Liu Wen's seemingly playful speech can be regarded as a three-adult to alleviate the embarrassing situation, Liu Wen has a second brother on the left and a third brother on the right. made Mrs. Cai and Cai Lin finally realize that no matter how Cai Mao chooses, after all, they are all members of the Liu family now.

Liu Cong invited Mrs. Cai and Cai Zhong to Fancheng to convey some information to Cai Mao through the two, and now that Cai Zhong has gotten up and gone to Shaxian, there is no need for Liu Cong to pester a few women.

Immediately arranged for the three of them to go to the back office to rest for a while, Liu Wen insisted on following Liu Cong to patrol the city, but Liu Cong had no choice but to let her follow. Although the little girl is only thirteen years old this year, she is also slim, like a miniature version of a little beauty.

On the way to patrol the city, Liu Cong couldn't help but joke: "Little sister, the second brother will lead me to the city wall to have a look, if you like any handsome guy, tell the second brother, the second brother will call the shots for you!" ”

"Second brother, what are you talking about?"

"Yo, rare, rare, my Wen'er has learned to be shy. But you're not too young, and the second brother is serious. ”

"Look at them, they are five big and three coarse, Wen'er doesn't like it, if Wen'er wants to marry, she will marry a scholar like Mr. Kong Ming, no matter how bad it is, at least it must be like the second brother."

"......" Liu Cong was very speechless, daring to love himself and being a big boss, "Wen'er, you are embarrassing the second brother, there are a lot of military generals and second brothers, but there are really not many people like Mr. Kong Ming who are so knowledgeable." Besides, you don't take the route of gentleness and virtue, and those who read are afraid ......"

"What? What do you say? ”

Liu Wen knew that what her second brother was about to say was not a good thing. I didn't take it seriously when I was a child, but I followed my sister-in-law Cai Lin to read and write, and Liu Cong shined at the Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Conference last year, Liu Wen felt that she was still a reader, and those who practiced martial arts were too vulgar! But as Liu Cong said, if he doesn't change his temper, the scholar will not dare to marry him.

Seeing that Liu Wen was serious, she stopped making a sound, and jokes were jokes, but girls had their own thoughts. The little sister is thirteen this year, and it is time to get married if she is an ordinary person. If it weren't for Liu Biaoxin's funeral and Cao Cao's southern expedition, Liu Wen's marriage would have been put on the agenda. Liu Cong also loves her little sister very much, but Liu Wen's words really gave Liu Cong a headache.

Scholars, what Liu Cong lacks around him is scholars, and the family of scholars with the average background of the Liu family is definitely not good.

When the siblings climbed the tower, they soon found that there was a fierce battle by the moat. Cao's army was sending a large number of soldiers to dump earth and stones into the moat, while sending archers to cover it. Naturally, the defenders of Fancheng could not watch the enemy fill in the moat, so they sent archers to wait for the opportunity to shoot the enemy on the other side of the moat.

Seeing this scene, Liu Cong immediately asked people to take Liu Wen down, for a thirteen-year-old girl, this scene was indeed too shocking. Cao Jun's discipline was still very strict, even if someone was hit by an arrow and fell into the river, they did not rush to fill the earth, and the corpses of those soldiers could save them a lot of earth and stones.

Archers on both sides fired at each other across the river, and as the landfill advanced, the battle between the two sides began to heat up.

The generals of the Cao army, including Li Dian, Le Jin, Yu Ban, etc., appeared one after another by the moat of Fancheng.

Casualties on both sides also began to mount, and the Cao army seemed to be more cruel, and most of those who did not have time to climb ashore were basically impossible to be rescued, and were either shot into hedgehogs or became stepping stones for the soldiers who filled the earth behind.

Cao Jun's filling of the moat was also very targeted, at the beginning the whole line was spread out, once it was able to resist the river, it was concentrated on both sides of the bridge, and the attack on the bridge was never heard, so it lasted for three days, and the moat at the north gate of Fancheng was filled by Cao Jun with a length of about fifty steps.

For this, Cao's army paid nearly 8,000 casualties, but such a price was also expected by Cao Cao.

Liu Cong paid more than 2,000 casualties in the three consecutive days of mutual attacks, but less than 1,000 people died directly, some of the slightly injured were carried back to the city and could continue to participate in the exhibition after simple treatment, and 3,000 or 400 people with serious arrow wounds were arranged to recuperate in the barracks near the school grounds.

On the tenth day of October, Cao's army finally began a large-scale siege of the city, this time it was no longer tentative, the infantry and archers cooperated tacitly, and even the shadow of catapults appeared by the moat.

