If the loss of Wuling was not unexpected by Chen Zhi, then Guiyang and Lingchuan Chen Zhi did not expect it at all, I am afraid that not only Chen Zhi, but even Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu could not have imagined that Zhang Xiu would use brute troops from Jiaozhou to attack these two counties.

At this time, Chen Zhi had to admit that not only was he inferior in tactics, but now he was even losing strategically. The three counties of Jingnan were lost, and the only thing Chen Zhi could do in this situation was to defend Changsha. Fortunately, after Chen arrived in Changsha, he recruited 10,000 recruits, and Changsha County was the most advanced of the four counties in Jingnan, and there were many defenders, so it added up to about 12,000 soldiers. In addition to training, Chen Zhi began to implement the tactics of clearing the wilderness, thinking that he would defend Changsha.

Five days later, Huang Zhong's troops were the first to reach the city of Changsha, but instead of attacking immediately, they began to camp outside the city. Two days later, Wang Ping and Zhang Su also led the army to arrive, and set up another camp in the east of the city. Three days later, Zhang Quan and Shamoke also led their troops and set up a large camp in the north of the city, so that the city of Changsha was surrounded on three sides, and only the west gate, which was surrounded by mountains outside, was not encircled.

At this time, Zhang Quan, Sha Moke, Wang Ping, Zhang Su and others came to Huang Zhong's camp one after another.

When Zhang Quan saw Wang Ping and Zhang Su, he laughed and said, "Zijun, Boqi, this time Quan is willing to bow down." You actually led your army up the Li River and attacked Lingling. ”

Wang Ping heard it and said with a smile: "The eldest prince is too famous." This time it was not equality. He is really a great general. ”

When Zhang Quan heard this, he glared and said in surprise: "Father? ”

At this time, Huang Zhong also came out, listened to Zhang Quan's words, nodded and smiled: "What Zijun said is not bad. Originally, the old man still wondered why the general was in such a hurry to take Jiaozhou, it turned out that the real purpose was to capture Jingnan. ”

Zhang Su also nodded and said, "Yes." As soon as General Zhang Ren took off Jiaozhi, the general's letter was delivered, asking us to immediately go north to Cangwu County, and then trace the Li River and Lingqu north to take Lingling County. The general is really a god with soldiers! After speaking, there was a look of admiration on his face.

Huang Zhong can see it. smiled: "Okay, don't talk nonsense." Now the lord is facing Liu Bei in Yiling, and I will wait for Changsha to be taken quickly. Then cross the river and attack Gangneung! Speaking of this, Huang Zhong turned his head and asked Zhang Quan: "By the way, eldest prince, is there a boat ready to cross the river?" ”

Zhang Quan nodded and said, "General Huang, don't worry, Mr. Ji Ping is already preparing, and I can cross the river immediately after capturing Changsha." ”

Huang Zhong nodded when he heard this, and said, "That's fine." Now the Changsha guard is Chen Dao, and this old man has not fought with him. However, I heard Gongming and Ziyi say that this person's martial arts skills are not bad, and he is good at training soldiers. The lord also commanded that if this person could not be surrendered, he must be killed! After speaking, Huang Zhong's tone was calm.

After a pause, Huang Zhong said again: "Changsha City can be regarded as the first fortified city in Jingnan, after our army arrived, Chen Zhi has been defending it for the past few days, so it is necessary to carry out a strong attack, fortunately, this time it is all Buxi, and it is not difficult to attack the city." ”

At this time, Wang Ping said: "If you let the Tengjia Army take the lead, maybe you can take Changsha City in a battle!" ”

Huang Zhong heard this, his brows tightened, and he shook his head and said, "Although the vine armor soldiers are strong, their weaknesses are too obvious. Chen must have prepared fire oil to defend the city, if the fire oil ignited. The losses of the vine armor soldiers will be large. ”

Zhang Su suddenly smiled and said, "Actually, there is no need to worry too much. Rattan armor is flammable, but it is extremely lightweight. We only need to let the chariot wear another piece of leather armor in addition to the rattan armor, and then wet the leather armor, and the power of the fire attack will be greatly reduced! ”

When Wang Ping heard this, he clapped his hands and said, "Reasonable!" ”

Huang Zhong also nodded and said, "You can use five thousand vine armor soldiers to try it first!" ”

At this time, Zhang Quan suddenly said: "Stay, you don't necessarily need to attack Changsha to break it." Quan remembered that this Changsha Taishou Han Xuan seemed to be the brother of Mr. Han Hao. And I heard that this Han Xuan loves the people like a son, and now Chen is going to conquer the people of Changsha to resist our army, maybe it may be said that Han Xuan is the internal response. ”

Huang Zhong heard it, nodded and said, "What the eldest prince said is reasonable, but Chen Zhi is cautious. If you rashly let Han Xuan respond, I am afraid that I will not be able to hide it from Chen Dao. We still need to try our best to attack the city, so that Chen Zhi can't be busy, and then contact Han Xuan as an internal response. In this way, we will take a two-pronged approach and break Changsha! The crowd heard and agreed in unison.

