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It was already evening when the fierce battle at the head of the Chaisang city. Six Chaoches and the ladders leaned onto the city wall one after another. The huge wooden board in front of the platform at the top of the Chaoche fell down and hit the head of the city to form an air bridge.

Dozens of Jiangdong soldiers waved their swords and spears and rushed towards the city. Behind them, the Jiangdong army climbing up the stairs were emerging continuously.

The Chaisang defenders used stone cannons to destroy all the cloud ladders, but they were helpless against the Chain Vehicle. The Chain Vehicle was wrapped in raw cowhide and was not afraid of rockets. They could not destroy them with stone cannons. Six Chain Vehicles were close to the city wall, forming six passages, and countless Jiangdong troops flocked to the top of the city along the passage.

"Defend the city and drive the enemy away"

Liu Jing shouted loudly. He led two thousand Chaisang defenders to pounce on him and launched a fierce bloody battle with the Jiangdong army at the top of the city. The corpse was covered with blood and blood stained the city. Liu Jing was surrounded by more than 20 Jiangdong soldiers. He was not afraid, and his long halberd flew and was elusive. He pierced the throats of more than a dozen people in a row. When the other Jiangdong soldiers saw that he was extremely brave, they were so scared that they shouted, turned around and fled.

At this time, a soldier shouted: "Sima, there is a sneak attack behind him."

Liu Jing glanced back from the corner of his eyes. Only an eight-foot-tall Jiangdong Army officer held a battle knife and rushed to the battlement behind him, rushed towards him and slashed his neck with a knife.

Liu Jing shouted loudly, and the long halberd stabbed back like lightning. The tip of the halberd pierced through the jaw of the attacker and pierced the head. The blood-dropping tip of the halberd came out of the Tianling Cover. Liu Jing swung the body out and smashed five or six Jiangdong soldiers.

He roared again and rushed into the enemy group of the nest car, like a tiger or a sheep, and like a killing god again. He killed the soldiers in Jiangdong crying and screaming, and screaming sounded. He was covered with corpses and flesh and blood. The rest of the soldiers were frightened by his murderous aura, and they were so scared that they rolled and crawled out of the nest car.

At this time, dozens of guards hooked the nest car with iron hook ropes and pulled it hard from the side. The nest car began to tilt, gradually losing its center of gravity, and collapsed with a bang.

The Chaisang defenders finally found a way to deal with the Chain Vehicle, and their morale was rising. They did the same thing, first concentrating their forces to suppress the enemy in the Chain Vehicle, and then pulling them from the side with the length of the iron hook, and the successive Chain Vehicles overturned one after another.

At this time, the withdrawal bell of Dangdang finally rang out in the distance, and the Jiangdong army finally retreated like a tide.

After an afternoon of fierce battle, there were many dead bodies on the top of the city, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Nearly five of the Chaisang defenders were killed and five, and more than a thousand people in the Jiangdong Army also suffered more than a thousand casualties, most of whom were killed and injured by huge rocks.

"The first battle of Beizhi Ling Cao was unfavorable and suffered heavy losses. I specially apologized to the Marquis of Wu."

On the big boat, Ling Cao knelt in front of Sun Quan with his upper body naked. Sun Quan's face was as deep as water, his eyes flashed with anger, and he said with hatred: "The other party has only two thousand people, but you are more than eight thousand people. Not only can't get the city, but he has suffered heavy losses. Why do you explain to me?"

Ling Cao lowered his head in shame. He could not explain, and had no face to explain. At this time, Zhou Yu advised: "Wu Hou, the key is that the opponent's catapult is sharp. Most of the soldiers were injured by the catapult. In fact, there were more than a thousand casualties in the fierce battle of the city. As long as we effectively defend the catapult when attacking again, it would be easy to take down the Caesang City."

Sun Quan nodded and asked again: "What's the solution for Gongjin?"

Zhou Yu looked up at the sky and saw dark clouds and dark sky. He smiled slightly and said, "There must be no stars tonight. We can give up using nest carts and cloud ladders, and use light siege ladders to lurk under the city with the protection of the night. When the defenders discovered it, it was too late."

Ling Cao couldn't help but say, "In fact, the opponent's defenders are insufficient. We can attack Nancheng and Xicheng at the same time, and attack in the face and take down Chaisang easily."

At the prior combat meeting, Xu Sheng also proposed this attack plan, but was rejected by Sun Quan. In Sun Quan's opinion, capturing Chaisang was not a problem at all. The key was that he wanted to occupy Chaisang through a bloody battle to stimulate the morale of the Jiangdong Army. He was very confident and believed that Ling Cao's 8,000 troops would definitely be able to take Chaisang before dark.

However, he did not expect that the desperate resistance of the Chaisang defenders made his wishful plan fail. Now that Ling Cao proposed this plan again, Sun Quan no longer insisted. He looked at Zhou Yu tentatively, hoping that Zhou Yu could make up his mind for him.

Zhou Yu pondered for a moment and said, "It's not difficult to take down Chaisang. I suggest that the attack from the north should be the main focus, and the bluff can be made in the west. I guess Liu Jing will definitely break through from the south city by then. The lord can ambush two heavy troops outside the south city, and he can capture Liu Jing in one battle."

Sun Quan nodded and praised: "It's worthy of being Gongjin, and it's all right."

He immediately ordered: "Xu Sheng, where is Pan Zhang?"

"The last one is here" Xu Sheng and Pan Zhang stepped forward together to hold their fists and salute.

Sun Quan told the two of them: "Liu Jing will evacuate from Nancheng tonight. You two can lead 4,000 people each and set up two ambushes. Even if Liu Jing can kill the first ambush, he will not be able to kill the second one. Capture Liu Jing alive. I remember you two's great achievements."

