The battle between the darkness was unknown to Huang Zhong and other regular troops.

And they don't have the time to know these things now.

Jia Xu and Lü Bu had already led their troops to attack the defensive line from Song County to Hong County that Cao Cao had arranged.

Lu Bunai is the number one military general in the world, and his combat power is superb, and with his joining, Jia Xu's combat effectiveness has improved a lot. Coupled with the assistance of brave generals like Gao Lan, the attack of Liu Jun on Yuzhou in the north became ferocious. Lu Bu is extremely fierce, and he doesn't need a second move to kill, and Cao Jun was terrified when he saw Lu Bu's banner from afar.

Jia Xu used tricks to be vicious and spicy, and with Lu Bu's trump card, it was even more vicious and spicy, and boiling oil was poured on it. Lu Bu was originally a sinister person, and working with Jia Xu is a perfect match.

No, Jia Xu used a very vicious move to ignite the fire and set off the smoke, standing in the limelight, and following the direction of the wind, Cao Jun in a city was so bad that he couldn't open his eyes. Lu Bu took the opportunity to climb the city wall with his soldiers, and divided all the Cao troops by two.

According to the previous words, the strategists who cooperated with Lu Bu would generally ask Lu Bu not to kill more soldiers on the other side and take more prisoners. Liu Jun has always surrendered and not killed, and the prisoners have a great way to live. But when it came to Jia Xu, he didn't do this at all, and it seemed that he was a little instigated by Lu Bu to leave Cao Jun in Yiyang City.

"Wenhe, this battle is a good fight." Lu Bu patted Jia Xu's shoulder and said happily.

This kind of hearty and dripping battle without any restrictions made Lu Bu enjoy it very much.

Jia Xu quietly dodged Lu Bu's big hand, and said with a smile behind him: "It's still General Lu's bravery." If it weren't for General Lu, the old man wouldn't have been able to carry out it even if he had a plan. ”

Jia Xu's shoulder ached faintly, this Lu Bu, Dian Wei, Ma Chao, these generals, I don't know when they started, they like to pat their shoulders when they talk to literati, or they are very powerful, you know, if you slap too much, others will hurt. It's just a bad habit.

Lu Bu looked at the city that had just been taken in front of him, and none of the Cao soldiers were alive, and he felt a little weak in his heart, and said, "Wenhe, there is not a single prisoner here. Do you think your father-in-law will blame you? ”

Lu Bu was still a little worried that he had fought too hard, so he couldn't explain to Liu Yu and Huang Zhong.

"Cao's army resisted desperately, ignoring the persuasion of our army to surrender, and insisted on defending to the death. Our army had no choice but to attack directly, and the Cao army fought to resist our army even if the whole army was annihilated, where are there any prisoners? Jia Xu looked puzzled.

Lu Bule is happy, Jia Xu is saying everything clearly and clearly, there is no problem at all. Lu Bu wanted to scold himself, why didn't he think of such a good reason before.

In short, Lu Bu likes the atmosphere of working with Jia Xu very much.

The two tacitly ignored this matter, and after reorganizing their troops and horses, they embarked on a journey to attack the next city.

Due to the tacit cooperation between Lu Bu and Jia Xu, and Liu Jun's extremely powerful wolf cavalry as a field cover this time, Cao Jun could only be beaten passively.

In one day's work, Lü Bu and Jia Xu took several cities and broke through two important city strongholds of the northern defense line that Cao Cao had painstakingly managed. The situation in the northern part of Yuzhou was not in favor of Cao's army.

In the northwest, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun joined forces as an army to attack the stronghold of the city at the junction of Yuzhou and Yanzhou. They are now attacking Xinyang City.

Cao Cao's operation in this area of the border with Yanzhou took more thought than the northern defense line of Yuzhou. The general Xu Huang is guarding here. In terms of field battles, Xu Huang may not be able to defeat one of Ma Chao and Zhao Yun. But if you let him defend the city, he will do better than Zhao Yun and Ma Chao.

It's a pity that Xu Huang is not afraid of death, but he went to give birth to a sickly body. Now Xu Huang has just fallen seriously ill, and now he is dragging his sick body to command the battle.

Cao Cao was also helpless, if it weren't for the fact that there were not many generals under him, he wouldn't have to let Xu Huang work so hard. A large part of Xu Huang's body is made from hard work. Of course, the root of Xu Huang's illness was the root of the illness left by several serious injuries when he was fighting with Liu Yu's generals.

