Zhou Lang Zhou Lang

As soon as Li Mu arrived in the city, he could already hear the thundering shouts of killing from the south, and the sound of military drums and horns rising and falling one after another.

After Gao Shun left, there were only 2000 defenders in the city.Zhou Yu ordered [-] elites, and the remaining [-] people were divided into four gates. On the tower of the south gate, there were only five hundred soldiers. The arrows on the top of the city were like locusts. It seems to be impenetrable to the wind and rain, which makes people suffocate their breath at a glance, and feel fear in their hearts.

The nest cars more than three feet high looked like giant monsters in the billowing smoke and dust. The highest point was only slightly different from the towers of Xiapi City. Suddenly, the arrows were covered with burning oilcloth and wheat straw, streaks of fire were drawn in the air, sparks splashed everywhere, and the defenders at the top of the city were almost unable to raise their heads, and soldiers continued to fall into the city with arrows.

The defensive arrows weakened a little, and a ladder immediately climbed to the top of the city. The enemy soldiers who climbed up the city were smashed by rolling logs and stones, and their skulls were broken, and they fell down the city screaming. Some successors continued to climb up crazily, like a group of wild beasts coming out of the cage, screaming and rushing towards the top of the city.

The sound of the drums was like thunder, like a huge wave, surging, and the enemy soldiers holding leather shields and spears quickly met the defenders on the top of the wall.

After Lu Bu robbed Xuzhou, in order to guard against Liu Bei who was stationed in Pei County and Cao Cao who was eyeing him, he stationed all the food, grass and supplies in Xiapi.However, this flying general who looked down on the battle formation did not know how to defend the city. Under his rule, the city wall of Xiapi City was never repaired once, the moat outside the city was not widened, and the inner city was not divided. As long as one of the four gates is breached, Xiapi City will immediately fall.

Half of the city was engulfed in smoke and dust, and there were dots of flames everywhere. From time to time, the houses on fire collapsed, and in the pungent and choking smell, there were people who escaped from the houses, or were trapped by the houses. Liang was injured or burned by the fire, his body was scorched black, his face was disfigured, he wailed and shouted, and fled in all directions, creating chaos.

Li Mu reined in his horse and looked around, his face sank like water, and he calmed down from the high-spirited impulse, feeling a little dazed for a while.She didn't expect Zhou Yu to leave the city for such a short time, and the city was already here.

Is it really impossible to keep it?

At this moment, a child suddenly ran out crying from a cloud of thick smoke, about four or five years old, like a huge black ball of charcoal, stumbling towards Li Mu's horse.

The horse under her was not a well-trained pre-war horse. It was wandering uneasily by the fireworks and chaos in front of her. It also jumped up its front hooves from time to time, and its neck was raised to try to break free from the harness on its head. , When Li Mu saw the child, the child had already run to the horse's leg.Hearing a long neigh from the horse, she only had time to yell "Oops" in her heart, and grabbed the rein desperately. The horse's front hooves had already been raised, and it kicked towards the child's head and face.

In the blink of an eye, Li Mu couldn't even cry out in surprise, subconsciously let go of the reins, turned his body upside down and got off the horse, and rushed towards the child.

Zhang Liao was not far behind her. According to the posture of punching the horse before, he should be able to hold the crazy horse!

If Zhang Liao was able to catch up in time, she threw the child down, at most it would be a fall.If she couldn't make it in time, even if she didn't save the child, with her riding skills, she wouldn't be able to steer the tall horse that had already stood up, and she would still be thrown off the horse.She didn't have time to think about it, and she didn't have room to think about it, so she could only choose to believe in Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao came faster than Li Mu expected.

She just let go of the rein, and out of the corner of her eyes, she saw a black shadow passing by her side.

Bending down to pick up the child with one hand, turning around and clasping the horse's bridle with the other hand, he yelled loudly, suppressing the noise and shouts around him. I just felt that the back of the horse under me was hit hard, and the muscles were tense. Immediately afterwards, the sight that fell back suddenly tilted forward, but the horse's hoof, which was only half lifted, was forcibly pressed down by Zhang Liao, and the horse's legs became weak. All of a sudden he fell to his knees.

Finally, when the horse's legs knelt down, the height of the forward fall became much shorter.Li Mu's body's critical reaction immediately came into play again, he took a rein with his backhand, and rolled onto the ground against the horse's back and neck. Although his posture was awkward, he was not injured at all.

