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Xiahou Lan was anxious when she heard this: "So, the Wei army is outside the city at this moment?" ”

Zhao Yun bowed his head and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be." Perhaps, they have already started to get their hands dirty. ”

"The general just said that His Majesty's letter mentioned this matter, I don't know what His Majesty ordered, but did he clearly indicate how we should deal with the sudden war?" Xia Houlan asked eagerly.

"Huh?" Zhao Yun was surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect Xiahou Lan's thinking span to be so large, the former sentence was still discussing the whereabouts of Wei Jun, and the latter sentence was actually associated with His Majesty's handwritten letter. Zhao Yun was amazed that his mind was so active, and he felt that he couldn't keep up with his train of thought, as if he knew him on the first day.

After a little hesitation, Zhao Yun said frankly without concealment: "Your Majesty does have a clear indication that if you can fight, you will fight, if you can't do anything, you can retreat to Luoyang and wait until reinforcements arrive." These are the original words of His Majesty, and they are also the military orders given to us. ”

Xiahou Lan nodded approvingly: "Your Majesty has always been magnanimous, loves soldiers like sons, never embarrassed us, and would rather lose the city than order me to fight to the death." However, as the leading general, we are already shouldering the responsibility of defending the territory, so we have to abandon the city as a last resort? It is because we should stick to the city, swear to fight with the Wei army, and not withdraw until the last moment! ”

Zhao Yun smiled happily: "Okay, it is worthy of my brother Zhao Zilong!" This time, you and my brothers are waiting in the city, as long as the Wei army dares to come, my brothers and I will fight side by side, and we will definitely kill him seven in and seven out. I want to see what the Wei army is capable of after a lapse of five years, daring to provoke my peerless iron horse! ”

The voice fell. Outside the door, there was the sound of footsteps, and then a garrison sergeant with an arrow in his left arm and half of his armor stained red with blood galloped into the lobby. As soon as he stepped into the threshold, he shouted urgently: "General Yu, the Wei army has attacked the east gate." The city gate is in an emergency, please send reinforcements from the general! "He is not a pawn guarding the city, but a small school commander stationed at the east gate, who is responsible for guarding the city gate.

"Sure enough, it's coming for me to open the city!" Seeing the Dongmen Tun Commander who had stained his armor red with blood, Zhao Yun was not surprised, let alone surprised, but had an inexplicable excitement, his blood was boiling, and he was full of fighting spirit.

Strode over to the Tun Chief. Zhao Yun stretched out his hand to help the tun chief, and while observing his injury, he asked calmly: "It's already the hour, have you ever opened the city gate?" ”

The tun chief looked up in astonishment and said in surprise: "The general convened the generals last night to discuss the matter, and strictly ordered that the city gate should not be opened at the time of the hour, and it was postponed for half an hour. The last general was then given the order to ?????? Don't dare to disobey, the city gate has not yet been opened at this moment. He mistakenly thought that he had been given an incorrect order. Fearing that Zhao Yun would blame him for this, he stated how he received the order to excuse himself.

"Hehehe! So much better! Zhao Yun laughed loudly when he heard this, and gently patted Tun Chang's shoulder. smiled: "It's good that you didn't open the city, the order you got is not wrong, and it is the general's military order to delay the opening of the city gate for half an hour." Otherwise. Wei Jun is only afraid that he has already killed him at this moment. While speaking, Zhao Yun paused. His right hand suddenly exerted force, and he pulled out the arrow on his left arm as fast as lightning. The pain was so painful that the chief screamed in pain, and tears came out.

"Okay, you go back to the camp and let the military doctor take care of the wound, and then rest for a day, so you don't have to go to war. Go ahead. Zhao Yun looked at the bloody arrow clusters and waved his hand to signal the tun chief to go down and rest.

"General 、、、 Xie." The chief was so painful that cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his cheeks were distorted, so he answered vaguely, covered his left arm and turned to leave the lobby.

"General, why is that?" As soon as the head of the tun left with his front foot, Xia Houlan came up and asked puzzledly. Although he didn't say it explicitly, Zhao Yun knew that he wanted to ask himself why he deliberately made it difficult for the commander to pull out the arrow cluster so forcefully, and the pain was by no means something that ordinary generals could bear. Usually, the shaft of the arrow is broken first, and then the cluster of arrows is pulled out, so that the pain will be lighter and the wound will not be expanded; However, if Zhao Yun pulls out the arrow shaft together, it is easy to expand the wound, and the pain will be more intense. This is not Zhao Yun's character, he has always been sympathetic to the soldiers, Xia Houlan has never seen him so rude to the soldiers under his account before, so it is quite incomprehensible.

Zhao Yun didn't explain much, just handed the arrow in his hand to Xiahou Lan, and said in a deep voice: "With this arrow, it is not difficult to see that Emperor Cao Cao of Wei is determined to win Henan County this time, and the army under his command is also prepared, and the plot is not small!" ”

The moment he held the sharp arrow, Xia Houlan understood, it turned out that this blood-stained arrow was actually an iron arrow, no wonder Zhao Yun pulled it out directly. Most of the iron arrows in the body are directly removed, if the key point is shot, you need to cut the wound along the shaft of the arrow, take it out little by little, so there will be a lot of bleeding, the wound is too large to heal, and it is easy to infect, and the chance of surviving in the end is very small.

