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As expected, after Zhang Ren's last siege failed, Sun Jian also walked to the city wall.

"King Lie, are you available?"

Hearing this, Gu Rubing walked out of the crowd directly.

"Sun Jian, we were originally allies, but now you have betrayed us and attacked me. Do you know that such behavior will be despised by everyone?"

"Spit on? King Lie, don't be ridiculous. You may be able to scare Liu Zhang and Shi Xie with your words, but don't say such things to me and Cao Cao. How many times have we drafted this armistice agreement so far, and what is the result? The world is in such chaos now, who cares about the so-called betrayal of allies? As long as you are strong enough, you can do whatever you want."

Hearing this, Gu Rubing's face turned gloomy, but he didn't say anything, because what Sun Jian said was indeed right. Although his behavior was wrong, no one would care. The people who really cared about these might be Liu Zhang or Shi Xie, the weaker princes, or people like himself who needed a reputation for benevolence. But people like Sun Jian and Cao Cao really didn't need to care about this.

Seeing that Gu Rubing didn't say anything, Sun Jian just waved his hand.

A group of soldiers appeared and threw some things under the city.

"King Lie, these are your men, right? Take them back. I think they want to return to their homes."

Gu Rubing immediately realized something and then ordered Zhang Ren to take back the things under the city.

Although Sun Jian asked Gu Rubing to take the things back, he did not say that he would not attack anyone who came to take them. Zhang Ren was fully prepared for this.

Several shield formations were immediately formed. Under the cover of the shield formations, Zhang Ren and his men finally managed to snatch back the things under the city under a hail of arrows.

"What is it?"

After hearing Gu Rubing's words, Zhang Ren hesitated.

"Say!"

Zhang Ren finally waved.

All the soldiers who came back, please make way.

Gu Rubing walked over and saw heads everywhere. These people were the ones who had been sent to break into the city gate. Now only their heads were left.

Seeing this scene, Gu Rubing was immediately furious.

"Send a message to the Prime Minister, order Zhang Liao to bring the Iron Pagoda and Zang Ba to bring the Taishan Tiger Bandits to reinforce immediately."

"Yes."

The messenger, able to sense Gu Rubing's current anger, immediately rushed to Cangwu County.

Zhang Ren stood aside, not daring to say a word. At this moment, the murderous aura emanating from Gu Rubing was even stronger than that of him, a general who had fought many battles.

Looking at the hundreds of heads in front of him, Gu Rubing did not expect that Sun Jian would be so cruel. Not only would he kill people, he would even go so far as to behead them.

Sun Jian originally thought that he would face Gu Rubing's crazy siege, but because of the height of the city wall and the fact that Zhang Ren had failed in his previous sieges, Sun Jian had gained a lot of confidence. He even felt that if he continued to consume the city like this, he would be able to kill Gu Rubing sooner or later.

But after the heads were sent away, nearly five days had passed and Gu Rubing still hadn't taken any action.

This made Sun Jian a little worried, wondering if Gu Rubing had any plan.

However, on the seventh day, Sun Jian finally understood what Gu Rubing was going to do.

The county where Sun Jian was located was Longbian County, which was only a day's journey away from Xiyu County. However, it had been four days now and he had been unable to contact Xiyu County.

Sun Jian immediately realized that something was wrong, and based on his experience of fighting with Gu Rubing over the years, he knew that the person who took action this time must be Gu Rubing.

Gu Rubing must have his own intentions for doing this.

Sun Jian immediately called Zhou Yu, and the two discussed for a long time and finally came to a conclusion.

Because Longbian County is guarded by Sun Jian and Zhou Yu personally, Longbian County is the toughest nut to crack among the two counties. In comparison, Xiyu County is much easier, as it is guarded by Huang Gai alone. No matter from which perspective, Huang Gai is much easier to deal with than them.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu wanted to take his men to Longbian County, at least to stabilize Huang Gai first.

After the two men made a plan, Zhou Yu immediately led 30,000 troops out of the city to support Huang Gai.

However, on the way, Zhou Yu's intuition from years of fighting on the battlefield told him that something was wrong with the situation around him.

Zhou Yu immediately waved his hand and stopped the army of tens of thousands of people.

"Grand Commander, what's wrong?"

Ding Feng on the side looked at Zhou Yu with some confusion.

