Zhang He, who chased after him, did not disappoint Pan Feng's expectations, and stopped the personal guards who fled to Peiping with Dan Jing's body before dark.

It was not too nonsense. Zhang He's Qilin Camp immediately wiped out all of them after stopping the guards.

It was also at this time that Zhang He realized that Shan Jing actually committed suicide.

Shan Jing's approach won Zhang He's respect. He ordered people to restrain Shan Jing's body and then take it back to the Jizhou camp.

When Pan Feng learned that Shan Jing had committed suicide due to his defeat, he didn't say much, but asked Lao Li in the valley to find a good place to bury him.

So far, two mainstays of Gongsun Zan's camp have been broken into Pan Feng's hands. Now, there are Tian Kai and Tian Yu under Gongsun Zan's command. As for his brothers, in Pan Feng's opinion, they are just people who are not good at success or failure, and they are not worth worrying about.

After resting on the spot for a day, Pan Feng led the army to continue heading towards Peiping.

......

On the other hand, Gongsun Zan, located in Peiping, also learned about Shan Jing's defeat from several soldiers who fled back three days later, and also learned about the strategy used by Pan Feng.

Originally, Gongsun Zan thought that even if Shan Jing was defeated, he could escape immediately. Now that he has not returned to the city, he probably has been delayed by something.

After waiting for two more days, what we did was not alone but the mighty army of Jizhou.

By this time, Gongsun Zan had a very bad premonition in his heart.

Even Pan Feng's army fell. Shan Jing was not likely to be on the way. There is only one possibility that he has not returned yet - Shan Jing has been defeated and died!

When he thought of this, Gongsun Zan felt a cramp in his heart.

Yan Gang and Shan Jing are both good brothers who are born and die by Gongsun Zan. They once made an appointment to make achievements, but they did not want to follow Yan Gang to leave the Dan Jing in Pan Feng's hands.

From beginning to end, Gongsun Zan never doubted that Dan Jing had escaped alone. He believed in Dan Jing's character and their friendship for many years.

"Chang Wen! You stop here!" Gongsun Zan was a little sad, but he did not blame Pan Feng.

It is abnormal to not fight to the death when two armies fight. Moreover, Shan Jing did not die at Pan Feng's hands, but died after defeat. If you insist on it, Shan Jing lost the desire to survive. Otherwise, even if he loses his ability, he can escape back to Peking as soon as possible.

Gongsun Zan didn't know that Pan Feng sent Zhang He to chase and even cut off Dan Jing's body.

Seeing that Gongsun Zan was a little immersed in the grief of Dan Jing's death, Gongsun Ji was anxious.

"The most urgent task is to deal with the Jizhou army outside the city. With the current situation of our army, it should be difficult to resist Pan Feng's attack method of connecting the catapults and the siege soldiers." Gongsun Ji said.

His words successfully diverted Gongsun Zan's attention.

Pan Feng used a trencher and it was found by Gongsun Ji a few days ago by looking up the classics. However, the description recorded in the book is somewhat different from the description sent back by Dan Jing, and the power between the two is also a thousand miles apart. However, one thing is certain that with Beiping City's current defensive ability, it is still difficult to resist the ejection of such a trencher.

However, having difficulties does not mean there is no way.

Because it was too early to find the trencher, Youbeiping has made some preparations in the past few days. Among them, the one that is the most defensive to the huge rocks in Gongsun Zan is undoubtedly the small earthen castles that have been built on the city.

This kind of earthen castle looks like a small pile of sand, with a height of no more than six feet. There is a small space built with stones inside the earthen castle, which can probably accommodate two soldiers. The outside is covered with thick sand. These soft sand can reduce some of the impact force when the earthen castle is hit by a huge rock to protect the soldiers hiding in the earthen castle.

Gongsun Zan and others have already done experiments. The huge rocks smashed from the city tower will take four times to defeat the earthen castle. If you rub it, you can withstand more times.

