Jicheng.

At this moment, the capital of Han State was already in panic.

The news that Emperor Liu Bei abandoned the city and fled had already made the people in the city extremely uneasy. When they heard the news that the Wei army had arrived, they were even more frightened.

Zhuo County was besieged for three months, and the people in the city were forced to the point where Yizi ate each other. This terrifying news had long been heard. Jicheng was also besieged, so they naturally feared that the same disaster would also come to their heads.

As a general guarding the city, Zhang Fei sent people to post a list of articles everywhere in the city, saying that Liu Bei did not abandon them, but went to Dai County to ask for help from the Xianbei people, and soon he would lead a large army back.

In addition, Zhang Fei was afraid of chaos in the city, so he sent troops to inspect the city and implemented strict martial law to prevent someone from responding to the Wei army and taking the opportunity to cause chaos.

Zhang Fei's personal ability is undoubtedly reflected in this crisis. Under his thunderous means of "coaxing and scaring", the panicked hearts of the city were finally suppressed.

The end of the south gate.

Zhang Fei held the snake spear in his hand, his eyebrows were deep, his black eyes looked out of the city, and his boundless camp of the Wei army, and he was gritting his teeth secretly.

"Tao thief, with me, Zhang Fei, don't even want to break through my capital of Han!" Zhang Fei's fist hit the city wall hard and sweared secretly.

At this moment, a general of Wei came out of the camp alone and headed straight for the south gate of Jicheng.

If you come alone, you must be a messenger.

Zhang Fei was also a person who knew the rules and knew the reason why the two armies were fighting and not killing the envoys, so he ordered the entire army to not shoot arrows. Let's see what the envoy of Wei wanted to say.

The person who came from the flying cavalry was Houyi, the Great Wei Arrow Saint.

He rushed over, pulled his horse away seventy steps, bent his bow and arrow, shouting: "Listen Zhang Yide, this is a handwritten letter from Zhao Zilong to you, then!"

Before he finished speaking, Houyi loosened his fingers and came through the air with an arrow, heading straight to the top of the city.

Houyi's archery skills were super famous. The Han army had been afraid of it. When he saw him firing the arrow, he was so scared that he instinctively shrank his body.

Only Zhang Fei remained motionless.

With a half-step Martial Saint, he has extraordinary insight than a mortal. He has long seen that Houyi's arrow was not aimed at hurting people, and he was still standing still.

The sharp arrow shot through Zhang Fei's side several inches and was nailed directly to the pillar of the city tower behind him.

The Han soldiers on both sides dared to stand up and aimed at the arrow with lingering fear, but saw that the arrow was indeed wrapped in a letter.

That is the letter from Zhao Yun to Zhang Fei.

"This traitor Zhao Yun actually has the face to write a letter to me. Could it be that he is shameless and wants to surrender me?" Zhang Fei frowned deeply, and secretly guessed in his heart.

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Fei pulled out the arrow, untied the letters scrolled above, and unfolded them disregardlessly.

As he looked, Zhang Fei's face began to twist, and his anger burned black charcoal into a piece of black charcoal in a blink of an eye.

It was not just a letter of surrender, but also a letter written by Zhao Yun, who slandered his elder brother Liu Bei!

In the letter, Zhao Yun revealed how he broke through and asked Liu Bei for help, and how Liu Bei was hypocritical and perfunctory to him. In the end, he refused to send troops to rescue Guan Yu, abandoned Guan Yu, and ignored Guan Yu's life and death. All the truth was revealed.

In the end, Zhao Yun advised Zhang Fei to not work hard for Liu Bei, a foolish monarch who was false benevolent and righteous, actually ruthless and cruel, and to open the city as soon as possible to submit to the wise monarch Tao Shang.

Zhang Fei was furious, but the Han soldiers were all looking forward to it, looking at Zhang Fei with anticipation, hoping that Zhang Fei would just open the city and surrender.

There is no way, they are afraid.

The tragic fate of Zhuo County has already made them feel scared, and Liu Bei's escape has made them feel depressed and they have lost their belief in fighting for the Han Dynasty.