Looking at the arrows in her hand, Xia Houlan couldn't help but feel a little chill in her heart, and sighed in a low voice: "The Wei army is actually equipped with this kind of murderous weapon forged by pure iron, it can be seen that the Wei army has indeed made a bloody investment this time, and the person who came is not good!" What are we going to do? ”

Zhao Yun nodded lightly with a calm expression, and said, "The soldiers will come to block, and the water will come to the earth." The Wei army has already reached the doorstep, can we still avoid it without fighting? Since he can't dodge, there's nothing to say, if he dares to hit him, we'll beat him back. ”

Hearing this, Xiahou Lan nodded, held an iron arrow in front of Zhao Yun, and said worriedly: "This kind of arrow is extremely lethal, if the Wei army all use this kind of iron arrow, the casualties of our soldiers will be very large; Moreover, as long as they are shot by an iron arrow, except for a very few people, most of them will not survive. ”

"Well, this kind of iron arrow is indeed a big killer." Zhao Yun nodded in agreement: "But I'm sure there aren't many such arrows in the Wei army, even if he has a lot of iron weapons in the Wei Kingdom, it is not so extravagant that he can forge all the iron arrows." In this way, since the Wei army wants to kill me, then we don't need to be merciful, take out all the black bumps stored in the treasury, and use them to entertain the Wei army if necessary. In any case, we must hold Kaifeng City for half a month, and the first day of the battle is unknown, so we will stick to the city today, only defend and not attack! ”

After speaking, Zhao Yun did not hesitate, walked quickly to the upper steps and took down the gentian gun, then put on his battle robe, strode out of the main hall, turned over and rushed to the east gate.

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The sky was already bright, and the fiery red sun dispersed the morning fog and enveloped the city at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the coolness of the air was quickly replaced by the scorching sun, and with it, the suffocating smell of blood.

Outside the East City Gate of Kaifeng. Random arrows pierced through the air, rolling stones flew over, fireballs as big as winter melons roared into the sky, bulky city vehicles were hitting the city gate with a bang, and tens of thousands of Wei soldiers rushed over with a roar. Thousands of warriors climbed the ladders with great skill, scrambling to climb up, trying to get the first place and be the first to climb the city.

There is an unwritten rule in siege warfare, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an unspoken rule. Whoever is the first to climb the city will be rewarded whether or not he survives the battle; The survivors will be promoted to the third rank, and the families of the deceased will be properly cared for, and the bereavement benefits will be extremely generous. This is the unspoken rule common to the three major vassal states, and it is the same in every battle, especially in the siege of the city, and the rewards are more and more abundant. This is the origin of the brave man who must be rewarded with great reward.

Kaifeng City is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, the water source is abundant, although the city is not big, but there is a complete moat, which can be called the natural barrier given by God to Kaifeng City. However, from the beginning of the siege to the present, it was less than a quarter of an hour, but the moat outside the city had been filled, allowing the Wei army to rush through the moat and directly attack the city gate.

When Zhao Yun led the army to the East Gate Tower, the siege battle was in full swing, standing on the tower and looking around. But seeing that the field was not wide and full of banners, and the black pressure was full of Cao army soldiers, the Cao army sent at least 100,000 troops this time. On the east bank of the moat, hundreds of thunderbolts lined up, sending rolling stones and fireballs into the sky, roaring like giant beasts, smashing the city walls with a loud bang, and hundreds of defenders of the city could not dodge being hit by rolling stones or fireballs, screaming and falling off the city or being smashed to the point that their heads were shattered, and their brains were splashed everywhere.

However, the huge lethality of the Thunderbolt was limited to the first round of long-range strikes, because the defenders did not know how powerful Cao's Thunderbolt was and whether it could hit the tower from the east bank of the moat. It was this uncertainty and luck that made the defenders of the city pay the price of blood, and they were caught off guard by Cao's army and suffered heavy casualties. After the first round of heavy casualties, the defenders did not make the same mistake again, and the shield soldiers appeared at the top of the city, raising their shields to defend against the rolling stones from the air, and even directly used their shields to meet the fireballs of the crockpots.

In this way, the threat of Cao's thunderbolt to the defenders can be minimized, and it can no longer exert its powerful lethality. While actively defending, the counterattack of the defending soldiers was undoubtedly more efficient than the attacking Cao army, and every stone pushed down from the city could hit at least one enemy soldier, and every rolling log could knock down a siege sergeant. In addition, the defenders were condescending, firing arrows in unison, and the range of bows and arrows was much longer than that of Cao's army, and the lethality was also higher than Cao's. Although there were only 2,000 defenders on the tower of the East Gate at the moment, the 3,000 iron cavalry brought by Zhao Yun had not yet participated in the battle, but they stubbornly resisted the fierce siege of the 30,000 Cao army.

So far, the city gate has not fallen, and with the reinforcements brought by Zhao Yun participating in the defense of the city, the dangerous east city gate can be regarded as defending, completely relieving the crisis.

Looking down at the Wei army under the city, Zhao Yun's gaze quickly locked on the Chinese army commander flag two miles away, which was the handsome flag of Cao Ren, the general of Wei State. Suddenly, Zhao Yun's face changed, and his expression became solemn?????

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