Koto.
The return of tens of thousands of elite soldiers led by the Jiangdong Tigers made everyone in the upper echelons of Wu County panic, wondering when they would launch troops against Jiangdong.
Ta-ta-ta...
Suddenly, something shook and shook on the ground, and then came out in the distance, and loud sounds of horse hooves resounded throughout the sky.
"Is this the cavalry?"
Jiangdong originally had few cavalry, and having more than a thousand cavalry would be considered good. However, this formation seemed overwhelming, with at least several thousand cavalry. The menacing force immediately frightened them.
"No, the enemy is coming. It's the Jiangdong Army. They are the Jiangdong Army."
Wang Fu hurriedly raised his head and looked into the distance. He saw countless cavalry galloping towards them. Their momentum was as terrifying as that of tigers. Everyone could see a big flag with the word 'Sun' raised high.
He was stunned for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses and shouted hysterically to the two groups of men around him: "You go and close the city gate. The others are following me and pull up the suspension bridge. Hurry, hurry up!"
"Yes! Lower the suspension bridge! Go and lower the suspension bridge."
"Close the city gate, close the city gate quickly!"
The countless cavalrymen in the distance were very fast. There were thousands of them, and they reached the city in an instant. The general who led the troops was a tall, handsome young man, wearing a lion's armor, with a black horse on his crotch, and holding a Overlord's gun. Like a strong wind, rushing towards me.
"Definitely!" Sun Ce saw that the suspension bridge was about to be re-suspended. A bright light flashed across his eyes. He clamped his horse between his legs and jumped up in the air. He forcibly crossed the guard river and landed firmly on the suspension bridge that had not been completely lifted. Above, with a sweep of the spear, several suspension ropes were disconnected, and the suspension bridge fell again.
"I'm dead, I'm dead this time." Wang Fu and several soldiers guarding the gate were so frightened by Sun Ce's bravery that their legs trembled and they fell to the side. They were frightened and did not dare to resist. They had already begun to close their eyes and wait for death.
But after waiting for a while, Wang Fu opened his eyes gently, but did not see the young general in front of him make a move on him.
"Youping, bows and arrows!" Sun Ce immediately stood on the suspension bridge, ignoring the few pawns guarding the gate, and shouted to a deputy general behind him.
"Sir, please!" Zhou Taice came immediately and handed over a pair of fine bows and arrows.
"You all go back and tell Governor Sheng that a certain family is Sun Ce, the son of Sun Jian. They are not attacking Wu County. It's just that the team of the Sun family in Jiangdong is returning to their hometown of Fuchun and needs to pass through Wu County. Please raise your hand and give way. This is Greetings from our Sun family!"
Wang Fu and others were stunned for a moment, and immediately stood up with some relief. They managed to save their lives. Seeing that Sun Ce's cavalry obviously had no intention of attacking the city, they hurriedly ran to the city gate, and then joined forces with more than a dozen soldiers. , used a winch to lower the gate of the city gate, and closed it tightly.
"Youping, Bohai, send the order, the army will retreat three miles and camp on the spot!" Sun Ce shouted loudly to the cavalry team without paying any attention to the closed city gate.
"No!" Zhou Tai and Sun He nodded.
These are all the cavalry of the Jiangdong Army, numbering a thousand, all with one man and two horses, and are well equipped. However, they have not yet undergone formal cavalry training and do not have much combat effectiveness. However, these cavalry are all veterans, and most of them are former Westerners. The Liang Jiang soldiers were all familiar with riding skills, but they could barely maintain the formation of the cavalry and maintain the momentum of the cavalry.
By noon, the Jiangdong Cavalry camp was set up next to a hillside three miles away from Wuxian County.
After the camp settled down, Sun Ce, Sun He, and Zhou Tai began to show off the bravery of Jiangdong cavalry to everyone in the city according to the original plan. While training the cavalry, they rode around the city. A thousand cavalry was rare in Jiangdong, and their momentum was It was so majestic that it intimidated both inside and outside Wu County, and the sound of horse hooves resounded throughout the county.
