Just when Sun Ce was halfway through shouting, a loud sound of war drums suddenly sounded, interrupting Sun Ce's order. Sun Ce frowned, looked around, and shouted: "Who is it? Why did you give the order?
Beat the drum?"
"Uh!" Sun Ce asked. The soldiers on the left and right looked at me and I looked at you, but no one could answer. Who dared to play the drum without Sun Ce's order? Ding beside Sun Ce
Feng listened carefully to the sound of the drum, but frowned and said, "My lord! The sound of the drum seems to be coming from outside the city!"
"Outside the city?" Sun Ce couldn't help being stunned, and subconsciously looked outside the city. Sure enough, the sound of drums was indeed coming from outside the city, and from the east of the city. Sun Ce frowned and asked: "
What's going on? Why are there war drums ringing outside the city? Chengyuan, send someone to find out quickly!" Sun Ce didn't think much about it. According to Zhou Yu's previous plan, the reinforcements from the Western Qin Dynasty should not have arrived so quickly.
Here, so those who came to Xinxian at this moment cannot be the soldiers and horses of the Western Qin Dynasty.
"Here!" After receiving Sun Ce's order, Ding Feng immediately clasped his fists in response and rushed toward the east of the city with a dozen or so sergeants. Ling Cao on the other side clasped his fists at Sun Ce.
Asked: "Lord, will the city guard continue to attack?"
"Uh? Oh!" If Ling Cao hadn't reminded him, Sun Ce would have almost forgotten about it. He nodded quickly and said, "Fight! Why not fight? All archers are ready! Shoot!"
Sun Ce gave the order, and immediately there were several sounds of breaking through the air. However, the sound did not come from Sun Wu's archers, but from the vanguard archers who were guarding the commanding heights in the city guard's mansion. They took the lead and launched an attack outside the mansion.
After attacking, a dozen of Sun Wu's archers immediately fell to the ground with arrows in their hands! Seeing this, Sun Ce became angry and immediately shouted: "Shoot! Aim and shoot! These must die!"
Shoot the guy clean!”
There were no surprises this time. Countless arrows poured down like a downpour into the city guard's mansion. Naturally, the first to be unlucky were the vanguard archers standing on the commanding heights, probably because of their earlier attack.
, although many Sun Wu soldiers were shot and killed, their positions were also exposed. The first target of those Sun Wu archers was them! After a round of arrow rain, the place where the vanguard archers were, without exception, was
, were filled with dense arrows, and most of the vanguard soldiers were directly pinned there by the arrows. Only a few archers saw that something was not going well, and from the previous ambush,
He jumped down and survived.
But this is not the end, because the second round of arrow rain from Sun Wujun came soon. This time, Sun Wujun's arrows were aimed not only at the location of the archers, but also towards the city.
The central part of the garrison was flooded with rain. Although Zhang Liao and Lu Xun in the front yard were one step ahead to let the soldiers find a place to take shelter, the arrows were too dense! Many soldiers were still hit by arrows, and it only took a moment.
, nearly half of the soldiers were shot on the spot!
"General!" A soldier cautiously rushed behind Zhang Liao and Lu Xun along the eaves and shouted to Zhang Liao: "There are too many damn arrows! If this continues, we can only sit back and wait for death! General! Brothers are not afraid of death.
But it’s too frustrating to die like this! Take us out and rush out! At any rate, we can also get a few Wu thieves to support us! Ah!” The soldier was shouting, and suddenly a few arrows shot through him.
The eaves of the house hit him right in the back. The soldier only had time to let out a scream before he fell to the ground with a look of resignation on his face.
"Damn it!" Seeing his subordinates die tragically in front of him, Zhang Liao's face was full of anger. He held the hook and sickle tightly with both hands and was about to stand up and lead the soldiers to break through. Just like
As the soldier just said, sooner or later you will die, it is better to fight with the enemy! At least you can get a few backers, so it doesn't count as a loss!
"General Zhang! Don't be impulsive!" Lu Xun, who was beside Zhang Liao, saw this and quickly reached out to grab Zhang Liao and loudly advised: "General Zhang! Please be patient for a little longer! Be patient for a little longer!"
"Patience?" Zhang Liao stared at a pair of red eyes, pointed at the corpses of the vanguard soldiers around him and shouted loudly: "If you endure it any longer, all the brothers will die! Damn it! Everyone on the left and right will die! I would rather fight Sun Ceping to the death!"
"Just as he was talking, two arrows happened to pass through the eaves and were shot towards Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao, who had an angry look on his face, didn't even look back. He waved his hook sickle with one hand and immediately shot the two arrows to Zhang Liao.
Shot down! Although Zhang Liao was seriously injured now, an arrow attack of this magnitude could not hurt him.
"General Zhang! Please believe me! Be patient for a moment!" Lu Xun could also understand Zhang Liao's mood. Why was he willing to hide here and wait to die? Even if they could escape the arrow rain attack, when the casualties of the soldiers were almost all,
There was absolutely no way he could withstand the onslaught of Sun Wu's army outside the city guard's mansion. However, Lu Xun still held Zhang Liao's arm tightly and shouted: "General Zhang! Wait a little longer! Wait a little longer!"
