Chapter Seventy-Three: Gan Ning Shows Might
"Go up the ladder!"
Wang Hao, who was burly and had a tiger's back on his back, roared and took the lead in brandishing a big knife and began to climb.
Behind him were dozens of fierce dead soldiers, all with shields on their heads and machetes in their hands, clustered under the ladder, and followed Wang Hao up one after another.
Chen Wu saw Wang Hao's arrival on the city wall, and his heart couldn't help but feel a pang!
Although he did not fight Wang Hao in person, Chen Wu was apprehensive about Wang Hao's bravery, presumably this person's martial arts and himself were in the middle.
Although Chen Wu was not afraid of death, he was very self-aware and knew that if Wang Hao climbed to the top of the city. He could not be stopped by his own forces. Hurriedly shouted loudly: "Crossbowman, slinger, quickly aim at this guy with a big knife on the ladder, and must not let him climb the city wall!" β
After receiving Chen Wu's order, dozens of crossbowmen who were hiding behind other female walls and shooting suddenly surrounded them, stretched out their bows and arrows from the probing holes in the wall, and fired arrows at Wang Hao.
The soldier in charge of throwing stones also selected the largest boulder, even a rock weighing more than two hundred catties, and prepared to use it to greet Wang Hao. If one person can't hold it, two people will carry it, and if two people can't move it, three people will carry it......
All of a sudden, the rain of arrows coming towards Wang Hao suddenly intensified several times. And most of them are powerful crossbows, fast and powerful, accompanied by boulders and logs of various sizes.
"Hohoo!"
Wang Hao kept roaring, cheering up the soldiers behind him and at the same time intimidating the defenders on the city wall.
The dense rain of arrows flew first, but they were basically blocked by Wang Hao's shield, and a small part of the arrows were also ruthlessly shot down by the big knife in his hand.
But the soldiers behind Wang Hao did not have such ability, and when the firepower at the head of the city was strengthened several times, either the shield in his hand could not cover his body and was shot by crossbow arrows, or he was smashed by the impact of the boulder, and they fell to the bottom of the ladder like dumplings in the pot, and after a while, only Wang Hao was left on the entire ladder.
Watch as another boulder smashes down on your head. Wang Hao roared angrily, waved his knife with one hand to hit the carving feather, and the other hand reached out and tried to support the bottom of the boulder with lightning speed. As a result, he overestimated his ability, and unfortunately fell down, but fortunately, the boulder did not hit his body, and when he fell, it happened to be pressed on the corpse of his companion, otherwise Wang Hao at this moment would not be enough even if he had a hundred lives.
Wang Hao, who struggled to get up from the ground, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, although there was a companion's corpse at the bottom, but he was really seriously injured when he fell down the ladder, and Liu Xun in the rear hurriedly sent someone to escort him back.
At this point, Wang Hao's siege of the city was a failure, and Liu Xun in the rear couldn't help but sigh.
But at this moment, Wang Hao's defeat is not the end.
"Let me come!"
Seeing Wang Hao's defeat, Gan Ning, who had just come to the city, suddenly roared. With one arm, he exerted all his strength and climbed up the ladder, and climbed up in three or two clicks.
Since the Jiangdong Army had just shot down Wang Hao, Chen Wu was careless for a while.
Seeing this sudden change in the situation at this moment, Chen Wu was suddenly shocked and shouted: "Quick, shoot me quickly"
In a panic, the Jiangdong army hurriedly set up a bow and shot arrows again, but it was too late at this moment.
Gan Ning's strength was much higher than that of Wang Hao, and at this moment, Gan Ning waved his sword, and the scattered arrows of the bow and arrows were suddenly swept away by him one by one. Then Gan Ning worked hard, and he was actually put on the wall by him, who was as light as a swallow.
After climbing to the top of the city, Gan Ning laughed wildly, and the big knife swept away. With a burst of screams, at least four or five unprotected crossbowmen were slashed with broadswords before they could dodge.
"General Gan is really a god! Brothers, rush! β
Seeing Gan Ning so brave, the dead soldiers under the ladder were greatly encouraged, and they all burst out into cheers, taking advantage of the sparse rain of arrows on the city's head, they quickly launched a climb to the ladder again.
"Haha...... Gan Ning is really a peerless general, Ben Taishou should personally beat the drum to cheer! β
Liu Xun saw it really under the city, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, turned over and dismounted, took the drumstick from the drummer, and personally beat the drum to cheer.
Gan Ning was like a tiger entering the flock, and with his broadsword flying up and down, the enemy army did not have a single enemy. Seeing this, Chen Wu hurriedly rushed over, and the big knife in his hand slashed down at Gan Ning, and shouted loudly: "The thief will not be killed!" β
"Haha, nameless rat, how do you know that it wasn't you who died?" Gan Ning was very simple, and with a single knife, he easily opened Chen Wu's knife.
Chen Wu was naturally unwilling, so he once again danced the knife and became entangled with Gan Ning.
Gan Ning's big knife is fast, each knife is like thunder, there are twenty or thirty rounds of battle, Chen Wu gradually left and right, a careless move, was cut in the neck by Gan Ning, and blood suddenly spurted out.
Gan Ning stepped forward very arrogantly and slashed Chen Wu's head, and used a long knife to pick up the Jiangdong army who rushed over in front of him and shouted: "You and the main general have already been awarded the head, if you don't want to die, don't you kneel down quickly and surrender?" β
Just when the Jiangdong soldiers were stunned. There are more and more Lujiang soldiers who climbed up behind Gan Ning.
With the death of the main general Chen Wu and the killing of nearly a third of his companions, looking at Gan Ning, who was like a demon god descending in front of him, this Jiangdong soldier suddenly shuddered.
There is a saying that a soldier dies for a confidant, and there are not a few who die for a general. This is the end of the Han Dynasty, even if it is a small soldier, sometimes he will have the integrity of preferring death to surrender. But Chen Wu obviously doesn't have that kind of charm. At that moment, the Jiangdong Army did not dare to resist anymore and surrendered on their kneesγγγγγγ
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Sun Quan had already received a letter from Lu Meng asking for help some time ago. But Sun Quan couldn't help it, because the previous army was defeated by his eldest brother Sun Ce.
Now that we are in a difficult situation at home and abroad, it is simply impossible to draw reinforcements. What's more important is that after he talked to Lu Su, he had already regarded Moling as an outcast in his heart.
At this moment, Sun Quan's own troops are slightly insufficient, and the first task now is naturally not to rescue Moling, but to step up the recruitment work.
At this moment, Sun Quan took the opportunity to recruit 30,000 soldiers and horses in Wu County, Huiji, and Danyang counties, which indirectly alleviated the dilemma of insufficient troops.
But there are pros and cons to everything, so many strong people have been recruited in a short period of time, and the farm work in the field has naturally been inevitably affected, so that now the farmers are complaining, and the reputation of the Sun family has also dropped a lot.
Now at this critical juncture of life and death, Sun Quan has nothing else to care about, after all, the main task now is to keep the foundation laid by his father Sun Jian and eldest brother Sun Ce.
During this period, tens of thousands of recruits were recruited, but there was no possibility of forming an army in a short period of time. If you rush to rescue Moling, I'm afraid that before you reach Moling City, these recruits who went to the rescue will be defeated by a charge from the Lujiang Army, and then they will really become meat buns and dogs, and there will be no return.