No matter why the city gate collapsed, it was a good thing for Cao's army who was sieging the city. No matter what the reason was, the Cao army soldier who pushed the cart to crash had only one idea in his mind at this time, and completely knocked it open...

The loosening does not come from the city gate itself, but from the city wall that fixed the city gate. After several consecutive days of burning and impact, the city gate was still not substantially damaged, but the walls on both sides burst and loosen under repeated thermal expansion and contraction. Finally, under the continuous attack today, the iron bolt fixed between the two walls cracked the loose wall at the bottom of the city wall, creaking, creaking, and stretching out. Next, the wall at the upper end could not support the weight of the city gate. Then, under the bombardment of the city car that hit the city outside the city, the city gate finally stopped supporting and collapsed.

But the direction is not the direction. Due to the continuous impact of the car outside the city, the upright city gate moved half a minute inward. Although the movement of half a minute is one mile, the directional change that occurred directly when the city gate collapsed, it did not collapse from the outside, but hit it from the inside out and smashed it down.

"Coax!" The soldiers who were already full of joy in the car crash, watched as the huge city gate slammed towards him like a huge mountain, and countless people immediately regretted from the surprise that their parents had few legs. When they turned around and ran away, it was too late. Few soldiers who carried two city cars escaped and were instantly pressed under the city gate weighing about half a ton.

Cao Zhi and the follow-up troops, who were in the distance, did not know what had happened before, but when they saw that both the enemy and us were stunned, a strange thing happened to the city gate collapse.

"Zhao, Zhao Yun, cavalry..."

No matter how the breaking ends, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The Nanchang defenders also lost the city gate by accident. There were not many defenders coming out from the passage inside at this time. However, Cao's soldiers who were climbing the ladder to attack the city wall were not able to learn about the collapse of the city gate at the first time. Only a small number of soldiers near the city gate or following the collision convoy, when they saw the city gate collapse, they shouted and rushed into the city.

But the movement of soldiers from the city defense is always faster than the Cao army outside the city. As soon as nearly a thousand defenders were transferred down to block the city gate, they retreated to the first group of Cao army that were swarming in. When they heard a shining white whirlwind, they rushed to the front of the defenders like a white horse, white clothes, silver spear, and thunderously rushed into the defenders' defense line like a dragon. Behind them, a continuous stream of enemy cavalry poured in like a tide.

After a full meal, Nanchang City was finally truly captured. Tens of thousands of Cao's cavalry, heavy armored infantry and navy all stepped on the collapsed city gate and passed the dark city gate passage and rushed into the city.

When Cao Zhi led the follow-up troops to the collapsed city gate, he said to Ni Heng who was immediately following him: "All soldiers who were crushed to death under this city gate will be promoted to one level, and their pensions will be doubled. They have made a battle for this..."

Just as Cao Zhi was arranging many things before entering the city, a man with black hair appeared in front of him. Everyone was very surprised. It was not a senior general, so it was generally impossible for him to come to Cao Zhi. Who is this person?

For a moment, everyone stopped talking and looked at the "black man" with only an ordinary soldier's clothes around his waist.

What is this person doing? Cao Xiu even drew his sword in his hand, preparing to drink the rude guy back.

But before Cao Xiu spoke, this "black man" suddenly bowed slightly and called out, "Lord!"

As soon as the voice was spoken, many people could hear it. Isn’t this Zulang?

"Haha..." Amidst a burst of laughter that could not help but laugh, Cao Zhi and others quickly dismounted and wrapped the black man Zulang in a robe and cloak, only then did they realize that this person was really Zulang who they thought was dead.

Unexpectedly, Zulang looked almost damaged because it was too dark. However, not only did he wear less clothes, but he even took off the broken military uniform around his waist. He was also taken off the soldier who was so scared that he was so scared that he was carrying a sandbag.

