Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

There is a high platform built in the west of Yecheng, which is six zhang high. Standing here, you can clearly see the entire Heishan camp. In the past few days, the number of flags in the camp has been gradually decreasing. Every day, a general leads his troops back west. Finally, a smile appeared on the tired face of the prefect Li Cheng.

I told you, the Black Mountain bandits are made up of various factions, how could they possibly work so cohesively together? And just a few days later, some of their troops gave up, and the catapults that had been lined up in front of the city were gradually removed.

Fearing that the enemy army was cheating, Li Cheng sent scouts to secretly follow and investigate. Seeing that the enemy troops had indeed returned to Taihang after leaving Yecheng, he finally felt relieved.

Li Cheng had hardly any rest in the past two days. He stood on the high platform and observed. There were about 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers and horses that left. Excluding the more than 10,000 who died in the previous battle, there were only 30,000 soldiers and horses left in the enemy camp. Previously, an army of 100,000 could not capture Yecheng. How could these few people still turn the tide?

Li Cheng yawned loudly, walked down the platform holding the railing, and asked Xu You, "From what I've seen from afar, are the enemy troops really preparing to retreat?"

Xu You twirled his goatee and said, "Looking at the situation, that's indeed the case. However, there are still several troops outside the city. We still need to be careful and guard against them, especially the wall at the slope."

"It's natural!"

Li Cheng then said to Chunyu Qiong, "Soldiers, you've worked hard these days. I think we should leave some of you to guard the slopes outside the city and the enemy camp, and send the rest back to rest. I think it's time for the remaining men to leave. We have defended this city."

Chunyu Qiong nodded, and the worry that had been hanging in the air for the past few days was finally put to rest. After he went to the top of the city to arrange for the people to stay behind, he returned to the military tent to rest.

That night, Li Cheng was sound asleep when he was suddenly awakened by a loud noise. He jumped out of bed reflexively. Outside, he heard soldiers shouting hurriedly, "Lord, something terrible has happened! The enemy army has begun to attack the city again."

Upon hearing that the enemy army was attacking the city, Li Cheng calmed down. As he put on his clothes, he said, "Why panic? The enemy army only has so few men left. What good can they do? Aren't there night guards on the city walls? Where is General Chunyu?"

The soldier outside the door shouted, "The general has gone to organize people to resist the enemy army. He said it seems that the retreating enemy troops have come back to attack again."

Li Cheng paused as he put on his boots. "How many people are here?"

"It's hard to see at night, but judging by the noise, I'm afraid there's quite a bit. When I came to report, the battle was already underway on that section of the wall at Tupo."

Li Cheng hurriedly put on his armor and came out. As soon as he walked out of the room, he could hear shouts and screams coming from the top of the city. A soldier brought a horse for him. Li Cheng mounted the horse and hurried to the city wall.

There was no moon tonight, and the attacking troops had no torches. It was pitch black below the city. With the faint light of the fire on the top of the city wall, Li Cheng saw shadows of people at the city gate and under the city walls. There was a constant clamor and shouting of killing in his ears, and he could not tell how many people there were. His own soldiers were drawing their bows and shooting blindly at the people below the city, but he didn't know how effective they were.

Torches were lit on the top of the city wall, and one could clearly see Black Mountain bandits attacking from the slope and fighting with the soldiers in front of the city wall. The attack was very fierce.

Li Cheng was shocked. "Are the Black Mountain bandits deliberately retreating to let us down so they can launch a surprise attack at night?"

Xu You had already reached the tower. His expression was unclear in the darkness, but he said, "The retreat doesn't seem fake. Our scouts also saw it and saw that the enemy troops had indeed retreated. How could they have returned in such a short time?"

"Then what about the fierce sounds of fighting everywhere?"

"This must be the enemy army deliberately creating a noise to scare us." Xu You said coldly.

The advantage of a night attack is that when you don't know the number of enemy troops or the battle situation, you can cause psychological panic among the generals and soldiers, thereby weakening the enemy. If you attack a large camp, you can even cause the enemy to blow up the camp directly.

