Three Kingdoms Eschatology

When their catapults and catapults advanced to a certain position, they began to project boulders and stone bullets towards the long wall of Fangcheng.These boulder bombs made a loud sound when they hit the city wall, but only left traces of potholes on the hard city wall.

The heavy arrows of the longbowmen also flew up to the top of the city, which was about seven battles high, but at such a height, the kinetic energy of the arrow was converted into potential energy. Without the power and speed of the past, the soldiers of the Wei army at the top of the city could easily dodge it.

Under Gao Shun's command, Liang Jun's infantry continued to advance with their shields on their backs.Each of them carried firewood bundles on their backs, and when they rushed to the edge of the trench, they threw the firewood bundles into the trench. It was obvious that Liang Jun wanted to fill the trench.

Xu Huang, who had been supervising the battle on the east wall of the central city, ran up to the top of the long wall at this time. Looking at the black heads of Liang Junjun under the city, he clenched his fists, released them, and then clenched them again and again.

He was hesitating in his heart right now.He clearly knew that Liang Jun's attack on this side was only to attract Wei Jun's attention and provide assistance to Liang Jun, who was mainly attacking northeast of the fortress.But if he really doesn't care about the Liang army in the southwest, they will really fill up the trenches, and then really start to attack the city.

With a bang, a heavy arrow shot towards his face, Xu Huang's soldiers shouted: "Be careful, general!", and threw themselves in front of him to block the arrow for him.It was an arrow shot from the basket of a hot air balloon, which pierced through the armor of this soldier and knocked him to the ground.

The death of his own soldiers prompted Xu Huang to make up his mind. While hiding his body behind the wall, he shouted loudly: "Send a certain military order to allocate half of the troops to guard the front of the fortress!"

Immediately, a large number of soldiers of the Wei army rushed up the corridor of the long wall from the three cities and began to defend the long wall.The archers and crossbowmen among them fired arrows at the Liang army soldiers who were filling the trench, and hundreds of ballistas scattered on the long wall also began to throw stone bullets and crossbow guns at the Liang army formation in the distance.

The arrows of the Wei army were too dense, and the infantry of the Liang army who filled the trenches under the city had to form a large formation of tortoise shells. As a result, the speed of filling the trenches naturally slowed down.However, Liang Jun's trebuchets and ballistas did not stop at all. The soldiers were sweating profusely, rewinding the catapults and throwing them repeatedly.

With a bang, a huge stone bullet landed on the floor of the city head. Because the long wall of Fangcheng City was too high, there was only a not too loud crisp sound when it landed, but the momentum of the round stone bullet rushing forward was not enough. Eliminated, and continued to roll forward with a mighty force.A ballista player of the Wei Army couldn't dodge in time, and the stone bullet happened to run over his instep, and with a crackling sound, his entire sole was crushed.Before he could cry out in pain, the stone bullet hit the support of the ballista again.With a bang, one leg of the ballista bracket was broken.The whole ballista collapsed...

On the northeast side of the Fangcheng Fortress, Zhang Liao, who had been ignoring him all the time, waved down his palm hanging in the air, and uttered two words: "The infantry quickly moved to the Zuocheng city, and concentrated forces to attack the Zuocheng!"

With the sound of drums and horns, those "ostrich cavalry formations" under his command who had been preparing for a long time suddenly ran to the left as if they were flying.It only took a quarter of an hour to arrive at the Zuocheng city more than ten miles away.They jumped off the ostriches, rearranged their formation a little bit, and with their shields on their backs, they rushed towards the low city wall of the left city, which was only three battles high.

The left city of this Fangcheng fortress was originally a city with the least number of guards, usually only more than 5000 people.The rest of the troops are deployed in Zhongcheng and Youcheng. Among them, Zhongcheng has a maximum of [-] people, followed by Youcheng with more than [-] people.

Just now Xu Huang thought that the Liang army was going to concentrate its forces to attack the right city, so he pulled out a group of troops from the left city. Now there are only about a thousand and five troops left in the left city.However, some of these troops have to defend against the main force of the Liang army on the front long wall.So at this time, the Wei State defenders in Zuocheng were actually very weak.

