When Liu Bei received the good news from the messenger, he had just repelled a wave of attacks from the heavenly army.
He didn't even have time to be happy, because he didn't know when the bandits on the opposite side would attack again. He just ordered the craftsmen in the transport camp to step up repairs, and then he and the generals went to the attic nearby to learn more about the battle.
Although the words relayed by the messenger came from Guan Yu's mouth, the process was simply downplayed. It was nothing more than troops approaching the city, making some preparations, killing the enemy generals, and then conquering the city to win...
It seems that this battle was won very easily.
But Liu Bei knew that although the five-day agreement was completed, the process was not that simple.
His second brother and third brother are both genius generals. The soldiers under such generals, no matter how long they last, will be more or less imprinted with the style of the general, so Guan Yu's army must be arrogant and unruly.
, while Zhang Fei’s army was flying and wild.
But looking at the messenger in front of him, as a personal soldier of Guan Yu and a participant in this battle, he looked like a knife that had just touched a hard wall. Although it was still sharp, the edge was already full of gaps.
The second brother also encountered a tough problem this time, right?
Just as he was thinking this, there was a sudden commotion on the top of the city, and Zhang Fei even shouted loudly: "Brother, come and see!"
What happened?
Liu Bei was shocked when he heard this, and quickly asked the messenger to go down to rest, and then returned to the top of the city again. As soon as he looked at it, his heart suddenly shivered.
It was now afternoon, and the heavy fog was still there. Coupled with the flying dust, it was impossible to see clearly what was in the enemy camp from too far away.
But the flagpole erected at the front of the array has changed!
The bright red general flag with the word "king" that was originally flying suddenly turned into a white flag!
what's the situation?
Just when Liu Bei and others were puzzled, one white flag after another appeared one after another. There was a faint sound, as if the enemy was arranging their formations in an orderly manner, and horses and carriages were flowing in the river. At this time, the heavy fog gradually began to dissipate...
Soon after, when Liu Bei and others could finally see clearly ahead, they saw halberds and spears standing like a forest, and the three armies were all in plain clothes. It turned out to be a solemn and solemn scene of killing, which was horrifying and frightening.
cold!
"Who...is this dead?" Zhang Fei had stayed at the top of the city before and had never understood the whole battle of Wuyuan. He didn't really understand. He just pointed at the camp of the Heavenly Army in the distance with a confused look on his face:
"Could it be that someone just shot the general among the thieves?"
However, Liu Bei and others had solemn expressions on their faces, and they immediately realized that the change in the enemy's army was due to Zhang Rao, who died at the hands of Guan Yu.
It's just... I just received the news not long ago, why did Wang Zheng also know about it?
It shouldn’t be. With my second brother’s ability, there must be interceptions on the road. Even if the defeated soldiers escape from Wuyuan, they can’t safely take the main road back to Xiapi and report the news?
Although he couldn't understand it, a fool also knew that Wang Zheng had made such a posture. Although he had not yet launched an attack, it was the calm before the storm.
Next, thieves may attack at any time!
And this offensive is definitely not like the previous waves in the morning. Although it is considered fierce, it is obviously concerned about casualties and does not use its full strength!
Even so, Liu Bei and everyone lost confidence.
Although he and Zhang Fei had already planned to evacuate, there was still a reason for retreat.
If you choose to evacuate when the enemy is approaching the city and attacking the city, the retreat will easily turn into a large-scale rout!
And this is definitely not acceptable to Liu Bei!
After giving up Xiapi and Xuzhou, this army became his last capital. If he lost it again, it would be difficult to turn around in a short time!
"Pass my general's order!" Liu Bei stared at the battle formation below the city and said solemnly, "Everyone, please hurry up and repair the fortifications!"
"North Gate, West Gate, send three thousand soldiers to each side again!"
"Yide, you lead five thousand troops and personally go to guard the south gate!"
More than half of the entire army was already at the south gate. When Yuan Shu's army attacked the city before, it was the south gate that was the main attack. It was the most severely damaged among the four gates. Even though Wang Zheng did not choose this side during several tentative sieges in the morning.
However, Liu Bei had hidden worries. Not only did he ask the craftsmen in the transport camp to repair the city gate and that section of the city wall, but he also prepared to arrange generals and heavy troops to guard the city in advance.
