After Beiliang's army broke through Longhang Pass, Chenyue divided his troops into three groups and captured the entire territory of Tanzhou.

Facing the sudden attack of the Beiliang army, most of the cities surrendered. Only the city where the Jin soldiers were stationed could resist a little, but no city could hold out for more than three days under the powerful offensive of the Beiliang army.

To Chenyue's expectation, the Tanzhou City defenders never sent reinforcements during this process, and just watched the Beiliang army capture the entire territory of Tanzhou. Originally, Beiliang was looking forward to the Tanzhou defenders coming out of the city.

It's a wild battle.

Finally, the three armies swept through the entire territory of Tanzhou effortlessly, and the entire army gathered outside Tanzhou City.

Tanzhou City

The capital of Tanzhou is also the centerpiece of the entire northern defense line of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It is connected to Pinghan Road to the east and Shunzhou and Beiliang Road to the west. Its geographical location is extremely important.

Because the terrain of Tanzhou is flat, mostly plains, and the city of Tanzhou is built on a vast black soil with no danger to rely on, the city walls are tall and strong, and there is plenty of food and grass in the city.

Not only that, the layout of the entire Tanzhou City is divided into two inner and outer city walls. The outer city is about a thousand feet long and seven or eight feet high on all sides. The city head is wide enough for horseback riding, and the arrow towers and turrets are fully equipped.

The inner city is a pure military fortress. Wanyan Zongcheng's general palace and garrison barracks are all gathered in the inner city. The inner city wall is also about several hundred feet long. After the outer city is lost, the defenders can still hold on to the inner city.

Between the outer city and the inner city is where ordinary people live. A large number of houses have been built in it. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the city, making it the largest city in Liaodong.

During these days, the people in Tanzhou City smelled an unusual smell early on. All the gates of Tanzhou City were closed, and there was an endless stream of cavalrymen galloping back and forth on the streets.

A curfew was implemented even before dark, and anyone who dared to linger on the streets was killed without mercy.

This posture let everyone know that the Northern Liang Army was coming!

The people in Tanzhou City have been waiting for this day for a long time.

The total garrison of Tanzhou City is 50,000, including 40,000 gold soldiers and 10,000 red-headed soldiers.

Affected by the rebellion of the red-headed troops at Longhanguan Pass, Wanyan Zongcheng had already organized all the red-headed troops into disarray and assigned them to guard the cities. The middle-level officers were all appointed by Jin people to ensure that there would be no further riots.

While intense preparations were being made in Tanzhou City, the invincible Beiliang Army finally began to appear outside Tanzhou City.

The first group to arrive was naturally Beiliang Hou Chenyue, and then the two groups led by Chu Yucheng and Yan Hongyi also arrived at the designated time to meet outside Tanzhou City.

It took only two days for the densely packed black-armored soldiers to completely siege Tanzhou City.

Deep trenches were dug outside the military camp of Beiliang, and antlers used to resist horses were placed layer after layer to prevent the cavalry in the city from sneaking out of the city to attack.

With the infantry in front and the cavalry behind, the camp was in good order. A total of nearly 100,000 Northern Liang troops gathered outside Tanzhou City.

At noon one day, dozens of horsemen galloped out of the Beiliang camp, all wearing iron armor, and went straight to the outside of Tanzhou City. They stopped only when they reached the edge of the range of the crossbows.

From this position, one can clearly see the figures of the guards on the top of the city.

A handsome flag with the word "dust" whistled in the wind.

Chen Yue sat high on his horse, and the people beside him were a group of Northern Liang army generals led by Chu Yucheng, Yan Hongyi and others.

Everyone looked at the Tanzhou City Wall that was very close at hand without any fear.

Chenyue raised his body slightly from his horse and said with some regret: "Oh, this Tanzhou City is indeed strong. Now it seems that the defenders in the city have no intention of going to war and are determined to defend the city."

The generals all nodded, this Tanzhou City is much more majestic than Longhanguan Pass.

Chu Yucheng spread his hands: "There is no way, there are always hard bones to gnaw."

"How are the siege equipment prepared?" Chen Yuexu asked, squinting his eyes.

"Many catapults have arrived at the front line, and a large number of strong bows and crossbows built by the Bingwu Division have been shipped here from Shunzhou. It is estimated that they will arrive in three to five days." Yan Hongyi, the leader of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, replied.

"Okay, then let's wait until the siege equipment arrives before attacking the city. Such a strong city cannot be taken down in a day or two." Chen Yue said with a stern look.

Xin Ji suggested from the side: "Our 100,000-strong army is mainly composed of cavalry. The Northern Liang infantry are added to hold back the Liao camp. The total number of troops surrendered at Longhan Pass is only 40,000. We also sent 10,000 to Jianmen Pass."

Reinforcement, so I’m afraid there won’t be enough infantry to attack the city. Should we send a message to Shunzhou and dispatch Liaodong infantry here to join the battle?”

Since the Beiliang Army captured Shunzhou, many small groups of rebels in Liaodong rushed to Anshun City to join the army. In addition, there were also many ordinary people joining the army, and there were already 30,000 to 40,000 Liaodong soldiers in Shunzhou.

"General Xin is right." Li Batian nodded: "I'm afraid the strength of our infantry is slightly insufficient."

Chenyue thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement: "Then send a message to Anshun City and dispatch 20,000 Liaodong infantry to join the battle. By the way, Mr. Huangfu Mu will come with him!"

"No!" Xin Ji bowed and shouted.

Everyone stood openly and openly outside the city wall of Tanzhou City and pointed.

Wanyan Zongcheng, Wu Linhe and other generals of the Jin army who came to the top of the city after hearing the news looked at the Chenzi Shuaiqi not far outside the city and their teeth itched with hatred.

"Damn it! This Marquis of Beiliang doesn't take us seriously!" A general cursed angrily, "The last general requested to lead three thousand riders out of the city to kill them all!"

"Idiots!" Wanyan Zongcheng's eyes turned cold: "Do you think they are fools? I bet you can ride three thousand horses out of the city and not even one of them can come back."

The general's face turned red with anger, and he could only glare fiercely at the group of people outside the city.

"Fire the arrow! Don't care if he can reach it or not! Fire the arrow first!" Wanyan Zongcheng waved his hand, and the golden soldiers on the top of the city raised their crossbows, and shot out a wave of arrow feathers against the wind.

Unfortunately, Chen Yue and others chose the right place to stay. Most of the arrows fell fifty steps away from everyone. Only a few with strong arms could shoot the arrows thirty steps closer.

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The arrow fell in front of everyone's eyes, and all the Beiliang Dao generals did not move at all, not panicking at all.

Chenyue even took two steps forward on his horse and looked at the old general beside him with a playful look: "General Lang, I have heard for a long time that the general can cross the Yangtze River with a hundred steps. Are you going to show us your skills today?"

"Haha!" Lang Yi laughed loudly, took the bow with one hand, and spurred his horse forward: "It's boring to have more than one person. Colleagues, is there anyone who would like to join me in giving Jin Bing a gift in return?"

"I'll do it!" Baixuewei coach Yu Binyang took two steps forward with a smile. They were the two people present who dealt with crossbows the most.

The two men nocked arrows and strung them at the same time, bending their bows like the full moon.

"Whoosh!"

Two sharp arrows were shot out at the same time. In the horrified eyes of the golden soldiers at the top of the city, the two golden soldiers' flags fell down in response, falling weakly to the ground along the wall.

"Hahaha!" Chenyue laughed loudly and turned around on his horse: "Let's go back to camp!"
Chapter completed!