The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

It is normal for him to understand that he was defeated by Gan Ning.

After all, after being defeated by Gan Ning's army, Sun Jian almost doubted whether he underestimated the enemy too much. The soldiers and horses under Guo Shi's command did not show such a strong combat power at all before, but the sudden change made some of Sun Jian's subordinates unresponsive .

If he knew that it was Liu Zheng's team, Sun Jian would find a reason for himself, only if it was Liu Zheng's team, he should lose, and he should, so that it fits his positioning of himself.

"Brother Sun Jian, I haven't seen you in a year, don't come here, I heard that you have recently been promoted and become the prefect of Changsha?"

When Sun Jian saw Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng naturally saw Sun Jian at this time.

He was standing on the tower of Shaoyang City, and the opening of the battlements just showed Sun Jian's upper body. In addition, Shaoyang City was not a big city at all, and the tower was not high, at most it was more than ten feet high. No need for such a thing as a ladder.

Just put some stones and wood directly on it, and anyone with agility can directly relay over the city wall.

"Liu Zheng, it's really you. I didn't expect that I didn't kill you in Runan back then, and now I will leave troubles. I heard that the people in Jiaozhou complained about you. The court will not let you go. You traitors, just wait. die."

Regarding Liu Zheng, Sun Jian has nothing good to say. He also knows that it is useless for such a vicious person like Liu Zheng to persuade him to surrender. It's useless to say a few words, but it's better to say a few harsh words, which can show a bit of harshness.

"Hahaha, Sun Wentai, Sun Wentai, Sun Jian, you didn't kill me in Runan back then, do you think you can beat me now, don't say that there are only more than 2 soldiers of yours in Shaoyang City , is to give you another [-] people, do you have the courage to go out of the city and fight with me?"

Today's Liu Zheng is no longer the commander of the yellow scarf Xiaoqu in Runan City with only a few thousand people. He is now a prince, with many soldiers, elite soldiers and horses, and brave generals. He no longer needs to be afraid of Sun Jian.

Even if Sun Jian is famous, Liu Zheng is also not afraid.

"Hmph, if I have [-] troops, would you still dare to attack the city?"

"Hahaha, if I tell you that even if you have 10 horses, I will come to attack you, will you believe it? You probably won't believe it, well, don't delay, are you ready to bear my anger, let Let's end the battle of Runan a year ago."

After Liu Zheng and Sun Jian greeted each other briefly, he stopped talking to Sun Jian, saying that he wanted to defeat Sun Jian as soon as possible. If the delay was longer, and Cai Mao's people did not come, Sun Jian might be suspicious.

Only by defeating Sun Jian as soon as possible can Liu Zheng be able to deal slowly.

"Xu Huang, Gan Ning, each of you will lead 2 soldiers and horses to attack the city from the gate. Guo Shida is in charge. You and your [-] people will use ladders to rush up the tower from the city wall! Listen to me! Command, charge!"

Liu Zheng stopped the conversation with Sun Jian, seized the time, and directly ordered a charge to attack the city.

Although siege will greatly increase the losses of one's own army, in order to destroy Sun Jian as soon as possible and take down Shaoyang City, Liu Zheng can still bear this loss.

Xu Huang and Gan Ning immediately took orders to go, and each led a battalion of their own troops to prepare to attack the city.

Although Guo Shi was a little afraid, he saw that Liu Zheng's 1-strong army was attacking the city gate, and his men were only responsible for harassing the city wall. Assault the city walls.

At this time, the [-] troops assembled at the fastest speed, and then launched their respective attacks on the gate and the city wall of Shaoyang City.

At this time, the horn sounded, the war drums roared, and the Shaoyang city tower, Sun Jian's army immediately became tense. With Liu Zhengjun's attack, nearly ten thousand soldiers immediately got busy, and the city defense equipment that had been prepared for a long time was carried up.

On the city tower, Huang Gai and Cheng Pu, the generals of the two battles, were fearless in the face of danger. Under Sun Jian's dispatch, they immediately organized a manpower to carry out a tight defense.

As long as there are enough defensive equipment, it is not so easy for Liu Zheng's army under the city to attack the tower and break through the city gate.

"kill!"

With a fierce shout of killing, 3 horses rushed into the city of Shaoyang like a tidal wave from outside the city.

