Jixian County, which is the imperial capital of China in later generations, is a city with a history of 3,000 years.

In the late Han Dynasty, Jixian County was one of the few Xiongcheng in the north, and it was not only the seat of Guangyang County, but also the seat of Youzhou Thorn History.

Jixian County is located in the north of the North China Plain, located at the intersection of the plain and the mountains and the traffic point, set the steepness of the mountains, the tranquility of the river, the fertility of the plain in one, in the Tibetan wind and water storage auspicious place to form the ancient capital.

Taihang Mountain is majestic and majestic, from north to south, magnificent, galloping. Yanshan is reckless and vast, winding and twisting, like two giant dragons guarding Jixian County. The forest is dense, the mountains are green, the mountain wind is like a song stirring in the forest sea, the mist is thick, and the clouds are steaming.

The majestic Luoshui mixed with a large amount of sediment from the Loess Plateau roars, and merges with the Yanghe River from the Mongolian steppe, rushing all the way, surging and agitating, as if entering a no-man's land shuttled between the green mountains and dense forests. In the three stores in the west of Jixian County, Luoshui seems to fall from the sky, roaring out of the valley and rushing to the broad-minded, quiet and beautiful plain, which is the small plain of Jixian County, which is known as the small Jiangnan of Jixian County.

In the meantime, the Yuquan River, the Gaoliang River, the Shiyu River and other large and small rivers crisscross the land, nourishing the land, and between the cobweb-like rivers, forming a dotted lake and sea, lakes and river anchors.

The fertile land in this area is rich in a strange grass, which is called thistle, especially in the northwest corner of the hills, the thistle is very luxuriant, and it is called thistle, so people are used to calling it thistle.

A.D. 184, the seventh year of the Great Han Guanghe, May.

At the end of May, northern Hebei has entered the early summer season, the wind is light and the clouds are light, and the sky is clear.

In such a beautiful season, it should be a busy season, but also a season of harvest and sowing. However, at this moment, under the city of Jixian County, it is the neighing of horses and the sound of killing.

Li Yi and Li Pengfei, the generals of the Han Dynasty Youzhou Assassin and the commander of the army, led the army to surround Jixian County and attack endlessly.

After the news of Zhang Bao's death was transmitted back to Jixian County, the Yellow Turban Army in Jixian County was in panic, and more than 100,000 people were dispersed in just a few days.

Just when Li Pengfei thought that he could take Jixian County without bloodshed, Zhang Bao's generals, who were ordered by him to attack Shanggu and Daijun's Gaosheng, led the army to rush back from Fuyang City, the seat of Shanggu County, and stabilized the army's morale.

Collecting the remnants of Zhang Bao's troops who were still in Jixian County, plus the 30,000 troops brought back by Gao Sheng from Shanggu County, the number of Yellow Turban troops in Jixian County once again reached 80,000. It's just that, because of the previous consecutive defeats, the morale of the Yellow Turban Army is very low. Especially the tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army in Jixian County. If Gao Sheng hadn't rushed back in time, maybe all of these people would have fled from Jixian County by now.

These so-called Yellow Turban Army are actually just displaced people who Zhang Bao went all the way north to Youzhou and attacked the city and broke the pond. After they fled Jixian County, they were real refugees.

It's also interesting to say, before Gao Sheng rushed back to Jixian County, most of the tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers who fled from Jixian County fled to Quanzhou. This is related to a series of strategies that Li Pengfei has recently implemented. He sent many people to publicize the news of the homeless people under his rule in Youzhou and Hejian Kingdom in the north of Jizhou, and said that each homeless person who was taken in could get 20 acres of land free of charge.

This is a big killer, these displaced people are landless peasants, and the land has an unparalleled attraction for them.

Of course, Li Pengfei dared to release such news because the place he controls is not small now, and almost the entire Yuyang County is under his control.

And after the sweep of the Yellow Turban Army, there are very few surviving heroes in Yuyang County, and there is ownerless land everywhere. Li Pengfei naturally laughed unceremoniously at these ownerless lands, which were just used to house the displaced people he had recently taken in and the Yellow Turban prisoners he had captured.

After the recent series of wars, Li Pengfei has captured more than 120,000 Yellow Turban soldiers, and the number of displaced people taken in by the Li Family Chamber of Commerce in Youji and Hebei Prefectures has exceeded 150,000.

Quanzhou has a large area, but most of it is swampy land that is difficult to use in a short period of time, and the land is no longer enough. And as the war continues, he will definitely capture more Yellow Turban troops and take in more displaced people, and expansion is inevitable.

