The gloomy darkness of the night was as miserable as at a funeral, and the whole natural world seemed to be in mourning clothes. The moon and stars were completely covered by dark clouds and drizzle, as if they had completely disappeared.
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Outside Yangzhai City, Zhang Liao led his troops and waited there quietly.
The drizzle was falling on Zhang Liao's armor, and the water dripped down along the armor. His face had already been wet by the rain, and the raindrops hung on the tip of his straight nose, and they were splashing on the horse under his seat.
With a stern face, deep eyes, and a strong body, in just a few years, he has become a unique general. Ever since Gao Fei tricked him into surrendering, he had been very depressed for a period of time because of Lu Bu's death.
, which made his mood fall to the lowest point.
Gao Fei once asked Zhang Liao to serve as an official in Jicheng and command the city's guards many times, but Zhang Liao refused each time. For him, since he could not die tragically, he could only live a humble life. Although Gao Fei was very
Although he thought highly of him, he knew that as a subordinated general, he could not be compared with his old subordinates who had followed Gao Fei for a long time.
After seeing Wen Chou, Gan Ning, Han Meng and others being ostracized, Zhang Liao took the initiative to guard Shuofang, preferring to live freely in the border county rather than return to Jicheng.
However, Gao Fei did not give up on the self-destructive Zhang Liao. He promoted him vigorously, made him one of the Eighteen Hussars, and gave him a title. He would send people to bring him Youzhou specialties, Jizhou specialties, and wine every now and then.
, sending horses, sending beauties, and often writing to him to express his greetings, all of which deeply touched the softest part of his heart.
The dead are gone.
Zhang Liao also gradually came out of his sorrow. He buried Lu Bu in his heart, regained his life, married a wife and had children. He regained his energy, communicated with the Xiongnu tribes again, recruited 3,000 Xiongnu warriors, and once again formed a new army.
The wolf cavalry in Bingzhou were trained and became a capital he contributed to Gao Fei. They stationed in Shuofang to protect the country and the people, making the western border area of Yan State extremely stable.
When he received the call from Gao Fei from the Central Plains, he embarked on the journey without hesitation, leaving the wolf cavalry to guard Shuofang, and rushed to the Central Plains alone, striving to achieve good results in this melee.
, in order to repay Gao Fei's love for him.
At this moment, the past events came to mind one after another, and Zhang Liao felt very heavy. Looking at the brightly lit Yangzhai City not far away, he made up his mind to capture the city in one battle.
After waiting for a while, Zhang Liao's body was already soaked by the rain. He turned around and asked, "What time is it?"
"It's still a quarter of an hour until midnight!"
"Send the order, all soldiers are ready and ready to fight at any time!"
"promise!"
After waiting for a while, at almost midnight, the gate of Yangzhai City opened.
"General!" a soldier shouted hurriedly to Zhang Liao, "the city gate is open!"
Through the drizzle, Zhang Liao saw firelight appearing in the doorway. Chen Lan was standing by the city gate and waving to this side. He hurriedly shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Follow me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Liao rode away. At the same time, he saw that the soldiers standing on the city wall were all subdued by soldiers wearing the same clothes. They all waved torches as they left, three long and two short, which was a signal.
After Zhang Liao looked at it, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he thought in his heart: "It seems that the enemy really knows how to act..."
Soon, Zhang Liao rushed to the city gate with 500 cavalry. Chen Lan immediately came up to meet him. Seeing that Zhang Liao only brought about 5,000 horse infantry, he asked suspiciously: "General, why are there only these? The others are all here."
Won’t you come?”
Zhang Liao laughed and said: "You and I should cooperate inside and outside, and it's late at night. Everyone else has already fallen asleep. If we start at midnight, these horse and infantry troops are enough!"
Chen Lan didn't have time to think too much. Anyway, Zhang Liao came in person. As long as he killed Zhang Liao, everyone else would be a mob. He hurriedly said: "General Zhang, I have taken care of everything. My old troops are willing to listen to me.
As long as General Zhang follows me into the city, we can quickly capture the city."
"Very good." Zhang Liao nodded with satisfaction and said to Chen Lan, "You lead the way."
Chen Lan also looked happy, nodded, turned around and walked forward, shouting: "Get out of my way, General Zhang is coming, let's..."
"Whoa!"
Zhang Liao suddenly protruded, and the big knife he held in his hand suddenly struck Chen Lan's head. The cold blade fell directly from the back of Chen Lan's neck. A human head immediately separated from the body and flew into the air, blood spurting out.
"Fight in!" After Zhang Liao chopped off Chen Lan's head with a sword, he immediately shouted out and galloped on his horse. The horse infantry behind him also quickly attacked the soldiers at the city gate.
As soon as Chen Lan's head fell off, the other soldiers were stunned. Before they could react, they were chopped down to the ground by the Yan army soldiers who rushed in quickly.
Zhang Liao rode his horse and rushed to the front. As soon as he showed his head, he saw the faintly exposed heads of the Wei army on the Wengcheng. He sneered and stopped advancing. Instead, he ordered his soldiers to seize the city wall.
Zang Hong, Zhang Xun, Liu Xun, Qiao Rui, Yan Xiang and others were all guarding Wengcheng. They were waiting for Zhang Liao to lead his army into Wengcheng and then shot him inside. Who knew that Zhang Liao suddenly killed Chen Lan and
They divided their forces and attacked the city wall. Even if they didn't move forward, everyone would stare in anger.
