Zhang Dian led a thousand soldiers gradually closer to the West City Gate. Their large number immediately attracted the attention of the defenders at the West City Gate.
"Password?" someone shouted in the distance.
"No leaks!"
Zhang Dian felt ridiculous every time he said this command, and it was still watertight. What did he have with a thousand people?
At this time, a general from the other side came up and asked: "Has it been changed to three positions?"
Zhang Dian shook his head, "We are the ninth battalion and we don't know anything. Someone asked us to reinforce the city defense. I don't know if it is a changing of the guard."
"It turns out to be the Ninth Battalion!"
There was a hint of contempt in the general's tone, and he snorted, "Go to the city!"
Zhang Dian did not say a word, waved his hand, and quickly walked up the corridor to the upper city with a thousand soldiers. Halfway there, he suddenly heard someone asking questions above the city gate.
"Whose subordinate?"
"General Qi, a brother from the ninth battalion, came to reinforce the defense."
"The Ninth Battalion? That's strange, who would send the Ninth Battalion for reinforcements?"
Zhang Dian heard it clearly and secretly screamed something bad, and quickly walked towards the city.
At this time, a dozen soldiers of the Huaixi Army walked quickly, led by a tall general, blocking the way.
"You all stop!"
Zhang Dian stopped and tightened his grip on the short spear in his hand. He had already realized that he was about to be exposed. He did not know the general opposite at all. This person should be an important figure.
The leading general looked Zhang Dian up and down. He had never seen this general of the ninth battalion. He suddenly became suspicious and asked quietly, "Did General Liu Jingzong send you here?"
Liu Jingzong was Wu Shaocheng's deputy general and the second most powerful general in the city. He was usually responsible for arranging patrols on duty.
Zhang Dian nodded, "Exactly!"
"Then it's okay, you can join the defense!"
The general laughed, turned around and took two steps. He suddenly ran away and shouted, "Come quickly, they are spies!"
Zhang Dian threw the spear with all his strength and hit the opponent in the back. The general screamed and was nailed to the ground.
There was a sudden chaos on the top of the city, and someone shouted: "General Liu has been killed!"
Zhang Dian understood that this bastard was Liu Jingzong. He had deceived him just now. He did not know him and was deceived.
Zhang Dian shouted, "According to the third plan to seize the city!"
He discussed several response plans during the day, and the third plan was to seize the city by force if the opponent saw through it.
Su Yun, his general, shouted: "First team, second team, and third team, follow me!"
He led three hundred soldiers and ran towards the city head to the north.
Another general, Wang Shaoguo, also led 300 soldiers and ran towards the south city wall.
Zhang Dian led 300 men with shields and short spears in hand and rushed down the corridor to block the entrance of the corridor.
The last hundred soldiers rushed into the city gate, pulled the bolt, and pulled the door open with all their strength. The iron wedge on the top of the city gate happened to be pulled up, and the city gate was suddenly opened.
At the same time, the suspension bridge began to creak and lower, and several soldiers lit three torches.
Lai Qi, who was a mile away, could see clearly and shouted: "Brothers, rush!"
"Come on!"
The 30,000-strong army roared and rushed toward the moat.
Wu Shaocheng, who was patrolling the city, was shocked when he got the news. He immediately led two thousand people and rushed towards the west gate.
A fierce battle has already broken out on the top of the city. Huaixi troops are coming from both the north and south to fight fiercely with the scouts on the top of the city.
Zhang Dian, however, kept his eyes on the end of the street. He led four hundred elite soldiers, each of whom could defeat one against five.
Suddenly, a large group of soldiers rushed out from North Street and came towards the city gate from 300 paces away.
"Crossbow ready!"
There are all kinds of weapons in the warehouse, including crossbows.
Four hundred military crossbows were raised, and Zhang Dian shouted, "Shoot!"
Four hundred crossbow arrows were fired intensively, and the Huaixi army running in front was caught off guard, and suddenly everyone fell on their backs.