It turned out that the Zulang jumped up and down and rolled into dust, which Cao Zhi and others saw from afar were not him, but his clothes. Although Zulang was on fire, he was injured again. However, Zulang was a sect leader who had experienced strong winds. While running back, he took off his clothes that were on fire. In the end, he just tore it up and threw it back. This caused Cao Zhi and others to think that Zulang was burned by fire and fell to the ground and burned to death. In fact, Zulang was covered in scars and hair, his eyebrows were burned with naked body, and slipped into a moat not far away, and stuck in several wooden stakes in the river. He hid a flying arrow, and then grabbed a soldier who came to fill the moat. After scaring the others, he took off one of his clothes and escaped.

At this time, Cao Zhi ordered people to take clear water to clean up the dirt on Zulang's body, and many scars on Zulang's body appeared. Fortunately, this monster-level guy is almost a model of amazing physical recovery ability. In the past, when he fought with Cao Zhi, his injuries were much more serious than today, so there is no need to worry too much about this injury today.

With joy, Cao Zhi entered Nanchang County Mansion surrounded by people, at the foot of Xiaoyao Mountain, 30 miles southwest of Nanchang City, Zhao Yun led two thousand iron cavalry to a slope top, immediately in a grass, looking down at the dense forest that had begun to stretch for several miles. They were chasing the remaining soldiers who had escaped from the city siege by Zu Rong for hundreds of defeats. Zhao Yun was sure that Zu Rong was among the defeated enemy soldiers. Cao Zhi had already sent an order, so he must take Zu Rong down, and he must see people in his life and see the corpse after death!

"If there was no accurate route, even if thousands of troops were sent to search such a large forest, he would not have been able to siege the targets!" Xu Sheng said at this time by Zhao Yun's side. He is now Zhao Yun's deputy general, and it is his responsibility to give advice and provide necessary opinions to the general.

"What if it is General Xu's intention?" Zhao Yun also asked politely and asked.

"I think we might as well take a detour to the gorge in front and block them there. If Zu Rong wants to escape, he must go there!" Xu Sheng said.

"Okay, let's wait for them at the mouth of this mountain and drive..."

With the morale of the Cao army's iron cavalry, under the order of Zhao Yun, more than 2,000 cavalry headed towards the entrance of the gorge like a whirlwind.

In the darkness before dawn, a long team of about a thousand people quietly entered the mouth of Xiaoyao Mountain Gorge, waiting for the prey to enter the cage.

Suddenly, the sound of hooves sounded a little inside, coming from far to near, and heading towards the entrance of the gorge. Zhao Yun and others were not surprised at all, because this was exactly what they were waiting for.

The enemy army was walking in panic with a few torches. Just looking at the formation, we knew that these desperate people were all panic, so the team was not only broken into pieces, but also ignored each other from the beginning to the end, but also had women and children far behind, and no one paid attention to those who fell.

Although everyone hated and felt sorry for this scene, they all felt sorry for each other.

"Is there any way to identify Zhu Rong from these many people?" Zhao Yun did not want to commit more murder, so he decided to capture the thief and first capture the king, and directly defeated the evil Zhu Rong.

Xu Sheng sneered: "With a selfish personality, you will definitely be at the forefront."

Zhao Yun said: "Then wait until the more than a hundred people in the front team enter the gorge, you will lead people to cut off the team behind them, and let's take the initiative to capture people calmly!"

"Receive the order!"

There were about a hundred people in front of the escape team. As soon as they left the gorge, they felt dust in front of them, and horse hooves were thundering. A team of Cao army cavalry was rushing towards them with a staggering momentum. The subordinates of the archery, who had become frightened birds, were immediately in chaos, crying and shaking, and escaping in the opposite direction. The falls and tramplings on each other, and the scene was like the end of the world.

Xu Sheng ruthlessly cut off the opponent's team, in order to force the enemy's remaining soldiers to escape in the opposite direction.

Sure enough, when the enemy heard the sound of horse hooves in the slanting thorns, they immediately responded. Just looking at the location where the birds were startled, they knew that they were running towards the southeast.

When the remaining soldiers who turned back into the canyon fled, the torch suddenly lit up everywhere, and thousands of Cao army soldiers rode their horses out from all directions, letting a few women and children carrying heavy objects go around, and only surrounding the desperately running Xie Rong who was guarding dozens of personal guards.

