Under the city, Liu Jun led the cavalry to arrive at the city. Because the terrain of more than ten miles north of Puzhou is unobstructed, Liu Jun knows that the soldiers and horses have nothing to hide. It will be discovered by the opponent more than ten miles away. Therefore, he simply ordered to slow down and arrive at the city unhurriedly, because no matter what, when he arrived at the city, it would not have the effect of a surprise attack.

At this moment, Liu Junzheng and more than a dozen cavalry generals above the middle level were looking at the city of Puzhou in front of the battle. They also saw the dense defenders on the Puzhou city wall. He also realized that there were not a few troops in the city defending the city.

"General, let's attack? We don't have siege equipment, but we do, or we can storm this city? ”

"Attack and attack, you know attack all day. Do you think Puzhou is the state city in front of you? There are few soldiers and horses, and the city is not strong? Can we break into it without breaking a sweat? In such a city, the number of archers will not be less than three or four thousand, and how many people will die in a strong attack? Liu Jun chirped.

"That'...... What to do? Or do we cut down wood and build siege engines? Get a few hundred siege engines and smash them. Damn, I knew that it would be good to bring a few tiger squatting cannons, and dozens of cannons would smash the city gate. ”

"a fart! How can I have time to make that thing? After a delay of three or four days, other reinforcements came, so they made us dumplings. Even if their reinforcements don't come, time can't afford to delay. Li Guangbi's soldiers and horses were afraid that they had already reached Jiannan Road, and they had to cut off their back roads and force him to evacuate. That's what we're here for. Liu Jun's stout body shook uneasily on the horse.

"That'...... It's still General Liu to guide the maze. If you say you do it, we'll do it. "The trained generals have nothing to say.

Liu Jun smacked his lips and thought for a while, "I naturally have a way to ......"

The generals quickly stretched out their ears to listen, and then they heard this sentence from Liu Jun's mouth: "My way is ...... Storm. ”

"Wow!" The generals fell with a bang, and some of them almost tumbled off their horses. One by one, they couldn't cry or laugh. After a long time of trouble, General Liu could not only attack hard.

"What? What are you doing? Liu Jun rolled his eyes: "The strong attack I said is not the same thing as the strong attack you think. I've been studying with Dashuai for so many years, did I learn it for nothing? As for how to attack the city with cavalry, the marshal has long had experience, but he has never used it in actual combat. Today, let's test whether this method is feasible. ”

"Oh? It turns out that there is something else? "The generals are working hard again, it is the method of siege that the marshal has studied, it must be very useful. But in the case of no siege equipment and pure cavalry, how to reduce casualties and break through the city, this method must be very mysterious.

"Don't join in the fun here, go back and straighten out the soldiers. I'll tell you about the siege in a moment. By the way, send someone to the city to ask them to surrender. Liu Jun waved his hand.

"Or twenty breaths? If you don't surrender, you will be killed? ”

"Hmm...... Thirty breaths, there are a lot of soldiers and horses defending the city, give them face. But I guess that looking at the posture of the city, they will not surrender. But the rules are always required, salute first and then soldier, so as not to be said that our Shence army cavalry does not give them a chance. ”

The ...... generals were speechless.

The soldiers who persuaded them to surrender soon came to the city. After a meal of intimidation and self-deception, the loud-voiced soldier began to count down to thirty. But this time, before he could count a few, the defenders at the head of the city began to fire arrows. The arrows began to swish in front of and behind his horse, and the soldier was persistent, holding his great shield in front of the arrows, and counted the thirty before he began to leave. When leaving, he was finally a little careless, and he was hit by an arrow in the thigh, and screamed in pain and beat the horse away.

At the head of the city, Tian Chengji and the defenders laughed loudly. It is simply crazy to scold the opponent for being arrogant and forcing himself to surrender within thirty breaths.

At this time, in the distance, the cavalry formation of the Shence Army slowly moved, and it had slowly set up a posture to charge.