"Knock knock,"

"Woooooooo

Before dawn on the morning of the second day, the war drums and horns outside Changsha City sounded!

Under the city of Changsha, Zhang Xiu's army on the east, south and north sides lined up in a camp, except for the formation of the first army in the south of the city, the rest of the army formation was very scattered.

On the southeast corner of Changsha City, Chen Zhi stood like a pine, and when he saw the scattered formation of Zhang Xiujun's army under the city, his face was not the slightest joy, but his brows were furrowed. Chen Zhi is not a fool, he recognizes the army in the north, it is the troops under the Wuxi Barbarian King Shamoke, he has a sense of proportion in his heart, but the other two make Chen Zhi wonder.

If it is said that the combat strength of these two armies is not strong, Chen Zhi himself will not believe it at first. Being able to cross the mountains from Jiaozhou to attack Jingnan with such a fast march, the combat power of these troops is definitely not to be underestimated! However, in Chen Zhi's view, it is impossible for this army to have any cooperation, no matter how strong its individual combat strength is, it will be defeated when it encounters a formed army.

"Kill" Although Chen Zhi was still puzzled, the enemy army in the east of the city had already been killed at this time, but it made him immediately suppress this thought.

shouted to the herald beside him: "The order goes down, the archers are ready" Seeing that the army had entered the attack range, Chen Zhi shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

"Woohoo,"

"Click"

"How can this be !!?"

Not only the defenders of Changsha City, but even Chen Zhi himself showed a frightened look in his eyes, these troops wearing leather helmets and leather armor all over their bodies were not injured in the face of the rain of arrows!

Chen Zhipi didn't believe it, and shouted: "Keep releasing arrows!" Keep firing the arrows! ”

"Whispering"

"Dada,"

A muffled sound came, and three rounds of arrow rain poured down in a row, but no one was injured, and Chen Zhi knew that something was wrong. Occasionally, I caught a glimpse of some of the leather armor that had been shot through, revealing some black. Chen Zhi quickly guessed that there must be something else under the leather armor.

It's just that Chen Zhi understood that it was too late, and at this time, Wang Ping had already led five thousand rattan armor soldiers to carry the cloud ladder to the city wall. The rattan armor soldiers, who were not afraid of the rain of arrows, calmly set up the ladder, and then led the army to rush up to the city under the leadership of Wang Ping!

Chen Zhi was shocked when he saw it, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick, push the ladder down, don't let them come up!" ”

The soldiers in the back with long poles immediately stabbed the ladders with long poles, and several ladders were knocked down. However, at this time, Wang Ping had already rushed up, and the short knife in his hand danced wildly. Although those recruits have gone through Chen to one or four, they have been frozen for a long time. The combat power is not strong. Successively cut by Keihei ※

When Chen saw it, he shouted: "Throw the rolling wood and step on the stone!" Fast! While rushing to Wang Ping's side with a gun, intending to plug the gap.

At this time, a group of military vehicles reacted, and saw several defenders above the city holding a large piece of rolling wood and throwing it towards the city. I only heard a loud "boom", and several rattan armor soldiers were knocked down and fell down the ladder, and even several vine armor soldiers under the ladder were also knocked down at the same time, falling to the ground and becoming a ball.

But it didn't take long for one of the top vine armor soldiers to push the rolling log away, and then slowly climbed up. One, two" The enemy soldiers who had been hit by the rolling logs and fell down the ladder climbed up one by one, and the defenders of the city were terrified. At the same time, he secretly said: "Could it be that this army is an undead army?" ”

On the other hand, the defenders who threw radium stones at the city were better. After all, the weight of radium is not comparable to that of rolling wood, and although the defense of ordinary rattan armor is amazing, it is not the emperor of the rattan armor worn by the vulture bone after all. Therefore, the radium stone relies on its weight to directly crush the rattan armor, and at the same time crush the military chariot inside the armor into meat sauce.

Seeing that the radium stone could make a contribution, the defenders cheered, and they didn't need to roll the wood, they directly carried the stone up and threw it under the city.

However, although radium stone can kill vine armor soldiers, it is too heavy and difficult to carry, so its killing efficiency is limited. It was during this time that many vine armor soldiers rushed up the city along the ladder.

At this time, Wang Ping, because he was defeated by Chen Dao, had already retreated to the rattan armor soldier array, and besieged Chen Dao with a group of rattan armor soldiers. At this time, Chen Zhi saw what invulnerability was, and he stabbed at a rattan armor soldier with a shot. The rattan armor soldier did not dodge or dodge, and directly returned Chen Zhi with a knife.

There was a soft "click", and after Chen Zhi's spear pierced the leather armor on the vine armor soldier, he couldn't pierce it anymore, and he only felt that the front was as hard as an iron block. At this time, the war knife of the vine armor soldier had already been cut, and Chen Zhi had no choice but to put away the gun and point the war knife away.

Wang Ping saw that Chen Zhi couldn't help the vine armor soldiers, but he was overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick, besiege him!" Kill this person! After saying that, he also deceived himself.