Today, the Wei army captured the city and landed, and their Han country's territory fell very quickly. In just a few months, they lost a large area of ​​land. Now even the capital is besieged.

In the eyes of most Han soldiers, the destruction of their Han Kingdom seems to be inevitable. Instead of being buried with the country as it is destroyed, it is better to surrender to the State of Wei and save one's life.

But in a blink of an eye, Zhang Fei tore their hopes apart with his own hands.

Zhang Fei, who was extremely angry, tore the letter in his hand to pieces in a few strokes, threw it off the city, and roared and cursed: "Zhao Yun, the thief who is against the country, dared to slander my elder brother like this, and even tried to surrender me, Zhang Fei. You go back and tell Zhao Yun that I will kill him, a traitor sooner or later, and also tell your master Tao Shang, even if he has courage, he will come to attack the city, and I, Zhang Fei, will tell him that he will never come back!"

Zhang Fei's angry scolding meant he had lost the idea of ​​surrender. The Han soldiers on both sides lowered their heads and shook their heads and sighed inwardly.

Hou Yi in front of the city didn't say much, and turned around and returned to the camp.

In the imperial tent, the pottery merchant was already sitting high above, drinking a small wine, waiting for Houyi's reply.

Before he could finish a few glasses of wine, Houyi left and returned, telling the truth about how Zhang Fei tore up Zhao Yun's letters and how he refused to surrender.

When the generals of the Wei Dynasty heard the big tent, they were all furious and asked for a fight angrily to break through Jicheng and kill Zhang Fei.

The pottery merchant had long expected that Zhang Fei, who was as fierce as a madman, would not surrender easily to Liu Bei.

If you are polite first and then soldiers, you will be weak, so you can only be hard.

The pottery ordered to continue to consolidate the siege of Jicheng, and at the same time ordered to transport the siege weapons such as the thunder cannon, the Dragon Fury City Hammer and other powerful siege weapons to arrive at the front line as soon as possible, preparing to launch a large-scale bombardment of Jicheng.

At the same time, the pottery merchant ordered Zhang Yi and others to copy tens of thousands of threatening books overnight, and ordered Houyi to lead the crossbowman to shoot the threatening books into Jicheng.

In the threatening book, Tao Shang sternly warned the military and civilians of Jicheng that they should not work hard for Liu Bei and then follow Zhang Fei to resist the Great Wei heavenly soldiers, otherwise no one would be left when the city was broken.

As soon as these tens of thousands of threatening books were shot in, they immediately scared the soldiers and soldiers in the city to the point of being frightened. The panic aura was rapidly spreading in the city like a plague.

Zhang Fei's hearts that had just stabilized were easily disintegrated by the pottery merchant's attack on his heart in a blink of an eye.

In desperation, Zhang Fei had no choice but to order the threatening books to be confiscated overnight in the city, so severe that anyone dared to keep them privately and rectify the Dharma on the spot.

Although Zhang Fei used such terrifying means to forcibly take away the threatening books, the pottery merchant had firmly planted the word "fear" in the hearts of the Han military and civilians in the city.

...

A few days later, Wei Ying.

In the imperial tent, the pottery merchant listened to Shi Qian's report and knew the degree of how shaken the people in the city were.

"This mental blow alone is not enough. I have let them fall into deep panic. What are your tricks?" Tao Shang looked at Liu Ji and Zhang Liang.

Liu Ji's eyes rolled, shook his feather fan and smiled, "Your Majesty, I really thought of a plan, which will make the enemy soldiers in the city feel worse...injury."

"Speak quickly." A curious gleam flashed in the eyes of the Tao merchant.

At that moment, Liu Ji used his plan to shirk his words.

After hearing this, the Tao merchant slapped the table and said happily: "It's very good, just use Bowen's plan. I want to make those stubborn people in the city feel at ease all night!"

At that moment, Tao Shang called Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong, and gave Liu Ji's plan to follow him.

...

At night.

The night was deep, and the Han army inside the city and the Wei camp outside the city were all quiet.

