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Liu Jing ordered the prisoners of Cao Jun and Cao Ren of Bian County to be escorted to Jiangling, and he himself led the army to Xiangyang. At this time, Wenpin led the Jiangxia navy to control the Han River and cut off the connection between Xiangyang and Fancheng. At present, there are about [-] people in Xiangyang City. Cao Jun soldiers, commanded by Lu Zhao, the deputy general of Xiangyang, defended Xiangyang to the death.

'Boom!Boom!Boom! '

The battle drums were beating intensively, and six thousand Jiangxia soldiers launched the fourth attack on the east city of Xiangyang. The first three attacks all ended in failure.

Soldiers of the Jiangxia army, carrying siege ladders, attacked the east city from three directions at the same time. On the top of the city, four thousand soldiers of the Cao army opened their bows and set up arrows. A cry: "Shoot the arrow!"

All of a sudden, random arrows were fired from the top of the city, and the overwhelming arrows were shot in the sky. The soldiers of the Jiangxia Army raised their shields to meet them, but even so, many soldiers were shot by the arrows and fell down screaming. land. [

Jiangxia soldiers continued to run with their shields up, built the moat with wooden boards, erected huge siege ladders, and built a nearly four-foot-high city wall.

On the top of the city, Cao Jun smashed down the boulder with rolling wood that had been prepared, and a huge boulder weighing hundreds of kilograms rolled down the ladder, and immediately threw more than a dozen siege soldiers into the city. It was blurry, and there were many dead bodies, but some soldiers continued to climb the ladder without fear of death.

On the other side, more than a dozen soldiers of the Cao army used a steel fork more than two feet long to fork the ladder and struggled to go outward. The siege ladder lost its center of gravity and fell outward. A string of soldiers on the siege ladder fell from the ladder , The screams rang out.

At the southernmost point, a huge iron hook on a siege machine hooked the city wall, making it difficult for the Cao army on the city to open the ladder. A dozen Jiangxia soldiers rushed to the top of the city, but were blocked by dozens of Cao troops. A tragic life and death struggle.

Jiang Xia's army came to kill again and again, rolling logs and rocks on the top of the city like hail, and arrows raining down on the horse walls on both sides, attacking Jiang Xia's soldiers back and forth.

This [-]-strong Jiangxia Army was once the elite of the Jingzhou Army. It has been stationed on the front lines of Fancheng and Xinye for a long time. It has been commanded by Wen Pin for nearly ten years.

Although they encountered Cao Jun's tenacious counterattack and suffered heavy casualties, they did not retreat and continued to attack the city wave after wave. Unfortunately, their siege weapons were insufficient, and they gradually appeared to have a little succession.

Wenpin stood on a mound two miles away, watching his army attack the city from a distance, while Cai Jin led a thousand sailors to continue to block the river. With nearly 2000 people, Xiangyang City still stands tall.

If the fight continues, his army will be less and less, and the siege will become more and more difficult. In the end, the army was wiped out, and Xiangyang still could not take it down. The siege soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and only the last five siege ladders remained. Wen Pin felt so helpless, he couldn't help but sighed, and ordered: "Ming Jin withdraws troops!"

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The bell for withdrawing troops rang, and Jiang Xia's army withdrew like an ebbing tide. The battle lasted for nearly two hours, with more than a thousand casualties, and cheers erupted from Cao's army on the top of the city.

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At dusk, Liu Jing led [-] troops to Xiangyang. At the entrance of the Jiangxia Army Camp in the east of Xiangyang City, Wen Pin led a dozen generals to greet him. He stepped forward and saluted Liu Jing: "See Zhou Mu!"

Liu Jing quickly helped him up and smiled, "General Wen, you don't need to be polite, please get up quickly!"

Wenpin got up and sighed, "Humble job, so far I haven't been able to capture Xiangyang."

Liu Jing smiled slightly, "If Xiangyang City is so easy to capture, it won't be the number one city in Jingzhou. I understand it in my heart, let's talk about it!"

Wenpin greeted Zhao Yun again, and took Liu Jing to the big tent. In the middle of the big tent of the Chinese army, there was a sand table one foot long and wide, including Xiangyang and Fancheng, and went north to Xinye. Before the sand table, he was familiar with this area like the palm of his hand, and he was clear about Xiangyang's offensive and defensive weaknesses.

He guided the city gate with a wooden pole and asked, "Is the south gate still the same as last year?"

The south city gate is the weak point of the defense of Xiangyang City. It collapsed the year before last. Although it was repaired later, the quality of the repair was very poor. After the boulder hit, the city wall on the south gate was bound to collapse again. [

Almost all the main generals in Jingzhou know about this weakness, but Cao Jun may not know it, so Liu Jing is most concerned about this place, but Wen Pin shook his head and said: "I heard that Cao Jun repaired it last winter, and the south gate is now very strong and difficult to attack. .”

Liu Jing nodded, "It seems that Cao Jun has made sufficient preparations, and there should be a lot of food in the city."

"Yes! I heard that there are 10,000+ stone grains stored in the city, Cao Jun soldiers are still opening up wasteland to grow vegetables in the open space in the city, plus 3000 elite defenders, it is really not easy to capture Xiangyang!" Wen Pin was a little frustrated, he had already [-] soldiers were lost, but they didn't take any advantage.

"Of course the attack can be captured, but a heavy price has to be paid. This is not the price I want to bear. I must use other methods to capture Xiangyang City."