Chen Zhi saw it, but he knew that it was not good, so he suddenly stepped back, and at the same time raised his hand to pick up the weapon of a rattan armor soldier with a shot, and grabbed it with his left hand and retreated. After Chen Zhi retreated, without the slightest hesitation, the probe directly recorded the leather armor of this vine armor soldier. Under the tentacles, Chen Zhi muttered to himself in surprise: "Wet leather armor? ”

After the leather armor was recorded, the black rattan armor inside was revealed. Chen Zhi held his left hand, but now his left hand is not only wet, but also very greasy. Looking at a layer of greasy, Chen Zhi remembered that he had just seen those enemy soldiers, all of them were passing around the fire, and said, "Quick! Splash the fire oil! Ignition! The enemy is afraid of fire! Fast! ”

And when Wang Ping saw Chen Zhi taking away a rattan armor soldier, he already knew that something was wrong. Before long, he heard Chen Zhi's voice calling for an attack with fire, and hurriedly said, "Withdraw first!" ”

But at this time, Chen Zhi had already taken a bow in his hand, lit a rocket, and looked at a vine armor soldier shooting!

"Whew...... rumble

Chen Zhi was full of strength, and with an arrow directly shot through the leather armor of this vine armor soldier, sparks splashed on the vine armor, and suddenly this vine armor soldier became a fire man, even if the wet leather armor could not resist.

Wang Ping frowned when he saw it, but the next moment, Wang Ping's brows stretched. But I saw that there were defenders who shot rattan armor soldiers with rockets, but unfortunately not everyone had the strength to show their hands. Of the hundreds of arrows, only a few of them shot through the wet leather armor or luckily shot at the exposed place of the vine armor, setting the vine armor on fire.

When Wang Ping saw it, his heart was a little calm, and he said secretly: "The wet leather armor is draped outside, it is really useful!" By this time, the defenders had already thrown the oil under the city, and at the same time threw torches and rockets into the city. Wang Ping commanded the rattan armor soldiers while looking down at the city, and saw that the effect was not as great as he imagined. However, the defenders of the city threw more radium, but not much rolling wood. There were no rattan armor soldiers killed in battle, so there were not many flammable things under the city, and even if there was fire oil, the lethality was not great.

Moreover, long before Wang Ping's war, Ding had instructed that if the enemy attacked with fire, he would immediately retreat and leave, so only a few rattan armor soldiers who could not avoid the rattan armor were burned and buried in the fire. Most of the rattan armor soldiers escaped, and some of them relied on wet leather armor to block them outside, rushing out of the fire that had not yet fully ignited.

Wang Ping saw that the loss of the vine armor soldiers wearing wet leather armor was far less than he imagined, and knew that the wet leather armor had made a contribution, so he immediately shouted: "Quick, let go of the arrow!" ”

When Wang Ping's guards heard this, they immediately took off the big bow behind their backs, mounted the arrows and shot them into the sky!

"Bang Bang"

The sound of the arrows was so loud that it could be heard clearly from ten miles away. Huang Zhong, Zhang Quan, and Zhang Su were overjoyed after hearing this, Huang Zhong held the golden-backed Chaoyang knife and said to the vulture: "Wet leather armor is available, attack quickly!" ”

The vulture grinned and roared a few times, and the ten thousand vine armor soldiers behind responded in unison, following the vulture bone to rush towards Changsha City. Huang Zhong saw that he was not lagging behind, and led 20,000 elites to charge in a neat formation.

And Zhang Su in the east saw it, and he was even more overjoyed, this method was what he thought, and at this time, he knew that it worked when he heard the arrow, and said to the remaining fifteen thousand vine armor soldiers: "Okay, rush quickly!" ”

And Zhang Quan in the north also said to Shamoke: "They have all attacked, we don't want to lag behind, we will definitely break Changsha City today!" After speaking, holding the Yuehua halberd and Shamoke, he led thousands of Wuxi barbarians to rush towards the north of Changsha City.

When Chen saw Wang Ping firing the arrow, he knew that it was not good. However, the calm Chen Zhi also knew that the only way to deal with the vine armor soldiers was to attack with fire, so he hurriedly said: "Quick!" Throw down the rolling wood and the oil and don't let the fire stop! Fast! ”

"Huhuhu...... Rumble! ”

Under Chen Zhi's command, the defenders of the brigade threw fire oil and rolling wood into the city, causing an intermittent wall of fire to ignite under the city.

When the vulture bones under the city saw the raging fire, there was some horror in their eyes. Huang Zhong, who was next to him, sneered disdainfully a few times and shouted: "Recommend the car to be launched!" ”

Huang Zhong gave an order, and the brigade led the five rushing carts that were completely wrapped in wet cowhide. Huang Zhong shouted to the soldiers who were pushing the cart, pointing to the place where there was little fire: "Push there!" Help put out the fire! After giving the order, he turned to the vulture and said, "Don't be afraid, this city is so big that it is impossible for the enemy to set the whole city on fire!" Let's find a place where the fire is small and rush over! The vulture listened and nodded heavily.

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