In fact, how could Lu Xun, a scholar, be able to stop Zhang Liao? Zhang Liao just tried to shake Lu Xun away, but seeing Lu Xun's pleading look, he finally couldn't help himself and could only squat down again according to Lu Xun's words.
Come down. Seeing Zhang Liao compromise, Lu Xun was relieved. He suddenly asked Zhang Liao to wait. It was not because he was greedy for life and fear of death, but because of the sound of the war drums that had just sounded. At this time, Xinxian County had been captured by Sun Ce.
Now, Sun Ce had no reason to beat the war drums anymore. If it wasn't the war drums that Sun Ce ordered to beat, then who would be the one who beat the war drums? A glimmer of light suddenly rose in Lu Xun's heart, although Lu Xun also knew,
This possibility is extremely rare, but for some reason, Lu Xun can't give up this last glimmer of hope.
Several more rounds of arrows rained down, and in the blink of an eye, most of the few soldiers of the vanguard army were dead or wounded, leaving only more than two hundred people. However, the number of people was small, and the space for the city guard to hide was much larger.
, but the number of dead and wounded soldiers became less and less. However, Zhang Liao felt his heart bleed when he saw this. These people were all soldiers trained by the Western Qin Dynasty! Now they are sacrificed like this, Zhang Liao
Even if he survives this time, he still won’t be able to face the Lord!
Zhang Liao and Lu Xun were anxious inside the mansion. Outside the mansion, Sun Ce was also a little impatient. This was not because of Zhang Liao and others in the mansion, but because Ding Feng, whom he had sent to investigate the sound of war drums outside the city, had not returned yet.
The inexplicable sound of war drums made Sun Ce feel uneasy. Sun Ce did not bother to order the arrows to be fired anymore. Instead, he turned to Zhu Huan and shouted: "Xiu Mu! Go to the east of the city and see what happened.
What happened? Why hasn’t Chengyuan come back yet?”
After receiving the order, Zhu Huan clasped his fists at Sun Ce and immediately ordered dozens more soldiers to rush towards the east of the city. However, before they could start this time, Zhu Huan raised his head and saw the people in front of him.
Several people came to the street entrance, and the leader was none other than Ding Feng. When Zhu Huan saw him, he immediately shouted to Sun Ce: "Lord! Look! Chengyuan is back!"
"Oh!" Sun Ce also saw Ding Feng coming back, and his face finally relaxed. He was about to say something, but his expression changed. It turned out that at this time, Ding Feng had already arrived in front of Sun Ce, and Sun Ce
After seeing Ding Feng's current appearance clearly, he was shocked.
At this moment, Ding Feng is no longer as calm and composed as before, but his face is pale, with a blood stain on his face. There should have been dozens of sergeants around him, but now there are only two or three. Look at Ding Feng's appearance.
, Sun Ce knew that something must have happened, otherwise Ding Feng, who had always been calm, would not have lost his composure like this. Immediately, Sun Ce shouted at Ding Feng: "Chengyuan! What happened? Why are you acting like this?
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"Lord! Something bad has happened!" Ding Feng finally managed to calm down. He didn't bother to dismount and shouted directly to Sun Ce: "Lord! A large number of Western Qin troops suddenly appeared in the east of the city! Look at the number.
There are a total of thirty or forty thousand people! Now they are almost reaching the city gate! Lord! Let’s retreat quickly!"
"What!" As soon as Ding Feng said this, not only Sun Ce, but also Zhu Huan and Ling Cao behind Sun Ce all exclaimed. They all looked like they couldn't believe it. And the soldiers on the left and right also all screamed.
They were shocked and confused, but they heard clearly what Ding Feng said just now, thirty or forty thousand people! That was several times the number of Sun Wu's army! The enemies in the city guard's mansion have not been eliminated yet, so why did so many enemies pop up again?
"This is impossible!" Zhu Huan was the first to exclaim, and he rushed directly in front of Ding Feng, shouting to Ding Feng: "Chengyuan! Did you see it wrong? Why did it suddenly appear like this?
How many Western Qin troops?"
Ding Feng glanced at Zhu Huan with a wry smile, shook his head bitterly and said, "I hope I'm wrong! But it is indeed the case. I rushed out of the city gate rashly and almost lost my life there.
! Most of my subordinates were killed or wounded by a round of bows and arrows from the opponent, and only a few of them are left!" As he said that, Ding Feng also pointed to the blood stains on his face. Needless to say, this blood stain was caused by the enemy's bow and arrow attack.
Wounded by the enemy's arrows.
"Damn it!" Sun Ce still knew Ding Feng very well. If he didn't see clearly, Ding Feng would never talk nonsense. Now it's not time to worry about why these enemies appear here. Now Sun Ce has to make a choice.
Should we stay in Xinxian and kill Zhang Liao and others in the city guard's mansion at once, or should we give up killing Zhang Liao and Lu Xun and return to Runan immediately! This choice is not easy. The wisest choice is to lead the troops and leave Xinxian immediately.
, but in order to kill Zhang Liao, Sun Ce paid a lot of price this time. How could Sun Ce be willing to give up like this?