The city gate of Wu County was closed. Although the combat effectiveness of the county soldiers was not very good, they still had some skills. Tens of thousands of county soldiers under Xu Gong had been deployed on the city wall. Although they were afraid of the cavalry below the city, they were still ready to prepare.
But the county town is getting lively.
In the Sheriff's Mansion, Sheng Xian received Sun Jian's invitation. His expression was as rich as he wanted. He couldn't laugh or cry, and he was uncertain about yin and yang. He could only secretly scold Sun Jian for being shameless.
Borrow the way?
Tens of thousands of Jiangdong elite troops took advantage of the passage to Wuxian?
What kind of thing is this? With Sheng Xian's wisdom, he would never have guessed what Sun Jian was thinking. If this Dao was lent out, could he still get it back? It's just a false way of attacking Guo.
He suddenly became worried.
"Lord Sheriff, Sun Jian has such a wolfish ambition, and you must not borrow it!" Xu Gong was also panicked at this time. He asked for help again and again in the past few days, but the big family in the city obviously had a good impression of Sun Jian, and the Gu family and the Lu family also Unwilling to pay attention to him, facing Sun Jian's tens of thousands of elite soldiers who were about to end, he could only let Sheng Xian take the lead.
"They are not attacking the county seat now. If we don't borrow this route, we will be at fault. Does Xu Junwei plan to use the few county soldiers under your command to forcefully block the road?" Gao Dai said darkly and sarcastically.
"You?" Xu Gong was angry. He knew that Gao Dai had always admired Sun Jian and was the one who most supported Sun Jian's return to Jiangdong: "Gao Dai, as the magistrate of Wu County, what are you thinking about?"
"You are the one who has the most thoughts on your mind. What can I think about? I just think that since General Polu is from Wu County, he will naturally not harm Wu County. Since he can bring peace to Wu County, why shouldn't we?" Gao Dai sneered. irony.
"Okay, please let me calm down and let me think about this matter again!" Sheng Xian knew that Sun Jian was doing courtesy first and then fighting. Now he was thinking about Sun Jian's attitude towards him.
It’s not that he is reluctant to take the position of county guard, but he is a legitimate county guard after all. If Sun Jian gets the county guard position, it is not impossible to kill him with a knife in order to avoid future troubles. After all, Han Fu and Liu Dai are both So dead.
The vanguard of the Jiangdong Army, thousands of elite troops, came to the city. Although they did not attack the city, they circled the city with horses every day. The unbridled sound of horse hooves sounded inside and outside the city every day. Some people in Wuxian County were suddenly panicked.
Three days later, Sun Jian personally led an army to arrive outside the city of Wu County. Tens of thousands of troops were camped for several miles, with flags covering the sky. They stared at the county city with eager eyes, and they looked even more domineering. Although the city gate of Wu County was now closed, no matter whether it was inside the county city, High-ranking officials, noble families, and ordinary people were all unable to sit still at this time and started to panic.
The Sheriff's Mansion was even more chaotic.
Xu Gong and Gao Dai fought fiercely, one calling for battle and the other calling for peace. However, Sheng Xian's character lacked decisiveness and was still vacillating. He wanted to give way, but he was afraid that Sun Jian would kill him, so he wanted to resist. , even with those county soldiers, he didn't have the courage.
"Kong Wen, this can't go on like this. Tens of thousands of troops are blocking the city gate. The people in the whole city are in panic. This matter will be resolved sooner or later. Tomorrow morning, on behalf of me, go out of the city gate to see this Sun Wentai. , to explore his thoughts!”
In the end, Sheng Xian thought twice and could only grit his teeth and said softly to Gao Dai helplessly.
"No!" Gao Dai was slightly happy when he knew that Sheng Xian had relented. He didn't want a war to break out in Wu County, which had always been peaceful. Of course, he also didn't want anything to happen to Sheng Xian.
"Sir, you must not!" Xu Gong hurriedly objected, saying: "Sun Jian came with arrogant ambitions. How can he give up so easily? Aren't you afraid that he will take your position and your life?"
"Captain Xu, if we don't talk about it, do you plan to start a war with General Polu? Or do you think the county soldiers under your command can withstand the Sun family's tens of thousands of Jiangdong elite soldiers?"
