The watchtower is not tall enough to provide an unobstructed view of the situation below. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At the same time, because it is not high, the shouts and shouts of the officers and soldiers can be heard clearly.

Under the city wall, hundreds of thieves have been pushing the cart and coming with great momentum. The length of the rushing car is about two zhang, and the width is about four people, which is really much larger than the previous siege of the city.

Under the light of the fire, which was as bright as day, the wheel marks left by the car were deep in the mud, and it was assumed that the weight of the car should be extremely heavy.

In the middle of the night, the thieves had already pushed the cart to the city gate, and the officers and soldiers in the city had prepared torches to burn the city gate.

Not only torches, but also hot oil. Yongzhou is a place rich in vegetable oil, and the most important thing is this thing, which comes in handy at this moment.

Knock! Knock!

With the shouts of the thieves, the iron tip of the rushing car quickly pierced the newly replenished city gate. Seeing this, thousands of cavalry of the thief army followed, apparently preparing to repeat their old tricks, and break into the city while the door was broken, as they had done last time.

"Pour oil, light the fire!" directly behind the city gate, a lieutenant in dark red armor drew his sword and ordered loudly.

In an instant, the city gate of Anding was burning. The fire was bright, the city gate collapsed, and the fire quickly burned to the top of the rushing car, and the fire crackled for a while. The thieves outside the door were caught off guard and had to abandon the rushing car. They showed their weapons one after another, intending to force their way into the city. But the fire was so great that dozens of people had to retreat obediently after being burned to death.

"Shoot the arrows!" In the absence of the four generals, the lieutenant in the dark red armor held the overall situation alone and ordered again.

For a while, the arrows rained down like locusts, shooting down the retreating thief army one after another, leaving hundreds of corpses behind.

Liu Yu was very interested in this red-helmet lieutenant general, and he could clearly hear this person's voice, which was the same person who had knocked on the door earlier and begged for orders.

He turned to the four generals and asked, "What is this man's name?"

"Zhang Defang. One of them hastened to reply.

"Lord Thorn's own son. Another added.

"What?" Liu Yu was surprised when he heard this.

As the saying goes, "dragons give birth to dragons, and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes", Zhang Wen is exactly what kind of virtue, he knows very well. This Zhang Wenzheng is lazy, but he didn't expect to give birth to a good son.

Seeing that he was surprised, the four generals hurriedly explained:

This Zhang Defang is Zhang Wenzheng's fifth son, when Zhang Wenzheng came to Yongzhou to take office, the other four sons stayed in Chang'an to enjoy themselves, but this Zhang Defang followed. This Zhang Defang can't get used to his Lao Tzu's corruption and bribery, and he doesn't deal with his Lao Tzu, and he fools around with a bunch of soldiers all day long. Zhang Wenzheng was very angry with this son, so he simply incorporated him into the army and became a deputy general who was neither high nor low, and he had not been summoned to the Assassin's Mansion for a long time, as if he did not have this son. Zhang Defang is also stubborn, he doesn't see him if he doesn't see it, and he never mentions him in the barracks. Speaking of which, the father and son haven't seen each other for more than half a year, and I don't know if Zhang Defang saw it when Zhang Wenzheng came just now?"

"Hehe, it's good that I didn't see it. If he saw his bear-like appearance, Zhang Defang would not be angry!"

That is, Zhang Defang often said that this old man was the most embarrassing for him. ”

"In good conscience, although Zhang Wenzheng is not a thing, this son is a good man!"

After listening to the words of the generals, Liu Yu had a preliminary impression of this Zhang Defang. At this time, the fire at the gate of Anding City burned more and more urgently, and it was enough to reach the sky.

The cavalry of the thief army outside the city could not enter the gate, so they had to tighten their horses and slowly retreat. At the same time, tens of thousands of thieves like ants clinged to the ladder and rushed straight to the city wall. There are not many officers and soldiers left in the city, and most of them have been taken by Zhang Defang to the city to burn the door.

