The poor King Zang Tu of Yan not only chose a very bad opportunity to rebel and start a military campaign, but also blindly chose an envoy who was hiding inside and out to the extreme to go to the enemy camp.

After returning to the city, he presented the Jicheng defense map of the Yan army, in accordance with the requirements of Xia Shuo and others, in order to paralyze Zang Tu and to prompt Zang Tu to send people out of the city to contact the Han army again, Zang Tu personally named Li Hao, who was sent to the Han camp, and made up a lie that Xia said that he had been shaken and bargained. As a result, Zang Tu not only did not feel any suspicious after hearing this, but also applauded and laughed: "Okay, things will be much easier now. At least there is no need to worry that Xia said that the man will fight to the end with us."

"General Li, have you noticed any signs of Zhao's traitor army preparing to attack the city in the Zhao traitor army?" Zhang Sheng, who was next to him, asked, "Also, have you seen the thug trencher you and the prince mentioned before? Do you know how many of them are?"

"No." Li Hao had no need to lie about this matter, so he shook his head and said, "When I entered the Zhao Pirates Army camp, the soldiers of the Zhao Pirates Army were still trying to build the camp. They didn't see the weapons to prepare the siege, nor did they see the kind of catapult I had seen in Licheng before."

"That's good." Zhang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's better to prepare more time for the tyrant army. The later they attack the city, the better. The later they attack the city, the more hope we will have to wait for reinforcements from the Xiongnu Shanyu."

"Even if you come to attack the city now, you won't be afraid." Zang Tu replied confidently: "Jicheng is our capital. The city walls are strong, the city is high and the trenches are deep, and the defenders are absolutely strong. If the violent army does not come to attack the city, as long as they dare to come, they can beat them to the point of blood and kill them with heavy casualties."

"King, Jicheng is indeed not afraid of the violent army's strong attack, but he is afraid that someone will act as an insider to support the violent army's siege." Zhang Sheng said in a silence: "Especially, the violent army is famous for bribing and instigating the rebellion, but I am afraid that it has started the action long ago. The ministers suggest that the king should be careful to be careful about these situations."

Hearing this, Li Hao, who was guilty, was certainly twitching his muscles on his lips, but Zang Tu nodded and said, "Of course you have to be careful about this matter. When the violent army attacks the city, I will ask Quan'er to lead the guards to guard the palace and look forward to the family of officials. I will not believe it. Who dares to betray me after eating the leopard?!"

The speaker was unintentional, and the listener was intentional. When he heard Zang Tu's words, Li Hao immediately became alert and said to himself: "We have to find a way to solve this problem, otherwise, my family would probably not be able to escape."

The next few days can only be described as dull. The scouts of the Han army kept moving around Jicheng, desperately collecting various intelligences from the defenders of Jicheng. During this period, they shot books into the city many times to promote the Han army's rebellion policy and clearly declare that they would not harm the innocent people in the city after the city was destroyed. In order to deal with the rumors of massacre that Zang Tu deliberately spread, they also tried their best to create various siege weapons, collect relatively rare suitable stone bombs on the North China Plain to prepare for throwing stones, and try to create equally important incendiary bombs.

On the sixth day after Li Hao returned to the city, under the command of Xia Shuo, the Han army dispatched a large number of auxiliary troops to carry soil and stones, and began to fill the moat at the three gates of Jicheng in the east and west of Jicheng. Among them, the Han army's Tao Xi department was responsible for the west gate of Jicheng, Gongsun Tong's headquarters was responsible for the north gate of Jicheng, and the Zhao ** team was responsible for the east gate of Jicheng. Only Jicheng, which had water protection, ignored it. As a result, after the river filling began, the defenders on the city continued to use strong bows and crossbows to block the Han army's soldiers from filling the river. After the temporary fortifications under the city, the Han army's crossbowmen were shooting happily, and both were killed and injured.

