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Han Lie led the Red Flame Army of 23,000 men and horses to arrive at the foot of Dongwu City, the seat of Langya State Administration. Although the Red Flame Army has experienced many baptisms of war and has suffered many attritions, after each war attrition, Han Lie will select strong and outstanding children from the armed forces of various counties and counties to replenish them, which is also the reason why the Red Flame Army can always be fully staffed.

The original 21,000 people increased to 23,000 because of the addition of 2,000 horsemen from the cavalry battalion. With Han Lie's current strength, it should not be a big problem to maintain the Red Flame Army at 50,000, but Han Lie has always adhered to one principle, that is, there are not many noble soldiers, 23,000 men and horses, as long as they are well-trained and well-equipped, it should be no problem to resist the 100,000 army.

And at the moment, around his forces, there is no one with an elite army of 100,000, Yuan Shu is now known as an army of 100,000, but what can really be called an elite will definitely not exceed 30,000, so Yuan Shu is not a threat to Han Lie at all.

Han Lie's Red Flame Army has several firsts in the world, the first in military merit awards, the first in rewards, the first in weapons and equipment, and the first in training mode. With heavy rewards and strict training and military discipline constraints, as well as sophisticated equipment and armament, if such an army still has no combat effectiveness, then it can only be incompetent commander.

The Red Flame Army of 23,000 men and horses, each equipped with a set of boxing gloves black light armor, the hood on the head, after Han Lie's proposal, was modified into a hat suit, but it was slightly smaller than the hat, and the round edge was made of fine iron sheets and leather, which could not only block the sun, but also block the rain, and also had a certain defense against arrows, and the head position was pure fine iron, although such a helmet was half a catty heavier than the hood, but it did not affect physical strength too much.

The soldiers are also taught to wear uniform leather shoes, which have a good role in protecting the footsteps, and can also burst out with a neat pace when fighting.

The weapons in the hands of the soldiers are mainly weapons made of 100 steel, mainly ring head knives, spears, spears, and horse chopping knives, unified black light armor, neat queues, and weapons made of light and sharp 100 steel, which have created a shocking momentum for the Red Flame Army, and have also greatly improved their combat effectiveness.

Xiao Jian did not go out of the city to greet Han Lie, but sent his subordinate official Shi He Rong out of the city ten miles to greet him, the two sides met for a little greeting, the army continued to move forward, when they arrived outside the city, He Rong was embarrassed and said: "Dongwu City is small, so that the army of the king enters the city, one is difficult to settle, and the other is afraid of disturbing the people, hindering the name of Jun Rende, can there be a labor envoy Jun to arrange the army to camp outside the city, as for the military supplies, my lord has already prepared, and he definitely does not dare to slack off." ”

"It's okay, Xiao Guoxiang is really thoughtful, so let's do it." Han Lie nodded disappreciatively, and immediately said to Guo Jia, who was with the army: "Fengxiao, you led the foot soldiers to camp outside the city, and Ziyi led the cavalry battalion to follow me into the city." ”

"Whoa." Guo Jia and Taishi compassionately comprehended the answer.

Then Han Lie led Tai Shici's cavalry battalion into the city with an unsuspecting posture, and at this time, the four generals Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Zhu Huan, and Zhou Tai, who were mixed in the cavalry ranks, also entered Dongwu City.

The reason why Han Lie dared to enter the city in such a big way was naturally that he had already received Diao Chan's eagle letter, and the hundred soldiers of the trapped camp led by Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun had already lurked near the gate of the East City. The team of the three of them infiltrated the city before Han Lie sent someone to reply to Xiao Jian's meeting letter, so the strict investigation sent by Xiao Jian later did not play any role at all.

At present, there are not only three hundred teams of Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun in the city, but also a secret agent assassination team in the hands of Diao Chan, a team of about fifty people, and now they are also ambushed and lurked in Xiao Jian's Prime Minister's Mansion.

The secret agent hid his identity by opening the identity of the dancing girl in the dancing girl workshop, and the identity of the assassin was even more secretive, there were Taoist aunts, beggars, and even two people who had taken advantage of the relationship between Xiao Jian's wife and concubine to infiltrate Xiao Jian's mansion and become the slave of one of Xiao Jian's concubines.

However, in the team of fifty people in Diao Chan's hands, forty-one people were women, and only nine of the outer spies were men. The reason why the layout can be so in-depth is not only that Diao Chan and her subordinates can do it with their lives, but that it took up to half a year.

