Chapter 34 The allied forces of Sun and Liu have arrived!

Chapter 034: The Sun-Liu coalition forces have arrived!

"kill!"

"Push over! Press over!"

"Ladder! Quick, ladder!"

Outside the city of Xiling, the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky, blood flowed like a river, and corpses piled up like mountains.

But even so, there were still countless Cao troops rushing towards Xiling City.

They stepped over the bodies of their companions.

They stepped on the remains of their comrades.

Amid the shouts and cries of killing, their facial features were distorted and their eyes were bloodshot. They had only one thought in mind, to capture Xiling City!
But what greeted them was a rain of cold arrows and hot, smelly gold juice.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh! ~
boom! ~
The rain of arrows was like a dark cloud, with sharp and piercing sounds of breaking through the air, shooting the Cao army that had rushed to the city into hedgehogs!

Heavy boulders and battering rams came down from the top of the city wall, which was more than ten feet high. Amidst short screams, Cao's army was smashed into meat paste!
Occasionally, a few ladders were placed on the city wall. Just when the Cao army soldiers were excitedly climbing halfway, they were pushed down with the ladders.

There were more and more corpses piling up under the city. The wall of Xiling seemed like a cliff and there was no possibility of climbing up.

The foul smell of gold juice mixed with the strong smell of blood on the ground wafted around the noses of Cao's soldiers. Finally, some of them became desperate:

"I can't get through. I can't get through at all."

"Let alone climbing up the wall, it's even difficult to get close to it."

"What the hell, they've been attacking for an hour! The rain of arrows, rolling stones, and golden juice on the city walls have never stopped. Don't those bastards in Xiling City know how tired they are?"

"If we keep fighting like this, let alone taking the city, we'll probably die of exhaustion first!"

……

"quick!"

"If you Shanyue want to survive, you have to work with us to stop Cao's army under the city."

"If you can't stop them, and Cao's army rushes in, you will be the first to suffer."

"Defeat Cao's army, and you will all be rewarded!"

On the top of the west gate of Xiling, Wei Yan dispatched soldiers to defend the city and fight back while continuing to intimidate and bribe the Shanyue.

A large number of Shanyue people either took up weapons and bows and crossbows, or struggled to lift boulders and battering rams and smashed them at Cao's army under the city.

Looking at the Shanyue people who were defending the city together with the Xiling soldiers, Wei Yan breathed a sigh of relief. With the addition of this group of Shanyue people, the pressure on the city was indeed greatly reduced.

Wei Yan divided the five thousand Shanyue into five teams of one thousand men, and posted one thousand Shanyue at each of the four city gates in the southeast, northwest, and northeast to help the Xiling soldiers defend the city. The remaining one thousand Shanyue were in the center to provide support and could replace the other teams of one thousand men at any time to rest.

In this way, the five Shanyue teams of a thousand men would take turns replacing each other, and everyone could get some rest and become more energetic. If this continued for a long time, how could Cao's army attacking the city ever outlast the Shanyue on the city walls?

Wei Yan looked at the exhausted Cao army under the city and smiled coldly: "Just wait and see how much energy you can muster!"

……

Boom, boom, boom! ~
The war drums of Cao's army rumbled, urging the battle to continue.

But under the banner of the central army, Cao Ren's face had turned ashen. He could see clearly from a distance that the Cao army's offensive had slowed down.

"Our army has launched numerous attacks, and our soldiers have risked their lives..."

A general stood in front of Cao Ren's horse and bowed his head to report: "However, the Xiling army on the city wall is really tenacious. It has been two hours since the start of the battle, and the enemy has been raining arrows, rolling stones, battering rams, and golden juice without stopping for the slightest."

"The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, were exhausted, and their morale was low. They were unable to attack any further."

Snapped! ~
A horsewhip hit the general's back hard, causing him to grimace in pain, but he dared not move.

"absurd!"

Cao Ren's words were filled with undisguised rage: "The army cuts through mountains, builds bridges over rivers, and captures cities! How can we not be able to capture them?"

"Tell my generals, move the banner forward, I will personally lead the battle! Anyone who retreats will be killed!"