After properly arranging new prisoners, Li Pengfei led a large army and marched towards Jixian County. The time is about to enter June, and the allied forces of the imperial court and local powerful forces are about to launch a full-scale counteroffensive, and if he does not speed up, he may miss many major events.

The distance between Jixian and Quanzhou is nearly 180 miles, and Li Pengfei's army finally arrived outside Jixian after three days of rapid marching. This was mainly due to the fact that the foot soldiers were relatively slow, and if they were only cavalry, they could have arrived in a day.

But because this time it was definitely necessary to attack the city, Li Pengfei had to bring foot soldiers.

After a period of rest and recuperation, Li Pengfei's cavalry was once again restored to the scale of 5,000, and the poor ones were all selected from among the infantry men with better riding skills to make up for them.

Leaving the 5,000-strong army to guard the rear, Li Pengfei personally led 5,000 cavalry and 15,000 foot soldiers, together with Gongsun Zhan's 3,000 cavalry, to slaughter Benji County.

Because of Li Pengfei's prestige, Gao Sheng did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle, but chose to stick to the city.

This is that Jixian County is big enough, and after Zhang Bao's sweep in the early stage, the rich households in Jixian County were looted, and the civilians were basically turned into the Yellow Turban Army by him, otherwise his 80,000 army really couldn't fit it.

It can be said that when Li Pengfei led the army to Jixian County, the whole city was already full of soldiers, and it was all yellow scarves.

With Li Pengfei's troops, it is naturally impossible to surround and attack Jixian County on all sides. Therefore, he concentrated his forces in the direction of the eastern city wall, wanting to use this as a breakthrough.

In fact, this is the best choice for Li Pengfei's attack. If he chose to attack from several directions, he would have just taken advantage of the strength advantage of the Yellow Turban Army. There are so many Yellow Turban troops in the city, one city wall will definitely not be able to put it, and even if all four city walls are full of Yellow Turban Army, there are still many leftovers.

After leading the army to Jixian County, after just a short rest, Li Pengfei let the army tentatively launch an attack.

Of course, such an attack had no effect, although the Yellow Turban Army was not good at defending the city, but after all, it had a geographical advantage and a military advantage.

Moreover, Li Pengfei's army, from generals to soldiers, also had no experience in attacking cities at all. Needless to say, Li Pengfei is the lord, he comes from later generations, and the city wall is a rare thing for him, let alone attacking the city? As for Yue Fei and Guan Yu and others, they also have no experience in this area.

Of course, it's one thing to have no experience, and everyone still knows a little about the methods of siege. There are many siege methods in this era, but what is really commonly used is nothing more than soil accumulation, cloud ladders, cave attacks, water attacks, and ants attached along the city.

The first method is the most commonly used, which is to pile up bags of earth under the city walls, pile them on top of the walls, and then rush up the slope. This method consumes a relatively large amount of manpower, takes a long time, and has heavy casualties, and wants to rely on this method to attack the four-zhang high Jixian city wall, just piling up soil, you have to kill and injure thousands.

The trouble with the ladder is that it is not easy to carry, after dozens of battles since going north to Youzhou, Gao Sheng also learned to be obedient, before Li Pengfei led the army to Jixian County, he cut down all the wood within a dozen miles around the city, and could only build it from a distance and transport it over, which was very troublesome.

Cave attack is to dig tunnels, if you can be surprised, it is a good way, but once discovered, the strange soldiers in the tunnels will die, whether it is smoke or water.

Water attack, this depends on the terrain, there are basically endless plains within a hundred miles around Jixian County, and it seems to be useless.

As for the ant attachment to the siege of the city, it is all used together.

Of course, in addition to these methods, there are some more effective methods, but this involves a lot of siege equipment, such as nest cars, rushing cars, and wells. When the attack is launched, the nest cart transports troops, rushes the car and hits the door, arranges archers on the well to cover, and then the well-equipped elite takes the lead, so that it is an attack and a defense.

However, whether it is a nest car, a rushing car, or a well, it needs craftsmen who know how to make these instruments, and Li Pengfei's army has only been established for a few months, although such craftsmen have also collected a few, but they are a drop in the bucket, and it will be too difficult for a strong man to make a gain in this siege war.

Therefore, the tentative siege they launched is the most basic method.

Such a method, when Zhang Qun attacked Quanzhou, which was guarded by 20,000 people, with 50,000 troops, it was not effective in a short period of time, not to mention that now Li Pengfei is using a small number of troops to attack Jixian County, which has absolutely superior troops.

Therefore, the temptation of the three days before and after had no effect. Fortunately, he was only tentative, so he didn't lose much manpower.

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