The soldiers and the fighting nest only fought briefly for a while, and each collected his troops and returned to the camp. That night, the soldiers ordered Cai Hou and Gongzi Qian to lead an army to lie on the east and west ramps to prepare arrows and fires; Then feed the army and prepare for the siege in the middle of the night.

Gongzishan was puzzled and asked the soldiers about the plan to attack the city: "It is not easy to attack the city during the day, and the general wants to take advantage of the darkness to attack, I don't know what is the best strategy?" ”

Wu Yuan smiled: "Douchao has fallen into my plan to fish in troubled waters, and we will take Maicheng tonight!" Please ask the general to gather his troops and horses, and follow me to the west gate of the city, and it will be clear naturally. Gongzishan was skeptical, and he didn't mention it.

It turned out that the Wu army received a lot of soldiers from the Chu State, and today the soldiers pretended to attack Maicheng, deliberately fought with the Douchao for a while, and then let the Douchao enter the city. Secretly, he made his henchman Yue Peng lead more than ten Chu soldiers to pretend to be the Chu army, and when the fighting was chaotic, he mixed into the ranks of the Chu army, and then mixed into Maicheng.

That Yue Peng took more than ten Chu State soldiers to blend into Maicheng, and there was no flaw. After sneaking into the city, they found an opportunity to escape from the team and hid in the alleyway houses. At dusk, Yue Peng and his accomplices gathered together and assigned their respective combat missions.

Yue Peng divided his subordinates into four teams, each with four to five people, and each team had a captain. The task of each combat detachment was to lay down the rope in the hidden place of Maicheng at night, hang the Wu soldiers outside the city to climb the city wall, and then capture the west gate and let the army outside the city enter the city.

Looking at the night nearly three watches, the sentinels patrolling the city gradually slackened. Yue Peng's four squads each found a good place to avoid and put down the long rope, and the Wu army waiting outside the city had already made preparations, and along the long rope, a string of Wu soldiers entered the city.

Seeing that there were more than 100 Wu soldiers who were gradually entering the city, Yue Peng led this new force and launched a shout, and everyone rushed to the west gate of the city. When those Chu soldiers patrolling the city, they waved their knives and slashed.

He shouted all the way in his mouth: "It's not good! The Wu army has already entered the city, so don't run for your life quickly! ”

The Chu soldiers who were guarding the city saw that this group of people was very fierce, and every person was a knife, so they knew that there were spies in the army, so they resisted it with all their might and wanted to guard the West Gate.

At this time, Wu Yuan and Gongzishan led the main force of the Wu army to sneak under the west gate of Maicheng. All the soldiers raised the fire together and shouted in unison, and in an instant, the fire outside the West Gate was blazing, like daylight.

The Chu soldiers patrolling the city were shocked when they saw this, and when they saw the spies in the city and the army outside the city arrived, they knew that they had fallen for the plan of the Wu army. So he hurriedly beat the drum and vigilance. At this time, I saw that there were Wu soldiers raising fire and shouting on the east and west ramps, and the west gate of Maicheng at this time shook the sky and the earth.

The Wu army broke out in three places, and although there were few people in this lonely army in the city, there were only more than 100 people. However, it is a tough soldier carefully selected by the soldiers, and his combat effectiveness is extraordinary; In addition, the Chu army does not know how many spies there are. In the dark of night, the hearts of the army have long been shaken. Panicked.

The Wu soldiers on the east and west ramps also began to attack from a distance at this time. Cai Hou led an army to release arrows on the ramp at the west gate, where it was just a bluff to contain part of the Chu army in the city. The main attack was at the West Gate, where Gongziqian led those archers to stand on a high platform and shot arrows into the city to kill the Chu soldiers on the battlements.

I saw that the 10,000 rockets rained down on the houses, towers and other places in the city. At that time, the buildings were mainly based on stone and made of wood. Grass as the skin. At this time, it was late autumn, and the season was extremely dry, and the house was burning at the sight of the fire, and all of a sudden I saw the fire raging on the tower of the city of Maicheng. Illuminates half of the night sky.

The besieging army under the city saw that the Chu soldiers on the city were distracted, and were restrained by rockets and the inner force in the city, and they were even more energetic, so they gathered under the west gate, and dozens of people lifted the giant tree, shouted, and rushed to the heavy city gate.

I only heard the rapid and dull sound of "knock, knock", and the copper-wrapped gate gradually deformed and peeled under the impact of the giant tree.

The Chu soldiers defending the city were panicking, seeing that there were spies in the city, and there was a large army attacking outside the city, and the rockets were very powerful, looking at the gradual difficulty of defending, the Chu soldiers were in chaos for a while.

Soon, under the cover of those archers on the high platform, the city gate of the west gate of Maicheng was violently opened under the attack of Wu Bingli and Waihe. Seeing this, the soldiers boarded the car with their halberds and led the Wu army to break in.

