"Kill! Kill!"

He was obviously weak and screaming, Yuan Tanjun's charge team tried hard to move, carrying heavy earth-blocked stones, and drifted knee-deep water, trying toward the trench four hundred steps away - to be precise, he tried to charge towards the damn artificial river, wanting to throw the stone bags in his hand into the river, completely fill or temporarily fill this damn artificial river, and open up a team for himself and for his own army to break through and escape.

"Life and death! Success, failure, honor and disgrace! We are already fighting here! The soldiers, fight! For the lord, for us, for yourself, fight! Fight desperately!"

The senior generals of Yuan Tanjun shouted hysterically. The generals of Dubotun at the grassroots level had already put on the battle and carried sandbags to join the charge. However, Yuan Tanjun's charge speed could not be fast. The land soaked in the river was as loose and soft as a mouth. It could bite its ankle with one foot. When it was pulled out, it could even swallow its shoes. It was soft and soft. It was wet and slippery. It fell in three steps. Yuan Tanjun's advance was called charge, but in fact it was three points slower than walking, and the effort was consumed several times greater than walking. The area around Yecheng was thick and it was the main granary of Jizhou. However, after being soaked in the river, Yecheng, which had thick soil, turned into a swampy Yecheng.

After all the efforts of the Yuan Tan army, the team of Yuan Tan finally rushed to the vicinity of the artificial river and saw the culprit of the water-encircled Yecheng. However, correspondingly, behind the earth-encircled opposite the artificial river, countless soldiers with evil smiles appeared in their faces. They lined up behind the earth-encircled, and people raised their bows and arrows shoulder to shoulder. The Xuzhou general who led the team smiled and suddenly waved the command flag. The dense rain of arrows rose into the air, drawing countless beautiful arcs in the sky, and landed on the head of Yuan Tan's army with the sound of breaking through the air.

The screams of despair sounded one after another in Yuan Tan's army. The soldiers who were shot in the arrow fell one after another, fell into the cold and bone-blooded mud. The mud was rippling endlessly. Yuan Tanjun, who was carrying dozens of kilograms of sandbags, was also unavoidable. In the soft and sticky swamp mud, he was completely a living target for Xuzhou army. He was killed on the spot by the person who was hit by the vitals. He was shot and screamed in pain. The blood dyed the mud into pieces of pink. There were countless people who threw the sandbag stones and fled back.

Many soldiers of Yuan Tan's army, who were tenacious, were still moving forward with difficulty. They lifted the sandbags above their foreheads, blocked the feather arrows shot by the Xuzhou army, and tried to speed up their progress. With an obsession, they would throw the sandbags in their hands into the artificial river a hundred steps ahead, but they rushed forward less than thirty steps. The direct crossbow arrows of Xuzhou army also began to show their might. The powerful crossbow arrows kept shooting straight, piercing the armor and piercing the chest. Those who were shot were either dead or injured. The soldiers of Yuan Tan's army could block the upper and lower, block the bow and arrows but could not block the crossbow arrows, and block the crossbow arrows but could not block the bow and arrows. In the face of the three-dimensional attack of the Xuzhou army, they suffered heavy casualties.

The Yuan army crossbowmen who followed the difficulty also began to fight back, hiding behind the river-filling team and shooting arrows forward. However, what greeted them was the Xuzhou army's more violent counterattack. While the flag was waving, all the Xuzhou archers shot and fought back, and shot against Yuan army's archers. The crossbowmen continued to be responsible for blocking the front enemy. The front and back rows fired alternately, aiming at the opponent by Wangsheng. The enemy was shot at the enemy. The thick and short crossbow arrows were shot at the enemy continuously, and the arrows were pouring out and then fired. The rain of arrows was pouring, and the Yuan Tan army soldiers were still falling down, and the distance of dozens of steps became extremely long. Countless soldiers could not approach the damn artificial river until the last moment of their lives.

"Those who retreat immediately kill you! Come on!" Relying on the officer's urging, Yuan soldiers finally took the lead in entering the artificial river within fifty steps. However, the closer the distance, the denser and stronger the crossbow arrows of Xuzhou Army were. The crossbow arrows flying through the air could not only easily penetrate the thin leather armor of Yuan soldiers, but also penetrate the chests of Yuan Tan soldiers and the bones of Yuan soldiers. The first Yuan soldiers to rush into within fifty steps immediately fell into the mud with crossbow arrows all over his body, and more Yuan soldiers fell down behind him at the same time.

Finally, the first Yuan army soldier could not bear the threat of death. He threw down the sandbag in his hand and ran back. As a result, he was immediately cut into pieces by the supervisory team behind him. However, more Yuan army soldiers joined the escape team. The supervisory team swung their swords and axes to intercept them desperately, forcing these Yuan army soldiers to turn around, pick up the sandbags and advance again. Countless Yuan army soldiers were trapped between the arrow rain of Xuzhou army and the swords and axes of the supervisory team, and they could not move forward and retreat, and cried and cried.