The two of them were overjoyed and clasped their fists together and replied: "Abide by the order."

Sun Quan walked to the side of the boat with his hands, squinted his eyes at Chaisang City, and said to himself: "Liu Jing, I will set up a net of heaven and earth tonight, I will see where you can escape."

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The night gradually fell, and tonight the weather was gloomy and the clouds were densely covered, covering the stars and the moonlight, making the night particularly dark. Standing on the top of the city, you can’t see the situation outside the city for more than a dozen steps away. This is a night that is conducive to sneak attacks.

On the corridor of the upper city, teams of soldiers ran away with loads of hay and firewood onto the top of the city, as well as flammable objects such as sulfur. In less than half an hour, thousands of loads of firewood covered the entire north city.

Under the city, several military doctors were bandaging more than one wounded soldier. Liu Jing comforted the wounded soldiers one by one: "No, I won't leave you behind no matter what. There are still remaining war horses in the city, so you will ride them. Brothers who are seriously injured will have special people to take care of them. Everyone insist on it. As long as we break out of the encirclement, warships will be picked up by the river."

The wounded soldiers were extremely moved and knelt down and cried, "Meng Sima will not abandon us. When the injury improves, I am willing to continue to serve Sima."

Liu Jing comforted them a few more words, and at this time, a military marquis rushed over and reported: "Report to Sima, Chaicao is ready."

Liu Jing nodded, "Order the soldiers to go down to the city to rest, eat and prepare to break through."

Outside the northern city, Ling Cao led more than 5,000 people, carrying dozens of siege ladders, and was silently approaching the city wall. The dark night covered the soldiers of Jiangdong. There was no movement on the top of the city, and it was obvious that the Jiangdong army was not approaching.

More than a thousand soldiers had already crossed the moat, leaning against the city wall, everything was ready, waiting for the order to attack. At this moment, a shout of killing suddenly broke out outside the west city, and then there was a rumbling sound of war drums. The drums were shocking, and the alarm bell suddenly sounded on the top of the city.

I heard someone shouting at the top of the city: "Go to the Xicheng to defend, the Jiangdong army is going to attack Xicheng."

After rushing towards the west city, Ling Cao was secretly happy. He suddenly shouted, "Take it."

More than twenty siege ladders were raised almost at the same time and put on the top of the city. More than a thousand soldiers rushed towards the top of the city. More than 4,000 soldiers rushed up behind them, and shouts of killing suddenly erupted. In the darkness, soldiers from Jiangdong crossed the moat and rushed towards the north city with countless siege ladders.

At this moment, several rockets shot from the city toward the city, and soon firewood was ignited. The fire took advantage of the wind and began to burn quickly, emitting thick smoke.

The first batch of more than a thousand people had rushed to the top of the city, but they did not see a single defender, but only saw firewood covered with the top of the city, and the fire burned rapidly on the firewood.

At first, soldiers reacted and climbed down the city along the ladder. Many were squeezed down the city in panic, and long screams rang out. Ling Cao didn't know what had happened, but he was very anxious. He grabbed a man's neck and asked, "What happened above?"

"There is an ambush on it, all of which are firewood and fire burning."

Ling Cao was shocked and quickly ordered: "Stop the attack and stop the attack."

But his shouts were drowned by the shouts of the soldiers, and no one could hear them. The soldiers in front fled down the city, but the people behind did not know what had happened. A large number of soldiers continued to climb to the top of the city, but soon became a mess, with fire on the top of the city, raging fire tongues, and thick smoke filled the city, so it was impossible to get to the city at all.

At this moment, the north city gate suddenly opened wide and the suspension bridge fell. Liu Jing took the lead and led 1,566 people out of Chaisang City. Several people were caught off guard and were killed so much that they cried and ran away in all directions.

Although the chaos outside the northern city was a good opportunity to kill the enemy, Liu Jing was not in love with the battle. He led his troops to run two miles from the slant, quickly rushed into a dense forest, and headed northwest.

Sun Quan stood on the big ship and stared at the fire on the top of the North City. His brows were furrowed. It was obviously because they had not expected that Liu Jing was actually ambushing.

Just then, a small boat came and a soldier on the boat shouted: "Wu Hou"

Sun Quan leaned out of the boat and asked, "What happened?"

"Reported to the Marquis of Wu, the enemy army had prepared in advance, and covered the northern city wall with firewood. The fire was lit and we could not attack the city."

Sun Quan cursed in his heart and asked again: "Liu Jing can break through"

"They opened the North City Gate, took advantage of the chaos to fight out of the city, and ran northwest."

"It's actually the North City Gate"

Sun Quan and everyone on the boat looked at each other in shock, and no one expected that Liu Jing would die and survive. He did not go to the south gate, but ran away from the north gate.

Although it was very risky to go to the North Gate, Liu Jing successfully created chaos and took advantage of the enemy's chaos to break through the siege.

Sun Quan couldn't help but look back at Zhou Yu, and saw Zhou Yu's face pale, his fists were tightly pinched together, and his eyes showed a look of shame. He obviously lost to Liu Jing in the enemy.

At this time, General Lu Meng stepped forward and bowed: "Report to the Marquis of Wu, Liu Jing fled to the northwest, and there must be a response on the river. The last general is willing to lead a fleet to catch up with Liu Jing."

Zhou Yu also stepped forward and clasped his fists to advise, "Wu Hou, if Liu Jing is not eliminated soon, it will be a future trouble. His subordinates are willing to lead troops to wipe out Xiazhi County and Yangxin County, and bring Liu Jing to see him."
Chapter completed!