Liu Bei set fire to the grain and sealed the city gate, and the Wu army failed to enter the city. After Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai and other generals grabbed some grain and grass, they camped in front of the city, not in a hurry to attack the city, but waiting for Zhou Yu's follow-up.

It didn't take long for Zhou Yu's army to come to the city. Knowing that the generals did not catch up with Liu Bei, but made Liu Bei lose a lot of grain and grass, Zhou Yu was not angry but happy, and the current situation was exactly what Zhou Yu wanted. Raocheng was just a small city, and soon Zhou Yu scattered his men and horses to surround the city.

Waiting for the soldiers and horses to besiege the city, Zhou Yu walked to the front of the city without fear and said to Liu Bei in the city: "Since ancient times, the people who know the times are Junjie, and the land under the jurisdiction of Liu Yuzhou is now owned by my lord. Liu Yuzhou was trapped in a lonely city, with no food and grass inside, no rescuers outside, and he was in danger. Why don't you now submit to my Lord and save your life? ”

Liu Bei didn't need to save face for Zhou Yu at this time, and said with a straight face: "I am a Miao descendant of the Han family, and Sun Quan is a usurper of the Han Dynasty, how can I be a thief?" Jade can be broken but can not change its white, bamboo can be burned but can not destroy its knots, although the body can be hung on the bamboo silk. If the city is broken, it will only die. Don't say much, you can fight me to the death. ”

Zhou Yu knew that Liu Bei was not easy to persuade, but now it was just a trial, if he could really succeed, he could also spend a lot less effort. Hearing Liu Bei's refusal at this time, Zhou Yu increased his chips and said, "Why is Liu Yuzhou so obsessed? If the prince can descend to my lord, not only can he protect his family, but I can also persuade my lord to make Xuande Duke return to Yuzhou, wouldn't it be good? ”

How could Liu Bei not know Zhou Yu's plans, I was afraid that as soon as he left the city, Zhou Yu would capture him, so he was not fooled at all, and said to Zhou Yu: "If you fight, you will fight, why say so much!" ”

Zhou Yu persuaded him to surrender to no avail, so he no longer replied, and ordered his soldiers to build siege equipment and prepare for the siege. Liu Bei saw that Zhou Yu was preparing to attack the city, so he also ordered his soldiers to prepare more rolling wood and stones to defend the city. At this time, although Liu Bei was worried about Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's lack of food, if he did not defeat Zhou Yu, the grain and grass in the city would not be transported.

Raocheng is just a small county town, the city walls are low and simple, and it is no problem to guard against bandits and grass bandits in peacetime, but the role played in the face of Zhou Yu's army is very limited. It only took a few days for Zhou Yu to build a batch of ladders, to deal with this kind of small city, the three-meter-high ladders are enough, as for the thunderbolt car, the well, the car and the like are not used at all.

After the ladder was built, Zhou Yu ordered the siege of the city. Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, Ling Tong, Pan Zhang, and Dong Xian led their soldiers to take the ladder and rushed to the city.

Liu Bei does have some geographical advantages in defending the city, but it is very limited. Rolling wood and stones are very lethal when they are smashed from the seven or eight meters high city wall, but they are not powerful when thrown from the city wall that is one person high, and most of the soldiers of Eastern Wu are injured but do not die. What caused a large number of casualties among the soldiers of Eastern Wu was boiling water, boiling oil, bows and crossbows, and other objects.

The Eastern Wu generals were not fools, they could use shields to defend with bows and crossbows, and the amount of boiling water and boiling oil was limited, which caused some casualties of the Wu army at the beginning of the war, and then they could not be supplied. Wu soldiers and Wu generals soon braved the rain of arrows to rush to the city and started a white-knuckle battle with the Northern Han army.

Liu Bei and Jian Yong were not good at martial arts, so they could only sit at the head of the city and command the soldiers to meet the Wu army. The Eastern Wu soldiers were easy to deal with, but several generals were very powerful, and Liu Bei could only disperse the elite of Bai Wei under his command to resist a few Wu generals.

