Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

The lethality of the flint rain was not strong at all. What was really fatal was the feces at the end. If the wounds were stained with feces, at least 20,000 to 30,000 of the tens of thousands of bandits under the city wall would be killed. They would not be killed by swords and spears, but would die from wound infection and slowly die in the torture of illness. Whenever Zhang Mo thought of this way of dying, her heart was filled with guilt.

However, the battlefield is not a place for soft-heartedness. A moment of intolerance can lead to serious consequences, even greater killing and death.

Cans of manure were thrown out by catapults, and the battlefield, which was originally full of blood, was immediately covered with the stench of manure. Zhang Yan looked at the retreating soldiers whose bodies were covered with the foul-smelling manure, and his dark face was full of astonishment.

"Damn it, these officers and soldiers are so damn disgusting. They're sending us off with excrement even after we've retreated. What kind of people are they?" A soldier smelled the stench of excrement on his body and cursed as he took off his clothes.

More and more soldiers retreated from the front line, and none of them were clean, as they were all more or less covered in feces.

Zhang Yan stopped by the Fen River and looked at a figure standing on the top of the city wall from afar. It was very blurry, and it seemed to be a woman. The big man who led the troops out of the city just now had been standing beside this woman, listening to her orders. Later, Hua Xiong, who returned to the city, also went up to talk to her, probably to report to her about the battle yesterday.

Zhang Yan probably guessed that this woman should be Lu Bu's newly married wife. He looked even more surprised. A woman went up to the top of the city wall to command the battle, and even insulted people with feces?

If he remembered correctly, this woman was the daughter of the Jinyang Wang family. The fact that a girl from a noble family could do such a dirty and disgusting thing really subverted Zhang Yan's worldview.

"The entire army will retreat five miles and station on the banks of the Fen River for repairs!" Zhang Yan took a last look at the top of the city wall, turned his horse around and gave the order.

Although the first battle was a failure, the casualties among the soldiers were not too great. After adjusting the tactics, they could fight again in two days. There was no way that Zhang Feiyan could lose to a weak woman.

Moreover, the Southern Xiongnu and Xianbei should have also sent troops at this time, right?

Zhang Yan rode his horse towards the camp, wondering whether he should take the woman in after taking the city or use her to negotiate with Lu Bu. Would Lu Bu compromise for a woman?

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Night was about to fall, and the sky in the mountains got dark earlier than on the plains. As the sun set over the mountain, the view seemed to become dim all of a sudden. Xu Huang stood on the fork of a big tree and looked up. To the north of the plain, the Niudaoling Mountains stood across, Liangling Mountain was to the northwest, and there were countless undulating mountain hills to the east.

He turned his gaze to the southeast. The city walls and towers of Shangai County looked very small among these towering mountains. If it were not for the thick gray smoke rising from the city, he would hardly even notice that there was a city among these towering mountains.

In fact, many cities in Bing and Ji states were built in the Taihang Mountains. For example, Zhan County, which is closest to Shangai, was built on Zhan Mountain.

As Xu Huang walked along the way, he saw many plains and basins suitable for building cities and cultivating land, but they were not developed because the roads were blocked.

In order to avoid exposing his whereabouts, Xu Huang did not take the main road, but chose a remote path to avoid some small villages along the way. Therefore, he set out from Jinyang a long time ago, but it took him so many days to reach Shangai County.

He did not bring any baggage with him. Each soldier only wore light double-leg armor, carried a weapon, a few days of dry food and insect repellent, and did not even have a horse. He walked through mountains and hills to get here.

A Mo asked him to take Shangai County with only two thousand soldiers. Even if the number of defenders in Shangai City was the same as his own, he would not be able to capture the city in a head-on attack even if he had the ability to fly. Moreover, Shangai was the first barrier leading to Zhang Yan's base camp. Even if Zhang Yan came out in full force, there would be no shortage of soldiers left behind. After much thought, Xu Huang decided that he could only win by taking the enemy by surprise.

"General, more enemy scouts are coming."

As Xu Huang climbed down the tree, a soldier on lookout in front came running over to report.

"Intercept it!" Xu Huang ordered.

"Do you want to torture me again?"

"Well, let me ask again to make sure it's correct."

"Yes!" The soldier clasped his fists and turned to leave. After a while, Xu Huang heard the sound of horse hooves in front of him, followed by several screams.

Xu Huang emerged from the woods and saw that three bandit scouts had been shot off their horses. Several soldiers in charge of interrogation took the three men to other places for torture and questioning.

After a while, the soldiers came back and reported to Xu Huang what they had asked.

Xu Huang wrote these words on a piece of paper, and after comparing them with the answers of the bandits he had intercepted earlier, he said, "It's almost done. Let's strip them of their clothes."

The soldiers took off the clothes of the three corpses. One of the soldiers found a letter from the enemy and gave it to Xu Huang. Xu Huang opened it and took a look. It was news from Zhang Yan, which simply told him about the battle situation in Jinyang.

That day they had intercepted three waves of bandit scouts, one coming out from Shangai and two coming in from outside, and shot and killed a total of twelve people.

Xu Huang looked at the increasingly dark sky and said to the eleven soldiers around him, "Change your clothes and follow me to the deception city."

Everyone put on the clothes and armor stripped from the bandits, mounted the robbed war horses, and galloped towards Shangai County.

Shangai County only has two city gates in the north and south, and the original city wall was not high. However, after Zhang Yan built a den of thieves on the Hutuo River, because of the importance of the military and geographical location here, people raised the city walls and the defense systems inside and outside the city. If you attack by force, you cannot take it unless you have ten times the number of troops as the enemy.

When Xu Huang and others arrived outside the city gate, it was completely dark. There was a moat about five or six feet wide in front of the south gate. Xu Huang showed the unique token of the Black Mountain Scout on the other side of the river. The token was sent by the scout in a small boat to take it and check it. Only after confirming that it was correct did he lower the drawbridge.

When everyone crossed the bridge and arrived at the city gate, the soldiers guarding the city did not open the gate to let them in immediately, but exchanged secret signals first.

The superior asked, "My wife gave birth to a baby!"

Xu Huang replied, "Does he look like me or her?"

The superior asked again, "It's dark at night and you can't tell the difference!"

Xu Huang replied, "Any female can kiss me!"

"Open the door!"

The secret signal was correct. With a command from above, the heavy gate of Shangai County was slowly opened. Xu Huang held the big axe on the side of his horse's belly in his right hand and rode in first.

The first to be hacked to death were the soldiers who opened the gate. The sudden change made the soldiers guarding the city gate unable to react for a while. When they came to their senses, Xu Huang had already climbed up the city wall with a few people. The bandits on the city wall rushed over from both sides, trying to kill Xu Huang and his men.

Xu Huang swung his axe vigorously, killing several bandits beside him. He said to a soldier beside him, "Zhu Zi, go cut the ropes of the suspension bridge."

The soldier named Zhuzi rushed to a capstan next to the city wall and cut the ropes on both sides of the suspension bridge with two swords. Xu Huang killed several bandits on the left. Seeing a man on the right trying to light a beacon tower, he picked up a ring-handled knife on his foot and stabbed the soldier in the back. The man screamed and fell into the beacon tower.

There were not many bandits on the city wall, and they were quickly killed by Xu Huang and his men. However, the changes at the south gate were quickly noticed by the garrison in the city. Before Xu Huang's troops arrived, General Shang Ai had already led his troops to attack.

Whether or not Shangai could be captured depended on whether Xu Huang could defend the city gate before his troops arrived.