Xu Chen was very enthusiastic and proactive in "persuading" Fan Ji. Of course, Yang Hu agreed readily. If he could take over Jiuzhen County like he could take over Rinan County, why not do it?

Moreover, there was no loss for the Wei army. Even if Xu Chen failed to persuade the surrender, Jiuzhen County would have a battle sooner or later. The Wei army would fight. What else should I consider?

If Xu Chen took this opportunity to defect to the Wu Kingdom, it would obviously be unlikely, because Xu Chen had already surrendered to the Sunan County before. Even if he fled back to the Wu Kingdom, he would inevitably suffer considerable punishment and even lose his life for it. I believe Xu Chen would not have made such a stupid decision.

For the Wei army, if Xu Chen successfully persuaded surrender, they could take down Jiuzhen County without bloodshed, and successfully open the southern gate of Jiaozhi County, thus ringing the death knell of the remnant Wu court.

If Xu Chen's persuasion failed to succeed, the Wei army would lose one acting prefect, and it could even be said to be unscathed. After all, it would not be a big problem to catch one of the agent prefects, and if one died, one would replace it with another. There would be more candidate prefects in line behind.

So when Xu Chen suggested that he persuade him to surrender the Jiuzhen Prefect Fan Ji, Yang Hu of course agreed happily. Of course, the more things that are worthless, the better.

In addition, Yang Hu certainly did not wait for news in Rinan County. Instead, he took advantage of Xu Chen's journey north that the Wei army's infantry battalion had already led his troops northward and headed straight to the city of Jiuzhen County.

Xu Chen has been in the city for a while, but he has never appeared again. Yang Hu estimated that Xu Chen's mission had failed. It seems that the Jiuzhen Prefect Fan Ji is a stone in Mao Kangli, which is smelly and hard.

Yang Hu immediately ordered the Wei army to launch an attack on Jiuzhen County.

According to the situation mastered by the Wei army in advance, the troops left by Jiuzhen County were estimated to be less than 5,000, and basically the combat effectiveness of the Dujun soldiers would not be much higher. As long as the Wei army went to the ground with all their strength to launch an attack and seize Jiuzhen County, there would be almost no problem.

However, at the beginning of the battle, Yang Hu knew that there was something wrong with his judgment. Is the army guarding the city really just a county soldier? Judging from the combat effectiveness, it is no less than the regular Wu army.

The infantry battalion's large-scale attack across the sea was not dispatched by all its members. At least some important heavy equipment, such as catapults, rushing vehicles and other equipment, were abandoned because of its size. The infantry battalion that crossed the sea this time was completely lightweight and abandoned most of the baggage equipment.

Although the infantry battalion can maintain corresponding abilities in terms of maneuver power, the ability to attack is the most obvious decline. Before the Wei army had time to take action, Xu Chen had already led his army to surrender, so that battle did not count at all. Since the Wei army crossed the sea, the real first battle was carried out under the city of Jiuzhen County.

The battle was extremely fierce. Although the infantry battalion had rich combat experience and strength in attack, the Wu army of Jiuzhen was also very tenacious. They resisted the Wei army's offensive very resolutely and tried their best to protect the city.

Yang Hu was supervising the battle behind. Seeing this situation, he ordered the Jin to withdraw his troops. The generals were puzzled. It was still early. As long as the Wei army launched continuous attacks, it would be a matter of time before they could take down Jiuzhen County.

After all, compared with the real field army, the Jiuzhen Wu army usually fights, just to suppress bandits and suppress rebellions from alien races, and has not experienced a life-and-death battle. In this way, the Wu army is still far inferior to the Wei army in terms of experience.

Someone has estimated the attack of the Wei army. Of course, one day is not enough to win Jiuzhen County. However, as long as the Wei army persists in carrying out the battle, it will be possible to win Jiuzhen County in three to five days.

However, Yang Hu did not seem to agree with this view. After all, if you fight for three to five days in a row, you will not be able to win Jiuzhen County, but at least the degree of casualties of the Wei army is extremely huge.

Once the casualties of the Wei army exceeded Yang Hu's expectations, Yang Hu would immediately withdraw the army and no longer have such unnecessary casualties and sacrifices.

What's more, Jiuzhen County is adjacent to Jiaozhi County. Once the war here delays too long, the Wu army will definitely send troops to rescue Jiuzhen.

To attack them, it is simply that the Wei army envoys had been siegeing the city and attacking aid plan thousands of times. Now Jiuzhen County has failed to defeat it repeatedly, and the Wu army sent troops to rescue it. It is the best time for the Wei army to siege the city and attack the aid.

If she had the chance to catch a big fish, Yang Hu naturally would not place the capture of Jiuzhen County. So the Wei army changed its attack style from the next day, leaving only 5,000 people to continue besieging Jiuzhen County. The rest of the troops headed north to Yifeng. This is the only way to Jiaozhi to Jiuzhen. Ten thousand Wei soldiers ambushed here and waited for it.

At the same time, the Wei army's siege troops did not slow down the offensive and continued to launch an attack on Jiuzhen County. Of course, this kind of attack was more of a feint attack, so Yang Hu would not consume too much troops in such a place.

The Wei army's attack became loud and the raindrops were small. When they attacked, they relied more on the sword and shield soldiers with strong defense. The sword and shield soldiers lived up to expectations at this time. They could often attack the Wu army's city and launch siege operations.

Because the Wei army used thick armor and strong shields, it was difficult for Wu army's bows and arrows to injure the Wei army's sword and shield soldiers, unless they were used to use wooden rocks to attack, so as to effectively destroy the Wei army's offensive.

At this moment, the Wei army was constantly attacking and would soon evacuate. After all, only they knew in their hearts that this was a feint attack, not a real attack method. Once they encountered greater danger, they would have instructions to withdraw immediately and preserve their strength.

The repeated attacks of the Wei army brought great danger to the Jiuzhen Wu army, making Jiuzhen City on the brink of falling all the time. Although Fan Ji was very brave in fighting, he was also worried that after Jiuzhen lost, he would really have to burn both sides?

So Fan Ji heard that he sent many batches of messengers to Jiaozhi County to submit emergency documents, hoping that Tao Ji could send troops to rescue Jiuzhen County.

Under normal circumstances, the Wei army besieged the city was basically inconvenient and did not give the Wu army any chance to send letters.

But this time the situation was somewhat exceptional. The Wei army's positions were not so close. Most of the messengers sent by Fan Ji broke through the encirclement and rushed to the north to convey the news that Jiuzhen County was attacked by the Wei army to the remnant Wu court set up in Jiaozhi City.
Chapter completed!