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"The offensive of Cao's army outside the city has stopped. In less than half an hour, the army in Shangbang City can be prepared and withdraw from the west gate."
"After the retreat? Where do we go?"
Tianshui?
Zhang Bao couldn't imagine how they would return to Tianshui now.
"Did I say we were going to retreat?" Jiang Wan asked back.
"Didn't you say that? Abandon Shangbang City and retreat from Ximen?"
Zhang Bao was a little puzzled for a moment.
"Haha." Jiang Wan smiled lightly, "General Zhang Bao misunderstood. I just said that the army will withdraw from Shangbang City, and I didn't say that I would give up Shangbang."
Jiang Wan reined in his horse and stood side by side with Zhang Bao, "General Zhang Bao, the land of Xiliang was bought by our soldiers with their lives and blood."
"If I leave Xiliang this time, I'm afraid I won't have the chance to come back again." Zhang Bao spit out these words with a sigh.
The moon was bright in the sky, and even if they lined up in the city, they could clearly see the road ahead.
"It's not too late, the former army should go first. If it's later, I expect Cao's army to complete the siege again."
As Jiang Wan thought, Cao Jun's battalions are being replenished.
Half an hour later, Shangbang's Han army broke through the west gate.
Even if it is a bright moon, it will not hang in the night sky for a long time, and it will slowly fall from the middle of the sky to the west.
In the morning light, Cao Xiong frowned, he was restless and restless under the torment of the nightmare.
"Dianman!"
The scene of Norman's chest being pierced appeared in his dream.
He woke up from the dream and sat up straight.
Chapter 1805 The figure in light blue armor!
The cold at the end of winter made him shiver for a while, but he still tried his best to recall the contents of the dream.
Norman's left chest was pierced by a steel spear.
Well it was just a dream.
"Ominous omen."
Cao Xiong murmured in his heart.
"Where's Zuo Ci?"
Cao Xiong turned his head and looked outside the house.
He wrapped himself in a quilt to warm himself up, then put on his battle armor and left the camp.
Now he really wants to find Zuo Ci.
However, it wasn't until this time that he remembered that he didn't seem to be able to find Zuo Ci on weekdays.
It was Zuo Ci who came to find him.
It was not yet daylight.
Ma Yunlu has returned from his daily camp tour.
"Cao Xiong, are you awake?"
Ma Yunlu shouted to Cao Xiong who was in a daze at the entrance of the big tent.
"Yun Lu, have you seen Zuo Ci?"
"No."
Cao Xiong frowned.
Dreams are always reversed, maybe he is overthinking.
At this time, there was a campfire in the back camp.
Zuo Ci was transforming into a warrior, burning tortoise shells in the campfire.
The word 'full' is printed on the tortoise shell.
Zuo Ci kept staring at the tortoise shell, and after lightly adding momentum to the campfire with his fingers, the temperature of the flame became higher and higher.
The tortoise shell turned red, purple, and then black on the burning firewood, and finally the tortoise shell cracked and turned into white ashes in Zuo Ci's eyes.
A gust of cold wind blew by, and the flames grew bigger and bigger.
However, the white tortoise shell turned into dust and disappeared from Zuo Ci's eyes.
"The secret cannot be leaked."
Zuo Ci thought silently in his heart.
Today, Cao Xiong personally came to the front of the formation, looking at the top of Tianshui city.
The moment the sun breaks, it is time to attack the city.
Cao Xiong was riding on a horse, holding a binoculars in his hand, looking at the city of Tianshui.
A figure in light blue armor appeared in his sight.
That figure is so resolute on the top of the city.
She just stared at Cao Jun outside the city like that, as if looking down on a military parade, proudly looking at the enemy army who was about to overwhelm the city in front of her.
"Who is the general guarding Tianshui?"
"Returning to the son, the ghost bat is here to report. The current general guarding the city of Tianshui is Zhang Xingcai, the daughter of Zhang Yide."
"A woman?"
Cao Xiong was a little surprised.
"Back to the son, yes." Xu Yi nodded to the son, "Zhang Xingcai alone leads a large army in Xiliang, and is a general under Zhang Fei, who is highly regarded by Zhuge Liang."
"Especially after Zhang Fei's death, Zhang Xingcai led the Xiliang army in the Han army."
"Right now, apart from Zhuge Liang, the most prestigious person in the Xiliang area, apart from Zhuge Liang, is Zhang Xingcai."
Cao Xiong glanced at Xu Yi, then looked through the telescope again and landed on Zhang Xingcai on the tower.
