On October 6, the sky was dark and dark clouds were low, which weighed down people's hearts; The autumn wind was bleak, blowing the ends of the hair, and even more disturbing the hearts of the people inside and outside Tanzhou City.

Early in the morning, the Langzhou army arranged for all the soldiers to eat. After cleaning up, several drums sounded, and a siege battle of Tanzhou, which left a "chaotic" name in history, kicked off.

If someone can look down from the sky, they will find that this battle is unreasonable and absurd from the beginning:

Outside the tall Tanzhou city wall moat, He Jingzhen in the south led his troops to line up quite neatly, but only 1,100 soldiers were placed in front of the ten-meter-wide moat, which couldn't help but make people wonder if they were here to surround the city or prepare to cross the river to join in the fun; Wang Kui and Zhou Xingfeng in the west had nearly 4,000 soldiers, but all the men and horses were pulled to the northwest corner of the city wall, and only a few people were left at the three city gates in the west to "watch the door"; The tribal army in the east is even more incomprehensible, the 6,000 tribal army with messy uniforms and colors is not even in a battle formation, and they are standing and sitting casually by the moat beyond the arrow distance of the city, and even some soldiers are still lying on the ground, all talking excitedly and loudly.

Correspondingly, the response of Tanzhou City is even more interesting. The west gate and the south gate are still in full swing, but the east gate and the north gate are worth playing.

Because the east city wall is not far from the mountain, only one gate was left in the middle of the city wall when it was originally designed, and it was named White Tiger Gate. The commander of the city guard, surnamed Ma Ming'an, saw the formation of the Langzhou tribal army, and immediately summoned the lieutenant general of the army to hold an emergency military meeting on the city gate tower. Commander Ma pointed out with great wisdom that the tribal army did not even bring siege equipment, and it must be a bluff, so it would definitely not attack from the east gate, so the focus of the attack of the Langzhou army must be the other three city walls.

The patriotic commander Ma immediately divided the originally small Dongcheng garrison into three parts, one along the city wall to the north to support the North Gate defenders, and the other to the south to support the South Gate.

Soon, the defenders of Tanzhou were basically missing from the east city wall.

The situation at the North Gate is even more incomprehensible. There are three gates of the city gate at the north city wall of Tanzhou, the Qingtai gate on the west side is guarded by Wu Hong led by the commander of the infantry army, the Changle gate on the north side is guarded by the small gate Yang Yi led the troops, these two city defense equipment are piled up at the head of the city, the soldiers are out of the sheath, the arrows are with the bow, and they look like they should fight at any time. And in the middle of these two gates - the Xuanwu Gate that was taken over by Zhan Yi last night was completely different, I don't know if it was because the army of Xu Qiong was not good at defending the city, only dozens of soldiers were left not far from both sides of the city gate tower, but there were a large number of soldiers concentrated at the city gate.

"Our ship has moved!" A soldier on the northwest corner tower of the Tanzhou city wall pointed to the warship in the distance and shouted loudly.

Wu Hong, the commander of the infantry army, heard the shout, and quickly leaned out of the city wall to watch, and after looking at it for a while, his brows couldn't help frowning.

I saw that the Tanzhou warships on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River had lifted anchor and started, and even the warships that stayed on the north bank of the Fushu Island also moved, but their direction of progress was not the Langzhou naval army on the opposite bank, but along the north of the Xiangjiang River.

Tanzhou City is west of the Xiangjiang River, the west city wall is only 200 meters away from the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, and the Xiangjiang River has become a natural moat on the west side; The middle of the Xiangjiang River is located in the northwest direction of Tanzhou City, forming a layered defense circle of water-shore-water-bank; As early as the Ma Yin era, Tanzhou City dug a canal to divert water from the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River, surrounded the south, east and north sides, and formed a moat with a width of 10 meters at a distance of 80 meters from the city wall.

The withdrawal of the Qiong fleet not only gave way to the natural defensive outpost of the Servant Shooting Continent, but also gave way to cross the river by boat to the vast open space under the city of Tanzhou, and the waterway that sailed straight down the moat to the city wall of Tanzhou.

What kind of offensive and defensive strategy is Xu Qiong engaged in? Do you want to block all the retreats of the enemy's naval army, and then take advantage of its crossing the river to defeat and besiege it in one fell swoop? Or do you want to lure the Langzhou naval army to attack the city and attack back and forth with the defenders? Wu Hong thought about it and couldn't understand it in his heart.

As soon as the Tanzhou Navy moved, the Langzhou Navy also moved, and they left the west bank one after another and drove towards the east.

