C39

Noon, outside the west gate of Liucheng.

Two three meter wide wooden bridges appeared on top of the moat. The wooden bridges had broken down and were still fresh. The ground at both ends of the bridge was littered with arrows, black and brown with mottled blood. There were many corpses floating in the moat, turning white and green under the freezing water.

The sudden sound of a drum coming from outside the city alarmed Nan Lou, who was resting behind the city wall. He rolled over and got up, then went to the gate of the city to look outside. In the army camp outside the city, a few armored generals were rushing to the camp. The ten stone-throwing cart s and a large group of archers who had been protecting the bridge appeared again and quickly lined up.

"Hurry and report to the King that the enemy is about to invade the city!"

Inside the main tent of the White Horse Camp, Gongsun Xu was sitting upright on the main seat and Kurna was sitting on the first seat on his left, left and right of Zhao Yun, Yan Rou, Yang Hong, Yang Hong and some others.

Gongsun Xu did not give the order to attack the city, but instead talked about something that he did not want to do: "The White Horse Camp has just been established, and has not even completed the drills and brought them to the battlefield, it seems to be a little too hasty, the Marquis did not agree to let the White Horse Camp go out to battle at that time, but this general insisted on doing so, do you know why?"

Other than Uncle and Nephew Kurna, who looked at each other because they did not know what was going on, the rest of them all knew the reason why.

Gongsun Xu immediately called out his name, "Wang Wei, speak!"

"Here!" Wang Wei cupped his hands and agreed, and said with a bitter face: "Reporting to General, it's because many people do not trust us!"

Gongsun Xu immediately asked: "Why not?"

"This …" Wang Wei hesitated, even with his straightforward personality, he knew that he could not easily answer this question.

"Speak!"

"Here!" Wang Wei clenched his teeth and answered: "The White Horse Camp is formed by the Changli Army and they have followed them to attack the Ji County before."

The Ji County was like an iron bucket that was being operated by Gongsun Zan, even though the Changli Army had been turned into Gongsun Xu's army, Wei Dun, Wang Wei and the rest could still feel the rejection. There were people pointing at them from time to time, especially Gongsun Zan's direct descendents. They did not have a good face for Gongsun Zan, who knew how many times they had heard of the term 'traitor' behind his back.

"That's right!" That's right! " Gongsun Xu nodded his head, and said loudly: "If it were not for the fact that White Horse Camp is controlled by this general, these tens of thousands of people would have already become slaves, working their way through the mountain and farming all day, finally tiring themselves to death in the wilderness!"

Hearing that, everyone turned silent, Gongsun Zan had never relented to rebellion, if not for Gongsun Xu taking over the White Horse Camp, this would have definitely happened.

"Before this expedition, this general heard some rumors. Some people felt that the White Horse Camp did not have a battle formation, and was not trustworthy at all, or else they would have run away! This general did not care about these rumors and never tried to explain himself. If you want to retort against these rumors, you can only prove yourself on the battlefield! "

Wang Wei suddenly stood up, and cupped his fists: "General, please allow this lowly general to be the vanguard, this lowly general is willing to place down the military order, if I cannot take over the city, I am willing to follow the laws of the army!"

"This lowly general is also willing to issue a military order!" Yan Rou and Yang Hong followed closely behind.

Zhao Yun was one step slower, but he quickly stood up as well. Seeing that everyone had stood up, Ku Le also stood up and shouted for battle.

Kurna stroked his beard without saying a word, his eyes somewhat flickering.

Gongsun Xu's gaze swept across them one by one, and finally stopped on Yang Hong's body as he shouted: "Yang Hong!"

"This lowly general is here!" Yang Hong answered loudly, the expression in his eyes stirred up.

"You will lead your men to attack the city in turns. You do not seek to win the battle, but you do want to display your own bravery. Do not let our fellow brothers watch a joke!"

"Here!" Please rest assured General, this lowly general will be the first to rush up! "

"Go and prepare!" Gongsun Xu took out an arrow from the bamboo tube on the table and handed it over. Yang Hong took it over and bowed.

Gongsun Xu picked up another arrow and shouted: "Wang Wei, Ku Le!"

"This lowly general is here!"

"The two of you, lead my archers to cover the city, Ku Le's side will temporarily be led by Wang Wei!"

"Here!" Wang Wei took the order and walked out of the tent gloomily.

"Zhao Yun!"

"This lowly general is here!"

"Pass the order, raise the flag, prepare to attack!"

"Here!"

"I'm not here to spectate. The young duke can't be so biased!" Zhao Yun said with a smile after he left the room.

"Your Majesty, don't be in such a hurry!" Gongsun Xu shook his head and said: "We saw the situation when we were building the bridge. The enemies in the city have accurate archery and their arrows are very concentrated. The King did not have many subordinates, so if the losses were too great, I would feel bad! When the battle is clear, the King will lead his troops to attack. "

If there were no Xianbei People eyeing them covetously, Gongsun Xu would not hesitate to have Kurna take the lead to attack the city, even if all of them died. It was just that currently, Sikong Zhaixing was not certain, that the Youzhou needed a relatively strong, obedient fighter to block his path. Therefore, Kurna's strength could not be overly weakened.

