As the boulders smashed into the arrow towers, these wooden arrow towers soon couldn't stand it and collapsed one after another, Cao Jun finally saw hope, and the soldiers cheered around the catapult! You must know that they used to pay thousands of casualties in order to destroy these arrow towers, and now they can do it with a few stones, and it seems that sometimes it is worth the wait.

But soon they fell silent.

After Cao's army destroyed nearly one-third of the arrow towers, Wei Yan and Jiang Wan in the urn city could not bear it for a long time.

With an order, sixteen catapults were thrown together, and dozens of boulders weighing hundreds of catties flew into the air, crossed the city wall, crossed the moat, and smashed into Cao Jun's catapults, and even the generals who were watching the battle from a distance.

Cao Jun was still celebrating a moment ago, and was quickly stunned by the sudden counterattack.

They didn't expect Liu Cong to fight back so quickly and so fiercely.

Even Cao Cao in the distance was cold, and originally wanted to boost morale by relying on the catapult that was built with great difficulty, but he didn't expect Liu Cong to hide the catapult in the city, and it seemed that there were more than himself in terms of quantity.

The unrelated Cao soldiers along the moat retreated, leaving only the catapult operators.

As a result, the two armies went from shooting each other with bows and arrows a few days ago to shooting with bed crossbows, and evolved into the current situation of catapults shooting at each other.

But soon Cao's generals found themselves at an absolute disadvantage.

In addition to the number of people, this disadvantage is that Cao Jun's catapult is completely exposed by the moat, without any protection, the catapult is seriously damaged, and the operator is also seriously injured.

The principle of the catapult is to eject, and the highest point of the projectile is infinitely close to the catapult, so it is difficult for Cao Jun's catapult to throw stones over the arrow tower and then smoothly over the city wall. And from the beginning, they debugged it for the arrow tower, and even if the range was reached, it had to be readjusted.

Liu Cong's catapults, on the other hand, hid well in the urn city, with the cover of the city wall to block most of the enemy's attacks.

Seeing that the catapult, which was originally full of hope, was at a disadvantage in the battle, Cao Jun had endless losses.

Catapults on both sides shot at each other until the sun went down.

The arrow towers of Fancheng were all destroyed, and the city walls were also smashed and many arrows were chopped, but the losses of Cao's army were also quite a few, two catapults and more than a thousand catapult operators and hundreds of soldiers who did not have time to dodge when they saw the excitement.

On Liu Cong's side, only one catapult was damaged, and it was still within the scope of repair. More than 200 soldiers and catapult operators stationed on the city walls were killed or wounded.

In the evening, Liu Cong convened a meeting of the generals.

The first thing was to recall Liu Pan, Huang Zhong and Jiang Qin. Cao Cao had been besieging the city for so long, and although the cavalry had worked wonders, it was far from its most important function, so Liu Cong decided to let the war horse and all the cavalry rest for three days from now on.

The second thing was to push a hundred bed crossbows to the inner city wall overnight, and only about fifty near the city gate remained. Four small newly-built catapults were hoisted against the city wall and parked under the wooden shed where the crossbows were originally kept.

Liu Cong planned to continue to surprise Cao Cao, but also to prevent Cao Cao from burning the bed crossbow with fire.

Fan Cheng was engaged in a fierce battle, but Cai Zhong came to Shaxian non-stop.

Cai Mao was very surprised by Cai Zhong's arrival, and he even thought that Liu Cong was not aware of his connection with Cao Cao, and when Cai Zhong explained his intention, Cai Mao suddenly realized.

It turned out that Liu Cong knew his whereabouts well, but he couldn't spare his energy to deal with himself for the time being.

When Cai Mao learned that Liu Cong and Cao Cao's battle only dispatched Jiang Qin and 3,000 sailors, Cai Mao was not calm, Cao Cao had already lost a quarter, and he was not ready to cross the river, was he afraid or naïve, or naively thought that as long as Liu Cong was defeated in Fancheng, Jingzhou could be obtained.

Although Cai Mao has not fought with Gan Ning, but in terms of bravery alone, Cai Mao sighs to himself, in terms of military affairs, Gan Ning has Liu Cong's guidance and Zhuge Liang's assistance, and he can completely compete with himself. In this way, even if Cao Cao defeated Liu Cong in Fancheng, Cai Mao felt that he was not sure of victory.

And the subsequent intelligence made Cai Mao almost jump.

After Ma Liang returned from Chaisang, he made a short stay in Shaxian according to Liu Cong's request, and informed Cai Mao that Zhou Yu's navy was about to enter Xiakou and had come to support Jingzhou. I hope Cai Mao can give convenience and not cause unnecessary trouble.

