Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 531: 525. The Battle of Wancheng (Thirteen)
"Boom boom boom! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The soldiers guarding the city were like frightened birds, and they immediately rang the alarm bell to alert the Wei army in the city. They had already witnessed the bloody battle yesterday with trepidation, and today they were attacked by the Han army again. At this time, they had not yet recovered from the shock, and it was not an exaggeration to say that they were in a state of panic.

At this time, they encountered what might be a night attack by the Han army, so they woke everyone up immediately.

"Where are the enemies?"

Man Chong was also alarmed. He was old and had poor sleep quality, so he naturally woke up at this level of alarm. But when he climbed up the city wall, there was silence all around, and there was no one there.

Not only Man Chong, but also other Wei soldiers who rushed up to rest looked unhappy. They had just fought with the Han army in the daytime and had just fallen asleep exhausted when they were woken up.

"Really... there really are Han troops. Just now, there were loud shouts and cries of killing. I thought the Han troops were going to attack the city..."

The soldiers on night duty were terrified, but Man Chong understood what he said.

"This is a strategy of the Han army to tire out the troops. Feng Xi really only knows one side of the story. If we were camping in the field, he would still have a chance to attack us with such tired troops, and maybe he could achieve success. Now we are in the city, and the city walls are high. Even if he takes us by surprise, it will be extremely difficult for him to capture the city walls immediately."

Man Chong sneered. The Wei army now had the advantage of the city wall, so it didn't make much sense for the Han army to tire out their soldiers. However, Feng Xi still acted in this way, which made Man Chong think that Feng Xi was still a little immature in using strategies.

"You will be divided into four groups and take turns to be on duty. When other groups are on duty, as long as there is no alarm bell, you can sleep peacefully. When on duty, remember that unless you see Han troops and torches, you don't need to pay attention to the Han army's shouting. It is said that Feng Xi has developed a trumpet that can make a few people sound like hundreds of thousands of people. Don't be fooled."

Man Chong thought for a moment and arranged a response. There were more than 20,000 people in the city, divided into four groups, each with 5,000 to 6,000 people. The east and south gates were strategically located, and there were not many Han troops, so only a thousand people were needed in total.

With more than 2,000 men at each of the remaining west and north gates, the Han army could not have stormed the city walls in a hurry even if they launched a night attack. It was definitely more than enough for them to hold out until reinforcements arrived from the city.

After waiting for Man Chong to complete the arrangements, half an hour passed and the Wei army fell into a deep sleep again. The Han army's cavalry were shouting in the darkness outside the city again, but this time the Wei army soldiers did not react at all. Apart from strengthening their vigilance to prevent the Han army from really sending a large number of troops, they were not so nervous.

Seeing that the Wei army did not respond, the Han army could only leave in disappointment, as if they had asked for nothing.

As a result, after a while, a new team of Han soldiers took over. They simply took a bronze bell, amplified the sound through a loudspeaker and started ringing it. As a result, the Wei soldiers in the city thought that it was the soldiers on night duty who rang it, and they gave them a hard time.

"This little Feng Xi is so cunning that he can even come up with such shameless tricks..."

Man Chong was naturally alarmed. After all, the bronze bell would not reveal his last name, so Man Chong thought that Feng Xi could not hold back and was attacking the city.

As a result of this blunder, Man Chong had no choice but to replace the alarm bell with a warning drum, using the drum sound as an alarm signal. Feng Xi and the Han army naturally did not know about this move, so the Han army came twice later and returned empty-handed.

The Han army seemed to have discovered that the Wei army was on guard, and the frequency of their attacks became less and less, and they even did not come for a long time after three o'clock in the morning.

"kill!"

But speaking of Cao Cao, he appeared. Just when it was the turn of the second shift of Wei soldiers on the city wall and they couldn't help yawning, the Han army came again, but it was the same, with much ado about nothing.

"These Han soldiers are really not tired. They are still hammering and fighting at this time."

The two Wei soldiers gathered together and chatted in a low voice.

"Hey, we are all soldiers and we eat food. They are hammering and banging, but aren't we also standing on the city gate tower?"

The Wei soldiers next to them didn't seem to have much desire to chat, and one sentence made them retreat back to the wall they were leaning against. The Han army didn't seem to give up this time, and they shouted for a long time, but the Wei army got used to it and just thought the Han army was performing for them.

If the Wei army was camping in the wild, this numbness might be dangerous, but now they are in the city. Even if the Han army has the ability to reach the sky, don't you have to attack the city? This is one of the reasons why Man Chong is now resting on his laurels. In any case, a wall will make the difficulty of attacking multiplied.

However, when the Wei soldiers were slacking off, they did not notice that at the four city gates, there were some people in black night clothes sneaking along the city wall and approaching the city gate.

At this time, the Han cavalry were still yelling, which attracted the attention of most of the Wei soldiers and interfered with their hearing. They did not notice the sneaky figures at the base of the city wall at all.

A dozen dark shadows came to the city gate tower, swiftly took off the things on their backs, and then placed them inside the city gate tower.

"thorn"

A dozen people took out a small box and a small stick from it. After just a few strokes, a flame appeared, and then they each lit the fuse they had pulled out.

"Come on!"

After the placement was completed, they didn't care about hiding and jumped directly into the moat in front of them. Although the people of Jingxiang were not as good at swimming as those in Jiangdong, who hadn't been to the river when they were young? They could still swim in a mere moat.

"There are enemies! There are enemies under the city wall!"

The sound of these men in black splashing into the water was so close that even though the Wei soldiers on the city wall were distracted, they could still hear it clearly.

However, when they looked down at the city wall, they only saw a few figures escaping after swimming across the moat.

Although they didn't know what tricks the Han army was playing, the discipline of the Wei army and Man Chong's instructions still made them perk up and beat the drums to represent vigilance.

"Dong dong dong..."

As the drumbeats on the city wall vibrated, the Wei army in the city woke up from sleepiness, but as usual, there was deathly silence outside the city, and there was no sound of a large army attacking.

"You bastard! Who is on the city wall? If I find out, I will beat him to death."

Some people had already started to shout and curse in dissatisfaction, but due to military discipline, they all started to put on armor, picked up weapons and prepared to go see what was going on.

"Hiss..."

The fuse on the package under the city gate was burning slowly, and some Wei soldiers who were nearby had come to the city wall to check the situation.

"What are you doing? Where are the Han troops?"

The Wei army soldiers, speaking with a genuine Central Plains accent, rubbed their eyes and looked at their night duty comrades with a stern look. They woke up three times in one night and were very angry.

“Just now…” “Boom!”

Before the soldier on duty could answer, a loud noise covered up his voice.

(End of this chapter)