After Cao Bing shot a few of Wei Yan's personal soldiers here, across the moat, he vaguely saw Wei Yan leading the rest of the men and horses to escape, and gradually disappeared into the thick fog.

Cao Bing didn't chase after him, just stood in place and cheered in unison, and then listened to the gong behind him, so he hurriedly retreated to the root of the city wall, turned to the north gate, and waited for Cao Bing in the city to open the city gate, and slowly retreated to the city.

Besides, Wei Yan was immediately in the camp, and while observing the situation on the battlefield, he instructed the adjutant general around him: "But after the fog dissipates, Ma Yuan led 6,000 men and horses to fill the moat, and Liu Changyun led a thousand crossbowmen to rush over, well, just rush wherever you want," Wei Yan pointed to the city wall on the right side of the north city gate and said, "After rushing over, line up and shoot at Cao Bing on the city wall, covering Zhang Hua to place gunpowder in the past." But when the gunpowder exploded and the walls were torn down, all the men and horses went into the city. ”

Ma Yuan and Liu Changyun were ordered to prepare.

Wei Yan ordered the deputy general Zhang Hua again: "You take 2,000 soldiers to watch from behind, but when the moat is filled in, and Liu Changyun leads the troops over to shoot at the Cao soldiers in the city, you will lead 2,000 soldiers, each with two barrels of gunpowder, to rush to the city wall on the right side of the north city gate to follow, pile up the gunpowder, pick up the fuse and light it, and then command all the soldiers to retreat to the north of the moat, but wait for the gunpowder to explode, blow the wall open the gap, and then lead the troops to kill through the gap with the generals." After entering, don't entangle with Cao Bing, kill directly to the Fancheng Yamen, burn the Yamen, and then join forces to find Cao Bing to fight. No one is allowed to stop, and they will continue to kill Cao Bing out of Fancheng and completely occupy Fancheng. ”

Zhang Hua was ordered to organize his own people.

Wei Yan made proper arrangements, and he took a dozen of his own soldiers out to stand on a high place to observe the situation, and when the fog dissipated, he attacked.

The dense fog dissipated very slowly, until it was almost noon, it still did not dissipate, but at this time, the sun had already vaguely revealed its face, when Wei Yan looked carefully, he saw that the figure of Cao Bing on the top of the city wall was already faintly visible, and the low woods under the city gradually became clear, Wei Yan saw that when the time came, he immediately drew his sword in his hand, and waved his order forward: "The siege begins!" ”

The Jingzhou soldiers here had already held back their strength, and when they heard the order, they picked up their weapons and took action. The first group of 6,000 men, under the leadership of the deputy general Ma Yuan, each carried a bag of straw bags that were busy with dirt and swarmed up, rushed to the moat, and saw the straw bags thrown into the moat.

Although the water of the moat flowed, the river was not deep, and it did not have the strength to wash away the bales, so after filling in the 6,000 bales, a dam was basically formed.

By the time the Jingzhou soldiers returned and carried the remaining bales and threw them down, a wide embankment had already been built.

Seeing that the time had come, Liu Changyun drew his sword in his hand and ordered: "Rush!" With that, he held a straw bag over his head in one hand and rushed forward with a sword in the other.

The 1,000 crossbowmen behind each of them carried a straw bale filled with some dirt as cover, and rushed through the embankment on the moat like a whirlwind with bows and crossbows and arrowheads, and rushed forward with Liu Chang to the city wall of Fancheng.

At this time, the Cao soldiers on the top of the city wall saw that the Jingzhou soldiers were throwing straw bales into the moat, and immediately understood their intentions.

When Cao Ren was anxious, he suddenly saw a group of Jingzhou soldiers, each with a straw bag on their heads, rushing towards the city wall, and scolded in his mouth: "Your mother, do you still want to come over and fill the city wall with this little thing?" ”

Cao Ren scolded here, and seeing that these thousands of Jingzhou soldiers were about to come to the city, he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows.

