Stone City.

"Kill!" Lu Meng roared, and the long knife flew down.

"Bang!" The leather shield was split in half, and the soldier behind the shield was stunned, a wisp of blood gushed out of his forehead, and then the skin of the face split to the sides, revealing white bones, and with a soft "pounce", the whole face was divided into two halves, and the two eyes looked in different directions. The soldier was about to scream, but the next moment he was kicked in the lower abdomen, rose into the air, climbed over the battlements, and fell heavily under the city.

"Get rid of them all." Lu Meng shook his wrist, wiped the blood off his sleeve, and shouted.

"Whoa!" A group of warriors rushed to the enemy who rushed to the head of the city, with swords and shields in front, spears in the back, and bows and crossbows in the distance. Although the brave warriors who rushed to the top of the city were all rare, they were still cut down to the ground one by one in the face of these well-equipped and tacit soldiers, and then they were thrown off the city.

There were a lot of corpses lying all over the city, but compared to the battlefield on the other side of the moat, it was much cleaner. After all, only a small number of people were able to climb the top of the city, and the vast majority were shot before they could cross the moat.

"The crossbowmen stepped forward, and the sword, shield, and spearmen rested and waited for battle." Lu Meng shouted.

"Whoa!" The soldiers promised loudly and took their places. Shieldmen and spearmen stepped aside, or drank water to eat, or examined their blades. Crossbowmen shot close to the walls. With the cover of battlements, crossbowmen can shoot boldly with confidence, shoot from a long distance with a strong crossbow, give full play to the advantage of accuracy, snipe valuable targets, and shoot sharply with a strong bow, giving full play to the advantage of fast rate of fire for short-range suppression. Compared with the opponents who shoot indiscriminately under the city, their killing efficiency is significantly higher.

Lu Meng took a few guards and walked towards another section of the city wall. Chen Zhi was responsible for the dispatch of the entire city, and Lü Meng and Jiang Qin were each responsible for the emergency of a city wall. As soon as a small group of enemies is killed at the head of the city, they will drive them down with their most elite battalion of guards. These guards were all allocated to Chen Zhi by Sun Ce from the guard camp, knowing that Lu Meng and Jiang Qin were talents trained by Sun Ce personally, and they had a bright future, and sooner or later they would be as independent as Chen Zhi, so they protected them very carefully. But they soon discovered that although Lu Meng and Jiang Qin were young, their martial arts were not weak at all, and almost no one was their opponent when they fought alone. After a few days of fighting, they were unanimously recognized by everyone.

Lu Meng carried a knife, with a straight face, and did not smile. He enjoyed the admiring gaze of the soldiers, but he knew that he was too young to slack off, otherwise someone would inevitably treat him like a child, and this was what he could not tolerate the most.

Lü Meng came to the east gate, and Chen Zhizheng commanded the battle. The east gate is the main direction of Liu Xuan's attack, and the offensive is the most fierce, and Chen Zhi is personally responsible. He drew his bow and shot as he scanned the battlefield and made adjustments in time. After a few days of fighting, he has been able to calmly face any accidents, no matter what new siege methods Liu Miao on the opposite side uses, he can quickly react and crack it.

This is of course related to Sun Ce's emphasis on offensive and defensive techniques, and it is also inseparable from the support of Danyang soldiers.

Some of these county soldiers are the original county soldiers, and some are Zulang's old troops, but they all have one thing in common, their families have a lot of land, less than twenty or thirty acres, and many nearly 100 acres. Chen Zhi adhered to Sun Ce's practice and made a deal with Danyang Haoqiang, asking them to hand over the encroached land and compensate them with the production rights and monopoly rights of different commodities. Of course some were unwilling, but they were quickly suppressed. The county soldiers who have land are very active in training and fighting, and in their opinion, Liu Xuan, like Zhou Xin, is speaking for the powerful and wants to take their land.

Everything else can be done, the land cannot be abandoned, and whoever wants to take their land is their enemy.

Danyang soldiers were originally fierce and aggressive, with excellent personal combat skills, but what they lacked was discipline and cooperation. With enthusiasm, after Chen Zhi's training, these people were enthusiastic, and their combat effectiveness was significantly improved, so that the enemy of the Danyang soldiers under the city did not take advantage of it at all. Even if there is any accident, as long as Chen Zhi gives an order, he will soon be able to make up for it.

"Whoosh!" Chen Zhi let go of the bowstring, the feather arrow hurried away, and the Qu Junhou, who was directing the siege, fell in response. Seeing this, the remaining soldiers threw down their siege equipment and dispersed in a hurry.

The soldiers in the city laughed and shouted loudly, and the atmosphere was relaxed.

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Liu Xuan's face was pale, his fists were clenched, his joints were white, and his nails sank into his palms, stinging and piercing his heart.

After a day of siege, the losses exceeded 1,000, but the number of people who could climb the city wall was still counted. Even after all the hard work to get to the city, he couldn't stand on his feet, and he was quickly thrown down. Going to the city is almost equivalent to stepping into the ghost gate, and you can't retreat if you want to. At the head of the city there should be some very strong reserves, usually the personal guard battalion of the main general. But he kept an eye on Chen Zhi, who barely touched at the East Gate.

In other words, in addition to Chen Zhi, there are also people in the city who can take charge of themselves. This made Liu Miao very frustrated. He originally thought that Chen Zhi was young and inexperienced, so he could bully him, but he didn't expect Chen Zhi not only to defend the city quite methodically, but also to command Ruoding, he also had helpers.

Seeing that the sky was about to get dark and morale was low, Liu Miao had no intention of fighting again, and Mingjin retreated.

The soldiers were relieved and evacuated the battlefield in turn according to the requirements of the military order. There was laughter on the opposite side of the city, although it was far away and he couldn't hear it clearly, but Liu Miao knew that it was laughing at him, and he was ashamed and annoyed. He sat still in the command car, looking hatefully at the opposite city wall and at the battle flag at the head of the city.

Xu Shao walked over and stood silently on the command car. Liu Miao waited for a while, and seeing that he didn't say anything, he couldn't help but feel a little strange. He got out of the command car and straightened the hem of his clothes. "What's wrong?"

"Two messages."

Liu Miao made a joke and wanted to adjust the atmosphere. "Good news, bad news?"

Xu Shao looked at him. "No, one is bad news, the other is faster news."

Liu Miao was very embarrassed, and only said after a while: "Xu Gong is defeated? ”

"Hmm." Xu Shao nodded. "Annihilation."

Liu Xuan's face stiffened, and his eyebrows raised. "Annihilation?"

"That's right, before the war, the Wu Jun family fell to Sun Ce, and met Sun Ce in Tiger Hill, the Wu Jun soldiers defected, Xu Gong was killed, and he didn't even have time to retreat."

Liu Miao glanced at Xu Shao and did not ask. Xu Shao didn't tell the truth, he must have hidden something, but the details are not important, Xu Gong is dead, Sun Ce controls Wu County, this is the key. Once Sun Ce led his troops to arrive, he would suffer from the enemy on his back.

"Another piece of news?"

"Tai Shi Ci sent someone to send the news that the strongest bandits in Tongguan Mountain, Fuhu Mountain, and Shimen Mountain were fighting among themselves and were defeated without a fight." Xu Shao said faintly: "It seems that Tai Shici is not as capable as you say, Liu Yuanjun, you had better have a backup plan." ”

Liu Xuan's face turned blue and red for a while, he exhaled a few heavily, flicked his sleeves, and jumped into the car.

"Back to camp!"