Zhang Liao relaxed the bridle, put down the child in his hand, and clasped his hands to Li Mu: "Mr. Quan is all right?"

"Ah?" Li Mu was still in shock. He turned his head and looked at the horse pacing with its neck hanging down, as if it had lost its temper at all, and then looked at Zhang Liao's black face, and let out a long breath, "It's okay, it's okay... ..."

"Mr. Quan, if you move forward, it will only distract the soldiers and disturb the morale of the army!" Seeing that she had led the horse and was about to mount it, Zhang Liao stepped forward to grab the horse's bridle and stop it.

Li Mu was taken aback for a moment, then his eyes lit up: "Will the general help me defend the city?"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Liao looked at her with a sullen face, and after looking at her for a while, he shook his head slowly: "Liao Wu is afraid of fighting to the death. However, people in the city are terrified. If the people are not disturbed, this battle will be unpredictable. Mr. Quan still needs to make preparations to break through. "

Li Mu's heart sank. She also knew that if the people were not disturbed, these people whose lives were most directly threatened would soon start attacking their own city defenses in order to survive, so that after Kaesong surrendered, they could avoid the suffering of war.

Just when she was hesitating, she only listened to take a slow step, and Xu Mao who came with them yelled sharply from behind: "Zhu Zi'an dare to set fire!"

set fire?

Li Mu suddenly came to his senses.Looking around again, I saw that on the main street of the city where she was, half of the houses on both sides collapsed, and the raging flames crackled the roof tiles. However, there were only a few sporadic arrows, which were scorched black. , scattered all over the ground.

She calculated for a long time based on the characteristics of the upward throwing movement, and after several days of experimentation, she was able to shoot a range of [-] steps from the top of the city at a height of more than [-] feet. .It is not much less than [-] steps from the south wall. If the arrows shot from outside the city want to pass the height of the city head and have lethality, it is impossible to stick to the bottom of the city wall and shoot upwards, and they have to go back. , how can ordinary arrows shoot so far?

If the arrows are shot from the nest cart, the load-bearing capacity of the nest cart is limited, and even a four-stone crossbow machine may not be able to place it, let alone have such a range!

It was clear that someone set fire to it while taking advantage of the chaos!

Thinking of this, Li Mu already had an idea in his mind, he couldn't help squinting his eyes, gritted his teeth, pulled off the saber tied around his waist, stuffed it together with the rein into Zhang Liao's hand, and patted him on the shoulder with the other hand. : "The power to hand over Xiapi City to the general. When the general is in war, the city will be safe!"

"Young Master Quan..."

The juvenile boy's eyes were shining brightly, and there was a hint of indescribable ruthlessness in his loud laughter. Zhang Liao suddenly remembered that each person was only allowed to kill two enemy soldiers that day, so he immediately entered the city. The five hundred soldiers who were not allowed to turn back.

For the elite troops carefully trained by Zhou Gongjin, the record may not be brilliant.But it was these 500 people, none of whom were injured, and they left after hitting, so neatly that Liu Bei had no time to react and catch up.

Seeing that Zhang Liao never refused, Li Mu felt certain in his heart, then bowed his hands to him, then immediately turned around and walked away, meeting Xu Mao who was beating the man who set fire to him, and slapped him on the shoulder again: "Sheng Feng will follow me to comfort the people first, and then come back and fight again!"

Before he could answer, he immediately pulled his sleeves, dragged the man away, and turned around to ask, "How many people can you gather if the guards at the gates around the city don't move?"

"There are still ten Wu patrolling guards left at the Chen family, and there are 300 people at the granary in the city."

Xu Mao was dragged by Li Mu, and subconsciously took a stake to stabilize his figure.Li Mu's strength was naturally far from his, and he staggered him immediately.Unconsciously, Xu Mao still turned around and kicked the arsonist who had been beaten so hard that he couldn't get up, and then continued, "However, Zhou Lang has a military order. As long as the pi is not broken for a moment, only one person in the granary Can't even move."

"If you don't move, don't move. Fifty people are enough." Li Mu almost fell on his back, and managed to hold Xu Mao to stand firm. Seeing that he was still standing still, he couldn't help but slap him again, "Why?" , What Zhou Gongjin said was the military order, so what I said is not right?"