First, a burst of arrows flew out, and thousands of arrows flew up the tower densely, kicking off the prelude to this great battle.

"Come on, all soldiers, block the attack of these traitors for me!"

Chapter 253 Breaking the City Gate

Sun Jian fixed his eyes and let out an angry roar. Then he took the lead, picked up an iron tire bow next to him, put an arrow on the bow, squinted his eyes slightly, and the bowstring instantly resembled a full moon, and a sharp arrow was shot dead by Sun Jian. Pinch in hand.

The arrow didn't go out for a long time, but the expression on Sun Jian's face was always tense.

After a long time, the expression on Sun Jian's face suddenly tightened, and then the hand holding the arrow feather relaxed instantly.

The sharp arrow shot out of Sun Jian's hand and shot down the city.

Liu Zheng rode on a horse and witnessed the siege battle in front of him, but his eyes never left Sun Jian on the tower.All Sun Jian's actions were under his attention.

Naturally, Sun Jian set his bow and arrow, and this series of actions was also noticed by Liu Zheng.

After the arrow was shot, the target was none other than Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng watched the arrow shooting at him in the distance, and the expression on his face became unusually gloomy.He pulled the rein in his hand to drive the horse to sit down, and moved left and right to avoid the arrows.

However, the speed of the horse's movement was still a bit slow after all. Seeing that the arrow was about to fall on him, Liu Zheng raised his hand and blocked himself with a knife.

With a jingle, the long knife blocked the arrow that was shooting at him.

The sharp arrow Sun Jian shot was fast and powerful, but Liu Zheng chopped it down with a single blow.

When Sun Jian saw that the arrow he shot was dodged by Liu Zheng and did not cause any damage to Liu Zheng, the expression on his face became a little unnatural.

"Hey, good luck to you!"

Without killing Liu Zheng with one arrow, Sun Jian was obviously a little unwilling to kill Liu Zheng, so the next step would be to compare the strength of the soldiers and horses of the two sides.

In the army, Sun Jian's confidence is not very high.

It was precisely because Sun Jian took the lead in attacking Liu Zheng with cold arrows that Liu Zheng had nothing to worry about, so Liu Zheng immediately looked at the shooters beside him.

Immediately directed at these people, ordered a sentence.

"That Sun Jian is really hateful. Brothers, show that Sun Jian some color. Everyone, let me shoot the arrows at the tower and hit the position above the city gate. You must shoot Sun Jian. Even if you can't kill Sun Jian, you can't give Sun Jian a chance to take the lead!"

Among the 2 people, according to Liu Zheng's military system at the beginning, 4000 of them were shooters.

Although the people under Gan Ning's command were recruited later and their archery skills were not very good, the two thousand archers under Xu Huang's command were trained by Huang Zhong himself. They were the first batch of archers trained by Huang Zhong. It's not as good as some generals who have been in contact with archery all the year round.

But after more than a year of training, these people's archery skills are much better than some ordinary people.

After all, after the reorganization of Liu Zheng's army, those archers don't need to participate in other training, they only need to focus on practicing archery.

After a year, they spent most of their time training their archery skills, and their natural archery skills improved by leaps and bounds.

Now after Liu Zheng gave an order, two or three thousand arrows shot up into the sky, and shot at the tower of Shaoyang City.

The arrows were deliberately raised by these archers for the purpose of shooting towards the city tower. Even if they could not shoot Sun Jian, they could not place the arrows in their own team, so as not to accidentally injure their own people.

And when the more than 2000 arrows were gradually shot towards the tower, they immediately clanged and landed near the tower. Sun Jian naturally had already noticed these shooters.

Back up and dodge the first time, hiding behind the battlements, you can avoid the shooting of these arrows.

But in this way, it means that he can't stand up and observe the enemy's attack under the city.

Moreover, the continuous shooting of the shooters also caused a lot of losses to those who were responsible for defending the city.

Although there are some people who are not afraid of death, they continue to throw arrows, boulders, logs, and even fire oil and other defensive things under the tower, but Liu Zhengjun's aggressive attack cannot be avoided.

The huge sledgehammer hit the city gate.Bang bang bangs came out continuously.