When the situation was reported to Zang Tu, Zang Tu, who was old on the battlefield, immediately understood that the Han army was preparing to attack the three gates of Jicheng at the same time. Although Zang Tu, who had strong confidence in Jicheng's city defense, was not afraid of this, he was somewhat worried and said, "Why did the traitor army in Zhao work so hard to fill the river? Are they unwilling to be fooled and really want to help the violent army attack us with all their strength?"

According to Xia Shuo and others' request, Li Hao also took the opportunity to make a statement and urged Zang Tu to send secret envoys out of the city to contact Xia Shuo and understand Xia Shuo's attitude. Zang Tu adopted it, and then sent another envoy out of the city that night and sneaked to the Zhao army camp to contact Xia Shuo. As a result, the envoy did not return to the city until the next morning, and reported that Xia Shuo was just forced by Tao Xi and Gongsun Tong. At the same time, Xia Shuo promised again that as long as the Yan ** team put down their weapons and surrendered to the Zhao army, Xia Shuo promised that he would not directly execute Zang Tu and beg for Zang Tu for life in front of Xiang Kang.

"Apart from these, does Xia Shuo have anything else?" Zang Tu asked again quickly, the envoy denied it. Li Hao on the other side glanced at the seemingly calm messenger and sneered in his heart. Although he didn't know the inside story, Li Hao dared to bet, and actually Xia Shuo refused to cut off his secret contact with the Yan army, so he must have something else to do!

After the hard work of the Han army soldiers and the price of casualties, on the eighth day approaching the evening, the Han army soldiers successfully filled six solid roads at the east and west gates of Jicheng that could directly cross the river, and could push and pull heavy siege weapons such as ladder trucks and Lu Gongbus directly under Jicheng City. The situation was reported to Zhang Sheng, Zang Tu's think tank. Zhang Sheng, the sixth-sensible Zhang Sheng immediately knew something was wrong and quickly came to the palace to pay homage to Zang Tu, hoping to persuade Zang Tu to hurry up and prepare for the guards and beware of the Han army launching a full-scale attack the next day.

Zhang Sheng was surprised. Although he met Zang Tu very successfully, when he saw Zang Tu, Zang Tu actually lost his tail with Zhaoshe in the palace garden. Zhai Xu and Zang Quan and other close friends drank and had fun. The atmosphere of the banquet was very festive. Then Zhang Sheng asked curiously and found out that Zhai Xu and Zhaoshe had lost their tail to visit their families. They happened to meet Zhai Xu's daughter, Zang Quan's son, who was the same age, for a play. Zhaoshe let the tail help and persuaded Zhai Xu to give his daughter to Zang Quan's son. Zhai Xu also agreed immediately, eager to make friends with party assistance Zang Quan and Zang Quan even wanted it. The two got married on the spot and had a banquet to drink. Zang Tu was also a very lively person. After hearing that, they also came to join in the fun, so everyone drank directly in the garden.

This coincidence did not make Zhang Sheng suspicious. After symbolic congratulations, Zhang Sheng just quickly persuaded Zang Tu to order preparation immediately. However, Zhaoshe and Zhai Xu agreed that Zhang Sheng was worried about nothing and felt that the Han army could not launch an attack so quickly. Zang Tu, who had been flushed and thick-necked, also had the same opinion. Therefore, Zang Tu not only did not listen to Zhang Sheng's good advice, but also forced Zhang Sheng to sit down and drink. Zhaoshe and Zhai Xu joined forces to persuade him to drink, and soon brought Zhang Sheng, who was not good at drinking, to a very drunken state.

After being drunk, Zhang Sheng was finally carried home from someone else. As a result, he had not known how long he had been lying on the bed. Zhang Sheng suddenly heard the sound of gongs in the distance and had to struggle to get out of bed to understand the situation. After learning that the sound of gongs was coming from the Sanmen City, east and west of Jicheng, Zhang Sheng suddenly complained loudly, and could only change his clothes quickly and rush to the palace and Hou Ming with a full body of alcohol.

