Liu Bei was speechless, he had great ambitions since he was a child, and he wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the world to make a career, can this matter be hidden from others, how can he hide it from Ma Chao, who has a prophet? Speaking of which, Liu Bei is indeed a rare talent, born in poverty, and without any political capital, just relying on the identity of a Han clan to deceive and buy people's hearts, in the end, he was able to divide the world and achieve the hegemony of Shu Han, which makes people unconvinced.

At the end of the day, in addition to Liu Bei's own talent, Guan and Zhang are also an indispensable part of Liu Bei's success. Throughout history, the Three Kingdoms turmoil has been in turmoil for nearly a hundred years, and the population of China has grown from more than 50 million to only a few million, and the culprit is ambitious people like Liu Bei, of course, Cao Ying and Sun Quan are also included. It is only to blame that there were no heroes such as the First Emperor and Gaozu at that time, who could eliminate the princes and dominate the world in a short period of time.

Ma Chao didn't give Liu Bei a chance to refute, and scolded: "Big-eared thief, it is precisely because of a moth-like ambition like you that the people in the world are in misery!" Guan Zhang and Zhang are both rare peerless generals, if they are put into the service of this general, why can't they make contributions? In the future, it will go down in history, and it is possible for the land to be crowned king! But you are so ambitious, you refuse to be subservient to others, and vainly try to divide the world of the Han family, which can be described as harming others and yourself! For the sake of all the people in the world, I will never allow these ambitious people to occupy the place and fight all year round! Now that you are at the end of your rope, what else can you say? ”

Liu Bei scolded loudly: "The little thief has to talk nonsense! You claim to be a loyal minister of the Han family, but secretly you play with power, oppress the young monarch, rob the mother of the country, and kill innocents indiscriminately, how is it different from the original Dong thief? Now that the Kwantung princes have united, let's see how arrogant you can be! ”

Ma Chao's face was full of disdain, and he said loudly: "What this will do, it will be commented on by future generations, and it will not be for you Liu Bei to speak falsely!" Ben is about to order the siege of the city, and he will never show mercy to his subordinates, I hope you will do it yourself! As for Zhang Fei's body, the general has ordered someone to be buried in the collection, but it's a pity that a fierce general mistakenly defected to his master. After that, he ignored Liu Bei anymore, and shouted loudly: "The thief army on the city wall and listen well, you and others follow Liu Bei only a dead end, this will lead the army to destroy Liu Bei's providence, enlighten the hearts of the people, only punish Liu Bei and Guan Yu and other first evils, those who take the initiative to surrender can get land and tools to become civilians, and those who help the abuser are killed, and will not be tolerated!" ”

The city was in an uproar, Liu Bei had only been recruiting the Yellow Turban Thieves for a few months, and the loyalty of the soldiers was very insufficient.

Liu Bei was furious and shouted: "The little thief Hugh wants to confuse the public, and Yuan Shao's army will rush to Xuzhou immediately." At that time, there will be a million troops in battle, and it will be easy to exterminate your remaining party! ”

Ma Chao smiled slightly, turned around and shouted: "The stone artillery battalion is ready, capture Xiaopei, and reward for meritorious deeds!" Reward the whole army! ”

The army cheered, and they all geared up to attack the city at the first order.

At this moment, the Xiangyang cannon was already ready, and more than 20,000 soldiers worked together, people moved horses and packs, and it didn't take long to pile up a stone hill. With the order, one hundred and fifty stone throwing machines immediately wielded, and one by one the big stones flew straight towards Xiaopei City. These stone bullets are different from the stone bullets used to smash people just now, and the lightest ones weigh twenty or thirty pounds. Xiaopeicheng, which had just been reinforced, was immediately smashed into a thousand holes, and the defenders at the head of the city did not dare to show their heads, and all of them lay under the female wall.

While the stone thrower kept firing stone projectiles, Ma Chao organized people to use ladders to cross the moat, and the first to cross were the archers and sword and shield soldiers. Most of these archers were personally trained by Huang Zhong and Cao surname, all of them were extraordinary, and after crossing the moat, they cooperated with the sword and shield soldiers under the city to suppress the archers at the head of the city!

Due to the suppression of the fire of the Xiangyang cannon, few people in Chengtou Mountain dared to drop their heads, let alone bend their bows and arrows. With the continuous crossing of the river, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses soon gathered under the city, including Gao Shun's trapped camp.

After more than half an hour, the head of the city has been smashed into disappearance, and in many places even the female wall has been knocked down, and a layer of stones outside has long fallen off, falling out of a solid layer of rammed earth. When the surname Cao took advantage of the fact that there was no one to defend the city, he hurriedly ordered people to set fire and grass at the gate of the city under the gatehouse, with fire oil as the medium, and the fire was raging.

Ma Chao saw that the boulder was about to run out, so he ordered the gunner to change the small boulder and adjust the range to increase it, and the flying stones fell into the city with all their might. There was a sudden chaos in the city, and the noise could be heard from afar. More than 10,000 troops outside the city were also prepared with ropes and ladders, ready to attack the city at any time.

However, it was said that the army in the city was disheartened, and it was a matter of life and death, how could these yellow turban thieves be willing to work for Liu Bei. As soon as the Xiangyang cannon was launched, there were constantly people who became deserters, and they hid in the houses and under the city walls, and they could surrender only when the Ma Chao army attacked.

Liu Bei frowned when he saw this, he also had a relatively loyal lineage under his command, these people were all recruited in the plains, and they had been following him for two or three years. But this team was less than 10,000 people, and more than 2,000 people were killed in the battle outside the city just now, and less than 5,000 remained.

This is Liu Bei's last family background, he doesn't want to be the commander of the light pole, and now he has torn his face with Ma Chao, and there is no place in the north. It doesn't make much sense to stick to Xiaopei, even if you can hold on for a day or two, you can't escape the situation of breaking the city. At the moment, he did not send people to defend the city, but gathered the remnants of the 20,000 army together, and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, now Ma Chao is bullying others, and I am afraid that we will not be able to resist it, but Ma Chao bullies the good, controls the government, and acts perversely, and the Kwantung princes have formed an alliance to jointly crusade against Ma Chao!" I want to go south to Yuzhou to join Yuan Shao and participate in the princes' horse bargaining! If you are willing to continue to follow me Liu Bei and make contributions, I will look at him as a brother! As he spoke, his face was full of tears, and he turned his shirt to bow down to all the soldiers.

More than 20,000 soldiers were in an uproar, and three percent of them bowed down on the spot, and said in unison: "Swear to follow the lord to the death!" Never surrender! ”

Liu Bei didn't get up, wiped his tears and continued: "If you don't want to suffer with Liu, I also regard it as a brother, there is still a lot of money and food in the city, and you can divide it and disperse!" ”

At this point, Sancheng bowed down and said loudly: "I am willing to follow the lord to defeat Ma Chao!" ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed in his heart, and when he looked at it, he saw that most of these people were young people, and they were all emotional. The remaining nearly 10,000 were ashamed and didn't dare to look at him!

At that moment, he bowed three more times, got up and said loudly: "Thank you brothers for your help, you will be rewarded later!" Right now, Ma Chao is about to attack Xiao Pei, I can't wait for a while, and it's best to get out quickly! ”

"I am willing to listen to the Lord!"

Liu Bei said: "Ma Chao is ruthless, if he takes Xiaopei, he will do the slaughter of the city, I want to take the people in the city to Shouchun, just rush to Lingbi, Ma Chao can't help me anymore!" (To be continued.) )