The big man is on the run

Chapter 149 Going all out, then failing again
Pound has already caused enough trouble for Jushou by using the limited force in his hands.

In the end, Zhang Nan still failed to rescue Jiao Chu, or in other words, did not rescue the living Jiao Chu.

Pang De tried his best to get several arrows in his body, and beheaded Jiao Chu in the midst of the chaotic army, leaving Zhang Nan with only a headless corpse.

In this battle, Pang De's troops lost a lot, so they had to retreat to the direction of Fenglingdu in embarrassment, and were no longer able to interfere in the Puban battle.

After confirming that there was no threat around and that Zhu Jun's troops were seventy miles away, the cautious Jushou finally felt relieved and began commanding the troops to launch a second round of fierce attack on Puban City.

"Cannon carriage, release!"

Following Ju Shou's order, dozens of boulders flew out of the Puban city wall and smashed into the city. At the same time, there were countless soldiers shouting crazily outside the city.

"Boom"

There was a violent roar, and a huge stone fell into Puban City, setting off boundless dust and smoke, and even the surrounding city walls were affected, and even for a moment, the defenders felt their feet shaking.

The city wall did not suffer much damage, but the peasants in the city and the very few people who had not yet evacuated suffered.

Xu Huang looked back at Puban City, the smoke and dust had not cleared, he didn't know the situation in the city.

"Let the people in the city evacuate first, and the folks can also evacuate after delivering the supplies, leaving only the boatman in charge of controlling the boats in the water village." Xu Huang was organizing the transportation of supplies under the city at this time, looking at the situation in Puban City, his brows were tightly frowned. .

"Follow the order!" The deputy general responded and immediately issued the order.

Soon, the peasants in Puban City ran out of the houses one after another, and fled in all directions.

Seeing this scene, Xu Huang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Send the order, let the people in the city retreat immediately, retreat to the other side of the river, and don't stay in the city any longer!"

Xu Huang's order was conveyed loudly by his subordinates.

"promise!"

And the only few people in the city who were unwilling to leave their homes before also rushed towards the inner crossing in the west of the city. Although there were no enemies in the city, the huge rocks of the artillery carts could pose a threat to the city.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" A man hurriedly greeted several half-grown children, and ran out together. They were all farmers, and each of them carried bags on their backs, carrying the only food left at home.

Soon, the family ran to Neidu in the west of the city, and the people in the city also ran out one after another.

Looking at this picture, Xu Huang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He is from Hedong, and these people can be regarded as his fellow countrymen. Whether it was because they didn't have time to evacuate or they were unwilling to leave, Xu Huang's mistake caused them losses. He didn't evacuate all the people in time. Now that the people are scared away under the power of the artillery cart, he can make up for it a little bit, and he can be regarded as worthy of his own conscience.

As for the civilian husbands originally recruited, Xu Huang doesn't plan to use them now.

"My son. Where are you?"

At this time, an old woman fell on the side of the road, speaking vaguely.

Xu Huang's heart tightened, and he hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, and asked, "Grandma, where is your son? Someone is going to send someone to look for her."

"My son?" The old woman seemed a little stupid, her cloudy eyes stared blankly at the tall general in front of her.

The old woman's eyes gradually brightened up, it seemed that Xu Huang was very similar to the son in her memory.

"You are not my son."

The old woman suddenly made a movement to push away, but she was a thin old woman, how could she push such a fierce general like Xu Huang, Xu Huang was afraid that she would be knocked down, so she quickly took a step back.

"My son is as tall as you, but my son's beard is much longer than yours, and his face is redder than yours. I know it, I know it."

Xu Huang asked patiently: "Grandma, what's your son's name? Someone will send you to the other side of the river first, it's not safe here."

"What's my son's name?" The old woman scratched her face in pain, her long nails even scratched her face.

"I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving! I want to wait for him to come back! I was here to send him away. I've been waiting for him for ten years, and he will come back!"

The battle situation was urgent, Xu Huang really didn't have time to argue with this confused old woman, so he could only arrange for his own soldiers to send her to Neidu. The bombardment of artillery carts was over, and Xu Huang had to go to the city to command.

At this moment, a fast horse galloped from a distance and stopped in front of Xu Huang. It was Gan Ning.

"Gan Ning, what are you doing here?" Looking at Gan Ning, Xu Huang asked in surprise.

"I was ordered by the Taiwei to specially lead my son-in-law to come to support from the waterway. If I really can't hold on, I can also escort you and Ma Chao to retreat." Gan Ning said with a smile, "If the truth is true, I also I can't bear it anymore, Yuan Shao has no sailors, I can't fish on the river while watching you fight to the death."

