The fierce battle unfolded in the urn city of Xuanwu Gate, Gan Ning and Gao Shun were all first-class fierce men, one was a Jinfan thief who killed people without blinking an eye in the past, and the other was a general who was born in the army and fought out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain with a knife and a shot.

Cao Cao had no generals under him, Jiang Qi and Yin Kai were not the opponents of Gan Ning and Gao Shun at all, and they reluctantly fought with Gan Ning, Gao Shun and others, but were killed by Gan Ning and Gao Shun.

As the saying goes, it will be the courage of the soldiers!

Jiang Qi and Yin Kai were beheaded, and their subordinate soldiers did not dare to move forward, facing the fierce soldiers led by Gan Ning and Gao Shun, they couldn't resist at all, and in a moment, everyone immediately dispersed.

"Kill!"

Gan Ning and Gao Shun took the lead, and when they saw that the enemy army was beginning to rout, they were full of energy, beckoned the soldiers behind them, killed them together, and chased and fought fiercely behind the defeated Cao army.

Cao Cao rode the shadow and stood in the doorway of the Xuanwu Gate, and when he saw the change in the battle ahead, he frowned tightly.

The enemy army is too strong, at present, Cao Cao's subordinates have no generals who are accustomed to fighting, most of the soldiers led by them are the Jizhou army that surrendered, Jiang Qi and Yin Kai died, the Jizhou army immediately collapsed, and the thunderbolts brought by Cao Cao have also been used up, plus Cao Cao's soldiers are few, and they hurried back from Youzhou after a long journey, and the soldiers will inevitably be a little unbearable. If you continue to fight, I am afraid that the enemy will fight back.

However, Cao Cao's goal has been achieved, since Yecheng cannot be captured in a hurry, then retreat and retreat to Handan!

Cao Cao didn't hesitate. Immediately announced a retreat. The rear army became the front army. They withdrew from the Xuanwu Gate one after another.

In an instant, Cao's army withdrew from the Xuanwu Gate, crossed the suspension bridge, and sailed into the darkness.

Cao Cao suddenly withdrew his troops, Gan Ning and Gao Shun led the army to chase after him, Zhang Yan saw this, was a little suspicious, and hurriedly sent people to the front to chase Gan Ning and Gao Shun. Let them not lead their army in pursuit.

It's a pity that Gan Ning and Gao Shun have already killed the red-eyed, and when they saw Cao Cao retreating, they chased more and more fiercely, biting Cao Jun's tail tightly, and never let go.

Cao Cao led his army to retreat into the darkness outside the moat, and when he saw that Gan Ning and Gao Shun had been biting him, he immediately commanded the soldiers to line up, let the archers scatter on both wings, and fired arrows at Gan Ning, Gao Shun and others.

The archers hesitated. Because the Jizhou army was also involved, they were worried that they would accidentally injure their own people.

Cao Cao gave the order. But the archer did not release the arrows, which made him very annoyed, and shouted: "Hurry up and release the arrows!" ”

Han Fan said: "Lord, our own people are also inside, in case ......"

"There is no case, all emotions must be cut off, the enemy has already bitten them, and even if we don't kill them, they will be killed by the enemy. If we keep hesitating like this, we don't want to escape! Quickly order the archers to release their arrows! Cao Cao said very sternly.

Han Fan frowned, seeing that the hundreds of Jizhou troops in front of him were tightly bitten by the enemy, he thought for a moment, and felt that what Cao Cao said was very reasonable, so he immediately made a decision and ordered: "Release the arrow!" ”

The archers were still a little hesitant, because many of them were brothers who had been with them day and night, and letting them fire their arrows at this time would most likely kill them.

"Have you not heard my commands? Hurry up and release the arrows! Who dares not to obey, military law is engaged! Han Fan said loudly.

"Whoosh!"

I don't know who shot the first arrow first, and then the archers all shot the arrows out in pain, and shot mercilessly towards the drawbridge where they were fighting with Gan Ning, Gao Shun and others.

Arrows rained down, shot rapidly from the darkness, located on the side of the suspension bridge, the two armies that were fighting, one after another, screamed again and again, many people fell directly into the moat, even Gan Ning and Gao Shun were shot by arrows, and each was hit by two arrows, fortunately, the shot was not critical, for these two fierce people who came out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, it was undoubtedly just some skin injuries.

A cluster of arrows fell, and another cluster of arrows came, and it was impossible to tell how many there were in the dark, so Gan Ning and Gao Shun immediately ordered the army to retreat.

After waiting for a while, Cao's arrows did not come again, but they also lost the opportunity to pursue Cao's army, and Cao Cao led the army and drove in the direction of Handan.

The battle at Xuanwu Gate came to an end for the time being, and the battles at Suzaku Gate, Qinglong Gate, and White Tiger Gate ended almost at the same time.

All the enemy troops who entered the city through the gates were annihilated in the city, and not a single one fled.

The battle situation at each city gate was quickly fed back to Zhang Yan, who was not very satisfied with this operation, and he also underestimated Cao Cao's ability, and the most troublesome thing for him was, how did Cao Cao master the technology of thunderbolts?

Just when Zhang Yan was at a loss, a bloodied person squeezed out of the crowd, and when he saw Zhang Yan, he said weakly: "Regent...... Regent ......"

Zhang Yan fixed his eyes and saw that this blood-drenched person was not one of his subordinates, and it was also a brocade guard who was specially responsible for guarding the cell, he immediately stepped forward to support this brocade guard, and immediately asked, "Is there something going on in the cell?" ”

The brocade guard nodded and said slowly, "Regent...... The cell was attacked by enemy troops, and Cao Hong and Xun Yu were rescued......"

