Li Jing gritted his teeth at Gongsun Zhan's despicable and even ungrateful, he could only focus on the overall situation and try to rescue tens of thousands of soldiers trapped in Jixian County.

In order to rescue Gongsun Zhan, Shengshang dispatched 160,000 horses from Qingzhou, Wancheng and other places, traveling thousands of miles. Since he began to use troops in the early summer of last year, it has been nearly a year and a half to this day, and he has spent as much as two million stone of grain, and Gongsun Chan is still stingy with grain and grass, can he stand up to the dead soldiers of our Han Dynasty? Li Jing scolded the case, and his anger was hard to dissipate.

Xu You let out a disdainful laugh: "I have long known that Gongsun Chan is a villain who will repay and calculate. In his heart, it is false to surrender to the court, and it is true to use the power of the court to keep the identity of the princes on his side! ”

His lord did such a despicable thing, Luo Guanzhong's face was gloomy, and he could only keep silent, expressing deep disappointment with the white horse general who was once famous in the north.

Li Jing calmed down his anger, and finally said: "Although it is not a pity for Gongsun Zhan to die, the soldiers in the city are innocent, and if so much baggage grain and grass is obtained by the Tang army, it will make the enemy army like a tiger, so we must try to break through the Gu'an defense line before the Tang army breaks through Jixian County, and the troops will come to Jixian County." Even if you let the heavy grain and grass in the city be burned, you can't give it to Tang Kou! ”

After making up his mind, Li Jing left Xu You and Yujuluo to defend the base camp of Fangcheng, and he took Luo Guanzhong to raise 20,000 troops, rushed to Gu'an in the starry night, and met Li Cunxiao, Chen Deng, and Gao Gao, to see if he could survive Gu'an and reach Jixian County without paying a lot of casualties, and rescue Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and horses trapped in the city?

With Li Jing's order, the Han army battalion shouted and neighed. Torch display. 20,000 horses braved the bleak autumn wind and left the camp in the middle of the night. Ran and marched towards the Gu'an Dangerous Pass, which was one hundred and forty miles apart.

The sky is dawning, inside and outside Jixian County. The horn whimpered, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

This city has a history of 800 years, in the Spring and Autumn Period was the capital of the Ji Kingdom, and was later annexed by the powerful Yan State, and the capital was established here, and continued to be called Ji County. If you want to ask where Jixian is, it is actually the imperial capital before Liu Wei crossed.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Jixian County was not the same as the prosperity before Liu Bian's crossing, because it was located in the north, it has always been a frontier town to resist the Xiongnu, Beirong, Xianbei and other foreign races. For hundreds of years, there has been a lot of fire.

Yan set the capital of Jixian for 400 years, at least by the alien race large and small thousands of attacks of different scales, until 323 BC, a tribe called Beirong in the Xiongnu gathered 150,000 troops to attack Jixian, Yan Huan Hou could not resist, forced to move the capital to the south.

Since then, Jixian County has always been the seat of governance of Guangyang County, Guangyang State, Yan State and other counties, and the political, military and economic center of the north. Jixian city has a thick high wall, 15 miles long from east to west, 12 miles from north to south, and 150,000 residents in the city. There is a three-zhang wide moat outside the city, which can be described as impregnable and fortified.

Of course. No matter how impregnable a city is, it depends on the military strength of the attacker, as long as the pressure of the attack is strong enough. Even a lump of iron will be crushed into powder.

Since Li Ji formulated the siege plan, Wang Bodang led 10,000 crossbowmen to fire arrows around Jixian overnight. Keep shooting arrows with flames into the city of Jixian County, and blow the horn around Jixian County, one will be in the south and one will be in the north, in the first half of the night in the west and in the second half of the night in the east, constantly creating chaos, so that the defenders in the city are afraid and dare not relax for a moment, so as to consume the spirit of the defenders in the city.

Facing the harassment of the Tang army, it was impossible to see how many men and horses there were in the night, and the defenders at the head of the city bent their bows and arrows one after another, shooting at each other with the Tang army under the city. Just as the Gongsun army was preparing to recuperate, this team went around to the foot of another city wall and shot rockets at the head of the city.

The angry defenders at the head of the city were furious, and they pulled their bowstrings like a full moon, and fired a burst at the Tang army under the city, but they found that the other party had slipped away, and just breathed a sigh of relief, this team appeared at the foot of another city wall.

In this way, for most of the night, Wang Bodang led 10,000 crossbowmen to circle around Jixian County like loaches, constantly harassing the defenders in the city, so that the 20,000 defenders distributed on the four city walls in the southeast, northwest and northwest kept tense their nerves, and they did not dare to be careless for a moment.

It wasn't until dawn that Tian Yu, who came to replace Luo Cheng, woke up the dreamer with a word: "The Tang army is clearly harassing our army, consuming the spirit of our army, making us not eat and sleep well, and our spirits are tired, so he can attack the city during the day." ”

"Oops...... The trick of the Tang Kou! After Tian Yu's reminder, Luo Cheng came to his senses.

The night was blank, and there was a mist in the city, and the Tang army under the city did not use torches to illuminate, so Luo Cheng could not know how many Tang troops were attacking the city under the city, so he could only order the whole army to be on alert. Now that I got Tian Yu's reminder, I suddenly realized that there was only one Tang army attacking the city tonight, and it kept circling Jixian, intending to consume the energy of the defenders, so as to achieve the best results during the siege during the day.