.....
While supervising the formation, suddenly, there was a commotion among the soldiers outside the city who were repairing the damaged parts of the city wall. Liu Bei stood up suddenly and shouted: "What's going on?"
"Zhou Mu is in trouble!" Someone shouted loudly: "The thieves are attacking!"
There was an uproar immediately above the city, and Liu Bei's heart tightened. As the alliance walked towards the city, he shouted: "Send the order, get ready to fight!"
When I got to the top of the city, I looked from a distance and saw how many soldiers were coming to kill me, raising dust all over the sky. When I first arrived at the lookout, I saw the first group of thieves approaching the moat!
"The thieves are coming with great force this time..." At this time, the general on the side said: "Zhou Mu, why don't you go down to the city first, we will support you here."
"Absurd!" Liu Bei said coldly in shock: "Bei is the commander-in-chief, how can there be any reason to retreat when the war is coming?"
"But this place is too dangerous. What if..." someone continued to warn: "It has been almost... before."
What the man was talking about was in the morning, when the enemy briefly climbed to the top of the city. Liu Bei personally stepped forward to fight with the enemy general. Although he eventually killed him, he was slightly injured.
"It's okay." Liu Bei looked around at everyone, moved his arms, and said with a smile: "A few flesh injuries, it's not a problem."
He turned around and looked outside the city again. At this time, the bandits' cavalry vanguard had arrived at the moat, but was no longer advancing. Looking from the top of the city, there were densely packed black spots everywhere outside the city.
Seeing a group of people starting to organize the flying bridge used to cross the moat, Liu Bei held down the hilt of his sword and said in a deep voice: "Send the order, wait for the thieves to cross the river and fire arrows!"
"Here!"
In fact, there was no need for Liu Bei's orders. When they saw the enemy approaching, all the archers at the top of the city instinctively raised their bows and nocked arrows.
Time passed minute by minute.
When several flying bridges were erected very quickly, the city fell into silence for a moment. The next moment, a shout suddenly broke out, and then all the enemies rushed over, and the black spots quickly merged into a black torrent.
, quickly approached the city gate through the pontoon bridge!
Almost at the same time, as if receiving an order, arrows rained down from the top of the city.
The charging Heavenly Army didn't seem to expect that Liu Beijun's movements would be so uniform. Some waved their swords, guns and shields in an attempt to block, but how could they stop them? Not long after they landed ashore, they were already covered in wounds.
The child is filled with arrows.
Several waves of arrows rained down, leaving dozens of enemy corpses behind.
The people at the top of the city immediately cheered.
Scenes like this often occur in the morning. The vanguard of the bandits will be frustrated, and then they will suspend their offensive and charge again later. Liu Bei's army will take advantage of the gap to switch to rockets and burn the pontoon bridges first.
Then the thieves continued to build a pontoon bridge and continued to charge.
This was repeated over and over again. Although it was not very lethal, it kept the enemy at bay for most of the time without damaging the home. However, the enemy occasionally approached the city gate and attacked the city, but the number was not large and it could not do anything.
progress.
However, Liu Bei was not as optimistic as his subordinates. The first reason was because Wang Zheng was in a state of silence at the time, and he saw that he was going to be serious.
Secondly, what is most lacking in Xiapi City now is baggage, and arrows are even more in short supply. When Yuan Shu's army attacked the city, most of them had already been consumed. Although they were replenished from time to time, it was still a drop in the bucket. Just like the arrows just now,
He killed nearly a hundred enemies, but he shot thousands of arrows!
If thousands of arrows can only kill or injure more than a hundred people, how many arrows will be needed for the tens of thousands of troops outside the city?
More importantly, Liu Bei could see from the very beginning that every time the thieves made several reckless attacks before the real main attack, they seemed to deliberately consume the defenders' long-range equipment.
...
Liu Bei suddenly felt something in his heart when he remembered hearing someone talk about how the Yellow Turban bandits used refugees as a means of attacking Linzi.
Could it be that Zhuzi was using some people in the army as the same as refugees?
But why are you so cruel? You must know that new pawns will also become old pawns.
Although it is said that Compassion does not control soldiers, if it turns some of the army into pure victims just to consume the equipment of the defenders, isn't it afraid of losing the hearts of the people?
