Nannuxi said a lot, but Cao Zhen ignored him. Nannuxi thought that the other party could not understand his words and stopped talking. In fact, although his Chinese language was stiff, Cao Zhen could still understand it, but he just disdained to pay attention to him.

After a long time, Cao Zhen's scouts rode back and reported the military situation to Cao Zhen. Cao Zhen then believed that there were no enemy troops within at least fifteen miles of Xiaguan City. After thinking for a moment, he said to Nunnum West: "King Nu, you divide your troops into three groups, south, north and west, and scatter your troops fifteen miles away, and send many scouts to patrol and reconnaissance. This is to guard the enemy for our army, and the other is that if the enemy appears, in addition to calling the police to us quickly, we must intercept them at all costs and gain time for our troops to respond."

Cao Zhen's words were full of commanding tone. Fortunately, he was not familiar with the Chinese dialect, so he didn't notice it. He learned the etiquette of the Han people and bowed to Cao Zhen, and divided his three thousand troops into three troughs, spreading them to three sides as Cao Zhen said.

At this time, Cao Zhen had already rode out and circled around Xiaguan Fort surrounded by his own soldiers. He found that the city wall to the east was temporarily built with wood. Obviously, this was the city wall destroyed by Liang's army. Because time was tight, Liang's army used wood to fill the gap. Cao Zhen suddenly grinned when he saw this, and he had the idea of ​​breaking Xiaguan City with fewer casualties.

He immediately ordered: "Transfer this general order to ask the soldiers to collect hay and withered branches nearby and cut down firewood. Be careful to do it secretly and not let the enemy troops in the city notice it!" Obviously, Cao Zhen planned to use fire attack method to burn the east wall of Xiaguan Fort directly.

Taking advantage of the time when the soldiers were collecting firewood, Cao Zhen rode his horse to the far side of the city, shouting the formation. He knew the power of the Liang army's long archers, and he didn't know if there were any long archers in the city, so he didn't dare to get too close.

His personal soldiers shouted: "Please come out and talk to the generals in the city!", "My general is going to talk to your generals." After shouting like this for a quarter of an hour, a burly general appeared on the top of the city. This person was Xu Chu, the general under Cao Chong.

Cao Zhen naturally knew Xu Chu. When he saw it, he laughed and said, "I said who it is? It turns out to be General Xu Chu, so don't be fine."

Xu Chu snorted coldly and said, "Cao Zhen, if you have anything, you should put it off quickly. If you have something, don't waste your time."

Seeing that his hot face was cold, Cao Zhen suddenly fell down and said solemnly: "Xu Chu, I will advise you to return to the court as soon as possible and surrender to the court, and take a rebel against the rebel Cao Chong. I will definitely report to the emperor to not only pardon your crime of treason, but also reward you with me."

After hearing this, Xu Chu laughed loudly. After laughing, he shouted: "Cao Zhen, why do you speak like a baby? You almost burst my stomach. The emperor you mentioned does not say that you killed your father and usurped power, the country you gained is a matter of the fake Wei. Just say that the emperor was driven out of Middle Earth by the Emperor of Daliang and ran to this Japanese land like a dog that was a broken family, to rob the Japanese people of the territory and survived the so-called Great Wei court. In ancient times, I have never heard of such an emperor. At present, you are like a grasshopper in the autumn, and are about to lose, but you still speak wildly and persuade someone to surrender. Wouldn't you laugh quickly? Be your daydream."

After Xu Chu said something, Cao Zhen's face turned red and white, he ignored the other party and went straight to the city. Cao Zhen was so angry that he shouted and cursed: "Okay, I won't talk to you so quickly. I'll see how you die tragically later!"

After more than half an hour, after Cao Zhen's soldiers prepared all the firewood and fire-driven things, the horns began to ring in Cao Zhen's army. The soldiers arranged formations between the strait waterway and the east city wall.

Then there was another rapid drum sound, and the tiger and leopard cavalry distributed on the left and right wings also rode their horses. They were not holding sabers in their hands, but carrying dry firewood and fire-driven objects. There were also many trapped firewood hanging on the horse's back. In order to burn the fire as quickly as possible and not give the city's defenders time to react, Cao Zhen also let the tiger and leopard cavalry go on. With their horse speed and load capacity, the task will be shortened by more than half.

When the defenders on the city wall discovered that these enemy tiger and leopard cavalry were throwing bundles of firewood and firewood under the wooden wall, they immediately understood what they were going to do. They shouted: "Be careful, the enemy wants fire attack!", "Get water quickly and wet the wood first!" When Xu Chu heard the news, he quickly climbed onto the wall again and hurriedly directed the soldiers to counter the opponent's actions.

But it was too late. The crossbowmen of Cao Zhen's army under the city had already shot arrows densely, forcing the defenders at the top of the city to hide. When the defenders drove a few buckets of water from the well in Xiaguan City to the top of the city, the soldiers of Cao Zhen's army had already lit the pile of firewood piled up at the foot of the city wall. The fire was burning wildly, and the buckets of water from the defenders would not have much effect on such a big fire.

It was obviously impossible for the defenders to evade the arrows like locusts to extinguish the fire by drawing water from the well under the city. The fire became bigger and bigger, and Cao Zhen also had a smile on his lips. Suddenly, a cavalry following the stern nunxi appeared in Cao Zhen's sight. Before the stern lieutenant came to him, the captain of the lieutenant hurriedly shouted: "The general is not good. A large number of enemy cavalry are coming from the north. The Japanese soldiers cannot resist it. I will come back to report the message quickly."

Cao Zhen was shocked when he heard the news and asked quickly, "How many cavalry have come?" Ling Bing paused and said, "The enemy's combat cavalry suddenly appeared, lined from left to right, and there was no boundary at first glance, so it was impossible to estimate how many combat cavalry there were. In order to hurry up, Bei Zhi hurriedly came back to report the message. It was about 800 to 1,500 people."

In fact, only Cao Chong's five hundred tiger and leopard cavalry were attacked. This incoming force soldiers to return in a hurry, so it was naturally impossible to figure out the number of opponents.

Cao Zhen hesitated whether to retreat, but he looked at the burning fire that was about to collapse the city wall, and finally made up his mind to continue fighting. He immediately ordered: "Transfer our army orders, the tiger and leopard cavalry will attack to fight the enemy, and the rest of the infantry will continue to attack the city!"

Immediately, his two thousand tiger and leopard cavalry rushed to the north. At the same time, fifteen miles east of Xiaguan City, the tiger and leopard cavalry of the five hundred Cao Chong army were struggling to kill the already defeated Japanese soldiers. The great Japanese in the slave country, the heads of the slaughtered by the iron hooves of the war horses, had already fallen into a pile of meat mud.

Cao Zhen stared at the burning wooden wall without blinking. Finally, with a loud bang, the wooden wall collapsed. Cao Zhen could already see the rows of enemy infantry behind through the fire. He pulled out his sword and raised it in the air and shouted: "The whole army is ready to charge!"
Chapter completed!