New Year's Day is the name of the Spring Festival in ancient times. Yuan means the first or beginning, Dan is the morning, and the Yuan and Dan are combined, which is a metaphor for the beginning of the year, that is, the day of the beginning of the year.

The days of New Year's Day in ancient times are not uniform, and the "Historical Records" contains: the Xia Dynasty took the first day of the first month as New Year's Day; The Shang Dynasty took the first day of December as New Year's Day; In the Zhou Dynasty, the first day of November was the New Year's Day; The Qin Dynasty took the first day of October as New Year's Day.

At the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in the first year of Taichu, Sima Qian, the Taishi official, suggested that Emperor Wu implement the Taichu calendar, restore the summer calendar, that is, the lunar calendar, take the first month of the year as the first year, and set the 24 solar terms into the calendar. Since then, although the calendar has changed occasionally, it is based on the first month of the Taichu calendar, with the first month of Meng Chun in the summer calendar as the first year, and the first day of the first month as New Year's Day and New Year's Day, that is, the first day of the new year.

On the evening of the 29th day of the lunar month, in the Pingyu City of Runan, the New Year is approaching, and the city is full of joy. People were busy preparing the things needed for the New Year's sacrifices, cooking cattle and slaughtering sheep, selling wine and buying meat, setting off firecrackers, and the city was full of joy. During the war, every New Year was like earning, so the celebration of the New Year by the people in the city can be said to be extremely popular. Everyone took out their savings and bought a lot of food and meat in order to have a good New Year.

In the Taishou Mansion, Taishou Manpang was also full of smiles, watching his family members keep busy.

Man Pang Zi Boning, in his thirties, was originally from Changyi, Shanyang. He is seven feet five inches tall, with a white face and a slight beard, and his appearance is elegant with a hint of strength. He took refuge in Cao Cao in the third year of Chuping, and because of his outstanding strategy, he was turned into a business, and since then he has been loyal to Cao Cao. Last year, after Cao Cao moved the Han Emperor to Xu County, he was appointed as the commander of Xu County. At that time, Cao Hong's relatives and guests violated the law many times in the territory of Xu County, and they were arrested by Manzhong. Cao Hong pleaded with Manzhong, but Manzhong refused to let go. Cao Hong asked Cao Cao to intercede, and the full favor beheaded the offender in advance before Cao Cao came, and Cao Cao was not angry but happy when he learned about it, and praised the full favor for strictly enforcing the law.

At the beginning of this year, Cao Cao appointed Man Pang as the Taishou of Runan, stationed in Pingyu. He held 6,000 elites, and Li Tong, the Zhenwei Zhonglang general stationed in Yang'an, fought each other and firmly controlled all the military and political affairs in Runan.

The pressure on Man Pang is very great, originally Long Kang was stationed in Guan Yu, but now although Guan Yu is gone, Chen Zhi has taken over Guan Yu's position, and tens of thousands of troops still cause a lot of pressure on Runan. Man Pang was always on guard against them, and near Long Kang, he had spies to monitor Chen Dao. Fortunately, the New Year is approaching, and the news fed back from the spies confirms that Chen Zhi has no changes, and there will be no more moths in Xuzhou, right?

It was getting late, and Man Pang saw that his family was still busy, so he couldn't help but laugh and scold: "It's all gone, there will be a vigil tomorrow, and a sacrifice will be made the day after tomorrow, go to bed early tonight, don't wait for the day after tomorrow to be in high spirits, that is a great disrespect to the gods of heaven!" ”

Man Pang had a good temper, and his family respected him more than he feared, and when they heard this, they smiled and agreed, and dispersed.

Seeing that his family had dispersed, Man Pang breathed a sigh of relief and left the house with two of his own soldiers, and he had to go to the city to inspect it. Even for the New Year, the defense of Pingyu should not be taken lightly!

After inspecting the city wall, Man Pang encouraged the soldiers a few words, promised them that they would have wine and meat tomorrow, and left with peace of mind amid the cheers of the soldiers.