Liu Yu looked back at the four generals, "What do you think should be done with the current battle situation?"

The generals looked at the situation under the city from afar, and they were already anxious. Many of their children and dependents are in the city, and once the city is broken, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"What are you waiting for, let everyone go up to the city wall and defend it!"

"It's just that it's too late!"

"The ladders of those thieves are specially made, with barbed iron hooks at the ends, and once they are on the city wall, they cannot be pushed down. ”

"General Meng is right, as long as one of these thieves ascends to the top of the city, the rest will follow. We suffered this loss a few days ago, and it took more than 600 casualties to drive them down. ”

Liu Yu smiled and shook his head slightly, "In my opinion, the enemy is outnumbered, and just defending the city is not a way!"

He was lucky with his dantian and sent a wisp of voice to the red-helmeted deputy general who was fighting under the city tower, "Zhang Defang, take five hundred people to carry the fire oil to the city wall, and prepare to burn the wall!"

The four generals were stunned when they heard this, in ancient times, Zhou Lang used fire to break Cao Cao's million-strong army, but now this Lord Liu is doing the opposite, blindly using fire to defend.

Downstairs in the city, Zhang Defang couldn't help but be surprised when he heard Liu Yu's voice, "Who is this person, how do you know your name?" But this voice is very familiar, it is the person who told him to burn the city gate just now.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, and immediately re-ascended the city tower with five hundred sergeants. He is not a bad man, and he already has his own idea in his chest after Liu Yu woke up. He ordered all the soldiers to stand on the side of the city wall in three steps, one in three steps, with oil drums.

The thieves and soldiers under the city saw that the officers and soldiers defending the city did not release arrows, and the attack became more and more fierce for a while, and they all rushed towards the city wall with a roaring ladder.

In an instant, hundreds of ladders set up the city wall, and tens of thousands of thieves went straight up, close to the city wall, and the bright weapons in their hands were clearly visible.

Zhang Defang saw the thief army approaching, and shouted loudly: "Pour oil, light the fire!"

For a moment, the hot oil poured down the city walls, and the flames rose violently, stretching for miles, like a magnificent fire dragon lying under the night sky.

The armor of the thieves who were bound to win touched the fire and fell from the ladder screaming. Seeing this, others hurriedly retreated from the ladder, but behind them were all people who rushed up. For a time, the crowd was crowded, the scene was very chaotic, and there were thieves and soldiers who fell down from the cloud ladder several feet high in the fierce squeezing, and fell to the foot of the city wall, becoming a puddle of meat and mud.

The fire spread along the hot oil flowing from the city walls into the thief army's array, like a raging sea of fire.

The thief army was already in chaos, and when they saw the fire coming, they had no desire to fight, so they no longer paid attention to the commander's orders and retreated one after another. How could the fire be so fast that people were constantly being swallowed up by the sea of fire, and the screams shook the sky.

The four generals sat on the roof of the building and couldn't help but look dumbfounded, they were all in the army for decades and experienced a hundred battles, but how could they have seen such a magnificent scene.

"What do you think should happen next?" asked the four of them with a smile.

When the four generals saw the defeat of the thief army, they were relieved in their hearts, and they all felt guilty about the Lord Liu in front of them, and secretly said that they should never suspect him of betraying the city with Zhu Wen.

The four of them thought for a while and answered one after another.

"The fire is very large, and the walls are mostly burned down, so we should send people to repair the walls as soon as the fire is extinguished. ”

"According to the opinion of the last general, we should take advantage of the victory to pursue, send a group of men and horses out of the city, and kill the thief army without leaving a piece of armor. ”

"Oh, hey, you're not right, but hurry up and reassure the people and tell all the people the news of the victory, so that the hearts of the people can be settled. ”

"Haha, you're all wrong, in my opinion, let's listen to Lord Liu's orders!"

After this man finished speaking, the four generals laughed.

Liu Yu smiled slightly, the evening breeze was slightly flirtatious, and he felt the breath of friendship.