After Zhang Yan heard the news, he contacted the siege battle launched by Cao Cao, and immediately felt a feeling of being deceived, it turned out that Cao Cao was just using the siege as bait, but in fact he secretly sent people to rob the cell, the real purpose was not Yecheng, but to rescue Cao Hong and Xun Yu!

It was only then that Zhang Yan discovered Cao Cao's true purpose, which inevitably seemed a little too late, even if he sent people to pursue, how could he catch up with the enemy in such a dark night when he couldn't see his fingers?

So, Zhang Yan ordered to count the losses and clean up the battlefield.

In peacetime, the losses of this night's battle were counted, killing more than 5,000 enemy soldiers and capturing more than 300 people, but Zhang Yan lost more than 1,000 people at the beginning of the war because Cao Cao used weapons like thunderbolts, and the whole battle ended. Zhang Yan's army lost more than 2,300 casualties. Five or six hundred soldiers were wounded.

As for how Cao Cao possessed the weapon of the thunderbolt. Zhang Yan was very curious, so he asked the prisoners to be interrogated.

After some careful interrogation, Zhang Yan finally learned the origin of the thunderbolt, which turned out to be one that Cao Hong accidentally obtained when Zhang Yan attacked Yecheng a few days ago, and Xun Yu handed over the thunderbolt to Wang Lun, the head of the Ordnance Division, and asked him to study the thunderbolt.

This Wang Lun is also a talent, and he really imitated the thunderbolt. And it was configured to create more than 400 thunderbolts, the power of which was almost equal to that of thunderbolts.

After Zhang Yan learned the origin of Cao Jun's thunderbolt fire, he fell into deep contemplation, and made this weapon by himself just to keep his army advanced. Now that this weapon has been leaked out, it means that the enemy also has the same weapon, and will use this weapon against himself, and it will be difficult to fight in the future.

Furthermore. Zhang Yan also learned from the surrender of the troops that Cao Cao asked Wang Lun to go to Handan. Prepare to step up the production of thunderbolts and thunderbolts in Handan to use against themselves.

As a result, Zhang Yan couldn't sit still anymore, he had to take Handan as soon as possible, catch Wang Lun, and never let this scourge exist in the world, this kind of weapon can only be owned by himself.

At three o'clock, Zhang Yan gathered the army and asked Zhao Yun to stay and garrison Yecheng, while he rushed to Handan with the rest of his troops, and planned to completely eliminate Cao Cao in Handan.

The army was ready to go, and when Zhang Yan was leaving, he deliberately called Zhao Yun to his side and instructed: "Zilong, Yecheng will be handed over to you, after I leave, everything in Yecheng will be fully responsible for you." ”

Zhao Yun hugged his fists and said: "Please rest assured that Zilong will definitely live up to the expectations of the regent." ”

The reason why Zhang Yan left Zhao Yun to garrison Yecheng was because Zhao Yun had led the army to Yecheng twice, which made the people in Yecheng panic.

It can be said that the people in Yecheng are more afraid of Zhao Yun than they are afraid of Zhang Yan, and Zhao Yun is brave and good at fighting, steady, offensive and defensive, and is a useful general.

"Let's go!"

With Zhang Yan's order, the 40,000-strong army marched towards Handan, and the cavalry was scattered in the front, rear, left, and right, guarding the infantry in the middle.

Due to Gan Ning's injury, Zhang Yan asked Xu Chu to be the vanguard of the army, and let Xu Chu lead a thousand light cavalry first, and Lu Meng came to Xu Chu to join the army.

Xu Chu received the order and immediately left the army with a thousand light horsemen and Lu Meng, heading towards Handan.

After a day's rapid travel, Xu Chu soon arrived in Handan, and came to Handan City with Lu Meng to inspect the city, and saw that although Handan City is not as big as Yecheng, it is also a strong city.

Handan City was the capital of Zhao during the Warring States Period, after Qin unified the six countries, Handan was also a large metropolis in the country, after Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he adopted the feudal system, and rewarded relatives as kings and marquises.

Zhao has always been the feudal state of the Han Dynasty, and Handan is the capital of its feudal state, after the successive generations of Zhao kings, Handan's city is becoming stronger and stronger, at the time of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Handan because the city is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it was not captured.

Xu Chu inspected Handan City, and said to Lu Meng: "This time the regent asked me to be the vanguard, I must give Cao Jun a dismount, but Handan City is too strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, I have few soldiers, and I don't have thunderbolts, I don't know if you have any way for me to show off my might in front of Cao's army?" ”

Lu Meng thought for a while, and said: "The general is among the five tiger generals, and the force is outstanding, I heard that Cao Cao has a fierce general under his account, called Dian Wei, the general might as well go to the city to fight, single Dian Wei, as long as the general can behead Dian Wei, he can give Cao Jun a dismount." ”

Xu Chu had fought with Dian Wei before, but he had never had fun, and when he heard Lu Meng say this this time, he said without hesitation: "Okay, just do it!" Let's go, go to the city of Handan to fight! ”

Lu Meng said in surprise: "Now? ”

"What? Are you scared? ”

"The last general is not afraid, it's just that I have just arrived here, and the soldiers are tired, so it is better to rest for the night, and tomorrow morning, it is not too late to go to the city to fight."

Xu Chu felt that what Lu Meng said made sense, so he said: "Okay, then rest for the time being, recuperate, and go to the city early tomorrow morning to fight!" (To be continued......)