Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms.

Although there was an Eight-Gate Golden Lock Formation, Cao Ren did not lose much military force in the early stage.

But Zhao Yun broke the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation with one move, which caused everything to return to the starting point.

Cao Ren only had 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command. He was really afraid that he would not be able to hold the city, which would not only betray Jiang Wei but also ruin Cao Cao's plan.

But soon, Cao Ren's heart was moved again.

Countless huge rocks fell from the sky.

Although the city wall had been rebuilt, it could not withstand the constant impact of huge rocks.

The catapult did not stop for the entire night.

Inside Gu Rubing’s camp.

"My Lord, the catapults have been smashing all night, and more than ten of them have been damaged. Would you like to consider stopping for a while? We don't have any spare catapults."

"It's been a whole night? It's time to take a break. Tell the team to go up and let the first team take a break. People can rest, but the catapults cannot stop. Even if all the catapults are scrapped, Jiangzhou City must be smashed into ruins."

"Uh...yes!"

This was the first time they had seen Gu Rubing's tactics.

After all, in the Han Dynasty, catapults were precious siege resources, and generally no one would use them so recklessly without considering the consequences and losses.

Gu Rubing mobilized all the catapults that could be mobilized on the entire front line, including the Jiaozhou front.

Only twenty of them were assembled. The production process of catapults was very slow. It usually took craftsmen a year or even two years to build these twenty catapults again.

After a day and night of heavy bombing, the wall of Jiangzhou City finally couldn't hold and a big hole was smashed in it.

Seeing this scene, Cao Ren knew he could not hold on.

In terms of individual soldier strength, Cao Cao's soldiers are indeed no match for Gu Rubing's soldiers. Now that a big hole has been smashed in the city wall, the advantage of the city wall is gone, and hand-to-hand combat is inevitable.

The soldiers' abilities were no match for Gu Rubing, so failure was inevitable, and Cao Cao could not send any extra reinforcements to support them.

In the end, Cao Ren had no choice but to order a retreat to Linjiang City. As for Jiang Wei, Cao Ren transported all the remaining food and grass to Jiang Wei and notified him to retreat.

After learning that the city wall of Jiangzhou City had rotted, Gu Rubing immediately ordered Deng Ai to lead his men to charge up.

Cao Ren simply resisted for a while and then began to retreat.

Gu Rubing had no intention of pursuing the enemy, but began to rest and ordered Zhong Hui to lead people to cut off Jiang Wei's food supply.

In Gu Rubing's opinion, Jiang Wei will definitely be captured alive this time.

After doing all this, Gu Rubing left Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong in Jiangzhou City, while he took 10,000 cavalry to provide emergency support to Sili.

Sili Youfufeng, Huaili County.

Afterwards, Zang Ba brought the Taishan Tiger Bandits and continued to confront Jiang Wei.

In just ten days, Zang Ba's Taishan tiger bandits had lost more than 10,000 people.

Although Jiang Wei suffered a lot of losses afterwards, he still had a total of 70,000 soldiers and horses.

Looking at Huaili County, Jiang Wei knew that if he wanted to enter Sili, he had to break through Zang Ba's defense. Moreover, he didn't have much time, and he didn't know how long Cao Ren could hold out.

Looking at the map in front of him, Jiang Wei suddenly remembered that this was Sili Prefecture.

Because of the city of Luoyang, there were many tunnels in Sili Prefecture, so Jiang Wei began to send people to look for tunnels.

Originally, Jiang Wei did not have much hope for his idea and just wanted to give it a try. However, he did not expect that this idea of ​​giving it a try would actually lead him to actually find the existence of the tunnel.

Soon, led by his soldiers, Jiang Wei arrived at the halfway point of a barren mountain.

This mountain is not far from Huaili County.

"General, we have been inside. This tunnel leads directly to a dry well in Huaili County. However, this tunnel is not very big and can only accommodate two people walking side by side. And the dry well can only be exited by one person at a time."

"That's enough. As long as we can get into the city and open the gate, we can let the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry come over."

"Yes!"

In order to ensure the success of this plan, Cao Cao even handed over his Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to Jiang Wei.

Soon Cao Zhen arrived with the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

After Jiang Wei discussed the specific plan with Cao Zhen, Cao Zhen led the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry directly into the secret passage.

Zang Ba stood on the city wall, looking at Jiang Wei's camp in the distance, and sighed helplessly.

The pressure Jiang Wei has put on him during this period is really too great.