When Xu Huang and Sima Fu saw Liang Jun's ostrich troops rushing towards Zuocheng suddenly at lightning speed, they knew that something was wrong, and quickly sent another order to deploy troops to Zuocheng for reinforcements.But how could Zhao Yun, who was commanding in the air, give them a chance.Liang Jun's soldiers in the basket of the hot air balloon waved their command flags desperately, and issued military orders to Liang Jun who was besieging the city in the southwest.

Immediately, Liang Jun's crossbow guns in the southwest concentrated and threw a burst of explosive bombs on a section of the long wall.And this section of the city wall happens to be between the left city and the middle city.Hundreds of explosive bombs fell on the top of the narrow city wall, and the situation can be imagined.This section of the city wall, which was about a hundred steps long, suddenly burst into flames, burning into a sea of ​​flames.Dozens of soldiers of the Wei army who were passing through were immediately engulfed in the sea of ​​flames, and they didn't even have time to scream.And those Wei Jun who were running on the corridor to reinforce Zuocheng were blocked by the sea of ​​fire, crowded into a group, and were in chaos.

At this time, Xu Huang had already run over, and seeing this scene, he shouted loudly: "Don't huddle together, and quickly withdraw to the plank road. Go across the plank road to reinforce Zuocheng!"

Chapter 645

Under the command of Xu Huang and generals at all levels, the Wei army finally ended the short-term chaos.They jumped from the corridor of the city wall to the plank road behind the wall, and continued to rush towards the left city along the plank road.

Unexpectedly, at this time, there were waves of falcons screaming in the sky.Xu Huang looked up and saw dozens of giant falcons hovering in the air, many of them were still holding clay pot-like objects in their claws.Xu Huang, who had seen Liang Jun and Fei Jun, immediately understood what the other party was going to do, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and hide in the groove!"

The so-called concave channel is the channel that is recessed from the side of the plank road to the side of the long wall where soldiers can be hidden.Before Xu Huang finished speaking, the longbowman shot heavy arrows one after another from the hanging basket.Red smoke came out of the tails of these heavy arrows, and it was clear that Liang Jun's "Flying Army" bombing beacon had been greatly improved.This is much easier to identify by falcons than the previous red cloth strips, and the dark fire hidden in the tail of the arrow can directly ignite the splashed naphtha.

Although Wei Bing rushed to throw these arrows down the city wall, where did they come in time?More than [-] explosive bombs fell from the sky immediately.Most of them fell on the plank road, and clumps of flames soared into the sky.A dozen or so Wei soldiers who had been burnt to the ground screamed and jumped off the plank road several times high, and were immediately smashed to pieces.

The Wei army soldiers on the corridor and plank road of the city wall were separated by the sea of ​​fire at this time. The only thing that can connect the two areas now is the concave road, which is only seven or eight feet wide, which was originally used for hiding soldiers.But unfortunately, the northeast wind is blowing now in spring.The burning plank road kept licking the tongue of fire into the concave channel, and people could not pass through it at all.

Xu Huang and Sima Fu were as anxious as ants on a hot pot.Because the ostrich infantry under Zhang Liao's command had rushed to the left city.Among them, the five hundred longbowmen stopped outside the range of ordinary arrows and shot precisely at the head of the east wall of the left city.Whenever the soldiers of the Wei army dared to show their heads from this section of the city wall, they often ended up being killed by an arrow.

When the two thousand five hundred Liang army spear and shield soldiers were still thirty steps away from the city wall, they stopped, spliced ​​their shields into a wall, and then set up more than a hundred portable ballistas.Immediately, a hundred small explosive bombs flew from behind the shield wall to the top of the city wall of the left city like flying fire meteors, leaving trails of smoke in the air.

After Liang Jun fired several rounds of fire, the city of Zuocheng also became a sea of ​​flames.The soldiers of the Wei army who had been hiding behind the walls were either burned by the flames, or fled to the stairs or the corridors on both sides.

Xu Huang, who was watching the battle in the middle city, his eyes were cracked, his eyes were red and he said: "All troops will reinforce the left city, use sand to put out the fire on the corridor and plank road, and our lift-off lights will also be raised to suppress the opponent's sky. The longbowmen! All the crossbowmen shoot at the air, and shoot down those damn falcons! We have to rush there no matter what, otherwise Fangcheng will not be able to defend."