Often a secret agent wants to take root in a place and spy on a favorable piece of information, sometimes skills and abilities are often not the most important, the most important thing is the ordinary heart that can endure loneliness. The so-called loneliness is that it is very likely that he will lurk somewhere, stay for years without achieving anything, and have to blend into the surrounding environment like an ordinary person, until the opportunity arises and he can obtain favorable information.

For this reason, when Han Lie explained to Diao Chan and Zhang Yao about the arrangement of hidden agents, the first thing was to ask them to find some hard-working and honest people, this kind of people are most suitable for long-term lurking. Because they are industrious and survive in one place, they will not be out of place, because they are honest, it is easier to integrate into the circle around life and gain the trust of the people around them.

Xiao Jian's residence is in Dongcheng District, from the Dongcheng City Gate through the wide street, and then through a three-mile-long laneway, is the front gate compound of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Sixteen horses walking side by side on the wide street, both sides are full of shops and pedestrians, indicating that there can be no ambush in such a place, Han Lie, who was riding on horseback, was very relieved to lead the team to continue to march, about a stick of incense time, in front of the laneway, this laneway can only walk side by side with four horses, on both sides is the courtyard wall of the high, outside the courtyard wall can not see the movement in the courtyard wall at all.

Before Han Lie entered the city, he received an eagle letter from Diao Chan, informing him that the soldiers and horses in the city were all ambushed on both sides of the alley to the Prime Minister's Mansion, so that he must pay attention.

"Phew." When he was only twenty steps away from the alley, Han Lie suddenly drank his war horse, turned his head sideways and said to He Rong, who was driving together: "He Changshi, why are there so many archers ambushed on both sides of this alley?" ”

"Ah, you, how are you ......" He Rong opened his mouth in shock, only to realize that he had lost his words.

"Dare thief, die." Tai Shici snorted coldly on the side, holding a spear and directly stabbing He Rong to death on the horse.

"Prepare bows and arrows in front, and defend in formation." Han Lie immediately raised his sword and loudly conveyed the battle order, and the front and opposite cavalry on horseback bent their bows and arrows one after another, and at the same time, the left and right horsemen lit the fire oil on the arrows.

"Whoosh!"

The front team of 500 rockets formed a dense rain of rockets and fell into the tall courtyard wall in front.

"Poof, poof!"

The rockets that were shot down landed on the enemy archers, walls, ladders, and roof beams hiding within the courtyard walls, and there was a loud noise, followed by a terrible howl, and smoke from the spread of the flames.

"Damn, it's been discovered." The two generals who commanded the ambush were Le Jin and Cao Ren. At this moment, on an attic above the ambush circle, Le Jin had a premonition that something was wrong when he saw that Han Lie's cavalry had not entered the alley and suddenly stopped. ”

Although Le Jin is short, but this person is a lifeless master, leading the army to fight, he often rushes to the front, the more brave the enemy, the more he can inspire him to be desperate and ruthless.

Seeing that Le Jin led the army to rush out, Cao Ren gritted his teeth and cursed secretly, followed by the leading army.

The battle in front of the alleyway immediately attracted the attention of Xiahou Yuan at the head of the city, standing on the top of the city, he was naturally looking at the battle on the streets of the city, but when he saw that the battle situation was not going on his side, he couldn't help frowning and scolding, and then said: "Zike, you lead your troops to guard the city gate, and I will lead my troops to attack Han Lie, and we must not let him have the opportunity to counterattack the city, otherwise we will rest." ”

Lu Qianzi Ke is Xiahou Yuan's deputy general, and he is also an old subordinate under Cao Cao's account, and he is also loyal to Cao Cao.

"Take care, General." Lu Qian nodded solemnly, he suddenly had a strong premonition, this time it was very likely to be a parting of life and death.

Xiahou Yuan, the head of Dongcheng City, originally had 3,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, which would take him away 1,005 people, leaving half for Lu Qian to guard the city. The reason why Xiahou Yuan took half of the men and horses was also because he believed that with Lu Qian's command ability and the strong and towering Dongwu city wall, even if no one was left at the head of the city, it would take at least half an hour for Han Lie's soldiers and horses outside the city to climb to the top of the city.

