Xu Zhu fought with Hua Xiong for seven or eight rounds without any distinction, but Hua Xiong was obviously at a disadvantage. The halberd and axe weighing at least dozens of kilograms was raised up like a dancer. Under the fierce attack of one axe after another, Hua Xiong had no choice but to resist. However, Xu Zhu did not realize that the personal soldiers and cavalry around him were killed by the Liang army's heavy cavalry one after another, and fewer and fewer.

With a shout, Xu Zhu took another look at Hua Xiong's flaw and swung an axe. He had already planned that if Hua Xiong wanted to block this flaw, he would reveal a bigger flaw, and he could take Hua Xiong's life with one blow. Hua Xiong was indeed shocked and crossed the gun bar to block Xu Zhu's halberd and axe. Xu Zhu was overjoyed and quickly took back the axe that was cut off and was about to stab Hua Xiong to death with the tip of the spear on the halberd axe.

But at this time, Xu Zhu's eyes appeared, and two Liang army heavy cavalry on the left and right were sweeping towards him with wolf-toothed sticks at the same time. He hurriedly gave up the opportunity to kill Hua Xiong, lying on his back with an iron bridge, and the two wolf-toothed sticks were swept away. When Xu Zhu stood up, Hua Xiong came to him with a crowd of more Liang army heavy cavalry. At this time, he realized that there were only a few tiger and leopard cavalry around him. He had to run away and flee. Four or five Liang army cavalry intercepted him one after another. He either fell off his horse with a halberd or axe, or he swept the wolf-toothed stick away, allowing him to succeed.

Seeing that he could not successfully capture Xu Zhu, Hua Xiong had to sigh, and then sighed, "This person is really a powerful general of Cao Wei!" He chased him out on a long bow chariot, but was stopped by Hua Xiong: "No need to chase him, he is riding a thousand-mile horse, which is much faster than the average Wei horse, and you can't catch up with him."

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It was still dark at night more than two hours ago. Under the city of Wancheng, Cao's army, holding torches, were shaking in several huge siege formations, and they rushed towards the ruined Wancheng. The Wei infantry in the military formation carried ladders and springboards. Behind the formation were several lifting lights for the Wei army to reconnaise the situation in the city. Before the Wei army attacked, their catapults and crossbows bombarded Wancheng for nearly an hour. This time, Cao Cao was really playing.

"Report! Report to the emperor, our soldiers came to report that Huyang had fallen and the guard Gao Lan died in battle!" A commander-level soldier hurried to Cao Cao to report.

Cao Cao was shocked, but in a flash, he found something wrong and asked, "Xu Zhucai has been away for less than two hours. No matter how fast he left, he has just arrived in Huyang City at most. How can his commanders return the news so quickly?"

The captain of the commander of the commander who came to report said, "Your Majesty, the soldiers who came were not General Xu Zhu's commander, but the defeated soldiers from Huyang City. After they escaped from the city, they ran here to report to our army. I asked my subordinates to carefully check them and check them. They were indeed soldiers from our army's Gaolan Division."

Cao Cao stroked his palm and said, crying and laughing: "I will come whatever I am afraid of. I really hit it. This is a prophecy!"

At this time, Xu Huang stepped forward and asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, do we still need to continue attacking Wancheng?" Cao Cao's face darkened and said: "Of course, I have to pass on my military orders to break through Wancheng, and then massacre the city for three days to vent my hatred!"

Xu Huang thought to himself that Cao Cao must have been confused. There should be no civilians in Wancheng now, only the Liang army defenders, so how could there be a saying that there is a massacre?

At this time, the soldiers around Cao Cao burst into a low voice. It turned out that several "release lamps" also rose in Wancheng. However, the hot air balloon airship of Liang army was much larger than that of Wei army, and the materials were different. The latter was made of paper, while the former was made of animal leather.

The Wei army's arrows shot towards the city like a sudden rain, but they could not reach Liang's airship. Even if there were occasional arrows, the arrow was at the end of its strength and could not penetrate the airship airbags made of leather.

The battlements at the top of the city had been destroyed and left, but at this time there were many more oars and shields as piercing walls. These oars and shields were made of thick wooden boards, and there were brackets behind them to the ground. Obviously, there must be a large number of Liang soldiers crouching behind these oars and shields. Under the dense rain of Wei army arrows, these simple oars and shields were shot like hedgehogs in a moment.

"Hurry! Use the crossbows to knock out these shields!" Zhang He, who was commanding the Wei army's attack, hurriedly ordered. The Wei army's crossbows, which had stopped shooting because he was afraid of accidentally hurting his own people, started again. However, these crossbows were not as accurate as the Liang army's crossbows. There were a loud bang, and a stone bullet hit a cloud ladder on the city wall. There were several Wei soldiers climbing on the ladder. The cloud ladder was destroyed in response, and several Wei soldiers screamed and fell from the air that was several high. These crossbows bombarded for a quarter of an hour. Zhang He saw that they had destroyed more ladders than the city's top shields, so he had to order to stop the bombardment.

At this time, many Wei soldiers had already climbed the city. Not surprisingly, Liang's spears and guns were stabbed out from the gaps between the oar shields and the oar shields or above the oar shields. The Wei army, which had dense spears and guns, could not hide at all. Almost when they entered the city, they would be stabbed into honeycombs and then fell from the city.

However, Cao Cao didn't care about this. His attention was on the gap in the city wall that was more than 200 steps wide. The Wei soldiers attacked the city in other places only to attract the Liang army's troops. The real main attack direction of the Wei army was on this gap.

At this time, the Wei army auxiliary soldiers who advanced to the ruins of the valley, pressed the bullets and arrows that attacked from time to time and used wooden boards to lay a simple road on the ruins of the city walls. Some of these bullets and arrows came from the snipers of Liang's archers on the airship, and some came from the hanging shots of the crossbows behind the ruins. At the city heads at both ends, Liang's army often used portable crossbows to be set up behind the shield to project stone bullets downwards.

Seeing that he had successfully opened up a road on the ruins, Cao Cao believed that his side was in sight. His plan was to first open up a road to climb to the top of the ruins, but he was not in a hurry to rush into the city. Instead, he asked a large number of soldiers to climb and guard the top of the ruins. Then he used their crossbows to protect the auxiliary soldiers and continued to open up a road to the downhill of the ruins. Finally, tens of thousands of Wei troops rushed into Wancheng along this wide passage.

Only in this way can the Liang army have a strong advantage in military strength. Otherwise, facing the strong city defended by the stubborn enemy, no matter how superior the troops are, there is no place to use force. It can only be a long-term attack, and fight a war of attrition that is exhausted by both sides.

This strategy of siege was not thought of by Cao Cao himself, but someone else. Just yesterday when the Wei army was feinting the attack on Wancheng, Sima Yi, who was in Pingshi County and supervising the food and grass with his son Cao Pi, sent him a letter and presented this strategy.

Cao Cao, who saw the hope of success, heard another scream of exclamation. He looked around and saw several large fireballs above his army formation. The Wei army's liftoff light caught fire!
Chapter completed!