Zhao Yun and Ma Chao didn't know that Xu Huang was unwell, and even if they did, they wouldn't show mercy.

Xu Huang had his own set of methods in defending the city, relying on the strength of the city, being well prepared, and defending the Xinyang City where he was located, so that Liu Jun could not defeat it several times.

"Mingjin retreats!" After a wave of attacks had no effect, Ma Chao chose to temporarily retreat.

Zhao Yun also thinks the same way.

Xu Huang saw Liu Jun retreating, his tense nerves relaxed a little, and he could seize the time to rest.

"The whole army should hurry up and eat and rest, and Liu Jun will attack in a while." Xu Huang beckoned all the soldiers to eat and rest.

Ma Chao and Zhao Yun returned to Huang Zhong's big tent, and after saluting Huang Zhong, they sat down.

Ma Chao scolded and said: "That Xu Huang is really hard enough, he can't take it after several waves of attacks." ”

Huang Zhong was silent.

And Zhao Yun said to Huang Zhong: "General, Xu Huang is the general of the Cao army, and his style is steady, if he insists on defending to the death, if our army wants to take Xinyang City, it will take a lot of time and casualties." ”

Huang Zhong looked at Pang Tong beside him and said softly: "Shi Yuan, you have observed the situation in the past few days, and you have a good plan to break through Xinyang. ”

Pang Tong naturally understood what Huang Zhong meant, and this was the opportunity for him Pang Tong to perform.

"Cao Cao laid out a large number of fortifications here, and Xinyang City was newly built by Cao Cao according to the topography. Originally, this place was a small city, but now it has become an important city for Cao Cao to defend the northwest border, if we take here, our army can go straight to the head of the realm, Taihe, pounce on Ruyin, and join Sima Yi's department. Pang Tong first talked about the situation he analyzed.

Ma Chao said impatiently: "Shiyuan, what you said, everyone present knows. The general asked you if there was a good plan to break through the current Xinyang City. Don't say anything else that doesn't matter. ”

"The general is here, Meng Qi, don't you think it's a bit rude for you to interject like this?" Pang Tong hated Ma Chao's behavior of disturbing him and pretending to be forced.

The topic turned to Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong was a real person, and said directly to Pang Tong: "Shiyuan, you should simply say something useful." ”

When Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang pretended to be forced, no one bothered them, why did the situation change when they came to him? Could it be that if you look ugly, this treatment is also different?

The eldest one had spoken, and Pang Tong naturally couldn't continue to pretend to be forced, and said: "Even if Xinyang City can't be taken down for a long time, why don't we destroy it?!" ”

Wreck? Ruining a city? Isn't that a bit serious?

Huang Zhong's brows furrowed, destroying the city was a more cruel approach.

Ma Chao's eyes lit up, this proposal was good, but he couldn't say it was good, so as not to be scolded by Huang Zhong.

"Shi Yuan, I'm afraid it's not good to destroy a city." Zhao Yun said.

"You're worried. As I said just below, Xinyang City was originally just a small city, which was built by Cao Cao according to the topography in order to block our army. It is estimated that there are not many people in this city. If the heart is bound by benevolence and righteousness, Xinyang City will always be in front of our army, not to mention the increase in casualties of our army at that time, if Your Majesty uses this as an excuse to say that we are delaying the military plane, then the consequences will be serious. What Pang Tong said was reasonable, and he even said Liu Yu's biggest hidden danger.

Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, and Zhao Yun all remembered that Liu Yu said that if there was a huge accident in the war, then he would go out in person.

"Well, what Shi Yuan said is extremely true! I waited to inherit the imperial order of His Majesty and the expectations of the people of the world, how could I be blocked by a mere Xinyang City. Before the general trend of the world, this Xinyang City must be broken. The general decided to follow Shiyuan's proposal. Huang Zhong said.

Zhao Yun couldn't bear it in his heart, and said: "General, this is a city, and it is not easy to destroy it." ”

Ma Chao said disapprerovingly: "You don't have to worry about this matter, Zilong." It may be a bit difficult to conquer a city, but if you want to turn a city into a blank field, I'm good at it. I'll leave that to me. ”

Ma Chao's favorite thing is to destroy, and his favorite thing is to slaughter the city, destroy the city and something like that. After arriving at Liu Yu's side, Ma Chao was bound by Liu Yu for a long time, this time Huang Zhong said so, of course Ma Chao couldn't give up this opportunity to open meat.

