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Seeing that there was no movement in the distance, Lu Xun smiled.

"It seems that Zhang Liao and his men are probably gone. Now it's our turn to take action."

Upon hearing this, Miao Moqing looked at Lu Xun and opened her mouth, wanting to stop him, but when she thought of Meng Huo's purpose, she finally gave up.

Looking at Lu Xun and several thousand men in the distance, Miao Moqing immediately gave the order to close the city gates.

A deputy general wanted to stop them, after all, Lu Xun was still outside.

But due to Miao Moqing's status, he couldn't say anything and could only leave an aisle when closing the city gate.

Lu Xun brought several thousand people to Zhang Liao's camp. Looking at the corpses everywhere on the ground, Lu Xun felt very proud.

The existence of Zhang Liao is an indelible nightmare for all the soldiers in Jiangdong. If Zhang Liao could die in his hands, he would become a hero of Jiangdong. In the eyes of the generals in Jiangdong, no merit can compare with killing Zhang Liao, unless someone captures or kills Liu Bei alive.

However, after checking all the bodies on the ground, Lu Xun found that there was no body of Zhang Liao, and he immediately had a bad feeling in his heart.

At this time, outside Fuchuan City, Zhang Liao, under the moonlight, brought five hundred Iron Pagodas and quietly came to the city gate.

Seeing that there was a gap in the city gate that was wide enough for one person, Zhang Liao immediately sneaked in.

Tiefutu also followed Zhang Liao and entered the city.

Before the soldiers defending the city could react, they were killed by Zhang Liao with one sword.

In order to reduce the noise, Zhang Liao hugged the corpse and gently put it down.

Soon, under the leadership of Zhang Liao, the Iron Pagoda slowly climbed up the city wall, preparing to quietly eliminate the Wu army defending the city.

However, when they were halfway there, an Iron Pagoda stepped on the hand of a Wu Jun who was secretly sleeping in the corner.

Wu Jun let out a scream.

All the soldiers guarding the city looked in the direction of the sound.

When they saw that it was the Iron Pagoda, they were obviously stunned.

Zhang Liao did not expect that it would be such a coincidence. He was stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted.

"What are you all standing there for? Kill them!"

As Zhang Liao's voice fell, all the Iron Buddhas reacted, drew their swords and rushed towards the Wu army.

Without Lu Xun's command, the Wu army was like a pile of loose sand and could not put up any effective resistance.

It didn't take long for the Wu army on the city wall to be eliminated by Tiefutu, but the movement here had already alarmed the people in the city.

A deputy general ran to the outside of Miao Moqing's room.

"Chief, it's bad. Zhang Liao and his men have entered the city."

Miao Moqing was in the room, and when she heard this, a smile appeared on her lips. She is now a legendary general, and her perception ability has long surpassed that of ordinary people. In fact, when Zhang Liao was fighting with the soldiers on the city wall, Miao Moqing had already noticed something, but she didn't care.

Miao Moqing always remembered that when she first came here, Meng Huo's order was to try not to interfere in the battle between Sun Jian and Liu Bei.

It's obvious that they don't want to care about them.

However, the deputy general also knew that he was powerless and could not defeat the Gu tribe, and the city was the most important thing now, so he kept the matter to himself.

By the time the deputy general arrived with a group of people, Zhang Liao had already completely taken over the city wall and was guarding the entire wall and the city gate.

"Brothers, follow me and kill!"

The deputy general shouted and led the Wu army to rush towards Zhang Liao.

In order to launch a surprise attack, Zhang Liao parked all the war horses in the woods outside the city. Without war horses, the Iron Pagoda's combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Even so, these soldiers were no match for Zhang Liao and his men. As soon as the two sides fought, dozens of Wu soldiers fell to the ground.

Just as the two sides were in a stalemate, flames suddenly shot up into the sky in the city.

When the deputy general saw the location of the fire, he immediately realized that was the location of their granary.

"It's bad, the granary is on fire. Send some people to put out the fire, and the rest of the people to keep Zhang Liao and the others busy."

This deputy general was also a veteran of the battlefield. The current situation did not make him panic too much, and he immediately formulated a response plan.

