Section 3: Reinforcement

Cao Chong patted the silk book in his hand and smiled, saying, "Jiang Zitong is a good plan. Even if he is scared to Sun Quan, he will make him suspicious. The chief clerk asked to go down and rest, and I will do it later. But if you are a scholar, you don't have to risk going back to the city. Stay in my camp first."

The chief clerk bowed gratitude and followed a tiger soldier to eat. However, a man who came out to protect the chief clerk stood aside and looked at Cao Chong with a curious and arrogant look. Cao Chong sat down and asked while dictating Zhang Song to write a document, "What do you call a hero?"

The man bowed and said, "Little Li Wei, the guard under the tent of General Li Dian."

Cao Chong exclaimed, "I heard that General Li is a gentleman in the army, and his guards all have their own names. Why do you have only names but no characters? If you say that you are not valued by General Li, why do you send you here alone for such an important matter?"

Li Wei touched his head awkwardly and said embarrassedly: "Wei is not as good as others, so he has to be good at studying, so he has no words."

"Hahaha..." Cao Chong couldn't help but chuckled. He looked at Li Wei, and saw that he was eight feet tall, with wide shoulders and strong body, and a thick layer of calluses outside the tiger's mouth. He nodded with satisfaction: "Since you said you have good martial arts skills, go out and pick it in the tiger's warrior. If you can last ten rounds, I will give you a word, how about it?"

Li Wei was overjoyed and didn't believe his ears very much. Seeing Cao Chong nodding affirmatively, he hurriedly gave a tribute, and rushed out of the tent with Huan screaming. Dian Man hurriedly followed him out. In a short while, he heard a loud shout outside accompanied by a ping-pong sound. When Zhang Song had just finished writing the document, Li Wei came in with a blue nose and swollen eyes, and looked at Cao Chong happily: "Young Master, I've been there for ten moves."

"Oh, who did you fight with?" Cao Chong looked at Li Wei who was a little embarrassed and couldn't help laughing. Dian Man pinched his nose and said with a wry smile: "He didn't pick anyone. When he went out, he asked who was the best martial arts. As a result, he picked up Zhengli. The first time he held on five rounds, the second time he held on nine rounds, and the third time he held on eleven rounds."

"I can't tell you are a tough guy." Cao Chong looked at Li Wei with satisfaction, knowing that Xu Yi's martial arts are second to none among these tiger soldiers. He was able to last ten rounds under Xu Yi's hands, which was enough to prove that he was indeed extraordinary in martial arts. He thought for a while and said, "There are four dimensions in the sky, and the foundation of the Yuanyuan, you are called Yuanji, how about it?"

"Yuan Ji?" Li Wei pondered for a moment and bowed to thank him: "Thank you, young master."

Cao Chong divided the written documents into three parts and handed them back to Hefei City. The last part was handed over to Li Wei. Seeing the three people leaving, he was about to order the army to set off, a scout rushed over and rushed to Cao Chong and reported, "General Fubo, Chen Deng, the prefect of Dongcheng, took three thousand men and horses, and went south along Chihe River, thirty miles away from our army."

"Oh!" Cao Chong looked at Zhang Song happily and asked quickly, "Where is Chen Fubo now?"

"General Chen is approaching with his men and horses, and he will be able to contact our army in one hour."

Cao Chong was overjoyed and sighed: "It's really better to come than to come by a good person. Once Chen Deng comes, great things will be accomplished."

Sun Quan was shocked when he saw the embarrassment. When he learned that a person of unknown origin appeared less than a hundred miles away from Hefei, he was a little confused about whom he dared to attack Bu Zhi and others who were protected by dozens of fully armed guards.

"Are you sure they are people in the army?" Sun Quan asked Bu Zhi again suspiciously.

"It must be someone in the army." Bu Zhi wiped the sweat on his forehead and wiped the dust on his face. He felt scared when he thought of that scene: "Zhang Wenjing's martial arts skills are not bad, and he has never beaten the man in the first round. The remaining ten people were all the ring-headed swords in the army, and the leather armor on his body was also very exquisite, and it was not possible for ordinary bandits to have it. The killing techniques were clean and neat. Nearly thirty guards were killed in a moment."

Sun Quan touched the sparse purple beard under his jaw. He stared at Bu Zhi for a long time. Then he pondered: "Since the other party has touched less than a hundred miles away from Hefei, Zhang Jun didn't notice it at all. I'm afraid that there will be no large number of people. To attack the city tomorrow, you must break the city before reinforcements arrive. Since Zhang Wenjing's life and death are unknown, and the siege carts can't count on it, then attack with force."

