Ten miles east of Gaotang City, on the north bank of the Great River, there is a continuous hilly area. The area of this hill is not large, the radius is only two or three miles, and it is not high, and the highest point is only about thirty zhang. Such a hill is very common on the plains.

Before Li Yi's Youzhou Army appeared, places like Gaotang City must be the top priority of the Yellow Turban Army scouts' inspections, and they had to patrol several times a day before they would stop. However, since yesterday at midnight, Li Yi's Youzhou Army's iron cavalry appeared in the west of Gaotang City, coupled with Zhang Jiao's eagerness to concentrate on attacking the city, he took back these scouts who patrolled the east of Gaotang and scattered them to the west to search for Li Yi's Youzhou Army's movements, making this area a blind spot for the Yellow Turban Army's vision.

Zhang Jiao didn't care. Now in the east of Gaotang City, there is no more strength of the imperial court, only a few thousand remnants of Huangfu Song, Zhang Jiao does not believe that Huangfu Song has the courage to kill Gaotang City at this time. No, in the past ten days, the Yellow Turban Legion surrounded Gaotang City and attacked, didn't Huangfu Song shrink in West Pyeongchang and didn't dare to move?

Moreover, Zhang Jiao didn't take Huang Fu Song's 3,000 remnants of the defeated army in his eyes at all. After the battle of Suijiashan, this army has been defeated by the Yellow Turban Army, and when facing the Yellow Turban Army in the future, they will have no other choice but to flee after hearing the wind.

As for Liu Bei, who had ruined his plan to besiege and kill Huangfu Song with the Yellow Turban Army, he even ran to Yangxin on the coast, which is the southeasternmost place in Bohai County, and obviously wanted to completely avoid the Yellow Turban Army's troops.

It was precisely because he had sent scouts to investigate the situation in the eastern part of the Gaotang Dynasty that Zhang Jiao dared to boldly throw all the scouts patrolling the east to the western battlefield.

However, in this place where the horns were so sure that there would be no enemy, there was an army with bright armor and high fighting spirit.

The size of this army is not large, only 10,000 people. But its equipment is outrageously good. In the middle were three thousand heavily armed foot soldiers, all armed to the teeth. On each side of the heavy infantry were three thousand light foot soldiers. Although it is said to be light, in fact, everyone wears leather armor. The swords, guns, swords, and halberds in the hands of the soldiers are also obviously murderous weapons made by skilled craftsmen. At the rear of the army was a light cavalry of 1,000 people, although there were only 1,000 people, but each knight was obviously a carefully selected strong and daring warrior, and their mounts were also carefully selected war horses.

The short and fat black general, although his appearance is not good, but he is a man who is good at words. What he said was that the 10,000 soldiers were all in high spirit, and they were eager to rush out immediately.

"Click......" A rapid sound of horses' hooves came from the west of the hills. When the soldiers heard the news, they saw a horse galloping towards them, and it was the scout of the army.

The scout flew in front of the short and fat black general, turned over and dismounted, and reported loudly: "Report, Zhang Jiao has mobilized all the horses in the east of the city to storm Gaotang City, and Gaotang City will fall soon." The Youzhou Iron Cavalry of Li Yi, the general of the Xiao Cavalry in the west of the city, was engaged in a battle with the main forces of Yang Feng, Chu Yan and Zhang Jiao of the Yellow Turban Army. ”

When the short and fat black general heard this, he laughed. Said loudly: "Is the Yellow Turban Thief attacking with all his troops?" Okay, very good, it's time for me to make a contribution! The congregation will listen to the command and beat the drums. According to the plan, the whole army will assault! ”

This short and fat black general is none other than Cao Cao, the captain of the Xiao Cavalry Captain given by the Son of Heaven. Originally, he led his own troops. It is marching slowly on the border of Wei County. However, about half a month ago, he disappeared from everyone's sight. Neither Wei Jun nor Li Yi could find him.

But he never thought that at this most critical moment, he led his soldiers and horses to appear in the deadliest place on the battlefield.

As Cao Cao's words fell, the majestic and passionate war drums rose into the sky.

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Zhang Jiao flew over the city wall and slashed an enemy soldier with a single sword.

Dozens of steps in front of Zhang Jiao, Wang Dang and the soldiers of the personal guard battalion were fighting all the way and moving forward bravely. The defenders of Gaotang City could not resist and retreated step by step.

Seeing that the great sages and good teachers who did not know martial arts were all taking the lead and struggling to fight on the city wall, the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army under the city were so excited that their blood boiled, and they braved the sky full of arrows and stones like a tide in the deafening roar, and quickly climbed the ladder, frantically attacking the city, attacking the city, and being brave and invincible.

More Yellow Turban soldiers climbed over the walls and tore through one defender after another. The Yellow Turbans gradually occupied a long stretch of the defensive side of the city wall.

Zhang Jiao was very sure of capturing Gaotang City because he was confident in his siege strategy. He used ten days to launch a continuous attack on Gaotang City, consuming a large number of defensive forces of the city's defending officers. Now, according to his optimistic estimates, there are still 2,000 defenders in Gaotang City, which is already very good.

According to Zhang Jiao's first plan, from midnight, Zhang Niujiao and Yu Poison at the South Gate concentrated their forces according to his requirements, and kept attacking Gaotang City, so that the enemy mistakenly thought that the main attack direction of the Yellow Turban Army was the South Gate, and took the opportunity to attract the enemy's defensive forces and paralyze the enemy, and then at the right time, Zhang Liang and Sun Qinbu launched a thunderous blow at the East City Gate, striving to take the city wall at one time, and then the troops developed in depth in the city to seize Gaotang City.

