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Chapter 114 Capture of Qu'a
Qu Ah,

The county town closest to Guangling south of the river has a natural deep-water port and is an important port city connecting the north and south of the river for trade.

Because of his hostility to Liu Xuan, Sun Ce sent eight thousand soldiers to Qu'a.
The leading general, Pan Zhang, was also a talented general under Sun Ce.

Zhou Yu led Jiangdong's navy to Guangling and was almost completely wiped out in the battle. Jiangdong no longer had any water combat power.

The layout of Qu'a City is similar to that of Guangling. From the north wall of Qu'a City, you can overlook the river.

On the city wall, Pan Zhang and the accompanying military advisors could clearly see the movements of the Guangling fleet on the city tower.

"General, judging from the size of the opponent's fleet, the number should not exceed five thousand. If our army attacks the dock with superior force, we may be able to wait until the opponent has established a foothold and win with one blow." The military advisor offered advice on the side.

Pan Zhang shook his head, "Military advisor, Liu Xuan's fleet even defeated Zhou Yu. If he dares to dock with so few ships, he must have something to rely on. If I send a large army to attack the dock, the soldiers will be exposed." It is not advisable to be within the range of the opponent's warship."

After a pause, Pan Zhang said to the messenger again: "The troops in the city are on standby and ready to attack at any time."

Seeing that Pan Zhang was reasonable, the military advisor did not argue anymore, so he and Pan Zhang waited quietly for Liu Xuan's troops to land.

The trapped camp boarded the pier, completed their formation, and headed towards the north gate of Qu'a City.

"What? Just 1000 people?" Pan Zhang and the military advisor looked at each other in disbelief.

Although 1000 people are heavily armed heavy infantry, not to mention that Qu Anai is a heavily guarded city. Even if it is an ordinary city of 3000 or 1000 people, it will be difficult for [-] people to attack it by force.

"It seems that Jiang Shui defeated Liu Xuan with less in the first battle, giving him blind confidence."

Pan Zhang felt that he was being slighted and sneered,
"Command, all the cavalry and two thousand infantry will follow me out of the city to fight."

The north gate opened, and Pan Zhang rushed out with one thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry. This was the only one thousand cavalry Pan Zhang had. The cavalry was useless for defending the city, but it was quite suitable to fight against the opponent's heavy infantry.

At this time, a thousand soldiers from the trap camp had already walked out of the fighting ship's range, and were less than two miles away from the north gate of Qu'a.
Pan Zhang's cavalry has begun to accelerate.

The rumble of horse hooves sounded, and a thousand cavalry formed a crane wing formation and charged towards the trapped camp.

Gao Shun calmly looked at the cavalry on the opposite side and roared,
"Defense! Array of swords."

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers behind moved quickly and formed a new formation in an instant.

The 1000 people were divided into four teams. The dozens of shield bearers in front of each team placed their large shields on the ground. The large shields at the front were stuck with each other, forming a cone-shaped shield array. The halberd bearers at the back followed each other in turn. Arranged behind the shield formation.

The sharp halberd blade was pointed downward, ready to go.

The entire trapped camp was like four sharp knives pierced outside the north gate, welcoming the impact of Jiangdong's cavalry.

Gao Shun stood at the forefront, looking at the cavalry who was about to take over, and suddenly lowered his raised arm.

"emission!"

Behind each team of sharp knives, dozens of soldiers stood up, raised their arms, and pulled the triggers of their arm crossbows toward the cavalry in front of the team.

A flurry of sharp crossbow arrows, all the firepower was concentrated on the cavalry at the front, and the dense crossbow arrows killed the cavalry and the horses at the hip.

The horse whined and fell to the ground, and the cavalry behind had to turn slightly to avoid tripping over the fallen horse.

The cavalry was unable to attack head-on, so its power was reduced by half.

The cavalry who rushed towards the side of the sharp knife array were faced with sharp halberd blades.

Against cavalry, cut off the horse's legs first.

The trapped soldiers on both sides slashed their halberds under the horse's belly.

The sharp halberd blade cut off the horse's legs, and the cavalry's spear stabbed at the soldiers trapped in the camp, but was dodged by clever force release.

The plate armor made of alloy steel has a smooth surface and a hard texture, and the cavalry's spear tip has nowhere to put any force.

A thousand cavalrymen jumped on their backs and rushed into the trapped formation, unable to take advantage of the cavalry's advantage at all.
The soldiers who were trapped in the camp were beheaded from their horses.

At this time, the two thousand infantrymen in the rear had just rushed to the front of the formation.

The fully armored heavy infantry faced off against ordinary infantry, and it was basically a one-sided massacre.

A thousand soldiers trapped in the camp have also been transformed with pills that temper their bodies, and their physical fitness is completely different from that of ordinary soldiers.

Gao Shunren didn't say much and led a thousand elites from the trapped camp to charge forward without saying a word.

The will to fall into the battle, there is death but not life.

Those who are trapped in the battle advance but never retreat.

The Jiangdong soldiers in front of him were slashed with one strike, and the road ahead was clear.

Unknowingly, he had already penetrated the enemy formation.