Not long after he left, countless torches suddenly lit at the west gate outside the city, and a shout of killing sounded.

In the dark and quiet night, these torches and shouts of killing are especially obvious! Standing on the city wall and looking out, it seemed that there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and for a while, the defenders in the city were suddenly in their hearts. They hurriedly sounded the alarm horn, and in a short time, the soldiers stationed in the city, under the leadership of their respective officers, quickly drove out of the camp and went to various positions for reinforcements.

People inside and outside the city shouted horses and neighed, and the torches reflected the sky, illuminating the entire east wall of Pingyu brightly.

When the people of the city heard the sound of the trumpet, they immediately became in confusion and hid in their homes and hugged each other, praying that the war would end soon.

Manpang was neatly draped and strode to the city tower.

When he looked out, he saw tens of thousands of soldiers and horses lined up in the east of the city, one by one murderous. Under the reflection of the torches, several large flags flew up and down in the howling north wind, and the sound of hunting the wind.

On the banner, there are several big characters written, "Tian", "Lu", "Gao", "Koji", "Pang"!

Seeing the words on the banner clearly, Man Pang was puzzled for a while, where did such a few people come from? Looking at the soldier's outfit again, Man Pang was suddenly shocked, it was the costume of the Xuzhou Army!

After thinking about it again, he suddenly understood that this was Tian Fan, Lu Bu, Gao Shun and others. But how is that possible? Today he just received a message from Cao Cao, saying that Tian Fan was busy getting married, Lu Bu had a conflict with Tian Fan because of some trivial matters, and there was no sign of war at the top of Xuzhou. Why did Tian Fan and the others come here?

I don't understand it, but here they are!

Man Pang stood on the gate tower, holding the cold and piercing battlements with both hands, and shouted loudly: "Who is coming? Hurry up and get your name known! ”

A burst of shouts rang out outside the city, "Wuyuan Lu Feng is here first!" ”

Man Pang looked into the distance, and sure enough, he saw a military general with an extremely arrogant outfit, the man was red, and the war horse under his crotch was also red, and it was especially conspicuous under the light.

The soldiers in the city gasped, Lu Bu, the shadow of the famous tree of people, that is a character who can reduce the morale of the enemy a lot as long as he knows a name!

Man Pang took a deep breath and shouted, "The name of Wenhou is like thunder!" It's just that I don't know, why did Wen Hou invade my city for no reason? ”

Lu Bu roared: "Cao Cao, named Hanchen, is actually a Han thief, everyone gets it and punishes him, what does it mean for no reason?" Today, I lead an army of 20,000 people, and I am under the orders of Uncle Huang, the general, and Liu Xuande to rebel against the Xinghan, what is no reason? Man Boning, I respect you as a man, if you surrender, you can avoid death! ”

Man Pang looked at the army outside the city, and after secretly estimating in his heart, after coming to the fact that it was less than 10,000, he laughed three times and shouted: "What nonsense! As the Situ of the Han family, Ming Gong is a loyal minister of the Han family, what is a traitor? Lu Fengxian, if you have the ability, you will hit the city, I will accompany you with your life, if you don't have the ability, get out quickly, don't bewitch the people here! ”

Lu Bu didn't speak again, and after a while, a desolate horn sounded, and the Xuzhou army began to attack the city.

The first wave of attackers were 3,000 soldiers, who carried high ladders and shouted trumpets, and galloped towards the city walls.

Man Pang smiled contemptuously, just these troops? Can you take my city? Joke!

When the army under the city was still a hundred and fifty paces away, he shouted, "Shoot the arrows!" ”

The soldiers of the city drew their bows and shot arrows with all their might, and for a time arrows rained down.

Many soldiers of the Xuzhou army were shot by feather arrows, fell to the ground and died or howled, and there were a large number of casualties.

Lu Bu shouted: "Back Kui, follow me!" ”

Eight hundred warriors shouted in unison, and their horses flew to the city wall.

