Chapter 273 The situation suddenly changed
Xiahou Yuan looked at the city gate and saw that the originally closed city gate had already opened. Xiahou Yuan was very happy, raised the sword in his hand and waved it forward, shouting, "Enter the city!" The army rushed like a tide, rushing towards the city gate. Not long after, Xiahou Yuan led more than 10,000 troops to the city gate first and entered the city gate. Some friends may not know what the city gate is, so let me briefly introduce it here. The so-called city gate is actually a defensive facility built near the city gate. There is often more than one city wall here, but there is also an inner city wall.
The wall and the outer city wall form an independent area together, which is the urn. If the enemy attacks the first city gate, it is not really an entry into the city. The defenders can often use the city walls and inner city gates around the urn to resist the enemy; and if the enemy breaks through the inner city gate, it often represents the enemy breaking the city. The defense facilities of the urn were very common in ancient times, but no cities would have such defense methods, because building the urn was also a considerable expense. Therefore, in ancient times, only central cities or strategic places would be built in urn.
"Huh? Why is the inner city gate not open?" An officer riding his horse in front suddenly shouted.
Xiahou Yuan was shocked and rushed to the front of the inner city gate. Sure enough, he saw that the inner city gate that should have been opened was tightly closed. Xiahou Yuan became anxious and raised his head and shouted, "Gao Changsheng, what's going on? Open the inner city gate quickly!"
Countless torches suddenly lit up on the surrounding city walls, illuminating the night into daylight. Ju Yi appeared at the top of the city and smiled and said, "Xiahou Yuan, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Xiahou Yuan was shocked, widened his eyes, and looked unbelievable, pointing at Ju Yi, "How could you, you, how could you...?"
Ju Yi smiled and said, "Do you think Gao Changsheng and the Chen family betrayed the lord? They were all loyal ministers and subordinates of my lord from beginning to end!" At this time, Gao Changsheng appeared beside Ju Yi and smiled and said, "General Xiahou, this is the first time we meet, I am Gao Changsheng."
Xiahou Yuan was shocked and angry and scolded: "Despicable and shameless! It turns out that this is your trap from beginning to end!"
Gao Changsheng laughed, "General Xiahou seems too ungrateful to say this! If you want to be despicable and shameless, wouldn't it be even more despicable and shameless to try to use this method to seize Xia Pi?"
Ju Yi shouted: "Okay! Stop talking nonsense. There is only victory or defeat on the battlefield. How can there be any despicable or not! General Xiahou, you have been besieged. Should you dismount and surrender or do you want me to take action?"
Xiahou Yuan glared and cursed, "I want me, Xiahou Yuan, to surrender, I will never think about it in my next life!" Then he waved his sword and shouted, "Roar out!" The army immediately surged and wanted to rush out of the city gate.
Ju Yi smiled coldly and waved his hand. The officers and soldiers of Lu Bu who had been ready to go on the wall city immediately launched an attack. The rain of arrows was flying all over the sky, causing the Cao army to rush over, and the rolling stones and woods to pour down like a waterfall, which made the Cao army fly and blood fly across the city! However, the Cao army could not fight back at all, so they could only rush to rush out of the city!
Ju Yi bent his bow and arrow and aimed at Xiahou Yuan who was running through the chaos of the horse. He loosened his fingers and the strong bow trembled. The wolf-toothed arrow flew away instantly and disappeared. Then Xiahou Yuan's body suddenly tilted out, as if he was about to fall off the horse. He hurriedly stabilized his body and lay on the back of the horse. Ju Yi wanted to bend the bow and shoot arrows again, but he had lost Xiahou Yuan's trace.
The Cao army officers and soldiers rushed out of the city gate, leaving countless corpses behind.
Cao's army escaped and joined the army outside the city, and felt as if it was a different world.
At this moment, one side suddenly had a loud sound of killing. The officers and soldiers of the Cao army were all shocked. Following the sound, they suddenly saw a fierce general leading his army to rush and kill under the city wall! In the darkness, there were shadows, as if there were infinite people! The Cao army hurriedly fought, but at the moment of the turmoil of the army, the officers and soldiers seemed absent-minded. The Lu Bu army rushed forward and rushed forward, killing Cao army's corpses and blood were flying backwards. Finally, they could not resist and the entire army was defeated! The battlefield was in chaos at this time, and Cao army officers and soldiers rushed to escape!
Seeing this scene, Xiahou Yuan had no intention of fighting again, so he turned his horse to flee to the west. At this moment, a sudden shout came: "Xiahou Yuan stop leaving!" Xiahou Yuan was shocked and couldn't help but look back and saw a mighty and powerful general who came up with a gun! Xiahou Yuan had no intention of fighting, so he just urged the horse to escape! However, the other party was chasing him relentlessly. Both sides always kept a distance of more than ten steps, and Xiahou Yuan could not get rid of the other party at all! This made Xiahou Yuan feel annoyed, and he immediately turned his horse's head and printed it on it. In a blink of an eye, the two generals were among thousands of troops.
