Rumble! ”

A stone bullet fell from the sky and smashed on the city wall of Xiapi. Fifty pounds of stone bullets were not too heavy, but they smashed this small section of the wall and shook. Fragmented masonry splattered, causing secondary damage to those around them. Stone bullets continued to fall, smashing the walls into potholes, but after all, they were not powerful enough to destroy the strong walls.

After a long time, the vibration of the wall stopped. Not far outside the city, the sound of a fighting cry sounded. Gao Shun glanced out and saw that as before, another wave of Cao soldiers rushed up. He covered his head and face with a shield and shouted, "Prepare to take the enemy!" ”

The strong men who were requisitioned to the city wall were heartbroken, and hid behind the battlements and refused to get up. The veterans were constantly whipping these timid fellows with the barrels and hilts of their guns, shouting, "Get up, you fools! If Cao Jun rushes to the top of the city, none of you will survive! ”

The strong men screamed as they were beaten, and blood broke out on their bodies and foreheads. The veterans, however, showed no mercy and continued to beat them up after changing their targets, "Get up! ”

Guan Yu has always been "arrogant but unbearable", and when he saw the atrocities of the soldiers, he didn't even say anything. Cao's army was extremely brutal and slaughtered villages and cities at every turn. If they were killed by the enemy, it is estimated that the tens of thousands of people in the city would not survive.

"Bang!"

The drawbridge at the top of the siege tower was lowered and smashed into the city, sending out a lot of dust. The soldiers of the Cao Army with hideous faces appeared in the field of vision of the defenders, and those soldiers who were driven to madness by military law and the desire to kill immediately rushed over with a howl.

"Shoot them with arrows!"

The officers on the city wall shouted loudly, and in the past ten days, Cao Jun had also rushed to the city wall twice. Each time, it was the death and wounding of many people that drove down those murderous enemies.

Arrows and javelins rained down on the siege tower, and many Cao soldiers were shot through and fell from the air seven or eight meters high screaming. But more soldiers jumped onto the city with a howl and engaged in a fierce battle with the defenders.

Cao's army has been besieging the city for more than 40 days, building dozens of siege towers and hundreds of catapults. The larger trees within a radius of ten miles were cut down, and all of them were dragged under the city to be made into siege machinery. The houses of the people in the vicinity were demolished cleanly, and the wood, adobe bricks, stones and other things were turned into cannonballs and thrown into the city walls by catapults.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Drawbridges continued to fall on the city, and more and more Cao soldiers poured onto the city. Although Gao Shun fought hard with his soldiers, his old troops had already lost a lot in the war last year and this year. Since Xiapi was besieged again, every time he led people to the front, he suffered many casualties, and now there are only more than 1,000 people in his hands, and while killing and wounding many Cao soldiers, the battle line has collapsed.

"Click!"

The horizontal knife cut off the enemy's blade, and the castration continued, and then slashed into the enemy's left shoulder. This time, however, the blade failed to cut off the enemy, and the horizontal knife got stuck in the enemy's chest after slicing through the collarbone and shoulder armor. The seriously injured Cao soldier screamed, his eyes became more and more fierce, and he stabbed the short spear in his hand towards Gao Shun's body with a hideous face.

Gao Shun was not surprised, and raised his foot to kick the opponent out. A general rushed over and shouted: "General, you can't hold it anymore, ask for reinforcements from behind!" ”

"General Guan has his own decision, we just have to guard this section of the city wall!"

"But ......."

Gao Shun said angrily: "There is nothing! Either you will be killed by the enemy right here, or you will be court-martialed! ”

“......... Promise! ”

As more and more Cao soldiers poured into the city, the battle became more and more intense. Arrows and javelins flew through the air, and soldiers screamed and fell from the walls. The soldiers of the Cao army were like wolves and tigers, killing people when they saw them. The veterans under Gao Shun's subordinates could still form a battle formation to resist, but the young men who were temporarily recruited did not have much combat experience, and they were quickly dispersed, and then they were cut down piece by piece.

Gao Shun fought hard to kill, but there were fewer and fewer people around him. The soldiers of the Cao army, who had gained a firm foothold at the head of the city, carried spears and kept stabbing them, forcing them to retreat continuously. After fighting each other for a while, Gao Shun retreated to the city tower with dozens of soldiers around him.

He led a dozen men in the best armor to block the doorway, while the rest went up to the top and used arrows, javelins, and everything else available to deliver long-range strikes at the enemies crowded outside the tower.

"Collapse", one of the soldiers on the tower let go of his fingers, and the arrow flew out and pierced the enemy's back. The enemy who was shot was shocked, but instead of being killed, he pulled out the arrow in his back with his backhand. The man pinched the broken arrow and looked up at the tower.

The Cao soldier who was shot had a long scar on his face, and his skin and flesh were turned over, like a large red centipede coiled on his face. He roared towards the city tower: "Dog, wait for Lao Tzu to come up and dismantle you to eight pieces!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, another arrow flew and hit him in the left eye. The arrow burst into the eye and pierced deep into the head. The soldiers of the Cao Army, who were still speaking cruelly just now, were hit hard by this, and they were suddenly exhausted, and their bodies fell to the side and rolled down to the city wall.

