Chapter 859: Shouchun City is broken
"Our army has won a big victory, and General Zhao will behead Cao Ren!" Carrying the head, the soldier pretending to be the Qin army rode his horse to the foot of Shouchun City, raised the head high, and shouted loudly to the city wall.
Hearing that Zhao Yunzhen had beheaded Cao Ren, Lu Bu and Yu Poison hurriedly leaned out and looked out of the city.
Under the city walls, a soldier on horseback was holding the head high, and several soldiers brought torches close to the head to illuminate their faces.
Although the soldiers carrying the human head were under the city, since it was night, even if there were torches shining, it was not possible to see the real face of the human head.
Lu Bu turned his head to look at Yu Poison on the side, and asked him, "How does General Yu feel about this matter?" β
Looking at Lu Bu, Yu Xuan's brows furrowed tightly, and he said hesitantly: "Cao Ren is punished, can the general go out of the city to inspect?" β
Yu didn't have any confidence in what he said, Lu Bu also frowned slightly, thought for a while, and then nodded and said: "The general strictly guards the head of the city, and he will go down to the city to see the head!" β
"Generals, be cautious!" Clenched his fists and arched towards Lu Bu, and Yu Poison responded.
Beckoning behind him, Lu Bu led more than a dozen personal soldiers down the city wall quickly.
"Open the gates!" When he arrived at the city wall, Lu Bu waved his hand to the Qin army guarding the city gate and shouted.
Seeing that it was Lu Bu coming, the Qin army guarding the city gate did not dare to delay, and hurriedly unloaded the wooden stakes against the city gate and opened the city gate.
After being besieged by Cao's army for several days, the gates of Shouchun were finally opened again.
As soon as the city gate was opened, LΓΌ Bu saw more than 2,000 soldiers holding torches outside the city in a neat formation, facing the place where Cao's army had withdrawn.
At the moment when the city gate opened, Lu Bu held Fang Tian's halberd and clenched it tightly.
He had already made a plan, if there were suspicious soldiers of Cao's army outside the city, he immediately ordered the soldiers to close the city gate.
But when the more than 2,000 people outside the city opened the city gate, there was no sign of turning around, which made Lu Bu feel a little relieved.
"Warm wait!" With more than a dozen personal soldiers, as soon as he walked out of the city gate, the little general, who led 2,000 people to line up outside the city, rode up to meet him, came to him, turned over, jumped off his horse, and saluted him with his fists.
Nodding to the little general, Lu Bu didn't speak to him, but walked straight towards the soldier who lifted the head.
Seeing Lu Bu walk away, the little general glanced at the officers on the side.
The officer nodded and whispered something to the soldier behind him.
The more than 2,000 soldiers wearing Qin army's armor did not act immediately, but still stared at the direction of Cao's retreat, quietly waiting.
With more than a dozen personal soldiers approaching the soldier carrying the head, before Lu Bu could open his mouth, the soldier had already turned over and jumped off the horse, holding the head in both hands and kneeling in front of him and said: "Qi Yu Wen Hou, Cao Ren is ambushed, the head is here!" β
Nodding his head, Lu Bu bent down and looked at the human head.
The human head and face were covered with blood, and it was impossible to see the face under the light of the torches.
But the more Lu Bu looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, Cao Ren he had seen it, although the face of this human head was a little similar, but it was definitely not Cao Ren!
"This is Cao Ren's head ......?" Pointing to the head of the soldier in his hand, Lu Bu asked with some doubts.
Holding the head in both hands, the soldier replied, "Exactly! β
"Lie!" The soldier said that it was Cao Ren's head, and Lu Bu raised the halberd in his hand and shouted.
Before he could say the rest of the words, the soldier's eyes suddenly widened, he threw the head to the ground, reached out and pulled out the saber at his waist, and stabbed it towards Lu Bu's chest.
Who is Lu Bu!
The soldier's movements were fast, but it was impossible for his sword to reach him.
At the moment when the sword blade was about to stab Lu Bu, Lu Bu turned his body away, avoiding the sharp sword edge, and then flipped his wrist and grabbed the soldier's wrist.
Twisting the soldier, before Lu Bu could ask a question, a shout came from behind him: "Kill into the city!" β
With this shout, two thousand Cao troops, pretending to be Qin troops, rushed towards the city gate.
Seeing that the momentum was not good, the Qin army inside the city gate hurriedly rushed to the gate, wanting to close the city gate.
But Cao Jun, who pretended to be the Qin army, was too close to the city gate, and the Qin army in the city reacted a little slower by half a beat, and the city gate was only half closed, and the Cao army had already rushed into the doorway.
A battle immediately unfolded at the city gate, and the swords of the soldiers on both sides exchanged swords, and the sound of shields clashing, the sound of swords and halberds and the shouts of soldiers fighting were endless.
The momentum of the Yu poison general at the head of the city was not right, and he hurriedly shouted to the soldiers beside him: "Pass the order, rush to the city gate, and drive the Cao army out!" β
As soon as Yu Poison's order was issued, many Qin troops poured down the city wall to support Tongze at the city gate.
The two armies fought at the city gate, and a soldier of the Cao army, pretending to be the Qin army, drew his longbow to the full, and fired a rocket into the sky.
