"Everyone, come up to the castle tower at once!"

Suddenly, a man stepped down from the castle tower and shouted at the gate of the city.

Hearing this shout, both soldiers and officers went up the stairs up the tower like a tide.

Because Zhang Yan was wearing the clothes of the Xuzhou soldiers, he was surrounded by soldiers and climbed the city tower. Ascending to the heights and looking, he suddenly saw the dense Cao army outside the city, moving towards the city.

Cao's cavalry was trampling the refugees who could not enter the city with merciless iron hooves, and the refugees were crying and screaming, and one by one they died tragically under the butcher's knife of Cao's army.

This scene filled the eyes of all the soldiers defending the city, they were all angry, and their eyes were full of anger against Cao Jun.

At this time, a man in a robe walked up from under the city tower, the man with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and he was about the same age as Zhang Yan, who should be about twenty-seven years old.

The man frowned, his face was pale, and he quickly swept over the dense Cao army outside the city, and then set his eyes on the soldiers defending the city, and he couldn't help but feel a little lost in his eyes.

"See Captain!" When the rest of the people saw this young man appear, they were all respectful to this man.

The man waved his hand, signaling that everyone did not need to be polite, but his eyes involuntarily looked around. When his eyes fell on Zhang Yan, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

Zhang Yan was eight feet long and sturdy, standing among the hundreds of soldiers, like standing out from the crowd. Coupled with his handsome face as cold as iron, and under his thick eyebrows are a pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle's falcon, and the whole person has a compelling momentum that looks at the world.

"Are you Zhang Yan, the county lieutenant of Liuxian County?" The captain walked up to Zhang Yan and asked with some uncertainty.

Zhang Yan was stunned for a moment, he didn't remember for a while who the person standing in front of him was, but the rest of the people were very respectful to this man, and called him a captain, he was just a county lieutenant, and his official position was definitely not as big as a lieutenant.

He saw that this man had black shoulder-length hair, about one meter seven or eight tall, with a fair complexion, a straight nose, a straight figure, eyes as bright as stars, and gestures, making people like a spring breeze, and with a dark robe, he looked a little elegant.

He imitated the appearance of the ancients, clasped his fists and asked, "Your Excellency knows me?" ”

The man nodded and said with a smile: "When I passed by Liuxian last winter, I had a relationship with you. How? Forgetting who I am so soon? ”

Zhang Yan searched carefully in his mind, but he didn't find anything, this was a very raw face, he really didn't know it, and he didn't have any impression.

A soldier beside him immediately muttered, "Why don't you even know Captain Chen?" This is the captain of the agricultural school, Chen Dengchen, our famous man in Xuzhou, and the right-hand man of the state pastor! ”

After Zhang Yan heard Chen Deng's name, he couldn't help but look at Chen Deng twice. In his impression, Chen Deng should be a scribe, but now he is standing on the tower of the city and commanding the battle, which is indeed a little surprising.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Knock ......"

Suddenly, the rumbling drums of war came from outside the city, resounding through the wilderness.

Zhang Yan heard the sound of war drums and immediately looked out of the city, but saw that the Cao army had cleared the road, and the neat Cao army phalanx was marching towards the city gate with strong steps.

At this time, Chen Deng didn't care about chatting with Zhang Yan anymore, and hurriedly shouted: "Cao's army is about to attack the city, everyone is ready to fight!" ”

Outside Pengcheng, tens of thousands of Cao Jun stood on the snowfield in black pressure, with neat appearances, magnificent momentum, and ready to go. Cao Jun's flags were unfurled, the voices of the people were like tides, the spears were like forests, the swords were like the sea, and tens of thousands of troops were slowly marching forward.

In the center of the formation, there were all cavalry, each of them heavily armoured, all of them burly, powerful, and arrogant with an unbeatable look on their faces.

Surrounded by thousands of people, a man riding a white horse stood out as a particularly eye-catching man, who was the commander of this army, Yanzhou Mu Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was surrounded by more than a dozen generals, each of whom was in good spirits and had an extraordinary appearance. But they all looked invincible, as if Pengcheng was already in their pocket.

