When the main force of Liu Cheng's Northern Army arrived at Yang County, Guo Da couldn't sit still.
Yang County was not far from Linfen City, and he only had more than 200 troops at full strength.
If he marched faster, he could arrive in three or four days. , Guo Da felt a strong sense of urgency in his heart.
In order to put more pressure on Guo Da, Liu Cheng met up with Chen Dao and Zhang Liao and sent his troops south again.
At the same time, he ordered Zhang Liao to lead his troops southward along the Taiyue Mountains to prevent Guo Tai from hiding in the Taiyue Mountains. , it will be difficult to find.
But Guo Da didn't want to hide in the Taiyue Mountains.
At the same time, Liu Cheng ordered Du Kai to lead an army to attack the bandits in Yicheng County.
The bandits were frightened and could not abandon Yicheng under Guo Tai's strict order, so they could only bite the bullet and defend the city.
Liu Cheng's pressing step by step made Guo Da realize that he could not delay the afternoon any longer.
Once he was bitten by Liu Cheng's army, he might not be able to get rid of him.
Before ordering the entire army to go south to attack Anyi, he asked the literati advisers around him : "Sir, our army has 50,000 to 60,000 troops, and the official army only has more than 30,000 people.
It is not as powerful as our army.
I intend to go north to fight Liu Cheng to the death.
What do you think?"
The scribe hurriedly raised his hands and said: "Chief, you must not do it.
The Northern Army in Liu Cheng's hands is not an ordinary army.
It is the most elite division in the imperial court and the most powerful army in the world.
Has the leader forgotten that in the hands of Yang Feng?
There are 30,000 people, plus the 10,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu Chanyu Yuvluo.
Their strength is not inferior to ours.
They were all beaten to pieces.
What can we do?
Leaders must not take any chances.
This may very well lead to ruin.
Everyone’s life” After hearing this, Guo Da no longer had any illusions, and immediately ordered more than 60,000 former troops to march south to prepare for the attack on Zhi'an City, Hedong County.
The 60,000 of them carried tens of thousands of stones, grain and grass and countless gold and silver treasures, but due to the weather, Due to factors such as obstacles, roads and the quality of the soldiers, the marching speed can only be described as hurried.
It took several days for the army to arrive at Wenxi.
By this time, Guo Da was already a little impatient.
He was worried that Liu Cheng's army in the north would catch up and he had not yet captured Anyi, so he immediately ordered the army to be divided into two, with the main force of five.
Ten thousand people marched quickly to attack Anyi, carrying only a small amount of food and grass.
The remaining more than 10,000 people slowly followed behind, carrying food and grass baggage and a large amount of looted money.
However, as the main force of Guo Da's bandit army moved south, it put great pressure on Anyi City, the Hedong County government office.
At this time, in the Anyi City Prefect's Mansion, the Prefect Zhang Shi was walking up and down the hall with his back, anxious.
It was obvious that he and his officials had learned about the main force of the bandits going south.
Fu Wei Gu held up his hands and advised: "Sir, you'd better thank me.
There's no point in being anxious.
The key is to find a way to resist the bandit army."
Zhang Shi stopped, but the worried look on his face did not diminish at all.
He told the Prime Minister Wang Yi: "Immediately write an urgent document and send it to Luoyang, requesting the imperial court to send troops to rescue, otherwise Hedong County will All fell” The prime minister of the government, Wang Yi, raised his hands and agreed: "Promise" Zhang Shi asked the county captain Zhang Sheng again: "How many county soldiers are there in the city?"
Zhang Sheng was Zhang Shi's nephew.
He had a bitter look on his face, clasped his fists and said, "Sir, we can only gather 5,000 people even if we fight in the city.
According to our spies, the bandit army has a total of 50,000 elite troops.
This Not counting the baggage personnel, according to their current marching speed, they can arrive by tomorrow afternoon at the latest and attack the city early the next day."
Zhang Shi didn't say anything for a long time.
The difference in strength between the two sides was too great.
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There was a ten-fold difference in strength.
There was no need to fight.
As long as the bandit troops moved outside the city, the defenders in the city would be frightened.
There would be no resistance. determination Zhang Shi remembered that Du Kai's imperial cavalry had 3,000 men.
If used properly, it might not be able to solve the crisis in Anyi.
He immediately asked: "Where is Du Kai's tribe now?"
Zhang Sheng shook his head and said: "I don't know.
This troop is not under the jurisdiction of my prefecture, and Du Kai doesn't buy our account at all.
This troop is elusive and erratic.
It was still in the Jishan Pavilion area a few days ago." , has suddenly disappeared again in the past few days, and I can’t find it no matter how I look for it.”
Zhang Shi said with a solemn face: "Anyi cannot be lost.
As officials of the imperial court, we have the responsibility to protect the land.
If Anyi is lost, the court will investigate it and we cannot afford to suffer.
Even if the imperial court does not pursue it, we will."
We have no shame, how will we serve as officials in the future, and how will we protect the country on behalf of the emperor?
So we must defend Anyi and send people immediately.
Go and inquire about the whereabouts of Du Kai's tribe, and ask Du Kai to cooperate with us in fighting no matter what.
Ask him to lead his troops to the vicinity of Anyi City.
There is no need for him to lead troops to defend the city.
As long as he leads troops to ambush near Anyi, only to wait for the bandits to attack the city.
At that time, he led his troops to fight out suddenly.