But it's easier said than done.The soldiers of the Wei army were busy for a while before they organized to put out the fire.They formed long human chains, ready to pass the sand to the place where the flames burned.However, Liang Jun's ballista and trebuchets in the southwest continued to blast wildly, and the longbowman in the hot air balloon basket was still shooting deadly heavy arrows one after another.Those Wei troops who lined up the human chain on the corridor at the head of the city were quickly killed by stone bullets, stones and flying arrows.Although the soldiers of the Wei army on the plank road were in the blind spot of the catapult catapult, they were constantly attacked by explosive bombs from the air and the Haast giant eagle.

Under such circumstances, the flustered archers of the Wei army shot arrows into the air without any rules. Facing the falcons that swooped down from the air at high speed, the hit rate of these arrows was extremely low and had almost no effect.

At this time, the shield wall of Zhang Liao's infantry phalanx began to move forward again quickly, and it had resisted the foot of the left city wall.When they moved, those portable ballistas and ballistas also followed the phalanx and pushed to the bottom of the wall.

Bang bang bang, with the muffled sound of a series of ballista rubber bands ejected.Fifty pairs of flying claws were all thrown towards the top of the city.Behind each pair of flying claws is a slack rope ladder.The flying claws were firmly hooked to the top of the city wall, and the selected dead warriors had already begun to climb up the ladder.

At this time, the embers were still extinguished on the wall, and no Wei army soldiers stuck their heads out to stop them.In fact, even if a small number of Wei soldiers showed up to resist at this time, they would end up being killed by an arrow from the longbowman under the city.

When the Liang soldiers manipulating the portable ballista threw more rope ladders, fifty Liang soldiers had already climbed to the top of the city.They quickly gathered together and formed a simple formation to defend against possible incoming Wei soldiers, and then two of them dropped more ladders.

Under the orders of the generals, hundreds of soldiers of the Wei army finally mustered up their courage and rushed towards these Liang soldiers from the ramps on the city wall and the ramps on both sides of the city wall.On Liang Jun's side, the leader of the team shouted loudly: "Concentrate on the enemy troops on the stairs! Shoot in two batches! Shoot!"

Then 25 spears were thrown at the Wei army rushing up the stairway densely. The two rows of Wei soldiers who rushed to the front collapsed in an instant with the spears inserted into the body, "Throw!", "Throw", "Throw!" ".After four consecutive rounds of spears were thrown, a large number of Wei soldiers on the stairs had fallen down.The soldiers in the rear were already terrified, they tried to protect themselves with their shields, but their feet were already weak, and they stopped moving half a step forward.

The soldiers of the Wei Army who attacked from the corridors of the city walls on both sides were now under concentrated sniper fire by five hundred Liang Army commanders and archers.In addition, those portable crossbows under the city lost no time in throwing explosive bombs on both sides.The casualties of the Wei army rushing in these two directions were more tragic than those of the Wei army on the stairs.The morale of the soldiers was immediately drained, and they turned around and ran away regardless of the scolding of the generals and leaders.

At this time, more than a hundred Liang Jun climbed to the top of the city.In the next moment, the Wei army in the left city was even more unable to launch a counterattack, and more and more Liang army soldiers climbed to the top of the city.When they gathered 700 people, with the order of the general and captain, 300 of them lined up the shield wall, raised their guns and rushed down the stairs to the city.

At this time, General Wei Jun managed to gather five or six hundred Wei soldiers to rush towards the city, and they happened to collide with this group of Liang Jun, but they were thrown by Liang Jun with two javelins, and then they charged with another spear, and the birds and beasts scattered.

The east gate of the left city was finally opened, and Liang Jun infantry from outside the city poured in.It took only two sticks of incense to control this small fortress city.The Wei army in the city was either beheaded or surrendered.

Xu Huang, who was still watching the battle in Zhongcheng, stomped his feet and said, "It's over, it's over!"

At this time, Sima Fu ran to his side and said angrily: "Xu Huang, didn't you say that Fangcheng would not be lost with your life? How should it end now!"

While he was speaking, the gate of the long wall in the left city was slowly opened, and the drawbridge was lowered.Liang Jun from the southwest also rushed in...

Chapter 646 Bloody Battle in the Right City

On the long wall corridor of the Fangcheng Fortress, Liang Jun, who rushed into the left city, was rushing towards the central city along this corridor.