But it was because the Jingzhou soldiers were carrying a straw bag of soil on top of their heads, and the arrows could not hurt them at all.

At this moment, Cao Ren suddenly saw these Jingzhou soldiers with straw bales on their heads, suddenly threw the straw bales on their heads on the ground, then took off the bow and crossbow on their bodies, bent their bows and arrows, aimed upward, and even put arrows towards the top of the city wall.

These thousand Jingzhou soldiers are all well-trained marksmen, only to see a bent bow but not immediately shoot arrows, but when the Cao soldiers on the top of the city wall show their heads, the arrows will immediately fly up the wall, but they are accurate in shooting, as long as it is the outcropping Cao soldiers, there is no one who does not hit the arrow.

In this way, a thousand Jingzhou marksmen actually forced the Cao soldiers behind the arrow battlements on the top of the city wall to dare not show their heads.

At this time, I could only hear a shout from the moat, Cao Ren hurriedly turned around to look at the city gate tower, only to see that just after the shout, two or three thousand Jingzhou soldiers, each holding two bamboo tubes in their hands, ran towards the city wall.

In less than a meal, thousands of bamboo tubes were stacked neatly.

Cao Ren was dumbfounded at this time, and he didn't know what it meant by these Jingzhou soldiers putting bamboo tubes under the city wall.

Cao Ren turned his head and looked at several lieutenant generals with inquiring eyes, and the lieutenants did not know the motives of the Jingzhou soldiers in their panic.

Seeing this, Cao Ren didn't think much about it, so he ordered the Cao soldiers who rushed over to shoot arrows at the Jingzhou soldiers under the city.

But because they are too far apart, the arrows shot here can't hurt the Jingzhou soldiers who put the bamboo tubes below.

Cao Ren hurriedly ordered the soldiers to throw the cannon stones and sassalwood down, but at this time, the Jingzhou soldiers had already finished stacking the bamboo tubes and retreated to the distance.

When he had crossed the moat, he picked up the sword, spear, sword, and halberd in his hand, and stood there looking down at the city wall.

In front of the bamboo stacks on this side of the city wall, three soldiers were using the sandalwood in their hands to light the rope of the day, and there was still a trace of green smoke on the sandalwood head.

Cao Ren didn't know what they were doing, so he waved the sword in his hand and shouted, "Throw the wood down and kill them." ”

When dozens of Cao soldiers on the city wall heard the order, they risked being shot, lifted a few pieces of wood and smashed them down the city.

Besides, the Jingzhou soldiers who lit the fire under the city wall were too nervous to light the fuse, but more than a dozen sassals fell from their heads.

The crossbowmen who were covering the archery shouted badly, and when the three soldiers who lit the fire hurriedly looked up, several pieces of wood had already rolled down. They dodged for a while, but they were smashed down next to the bamboo tube, and they didn't know whether they were dead or alive.

Wei Yan, who was standing on a horse on the other side of the moat, saw it and hurriedly ordered the ignition reserve to rush over and light the fire again.

The three Jingzhou soldiers with sandalwood fire heads had just rushed through the embankment on the moat, but they heard a gust of wind and it was raining heavily.

The two warring sides were only concerned with fighting, and they did not care to observe the celestial phenomena, and they could not imagine that in the middle of winter, suddenly the torrential rain poured down, and everyone could not open their eyes.

This rain did not have much effect on other soldiers, and the biggest impact was the three Jingzhou soldiers who rushed across the moat and lit the fuse - the sandalwood fire in their hands was extinguished by the rain, can this work still be done? There was no place to fetch tinder, so I had no choice but to withdraw and wait for orders.

At this time, Wei Yan braved the heavy rain to see everything clearly, knowing that today's things could not be done, and hurriedly waved his sword and ordered: "Withdraw the troops!" ”

The starting soldier struck the gong in his hand violently, and the sound of the gong reached the ears of every soldier through the sound of wind and rain, so the 10,000 Jingzhou soldiers braved the rain to spread their children and swarmed to retreat to the camp by the water river.

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