"Haha, you came just in time!" Hearing what Gan Ning said, Xu Huang's face became more relaxed.

This kid Gan Ning helped him at the critical moment, he is really a good guy.

"Well, you arrange the order of the inland crossing. A certain person will go to the city first, and then you will lead the troops and follow my orders to go to the city to stop the enemy!" Xu Huang said, "I will try my best to delay the time and try to hold on longer , as long as we can withstand this round of onslaught, the so-called exhaustion and failure, the next round will be easy."

"Okay! Be careful!"

Gan Ning responded, then immediately turned around and galloped in the direction of Neidu.

There are not many boats across the border, and it is necessary to transport troops in and evacuate the people. It needs a unified command. Otherwise, in order to survive, it is easy for the people and the peasants to make troubles.

Outside the city, as the officer's sword fell heavily, there was a shrill roar.

"Fire arrows!"

Countless arrows flew from the sky towards the top of the city, and there were screams from the top of the city.

Although the probability of these arrows hitting is not high, but the city is densely packed with people, there will always be some unlucky ones hit by the arrows.

Yan Liang, who was in command at the front, showed a smile on his face, and said to the messenger beside him: "The order goes on, all the soldiers, start to gather at the nearest one in order, we are going to attack the city!"

"Here!"

"dong dong dong"

The sound of war drums sounded, and Yan Liang led the army under the cover of arrow rain, slowly approaching Puban City. After approaching, he began to quickly change formations outside Puban City.

"kill!"

Yuan Shaojun's remaining ten Yuyunti carts slowly approached the city wall. This time, they learned how to be smart and were directly covered with thick wet mud, which had just been dug out from the edge of the Yellow River. The army also began to draw bows and shoot arrows, shooting towards the ants-like soldiers below.

"Bang Bang Bang"

The fire oil tank was thrown on the ladder vehicle, and rockets exploded on the ladder, splashing sparks with the fire oil tank, causing the soldiers around them to be affected as well.

The corner of Yan Liang's mouth turned into a trace of disdain. This time, Yuan Shao's soldiers, who had been prepared for a long time, directly took the long hook and pulled away the burning place and the soil below. Very few ladder vehicles were ignited.

In the last round of attack, Yuan Shaojun had roughly known the defensive layout of the city, so although a large number of bed crossbows were arranged on the city wall, and there were countless arrow stacks on the city wall, the bed crossbows still inevitably had dead ends, so The threat to the ladder is much smaller than in the first round.

And on the city wall, there are also many archers arranged, but these archers are ordinary archers, and it is impossible to have much deterrent effect on the heavy infantry who climbed first.

Looking at the dense ladder vehicles in front of him, Xu Huang frowned. Although Xu Huang had made sufficient preparations for this defense, there were still thousands of Yuan Shaojun soldiers outside the city. If Xu Huang couldn't defend Puban under this level of offensive, he would probably fall into a situation where he could never recover.

When the city was broken, he might be able to escape with his life, but it was very difficult for his subordinate Erlang.

Thinking of this, Xu Huang couldn't help sighing secretly, and then shouted at the soldiers behind him: "Fire the arrows from the bed crossbow! Fire the arrows hard, and shoot these damned bastards to death with the arrows!"

Hearing Xu Huang's order, countless arrows shot down from the city wall and flew towards the ladder.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The ladder was shot by the arrows of the bed crossbow, and many holes appeared immediately, and people kept falling from above, knocking the people below to the ground, or injuring them.

Zhang Wei, who was leading the charge, turned slightly pale when he saw the defenders' bed crossbows displaying their power, and then shouted: "Brothers, go!"

Before the words fell, arrows shot down from the top of the city, and shot straight at the sword and shield behind who lacked armor protection.

"what!"

"Ouch!"

The light infantrymen behind the euphorbia soldiers in the city screamed miserably, and a famous soldier was shot to the ground, and blood flowed all over the ground.

However, the euphorbia warriors did not dare to have the slightest hesitation. They pulled out the ring-swords at their waists which were more suitable for melee combat. Wearing heavy armor, they slashed and killed the enemies blocking the way. They all rushed towards the enemy like mad dogs. defeated the enemy on the top of the city.

"Shhhh."

The sound of piercing through the air rang in the ears of the soldiers, and one after another, rolling logs, stones and arrows flew down from the top of the city, and flew towards the direction of Shideng City.

"kill!"

Zhang Wei, the leader, shouted, raised the ring-shoudao in his hand, and rushed towards the top of the city, followed by several euphorbia warriors.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

"Shhhhhh!"

The arrows shot towards Zhang Wei and the others, but were blocked by the thick iron armor equipped by the euphorbia warriors, and then fell to the ground with a clanging sound.

