The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2 002 Prelude to the War
"Everyone, come to the tower immediately!"

Suddenly, a person came down from the tower and shouted towards the gate of the city.

Hearing this shout, soldiers and officers all went up the stairs to the tower like a tide.

Because Zhang Yan was wearing the clothes of Xuzhou soldiers, he was surrounded by soldiers and boarded the tower.Looking up from a height, he suddenly saw Cao Jun densely packed outside the city, moving towards the city.

Cao Jun's cavalry was trampling the refugees who failed to enter the city with ruthless iron hooves. The refugees cried and cried, and died tragically one by one under Cao Jun's butcher knife.

This scene filled the eyes of all the defenders of the city. They all looked angry, and their eyes were full of anger towards Cao Jun.

At this time, a man in a long robe came up from under the tower. The man was handsome and about the same age as Zhang Yan, probably around 27 years old.

The man frowned tightly, his face was livid, and he quickly swept across the densely packed Cao army outside the city, and then set his eyes on the soldiers defending the city, and he couldn't help feeling a little disappointed in his eyes.

"See Captain Captain!" When the rest of the people saw this young man appear, they all respected him.

The man waved his hand to signal to everyone that there is no need to be polite, but his eyes couldn't help but look around.When his eyes fell on Zhang Yan, his eyes could not help but light up.

Zhang Yan is eight feet long and has a strong build. Standing among the hundreds of soldiers, he stands out like a chicken.Coupled with his handsome face as cold as cast iron, under the bushy eyebrows are a pair of sharp eyes like a falcon, the whole person has a compelling aura of looking down on the world.

"Are you Zhang Yan, Lieutenant of Liu County?" The school captain walked up to Zhang Yan and asked with some uncertainty.

Zhang Yan was stunned for a moment, he didn't remember who the person standing in front of him was, but the rest of the people were very respectful to this man, and called him Captain Captain. He was just a county captain, and he definitely had no official position The captain is big.

He saw that this man had black shoulder-length hair, about 1.7 meters tall, fair complexion, straight nose, tall and straight figure, eyes as bright as stars, and his gestures made people feel like a spring breeze, coupled with a dark suit The long robe looked a bit elegant.

He imitated the appearance of the ancients, clasped his fists and asked, "Your Excellency knows me?"

The man nodded and said with a smile: "I met you once when I passed by Liu County last winter. Why? Did you forget who I am so quickly?"

Zhang Yan searched carefully in his mind, but found nothing. It was a very familiar face, and he really didn't recognize it, let alone have any impression.

A soldier beside him immediately murmured in a low voice: "It's a pity that you are still a county captain, and you don't even know Captain Chen? This is Captain Chen Deng of Diannong, a celebrity in our Xuzhou, and even Master Chen. Right arm and right arm!"

After Zhang Yan heard Chen Deng's name, he couldn't help but look at Chen Deng twice.In his impression, Chen Deng should be a scribe, but now he is standing on the tower to direct the battle, which is really surprising.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom..."

The sound of rumbling war drums suddenly came from outside the city, resounding through the wilderness.

Zhang Yan heard the sound of war drums, and immediately looked out of the city, but saw that Cao Jun had already cleared the road, and the neat phalanx of Cao Jun was marching vigorously towards the city gate.

At this time, Chen Deng couldn't care less about chatting with Zhang Yan, and hurriedly shouted: "Cao Jun is about to attack the city, everyone is ready to fight!"

Outside Pengcheng, tens of thousands of Cao Jun stood on the snowy field in black, orderly, majestic and ready to go.Cao Jun's flags and banners were unfurled, the voices of people were like waves, spears and spears were like forests, swords were like seas, and tens of thousands of troops marched slowly.

In the central area of ​​the army formation, there are all cavalry, each cavalry is wearing heavy armor, they are all tall and powerful, and their arrogant faces are full of arrogance.