Seeing such a scene, the Jizhou general Ma Yan, who was commanding this breakthrough battle, burst into tears. He was soft-hearted several times and wanted to make a sound of gold, but he said that he could not open the mouth. For five days, the Xuzhou army had launched similar forcibly breakouts twice and launched overnight attacks twice. However, the Xuzhou army was too thorough in guarding, and each time he was repelled by the well-prepared Xuzhou army based on the siege fortifications. The casualties were of no use.

The attack during the day was heavy casualties, and the sneak attack at night was even more serious. The Yuan Tan army, who had been attacking overnight, had just left the city, and the scouts lurking outside the city immediately sent fireworks signals. The Xuzhou army, who was on duty in turn, was immediately on guard behind the fortifications, and attacked Yuan Tan's army's out-of-town team with bows and crossed the rivers. There were also the elite team of Xuzhou crossing the river from other sections and crossing the rivers. They rushed over and crossed the Yuan Tan army, killing the Yuan army with blood, and they were forced to retreat at a heavy price. After finally throwing into the sandbags in the artificial river, the stones and corpses were quickly fished out by the Xuzhou army. No one could be able to protrude and encircle, nor could they temporarily block this damn artificial river.

Yuan Tan's army has no time and opportunity. There is still some food in Yecheng City, but these foods will only be eaten sooner or later. The morale of Yecheng's defenders has fallen to the extreme. Zhangshui has only been siege for five days. When the deserters surrendered to the Xuzhou army, there were more than 500 soldiers. If they do not quickly break through the siege of Xuzhou army and let their morale and fighting spirit be so low, it will not take long before they will even lose their power to break through. So Ma Yan had no choice but to continue urging the soldiers to advance, advance under the rain of arrows from the Xuzhou army, and use the lives of the soldiers to exchange for the hope of breaking through the extreme.

Mr. Yuan Tan's face turned pale on the city wall. After being trapped by Xuzhou Army for a night of negligence, Mr. Yuan Tan also sent an envoy to ask for peace from his lord brother-in-law, Deputy Director Tao. However, his damn brother-in-law asked Mr. Yuan Tan's entire army to put down his weapons and hand over all the army and power, and to go to Xuchang to be an idle official to eat, drink and wait for death. The arrogant Mr. Yuan Tan naturally could not accept such humiliating conditions, so Mr. Yuan Tan made up his mind to break through and highlight the siege of his brother-in-law no matter how much it cost!

It is of course the best to be able to stand out. Even if you cannot stand out, Mr. Yuan Tan is not working hard in vain. Mr. Yuan Tan still has this idea in his mind, even if he can't get out of the siege, he can hold on for more time as long as the soldiers die, and he will have more hope to persevere until a new turning point occurs.

The Xuzhou army did not disappoint Mr. Yuan Tan. As the reinforcements quickly arrived at the battlefield, the number of crossbows of the Xuzhou army quickly reached an astonishing number. The arrow rain was dense like the continuous drizzle of spring, and densely filled locusts kept coming to the head of the Yuan army's river filling team, leaving Yuan Tan army soldiers with no foothold on the other side of the artificial river. The remaining river filling infantry were almost wiped out in an instant. The Yuan army's archers and the supervisors who shot against the Xuzhou army were also seriously injured and were forced to flee to the distance in a panic. No one was able to return to the formation alive.

"Who dares to go up next?" Ma Yan turned to the generals behind him and asked, and added, "Repeat again, who can lead the team to fill a section of the pottery trench and open up the way for our army to advance. Whoever is promoted to the third level will be rewarded with 500 kilograms of gold and silver, and ten beauties!"

No one said, nor did anyone dare to say anything. The battlefield ahead was already full of corpses, and the blood was so bloody that the mud was dyed red. No one dared to die in vain. Ma Yan asked again in anger, but no one dared to take the order of death. Ma Yan shouted in anger: "Do you want me to name it? Then I will say ugly words in front. If anyone is named, if you don't go, you will be killed immediately!"

"General, it's not that we dare not go." Several generals of Yuan army knelt down and cried, "It's because we can't rush over, it's impossible that we can't rush over! Don't let the soldiers die in vain, we have no chance to break through!"

Seeing the generals crying, Ma Yan also burst into tears. After a long time, he turned his face away and whispered: "Ming Jin, what's the crime? I'll bear it alone."