Kurna laughed in embarrassment, but his heart calmed down. His subordinates had never attacked the city, if he went up rashly, he would definitely suffer great casualties.

"Your Majesty is loyal to my father, how can I let Your Majesty suffer a loss? Great King, please follow me and watch the battle! " Gongsun Xu tidied up his helmet and walked out of the tent.

"We obey the young duke's orders!" Kurna quickly followed.

On the battle drum, a flag with the word 'Gongsun' written on the red ground slowly rose up. Gongsun Xu rode his horse and followed the flag out of the camp, slowly advancing towards the city walls.

There were three groups of people in front of the banner, and at the very front were the auxiliary force troops carrying the stone-throwing cart and the ladders. Right now, they were stopping two hundred steps away from the city wall, and they were using their torches to roast the strings of the stone-throwing cart.

The one in the middle was Yang Hong's thousand man army, all of them were unarmored, all of them held swords and shields, and followed the 'Yang' sign.

At the end, there was a phalanx of archers. Wang Wei and Ku Le split the two thousand archers into ten teams, preparing to use their arrows to cover themselves when attacking the city.

Gongsun Xu looked at the city walls, only to see that there were already many broken down orders, and a few armored guards were looking out the city gates, presumably there were crashes among them.

Gongsun Xu's banner stopped three kilometers away from the city wall. At this time, a person on a horse ran over and shouted from afar, "Reporting to the general, the stone-throwing cart are ready!"

"Attack!" Gongsun Xu suppressed the excitement in his heart, and turned to instruct Gongsun Jia who was holding the flag.

The flag in Gongsun Jia's hand slanted forward and shouted, "General has ordered it, attack!"

"Attack!"

"Attack!"

"Attack!"

The surrounding soldiers heavily knocked their weapons on the ground and shouted three times.

"Fire!" Wei Dun gave the order, and the stone-throwing cart attacked first.

A dull and obscure buzzing sound could be heard as one after another millstone-sized rocks whizzed towards the top of the city. With the early morning projection experience, the stone-throwing cart's aim was much larger. Other than seven or eight stones falling into the moat, the other dozens of big stones had all flown onto the city walls.

The garrison soldiers of the city had seen the power of the stone-throwing cart, and as they saw the situation, they scattered and dodged. Most of the stones missed, and with a 'pu tong' sound, they smashed a hole in the hard ground. A few unlucky fellows who could not dodge in time were hit by the rocks, turning into a pile of meat paste without even making a sound. The stone-throwing cart s needed more than 10 men to control each time, but they only killed a few enemies at a time. This proved that their ability to kill enemies was not very good, but this thing mainly gave the enemies a psychological shock.

"Charge!" With Yang Hong's order, the four of them formed groups, took the long ladder with iron hooks at the front from the auxiliary force s, and rushed towards the wall while shouting.

"Follow and shoot!" Wang Wei waved the flag in his hand, and the two hundred archers quickly followed Yang Hong and rushed forward, starting to launch their arrows when they were a hundred steps away from the city walls.

"Release the arrows!" Nan Lou who was at the top of the city wall also gave the order.

At this moment, more than three thousand Wu Huan men were guarding the city wall. They were all carefully chosen archers. Upon hearing the commotion, they all drew their bows and shot arrows at the group of people rushing towards them.

Suddenly, arrows rained down from the sky. Huge rocks whistled past and miserable cries sounded one after another.

Yang Hong used the shield in his left hand and the ring head knife in his right, while rushing forward as he shot arrows at the same time. From time to time, people around him fell because of the arrows, but he didn't even bother to look at them. Yang Hong took the lead and charged across the wooden bridge. More than a dozen of his personal guards carried a ladder and followed closely, quickly crossing the wooden bridge and rushing towards the city walls.

Pata! Yang Hong used his left hand to hold onto the shield and the ring head knife bit into his mouth. With a loud shout, he walked up the ladder.

"Follow quickly!"

Staircase after ladder was placed on the wall, the soldiers quickly climbed up with their arrows aimed at their heads. Almost every breath of time, people would be hit by the arrows and fall to the ground screaming before being stepped on by countless of big feet.

"Bang!" When Yang Hong and the others were halfway up, Nan Lou suddenly gave an order.

Countless heavy logs and rocks fell from the sky. The people on the ladders had nowhere to run to, so they were instantly killed and wounded close to a hundred people, along with several other ladders that were smashed to smithereens.

Yang Hong stomped his feet hard and blocked with his shield at an angle. A five feet long round piece of wood smashed onto his shield with a loud bang and slid down the edge of the ladder. He had not even let out a breath of relief when he heard a cracking sound. The pole under his feet suddenly broke, the ladder suddenly shook, and his body suddenly plummeted.

"General!" The personal guards were shocked.

Yang Hong suddenly roared out, he exerted strength through his legs and broke three of the horizontal rods in a row, finally stabilizing his body. He grabbed the edge of the ladder and slid to the ground, changing the ladder to climb up again.

'The reason why we're attacking the city right now is actually to waste energy! ' Gongsun Xu who was watching from afar could not help but understand the situation.