After the poker was punished by Jiang Qi, Feng Ji and Shen Pei persuaded Yuan Shao: "Lord, our army's catapults have all been destroyed, and the soldiers' aura has been lost. Why not withdraw the troops for the time being and continue to attack the city tomorrow?"

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shao rolled his eyes to the two of them and said stubbornly: "No, I will not give up if I won't capture Guantao today! Yan Liang, where is Wen Chou?"

When Yan Liangwen Chou, who was standing beside him, heard Yuan Shao calling his name, he hurried forward: "The last one is here!"

"Yan Liang led Lu Xiang and the two generals Lu Kuang to lead 20,000 troops to attack the east of the city; Wen Chou led Meng Dai to lead two generals to lead 20,000 troops to attack the west of the city. He would never withdraw his troops until Guantao was destroyed!"

"The last general leads the troops!" Yan Liangwen Chou agreed, then turned around and left.

After the two left, Yuan Shao rushed to a general not far away and shouted: "Where is Zhu Ling?"

"The last one will be here!" Zhu Ling, who has been playing soy sauce, heard Yuan Shao's call and rushed over.

"You lead 20,000 troops to attack the south of the city." After Yuan Shao ordered Zhu Ling, he turned his head and looked at Jiang Qi, who had just been punished by the stick, and added: "You also lead your troops to attack the city with Zhu Ling. If you retreat and avoid the battle, you will be punished with both crimes. Do you understand?"

Jiang Qi was frightened and sweated in a cold sweat, and hurriedly replied: "The last general will take the order!"

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Seeing the black Yuan army approaching the city wall, Han Zhan acted extremely calm. He called Sima Jiang Fan of the Crossbow Camp and ordered: "Sima Jiang, divide the crossbow soldiers into three rows. As soon as Yuan soldiers enter the range, they will immediately take turns to shoot. Do you understand?"

"Sir, obey the order!" Jiang Fan agreed and prepared to assign a task, but was stopped by Han Zhan.

Han Zhan asked with some concern: "From Yuan Shao's division of troops, there are also heavy troops attacking the city on the east and west sides of the city. Is there enough crossbowmen?"

"Please don't worry, lord." Jiang Fan replied: "Although there are only 500 crossbowmen in the east and west of the city, the Chu Junhou and Chen Junhou are all people who have experienced a lot of battle formations. No matter how many Yuan Jun, they will still shoot them to cry and cry."

Seeing that Jiang Fan was so confident, Han Zhan felt much more at ease. He waved his hand to the other party and signaled that he could leave.

After Jiang Fan left, Zhao Yun came over to Han Zhan and Guo Jia and said, "Second brother, Mr. Guo, this time is too dangerous. You should go back to the prefect's mansion. I will send someone to report the war in the city to you at any time."

When he heard Zhao Yun say this, Guo Jia smiled but said nothing, just looked at Han Zhan with a side face, wanting to hear what he said. Han Zhan shook his head and said, "Brother, no matter how dangerous the city is, can you be as dangerous as I led the troops to attack just now? I stay here, even if I can't kill the enemy with my own hands, I can stabilize the morale of the army and boost morale. However, I am filial and have no power to tie a chicken. It's too dangerous to stay here. Brother, please send a few people to send him back to the prefect's mansion."

"Thank you for your kindness." Guo Jia laughed at first when he heard Han Zhan say this, and then said, "Since the lords are going to stay at the harsh arrows, how can we be afraid of death as our subordinates? Jia has made up his mind to accompany the lord here!"

Seeing Yuan Bing under the city entering the range, Jiang Fan raised his right hand high and shouted loudly: "Strong crossbowman, get ready!"

As he shouted, three hundred powerful crossbowmen raised the crossbow arrows in their hands and aimed at Yuan Bing who was moving under the city with a calm expression.

Jiang Fan shouted: "Let it go!" At the same time, his hand suddenly waved down.

Three hundred crossbow arrows plunged from the city into the Yuan army below. Most of the crossbow arrows were blocked by the swords and shields in the front row with shields, but twenty or thirty soldiers were still shot by crossbow arrows and fell to the ground in a flash. The soldiers behind quickly accelerated their pace and filled the gaps for those soldiers.

After the first power crossbowmen retreated, the second column stepped forward again and, under the order of Jiang Fan, shot a round of crossbow arrows at the Yuan army under the city. Since they were aiming at the spearmen without shields behind, the results achieved were greater than those of the first column, and at least nearly a hundred soldiers were caught and fell to the ground.

