As the sun sets, another day of fierce fighting. []

"Knock knock ......" The crisp sound of the gong sounded. Cao Zhen once again called in the gold and withdrew his troops.

Cao Bing pushed down again, and in the process of retreating, he would be carried away by the attacking arrows. Under the city, it was densely covered with the corpses of Cao Bing, and the broken military flag looked particularly desolate under the wind.

Cheers of joy sounded from the top of the city, but for many Wudang Fei soldiers, everyone was used to this kind of victory, and the Cao soldiers who attacked the city tower could not do any damage to the Wudang Fei Army who were covered in rattan armor. It is impossible for a soldier to climb a tower with heavy siege weapons such as a giant hammer. For soldiers who climb the city walls, the Pak Dao may be the best choice, and the Pak Dao cannot cause damage to the rattan armor.

One side is normal, while the other side is invulnerable, so the war is simply going in a one-sided direction, the Cao army is just consuming troops in vain, and there are no flying troops, at most a few twisted feet.

Finally, Cao Zhen noticed something was wrong.

When the army goes out, it usually kills livestock and sacrifices, but when it comes to the front of the two armies, it is very taboo about witchcraft. Historically, witchcraft has been regarded as a bad omen.

A general who almost led the troops to kill the enemy on the battlefield. I don't believe in any ghosts and gods. Most generals have killed countless people, so a general with blood on his hands like this will not listen to any ghosts and gods to take revenge. When it was rumored in the army that the Han army would know demonic arts, Cao Zhen would of course punish those who spread rumors.

However, in the last two days, the siege has been too unsmooth.

The Cao army did not attack the city smoothly, and the sergeants suffered heavy casualties, while the Han army on the opposite side was in high morale, and the sharp spirit seemed to be the same as when the battle was fought on the first day.

The so-called one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion. At the very beginning of the war, the morale of the army is at its highest. Then, as the war progresses, the soldiers are killed and wounded, and morale will slowly begin to decline. These are quite normal. Just like the recent festival, the Cao soldiers lost a lot of men and horses in the siege of the city, which is also the morale of the Cao army has declined, on the other hand, the Wudang Fei army on the opposite side is still full of sharpness as always, as if it was the first day of battle.

Cao Zhen's years of experience in leading troops told Cao Zhen that the only possibility for this situation to occur is to keep winning battles in order to maintain that sharpness and morale.

Although the Han army is the one defending the city, the losses will be smaller, but the number of the same Han army will be less, according to the proportion of losses. Cao Jun should not have fallen into the disadvantage. But the Han army maintained that sharp spirit as always, which made Cao Zhen feel very strange.

There is another point that makes Cao Zhen feel very strange, after each battle, the Han army throws the corpse of Cao Jun in the city, and the armor is taken away. This also made the generals of the Cao army scold Zhang Ren for slamming the door, and even the dead had to be skinned!

"Could it be that the recent losses of the Han army are very small?" Cao Zhen frowned, stood up, and walked out of the tent.

"General!" Zhang Hu hurriedly greeted him.

"Let's go, walk around with me."

……

Inside a small tent.

"Oh, Brother Liu, you tap!"

"Hehe, I'm such a big person, I'm afraid of this little injury. You have to wrap up this wound tightly. Bear with me! ”

"Oops, it hurts me!"

"Hey, Xiao San'er, you are lucky today, but you hurt your skin a little, and Lao Wu's luck is much worse, and his entire hand has been cut off. Hey......"

"Brother Liu, it's good that I listened to you, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to save this life, those Han soldiers really know how to witchcraft and are invulnerable! Thanks to my care, hey, so many brothers, who were fine yesterday, ...... today."

"Brother, be quiet, fortunately, there are just the two of us here, if others listen to it and report to General Zhang Hu, it is inevitable that you will be beaten up."

"Hey, really, the Han army is obviously really invulnerable, but the general won't let us say it!"

Outside the tent, Cao Zhen listened to the words of the two with a serious face, and his face became more and more ugly.

The so-called three people become tigers, at this time Cao Zhen also had doubts about his judgment.

The Han army knows witchcraft, which is definitely impossible, Cao Zhencai does not believe such words. However, the so-called invulnerability is a matter that needs to be carefully discussed.

"Zhang Hu, you go and call all the soldiers who have retired from the city in the past few days, and I will interrogate them in detail."

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In the big tent of the Chinese army, more than a dozen Cao soldiers knelt on the ground, sweating profusely in fright, and some even shivered involuntarily.

"Rattan armor? Wrap your whole body! Even a mask? Cao Zhen frowned and snorted coldly: "Sure enough, it's a group of guys who pretend to be ghosts." ”

The Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasty and even the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The generals mainly wear bright light armor, that is, the kind with very bright polished heart guards on the chest. At best, the sergeants wore leather armor, and very few had iron armor.

The weather in the south is hot, the waterways are longitudinal, and it is easy to get heat stroke when wearing impermeable leather armor, so many of the southern armies wear rattan or straw armor. At the time, rattan armor was not an unusual thing.