The golden gong sounded, and the Yuan Tan army lined up to the formation was as if they were amnesty. They quickly stopped and fled back to Yecheng City, which was nearly a foot deep. The soldiers of Xuzhou opposite the artificial river were cheering like a wave, while the young master Yuan Tan on the city wall was furious. Before all the teams entered the city, they immediately asked the guards to pass Ma Yan to him and asked, "Why is the golden jing? Who gave you the power to the golden jing? How did I explain before leaving the city? Even if you fill it with a corpse, you have to fill the river. Why did you stop the troops after you attacked once?"

"Lord, I can't rush over." Ma Yan said dejectedly: "Lord is on the city wall, I must have seen that the pottery thieves are too careful to guard. Our soldiers have no chance to rush to the next trench. If they rush down, they will only sacrifice the soldiers in vain!"

"I don't care about this!" Mr. Yuan Tan yelled, "I just need to fill that river and open up our army's breakthrough road! I will retreat privately and behead me if I am beheaded! People come, push Ma Yan down the city and behead me in public!"

"The Lord opens his kindness." The generals of Yuan Tan's army, led by Gao Gan, knelt down together and scrambled to plead with Yuan Tan. Gao Gan also said: "Lord, General Ma is an old minister of two generations in Jizhou. If he beheaded, he may be unfavorable to the morale of the army. I would like to ask the Lord to give his kindness to the law and spare General Ma's life."

"The crime of death can be avoided, and the crime of living cannot be escaped. If you push it down, you will be punished with eighty-year-olds in public!" Mr. Yuan Tan yelled. The generals of the high-ranking officials and others pleaded with mercy again, but were flatly rejected by Mr. Yuan Tan. Ma Yan, who decided to retreat for his own sake, was immediately pushed down the city. In front of Ma Yan, the soldiers of Yuan army were rescued, and the sticks were severely punished by eighty-year-olds. Ma Yan was so beaten that he was so thin that he was bleeding and bloody that he fainted several times.

This behavior of Mr. Yuan Tan was naturally unwilling to the hearts of the army. That night, several intermediate generals of Yuan's army rescued by Ma Yan launched a revenge, leading hundreds of soldiers to rescue Ma Yan, who was seriously injured, and then rushed to the south gate of Yecheng to surrender to the Xuzhou army. Before leaving, he lit a fire in the city, causing many chaotic casualties for Yuan Tan's army. Prince Yuan Tan was furious when he heard the news and hurriedly sent Peng An to chase him. As a result, Peng An led 3,000 troops out of the city. Before the troops arrived in front of the formation, a small half of the soldiers had already taken the opportunity to escape and surrendered to the Xuzhou army. Seeing that the situation was not good, Peng An had to retreat quickly and fled back to the city to guard the door and stayed in the door.

The morale of the Yuan Tan army was of course worried. The next morning, the senior official made another suggestion to Yuan Tan, suggesting that Yuan Tan take advantage of the fact that he still has the power to fight, and break through the entire city with all his strength and break through at night. At all costs, he crossed the Xuzhou army trenches and broke through the open area eastward. He also asked Mr. Yuan Tan to lead his troops to break through and to cheer up morale in person. Don’t hide behind the back and let the soldiers fight in front of the front like the previous few times, and expect the soldiers to open the road and break through and escape. Don’t dream of sending only one army to break through and leave another army to defend the city. Mr. Yuan Tan thought about it over and over again, and finally accepted this desperate suggestion.

On that day, Mr. Yuan Tan ordered the entire army to prepare for a night battle, load all the food and supplies that could be taken away, and ordered every soldier to prepare three days of dry food. Unexpectedly, doing so meant that he told everyone that he would break through tonight. The soldiers rushed to pack their luggage and packages to retreat. The troops in the city were in chaos, and Xuzhou Seizuo, who was lurking among Yuan Tan's army, was the Xuzhou Seizuo who had never found a chance to deliver letters to senior officials but took the opportunity to slip down the city wall in the evening, swam across the moat, and ran to the front of the Xuzhou Army defense line to report the news, and also received a double reward from Deputy Director Tao.

Although Xuzhou Xizuo failed to know the direction of Yuan Tan's breakthrough. However, even if Deputy Director Tao and Jia Lao Poison and others analyzed it with their toes, they could guess that Yuan Tan's army must have broken through the east - because there was the insurmountable Zhangshui in the north of Yecheng. The main camp of Xuzhou army was the west, and the west led to Bingzhou. Unfortunately, the road was narrow and Chen had already taken down Maocheng, cutting off the way for Yuan Tan's army. Only the east was the most suitable for Yuan Tan's army to break through. Therefore, Deputy Director Tao did not hesitate and immediately sent heavy troops to the east to deploy defenses. The two gates in the southwest also sent additional troops to garrison, and told them to block the Yuan army's breakthrough road.

