Time goes back to 22 days ago, the day when the city of Ju county was broken. On the top of the north city of Ju county, Xu Rong looks at the approaching soldiers of Cao Cao. His heart is like water. It has been 15 days. The army of Xia Houyuan has been attacking the city since it arrived in Ju county. With the arrival of a large number of reinforcements in recent days, the attack intensity of Cao Cao''s army is getting stronger and stronger, but the defense of Ju county is still as strong as a rock.


    The defection of Zang Ba made Xu Rong''s generals much richer. A group of Taishan army''s family members were temporarily placed in Shuanghe city. Because of the need of war, Zang Ba and other generals were brought to Ju county by Xu Rong. After several months of running in, the generals have basically adapted to the style of the eastern expedition. So this time, Xu Rong arranged for the generals to guard the city in turn. Judging from the situation of the first ten days, except Zang BA''s ability to be a general, the rest of the generals are suitable candidates for captains or deputy generals.


    Xu Rong looked up at the sky. It should be about three o''clock in the afternoon. It seems that this is the last round of Cao Cao''s attack today. Looking at the appearance of Cao Cao''s army under the city, it is no different from the usual arrangement of troops and horses. However, even so, Xu Rong did not relax. With his command, the city''s soldiers began to fight immediately We need to be prepared.


    After more than half an hour''s fighting, Cao Cao''s army''s attack has slowly slowed down, and Cao Cao''s soldiers have been weak in succession. Xu Rong knows that it won''t be long before Xia Houyuan will call for a golden retreat.


    At this time, a huge noise suddenly sounded on the west wall, which was different from the situation on both sides of the north and east city. Moreover, the sound became louder and louder. In a faint sense, Xu Rong could hear the cry of "the city is broken.".


    Hearing this, Xu Rong''s face changed. He immediately called a pro guard and said, "go to the west city and have a look. How can I get back?"


    The bodyguard is ordered to run towards the west city. In a quarter of an hour, the noise on the west wall is getting louder and louder. Xu Rong has already faintly felt that something is wrong. Today, Sun Kang, who is in charge of the defense of the West City, is it because the West City has been broken. So Xu Rong quickly called Zang Quan beside him and said, "pay attention to the situation at the head of the city. A certain leader of the pro guard camp will go to the west city to have a look at the situation!"


    Zang Quan quickly took orders with his fist, but Xu Rong didn''t say any more. He waved his hand and led his personal guards along the wall towards the west city. Who knows, just on the way to the west, he met his own bodyguard, who was sent to the west city. He ran towards this side with a look of fear.


    Seeing Xu Rong and his entourage, the soldiers ran forward quickly and hurriedly, but they didn''t care to salute. They bent down to Xu Rong''s ear and whispered: "general, no, Cao Cao''s army is attacking the western city. General Sun Kang is leading the resistance, but Cao Cao''s army is pushing back!"


    On hearing this, Xu Rong was furious: "what''s Sun Kang doing to eat! When will the Reinforcements under the City arrive? "


    When Sun Kang saw Xu Rong here, he rushed forward to report: "general, general sun sent villains to report. Cao Cao''s army is full of fish and pearls. There are a lot of elite soldiers hidden in the ordinary soldiers. General sun was caught off guard and attacked by Cao Cao''s army. General sun led the soldiers to fight back, but he had no choice but to attack Fang''s soldiers Because of its strong fighting power, our soldiers were unable to drive it down the city wall. On the contrary, Cao Cao Jun occupied several places at the head of the city. General sun sent villains to ask for help. Please send troops to support him! "


    Xu Rong, who had been fighting for a long time, didn''t understand what was going on. Sun Kang must have relaxed his vigilance, so he was caught by Cao Cao Jun. he said angrily, "can the reserve troops under the city climb the city?"


    The soldier replied with a flustered look: "the reserve troops under the city have reached the city, but they can''t block Cao Cao''s army. Now the defense line is still retreating step by step."


    Xu Rong was stunned. The reserve troops under the city were all the battalions of the eastern expedition army. They were at least as good as Cao Cao''s ordinary Chinese troops. Even they could not resist Cao Cao''s attack. Then there was only one possibility, that is, the soldiers who attacked the city were much better than Cao Cao''s general Chinese army.


    For a moment, Xu Rong thought of a troop that Xia Houyuan had not used these days: tiger and leopard riding.


    Xu Rong''s inference is correct. Xia Houyuan actually used tiger and leopard cavalry in Xicheng this time, and he invested 5000 troops at one time. There are 5000 tiger and leopard cavalry in the Chinese army, ready to deal with the cavalry of the eastern army at any time.


    There are 20000 tigers and leopards riding under Cao Cao. In order to attack Qingzhou this time, Cao Cao handed over 10000 of them to Xia Houyuan. Originally, Xia Houyuan didn''t want to use tigers and leopards riding to attack the city, but Cao Cao''s command was to let him capture two counties of Qingzhou as soon as possible, regardless of the loss. So Xia Houyuan used this troop.


    Under each city, Xu Rong deployed two thousand soldiers of Canglang camp to deal with the possible crisis. But this time, because of Sun Kang''s negligence, he didn''t find Cao Cao''s small moves in advance, which led to the failure of reinforcements to arrive in time.


    As an experienced general, if he is alert enough, he should be able to find problems in many details of the soldiers, such as the physical strength of the soldiers, the action before the battle, the temperament of the soldiers and so on. If sun Kangzhen is alert enough, he should be prepared. As a result, he won''t find out until Cao Cao''s elite attack on the city No, it is undoubtedly Sun Kang''s dereliction of duty.However, Xu Rong could not take care of these at this time, leading hundreds of his bodyguards to the West City, while constantly ordering: "summon the other cities to step up their guard!"


    "Order the rest of the soldiers and horses who have not ascended the city to take part in the defense!"


    "Send an order to send another 2000 soldiers from the city to support the west city!"


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    Every time he gave an order, one of his own soldiers flew forward to convey his military order. After four or five orders in a row, Xu Rong stopped giving the order, holding a big knife in his hand, and led a group of bodyguards to the West City Tower.


    Unfortunately, when he led his guards to the west wall, there were more than a thousand soldiers of Cao Cao on the wall. Xu Rong could see at a glance that most of them were more elite than the soldiers of Cao Cao who had attacked the city these days. I saw that they cooperated with each other, expanding the area occupied by the head of the city slowly, and at the same time, they continued to take over the zepaodeng city under the city.


    When Xu Rong arrived two hundred paces away from the West City Tower, Cao Cao''s soldiers had been marching northward, blocking Xu Rong and other reinforcements coming from the north city wall, besieging the city tower all the way, and attacking the city gate hole from the top of the city wall along the ramp.