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Zhang Liao was anxious at this time. He had seen the intention of the Han army, but he was helpless. The Han army's catapult was far away and their catapult range was not enough.

At this time, Zang Ba rushed forward and said, "Far away, let me lead my army out and destroy their catapults."

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Zhang Liao immediately rejected Zang Ba's request. He knew that it would be meaningless to destroy several catapults, and new catapults would come over. But once the city gates were opened, it would bring opportunities to the Han army. You must know that all city gates were sealed with huge stones, and the most powerful siege ram was difficult to break.

Zhang Liao looked at Zang Ba with anger and sighed, "Xuan Gao, calm down first."

After all, Zang Ba was also an experienced general. He was only angry by the unscrupulous attack of the Han army. Under Zhang Liao's persuasion, he gradually calmed down.

After pondering for a moment, Zang Badao: "The Han army aims to collapse the city wall. This move is indeed very powerful. It is estimated that the outer wall of the North City will collapse. Just like when attacking Lu Bu, the Xuzhou city wall was also defeated by the attacking ram. However, although the Xuzhou city wall collapsed, the Cao army still failed to break through the city."

A bright look flashed across Zhang Liao's eyes and asked anxiously: "How did you defend the city at that time?"

"At that time, Lu Bu followed Chen Gong's advice, demolished the house and used huge foundation stones to temporarily build an inner city. While fighting back, he repaired the city wall. Thousands of soldiers only took one night to repair the city wall."

As soon as Zang Ba finished speaking, he heard a series of dull sounds coming from the north. Zhang Liao's face changed drastically. At this time, the Han army used huge rocks to attack the city.

He said without hesitation: "Xuan Gao, go to the warehouse to get the foundation stone and prepare to build an inner city. I'll go to the city to take a look."

Zang Ba turned over and rushed towards the warehouse, while Zhang Liao turned around and ran towards the west city.

At this time, the northern city wall was stimulated by alternate fire and ice water, and burst into pieces. Many bricks and stones fell to the ground, and the bricks turned into stone powder. Under the continuous heavy blows of the Han army's huge rocks, the city wall finally could not support it. A section of the city wall, about a foot long, collapsed, and the yellow sand and soil that filled the city wall poured down.

In the distance, thousands of Han soldiers who were operating the catapult cheered together. At this time, General Wei Yan rode his horse to a hill, and Liu Jing and dozens of generals were watching the battle on the hill.

Wei Yan turned over and dismounted, walked up quickly and knelt down on one knee and bowed and said, "Report to Your Highness, the northern city of Hefei has collapsed. I am humble to ask for an order and I am willing to lead 10,000 troops into the city."

Liu Jing smiled, "There are 50,000 Cao troops in the city. How much does it mean to lead 10,000 troops to break in?"

"The humble official can open the city gate and allow the main force of the Han army to enter the city."

Liu Jing shook his head, "The Cao army is very morale, so it is not so easy to be defeated. But if you are willing to attack the city, I can order you, and you can lead 10,000 troops to attack the collapsed place of the city wall."

Wei Yan was overjoyed and said with his fists: "Abide by the orders of humble duties"

He turned around and ran towards the barracks not far away. At this time, Fa Zheng whispered to Liu Jing: "Don't Your Highness plan to use the battle in Hefei to drag down Cao Wei's economy if you are attacked by General Wei, wouldn't your Highness's plan be..."

Before Fa Zheng finished speaking, Liu Jing shook his head, "A section of the outer wall collapse does not mean that Hefei City will fall, but put pressure on Zhang Liao so that he will underestimate me."

Speaking of this, Liu Jing said to Gan Ning again: "Under pressure, Zhang Liao will definitely ask Cao Cao for help. You can lead thousands of troops north to intercept Shouchun reinforcements."

"The last one will follow the order"

Gan Ning hurried away, and Liu Jing ordered Wang Ping to lead 10,000 troops as Wei Yan's support. With the collapse of the northern city wall, a fierce battle was about to break out.

The sound of war drums sounded violently in the night. Ten thousand Han soldiers rushed towards the northern city under the leadership of Wei Yan. They rushed into the moat riverbed and shouted wildly towards the collapsed city wall. The sound of killing was shaking the sky, and the weapons hit the harsh and shocking.

The two earthen mountains inside and outside the North City started a battle almost at the same time. The huge rocks and fireballs smashed towards each other like raindrops, and the bright firelight illuminated the night sky.

The huge rock shot from Cao's scattering machine hit the running Han soldiers. The huge rocks rolled, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and screams sounded.

