Liu Zhi was stationed in the dense forest. He observed the distance between him and Ye County. The distance was just right, and he was overjoyed: "It depends on your courage."

He stationed in the dense forest with three thousand people, lit seven or eight thick smoke in one breath, creating the illusion of a large army of ten thousand people burying pots to make rice.

At the same time, the soldiers were assigned to tie the rope to the branches of the dense forest. A rope strung the surrounding seven or eight trees, and the other end was tied to the war horse.

The Yan army occasionally twitched the horse's buttocks, or several soldiers desperately pulled the rope, causing the whole forest to sway. From a distance, it seemed that there were thousands of troops stationed here.

Xiahou Xuan ordered the soldiers to investigate, but Liu Zhi was already ready to step up patrols and did not see the truth for the scouts.

Liu Zhi led more than a thousand people to ride a horse under Ye County. He raised his head, his eyes flew from left to right, and said loudly: "Where is Xiahou Xuan, ask him to come out."

When the defenders saw Liu Zhi coming from the city, they hurried to report to Xiahou Xuan.

When Xiahou Xuan heard this, he climbed up to the city tower. The two met for the first time. He narrowed his eyes and said, "You are Liu Zhi?"

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Liu Zhi held the reins in one hand, his face full of mocking: "Can the general be willing to surrender?"

Xiahou Xuan snorted coldly: "My decent general of the Great Wei Dynasty, your Yan State is just a minister of the Great Wei Dynasty. It is natural to lead troops to attack. Do you want to be a soldier who is unrighteous and not be allowed to die, and you are still waiting to persuade me to surrender?"

Liu Zhi smiled disdainfully: "It is my Yan State who is a subordinate of Wei State that we need to send troops to clear the king. Today, who doesn't know that Cao Shuang bullies the Wei Lord when he is young and controls the government alone, and the disaster will be beyond the ruling? If we do not serve the king, wouldn't we let the treacherous ministers ruin the ruling?"

Xiahou Xuan was furious: "The rioters and traitors dare to speak righteously. You are false to serve the king, but rebellion is true. We have countless loyal ministers and good ministers in the Great Wei Dynasty, and the world is peaceful. It is because you, Yan State, have the intention of being unjust, and do not pay tribute or send tribute to the palace. They also annex Goguryeo, intending to seize Liaodong. All kinds of crimes are difficult to tolerate."

Liu Zhi retorted, "This is a crime to be accused. I have heard for a long time that the general Cao Shuang, the general of the Western Expedition, and He Yan, who is respected as the Three Dogs of Taichung, have made power and power, and do everything evil. Today, the general tries to harm me again. In the future, the three late emperors of the Great Wei Dynasty were seen under the nine springs. Don't you feel ashamed to the ground?"

Xiahou Xuan was furious and shouted: "A traitor, are you worthy of saying this?"

Liu Zhi was not angry and said lightly: "There is no need to say too much. Since the general refused to surrender, he had to stop the battle. The 30,000 soldiers of our Yan Kingdom were here. If they wanted to destroy this city, they would destroy the corruption. If there were anyone willing to surrender in the city, they would not kill them after the city was destroyed. If they were stubborn, they would kill them all without showing any mercy."

After saying that, he led more than a thousand people to leave on his own.

Xiahou Xuan's face was gloomy and calm. When he heard "Thirty thousand soldiers are here", he was even more gloomy on the spot and thought to himself: "We are surrounded and we are not free like an iron bucket. What should we do?"

Everyone had already judged from the number of troops the Yan army increased and the scale of the operation that the Yan army had about 30,000 to 40,000 troops. Now they got the exact number from Liu Zhi's mouth, and everyone subconsciously thought it was the truth. After all, this has been proven from many aspects.

Moreover, Liu Zhi's tone was completely about showing off his troops and forcing him to surrender.

But after waiting for a day, the Yan army did not act as a move.

This strange behavior is suspicious.

It was not until the night fell and it was pitch black outside that it was seen that the ignition lights from all directions were coming like a long snake.

The defenders at the top of the city hurriedly beat the drums, and the gathered defenders immediately climbed the city to form a formation. Even Xiahou Xuan and Cheng Xi hurriedly climbed the city to supervise the battle.

The Yan army's siege was extremely clever, and more than a thousand soldiers surrounded the city on three sides. They each pushed strange-shaped heavy crossbows to the front, but there were one sky-breaking crossbow after another that made the Wei army frightened.

