Chapter 519: Internal and External Cooperation

Zhou Cheng led two thousand Qin troops out of the city, leaving only one thousand defenders in the city. With this small number of people, even if they stood on the city wall hand in hand, they could barely hold the city wall of Shannan County up to one foot. Circle, this amount of troops is really weak for Shannan City. Fortunately, Lu Chao believes that where Shannan County is located, there should be no large-scale enemy attacks, even if horse thieves bypass the large army outside and attack , with their equipment, it was extremely difficult to capture Shannan City.

A thousand Qin troops all went up to the city wall to take necessary precautions, which made the city extremely empty. Cao Tianci stayed in the governor's mansion and found that there was no guard in the entire governor's mansion, and only some maids and servants came in and out. He currently has only more than a hundred wounded soldiers under his command, but these wounded soldiers were carefully selected by Gao Yuan. They all seemed to be injured, but it did not affect their combat. What's more, not far from them, there are more than a hundred people from the Sihai Trading Company led by Yi Bin. These people are naturally not caravan guys, they are all dressed up as actual soldiers of the Eastern Conquest Army.

Cao Tianci is waiting for the final moment to arrive.

One day later, the moment Cao Tianci had been waiting for finally arrived.

Today, the snow did not fall much. In the morning, there was a biting cold wind. In the afternoon, after a burst of snow seeds, God withdrew the troops and returned to camp. Lu Chao had just inspected the city wall. He was not here to see if the soldiers were paying attention, but to see if the soldiers on the city could take a sip of hot soup in this cold weather. There were only a thousand soldiers left in the city. They all went up to the city wall. The weather was cold. Even if he was wearing a heavy coat, he felt uncomfortably cold when staying on the city wall. What's more, these soldiers were also wearing Kaijia, so it was naturally even colder.

He was very satisfied with the inspection situation. The logistics support for the army was still in place. It was lunch time. Pots of hot soup were carried up the city wall. Lu Chao himself felt satisfied as he watched the soldiers nibbling on cornbread and drinking hot soup with expressions of satisfaction on their faces.

After eating a steamed bun and a bowl of hot soup with the soldiers, Lu Chao decided to return to the county governor's house. He decided to agree to what Yi Bin had discussed with him two days ago, but now he was expecting his mother to take care of him. All the property they had brought had been thrown away on the snowfield. I'm afraid that Yi Bin's conditions will change, but with his status as Sima of Shannan County, he can still get enough chips.

One foot had already stepped onto the steps to the lower city. There was a sharp neighing sound, and Lu Chao's stepping foot suddenly froze.

Each army will have a warning chime, and different armies use different chimes with different sounds. This is the unique sound of the Qin Dynasty. It is not just one sound, but after the first sound, there are two more sounds.

Three chimes sounded. There was a bang above Shannan County, and all the Qin soldiers who were eating stood up and threw away the steamed buns and soup bowls in their hands. They rushed to the city wall together and looked into the distance with wide eyes.

Although it didn't snow,

But between heaven and earth. There was still a thin layer of fog and the visibility was not very good. From the outpost, there were dozens of fast horses rushing towards Shannan County. From the outpost, there were already puffs of green smoke. In a short moment, thick smoke was already billowing everywhere.

"There is an enemy attack!" A general shouted. Lu Chao may not have known it, but this general knew it clearly. First, he blared three times, and then set the outpost on fire, which only meant that there were a large number of incoming enemies.

"Sun Aobo, Sun Aobo!" Lu Chao turned around and ran back, shouting loudly.

The general trotted over and said, "Lu Sima, there is an enemy attack. There are at least thousands of enemies. Close the city gate immediately and prepare for battle."

"You take command, right now!" Lu Chao shouted. He was not good at commanding in battles.

The suspension bridge slowly rose, and the city gate began to close with a creaking sound. Lu Chao suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, that's General Zhou Cheng. Quickly, get off the suspension bridge. Don’t close the city gate tightly until General Zhou comes back.”

At the front, the dozens of cavalry galloping forward were none other than Zhou Cheng, who led two thousand Qin troops out of the city a day ago. At this time, there were only dozens of cavalry left beside him, and they were all covered in blood. , running all the way towards here.

Looking at the pursuers behind them, Lu Chao and Sun Aobo both took a breath of cold air. A dark mass of cavalry was coming at full speed, and behind the cavalry, there were even more infantry. The pawn is running towards here.

"You can't lower the suspension bridge, close the city gate immediately!" Sun Aobo's face turned pale, "Pull it up, pull up the suspension bridge, archers, crossbowmen, trebuchets, prepare to attack!"

"That's General Zhou, General Zhou Cheng!" Lu Chao shouted.

"Lu Sima." Sun Aobo turned around and looked at Lu Chao, "General Zhou Cheng is too close to the enemy. If General Zhou Cheng is allowed in, the enemy's cavalry will rush in with him. There are only a thousand soldiers in the city. If Let them rush into the city and it will be all over."

Zhou Cheng, who was running towards the city gate, watched the suspension bridge rise higher and higher, and the city gate behind the suspension bridge also slammed shut. A look of despair appeared on his face. When he turned around, the chasing cavalry was only a few dozen steps away from him. Yao, at this distance, if the opponent doesn't shoot with arrows, it can only be said that the opponent wants to follow him and rush into Shannan City.