Thinking of this, Liu Bei, who always regarded himself as benevolent, couldn't help but shudder, and he became even more disgusted with Wang Zheng.
"Inform the archer that the next time the thieves attack." He turned around and said, "Be sure to take aim before shooting."
There was nothing he could do if the opponent used such methods. For now, he could only try to reduce the ineffective consumption of archery.
However, the Heavenly Army did not attack again, but saw the big flag in the formation waved, and the Heavenly Army outside the moat slowly retreated.
Amidst the cheers around him, Liu Bei didn't dare to be careless at all. He didn't think that everyone on the other side was in the posture of mourning the army, and he would be able to deal with it so easily today.
Unexpectedly, until the moon was at its peak, the thieves just stood still and set up their formation under the city, instead of attacking.
Seeing that everyone around him looked tired and in low spirits, Liu Bei ordered everyone to go down to the city to rest for a while and put on troops and horses for garrison. However, everyone just said that he, the commander, would not retreat, and they, the ministers, could not feel at ease. Liu Bei had no choice but to
, could only order to light up the lights, and then went down to the top of the city with the generals.
I had just returned to the county government, but I still didn't dare to fall asleep until the rooster crow. I couldn't bear the sleepiness anymore. I had just taken off my heavy armor, but suddenly I heard a killing cry and a rumble in the distance!
The thieves attacked the city at this time?
Liu Bei was startled. He jumped up from the couch and his wound was affected. He felt a slight pain at this time, but he didn't care about it anymore. He ran all the way to the top of the city. In the faint morning light, he saw that the city was already completely dark. This time
The number of people is far greater than the previous times. At a glance, there are already over 10,000 people!
"Meet Zhou Mu."
Amid the rising and falling voices, Liu Bei ignored them and just stared straight at the city with a rare angry look on his face: "What's going on!"
He pointed to the location of the moat and shouted loudly: "How did you let thieves build so many pontoons!"
"Zhou Mu, I don't know what tricks the thieves used to steal so many secretly in the dark..." A general explained in a low voice: "But it doesn't matter even if it is like this. Anyway, even when they get to the city, they are nothing more than becoming
It’s just our archery target.”
"You..." Liu Bei was furious when he heard this. He stared at the man with cold eyes. He was about to get angry when he saw a commotion beside him and another man suddenly exclaimed: "What the hell is this?"
Everyone looked up and were startled at the same time. When Liu Bei saw it, his heart skipped a beat.
But this time, when the enemy's formation under the city changed, the soldiers at the front of the formation once again formed a team, in an orderly manner.
There are about twenty or thirty people in each team, and the most special one...
But there are soldiers at the outermost edge of each team holding a shield in one hand and holding the corner of an object similar to a boat in the other hand!
"These people are so powerful..." When someone saw this, they couldn't help but exclaimed: "It seems like the elite are being used this time?"
That boat-like object can cover dozens of people. Even if it is made of wood, it is not light in weight. The key is that the soldier who lifted it is still holding a shield in his other hand. What does this mean? Everyone naturally agrees.
Clearly.
But what struck Liu Bei's heart was what this thing was used for. He could guess it almost at a glance!
The key is, looking at this quantity, it must not have been made in a hurry, it was clearly prepared!
So...
Why didn't Wang Zheng take it out during the siege during the day?
The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, when the groups of heavenly troops were already driving under the cover of the wooden boat, once again stepping on the pontoon bridge, began to cross the river, and began to charge!
This time, a rain of arrows filled the sky again from the top of the city, but it was easily blocked by those wooden boats. Some people still fell down, and there were still screams, but the number was very small!
"Get ready for battle!" Liu Bei took a deep breath. It was useless to think about it at this time: "Everyone, be careful!"
He knew that this time it was really going to be a close fight!
And since Wang Zheng showed his trump card at this time...
It will definitely not be as easy to deal with as before!
.....
After crossing the river and arriving under the city wall, those people immediately threw down all their shields and boats, and began to climb up the city with ladders!
And when we get to this close range, as the defender of the city, we also have weapons that are more effective than arrows.
That's rockfall and gold juice!