Xilulu! ~
The general looked up in surprise, only to see Cao Ren whipping his horse hard and actually jumping off the horse to charge towards the city.

The large banner with the word Cao on it followed closely behind and quickly moved towards Xiling City.

"Move the banner forward, general, personally supervise the battle! Anyone who retreats will be killed!"

"Move the banner forward, general, personally supervise the battle! Anyone who retreats will be killed!"

"Move the banner forward, general, personally supervise the battle! Anyone who retreats will be killed!"

Dozens of messengers were galloping around on the huge battlefield, shouting Cao Ren's military orders.

Boom, boom, boom! ~
The sound of the war drums became more rapid and more fierce.

It's like a landslide!
Everyone saw it. In the flying dust, the huge banner with the word Cao on it passed by the densely packed Cao army soldiers, getting closer and closer to Xiling City!

Under the big banner, the figure in helmet and armor, facing the rain of arrows like locusts, urged his horse to rush towards Xiling City.

"General Zixiao? It's really General Zixiao!"

"General Zixiao is the Prime Minister's cousin and he doesn't care about his life, let alone us?"

"Oh no! They are General Zixiao's personal guards and also the military law supervision team!"

"Siege! Siege!"

"Kill! Kill!!"

Cao Ren personally rushed to the city and supervised the siege. The Cao army, whose momentum had been sluggish, suddenly regained its momentum.

For a moment, the entire battlefield was filled with the roars of Cao's soldiers.

Under the city wall where many soldiers had been deterred, layers of Cao's army appeared again.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh! ~
The rain of arrows from the city wall became more and more fierce, more and more boulders and battering rams were thrown down, and the corpses of Cao's soldiers piled higher and higher under the city wall.

But more and more soldiers were able to survive the rain of arrows and rolling stones and rush to the city wall.

Bang bang bang! ~
Finally, another ladder was placed on the top of the city wall.

One, two, three...

Although some ladders were knocked down, the number of ladders erected on top of Xiling City increased!
……

Xiling Tower,

One hand clung to the battlement with difficulty.

A Cao soldier poked his head out from outside the city wall, his face full of excitement: "Go first! I'll be the first..."

Click! ~
A sharp blade slashed across his neck, and his head, full of excitement and blood, shot into the air.

More and more Cao's soldiers climbed up the city wall.

"Kill! Kill all these Xiling thieves!"

"We will be the first to take over Xiling City!"

"Ha! The Xiling bandits can't hold on any longer. They can't stop us!"

"Oh no! Cao's army is coming!"

"Quick! Stop them!"

A large number of Cao's soldiers fought with Xiling's soldiers on the top of the city walls. With swords flying back and forth, the guards on the top of the city walls finally began to suffer casualties.

Two Cao's soldiers teamed up to stab a Xiling defender, and they were about to stab the guard to death with a grin.

puff~
A large knife chopped down from behind them, and the heads and shoulders of the two men were chopped off alive by the knife!

Wei Yan wiped the blood off his face and went down the battlefield himself.

"Hold on!" Wei Yan roared, waving the sword in his hand, and rushed forward personally.

With the sword slashing, the heads of Cao's soldiers rolled all over the ground.

In an instant, the morale of the Xiling army on the city wall was boosted, and they actually forced the Cao army that had already attacked the city to retreat to the edge of the city wall.

After a while, the battle situation became stalemate again.

……

"kill!"

"dash forward!"

On the top of the city wall, the heads of Cao's soldiers who climbed up first kept falling down, but a large number of Cao's soldiers still climbed up the ladders desperately.

Because behind them is the central army’s banner!

Behind them are Cao Ren and Cao Zixiao!

At this moment, Cao Ren was standing on his horse, only two hundred steps away from the city gate in front.

Tuk-tuk-tuk! ~
Several personal guards held shields in front, protecting Cao Ren tightly behind them, and not a single arrow could hurt him.

"General! This place is too dangerous!" The deputy general advised Cao Ren with sweat on his forehead, "This place is only two hundred steps away from the city gate. The leader of the Xiling bandit army is very brave. Once he opens the city gate and rushes out, I'm afraid... I'm afraid we can't stop him."

