Tai Shi Ci ordered his subordinates to escort Sun Quan and the seriously injured Zhou Tai out of the city to settle down for treatment, and on the other hand, he ordered the soldiers to seize the west and north city gates, and strictly ordered to guard the city gate and not run away Zulang, and personally led the soldiers to the only remaining east gate in Xuancheng.

Half of these soldiers were originally in charge of the Yellow Turban Army, and half were Tai Shi Ci recruited from Jing County, after months of training, and Tai Shi Ci himself, who was also a skilled archer, personally trained, but also became a tiger and wolf army, it was by virtue of this tiger and wolf army Tai Shi Ci was able to balance Zu Lang in Jing County for nearly half a year, so that Sun Ce could attack the eastern counties of Yangzhou.

The situation reversed too quickly, and when Zu Lang found out that something was wrong, he knew that he was already surrounded by Tai Shi Ci. Naturally, he was also afraid of Tai Shici's perverted bow technique, so he had to lead the army to storm the west gate of the only Tongjing County. However, the guards of the West Gate got Tai Shici's general order, closed the city gate, put away the drawbridge, and repelled Zulang's onslaught again and again, Zulang turned to the north gate, but there were hundreds more casualties, and he still couldn't take half a step out of Xuancheng.

"Damn, this Tai Shi Ci's movements are really fast enough!" The grizzled Zu Lang said angrily at the moment, "I just arrived in Xuancheng with my front foot, and he followed him with his back foot like a fart!" ”

"Dashuai, what should we do now?" Seeing that there was no hope of leaving the city, the soldiers under his command couldn't help but ask Zu Lang in despair.

"Afraid of what?" Zu Lang said angrily, "Send troops to guard the armory and armory!" ”

Everyone immediately understood Zu Lang's intentions, and they all said loudly: "Handsome and wise!"

Seeing that his subordinates dispersed one by one, Zu Lang also returned to the city guard mansion with the rest of the men and horses, and the traces of the battle just now in the mansion were clearly visible, with dripping blood stains and stumps and broken arms everywhere, and the smell of blood in the air made people feel the urge to vomit.

Just now, the killing was rising, and when you see such a tragic situation, many people can't help but cover their noses.

Zu Lang said angrily: "What are you doing in a daze? Why don't you clean up yet? Did you kill on the first day? ”

After that, Zu Lang walked towards the inner mansion without looking back, picked up a fairly clean place and lay down: "Tai Shici, I know I can't beat you, but I must be able to consume you, I want to see how you can consume it with me without food and grass?"

"Ahh Tai Shici outside the east gate couldn't help but sneeze, although it was Jiangnan, the night cold in late autumn was also extremely heavy, and his wind chill was not good, and the soldiers didn't know how many coughs and sneezes they heard from him until now!

"General, your illness is not well yet, it is better to go to the rear army to rest first! If it is more deeply exposed, it will not be good if the condition worsens, so it is good to leave it to us here! The soldiers said to Tai Shici with concern.

"Hehe, this little illness is nothing!" Tai Shi Ci said, "Today is a great opportunity, if you let Zu Lang run away again this time, I don't know how much trouble it will cause to Lord Sun Ce in the future!" ”

"It's just right to cause some trouble for Sun Ce, so that our lord will be good!" Someone in the crowd suddenly muttered.

Tai Shi Ci sank his face: "It was originally the lord's own intention to let us cooperate with Lord Sun Ce to fight, don't let me hear the words just now in the future!"

Everyone was silent, and they couldn't think of why their lord Gao Yi would arrange it like this.

Tai Shi Ci knew that his words just now were a little heavier, so he calmed down and said earnestly: "The lord said that you can't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, you must inflict heavy losses on the enemy army on the premise of preserving your own combat strength, you are the precious combat power of the lord to dominate the world, as your commander, I can't let you die in vain!"

Everyone had been following Tai Shi Ci for a long time, how could they not know the meaning of Tai Shi Ci's words, so they asked together: "Isn't the general trying to recruit Zu Lang?"

Tai Shi Ci nodded: "In fact, Zu Lang has long had the intention of surrendering to the lord, after all, the lord's attitude towards Guan Hai Zu Lang can also see it, when he was in Jing County, he also wrote to me many times to state this reason, Zu Lang just has a blood feud with the Sun family, when Lord Sun Jian was in Jiangdong, he organized private soldiers to slaughter Zu Lang's clan and family, he saw that now the lord and Lord Sun Ce are friendly, he is afraid that he will not be compatible at that time, so now he is in a dilemma! So let's force this Zulang now, but we can't force it too hard, it's not good to force Zulang to jump over the wall in a hurry! ”

"The general is really clever, no wonder the lord is willing to hand over the military power to you with confidence!" The army exclaimed.

"Needless to say, flattering!" Tai Shi Ci said and looked at the city, "It's just that Zu Lang, a big fish, is not so easy to take the bait, just now the sound of the two gates in the northwest was constantly fighting, but there will be no sound, I don't know what Zu Lang is planning!" ”

"Report, General Taishi, Zu Lang withdrew the attack of the two gates in the northwest, and instead stuck to the military depot and armory, and sat in the city to defend the mansion, it seems that he wants to hold on without fighting!" As soon as he finished speaking, the herald brought this not too good nor too bad news to Tai Shici.

Tai Shi Ci smiled: "No wonder this Zulang can come up with this bad idea and want to fight a war of attrition with us!"

All the troops said in unison: "This is not good, General Taishi, we came in a hurry, and we only brought a few days' rations, if it drags on like this, we can't afford it!"