Therefore, Zhang Jiao saw that the plan to encircle and annihilate Li Yi's Youzhou army was difficult to complete, so he immediately returned to the east gate and organized a most fierce attack.

Wang Dang's sword was bloody and tragic, and the blockers were invincible. The guards who followed Wang Dang were like bloodthirsty beasts, roaring, weapons raging, and they did not care for their own lives. The archers who followed closely behind, under the cover of the soldiers in the front row, shot batch after batch of long arrows at the officers and soldiers who were stubbornly resisting at the fastest speed.

On the city wall, the corpses of soldiers on both sides were lying in various postures, horizontal and vertical, piled up on the top of the city wall about three zhang wide. The ground was covered with a thick layer of blood, and the dripping autumn rain kept washing the blood stains with his pure body, but then it was stained red again by more blood spurting out everywhere.

The defending soldiers were like a bunch of madmen who had lost their minds, they were covered in blood, their blood-red eyes were wide open, and they couldn't tear apart the enemy in front of them. They roared wildly, waved their bloody weapons, and rushed up again and again, dying, rushing up, dying again.

Zhang Jiao was like an enraged bison at this time, his facial muscles distorted by hatred, his eyes seemed to erupt with scorching flames, and his war knife was like lightning flying in the air. Every time a knife goes down, it ends a fresh life; With every step forward, the corpses of the enemy were trampled.

"Kill ......" Zhang Jiao waved his knife and roared, fighting fiercely at the forefront of the battlefield.

Sun Qin climbed the city wall with the third group of assault soldiers.

"Formation, formation, formation......" Sun Qin shouted loudly as he commanded his soldiers to quickly occupy the area that had already been captured by the Yellow Turban Army.

Under the city walls, the war drums of victory suddenly sounded. The sound of the drums was fierce and violent, and the sound spread to the four fields, shaking the entire Dongchengmen battlefield.

The morale of the Yellow Turban soldiers was suddenly boosted, and they shouted in unison, and the heartfelt cheers almost wiped out the wind and rain in an instant.

………………

Wei Cao Shi Cui Jie panted and rushed into the city gate tower, shouting loudly: "Envoy, the city wall is lost, let's quickly retreat!" ”

Liu Ding, just like his name, sat on the chair calmly at such a critical juncture, glanced at Cui Jie, who looked frightened, reached out and handed over a wrapped bamboo slip, and said lightly: "This is the recital of the Shangshu Imperial Court." ”

Cui Jie took it and called anxiously: "Envoy, let's go." ”

Liu Ding stood up and asked casually, "Go?" Where to go? ”

"North Gate, go from North Gate. General Xiaocai's Youzhou Iron Cavalry is fighting fiercely with the hundreds of thousands of ant thieves' army outside the West Gate, and all the ant thieves at the North Gate have rushed to the West Gate to participate in the battle, so there is no enemy in the direction of the North Gate now, and we can withdraw safely," Cui Jie said loudly, "Envoy Jun, let's go, Captain Ji's troops are at the street entrance, ready to escort Envoy Jun to evacuate quickly." ”

Liu Ding shook his head, and as he walked out, he said: "Regardless of his own safety, General Xiaocai resolutely rushed to rescue Gao Tang with more than 10,000 iron horses. Didn't you learn something from it? ”

Cui Jie's face suddenly turned red, and his face showed shame.

Looking at Cui Jie, who was ashamed, Liu Ding said loudly again: "As a member of the Han family, I am the Taishou of Pingyuan County, you say, at this critical moment, can I abandon the city and run for my life alone?" ”

Liu Ding walked to the door, looked at the soldiers on both sides who were fighting fiercely dozens of steps away, and asked in a deep voice: "General Xiaocai rushed to Gaotang with the iron cavalry and took the initiative to invite the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, the purpose of which is so that we can defend the city today. We stayed until tonight, and we won. You know why? ”

Cui Jie's expression moved, and he suddenly realized, and shouted excitedly: "Envoy, this is the glimmer of life you said?" ”

Liu nodded fixed-point. He pointed to the battlefield with a shocking sound of killing, and said calmly: "You can let Captain Ji come up with the troops." ”

After Cui Jie was excited, he was immediately pulled back to the cruel reality by the bloody battlefield in front of him.

The defenders have been wiped out, the walls have fallen, and there is no room for recovery.

Cui Jie said anxiously: "Envoy, we only have 1,000 people from Captain Ji now, and even if we replenish it, it will be difficult to recapture the city wall." Envoy, let's withdraw. ”

Liu Ding shook his head slowly, with a resolute expression. He took a few steps forward, pointed to an open space, and said, "Go and bring the chair, and I'll sit here." ”

"Make Jun ......" Cui Jie was shocked, knelt down with a "plop", and begged bitterly, "Make Jun, go quickly......"

More than a dozen guards who had been standing guard at the door also knelt down at the same time and shouted: "Envoy, you go quickly, we will stay and resolutely block the enemy......"

Liu Ding glanced at Cui Jie with a cold expression, and said loudly: "You dare to delay the military plane?" ”

Cui Jie was helpless, kowtowed to him three times with a sad expression, and ran down the city wall like a fly.

"Bring the chair." Liu Ding said lightly. (To be continued.) )