However, Zhou Yu did not say anything, but looked around vigilantly, because Zhou Yu just felt that something was wrong, but did not find out what was wrong.

After a long time, Zhou Yu finally realized that it was too quiet.

There was no sound in the surrounding woods, not even the sound of animals. It was obvious that there were definitely people around, so the small animals didn't dare to come over.

"The front army becomes the rear army, retreat immediately!"

Zhou Yu gave the order immediately.

However, as soon as Zhou Yu gave the order, countless arrows flew out from all around.

The Wu army was caught off guard and many soldiers were shot and killed.

Zhou Yu did not panic and gave the order immediately.

"Everyone, take the injured and evacuate quickly. Don't look back."

Zhou Yu was indeed very calm. He knew clearly that at this moment, if they were entangled, they would definitely not be able to escape, so he ordered everyone not to look back. The only thing to do was to run.

However, Zhou Yu's calmness does not mean that the entire Wu army will remain calm.

Wu Jun was frightened by this situation, and everyone started to panic.

Situations of people crowding and stepping on each other also occurred everywhere.

Looking at such a chaotic army, Zhou Yu swung his sword and killed several panicked soldiers.

The deaths of these people calmed everyone down.

"If you want to stay alive, don't panic. The shield bearers block the flying arrows. The rest of you, evacuate quickly. The cavalry will retreat first, followed by the infantry, and the archers will be responsible for covering."

Orders were issued one after another, and the chaotic troops finally restored some order.

However, at this moment, a voice sounded from the side.

"Zhou Yu, waiter, do you still remember me, Zhang Liao, Zhang Wenyuan?"

When Zhou Yu heard the name Zhang Liao, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Zhang Liao left a heavy psychological shadow on him and even on the entire Jiangdong people.

All of them had been defeated by Zhang Liao head-on, and he always won with a smaller force. Zhang Liao's status in the hearts of the people of Dongwu was second only to those legendary generals.

Zhou Yu looked in the direction where the sound came from.

Zhang Liao led five hundred Iron Pagodas and rushed out from the surroundings.

With the help of Zhang Liao's desperate fighting, almost all the soldiers of Iron Pagoda reached the level of first-class generals.

Five hundred men rushed into a team of thirty thousand men and were not at a disadvantage at all. The Wu army suffered casualties all over immediately.

When Zhou Yu saw this, the nightmare from the past reappeared before his eyes. "Retreat!"

Zhou Yu also lost his usual calmness. After giving the order to retreat again, he rode his horse at full speed and quickly left the battlefield.

Zhang Liao did not chase him and watched Zhou Yu go away.

His target this time was not Zhou Yu, but Zhou Yu's 30,000 troops. When he came out, Gu Rubing had told him not to care too much about Zhou Yu's life or death. Tiefutu had only one goal this time, which was to cut off the connection between the two cities and eat up all the reinforcements at the same time.

With Zhou Yu leaving the main force, the battle on Zhang Liao's side became easier.

After Sun Jian sent Zhou Yu away, he felt a little panicked, but he didn't know why. However, seeing that there were still nearly 50,000 people in the city, the panic in his heart was gradually suppressed.

However, less than three hours after Zhou Yu left, Zhang Ren led tens of thousands of troops and began to attack the city again.

The soldiers under Zhang Ren's command were all ordinary soldiers, and their fighting power was not very strong, so there was no progress for two whole hours.

Zhang Ren quickly withdrew.

When Sun Jian was about to breathe a sigh of relief after seeing Zhang Ren retreat, another group of Lie army attacked the city again.

I thought defending the city this time would be easier than before.

But as soon as they fought, Sun Jian felt something was wrong.

The soldiers who fought against him were all very fast and had strong reactions. Even their combat effectiveness was not comparable to those soldiers led by Zhang Ren just now.

In just one hour, some soldiers of the Lie Army successfully climbed up the city wall.

When Sun Jian saw these people climbing up the city wall, he finally realized that these people were not ordinary soldiers at all, but the elite troops under Gu Rubing, the Taishan Tiger Bandits.

Seeing that the Taishan tiger bandit had actually arrived, Sun Jian directly sent all his reserve troops forward.

As more Wu troops rushed up the city wall, the offensive of the Taishan tiger bandits was gradually suppressed, and those who rushed up the city wall were forced to retreat again.