Cao Ren sneered: "Open the city gate? I hope he opens the city gate! As long as he opens the city gate, my army can rush into the city and save the trouble of attacking the city!" "Besides, no matter how brave he is, he can only defeat a hundred people. Now I have 30,000 troops here. Can he still defeat ten thousand people alone?!"

"Haha, if that's true, it wouldn't be unfair for me, Cao Zixiao, to be captured by him."

……

Behind Cao's army, the dark mass of Cao's army was still rushing madly towards the Xiling city gate.

Thump thump thump! ~
Suddenly, the surrounding Cao army soldiers felt a tremor under their feet.

"what happened?"

"Where's the noise coming from?"

"This is... not good, there are cavalry!"

boom! ~
Just at this moment, a cloud of yellow dust suddenly shot up from behind Cao's army.

In the midst of the yellow dust, a large number of cavalrymen appeared and disappeared, like a sharp blade, stabbing towards Cao's army.

It was none other than Liu Wu’s one hundred elite cavalrymen!
"How many riders are there?"

"Quick! Block it! Block it!"

"Form a formation! Quickly form a formation!"

At this time, a cavalry of unknown number suddenly attacked from the rear. The Cao army did not dare to imagine what this meant.

They hurriedly formed a formation and tried to stop it, but it was too late!
Xilulu! ~
In just a few breaths, Liu Wu led a hundred cavalrymen and rushed over with the force of thunder.

boom! ~
Several Cao soldiers were knocked flying and their lives or deaths were unknown.

Liu Wu rushed to the front, holding the halberd in his hand forward...

Poof! ~
As he charged at high speed on his horse, the sharp blade of the halberd easily pierced through the bodies of several Cao soldiers. He casually swung the halberd, and several bodies of Cao soldiers were thrown directly into the air, hitting a large number of soldiers.

For a time,

Blood flew everywhere and flesh splattered!
Liu Wu and his one hundred elite cavalry were like a strong bow shooting out armor-piercing arrows!
Liu Wu was the arrow, and the elite cavalrymen in the battle formation were the arrow shafts. He was invincible and unstoppable.

Wherever Liu Wu and his hundred cavalrymen went, it was like they were cutting through the waves. Cao's soldiers retreated and gave way one after another, and were unable to organize an effective counterattack.

"What should we do? We can't stop it!"

"Quick! Send more people!"

"The place this thief is heading to is... where General Zixiao is. He wants to attack General Zixiao!"

"Stop him! You must stop him!"

The surrounding Cao troops rushed towards Liu Wu like waves gathering.

Liu Wu rode his horse at high speed, smashing the halberd in his hand horizontally and vertically, blocking all the Cao troops in front of him, like weeds crushed by wheels.

call! ~
The strong wind from the river bank blew onto the battlefield.

The smell of blood was strong in the battle formation of Cao's army!
The wind blew Liu Wu's hair all over the place!

Liu Wu's expression was indifferent, his eyes fixed on the figure under the big banner in front of him.

Advance!

Advance again!
charge!

Charge again!!

As blood and flesh flew, he finally got closer to the banner...

……

Under the great banner, surrounded by his personal guards, Cao Ren looked coldly at Xiling City ahead.

He said that if we take Xiling today, then we must take Xiling today!
suddenly,

There was a noise behind me. The sound was very far away at first, but soon it became as loud as a rushing wave!

Cao Ren frowned. What happened?

At this moment, a guard came over on horseback with a panicked look on his face: "General! There is someone behind us..."

"What?" Cao Ren looked back blankly.

At this moment, a thunderous shout came out: "Cao Zixiao! How dare you betray me?!"

Cao Ren finally saw it...

He saw the nightmare-like figure galloping towards him!

He saw the figure holding a painted halberd, like a devil or a god, rushing towards him!

He was caught off guard!
He was heartbroken!!

"Quick! Protect the general!"

The guards around him were like crazy, rushing forward desperately to stop Liu Wu.

