Different from Chunyu Prefecture, the terrain of Guanshan Prefecture is relatively rugged. Although there are no particularly tall mountains, short hills are one after another. Therefore, most of the cities in Guanshan Prefecture are built on mountains, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, this also limits the size of the city in Guanshan Prefecture. There is no particularly large city. Even if it is the seat of a state, it only has a population of 500,000 to 600,000.

The strategy adopted by Guanshan Prefecture was almost the same as that of Chunyu Prefecture. They both gave up half of the state to disperse Li Zilai's troops. However, Guanshan Prefecture did not fight in the wild, but chose to fight in Guanshan City.

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Guanshan City is a city worthy of its name. Even if the trebuchet hits the flying corner of the city wall, it will only scratch the skin. This is also the reason why Guanshan Prefecture dares to face the enemy in Guanshan City.

After all, Guanshan Prefecture and Chunyu Prefecture have different geographical advantages.

When Li Zilai easily captured the first city, he knew what Guanshan Prefecture was thinking. Therefore, he actually did not leave many people in each city. Instead, he drove the people of Guanshan Prefecture to build a straight road, which he built until

Within Peizhou.

The purpose of building the straight road is to transport grain. Under Li Zilai's personal supervision, the straight road was completed in just three or two days. Although it is much worse than the straight road, it is definitely enough for transporting grain.

I thought that if Li Zilai built a straight road, he would attack Guanshan City, but he didn't expect that Li Zilai would drive the people to build a straight road.

If the original official roads are included, Cheng Feng had three roads to take when transporting grain. And under Li Zilai's deliberate leadership, the three roads kept intersecting, which meant that the routes Cheng Feng could take to transport grain were geometrically multiplied.

has grown.

Li Zilai almost did not divide his troops in Guanshan Prefecture. Although he could solve Guanshan Prefecture's conspiracy, it also took Li Zilai several days. It is hard to say whether Guanshan Prefecture's conspiracy was considered a failure. The reason why it was built

Straightforwardly, in the final analysis, it is to protect the safety of the food team.

Not leaving any soldiers behind meant that Cheng Feng would not receive any help or supplies when transporting grain, so Li Zilai built two straight roads with great fanfare.

Before stationing troops in Guanshan City, Li Zilai also had some headaches. In Guanshan Prefecture, Zhou Mu personally commanded the troops. Although this Zhou Mu had experience in the battlefield, he was not a famous general. Li Zilai did not take him seriously. It was just that the opponent was huddled in Guanshan City.

, no matter how much Li Zilai provoked the general, he would not come out.

Li Zilai felt a bit like a lion meeting a tortoise, unable to bite the shell open.

The governor of Guanshan Prefecture implemented a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country. He destroyed the grain fields, wells, and villages in Guanshan Prefecture with a radius of hundreds of miles, and the people were moved into Guanshan City. This resulted in Li Zilai needing to dig new wells himself to ensure that

The army's daily drinking water also made it impossible for Li Zilai to receive any assistance, so he could only attack Guanshan City on his own.

In Guanshan City, the governor of Guanshan Prefecture collected almost all the grain and grass in the whole state, including the people's seed grains and rations, which was enough for the soldiers in the city for more than a year. There were also wells in the city, so there was no need to worry about drinking water.

The reason why Guanshan Prefecture has so much grain and grass is not that Guanshan Prefecture has more grain reserves than Peizhou, but that Guanshan Prefecture's state herdsmen plunder more aggressively. Guanshan Prefecture has a total of 1.5 million households.

The governor of Guanshan Prefecture took away all the food from these people, so there were naturally more soldiers to feed.

If Fengyun Shang also confiscates all the food from all the people in Peizhou, it will not be a problem to feed an army of millions. But this is fishing from the lake. If the food is taken away today, these people will starve to death tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Such an act of extermination naturally aroused resistance, but the resisters were suppressed. The method of blocking the wells within a hundred miles of Guanshan City was not to bury the wells with soil, but to fill them with human corpses.

Killing chickens to scare monkeys, soon the people of Guanshan Prefecture no longer dared to make trouble, because if they didn't make trouble, they could live a few more days.

The so-called callousness, cowardice and cowardice are nothing more than that.

Li Zilai specially told Cheng Feng to distribute grains along the way. He didn't need to distribute too much, just show off. Whether he was kind or not all depended on his peers. Under the background of Guanshan Prefecture's governor, Li Zilai's behavior seemed

He was so kind that for a while the hungry people in Guanshan Prefecture automatically moved closer to Li Zilai.

This is undoubtedly excellent for post-war rule, but now Li Zilai can't care about it, all his energy is attracted by Guanshan City.

It has to be said that this Guanshan City is indeed strong. Li Zilai failed to capture Guanshan City after several days of violent attacks. In fact, there is a very simple way, but Li Zilai is unwilling to use it. That is to deal with Lishanguan like Fengyun Shang.

Just like that, Guanshan City was directly blown up.

Although blowing up Guanshan City requires more explosives and is more difficult, Li Zilai can do it. But if this happens, the people in the city will suffer, and the people's hearts and minds that have finally gathered in Guanshan Prefecture will also be dispersed. No.