Xu Mao was rude and straightforward by nature, and he talked and laughed freely on weekdays, but when it came to military orders, he immediately issued a prohibition, without a second thought, just like when Li Mu asked him to lead his troops to kill only two enemy troops, he had to retreat. Even if you don't understand it, you will execute it resolutely and unambiguously.

As soon as Li Mu said this, he immediately bowed and said "here".

50 people are not enough to defend the city, not enough to rush into the battle, and it is indeed enough to kidnap people.

Fifty soldiers in armor rushed out of the other courtyard of the Chen family, turned a corner, and rushed into the main courtyard of the Chen family.The huge courtyard is heavily entered, the corridors are winding, and the roof tiles are in pieces. It is so quiet and peaceful that it seems that the tense battle outside is in a different world from them.However, only a moment later, there was the clear sound of sword clashes in this out of place courtyard, followed by the exclamation of women, the shouting and cursing of men, the crying of children, and the sound of hurried and panicked footsteps. Crying for help, mixed with shouts of "surrender and not kill" one after another, the main courtyard of the Chen family immediately became the epitome of the chaos in the city.

The Chen family is a wealthy family in the local area, and they are self-supporting.In normal times, 50 people might not even be able to enter the main courtyard of the Chen family.At this moment, there are also 50 people, five people in one team, two teams in a team, every ten people in a group, almost invincible. Dozens of them, together with their guards, were tied firmly with thick ropes and pushed out.

"Young Master Quan, our troops lost three people, wounded nine people, and captured 84 people in total." Xu Mao came out and bowed. He only thought that Li Mu's raid on the Chen family was Chen Deng's real vote for Liu Bei, and suggested, "Bring them to the city." head, it will definitely disrupt the enemy's mind."

Li Mu couldn't help sneering when he saw the people who were stumbling around, crying, cursing and drinking.

If she hadn't sent all the parts of the Fuzhong out to set fires and stir up riots, how could it be so easy for her to step into the door carved with bronze and wood behind her!

Liu Bei was attacking the city outside, and they were creating chaos inside. Zhou Yu led his troops out of the city. At this time, once the city gates were tight, the guards in the city panicked and decided to defend the city first. Was the chaos caused by the war, or did they have other plans?

At best, the aristocratic families in the city would be appeased, and then the people on the street would be driven into their houses and not allowed to go out, in order to maintain stability.

"What's the use of a chaotic army? Chen Deng really led Liu Bei to break the city, can you really kill them all?" Amidst Xu Mao's surprise, Li Mu waved his hand, and a ruthless look flashed between his brows and eyes, "General Let everyone bring them to the south gate, let me see how long the chaos can last in the city!" If she is not ruthless, Xiapi City will not be able to defend it!Those people who didn't die in the war but died in the fire set by the Chen family, all died in vain!

The 84 people were tied hands and feet, but they didn't shut up. They were thrown onto the cart one by one like sacks. A total of seven carts were loaded. Xu Mao's subordinates took the cattle out from the field behind Chen's house and pulled the carts. Headed south in a mighty way.

The city has entered the final hand-to-hand battle. Zhang Liao's lance danced vigorously, like a killing god descending from the sky. Blood mist filled the air, and his limbs flew horizontally, hacking and killing all living things within a three-foot radius around him. But it couldn't stop more and more enemy troops from rushing towards the top of the city regardless of life and death.

When Li Mu rushed to the bottom of the city, the huge city gate was screaming under the hammer outside the city.

Amidst the deafening rumbling and fighting and shouting, General Li Mu was about to reach the gate of the city. Dozens of strong men dressed as civilians suddenly rushed out from the sidewalk, and rushed towards them without saying a word.Xu Mao was caught off guard for a moment, and was slashed on the back with a knife. With a roar, he grabbed the knife and went up to meet him.

It's just that there were few of them, and when Li Mu saw that the situation was not right, he looked around and saw that the flames and smoke did not dissipate, but became heavier.

Expected.

The movement of her leading people into the Chen's house was huge. The Chen family's songs were scattered in the city and set on fire. Counting the time, it was time to react.