Xu Huang has personally led his own troops, about a thousand people, to intercept them.Seeing Xu Huang taking the lead, those Wei soldiers who were already flustered somewhat regained their morale, and one after another joined Xu Huang's team and followed behind them.Soon the Wei army also gathered thousands of troops at the head of the city, and the Wei and Liang armies and horses collided with each other in the place that had previously been burned into a sea of ​​flames.

When Liang Jun was more than ten battles away from the opponent, they still used their usual tactics-throwing spears in turn before a hand-to-hand confrontation.Forty or fifty spear guns are thrown in each round.Batch after batch of spears were thrown at the Wei army intensively one after another.

However, Xu Huang's soldiers all wore big shields with tiger heads. At this time, they had gathered the shields into a "turtle shell", which tightly protected the front, top, bottom, left, and right sides.Liang Jun's javelins pierced the shield one after another, making muffled popping sounds.Although the spear guns did not cause too many casualties to the Wei army, almost every Wei army had at least four or five spear guns inserted into their shields.

The weight of these spears made it difficult for the Wei soldiers to lift their shields up, and it also slowed down their movements.Immediately, the soldiers on both sides began to engage in hand-to-hand combat.Most of Wei Jun's shields are unusable, but Liang Jun's shield wall is still there, and the spears of the soldiers in the front row stab out from the gaps in the shield wall.Wei Bing in the front row was repeatedly stabbed to the ground by spears.

Xu Huang stepped forward, shouted, shot his spear, and got in through the gap between the two shields. Then he swung left and right with all his strength, and staggered the soldiers of the Liang army on both sides.Two of his personal soldiers, armed with shovel knives, entered the gap, and hacked at the soldiers of the Liang army on the left and right, trying to quickly tear the hole wider.

They had just chopped down two Liang Jun spear and shield soldiers, and saw two groups of black shadows flying towards their eyes, and with two puffs, two sharp axes smashed into their skulls.Xu Huang raised his eyes and saw two Liang Jun infantry who were as tall as Zhanyu, tightly wrapped in iron armor, like iron towers, had filled the gap that had just been torn open in the army formation.The two axes just now were also thrown by these two giant ape warriors.

At this time, the long knife in the hand of the giant ape soldier was already stabbing.Amidst the lights of swords, Wei Bing fell down in pieces accompanied by screams and rain of blood.Xu Huang yelled angrily, and the spear pierced out again like a rainbow piercing the sun. With a strange clang, the tip of the spear pierced into the armor of the giant ape soldier.But Xu Huang also felt that the spear was piercing the rock at this time, and it would not be able to enter after half an inch.

The giant ape soldier let out a strange cry, and slashed towards Xu Huang with his long knife.It was too late for Xu Huang to retract his gun, and the knife was about to hit his head.One of his personal soldiers pushed him away, and the knife slashed on the soldier's shoulder.The sharp blade easily cut through the soldier's shoulder armor, and it stopped until it penetrated into the chest.

At the same time, lacking shields to protect the soldiers of the Wei army, they repeatedly stabbed and stabbed them in the forest of Liang Jun's guns, causing continuous casualties.Many of the remaining Wei soldiers who followed Xu Huang's personal guard saw that the situation was not going well, and sneaked away again.

In addition to the Liang army attacking from the corridors of the city wall, a large number of soldiers crossed the defense line of Fangcheng from the left city, entered the northeast of the long wall, and directly began to attack the middle city.Hundreds of ladders filled the walls of Zhongcheng, which were more than three battles high. Of course, there were also soft ladders for Liang soldiers under Zhang Liao's command. A large number of Liang soldiers were climbing up the ladders.

Xu Huang spat out a mouthful of bloody smear, raised his spear again and wanted to go up to fight Liang Jun, but was hugged by his own soldiers and persuaded him: "General, you are the leader of the whole army. The way of battle. If you have three good things and two bad things, wouldn't the rest of the brothers have no leader, and they would inevitably collapse on their own. Wouldn't it be cheaper for Liang Jun to play in their hands?"

Xu Huang laughed and said: "Do you think there is still hope for this Fangcheng? It's impossible. I just want to die, and the city is destroyed. This way, I won't hurt my family in Yecheng." He tried to break away from the soldier again, and stepped forward to fight Liang Jun in a suicide style.But a few more soldiers rushed forward and dragged him to the city without any explanation.