The small city gate of Shaoyang couldn't resist the impact of the sledgehammer at all. After three or five blows, the city gate shook more and more.

"The general is not well, the city gate is shaking more and more, it seems that it can't hold it anymore!"

The defending soldiers below the city hurriedly yelled at the tower.

"Block the city gate, block it with stones, even if the city gate is broken, these thieves will not be able to enter the city!"

Sun Jian immediately yelled at the soldiers below the city, be sure to let the people below the city block the city gate, even if the city gate is not secure, use stones to pile up the city, they must block the city to prevent Liu Zheng's men from entering the city.

With the support of the city wall and Sun Jian's manpower, he can still have a simple confrontation with Liu Zheng. Once the city gate is forced and Liu Zheng's 1 to [-] troops enter the city, Sun Jian only has a mere [-] people, so it is impossible to fight Liu Zheng People and horses confronted each other.

Failure is only a matter of time.

But the reason why he didn't leave all the time was because he hoped that Han Dang would call Cai Mao's reinforcements over. According to the time estimate, it should be almost time for Han Dang to go to Cai Mao for help.

One day was enough for Han Dang to call Cai Mao's reinforcements over, but until now there was no sign of reinforcements, which also made Sun Jian a little anxious.

However, Sun Jian has not given up yet, and is still waiting. As soon as Cai Mao's reinforcements arrive, he will be able to make a comeback. At that time, the arrogant Liu Zheng will retreat in spite of the difficulties. If Liu Zheng does not retreat, he will kill Liu Zheng in Shaoyang City, it is not impossible.

But as time went by, the gate of Shaoyang City collapsed with a loud bang, and the gate of Shaoyang City was broken open by Liu Zheng's army.

Although Sun Jiang had already asked his men to stuff a lot of stones at the city gate in advance, it was still impossible for Liu Zheng's men to pass through the city gate and enter the city in a short period of time, but when the city gate fell, Sun Jian and others The morale of the defenders of the city was greatly reduced at this time.

Fighting is actually the morale of fighting. Whoever has high morale can go forward indomitably.

The troops in Sun Jian's headquarters were originally weaker than Liu Zheng's, and because they suffered a tragic defeat before, their morale was not good. Now that the city gate has also fallen, the guards on the tower began to panic.

"My lord, Han Dang went to Cai Mao for help. Why hasn't he come now? If he doesn't come, our people may not be able to hold on!"

Huang Gai shot the arrow in his hand, the arrow in his quiver was empty, and the props for city defense were almost consumed.Although some losses were caused to Liu Zheng's men and horses, looking around, Liu Zheng's army still has a large number of soldiers and horses surviving.

Chapter 254 Surrounding Three and Staying One

Although Huang Gai was not afraid of Liu Zheng's troops, the current situation was greatly disadvantageous to Sun Jian's army. This kind of battle with no hope in sight made Huang Gai inevitably retreat.

He didn't want to let Sun Jian lead his people to die here in vain.

The rocks below the city were shaking more and more violently. Sun Jian looked at the large crowd under the city, and at the many soldiers killed and injured on the tower. Even Sun Jian, who was firm at first, couldn't help but waver at this time.

Whether this small Shaoyang city can still persist, Han Dang went to ask for help, and whether he could bring the reinforcements as promised.

"My lord, it's too late. This city can't be defended anymore. Let's retreat. Otherwise, we will fight to the death here. We are not the opponents of Liu Zheng and those people."

At this time, Cheng Pu also walked over quickly from the side, approached Sun Jian, and immediately said something to Sun Jian.

When Sun Jian heard this, his expression was displeased, and he immediately retorted.

"Retreat? If we retreat like this, wouldn't it be a waste of such a good opportunity, let's hold on a little longer, and when Cai Mao's reinforcements arrive, we will definitely defeat Liu Zheng and his men."

"But my lord, have you ever thought that if Cai Mao's reinforcements don't arrive in time, we"

Although Cheng Pu didn't want to refute Sun Jian, but at this critical moment, he didn't care about saying that, and immediately said something to Sun Jian.

Sun Jian wanted to defeat Liu Zheng too much, and was frustrated in Liu Zheng's hands one after another, which made Sun Jian obsessed with Liu Zheng. He always wanted to find an opportunity to regain his lost confidence in Liu Zheng. Now, of course, he must seize the opportunity. .