The catapults on the Han army's earthen mountain were not showing any weakness, and smashed the turbulent oil tanks and huge rocks on the top of the city. The gravel splattered and the fire flew into the air. On the north city of Hefei, thousands of Cao troops squatted against the city walls and avoided the huge rocks whistling from the sky. Cao soldiers were constantly hit by the huge rocks, bloody and smashed into meat pie. The fire quickly approached. Many soldiers were surrounded by the fire and jumped off the city screaming.

However, neither the Cao army nor the Han army's catapult could stop the Cao army's defense and the Han army's attack. The Cao army soldiers took bows and arrows, waiting for the Han army to rush into the range.

Wei Yan took the lead and rushed to the riverbed first. At this time, he glanced at the Cao army whistleman on the top of the city, and immediately set off a bow and took an arrow. A strong arrow shot out from the bow. The arrow penetrated the whistleman's neck. The whistleman screamed and fell heavily from the four-meter-high city.

The scream was like a death bell in the dark night, and it woke up all the Cao soldiers on the city. The soldiers on the city stood up and fired their bows and arrows. For a moment, the arrows were like heavy rain. Several Han cavalry were shot into arrows, and the neighing sounds of war horses pierced the sky.

At this time, thousands of Cao soldiers suddenly emerged from the collapsed gap. They shouted loudly, ran out of the gap, waving spears and swords toward the Han army running towards them.

This is the city where the Cao army was busy building a stone wall city in order to gain time. They needed time, so the thousands of Cao troops were responsible for delaying the Han army's offensive.

The 10,000 Han troops led by Wei Yan were elite troops from Yizhou. They were all highly morale and brave and good at fighting. Many soldiers were already in battle. Although the terrain was not conducive to them, they still had an offensive and launched wave after wave of attacks on the Cao army.

In contrast, most of the thousands of suicide troops sent by Zhang Liao were old and weak, and the elite soldiers were left in the city by Zhang Liao. After these attacks, Cao's army broke out of the city, it was difficult for them to return. They would all die under the attack of the Han army.

There were not many people attacking Cao's army, only a thousand people. They could only rely on slightly favorable terrain to fight the Han army. However, after all, the number was small and the old and weak were old. They were far from the opponent of the Han army. Soon, under the attack of ten thousand Han troops like a tide, most of the Qian Cao's army was killed.

The remaining more than a thousand Cao troops could no longer resist the attack of the Han army and began to flee in all directions, but the Han army ignored them and did not pursue them. The key now is to fight for the collapsed gap.

The Cao army on the top of the city had already built dense wooden stakes on both sides of the collapsed city wall and built five layers of huge rocks to completely isolate the intact city wall from the collapsed place, making it impossible for the Han army to attack the city and can only cross the gap and attack the city.

At this time, the Han army dug out the gap and razed the two-meter-high gap to the ground. Thousands of Han army attacked the city like a tide. Because the two armies were close together, the projection on both sides had stopped, and the two armies were allowed to fight to enter the city.

As the gap was lost, Cao's army was about to complete the stacking of stone walls. They first built a circle of wooden fences. The thick fences were made of beams of houses, thick and strong. The gaps between the wooden fences could only be passed by one punch, which was very dense.

Behind the wooden fence, Cao's army used tens of thousands of flat foundation stones to form a urn city covering an area of ​​more than ten acres around the gap in the city. The stone wall is four meters high and is about one meter thick, which can withstand the impact of siege rams. Thousands of Cao's soldiers lay on the wall, placing bows and arrows, waiting for the Han army to enter.

Once Cao's army filled the city wall from the inside, the gap actually lost the meaning of the city breaking. It was just that time was urgent, and there was still a wall about a meter wide that had not been closed.

Thousands of Han soldiers rushed into the city, and storm-like arrows shot from all directions towards the Han soldiers under the city. They held up their shields and rushed towards the gap in the wall that was squat-width without hesitation.

The core of the competition between the two sides is this gap that is slim, which is the only way to enter the city. Neither side has a choice and can only fight to the death.

More than a thousand Han troops and more than two thousand Cao troops launched a fierce battle at this gap that was only meter long and wide.

More than a thousand Han soldiers rushed in like a tide. They had no time to form a formation, waved long swords, held shields in their hands, and stormed the bows and arrows, and rushed forward in the rain of arrows. For a moment, the sword light was cold and the long arrows were sucked to death. Dozens of Cao soldiers who were fighting wooden stakes in the urn city could not escape and were killed by the killing Han soldiers.