In the past battlefields, when two armies engaged in direct combat, it was rare for the Taishan Tiger Bandits to be able to send over ten thousand men to defend the city, but Jiang Wei did it.

Not only did they do it, in the past, even if the Taishan Tiger Bandits had suffered more than 10,000 casualties, the other side's casualties would definitely be three times that of their own, or even more. However, according to their statistics, Jiang Wei's losses were actually the same as their own, more than 10,000 people.

Doesn't that mean that the casualties in the battle reached a one-to-one ratio? The Taishan Tiger Bandits are a special type of soldiers, each of them is a well-trained elite soldier, while those sent by Jiang Wei to attack the city are all ordinary soldiers.

Zang Ba looked at the knife in his hand and fell into deep thought.

This time, Zang Ba felt a little tired every time he killed the enemy.

These soldiers who rushed up the city wall cooperated very well. They formed a team of five with clear division of labor and each had his own task. The powerful Taishan Tiger Bandits always felt very tired when fighting with the other side, often feeling like punching on cotton. Even Zang Ba felt it was difficult, let alone the other members of the Taishan Tiger Bandits.

"General, it's already late at night. Jiang Wei and his men can't possibly attack the city. You can go back and rest. I'll lead the others to guard it."

A deputy general stood beside Zang Ba, looking at Jiang Wei's camp in the distance, smiling and comforting Zang Ba.

"Okay, I'll go back first. You must be more vigilant and don't let Jiang Wei take advantage of you. This man is different from the ones we have fought before. I always feel that this Jiang Wei will be the Zhou Yu of the future, or even the prime minister of the future."

"Don't worry, General."

The deputy general smiled and nodded.

Zang Ba turned around and walked down the city wall. Huaili County was extremely quiet in the dark night. Zang Ba didn't know why he always felt uneasy.

late at night.

Inside a dry well in a corner of Huaili County.

A Tiger and Leopard Rider emerged from inside, observed the surroundings, and after making sure there was no problem, he crawled out of the dry well directly.

Soon, one after another, they all began to rush out of the well.

It wasn't long before hundreds of people gathered around.

And the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry continued to come out.

Cao Zhen looked at the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry around him and immediately rushed towards the city gate quietly.

However, just when they walked a short distance, a patrolling group of Taishan tiger thieves discovered them.

"who?"

A team leader immediately shouted out when he saw these people.

However, before these Taishan tiger bandits could react, a group of Tiger and Leopard Cavalry suddenly rushed out from the surroundings and killed everyone present.

Seeing this, Cao Zhen rushed towards the city gate again.

After seeing Zang Ba leave, the deputy general walked around the city wall, and after making sure there was no problem, he walked down the wall.

As a result, after taking a few steps, I heard footsteps coming from a distance, and the sound was very urgent.

Just as they were curious, they heard the footsteps getting closer and closer.

The deputy general subconsciously put his hand on his sword. Then he saw a man dressed in the clothes of a Taishan tiger thief, running in front of him, and then fell to the ground, his body covered in blood.

"what happened?"

Upon seeing this, the deputy general immediately stepped forward.

"General, someone..."

"What did you say?"

The deputy general did not hear clearly what the man said, and subconsciously bent down, trying to get closer.

However, at this moment, Ming, who was already seriously injured, suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed the deputy general's throat.

The deputy general was caught off guard and his throat was stabbed directly.

However, the deputy general did not fall down. Instead, he swung his sword with one breath and killed the man. Both of them fell to the ground at the same time.

Only the sound of bells was heard in the darkness.

This is the unique way of sending messages by the Taishan Tiger Bandits.

The ringing of the bell meant that something had happened, and the deputy general used all his strength to kill the man. At the moment of falling to the ground, he took out the bell he carried with him and used the inertia of falling to shake the bell.

Cao Zhen, who was hiding in the dark, had never expected that a deputy general could actually do so much before his death. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that he was worthy of being an elite. Only those who could do these were called elite.

The sound of the bell naturally attracted the attention of the city defense troops.

When they saw the ground covered in blood and the deputy general lying on the ground, they understood what was going on and immediately sounded the alarm.

Knowing that his plan had failed, Cao Zhen immediately led his men to the city gate, trying to open it.

Jiang Wei, who was outside the city, also led his army to attack the city, trying to attack it from both inside and outside.

The defending troops had to defend the city walls on the one hand, and on the other hand they had to send people to defend the city gates. Due to the shortage of manpower, they failed to defend both sides.

There were loopholes in the defense of the city wall, and all the defenders at the city gate were killed.