After Zhang Xingcai stood at the entrance of a city wall for a while, he went around the tower to inspect again.
Just like the taste of a general.
"If it weren't for that blue armor, I really wouldn't be able to tell it was a woman."
For some reason, Cao Xiong caught this woman in blue armor.
He didn't move for a long time.
The face of Ma Yunlu next to him has changed.
The eyebrows have become dark.
It's just that Zhang Xingcai's figure was so charming that Cao Xiong didn't notice that he had lost his mind for a moment.
"Cao Xiong, what are you looking at?"
Ma Yunlu said darkly.
"Look at the defense situation of the enemy army on the tower." Cao Xiong said casually, "The armored soldiers are full of spirits. It's really hard to tell that they are soldiers who have stayed up all night."
"Are you really just looking at this?"
"Take a look." Cao Xiong tried his best to put aside the topic without leaving any traces, and handed the telescope to Ma Yunlu.
"Prepare to attack the city!" Cao Xiong no longer hesitated.
"You know how to perfunctory me!"
Chapter 1806 The invincible army is back!
Above the water in the sky, the clouds are thick.
Although the northwest wind was blowing, none of the two people in Tianshui City felt cold.
The walls of Tianshui City were covered with siege ladders, and the cloud ladders a hundred steps away were slowly being pushed over.
Huge boulders burning with oil and fire were thrown into the sky by the trebuchet and hit the tower, and the bones of the Han soldiers were smashed one by one!
Zhang Xingcai couldn't even go to the city wall to command the retreat of the enemy, so he could only watch groups of soldiers rushing up!
Guan Suo and Bao Sanniang have already gone to the south gate and north gate respectively.
Zhao Yun divided several armies and went to pretend to attack other city gates.Tianshui City has become an isolated city.
Cao Xiong sat on the cart, looking at the map of Xiliang.To the south of Longxi, after following the valley above, is the Qishan Mountain Road.
The top priority is to capture Shangbang, go south along the mountain road and then go down to Wudu, and then you can take Jiange Road.
Zhuge Liang came out of Qishan to make a dangerous move, not to mention how difficult the road to Qishan is, even if Sima Yi, who was guarding Hanzhong, stabbed him in the back, it would be enough for him.
In front of the East Gate of Tianshui, Xu Yiqian personally supervised the battle, and when the siege soldiers were all dead, the supervising soldiers went up again.
On the cart pulled by the war horses, a snowflake fell into the cup in front of Cao Xiong along with the wind and melted into it.
Cao Xiong gently turned the wine cup.
"What did you see?"
Zuo Ci in front of the car clasped his wrist, staring at Tianshui City calmly.
"Blood... blood all over the mountains and plains, the blood flows together and is about to merge into a river."
"That means the battle is very tragic." Cao Xiong drank the cold wine, his heart was chilled, "So much blood has been left, and the shouting has not stopped, it means that the invincible army has returned .”
Zuo Ci didn't look back at Cao Xiong.
In Zuo Ci's eyes, the world is turning and closing, divided and united, and in the years of dynasties changing, the lives and deaths of a few people and the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people are nothing but smoke and clouds.
But seeing the scene of blood flowing into a river with his own eyes, his white beard still trembled slightly.
In the south of Tianshui City, Guan Suo personally supervised and led the city defense army at the top of the city, preventing Cao soldiers from entering the city.
The way he threw a pair of cudgels over the opening of the city wall and hit Cao Bing on his forehead is really handsome~
The south gate faces Shangbang, which is one of the places Cao Jun most wants to capture besides the east gate.
Before Guan Suo noticed, a general riding a black horse outside the south gate had already bent his bow and set his arrows, pointing at him!
It's like thousands of arrows shot from the top of the city.
In the rain of arrows shot up from outside the city, a long-paying arrow pierced through the air and went straight to a city wall.
Guan Suo only heard an unusual howling sound of arrows coming through the air.
In a moment, the sound of feather arrows arrived!
Guan Suo stepped back subconsciously, and the arrows brushed past his cheeks.
He fell at the sound!
"General!"
The Bai Mubing beside him supported Guan Suo who had fallen down.
Guan Suo's eyes were empty, and his consciousness froze for a moment.
Just now, there was a feeling of drawing across the side of the face, and now, there is a slight numbness from the corner of the mouth.
Got shot - this is what Guan Suo realized immediately!
He raised his hand and touched his cheek, the sticky touch touched the blood on his hand!