The smell of blood in the air made the Han army extremely fearless. Even though the people rushing in front had been killed, the soldiers behind were still rushing up crazily, pressing the corpse shield, and the powerful impact force overthrew dozens of Cao army cavalry blocked in the gap to the ground. The cavalry on the horse fell to the ground one after another and were cut into meat paste by the Han army's scrambled blades.

Zang Ba shouted and directed several Cao troops to block the corridor. They squeezed into a ball with the attacking Han army, and could not lift the knife. So they bit with their teeth, beat their fists, and stabbed them with daggers, without stepping back. Only the sound of bones breaking and the clamoring sound of their throats before death. The dead and living people squeezed together, suffocating so much that they couldn't breathe.

More and more Han troops flocked into the urn and launched a fierce attack at the gap under the leadership of Wei Yan. In the urn, Han soldiers were corpses everywhere, and Cao's archers on the stone wall shot arrows downwards, and Han soldiers were constantly being shot and died tragically.

At this time, Wei Yan ordered the use of dead horses to build a meat ladder. Although it was high enough to not be able to reach the wall, dozens of powerful Han soldiers had already climbed up to the stone wall and fought fiercely with Cao's archers on the stone wall, killing Cao's soldiers retreated one after another, and countless casualties were injured.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Zang Ba roared, snatched the big sword from his personal soldiers, jumped onto the stone wall, and rushed towards several Han soldiers who rushed towards him. He stabbed him with a spear. Zang Ba dodged and swung the big sword suddenly, and blood burst out. The two Han soldiers were actually chopped into four sections by him and rolled down from the stone wall.

Zang Ba's ferociousness seemed to be transmitted to every Cao army soldier. Another Cao army rushed up the stone wall. They fought back and drove dozens of Han soldiers down the stone wall again.

Wei Yan was furious. He hid secretly in the dark, took the bow and arrow, aimed at the general of Cao's army, and a cold arrow shot at Zang Ba. Zang Ba could not dodge and hit the back of his shoulder. The strength in his hand disappeared, and the sword flew away.

Dozens of Han soldiers rushed up the stone wall again, put the long ladder down the wall, and tried to climb over the stone wall and enter the city. On the stone wall, the Cao soldiers rushed up and fought fiercely with the Han soldiers to stop them from climbing over the wall.

Liu Jing stood behind the earthen mountain and watched the fierce battle below. Although it was night, many Cao army soldiers held torches in their hands, so that Liu Jing could vaguely see the fierce battle inside the wall.

At this time, Fa Zheng discovered something wrong and immediately said to Liu Jing: "Have you seen it? The Cao army soldiers on the city wall did not seem to shoot arrows. If they closed the gap and ignited the city, our army might be destroyed."

Liu Jing suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He also realized the intention of Cao's army. As long as they cut off the Han army and burned the city with tinder oil, thousands of Han soldiers would be burned to death.

Liu Jing immediately ordered: "Ming Jin... will not inform General Wei Yan to retreat immediately."

Liu Jing did not dare to order the Jinjin to withdraw the troops, which would instead give Cao Jun a signal to take action. He took out the gold medal and handed it to a guard, "If he does not obey the order, he will be killed immediately."

The guard took the gold medal and rode away. After a moment, he rushed into the gap and shouted loudly: "General Wei, your highness orders you to retreat immediately."

Wei Yan was jealous of killing, and he was not willing to listen. He shouted: "Tell Your Highness, I am about to break into the city."

Seeing that he refused to retreat, the guard held up the gold medal and shouted: "General Wei Yan, if you do not listen to the orders of the King of Han, you will be killed immediately."

Wei Yan recognized the King of Han's gold medal, and he was secretly shocked. The King of Han actually ordered himself to retreat with the gold medal. He did not dare to violate the order anymore, and immediately shouted loudly: "Send the order to withdraw the troops."

The Han army retreated out of the city like a tide. Cao's soldiers immediately reported to Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao was on the city wall. He was indeed preparing to cut off the Han army and burn the Han army in the city with tinder oil. However, the reason why he did not order to take action was because he felt that the enemy troops in the wall were not enough, and there were still thousands of Han troops outside that did not enter.

At this time, he received a report from the soldiers that the Han soldiers had actually retreated. Zhang Liao was shocked and rushed forward. He saw that thousands of Han troops had quickly withdrawn from the collapse gap, and there were not enough people in the besieged city.

After a while, Zhang Liao sighed. The Han army suddenly retreated when it gained an advantage, obviously seeing through his own plans and making him lose all his efforts.
Chapter completed!