"Push them all to the gate of the city!" Li Mu didn't have time to think any more, he casually grabbed a knife from a felled Chen Jiabuqu, and slashed at the person who was rushing in front of the cart.Warm blood spurted out, and the people on the cart screamed in shock, and were so frightened that Li Mu slashed in front of their eyes that they passed out.Li Mu turned his head and shouted hoarsely, "Use them to block the gate of the city! I don't want to commit murder, but since I've been forced to come here, if the city breaks today, I want them to be the first to be stepped on by the army horses outside the city." die in the city!"

She hated these two-sided swords, snakes and rats at both ends of the fence, but no matter what, she couldn't do things like massacre and exterminate the clan and sacrifice the flag with blood.But since they want the city to be destroyed so much, they might as well let them block the city gate that is about to collapse!Once the city gate is broken, the enemy troops from outside will swarm in, and they will step over them!

If it is really Liu Bei who came from outside the city, it is a good time for them to see if this emperor's uncle and clan who are full of benevolence and righteousness will slow down the pace of entering the city because of their "hard work" in creating chaos and surrendering!

Blocking the door with your body, do you still expect the door to open and break the city?

"Stop! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! The Chen clan immediately proved to Li Mu with practical actions what it means to be an ant that lives stealthily. A woman's shrill voice was the first to scream "Stop", this sentence "Stop" is like As if the brakes had been opened, all the old men who were still glaring at Li Mu and standing upright, shouted at Li Mu. They shouted one after another at first, but soon they found that their voices were drowned in the fierce fighting. They began to shout orders in unison, and even shouted hoarsely.

More than 80 people shouted in unison with their voices tearing, and gradually overwhelmed the sound of fighting, taking advantage of the gap between the ram hitting the city gate, it was clearly transmitted to the top of the city.

The siege battle is at the last moment, but only waves of shouts of "Stop" can be heard, not to mention that the Chen family's trilogy who are fighting with Xu Mao's troops under the city have been ordered to stop, even the top of the city is fighting hard. The fighting enemy soldiers couldn't help being stunned for a moment, not understanding how someone would call "stop" in unison on this battlefield of life and death.Could it be the military order to retreat?Why don't you hear the golden drum of the retreating army?

At this fleeting moment, a huge fire dragon suddenly appeared in the northeast direction outside the city, like a dragon sailing out of the sea and entering from the enemy's oblique rear. Zhang Liao roared wildly: "Reinforcements have arrived! Kill!"

Reinforcements!

Li Mu suddenly raised his head at the foot of the city, and saw black gold hanging down from the top of his head, and the golden red glow covered the entire sky. There were corpses and severed limbs hanging everywhere, and streams of blood sprayed down.

As if in response to Zhang Liao's words, a long howl suddenly came from outside the city, flying vigorously and violently, like thunder splitting mountains, cracking rocks and shaking the sky, countless people inside and outside the city were shocked.

"It's General Sun!" Xu Mao jumped up, waved his knife and clapped his palms repeatedly, and shouted, "General Sun is here to help!" His excitement was beyond words.

General Sun?Li Mu was taken aback for a moment, the old doctor who was trembling with fear from the two knives could call her a little general, but at this time Xu Mao was talking about General Sun, but it was impossible to refer to her no matter what.

Yes... Sun Ce is here!

Before she could finish thinking about it, there was another clear howl outside the city, clearer and steeper, piercing the sky, but it seemed to be competing, rising and falling, suppressing the previous howling all the way, suddenly rising, with high fighting spirit.

Li Mu immediately recognized Zhou Yu's voice, and he froze on the spot, as if the world had become silent.

The sudden reinforcements from below the city, and the overwhelming killing spirit amidst the two long howls aroused the vitality in the defenders who were fighting on the top of the city and almost collapsed in despair. All of a sudden, their morale was greatly boosted.

Hearing the sound of the drums at the top of the city was thundering and getting louder, Li Mu was suddenly discouraged, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground with a "dang", and he felt numbness in his palms, weakness in his legs, and trembling all over his body. Also unsteady.

The sound of fighting in the ear gradually faded away, and the ram outside the city gate had stopped hitting at some point, as if only her violent heartbeat and rapid panting were left between the sky and the earth, Li Mu supported the cart with both hands, only She felt that her throat was dry, her stomach was convulsed, the back of her clothes had long been soaked in cold sweat, and the gentle breeze made her shiver.

Behind the splendor and cheerfulness of the generals, they really scare people to death!

How exciting!