The rumbling of the war drums changed from slow to fast, and the zuihou became very hurried, as if countless raindrops had fallen on it, but not long after, the drums suddenly stopped abruptly.

A few seconds later, Cao Cao, who was riding a white horse in the middle of the military formation, suddenly pulled out a long sword from his waist and swung it vigorously in the direction of Pengcheng, and let out a hysterical cry: "Siege!" ”

With Cao Cao's order, a group of foot soldiers at the front of the military formation tied their hair and legs, carried bows and arrows, held spears in their hands, and surrounded them in front and back, carrying ladders and ladders, rushing towards Pengcheng like a tide.

Seeing such a scene, Chen Deng immediately shouted: "Prepare for war!" ”

On the tower of Pengcheng, the archers filled their bows and arrows, and the rest of the soldiers carried the rolling stones and timbers to the head of the city, making a defensive posture.

Zhang Yan picked up a huge stone, placed it near the battlements, and when Cao Jun approached, he threw the stone down.

A thousand shield-wielding Cao soldiers bore the brunt of the attack, and under the leadership of an officer, Cao Chun, they ran fast and soon approached the city.

"Shoot the arrows!"

With an order, the soldiers defending the city immediately shot their bows and arrows mercilessly at the Cao soldiers who rushed to the front.

However, the soldiers of the Cao army were all well-trained, and they used the shields in their hands to cover the bows and arrows one after another, and only a few of them died because they did not cover them in time.

Soon, this wave of Cao soldiers braved the arrows of the defenders, took the lead in rushing to the city wall, and quickly erected the ladder they brought on the city wall.

Zhang Yan saw the opportunity, picked up the stone and smashed it down to the city, and the huge stone directly hit the head of a Cao soldier, bursting the brain of the Cao soldier, and fell directly to the ground, whimpering with a whimper.

He continued to lift the stones and smash them under the city walls, even though those Cao soldiers had shields to protect them, and in the face of the sudden heavy blow, they either broke their arms or were directly stoned to death. The ladder on the city wall was quickly pushed down by the defenders.

The defenders kept attacking the Cao soldiers under the city wall with bows and arrows and boulders, and the first wave of Cao soldiers who rushed to the city were severely damaged, suffering heavy casualties, and soon there was not much left.

But Cao's footmen continued to rush towards the city wall, and under Cao Chun's command, they shouted and roared, expressing their fearlessness in their hearts with extremely uplifting voices.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"

Cao's archers rushed to the vicinity of the city wall and began to shoot at the city wall with bows and arrows, but many of the defenders were shot through by Cao's arrows and fell to the ground.

Seeing this scene, Chen Deng, who was in charge of commanding the battle, immediately ordered the archers to shoot at the archers of the Cao army outside the city.

"Kill!"

Suddenly, an officer of the Cao army climbed from the ladder to the city wall, picked up the sharp blade in his hand and slashed indiscriminately, and the soldier in charge of defense was not an opponent, and was cut down by the officer of the Cao army one after another.

The officer of the Cao army hurriedly jumped to the city tower, and with his personal bravery, he fought a foothold on the tower, and the soldiers who went to meet him were either hacked to death or slashed by the officer of the Cao army.

And behind that Cao army officer, another Cao soldier climbed the city tower, fought side by side with the Cao army officer, and soon won a place.

"Quick! Kill them! Seeing this, Chen Deng immediately looked anxious, if he didn't take back that square inch of land, he was afraid that the city tower would soon be lost.

At this moment, an iron spear suddenly came out, and coldly stabbed a shot, directly piercing the body of the Cao army officer, and the head of the gun passed through the body, along with the Cao soldier behind the Cao army officer.

The officer of the Cao Army looked at the iron spear piercing his body with surprised eyes, but saw that the person holding the handle of the iron spear turned out to be Zhang Yan. He shouted unwillingly, and swung the blade in his hand with Zuihou's strength, slashing at Zhang Yan's neck.