The rocket drew an orange arc of light, like a meteor, flashing in the night sky!
At the same time as the shouting of killing came, more than 100 Cao soldiers rushed up with blades and shouts towards Lu Bu and more than a dozen personal soldiers who went out of the city with him.
Holding the wrist of Cao Jun, who was accused by him, Lu Bu, who already knew that he had been deceived, suddenly became angry in his heart.
He roared, pulled the soldier up, and then dragged the soldier and threw him at the wall.
The city wall was only five or six steps away from Lu Bu, and Cao Jun, who was being pulled by him, only felt a strong force pulling him, making him unable to stop his pace at all, and crashed headlong into the city wall.
The head hit the hard city wall, and Cao Jun didn't even feel any pain at all, and his head was cracked.
Red and white slurry flowed from his skull, and his body bounced backwards as it hit the wall, falling heavily to the ground.
Lu Bu didn't even look at him at all, he lifted Fang Tian's halberd and shouted at the more than ten personal soldiers beside him: "Kill Cao Thief with a certain person!" β
A fierce battle had already started in the city, and more than a dozen Qin troops who followed Lu Bu out of the city also let out a shout in unison, and followed Lu Bu to pounce on the more than 100 Cao troops who were rushing towards them.
More than 100 Cao Jun rushed to Lu Bu, not intending to kill him at all.
Lu Bu is brave, and Cao Jun also knows that he wants to kill him with more than 100 people, but it is just a fool's dream.
Carrying Fang Tian's halberd, he threw himself into the Cao army, Lu Bu danced the halberd like a windmill, and all the Cao troops who stood in front of him were all cut by the sharp halberd and fell on the spot.
The more than 100 Cao troops who pounced on Lu Bu and the others were powerless to resist his halberd, and under Lu Bu's crazy attack, they retreated step by step.
The more than ten personal soldiers who followed behind Lu Bu, although they carried Pu knives and shields, they had no chance to engage Cao Jun at all.
Before they could rush forward, the Cao army in front had already fallen under Lu Bu's attack, and all these ten or so pro-soldiers could do was to make up for the Cao army that had fallen and not yet died.
There was a shout in the distance, and countless flickering torches rushed towards the Shouchun City Gate.
More than 2,000 Cao troops were unable to enter the city at all, and they even withdrew from the city gate little by little under the counterattack of the Qin army.
Wielding his halberd and slashing several Cao soldiers in front of him to the ground, Lu Bu turned his head to look at the countless torches that were rushing towards the city gate, and shouted to the more than ten soldiers: "Withdraw with General Ben!" β
Cao's army was all over the mountains, and the torches were connected to the sky and the earth, and there was no end in sight.
Lu Bu knew very well that even if he stayed here, he would not have the slightest effect on the situation of the battle, and he would just give his life in vain.
Hearing Lu Bu's shout, more than a dozen personal soldiers followed him, fighting with the Cao army who had caught up, and retreated to the Xiangling in the distance.
In the retreat, several of the more than a dozen pro-soldiers also fell, and when Lu Bu withdrew from the battlefield, there were only seven people left behind him.
The seven Qin troops who followed Lu Bu out of the battlefield were all in tattered armor, and their faces were covered with blood.
The chasing Cao army stopped after reaching the slope of the mountain, the night was thick, and no one dared to take the risk of chasing Lu Bu into the mountains and forests at night!
LΓΌ Bu fled into the mountains and forests with seven of his own soldiers, but the Qin army in Shouchun City did not drive Cao's army out.
The follow-up Cao army arrived, and the Qin army guarding the city gate was soon pushed into the city, and the two sides started a street battle in the city.
The Qin army in the city was unable to resist the attack of the Cao army, and Yu Xuan, who was in charge of defending the city, did not want to bury all the soldiers in Shouchun.
At the moment when Cao's army broke through the city gate, Yu Xuan shouted to an officer beside him: "Pass the order, the army will withdraw from Shouchun!" β
Yu Poison issued an order to withdraw from Shouchun, and the Qin army in the city immediately gathered in one place and rushed towards one of the relatively weak city gates of the Cao army.
Most of the Qin army flocked to the weak gate of the Cao army, and a small number of Qin troops failed to join the main force in time, and started hand-to-hand combat with the Cao army in the city.
Yu Poison led a group of Qin troops to rush down the city wall and met a group of Cao troops running towards him on a street.
The number of this Cao army is more than half of the Qin army led by Yu Poison, and when he saw the Cao army, Yu Poison carried a double axe and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "General Suiben, cut down all these Cao troops!" β
let out a shout, and before the soldiers behind him could respond, Yu Poison had already carried a double axe and killed the oncoming Cao army.
The Qin army that followed him, seeing him rushing out first, also carried their blades, let out a shout, and crashed into this group of Cao troops who met on a narrow road.
Two teams of not very large numbers collided in a street, not very wide, and a scuffle broke out immediately.
Although Yu Poison is not as brave as Lu Bu, he was also a Yellow Turban general with the same name as Guan Hai.
Carrying a double axe to kill the Cao army, Yu Xuan brandished two plate axes and kept slashing at the Cao army.
After Yu Poison slashed five or six Cao Jun in a row, one Cao Jun actually held a shield and rushed up against him.