More than a dozen fist-sized fireballs passed over the fighting soldiers of both sides, landed in the crowd of the Wei army, and then shot up into the sky with flames.This is naturally what Liang Jun's portable ballista did.Wei Bing, whose morale was on the verge of collapse, was defeated in an instant.Accompanied by Burning Man's heart-piercing screams.These Wei soldiers blocked on the corridors of the city wall rushed to escape to the rear, and because their retreat was blocked, they simply jumped directly onto the plank road with a short drop.Because part of the plank road was burned at this time, some people fell directly to the high wall seven battles high and fell to their deaths on the spot.

Just as Liang Jun rushed into the Zhongcheng from the corridor, a large number of Liang Jun who attacked the city from the other three walls of the Zhongcheng also climbed to the top of the city.Sima Fu and Xu Huang withdrew from the long wall corridor into Youcheng just before Liang Jun took control of Zhongcheng.But the rest of the Wei soldiers were not so lucky, and they are now completely vulnerable.A small number of Wei army cavalry secretly opened the south gate, trying to escape from outside the city to the right city, but were soon discovered by a group of Liang army cavalry patrolling.Among them, two hundred Qingqi Feiyu shot randomly, and more than a hundred heavy armored cavalry charged, and wiped them all out.

Xu Huang is still directing the last bit of Wei soldiers to resist in the right city.He took the Liang army to capture and control the gap in the middle city, commanded the soldiers to pile up dry firewood and fire starters on the city wall corridors and plank roads, set up roadblocks, and arranged the army formation, preparing to fight the Liang army to the death.

At this time, Sima Fu leaned forward and said to Xu Huang: "General Gongming. You don't have to worry about it now! Xiongguan has been broken, and we only have two or 3000 people left. How long will we be able to hold on? If we can defeat Liang What's the use of attacking the army once or twice? It's just a few more hours of survival. Let's find a way to escape." At this moment, he no longer has the attitude of dominating Xu Huang, because Xu Huang is his only life-saving straw.

But Xu Huang replied with a solemn expression: "To tell the truth, I didn't intend to go out alive. I was arrested with my life a long time ago. The city is alive, and the city is destroyed. If I die here today, I will die here." It will break Liang Jun's teeth."

Sima Fu cursed secretly in his heart, you don't want to die but I do.If it wasn't for my escape, who would care about your life?But he still continued to say politely: "General Gongming, why did this happen? It is a common thing for soldiers to have a sense of justice. It is a pity that we lost Guancheng, but if we keep the green hills, we are not afraid of running out of firewood. If you are there If you die in this battle, then there is really no chance to restore the general's reputation. Hearing a certain persuasion, the most important thing is to find a way to break through."

Chapter 647

Seeing that Xu Huang still didn't respond, Sima Fu said again: "Fangcheng was breached so easily, and it's not our responsibility. We just received Xiahouyuan's letter, and Liang Jun followed. So we still have to fight before the emperor. There is room for justification. But if we can't rush out and die here, then you and I will definitely be guilty of dereliction of duty."

Xu Huang didn't know whether it was a sneer or a wry smile and said: "Is someone who cares about life and death, someone is just for Wei..." Before he finished speaking, Sima Fu interrupted him angrily: "Okay, even if you are I died here fighting for the great Wei, not because I was afraid of taking responsibility. But you don’t even think about it, is it so sure that your family will not be implicated if you die?"

Xu Huang was stunned when he heard these words, and only then did he remember that he still had a large group of family members in Yecheng.Sima Fu struck while the iron was hot and said, "Gong Ming, don't hesitate any longer, hurry up and command your own soldiers, and we will break through together. If it is too late, it will be too late."

Xu Huang stomped his feet, looked at Liang Jun who was coming from the corridor, and said, "Come on, let me report the shame of this defeat again in the future." After speaking, he ordered his own soldiers to mix with Sima Fu The light soldiers withdrew to the city.At the same time, he also ordered the soldiers to gather all the cavalry in the right city.

When he and Sima Fu walked to the small square in front of the Yamen of Youcheng Mansion, the cavalry had gathered here.At the same time, on the long wall corridor, Liang Jun has already defeated the surviving Wei Jun without a leader.Without further ado, Xu Huang and Sima Fu got on their respective mounts, and their personal soldiers all knew how to ride horses, and they also got on the empty horses brought to them by the cavalry.There are more than [-] remaining Wei army war cavalry, half of which are tiger and leopard cavalry.Together with the two personal soldiers, there are nearly [-] cavalry in total.