Zhang Wei rushed to the top of the city, the rain of arrows on the top of the city also stopped, and the defenders on the top of the city also drew their sabers from their waists, ready to fight.

"Kill~!"

Zhang Wei yelled, and rushed towards the tower with the big knife in his hand. While charging, he swung the big knife and chopped some defenders in front of him.

Dao lights flickered in mid-air, and a defender was beheaded, and blood gushed out.

A soldier in armor rushed out, and they all clenched their weapons tightly, and assassinated Zhang Wei and others at the head of the city. City head position.

Zhang Wei turned over to avoid a sharp blade, then kicked at the soldier behind him, kicked him flying, and rolled on the ground several times before stopping.

"kill!"

Xu Huang also rushed up wielding his big axe, constantly attacking the euphorbia warriors in front of him, while the nearby euphorbia warriors fell down one after another under Xu Huang's charge.

One bout of energy, and then decline again, just when the decline is still in decline, and when the attacker still has the last breath of high morale, the war has reached the worst point.

Corpses were scattered all over the city wall, and a strong smell of blood filled the air.

Zhang Wei didn't show any weakness, he let out a loud roar, raised the big knife in his hand, and charged towards Xu Huang.

"Boom boom boom!" "Boom."

The two sides quickly fought together, the sound of fighting, screams and shouts resounded throughout the city wall, waves of heat, and heads splashed in the air.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

Heads flew up from the neck one by one, and a soldier in heavy armor was hacked to death by the big ax in Xu Huang's hand. After a while, Xu Huang and others took advantage.

Over time, corpses piled up on the crenels at the top of the city, even blocking the enemy's climbing.

Zhang Wei did not expect that these defenders would be so brave that they would rush forward and launch a fierce attack on them.

Their attack was very effective. In a short time, they repelled the attack of the Euphorbia soldiers led by Zhang Wei.

However, Xu Huang did not relax because of the soldiers' attack, but killed even more desperately.

Because Xu Huang knows that only the braver they are, can they fight a bloody road, otherwise, they will never be able to escape the ending of breaking the city.

"kill!"

Zhang Wei shouted loudly, swung the big knife in his hand, and swept towards the defenders in front, splitting a soldier in half immediately.

"Swish Swish Swish"

Zhang Wei swung the broadsword in his hand and slashed towards the enemy army in front of him. Immediately, corpses fell one after another in a pool of blood, and pieces of blood splashed out and fell on the ground.

Ma Chao, who was beside Xu Huang, was not idle either. Holding a big gun in his hand, he swept towards the surrounding enemy troops. Wherever he went, soldiers were killed by the gun one after another and fell into a pool of blood.

Not long after, Xu Huang, Ma Chao and others killed dozens of enemies, and tore up several heavy armored groups formed by Euphorbia warriors, revealing a road leading to the front.

Seeing this, Zhang Wei raised the sword in his hand and led the soldiers under his command to rush towards Xu Huang's direction, trying to defend the last position on the top of the city.

"The one who took your life should be me, Gan Ning!"

Gan Ning led dozens of personal guards to appear on the city wall. At this time, he did not hold the double halberds, but a unique weapon circulated in Badi, a curved scimitar, similar to a horse-chopping knife, which cut down the waist Slashing has a miraculous effect on heavy armored targets.

This kind of scimitar, compared to Zhang Wei's broadsword, does not know how many times sharper it is. Under the sunlight, it exudes a icy cold light, and when it is swung out, it looks like a horse training. Cut off at the waist and fell to the ground.

Zhang Wei turned pale with shock, but Gan Ning, as a new force, charged forward with lightning speed, without giving him a chance to react.

Soon, Gan Ning's troops came up from the other end and the Euphorbia soldiers fought together, and the fighting was fierce for a while.

"Kill~!"

Zhang Wei let out a roar, swiped his knife and slashed at Gan Ning's neck, while his legs turned sideways violently.

"Clang~!"

Zhang Wei's broadsword was cut off by Gan Ning. What's more, Zhang Wei was slashed in the chest by Gan Ning's unrelenting knife. Immediately, a pool of blood spurted out, dyeing the armor under him red. up.

"puff!"

Zhang Wei was thrown out, fell heavily to the ground, vomited blood, and passed out.

Gan Ning didn't scribble, picked off his pocket with one hand, and cut off his head.

Seeing this scene, not only Xu Huang, but even Ma Chao was taken aback.

They did not expect that at such a critical juncture, Gan Ning could still display such terrifying strength, which undoubtedly won their respect.

"Who else is going to die?!"

Gan Ning's voice was like rolling thunder, and the euphorbia soldiers lost their minds.

(End of this chapter)