Super Cultivation System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 888 Meteor falling from the sky
The Cao army general had just rushed to a few dozen steps away, raised his sword, and was about to chop at the soldiers who were still assembling siege weapons, but Gao Shun's army suddenly dispersed, and teams of soldiers holding powerful crossbows ran up in unison.

"Fell into a trap..."

The general panicked and tried to stop his horse, shouting, "Retreat quickly, retreat back to the city, quickly..."

Gao Shun had an expressionless face. He waved his hand and thousands of archers pointed their crossbows at the sky ahead and pulled the trigger.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

More than 10,000 crossbow arrows shot up into the sky, drew a perfect parabola, and then quickly fell down, flying right over the heads of the soldiers who were still doing the assembly work.

After a round of rain of arrows, more than a thousand of Cao's five thousand soldiers were killed or wounded in a blink of an eye. The general was so frightened that he rushed back without stopping.

Gao Shun waved his hand again, and a team of cavalry rushed out and chased after Cao's army. The leading general was none other than Chen Lie, the son of Chen Qing, a merchant from the Chen family in Xuzhou, and now the deputy general of Zhang Yong's army.

"Where is the enemy going?"

Chen Lie brandished his giant sword and quickly caught up with the Cao army general.

"General, please spare my life, General, please spare my life...ah..."

After a scream, the general's head flew high into the air, fell to the ground, and rolled a long distance before stopping.

Once the main general died, the rest of Cao's soldiers naturally lost their will to fight and fled desperately.

At this time, Meng Tan and his deputy general finally rushed back to the city wall. When they saw this scene, they were all shocked.

"What...what's going on?"

Meng Tan's face was filled with panic.

"General, Gao Shun set up an ambush to lure our army..."

A general was about to report, but was angrily rebuked by Meng Tan: "This general is not blind, I can see! Tell me what to do now?"

Several generals looked at each other and kept their heads down in silence. This was like adding fuel to the fire for Meng Tan, who was already furious.

"You...are trash, a bunch of trash!"

"Listen, defenders in the city..."

Chen Gong rode his horse forward and shouted loudly towards the city wall, attracting everyone's attention.

"Isn't this Military Advisor Chen Gong?"

"What military advisor? He is now the governor of Chenliu in the imperial court."

As everyone was discussing, Chen Gong shouted, "Cao Cao is ruthless, holding Emperor Xian hostage, brutalizing people, and plotting to usurp the throne. You are the ministers of the Han Dynasty, how can you help Zhou to commit atrocities and commit crimes against your superiors? Today, the soldiers are here, and it will only take a moment to break the city. If you can abandon the dark and join the light, open the city and surrender, you can still save your lives. Otherwise, the army will attack the city and there will be no way to survive."

After these words, many soldiers fell into hesitation.

"General, look..."

"What do you want to do? Do you want to betray the lord?"

Meng Tan's eyes widened with anger, staring at them fiercely: "The Lord has treated us well, how can we abandon him so easily? I think Gao Shun is just bluffing, what can he do? Guard the city gate, I don't believe he can break in."

Then, he looked outside the city and said, "Old thief Chen Gong, you betrayed our lord in the past and committed a heinous crime. How dare you surrender to us today? Sooner or later, I, Meng Tan, will capture you alive and hand you over to our lord for punishment."

Chen Gong sighed: "Alas, Chen has done his best."

He returned to Gao Shun and said, "General, let's do it."

Gao Shun looked at the messenger and nodded.

The messenger took out a horn and took a deep breath: "Woo... woo... woo..."

Along with the rapid and powerful sound of the trumpet, there was a creaking sound. Soldiers lifted stones as big as human heads and wrapped them with strips of cloth soaked in unknown substances.

The Cao army generals on the city wall were all a little panicked.

"General, the enemy is really strange. Should we temporarily avoid the front line?"

"Bullshit." Meng Tan scolded, "Isn't it just a catapult? What's the big deal? A catapult can only attack a hundred steps away. His catapult, although much taller, has to be more than three hundred steps away. It's wishful thinking to attack a city. What are you afraid of?"