Soon, the third powerful crossbowmen carried out another round of volleys, causing more Yuan soldiers to fall down. However, the archers behind the sword and shield soldiers also set their bows and arrows, and shot at the top of the city. Although most of the arrows shot by Yuan soldiers under the city were blocked by the sword and shield soldiers standing at the squadron, several unlucky powerful crossbowmen were still caught in arrows on the face and fell to the top of the city.

After Yuan Jun arrived at the moat, dozens of passages were immediately cracked in a neat line. The soldiers carrying the long ladder rushed from the passage to the moat, rushed to the front, and put the long ladder in their hands on the moat. The soldiers behind quickly rushed through the moat on the bamboo ladder, rushed to the corner of the wall, and laid the long ladder on the city wall.

The mountains of corpses and broken siege equipment under the city have been cleaned up. Although it is cold today, it is possible that so many corpses will rot under the city, so Han Zhan saw that Yuan Shao did not attack a few days ago, so he arranged for people to clean up the corpses and dug a hole to bury them.

Seeing a long ladder mounted on the city wall, Yuan Jun used archers to shoot upwards to suppress the defenders at the city. Ordinary soldiers rushed over from the long ladder on the moat, rushed to the wall, and began to climb up one after another along the long ladder leaning against the city wall.

Seeing Yuan Bing climbing up the long ladder, Zhao Yun quickly issued an order. The defenders who manipulated the wolf teeth patted quickly untied the rope. The wolf teeth patted down from the sky and broke the long ladder below, smashing Yuan Bing on the ladder to the point of breaking the bones and tendons, and blood was blurred. Then the soldiers pulled up the wolf teeth patted again, preparing to wait for Yuan Jun to board the new long ladder before launching the next round of attack.

Yuan Jun under the city also learned from his mistakes. Seeing that the defender's wolf-fangpao was so terrifying, he quickly changed the long ladder to escape the attack. Seeing that the wolf-fangpao could no longer continue to attack Yuan Jun, the defender quickly used a fork rod and pushed and chopped along the ladder, using the horizontal blade in front to cut off the hands and feet of Yuan Bing on the long ladder.

For those Yuan Bing who had already emerged from the squadron, they used long spears or flail sticks to hit them from the top of the city.

Because the defenders at the city were sufficient to defend the city, the Yuan soldiers who climbed up the long ladder, plopped towards the city like dumplings. Some fell down and hit the soldiers on the escalator below, smashing them to scream.

Feng Ji and Shen Pei and his soldiers were suffering so much casualties, and they couldn't help but tell Yuan Shao again: "Lord, our army lacks enough equipment to attack the city. If you forcefully attack the city like this, you can only kill the soldiers in vain. It's better to withdraw the troops for the time being and wait for the battle tomorrow?"

Seeing that Yuan Shao was indifferent after hearing this, Shen Pei quickly winked at Xin Ping and signaled him to help him say a few words. Xin Ping nodded, came to Yuan Shao, and spoke, "Lord, Feng Yuantu, what Shen Zhengnan said was very much. We do not have enough siege equipment. If we attack with such a strong force, it will only increase casualties. It is better to stop the troops for the time being. When the earth pit outside the city is filled tomorrow, use a well railing and rush to attack the city, the pottery will be broken."

When Yuan Shao heard Xin Ping say this, although he was a little moved, he did not agree immediately. Instead, he called two small schools and ordered: "You can go to the east and west of the city to see if the two generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou have broken into the city?"

Two primary schools received the order and then rode their horses away.

Not long after, the two junior schools came back from the east and west of the city, and reported to Yuan Shao: "Your Majesty, the defense of the defenders is too strict, and General Yan Liang and Wen Chou have never attacked the city wall."

Yuan Shao sighed and ordered: "Ming Jin to withdraw his troops!"

Hearing the sound of gold coming from behind, the soldiers who were sieging the city breathed a sigh of relief. They immediately stopped siege and retreated in an orderly manner.

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After dark, Deng Sheng took a box of gold cakes and a bag of jewelry and left the city from the east, and after a big circle, he came to the south of Yuanying.

A leader outside the gate saw Deng Sheng wearing a commoner coming over with his horse, and quickly stepped forward to stop him and said loudly: "The military camp is in the important place, the treacherous person will die!"

Deng Sheng bowed to the other party and said politely: "This military master is the old friend of the captain Jiang Qi. If you have an urgent matter, please ask the military master to make peace." As he said that, he stuffed a cloth bag containing Wuzhu coins.

After taking the cloth bag containing the money, he weighed it with his hand and found that there was still a lot of money in it. Then he changed his smile and said to Deng Sheng: "Brother, Master Jiang's camp is not far from here, I'll take you there."