In an instant, Zuo Rong was surrounded and fell into a desperate situation.

At the core of the circular formation of the trusted guards, Zu Rong looked pale as if he was dead, and he couldn't help but breathe heavily.

Zhao Yun stood up and sat high on the white horse and shouted: "We only want the life of Zu Rong. Except for the thief, everyone else wants to leave, so let's go!"

The dozens of Xie Rong's confidants guarded me, and I don't know who left the weapons first. In a blink of an eye, most of them escaped completely. Only a few loyal dead soldiers and a bleak look remained standing in the center of the encirclement.

Zhao Yun and others slammed off their horses and surrounded Zu Rong.

Zhao Yun shouted all the way: "Zhu Rong, did you ever think of today when you betrayed your lord and killed Xue Li?"

Seeing Zhao Yun, Xu Sheng and others angry, Zu Rong was so angry that he was shocked. He pointed at the two of them and said, "Okay! I was in vain that I was in Yangzhou for a lifetime, but in the end I died at the hands of two younger generations. OK, very good..."

When Xu Sheng heard that Zu Rong called him a junior, he spat and slutted his saliva, gritted his teeth and said, "Shut your stinky mouth, who has typed you with you? You still call yourself ** Lake, but you are extremely treacherous. Caozhou Mu did not care about his past grudges and let you go repeatedly, but you are ungrateful and have been enemies with Caozhou Mu again and again. Zhu Rong, you should not be jealous of death!"

Zhao Yun also said disdainfully: "Zhao Rong, you are about to die, so there is no need to say more nonsense. The lord has an order to make you meet people and corpses. Are you surrendering? Or..."

Zu Rong was speechless for a moment. Looking at more than a hundred crossbow arrows aimed at him as the center, he didn't know what to say for a moment. Thinking about Cao Zhiswoo, he was willing to give up. In an instant, countless sad past events that he would never forget in his life were flashing through his mind at the same time. The result of all this today was caused by Zu Rong. Xue Li's grief and angry eyes before his death, and the scene of dying were dying passed through his heart one by one. His heart lake seemed to throw a huge rock, arousing the sadness that made him feel sad.

"Will!"

Just as Zhao Yun spear poked Zu Rong and ordered his subordinates to go forward and tied up Zu Rong, suddenly, he found that the iron spear in his hand suddenly penetrated into Zu Rong's lower abdomen. Zu Rong took advantage of the moment when Zhao Yun looked away and suddenly rushed forward to meet his iron spear.

When Zuo Rong fell on him, he had turned into a corpse. No matter how fame and fortune was, it had nothing to do with him.

Zhao Yun didn't expect that Zu Rong was a little more arrogant, so he chose to commit suicide. He slowly put down Zu Rong's body and shouted to the stupid Zu Rong guards: "Do you stupid people want to die with him? Stop the weapons immediately and get as far as I can."

But Zhao Yun's fearful drink did not achieve any effect. A few minutes later, a series of muffled groans at the dim canyon sounded in the forest beside him, and he returned to silence in a moment.

######### Another five days, Nanchang, baptized by war, gradually returned to peace. Wherever Cao Zhi's army went, the soldiers strictly followed the general's order and did not dare to plunder the people. They did not commit any crimes. So the people were very happy and fought to reward the troops with cattle and wine.

While Cao Zhi was working hard to give soldiers in Nanchang City, he issued a notice to the counties under Yuzhang: "Whether it is Zuo Rong's old subordinates, Liu Yao, Yuan Shu, or former officials under Yuzhang County, soldiers who surrender will not be asked about the past. Those who are willing to join the army can join the army and exempt the whole family from taxes and labor service. If they are not willing to join the army, they will never force themselves and leave their freedom.

After the announcement was released, the followers gathered from all directions. In a short time, they recruited more than 4,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 horses. The county towns west of Nanchang that had not been recovered by Cao's army were surrendered within a few days. Cao Zhi immediately sent Yangzhou officials headed by Ni Heng to conduct incorporation, patrols, and appointment matters.