At that time, we led our troops to fight out from the city, cooperate inside and outside, and attack from the front and rear.
We will definitely defeat the bandit army and achieve a complete victory."
Wei Gu, a member of the Wei clan in Hedong, was also the brother of Wei Zhongdao, the late husband of the famous Cai Yan.
He clasped his fists and agreed: "Don't worry, sir.
I will send someone to inquire about the news immediately."
Zhang Shi then told Zhang Sheng: "The defense of the city must be tightened.
Immediately recruit manpower to transport all the equipment and materials to defend the city, and be prepared to defend the enemy at any time, so as not to be too late when the bandit troops approach the city."
"Yes, my lord" The main force of the bandit army arrived as expected and set up camp outside the city in the evening.
Even though it was a bandit army, the camp was well-organized.
The leader of the bandit army, Guo Da, even ordered the city of Anyi to be completely surrounded.
Don't let anyone in the city escape, and kill them all when the city is broken.
Before Guo Da's order was conveyed, he was persuaded by the counselors around him.
The middle-aged scribe raised his hands and said: "Chief, since ancient times, there has been a saying of siege with three towers when attacking a city, which is to allow the defenders in the city to escape.
The hope is that if the city walls are surrounded on all four sides, the people in the city will be unable to break through.
Hope, we can only fight to the end.
Even if we can break the city, our army will not only suffer heavy losses, but also waste a lot of time.
Chief, we must capture Anyi and evacuate quickly before Liu Cheng's army pounces, otherwise if he is If you bite your tail, you won't be able to run away even if you want to."
Guo Da still listened to the scribe's dissuasion and changed his order.
He only surrounded the three walls of the east, west, north and west, except the south gate, which was left open and not besieged.
After a night of farewell, the next morning, under Guo Da's order, countless bandit troops rushed towards Anyi City like ants.
They carried a large number of sacks filled with broken soil and kept shooting at the city wall.
The arrows rushed to the moat and threw the earth bags into it.
Generally speaking, the section of the moat opposite the city gate is the narrowest, but the narrowest section is generally five to six feet wide.
The width and depth of the moat and the height and thickness of the city wall are all related to the level of the city.
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Anyi is a county seat, equivalent to a prefecture-level city.
Its moat is much wider and deeper than that of the county seat.
When the war started, the defenders had already pulled up the suspension bridge.
Some people wanted to use timber across the narrowest part of the moat as a bridge for the soldiers to pass, but this was completely unfeasible because such a long timber could not be found.
Even if it could be found, When the soldiers walked on it, their feet were unsteady and their bodies swayed violently.
Moreover, everyone was concentrated in one place, which was a perfect target for the defenders' archers.
Before attacking the city, we must first solve the problem of the moat blocking the siege soldiers.
How to rush under the city wall through the moat?
Since ancient times, filling the moat with soil has been the most common and easiest way to obtain materials.
In order to fill up the moat, the bandits paid a price, and suffered more than a thousand casualties in one morning.
In the afternoon, the bandit army finally got a few hastily built manhole barriers.
This manhole barrier was also temporarily built by the carpenters of the bandit army.
There were no drawings as a reference.
They just followed the orders from above to build a manhole that could stand on it and face the people.
The wooden archery platform on the city wall must be at least as high as the city wall.
This is not a difficult task for the carpenters, but it is not easy to make it move forward flexibly.
It was heavy and clumsy, making it completely inflexible.
It required many people to push it to move forward slowly.
The carpenters did not consider its protective properties when building it.
Therefore, when approaching the city wall, the people pushing the cart underneath were shot by bows and arrows shot from the city wall.
There were heavy casualties, but the bandit archers on the simple well fence also caused a lot of damage to the city wall defenders.
They not only covered the bandits filling the moat with soil, but also covered the bandits pushing carts.
In the evening, the moat was finally filled in.
More and more manholes were built by bandit carpenters, and more and more manholes were pushed near the city wall to suppress the defenders.
When the sun rose the next morning, the defenders on the Anyi city wall realized that the most severe day was about to come.
Now that the bandits had removed all obstacles, they would surely launch a fierce attack.
In fact, both the defenders on the city wall and the prefect Zhang Shi, as well as the governor Zhang Sheng and the governor Wei Gu, all underestimated Guo Tai's determination.
When Guo Tai sent people to the city wall to ask Zhang Shi to open the door and surrender, After the request was rejected, he ordered a simultaneous fierce attack from the three walls of the east, west, north and west from the beginning, and the attacks came one after another like a tide without stopping.
There are only 5,000 defenders in Anyi City, and there are 2,000 newly recruited men.
It is the first time for them to hold swords and guns.
There is no fighting capacity.
Attacking from three sides at the same time makes the defenders' strength too scattered.
The defense forces were also dispersed, but this had no impact on the bandit army.
In just one morning, the bandits only relied on wooden ladders and crudely made manhole rails to make Anyi City crumbling.
In the blink of an eye, in the afternoon, the defenders in the city finally persisted until the end under Zhang Shi's forced orders and encouragement.
The day passed, but they all knew that if the bandit army continued to attack with such ferocity tomorrow, they would definitely not be able to defend it.
At night, Zhang Shi, Wang Yi, Zhang Sheng and Wei Gu chose to break out of the siege to the south.
However, they were pursued by bandits not long after they left the city.
Guo Da used only more than a thousand cavalry to attack Zhang Shi and others.
Pursued, Zhang Shi and others fled towards Hongnong in embarrassment
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