The suspension bridge at the north gate of the right city was suddenly lowered, and the city gate was opened wide, and hordes of Wei army cavalry rushed out of it.They were naturally the cavalry team of the Wei army that escorted Xu Huang and Sima Fu to escape.The east gate of the right city is the gate with the least Liang army in the vicinity. The Liang army who passed through the defense line of Fangcheng from the left city has not arrived here yet. At present, only hundreds of warriors under Zhang Liao's command are patrolling here.When they saw a large number of enemy horses rushing out of the city, they quickly released loud arrows to warn them and rode forward to intercept them.

Three hundred Qingqi Feiyu drew their bows and released arrows on the galloping horses. The arrows increased the speed of the horses, and shot at these Wei cavalry with incomparable speed.These Wei Qi just rushed out of the narrow city gate, and they were already very crowded, and they suffered such a dense shooting, and fell off their horses one after another.

At the same time, about [-] heavy cavalry from the Liang Army also accelerated towards the flank of the Wei Army cavalry.Xu Huang shouted: "The enemy cavalry and shooting are powerful, spread out quickly, and don't be too dense."

The generals of Wei Jun shouted like a relay, and Wei Qi immediately divided into several groups.In order to eliminate the power of Liang Jun's arrows.The two hundred Liang Jun heavy cavalry had already intercepted the front of these Wei cavalry.Seeing this situation, they immediately lined up and swept towards Wei Jun's cavalry.

When the two sides passed by the wrong horse, almost every lance of Liang Jun's heavy cavalry pierced into the body of an enemy cavalry or horse.Their cavalry spears were two feet longer than Wei Jun's cavalry spears, and the advantage of these two feet played a key role.

A Liang Jun heavy cavalry pointed the point of his spear at the enemy cavalry running towards him, and the other party also pointed the point of his lance at him.Relying on the advantage of two feet more, Liang Jun's lance pierced the opponent's chest first, and then immediately let go to get the mace.

But the Wei Jun rider did not immediately fall off the horse.At this moment of lightning, under the action of inertia, the pistol in his hand continued to rush forward two feet, stabbing Liang Jun's heavy horse.But his hands had softened and lost his strength, the spear point only left a deep scratch on the bronze mask of the war horse.He just fell off his horse at this time.

The Liang Jun rider just took off the mace, but accidentally collided with another Wei Jun war rider.Wei Qi's war horse suddenly let out a mournful cry, rushed forward a few steps, coughed up blood and fell to the ground, and Wei Bing on the horse also rolled down, and before he got up, he was hit by a mace on the Tianling Gai, and died on the spot.

Three thousand Wei army war cavalry were intercepted by a mere five hundred Liang army war cavalry, but they were powerless to fight back and suffered heavy losses.There are not only reasons for the gap in the actual combat power of the individual soldiers of the two armies, but also the reasons for Wei Bing's lack of interest in fighting and low morale.

The entire cavalry team of the Wei army had been dispersed at this time, with one group in the east and one group in the west fleeing in different directions.Xu Huang only had [-] riders left, and he continued to protect Sima Fu and gallop eastward.But some Liang Jun Qingqi chased after them, and dozens of arrows shot at them round after round.After a while, most of the Wei cavalry except the tiger and leopard cavalry were shot and there were very few left.

The mounts under Xu Huang and Sima Fu's crotch are all good horses from the Western Regions, which are much faster than the rest of the Wei army's war horses.The speed of these two BMWs may not even be able to catch up with the Longbow chariot.At this time, they had gradually run to the front, distanced from the tiger and leopard riders behind.

Some tiger and leopard riders were annoyed by being chased by Liang Jun Qingqi Feiyu, and they simply rushed out, trying to disperse these Liang Jun Qingqi.But as soon as his light cavalry and flying feathers saw them coming, they immediately fled away. When the tiger and leopard cavalry continued to escape, they whistled and regrouped, and chased again.Soon, these tiger and leopard riders realized that they had made a mistake, which delayed their precious escape time.Dozens of longbow chariots appeared in front of them...

Xu Huang and Sima Fu ran and found that there were not many soldiers and horses around them, only a handful of people.What comforted them was that they seemed to have temporarily escaped the pursuit of the Liang army behind them.Xu Huang and Sima Fu both slowed down their horses' pace to save horsepower, otherwise if they ran in the same way just now, they might run to death for another hour or two.