Gao Shun was about to turn around and kill again, when he saw Pan Zhang in the rebel army shouting,
He led the remaining soldiers to withdraw from the battle and fled into the city in a hurry.

As the main general, Pan Zhang only killed two trapped soldiers in this battle. He was entangled by a group of elite trapped soldiers and was unable to kill another person. However, he was in danger and was almost killed by the trapped soldiers.

Seeing that the cavalry made no achievements and the infantry was massacred by the opponent, Pan Zhang finally understood why the opponent only sent a thousand soldiers to fight.

3000 people, including a thousand Tianke infantry cavalry, were killed by a thousand trapped troops, leaving them unable to fight back.

Pan Zhang had no intention of fighting at this moment and just wanted to escape back to the city to defend himself.

If you can't defeat 1000 people in a positional battle, you can't possibly defend a city, right?

When Gao Shun saw the other side fleeing back into the city, he shouted: "Follow me!"

The trapped soldiers at the front understood and immediately started running behind the Jiangdong soldiers.

Although the whole body is armored, the alloy steel is not bulky. With the physical fitness of the soldiers in the trapped camp, they can run no slower than the Jiangdong soldiers.

This made the defenders on the wall of Qu'abei anxious.

The suspension bridge outside the city has been lowered and the city gate has been opened. If the suspension bridge is pulled up to close the city gate now, the remaining 1000 soldiers outside the city will definitely be annihilated by the other side.

What's more, the general Pan Zhang has not yet entered the city, and no one dares to order the city to close.

Pan Zhang led the remaining hundreds of cavalry to rush across the suspension bridge.
Looking back, I saw that the people following the cavalry were not deserters from my own side, but sturdy Guangling soldiers with silver armor and silver helmets.

If this group of soldiers rushed into the city like this, Naqu'a would really be unable to defend it.

The city defense was defeated in a battle, and the eight thousand defenders were breached by a thousand infantrymen. Pan Zhang's head could not be saved.

Gritting his teeth, Pan Zhang called the cavalry who had crossed the suspension bridge to enter the city.

Then he shouted at the soldiers at the city gate,
"Close the gate!"

The soldiers at the city gate did not dare to neglect, so they had no choice but to close the heavy city gate regardless of the angry eyes of their own soldiers outside the city.

Outside the city, the Jiangdong soldiers who fled back finally rushed across the suspension bridge and arrived in front of the city gate.

Rushing over with them were the remaining 900 soldiers from the trapped camp.

They were all running for speed just now, and there was not much entanglement between the two sides along the way.

The defeated army in Jiangdong just wanted to run back to the city first. Unexpectedly, the cavalry entered the city and closed the city gate.

This?
Do we want the remaining 1000 or so ordinary infantry to fight against the heavily armored heavy infantry?

Moreover, the suspension bridge is now filled with soldiers trapped in the camp.

All Jiangdong infantry were trapped in the narrow area between the city wall and the moat.

There is nowhere to escape if you want to.

The infantry commander looked toward the city wall, then glanced back at the trapped soldiers who had reorganized and prepared to charge.

Throwing away the weapon in his hand wisely,
surrender.

There is no way to fight this battle. There is no reason for someone to help count the money after being sold.

The infantry commander squatted down at the edge of the moat, very naked, holding his head in his hands, as if he was desperate for his life.

Other soldiers followed suit and abandoned their weapons and surrendered.Liu Xuan and Lu Bu had left 1000 men to guard the battleship at this time, and they led [-] soldiers to the outside of the city.

Just in time to see the Jiangdong soldiers surrendering to the trapped camp, they immediately sent their soldiers to collect the weapons of the surrendered soldiers and escorted the surrendered soldiers to the rear to make room for the trapped soldiers to attack the city.

Qu'a is just a county town, and it is a relatively peaceful Jiangdong county town.

So the city wall is not high, only about seven or eight meters.

Liu Xuan saw that the soldiers from the trapped camp had gathered under the city, and it seemed that they were going to attack the city directly.

But there was not a single ladder in the entire army.

Gao Shun boasted that Haikou would be captured in Qu'a within one day. Liu Xuan was now very interested in seeing how Gao Shun's camp planned to capture the city.

This was Gao Shun's first independent battle since Xiapi surrendered to Liu Xuan.

Therefore, Liu Xuan actually didn't know the specific tactics of falling into the camp.

But soon, Gao Shun gave the answer.

I saw four extremely strong soldiers walking out from the trapped army. These soldiers were not equipped with halberds, but the arm crossbows on their arms were much larger than others, and they were also wrapped with some unknown metal around their waists. .

At this moment, the four soldiers had neatly taken off the metal chains around their waists and connected them to their arm crossbows.

After the installation was completed, the four of them aimed at the city wall above.

Pulling the arm crossbow, the huge ejection force shot the crossbow arrows and chains towards the city wall.

Four specially made crossbow arrows accurately shot into the middle of the two arrow stamps on the wall.

When it fell, the front part of the crossbow bounced off, forming a hook-like shape and got stuck in the middle of the arrow.

Four soldiers straightened the chain to prevent the hooks from loosening.

Only then did the soldiers on the city realize that these thousand soldiers were really going to attack the city without ladders.