Just when Cao Zhen eliminated the last Taishan tiger bandit at the city gate and was about to open the city gate, the Taishan tiger bandit's reinforcements finally arrived.

Cao Zhen gritted his teeth and immediately forced the city gate open.

Then he guarded the city gate tightly.

Zang Ba was sleeping when someone knocked on the door.

Hearing the knock on the door, Zang Ba immediately realized something was wrong and opened the door immediately.

"General, it's bad. For some reason, Cao Zhen and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry have appeared in the city. The city gate has been lost, and the brothers are desperately trying to block the gate."

"Lost? Send the reserve team to take back the city gate no matter what."

"Yes."

Zang Ba did not go to the city gate, but followed the tracks of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and found the dry well.

There are many footprints around the dry well, and it is obvious that these people came up from this place.

Zang Ba first had his men block the secret passage, and then led his men to rush to the city wall.

At this time, Jiang Wei's reinforcements had arrived, and the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat at the city gate.

The reserve team left behind by Zang Ba has already rushed forward.

This time, all the Taishan bandits were mobilized by Zang Ba.

The battle lasted for four hours.

In the end, Jiang Wei's siege failed.

Because of Zang Ba's carelessness this time, he lost nearly ten thousand people.

The number of troops Jiang Wei lost did not exceed 20,000.

Actually, it was a victory for Zang Ba, but he couldn't be happy no matter what.

Now he still has half of the Taishan tiger bandits in his hands, and the reinforcements are not arriving yet. He has no idea how long he can hold out.

Thinking of this, Zang Ba set his sights on the dry well.

In Zang Ba's opinion, Jiang Wei would never have thought that he would retaliate in the same way he had treated him.

For this reason, Zang Ba took 10,000 Taishan tiger bandits and immediately hid in the dry well when Jiang Wei retreated.

Zang Ba led the way.

Walking out of the secret passage, we arrived directly at the halfway point of the barren mountain.

Soon, Zang Ba's Taishan tiger bandits had gathered thousands of people.

After Zang Ba determined the direction, he prepared to launch a surprise attack on Jiang Wei's camp, and then return to the city directly from the city gate.

As a result, before they even got down the mountain, countless arrows were shot out.

The Taishan tiger bandits were caught off guard and suffered a lot of losses.

But fortunately, the Taishan Tiger Bandits were well-trained and reacted immediately and began to block with their shields.

Then a lot of huge rocks appeared on both sides, blocking Zang Ba and his men's retreat.

Jiang Wei also appeared on the hilltop on one side at this time.

"General Zang Ba, Jiang Wei has been waiting for you for a long time again."

Seeing this, Zang Ba finally realized that all this was Jiang Wei's plan.

Jiang Wei had no hope at all that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry could help them attack the city. Jiang Wei only wanted Zang Ba to find the entrance to the secret passage, so as to lure Zang Ba out and finally capture him alive.

As long as Zang Ba was caught, Huaili County would fall without a fight.

"Jiang Wei, you are really calculating."

Zang Ba gritted his teeth and shouted unwillingly.

But Jiang Wei didn't have time to answer him.

As Jiang Wei waved his hand, countless Wei troops rushed down the mountain from both sides.

Upon seeing this, several Taishan tiger thieves desperately pushed the stones blocking their way behind them to create a gap.

But this gap is only wide enough for one person to pass through.

"General, hurry up and return to the city through the secret passage."

"you……"

"General, leave us alone and leave. We can't leave the city without you. Let's go! We can't hold on any longer."

Seeing this, Zang Ba gritted his teeth and went straight through the gap.

Zang Ba, who was standing far away, looked at the Taishan tiger bandits who were still fighting hard even though their retreat was blocked by a huge rock. Zang Ba knew in his heart that they could not come back.

Zang Ba's eyes were red as he knelt on the ground. After kowtowed to his brothers from Taishan Tiger Bandits, he turned around and entered the secret passage.

Jiang Wei naturally also saw Zang Ba running away, but the huge rock not only blocked the Taishan Tiger Bandits' retreat, but also blocked their speed of chasing. Faced with the ten thousand Taishan Tiger Bandits and Zang Ba, Jiang Wei chose the ten thousand Taishan Tiger Bandits, because in order to chase Zang Ba, he had to move the huge rock away.

By then, the Taishan tiger bandits would have a way to retreat, and Jiang Wei could not guarantee that he could still annihilate all of them. As for Zang Ba, he was the only one on this barren mountain, and Jiang Wei was not sure that he could really catch him. (End of this chapter)