"Boom ......" see you on the ground. A thunderclap sounded, and the distant horizon was gradually covered with dark clouds, and between these clouds, lightning could be faintly seen flashing and moving in the clouds.

"It's going to rain." Cao Zhen glanced at the dark clouds in the sky, and a trace of helplessness appeared on his face.

If it rains, the roads are muddy and difficult to walk, and more importantly, the ladders used to climb the walls will become very slippery, making it a little more difficult for the siege climber.

"Forget it, let's talk about it until the rain stops, I'm afraid it won't be possible to attack the city in this weather." Cao Zhen muttered to himself.

"Report to the ......" The little colonel walked in with a long voice, knelt in front of Cao Zhen, and said: "Report to the general, and send a letter from Wang Ling, the assassin of the state!" ”

"Wang Ling? Take it......" Cao Zhen took the letter from the colonel's hand and opened it slowly, it looked average.

"This Wang Ling has a heart, go to pen and ink, and I will reply to him. Check it out! Cao Zhen said. handed the letter to Chen Tai, who was in the hands of his hand, and Zhang Hu immediately came over.

The letter said that Wang Ling had dispatched 20,000 elite iron cavalry from Bingzhou, and they could cross the Yellow River at any time to support Cao Zhen.

Wang Ling is a native of Taiyuan, Bingzhou, and Wang Ling's uncle is Wang Yun, who used beauty tricks to kill Dong Zhuo.

Wang Ling followed Wang Yun to live in Chang'an, after Wang Yun killed Dong Zhuo with a beauty trick, Li Wei Guo Yan entered Beijing, killed Wang Yun, and destroyed Wang's Manmen, fortunately, Wang Ling took advantage of the chaos to run out and fled back to his hometown in Taiyuan.

During the Jian'an period, Wang Ling was filial piety, but later he was sentenced to become a prisoner because of his crimes. However, Wang Ling was lucky, and during his imprisonment, he happened to encounter the playground where he was inspected, and after Cao Cao learned that Wang Ling was Wang Yun's nephew, he remembered that he had a friendship with Wang Yun back then, so he pardoned Wang Ling's crime and appointed Wang Ling as the main secretary.

Wang Ling, who is both humanistic and martial, can govern the place when he gets off the horse, and it is more than enough to govern the land of a state; Shang Ma Ke led the troops to fight, and it was not a problem to conquer the city. In addition, Wang Ling was loyal to Cao Cao, so Wang Ling's official became bigger and bigger, and he served as the assassin of Qingzhou and Yanzhou, and after Cao Rong ascended the throne. He ordered Wang Ling to be the general of Zhenbei and assassinate the state.

Wang Ling himself is a native of Taiyuan, and the Wang family is also a big family in Bingzhou, otherwise Wang Yun would not be able to be an official to Jiuqing, Wang Ling relied on some of his family's connections in Bingzhou, quickly rectified and merged with the state, and made good use of experience, in recent years, he has pulled out 50,000 elite soldiers in Bingzhou, including 20,000 cavalry.

"General, why don't you let Wang Ling lead the troops here? I've seen the iron cavalry in that state, each of them is very brave, fierce, if you really come to help, it's also a big help! ”

Cao Zhen shook his head: "No need. Now that we are besieging the city, do you still expect those cavalry to besiege the city? When this cavalry comes, we can't use it at all, but we will consume a lot of grain and grass, and this horse eats much more than a human eat, and there is no need for the state cavalry to come. ”

Speaking of this, Cao Zhen's voice paused, and then said: "But Wang Ling has good intentions after all. If we attack the city of Luoyang in the future, we can let this state cavalry come to intercept the reinforcements of the Han army, and Sili is a plain, which is the most suitable for the cavalry. ”

……

Inside the city of Xingyang.

"Your Majesty, it's raining, it's great, with such a big rain, Cao Zhen will definitely not attack, and the soldiers in the city can breathe a sigh of relief." A hint of joy appeared on Wang Ping's face.

Adou's brows only furrowed, and then he looked at the rain outside the window with a little uneasiness, this heavy rain made Cao Zhen's attack inevitably delay for some days, and this would also affect Adou's overall plan.

Xu Shu should have arrived in Chenliu, but it is difficult to guarantee that Cao Rong will transfer Xu Shu back to Yecheng on a whim, and in front, in order to keep Cao Zhen from doubts, he has to hide from everyone, let Wang Ping resist here and put on a bloody battle to the end.

"Wang Ping, this Xingyang can be guarded, but if it can't be kept. Let's go back to Luoyang. Adou said suddenly.

