After Cao's soldiers shot down several of Wei Yan's soldiers, across the moat, they could vaguely see Wei Yan leading the rest of his troops to escape, gradually disappearing into the thick fog.

Cao's soldiers did not pursue them, they just stood there and cheered in unison. Then they heard the gong sounding behind them, and then hurriedly retreated to the base of the city wall, turned to the gate of the north city, waited for Cao's soldiers in the city to open the city gate, and then slowly returned to the city.

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Besides, Wei Yan was immediately in the camp. While observing the battlefield situation, he ordered his lieutenants to say: "But after the fog dissipated, Ma Yuan led 6,000 troops to fill the moat, and Liu Changyun led 1,000 crossbowmen to rush over. Well,

Just rush wherever you go

"Inside," Wei Yan pointed at the wall to the right of the North City Gate and said, "After rushing over, they lined up and fired at Cao's soldiers on the wall, covering Zhang Hua in order to place the gunpowder. But when the gunpowder exploded and knocked down the wall, everyone was ready.

Let’s fight into the city together.”

Ma Yuan and Liu Changyun were ordered to go and prepare themselves.

Wei Yan then ordered his deputy general Zhang Hua: "You will take two thousand soldiers and watch from behind. But when the moat is filled and Liu Changyun leads his troops to shoot at Cao's soldiers on the city, you will lead two thousand soldiers, each with a

Two barrels of gunpowder rushed to the wall on the right side of the north city gate, piled up the gunpowder, connected the fuse and lit it, and then ordered all the soldiers to retreat.

Go to the north of the moat, but wait until the gunpowder explodes to open a gap in the city wall, and then lead the troops with the other generals to rush in through the gap. After entering, don't get entangled with Cao's soldiers, go directly to the Fancheng Yamen, burn the Yamen, and then join forces

Look for Cao's soldiers to fight in one place. No one is allowed to stop. We must kill Cao's soldiers out of Fancheng and completely occupy Fancheng."

Zhang Hua took the order and organized the troops himself.

Wei Yan made arrangements and went out with more than a dozen soldiers to observe the situation from a high place, waiting for the fog to dissipate before launching an attack.

The thick fog dissipated very slowly, and it was not completely dissipated until almost noon. However, at this time, the sun had vaguely revealed its face. When Wei Yan looked carefully, he could only see that the moving figures of Cao's soldiers on the top of the city wall were faintly visible.

After a while, the woods under the city gradually became clearer. When Wei Yan saw that the time had come, he immediately drew his sword in his hand and waved the order forward: "Start the attack!"

The Jingzhou soldiers here had already worked up their energy. After hearing the order, they all picked up their weapons and took action. The first group of 6,000 troops, led by deputy general Ma Yuan, each carried a bag of straw packed with soil.

The bags swarmed up and rushed to the moat. They saw straw bags thrown into the moat.

Although the water in the moat was flowing, it was not deep and had no power to wash away the straw bales. After filling in the 6,000 straw bales, a dam was basically formed.

When the Jingzhou soldiers returned to carry the remaining straw bales and throw them away, a wide embankment had been built.

Seeing that the time had come, Liu Changyun drew his sword in his hand and ordered: "Charge!" After shouting, he held a straw bag over his head with one hand and rushed forward waving his sword with the other.

The thousand crossbowmen behind each had a straw bag filled with some soil on their heads as cover, and carrying crossbow pots on their backs, they rushed across the embankment on the moat like a whirlwind, and followed Liu Changyun to the city wall of Fancheng.

At this time, the Cao soldiers on the top of the city wall saw the Jingzhou soldiers throwing straw bags into the moat, and immediately understood their intentions. When Cao Ren hurriedly ordered the soldiers to release arrows, the distance was too far, and the arrowheads landed on his own side of the moat.

, and did not harm any Jingzhou soldiers at all.

When Cao Ren was anxious, he suddenly saw a group of Jingzhou soldiers, each with a straw bag on their head, rushing towards the city wall, and cursed: "Damn it, you only have this little stuff, do you still want to come over and fill up the city wall?"

After Cao Ren scolded them, he saw that thousands of Jingzhou soldiers were about to arrive at the city, and he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows.