Sheng Xian knew that Xu Gong was an ambitious man and had always had a peep at his position, so he said coldly: "If you don't think about the people in the city, it's best to think about yourself. If we fight together, it will be inevitable." There is a river of blood, and I don’t want anyone in Wu County to bleed and die.”
"But?" Xu Gong looked ferocious, still a little unwilling.
"Okay, Captain Xu, that's it for now. You can take care of yourself. Kong Wen, if you go, you can hint to Sun Jian that I, Sheng Xian, don't care about this position."
Sheng Xian had made up his mind. Once Sun Jian nodded, he would give up the throne. It was not that he was afraid of death, but he just didn't want to make unnecessary sacrifices. These were troubled times, and he knew himself. Even if Sun Jian didn't come, he wouldn't be able to sit firmly as the governor of Wu County. s position.
Xu Gong could only snort in the end, and then angrily left the Sheriff's Mansion with a burst of anger.
Gao Dai went out of the city for talks on behalf of Sheng Xian and entered the Jiangdong camp smoothly. However, he did not see Sun Jian. First, Wu Jing and Cheng Pu received him politely.
Then a young man came out. This young man was Zhou Yu, a talented man from Jiangdong Army. He was very impressive. He was not as secretive as Wu Jing and Cheng Pu. Instead, he directly opened up the matter and had a long talk with him.
The two talked in a large tent for more than two hours before Gao Dai returned to the city with a slightly strange mentality and reported Zhou Yu's request to the governor Sheng Xian.
Shengxian was silent for a while, but finally agreed.
Wu County, with Sun Jian's arrival, began to stabilize. The panic and noise caused by Jiangdong's army's siege a few days ago have all disappeared. Now the streets and alleys have become more and more lively, with people coming and going. There are more people.
We are taking a look at the counties in Langya in the north.
As the sun set, the Qingzhou soldiers hurriedly snatched back the bodies of their companions under the city wall, but the bloodstains were all over the city wall.
Soldiers of the Xuzhou army collapsed on the city wall one by one. A day's siege caused heavy casualties to the defenders in various counties. Those who were alive did not eat for a long time, but they just wanted to fall down and sleep.
A hundred-man general with an injured right hand walked by, kicked the soldiers awake, and shouted, "Get up, the Qingzhou soldiers are about to shoot arrows."
Although the soldiers were unwilling, they all got up.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" As soon as the soldiers stood up, the Qingzhou Army crossbowmen on the five "watchtowers" opposite fired their crossbow arrows.
"Ah!" A Xuzhou soldier next to him fell to the ground after being hit by an arrow. The injured man fell down and rolled to avoid a crossbow arrow. He felt extremely sad when he looked at his subordinate who was not dead on the ground but was twitching all over.
"Come up like a shield! Load the crossbow over there! Give those bastards in Qingzhou a look."
There was a commotion, and Xuzhou soldiers were on guard while counterattacking with bows and crossbows.
The wounded hundred-man general received a loaded crossbow. He squatted down and looked through the gap between the shield and the battlement to look at the Qingzhou soldier on the opposite watchtower.
With a "click!", the crossbow machine was activated, and the Qingzhou soldiers from the opposite side arrived in response.
Just as the hundred people relaxed their expressions a little, a cold light shot out, and they fell to the ground with arrows in their eyebrows, their eyes still retaining that momentary fear of death. .
This kind of shooting did not stop after the siege of the city and the withdrawal of troops.
In the Qingzhou military camp, Yuan Xi brought Guo Jia and others to the camp gate. In order to reach the shooting distance of the crossbow, part of the Qingzhou military camp was pressed as close to the city wall as possible.
There were soldiers constantly at the camp gate sending crossbows and arrows to the watchtower. The front of the watchtower was protected by wooden boards and cowhide, but the crossbow arrows of the Xuzhou soldiers still hit the exposed upper body of the crossbowmen. The crossbowman who was unfortunately shot would be carried down or his body by his companions.
"Major General, if it's dangerous here, please go back to the Chinese army." General Yamen, who was in charge of defense, said worriedly.