At this time, Zhao Yun said: "Cao Jun hoarded 10,000+ stones of grain in the city, but only [-] troops defended. This is a bit unreasonable. I guess the general of Cao Jun already knew that Cao Ren was going to retreat north, so he guarded the city and waited for Cao Ren to return from the north. If we let the enemy troops in the city know that Cao Ren's army has been wiped out, then they don't have to defend Xiangyang."

Liu pondered for a moment and said: "Zilong is right. Subduing the enemy without fighting is the best strategy. Tomorrow morning, we might as well let Cao Jun in the city see our military capacity."

. . . . . . . . .

Lu Zhao is about 40 years old this year. He has followed Cao Cao for many years and made great contributions in the crusade against Yuan Shu. Although he is not as famous as Xu Huang and Zhang Liao, he is also an important general under Cao Cao. Good at defense, after Cao Cao went north, he and Xu Huang were left to guard Xiangfan, with Xu Huang as the general and him as the deputy.

Before Cao Cao left again, he had repeatedly told him and Xu Huang that Xiangyang must not be lost. Once Xiangyang was lost, it would cut off Cao Ren's retreat in Jiangling. Therefore, Lu Zhao led [-] troops to defend Xiangyang to the death.

At this time, Lu Zhao already knew that Cao Ren had given up Jiangling and retreated northward. Under such circumstances, he did not dare to give up Xiangyang easily.

In fact, he is also retreating. If he retreats to Shangyong, he will inevitably be pursued by Jiang Xia's army. Now he can only wait for Cao Ren to retreat to Xiangyang, and then Cao Ren can decide whether to stick to it or withdraw.

At night, Lu Zhao was patrolling the city as usual, when a soldier rushed to report: "General Lu, someone from the east city is about to enter the city!"

"Who is it?"

"It seems to be a general under General Zhennan."

Lu Zhao was startled, and quickly ordered: "Take him to see me!"

After a while, the soldier brought a man, who came forward to salute, "See General Lu for humble rank!"

Lu Zhao knew this man, he was Cao Ren's subordinate named Zhu Huan, he hurriedly asked, "Where is General Zhennan now?"

When Zhu Huan heard some news, it seemed that Cao Ren had also been arrested, but he was not allowed to mention Cao Ren's affairs, and he did not dare to reveal any secrets. With a sigh, Zhu Huan reported: "We are in the county. I was ambushed by the Jiangxia Army, the entire army was annihilated, the whereabouts of General Zhennan is unknown, the humble officer was unfortunately captured by the Jiangxia Army, I was actually released to spread the word."

Lu Zhao was stunned, Cao Renjun was completely wiped out, he hesitated for a while and asked, "What message do you want to send?"

Zhu Huan smiled wryly and said: "Now that Liu has led the main reinforcements to Xiangyang, he asked me to tell General Lu that if General Lu is willing to give up Xiangyang, he can promise that General Lu will withdraw westward and never pursue, or he can also send a ship to send the way. The general and the army cross the river, and it is up to General Lu to choose."

"This"

Lu Zhao was in a mess in his heart, how would he choose?More importantly, he can't make the decision, at least Xu Huang needs to make a decision. After thinking for a long time, Lu Zhao asked again: "How many troops did Liu Jing come?" [

"The humble staff has been locked in the prison van. I really don't know how many troops there are, but according to Liu, there seem to be [-] to [-] troops."

"I see, you go down and rest first! Let me think about this matter before deciding."

Lu Zhao hurried down the city to go to the military office. He needed to report the matter to Xu Huang as soon as possible. Although the relationship between him and Xu Huang was blocked by the river, they could communicate through pigeon letters. main idea.

In the early morning of the next day, Cao Jun at the head of Xiangyang City found that Jiang Xia's reinforcements had arrived outside the city. They immediately rang the alarm bell, and some soldiers rushed to report to the guard Lu Zhao. Not long after, Lu Zhao also rushed to the head of the city.

I saw that the Jiangxia army outside the city was completely different from the Jiangxia army a few days ago. It was obvious that the Jiangxia army had arrived. Looking at it, there are at least 5 to [-] people.

But Lu Zhao didn't know that this was the bluff of Jiang Xia's army. There might only be one or two soldiers fighting against the banner more than a dozen miles away, but Liu was the shepherd of Jingzhou and the master of the entire Jiang Xia army. He led [-] to [-] troops to come. Totally normal.

Lu Zhao gasped. There were only [-] defenders in his city. If Jiang Xia's army attacked from all sides at the same time, how could he be able to defend the city?

At this time, a cavalry soldier from the Jiangxia Army galloped up and shot a letter onto the wall. Some soldiers picked up the letter and ran to deliver it to Lu Zhao. More than a dozen generals from the middle and lower ranks also surrounded them, "Lu General, what do you write in the letter?" Everyone asked in a hurry.

After reading the letter, Lu Zhao sighed and said, "It's still the same as last night. I want to withdraw the troops. Liu said he didn't want to destroy Xiangyang City, so give us a chance."

"General, let's retreat!"

The generals persuaded one after another: "Since the general of Zhennan has been wiped out, there is no need for us to stick to Xiangyang City, and he is a state shepherd, he will not break his promise easily, and he will definitely not cheat. General, withdraw!"

Lu Zhao shook his head, and said to the crowd, "It's not up to me to decide whether to withdraw or not, it must be decided by General Xu."

He ordered someone to find Zhu Huan again, and said to him, "Go and tell Liu, as long as General Xu Huang agrees, I will withdraw immediately!"

"Humble job understands!"

Although Zhu Huan didn't want to go back, the military orders were hard to disobey, so he could do nothing about it, but he secretly rejoiced that he didn't say much, otherwise his life would be in danger, so he had to leave Xiangyang City and run to Jiangxia's army.

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