Watching the Taishan tiger thief leave, Sun Jian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, after Sun Jian counted the casualties, he couldn't help but gasp.

In just two hours, the casualties of this battle reached five thousand. Of course, this was also due to my carelessness in the beginning.

Gu Rubing was standing outside the camp at this time, looking at Zang Ba beside him.

"Xuan Gao, it's really hard for you. You rushed here and didn't have time to rest. You directly participated in the siege. Now everyone is tired. Let's arrange for everyone to rest. We will fight again tomorrow morning."

Upon hearing this, Zang Ba nodded immediately.

The failure to capture the city this time was indeed related to the forced march. The Taishan tiger bandits had long since run out of physical strength, let alone attacking the city.

After Zang Ba and the others left, Zhang Ren came over.

"My lord, there's news from Wenyuan that he has stopped Zhou Yu's army halfway and killed more than 10,000 of them in one battle. Zhou Yu took the rest away. For safety reasons, Zhang Liao did not chase after them."

"Well, Zhang Liao is good at this kind of thing. We should trust his judgment. Order Zhang Liao to continue blocking the reinforcements heading to Xiyu County. The more we block them, the more they will doubt that our focus is on Xiyu County."

"Yes."

Zhang Liao was originally repairing the Iron Pagoda, but after receiving the order from Gu Rubing, he immediately mobilized all the Iron Pagodas and began to slowly approach Xiyu County.

Since they wanted to disguise the news that Xiyu County was attacked, they must take their men for a stroll outside the city, at least to make Huang Gai nervous.

Huang Gai stood on the city wall with a worried look on his face.

It has been almost ten days now, and there has been no news from Longbian County. Huang Gai also has a bad feeling.

But none of the spies sent out came back alive.

This made Huang Gai a little worried.

"General, look!"

A soldier pointed outside the city and shouted.

Huang Gai looked in the direction the soldiers were going and saw that in the distance there was dust flying, in the distance he could faintly see a large number of cavalry.

"Someone is attacking the city. Everyone, get on the city wall immediately."

As Huang Gai's order was issued, all the soldiers became alert.

However, after waiting for a while, Huang Gai discovered that all the cavalrymen had disappeared.

This made Huang Gai a little confused and he had no idea what was going on.

The deputy general at the side walked up to Huang Gai.

"General, something seems amiss. Should we send someone to investigate?"

Huang Gai nodded.

Late at night, several spies sneaked out of the city under the moonlight and rushed towards the position of the cavalry.

However, when they arrived, they did not see the so-called cavalry, but only an empty camp with many stoves in it.

After calculations, these spies determined that there were at least 30,000 people in the camp, but they didn't know where all the people were doing.

After searching the surroundings, the spy did not see anyone, so he had to go back and tell Huang Gai the news.

Huang Gai was already worried about someone attacking the city because he had lost contact with Sun Jian, which made him anxious every day. This time, he learned that there were about 30,000 cavalry nearby, which made him even more worried.

In the end, Huang Gai directly asked his deputy general to prepare a letter for help, found several groups of messengers, and rushed to Longbian City in various stealth ways.

However, Huang Gai only asked his deputy general to write in the letter that there were traces of 30,000 cavalrymen outside the city.

But he took Huang Gai's panic during this period seriously.

The general was so panicked, let alone him as the deputy general.

Therefore, the deputy general exaggerated the number a little in his mind and changed the number from 30,000 to 50,000. The so-called traces were even changed to about 50,000 cavalry stationed not far outside the city.

Huang Gai was worried and trusted his deputy general, so he didn't even read the letter and asked the messenger to deliver it.

After Zhang Liao and his men showed up briefly and prepared a fake camp, they went into hiding.

The place where they were hiding was the only way between the two cities. Whether it was reinforcements or messengers, they could only go through this place, and this place was a valley, very suitable for ambush.

"General, there are two civilian-looking people coming over here. However, based on what we saw, these two people are probably not civilians, but soldiers."

"It seems that the people we are waiting for have arrived. Are there any suspicious people behind them?"

"There were a few people who looked like bandits following behind the two men, but it seemed that the bandits did not notice the two men."

"Bandits?"

Zhang Liao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he quickly reacted.

The bandits have been engaged in robbing and looting for many years, and they are very sensitive to passers-by. (End of this chapter)