Surrounded by thousands of people, a man riding a white horse is particularly eye-catching. This man is the commander-in-chief of this army, Yanzhou Mu Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was surrounded by more than a dozen generals, each of whom was full of energy and had an extraordinary appearance.But they all looked arrogant, as if Pengcheng was already in their pocket.

The sound of the rumbling war drums changed from slow to fast, and finally became very rapid, as if countless raindrops fell on it, but not long after, the sound of the drums suddenly stopped again.

A few seconds later, Cao Cao, who was riding a white horse in the center of the army formation, suddenly pulled out a long sword from his waist, swung it forcefully in the direction of Pengcheng, and then let out a hysterical cry: "Siege!"

Following Cao Cao's order, groups of infantry at the forefront of the army had their hair tied and their legs wrapped, carrying bows and arrows, holding spears in their hands, swarming back and forth, carrying a ladder, scrambling towards Pengcheng like a tide Generally come.

Seeing such a scene, Chen Deng immediately shouted: "Prepare for battle!"

On the towers of Pengcheng, archers filled their bows and arrows one after another, while the rest of the soldiers carried rolling stones and logs to the top of the city, taking a defensive posture.

Zhang Yan lifted a huge stone and placed it near the battlements. When Cao Jun approached, he smashed the stone down.

A thousand cao army infantry holding shields bore the brunt. Under the leadership of an officer cao chun, they ran fast and soon approached the city.

"Fire arrows!"

With an order, the soldiers defending the city immediately shot their bows and arrows mercilessly at the soldiers of Cao Jun who were rushing to the front.

However, Cao Jun's soldiers were all well-trained, and they used their shields to cover their bows and arrows one after another. Only a few of them died because they did not cover them in time.

Soon, this wave of Cao soldiers braved the arrows of the defenders and rushed to the city wall first, and quickly erected the ladder they brought on the city wall.

Zhang Yan saw the timing, lifted a stone and smashed it down the city. The huge stone hit a Cao Bing directly on the head, split the brains of that Cao Bing, and fell directly to the ground, dying.

He continued to lift stones and smashed them towards the bottom of the city wall. Although those Cao soldiers had shields to protect them, facing the sudden heavy blow, their arms were either broken or directly crushed to death.And the ladder erected on the city wall was quickly pushed down by the defenders.

The defenders kept attacking the Cao soldiers below the city wall with bows, arrows and boulders. The Cao soldiers who rushed to the city wall in the first wave were severely hit and suffered heavy casualties. Soon there were not many left.

However, Cao Jun's infantry continued to rush towards the city wall. Under Cao Chun's command, they shouted and roared, expressing their fearlessness with extremely exciting voices.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

Cao Jun's archers rushed to the city wall and began to shoot at the city wall with bows and arrows. Many defenders were shot through by Cao Jun's arrows and fell to the ground.

Seeing this scene, Chen Deng, who was in charge of commanding the battle, immediately ordered the archers to shoot against Cao Jun's archers outside the city. The arrows came and went, and the two armies suffered casualties.

"kill!"

Suddenly, an officer of Cao Jun climbed onto the city wall from the ladder, swung the sharp blade in his hand and slashed wildly.

The officer of the Cao army hurriedly jumped onto the tower, and with his personal bravery, fought a foothold on the tower. The soldiers who went to fight were either killed or injured by the officer of the Cao army.

And behind the Cao Jun officer, another Cao soldier climbed up the tower, fought side by side with the Cao Jun officer, and soon gained a place.

"Quick! Kill them quickly!" Seeing this, Chen Deng immediately became anxious. If he didn't take back that square inch of land, he was afraid that the city tower would fall soon.

At this moment, an iron gun suddenly came out, stabbing out suddenly, directly piercing the Cao Jun officer's body, and the gun head passed through the body, and stabbing the Cao Bing behind the Cao Jun officer together. middle.

The Cao Jun officer looked along the iron spear that pierced his body with surprised eyes, but saw that the person holding the handle of the iron spear turned out to be Zhang Yan.He yelled unwillingly, swung the weapon in his hand with the last of his strength, and slashed towards Zhang Yan's neck.