The battle was in full swing! Xiahou Yuan waved his sword and attacked hard, but found that the opponent's force was extremely strong, which was comparable to him! After more than twenty moves between the two sides, Xiahou Yuan's left arm was getting more and more painful, and he became less and less obedient. After fighting several moves, Xiahou Yuan only felt unable to resist! Xiahou Yuan did not want to die here in a daze, so he immediately deceived the enemy general with a fake move, and then turned his horse and fled wildly! The fierce general continued to chase the horse, but was blocked by a group of Xiahou Yuan's personal soldiers. He could no longer pursue him for a while. Xiahou Yuan was finally able to get rid of the enemy general!
Xiahou Yuan retreated all the way to the Sishui River, collecting the defeated officers and soldiers to stabilize their positions on the river bank. At this moment, the brave general of Lu Bu's army led his army to kill. The two sides fought on the shore. Lu Bu's morale was like a rainbow and bravely rushed forward. However, the Cao army's soldiers were depressed and had difficulty resisting. People were constantly knocked to the ground, and more and more officers and soldiers were injured. After half an hour of fierce fighting, Cao's army finally couldn't hold on, and the entire army collapsed again and fled to the west coast along the floating bridge!
Xiahou Yuan rode his horse to the west bank, turned his horse's head, and ordered the retreating officers and soldiers to gather immediately, swordsman formation, and crossbowmen prepared to shoot! The officers and soldiers of the Cao army approached the elite troops today, but although they were defeated, they were not defeated. When they heard Xiahou Yuan's order, they gathered towards the side of the floating bridge, and the crossbowmen bent their bows and arrows, ready to go.
Xiahou Yuan stared at the floating bridge and saw his own troops losing and fleeing. Suddenly, the brave general led many Lu Bu soldiers to rush up the floating bridge and rushed towards this side! Xiahou Yuan's eyes lit up, raised his sword and waved forward, and shouted: "Shoot the arrow!" The crossbowmen who had been ready to go fired all the arrows together, and a sharp roar came from the night sky! In an instant, the Lu Bu soldiers who rushed to the floating bridge were all shot into the river one after another, and the Lu Bu soldiers who rushed to the floating bridge seemed to have been caught and pulled back.
Seeing that he had repelled Lu Bu's army, Xiahou Yuan immediately ordered the burning of the floating bridge to prevent the enemy from using the floating bridge to continue attacking. After a while, the floating bridge was burning.
Xiahou Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered people to count the number of people. He found that there were only more than 60,000 troops left before crossing the river! Xiahou Yuan was very depressed and ordered the army to set up camps by the river to rest, and at the same time sent people to report the battle situation to Cao Cao.
Xiahou Yuan sat in the big tent, his upper body was naked and his body exposed his hard muscles. A medical officer was bandaging the wound on his left arm. Not long after, the medical officer finished bandaging and bowed and said, "Oh, General. The arrow was not poisoned. With the general's strong body, he could basically recover after only seven or eight days of cultivation." Xiahou Yuan moved his left arm a little, although it felt a little painful, but it was not serious. The medical officer bowed to Xiahou Yuan and retreated.
At this time, an officer rushed in and clasped his fists and said, "General, there is news about General Xue Feng!"
Xiahou Yuan felt aroused and asked hurriedly: "What's the situation? Have they retreated?"
The officer shook his head, "According to the report of the soldiers who fled back, General Xue Feng led 5,000 elite troops into the food and grass and ordnance warehouse and encountered an ambush by Lu Bu's army. Lu Bu's army fired rockets from all directions, and the warehouse instantly turned into a sea of fire. General Xue Feng and his five thousand troops were almost wiped out!"
Xiahou Yuan was shocked and angry, and scolded, "Damn it!!" Then he said in confusion: "The enemy army destroyed our five thousand troops at the cost of burning the warehouse. Is it too expensive?" The officer clasped his fists and said, "According to the report of the soldiers who fled, what was accumulated in the warehouse was not weapons and money, but a large amount of firewood. It was precisely for this reason that General Xue Feng and most of the officers and soldiers could not escape! This was a trap from beginning to end!" Xiahou Yuan was furious and wanted to kill people, and scolded, "Damn it! We were deceived by Chen Deng and the others! These treacherous dog thieves! This caused our army to lose tens of thousands of troops in vain!"
At this time, an officer ran in and reported: "General, there is someone coming outside, Chen Deng, who has been here before, he wants to see the general."
Xiahou Yuan felt very sorry and cursed: "This guy dares to come to see me!? Bring him in!" The officer Yingnuo ran down. After a while, the officer escorted Chen Deng to the tent. Chen Deng was quite dissatisfied and shouted: "You are such a irrational person, you dare to treat me like this!"
When Xiahou Yuan saw Chen Deng, he was so jealous that his enemies were very angry when they met! He glared at his eyes and shouted angrily: "Chen Deng!..."
Chen Deng looked up and saw Xiahou Yuan, and said angrily: "General, why do your subordinates treat me like this? Did you blame me for the defeat in this battle?! I almost gave up my life for the Prime Minister and General!"
Seeing that Chen Deng was still dared to pretend to be garlic, Xiahou Yuan laughed so angry and glared and shouted: "Chen Deng, you treacherous and hateful bastard! Do you think this general is so easy to deceive? You have framed tens of thousands of people in our army, but you dare to come back! Today I want your heart and soul to sacrifice my tens of thousands of soldiers in the sky!" Chen Deng was shocked and shouted anxiously: "Why do you say this, General?"
Xiahou Yuan sneered and cursed angrily: "Damn scholars, they are so good at pretending!"
Chapter completed!