Zhou Cheng and his horses ran wildly to one side along the ditch in front of the city.

"Sun Aobo, guard Shannan City!" He howled loudly.

"Don't worry, General, I will definitely defend Shannan City!" On the city, Sun Aobo shouted sharply, "Fire the arrow!"

The sound of whooshing was endless, and dense rain of arrows shot down from the top of the city. The screams of crossbows and the rumbles of trebuchets echoed together. The group of pursuers at the forefront were immediately as stone-like. Fell down. At the same time, rows of arrows were shot out from behind them. Zhou Cheng and dozens of other riders who were walking around the city fell one after another in the rain of arrows, and fell to the ground below the city. In the trench.

"It's Zhao Jun, a native of Zhao!" Sun Aobo looked at the enemy troops under the city and shouted angrily. Lu Chao grabbed the cracks in the city wall with both hands.

Zhou Cheng died, and the chasing Zhao cavalry retreated, out of the range of the arrows, and formed a formation. Behind them, an endless stream of infantry was gathering.

"Shameless Zhao people, unexpectedly attacked!" Sun Aobo clenched his fist tightly, "Lu Sima, there are at least 10,000 people."

"Can you hold it?" Lu Chao suddenly turned his head and looked at Sun Aobo, "Can he hold it?"

"I'll try my best!" Sun Aobo looked at Lu Chao, "There are too many enemies, but we have too few people. Lu Sima, please send someone for help immediately. I hope we can survive until then. Since Zhao Jun has arrived here, we can only Fearing that General He Yangguang would be in trouble, the Zhao people colluded with the horse bandits and the Xiongnu tribe. "

Lu Chao stopped talking and turned around and walked towards the city. "I'll leave the defense of the city to you. I won't cause trouble for you here anymore. I'll go down to help you transport weapons and organize the people. All Qin people in the city should leave." Climb the city wall to defend Qin’s territory.”

Lu Chao walked down the city and never looked back. Outside the city, loud shouts and rumbling war drums sounded. He knew that the Zhao people's attack had begun.

He rode his horse directly into the governor's house. There, he wanted to gather all the officials of the county guard's office, assign casualties to them immediately, and ask them to gather the Qin people in the city separately, open the armory, and distribute weapons. Mobilize everyone and go to the top of the city to fight the Zhao people to the death.

As soon as the war horse entered the county governor's house, he saw a scene that surprised him. On the vast school grounds of the county guard's house, Cao Tianci, in full military gear, stood majestically, holding the war horse in hand. Behind him, more than a hundred Zhengdong soldiers The cavalry are also well-dressed.

"General Cao, this is a war between us Qin people and Zhao people. You don't have to go up. I hope you stay at the governor's house. If we can't hold it anymore, please take my mother and rush out. I can't stay in my mother's house." Since you have fulfilled your filial piety, please leave your mother to Gao Yuan, and your mother will be entrusted to Gao Yuan for the rest of her life." Lu Chao bowed deeply to Cao Tianci.

Cao Tianci's expression was complicated. He walked slowly to Lu Chao and saluted him, "Master Lu, I'm sorry." He raised his hand, and with Lu Chao's extremely surprised look on his face, he said A palm struck the back of Lu Chao's neck. Lu Chao stared wide-eyed and fell down in disbelief.

Cao Tianci reached out to support Lu Chao who fainted. Two soldiers behind him ran over and held Lu Chao on his left and right.

"Bring Mr. Lu to the back house and imprison him with Mrs. Lu. Leave a few people to guard him." Cao Tianci ordered. At this time, almost all the officials in the Shannan County Sheriff's Office were tied up and thrown into the lobby.

"Get on the horse!" Cao Tianci shouted sharply.

More than a hundred cavalrymen got on their horses, holding swords in one hand and drawing crossbows in the other.

"Let's go!" Cao Tianci clamped his horse's belly and rushed towards the door of the mansion. As he rushed out of the door, a cavalryman behind him raised his hand and fired a dynamite.

Yi Bin, who was not far from the governor's house, heard the crisp sound of the chime and immediately shouted excitedly: "Everyone, get on your horses and get ready to fight!"

More than a hundred caravan clerks quickly led out the horses and mounted their mounts. The horses they used to haul the goods were themselves war horses.

When Yi Bin's team rushed out of their residence, Cao Tianci's team happened to run over. The two teams merged together and ran towards the city gate.

At this time, Feng Fayong outside the city had already commanded the entire army to press forward. He did not know Gao Yuan's arrangement, but Gao Yuan told him that when the entire army arrived at Shannan City, they would immediately press forward and attack violently. There is an unexpected surprise for him.

Feng Fayong didn't know what this unexpected surprise was, but he understood that Gao Yuan would not fool him on such a major matter, because if he could not defeat Shannancheng, it would not be of any benefit to Gao Yuan.

Nearly 10,000 Zhao troops rushed over with shouts, each holding a bag filled with snow. They left the bag in the trench, and in a moment, a passage of more than 100 meters was filled. Climbing up the ladder, approaching the city head, swarms of swarms came up. (To be continued,!