In fact, this blocking battle was easier than Deputy Director Tao expected. At night, although Mr. Yuan Tan told him to leave the city at the third update, gather outside the east gate and break through, but just halfway through the second update, Feng Li, the timid commander of the west gate of Yuan's army, had already opened the city gate and took the lead in escaping from Yecheng, which was more than a foot deep. The Yuan army was about to leave the city from the west gate, and was very frightened. He also said that the time for breaking out was coming. Before the sound of the bangzi was confirmed, he rushed out of the city and bypassed Yecheng and gathered outside the east gate.

As a result, the morale of the Yecheng City defenders, whose morale had already fallen to the extreme, were of course in chaos. Peng An quickly opened the south gate and led his army out of the south gate to gather east, fearing that he would not have a chance to escape after running one step. The people rush and shoved each other, trampling on each other, and countless dead people could be heard clearly from several miles away. After learning the news, Mr. Yuan Tan, who was still organizing his family to get on the bus in his house, was shocked and had to let his wife and children get on the bus in a hurry, leading the main force to open the east gate and break through in advance. The entire breakthrough plan was completely disrupted.

The even more unlucky one is still behind. At this time, the Zhang River originated from the Taihang Mountains was flooded due to spring rain and mountain torrents. The flood peak happened to arrive in Yecheng tonight, causing the water surface of the Zhang River to suddenly rise. The river water poured into Yecheng, with a low-lying terrain. The water of the plain was several feet deep. Yuan Tan's army could only break eastward in the water that was deep with legs. The Xuzhou army, which was high and had digging moats and digging soil to build a surround, was almost unaffected. He attacked the Yuan Tan army who was trying to break through. Yuan Tan's army was defeated. No matter how hard he tried, he could not cross the artificial river dug by the Xuzhou army. He was killed by the Xuzhou army who had been prepared and had corpses floating all over the ground. Countless dead people were killed.

From nearly the third update to the end, there was no hope of breaking through the fourth update. On the contrary, the water on the ground was getting bigger and bigger, deeper and less and fewer soldiers participated in the battle, and more and more soldiers surrendered to the Xuzhou army. Seeing that the situation was not good, Yuan Tan had to quickly lead his army back to Yecheng to continue defending the dead. Fortunately, because the water suddenly rose, the primary goal of the Xuzhou army was to block Yuan Tan's way out, so before the Xuzhou army had time to attack the city, Yuan Tan finally had the foothold of Yecheng.

But that was enough. When he returned to the city to count the troops, Mr. Yuan Tan was shocked to find that the 30,000 defenders in Yecheng were less than 10,000. Not only did he lose all the food and supplies he brought out of the city, the hungry and cold people in Yecheng also took the opportunity to rob a lot of food stored in Yecheng, causing the original treasury to drop to less than 30%. Mr. Yuan Tan was furious and immediately ordered the army to investigate and arrest the people who robbed the grain, vowing to take back every grain he lost!

The attack on Master Yuan Tan was still behind. It was not until dawn that Master Yuan Tan realized that Zhang Nan and Peng An, the generals who had not returned to the city, did not die in the chaos, but surrendered to the Xuzhou army with their confidants. The fortifications of the Xuzhou army were crowded with surrendered soldiers, and many soldiers from Yecheng simply surrendered to the Xuzhou army with their families.

What surprised Mr. Yuan Tan was that Zhang Nan and Peng An all took the opportunity to surrender. Feng Li, the commander of the West Gate who opened the city gate to escape, escaped back to the city and ran to his own face to show his merits and flatter him. However, Yuan Tan refused to reward the loyal minister this time, and immediately shouted: "Put him out, dismember him from the corpse, and feed the corpse to the dog!"

"Lord, please spare me! Lord, please spare me! I will be loyal to you, and I will be loyal to you!"

In fact, General Feng Li, who wanted to find an opportunity to make contributions to the city after returning to the city, was pushed out. He was dismembered by a knife with regret that he should not be greedy. Young Master Yuan Tan also sat on the floor, staring at the accumulated water on the ground downstairs in a daze, murmured, "What should I do? What should I do?"

"Don't worry, lord, have a plan to turn defeat into victory and turn the world around." Gao Gan suddenly came to Master Yuan Tan's ear and whispered: "The former lord asked to surrender, but the Tao thief Xu was not dead. Now our army has been defeated in a row and is at the end of the road. When the weather is clear and rainy, the lord sends people to surrender again. The Tao thief must believe our army's intention to surrender. Then he said that the Tao thief deceived our army in Guandu last time. Our army was afraid that he would break his promise and regret it. He must have the Tao thief personally come to the city to prove his sincerity in recruiting surrender. Our army can only believe that the Tao thief is greedy for quick determination to the north and must agree. Then……….”
Chapter completed!