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Yan's mouth, he raised his leg and kicked the officer off the city wall, quickly pulled out the iron gun inserted in the officer's body, and quickly stabbed a Cao Bing, who had just climbed the city wall, was heartbroken.

Cao Bing uttered a scream, fell directly from the ladder to the bottom of the city wall, and fell to his death.

Zhang Yan held a long spear and stood on the tower that was almost lost. He kept waving the iron spear in his hand, destroyed the ladders on the city wall one after another, and killed more than ten Cao soldiers in succession. Everywhere they went, they were all gunned down.

He alone, with a gun, defended the position at the head of the city.

Chen Deng watched Zhang Yan's every move, and couldn't help but be impressed by Zhang Yan's bravery. He thought to himself, "I didn't expect this little county captain to be so powerful..."

Cao Chun, who was directing the battle of Cao Jun under the city, also noticed this subtle change on the tower, and immediately ordered the archers to shoot arrows at Zhang Yan.

Hundreds of arrows shot at Zhang Yan from different directions, Zhang Yan didn't panic, the iron gun in Wu Wu's hand pushed the arrows out one after another, and he was unharmed.

Zhang Yan noticed that the Cao army did not launch a full-scale attack, and the Cao army attacking the city was only a part of it, with only about two to 3000 people.

The Cao troops in charge of the siege were all under the command of a Cao Jun officer in iron armor and an iron helmet.The officer of the Cao army hid far behind the archers of the Cao army. It was the officer of the Cao army who ordered the archers to shoot him just now, about a hundred steps away from where he was.

As the saying goes, when you shoot a man, you shoot the horse first, and when you capture a thief, you capture the king first.

He immediately put the iron gun in his hand at his feet, picked up a bow and arrow from a dead archer beside him, pulled the bow and arrow hard, put an arrow on the bowstring, and first moved towards the officer beside Cao Jun. The archer shoots an arrow.

But there was a sound of strings, and an arrow flew towards the archer quickly.Unfortunately, the strength of this bow is limited, even if the bowstring is fully drawn, it can only be shot at a distance of about eighty steps, and the officer is hiding a hundred steps away, so he can't shoot anyway.

Seeing that the arrow ended without a problem and landed halfway, Zhang Yan's face was suddenly depressed.In this way, his idea of ​​sniping that Cao Jun officer was tantamount to a failure.

"Lieutenant Zhang County, use this bow!" At this moment, a voice sounded from Zhang Yan's side. expect.

Without saying a word, Zhang Yan took the bow and arrow directly, and tried to pull the bowstring of this bow. The strength was indeed quite different from that of ordinary bows.

He tried to use his strength to fully draw the bow with extraordinary physical strength, and a smile appeared on his face.

He immediately took out an arrow, put it directly on the bowstring, pulled the bowstring full, and aimed at the officer Cao Jun who was a hundred steps away.

With a loud shout of "呔", the arrow on the bowstring left the string, and quickly shot towards the officer of Cao Jun.

The Cao Jun officer was startled when he saw an arrow flying towards him suddenly. Before he could dodge, he was shot in the throat. Before he could scream, he fell to the ground struggling to die.

"Good arrow skills!" Seeing Zhang Yan's arrow hit Cao Jun's officer a hundred paces away, Chen Deng suddenly exclaimed and praised loudly.

Cao Jun's officer was shot to death by Zhang Yan with an arrow, Cao Jun who was attacking the city lost his command, and more than 2000 people fell into a state of leaderless.

Cao Cao, who was riding a white horse far away in the army formation, was also taken aback when he saw the vanguard Cao Chun was shot by Zhang Yan with an arrow. He worried that Cao Chun's death would directly affect the morale of the siege troops, so he decisively ordered: "Ming Jin withdraw troops!"

Once the order to withdraw the troops was issued, Cao's troops who were besieging the city began to retreat one after another.

The defenders did not cheer for it, because they knew very well in their hearts that this was only the prelude to the war, and the real war had just begun...

(End of this chapter)