Chapter 1185 Doomed to Destruction

Zhang Dian led a thousand soldiers and gradually approached the west gate. They were so numerous that they immediately attracted the attention of the defenders of the west gate.

"Password?" Someone shouted in the distance.

"Watertight!"

Every time Zhang Dian said this password, he felt very funny. It was watertight. What was the point of his thousand men?

At this time, a general from the other side ran up and asked, "Has it changed to three shifts?"

Zhang Dian shook his head, "We are the ninth battalion, we don't know anything. Someone asked us to reinforce the city defense. I don't know if it's a shift."

"It turned out to be the ninth battalion!"

The general snorted with a hint of contempt in his tone, "Go up to the city!"

Zhang Dian didn't say anything. He waved his hand and quickly walked up the corridor with a thousand soldiers. Halfway through, he suddenly heard someone asking above the city gate.

"Whose men are they?"

"General, it's the brothers of the ninth battalion, coming to reinforce the defense."

"The ninth battalion? Strange, who would send the ninth battalion to reinforce?"

Zhang Dian heard it clearly, secretly cried out that it was not good, and accelerated to the top of the city.

At this time, a dozen Huaixi soldiers came quickly, led by a tall general, blocking their way.

"All of you stop!"

Zhang Dian stopped and clenched his short spear. He had realized that he was about to be exposed. He didn't know the general on the opposite side at all. This person should be an important person.

The leading general looked Zhang Dian up and down. He had never seen this general of the 9th Battalion before. He suddenly became suspicious and asked quietly: "Did General Liu Jingzong send you here?"

Liu Jingzong was Wu Shaocheng's deputy general, the second most powerful general in the city, and he usually arranged patrols on duty.

Zhang Dian nodded, "That's right!"

"Then there's nothing to worry about. You can join the defense!"

The general laughed, turned around and took two steps. He suddenly ran away, shouting, "Hurry up, they are spies!"

Zhang Dian threw the spear in his hand with all his strength, hitting the opponent's back. The general screamed and was nailed to the ground.

There was a commotion on the top of the city wall, and someone shouted, "General Liu was killed!"

Zhang Dian understood that this bastard was Liu Jingzong. He had just cheated him, and he didn't know him, so he was fooled.

Zhang Dian shouted, "Follow the third plan to capture the city!"

He discussed several plans during the day, and the third plan was to be discovered by the other party and forcibly capture the city.

Su Yun, a general under him, shouted, "Team 1, team 2, team 3, follow me!"

He led 300 soldiers to the top of the city wall in the north.

Another general, Wang Shaoguo, also led 300 soldiers to the top of the city wall in the south.

Zhang Dian led 300 people to rush down the corridor with shields and short spears, blocking the entrance of the corridor.

The last 100 soldiers rushed into the city gate, pulled the bolt, and pulled the door hard. The iron wedge of the city gate on the top of the city wall was pulled up, and the city gate was opened with a bang.

At the same time, the suspension bridge began to creak down, and several soldiers lit three torches.

Lai Zhen, who was a mile away, could see clearly and shouted, "Brothers, charge!"

"Charge!"

The 30,000 troops shouted and rushed towards the moat

Wu Shaocheng, who was patrolling in the city, was shocked when he heard the news and immediately led 2,000 people to rush towards the west gate.

A fierce battle had already taken place on the top of the city wall. The Huaixi army came from both the north and south sides and fought fiercely with the scouts on the top of the city wall.

Zhang Dian, however, kept staring at the end of the street. He led 400 elite soldiers, each of whom could fight one against five.

Suddenly, a large group of soldiers rushed out from the North Street and rushed towards the city gate from 300 steps away.

"Crossbows and arrows are ready!"

There were all kinds of weapons in the warehouse, including crossbows and arrows.

Four hundred crossbows were raised horizontally, and Zhang Dian shouted, "Shoot!"

Four hundred crossbows were shot densely, and the Huaixi army running in front was caught off guard, and they were immediately thrown to the ground.

"Raise your shields and charge!"

There were hundreds of shield bearers behind them. They moved to the front and raised their shields and ran towards the city gate in small steps. At this time, they were still more than a hundred steps away from the city gate.

The Guanlong Army scouts fired another round of crossbow arrows, but it had no effect. The arrows were blocked by the shield wall.

Zhang Dian sneered and ordered: "Firearms Army prepare explosive arrows!"

There were fifty firearms soldiers in their team, each carrying five explosive arrows.

These fifty soldiers had already loaded the explosive arrows, but did not participate in the shooting, but waited for orders.

Fifty soldiers stepped forward and began to raise their crossbows. "The first batch of shooting!" Zhang Dian shouted.

Ten explosive arrows were shot at the same time, followed by the first batch of explosive arrows, and the fifty explosive arrows were shot in five batches.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The shields exploded, the shields were blown to pieces, the soldiers were blown up, and the pieces exploded. The soldiers screamed and were blown to pieces, and the streets were filled with smoke.

This is a dimensionality reduction attack. After a series of explosions, the Huaixi army was so scared that they turned around and fled.

They had all seen it. On the Yangtze River, explosive arrows blew up ships to pieces. They had all witnessed it with their own eyes.

This kind of explosive arrows now hit them. All the soldiers were terrified and left hundreds of broken bodies behind. They turned around and fled. Even Wu Shaocheng realized that something was wrong and turned around to spur his horse and fled.

At the same time, the explosion of explosive arrows was also heard on the top of the city. The enemy soldiers turned around and fled.

At this time, Lai Zhen's 30,000 troops rushed into Shouchun City like a tide.

The street fighting did not happen, thanks to the explosive arrows used by the Guanlong Army scouts at the end, which made Wu Shaocheng's confidence collapse. He led more than 6,000 soldiers to rush out of the East Gate and flee towards Haozhou.

The Huaixi Army soldiers in the city surrendered to the Guanlong Army without their commanders. All the surrendered soldiers were disarmed and locked up in the camp waiting for the regent to deal with them.

The sky gradually brightened. Wu Shaocheng led 6,000 soldiers to run more than 30 miles in one breath. He couldn't run anymore and had to stop. All the soldiers were exhausted and couldn't move when they lay down. Even Wu Shaocheng's horse lay on the ground and couldn't stand up.

At this moment, a soldier suddenly shouted in fear.

Wu Shaocheng stood up and looked around, as if falling into the abyss. He saw countless cavalrymen appearing from all directions. They were surrounded by the Guanlong Army cavalry.

At this time, the soldiers didn't even have the strength to escape, let alone get up and fight. They were like fish lying on the chopping board, and could only be slaughtered.

The 6,000 Huaixi soldiers were unlucky and encountered Li Ye's 15,000 cavalrymen.

Li Ye immediately ordered that the soldiers' surrender could be accepted. The reason why he accepted the surrender of the Huaixi soldiers was that Li Ye thought of one thing: the copper and iron mines in Jiangxia Prefecture needed a large number of miners.

The copper and iron mines in Jiangxia are the mines in Daye today. Mining began in the Three Kingdoms period. In fact, there are mines in the west of Jiangning County, which are today's Ma'anshan iron mines.

These tens of thousands of Huaixi soldiers can be sent to work as miners.

But the generals did not spare them. Wu Shaocheng and more than 30 other generals above the rank of lieutenant were all beheaded.

Wu Shaocheng thought he had escaped from Hefei City, but he died on the way in the end. This was the end of their sins.

At noon, Li Ye led 15,000 cavalrymen to escort 6,000 prisoners of war to Hefei County.

Lai Zhen led the generals out of the city to welcome the arrival of His Royal Highness the Regent.