Jingjing, who was arranged in the direction of the West City Gate as a reserve communication personnel, was reluctant to rest and stand by at the beginning, for fear that she would accidentally make a mistake and cause trouble, so she accompanied the two liaison sergeants with trepidation, actively read and copied the code with them, and conveyed the information to Huo Jun who was in charge of guarding the West Gate in time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Huo Jun was calm and relaxed, and warned Jingjing not to be so nervous, the Jiangling city defense was well built, and the Cao army was not so easy to attack.

Jingjing was anxious: "However, it is said that Cao Jun is attacking the city at both the north gate and the east gate, and even outside the south gate, I have seen the enemy's movement, will there be enemy troops coming from our west gate?" ”

"Although several other gates have reported that there are enemy troops attacking the city, they have not said which gate is in danger, so don't worry, as for the west gate, I am worried that they will not come." Huo Jun already had his own set of ideas.

In Huo Jun's opinion, the offensive and defensive forces are 1:4 or 1:5, and it is not difficult to hold Jiangling City at all, but if the enemy does not attack, and then wait for Cao Cao's waterway army to besiege outside the city, then ten to one or more than ten to one, it will be a big trouble.

After instructing the soldiers to raise more torches and walk around the city to warn the enemy, Huo Jun led his guards to a remote area near the southwest corner of the city wall. This section is not as brightly lit as elsewhere, but completely dark. Huo Jun deliberately only arranged for two or three patrol sergeants to patrol the city with torches at long intervals, but behind the battlements, hundreds of crossbowmen and pikemen had already been quietly ambushed.

Quietly approaching them, Huo Jun asked in a low voice, "Is there any movement outside the city?" ”

The leader of the troop put his ear to the wall: "It seems that something is leaning against the wall." ”

As I expected! Huo Jun had already calculated all this, this area outside the city was often waterlogged because of the low-lying terrain, the ground was muddy and overgrown with weeds, and the original defenders in the city also relaxed their vigilance because it was not suitable for marching here, but when he patrolled here a few days ago, he found that the loopholes here were likely to be exploited by the enemy, and decided to plan it, deliberately pretending not to care about it, so that Cao Jun felt that there was an opportunity.

Cao Jun, who was the first to climb up, straddled the city stomping, and it was dark and unclear, only to see the guards with torches walking farther and farther, and the surroundings were silent, so he whispered to the others behind him: "Hurry up and follow." After saying that, he jumped down from the city stomping.

"Ouch!" Shi Chang didn't expect that he couldn't stand at all when he jumped down, and only felt that his feet slipped, "Bang! He sat on the ground with a bang, and suddenly his buttocks seemed to be split into eight petals, and he couldn't help but scream, and suddenly realized his situation, and quickly reached out to cover his mouth.

Cao Jun, who had not had time to climb the battlements after him, hurriedly took two steps back when he heard the sound, could it be that there were ambushes here?

Shi Chang, who had fallen, waited for the pain to subside, and found that no defenders were approaching, so he reached out and touched the ground everywhere, and found that the ground was covered with a layer of small round and hard particles.

What the hell is this? He reached out and pinched two grains, and he couldn't see clearly in the dark night, so he leaned in front of his nose and sniffed, "Who sprinkled soybeans here!" ”

Cao Bing, who was still lying outside the city wall, vaguely heard his soft scolding, let go of his courage and stretched out his head to ask, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Cao Jun slowly got up and cautiously stomped close to the wall: "Be careful, someone has sprinkled soybeans on the road of this city wall." ”

Cao Bing in the back was surprised when he heard this: "How can there be soybeans, did they have long expected that we would come here?" ”

Shi Chang looked around again, and the darkness only found that there were defenders surrounding, and he pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but he didn't hear any movement, and beckoned to the people behind: "Come up quickly, as long as we can control this section of the wall, the army behind can rush in." ”

There were already dozens of people one after another, and after being reminded by the team, everyone carefully climbed the wall and stomped down slowly, and then kept stretching out their feet to push the soybeans under their feet.

The team leader looked at the large areas of lights in the direction of the north gate and the east gate, it seemed that those two places had been attacked, and turned back to beckon everyone to move closer to him: "Everyone is following in the dark, follow me in the direction of the city gate!" Then he reached out and groped his way forward—it was too dark, and there were no stars or moon.

As he was walking, suddenly a black figure more than two people tall stood up from the road, and then an extremely resentful voice sounded: "Yet-I-life-come!" ”

"Phew!" With a bang, a fire lit up and then extinguished again, but at this moment, Cao Jun had already seen what kind of face that terrifying guy who was more than two people tall had - his head was scattered, his face was pale, blood was dripping from the two empty eye holes, and a long scarlet tongue stretched out of his black lips that reached straight to his chest.

"Ahh Holy! All Cao Bing were frightened by this sudden shock, and turned around and ran, but the ground was full of soybeans, and they couldn't stand on their feet when they walked slowly, where could they run? Suddenly, they all fell to the ground.

The defenders, who had been lying in ambush on their stomachs by the city wall, quickly stood up, wearing special shoes with many strips of cloth sewn into the soles of their shoes, and they ran without making a sound, and they did not worry about slipping when they stepped on the soybeans.

The defenders who ran over were all pikemen, walking silently one by one, and they were all assassinated in a muffled voice when they killed the enemy, stabbing the ground with spears, and all the Cao soldiers had not recovered from the intimidation of the hanged ghosts.

Cao Bing, who had just climbed to the top of the city, saw countless figures hugging in the dark, and there were continuous screams in his ears, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated: "There is an ambush in the city!" ”

After a period of silence, the general of the Cao army, who was still observing the movement at the base of the city wall, suspected that he might have seen a ghost just now, and called the retreating Pancheng sergeant over.

"Is there an ambush?" He only heard a "ghost" from above, followed by a few screams, and then he got a report of an ambush, but now looking at the city, there was a dead silence, and not a single shadow of the defenders was seen.

"There really is an ambush."

"Didn't you say that there are ghosts, where do you see the shadow of the defenders on it?"

The soldiers who retreated were also stunned, and he couldn't see how those who climbed up first died, could it really be that the ghost killed those people?

A defender came to inspect with torches, and Cao Jun hurriedly held his breath.

There was nothing unusual about the defenders of the city, and they walked calmly without a moment's pause, as if nothing had happened in the city.

What the hell is this! Cao Jiang rubbed his eyes, dozens of me climbed up and died there, couldn't they even see the corpse?

Or was it really an ambush in the city, and they deliberately pretended to show me that? Do you want to attack, or do you just go back and report that the city is prepared?

Although there were dozens of people missing, those people did not see their bodies, and everyone else was fine, so he went back and reported to General Zhang Liao that he was ambushed by the defenders, or that there were ghosts in the city, could he believe it?

Change a group of people and go again! He also felt unwilling.