The Tanzhou warship was about to arrive at the Servant Shooting Continent, and there was no movement in the Qiong Department; The ship had passed through the Servant Shooting Continent, but the Qiongbu was still not moving; The ships arrived on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, some of the warships marched along the moat in a long line to the city of Tanzhou, and some of the warships lined up along the east bank of the Xiangjiang River.

"Permission Joan, it's time for the navy to be dispatched!" Wu Hong grabbed the battlements tightly with both hands, and couldn't help but roar at the fleet in the distance. It's a pity that the fierce autumn wind from the northwest easily blew away his words, and all he could hear was a few people around him.

"Archery! Archery! Wu Hong suddenly came to his senses, pointed to Wang Kui and Zhou Xingfeng's troops, who had been lined up outside the arrow range and now began to move this way, as well as the Langzhou infantry who had already assembled on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River and began to advance eastward along the south bank of the moat, and shouted loudly.

Immediately, countless arrows were fired at the city. It's a pity that the Langzhou infantry was prepared, and as soon as they entered the range of bows and arrows, they immediately supported their shields. On the south side are two large shields stacked on top of each other, and the top of the head is also tightly blocked by large shields, and arrows can only be knocked out and fly around.

Seeing that the warship at the front of Langzhou had sailed to the front of the Xuanwu Gate and stopped, some soldiers began to jump to the bank of the moat, and the front end of the shield array dragon was also about to run in front of the Xuanwu Gate, but there was still not a single arrow shot down on the middle city wall, an extremely shocking thought suddenly appeared in Wu Hong's mind, making him tremble.

Wu Hong pulled out his sword from the sheath, turned around and ran quickly to the east, and shouted wildly at the same time: "Permission Qiong has surrendered to the enemy, brothers, follow me to protect the Xuanwu Gate!" ”

The soldiers all came to their senses, followed Wu Hong, and ran towards the Xuanwu Gate one after another. At the same time, Yang Yi, the small gate stationed at Changle Gate, also found something wrong, and under the distraught, he also led his troops to rush towards Xuanwu Gate.

It's late! The Langzhou shield array suddenly dispersed, and all the Langzhou soldiers in red clothes threw away their shields and ran towards the Xuanwu Gate close at hand like a red tide.

Seventy meters away, a few breaths have already run! The Langzhou soldiers who ran to the front worked hard together, pushed the thick city gate open with force, and rushed into the door hole with cheers, rushing into the Xiongcheng of Tanzhou, where they must have been buried in the first place!

Tanzhou City was broken through like this!

Wu Hong, who was the first to run to the bottom of the Xuanwu Gate, took a cursory look, and was so angry that he was so angry that on the seven-meter-wide city wall, there were just a few piles of sand and a few pieces of wood casually, and there were no soldiers defending anymore, and the wood and bricks that should have been used for defense were all piled up on the ramp on the inner side of the city wall, blocking their way down the city!

"Xu Qiong, you traitorous turtle son seeking glory!" Wu Hong scolded wildly, began to command the archers to shoot arrows under the city, and personally led his troops to clean up the debris on the ramp. The small door over there made Yang Di react in the same way, but he could only push the debris blocking the road little by little.

Time just ran away.

Wu Hong and Yang Di didn't see it, because they no longer shot arrows in vain, and there was a change outside the city wall, and the groups of Langzhou infantry no longer held shields, no longer lined up, and roared wildly towards the Xuanwu Gate; On the moat, one after another Langzhou ships docked on the south side of the moat, and the soldiers on the boats jumped off the boat one after another to join the team attacking the Xuanwu Gate; In the distance, the soldiers of the flotilla began to disembark and assemble on the shore, and quickly lined up towards the city wall, except that they had tied a strip of red cloth to the left arm of their ochre-colored uniforms.

More and more Langzhou soldiers shouted in unison, and the sound of Lang rushed over the city, sweeping over the huge Tanzhou City.

The cry spread farther and farther. The commander at the east gate made Ma An hear it and shouted: "Tanzhou City is broken, brothers, each protect his own family!" He was the first to run under the city wall, and his henchmen naturally did not stand stunned, and then evacuated the city gate.

The cry was heard by the tribal army outside the eastern city, and with a wave of his hand, many long wooden ladders were carried out of the camp by the tribal army, and ran towards the moat with a shout.

Launching into the water, building bridges, rushing through moats, and pushing open the unclosed city gates, the tribal army did not encounter the slightest resistance and successfully entered Tanzhou City!