Standing in front of them was a row of catapults, more than thirty of them, each more than two meters high, much taller than ordinary catapults.

Meng Tan looked very confident, as if he didn't take these catapults seriously at all.

But the deputy general didn't seem to think so. He had a look of fear on his face, and pointed forward with his hands trembling slightly. "General, you... look, what... what is that?"

"Huh?" Meng Tan looked in the direction he pointed, puzzled.

I saw soldiers putting the stones wrapped in cloth into the catapult's basket, while another soldier came forward with a torch.

As soon as the torch touched the stone, a blazing flame immediately ignited on the surface of the stone.

"This...this is..."

While Meng Tan was still in shock, more than thirty catapults threw stones at him at the same time.

"Whoosh..."

As the stone flew at high speed in the air, the flames on its surface were blown by the wind and made a loud noise.

More than thirty fireballs whizzed through the air, leaving a long trail of black smoke behind them. The scene was so spectacular, as if the end of the world had come, so much so that the Cao army soldiers defending the city were stunned for a moment.

Just as the fireball was about to fall on the city wall, Meng Tan woke up in shock. In that instant, his face turned pale and he involuntarily stepped back.

"Quick, defend quickly..."

As soon as he finished speaking, more than thirty fireballs fell.

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

"Ah... help..."

In an instant, many soldiers screamed in pain. Huge holes were smashed into the city walls and towers. Where the fireball rolled, a trail of flame was left behind, which was still burning.

"It's kerosene. They wrapped strips of cloth soaked in kerosene around the stones..."

A general shouted, but it was obviously too late when he realized this.

"Squeaky..."

The second batch of fireballs rose into the air again...

Meng Tan stared blankly at the sky with a look of despair: "Meteorites are falling from the sky... Meteorites are falling from the sky... God is trying to kill me..."

After several waves of fireball attacks, there were wailing sounds everywhere on the city walls. The Cao army soldiers who were still alive were covered in dust and fled in panic.

"Boom..."

After a loud bang, the city gate collapsed, leaving two burn marks on it.

"Fight into the city."

At Gao Shun's command, the catapults immediately stopped their attack, and tens of thousands of troops rushed forward. Gao Shun led the way and rushed into the city gate first.

As soon as he entered the city, he saw Meng Tan fleeing hurriedly to the west under the escort of a group of generals and soldiers. At this point, how could Gao Shun let them do as they wished?
"Guards, follow me."

He shouted to the guards behind him, and led these thousands of people to chase at full speed.

These Cao troops were sent here, so they were naturally considered the elite troops under Cao Cao. However, compared with Gao Shun's troops, especially his personal guards, there was naturally a huge gap. What's more, Meng Tan and others were so scared that their legs were shaking. How could they run fast?
With almost no effort, Gao Shun caught up.

He stabbed out repeatedly with the Aoxue Plum Blossom Spear in his hand. Several generals behind Meng Tan tried to come forward to resist him, but they all died under Gao Shun's spear, so that Gao Shun quickly killed Meng Tan from behind.

Meng Tan no longer had the smug look he had when he angrily rebuked the generals and Chen Gong. Instead, he looked like a dog that had lost its home.

"General Gao...General Gao, please spare my life. I am willing to surrender. I am willing to..."

"Hmph." Gao Shun snorted disdainfully and thrust his spear suddenly, piercing Meng Tan's lower abdomen.

"me……"

Meng Tan was very unwilling. He widened his eyes, grabbed the gun tip weakly with both hands, and then fell off the horse.

Chen Gong rode his horse to catch up, looked at Meng Tan's body, sighed, and then shouted to Cao's army: "The emperor today is a benevolent and righteous ruler. Now that Meng Tan is dead, if you don't surrender now, when will you surrender?"

The Cao army soldiers had thought they were doomed to die, but now they suddenly saw a way to survive, so how could they not leave? They dropped their weapons one after another, knelt down and asked for surrender.

(End of this chapter)