After losing more than 3,000 elites, Cao Cao knew that he would not be able to enter Wancheng tonight, so he immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army. On the way, Xiahoudun hurried over, and before he reported to Cao Cao, Cao Cao had already spoken: "There is no need to say it. The camp is not abnormal at all, and you should have seen that many Jingzhou soldiers had been withdrawn from the northwest corner when you came, right? ”

Xiahoudun touched his head and asked, "Is there anyone who came to report to the lord before me?" ”

Cao Cao shook his head, unintentionally explaining. Yu Ban in the back pulled Xiahoudun and explained: "That nameless young general is completely deceiving us, and there are less than 1,000 guards in the southeast. We heard the sound of the main force in the city shouting for support before we realized that we had been fooled and stormed the city wall, but 3,000 people were burned by the unknown young general. The lord is in a bad mood now, so don't bother. ”

Back in the camp, Cao Cao immediately sent someone to find out the name of the young general.

In the early morning of the next day, there was a detailed report, and I learned that the young general's name was Huo Jun, who turned out to be a Jingzhou hero, and now acted as a song commander under Wen Ping.

Cao Cao groaned for a moment, applauded and smiled: "So there were only five hundred villagers who resisted us last night?" ”

Cao Cao seemed to be mocking his carelessness, and suddenly his face changed, and he pushed everything on the case down: "It actually caused me to bury three thousand elites in Wancheng!" It was this loss that could not have been caused by the continuous siege of the city for several days, and he actually did it in an hour. ”

"This Huo Jun, if he can't be used by me, then he can only strangle a young hero. Otherwise, in time, it will become a great disaster for me to seize Jingzhou! ”

Still on this day, Cao Cao brazenly launched a main attack to the southeast of Wancheng. As Cao Cao expected, the city walls that had been burned by the fire in the southeast were all cracked.

But after a night's hard work, I don't know what the Jingzhou army used to make up for the cracks.

Cao Cao didn't care, mobilized almost all the catapults, and smashed them all to the southeast corner.

Now the Jingzhou army has no choice. Cao Jun's catapult is known as the Thunderbolt and is world-famous. The city wall in the southeast corner did not stop for a quarter of an hour, and the city was destroyed!

Cao Cao was in high spirits, and all the generals also congratulated Cao Cao on the change of ownership.

Cao's infantry quickly stepped through the ruins and gaps in the walls and entered the city. It was only a moment before the pawns turned around and ran out. As he ran, he shouted: "The Jingzhou army has an ambush!" ”

Cao Cao saw Yu Ban commanding shield bearers and lining up on the ruins of the city wall, and he knew that a large number of archers were arranged in the city. He immediately said to Cao Ang, the eldest son of the army next to him: "You bring three thousand light shields to support General Yu." Remember, Jingzhou soldiers can't do anything else, this archer is very difficult, you should be careful. ”

Cao Ang received the order, ordered three thousand light shields, and stepped forward to support Yu Ban. Climbing the ruins, meeting with Yu Ban, the two led the army to rush once, but soon retreated, and Cao Ang was hit by an arrow in his arm.

Yu Ban sent someone to report back to Cao Cao, explained the situation, and asked Cao Cao to send reinforcements again. Only then did Boss Cao know about the situation in the city.

It turned out that the Jingzhou soldiers did not intend to defend on the city wall at all, and had already surrounded this section of the city wall that might collapse, relying on the houses in the city, and using bags filled with soil to build a half-moon-shaped barrier that was not much lower than the city wall. As long as Cao's infantry rushed in through the gap in the city wall, they were shot by arrows on three sides, and it was difficult to move an inch.

As for the city gate, the Jingzhou soldiers had already blocked the city gate with stones, and there was no way to dredge it in a short time. In other words, although the city wall fell, the cavalry of the Cao army had no way to enter the city for the time being.

Therefore, Yu Ban asked Cao Cao to send another thousand archers, and in addition, transfer the heavy shield soldiers to the front line to form a shield array to advance. The light shieldman's small round shield could not stop the arrows fired from three sides.

Cao Cao groaned, and immediately ordered Yu Ban to retreat temporarily, allowing the catapult to step forward and project it into the city.

It was not until the trebuchet ran out of stones that Cao Cao ordered the heavy shield hand to be in front and the short soldier behind.

The impassable horses of the war horse had become ruins of the city wall, and everyone, including Cao Cao, dismounted and walked into the city.

The temporary earthen ramparts could not stop Cao Jun's thunderbolt either. Many of the houses used to rely on them have been smashed and collapsed, and the only role of the earthen ramparts now is to prevent Cao's army from entering the city quickly.

Cao Cao stood on top of the earthen rampart, and there were only a few corpses of Jingzhou soldiers at his feet. It seems that Wen Ping has decided to abandon the city, and he should have rushed out from the northwest corner by this time.

Hehe, from the moment you burn the city, there is only one way to break through.

The light soldiers continued to rush in front of the formation, rushing to the gates of the city. The huge shield in the hands of the heavy shield bearer has become a burden in this narrow city.

The light soldiers with short weapons in their hands moved quickly, and in an instant tens of thousands of people had been diverted in the city.

It's just that Cao Cao still fell for it this time.

The Jingzhou soldiers with strong bows and crossbows jumped out of the windows and roofs of the houses again, and shot wildly at the Cao army's light soldiers, who had extremely poor defense. Accompanied by the Jingzhou foot soldiers, they rushed out of the houses one by one and started a close combat with Cao's army.

No one expected that the weak Jingzhou soldiers would dare to fight in close combat with the battle-hardened Cao army. Cao Cao didn't expect it, and neither did his generals, and the ordinary soldiers of Cao's army were even more surprised.