The next day, Sun Quan launched a strong attack. The troops emerged from the siege and lined up in front of Hefei City. Dong Zhi attacked the north gate, Pan Zhang attacked the east gate, Xu Sheng attacked the west gate, Chen Wu led the five elite troops to attack the south gate. Sun Quan led his own central army and commanded the center, and sent Cheng Ding to set up police twenty miles behind Dong Zhi, for fear of being caught by the sudden army.

All 50,000 troops came out to surround Hefei City.

Liu Fu looked at the Jiangdong soldiers who were waiting for battle outside the city and remained silent. He just quietly held his hands behind his back and looked at the soldiers who were preparing to attack the city under the city. His eldest son Liu Jing was wearing armor and stood behind him without saying a word, pressing his long handle tightly, paying close attention to the movements of the Jiangdong army under the city.

"Bohe, are you all ready for Jiang Bajia?" Liu Fu asked lightly, without a trace of panic in his tone.

"When I go back to my father, they are all ready to stop working." Liu Jing thought for a while and said, "The other three gates have only ten thousand people, and they are guarding them with a thousand people. Although it is difficult, they will not be able to break into one attack. There are 20,000 Sun Quan's central army in the south gate, and we only have two thousand people. Father, isn't it too risky?"

"It's not for taking risks for my father, but I have to do it." Liu Fu sighed: "There are only five thousand people in the city, and where are there others? However, after many days of fierce fighting, Sun Quan was injured a lot, and there were still fifty thousand people. Even if reinforcements came, he could raise 40,000 people. You don't need to say much, I know what you think, but I was ordered by the court for my father. As the governor of Yangzhou, at this time, if I don't guard the South Gate, who will guard the South Gate?" He said, turned around and looked at Liu Jing sternly. Liu Jing was seen by his eyes, and just wanted to argue, he had to swallow his words back into his stomach. After thinking, he thought, "My father is not in good health, so the child will guard the city on behalf of his father. Father goes down to rest for a while."

Liu Fu did not respond to him, raised his fist to cover his mouth and coughed twice, and suddenly shouted: "Beat the drum!"

Liu Jing rushed to the edge of the city and saw that the Jiangdong army under the city used shield soldiers as the vanguard. They protected the soldiers carrying the cloud ladders and crossed the moat that had been filled, and approached the city wall step by step. There was a drum sound on the city wall. The archers rushed to the edge of the city wall and pulled their bows and shot arrows with the cover of the city wall. A distance of dozens of steps came in an instant, and the long arrows shot on the shield, making a thud. On the cloud ladder, there was a sound, and it shot into the human body, but there were muffled groans and screams. From time to time, the soldiers in Jiangdong fell down, and then the soldiers next to them came forward, approaching the city wall resolutely and unremittingly, with the speed getting faster and faster.

The long arrows on the city were shooting more and more urgently.

Chen Wu stood in the command car of the central army and calmly waved the flag: "The strong archer came forward to suppress the archers on the city."

Jiangdong's powerful archer quickly approached the city wall. With a command, a rain of arrows hit the city. The powerful arrow feathers shot into the blue bricks on the city wall, into the shields in the hands of the soldiers on the city, and into the tattered leather armor of the soldiers.

"Climb the city!" With a burst of shouting, the first cloud ladder approached the city wall and was quickly erected. Then, two Jiangdong soldiers climbed the cloud ladder and climbed up quickly.

"Rolling stones down, pounding the wood down." Liu Fu looked at the Jiangdong army swarming below with a passionate look, and shouted angrily.

The soldiers on the city wall shouted loudly, turning the remaining rolling stones and wood on the top of the city over the battlements. The rolling stones and wood fell down, smashing the ladders, smashing the Jiangdong soldiers who had climbed to the middle to death and falling from mid-air. However, a ladder broke, and two more came up behind, one soldier was killed, and ten more came up behind him, stepping on the stones and blood stains all over the ground, and climbing up hard.

After more than ten days of fierce fighting, there were not many materials left on the city. Even the houses of the people in the city were demolished, which could not withstand this consumption. Half an hour later, the wood and stones on the city were exhausted. When the soldiers of Jiangdong saw that the rolling wood and rocks on the city were gradually sparse, they cheered and became more and more fierce. Soon, the soldiers of Jiangdong attacked the city.

"Kill them up and kill them all and throw them down." Liu Fu's eyes widened and shouted at Liu Jing with a red face.

