~.-~ Chapter 126 Bo Fu steals the city in the middle of the night and retreats to the Divine Pavilion

But what surprised the defenders at the city was that after Sun Ce's army launched a fierce rock-throwing attack on the city.

The army did not take advantage of the situation to climb the city, but instead made continuous adjustments to the siege equipment. More soldiers of the Jiangdong army were involved in the sorting of camps. It seemed that they were preparing to siege Qu'a for a long time.

Apart from the occasional boulders ejected, both sides spent an afternoon peacefully.

Late that night, midnight, in the dark night, the whole city of Qu'a was silent.

In the quiet night, the Quaxi city gate, which was facing the Jiangdong Army camp, slowly opened in a low rumbling sound.

In the darkness, I don’t know who opened Qu’a’s Ximen. Later, when the Military Law Department investigated military merits, I found a funny and silly situation.

At that time, there were at least three or four groups of people who sneaked to open the city gate. There were Zhang Ying's troops who had agreed to join forces to come to Xiancheng tonight, and dozens of big-name households in the city joined forces to form hundreds of soldiers who came from several directions.

Another part of them was to listen to the propaganda team's publicity and wanted to surrender and rush to the city defenders who lived a free and happy life.

Since no one lit a torch during the operation, he was walking in the darkness. When he encountered it, he would gather together tacitly until he gathered in front of the city gate.

All the forces with ghosts in their hearts did not have any conflicts. The city gate was so small, and several groups of people finally entered the door and gained the first contribution of the city. The dispute almost started.

Until the deputy general sent by Zhang Ying saw that the time for the agreement with the outside of the city had come, he was afraid that he would be noticed by Liu Yao's army and would lead to failure of the operation.

Only then did we rely on our strongest strength to decide to share the contributions to the city. If anyone dared to disagree with the killing on the spot, the suppressed dispute in front of the city gate was settled.

When a night patrol soldier in the city noticed something was wrong and issued an alarm, Sun Ce's army had already entered the city at some point and occupied half of Qu'a City. Almost instantly, half of Qu'a City became in chaos.

Seeing that the whereabouts were revealed, the fully armed elite soldiers of the Jiangdong Army shouted loud slogans.

"Don't kill if you surrender! Surrender to avoid death! Capture Liu Yao alive and reward him with 100,000 yuan! You are promoted to third level!"

The loud slogans resounded throughout Qu'acheng. Under the attractive slogans and the fierce offensive of the Jiangdong Army, the nearly 50,000 troops stationed in the city almost collapsed and were defeated in a blink of an eye. They could no longer organize a decent counterattack.

Liu Yao's army, who wanted to break through in the four barracks in the city, could only conflict in groups like headless flies under the guidance of their respective army and team leaders in the dark city.

These riots usually rushed not far away and were intercepted by the Jiangdong Army's powerful crossbows, and then knelt down and surrendered under the slogan. Half of the city to the west of the city has been blocked by the Jiangdong Army everywhere, and it is impossible for them to escape from the city again.

Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, was woken up by the guards in a chaos.

Liu Yao, who had a dark face, saw Yan Baihu who came to report the news, and whispered: "Emperor Yan, what's going on?"

Yan Baihu was inspecting the city briefly and said angrily: "Sir, someone opened the gate of Xicheng at night. Sun Bofu's army has occupied Xicheng and is coming here!

Sir! Now the city is in chaos, so I can only abandon the city for the time being, turn around and rectify the troops, and then fight back the city! Sir, retreat!"

Xu Shao and others who were awakened also appeared. Liu Yao looked at the West City with fire and neighing and shouting. He knew that the situation was hopeless and without the defense of the city wall, his new recruits would not be the opponents of the well-equipped Sun Cejun at all.

After looking at the arms that were still wrapped by the only brave general under his command, Liu Yao could only wave his hand sadly, without saying a word. He led all the entourages of Xu Shao and other governors' mansion and ten thousand people stationed next to the governor's mansion to rush out of the east gate with the light of fire rising from the city.

He escaped hundreds of miles overnight at an incredible speed and retreated to the Dantu with his remaining soldiers.

The people shouted and neighed overnight, and the chaos was very chaotic. By dawn, Qu'a, the temporary capital of Liu Yao, was completely captured and replaced by his master. The Jiangdong army entered the city with strict military discipline and no violations.

Cooperating with the entry of a large number of propaganda teams, the people in the city who had already expected Sun Ce's Jiangdong Army, quickly returned to normal regardless of their life or mood.

If it weren't for the Jiangdong Army soldiers who were still scattered on the streets, they would only look at the civilians who had no difference in the streets from usual. No one would have believed that Qu Acheng had experienced a huge chaos last night.

At the bottom of Shenting Ridge is the only official road from Qua to Dantu. The originally wide official road arrived here, but was limited by the mountain and became much narrower. After Liu Yao arrived at Dantu, he occupied a dangerous place at the bottom of Shenting Ridge and established a large camp to guard it.

In addition to gathering up the fleeing defeated soldiers, they also issued military orders to Xu Gong, Wang Lang and others for reinforcements.

However, this time, the two prefects learned that Liu Yao led an army of 50,000 and defeated Qu'a so quickly. They also trapped the 5,000 reinforcements he sent in Qu'a City, but they were no longer as happy as they were at the beginning.

Neither of them was foolish, and they wanted to retain some strength for their counties. Both prefects replied to each other, and they refused to give their respective troops and could not reinforce them again.

Regarding the two's refusal, Liu Yao, who was chasing Jiangdong Army, could only be helpless.

However, Yan Baihu, who was still recovering from his injuries, was dissatisfied and asked his brothers to transfer five thousand soldiers. In addition, the defeated soldiers who escaped from Qu'a City over the past few days actually caused Liu Yao to gather nearly 30,000 troops.

Among the defeated soldiers who came, what surprised Liu Yao the most was that Zhang Ying, who was originally stationed in the camp in the north of the city, also brought nearly 6,000 soldiers out of Qu'a and gathered many escaped soldiers along the way.

On the evening of the second day, Zhang Ying and his 8,000 troops rushed to the camp at Xinzai at Shenting Ridge.

Zhang Ying was able to gather so many soldiers back, which made Liu Yao feel a little more moved when he came out of the camp to greet him. Facing this subordinate who followed him closely and never left him, Liu Yao felt a little guilty.

"Yes! Who can not defeat the battle when facing a powerful enemy? Fortunately, I did not have the impulse to behead Zhang Ying, who had just escaped from Niuzhu. Even if I was killed at that time, it would have no effect on the battle situation.

There would be no more success in gathering defeated soldiers today. With 30,000 troops in hand, relying on the advantage of the easy defense and difficult attack, the courage of the Sun Ce Jiangdong Army, who resisted, returned to his heart again.

This time, Liu Yao and Yan Baihu learned from the lessons of Qu Acheng's fall and sent their own personal guards to join the patrol of Ye's stroke. They greatly increased the number of people on duty.

And the guards who were on duty were ordered to be on duty. The leaders must take turns to stay awake and must not repeat the mistakes of Qu Ali City's carelessness and losing the city gate.

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Chapter completed!