Taking the lead, veteran Huang Zhong held a broadsword and charged in front of the cavalry formation.
After receiving Lu Meng's order, Huang Zhong naturally knew the importance of the city gate.
If the defenders of Qiao County successfully closed the city gate, Lü Meng's troops would suffer casualties if they wanted to capture Qiao County, which had 30,000 defenders.
Moreover, if they fall into a tug-of-war, the blitz plan set by Lu Meng will not be implemented smoothly, which will have a great impact on the entire battle situation.
As Lu Meng's good partner, Huang Zhong would naturally not watch this happen.
Although the war horses galloped very fast, the Qiao County defenders reacted faster.
After discovering the Chu army's attack, the Qiao County defenders immediately closed the city gates.
However, because it is early morning now, it is the time when farmers from nearby villages in Qiao County go to the city to buy supplies or sell fruits.
There are naturally a lot of people in front of the city gate.
The common people are not those soldiers of the Han army, and naturally they do not have the mental quality of the soldiers of the Han army.
When they found out that the Chu army was attacking, there were still countless cavalry, and the people who gathered in front of the city gate and waited in line to enter the city immediately went crazy.
The result of this madness was that the city gates of Qiao County could not be closed together at all. It was not even necessary for the Chu army to attack the city gates of Qiao County. The city gates were already wide open under the impact of the crazy people.
Although with the arrival of He Yi, the panicked Han army guards took effective measures and shot all the people who attacked the city gate, so that the city gate could finally be closed.
But what can be done.
"Nanyang Huang Hansheng is here, anyone who stands in my way will die!"
How fast is the Chu army's cavalry that has already charged?
Huang Zhong was very excited when he saw the chaos in front of the gate of Qiao County.
If he can't seize such an opportunity, Huang Zhong can just go to sleep.
The sword in his hand was swung, and Huang Zhong flew and hit all the civilians and soldiers of the Han army who were standing in front of him.
After all, it was a time of war. In order to successfully seize the city gate, naturally we could not do the benevolent thing of a woman just to appease the people.
Otherwise, you may not be able to rescue a few people, and the final losses will be huge even before the city gate is captured.
What's more, these people were not from Chu State, so Huang Zhong had no scruples when it came to killing them.
It's only my fault that you are unlucky enough to be born in such troubled times.
Strange monsters, please remember them, they appeared here when a certain family attacked Qiao County.
"Stop! Stop him! Don't let him rush in!"
"Quick! Archer, shoot! Shoot him to death!"
Seeing that the general of the Chu army, Huang Zhong, was approaching the city gate, the defenders of Qiao County were immediately thrown into chaos.
Shoot an arrow?
Hum hum, are you playing archery in front of me, Huang Zhong?
The shouts of the city gate defenders came. It is not clear whether the Han army was alerted, but Huang Zhong, who was charging, was alerted by it.
The broadsword was placed on the horse's side, and Huang Zhong turned around and took out the longbow.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
A series of rapid fire shots were fired, and the Han troops in Qiao County who were closing the city gate fell in response.
"Hahaha! Men of Chu State, charge!"
Delayed by Huang Zhong's delay, the Chu army's cavalry quickly arrived.
"Damn it! Send an order and tell all the garrison units to form their formations and not let them rush into the inner city!"
The fall of the city gate was a foregone conclusion, and Qiao County guard He Yi could only choose to let the Han army form an array inside the city.
Fortunately, the invading Chu army this time was only cavalry. They could not run freely in the city. Moreover, their number was only over 10,000, and they were still within He Yi's control.
Come to think of it, even in a war of attrition, this Chu cavalry can be driven back.
It was precisely because the Chu army was not large in number that He Yi made a wrong judgment, lost the best and only opportunity, and failed to warn all parts of Yuzhou of the Chu army's invasion.
But how did He Yi know that this Chu cavalry was just a vanguard.
Seeing the Han troops in the city setting up their formation under the command of He Yi, Huang Zhong sneered repeatedly.
It is true that our cavalry is not good at street fighting, but who told you that our Chu cavalry must attack the city?
Just kidding, Lu Meng's order was to let Huang Zhong seize control of Qiao County's city gate.
Now that the city gate is firmly controlled by Huang Zhong, why bother to add extraneous branches and do unnecessary hard work?
Looking at the reaction of the Han army, Huang Zhong was even more overjoyed.
You know, this time Chu State's battle against Guan Yu in Jingzhou only had a total of 20,000 cavalry.
That's really one person dead and one person missing.
Now that the Han army was in a defensive posture, it was playing into Huang Zhong's hands.
If you don't take the initiative to attack, then I will naturally be happy to confront you.
"General, why didn't the Chu army make the next move after they occupied the city gate?"
The abnormality of the Chu army naturally attracted the attention of the Han army.
A junior colonel next to He Yi looked at the Chu army in front of him, and suddenly felt that it seemed silly to continue to confront him like this.
"It's okay, don't panic.
Thinking about it, it must have been the Chu army that discovered that our Qiao County army was well-prepared and well-defended, but it was reluctant to give up the occupied city gate and withdrew its troops for fear of being pursued by our army.
That's why the Chu army behaved like this.
Hehe, you dare to attack a certain city guarded by a certain family? This time, I will show you what a real general is!"
Wrong judgment led He Yi to make the wrong decision.
In his opinion, the Chu army clearly wanted to launch a sneak attack on Qiao County.
Although the city gate was occupied by them, there were still 30,000 soldiers in Qiao County, and the Chu cavalry would definitely not be able to use them well in street fighting.
This can be considered as the sneak attack has failed.
As for him not retreating? That's just because of the greed in his heart.
Huh, it's just a cavalry that rushes forward without any equipment or logistics. How can you consume more energy than us? When you can't hold on anymore and want to retreat, our Han army will launch a massive counterattack.
As for why He Yi thought this was just a small group of Chu troops advancing rashly?
Just because Guan Yu has now raised 300,000 troops to attack Yangzhou. It is simply unrealistic for the Chu army to not resist Guan Yu's army and instead come to Yuzhou.
But how did He Yi know that the Chinese army commanded by Lu Meng was quickly rushing towards Qiao County.
Just when Lu Meng was attacking Qiao County, Liu Bei, who was far away in Chang'an, finally learned of Guan Yu's actions.
"Nonsense! How can my second brother be so careless! I just asked him to get into an attacking stance, but he actually led the troops from Jingzhou to attack Yangzhou!?"
After learning about Guan Yu's things, Liu Bei almost fainted from anger.
I just want you to put on a fighting stance and attract public opinion!
How can you be so down-to-earth? Just go directly to Chu Jun to open the film?
This is not the time to launch a general attack!
You know, at this moment Liu Bei has not yet fully organized his domestic troops.
Liu Bei's original plan was also to launch a general attack on Chu from multiple fronts at the beginning of spring.
However, the willful Guan Yu did not follow his own script...