Han Song and Wen Ping were planning how to annihilate Cao's army, but Cao Cao here in Chaisang had already started fighting. After three days, a large amount of ordnance has been built. Sun Ce had come out to supervise many times in three days, and now he had basically finished all of it, just waiting for the siege.

Four catapults, eight ladders, and one that struck the gates. It seems that the preparation is very sufficient, but looking at the thick city gate, I always feel that it is not powerful. Huang Zu's sailors and Gan Ning's sailors are currently fighting with Zhou Yu in Poyang Lake, and now Gan Ning's side has the upper hand, Zhou Yu's numbers and warships are no longer dominant, and they frequently lose when the two sides fight.

The stone flew in the air, landed on the concrete floor, a small pothole, and then the stone shattered into pieces. The bow and arrow were only a white mark on the city wall, and although the wall here was not as good as pure stone, the iron bars and cement were not much worse. Even if a piece of cement peels off there, you can see that there is still hard cement inside, unless there is a large area of giant hammer attack, otherwise the cement wall will not be broken at all.

The faces of Cao Cao and the others are getting more and more ugly, although the rammed earth city wall is also very thick, as long as you keep hitting a city wall, it will peel off after a long time, and it will be fragile and soft as a whole. But now it seems that the thick walls of the city could not have done anything with catapults.

Cao Cao is no longer thinking about how to attack, but what to do if he wants to attack Liu Zhang? The order to siege the city sounded, and eight ladders began to pass towards the edge of the city from both sides, but the soldiers on the city wall kept shooting at the ladder with burning rockets, and the fire oil on it could burn for a long time even if it hit the ladder, and the ladder could not bear it for a long time.

"Ming Gong, this Liu Zhang's city is really too ......" Sun Ce was too headache to see, this is just a small city. If it is replaced by a big city like Chang'an, how can it be attacked?

Cao Cao's face was gloomy, but he nodded but did not speak. At this moment, he felt that Liu Zhang's subordinates had too many talents, and they had everything. In the past, he only valued generals and strategists, but now it seems that craftsmen and merchants are also very important. The merchants made Liu Zhang rich, and the craftsmen gave Liu Zhang new weapons and this thick city wall, and it seems that he was too narrow before.

"Bo Fu look here, I'll go back and rest." Cao Cao knew that it was impossible to advance an inch today, so he wanted to go back and ask Xun Yu what Liu Zhang should do.

Back in the camp, Cao Cao asked directly: "A city that Liu Zhang has been running for less than a year, or a small city is so difficult to fight, what if it is a big city like Chang'an?" This Liu Zhang's subordinates have all talents, and he is not short of food, how will we face Liu Zhang in the future? "Cao Cao is really a headache.

Xun Yu opened his mouth but didn't speak, Liu Zhang is a Han family, a Han family he wants to support. He won't deal with anyone himself, to be honest, Xun Yu doesn't approve of this sortie, but Cao Cao wants to hold Liu Zhang's forces in the south hostage, and he must not let Liu Zhang occupy the south quietly, if so, it would be terrible.

Cheng Yu stepped forward and said: "The lord is too eager, then Liu Zhang is the Han family after all, there are too many talents, and there is no way to do this." The Son of Heaven is weak, and those people naturally have a heart of disobedience, and they are delusional about having the merit of following the dragon. But the lord knows very well what kind of person Liu Zhang is. "Cheng Yu is a master of politics, which also shows that he is very accurate in figuring out people's hearts, which is why Xun Yu died, but he went up.

Cao Cao said with a gloomy face: "What if Liu Zhang is pretending?" "Cao Cao was very worried that Liu Zhang was pretending, so it was really a bit scary.

Cheng Yu nodded and said: "This is indeed possible, Yuan Shao already has an idea about us after this war." But the lord still needs to join forces with Liu Zhang in the end, but now that we are irreconcilable with Liu Zhang, then the lord can really measure Liu Zhang's temperament. The lord promised to use beautiful gold, so it can naturally be seen that Liu Zhang is really a master, or a person who does nothing. "This point is really a temptation, if Liu Zhang doesn't accept it, it's too obvious, and it may even be possible to put Cao ** to Yuan Shao, if Liu Zhang accepts it, then they can continue the alliance.

Cao Cao nodded and said: "If Liu Zhang doesn't accept it and insists on attacking me, then I can only give up the Son of Heaven to Yuan Shao, and I must not let Liu Zhang eat us. Compared to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao felt that Liu Zhang was really terrible.

"What the lord said is that after Runan gets it this time, the lord can send a messenger to marry Liu Zhang, and then tell the interests and disadvantages to reject Yuan Shao. If Liu Zhang accepts our benefits, then we can rest assured that this person is strong but easy to deal with. If he doesn't accept the lord, he needs to consider an alliance with Yuan Shao, steadily develop the southern forces, and avoid Yuan Shao's sudden attack on us when the time comes. "This conspiracy is to test whether Liu Zhang is the master, Cheng Yu feels that what he needs is a pig teammate, not a powerful ally.

