Three Kingdoms: I choose Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, why are you crying, Diao Chan?

Chapter 280 Weird Roar! (Thanks to dT-Tb, Han Xinghai, and Gu Lichangan for their monthly ticket support~)
Hearing Zhang Kai's words, Li Yan was surprised and hurried to climb up the city wall to check the situation.

Suddenly, a troop of nearly 10,000 soldiers appeared from the southwest, with a well-organized battle formation, responding to them in the city!

Li Yan clapped his hands in surprise:

"I knew that General Sun Ce would never abandon us!"

With the appearance of this army, the movements of the surrounding enemies attacking the city became noticeably slower.

Obviously, the besiegers were worried that this army would suddenly attack them and cause serious damage!
The soldiers defending on the city wall also suddenly felt a lot less pressure.

At this time, Li Yan saw this friendly cavalry unit suddenly rushing towards Zhu Jun's army outside the south gate!
Zhu Jun's soldiers suddenly became panicked.

Zhu Jun quickly sent 5,000 soldiers to resist.

However, these 5,000 soldiers had not yet engaged in battle with the 5,000 cavalry led by Hou Cheng.

Hou Cheng suddenly led his men back!
Zhu Jun's soldiers did not dare to pursue further and could only return to the city.

But at this time, Hou Cheng's cavalry fought back and launched another charge towards Zhu Jun's army at the south gate!

Zhu Jun had no choice but to send out another 5,000 soldiers to resist.

But the same thing happened again!

Hou Cheng's 5,000 cavalrymen did not confront Zhu Jun's soldiers head-on.

Before it collided, it turned back.

When Zhu Jun saw this scene, he became furious!
"Is the enemy playing a trick on us?!"

Huangfu Song on the side advised:

"The enemy has no more than 10,000 troops, so they won't really fight us head-on.

“But the enemy’s cavalry is well-equipped, and the leading general is also very good at leading the cavalry.

“We only need to send 5,000 infantrymen with guns to respond.

"If the enemy dares to charge, they will be defeated by our spearmen!
"Even if the enemy army responds well, our army has an absolute advantage in manpower, and we can wear them down to death!"

Zhu Jun followed his advice and immediately sent out 5,000 spearmen to form a square formation to respond, but he did not pursue them. Instead, he waited in full battle array along the route of Hou Cheng's charge.

Seeing that the enemy had already prepared countermeasures, Hou Cheng stopped harassing the enemy troops in the south of the city and instead went around to the east of the city to harass Xu Chu's army.

Xu Chu naturally also knew that the enemy had 10,000 reinforcements arriving.

Seeing five thousand cavalrymen rushing towards him, he was not moved at all.

They set up their battle formation right on the spot, as if they were waiting to trap you!

Seeing this, Hou Cheng didn't dare to get too close, so he could only change direction and go around to the north of Yanling City.

There was no enemy attacking the north gate.

I think the enemy deliberately left this door open so that the soldiers in the city could think of breaking out from here at any time, thus reducing their determination to fight to the death.

Hou Cheng did not take the opportunity to enter the city.

Supporting from outside would be more effective than defending the city from inside.

So Hou Cheng led the cavalry to the west gate again.

The army attacking the West Gate was led by Chen Deng, a traitor who had once lurked under Lu Bu's command and later returned to Liu Bei's army.

At this moment, Chen Deng had a gloomy face and was commanding his soldiers to attack the city continuously!

Ever since he learned that Lu Bu had personally killed his father in Xia Pi, he hated Lu Bu's army to the core!
Now that he has been given the opportunity to attack Lu Bu's army, he will naturally show no mercy!
Therefore, the West Gate is the most critical of the three directions of attack!
Seeing that the situation at the West Gate was so urgent, Hou Cheng no longer made a feint attack.

He led 5,000 elite cavalrymen and charged directly towards the enemy's rear!

Chen Deng originally thought that the enemy was just pretending to intimidate them this time, so he only sent out 3,000 infantrymen to symbolically stop them.