Xiahou Xuan saw that there were only a thousand people under the city, but wherever he could see the distance, there were dense Yan army armor standing, each holding torches, forming a huge formation, as if there were tens of thousands of people.

But strangely, the army of nearly 10,000 people in the rear army was still not moving, while more than a thousand people in the front army quickly attacked the city, which made people unable to see through. Cheng Xi frowned and said, "The Yan thief seems to want to attack in turn, which is exhausted until our army is exhausted."

Once he saw it, his whole body looked like a deflated ball, his lips trembled: "Hurry, please send a second order to summon Tian Yu to help immediately, and do not neglect!"

He had already issued an order, and the scout was on the way to the South Island. He was afraid that Tian Yu would stubbornly refuse to withdraw when he saw the first order, so he immediately issued a second order.

Liu Zhi thought this time was your death. He waited for the Sky-Breaking Crossbow to be completed and immediately said, "Arrow!"

The arrows were shouted out, and nearly a hundred crossbows shot towards the top of the city. The arrows cast extremely fiercely and the range was too far. They immediately shot the Wei army at the top of the city so that they dared not show their heads.

Xiahou Xuan retreated to the end. He saw with his own eyes that the arrow shot from the city was six or seven feet long. He shot a Wei army exposed outside the female wall and flew up. The arrow pierced through his chest, and his death was extremely terrifying.

Liu Zhi ordered the archers to shoot from the left and right wings to the city head, and at the same time ordered hundreds of broken sky crossbows to advance 200 steps away, and shot desperately at the earthen city walls of Ye County.

This shooting was amazing. As it advanced 200 steps, the power increased by 20%. Each arrow shot on the city wall and penetrated more than half a foot. It was stably steadily, and the arrow tail kept trembling.

Liu Zhi said loudly: "Continue to ejaculate, the interval should not be too wide or too dense, from high to low, shoot in a row."

At this time, the city was attacked at the same time on three sides, and the number of troops in the city was divided even more shattered. The strong men recruited by Xiahou Xuan were elite soldiers who had not experienced long-term training. Faced with the orderly attack of the Yan army, there were many people on the top of the city, some were in a hurry and did not know how to block the shield, while others were just rushing to escape, and they were in a mess in an instant.

Cheng Xi's face changed and ordered the supervisory team to force the suppression. Several of them tried to retreat, all died under the knife. He shouted coldly: "Don't retreat, whoever dares to retreat and kills him."

The battle between the two sides became popular in an instant. Liu Zhi had already understood the secret of the Sky-Breaking Crossbow under the guidance of Gongsun Xiu, and ordered the Yan army to shoot at the city wall. It seemed messy, but in fact it gave the Yan army a natural ladder to climb up the city.

About two hours after the battle, Cheng Xi slowly stopped the three thousand townspeople and ordered them to shoot arrows, fall rocks to fight back. Then, they cooperated with the Wei army to operate the catapult and send out huge stone bullets one after another. Each person hit was broken on the spot.

Xiahou Xuan was sweating all the time. At this moment, he really regretted not withdrawing his troops long ago. But he was surrounded by heavy troops and faced such a dilemma. He couldn't help but fold his hands and thought to himself: "If Tian Yu, this guy, if he doesn't hurry back to rescue him quickly, I will never let him go."

Seeing that the city wall was already filled with dense arrows, Liu Zhi shouted, "Surprise the city, climb up the arrow."

With this shout, two hundred-man teams quickly came out, each biting a steel knife and rushing to the city, climbing up with their hands and feet and stepping on the ground with arrows.

The arrows penetrated deep into the wall, especially the city walls of this type of gravel were stuck very tightly when they hit. Most of the 100-person teams were thin people. The weight of about 100 pounds was on the arrows, but they just shook and did not fall.

When Cheng Xi saw that Yan army was like a gecko, it actually climbed up along the city wall at a very fast speed. He couldn't help but be shocked and said, "This - how could there be such a way to attack the city?"

Soon, the Wei army also raised the falling rock and smashed it down. Many Yan soldiers were smashed to the point of falling, but at the same time, some people rushed higher and higher. Liu Zhi pointed to the top of the city and said, "The sky-breaking crossbows were all raised and aimed at the top of the city to attract the enemy's obstacles and cover the 100-man team to climb the city!"

The Yan army in the formation below the city immediately raised the sky-breaking crossbow, facing upward at a forty-five degrees, and the crossbow arrows also shot towards the head of the city desperately.

Many Wei soldiers who held rocks and threw them down were shot by arrows and fell to the ground.
Chapter completed!