But it was because the Jingzhou soldiers were all carrying straw bags filled with soil on their heads, so arrowheads could not hurt them at all.

At this moment, Cao Ren suddenly saw these Jingzhou soldiers with straw bags on their heads. He suddenly dropped the straw bags on their heads, then took off the crossbow, bent the bow and arrow, aimed upward, and aimed at the top of the city wall.

Release the arrow.

These thousands of Jingzhou soldiers are all well-trained marksmen. They bent their bows but did not shoot arrows immediately. But when Cao soldiers on the top of the city wall showed their heads, the arrowheads immediately flew up the wall, but they were shot.

That's right, as long as Cao's soldiers showed up, there was no one who was not hit by an arrow.

In this way, a thousand Jingzhou sharpshooters actually forced Cao's soldiers behind the arrow stacks on the top of the city wall so that they did not dare to show their heads.

At this time, there was only a shout from the other side of the moat. When Cao Ren hurriedly turned around to look at the city gate tower, he saw just after the shout, two to three thousand Jingzhou soldiers, each holding two bamboo tubes in their hands, heading towards

The city wall followed and ran over. After arriving, he bypassed the crossbowmen who were shooting arrows at the city wall, went straight to the root of the city wall, and immediately stacked the bamboo tubes in his hands neatly.

In less than one meal, thousands of bamboo tubes were stacked neatly.

Cao Ren was dumbfounded at this time. He didn't know what these Jingzhou soldiers meant by placing bamboo tubes under the city wall.

Cao Ren turned around and looked at the lieutenants with questioning eyes. The lieutenants were in a panic and did not know the motives of the Jingzhou soldiers.

When Cao Ren saw this, he didn't think much about it and ordered the Cao soldiers who came over to shoot arrows at the Jingzhou soldiers below the city.

But because they are too far apart, the arrowheads shot here cannot hurt the Jingzhou soldiers who are stacking bamboo tubes below.

In his panic, Cao Ren hurriedly ordered his soldiers to throw cannon stones and bamboo down. However, by this time, the Jingzhou soldiers had already finished stacking the bamboo tubes and retreated to a distance.

After he retreated across the moat, he picked up the sword, spear, sword and halberd in his hand, and stood there looking under the city wall.

On this side of the city wall and in front of the stack of bamboo tubes, three soldiers were lighting the rope with sandalwood in their hands, and there was a trace of green smoke coming out of the sandalwood heads.

Cao Ren didn't know what they were doing, so he waved the sword in his hand and shouted: "Throw the wood down and kill them."

Dozens of Cao soldiers on the city wall heard the order and risked being shot. They lifted up a few logs and threw them down at the bottom of the city.

Besides, the Jingzhou soldiers who lit the fire under the city wall were too nervous and had not yet lit the fuse, but more than a dozen pieces of wood fell from their heads.

The crossbowmen who were shooting arrows kept yelling. When the three soldiers who lit the fire hurriedly looked up, they saw that several bamboo trees had rolled down. They couldn't escape for a while, but they were knocked down next to the bamboo tube.

Dead or alive.

Wei Yan, who was standing on his horse on the other side of the moat, saw him and hurriedly ordered the ignition reserve team to rush over and light the ignition again.

The three Jingzhou soldiers holding sandalwood torches had just rushed across the embankment on the moat when they heard a gust of wind and it started to rain heavily.

The two warring parties were only focused on fighting and did not bother to observe the sky. Unexpectedly, in the middle of winter, there was a sudden heavy rain, which made everyone unable to open their eyes.

The rain did not have much impact on the other soldiers, but the one that had the greatest impact was the three Jingzhou soldiers who rushed across the moat and lit the fuse. The sandalwood ignition in their hands was extinguished by the rain. How could they still do this job? There was no place to take it.

Tinder, in desperation, had to withdraw and wait for orders.

At this time, Wei Yan braved the heavy rain to see all the processes clearly. Knowing that there was nothing he could do today, he hurriedly waved his sword and ordered: "Withdraw troops!"

The ordering soldier banged the gong in his hand, and the sound of the gong reached the ears of every soldier through the sound of wind and rain. So the thousands of Jingzhou soldiers spread out in the rain and swarmed to the camp by the Yushui River to retreat.
Chapter completed!