Cao Cao's face gradually became normal at this time: "If this Chaisang is attacking for four days, if we can't attack, we will withdraw to Lujiang." At that time, we will stick to Lujiang and prepare to seize Runan with all our might, and when we can get Runan, we will let Berning go and see what Liu Zhang has to say. Cao Cao thought this was very good, and it was also very uncomfortable to be sandwiched between the two forces.

Sun Ce also returned to the barracks, and was sighing when he suddenly saw someone coming in, and when he looked up, it was actually Zhou Yu? Didn't he fight Gan Ning at Poyang Lake? Why is it that now that he is here, isn't it that all his sailors have died?

"Something happened to Gongjin Poyang Lake?" Those sailors are his main force, and these marines are not the elite of Eastern Wu at all.

Zhou Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "Huang Zu brought the water master over, and we can't have a slight advantage and can only hold each other." Since this is the case, I will let Ziyi (Tai Shici) be, and I will come here to see if I can break the city in advance. "If he can't have an advantage on the water, he Zhou Yu will see if he can break the city.

Sun Ce sighed and said: "Now Cao Cao and I have attacked the city many times but we have not advanced an inch, the city wall is extremely thick, and there are many materials in the city, we don't even have the opportunity to go to the city." "These two days of siege have been exchanged for nothing but despair.

Zhou Yu frowned, he was also helpless in this situation, if others relied on Jiancheng just to defend, then there was no way at all except to be hard-headed. Of course, if it can be brought out or there is a mole, it will be much easier to attack the city, otherwise he Zhou Yu can only force it.

"My lord, let's find a way to lure the people out of the city, otherwise we will definitely not be able to break the city in a short time. We now have so few soldiers that even after the attack we have very few troops left. Once Cao Cao has the intention of retreating, there is no way to win even if he leads out the enemy. Zhou Yu said this, how could Sun Ce not understand.

Sun Ce sighed: "Gongjin and the others don't want to go out of the city at all, when we were preparing our armaments a few days ago, they didn't have the slightest intention of attacking, now that our two armies are about to go out of the city to attack us?" "Sun Ce really didn't know if there was any way to lure the people out of the city.

Zhou Yu and the others also had no way, and they had no way to break through this city of 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers with few soldiers. In the following days, Cao Cao continued to let the soldiers storm on, and Sun Ce's side was even more desperate, and thousands of soldiers on both sides of the siege alone died every day, not counting the last time the siege equipment was destroyed, they had to let the soldiers start to charge to death.

"Cao Jun has died about 5,000 people in these five days, and Sun Ce's side has more than 3,000 people. The news should have arrived in Jingzhou at this moment, and according to the temperament of the lord, reinforcements will arrive in about four days at most. Tell the soldiers that the lord will lead a large army to rescue in four or five days at most. Huang Quan encouraged the soldiers in the city, and in the past few days, you can see that although the soldiers are tired but not demoralized, the food in the back kitchen is still good, and the people in the city are even more excited, and the people are basically helping to transport supplies. Although those merchants were afraid of death, they provided more resources at this time, and everything was to keep it.

To be honest, the people don't know how Cao Cao and others are under the rule, but under Liu Zhang's rule, they are really well fed, and there are all kinds of work to do. Although those businessmen also chase profits, they are kind-hearted, and there has never been anything harmful, and such a good person is in charge, but they will not believe that there is a better ruler than this.

The inside of the city is united, and the outside of the city has its own thoughts. Sun Ce especially wanted to attack it, but Cao Cao wanted to test it. After two days of onslaught, the number of casualties began to double, and more than a thousand soldiers in the city died, most of them exhausted. Finally, at noon on the fourth day, the heavy voice of cavalry was heard in the distance......

Cao Cao and Sun Ce immediately withdrew their troops, and Liu Zhang came too quickly. A cavalry in the city also rushed out, and those who could not retreat at this time were strangled by two groups of cavalry. They were supposed to be in siege formation, but they were suddenly defeated in the face of cavalry. After dropping thousands more corpses, the two sides gradually returned to their camps.

Zheng Du and the others pursued for a while and immediately retreated back into the city, at this moment they didn't need to be anxious. When he returned to the city, Zheng Du smiled and said, "Gongheng is in a hurry, right?" This time, I have brought a new weapon prepared by the lord, as long as the Cao army dares to attack the city again tomorrow, we will definitely destroy the Cao army. "Zheng Du has killed a lot of enemy soldiers today, which is a happy event for them.

They can also run for their lives at a gallop all the way, but as for food, they don't need to carry too much. The time to get here is just right, and then it is the time for them to clean up Cao Cao and the others, if they don't retreat, Zheng Du doesn't mind letting them try the power of the new weapon, maybe they can take Lujiang back when the time comes.