Chapter 33: Cracking Fancheng

Cai Mao was under great pressure. After only one day of fighting, nearly one-third of his troops were lost. How should he fight next?

Two hours later, when the Deng army finished resting, the wheeled attack was launched again, and this time it was even more crazy than the last time. As the chief general of the first siege unit, Zhang Fei led the way. Before the soldiers arrived at the city, he had already carried the ladder to the city and climbed the ladder alone to kill.

"Quick, stop him!" Cai Mao's eyes were sharp-eyed, and he was the first to find that Zhang Fei had climbed up. He hurriedly directed his soldiers to stop Zhang Fei, but who is Zhang Fei? A powerful general in the world, he saw him holding a spear, one on the left and one on the right, just like cutting melons and vegetables. There was no one in the Jing army.

While Zhang Fei was raging above Fancheng City, the Deng army had already arrived at the city. The soldiers set up ladders to rush up. As Zhang Fei started killing on the city, the Jing army soldiers were frightened and retreated one after another, not daring to move forward. Seeing this, Cai Mao roared and howled, and asked the soldiers to go up and stop Zhang Fei, but it did not have much effect.

When Yue Fei in the Deng army army saw that Zhang Fei was in a state of no one, he knew that the opportunity to fight for one day had come. He quickly ordered Deng Ai and Ma Chao to go up and participate in the siege, and the rest of the troops were on standby at any time.

Deng Ai and Ma Chao divided the work and cooperated. Ma Chao led his troops to kill the city and met with Zhang Fei, while Deng Ai directed the soldiers to hit the city with a rushing car.

"Bang!" Under the huge impact of the rushing car, the city gate of Fancheng was shaking. On the top of the city, Deng Jun's morale was greatly boosted due to the addition of Ma Chao, killing Jing Jun to retreat one after another, crying for his father and mother.

Cai Mao felt bitter when he saw the situation of rapid destruction. He did not expect that Fancheng, which was guarded by 30,000 troops, could not even defend it for a day when facing only 70,000 Deng troops and defending them to the death. This was a very shame for him.

"I'm fighting with you." Cai Mao felt very ashamed. He saw Zhang Fei and Ma Chao killing on the top of the city again. He was very angry. He was afraid of death on weekdays and actually raised his sword to kill Zhang Fei. Although Cai Mao's level was very limited, he still had martial arts skills to become the general of Jing State. When he rushed towards the place where Zhang Fei was, the soldiers of Deng's army who dared to stop him were killed by him.

Zhang Fei was already killing happily, but when he saw Cai Mao rushing towards him and all the Deng soldiers who blocked him along the way were killed by him, he suddenly felt angry. With a spear, he swung down several Jing soldiers around him and killed Cai Mao.

"Shut!" Zhang Fei's spear and Cai Mao's long sword met. Then, Cai Mao's long sword flew out. Cai Mao was shocked. The courage he had just raised disappeared. He quickly turned around and retreated, but Zhang Fei was not willing to let him go, and shouted and killed him.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Jing army blocked Zhang Fei for Cai Mao, which made Cai Mao save his life. Cai Mao, who was out of danger, was still shocked and quickly picked up his long sword and directed the soldiers to block it.

"Boom!" This is when Deng Ai, who was fighting at the top of the city, finally broke through the city gate. A large number of Deng army soldiers rushed into Fancheng with the rushing car. The Jing army at the city gate was killed and retreated step by step and was defeated.

Cai Mao watched Deng's army enter the city continuously. He knew that he had been defeated and was powerless to turn things around. He looked pale and held the sword in his hand tightly, and said loudly: "As the general of Jing State, I should have led my Jing State army to defend the strong enemy outside and maintain the country inside, but I have been defeated repeatedly and lost my troops and land. I am ashamed of the people of Jing State and the trust of the king. Today, Fancheng is lost, and I will live and die with Fancheng." After that, I put the sword across my neck and planned to commit suicide to apologize.