"Fire the arrow!" Qiao Rui saw his friend Chen Lan was killed, immediately drew his sword and shouted loudly.
At the command, the archers ambushing on the walls of Wengcheng fired arrows one after another.
It was foggy and rainy, arrows were raining down, and powerful arrow arrays fell from the sky.
The soldiers of the Yan army were well prepared, and the cavalry did not appear from the outside. After the infantry rushed in from the city gate, they quickly climbed up the city wall and used wooden shields to form a shield position to block the powerful arrow array.
At the same time, Zhang Liao's soldiers rushed to the city wall and quickly captured the city wall, facing the Wei army on the Wengcheng.
At this time, a fire suddenly broke out in the city, with flames reaching into the sky, thick smoke billowing, and deafening shouts of killing coming from the city.
"General, the Yan army has entered the city, and its soldiers are too numerous to count..." A soldier ran over covered in blood and shouted loudly.
"What's going on? How could the Yan army enter the city?" Zang Hong shouted suspiciously.
Yan Xiang hurriedly shouted: "Oh no, I've fallen into a trap. This is Zhang Liao's treacherous plan!"
Zang Hong hurriedly said: "Liu Xun, Qiao Rui, quickly lead the troops back to the city to reinforce the city. Zhang Xun will stay here. Yan Changshi and I will lead the troops to the granary and the arsenal respectively. We must not lose these two places."
"promise!"
After giving the order, everyone hurriedly separated. The seven thousand soldiers were divided into three groups. Two thousand people guarded the barbican city. Two thousand people followed Liu Xun and Qiao Rui to the place where the fire broke out. Zang Hong and Yan Xiang led five hundred soldiers respectively.
arsenals and granaries.
At this moment, there was a fire near the south gate of Yangzhai City, and the people beside the city wall were also very panicked. They fled from the south gate and ran towards the safety zone in the city.
Li Yulin and Bai Yu led five thousand soldiers and poured into the city from the opened south gate. As soon as they entered the city, the soldiers began to disperse and set fire everywhere.
Not long after, Liu Xun and Qiao Rui led troops to intercept, and they fought in a melee with the soldiers led by Li Yulin and Bai Yu. Soldiers from both sides filled the entire street. Once the melee started, it immediately entered a fierce battle.
During this stage, limbs flew around and blood spurted out, causing the people in the city near the streets to hide in their homes and dare not come out.
Outside the north gate, after the soldiers led by Zhang Liao seized the city wall, they fell into a confrontation with Zhang Xun. Because the Wei army kept firing arrows, the soldiers could not get close, and the cavalry could not attack the urn city.
Finally, Zhang Liao went down the city gate and took a wooden shield from the infantry. If they did not attack Wengcheng as soon as possible, Li Yulin and Bai Yu would be in danger. Thinking of this, Zhang Liao gathered 500 infantry and charged.
Someone shouted loudly from behind: "Push the ram over here, follow me, cover the ram, and attack in!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a rush cart that had been prepared was pushed over. The sharpened wood was hung on the rush cart. Zhang Liao took the lead and rushed out with a hundred soldiers, leaving four hundred behind.
A man driving a wooden shield protects the charging car.
"Kill!"
With a loud shout, Zhang Liao rushed over with his wooden shield, followed by a hundred soldiers. They used their shields to protect their bodies, and then blocked the arrows fired by the enemy, and soon rushed to the gate of Wengcheng.
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Zhang Xun stood on the wall of Wengcheng and saw Zhang Liao rushing here with his people. He was shocked. Just because he wanted to ambush Zhang Liao here, he moved all the rolling stones and wood used to defend the city away from here.
Later, I saw that the Yan army was using wooden shields to protect themselves, and their bows and arrows had lost their power. They didn't know what to do.
"Quick! Bring those rocks up from below and smash them down hard!" Zhang Xun was the only way he could think of, so he yelled out.
As soon as the soldiers of the Wei army ran downstairs, the soldiers of the Yan army pushed the ram to the city gate. The wooden shields were set up to block the people driving the ram, and arrows could only be shot from the edge or shot.
A few Yan army soldiers were injured here and there.
"boom!"
The ramming car had already begun to attack the city gate, and the sharp wooden stakes began to collide continuously.
On the city tower, Zhang Xun saw this and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry and guard the city gate, it must not be broken through!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Xun went down to the city gate himself, led the people to the door and ran in.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom..."
The sound of continuous collisions caused the entire city gate to become loose, and the stone bricks on both sides of the door frame began to fall off.
"Increase the intensity of the collision!" Zhang Liao saw this and shouted hurriedly.
"boom!"
There was a loud noise, and a big hole was instantly knocked out of the city gate, and a door also collapsed directly.
"ah……"
As soon as Zhang Xun led his troops and rushed in, he saw a door suddenly smashed down. He turned around and ran away, but he was still a step too late. A heavy door hit Zhang Xun's leg directly. He screamed in pain.
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At this time, Zhang Liao rushed in with his men and blew a secret whistle for the cavalry. When he saw Zhang Xun, he slashed at him with a sword, beheading Zhang Xun directly, and his head rolled to the side.
"Kill! Fight into the city!" Zhang Liao shouted loudly, and the cavalry and infantry behind him kept pouring into the city. When they saw the resisting Wei soldiers, they killed them, and the ground was stained with blood for a while.