Fortunately, Zang Tu's alcoholic capacity was very great. The drunkenness last night did not make Zang Tu bed hard. After the officials of Yan State arrived in a hurry, Zang Tu shouted loudly at the officials of Yan State with a panic expression: "Don't panic, let alone be afraid. Although the violent army came suddenly this time, we caught us off guard, but we were very sufficient before the war. We would not have to wait for the violent army to launch an attack on the city, and we could prepare everything without worrying at all!"

"I hope so." Zhang Sheng muttered, then glanced at Zhao She and Zhai Xu who were silent, and felt a little suspicious, and he said in his heart: "Isn't what happened last night a bit too coincidental?"

Zang Tu's suspicion was obviously not as serious as Zhang Sheng. When arranging the city defense, Zang Tu still asked Zhai Xu to be responsible for the defense of the west gate of Jicheng, Wei Man was responsible for the north gate, and Zang Tu's wife's brother Ying Zuo was responsible for the east gate. There were two reserve teams in the city led by Zhao She and Li Yao, each of them. The main force of the reserve team was commanded by Zang Tu himself, and the safety of the palace and the officials of Yan State was responsible for Zang Quan.

Zhang Sheng was somewhat worried about this, and after a moment of calculation, he said: "King, judging from the situation I collected before, the one who sent troops to attack the west gate of Jicheng today will definitely be the general Tao Xi of the violent man. This man has always been famous for his fierceness and courage, and his army is more than the violent man army led by Gongsun Tong. So if it is not unexpected, our main battlefield today is likely to be the western gate of Jicheng. The minister suggested that you might as well arrange a reserve team for Zhai Junzun in advance, and help him control the key points of the urban defense of the Wucheng, the city gate and the Qianjin Gate, so that Zhai Junzun can free up his hands and focus on dealing with the siege of the violent man army without distraction."

After saying that, Zhang Sheng quickly added another sentence and said, "My subordinates suggested that the reserve team under General Li Jiao arrive at the Ximen battlefield in advance to help Zhai County defend the city, and ask the king to allow it."

After listening to Zhang Sheng's analysis, Zang Tu nodded and agreed to the decision on the spot. Li Hao, who cares about the safety of his relatives, complained in his heart when he heard this, but he did not dare to disobey, so he could only bow his hands and sing the promise. Zhai Xu glanced at Zhang Sheng intentionally or unintentionally, and then bowed to thank Zang Tu for his arrangement.

Of course, the matter is not over. After arranging the city defense affairs, when all the officials dispersed, Zang Tu took the initiative to say to Zhang Sheng: "My dear, I am still a little worried about the thugs who have broken through Puyang and Julu. I want to go to the scene to see it with my own eyes. I wonder what you think?"

"The great king is wise. Only by knowing oneself and an enemy can we win every battle. We should go and see the situation of the violent man's trencher with our own eyes." Zhang Sheng quickly complimented, and then said: "King, why don't we all go to the west gate of Jicheng to see the situation? It is the main battlefield. If any situation changes, we can adjust our deployment on the spot."

Zang Tu nodded and said yes, and hurriedly led Zhang Sheng and a team of guards to the west gate of Jicheng to check the situation. As a result, when they climbed to the west gate of Jicheng under the banner of Zang Tu's King of Yan, more than 20,000 Han soldiers had already arranged a formation outside Jicheng's west gate. The legendary more than 40 Han army catapults were already lined up in front of the formation and had already begun to slowly approach the west gate of Jicheng.

After carefully looking at the Han army's formation and the siege weapons it brought, Zang Tu sneered and said, "Apart from those trench trenchers that I have never seen, there is nothing strange. It's just a trench bridge car that can be opened, flying ladders and cloud ladders climbing the city, hitting the city car and smashing the door. As long as we fight according to our usual actions, we can use rockets, stones and sheep head stones to crack anything."