After all, he only has 10,000 troops.

Six thousand of them were engaged in the fierce attack on the city, and another thousand were left behind to defend themselves.

We can only send 3,000 men to deal with the enemy. But anger often makes people lose their minds!
As a strategist, Chen Deng was of first-class level.

Normally a calm man, he could definitely tell that the enemy was really planning an attack by charging at full speed this time.

But now, because he was eager to take revenge, most of his attention was focused on the city wall and he did not pay much attention to the movements of the enemy cavalry.

By the time he reacted, he heard a series of screams coming from the flank!
Only then did he suddenly realize that the enemy had really launched an attack on them!

The five thousand cavalrymen were like a steel torrent, instantly breaking through the obstruction of three thousand infantrymen and rushing straight towards Chen Deng's position.

Chen Deng's face changed drastically, and he quickly ordered the siege troops to withdraw and return to the rear for support.

He rode his horse in a panic and went around to the South Gate to ask Zhu Jun for support.

When Zhu Jun saw that the friendly troops at the west gate were in chaos, he immediately sent Zhao Meng, a captain of the right army, with 4,000 men to provide support.

Hou Cheng has already led his cavalry to charge and fight for a while!
When he saw the enemy coming to support him from the south, he did not want to fight at all.

He immediately rushed to the west and returned to his own infantry.

Zhu Jun did not dare to pursue further, and immediately sounded the call to withdraw the troops, ordering all the attacking troops to regroup.

More than 2,000 of Chen Deng's 10,000 troops were killed or wounded by the cavalry led by Hou Cheng!

However, the cavalry led by Hou Cheng only lost more than 100 horses.

It can be seen that Hou Cheng’s leadership of the cavalry is far better than that of ordinary generals!
After all, he and Song Xian had followed Lu Bu to fight against the Huns outside Yanmen Pass and had accumulated a lot of cavalry combat power.

What's more, the equipment of these 5,000 cavalrymen is far better than before, and they can be used at will!

Naturally, it can cause great damage to the enemy with minimal losses.

It’s a pity that the gap in total military strength between the enemy and us is still too big.

Even though the enemy lost two thousand men, there were still 48,000 troops left!
It was far beyond the capability of their 9,900 troops to confront head-on.

However, Hou Cheng and the other two knew very well that their main purpose was to increase the confidence of the friendly forces defending the city!

The reason for circling the city was to let all the soldiers see that they had reinforcements in the city.

They are not fighting alone, as long as they hold on, they will surely win!
A person’s state when he has confidence and when he has no confidence is completely different.

This is also the fundamental reason why the morale of an army affects the combat effectiveness of its soldiers!
Under the protection of Hou Cheng and Song Xian, Li Yan was able to defend the city temporarily.

However, the loss of manpower and city defense equipment continued.

If we don't get further reinforcements, it's only a matter of time before the city falls...

the other side.

On the way from Yangdi County to Xinzheng County, you will pass by a Nanzhao Yuanshen Mountain.

Legend has it that there lived a group of very spiritual monkeys in this mountain, called "Nanzhao Monkeys".

Of course, not many people have actually seen them.

Some people also say that they are ancient divine apes, and they will only appear to punish those who destroy the forests when the forests are destroyed...

At this moment, Sun Ce was leading an army of 15,000 and marching slowly through the mountains.

Although Sun Ce is very confident in his own strength.

But because of the reminder from his good brother Zhou Yu, he knew that this mountain was a good place for an ambush, so he proceeded with extreme caution.

However, until dark, the army was unable to get out of the mountain, but also did not encounter any ambush.

Sun Ce could only order his soldiers to set up camp in the mountains.

Because there were many trees in the mountains, Sun Ce ordered his men to cut down trees and build camps on the spot.

However, just as the soldiers were cutting down trees, an angry and strange roar suddenly resounded throughout the mountains!

(End of this chapter)