"Meng Qi is really the best candidate." Pang Tong also agreed, after all, among the people present, except for Huang Zhong, Ma Chao's backstage was the hardest, and his sister was promised to be married to the prince, so he was waiting to get married. Ma Chao is the future uncle of the country, and no one will make irresponsible remarks about doing something lacking in virtue in his capacity.

"In that case, General, you can give the order." Ma Chao stood in front of Huang Zhong and asked.

Zhao Yun wanted to speak again and again, and finally reluctantly chose to be silent.

Huang Zhong decisively gave Ma Chao an order, and Ma Chao happily took Huang Zhong's military order to transfer troops.

Under the leadership of Ma Chao, Liu Jun's army once again started the siege operation.

Liu Jun's abnormal movement was discovered by Xu Huang, and he shouted loudly: "All get up, Liu Jun is coming." ”

The soldiers of the Cao army on Xinyang City picked up their weapons one by one and prepared to engage in a new round of siege warfare with the Liu army.

Xu Huang looked at Liu Jun's troops who came out slowly, held his weapon axe tightly in his hand, and said secretly in his heart: "It's going to start again." ”

This time, Liu Jun did not have a large number of infantry with siege equipment such as ladders and wooden ramming, but a large number of archers and trebuchets. Infantry and cavalry were guarded in front of archers and trebuchets.

Ma Chao walked out slowly, holding a big horn, the current big horn is one for almost all military generals, not Dian Wei's personal patent.

Ma Chao said to Xu Huang: "Xu Gongming, I, Ma Mengqi, respect you as a man, and now give you one last chance, obediently open the city and surrender, otherwise don't blame me for being unkind." ”

Xu Huang didn't know where Ma Chao got the courage to say this, Liu Jun couldn't take Xinyang City in the few rounds of attacks just now, with the solidity of Xinyang City, Liu Jun wanted to take Xinyang City, and he couldn't do it without leaving one or two thousand lives, so he retorted: "Ma Chao, if you have the ability, you can use it, and there is a kind of come!" ”

Xu Huang said such arrogant words, in Ma Chao's opinion, he was dying.

"It seems that he is obsessed. Little ones, don't be polite to Ben General, give Ben General to destroy the city in front of you! Ma Chao gave the order to attack.

Soldiers Liu Jun began to act. The archers set up the rockets, and the trebuchets placed stones stained with oil and wood tied together. Then all of them ignited and burned, and threw them towards Xinyang City.

Countless stones and feathered arrows with flames flew towards Xinyang City.

Xu Huang finally understood Liu Jun's intentions, they did not plan to continue to attack the city, but prepared to burn Xinyang City.

Most of the current castles are civil structures, and except for the castle walls, which are made of stone and brick, all of them need to be fireproof.

Liu Jun had already developed a long-range trebuchet and threw the burning stones directly into Xinyang City. There were so many of them that the fire became difficult to control.

"Fight the fire!" Xu Huang hurriedly ordered.

It's a pity that even how the Cao soldiers put out the fire didn't have much effect. Because Liu Jun's side was still throwing rockets and burning stones towards Xinyang City, extinguishing a fire source, and another fire source burned. Some of the rockets hit the place where Cao Jun stored the oil on the city wall, causing a huge explosion in an instant. What was even more unfortunate was that the originally dreary weather actually blew strong winds. Fire borrows the wind. The fire burned even harder.

"Ma Mengqi, you are so vicious." Xu Huang roared directly. "Extinguish the fire!"

Ma Chao looked leisurely at Xinyang City, where the fire was increasing on the other side, and said contemptuously: "If you knew this, you should have attacked it with fire." Why waste so much attack time and casualties? ”

The fire in Xinyang City also attracted the attention of Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun and Pang Tong.

"It's hurtful!" Huang Zhong sighed, he could see that Cao Jun was burned alive, he felt very bad in his heart, and turned around and entered the big tent.

No one was spared from the fire, and it is conceivable how many innocent people in Xinyang City would lose their lives because of this.

Zhao Yun asked Pang Tong: "Shiyuan, is it really necessary to burn so many lives alive for the sake of victory?" ”

"If the destruction of Xinyang City can be exchanged for the victory of our army in Yuzhou, I think it is very necessary. Zilong, I know that you are kind-hearted, but have you ever thought about it, the Cao army is defending Xinyang City, and it is stuck on the road of our army's advance, and our army must take it. If you don't use this plan, do you want to fill it with the lives of our soldiers? Pang Tongyi refuted Zhao Yun's inquiry rhetorically.

Zhao Yun was silent, looking directly at Xinyang City, which was slowly burning.