"The key is those catapults that are killed in heaven." Zhang Sheng stared at the approaching Han army catapults and said without looking back: "The prince said that on the battlefield of Licheng, he had seen with his own eyes that the catapults of the violent army could easily collapse the city tower, smash the female wall, and directly smash the city wall, so that the violent soldiers could quickly climb the city. I hope this would not be the case in our city."

"A small county town like Licheng is worthy of comparison with my capital." Zang Tu sneered: "It's about to start. Today I must see with my own eyes whether the thief of the thunderous army is as powerful as the rumors."

While speaking, a guard rushed to Zang Tu and presented a letter to Zang Tu and said, "Report to the king, General Ying Zuo has just sent someone to send him, saying that it was a handwritten letter written to you by Xiang Xia, a thief of Zhao. He shot an arrow to the East Gate City of Jicheng in advance."

When he opened his hand and looked carefully, Zang Tu was stunned. Zhang Sheng next to him quickly came forward to see the letter, but he was stunned at first glance because Xia said that the letter was so simple that it could not be simple. He directly wrote in vernacular: "Rebel Zang Tu, the original promise to continue to be effective. You can't hold on for a while. As long as you open the east gate of Jicheng and go out of the city to surrender to me, I still promise not to kill you, and I promise to beg for your life in front of the emperor. Surrender to me is the best strategy! Don't forget!"

Zang Tu and Zhang Sheng were still behind unexpectedly. Then, a letter from the north gate of Jicheng also sent a book of arrows from the Han army to shoot the city wall in advance. The letter was also written by the Han army general Gongsun Tong, and the content was, "Zang Tu is rebellious and cannot hold on. If you can't hold on, you will go out of the city from the north gate to surrender to me. I promise not to kill you, and I will plead for you in front of the emperor. In addition, you also know that I am a person sent by Li Zuoche, the Lord of Guangwu. If you surrender to me, it is equivalent to surrendering to Guangwu. If you plead for you together, your Majesty will give us some face. So surrendering is your best choice, and you have to think it through."

After carefully reading the letter signed and sealed by Xia Shuo and Gongsun Tong, Zang Tu and Zhang Sheng looked at each other, and after a while, they said in unison: "The violent army is so confident? Before the battle started, they are already rushing to persuade us to choose a target for surrender?"

"King, be careful! The violent army has begun to throw stones!"

The soldiers' shouts reminded Zang Tu and Zhang Sheng to come back to their senses. When the two quickly turned their heads and saw that thirty or forty huge rocks had flew from the sky, whistling and rotating toward the Ximen Tower of Jicheng. Then the huge rocks fell to the ground one after another. The city towers that had been repeatedly reinforced by the Yan army soldiers were like houses covered with paper sand, collapsed with successive impacts, and in a blink of an eye it turned into ruins. At the same time, many Yan army soldiers could not escape and were hit by the huge rocks. All of them were smashed into blood and blood, broken tendons and fractured. The incredible screams and screams suddenly resounded through the entire Ximen Tower of Jicheng.

"It's really that amazing?" Zang Tu and Zhang Sheng looked pale together, and then they looked as if they were dead.

There was something unexpected to Zang Tu and Zhang Sheng. After the first round of volleys, the Han Army's Tao Xi army did not rush to launch the second round of stone throwing, but instead sent a knight to the west gate of Jicheng, ran to the city of Jicheng, pulled the trigger and shot a crossbow onto the city. Then, soon, a handwritten letter from the Han Army's general Tao Xi was presented to Zang Tu.

Tao Xi's letter was simpler, and he wrote directly: "Zang Tugou Thief, do you see how powerful Naiweng's catapult is? Kaicheng surrenders to me, and I promise not to kill you, so that you can see our Majesty beg for mercy alive, and will also plead with His Majesty the Emperor for you, striving to save your dog's life! Otherwise, you will know the consequences yourself!"
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