But he forgot that if Cai Mao's reinforcements did not arrive in time, his mere 1 troops would not be able to stop the attack of Liu Zheng's tens of thousands of troops. Once the city was breached, Liu Zheng's troops would enter the city.

In the close combat in the streets and alleys, Liu Zheng's men and horses, Sun Jian's eyes shook suddenly, as if he had realized something, and he understood it immediately.

"You're right, if that bastard Cai Hao doesn't send someone over to support us, then everything is really over for us, retreat, retreat, temporarily retreat, the city is gone, we can fight again, but if we The men and horses are gone, and it's all over."

After Sun Jian figured it out, he waved his hand violently and immediately ordered his troops to retreat.

With an order, the soldiers of Sun Jian's army on the tower immediately started to move, gradually began to withdraw from the tower, and gathered towards the only gate among the several gates where there was no enemy army.

Sun Jian wanted to go to other city gates, but now, time was running out, and the other city gates were more or less guarded by enemy troops. Once Sun Jian chose to break through those gates, it would definitely take some time.

And in this way, Liu Zheng is bound to catch up.

At that time, a bloody battle would still be unavoidable, only the city gate leading to Changsha County, without any enemy troops, although Sun Jian also felt that there might be fraud in it, but the army was in danger, and Sun Jian had no other choice now.

Rather than being flanked by Liu Zheng's army at other city gates, it is better to choose a city gate that is not guarded by any enemy troops, and there may be a chance of survival.

In this way, in order to leave Shaoyang City as soon as possible, before Liu Zheng's army invaded the city, Sun Jian led his troops and quickly gathered outside the city.

Liu Zheng is still working hard to attack the city, but the number of Sun Jian's troops on the tower is gradually decreasing, and after few counterattacks occur, Liu Zheng has already guessed that Sun Jian's troops should be withdrawn from the tower up.

This result was naturally within Liu Zheng's expectation. His [-] soldiers and horses were attacking the city with all their strength, not to mention a small city like Shaoyang, even Hulao Pass, such a powerful pass may not be able to stop it.

Once Liu Zheng's men are about to break through the city gate, Sun Jian in the city will definitely flee if he sees no hope.

And the reserved city gate was deliberately let out by Liu Zheng.

The purpose is to let Sun Jian go this way and flee to Changsha County.

Of the other two city gates, one headed towards Nanjun, which was Cai Mao's direction. Liu Zheng prevented 3000 troops from stationing there. If Sun Jian wanted to break through, he would have to spend a lot of effort.

The other city gate led to Guiyang County, and Liu Zheng sent two thousand soldiers and horses from Guo Shi to garrison it.Here Liu Zheng knows that it is unlikely to be the path chosen by Sun Jian.

Guiyang County is adjacent to Cangwu County. Once Sun Jian fled to Guiyang, he would lose contact with Changsha and be cut off by Liu Zheng in Guiyang County.

Only Changsha County, which Liu Zheng could think of from the beginning, must be the best place for Sun Jian to escape, so he deliberately left a road without any troops stationed for Sun Jian to choose.

It seems that this road does not seem to have any troops stationed there, but it is the most dangerous one.

The official road from Shaoyang to Changsha County is flat and flat, with few hills. Although the road is winding, it is suitable for war horses.

Once Sun Jian's soldiers and horses leave the city, Liu Zheng's two thousand cavalry can display his strength at this time.

Running all the way, as long as there is a little delay, most of Liu Zheng's invasion of Shaoyang City can catch up quickly.

Even if the time delay was longer, Liu Zheng's two thousand cavalry would not be at a disadvantage against Sun Jian's men, and it was still possible to cause heavy damage to Sun Jian's army.

"Are you finally going to escape? I thought you would hold on longer."

Liu Zheng saw that Sun Jian's figure had disappeared from the tower, and he knew that Sun Jian's troops in the city were planning to evacuate.

Immediately, Liu Zheng beckoned and asked the soldiers around him to find Xu Huang.

Xu Huang led a wave of charges, and now he has retreated from the front line and just returned to Liu Zheng's side.

After receiving Liu Zheng's order, he quickly came to Liu Zheng's side and obeyed Liu Zheng's dispatch.