"Defense, shoot arrows."

"Come here, cut off this chain for me."

"Rolling stones, Samu, hit me."

However, compared to the belated reaction of the city wall defenders, the trapped camp was obviously well prepared.
The chain had just been fixed, and a group of the most capable soldiers had already rushed onto the chain.

The remaining soldiers trapped in the camp raised their crossbows and fired towards the top of the city.
The intensive firepower suppressed the defenders at the top of the city so that they did not dare to show their heads.

He could only push the rolling stone Shumu down the city head indiscriminately.

The soldiers on the chains move extremely quickly.

Obviously he has been specially trained in climbing skills.

His body was twisting and turning on the chain, and in a moment he had reached a height of five or six meters.

The eight-meter city wall is nothing more than a few jumps for these soldiers.

The archers at the top of the city fired arrows desperately, but for the soldiers whose whole bodies were hidden in alloy steel armor, this attack was useless.

They just need to avoid the rocks and wood above.

The defenders on the top of the city finally came out with a man who was not afraid of death and waved his sword to cut off the chains.

It's a pity that this chain is made of Guangling's newly researched alloy steel. The soldier cut twice and the blades were curled. The chain, which does not look thick, is extremely strong.

The defender wanted to chop again, but was hit by a crossbow arrow from below, and fell down with a scream.

The trapped soldiers who had climbed to the edge of the city wall obviously would not give the defenders another chance.

He pulled out the scimitar from his waist, cut off the spear thrust from it with one stroke, grabbed the edge of the city wall with one hand, kicked off the city wall, and finally jumped to the top of the city.

The four of them joined forces to protect the city head, and the soldiers below climbed up along the chain more calmly.

Four, eight, twelve,,,
When there were more than a hundred trapped soldiers on the city wall, Liu Xuan knew that the siege was over.

Even he didn't expect that Gao Shun would ask Ma Jun to make such a powerful siege weapon for the trapped camp.

It is indeed miraculous in dealing with such a seven or eight meter high city wall.

This is the power of technology.

The battle on the city wall ended abruptly when Pan Zhang was killed by Gao Shun.

Relying on the city wall for defense failed to cause effective damage to the trapped camp. Can we still expect to be able to bite these iron knots on the city wall?

The soldiers on the city wall, in despair, finally understood the mood of the surrendered infantry under the city.

The city gate slowly opened, and Jiangdong soldiers lined up to surrender.

Liu Xuan smiled lightly and said, "Enter the city."

The mighty Jiangdong soldiers rushed into Qu'acheng and quickly took control of the streets in the city.

What was surprising was that when Liu Xuan and Lu Bu led their troops to the Zhang family compound, it was still packed with people.

A maid auction was just halfway through.

It wasn't until Liu Xuan's soldiers sealed off the Zhang Mansion and killed ten of Zhang's servants that the people inside discovered that the huge Quac City had been breached in less than a day.

This time, those escorting Liu Xuan and others with the fleet were the naval forces under Gan Ning.

At this time, Gan Ning and his clan brother Gan Xin were the first to appear outside the Zhang Mansion.

Gan Ning was extremely resentful towards the Qu'azhang Mansion.

It was the Zhang family who detained Gan Yingying and used Gan Yingying to threaten Gan Ning.

It was also the Zhang family who sold Gan Yingying as a slave girl and sold her as a plaything to the children of aristocratic families.

When Gan Ning and Gan Xin appeared in the inner courtyard of Zhang Mansion,
Gan Xing saw many familiar faces at a glance.

Du Shao, who looked sickly and pale, Li Shao, a disciple of the Li family, and the flattering auction host of the Zhang family.

Gan Xin identified Gan Ning one by one.
Gan Ning raised his hand to stop Gan Xin's words.

"No need to identify, all the men here have a way to die."

"kill!"

The largest noble clan in Qu'a was wiped out on the day when Qu'a city was destroyed.

Liu Xuan occupied Qu'a and lost only 30 soldiers from the trapped camp, but he suddenly gained more than 5000 surrendered troops.

Several major aristocratic families in Quacheng were all descendants of Sun Ce. Liu Xuan mercilessly seized these families and confiscated their properties.

A few days later, Lu Bu led Guangling's five thousand soldiers to garrison Qu'a, and the nearest port city on both sides of the river belonged to Liu Xuan alone.

The merchants on the north coast finally felt relieved and shipped their accumulated goods to Qu'a.

Liu Xuan did not take action against Jianye immediately.

Jianye is no better than Qu'a, which is the capital of Yangzhou.
Sun Ce's [-]-strong army is stationed in Jianye, the headquarters of the Sun Group in Jiangdong. Liu Xuan's current strength is not enough to shake Sun Ce.

However, Sun Ce did not act rashly. The successive military defeats put Sun Ce under great pressure now.

Zhou Yu died, and Sun Ce didn't even have anyone around him who he could discuss with.

However, major aristocratic families in Jiangdong came forward one after another, asking Sun Ce to take the initiative to negotiate peace with Liu Xuan.

The most important point in the peace talks is to retain the existing privileges of the Kodong family.

(End of this chapter)