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However, it was said that Douchao and the soldiers were fighting under the wheat city, and they returned to the camp without fighting hard. Douchao thought to himself: "The soldiers are brave, and when they were in the Chu State, they had a big name outside, and they were in the same dynasty before, but today they are fighting each other!" I couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, the deputy general Gong Shuran was on the side, and when he saw that the lord was worried, he reminded: "We are guarding this wheat city, which is only forty miles away from Yingdu. The young general knows how wise the soldiers are, please be careful! ”

Dou Chao sighed: "I was ordered by Zuo Yin to guard this wheat city, but the discerning person knows that it is useless at a glance!" ”

Uncle Gong was stunned and said, "Why did the general say this? As long as the wheat city is not lost, then Yingdu will also be safe, what does it mean to be useless? ”

Douchao said: "The general doesn't know, Zuo Yin Zixi led 10,000 troops to defend the city of Jianli, I heard the Malay report, King Wu's army did not go through Jianli, and came directly by detour, all the way to Ji Nancheng, all the way to attack Maicheng, all the way directly to Yingdu. Zuo Yin did not divide troops to support, but only insisted on Jianli, so this battle will be lost! ”

Uncle Gong said: "As courtiers, we just die to die, and the young general does not have such far-sightedness, but we only know that our task is to defend this wheat city." ”

Dou Chao saw that Uncle Gong was short-sighted and stubborn, so he had to be silent.

Uncle Gong said again: "The young general knows that the soldiers are very strategic in using soldiers, please pay attention to the guard against Wu soldiers attacking the city at night." It's early winter, and the cold is coming. As long as the Wu army can't capture Maicheng and Yingdu, the monarchs and ministers of Wu will lead their troops back to Wu, and our army will take advantage of the situation to chase and kill and win a complete victory! ”

Dou Chao disagreed, and scoffed at Gong Shuran's optimism: "Since the soldiers know the soldiers, how can he attack at night?" Besides, in order to prevent the Wu army from attacking the city at night, I have strictly ordered the three armies to strengthen the security investigation at night; If there is any abnormal movement, the drum alarm will be sounded immediately! What the general said just now is extremely false: even if Maicheng is not broken at this time, as long as Yingdu is lost, what is the use of you defending this lonely city? ”

The two of them couldn't urinate for a pot, so Uncle Gong went to patrol the night. Douchao also went out to inspect it, thinking that the ramp built by the Wu army under Maicheng was very threatening to Maicheng, and he had no way to break him now, so he couldn't sleep at night. He was lying on the couch and closed his eyes, but he heard the messy footsteps of the soldiers outside the tent and the noisy sound.

Dou Chao jumped up, quickly straightened his clothes and armor and left the big tent. I saw Uncle Gong coming to report in a panic: "Boss! The Wu army is attacking the city at the west gate. Somehow there were many spies in the city, who were gathering at the west gate to fight. There are also Wu Jun arrows on the high platform, many houses have been on fire, and the young general has already asked people to extinguish the fire! ”

Dou Chao said angrily: "The situation is critical at this time, why bother with it to extinguish the fire?" Simon must not be lost! As long as you kill these spies, you can defend the West Gate! ”

Dou Chao took the long halberd handed by the guards, boarded the car, and led the soldiers to the west gate with Uncle Gong.

The group had just arrived at the gate, but at this time, the west gate had been opened, and the tide of Wu troops had entered the city. When the Chu army saw that the city gate had been broken, they rushed around. Dou Chao and Uncle Gong repeatedly drank the soldiers, at this time, the Chu army was in chaos, the military spirit had been lost, where could they still drink?

After a period of scuffle, Douchao saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to get off the car and change his horse, and rode out of the city on a bloody road.

Douchao rode out of the west gate alone, but saw a young general riding a car and guarding outside the city gate. When Dou Chao looked carefully, he also recognized that the young general was the person who fought against him during the day, and he was Cai Guo's son.

When the boy saw the Dou Nest, Haha smiled and said, "My master will expect it to be exactly the same!" I've been waiting here for the general for a long time! ”

Dou Chao was furious, holding a bow and trying to shoot.

Gongzi was not in a hurry, and said to Douchao: "My master will know that the general will definitely leave the city from here, and the envoy will say goodbye to the general, and have something to give to the general." ”

Douchao Fang knew what was going on, and said politely: "No matter what Zixu means, Ben will not appreciate it!" ”

Gongzi said: "The lord will say: In order to fulfill the feelings of colleagues, I will not be embarrassed by the general today, as long as I get the wheat city, the general can come and go at will." ”

Dou Chao was silent after hearing this, bowed his hand, kicked the horse's belly fiercely, rode in the dust, and drowned in the vast night.

The soldiers captured Maicheng, sent people to report the victory to Sun Wu, and left 3,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Maicheng, and another army rushed to Yingdu to meet the king of Wu. (To be continued......)