Chapter 1037: The Fall of Changyi City (Part 1)

Ren Jun saw all the actions of the Eastern Expedition Army under the city. Seeing 5,000 soldiers attacking the city wall, he was not very nervous. You know, he had 3,000, no, it should be 4,000 Qingzhou soldiers, which were the most powerful infantry in Cao Cao's army. So far, he has only seen once that the Qingzhou soldiers did not win in a battle with other infantry, that was the battle with the Xianzhen Camp of Huangfu Chaobo's Guards under Puyang City, and it should be said that it did not fail that time. If a large number of cavalry were not gathering and the threat to Cao Cao's army was too great, I believe that the Xianzhen Camp would not be able to hold on for long.

Even so, Ren Jun's cautious character still made him not underestimate this halberd soldier. Two thousand of the three thousand Qingzhou soldiers had already formed small formations on the top of the city, and distributed behind the various stomping points on the city wall. There were also a thousand people waiting in a serious battle formation, ready to support at any time.

Under the city of Changyi, Zhang He led 5,000 halberd soldiers to attack the top of Changyi. This was the first battle that his halberd soldiers had participated in since their formation, and it would be a fierce battle. On the top of the city, there must be the most elite Qingzhou soldiers under Cao Cao defending. Like the halberd soldiers, the Qingzhou soldiers were also infantrymen with long weapons. Zhang He believed that the halberd soldiers he had trained hard for a year would not lose to Cao Cao's Qingzhou soldiers.

In a moment, Zhang He had arrived next to a cloud ladder, and put the long halberd behind him. Zhang He supported the cloud ladder with one hand and quickly climbed towards the top of the city. Seeing this, the guards who followed him hurriedly followed him and climbed towards the top of the city.

The several-meter-high city wall was stepped on by Zhang He in a moment. At this time, because of the addition of the Qingzhou soldiers, the activity space of the soldiers of the Zhengdong Army had been compressed smaller and smaller. Zhang He climbed the city wall with less than ten soldiers barely supporting it.

Seeing this, Zhang He shouted, "You retreat, and I will raid the formation."

The soldiers who were struggling on the city wall were overjoyed when they heard this, and shouted, "General Zhang has climbed the city, kill the enemy!"

As they spoke, more than ten people did not retreat but advanced, waving their weapons and killing Cao Cao's soldiers. After forcing Cao Cao's soldiers to retreat a few steps, they quickly retreated and handed the Cao Cao army in the middle to Zhang He. More than ten soldiers were divided into two groups to guard Zhang He's two sides.

Zhang He shouted, holding a long halberd in his hand, and killed Cao Cao's army in front of him. In a moment, several Qingzhou soldiers died under Zhang He's halberd. Soon, dozens of Zhang He's guards climbed the city wall from the cloud ladder behind him. They were basically soldiers from the Iron Wall Camp. With their joining, Zhang He's two sides were safer.

As the halberds flew, Cao Cao's soldiers on the city wall were killed and retreated step by step. Zhang He cleared a space of dozens of steps around him in a moment. Seeing more and more soldiers on the top of the city, Zhang He shouted: "Leave a group of people to form a formation to guard this gate, and the others will follow me to help the rest of the soldiers climb the city."

"Yes!"

As he spoke, dozens of soldiers formed a tight square formation, guarding the gate behind them tightly, while Zhang He led dozens of other soldiers to kill in the direction of another gate.

As soon as Zhang He climbed the city, he quickly guarded a gate. Seeing this, Ren Jun immediately sent two hundred Qingzhou soldiers to kill in the direction of the gate, and sent another two hundred Qingzhou soldiers to intercept Zhang He. Ren Jun's reaction was not slow, but Zhang He's speed was faster. When the two hundred Qingzhou arrived, Zhang He had already swept away all the Cao Cao soldiers at the other gate.

With two ladders, the speed of the halberd soldiers climbing the city wall was obviously much faster. After a while, hundreds of halberd soldiers had already climbed the city wall.

Zhang He saw this and shouted loudly. Hundreds of halberd soldiers quickly lined up beside him and killed the two hundred Qingzhou soldiers who came to intercept.

Although the two hundred Qingzhou soldiers were strong, the combat power of the hundreds of halberd soldiers under the command of Zhang He was not something that the two hundred Qingzhou soldiers could resist. In just a moment, the two hundred Qingzhou soldiers were defeated in front of the halberd soldiers and suffered heavy losses. The reason was that the halberd soldiers were led by Zhang He, while the Qingzhou soldiers were led by ordinary generals.

Although the halberd soldiers also suffered a lot of losses, the two hundred Qingzhou soldiers were almost wiped out. The changes on the top of the city made Ren Jun's face change drastically. He didn't expect that he still underestimated the halberd soldiers of the Zhengdong Army who attacked the city wall. Thinking of this, Ren Jun ordered 500 Qingzhou soldiers and 500 tiger and leopard cavalry to climb the city from the city gate, and sent people to ask Cao Cao for help.

Unfortunately, Ren Jun's reaction was still a step too slow. When the thousand reinforcements climbed up the city wall, more than a thousand halberd soldiers had gathered on the top of the city. Zhang He handed the top of the city to ordinary soldiers for defense, and led a thousand halberd soldiers to kill in the direction of the tower where Ren Jun was.

The combined forces of a thousand Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and Qingzhou soldiers finally blocked Zhang He's halberd soldiers dozens of steps away from the tower. However, Ren Jun had no words to say. He had no reserve troops at hand, and behind Zhang He, there were still a steady stream of soldiers from the Eastern Expedition Army climbing up the city. At this time, the city was also in chaos. More than ten tunnels appeared in the city. Ren Jun estimated that at least thousands to tens of thousands of soldiers from the Eastern Expedition Army had already entered the city through the tunnels, while Cao Cao only had 10,000 reserve troops. Although they were all the strongest elite, the situation in the city was still not optimistic.

Just as the southern city wall was in a fierce battle, the East City's Expeditionary Army, led by Dian Wei and a thousand Iron Wall Camp soldiers, rushed to the top of the city. Although the East City defender Li Dian was strong, he retreated step by step under Dian Wei's crazy attack and had to hand over the position of the top of the city to the Expeditionary Army bit by bit.

Behind Dian Wei, Wang Ran, Guan Hai and Li Feng each led thousands of soldiers to follow closely, quickly rushed to the top of the city, and seized the top of the city from Cao Cao's army bit by bit.

On the west city wall, Gao Shun had already led the Xianzhen Camp to attack the top of the city. The Xianzhen Camp was as hard as a turtle shell, and the defense was impervious. Although Le Jin led 3,000 Qingzhou soldiers to fight back desperately, it still had little effect. Behind Gao Shun's Xianzhen Camp was Chen Jing's 5,000 Iron Eagles.

After Gao Shun successfully captured an area on the top of the city, Chen Jing quickly led 5,000 Iron Eagles to attack the top of the city. The two troops continued to expand the occupied area in the north and south directions along the city wall. As more and more soldiers climbed the city, the western city wall with a width of more than 100 steps was occupied by the Zhengdong Army.

Seeing this situation, Le knew that he was powerless, so he led his troops to defend the tower tightly, and sent people to Cao Cao for urgent help. As for how Cao Cao should arrange it, it was no longer something he could decide.