"Raise your shield and charge forward!"
There were hundreds of shield bearers behind. They moved to the front, raised their shields and ran toward the city gate. At this time, they were still more than a hundred steps away from the city gate.
The Guanlong Army scouts fired another round of crossbow arrows, but it had no effect as the arrows were blocked by the shield wall.
Zhang Dian sneered and ordered: "The firearms army is preparing explosive arrows!"
There were fifty firearms soldiers in their team, each carrying five explosive arrows.
These fifty soldiers had loaded explosive arrows just now, but they did not participate in the shooting, but were waiting for orders.
Fifty soldiers stepped forward and began to raise their crossbows. "The first batch to shoot!" Zhang Dian shouted sharply.
Ten bursting arrows were shot out at the same time, followed by the first batch of bursting arrows, and fifty bursting arrows were shot out in five batches.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The shields exploded one by one, and the shields were blown to pieces. The soldiers were blown up, and the soldiers screamed and were blown to pieces. The streets were filled with smoke.
This was a dimensionality reduction strike. After a series of explosions, the Huaixi Army was so frightened that they turned around and fled.
They have all seen it. Exploding arrows blew ships to pieces on the Yangtze River. They all witnessed it with their own eyes.
This explosive arrow was now their turn. All the soldiers were so frightened that they abandoned hundreds of broken corpses and turned around to escape. Even Wu Shaocheng realized that something was wrong, turned around and rushed his horse to escape.
At the same time, the explosion of exploding arrows also sounded on the top of the city, and the enemy soldiers were so frightened that they turned around and fled.
At this moment, the 30,000 troops coming from Ai rushed into Shouchun City like a tide.
The street fighting did not happen, thanks to the explosive arrows used by the Guanlong Army scouts at the end, which caused Wu Shaocheng's confidence to collapse. He led more than 6,000 soldiers to rush out of the east city gate and fled towards Haozhou.
The soldiers of the Huaixi Army in the city had no leader and surrendered to the Guanlong Army one after another. All the surrendered soldiers were disarmed and imprisoned in the camp to wait for the supervisor to deal with them.
It was getting daylight. Wu Shaocheng led 6,000 soldiers and ran for more than 30 miles at a stretch. They couldn't run anymore and had to stop. All the soldiers were exhausted from running and couldn't move when they lay down. Even Wu Shaocheng couldn't move.
The war horse also lay on the ground and could not stand up.
At this moment, a soldier suddenly shouted in terror.
Wu Shaocheng stood up and looked around, as if falling into an abyss. He saw countless cavalry appearing from all directions. They were surrounded by Guanlong Army cavalry.
At this time, the soldiers didn't even have to stand up to fight fiercely. They didn't even have the physical strength to escape. They were like fish lying on the chopping board, and they had no choice but to be slaughtered.
These 6,000 soldiers of the Huaixi Army were very unlucky. They encountered Li Ye's 15,000 cavalry.
Li Ye immediately ordered that the surrender of the soldiers could be accepted. The reason why he accepted the surrender of the Huaixi Army soldiers was because Li Ye thought of something. The copper and iron mines in Jiangxia Prefecture needed a large number of miners.
The copper and iron mines in Jiangxia are now the mines in Daye. Mining began during the Three Kingdoms era. In fact, there are also mines in the west of Jiangning County, which are today's Ma'anshan iron mines.
These tens of thousands of Huaixi Army soldiers can just be sent to work as miners.
But the generals refused to spare their lives, and Wu Shaocheng and more than thirty other generals above the rank of captain were all beheaded.
Wu Shaocheng thought he had escaped from Hefei City, but in the end he died on the way. This was the fate of their heinous crimes.
At noon, Li Ye led 15,000 cavalry and escorted 6,000 prisoners of war to Hefei County.
Lai Yi led the generals out of the city to welcome the arrival of His Highness Jian Guo.