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Chapter 402 Nightmare
Cai Mao, Cai Xun and others knew that the gap was difficult to defend for a long time, and the probability of being broken by the enemy was extremely high, so they made preparations in advance.

At the beginning of the war, they drove the peasants to move antlers, wooden fences and other things to form a semicircular simple wall with the gap in the city wall as the center.That is, the Yanyue Camp mentioned in the military book.

After the city wall was breached, the defenders immediately retreated into the simple wall, relying on the wall to fight again.

Chu Fang led the crowd to chase and defeat the enemy, and rushed into the city. It was going to be night at this time, and his vision was unclear. It was not until he walked a few steps that he realized that the enemy had quietly built a simple inner wall.

Chu Fang was taken aback, and couldn't bear to think about it at this moment. He held up his mace in one hand and wielded his halberd in the other, and led his soldiers straight to the enemy's wall.

However, before approaching the wall, the enemy's arrows hit like locusts. Although Liu Jing's soldiers were heavily armored, they still could not resist the enemy's torrential attack. The soldiers rushing in front fell like cutting wheat Down.

Although the fence composed of antlers and wooden fences is very simple, it can still provide a certain degree of protection. The defenders no longer need to fight head-to-head with Liu Jingjun, they only need to hide behind the fence and shoot arrows.Before the wall was pulled down, it was difficult for Liu Jingjun to pose a threat to them.

Seeing people rushing to the ground from left to right, many of them died because of him blocking the arrows, Chu Fang's eyes were about to burst, like a wild beast, he rushed straight to the wooden fence, holding the halberd with both hands, and slashed hard from bottom to top. On the wooden fence, the wooden fence immediately fell apart like flowers scattered in the rain.

The three or four Jiangling defenders in the rear were all hit by the fragments of the wooden fence, and retreated screaming. The rest of the people looked at Chu Fang, who was extremely physically strong, and they were also timid before fighting, and lost ground.

"Kill..." Chu Fang jumped into the wall, and the big iron halberd pierced the throat of an enemy soldier like lightning. When he pulled hard, his head rolled to the ground, and blood gushed out from the broken neck.

Chu Fang's eyes were red and he looked like he was devouring people. The big iron halberd swept across the crowd like a windmill. If he touched it, he would be injured, and if he touched it, he would die. The enemy soldiers were in front of him, like women and children. Killed scattered.

At this moment, the soldiers of Liu Jing's army also rushed into the wall along the gap, followed Chu Fang, and ran wildly in the enemy's formation, killing wildly.

Although it was dark now, Chu Fang was particularly dazzling in Cai Mao's eyes. He urgently mobilized elites to chase and intercept Chu Fang and the others.Chu Fang's advance was quickly blocked, and he was besieged by defenders from all directions.

Chu Fang was in a dangerous situation and had to lead the crowd to break through. At this time, the situation in the rear was also not good.

The gap in the city wall was only a few feet wide, and Liu Jingjun could only enter in batches, while the semi-curved inner wall of the Jiangling defenders could attack Liu Jingjun entering the city from multiple directions.In addition to the dark sky, Liu Jingjun was shot and killed more than half of Liu Jingjun before he could figure out the situation after entering the city, and most of the rest fell in front of the enemy's wall.

After a bloody battle, Chu Fang managed to break out of the encirclement, but none of the people around him survived, and everyone was injured. Chu Fang himself was not spared, and was wounded several times.

At this moment, there was a clear sound of gong outside the city.

Liu Jing obviously also discovered the unfavorable situation on his own side, and if he continued to fight, it would only increase the casualties, so he decisively called for gold and withdrew his troops.

Although Chu Fang was unwilling, he could only accept the reality and led the crowd to retreat from the city wall.

Cai Mao didn't care about celebrating the victory, and once again drove the peasants to collect wood, repair the wall, and planned to block the gap in the city wall overnight, and then build a stronger inner wall.

In order to gather enough wood, he directly ordered the demolition of all the houses in the county mansion. Liu Qi knew the seriousness of the matter and did not object.

Of course, Liu Jing didn't want to see the enemy repair the city wall, so he sent people to harass him at night. Liu Jing's move greatly delayed the progress of repairing the wall. , seal the fracture.

The next day, Liu Jing once again dispatched hundreds of flying stone carts to attack the gap, destroying all the wooden fences and stone pestles, and then launched another attack.At the same time, Gan Ning and Han Guang were ordered to attack the city from the east and west to divide the defenders.

Looking at the city wall that had been painstakingly repaired, it was destroyed by Liu Jingjun's flying stone cart in a blink of an eye. Cai Mao was very angry, but he had no choice but to continue to collect wood and stones and repair them again.

In the next few days, the two sides launched an extremely tragic offensive and defensive battle around the break of the city wall.However, the place a few feet wide was like a whirlpool of death, constantly taking away the lives of soldiers from both sides.

The city wall had to be repaired countless times every day, and when all the houses in the county government were demolished, Cai Mao ordered the demolition of the houses.As for arousing criticism from the scholars and people, he can't care about these things now, if Jiangling falls, he will definitely die, his own life is at stake, everything else is secondary.

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In the middle of the night, the rain was murmuring, beating against the eaves.

Cai Xun was lying on the couch, his brows were furrowed, and his face changed unsteadily, as if he had dreamed of something bad.

Suddenly, Cai Xun woke up from his sleep and sat up, sweating profusely for a while, with a look of panic in his eyes.

Cai Xun looked around, saw that he was in his dormitory, realized that he was dreaming, and finally calmed down.The dream I had just now was really terrible. Looking back on it now, I still feel shuddering.

In the dream, Jiangling fell, and he escaped with his brother Cai Mao and fled all the way back to Caizhou, the land of the Cai clan.However, just as he was reuniting with his family and enjoying the family relationship, Liu Jingjun suddenly killed him and carried out a bloody massacre on the entire Cai family.Cai Xun was captured by Liu Jingjun at home. He watched his parents, wife and children being hacked to death with knives. He struggled frantically and woke up from his dream.

"I don't want to die..." Cai Xun muttered to himself while sitting in front of the bed with a blank expression.

Liu Jing seems to be the nemesis of the Cai clan. In the past three years, the two sides have fought several times, including Cai Zhong, Cai He and other clan leaders. More than ten Cai clan children died in Liu Jing's hands.Cai Xun's sons who joined the army almost died. Cai Xun was lucky to be one of the few who survived.

But he is going to die soon!

No one knew Jiangling's real situation better than him, the defender of the northern city. Jiangling could hold out for another ten days at most.Based on the grievances and resentments between Cai Mao and Liu Jing, Liu Jing will never let him go after Jiangling City is broken.

And the Cai family's children who are in high positions like Cai Xun are bound to be implicated to avoid future troubles.As for escaping back to his hometown just like in a dream, the reality is not a dream after all, the chance of escaping is very small, and even if he succeeds by luck, he still cannot avoid death in the end.

In this battle for Jingzhou, Cai Xun is more optimistic about Liu Jing, and the latter must win in the end, so it is useless to escape.

Cai Xun doesn't want to die, he wants to live.

There is only one way...

(End of this chapter)