The Horse of the Three Kingdoms Treads the World

() As soon as the sun rose on the fifth day of March, Sun Jian's army, who had been entrenched outside Yangcheng for a long time, launched a strong attack on the city.First, thousands of sharp arrows were shot towards the head of the city by the archers in front of the head, and then several siege vehicles and ladders rolled towards the city wall under the push of the sergeants.

The Xiliang army guarding the city had long been guarding against the enemy's sudden attack one day, so they didn't panic in the face of the sudden attack. Immediately, someone erected a wooden shield half the height of a person to block the city, and shot it up. Most of the arrows were blocked.At the same time, archers also appeared at the battlements, constantly calling out to Sun Jian's army with bows and arrows.

Immediately, the sound of shouts from the upper and lower walls of the city rang together, and many people fell under the enemy's arrows, but the people around them didn't even look at the robes, but continued to do what they should do, either attacking or attacking. Shou.

When Hua Xiong heard the sound of attacking from the top of the city, his heart that had been a little raised at first fell back to the original place.Before the opponent launched an attack, because he didn't know what tricks he would use against him, Hua Xiong was still uneasy.But when he found that they were still only attacking after waiting for a long time, Hua Xiong only had one thought in his mind, that is to completely defeat the enemies who had killed the road to the edge of the city.

Half an hour after the battle started, Hua Xiong and others had already arrived at the top of the attacked city. He personally commanded his troops to defend against the incoming enemy troops, and ordered them to attack the heavy siege equipment with rolling wood and stones. Let those who are good at archery continue to attack the enemy troops hiding behind the equipment.

In the two-hour offensive and defensive battle, the defending side hardly lost many troops, while the attacking side suffered nearly 500 casualties.Seeing that the city was tightly guarded and the soldiers' vigor was exhausted, Sun Jian had no choice but to ask for money to withdraw his troops.

Seeing Sun Jian's army retreating, Hua Xiong wanted to lead his ranks to chase them out of the city.But in the end, he still held back and didn't give the order to fight, because this battle let him see the strength of Sun Jian's army, and if he went out of the city rashly, he might be caught in an ambush by the opponent, not to mention that the Xiliang army still needs to rest for a few days In order to truly exert a strong fighting power.

Seeing that Huaxiong's troops did not chase out because of his own retreat, Sun Jian, who was still looking forward to it, felt very sorry, otherwise he might have taken down Yangcheng without letting his eldest son take risks.Now, they had to wait for Sun Ce and the others to successfully detour to the side of Yangcheng, and then attack inside and outside.

In fact, Sun Jian did not do nothing during the few days when he was entrenched outside Yangcheng and did not mobilize troops.He made a detailed investigation of the geographical conditions around Yangcheng, and only then did he formulate the current strategy of attacking from both inside and outside.

Although this Yangcheng is not a big city with high walls, nor is it stuck on the main road, but it also has its unique geographical conditions, that is, the city is built against a mountain.The west side of Yangcheng is a rugged and steep cliff, so that the city only needs to focus on the front side to resist the siege army.However, in order to capture the city by attacking only one side, the besieger must pay several times or even ten times the casualties compared to attacking a normal city.

Sun Jian would naturally not accept this.He only has more than 1 people in his hands now. If he attacks by force, he may not be able to capture Yangcheng even if they are all dead.Only by dividing the troops into two groups and allowing another elite team to turn over the side of the city from the cliff that is difficult for ordinary people to climb, can the city be successfully captured.

However, this strategy relies on the unexpectedness of the defenders, otherwise, as long as the Xiliang army sticks to the cliff, it will be enough to resist the enemy who is coming around from there.So he didn't let them know even the trusted people around Sun Jian, only his son Sun Ce and five hundred elite soldiers were informed of the purpose.Originally, Sun Jian wanted to go to such an important battle by himself, but as the coach, he couldn't leave, so in the end he had to let his son replace him.However, he still had great confidence in the eldest son's ability. Sun Ce's martial arts skills were only superior to his. As long as he was allowed to enter the city smoothly, there would be no other problems in this battle.

The battle at the city gate started again in the afternoon, and this time Sun Jianjun's attack was more cautious. Several times, ladders reached the top of the city, and more than a hundred daredevils climbed to the top of the city.If the Xiliang army hadn't reacted quickly and counterattacked quickly, the city might have been captured by them.

However, this situation was only a flash in the pan. When the Xiliang army invested more troops to guard against death, it would be difficult for Sun Jian's army to go to the city.But when he saw that the Xiliang army had hoarded a large number of troops on this wall, Sun Jian showed a hint of joy. He knew that he had done everything he had to do, and the next step would be up to his son Sun Ce.

"Bo Fu, it's up to you to be a father in this battle!" Sun Jian said secretly in his heart, looking at the Xiliang army that was still heavily defended at the top of the city.