Qin Qiong took five hundred soldiers and took out the camp under the cover of the night and quietly sneaked towards the east gate of Jicheng.

At this moment, more than 20,000 Han troops in the city were afraid to go down the city and return to the camp under Zhang Fei's strict order. They all hurried on the city wall and slept with clothes to prevent the Wei army from launching a night attack and being caught off guard.

East Gate.

On the line along the city, nearly 4,000 Han soldiers were already wearing armor and sleeping in their arms. Only soldiers patrolling the night were traveling back and forth between the line along the city.

Qin Qiong took five hundred soldiers and approached the city more than two hundred steps, glanced at the head of the city, turned around and shouted: "Put off all the things."

The five hundred soldiers stopped immediately, removed all the big drums on their bodies, and were about to swing.

Qin Qiong took a light breath and shouted excitedly: "Bang the drum for me, and beat the drum as loud as possible!"

Hundreds of Wei soldiers with arms thick as wrists immediately rolled up their sleeves, swung their arms, and started to pound at the drum.

Bangbangbang-

The drums shook the sky and suddenly rang, shattering the darkness of the night.

Without any warning, it suddenly rose, breaking the silence of the night in an instant.

The sudden sound of war drums soaring into the sky immediately woke the sleeping Han soldiers on the city up instantly from their dreams, and jumped up in fear.

Dangdangdangdang-

On the top of the city, the sound of gongs sounded and alarmed immediately started to make a big noise.

"The Wei army attacked at night! Go and report to the General of the Carriage!"

"All up, the crossbowman is ready to shoot arrows!"

"Don't panic, who dares to move around, military law dealt with-"

...

The line at the east gate of Jicheng was in a blink of an eye and it was a mess.

The Han soldiers who were awakened from their sleep, kicked and beaten down the officials in a panic, and got up in panic, ready to face the night attack against the Wei army.

A cavalryman also rushed down the city and reported to Zhang Fei.

At this moment, Zhang Fei had just fallen asleep and was awakened by the sudden sound of drums. When he heard that the Wei army was attacking the East Gate, he rushed to rescue him.

Zhang Fei, who was running up the city, didn't bother to take a breath, so he hurriedly lay down to the top of the city and looked at his teeth.

The night was dark and the field of vision was limited, so I could not see clearly what was happening more than fifty steps away. But listening to the sound of the deafening drums, I vaguely estimated that at least tens of thousands of Wei troops were going to attack.

Zhang Fei did not dare to underestimate the enemy, so he rushed to the supportive soldiers and immediately went to the city to set off and faced the Wei army that dared to attack the city.

In a blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour has passed.

Zhang Fei and his soldiers were extremely nervous and were waiting for the Wei army to attack. However, after a long time, they still heard only the sound of drums, but no one could see the Wei army.

"Why didn't Wei Gou come to attack for a long time? What tricks are that Tao Thief playing..." Zhang Fei murmured to himself, with suspicion flowing in his eyes.

Suddenly, the sound of the war drums stopped abruptly.

In the world, dead silence was restored to almost an instant.

Zhang Fei's frowning suddenly relaxed. The Han soldiers along the line of the city all breathed a sigh of relief. They narrowed their eyes and looked out of the city, all thinking that the Wei army gave up the siege at the last moment before the attack.

The tense atmosphere on the city wall immediately relaxed.

Zhang Fei looked around for a while, a hint of disdain appeared on his black face, and he snorted coldly: "Tao thief must have seen me react very quickly and the reinforcements came in time, so he was out of confidence and had to retreat, hum."

After a little disdain in his heart, Zhang Fei ordered the alarm to be lifted and the soldiers on duty continued to be alert. The soldiers from the rest of the reserve team went down to the city and returned to the camp to continue to rest.

The order was passed, and the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and lay down with their clothes again. Zhang Fei took the other reinforcements and yawned down the city.

Qin Qiong, hiding in the darkness, glanced at the top of the city and raised a sneer on the corner of her mouth, "I'm finished here, black charcoal head, it's time to see you."
Chapter completed!