Liu Jing responded, and rushed towards the first batch of Jiangdong soldiers who had just rushed to the city. Dozens of knives surrounded the people and chopped them up, and immediately cut the unmoved Jiangdong soldiers into pieces and threw them down the city tower. Then he rushed towards another group of Jiangdong soldiers without stopping. Seeing that the young master of the governor had all personally taken the battle to kill the enemy, the governor had been standing on the city wall and commanded. They were all murderous and sacrificed their lives to fight, and would rather die than retreat, and squeezed down the Jiangdong soldiers who were attacking the city one by one.

For a whole hour, the soldiers of Jiangdong failed to occupy the city, and injured more than 2,000 people. The losses of the city were more than the previous sieges since the siege. However, although the Jiangdong Army did not occupy the city wall, it stayed on the city wall for a longer time. The defenders on the city were exhausted and gradually lost their physical strength. They were already at the end of their strength and could not last long. As soon as the Jiangdong Army retreated, many soldiers sat on the ground, threw down the knife in their hands, and gasped.

Liu Jing ran to Liu Fu in a panting breath. Only a dozen guards left were left, each of them injured, but the fierce aura on his face became more and more intense.

"Father, when will the reinforcements arrive?"

Liu Fu smiled bitterly in his heart and turned his head toward the north of the city.

"General, I caught a spy and found a letter." Hu Zong handed a piece of silk book to Sun Quan. Sun Quan took it and looked at it, but he didn't understand it. He couldn't help but frown and asked, "What are you saying on this? Why don't you understand the words?"

Hu Zong shook his head and said, "Jong didn't know. It seems that the enemy was afraid of being caught by our army, so he divided the silk book into several letters. This is just one of them. Only by getting the extra silk book and putting it into pieces can you know the real content."

Sun Quan's brows became more and more tight. He stared at the two words on the silk book: "Bachelor and Cavalry", and he didn't respond for a long time. Lu Xun saw it on the side and whispered: "Since there are a few, we naturally entered the city from different directions. We caught one here, and maybe other generals will gain something. Why don't you ask me if you ask?"

Sun Quan nodded, Lu Xun gave an order, and several messengers rushed out of the camp. In a short while, a messenger came back and held a silk book in his hand and respectfully handed it to Sun Quan. Sun Quan hurriedly took it over and competed with the silk book in his hand, and his face changed immediately.

The words "First Ten Thousand" are behind "First Ten Thousand".

"Forty thousand infantry and cavalry?" Sun Quan's temples were pounding, gritting his teeth and trying hard to resist the swearing, clenched his fists, and his fingernails fell deeply into his palms. He looked back at Bu Zhi, and Bu Zhi's face turned pale. He immediately remembered the attack that night.

A scout jumped off his horse at the gate of the camp and rushed to Sun Quan. He stopped quickly and said repeatedly: "Report to General, the troops of Chen Deng, the prefect of Dongcheng, appeared thirty miles from the right rear of our army. The number of people is unknown, and they are quickly moving closer to our army."

"Chen Deng?" Sun Quan's eyes couldn't help but jump, and the muscles on his cheeks twitched without hearing the control. He gritted his teeth and turned around and shouted, "Boyan, you bring three thousand people. When you meet Chen Deng, you only need to block him for an hour. If no one answers your words in an hour, you can protect our army's Youji and retreat to Danyang County."

Lu Xun exclaimed: "Lord, no. Even if we take Hefei, when will our army defend Hefei? Why should we take this big risk?"

"Don't say too much." Sun Quan waved his hand in anger and turned around and shouted: "Come on, wear armor and come."

"Lord, no." The chief secretary Zhang Hong stepped forward and hugged Sun Quan tightly: "As the lord of one side, how can you accept the responsibility of this partial general? Even if the lord kills the general and seizes the flag, if there is any loss, what will the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Jiangdong rely on? Please think twice."

Bu Zhi and others also stepped forward to stop him. Chen Wu stepped forward and knelt down on his knees, saying in pain: "I am incompetent. I have to do with the lord. This is Wu's crime. Please calm down the anger of thunder, wait for Wu to kill the city and kill Li Dian's head with his own hands to relieve the hatred in his heart." As he said that, without waiting for Sun Quan to agree, he stood up and left. He rushed to Hefei City with two hundred guards.

"Beat the drum. Fight again!" Sun Quan roared loudly, breaking free from Zhang Hong. He turned around and ran to the drum platform, snatched the drum from the drummer's hands, and beat the drum hard. The powerful drum sound suddenly exploded over the bloody Hefei City. The soldiers on the city felt excited and stood up, held the sword in their hands tightly, and looked at the other party. When the soldiers in Jiangdong saw Chen Wu and two hundred guards running down the city, they shouted in unison. With the excitement of the drum, the fighting spirit of the drum, the siege carried the ladder and began to run under the city. The strong archers ignored their safety and forced to reach the closest position to the city wall. They pulled the strong bow in their hands, poured the rain of arrows to the top of the city, and tried their best to suppress the counterattack at the top of the city to cover the soldiers who had already entered the city.