The Bai Wei Army was also called the Bai Yu Army or the White Ear Soldier by later generations, but in fact, the latter was a clerical error, and this army had nothing to do with Liu Bei's nickname of the Big Ear Thief. Bai Wei refers to a cloak made of yak hair, which was worn by the commanders and guards of the ancient army. Liu Bei's elite Bai Wei is armed with a spear, a shield on his back, experienced in a hundred battles, and is extremely good at both offensive and defensive ends, and a dozen Bai Wei troops can block a general of Eastern Wu with the cooperation of more than a dozen Bai Wei troops.

After Zhou Tai landed in the city, he encountered a group of Bai Wei army, these Bai Wei elite attacked and defended, the defenders used large shields to form a shield wall in a half-moon shape to surround Zhou Tai, restricting Zhou Tai's movement, and the attackers poked out spears behind the shield wall and stabbed Zhou Tai from all directions.

Zhou Tai was also very helpless about this kind of rogue play, because this time it was a siege battle, Zhou Tai held a knife in his right hand and a shield in his left hand, and he did not have a long weapon in his hand. It was difficult for Zhou Tai's saber to cross the shield wall and attack the soldiers behind the shield wall, and those who held the shield were not afraid of Zhou Tai's slashing.

Zhou Tai, who had just landed at the head of the city, was in danger, but Zhou Tai was not a vegetarian, a knife and a shield blocked left and right, and the spears stabbed out from all sides by the Bai Wei army could not help Zhou Tai.

Seeing that the spear could not shake Zhou Tai, the Bai Wei army was not discouraged, and the shield-wielding soldiers in front began to press forward step by step, wanting to push Zhou Tai off the city wall simply. The high city wall of one person will definitely not kill Zhou Tai, but if there is a reduction of a general on the head of the city, the defenders will be much easier, and it is a big deal to wait for Zhou Tai to re-enter the city and then push it down.

Zhou Tai was forced to the edge of the city wall by several big shields, and he hated itchy, if the opposite side was a general, Zhou Tai would admit it if he was forced to go down the city, but a few soldiers wanted to push him down the city, how could Zhou Tai stop? What's more, the task arranged by Zhou Yu has not been completed yet. Thinking of this, Zhou Tai shouted, and once again used his saber to deflect a few spears that stabbed at him, and then shook the saber hard, and the saber directly broke through the gap between the two large shields and pierced the neck of a white soldier in charge of attacking, stabbing the white soldier to death on the spot.

The death of Pao Ze did not make the rest of the Bai Wei army retreat, but only provoked their ferocity. Attack Zhou Tai's right side together. The Bai Wei army are all elites of a hundred battles, they understand that fear and sadness will not make them victorious, only to seize the fighter plane to fight to the death is the way to win, rather than to be distracted and sympathize with the death of Paoze, it is better to seize the opportunity created by Pao Ze to kill the enemy to avenge Paoze.

I have to say that the timing of the attack of the Bai Wei Army was very good, Zhou Tai lost his weapon in his right hand after flying the knife, and the right side was the weak point of the defense. However, Zhou Tai dared to fly the knife in battle and was not without support, I saw that he flashed his figure, and then stuck to a big shield, borrowed the big shield of the Bai Wei Army to block half of his body, and then freed up the shield in his left hand to block several spears on the right.

Zhou Tai's reaction was very fast, and the method of borrowing the shield to hide was also very ingenious, and several spears of the Bai Xuan Army returned in vain again, but the shield soldiers of the Bai Xuan Army also reacted extremely quickly, unwilling to let Zhou Tai take advantage of the situation, and pushed forward a step further, forcing Zhou Tai to the edge of the city wall.

The city wall more than one person high was useless in Zhou Tai's eyes, he glanced at the city, and found that there were no miscellaneous objects such as stones, swords, and swords under the city, so he couldn't help but smile slightly, stretched out his empty right hand and grabbed the big shield of the white soldier who was leaning on, and then jumped directly to the city.