The soldiers under Wei Yan also refused to lag behind, shouting while running!

Liu Xunhe and the soldiers he brought were stunned on the spot. No wonder I didn't see the enemy army, it turned out that there was an ambush for a long time! What made Liu Xun even more depressed was that if his two thousand men and horses were in the open field, he would not lose to Wei Yan.

But now, first he took the initiative to disperse the people and let the latter detour from other streets, also in order to find a water source to fight the fire faster and better, but now it has become a fatal wound. Less than a thousand people were blocked in the narrow alleys. First, a rain of arrows greeted countless casualties, and then Wei Yan killed. Liu Xun had no choice but to intercept him and face Wei Yan.

The soldiers behind wanted to retreat or go around, but they could only hear a killing sound behind them.

This Liu Xun was not Wei Yan's opponent in the first place, as soon as the two sides came into contact with each other, they made a judgment, and now they heard a huge movement in the alley, and secretly said in their hearts, not good, this Zhang Ren pits me! There are only a thousand people there, huh? How dare a thousand do that?

Liu Xun was actually frightened, if the two sides set up a field battle, the enemy would be outnumbered at a glance. Now that the enemy is ambushed on all sides, his subordinates have suffered heavy casualties and have no fighting spirit, and he himself can't resist Wei Yan, so this battle naturally can't be fought.

On the other hand, Wei Yan and his subordinates set off last night and touched the city. I slept for less than two hours, but now I am in high spirits, and I am getting more and more energetic.

The so-called brave wins when they meet on the lower road, which has been most directly corroborated in the narrow alleys of Luocheng. Liu Xun saw that the situation was not good, turned his head and ran, stepped on the crowd, and rushed out. The sergeants also knew that he was the son of Liu Zhang, and he dared to rot there, so he had to flash a passage.

In this way, Liu Xun ran all the way to the end of the alley after stepping on six or seven soldiers.

He thought that although there were ambushes at the end of the alley, there should be no generals. It shouldn't be a problem to rush out on horseback.

But he was right. Because the besieged Yizhou soldiers also wanted to break out of the encirclement as soon as possible, hundreds of people killed at the end of the alley, and with their help, Liu Xun quickly got out of the alley.

But none of the soldiers behind him were spared, and all of them were surrounded in the alley. And these people were dumbfounded again after Liu Xun watched Liu Xun escape! Some of them reacted quickly and immediately put down their weapons, hid to the side and squatted! I thought to myself, why? The main generals have all run away, what am I fighting for?

There were one or two who took the lead, and immediately a crowd of people put down their weapons: "The general spares his life, the general spares his life!" ”

"Haha......, stop, stop, don't kill those who abandon and surrender!" Wei Yan was often by Liu Cong's side, and Fa Zheng, Pang Tong and others instilled in him the concept of governing the world with benevolence. I came to seize Yizhou with my lord, and I am not a butcher. Since these people are willing to surrender, they naturally cannot be killed again.

In a matter of moments, hundreds of people surrendered.

The defenders near the street heard the movement and wanted to come to support, but when they saw that they all surrendered, they turned around and ran.

Wei Yan hurriedly sent someone to escort him to the city gate, and he took the rest of the soldiers to chase and kill all the way, even if he couldn't catch Liu Xun, he had to let the scare and scare him!

"General, General Zhang...... Wei Yan has entered Dongcheng! This time it may have arrived at the Taishou Mansion! ”

"What?" Zhang Ren looked at Liu Xun with an embarrassed face, and he didn't get angry, what kind of pus are the two generals Liu sent by Liu Zhang, and one became a prisoner before he reacted. One with two thousand people couldn't stop Wei Yan with one thousand people.

Even if you can't block it, you have to defend it a little bit, and fight and retreat, Liu Xun came alone. Zhang Ren knew at a glance that he had run away in advance. If it weren't for the fact that he was Liu Zhang's son, this would have beheaded him.

"Quickly spread that General Deng Xian went to the city to resist Wei Yan, and must drive this thief out of the city!"

Zhang Ren knew that this was troublesome, when he gave up the granary to come to the north gate, he thought that Wei Yan would leave the city soon. It's also strange that the defenders in the city are too incompetent. Zhang Ren thought for a while, and then said to the soldiers next to him: "Quickly protect the son and evacuate from the city!" Childe, you also understand the situation, please go back to Chengdu and be sure to tell the lord to send reinforcements quickly. Ren must hold on here until Liu Cong is repulsed. ”

Now that Liu Xun can't help at all, it's better to let him leave early, in case he can't support it, the army can retreat. Of course, Zhang Ren was unwilling to retreat like this, if even Deng Xian couldn't stop Wei Yan, he would let Deng Xian defend the city and drive Wei Yan away himself.

Liu Xun was already frightened at this moment, and when he heard that Zhang Ren was going to send him back to Chengdu, he said yes again and again, got off the city wall, turned over and ran away.

Looking at Liu Xun's back in the distance, Zhang Ren shook his head helplessly, why are father and son like this?

However, Zhang Ren soon adjusted his mood. Because the foundation city wall far away from the gate has been broken by the enemy, a large number of Jingzhou soldiers have gone up to the city wall, and he cannot be allowed to relax at all.