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On the cliff on the west side of Yangcheng, hundreds of people were climbing forward cautiously. In front of them was a handsome young man with a tiger's back and ape arms, who was [-]% similar to Sun Jian, and he was the leader of the team, Sun Ce.

As Sun Jian's eldest son, he knew the pressure he was under since he was a child, and he lived up to his name. His martial arts skills have now surpassed his father's.Although he is not experienced enough on the battlefield, he believes that one day he will be famous all over the world, and today's capture of Yangcheng is his first battle to become famous.

The cliff is steep, and every time you take a step, you have to carefully look for a place to stay, and you have to hold on to the protruding stones with both hands, which makes the speed of this team of people and horses very slow. It took half a day before they finally reached the sun. On the west side of the city, on the side close to the city wall, everyone was exhausted, but they could only consider half of the task completed at this time.But no one complained, because they had won the mission of surprise attack themselves, in order to win the first victory of Ping Xiliang Army for General Sun.

"Major General, beyond that is the city wall of Yangcheng. There must be guards there. We can't venture forward any more. We have to wait until after dark." A sergeant who is familiar with the environment whispered to Sun Ce.

Sun Ce nodded: "Then stop and have a rest first. It's getting late at this time, and when it gets dark, we'll go over and kill them by surprise!"

"Yes!" Everyone responded in a low voice, and immediately closed their eyes against the cliff.

After an hour or so, the sky finally completely darkened. After Sun Ce waved his hand, everyone moved again.After resting for an hour, the soldiers' physical strength has recovered a lot. They followed Sun Ce and quickly crossed the last cliff road, then tied the trees on the edge of the cliff with ropes, and slowly fell from the cliff. , Go straight to the west city of Yangcheng.

At this time, the siege of Sun Jian's army on the other side has not yet ended, and it seems that they have the meaning of lighting up the night battle.This forced the defenders in the city to continue to focus all their attention on that side, while there were only less than five guards in the west city.Because there had never been an enemy climbing over the cliff here, the Xiliang soldiers guarding the city were naturally extremely lax about this.

Suddenly, a soldier guarding here heard a strange sound, which seemed to be the sound of heavy objects coming down from above.This made him feel very strange, and couldn't help turning his head to look up.Seeing this, his complexion changed drastically, because he saw many black shadows sliding down from the top of the cliff above.

"No, there is..." Before he could finish speaking, a person rushed at him like a wolf, and then a short knife cut the person's throat.

The other four guards finally realized that the situation was not good. Just as they raised their weapons and wanted to fight, several figures appeared behind them. With a flash of sword light, these people were also beheaded on the spot.Except for the yell at the beginning, they didn't let them make any more noise.

Sun Ce raised the saber, then drew it forward, and brought the [-] elites who had landed safely to the city to kill.

As soon as they got off the top of the city, they bumped into five Xiliang soldiers with weapons, and they happened to run into the changing of the guard here.This chance encounter stunned both parties, and then a shrill cry rang out from the west of the city: "No, there are enemies sneaking in from the west of the city..." The shout could only last so far, because Sun Ce, who reacted quickly, When the people rushed up to kill them, they killed the five Xiliang soldiers in the blink of an eye.

However, the yelling had already alarmed the garrison in the city. After hearing the sound, many Xiliang soldiers rushed towards the west of the city. The surprise attack that Sun Ce had hoped for no longer existed from now on.

"Major General, what should we do?" Someone asked hastily. As the leader of this team, everything must be decided by Sun Ce.And he originally planned to sneak to the gate of the city to open the city for the army outside the city, but now it seems that this idea is impossible.After thinking for a while, Sun Ce cast his eyes on the wooden warehouses that were less than a few hundred steps away from him. If he expected correctly, those should be the granaries for the people in the city.

Sun Ce made a decisive decision and pointed at several warehouses with his knife: "Let's kill them and set fire to these warehouses, so the defenders in the city will definitely lose their morale!"

Sun Ce's guess was correct, because he thought it was safest to have a cliff on the west side to block it, so Hua Xiong stored all the food and grass supplies of the entire army here.But I didn't expect that someone came in from the cliff this time, and put the food and supplies in a desperate situation.

Soon, a ball of fire shot up into the sky, and in a blink of an eye, the fire spread in all directions, igniting the entire warehouse and even the surrounding barracks.

Sun Jian outside the city was even more excited when he saw the fire, and finally told the whole story: "My son, Sun Ce, has entered the city and set fire to the enemy's luggage. Order the three armies to attack the city with all their strength, and we must take down Yangcheng tonight! "

As soon as these words were said, the morale of the whole army was greatly improved. The army shouted and rushed to Yangcheng again. Dozens of ladders climbed to the top of the city almost at the same time...