They walked at such a slow pace for another half an hour, Sima Fu began to yell that he was hungry.Xu Huang said impatiently: "Be patient, we can't say that we have got rid of Liang Jun's pursuit, we can only find food when we are in a safe place..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of arrows piercing through the air, and there were quite a lot of them, at least seven or eight.Following a series of screams and howls, he and Sima Fu's few remaining soldiers fell to the ground with arrows.Xu Huang yelled: "Run!", and he and Sima Fu reflexively whipped and urged the horse to gallop.

The two good horses and BMWs ran quickly into the distance like arrows leaving the string.Xu Huang was confident that at such a speed, even Liang Jun's longbow chariot could not catch up in a short time on flat ground.But at this moment, he heard the sound of something running swiftly behind the horse.He instinctively turned his head to see that a black figure had jumped into the air, it was a leopard.The cheetah pounced at high speed and threw Xu Huang off his horse. On the other side, Sima Fu's neck had been bitten off by another cheetah.

Chapter 648 Raid on Tongguan

At sunset, the remnants of the Wei army in the three cities of Fangcheng Fortress had been completely wiped out.Feng Yu's guard of honor had just entered Zhongcheng, which was firmly controlled by Liang Jun.

Not long after Feng Yu and the generals entered the mansion, several soldiers escorted a captured General Wei.The thick leather part of this person's shoulder armor is already torn, and blood is still oozing out, and the battle robe is also full of blood.Immediately afterwards, Zhao Yun also came in, and he clasped his fists to Feng Yu and said, "Your Majesty, Sima Fu, the commander of Fangcheng, also died under the claws of the cheetah. Our scouts capture,"

Feng Yu smiled at Xu Huang: "Xu Huang, I didn't expect you to fall into the hands of our Liang army so soon. You said that I killed you this time? Or maybe you surrendered to our Daliang country. Or you still want to return Yecheng, sacrifice your life for Cao Pi?"

Xu Huang snorted coldly and said: "I don't imagine that you will let me go back again. If you want to kill me or cut me up, I will do whatever you want. If you want me to surrender, there is no way."

A person beside Feng Yu suddenly burst out laughing, and everyone looked to see that it was Jia Xu.Jia Xu suppressed his laughter and said: "Xu Huang, Xu Huang. You don't know what to do. The results of killing you and letting you go are the same. The difference is that the latter may let you live in seclusion. Otherwise, you will return to Yecheng Death is still inevitable, and no matter if we kill you or Cao Pi kills you, your relatives in Ye City will definitely be implicated."

Xu Huang's eyes froze and he said, "What do you mean by that?"

Jia Xu twirled his whiskers and said, "When you lose the Fangcheng fortress and let the puppet Wei's door open, it is equivalent to losing most of Cao Pi's territory. Who do you think is responsible for this?"

Xu Huang said indifferently: "If Fangcheng is lost, it is natural to have the responsibility of guarding the generals. But you, Liang Kingdom, raided from the north to the back of the Fangcheng fortress. Xiahouyuan, who was guarding Hongnong, sent us a military message Urgent report, Liang Guo's army has rushed to the foot of Fangcheng City. How can we react in time?"

Jia Xu continued unhurriedly: "That's what you said, but after all, Xia Houyuan is only in charge of the defense of Hongnong and Luoyang. A lone Liang army penetrated into your hinterland, and he has no reason to use it to defend Tongguan, our Great Liang. Otherwise, if the defense line of Hongnong Luoyang is breached again, how should it be dealt with? Since Xia Houyuan does not bear this responsibility, someone must be responsible. Besides, the back of your Fangcheng fortress The defense is weak, after all, it is the responsibility of Fangcheng's guards."

When Xu Huang heard the last sentence, he said anxiously: "The construction and design of the Fangcheng Fortress is entirely up to Sima Fu to decide, and the general will not interfere in this matter. What does this have to do with someone?"

Jia Xu laughed again and said, "Whether you have anything to do with you or not is not the decision of the truth, let alone your decision. It is the puppet Wei court in Yecheng that has the final say. In the current court of Yecheng, you will not I don't know that it is actually controlled by the Cao family and the Sima family. So this responsibility will not be counted on Sima Fu, let alone Xia Houyuan. It can only be pushed on your head. If you can return to Yecheng safely , you must also be suspected of conspiracy. What kind of consequences, you will not be unexpected."