Rattan armor is breathable and lightweight, especially suitable for water warfare. However, these rattan armors are not like the Nanban rattan armor, which can be made for decades after an oil brocade robe. This kind of rattan armor without special treatment can resist arrows to a certain extent, but in close combat, it is difficult to resist the direct impact of swords, guns, swords, and halberds.

"Rattan armor, the most fragile pergola. Could it be that there is something wrong with this rattan armor? Cao Zhen realized that the Han army had leather armor that did not wear, but had to wear fragile rattan trellises, which must be strange, and then reminiscent of the corpses left in the city without armor, Cao Zhen is sure that the armor must be strange.

"Fujikashi...... Fuji Jia ...... "Cao Zhen walked back and forth in the tent. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Cao Zhen's mind, as if he remembered something.

Cao Zhen came to the table, searched for a long time in the thick paperwork, and then turned out a box from the back, and then began to churn again. Chen Tai and Zhang Hu next to him were speechless, they knew that this box was Cao Zhen's treasure, and all the information that Cao Zhen sorted out on weekdays was in this box.

It's been a long time. Cao Zhencai took out a booklet from the box, and then Cao Zhen opened the booklet and swept it through with a glance.

"Found it, finally found it!" There was a trace of excitement in Cao Zhen's eyes, and then the excitement turned to solemnity.

"Elephant Array Breaking Vine Armor Soldiers? This should be it! Cao Zhen said, flipped through a few more pages, and continued to read.

"It also appeared when the Hu army was flooded. The rattan armor made by the small country of Nanban is invulnerable! Well, how can this be fought? I don't have a herd of elephants here to hit these rattan armor soldiers, and besides, if people don't come out of the city, it's useless for me to have elephants. This rattan armor is invulnerable, and it is already conducive to an invincible position, so if there are more rattan armor soldiers, wouldn't it be able to easily sweep the world? Then Liu Jiazi had already obtained this rattan armor a few years ago, why was he willing to use it until now? No, this rattan armor must have fatal shortcomings, so it will not be used until now. ”

Cao Zhen sighed in surprise, and then looked at it carefully.

"Hey, soaked in oil, it can become armor in decades, it can avoid knives, guns and arrows, and it can float in water......" Cao Zhen lowered his head and read the information about rattan armor over and over again.

"By the way, oil-soaked things may be afraid of fire!" Cao Zhen's eyes flashed, and then he said: "Zhang Hu, you immediately send someone to make a thousand rockets and use them tomorrow when attacking the city."

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"Whoosh......" A flaming bow and arrow flew towards the castle tower.

"Be careful!" The Wudang Flying soldiers dodged immediately, but then more fiery bows and arrows struck again.

"It's not good, take off the rattan armor!" Shamoko let out a loud shout, then crouched in the corner and began to untie the rattan armor on his body, while the other soldiers followed Shamoko and quickly retreated from the rattan armor.

At the same time, Cao's army once again attacked the tower.

This. Cao Jun faced the Wudang Fei Army, which did not wear rattan armor, and immediately took the advantage, and in the blink of an eye, the Wudang Fei Army had fallen a large area.

"Hmph, it's worthy of Cao Zhen, the weakness of the vine armor was revealed so quickly." There was a trace of solemnity on Zhang Ren's face. There are still nine days to keep, but Cao Zhen has already shown the shortcomings of the rattan armor, and the next nine days will be very difficult. It is undoubtedly a very disadvantageous thing to fight against the elite of the Cao army besieging the city with naked soldiers.

But fortunately, Cao Zhen only prepared a thousand rockets, and after a few rounds, there were no more rockets to use.

Without the fiery arrows, the Wudang Flying Army in the city once again wore rattan armor, and the battle once again became a one-sided situation.

"General, without rockets, those Han troops are not afraid of us at all, it seems that we still have to prepare rockets to attack the city!"

"General, let the last general take the torch to try?" Zhang Hu said.

"No, it's inconvenient to climb the city, and it's even more difficult to hold a torch in one hand. Now it is known that the rattan armor is afraid of fire, and this is enough. There's no point in fighting any more today, let's stop Mingjin first! Cao Zhen said.

"The last general obeys!"

"Also, after collecting the troops for a while, you will immediately send people to make rockets day and night, and in addition, you will naturally have to prepare more torches, and when it comes to attacking the city again, first use rockets to cover a place on the city wall, and then lead the soldiers to carry torches, and then you will not be afraid of those rattan armor."

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Cao Jun retreated.

But Zhang Ren did not have the slightest joy in his heart, the fatal shortcoming of the rattan armor that he was afraid of fire had been revealed by Cao Zhen. Next, Cao Zhen will definitely take advantage of this shortcoming and attack the Wudang Flying Army. This also forced the Wudang Flying Army to give up the vine armor.

Wudang Feijun came through the mountains and mountains, it was impossible to carry a load and bring another set of leather armor, and in recent days, in order to cope with this situation, Zhang Ren has also deliberately tightened the armor of the Cao army, and in the past few days, he has collected a thousand armors that can continue to be used, plus collected from Xingyang, a total of more than 3,000 pairs of ordinary armor.

"Hey, you still have to hold on for nine days, three thousand pairs of armor, a drop in the bucket, this battle has just begun......"