"Return to Luoyang? How can this work? Your Majesty rest assured, the minister will definitely be able to hold Xingyang. After Wang Ping finished speaking, he suddenly realized that His Majesty always seemed to be a little wrong recently, and he always said some strange things.

"Your Majesty, ...... you" Wang Ping looked at Adou with a puzzled expression, but as a courtier, he couldn't question the emperor. Of course, it is very contradictory.

Perhaps feeling Wang Ping's questioning gaze, Adou sighed helplessly, and then said: "Okay, I'll give you a thorough understanding, I didn't plan to guard Xingyang." ”

"Not subject to Xingyang? Didn't Cao Zhen kill Luoyang directly? ”

"Well, in Luoyang, I prepared some good things for Cao Zhen, let him taste them."

"Uh, I see!" Wang Ping suddenly realized: "The minister understands. ”

"Wang Ping, I tell you about this matter, you must not spread the word, you must not let anyone know, and when you defend the city tomorrow, you must not be slack, and you must not let Cao Zhen see the flaws."

"Your Majesty rest assured, the minister understands."

……

Ten days later.

"Hurry up, get up!" Again and again he used his large shield to block the arrows shot from the sky, and once again he commanded the soldiers to start climbing the long ladder.

Le Qi is the son of Le Jin, who has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his martial arts are far more powerful than Chen Tai and Zhang Hu. It is quite the style of Lejin back then, but in terms of leading troops to fight, Leqi has no ability to Lejin at all. It can be said that Le Qi is a brave man at best.

"Whoosh......" Two arrows shot at Leqi.

"Drink ......," Le Qi shouted, raising his shield to block the incoming arrows.

Le Qi is a general, wearing armor is definitely different from ordinary soldiers, and he is blocked in a group, and Le Qi is very conspicuous. The soldiers in the city easily showed up where Le Qi was, so a large number of bows and arrows flew stones, all of which were greeted by Le Qi. Fortunately, Le Qi's martial arts are strong, so he still hasn't encountered danger so far.

Wang Ping also noticed Le Qi below, who was directing the battle.

"Hmph, dare to be arrogant in front of me!" Wang Ping snorted coldly, drew his bow and arrow, and aimed at Le Qi. An arrow was fired.

The archery skills of the generals in Shu are not ordinary, and Wang Ping can be ranked in the top five among them, only to see a dark wind flashing, and the black and bright cold light hit the door of the music gate.

"Plotting against me, wishful thinking!" Le Qi lifted the big iron shield in front of him, and the attacking arrow was directly nailed to the iron shield.

"That's a lot of force." Le Qi screamed secretly, peeked into the city, and now Wang Ping had just put away his bow.

"It turned out to be Wang Ping, no wonder this arrow is so powerful." Le Qi sighed secretly, and then shouted, "Brothers, hurry up, hurry up to the city." Breaking the city, right now. ”

Cao Jun rushed up continuously, and at this time, Wang Ping also had to join the battle, the situation on the city wall was already precarious, Cao Jun had gradually gained a firm foothold on the city wall, and the Cao army who climbed the city tower gathered into a large and small battle group, relying on the city wall to fight with the Han army, covering the others to rush up.

As time passed, the Cao army on the tower of the city gathered more and more, and the Han army gradually began to decline.

"Resist, hold on!" Wang Ping had gradually turned red-eyed, and involuntarily rushed to the front.

In the distance, a trace of excitement appeared in Cao Zhen's eyes, the Han army in the city was gradually unable to hold on, maybe a small straw could overwhelm the camel.

"Herald, the first to storm the city will be rewarded with a thousand rewards." Cao Zhen said.

……

"The general has an order, the first to attack the city, the bounty is one thousand! Brothers, rush! Le Qi shouted.

"Rush, the first person to attack the city will be rewarded with a reward of 1,000 ......"

Cao Zhen's order pushed the morale of the Wei army to a peak again.

"Resist. Resist me! Wang Ping's eyes were already flashing with a hint of madness, and then Wang Ping secretly looked at the city, Le Qi was still there to command the Wei army to climb the city, and under the command of Le Qi, Cao Jun continued to rush up.

"It's all this Leqi, if you kill this Leqi, Cao Jun shouldn't rush so fast." Wang Ping sighed secretly, but at this time, Wang Ping could only think about it, not to mention that now Wang Ping has no chance to make a move, that is, he has a chance to make a move, with Le Qi's martial arts, Wang Ping can't kill Le Qi in one or two moves.

……

Unconsciously, Adou quietly climbed the city tower, and at this time, Wang Ping was busy fighting, and on the panicked battlefield, Wang Ping did not see that Adou had come.