Roar! ~
The halberd in Liu Wu's hand moved as fast as the wind, like a roaring dragon.

Wherever the painted halberd went, men and horses fell, and blood spurted out!

One by one, the personal guards were chopped in half by Liu Wu's halberd, their intestines and stomachs rolled out, and their horses trampled them into mud!

The warm blood of the guards splashed on Cao Ren's face. He shuddered and finally came to his senses.

But at this moment, there was no longer a personal guard in front of him.

Xilulu! ~
Liu Wu rode his horse straight towards Cao Ren!

Like a tiger descending from the mountain, like a dragon emerging from the sea!
"You..." Cao Ren's face turned pale and he drew his sword subconsciously.

hum! ~
The limp sword was lifted into the air by the halberd with a sad groan.

As the two horses made a pass, Liu Wu actually reached out and lightly lifted the commander of the 30,000-man army over to his horse!
Cao Ren was still struggling: "I will kill you, you evil villain..."

"Noisy!"

boom! ~
Liu Wu was too lazy to listen to his nonsense and slapped Cao Ren in the face. Cao Ren immediately became quiet.

Liu Wu pressed Cao Ren onto his horse and continued to advance forward with more than a hundred riders without stopping. If he wanted to get out of the battlefield, he could only continue along this road to the end.

If you turn the horse around again, you will have to kill again along the same route. Even if a person can bear it, the horse cannot.

In a moment, hundreds of elite cavalrymen actually fought their way out of a bloody path and finally escaped from the battlefield!
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Liu Wu led a hundred cavalrymen and did not return to Xiling City. Instead, he turned his horse around outside the battlefield, holding the unconscious Cao Ren hostage, and galloped away in the direction that the 30,000-strong army had come from...

On the huge battlefield, the shouts and cries that were originally rising to the sky suddenly subsided.

All the Cao army stared at this scene in a daze. Just now, it seemed that the main general Cao Ren was suddenly attacked under the banner of the enemy and was kidnapped?
The generals who were originally supervising the battles in various units were also at a loss at this moment.

They just felt like they were in a dream...

Too fast, too sudden!

Thirty thousand troops are still here, but the commander is gone?

Should we fight this battle or not?
In an instant, all the generals of Cao's army were stunned:

"What should I do?"

"The army is stopping here. Are they fighting or retreating?"

"Are we still going to attack Xiling City?"

"I still remember Guan Yu once said that his third brother Zhang Yide could take the head of a general from among thousands of soldiers as easily as taking something out of a bag. I always thought he was exaggerating, but I never thought there really was such a person in the world?!"

……

"Good! Great! My lord, your plan has worked!"

On the west gate tower of Xiling, Lu Xun excitedly clapped the city wall and cheered. As the saying goes, to catch a thief, you must first catch the leader. This was the strategy that Liu Wu had decided on yesterday.

Although it was indeed risky, Lu Xun had to admit that this was the most appropriate approach at the moment.

After all, there are 30,000 troops outside the city, and the Xiling defenders simply cannot handle them. Even if the soldiers under the lord's command are elite, they cannot waste their wealth like this!
Now, the lord's plan has finally succeeded!
bass! ~
Lu Xun suddenly drew his sword and shouted, "Generals, listen to my orders! Wei Yan!"

When Lu Xun gave orders, he actually had some of the demeanor of the future prime minister of Eastern Wu.

Wei Yan: "I am here!"

Lu Xun: "I want you to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to charge out from the east gate, raise Liu Bei's banner, and announce: Uncle Liu's general Wei Wenchang is here!!"

Wei Yan bowed: "I accept your command!"

Lu Xun looked at Gan Ning who was still being held: "Gan Ning!"

Gan Ning's face was tense, and he bowed hastily: "I'm here."

Lu Xun: "I want you to lead 3,000 Shanyue troops to charge out from the west gate and raise the Jiangdong flag! Say, here comes Gan Xingba, the most powerful general in Jiangdong..."

At this point, Lu Xun swung his sword forward fiercely: "Let Cao's army know that the Sun-Liu coalition has arrived!!"

(End of this chapter)