At the last moment, Li Zilai did not want to use this method.

Since it was too difficult to attack the city head-on, Li Zilai had no choice but to use some underhanded tactics. Naturally, he was not trying to instigate rebellion against the people in Guanshan City. Those people were now no different from Zhugang and had nothing to do with him. He wanted to ask Yang Yun for help.

Fengyun Shang and Li Zilai generally knew what Yang Yun's Mechanical Pavilion had created. Li Zilai clearly remembered that Yang Yun had developed many poisons, so he wanted to try his luck.

As for the people's support, that is a good thing done by the governor of Guanshan Prefecture. It has nothing to do with me, Li Zilai.

Someone sent a letter of help to Yang Yun. Li Zilai did not expect that Yang Yun would come to Guanshan Prefecture in person. Yang Yun roughly inspected the topography and hydrology of Guanshan City for several days before finally deciding what poison to use.

"It's very difficult to poison." After Yang Yun's on-the-spot investigation, he came to the conclusion, "If you can't enter the city, many poisons and poisoning methods won't work."

Seeing Li Zilai's hopeful eyes gradually dimming, Yang Yun cleared his throat and said, "But it's not impossible."

"After noon tomorrow, sprinkle these bottles of medicinal powder on Guanshan City." Yang Yun took out a few jade bottles from his luggage, stuffed them into Li Zilai and said, "Remember, we must wait until after noon, otherwise we will be the unlucky ones.

Already."

Judging from the terrain, Li Zilai and the others were in a lower position, so the wind blew from them to Guanshan City during the day. However, something unexpected happened the next day, and the wind never blew again after noon.

There was no breeze.

It is actually very difficult to poison according to the direction of the wind. When the wind is weak, the poison cannot be blown away, but when the wind is strong, the poison will be blown away. If you are not careful, you can easily hurt yourself. Therefore, even poisons are rarely administered in this way.

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Yang Yun is not yet a master of poisons, but his poison is quite special. The jade bottles given to Li Zilai contained poisons that were not strictly speaking poisons. They were just medicines prepared by Yang Yun himself and had no effect on their own.

It turns into poison through a principle that Yang Yun has not yet figured out. Yang Yun cannot grasp this change 100%, so there is also an element of gambling on luck.

Yang Yun couldn't make this change happen, but he could 100% prevent it from happening. That's why he dared to take out this medicine. Anyway, it wouldn't hurt his own people. If it didn't work this time, he would continue next time.

It will succeed once.

Not only this kind of medicine, Yang Yun has tinkered with many things, but he actually doesn’t understand the principle. No one has done the same thing as Yang Yun before, at least no one Yang Yun knows, so Yang Yun needs everything

If you try to figure it out on your own, you won’t understand a lot of things.

Duan Ling jokingly called the things and principles studied by Yang Yun as pseudoscience. This did not mean that these principles were false, but that Yang Yun had not really understood these things. Yang Yun always felt that Duan Ling should know these things better than him, but

Duan Ling never mentioned it on his own initiative, and even if Yang Yun asked, he couldn't find out anything.

The medicine Yang Yun brought was only enough for two uses. He was unlucky and failed both times. So he had to collect medicine again. Li Zilai sent a hundred soldiers to follow Yang Ju, firstly to help him collect medicine, and secondly.

It's also to protect Yang Yun. Yang Yun's original fighting ability was pretty good, but since he got into those fancy things, it has been wasted.

Although he failed both times, Li Zilai didn't think it was a waste of time. In the final analysis, he was just doing things during the break between sieges. It's naturally gratifying if he succeeds, and it doesn't matter if he fails.

The hard work paid off, and Yang Yun finally got lucky and poisoned Guanshan City. The poison was not very strong, but it only made people feel sore all over and weak in limbs. By the way, they could vomit out everything they ate yesterday.

That’s it. Although it feels very uncomfortable, it won’t kill you. Just practice for two or three days and you’ll be fine.

After capturing Guanshan City, the entire Guanshan Prefecture was at his fingertips. Li Zilai sent troops one after another to capture Guanshan Prefecture. He left an army to garrison and returned to Peizhou with other troops. Next, he waited for the popular merchant generals Chuan Yuzhou and

After the two states of Guanshan and Shanzhou are digested and drawn into their war machine, the next expansion can be launched.

After all, Fengyun Shang's foundation is too poor. If it were a war between countries, there would be no need to conquer a state to stop. Fengyun Shang himself only owned two states, and now his territory has expanded.

After some investigation, the garrisoned troops were somewhat stretched.

In particular, the previous actions of the governor of Guanshan Prefecture aroused huge public indignation among the officials of Guanshan Prefecture. These officials could no longer stay in Guanshan Prefecture. Fengyun Shang needed to dispatch officials from Liyang Prefecture and Pei Prefecture.

It would take several months for these officials to figure out the situation in Guanshan Prefecture.

It was also because of Fengyun Shang's continuous expansion that the three eastern kings felt that they had to take action to stop them. They sent an army of 500,000 to encircle and suppress the four states under Fengyun Shang. In order to ensure the safety of the four states, Fengyun Shang had no choice but to lead troops together with Li Zilai.
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