This is the best way to deal with it that Gongsun Zan and others can come up with within a few days.

Judging from the description of single scriptures, the Jizhou Army's catapults all thrown huge stones of hundreds of kilograms. The accurate head of this kind of stone is definitely not as easy as that of a bow and arrow, so the smaller earthen castle can avoid the impact of most of the huge stones.

This kind of earthen castle is simple to manufacture and low cost. It can stand hundreds of people on one city wall. If two soldiers can be hidden in each earthen castle, then the entire city wall can be guaranteed to guard hundreds of soldiers when the enemy's catapult attacks. At that time, even if the Jizhou army launches an attack, these hundreds of people can still buy enough time for the soldiers in the rear.

Even if a castle is destroyed in the process, it can be easily rebuilt.

These are the advantages that Gongsun Zan and others have at this moment, but compared with another aspect of the Dan Jing, this advantage seems a bit indescribable.

In his letter to Gongsun Zan, Shan Jing described the combat power of the Jizhou army in detail. In the words of Shan Jing, all the soldiers of Jizhou were elite.

Gongsun Zan knew that if the single scripture said it was an elite, it would be true. In this way, the two sides could show a huge gap in the quality of their soldiers, and this gap would be infinitely magnified when the defending city was suppressed.

Maybe by then, the hundreds of people in the city will not be able to support the soldiers behind you.

This is also something Gongsun Ji was worried about.

"Although the soldiers of the Jizhou Army are stronger than our army, our army also has an advantage that the Jizhou Army does not have, that is, the people!" Gongsun Zan said.

Seeing Gongsun Ji pondering, Gongsun Zan continued: "The people in the city of Beiping are mostly those who have followed and supported me in their early years. They must be facing me in their hearts. Now that Beiping City is in crisis, I only need to climb one step higher and recruit young and strong people in the city in an instant. At that time, we only need to spend time with the Jizhou army slowly to drag them down."

The people in the city are Gongsun Zan's last confidence.

As early as when we learned that Pan Feng’s army was coming, Gongsun Zan, Gongsun Ji and others decided on a general strategy, that is, “consuming”!

Gongsun Zan knew very well that with the current ability of the Youzhou Army, it was completely different from the Jizhou Army, not to mention that the number of Jizhou Army was greater than that of the Youzhou Army. In this way, if he really chose to fight against Pan Feng head-on, let alone whether he, Tian Kai and others could withstand Pan Feng's Fangtian Painting Ji.

Even if they barely resisted it, what about Qu Yi under Pan Feng's command? What about Gao Lan? Who will resist these people?

Even if these people were browsed, how could the 60,000 "elite" mentioned in the mouth of Shan Jing be able to resist the Youzhou Army's newly joined?

Then, let alone defeating the Jizhou army, it would be good to be able to save the lives of these generals.

That's why Gongsun Zan followed Gongsun Ji's plan to use the word "don' to deal with Pan Feng's Jizhou army.

The first step of their plan was to ask Shan Jing to lead an army of 10,000 to set up layers of obstacles for Pan Feng to delay Pan Feng's advance and the consumption of food and grass.

Gongsun Zan and others knew that the longer the front line, the more difficult it would be to replenish grain and grass. The consumption of transporting grain and grass from Jizhou to Peking is even more astronomical. Perhaps the financial situation of Jizhou can still be supported in the short term, but in the long run, Gongsun Zan believes that the first thing that cannot withstand will be Jizhou!

That's why they asked Dan Jing to delay the time for as long as possible, because the longer they delayed, the more elite the soldiers in Peking became, the more consumed in Jizhou became.

As one goes up and down, when the Jizhou army arrives here in Peiping, Gongsun Zan and others only need to wait for the trouble to make the Jizhou army suffer huge losses, and they directly point to the army that can no longer support it.

At that time, the Youzhou army might have a chance to fight back!

