In ancient China, because the city walls were built too well, and all kinds of city defense equipment, such as the lowest cost but extremely effective, which can be called the golden juice of ancient bacteriological weapons, and then to the bed crossbow, which is a big killing weapon, there are advantages of the city wall, and naturally few generals will consider street fighting.

If there is a city wall that cannot be defended, then the street battle is just a futile effort, and the ancient Chinese war is not dangerous and undefended, and there is no dangerous geographical advantage, and it is meaningless to defend it. Without the support of the city wall, the general generals are not defending, basically preparing to break through, or retreat to the inner city or some big mansions to prepare to die, if there is no one to save them, there must be no hope of life. It is impossible to fight street fights.

And the besieging generals will generally choose to surround the three and let the defenders break through. Just like now, Xiao Sui only attacked the south gate of Yangzhou and directly emptied the other three gates, just to break the morale of the defenders. People are like this sometimes, even if they know that there must be an ambush outside, but when they are in a desperate situation, they will comfort themselves if there is a glimmer of hope, and desperately grasp this life-saving straw.

Xiao Xuan saw Cao Bianjiao kill through the enemy formation, and was about to open the city gate completely, and sent an order to the generals around him, "After the army enters the city, order Cao Wenzhao to capture the north gate!" Cao Bianjiao was ordered to delay in the city, and led his troops to kill the West Gate from the city avenue! The Chinese army followed me into the city from the south gate and wiped out the defenders in the city! ”

Xiao Xuan's order was to break the fighting spirit of the defenders and force the Yangzhou defenders to break through from the east gate. At this time, Yangzhou City was doomed to fall, and the Yangzhou defenders could no longer play any tricks, so Xiao Xuan was thinking about how to reduce his own casualties at this time. In the city, fighting with the defenders is not a good place, and most of the defenders are from the people of Yangzhou, they take off their armor and throw away their weapons to hide in the city, Xiao Xuan wants to completely exterminate them, it will undoubtedly cost a lot of effort, it is better to let them out of the city.

At this time, the Yangzhou garrison had already been dispersed, and the cavalry was galloping across the streets of the city, and there were no formed infantry formations, and no one could stop the cavalry from passing. At this time, there were still many Yangzhou soldiers on the city wall and in the city who were spontaneously desperately resisting, but in the face of the siege of the large groups of men and horses who had already entered the city, these resistances had no effect except for increasing casualties.

At this time, the Yangzhou defenders who had just formed a formation under the city gate and intended to defend the city gate had suffered more than half of the casualties and were driven directly into the city, but they were still holding together on the avenue leading to the city under the city wall, intending to reach the army and enter the city.

In ancient times, it was already a rare elite to be able to kill and wound more than 30% without collapsing, basically even if the officers and soldiers suffered more than half of the casualties, the army would be unstable, and more than one achievement would be defeated and scattered. But at this time, more than half of the Yangzhou defenders were killed and wounded, obviously they had lost the city gate, and they were driven into the city by the army.

Xiao Sui looked at the Yangzhou defenders in front of him, who were surrounded by groups, facing dense swords and guns, and were still desperately resisting, showing admiration and waving to the soldiers next to him.

"My generals are merciful, Nian Er and the others are just acting according to orders, and you will lay down your arms and surrender now, so you can avoid death!"

"Lay down your arms and surrender on your knees! Kill otherwise! The soldiers who received the order kept shouting from the crowd.

The defenders of Yangzhou have been sharply reduced from the beginning of thousands of people to more than 1,000 people now, at this time, more than 1,000 people gathered together in despair and looked at the enemy around them in despair, and they could only hold the weapons in their hands tightly, even if they knew that they were invincible, but only in this way could they have a sense of security, behind them was Yangzhou City, which was their home, there were their relatives there, and they couldn't retreat!

Outside, Xiao Xuan personally stepped forward to personally persuade him to surrender: "Our army has never killed prisoners or abused the people since it went south, and now Yangzhou has been lost, and the four major families have fled from the east gate, and the others have been abandoned, don't you want to go home to reunite with your relatives, and you have to work for them?" ”

Finally, someone couldn't help but break down and cry out loud, and took the lead in throwing down his weapon and falling to his knees! Then everyone followed and put their weapons on the ground, knelt down to Xiao Xuan, and cried!

"You lead 3,000 men to guard the prisoners here, and leave the town to guard the south gate to prevent the defeated army in the city from breaking through from here!" Xiao Xuan turned around and ordered the generals beside him, "The rest of the people follow me into the city!" ”

At this time, the north gate was opened by Cao Xingzhen, who took part of the Cao family and Ge Liyan and others with a total of hundreds of horses, abandoning everything in a vain attempt to break through from the north gate.

The incident happened suddenly, Yangzhou broke to everyone's surprise, Yangzhou City is tall and strong, the city is well defended, and there are tens of thousands of defenders here, they think that even if Yangzhou can't hold it, it can hold on for a period of time, enough to hold on to the forbidden army to help.

After all, at this time, the forbidden army had already arrived in Nanjing, and Cao Xingjian and others had already sent people to ask for help, and it only took a few days for the forbidden army to rush to Yangzhou, which could solve the danger of Yangzhou.

Who would have thought that Yangzhou would be breached by the Liukou in less than half an hour, Cao Wenzhao had already taken the Guanning Iron Cavalry to kill in the city, and they finally gathered soldiers to prepare to go to the south gate to support, and they were killed and dispersed by Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Xingjian saw that the general trend had gone, gritted his teeth and decided to abandon everything, just waiting for the Cao family's descendants to be male, and he was about to leave the city from the east gate with a few hundred elite family members, preparing to flee to Suzhou.

"Patriarch Cao, let's leave quickly, leave these soldiers alone! They didn't ride horses, so they would definitely drag us down! Ge Li sat on his horse and looked at the thousands of soldiers who followed him out of the city, and anxiously pulled the reins to persuade Cao Xingzhen.

"They are all members of my Cao family, and they have been loyal to my Cao family for generations, if we abandon them like this, I am afraid that the army will be unstable!" Cao Rong hurriedly vetoed.

At this time, these family members were more important than the Cao family, and Cao Xingjian had to consider their feelings.

"Brother Cao, when is it! If you insist on taking them with you, we won't be able to leave! Grim retorted sharply.

"Patriarch, the red lady is like a god with soldiers, at this time the south gate, north gate, and west gate are all heavily guarded, only the east gate has no movement, this is definitely the art of war, there must be a heavy ambush outside, if we don't bring enough people and horses, just with these hundreds of horses now, I'm afraid we won't be able to break through even later!" Cao Rong shook his head and persuaded Cao Xingzhen again.

"Okay, don't mention this again, how can the old man leave his family behind and escape alone!" Cao Xingjian made the final decision.

Ge Liyan's dissatisfaction was overflowing, but Cao Rong finally breathed a sigh of relief, and thousands of defeated troops left the east gate and were preparing to flee to Suzhou in the southeast direction.

There was a team of people next to him, and the first person was Yang Su, who had been waiting here for a long time, Yang Su chuckled and stepped forward: "King Geliyan came from afar, why did he leave in such a hurry, if it was spread out, wouldn't it make people laugh at our lack of hospitality!" ”