Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 77 The Battle of Juancheng

Outside Juancheng, Li Song's [-]-strong army launched a fierce attack on Juancheng. Inside Juancheng, Xun Yu encouraged all the old, weak, women and children to fight back.

"My lord! Our army attacked several times a day, but after these two days, we still haven't been able to break through this juancheng. This juancheng is too difficult to capture!"

"Our army has more than ten thousand casualties. I really didn't expect that Juancheng was even more difficult to attack than Dongmincheng." Pei Yuanqing said to Li Song with an expression of disbelief.

Pei Yuanqing really didn't understand, in terms of bravery and fighting, Lu Bu was much stronger than Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren, and in terms of strategy, Chen Gong was no worse than Xun Yu, why Juancheng was more difficult to crack than Dongmincheng.

"Nowadays, the whole city of Juancheng is fighting against the same enemy, and the whole city is participating in the war. Naturally, it is not comparable to ordinary people."

"Even if our army captures this city in the end, I'm afraid it will be a dead city. Xun Yu's prestige in Juancheng is not comparable to that of Lu Bu." Li Song couldn't help but said while watching the tragic offensive and defensive battle in Juancheng.

He never imagined that Xun Yu could do this to such an extent that the whole city was willing to guard the city for him. How many people in this world could do this.

After hearing this, Pei Yuanqing stood beside Li Song silently, savoring the meaning carefully, while Li Yuanba dozed off aside. He was more interested in fighting when it came to arranging troops and attacking cities.

As for Zhou Cang, he was quietly guarding next to Li Song. As the commander of Li Song's personal guard, his main task was to protect the safety of the lord, and other things had nothing to do with him.

"Pass my general order! All the soldiers and horses attacking the other city gates are concentrated at this south gate. I want to concentrate my forces to conquer this city." Li Song said, beckoning to Pei Yuanqing to speak.

Pei Yuanqing stepped forward, put his ear to Li Song's mouth, Li Song opened his lips lightly, and explained to him, "Yuanqing, do you understand what to do now?"

"Understood! It's just my lord, what Yuanqing doesn't understand is, won't they take the opportunity to escape?" Pei Yuanqing asked what was in his mind.

"They will either stick to it or surrender. There is no way they can escape." Li Song vowed, this is Cao Cao's last foundation. If they run away, Cao Cao will never have a chance to fight for world hegemony.

Although Pei Yuanqing didn't understand why Li Song was so confident, he still followed what Li Song said.

"Report! Report to Xun Sima, Lord Xiahou, and Lord Cao Ren that the enemy troops at the east gate suddenly withdrew and came towards our army's south gate."

"Report! Report to Xun Sima, Lord Xiahou, and Lord Cao Ren that the enemy troops at the north gate suddenly withdrew and came towards our army's south gate."

"Report! Enlightenment..."

A series of reports came, and Xun Yu, Cao Ren, and Xiahou Dun were all puzzled. Could it be that the enemy wanted to concentrate their forces and attack the south gate with all their might.

"The enemy has withdrawn!" Just as they were thinking, there was a sound of gold ringing in the distance, and they saw the enemy retreating slowly like a tide, and then the soldiers and civilians at the south gate cheered.

"My lord! Look!" Suddenly someone yelled, Xun Yu, Cao Ren, and Xiahou Dun hurriedly looked around, and armies appeared from other places, joining Li Song's army who had retreated and regrouped.

A series of trebuchets were pushed out from the army formation, and the archers filled up their crossbows and shot towards the city. The trebuchets threw objects, and a new round of attacks began.

"Xun Sima, why is it that the enemy is only shooting arrows and throwing stones, and there is no movement?" Xiahou Dun held up a shield and came to the place where Xun Yu and Cao Ren were hiding from the arrows.

"It seems that the enemy intends to use strong bows and crossbows and catapults to weaken our strength. If this continues, the situation may not be good." After Xun Yu said, he called a soldier and said.

"Come on! Hurry up and send an order, leave some to guard the gates, and the rest will reinforce the south gate."

"No!" The soldiers took the order, while dodging the arrows, they rushed to convey Xun Yu's orders. From time to time, some people fell to the ground from the arrows, and the wounded were carried down for treatment.

The number of arrows that were shot slowly became less and less. After all, the feather arrows will always be shot. Xun Yu and the others know that after the arrows are shot, a new round of attack will begin.

After the rain of arrows stopped, the trebuchet threw it for a while, and then announced its withdrawal. The horn of attack sounded, and the army launched an attack on Juancheng again.

The defenders in the city hurriedly shot arrows outside the city desperately. Some soldiers ran out of arrows, so they pulled arrows from the corpses of their companions and shot them outside the city.

The offensive and defensive sides once again fought life and death. Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren organized troops out of the city several times to fight, but they were quickly killed by Xiang Yu and returned in defeat.

At the north gate of Juancheng, a team of thousands of people quietly touched the foot of the north gate. In an inconspicuous corner, they used flying claws and a hundred chain locks to hook the female wall, and slowly climbed up. Most of the army is wounded and the number is small, so naturally they will not consider the inconspicuous corners.

The person who climbed up pulled out the short blade he was wearing, and quietly approached a soldier with his back facing him. He quickly attacked and covered his mouth to prevent him from making a sound. The short blade pulled on his neck, bleeding Sprayed from the wound, the soldier twitched a few times and then fell silent.

Soon the defenders of the north gate were cleaned up, and everyone gathered together. These people were Li Song's secret army - the shadows.

"Anjiu, you bring some people to control the city gate, Anshi, go back quickly and report the situation here to the lord." The shadow leader ordered two of them.

"No!" The two agreed, An Shi went down from where he climbed up, and headed towards Li Song's formation, while An Jiu led people to control the city gate.

"My lord! The shadow has already succeeded!" Pei Yuanqing hurried to Li Song to report the news that the shadow had returned.

"Okay! Hahaha!" Li Song laughed loudly after hearing this, "Yuanqing, quickly take your soldiers and horses, go straight to the north gate, enter Juancheng, and attack from both sides."

"No!" Pei Yuanqing clasped his fists and saluted, turned and left, took his soldiers and horses and left the army, and headed for the north gate.

"My lord, look at that! The enemy's soldiers and horses suddenly broke away from the enemy's formation." A lieutenant pointed to the distance and shouted to Xun Yu next to him.

"What direction are you going?" Xun Yu asked hurriedly, looking in the direction he pointed.

"Return to my lord, that direction should be north."

"North! Not good!" Xun Yu was shocked!He hurriedly found Xiahoudun, "Yuan Rang, something is wrong!"

"Wen Ruo, what's the matter?" Xia Houdun stepped forward to support the flustered Xun Yu, and asked hastily.

"You don't have time to ask, you don't have time to explain. You may take someone to the north gate immediately, maybe it's too late, otherwise it will be too late." Xun Yu didn't have time to explain anything to him, but just urged him to go to the north gate.

"Okay! I'll take the soldiers and horses and go to the north gate to have a look." Xiahou Dun also knew that the matter was urgent, and he couldn't waste time here, so he turned around and went down to the top of the city, gathered all the soldiers and horses and headed for the north gate.

"I wish Yuan Rang could reach the North Gate in time!" Xun Yu murmured to himself, looking at Xiahou Dun's retreating back, but he couldn't calm down in his heart.

(End of this chapter)