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Chapter 144: Liu Cong¡¯s surprise attack

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    Cao¡¯s soldiers held up their shields with one hand and grabbed the ladder with the other, climbing up quickly.

    The Han troops on the top of the city, under the command of Zhang Nan and Cui Zhouping, kept firing arrows and throwing rolling wood and thunder stones.

    The arrow tower was pushed closer and closer, and the Cao army's crossbowmen on it kept shooting at the Han army at the top of the city.

    The soldiers of the Cao army on the ladder and the soldiers of the Han army on the city wall fell one after another, and the dead bodies were piled together without distinction.

    However, there were fewer and fewer defenders at the top of the city, while more and more Cao troops were on the ladder.

    The thunderbolt cars stopped, and the shouting was louder than the whistling.

    "Golden juice, hurry up, pour the golden juice!" Zhang Nan shouted.

    The four soldiers used wooden frames to lift the hot golden juice and move it to the outside of the crenellations of the city wall.

    A burst of dense arrows came over, and the four soldiers and several shield bearers beside them were shot almost at the same time. The golden juice and the big cauldron fell down together.

    "Ah" Cao Jun's soldiers screamed, fell to the ground and rolled all over the ground!  His hands grabbed his body, or his head and face, and his howling was extremely miserable.

    Cao Xiu, who was supervising the battle from behind, couldn't bear to look directly at him, but he knew that now was the most critical moment, and it depended on who could hold on.

    "Second team, come on!"

    More than two thousand siege soldiers rushed to the city, set up ladders at the top of the city, and quickly climbed up.

    The soldiers of Cao's army who were carrying the bumping wood finally reached the city gate and began to hit the city gate.

    But immediately countless rolling logs and thunder stones fell, and many people turned into meat patties.

    A dense barrage of arrows was fired at the top of the city, and the Han army fell again.

    More than half of the thousand soldiers at the top of the city were dead or wounded at this time. The morale of Cao's army in the second group attacking the city was high. They climbed up the ladder in dense numbers and were about to rush to the top of the city.

    "Second team, go to the city!" Zhang Nan shouted.

    "Kill!" These thousand soldiers had already become high-spirited when they heard about the battle in the city.  Finally, when the order was given, they all rushed to the top of the city.

    At this time, Cao's soldiers had climbed to the top of the city, and the crossbowmen had stopped firing arrows.

    "Kill!" Above the city, the shouting of killing shook the sky.

    Xu Huang and Cao Xiu finally showed relaxed expressions on their faces when they saw hundreds of soldiers rushing to the top of the city.

    However, the next moment, it immediately became very solemn.

    The soldiers who rushed forward were quickly beheaded.  Even those centurions could not withstand three rounds in front of the Han soldiers!

    "how so?"

    Cao Xiu was puzzled, and Xu Huang was even more puzzled.

    When did the Han army become so powerful?

    ¡°That¡¯s not right!¡± Xu Huang quickly discovered the clue.  It's not that the Han army is strong in combat, but that its weapons are powerful!

    The swords and spears of their soldiers were all broken in two after being collided with the opponent's weapons once or twice.  Even those heavy swords will break if they can't withstand three attacks.

    Cao Jun¡¯s soldiers were still charging towards the top of the city one after another, but after rushing up, they couldn¡¯t take any advantage at all.

    "General, withdraw your troops!" Liu Ye looked at the situation in front of him and said to Xu Huang, "We need to think of a foolproof strategy."

    "Send the order, call the gold and withdraw the troops!" Xu Huang also knew that there was no hope of breaking the city today, so he gave the order helplessly.

    "Ding" A sound of ringing gold sounded, and Cao Jun withdrew like the ebbing tide of the sea.

    "Cao's army retreated!"

    "We won!"

    The soldiers on the top of the city screamed excitedly, but then many of them were so tired that they sat on the city tower where the corpses lay.

    Zhang Nan and Cui Zhouping did not dare to relax at all. They quickly cleared the city, treated the wounded soldiers, buried the corpses, and at the same time prepared for a more brutal siege.