Tian Chengsi issued a series of orders, and all the 7,000 defenders had been mobilized to the walls of the northern city, and the 3,600 archers were ready to meet the battle. Thanks to Tian Chenghe's strict training during this time, these 7,000 defenders are no longer old, weak, sick and disabled in the past, but already have the strength to fight.

Under the city, amid the sound of war drums and horns, the cavalry of the Shence Army began to charge. The horses' hooves roared, and the smoke and dust covered the sun, and when you looked at the city, it was like a huge shadow spreading under the city, obscuring the sun and the earth, and the smoke and the torrent swallowed up all the places it passed.

"Archers prepare! Shoot with all your might within 100 paces. Tian Chengsi shouted.

The bowstrings creaked, the heavy gasps of the defenders at the head of the city revealed a sense of tension and oppression, and all the bows and arrows opened their bowstrings, and thousands of arrows were aimed at the torrent that spread below the city. The dozens of bed crossbows at the head of the city were also loaded with thick crossbow arrows, buckled their machine springs, and were ready to launch a fatal blow against the enemy troops below the city at any time.

"Five hundred steps!"

"Four hundred steps!"

"Three hundred steps!"

The flag was changing, and the soldiers in charge of estimating the distance at the height of the tower conveyed the distance of the other party's approach. One stone's throw away, within a hundred paces, that's the distance you can shoot. The soldiers were waiting for the last signal, and when the red flag was waved, it was the moment when ten thousand arrows were fired.

However, after the other party entered the distance of 300 steps, a strange thing happened. The torrent of cavalry did not rush directly towards the city, the war horse began to turn in a strange arc, and the rushing tide seemed to be cut open by an invisible embankment, and the charging station was divided into two, all the way to the east and the other to the west, and the distance of a hundred steps away was a stone's throw away in the direction of the east and west city.

"What? What the hell? All the defenders at the head of the city were stunned.

"General, what's going on, what are they going to do?" Ma Yong asked in surprise.

Tian Chengsi thought for a while, and scolded: "Quickly divide the troops to the east city and the west city, they will attack from the east city and the west city." ”

"Huh?"

Ma Yong was stunned for a moment, and instantly understood what Tian Chenghe's words meant. His 7,000 defenders were all concentrated in the northern city, but the other party gave up attacking the northern city, but wanted to attack from the east and west city walls, where there were only a very small number of soldiers to defend, if they did not divide the troops to defend, I am afraid that they would be broken through in an instant.

"But the general, we only have 7,000 people, and if we divide the troops, ......"

"No nonsense, there are two thousand left in the northern city, and the rest of the soldiers will go to the east and west cities to defend in two ways. When we divide our troops, don't they divide them too? Let General Hao drive the people to the city to assist in the defense. Tian Chengsi shouted.

Ma Yong suddenly realized that the other party actually only had more than 30,000 cavalry, and the troops were divided to attack the city, and the siege force was actually weakened. The pressure on the defenders increased, and the attackers did not necessarily take advantage.

The defenders of the northern city immediately began to increase their forces along the walls to the east and west of the walls. When they reached the bottom of the city walls, the cavalry that had walked around the city could also reach the east and west sides of the city walls. The defenders immediately took up their positions and prepared to meet the enemy.

However, the situation once again stunned them, and the two teams of Shence cavalry galloped under the city, without stopping for a moment, and headed straight for the southern city. Looking at the posture, he is going to attack Nancheng. The defenders had to hurry up the wall to the south wall. When they arrived at the southern city wall, they happened to see two 10,000-strong cavalry teams of the Shence Army staggering past, one to the east and the other to the west, heading around the city.

The defenders cursed, but they couldn't stay, because the east and west walls had to be defended, so they had to return to the east and west walls with their mouths open and their tongues exhausted. But the same situation appeared again, and the two cavalry soldiers galloped around the city, and the next moment they returned to the outside of the northern city.

The panting defenders again had to converge on the northern walls. At this time, Tian Chengsi finally understood the other party's intentions. The cavalry of the Shence Army was simply playing tricks on themselves. Cavalry siege was a ridiculous act, but they skillfully used the mobility of the cavalry to run around the city, forcing the defenders to follow them around the city walls, thus greatly depleting the defenders' physical strength in search of the best fighters.