Liu Cong, who was outside the city wall, was also shocked, and secretly admired in his heart, this is Zhang Ren, who would have abandoned the city and fled if he had been replaced by ordinary people. You must know that the troops you are attacking are at least twice as large as him, and the combat capability of the Jingzhou soldiers is significantly stronger than that of the Yizhou soldiers. Moreover, Wei Yan's attack on the west gate to create chaos should be said to be successful, otherwise the west of the city would not have been filled with smoke early in the morning.

It was in such a situation that Zhang Ren kept scolding his soldiers for not leaving! Liu Cong loves and hates this kind of general, loves him for his loyalty and bravery, and hates him for being the enemy's subordinate.

Just thinking about it, there was a sudden commotion on the left side of the city gate, it turned out that Zhang Ren personally went into battle, with his own soldiers, and forced all the Jingzhou soldiers who had rushed to the city wall back with a slash, and he was still shouting: "Pour hot oil!" Pour boiling water! Align the ladder! ”

Soon there were screams from under the walls.

"My eyes ......"

"Ah, my hands, my hands......"

"Throw the torch," Zhang said after seeing the oil poured down, and suddenly the fire burned under the city, and the ladders broke in the fire and turned into ashes.

Seeing this situation, Liu Cong and others were all moved. Especially Liu Cong, he knew that war was cruel, especially siege warfare. But is there really going to be a truce? If you can't capture the city in one go today, once Zhang Ren is given a chance to breathe, Chengdu's reinforcements will arrive in the morning. Zhang Ren will also take advantage of the night to recruit people to build the city wall. In the future, it will only be more difficult to capture the city again.

But if you just keep attacking and the losses are too great, how can this be good? "Do you have a good plan?" Looking at the Jingzhou soldiers who kept falling on the city wall and the countless cloud ladders that were overturned and ignited, Liu Cong couldn't wait to go up in person.

Fa Zheng and Pang were silent.

"Can you send some more people into the city through the west gate?" Liu Cong really didn't want to go on with it.

"This law doesn't work, lord. Tong also thought about this, but the outer layer of this West Gate is stacked with mountains. Even if you set off immediately, it would be nice to be able to get to the West Gate before dark. In the evening, Zhang Ren's army returned to the city, and General Wei would definitely withdraw if he could not support it. So what's the use of us sending a few thousand? ”

"Is there nothing we can do about sitting and watching our army reach a stalemate? If this continues, the casualties are too great! As he spoke, another ladder was overturned under Zhang Ren's command. This makes the weapon war, once the main general is red-eyed, the morale of the soldiers under his command will be re-inspired, and the combat power will be doubled. So now locally, the defenders have the upper hand.

"There's a plan, I don't know if it's feasible?"

"Say it, say it!" are all burning eyebrows, these scholars are still Si Swenwen, Liu Cong really admires them.

"My lord, why don't you move the catapult to the mountain in the northeast corner?"

"Why? Don't look at these two catapults, there are not many of them, but there is still a deterrent. Liu Cong felt that this catapult was compared to the machine guns or cannons of the firearms era in later generations, and after a burst of random bombardment, it shook back the enemy soldiers and made it easier for his own charge. Now Fa Zheng actually wants to move these two catapults?

"Lord, please see, that mountain is close to the city, if you set up a trebuchet on it, it can hit the city and cause chaos among the enemy army."

"It's high, yes, but the usable space above is so small that I can barely set up two trebuchets there. Filial piety, this didn't help much for the siege? Liu Cong said with a frown.

Fa Zheng said with a smile: "Lord, this is to confuse Zhang Ren and disturb the hearts of the soldiers in the city. Zhang Ren must send troops to garrison the east, if he doesn't send troops, our army can directly send people into the east gate! If there are any more people at the east gate, the whole city will be in chaos!

Second, if you can't take the city today, Zhang Ren is bound to strengthen the guards of the city gates. If there is a catapult on the hill to attract the attention of the enemy, our army can send another team of soldiers to dig the earth and dig through the tunnels in the city in the hidden places outside the city. ”

After listening to this, Liu Cong thought to himself, although the digging tunnel is slow, it is also safe, and the loss is small. Of course, if the catapult can distract Zhang Ren's attention, maybe he will be able to take the city today. Immediately the order was given to push the catapult in the direction of the northeastern city wall.

The defenders of the city also couldn't understand it. But when Liao Hua took over the two catapults, and the huge stones roared and smashed into the eastern city wall, someone immediately reported to Zhang Ren: "General Zhang, the enemy army has begun to attack the eastern city wall!" ”

"What?"

Originally, there was a Xiongguan outside the city wall, but Deng Xian, who was stationed at the Xiongguan, had been transferred back by himself. Zhang Ren also thought that Liu Cong had arranged the attack force before, but after careful inquiry, he learned that it was the catapult under his nose that moved over.

But even so, Zhang Ren did not dare to slack off, if the two catapults were allowed to smash like this, within an hour, the city wall would definitely go out of the line, and if the enemy army took advantage of this to come down from the mountain, it would be troublesome to climb over the wall and enter the city.

"Quickly drop a thousand men and horses to check on you, and make sure to ensure the safety of the eastern city wall."

"My lord, the enemy army has begun to dig tunnels at the northwest city wall!"

"Block, send someone to block!"

This time, Zhang Ren felt the advantage of the enemy army.