Chapter Seventy-Six: The Battle at the Head of the City

On the head of Tanxian County, arrows rained down, and everyone was worried that the second son would be hit by a flowing stone, so they hurriedly persuaded Tao Ying to go to the city to hide. Tao Ying nodded, didn't care about Liu Bei, and ran to the city alone. Seeing that the second son had run away, Liu Bei sighed, thinking that the second son would take the lead, but he didn't expect the second son to be so timid.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, and Tan County fell into a burst of shouts and the sound of weapons colliding. After nearly a stick of incense for a long time of bow and crossbow competition, Liu Bei's military horses in the city were already a little overwhelmed. Ladders were also erected on the city walls, and the soldiers under the city walls began to climb the city.

Guan Yu and the others saw that the Cao thief climbed up, and hurriedly pushed down the ladder with a spear, and there were screams from time to time under the city, but the ladder fell, and it kept standing on the wall, and soon there was a place that Cao Bing climbed up.

The soldiers who climbed up met him with spears, and as soon as he climbed one, he was stabbed down by a spear before he could jump onto the wall, and then someone went to push the ladder down. The soldiers on the ladder fell from the city, falling heavily to the ground and screaming, making the night even more terrifying.

After Tao Ying walked around the city, the shouts of killing in the city became louder and louder, and Tao Ying asked the soldiers to carry cans of grenades-like things to the city wall, and then asked the soldiers to carry boxes of rockets to the city wall.

More and more Yanzhou soldiers climbed onto the city wall, and the bows and crossbows under the city did not dare to shoot upwards, and a battle on the city wall began!

Tao Ying brandished his long sword and stabbed a soldier who had just climbed up to death, then kicked him down again, and then Tao Ying threw two small ceramic jars down the city. The small jar was thrown outside the city and shattered with a thud. Many soldiers were running around the city walls, throwing small grenades-like objects outwards as they went.

When the small jar was lost, the soldier shot a rocket at the bottom of the city, and the rocket flew to the ground, and the small clay pot that was broken on the ground suddenly burst into flames. Soon a fire broke out under the city, and the fire burned on the dead soldiers. Because the fire was too big, Cao Bing did not dare to go forward, and the soldiers on the ladder saw that there was a fire below and hurriedly jumped down, and they all fell and were either killed or injured. Many soldiers outside the city were set on fire, and soldiers on fire were scurrying around.

Tao Ying saw that the outside of the city had become a sea of fire, and asked the soldiers to bring nearly two boxes of fire oil cans, even Zhang Fei, who had never liked Tao Ying, ran over and picked up two cans and threw them outside the city. Soon the soldiers in the distance were also on fire, and Cao Bing was surrounded by a sea of fire and hurriedly jumped into the moat.

The moat was very deep, and many soldiers who could not swim drowned in the moat, and soon Cao Cao's first round of attack failed, and the fire burned the corpse of Cao Bing until almost dawn, and after dawn, the corpse under the city still emitted faint smoke.

After dawn, the soldiers in the city basically fell asleep leaning on the city wall, and even Tao Ying couldn't help but lean against the city wall, sleeping with a big shield on his head.

The summer morning was still a little cool, there were some dewdrops on the city walls, and when the tired soldiers were still asleep, the people of Tanxian County had already carried the cooked hot rice to the city with picks.

Tao Ying took a night's porridge from Yu Ban's hand, and then took a steamed bun, the steamed bun he ate was a white-flour steamed bun, while the other soldiers ate wowotou.

Tao Ying just took a bite, and suddenly found that a twelve or thirteen-year-old child in the corner of the wall was looking at him, the child's face was smeared with ash, he was wearing a big armor, holding a nest head in his hand, and looking at Tao Ying while gnawing.

Tao Ying knew that he was looking at the white-flour steamed bun he was eating, and after thinking about it, Tao Ying reached out and handed him his white-flour steamed bun. The little soldier stretched out his hand a little eagerly to pick it up, but Yu Ban hurriedly ran to persuade him when he saw this: "Lord, there are not many white-flour steamed buns......