To say that this tactic does not work in the case of a huge city and a large number of defenders, but in Puzhou now, it is possible to circle the city in half an hour, and the strength of the defenders is only 7,000, which satisfies the conditions of this cunning tactic. Although he knew that the other party was consuming the physical strength of his army, he had to be led by the nose.

The cavalry under the city did not start the attack from the northern city. After the smoke and dust passed, the 20,000 cavalry began to circle again. The defenders cursed the ancestors of the cavalry of the Shence Army for eight generations, but they could only follow along the city wall again. Half an hour later, when the two cavalry teams of 10,000 men returned to the north city with the defenders in a circle at the head of the city, all the defenders were almost exhausted.

Puzhou City is five miles from east to west and four miles from north to south. A lap around the city wall is equivalent to running eighteen miles. After running two laps in an hour, and running thirty-six miles for no reason, anyone will be tired of becoming a dog. When they saw the cavalry under the city staggered by, and were about to lead the nose and walk around, the defending soldiers were already slumped on the ground one by one.

Ma Yong came to Tian Chenghei with a sweaty face and a pale face, coughed and spit out a mouthful of saliva that had become white and sticky because of running, and gasped like a cow: "General, this is not the way, general, if you go on like this, you don't have to fight, everyone will be tired to death." The general wants to think about it. ”

Although Tian Chengji, whose face was flushed, did not run and defend with the soldiers, his face was already sweating profusely, and he was actually desperate in his heart.

Originally, he was full of confidence to hold Puzhou, and he firmly believed that he could do it. But he didn't expect this kind of tactic from his opponent at all. He had never encountered such a shameless siege method, which gave people a sense of despair that their IQ was crushed. If this continues, there is really no need to fight, and the soldiers are tired and exhausted.

But what's even more annoying is that although he saw through the other party's intentions, he couldn't think of a way to do it even after racking his brains. The soldiers had to follow the cavalry around the city as if they were being led by an invisible rope, because if they didn't, they might actually attack the city in an undefended place. It only takes one wall to break through and the whole city will be lost. In fact, all this has become a dead end, a dead end that is completely impossible to deal with.

"Brother, I'm afraid there is nothing to be done about today's affairs, and the opponent's tactics are too despicable and cunning. We are already in a dilemma. I...... I really can't think of a solution. Brother, do you have any good ideas? You have an idea. Tian Chengsi said with a sad face.

Ma Yong wanted to cry without tears, and his great hero, General Tian, had no idea, but he had to find a way for him, what could he do? If you have a way, do you still need to ask him?

"General, humble ...... To put it in hindsight, we should have evacuated this city a long time ago, you said that we could hold it for more than ten days, but in the current situation, I am afraid that we will not be able to hold it for two or three hours. Ay. ”

"What do you do now? Am I wrong? It's me who underestimated my opponent. Wang Yuan's Shence army is invincible, and it really deserves its reputation. From their methods today, I can understand how desperate his opponents were before. That's it, Ma Yong, the matter has come to this, and I am afraid that there are only two roads in front of us. One is to surrender immediately when you know the times, and the second is to fight hard. What do you think we should choose? ”

Ma Yong smacked his lips and said, "Desperate? How desperately? Everyone took the initiative to go out of the city to die? Or will they be besieged by 30,000 cavalry after they break the city? General, desperate is bound to die, I'm afraid there is only one way to surrender. But even if they surrender, I don't know if they will agree. After all, just now, their messenger was shot and wounded by us, and they must be very angry. ”

Tian Chengsi rolled his eyes and said, "No matter what, we have to give it a try, don't we?" Brother, go out of town and ask them for peace, and see if they allow it. If they don't allow it, let's ...... Let's fight to the death. I think they'll say yes, they shouldn't be so stingy. ”

Ma Yong sighed and said, "Okay, it's come to this, I can only try." ”

"Hard work brother," Tian Chengsi said in a dumb voice.