"General, no." Just when Cai Mao was about to commit suicide, his deputy general came over and stopped Cai Mao and said, "General, victory or defeat is a common matter for soldiers. Never make a fuss. Keep the green mountains here and don't be afraid of burning firewood. If there is something wrong with the general, who will defend Xiangyang and what to do with Jing Kingdom? I hope the general will think twice."

The words of the deputy general were like a basin of cold water to wake Cai Mao up. In fact, the reason why Cai Mao wanted to commit suicide just now was just because of his courage raised up in a moment of shame and anger. After hearing the words of the deputy general, Cai Mao was lucky and thought, yes, I can't die yet. If I die, what should I do in Xiangyang? What should I do in Jiangling? What should I do in Jingguo?

"Send the order quickly, Fancheng can't defend it anymore. Gather the army, withdraw from Fancheng, and retreat to Xiangyang." Cai Mao, who didn't want to die, thought of retreating at the first time. Fancheng could not be defended. Instead of fighting with Deng's army here and eventually annihilated the entire army, it would be better to preserve its strength and retreat to Xiangyang to rebuild the defense line.

The Jing army didn't want to continue fighting, but after the order to retreat, they rushed to Xiangyang in fear. Seeing this, Cai Mao was furious and was about to give orders to the deputy general to restrain the soldiers, but before the deputy general arrived, Deng army came over. Cai Mao was shocked and could no longer care about assembling the troops, so he hurriedly led his personal soldiers to run with the large army.

When Cai Mao ran, the Jing army's defense line completely collapsed. Seeing this, Yue Fei quickly ordered the entire army to attack. Song Guang and Pang De took the lead and rushed into Fancheng, Yang Yanzhao and Wang Ce followed.

As the Deng army entered the city, the Jing army in the city completely gave up resistance and put down their weapons one after another. Soon, the city was cleared, and Yue Fei asked Su Hong and others to post a banner to relieve the people.

Zhang Fei and others originally planned to lead their troops to pursue him, but Yue Fei considered that the soldiers had already exhausted their energy after fighting for a day and a night. What's more, Cai Mao is like a frightened bird, and will definitely run towards Xiangyang without stopping, not to stop, and it is meaningless to pursue him again. It would be better to rest in Fancheng and wait for the soldiers to recover and then reorganize the army to Xiangyang.

At night, Yue Fei and others gathered at the General's Mansion in Fancheng to discuss matters.

Su Hong kept flipping through the book in his hand and said, "General Yue, our army suffered more than 4,000 soldiers, more than 5,000 injured, more than 1,000 people were seriously injured and unable to go to the battlefield. He killed more than 8,000 enemy soldiers and captured nearly 1,000 prisoners. Because the Jing army retreated in panic, the food and grass in the city did not have time to carry or destroy them, and all of them were seized by our army."

After hearing this, Yue Fei and others were overjoyed. Although the casualties in the battle of Fancheng were a bit serious, the results were also remarkable. Not only did they take down Fancheng, the northern gateway to Jing Kingdom, but they also destroyed nearly 20,000 Jing troops, and destroyed one-third of the troops of Jing Kingdom in one fell swoop, seizing countless food and grass military funds, greatly shocking Jing Kingdom, which played a great role in attacking Xiangyang.

Yue Fei thought for a while and said, "Take care for the injured brothers and send scouts to Xiangyang for investigation. It is necessary to clearly explore the situation in Xiangyang. At the same time, send people to Wancheng to report the victory and ask the court to send people to take over Fancheng."

"Here!" Su Hongdao.

Yue Fei said: "Now that Fancheng has been lowered, and only Xiangyang is left north of Jiangling. As long as Xiangyang is taken down, Jiangling will be in front of you. The unparalleled achievements will be in front of you. I hope you all will encourage you."

"Don't worry, General Yue, we will definitely take Xiangyang, the troops will come to Jiangling, and destroy Jing Kingdom." The generals said loudly.
Chapter completed!