Cao Cao only took the news that Wen Ping's army broke through from the northwest and had not yet reached him. Now it seems that this Wen Ping found himself ambushing elite soldiers in the northwest?

The Jingzhou soldiers occupied the people and the geographical advantage, and the instantaneous outbreak killed the Cao army and retreated, almost retreating from the southeast corner.

Anyway, Cao Jun was suddenly stunned, and quickly organized a counterattack, and the two armies launched a fierce street battle.

However, the fierce street battle only lasted for half an hour, and the brave and skilled Cao army killed at least 5,000 Jingzhou soldiers, but there was no shadow of other Jingzhou troops.

At this time, there was a quick horse report: Wen Ping personally led the army to break through from the southwest corner and run.

At this time, he could only send cavalry to chase him, but Cao Cao no longer had any hope, the other party was so carefully calculated, he must have guarded against his own cavalry.

Cao Cao, who was deeply depressed, finally counted the results of the battle, and the Jingzhou soldiers left about 10,000 corpses in Wancheng, while the Cao army also suffered nearly 10,000 casualties.

One-to-one, when did you fight with people? Jingzhou, sure enough, the heroes came out!

Zhang Xiu also laughed when he heard the news, and the heavier Cao Jun's losses, the happier he was. It's just that this Cao Cao is not slower than himself, and now he should have returned to Xuchang, he must pacify Lujiang within a month, otherwise it is inevitable that Cao Cao will have some thoughts about Huainan.

Lujiang County, I heard that Zhang Xiu led 80,000 troops to conquer Lujiang, and the city gate of Lujiang County was recently checked very close. This gave the guards of the city gate a great "opportunity".

It is as if today, this caravan of only five people was supposed to pay a certain percentage of the value of the goods to pay the toll tax. However, under Yuan Shu's rule, if you want to enter the city, you have to pay a poll tax, which is originally only paid once a year per person. In addition, there are a series of tax items, which are actually higher than the value of all the goods combined.

With such a high tax rate, business is impossible. Only by secretly giving some benefits to the gatekeepers, these old soldiers will not see you enter the city, and naturally they don't have to pay any taxes.

Corruption is a vicious circle.

Those in power felt that the tax was too small and the money was not enough to spend on their own, so they wanted to raise the tax rate. But merchants have their own calculations, and if they feel that the taxes are too high to make money, they will find ways to avoid them. As a result, the higher the tax rate, the less tax is collected; The more taxes are not collected, the more the rulers raise the tax rates.

Fortunately, in this small caravan, there is now a post by Liu Ye, the Taishou of Lujiang County, so he was not embarrassed by the soldiers of the city gate. But Hades is easy to see, and the little ghost is difficult. The caravan still gave the guards a few large strings of money.

It's just that after passing the city gate, an officer who looks like a tooth general came over and asked: "Whose caravan is that, handed over the post and gave the reward, Lujiang City is not such a generous character?" ”

Shi Changhui, who was guarding the door, reported: "It's a distant relative of Lord Liu!" ”

Liu is engaged, Liu Ye is Liu engaged? The tooth general pondered for a moment, and ordered in a low voice: "Liu Cheng is honest and has very strict requirements for the clan, how can his relatives pay bribes?" You send two men to watch and see where they go? ”

really let this tooth general guess correctly, those five people are not Liu Ye's distant relatives at all. But the five of them went straight to Liu Ye's mansion and listened to the reports from their subordinates that everything was normal, and the tooth general also left this matter behind.

In the courtyard of Liu Ye's mansion, Liu Ye and a middle-aged scribe in the five-person caravan saluted each other. The four men behind the middle-aged scribe also saluted.

Liu Ye smiled: "There are friends from afar, don't you say it?" ”

The middle-aged scribe also smiled and said: "But I don't know whether Ziyang is happy or worried, if the matter of my coming to you is known by Lord Taishou, then Ziyang will have to accompany me to Huangquan." ”

Liu Ye laughed and said: "That's not necessarily, I see that there are four strong men behind you, and there are five Xiliang good horses at the door, it is estimated that you Yang Changshi will be fine by then, I will have to be arrested!" ”

The scribe known as Yang Changshi smiled, noncommittal, and pointed to the four behind him: "I didn't expect Ziyang to dabble in this horse. And Ziyang has a pair of discerning eyes, and he is still so discerning. These four people are indeed rare heroes in the world. ”

Liu Ye was stunned for a moment after hearing this, suddenly laughed, and commented one by one: "This man with a very different appearance should be from Liangzhou Qianghu." It looks like a battle-hardened warrior. There is also this thick black bearded man, although he has a reckless spirit, but over time, his achievements are no less than that of this Qiang Hu fierce general. And this sturdy man, who also seems to be a capable man. ”

"But this young man, I seem to see a heroic spirit in him, presumably, it's not just a hero."

Seeing that the five people, including Yang Changshi, were all shocked, Yang Changshi turned around and made a gesture to the young man.

"General Guangwu, I'm not wrong, this Liu Ziyang is good at knowing people."

Liu Ye was also stunned, and suddenly laughed and said: "Unexpectedly, in this Lujiang City, General Guangwu has already come in, so Lujiang County is also available." ”

That young man is Zhang Xiu, and Yang Changshi is Yuan Hong. The one with a very different appearance in Liu Ye's mouth is Hu Che'er, the reckless man with thick black and big hair is Zhou Cang, and the capable one is Pei Yuanshao.

When Liu Ye said this, Zhang Xiu also took the initiative to stand up, stood up straight, and hugged his fists as if he was asking for advice: "Liu's ability to recognize people is convincing." I came to Lujiang, but I not only wanted to see Mr.'s insight, but also wanted to see Mr.'s ability to understand the world. ”

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