The bricks on the top of the city fell like raindrops, and from time to time someone fell down the city and turned into a puddle of flesh. But as Liu Bei and everyone watched helplessly, those yellow scarf thieves who had been remembered as being defeated by a setback, now showed their
They showed a perseverance and fearlessness that was even more terrifying than that of the army. No matter what kind of screams and images appeared around them, one after another they...
There is no fear at all!
Even if you die, you won’t retreat!
Never give up!
Unknowingly, while countless people fell, part of the heavenly army was getting closer and closer to the city.
Three sides are approaching at the same time.
Many heavenly troops began to appear on the top of the city and began to fight against Liu Bei's army.
Only the south side is still calm.
Because the guards here are Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide.
No matter how many heavenly troops escaped the falling stones and gold juice before climbing to the top of the city with great difficulty, they would be thrown out again in droves when Zhang Fei easily stabbed them out with a spear.
The general's invincible power naturally boosted the morale of the other soldiers, so until now, not a single heavenly army in the south could stay on this section of the city for even a moment.
But even Zhang Fei, who still looked carefree at this moment, was equally astonished in his heart.
The more people killed, the more surprised they became.
It’s just that the combat prowess of these early thieves is extraordinary...
The key is that this is too brave and not afraid of death, right?
When he was repelling a group of heavenly troops again, he took a casual glance and saw the figures falling straight down. At this time, they all stared at themselves with wide eyes. There was no fear in their eyes, only hatred, which actually made the newly angry people
Even the morning light seemed a bit cold. Zhang Fei smiled nonchalantly, but a thought flashed through his mind.
The yellow scarf thieves under Shuzi's command were actually so fierce and fearless...
No matter how hard Zhang Fei fights, he will never be able to change the situation.
Now Pi's fall is probably a matter of time.
Now it seems that the eldest brother still has the foresight.
...
At the same time, the city on the other side of Xiapi was already full of dangers.
Not only did the Heavenly Army easily break through the moat and the interception of the arrow rain this time, everyone on Liu Bei's side immediately noticed it just after the battle. This time the enemy dispatched all elites!
Often, one person can reach the top of the city and be able to sustain it for a long time under the fighting of more than a dozen soldiers. This cycle repeats, and as time goes by, gaps in the city defense will inevitably be torn apart.
And this gap will get bigger and bigger.
The south side guarded by Zhang Fei does not have this hidden danger, and the east side guarded by Liu Bei himself is also temporarily safe, but the north side cannot hold out.
Especially for the Heavenly Army here, apart from the vanguard being Pan Zhang, their subordinates are all second-level elites from the Tianzhu Battalion!
Just at the break of dawn, amidst the killing cries from all directions, a cheer suddenly sounded, and the momentum was like a tide. At this time, it was like the sky and the earth were shattering, and it immediately attracted the attention of the entire battlefield.
After a brief silence, everyone heard the cheers clearly.
"Got it!"
"We've taken the city head!"
At this time, Liu Bei had just cut down an enemy. He was shocked when he heard these words. Looking around, he saw countless black spots rushing towards the north at the same time.
With the city head taken, in addition to consolidating the Warring States period, the next natural step is to seize the city gate.
Then...
Just open the city gate and lower the suspension bridge!
The enemy showed his true intentions and only lasted for half a day...
Even if there are many factors involved, such as the fact that his own soldiers are already exhausted from the continuous battles, and most of the remaining elite troops in the army were led by Guan Yu to attack Wuyuan...
As well as the lack of equipment under the isolated city, low morale, etc...
But no matter what, the disastrous performance still made Liu Bei secretly smile bitterly, but at this moment he could no longer think about it anymore. He looked around and immediately shouted: "Send the order, prepare to retreat!"
This was a plan that had been planned for a long time. The fall of Xiapi would happen sooner or later. Liu Bei knew this very well. Taking the initiative to retreat was the only way to survive, and the corresponding preparations were made many days in advance.
But what he never expected was that Wang Zhenghui would learn the news of Wuyuan's fall so quickly, and would attack with all his strength as soon as possible...
And by choosing to retreat when the city was broken, they completely lost the space to move, putting their family in a very passive situation.
Then the retreat plan will have to be adjusted...
Under such circumstances, if you want to break out of the siege, you must leave some soldiers to break up the rear!