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Yan's mouth, and he raised his leg and kicked the officer off the city wall, quickly pulled out the iron spear inserted in the officer's body, and quickly stabbed into the heart of a Cao soldier who had just climbed the city wall.

Cao Bing let out a miserable scream, fell directly from the ladder to the bottom of the city wall, and fell to his death.

Zhang Yan held a spear in his hand, stood on the tower that was almost lost, kept dancing the iron spear in his hand, destroyed the ladder on the city wall one after another, and killed more than ten Cao soldiers in a row.

He alone and with a gun, he held the position at the head of the city.

Chen Deng watched Zhang Yan's every move, and couldn't help but be impressed by Zhang Yan's martial bravery, and thought to himself: "I didn't expect this little county lieutenant to be so powerful......

Cao Chun, who commanded the battle of Cao's army under the city, also noticed this subtle change on the city tower, and immediately commanded the archers to fire arrows at Zhang Yan.

Hundreds of arrows were shot at Zhang Yan from different directions, Zhang Yan was not panicked, and the iron spear in his hand was waved away, and the arrows shot were turned outside, and he was unharmed.

Zhang Yan noticed that the Cao army did not launch a full-scale attack, and the Cao army that carried out the siege was only a part of it, only about two or three thousand people.

And these Cao troops who were in charge of the siege were all under the command of a Cao army officer wearing iron armor and iron helmets. The officer of the Cao army hid far behind the archers of the Cao army, and it was the officer of the Cao army who had commanded the archers to shoot him just now, about a hundred paces away from his position.

As the saying goes, shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, and capture the thief first and capture the king.

He immediately put the iron spear in his hand at his feet, picked up the bow and arrow from a dead archer beside him, pulled the bow and arrow hard, put one arrow on the bowstring, and shot an arrow at the archer next to the officer of the Cao army.

But a string sounded, and an arrow flew swiftly towards the archer. Unfortunately, the strength of this bow was limited, and even if the bowstring was full, it could only shoot at a distance of about eighty paces, and the officer was hiding a hundred paces away, and he could not shoot it anyway.

Seeing that the arrow ended without a hitch and landed halfway down, Zhang Yan's face suddenly felt a wave of frustration. In this way, his idea of sniping at the officer of the Cao Army was tantamount to a waste.

"County Lieutenant Zhang, use this bow!" At this time, a voice sounded beside Zhang Yan, and Chen Deng didn't know when he came to his side, handed a bow in front of him, and looked forward to it.

Zhang Yan didn't say a word, he directly took the bow and arrow, and tried to pull the bowstring of this bow, and the strength was really very different from ordinary bows.

He tried to exert his strength, and used his brawn strength to pull the bow full, and he couldn't help but smile on his face.

He immediately took out an arrow, put it directly on the bowstring, pulled the bowstring full, and aimed at the officer of the Cao army who was a hundred paces away.

With a loud shout, the arrows on the bowstring came out of the string and shot quickly towards the officer of the Cao army.

The officer of the Cao Army was also taken aback when he suddenly saw an arrow flying, and before he could dodge, he was shot in the throat, and before he even had time to scream, he fell to the ground and struggled to die.

"Good archery!" Seeing Zhang Yan's arrow hit the officer of the Cao Army who was a hundred steps away, Chen Deng suddenly exclaimed in surprise and praised loudly.

The officers of the Cao army were killed by Zhang Yan's arrow, and the Cao army, which was besieging the city, lost its command, and more than 2,000 people fell into a leaderless state.

Cao Cao, who was riding a white horse in the military formation, was also taken aback when he saw that the pioneer Cao Chun was killed by Zhang Yan with an arrow, and he was worried that Cao Chun's death would directly affect the morale of the siege troops, so he decisively ordered: "Mingjin retreats!" ”

As soon as the order to withdraw was issued, the Cao army besieging the city began to retreat one after another.

The defenders did not cheer for it, because they knew very well in their hearts that this was only the beginning of the war, and the real war had just begun......