At this point, although there is some deviation from what Gongsun Zan and others expected, especially the defeat of Shan Jing was beyond everyone's expectations, no matter what, with the information provided by Shan Jing and the time to fight for, Gongsun Zan finally had the capital to spend with the Jizhou army.

The premise is that the people in the city also support them!

Gongsun Zan is still a little confident about this.

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The army finally came to an end.

Looking at the Beiping City not far away, Pan Feng sighed a lot.

After going around for a while, I finally won the city without any scruples this time. As long as I defeat Gongsun Zan, the entire Youzhou will not be able to be under Jizhou for a long time. By then, the situation in Hebei will basically be controlled by Han Fu.

As for Bingzhou to the west, there are actually not many places that Pan Feng coveted, but Taiyuan, Yanmen and other places in Bingzhou must still be in their own hands. If you want to attack Lu Bu, you will have multiple routes of march.

Just as I was thinking, I saw the gate of Beiping City suddenly opened, and then I rushed out of the cavalry.

The man rode a fast horse and headed straight for Pan Feng. When he was away from an arrow, he stopped moving forward, and then his voice came.

"Can General Pan Feng be there?"

Pan Feng knocked his horse's belly and slowly stepped forward.

"I am Pan Feng."

The visitor quickly bowed: "General Pan, my lord invites you to talk outside the city tomorrow afternoon. I wonder what the general wants?"

Gongsun Zan actually wanted to invite himself to reminisce about the past outside the city?

Pan Feng pondered for a moment, then nodded and agreed.

When the other party saw Pan Feng nodding, he turned his horse's head and ran back.

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The next afternoon.

Gongsun Zan ordered people to set up a table table to drink and eat outside the city, and then sent someone to invite Pan Feng over.

It can be seen that Gongsun Zan is very sincere and did not even carry a sword when he reminiscing with Pan Feng.

In fact, Gongsun Zan also knew that if Pan Feng really had an idea about him, even if he held a sword, it would be useless. Instead of being ridiculed by Pan Feng at that time, it would be better to just leave the sword and be open and open. With Pan Feng's character, he would definitely not take the opportunity to start.

Sure enough, when he saw that Gongsun Zan was not carrying a sword, Pan Feng also took off the sword at his waist and inserted it on the ground beside him.

Seeing this, Gongsun Zan laughed.

"You Pan Feng is still the same Pan Feng, and I, Gongsun Zan, are still the same Gongsun Zan. It's a pity that we are going to fight together." Gongsun Zan sighed while pouring wine for himself and Pan Feng.

"Brother, please!" Gongsun Zan handed the wine cup.

Pan Feng took the wine cup and put it on the table, and then made it across from Gongsun Zan.

"If Bo Gui hadn't done something wrong, you and I wouldn't have been in this situation until now." Pan Feng said.

Gongsun Zan smiled bitterly: "Even Zi and you think I'm wrong? But do you know that I have never taken the initiative to provoke any war from beginning to end."

"Liu Yu is known for being benevolent and righteous, but his employ is unknown, resulting in the Youzhou army's two major defeats and losses of nearly 100,000 yuan. In those days, there were countless widows in Youzhou. Is he right? One hundred thousand people are almost as good as the foreign tribe I killed."

After speaking, Gongsun Zan smiled a little self-deprecatingly.

It is obvious that most of the Han people killed by Liu Yu were Han people and he was not condemned at all, but he killed all foreigners, but he was always pointed at by others.

Why?

Gongsun Zan knew that Pan Feng supported his policy of treating foreign races, so even if he was about to fight, he still wanted to tell his boredom with Pan Feng, the enemy, and see if there was any chance to convince Pan Feng to make achievements with him.

Gongsun Zan knew that the chance of persuading Pan Feng was slim, but how could he know if he didn’t give it a try?

Pan Feng nodded undeniably about what Gongsun Zan said.

This is the case in this era. Power and status often determine the different treatments of many people. Everyone always likes to find advantages in powerful people, shortcomings in powerless people, and then compare the two to each other.

This is the case with Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan.
To be continued...