Cai Mao's first reaction was that this Liu Cong was crazy, and he actually believed that Sun Quan would be kind enough to help Jingzhou. But then I understood Liu Cong's intentions, this is to rather enter the jackal at the front door than let go of the house thief.

If Cai Mao wants to get into trouble, he must rush before Zhou Yu arrives.

But soon Cai Mao got two more messages.

Huang Jie had fled to Anlu with 2,000 men and horses and some Jiangxia elders that day. This yellow shot, of course Cai Mao knows, the loyalty of the royal father and son to Liu Cong is naturally needless to say, Huang Zu has been operating in Jiangxia for many years, and some of the wealthy families he has made friends with are not difficult to get together some troops. But it is these two thousand people plus the soldiers of Anlu County, and the Huang clan, who has already been Anlu, is enough to form a team to guard Anlu. If Cai Mao wants to enter the army, he must do so from the water.

What made Cai Mao even more depressed was that Li Yan, the Taishou of Nanjun, actually led 5,000 sailors to practice in the Honghu generation.

According to previous information, Liu Cong left Li Yan with no more than 2,000 sailors. He didn't know that after Li Yan received Liu Cong's letter, he immediately set off as an army to guard against Cai Mao and Zhou Yu.

"That's it, second brother, you should go back to Xiangyang as soon as possible and tell the lord that I, Cai Mao, will never accept Cao Cao's separation!"

"Big brother...... It's better to wait. Cao Cao's temptation was too great, and Cai Zhong, who had escaped safely, was a little uncontrollable.

"When Liu Cong defeats Cao Cao, there will really be nothing to do with our Cai family. At the moment, first of all, Ya stopped Zhou Yu from continuing to go north. If we don't express our stance again, that kid said that he will definitely make Huang Jie and Li Yan cooperate with Zhou Yu to attack Sha Xian on three sides. If you don't wait for the winner to be divided, you and I will be buried in the Yangtze River! “

Cai Mao began to feel Liu Cong's power, Li Yan was able to gather 5,000 sailors in a short time, so he was optimistic about Huang Shot, and he could gather 5,000 infantry in Anlu. If he really cooperates with Zhou Yu to use troops, Cai Mao has no chance of winning at all, not to mention going to Xiangyang to support Cao Cao, but I'm afraid that he won't be able to get out of Shaxian City.

"But big brother, in this way, even if we don't do anything. When Liu Cong wins, our Cai family is bound to completely lose trust, and we no longer have any say in Jingzhou! Cai Zhong is still unwilling.

"Forget it, I'm old, and now it's the world of young people. Even Cao Cao, who fought in all directions, couldn't do anything about Liu Cong, I can only hope that he will be better to Lin'er in the future. With her, our Cai family still has a chance. ”

In fact, Cai Mao is so willing.

But his idea was to suddenly attack the cavalry and Cao Cao from the north and south, so that he could not only suddenly take Xiangyang to win the title, but also successfully keep the Cai family. Now that Liu Cong has used so many people, even if Cao Cao defeats Cao Cao in the end, even if he can get rid of Huang Jie and Li Yan.

But when that time comes, Liu Cong will have plenty of time and enough reason to kill the Cai clan in Xiangyang. In this way, how does Cai Mao face the world? And if he was entangled by Huang Shot and Li Yan and couldn't give Cao Cao a lot of support, would Cao Cao still promise in advance after the victory?

If, after he left, Zhou Yu seized Jiangxia, Cao Cao obtained Xiangyang, and he would definitely make himself crusade against Zhou Yu, so that not only would the clansmen die, but I was afraid that these soldiers under him would also die.

This is still based on Cao Cao's victory, if Liu Cong wins, Cai Mao knows that the consequences will be even more unimaginable.

Since the best opportunity to act has been lost, it is better not to move, this is the choice of Cai Mao, a veteran of a hundred battles and a general who is more than half a hundred years old. If he doesn't move, Zhou Yu doesn't dare.

Even if Liu Cong no longer trusts himself after the war, as long as Jiang Xia does not lose it, he is not derelict in his duty to go there, as for Cao Cao's promise, Cai Mao can completely buckle the hat to Cao Cao, saying that he intends to separate! If Liu Cong can win, he will not delve into himself. It's a big deal to be idle in Xiangyang!

Cai Zhong couldn't resist Cai Mao, so he had to be ordered to return to Xiangyang, after all, Cai Mao's choice is related to the fate of the Cai family in Xiangyang, since Cai Mao has made a decision, he must let Liu Cong know as soon as possible in order to protect the Cai family.