    In Runan County, in a valley about sixty miles outside Shangcai City, Liu Cong, Liu Hu and Fazheng led five thousand soldiers and horses to camp.

    This valley is the remnant of Feihu Mountain.  After five days, they finally crossed Feihu Mountain and entered Runan.

    During the day, Deng Ai and his 300 personal guards disguised themselves as foreign merchants and entered Shangcai City. The rest of the army prepared to attack suddenly at night, and cooperated inside and outside to capture the city.

    "My lord, Shi Zai sent someone to deliver a letter!" Fazheng came to Liu Cong's handsome tent with a letter of information.

    "Bring it here quickly!" Liu Cong looked very excited when he heard this.  He had been counting the time, waiting for news from Deng Ai.

    Fazheng handed the information to Liu Cong, and Liu Cong gave it to Fazheng after reading it.

    "Xiaozhi, look at it."

      Fazheng looked at it carefully.

    "God is really helping my lord!" Fazheng was very excited, "Shangcai only has 500 soldiers, and the 300 personal guards of Shizai have been arranged by Tianwang. We can take Shangcai tonight without a single blow."

    "Xiao Zhi, it is easy to win Shang Cai, but you must be careful in the next step." Liu Cong was not so happy, "The governor of Runan is Tian Yu, this is not easy!"

    "Don't worry, my lord. Although Tian Yu is wise and brave, Runan's troops are too small and we were surprised. He will definitely mess up the formation and let us lead him by the nose!" Fazheng seemed confident.

    "Okay, it's already dark now. Break camp immediately and rush outside Xiacai City at midnight!"

    "No!"

    In less than half an hour, the army quietly left the valley and came to the official road.

    Liu Cong sent out more than a dozen sentinels and told them that if Cao Jun's scouts were alone, they would be eliminated directly. If there were more of them, they would come back and report immediately.

    The journey went very smoothly without any trouble. At the third watch, we arrived outside Shangcai City on time.

    "Light the fire, send the signal!"

    Immediately, the soldiers lit three torches and waved them twice.

    A torch was also lit on top of the city and waved twice.

    Liu Cong waved his long sword, and the soldiers immediately rushed to the city gate.

    "Creak" sound, the city gate opened.

    "My lord, enter the city quickly!" Deng Ai was greeting him at the city gate.

    "Enter the city!" Liu Cong gave the order and the army entered the city.

    Liu Cong left behind a thousand soldiers and horses, led by a captain of thousands, who controlled the city gates and towers.

    "Deng Ai, you immediately lead three thousand soldiers and occupy the remaining three city gates. Don't let anyone leave Shangcai."

    "No!" Deng Ai immediately led his army to the other three city gates.

    Liu Cong led the remaining one thousand soldiers, together with Fazheng and Liu Hu, the commander of the soldiers, and rushed to the county magistrate's office.

    Outside the county magistrate's office, there was a military camp with 200 soldiers stationed there. When the Han army suddenly appeared, they didn't even react and were made prisoners in a daze.

    The door of the county magistrate's house was quickly opened, and there were three hundred soldiers inside, but except for some patrolling soldiers, the rest were basically in their dreams.  There has been no fighting here for many years. How could they expect that the Han army would suddenly appear in the city?  In addition, these county soldiers and government soldiers did not have much combat power, so they did not make any resistance.

    The county magistrate and other officials were still in a daze when they were caught in front of Liu Cong.  When he learned that the person in front of him was Jingzhou Shepherd Liu Cong, he kept pinching his thigh.  The severe pain made them understand that this was not a dream.

    At dawn, everything in the city returned to order.  The county magistrate's office remains the same, but the original officials have become puppets.  The city gate remains the same, but the soldiers guarding the city have become Han troops.

    The people in the city did not find any clues, but although the four city gates were wide open, they could only go in, not out.  Cai, an important place in Yuzhou, was occupied by the Han army without anyone noticing.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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