"That's not easy!" Taishi pulled out two fiery whirlwind halberds from behind, "He Zulang doesn't want to fight, I want to force him to fight with me!" Leave 2,000 men to guard the east gate, and the remaining 500 men will follow me into the city to attack the military depot! ”

"No!" The army couldn't wait for a long time, and when they heard Tai Shici's order, they all grinded their fists and wanted to fight.

Guarding the military granary is Zu Lang's younger brother Zu Rong, who is five big and three thick but also a careful person, and has built layers of antlers around the periphery of the military granary in just a few quarters of an hour, with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and the places where they must pass are equipped with strong bows and crossbows, and the guards are almost impermeable.

Tai Shi Ci watched for a while, frowned and said: "A frontal attack is bound to have many casualties, in this way, two hundred people stay here to stop the enemy army, and the rest follow me to climb the city wall, Lord Sun Quan said that the city tower He ordered people to make a few cowhide drums, and now he can beat the drums to cheer the bluff!"

"No!"

In a short time, Tai Shici and the rest of the three hundred people had already arrived at the city wall, he ordered a hundred people to enter the city tower, and when he gave the order, he beat the war drums, and on the other hand, he ordered a hundred people to take bows and arrows to go around the city wall above the armory, and when he gave the order, they all released arrows to disturb the hearts of the enemy, and finally said to the hundred people around him: "Prepare, kill!"

"Kill!"

Tai Shici gave an order, and the hundred people shouted together and jumped from the city wall into the armory.

"Kill!"

"Who?" Zu Rong heard the commotion, and immediately led people to the source of the sound, only to see that about 100 people arrived at the barracks at some point, and immediately shouted: "It's not good, everyone, don't let them spoil the grain and grass!" ”

At this moment, the sound of war drums suddenly sounded on the city wall, and Zu Rong was taken aback: "Has the enemy attacked the city?" ”

The others also looked at each other: "Deputy marshal, what should we do?" ”

"No matter, kill these people first, and then find a way to meet with the eldest brother!" Zu Rong seemed to be a fierce general who had been in battle for many years, and he was not even confused by the sound of the drum, but he didn't know that there were still hundreds of arrows waiting for him on the city wall.

"Put!" The archers on the city wall saw the opportunity and shot the feathered arrows in their hands at the stunned enemy soldiers.

"Ahh Soon, groups of soldiers around Zu Rong fell to the ground and died, and he was taken aback: "It's not good, there are archers and shield soldiers on the city wall, go on!" ”

"No!" Soon, Zu Rong's soldiers held shields on their heads, covering Zu Rong and the soldiers behind him to kill in the direction where Tai Shici was.

"General Taishi, they're here!" Several soldiers saw Zu Rong and the hundreds of soldiers behind him, and hurriedly reported to Tai Shici.

"Good time!" Tai Shi Ci shouted, "Throw all the torches into the granary, and then let you see the martial arts of my Tai Shi Ziyi!" ”

"No!" The soldiers got the order, threw the torches in their hands into the nearby granary one by one, held the weapons in their hands, and followed Taishi Cihou at the gate of the granary, looking at Zu Rong and others who rushed towards him with murderous spirit.

"Oh no, lieutenant, the granary is on fire!" The soldier pointed to the burning granary in a panic and said to Zu Rong.

"Damn!" Zu Rong saw clearly that it was Tai Shi Ci who came to burn the grain and grass himself, and he was overjoyed and surprised in his heart, and shouted, "Tai Shi Ci, I didn't expect you to come to find death by yourself!" ”

"It's not certain who will die or who will live!" Tai Shi Ci danced the fiery whirlwind halberd in his hand and said coldly.

"Tai Shici, my eldest brother is afraid of you, it doesn't mean that I will be afraid of you, see that I will capture you alive today and give my eldest brother a contribution!" Zu Rong shouted, with a knife in hand, and launched a siege on Tai Shici with his subordinates.

"There is really no shortage of people in this world who talk big, and they are not afraid of flashing their tongues in the wind!" Tai Shi Ci stopped the people who were going to fight together, "You guys are watching from the side, watching me capture this person alive in the Sanhe!" ”

"Damn, you actually underestimate my Zu Rong!" Zu Rong shouted violently, and the long knife in his hand danced like a storm, attacking Tai Shici's whole body.

Tai Shi Ci only smiled slightly, and with a wave of the double halberd, he immediately separated Zu Rong's momentum, and his body shook, forcing Zu Rong back a few feet, and this was not over, Tai Shi Ci took a step forward by taking advantage of the situation, one halberd supported the ground, and the other halberd took advantage of the situation to sweep towards Zu Rong's upper body.

Zu Rong was shocked, he hadn't recovered from the fight just now, and saw Tai Shi Ci pressing over step by step, ready to defend, but seeing Tai Shi Ci making such a ridiculous attack, he immediately lowered his body and swept to Tai Shi Ci's waist with a knife: "I want your life!" ”

"You've been tricked!" Tai Shi Ci in mid-air seemed to expose his weakness to Zu Rong, but in fact, it was to lure Zu Rong to attack, sure enough, seeing Zu Rong swinging his knife and slashing, Tai Shi Ci did not retreat but advanced, just when Zu Rong's knife body was about to split his waist, his body sank suddenly, and the two halberds were combined, restraining Zu Rong's weapons and Zu Rong's people.

"Underestimating your opponent will be a hardship!" Tai Shi Ci sneered and said to Zu Rong, "Take me to see Zu Lang!" ”