However, this method is really a bit conventional. It may be okay to deal with ordinary soldiers, but facing Zhang Liao and Tiefutu, his plan is completely useless. It is completely impossible to stop Zhang Liao.

Seeing the granary on fire, Zhang Liao knew that his plan had been accomplished, and immediately gave the order to retreat.

All the Iron Pagodas were evacuated out of the city in an orderly manner.

Lu Xun, who was searching for Zhang Liao in the distance, suddenly changed his expression when he saw the fire in the city. He immediately led everyone and rushed into the city quickly.

However, by the time Lu Xun arrived, Zhang Liao had already left quickly with the Iron Buddha's men.

Looking at the corpse on the ground, Lu Xun immediately looked around with a cold face.

"Can anyone tell me what happened?"

The deputy general walked up to Lu Xun and told him everything that had just happened.

"Zhang Liao is here?"

Lu Xun never imagined that after that battle, Zhang Liao did not leave, but instead took the opportunity to sneak into the city.

At this moment, Miao Moqing walked over slowly.

When the deputy general saw Miao Moqing, some anger flashed in his eyes, but he did not say it.

"Forget it, tell the lord about the situation here. Our granary is useless."

"yes!"

Miao Moqing just took a quick look and didn't say anything. She yawned and turned back to her room.

After watching Miao Moqing leave, the deputy general dared to speak to Lu Xun.

"General, I feel that the people of the Gu tribe are not sincere in cooperating with us. When the city was attacked, I told the Miao tribe leader about the situation, but the Miao tribe leader had no intention of taking action. He just told me, "You know what?" and asked me to come first and she would come later. But you have already returned, and she just came here slowly. We..."

The deputy general wanted to say something but was stopped by Lu Xun.

"Don't tell anyone about this in the future."

After Lu Xun finished speaking, he began to let the people around him clean up the mess.

Zhang Liao led everyone back to the woods.

"General, should we go back? Our mission has been completed."

Just as Zhang Liao was about to nod, a person appeared not far from them.

The people from Tiefutu drew their swords instantly and looked at the newcomers vigilantly.

"General, I am the Centurion of the Downstream Crossbow Captain!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Liao asked the people around him to put away their swords.

"General, the Prime Minister has issued a secret order."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Liao took the letter.

When he opened it, Zhang Liao's expression suddenly changed.

"General, what's wrong?"

"The Prime Minister asked us to attack Duanxi City. He said there is a port built by Sun Jian there."

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Jiaozhou is mountainous, and there are very few county towns suitable for building ports. Now that a port has finally been built, Sun Jian will definitely send heavy troops to defend it. However, Zhang Liao and his men only have 500 people, so the success rate of attacking the port can be said to be very slim.

When Zhuge Liang gave the order to Zhang Liao, he did not expect that Zhang Liao's losses would be so great. If he had known that Zhang Liao only had 500 men, Zhuge Liang would never let Zhang Liao go to such a dangerous place.

"General, we..."

Zhang Liao sighed and waved his hand to stop the deputy commander from speaking.

"No matter what, military orders are as heavy as mountains. Once they come out, we have no reason to refuse. Since we are asked to go, then we will go. Everyone, please follow me, Zhang Liao!"

"Yes, sir!"

Everyone in the Iron Pagoda knelt on the ground and shouted in unison.

After learning that the food and grass in Fuchuan were lost, Sun Jian did not show any anger, but instead asked Lu Xun to rush to Duanxi City.

That was the only port from which Liu Zhang could support them. Sun Jian didn't care whether Fuchuan City was still there or not, but if Duanxi City was gone, that would be a real blow to his life.

Two days later.

Zhang Liao rushed to Duanxi City with the Iron Pagoda.

After a quick check, it was found that as Zhang Liao had judged, there were at least 20,000 people stationed in the entire Duanxi City. Moreover, Zhang Liao actually saw Lu Xun in the crowd, as well as the three quasi-famous generals Xu Sheng, Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai.

After looking around, the deputy commander came to Zhang Liao.

"General, let's ask the Prime Minister for some support. We have no way of attacking the city with just us."

Zhang Liao did not speak. Looking at the tall city walls and the busy dock in front of him, he knew how important his mission this time was and that he did not have much time left to wait for support.