The archers on the tower of the city shot and killed many Cao soldiers, and they were also attacked by many Cao army archers. The tiles and window lattices were filled with a dense mass of arrows, and from time to time arrows burrowed into the narrow firing holes, and a scream was immediately produced from inside.

After a fierce battle for a while, Gao Shun below had been injured in five places, but he had been gritting his teeth and sticking to the front. Just when he felt that every breath was incomparably long, a cry suddenly came from above, "I have no arrows!" ”

"I don't have it either!"

"Why hasn't General Guan sent reinforcements yet? Do you want us all to die here before you are willing? ”

Gao Shun's heart tightened, but then he relaxed again. He had fought countless battles, from Bingzhou to Guanzhong, from Hedong to Xuzhou, and he could no longer remember how many enemies he had killed and how many times he had been wounded. After Lu Bu was placed under house arrest, the thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands became the last remnants of the Bingzhou army.

If he hadn't worked hard to maintain it, this would have been completely annexed long ago. Even so, the original veterans lost nearly half. Gao Shun didn't know how long he could continue to hold out. Even if you don't die here, when new recruits continue to come in, this army will no longer be what it used to be.

Well, let's die here.

He swung his sword with all his might, and the sharp weapon full of gaps kept colliding with the steel with a crisp sound. Sparks flickered in front of him, even splashing on his cheeks. The flesh was burned into black spots, but no one cared.

At the last moment, Gao Shun's heart calmed down. He secretly said in his heart: Feng Xiangong, I have done my last effort, and I can't control the future affairs anymore!

"Rub!"

A ring-headed knife stabbed in the chest, but failed to pierce the steel armor on his body. Gao Shun raised his horizontal knife and struck the top of the enemy's helmet with the hilt. However, he had been fighting for a long time in the city, and by this time his strength was not as strong as before. He hit the enemy, but this time he couldn't kill the enemy. Instead, a mace slammed down from the side, colliding with the steel helmet on his head, making a dull sound.

"Buzz!"

was hit the head, Gao Shun's eyes darkened, the horizontal knife was out of his hand, and his strong body fell weakly.

"General!"

"General!"

The faint voice seemed to come from the sky, and in Gao Shun's field of vision, the light quickly disappeared. The boundless darkness flipped and swept him into the abyss.

Seeing Gao Shun fall to the ground, the soldiers on the side became angry, rushed out with a roar, and crashed into the enemy's formation. In a fit of rage, they slaughtered many of Cao's soldiers, but they were soon surrounded by superior enemies and were killed and wounded. The cheering Cao Jun rushed forward, and after a sound of slashing blades, several corpses of the defenders were thrown out of it and smashed into the clearing behind the city wall.

In the courtyard not far away, Guan Yu's face became more and more gloomy. He watched the city to the west being occupied by more and more Cao troops, and finally ordered, "Chen arrives!" ”

Chen Zhi, who was seven feet long and five, stood up and responded loudly: "The end will be!" ”

"Take the white-eared soldiers and get ready to follow me out of the city!"

"No!"

After Liu Bei entered Xuzhou, he combined the original Danyang soldiers under Tao Qian and the Danyang soldiers recruited by himself to adapt them. This army was the strongest force in Liu Bei's hands, with more than 4,000 people, led by Chen to Chen Shuzhi. After Xiapi was besieged again, Liu Bei took advantage of the night to escape, went outside to gather soldiers and horses, and left a thousand white-eared soldiers in the city.

Liu Bei gathered soldiers and horses from other counties in Xuzhou, totaling more than 40,000 people, and directly killed Xia Pi, but was discovered by the cavalry led by Xiahou Yuan and Cao Chun dozens of miles away. Subsequently, Cao Jun and Liu Beijun fought several times in the wilderness, and each other was injured.

Just as Liu Bei continued to dispatch more soldiers from all over Xuzhou, Xiahou Yuan suddenly shook off the enemy in front of him, relying on the strong mobility of the cavalry, breaking through several county towns behind Liu Bei, and burning the grain and grass stored inside. The Xuzhou soldiers who were copied from the back road were in great turmoil, and coupled with the lack of food and grass, they were scattered a lot.

In desperation, Liu Bei could only turn around and divide his troops to guard everywhere, while sending troops to attack Xiahou Yuan's cavalry. But just as the Xuzhou soldiers began to retreat, Cao Cao rushed up with the main force. After a scuffle, the Xuzhou soldiers were defeated, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded, seven generals and colonels, and Zhang Fei was also stabbed in the arm in this battle.

Liu Bei led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat all the way to Xiaqiu, and only then did he stabilize his position. Cao Jun tentatively attacked, and when he saw that Xiaqiu City was well guarded, he immediately withdrew to the vicinity of Xiapi. Xiapi was stuck at the node of Surabaya and several other rivers, and if Xiapi could not be captured, Cao Cao would not dare to go too deep into Xuzhou, but only skimmed the surrounding area.

Although Xiahou Yuan's cavalry was very powerful, in front of the guarded Xuzhou soldiers, they could only create some panic atmosphere, and it could not be said that the horseback of the head iron crashed into the city wall.

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