Thinking of this, Xu You immediately said to Li Cheng, "The most important thing right now is to calm the troops. Tell the soldiers defending the city not to panic. The enemy is small in number and cannot attack us. Tell them to do the same as they usually do to resist the enemy. If anyone stirs up trouble and disrupts our morale, they will be beheaded."

"Okay, okay!" Li Cheng calmed down and quickly sent people to pass the message everywhere.

However, what Xu You did not expect was that the Black Mountain bandits' night attack today was not to create panic among the soldiers defending the city, but to make a feint to the east and attack in the west.

The attention of the soldiers in the city was drawn to the west gate, and no one noticed that in the Qi River in the south, dark shadows were holding on to ladders floating on the water and floating downstream.

The Qi River is the natural moat on the south side of Yecheng. The river is wide, and it is difficult for the enemy to attack from here, let alone cross the river safely. The Black Mountain Army has been at Yecheng for so many days and has never thought of attacking the city from the south. Chunyu Qiong also feels that this side is very safe, and the number of soldiers standing guard is far less than that on the other three sides of the city wall.

At this moment, the soldiers on duty heard the fighting sounds coming from the west, and they couldn't help but look back, keeping an eye on the battle situation over there. They didn't notice that the dark shadows were crawling out of the river, and slowly approaching the city wall under the cover of darkness and deafening shouts of killing.

Five ladders were quietly placed on the city wall. Three of them were closest to the city gate to attract the attention of the enemy troops on the city wall. The other two were a little further away and were actually used to climb the city.

Three dark shadows near the city gate climbed up the ladder with axes in their hands and ring-handled swords on their waists. When they were about ten feet away from the top of the city wall, they didn't care about the accuracy and just threw the axes with all their strength towards the top of the city wall.

"Boom-boom-boom-"

After three loud bangs, the axe fell to the ground, but it did not hit anyone. However, it startled several soldiers on duty nearby.

"There's a thief attacking! There's a thief attacking! Over here—"

Several soldiers shouted, and nearby soldiers gathered around with torches in hand. Sure enough, they saw three ladders set up on the city wall at some point, and thieves were trying to climb up.

All of a sudden, those who were trying to draw their bows were drawing their bows, and those who were trying to climb up the city wall were using ladders. In a moment, all the thieves who were trying to sneak up the city wall were knocked down.

The soldiers were just breathing a sigh of relief when they suddenly felt a strong wind blowing from behind. When they turned around, they found that the heads of two soldiers had been blown off. The other soldiers were horrified. They saw that on a section of the city wall not far behind them, several thieves had climbed up at some point. In the light of the fire, they could see that there were still many thieves on the city wall rushing towards the city gate.

After a fierce battle, the South Gate was opened.

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As soon as the moth thieves in the south of the city climbed onto the top of the city wall, someone came to the west to report. The Black Mountain people who had been gathered at the southwest corner of the city wall to create momentum immediately rushed around the wall to the south of the city.

Li Cheng and Xu You naturally had to report it as well. Chunyu Qiong immediately dispatched people to stop them, but it was still a step too late. The city gate had already opened, and a large crowd of people poured in like ants. The soldiers who came to stop them were quickly killed and repelled.

Once the city gate was broken, the morale of the defenders, who were already panicked by the night attack, plummeted. Not only did a large number of bandits rush in through the south gate, but even the western slope was climbed by the Black Mountain Army, and the west gate was also broken.

Seeing that the city gate had been breached, Xu You hurriedly led a team of people to Yuan Shao's mansion.

The Black Mountains rushed into the city from two sides, and screams extended from the west and south into the city. The originally dark Yecheng was suddenly illuminated by torches, and the sleeping people were awakened. When they reacted, they didn't know where to escape, and most of them just huddled at home and trembled.

A small number of soldiers were still trying to resist, but most of them were in a panic and at a loss. The bandits didn't care whether you resisted or fled. After entering the city, they would chop down any officers and soldiers they saw. When Chunyu Qiong saw that the situation was out of control, it was too late to escape. He and Li Cheng were beheaded by Yu Du's men.