When he arrived at the edge of the city, a distance of one hundred and eighty paces, Lu Bu turned his horse's head and galloped parallel to the city wall, and at the same time bent his bow and arrows, and the feathered arrows were like meteors, shooting through a long man who was about to shoot arrows in the city.

The back-mounted warriors shot arrows one after another, and their archery skills were obviously one level higher than that of the castle soldiers, and although they were moving at high speeds, they were still extremely efficient. The city wall was empty, and countless Cao soldiers were shot or wounded. The archers in the city were immediately suppressed, and the feathered arrows that shot at the city were much more sparse.

When the Xuzhou soldiers who were besieging the city saw it, they hurriedly shouted, and strode towards the city wall with a high ladder.

It's winter, and the moats have very little water, and even a little water is frozen. The soldiers passed through the moat and came to the edge of the wall.

Then they set up a high ladder and climbed it with all their might.

The soldiers in the city braved the rain of swords, threw stones and rolling logs, car feet, and guests into the crowd, and smashed and injured countless Xuzhou soldiers. The Xuzhou soldiers under the city climbed frantically under the protection of the feather arrows of the back soldiers.

The soldiers of Xuzhou came suddenly, the defensive equipment on the city wall was not sufficient due to the hasty preparation, and there were not too many rolling wood and stones, most of which were being transported, and the fire oil and the like were still being transported, and the pots for cooking fire oil and boiling water were also being erected. Man Pang wanted to have a good chat with Lu Bu, buy some time, and wait for the supplies to be transported, but he didn't expect that Lu Bu was not polite at all, and he started to attack the city without saying a few words.

On the other hand, the Xuzhou army only had high ladders in their hands, no ladders and other equipment, and the preparations were also in a hurry.

A feathered arrow went straight to Man Pang with a strange roar, and the quick-eyed guards next to him hurriedly pulled him away. The arrow grazed his ears, and the screaming sound nearly deaf his ears struck one of the soldiers behind him. The soldier didn't even snort, he was shot directly in the throat, fell to the ground and convulsed to death.

Man Pang was frightened, and when he looked down at the city, he saw that many Xuzhou soldiers were still in the city. He shouted: "Roll the wood and stones, boil the water with oil and oil, kill the enemy for me!" ”

He looked at the sparse soldiers, and immediately called a personal soldier and asked him to find someone to reinforce him.

Under the city, Lu Bu and the others were probably tired, although the backs were still galloping, but the density of the feather arrows shot was greatly reduced, and the suppression on the city was much lightened. When the soldiers of Cao at the head of the city saw it, they were busy throwing stones and spreading fire oil desperately under the leadership of the commander, and the Xuzhou soldiers who climbed under the city were suddenly pressed down again. Many of the soldiers were hit by the stones, and they fainted and died. Some of the soldiers were splashed with fire oil and immediately jumped and fled.

The shouts above and below the city shook the sky, screams, shouts, wails, the screams of feathered arrows, the sound of bowstrings, etc., all intertwined and converged into a tragic battle scene.

And after such a period of riding and shooting, the back Kui Shi and Lu Bu were tired, and they had already retreated.

Man Pang saw that as the soldiers retreated, the soldiers in the city regained control of the battlefield, and couldn't help but smile with satisfaction. The Xuzhou army came suddenly, and the Cao army rushed to the battle, in fact, the first siege was the most dangerous, as long as it successfully survived this time, then this war was easy to fight for Manpang.

Just when he was smiling, a small school rushed over and shouted in a panic: "Lord Taishou, the gate in the south of the city is occupied by the Xuzhou army, and they are going to enter the city!" "ps: I played with my classmates for a day yesterday, and the whole person was tired and paralyzed, and I really didn't come out, sorry. In addition, the height difference between the tables and stools in the hotel is too small, and the code words are really painful...... Go back tomorrow night and resume the update the day after tomorrow