At this time, Xu Huang's eyes showed fear.Jia Xu took advantage of the heat and said, "But if you submit to my leader, there is some hope that your family members will not be implicated and questioned."

Xu Huang hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?"

"If we conceal the fact that Sima Fu was killed and you were captured, then when Ru and Sima Fu disappear at the same time, the puppet Wei court in Yecheng will have no reason to determine who is right for a while, and at the same time face our large Liang army. If there is an imminent threat, I will put this matter aside for the time being. When I, Daliang, invade Yecheng and wipe out the world, you will be able to reunite with your family."

Xu Huang was shocked again when he heard this, although Jia Xu didn't say it clearly.But anyone with a little brain can also think that since Liang Guo could conceal the fact that Sima Fu was killed and Xu Huang was captured.Of course, it is also possible to release false news that Xu Huang has surrendered to Liang Guo.It could even be rumored that it was Xu Huang's internal and external cooperation that allowed Liang Jun to break through the Fangcheng fortress so easily.

Thinking of this, Xu Huang sighed for a long time and said: "Come on, it seems that from the beginning, he followed the wrong person. This great Wei has not accepted the destiny, and he will not become orthodox after all." He said in front of him: "Chen Xu Huang is willing to return to Daliang and serve His Majesty."

Feng Yu said sternly: "General Xu is dead, please get up quickly." Xu Huang just got up after calling long live three times.

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Hongnong, nearly ten thousand Wei army cavalry are rushing towards the Liang army camp, and Xia Houyuan himself is leading the army.

Two days ago, in the Imperial Palace of the Wei Ting in Yecheng, Cao Pi was entertaining his officials with a feast of singing and dancing.At this time, Xia Houyuan's urgent report of military information was introduced into the palace.

The sound of string and bamboo music in the palace stopped abruptly with Cao Pi's loud shout, and he shouted: "This Liang Jun is too bold. He even regards my Great Wei Kingdom as no one's land. He dares to go deep into my hinterland for thousands of miles alone. Gentlemen, how do you think we should deal with this?"

Hua Xin responded first: "Since they have gone deep alone, they have no logistics supplies and can only live by plundering. Then we will give them a strong wall to clear the fields, and ask the defenders of each city to stick to the city. As long as we delay them for a few days, this army will A lone army will be able to collapse without fighting. We can mobilize our forces and encircle and suppress them a little bit to destroy them."

Cao Pi nodded and said, "That's right, Xia Houyuan thinks so too, and he has already sent messengers to notify the guards in all counties and cities."

Sima Yi tilted his head and pondered for a long time, then suddenly stood up from the table, and said to Cao Pi: "Your Majesty, I don't think this is so simple. This Liang army is not here to scratch the hinterland of my great Wei. They are really here. The target should be Fangcheng."

Sima Yi is worthy of being a master of strategy and art of war, and he quickly judged Liang Jun's true intentions.Cao Pi's face turned pale after hearing Sima Yi's next narration of the reasons for Datong's judgment.He is well aware of the significance of Fangcheng's defense line to him, and also knows that there are [-] Liang Guo troops in Nanyang in front of Fangcheng.

Cao Pi immediately said: "Quickly transmit my edict to mobilize all the troops within [-] miles of Fangcheng to reinforce Fangcheng. Xiahouyuan's Hongnong garrison will also mobilize troops to reinforce Fangcheng."

Sima Yi said again: "Your Majesty, of course it is necessary to reinforce Fangcheng, but I think it may be too late. Please think about it, Your Majesty, since Liang Jun was able to take the risk of raiding Fangcheng's defense line from behind, it means that Feng Yu must have taken Xiacheng quickly. way."

Cao Pi frowned and said, "Then what does the grand master think?"

"We should deploy troops to reinforce Fangcheng, and at the same time let Xia Houyuan make a surprise attack in the direction of Tongguan. In this way, even if Fangcheng is really not in the hands of Liang Jun, as long as Tongguan can be broken, Liang Jun can be forced to return to Chang'an Pass. It is not that after they seize the lower city, they will march into the Central Plains in a large scale. This will buy time for us to re-arm.

Chapter 649 The speed of life and death