But just when Cao Zhi held a celebration banquet in Nanchang City, Lei Gongzheng sang at the top of his voice and scared a soldier from a river-filling body. Ni Heng, who went to other counties to carry out work, sent people to send back the news. When Cao Zhi captured Nanchang, Zhuge Xuan, who had already lurked back, was unfortunately thought by the residents of Xicheng to be a member of the party of Zurong when he launched a coup in Xicheng, and a riot occurred. Zhuge Xuan was unfortunately killed in the riot. The soldiers and civilians of Xicheng even prepared to behead his head and sent him to Cao Zhi. Fortunately, Ni Heng and other authentic Yangzhou officials arrived in time. After quelling the riot, they robbed Zhuge Xuan's body and were now returning by his nephew Zhuge Jin's coffin.

When Cao Zhi heard that someone from Zhuge's family had arrived, he immediately stopped the banquet and went to greet him in person. Cao Zhi was not sad or a pity for the death of Zhuge Xuan, but that this person has now been confirmed to be Zhuge Liang's uncle. He naturally wanted to win over Zhuge Liang, hoping to pull Zhuge Liang down and serve him. Zhuge Liang may not be famous now, but Cao Zhi knew his potential stock.

When Cao Zhi saw the coffin escorted by Zhuge Jin, he was attracted by Zhuge Jin's appearance at first sight. He saw that Zhuge Jin was tall and handsome, in his prime. At this time, his face was ashamed, dejected, covered in mud, and his clothes were covered in many places, but he still could not hide his unique temperament.

Cao Zhi was overjoyed when he saw this. Isn’t Zhuge Jin Zhuge Liang’s brother? His brother is so handsome, so his younger brother must be nowhere short.

Cao Zhi was happy, but he knew that he was holding a funeral at this time, so he couldn't help but behave.

As soon as Cao Zhi saw Zhuge Xuan's coffin, before his subordinates could recommend him and Zhuge Jin, he rushed to Zhuge Xuan's coffin and cried. He shouted and said that the people of Yuzhang had lost a good leader and he had lost a good helper. Everyone around him was moved to tears.

Zhuge Xuan hasn't worked with Cao Zhi yet, and they were even part of an opposing group before. But now Cao Zhi has concluded that Zhuge Xuan is his good helper, and others will not shed a few tears.

After the sadness of the people, Cao Zhi immediately announced that he would submit a report to Zhuge Xuan for the court, posthumously thinking of the governor of Yangzhou, and getting a posthumous title. Zhuge Jin was moved and was grateful for it for a long time. He didn't know what to say, but when he came to thank Cao Zhi, Cao Zhi comforted Zhuge Jin and was mourning for the change, and told him that there was a saying in his hometown, "Water can carry boats, but can also overturn the boats." This meant to persuade Zhuge Jin to understand the relationship between the people and the rulers. In fact, water and boats are the same, so he did not mind that Zhuge Xuan was killed by the people in Xicheng.

Cao Zhi actually underestimated Zhuge Jin's awareness. He was the eldest brother of Zhuge Liang, a historical celebrity. How could he be so unreasonable? His uncle was a little unlucky and was accidentally killed by the common people he had ruled, but who could blame him? In a battle to seize the city, Zhuge Xuan was more than just the one who was involved in the incomplete death like his uncle who was involved in the unexplained state.

Zhuge Jin just told Cao Zhi that he would not do anything to kill and retaliate if he has the ability in the future. He just wanted to use what he learned and do his best to influence sentient beings, let them distinguish right from wrong, and no longer let such a tragedy happen again.

Zhuge Jin's meaning was very clear, and he still wanted to be an official. Cao Zhi was about to win over the people of the Zhuge family, but that was irresponsible, so he immediately expressed Zhuge Jin as the gong Cao of Yuzhang.

When he was having a funeral for Zhuge Xuan, Cao Zhi finally got the opportunity to ask if Zhuge Liang would come to attend Zhuge Xuan's funeral.
Chapter completed!