"Beat the drum!" Liu Fu's eyes turned red. He drew his sword in his hand and slashed the city wall with one knife. The big drum on the city also rang, echoing the big drums that Sun Quan struck, as if comparing their respective volumes, inspiring the soldiers on both sides to fight for life and death.

The soldiers on both sides were like two huge waves walking towards each other, colliding against the city wall, knocking out blood flowers. The waves in front just fell down, and the waves behind followed one after another. A thick layer of smooth plasma was added to the blood-stained city wall. The soldiers on both sides, who were red-eyed, did not notice this. They just tried their best to stab the weapon in their hands into each other's body, and strangled the other's throat with their arms, even if they bit off a trace of flesh with their teeth.

Never die.

Chen Wu, with his personal guards, approached the city wall quickly. He held a long sword in his mouth, held the cloud ladder in both hands, and rose rapidly. As the city wall was about to be exposed, a spear stabbed towards him. Chen Wu quickly looked and let go of the cloud ladder with his left hand to grab the handle of the spear, pulled it back hard, and took advantage of the soldier's strength to escape backwards and flew onto the city wall, pulled the long sword in the exit with his right hand, and slashed the head with his head.

"Kill!" Chen Wu took the spear with his left hand and the knife with his right hand, and three steps forward on the city wall, killing four people in a row. He followed him closely under the guards' escort, erected a small formation on the city wall, and kept breaking forward, making the small formation thicker and thicker.

As Chen Wu went up to the city, the situation of the defenders became worse and worse. Liu Jing rushed over with his men, desperately blocking Chen Wu, who was as powerful as a mad tiger, and had no time to take care of other places. The defenders on the city wall were like crumbling big rocks, and were about to be overturned by the waves that kept pounced on the city.

Seeing that Hefei City, which he had been working hard for many years, was about to fall into the enemy, Liu Fu rolled up his sleeves in pain and said in a deep voice to the flag soldiers beside him: "Rise the double rabbit flag and ask General Li for help." After that, he picked up his long sword and led the last guard to kill Chen Wu.

Li Dian is also in a state of great anxiety. He was entangled by the fierce Dong Xi and could not escape. Dong Xi was attacked by Zhang Hu in Huarong City, and was taken by Cao Chong on Huarong Road for two days. As a result, he was about to rush up to capture Cao Chong and make a great contribution, but Sun Quan ordered the transfer from Huarong to Hefei. In fact, he had a rare battle this time, but he was not sure of his achievements. I am really sorry that he was facing him.

The Haikou was praised by Wu Guotai. This time, Sun Quan handed over the mission of the North Gate to him and sent Song Ding and Cheng Dang's second general to guard him, which was quite considerable to him. If he could not take down the North Gate, what would he look like to return to the camp? Therefore, Dong Xi ignored the obstruction of his subordinates and took his personal guards to attack the city tower many times. If Li Dian had not seen the location of his attack and arranged heavy troops to intercept him, he would have been afraid that the North Gate would have been broken long ago.

Despite this, Dong Xi was still like an indestructible ghost. He had just been driven down from the city and soon rushed up from another place. With blood all over his body, he danced with blood-stained swords, he persevered in attacking the weak defenders. This time, Li Dian had no soldiers to send, so he had to take his own remaining personal guards to kill him.

When Dong Xi saw Li Dian committing suicide, he was overjoyed and made a monster-like "hehe" cry, slashing two swords in a row, cutting down the two defenders beside him, taking big steps to meet Li Dian, and three swords were coming towards him.

Li Dian raised his shield to resist, but he could not resist Dong Xi's courage. He was forced to take two steps back and barely resist Dong Xi's offensive. This made him storm the encirclement by Dong Xi. Immediately, the guards behind him fought together like hungry wolf, with their eyes red and waving their swords and shields until they cut down the face in front of him.

Li Dian's guards were at a disadvantage in terms of number, and his martial arts were slightly worse than the fierce Dong Xi guards. He soon could not withstand Dong Xi's offensive and suffered heavy casualties. Li Dian himself was entangled by Dong Xi. In a blink of an eye, he had been hit by three swords. Although he was protected by iron armor, he was only injured by flesh. Every time Dong Xi's long sword was thrown out, he always had to carry a few drops of blood, which made Li Dian, the general who had fought for more than ten years, feel a little ashamed. He couldn't help but think of the guard Li Wei.

If Li Wei was there, he might be able to defeat this lunatic.
Chapter completed!