Tao Ying stuffed the white-flour steamed bun to the little soldier, patted him on the shoulder, and then walked to the place where the steamed bun was placed on the edge of the city, and picked up a mixed noodle steamed bun and ate it. This mixed noodle steamed bun is a little sweet and silky, and it is very delicious.

"In our time, where is the white flour steamed bun as expensive as the mixed flour steamed bun!"

Tao Ying sighed, stretched out his hand and took another one to eat, but those soldiers guarding the city could only drink a bowl of porridge and eat a mixed noodle steamed bun. Even if you can eat one steamed bun at noon, it is already very good to be able to eat three steamed buns a day, not to mention the war.

But after all, a soldier is better than a common man who can't eat anything. Tan County was defeated several times, and the soldiers suffered heavy losses, so the forty or fifty-year-old people and eleven or twelve-year-old children in the city were mobilized and incorporated into the township warriors who guarded Tan County.

Tao Ying held the porridge and stood on the edge of the city wall while drinking the porridge while looking out. The walls were covered with congealed blood, the air was filled with a pungent smell of blood, and there were charred corpses everywhere outside the city, and the moat was full of corpses, and the entire moat had turned red.

Looking at the scene in front of them, many soldiers who walked to the city wall for the first time couldn't help but vomit everywhere, and their faces were sallow, as if they were seriously ill. However, Tao Ying had already seen a battlefield even more tragic than this, and he was used to it.

It was almost ten o'clock in the morning, and Cao Cao personally led his troops to attack the city. Seeing Cao Cao an arrow away, Tao Ying suddenly pulled out the long sword in his hand. The long sword glowed with a cold light under the gloomy sky, and Tao Ying had Cao Cao's captured generals escorted to the city wall. Soon, the soldiers escorted nearly twenty of Cao Cao's generals to the city wall.

Tao Ying has been waiting for this moment for a long time, in front of Cao Cao, in front of Cao Cao's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, Tao Ying will personally hang them, and let Cao Bing know the fate of attacking Xuzhou!

The soldiers threw the captured Cao generals from the city wall with ropes around their necks, only to hear a click, and the necks of those generals were directly broken.

In this way, more than 20 corpses hung on the city wall. Cao Cao looked at Tao Ying in the city, and Tao Ying sneered. Hanging so many generals at once, Cao Bing outside the city was a little timid for a while, but Cao Cao made people cheer and wanted to attack Tanxian again.

Looking at Cao Cao, who was an arrow away, Zhang Fei next to him suddenly said: "Big brother, I think I can shoot Cao Cao with the bow and arrow invented by Tao Gongzi!" ”

After Zhang Fei finished speaking, Guan Yu also carefully measured the distance with his eyes, it seems that if he uses carefully selected arrows, he really has a chance, anyway, Cao Cao is originally an untrustworthy person, he attacked Xuzhou and slaughtered so many cities, why should he be a gentleman?

Hearing that Zhang Fei could shoot Cao Cao with a bow and arrow, Tao Ying hurriedly asked people to bring up the bow and arrows under the city for Zhang Fei to choose. Tao Ying also talked to Cao Cao in the city to confuse him.

", you kill my people, and today I will kill the general, and all the soldiers who follow Cao. If you go against the heavens, you will be punished by the heavens! ”

Tao Ying shouted outside the city, but Cao Cao outside the city replied with a sneer: "Tao Ying has to bewitch the people, if you have the ability to go out of the city, we will win or lose!" ”

Cao Cao scolded, and Tao Ying also shouted in the city: "Cao Cao, you actually have the face to talk to me, you and I have a covenant with Yishui, you broke the contract first, and now you are slaughtering the people, the world does not believe in it like you Cao Mengde!" ”

The ancients all talked about integrity, but Cao Cao sneered: "I came to fight Xuzhou is honest, I promised my father under Jiuquan that he should take Tao Qian's dog head to worship him, how can I be untrustworthy?" ”