Thinking of this, Zhang Liao hesitated for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Everyone hide first. No one can come out without my order."

"yes!"

Tiefutu immediately followed Zhang Liao's order and hid in the woods nearby.

Zhang Liao walked alone to the outside of Duanxi City.

Zhou Tai, who was guarding the city, immediately shouted when he saw Zhang Liao coming.

Upon hearing this, Lu Xun immediately rushed over and looked at Zhang Liao outside the city.

"Zhang Liao, you actually dared to come here alone. You don't really think that you can defeat us by yourself, do you?"

"I'm not here to fight with you this time. I'm just here to say hello to you. Lu Xun, you're also a famous general, right? Do you dare to come out and fight with me?"

"You are dreaming. I want to fight with you. Do you think I am your tiger?"

Lu Xun had no idea what Zhang Liao said. Fighting Zhang Liao one-on-one was tantamount to committing suicide.

"I am only one person, and you have tens of thousands of people, and there are so many generals. I didn't expect you to be so timid. So many people attacked me alone, and you are still so timid."

However, no matter how Zhang Liao provoked, everyone in the city acted as if they couldn't hear anything and continued to busy themselves with their own affairs.

Zhang Liao originally wanted to lure out a general, capture him in a duel, and threaten him to open the door, but it was obvious that the other party didn't care about his provocation at all.

This time, even Zhang Liao had no choice but to leave.

Looking at Zhang Liao's back, Lu Xun snorted coldly. This kind of low-level provocation might fool others, but it was not enough to fool him.

The Iron Buddhas who were guarding in the dark immediately surrounded Zhang Liao when they saw him coming back.

"General, what's going on?"

"They have no intention of coming out yet, let's wait."

After hearing Zhang Liao's words, Tiefutu could only nod his head.

Zhang Liao had been wandering outside for two whole days without any chance, which gradually exhausted his patience. However, just when Zhang Liao decided to give up, the gate of Duanxi City opened.

Zhang Liao saw Zhou Tai and others, with 10,000 people, rushing towards the front line.

Originally, Lu Xun had no intention of opening the city gate. It was impossible for the Iron Pagoda with only 500 people to capture Duanxi City, which was garrisoned by 20,000 people.

But unfortunately, Sun Jian's order had reached here, and he had no choice but to obey.

The reason why Sun Jian gave the order was all because of Gu Rubing.

At the beginning, Zhang Liao was regarded as the vanguard and was the first to go into battle. After that, with the arrival of the army, Zhang Liao followed the plan prepared by Zhuge Liang and completely left the main force, while Gu Rubing continued to lead the main force and fight with Sun Jue.

Zhuge Liang knew that Zhang Liao had penetrated deep into the hinterland and would be under great pressure, so he ordered Gu Rubing to attack the city day and night.

Although the second line of defense was strong, it could not withstand Gu Rubing's desperate fighting style.

Soon Sun Jian could no longer hold on. When he learned from the Anluo Empire that there were 100,000 reinforcements on the way, Sun Jian became a little bolder.

As Sun Jian and Gu Rubing defended desperately, their troops were consumed greatly. Before the reinforcements from the Anluo Empire arrived, they were no longer able to gain sufficient troops.

When Sun Jian learned that he only had 40,000 men, he was stunned.

"How did they fight? Why were the losses so great?"

Sun Jian remembered that when he was building the second line of defense, he still had 40,000 men, plus 30,000 men supported by the Anluo Empire, as well as people he recruited from surrounding cities and some remnants, totaling nearly 100,000 men. But in just a few days, his men were reduced to 40,000, a complete loss of more than half.

"My lord, Liu Bei's desperate fighting style these days has indeed caused us great losses. Now our best way is to be conservative. Guangxin City has high walls. Even if Liu Bei wants to rush up, it will definitely not be that easy. We can ask the surrounding cities to send reinforcements. If we are conservative, it will not be difficult to hold on until the 100,000 reinforcements from the Anluo Empire arrive."

"Okay, Gongjin, we'll do as you say, but we only need to send 10,000 people to Duanxi City. If we send more, it will delay the defense there. Duanxi must not be lost."

"yes!"

As a result, they didn't know that it was because of this expedition that Duanxi City was completely lost. (End of this chapter)