Xu Chu stood guard in front with his shield. Yuan Xi nodded and said, "I'll leave it to you here."
Just as Yuan Xi was about to enter the village gate, a group of soldiers outside carried stretchers and carried back the last batch of wounded soldiers. The general leading the army wanted to stop the soldiers, but Yuan Xi led everyone to get out of the way, allowing the wounded soldiers to go in first.
Then Yuan Xi followed in, personally checked the injuries of the soldiers, and asked, "Is the medicine in the army still enough? How many wounded soldiers are there?"
The doctor who accompanied the army quickly replied: "This place is close to my Qingzhou, and the supply of medicines is pretty good, but the total number of seriously injured people may be five or six hundred."
Yuan Xi was speechless. There were bound to be casualties in battle. During these years in the army, he had long been indifferent to the death of soldiers. All he pursued was victory, but he could not let his soldiers pay unworthy casualties. He asked, "Look at Fengxiao. Is there any way to destroy the city?"
"The methods of attacking the city are nothing more than Lin, hook, ladder, gong, mofu and rush. The cities in Xuzhou are strong, so we can only use the mofu method of intensively climbing the city, supplemented by bows and crossbows. Our army's casualties are not counted. It's very big, and our army's crossbows are powerful, which will make the defenders uncomfortable. We can break the city in less than three days," Guo Jia replied.
Yuan Xi never thought that attacking this county would be time-consuming and laborious, so he ordered, "Send the order, I will personally supervise the battle tomorrow, and the first person to attack the city wall will be rewarded with ten gold coins."
Pengcheng Yinping.
On the city wall, Guan Yu slashed out a cold moonlight with a Yanyue knife, knocking down the Yanzhou soldiers who jumped up the ladder from the city wall.
The defenders' spearmen also lined up to assassinate the Yanzhou soldiers on the ladder.
With the sound of gold ringing, the siege ladder was pushed back and the Yanzhou Army archers came out from behind the ladder and fired the last few waves of arrows.
The slower Xuzhou defenders were immediately shot.
Zhang Fei took out his strong bow angrily and shot several Yanzhou archers who retreated to death.
When the Xuzhou soldiers saw Cao Cao's army retreating, they all let out a long sigh. At least their lives were saved today. Two quarters of an hour later, Liu Bei led a group of soldiers to deliver meals to the soldiers guarding the city.
The soldiers who were squatting nearby stood up one after another, and Liu Bei personally distributed the steamed cakes to the nearby soldiers.
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"Hey, everyone is risking their lives to defend the city, and being the commander-in-chief, giving them a meal is nothing."
The soldiers nearby expressed their gratitude when they took the cakes and porridge. There were not many generals in this era who could be so considerate to the soldiers at the lower level.
Liu Bei led his men through another section of the city wall and saw Guan Yu and Zhang Fei standing there, so he took two pieces of steamed cake and stuffed them into their hands, "Two worthy brothers, how is Cao Cao's army doing?"
Guan Yu took the cake and said worriedly, "The attack on the city has not been as urgent as before in the past two days. It is all about big noise and small actions. I'm afraid there is some conspiracy."
Zhang Fei stuffed the steamed cake into his mouth, "It's not like he has any agenda. He's clearly trying to scare us."
"My dear brother, don't be careless. Pengcheng is the gateway to Xiapi, and Yinping is the gateway to Pengcheng. Tao Xuzhou has entrusted such an important task to my brother. We are concerned about the safety of Xuzhou." Liu Bei said.
"Tao Shijun is also very unhappy. If you want to fight, just gather your troops and fight Cao Cao in a decisive battle. Wouldn't that be fun? If you want to defend, concentrate your troops and horses to defend the strong Pengcheng. If you divide your troops to defend, wouldn't you be defeated one by one?" Zhang Fei complained. road.
"Third brother, don't talk nonsense. Tao Shijun's plan is to tire out the enemy and drag him down. Cao Cao will consume a lot of soldiers and food in various places. When he reaches Xiapi and other big cities, he will not have the troops to attack." Guan Yu told Tao Qian. plan.