"Well, this Le Qi is the son of Le Jin, and his martial arts are really good." Adou smiled slightly, and then picked up a spear from the ground very casually.

"Leqi, look at the gun!" Adou lifted his strength and shouted, and the sound suddenly spread throughout the battlefield.

Le Qi naturally heard this voice, and when Le Qi looked up, on the city tower, a young general was dragging a spear in his hand, and it was this young general who had just shouted.

"Hmph, rookie egg, I don't have much experience, if it's a sneak attack, maybe there is a chance that you will hurt me, and now that you have shouted out, can you still hurt me?" Le Qi snorted coldly.

Adou waved the spear, and the spear turned into a meteor and roared towards Le Qi's chest.

"I can't help myself...... Le Qi immediately raised the iron shield in his hand and blocked it in front of his chest.

The sound of metal rubbing came ...... "Boom" metal, Le Qi felt a huge force, Le Qi involuntarily propped up the iron shield with both hands, and then, a scene that surprised Le Qi appeared, the spear actually penetrated his iron shield.

"How is that possible? Penetrated? Why is this so? Le Qi looked in surprise as the iron shield in his hand was pierced.

"Not good!" Le Qi exclaimed, but he could only watch, and the spear ran to his heart.

"Stop!" At this moment, a cold sweat broke out on Le Qi's head, but Le Qi's thoughts could not control the movement of the spear, and the tip of the spear still touched Le Qi's chest.

"Knock ......" Le Qi only felt that something was fiercely concentrated in his heart, and he took two steps back, and then Le Qi hurriedly looked down, and now the heart guard has been pierced by this spear out of a dent, but fortunately, it has not penetrated yet.

"It's good to have this armor, and it's good to have heart guards." Leqi sighed softly.

Le Jin's outfit was worn by Le Jin back then, but Le Jin got it from Cao Cao. Cao Cao will never be stingy with his meritorious subordinates. It's like Cao Cao didn't care about the reward at all in order to win over Guan Yu. And Le Jin, as a general under Cao Cao, naturally received many rewards from Cao Cao. And now the armor worn by Le Qi is rewarded by Cao Cao, and it is made of fine iron from the Western Regions.

Now, this treasure armor just saved Le Qi's life.

……

"Hey, it didn't penetrate, it shouldn't be!" Adou didn't frown, then took a closer look at Le Qi, and immediately realized what the problem was.

"The principle is to have armor to protect oneself. Looks like it's going to have to be done again. ”

Adou picked up a simple knife from the ground next to him, and shouted again: "Leqi, look at the knife!" ”

……

"Leqi, look at the knife!"

The sound reached Leqi's ears again.

Although Adou's voice, Le Qi has only heard it once, but he still remembers it vividly, the shot after the loud shout just now, almost killed Le Qi, at this time Adou shouted again, and Le Qi immediately cheered up.

Pu Dao turned into a long rainbow and pounced on Le Qi's chest again.

"This time it's a knife! The penetration of the knife is definitely not as good as that of the gun, and it should be able to block it. Le Qi raised the iron shield again, of course, this iron shield was also the most suitable armor that Le Qi could find.

"Boom......" The friction sound of the metal being penetrated came, and hearing this familiar sound, Le Qi knew that the iron shield had been penetrated again.

"Who the hell is this? So powerful! A trace of inexplicable fear rose in Le Qi's heart, if it weren't for the fact that this iron shield had blocked countless arrows for Le Qi just now, Le Qi would really think that this iron shield was made of paper.

"It's okay, I still have armor and goggles...... Your spear couldn't penetrate my armor just now, so how can this knife be able to penetrate! Le Qi sighed to himself.

"......" Immediately after, Le Qi felt a pain in his chest.

"How is that possible?" Le Qi looked at the heart guard on his chest in surprise, the tip of the knife had already reached into the heart guard, and blood had come out of the gap.

"Why is this happening, this is the armor, why? The spear couldn't penetrate just now, why can this knife now be able to penetrate the heart guard? ”

"Impossible, this can't be! It's impossible to give birth! Le Qi looked at the bloody wound in amazement, looked at the heart guard, and suddenly, Le Qi realized that the place where the knife was inserted was the place where the spear had just pierced. There was a dent that had been pierced by the spear, and here it was hit by the same place with the knife, so even though the knife was not as penetrating as the spear, it was still pierced into it.

"Oops, why am I so unlucky, so coincidental, to concentrate in the same place twice......" Le Qi sighed slightly, stumbled, and fell.

……

On the city tower, Adou breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't think that if you wear armor, you won't be able to hurt you! Even the armor can't withstand attacking the same place multiple times! ”