Seeing that there was still a period of time before dawn, Luo Cheng held a bright silver spear in his hand, frowned, and said: "Since this is the case, then leave half of the men and horses to defend the city, and withdraw 10,000 people to rest, lest the Tang army launch a fierce attack after dawn, and the soldiers have no spiritual defense." ”

Tian Yu nodded: "There is still a period of time before dawn, it is better to withdraw 10,000 horses to rest first, it is estimated that the soldiers are tired from being tossed this night." Anyway, in half an hour, the other 20,000 soldiers led by the lord and Ran Tianwang will climb the city wall to defend, and it is expected to be no big problem! ”

At that moment, Luo Cheng sent someone to inform Gongsun Fan, Gongsun Xu's uncle and nephew who were guarding the north gate and the west gate, to withdraw half of the troops from the various city walls to go down to the city to eat and sleep, leaving half of the people to continue to defend the city, until the soldiers and horses led by Gongsun Zan and Ran Min came to the head of the city to take over, and then went down to rest.

The young Gongsun Xu had not fought at night for a long time, his eyes were red all night, he yawned for a long time, and he summoned the soldiers under his command with a wave of his hand: "I just said, the Tang army will definitely not attack the city tonight, just leave 10,000 horses to defend the city, and the others will rest under the city wall." Luo Chengfei said that the enemy army was pressing the territory on a large scale and should not be underestimated, but he was teased all night. Let's go down the city wall and sleep! ”

Under the leadership of Gongsun Fan and Gongsun Xu's uncle and nephew, half of the defenders at the head of each city were withdrawn, and they were piled up in groups of seven or eight around the cooking camp, drinking gruel and filling their stomachs with dry food and pickles, and then they went into the barracks and fell down on the bed, covered their heads with quilts and slept loudly.

"Order Wang Bodang's bow and crossbow camp to rest, leaving 20,000 horses to stand by in front of the walled gate, and Li Siye led the remaining 70,000 horses to launch a fierce attack on Jixian County!" Knowing that there were noisy people on the wall of Jixian County and hurried footsteps, Li Ji knew that the opportunity had come, and immediately ordered to launch a fierce attack on Jixian County.

Tang Jun went to bed early last night, the fourth watch got up and put on armor, ate and excreted, and after the fifth watch, they quietly gathered in front of the gates of each village, with Li Ji's order, 70,000 soldiers kept silent and picked up the bell, quietly covering up and killing Jixian.

At dawn, the sky will be bright, it is the darkest moment of the twelve hours, and the autumn fog is thick, until the 70,000 Tang army approached the moat two hundred zhang, the Gongsun army at the head of the city found the Tang army sneak attack, hurriedly blew the horn, beat the war drums, and summoned the soldiers under the city to climb the city to assist in the defense.

"Kill!"

With a wave of the bronze Pu knife in his hand, Li Siye led the three thousand Mo sword soldiers to charge first, and set the cloud ladder on the moat of more than three zhang, as a bridge on the city wall, carrying a shield on his head, and launched a fierce attack on Jixian County.

All of a sudden, the sound of killing under Jixian County shook the sky, arrows rained down, and rolling stones crackled down like hailstones.

Taking advantage of the sparse defenders on the city, the 70,000 Tang army attacked fiercely, putting hundreds of ladders on the city wall, holding shields, and the first dead soldiers were responsible for the charge, and tens of thousands of archers shot on their backs under the city to relieve the pressure on the climbing warriors.

"Kill!"

Li Siye's Mo knife soldiers were well-equipped, well-trained, and strong in combat, taking advantage of the small number of defenders, a captain with a big axe took the lead in climbing the city wall, and more than a dozen Mo knife soldiers rushed up behind him.

For a time, Jixian County, with its high walls and thick walls, was in danger.

"Ran Min is here!"

At the critical moment, Ran Min led a support army to kill, and the double-edged spear of the dragon and tiger in his hand waved like a huge wave, expelling the Tang army that had just ascended to the city, crackling like dumplings in the pot.

"Kill, kill Tang Kou!"

Gongsun Zhan, who was having breakfast, was also shocked by the sudden outbreak of fighting, knowing that the Tang army had invested a lot of troops in this wave of attack, and it was by no means a tentative attack, so he was anxious to carry a pair of bronze whips and led more than 10,000 elite soldiers to the top of the city to assist Luo Cheng in resisting the attack of the Tang army.

Fortunately, Ran Min and Gongsun Zhan led the reinforcements in time, so they helped Luo Cheng withstand this wave of sneak attacks of the Tang army, and the two sides fought fiercely from early morning to noon.

Li Ji roughly estimated that the Tang army had at least five or six thousand lives in this morning's onslaught, while the defenders on the head of the city relied on the majesty of the city wall of Jixian County and sufficient arrows, and the casualty rate was about 1,500, and the casualty ratio of both sides was about three to one.

"Dudu, it's time for this king to come out, right?"

Li Yuanba held a drum urn and a golden hammer, riding a tall and vigorous lamp, watching the ladders of the Tang army constantly being overturned by the defenders, and watching the Tang troops who were about to climb the city wall being hacked to death and falling, he gritted his teeth with hatred, and wanted to rush out to attack the city if he couldn't bear it.

"Wait!" Li Ji was calm and calm, and the eight winds did not move, "Don't worry, prince, everything is subject to my arrangement, and it will not be too late for you to attack the city!" ”

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