While they were talking, a soldier pointed to Cao Cao's army camp outside the city and said, "Look, three generals, Cao Cao's army seems to have been mobilized. I don't know what the situation is."
At this time, it was dusk, and the surroundings were hazy, with only the occasional firelight in Cao Cao's camp.
"How can there be any transfer?" Liu Bei shook his head and said, he couldn't see it.
Guan Yu narrowed his eyes, looked at it for a while and said: "There is really a movement. Behind the camp, there are faint soldiers and horses going out, and they seem to be heading east."
Zhang Fei groaned and said loudly, "It's broken, Cao Cao is going to go elsewhere."
"Did Cao Cao take a detour to the East China Sea? Impossible, the defense is tighter over there." Liu Bei asked doubtfully.
"Brother, let me take those two thousand Youzhou riders to beat his back!" Zhang Fei said excitedly.
"No, there is no guarantee that what Cao Cao's army envoys is not a trick. Defending the city is important. How can I explain to Tao Xuzhou if Yinping is lost?" Liu Bei retorted.
Zhang Fei stared at Cao Cao's military camp outside the city in annoyance.
Near the mountain col in the distance, Cao Cao was ambushing with his elite soldiers.
Xiahou Dun came to Cao Cao and said helplessly, "It seems Liu Bei didn't fall into the trap. Could it be that he is afraid of us."
Cao Cao shook his head, "They have few soldiers, so it's normal that they don't dare to attack. The ambush is broken just in case. We're going to move forward at full speed. The news from the spies is that Yuan Shu's vanguard has entered Chenliu."
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Chen Liuyongqiu.
"Gla!" the sound continued, and the gate of Yongqiu City was slowly opened.
Lu Bu, who was riding on the red tug, waved his Fang Tianji, and then more than a thousand riders followed him and poured into Yongqiu City.
Although the streets were not wide, Lu Bu relied on his superb riding skills to gallop on his horse. He waved his square halberd, and a Yanzhou soldier's head rolled down, and the headless corpse spurted blood.
Lu Bu immediately continued to look for the next target without stopping, and then waved his halberd. The slight cracking sound and the spray of blood gave him great pleasure.
The trampling sound of more than a thousand cavalry could not help but greatly disturb the residents. The Yanzhou soldiers guarding the city also retreated steadily and retreated to the government office.
The Yongqiu County Lieutenant was riding on a horse. He wanted to escape from the other side of the city gate with his cronies, but he didn't expect Lu Bu's cavalry to attack so quickly.
The county captain had long been ordered to guard against Yuan Shu's army, but he did not expect that the vanguard of Yuan Shu's army would attack so suddenly. He hurriedly responded and the city gate was breached in less than an hour.
It seemed that the county captain had no time to escape, so he had to dismount his horse and salute Lu Bu, who was like a ghost and full of murderous aura, and said, "Sir, wait a moment, I would like to bring the whole county to surrender to the general."
Lu Bu's beastly, bloodthirsty eyes narrowed, and suddenly Chi Tu suddenly galloped to the side of the county captain.
"Hi!", the head rolled down, but the body was knocked far away.
Lu Bu stared closely at the other soldiers around him and said sternly, "Those who want to surrender should surrender their weapons and squat aside."
The city gate was breached and trampled with iron hooves. How could the Yongqiu defenders still have the fighting spirit to resist? The last thousand soldiers surrendered one after another.
Gao Shun, Cheng Lian and others escorted the surrendered troops to the open space next to the government office.
Lu Bu looked at Gao Shun, who was fully armored, and praised: "Gao Shun, you did a good job of breaking through the city gate. Your trapped camp can be of great use."
Gao Shun clasped his fists and asked, "Marquis Wen, what should we do next? Leave the soldiers to guard or continue to advance?"
Lu Bu sneered and said disdainfully, "Defend the city? The entire Chenliulai is not ours to capture. All the things in the treasury have been taken, and the rest of the civilian belongings... let the soldiers take it for themselves."
Song Xian asked excitedly: "What about these Yanzhou soldiers?"
Lu Bu's eyes were filled with coldness. He waved his right hand and said, "One. No. Stay!"