And he believed that with his soldiers and horses, as well as the three thousand men and horses in the hands of Cao Renle in the city, there were more than seven thousand people, and the two thousand cavalry in Han Lie's hands would definitely not be able to support it for long on this street that was unobstructed and not conducive to giving full play to the advantage of cavalry impact.

Xiahou Yuan's self-confidence was because he only saw the battle situation in front of him, but did not see through the situation on the entire battlefield.

At this time, on a tall building one step away from the battlefield, Cao Cao, who was originally quite calm, suddenly dilated the pupils of his eyes, and before he could speak, the strategist Cheng Yu beside him had already changed color and said: "It's not good, Han Lie has already prepared, I'm afraid that the city is already in danger at this moment, please order the retreat immediately." ”

When Xiao Jian heard this, he hesitated: "Han Lie only has two thousand men and horses entering the city, and now that General Xiahou and they have attacked, how can we be defeated?" ”

"Lord Xiao, Han Lie is planning this way, which shows that he must have a follow-up move, otherwise how would he know that we had an ambush in the alley, and he would have taken us by surprise first?" Cheng Yu replied to him coldly, and said to Cao Cao again: "Please give the order of the lord and retreat immediately." ”

"I'm afraid it's too late." Cao Cao's expression had regained his composure after the initial shock, because he knew very well that today was already a dead end, since Han Lie had already prepared, then he must have known that he was in Dongwu City, then he would also inevitably arrange a follow-up to annihilate him.

Because Cao Cao understands very well that often the one who knows you best is not your confidant and friend, but your enemy, he regards Cao Cao as his biggest enemy, and now that he thinks about it, Han Lie regards him as his biggest enemy. I think that when he first met in the Sour Jujube Alliance, he felt a trace of hostility towards him when they first met, and later due to the reason of fighting side by side, they eliminated some hostility towards each other, but now that they think about it, it is not to eliminate it, but to hide that hostility in their hearts.

Now that Cao Cao wants to come, is it really because of revenge and annexation of Xuzhou that he insisted on attacking Xuzhou? The answer is obviously not all, and one of the deeper reasons is that he learned that Han Lie not only had Guangling as a place to settle down, but also extended his tentacles to Yangzhou, and annexed the two counties of Wu County and Danyang in just a few months.

Han Lie's rise made Cao Cao feel threatened in his heart, which was a subconscious intuition, because he clearly knew that the seemingly flamboyant and brave young man actually gave him a feeling that he couldn't figure out at all.

Han Lie is not like Yuan Shu, he is very profitable, but he is just a strong introvert, and he is not like Yuan Shao, who is indecisive and has a false reputation, he can see through their minds at a glance, although for the time being, their momentum is greater than his own, but Cao Cao believes that in time, these people will just become his own defeated generals.

Han Lie was the only one, he could never see through what the other party was thinking, and this feeling made him very uneasy. It is also this deep-seated potential reason that Cao Cao knew that Xuzhou had no chance of winning, and blatantly used troops against Xuzhou, which was a big gamble, he firmly believed that as long as he won, he would sooner or later be able to gallop the whole world and become a heroic figure in all the spotlight.

"Wen Lie, you take a team of men and horses to protect Mr. Zhongde and them to break through, be sure to protect them to return to Yanzhou, and tell Wu'er that before you have absolute strength, you must not rashly become an enemy of Han Lie." By this time, Cao Cao had already understood that he had no way out, so in order to retain a little useful talent for his son, he decided to stay and drag Han Lie's men and create a chance for Cao Xiu to break through.

"My lord." Cao Xiu, as well as Cheng Yu, Dong Zhao, and Liu Ye on the left and right, all said sadly.

"Don't say more, set off immediately." Cao Cao's eyes swept over the crowd with a piercing gaze, and said to Shi Lian, the lieutenant of the Chinese Military Academy: "Gong Liu, you lead a group of soldiers and horses to break through with me and me at the south gate, attract the attention of the Han army, Gong Lie, you go to the north gate." ”

"Whoa." Everyone also knew that Cao Cao had made up his mind, so they had to answer in a deep voice.

As soon as the battle in the city began, Guo Jia raised his tent and said: "Xu Huang, your troops will immediately attack the east city to attract the attention of the defenders at the head of the city, and forbid your troops to go to the west gate and north gate to make a feint to prevent the enemy from breaking through, and Xiahou Lan will lead the right battalion to the south gate to make a feint and prevent any enemy from breaking through." ”

"Whoa." Xu Huang, Yu Ban and Xiahou Lan responded in unison.