As soon as it was dawn, when Wen Ping saw Cao Jun coming to attack, he immediately sent someone to invite Liu Cong.

Liu Cong came to the city tower to take a look, and vaguely saw that there were thirty or forty thousand people concentrated in the entire north gate, which was already the largest force that Cao's army could organize an attack. First, the morale of the Cao army was low and they needed to take turns to rest, and second, the 4,000 cavalry released by Liu Cong harassed the Cao army from time to time, and the Cao army was seriously lacking sleep. Coupled with the limited width of the moat landfill, any more is basically useless, after all, it is impossible to rush through the moat at the same time.

"Lord, the enemy is menacing!" Seeing Liu Cong appear, the generals also had a backbone, and Wen Ping immediately came over to report.

"Notice, from today onwards, the system of the arrow tower will be revoked, and then the generals will be assigned the task of the city wall. Archers stationed on the towers are free to retreat to the walls. All bed crossbows ready! ”

"Yes!"

Before the war, Liu Cong had instructed that the bed crossbow should not be easily exposed, and in order to protect the bed crossbow, a wooden scaffolding was even built above each bed crossbow. The bed crossbow is also covered with a layer of oilcloth, which is waterproof and sunproof.

Liu Cong's request for the bed crossbow to be prepared meant that it would no longer be kept, and Wen Ping immediately issued this order to the generals and soldiers stationed on the city wall. The soldiers were also very excited, especially those who had participated in the training before the war and were assigned to be in charge of the bed crossbow, they knew that the bed crossbow was a big killer, and allowing the use of the bed crossbow to attack meant that a good opportunity to make a meritorious service had come.

About half an hour later, thousands of Cao's troops crossed the moat and attacked the arrow towers of Fancheng. Wen Ping immediately waved the flag, and the archers stationed on the arrow tower withdrew one after another.

In Cao Jun's opinion, this may be an act of cowardice, but Liu Cong doesn't want Cao Cao to fight people, even if the casualties are one to three, or even one to five, Liu Cong doesn't dare.

It's still that math problem, at present, there are more than 100,000 soldiers in the Cao army who can be used to siege the city, and the specific number Liu Cong is not clear, but 100,000 is only a lot more, and there may be tens of thousands of soldiers from Xuchang to reinforce at any time.

Three for one, Cao Jun only needs 30,000 people, which can make Fancheng's rotation problematic.

At present, the scale of 10,000 soldiers stationed is relatively reasonable, and it can stand under the wall, and it is convenient and quick to link and replace.

If there are only 5,000 men in rotation, then there will be weak links in the defense, and if the enemy catches them, they can attack the city.

Seeing more and more Cao troops flocking to the vicinity of the arrow tower, the soldiers defending the city could not hold back in their hearts for a long time. The archers strained to kill the enemy, while the rotating soldiers stared at the towers.

Finally, they saw the two red flags Huidong next to Wen Ping, and then someone shouted loudly with a loudspeaker made by Liu Cong: "Bed crossbow ready!" ”

Squeak, squeak, more than a hundred and fifty bed crossbows were lifted off the tarpaulin, and the soldiers pushed the bed crossbows in groups of six in the direction of the arrows.

Before the war, Liu Cong had more than 1,000 soldiers involved in the training of bed crossbows.

They worked in groups of four, four of whom were responsible for moving the bed crossbow and agitating the axles on either side.

Two people in the rear, one is responsible for loading the crossbow, and the other is responsible for aiming. After the bed crossbow is fired, the people on both sides stand in line to prevent the enemy from going up the wall and destroying the bed crossbow.

Seeing the bed crossbow dispatched, some of the soldiers who were originally in the position of the arrow chopping immediately gave up their positions and pushed to the back of the city wall, looking at the huge wooden bumps with anticipation.

Soldiers in other positions continued to stand by.

"Crossbow!"

"Aim!"

"Put!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...... One hundred and fifty bed crossbows, hundreds of crossbow arrows flew out in unison.

Originally, they heard the movement on the city wall, and the Cao soldiers also hesitated for a moment, but the arrow chopping completely blocked their vision, and when the bed crossbow was fired, they didn't have time to react except for watching.

Liu Cong asked Zhuge Liang to make these bed crossbows that were not very big, they were all set up with three bows in one bed.

Originally, if it was a decisive battle in peacetime, it would definitely be the crossbow of each bed that played on its own.

In order to give full play to the power of the bed crossbow and hit the morale of Cao's army to the greatest extent, Liu Cong specially asked for a salvo.