Chief Shi took Deng Sheng into the military camp, and walked towards the location where Jiang Qi's army was stationed, while also placing Deng Sheng's words: "I wonder what kind of friendship is between brother Tai and Captain Jiang?"

"Meet the same hometown," Deng Sheng hurriedly said, "I am a fellow villager with Jiaowei Jiang. I heard that he is here, so I came here to visit him."

When Shi Chang heard Deng Sheng say this, he looked around first. Seeing that there were no people patrolling the night nearby, he lowered his voice and said to him: "Brother, I'm going to hide it from you, you almost couldn't see Captain Jiang today."

"Ah?!" Although Deng Sheng knew the reason, he still pretended to be surprised: "Why did Jun Ye say this?"

Perhaps because of the bag of Wuzhu coins just now, Shi Chang told Deng Sheng Yuanyuan about what he had born during the day, and finally added: "Fortunately, there were other counselors who pleaded with him, otherwise Captain Jiang would be beheaded by his lord."

"Who, stop!" The two of them were talking when a loud shout suddenly came from the front.

Deng Sheng looked in the direction where the sound came, and saw a burly soldier standing in front of him. He held a torch in one hand and the other hand on the hilt of the knife around his waist, looking at himself and the eldest with a vigilant look.

"It's me!" Chief Shi quickly said to the soldier: "There is an old friend of your lieutenant who came to visit late at night. I was afraid that he would not find the way, so I brought him here."

The burly soldier came over, looked Deng Sheng up and down, and asked vigilantly: "Who are you? Why do you call yourself an old friend of my lieutenant?"

Before speaking, Deng Sheng stuffed a bag of Wuzhu coins and saw the expression on the soldier's face softened, and then he spoke: "This military master, please tell your lieutenant, just say that his old friend Deng Sheng is here to visit!"

With money, Jiang Qi's personal soldiers took Deng Sheng's money and spoke more politely: "Please wait here, I will report to the lieutenant. He is in a bad mood today. I will not wait until he sees you."

Deng Sheng bowed to the other party again: "I'm busy with military service!"

When the personal soldiers walked into the tent, Shi Chang, who was leading the way, smiled and said to Deng Sheng: "Brother, you can wait patiently here, I'll go back first."

"Thank you, Jun!" Deng Sheng politely bowed to the other party.

Not long after the personal soldiers entered, they ran out of the tent and said to Deng Sheng respectfully: "My lieutenant is welcome!"

When Deng Sheng walked into the tent, he saw a thick wool blanket on the ground, and Jiang Qi was lying on it. He hurried forward and bowed to Jiang Qi: "Brother, I haven't seen you for a long time, can you be fine?"

Jiang Qi glanced behind Deng Sheng, and saw his personal soldier standing behind him, and quickly waved his hand to him and signaled him to leave. After only him and Deng Sheng were left in the tent, he asked coldly: "Brother Deng, aren't you in Guantao City? Why did you think of coming to me?"

Deng Sheng smiled faintly and said, "I came here to save my brother's life!"

"Save my life?" Jiang Qi repeated his words after Deng Sheng finished speaking and asked disdainfully: "I wonder how Brother Deng plans to save my life?"

"Today, when Yuan Shao humiliated his brother in front of the army, he saw him on the top of the city." Deng Sheng looked heartbroken and said, "My brother is loyal to Yuan. He even wants to kill his brother in a disagreement. How can you continue to serve this person?"

"Who should we serve if we don't serve Yuan?"

"My brother, you and I were originally subordinates of Han Fujun. Han Fujun was deceived by the traitor and gave Jizhou to Yuan Shao." Deng Shengyi said righteously: "The Marquis of Zhangshuiting is the son of Han Fujun. His recovery of Jizhou is where the righteousness is. Why not be able to follow him?"

Hearing Deng Sheng's proposal, Jiang Qi just sneered and didn't say anything. Deng Sheng hurriedly came out of the tent, took out the golden cakes and jewelry that Han Zhan gave to Jiang Qi from the saddle, and walked into the tent again.

Seeing the golden cakes and jewelry placed in front of him, Jiang Qi couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Brother, don't you know where this thing comes from?"

"Brother," Deng Sheng replied with a smile: "This is a gift from Zhangshuiting Hou to you. If you lead the army to surrender, you will probably have more rewards."

Jiang Qi stared at the golden cakes and jewelry in front of him. After a long time, he spoke: "Yuan Shao's army is here. If I lead my troops out of the camp, I guess I will not be able to walk for two miles, and he will be caught up with him. Even if I have money, I will have no life."
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