"Strategist, I would like to ask for war." Ling Tong shouted eagerly, in the past year, he has followed Guo Jia's side, although he has learned a lot of knowledge, but his belligerent genes have swelled more and more.

"You go with Zilan, pay attention to safety." Guo Jia nodded and agreed to Ling Tong's request. This kid is now a lot taller than before, has grown into a big boy, this year his hard work, can be said to be obvious to all, not only learned the six arts of Confucianism, in equestrian, knife skills have also increased, the level of martial arts has grown to a second-rate level, compared to his father Ling Cao is not bad at all, and he still has room to grow, I believe that in another two or three years, this kid will grow into a first-class general.

"Thank you, master." Ling Tong shouted from the bottom of his heart, and happily followed Xiahou Lan to lead the army straight to the south gate.

The soldiers and horses of the front battalion led by Xu Huang, and the Chinese army led by Guo Jiadu drove directly to Dongcheng, although Xu Huang's department did not have large-scale siege equipment, but the ladders, as well as bows and arrows were well prepared.

Without Xu Huang's order, thousands of archers, under the cover of shield bearers, began to advance towards the city step by step, and dozens of cloud ladders temporarily built in the team also followed closely under the lifting of the sergeant.

Lu Qian at the head of the city saw that the Red Flame Army was starting to attack the city, although he was not too nervous, he still focused all his forces and attention on the head of the city, thus ignoring the vigilance and defense in the rear.

The siege force led by Xu Huang was to attract the attention of the soldiers and horses at the head of the city, and to create an opportunity for a surprise attack for Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun who were lurking in the city.

Lu Qian, who was commanding the battle at the head of the city, heard the shouting and killing sound from behind, Xu Chu's tiger-like figure had already appeared in his sight.

"Die!" This was the last sound that came from the eardrum when Lu Qian lost consciousness.

Xu Chu, who rushed up with an arrow, cut Lu Qian's neck with the Pu knife in his hand like lightning, staggered past him, and slammed his right shoulder, directly knocking Lu Qian's body off the city.

"Bang." The sound of Lu Qian's corpse falling from the head of the city immediately attracted the attention of the defenders of the city.

Just when the sergeant on the city wall was amazed at why the main general had fallen off the city wall, he found that the flag on the city gate tower had also fallen with the wind, followed by an angry roar: "The enemy general is dead, and those who surrender will not die." ”

Zhang Liao and Gao Shun led the troops to follow Xu Chu, and then occupied the control room of the city gate tower in the east city, the control room of the city gate tower is the switch of the city gate and the drawbridge, with the fall of the city head, the drawbridge and the city gate were also activated by the sergeants led by Zhang Liao and Gao Shun.

Xu Chu was on the steps with a horizontal knife, facing the stubborn resistance of the enemy soldiers, and killed them mercilessly.

"Boom!" As the suspended bridge landed on the ground, there was a loud noise.

"Brothers, go into the city!" Seeing that the drawbridge was lowered, Xu Huang, who knew that Xu Chu and they had already succeeded, roared angrily, and rushed straight to the city gate with a gun.

At this moment, on the streets in Dongcheng, when Xiahou Yuan led his team to rush to kill, he was unfortunately attacked by Zhao Yun and Zhou Tai.

Five hundred elite cavalry lined up ten times, Zhao Yun and Zhou Tai were in front of the second general, and the 1,500 sergeants led by Xiahou Yuan were still sixty steps away, they encountered the first round of arrow rain, and when they rushed to thirty steps away, they were again subjected to the second round of arrow rain.

Under the two-wheeled projectile of 500 elite cavalry, the 1,500 people under Xiahou Yuan's department were reduced by at least 300. Seeing that the enemy's shadow had not yet been touched, he suffered heavy casualties, and Xiahou Yuan, who was furious, roared angrily in order to boost the morale of the whole army, and rushed in front of the army with a sword and shouted: "The whole army will follow me to kill, kill Han Lie, reward a thousand gold, and seal the liehou." ”

"Bold thief, dare to insult my lord, damn it, ah!?" When Zhou Tai heard this, he shouted angrily, slapped his horse and killed Xiahou Yuan with a knife.

"All-army assault." Zhao Yun also raised the gentian gun in his hand, shouted, and led five hundred elite horsemen to meet the attack. (To be continued.) )