Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 427 The Battle of Dongting
The news of Cheng Huang's death quickly spread throughout the Huaxia District, and the major forces in the Huaxia District, which were already ready to move, all launched their actions and began to attack each other.

Jizhou Mu Hanfu, under heavy pressure, announced to join Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao's power expanded unprecedentedly, and he began to attack Gongsun Zan in Youzhou.

Lu Bu returned to Hedong, but was unable to fight because of his own injury.After a hundred rounds of battle between Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu, the Bingzhou iron cavalry was defeated by the elite Feixiong army led by Guo Si.Lu Bu's army was defeated, so he had to lead the rest of his troops and fled to Bingzhou in embarrassment, where he took refuge in Zhang Yang.

When Lu Bu and Li Guo's armies were fighting, Ma Teng from Xiliang, Han Sui sent Ma Chao, and Yan Xing to besiege Chang'an, defeating Niu Fu's army, and Li and Guo's armies had to retreat.

In the south, Yuan Shu sent Ji Ling and other generals to take advantage of Liu Biao's battle with Dongting to intimidate the counties and counties attached to Runan, control most of the southern Xuzhou and northern Yangzhou, and their power gradually grew.

With the help of Zhou Yu and other generals, Sun Ce defeated Yan Baihu and took control of southern Yangzhou.In several fights with the Yanhuang League, under Zhou Yu's command, Jiangdong's soldiers and horses have all won victories.To curb the Yanhuang League's expansion to the north.

All of a sudden, the entire Huaxia District was full of smoke and flames of war.Countless soldiers and civilians died in this war, and blood stained the entire country of China red.

However, Dongting and Luoyang are still fighting fiercely.

In Dongting, Xu Shu stood at the head of the Xingyue City, looking at the corpses all over the ground below the city, frowning.After the first round of tentative attacks, Liu Beijun has already retreated temporarily.

But Xu Shu knew that this was not just the tranquility before the storm, but the real battle that followed.

Just two days ago, after three days of fierce fighting in Tianxing City, the city gate was broken. In order to prevent the Dongting soldiers from suffering too many casualties, he had no choice but to let Gan Ning retreat to Xingyue City.Now, Liu Biao's army has arrived at Xingyue City.

More importantly, now that the news of Cheng Huang's death spread among the army, the morale of Xingyue City was hit.And Jiangdong Sun Ce has already sent news that he is at war with the Yanhuang League and cannot send troops to help.

As for Luoyang, there was news of being besieged by Cao Cao's army. It is conceivable that under the attack of Cao Cao's army, the Luoyang defenders may be in danger.Most importantly, the reinforcements led by Xu Huang and Tai Shiyue were still a few days away from reaching Dongting, let alone Wang Ping who was far away in southern Xinjiang.

Changsha had already fallen, and the Wuling army, led by Wei Yan, reinforced Dongting, but was ambushed by Zhuge Liang's troops. They suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat to Wuling.

Although Liu Beijun also suffered heavy losses under the resistance of the Dongting defenders, but now that morale is low, Xu Shu doesn't know how long he can defend.

Now, he has no way out, once Xingyue City is breached, Dongting will be over!
"Mr. Yuanzhi," a soldier came over and said to Xu Shu, "I want to ask, is the lord really gone?"

"Nonsense!" Xu Shu said angrily, "My lord, a man of destiny, how can something happen? If you continue to deceive the public, be careful that I will chop off your head."

When the soldier saw Xu Shu get angry, he trembled with fright and dared not speak any more.

Xu Shu sighed, patted the soldier's shoulder, and said in a pleasant manner: "My lord, he is just doing a task, and he can't escape for the time being. These people came to our door while our lord was away. We will let them You know, even if the lord is not around, we can drive them away, come on."

The soldier's eyes suddenly glowed, as if he saw infinite hope, and his spirit was shocked. "Really? That's great, Mr. Yuan Zhen, we will be able to guard the Dongting until the lord returns. Mr. Yuan Zhi, I'm leaving. I want to tell my brothers the news as soon as possible."

After speaking, the soldier ran away excitedly.

Seeing the back of the soldiers leaving, Xu Shu sighed heavily, "Master, where are you?"

"Dong dong..."

In the distance came the sound of war drums.

"Are you coming?" Xu Shu looked at Liu Biao's army gradually approaching from a distance, a trace of determination appeared on Xu Shu's face.

"Mr. Yuan Zhi," Gan Ning had already come to Xu Shu's side at some point, glanced at the approaching team in the distance, and said to Xu Shu: "Look at their formation, this time, I'm afraid they are really launching a general attack."

"En!" Xu Shu nodded, "Xingba, this time, we can use the special team that has been hidden for a long time. In addition, let Ju Yi take precautions."

"Understood!" Gan Ning nodded.

The siege team stopped two miles outside the city, and the craftsmen began to assemble the siege equipment. It didn't take long for a siege tower, ladder, and city-breaking cone to be assembled.

Among the Chinese army, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are looking up.

"Cheng Huang is worthy of being a hero of the times. He actually built Dongting like an iron wall. Mr. Kong Ming, how long do you think it will take for us to win Dongting?" Liu Bei said.

"Right now, Dongting's morale is low. Even if their city is strong, if there are no people, even if Dongting is really a fortified wall, it will be of no avail. Order to attack the city!"

"Choke!" Liu Bei drew his sword out of its sheath and shouted, "Siege!"

dong dong...

The war drum sounded, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Chen Dao led the Jingzhou elite, pushing the siege equipment, and rushed towards the Xingyue City.

Soon, Liu Bei's army came within range of the defenders of Xingyue City.

"Fight!" The first to attack was Ju Yi's Xiandeng dead soldiers. As a special unit of Dongting, Xiandeng dead soldiers have always been Dongting's big killer.In this siege battle, no fewer than 20 Liu Biao's troops died at the hands of Xiandeng's soldiers.If it weren't for Liu Biao to send another 50 troops from various counties in Jingzhou to reinforce Liu Bei, I'm afraid Liu Bei would have been forced to withdraw because of insufficient troops.

Following Ju Yi's order, crossbow arrows rained down on the charging enemy army.These powerful crossbows have amazing penetration.As long as it is shot, it can pass through the enemy's iron shield.

In the first round of arrow rain, at least [-] Jingzhou soldiers were shot and killed.

If there were not many soldiers hiding under the siege tower, I am afraid that there would be more Jingzhou soldiers who died.

"kill!"

Under the blessing of Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Chen Dao, these three Jingzhou soldiers were brave enough to rush down the city without fear of death.Perhaps, when they came to Dongting, they were already ready to die.

"shoot!"

Seeing that the enemy was within range, Gan Ning shouted loudly, and the archers in Dongting opened fire.Countless sharp arrows, with a screaming sound, drew a long parabola, like a torrential rain, falling among the enemy group.

It's just that these are the arrows of ordinary archers, they can't penetrate the iron shield, and their lethality is extremely limited.

Soon, Jingzhou soldiers came under the city wall. At this time, the system announcement rang!

"Ding... Announcement from Huaxia District, Cheng Huang, a player from Huaxia District, won the laurel crown in the mid-level dungeon competition in Southeast Asia, and the national strength of Huaxia District will be increased by [-]!"

(End of this chapter)