After the cavalry staggered, a cloud of yellow dust filled the air, and the north gate was opened. After Ma Yong rode out of the city gate, the gate quickly closed behind. Ma Yong looked at the yellow dust under the city in front of him, and covered his nose with his hand and rode across the suspension bridge.

At the head of the city, Tian Chengsi stared at Ma Yong as he disappeared into the smoke and dust, and his figure gradually disappeared. Soon after, when the smoke and dust cleared, and when Ma Yong's figure came into view again, he was already hundreds of paces in front of the 10,000-strong army in the distance.

In the distance, although the sound of speech could not be heard clearly, it could be seen that more than a dozen horsemen rushed out of the opposing cavalry formation to surround the horse warriors. Ma Yong was pointing at something, and the other soldier was only quietly riding on his horse without making any movements. Suddenly, Ma Yong turned his horse and galloped back, and more than a dozen cavalrymen on the other side bent their bows and arrows at Ma Yong's back, and Ma Yong shook his horse and then fell into the dust.

"Ahh Brother Ma. Tian Chengsi yelled, he didn't expect this to be the result. Ma Yong is his confidant and good brother, and Ma Yong is doing all the dirty work, and he doesn't know how much easier it is to have him. However, he watched Ma Yong being shot by the Shence Army. Tian Chenghe's heart twitched, and he was in pain.

However, a more serious problem soon came to mind, and Ma Yong was shot, which showed that the other side did not accept surrender at all. In other words, I can't even go through the road of surrender, so I can only take the last road. Thinking of this, Tian Chenghe's heart tightened.

"Report to the general, the east and west city gates are under attack by enemy troops, and the troops defending the city are insufficient, what should I do?" The sound of the soldiers' urging reports came to my ears. Tian Chengsi only felt that the world was spinning, and he was at a loss. After two laps, most of the soldiers could not run, and they sat at the head of the city gasping for breath. In the third lap, there was no one left to defend it. The opponent's 20,000 cavalry had already launched an attack outside the east and west cities respectively, which was expected. Overnight, the east and west walls were about to break. Now he has no chance of surrendering.

"Brothers." Tian Chengsi said slowly: "There is only one way for everyone, and that is to follow me and kill them." As you can see, the left and right are dead, so it's better to kill a few of them. It was the man who followed me out of the north gate, taking advantage of the fact that there were not many soldiers and horses outside the north gate, and fought a bloody way. ”

All the soldiers and generals looked at him with idiotic eyes, and someone muttered in a low voice, "Isn't this all going to kill everyone?" Knowing that it is to send you to death, you have to go with everyone, it is really not a thing. ”

Tian Chengsi yelled: "Who said that? Who is it? ”

Everyone didn't dare to speak, Tian Chengsi brandished a long knife and approached the soldiers one by one and asked, "Is it you?" Isn't it you? ”

The soldiers were too frightened by his vicious appearance to look at him, and only hummed in a low voice: "It's not me, it's not me." ”

Tian Chengsi raised his knife and roared angrily: "I can't help you not go, when you become soldiers, you are always ready to die." Whoever dared to disobey the order, Lao Tzu killed him. Lao Tzu has never been merciless, you ...... Oops......"

Tian Chengsi suddenly sighed, his body was crooked, and he fell on the battlements. In the stunned eyes of the soldiers, but seeing that Tian Chenghe's tall figure was leaning on the center of gravity, his body wearing heavy armor could not turn well, and the whole person turned over to the city top-heavy.

"Save me......" Tian Chengji shouted.

One of the two nearest soldiers reached for his already dangling thigh, but suddenly someone kicked him in the crook of the leg, and his body staggered and his hand was empty. The next moment, Tian Chenghe's feet disappeared into the air above the battlements, and after two breaths, there was a heavy falling sound from under the city, and there seemed to be a clear sound of bones breaking.

Everyone immediately threw down the edge of the city wall and looked down, only to see Tian Cheng