Chapter 1121: Four Doors Broken
Xu Chen has 8,000 troops in his hands, and 1,000 people are scattered on the street along the road. These people are going to intercept the messengers coming and going.
Several main roads in the city were blocked, and the army was allowed to pass, but if it was an orderly soldier, no matter which side it was, none of them could pass.
They can't stop the army, but they are more effective in stopping the messengers.
It would be of great benefit to the defenders of the four gates if they could not communicate with each other.
After Xu Chen made arrangements, he immediately led his troops to the west gate.
At this time, Datang's army was attacking Ximen, attacking violently.
On the top of the city, thousands are Cao Jun, thousands are Jingzhou soldiers and horses, and there are more than 2,000 people under the city gate, all Jingzhou soldiers and horses.
"Kill and open the city gate."
After Xu Chen had a preliminary understanding of the situation, he ordered an attack on the city gate without hesitation.
3,000 Tang's regular troops were the vanguard, and 7,000 people killed together.
The army guarding the city gate thought it was reinforcements at first, but when they got close, the soldiers and horses attacked him.
Xu Chen attacked and quickly opened the city gate.
The army outside was led by Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai. They came in and surrounded Cao Jun's barracks according to the plan.
Cao Jun already knew the situation and assembled the army to stand by.
It's just that they haven't received Cao Ren's order.
Not only that, but they didn't know what happened in Xiangyang City, so they could only stand by and defend the city according to the plan.
General Cao Jun ordered to stick to the barracks. Their information was not clear, so there was nothing they could do.
Speaking of Cao Ren, when the south gate was breached, he immediately rushed to the east gate with more than 20,000 people, intending to gather troops and break out of the siege.
But he had just walked halfway, but he ran into the coming Datang army head-on.
The east gate had also been broken long ago, and Cao Jun's camp at the east gate was surrounded, and part of the soldiers and horses surrounded them.
Cao Ren was blocked.
soon,
Zhang Yu and Dian Wei came from behind him.
The two armies began to storm Cao Ren's army.
At the north gate, Zhou Yu led tens of thousands of people to attack.
However, he soon received news that three city gates had fallen.
"It's scary, how many insiders are there in the city? This Cao Jun is probably in danger."
Zhou Yu has known the plan for a long time, but it is not known whether Zhang Yu's plan can be completed.
Now, Zhou Yu has no doubts, Zhang Yu's plan should be very easy.
Huang Zhong walked up, and said: "The three city gates have been broken, and the north gate will not last long. The whole army is ready to charge."
Zhou Yu nodded, indeed.
Sure enough, after they stormed for about a quarter of an hour, the Jingzhou soldiers and horses on the city collapsed, and only Cao Jun was resisting.
The army guarding the city gate simply abandoned the city gate and opened the city to surrender.
There are wars everywhere, and the enemies have all come in. They have no need to resist.
The Tang army broke through the four city gates.
A large number of Jingzhou troops surrendered directly, and then turned to attack Cao Jun.
Cao Jun's barracks were surrounded.
Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong also led their troops to attack Cao Jun's barracks.
Cao Jun, several city gates cannot respond to each other.
Cao's army was divided into several parts, the troops guarding the city and the barracks were not together, and the troops at the four gates were not together.
At the beginning, there were considerations for such a distribution. Cai Mao did not dare to let them control a city wall alone, so he separated them.
In this way, the disadvantages were exposed, and Cao Jun still had the possibility of breaking through.
However, being divided into several parts and surrounded separately, none of them could escape.
Cao Ren was surrounded in the middle, and several other barracks were also surrounded.
The city of Xiangyang was in chaos, and there were shouts of killing everywhere.
Fighting was taking place near several city gates, but mainly with Cao Jun.
At least half of Jingzhou's soldiers and horses surrendered.
Some people "uprising" on the battlefield directly turned to attack Cao Jun.
Cao's army was attacked fiercely. Datang's army was already powerful, and then Jingzhou's soldiers and horses attacked together.
Inside the palace, there was even more chaos, and Cai Mao was awakened from his sleep.
Originally, he wanted to personally lead troops to quell the rebellion, but suddenly the four city gates were broken, so there was no need for him to personally lead troops to quell the rebellion.
"What the hell happened? What happened?"
"Why did they come to town, why?"
"Quick, go and see, how is the situation now?"
Cai Mao has lost his position.
Many scouts were sent in the palace, but none of them could send back any news, and they were intercepted halfway.
Similarly, many people sent to the palace to deliver news were also intercepted.
Half an hour after Zhang Yu and the others entered the city, Cai Mao still didn't know the specific situation.
Cai Mao and the others also realized the problem.
"Commander Cai, take someone to check it yourself, I want to know the specific news."
Cai Mao couldn't bear it anymore, and sent several batches of scouts but failed to bring back any news.
A few scouts went out to inquire about the situation, but when they knew the situation, they immediately dropped their weapons and clothes and ran away.
At this time, the situation could not be more clear.
Cai Mao's palace became blind.
Cai Mao had to send Commander Cai out.
Cai Tong led more than two thousand people.
Sure enough, no one intercepted him after he went out, even the people arranged by Xu Chen couldn't intercept the more than 2,000 people, and it was no problem to let them pass. When it comes to the battlefield, what's the use of 2,000 people for Commander Cai.
Cai Tong led the people forward quickly.
"What's going on ahead?" Commander Cai ran into a group of patrolling people on the street in the middle of the city.
"Report to the general. There are rebellions at both the east gate and the south gate. We sent several waves of people to investigate, but there is no specific news."
Commander Cai had no doubts, thought about it, and then led the people to move on.
Commander Cai left, but he was very tragic. He didn't go for long, and when he was about to reach the battlefield, he was scattered by the Tang army coming from another direction.
Now, Zhang Yu and the others led troops to surround several Cao camps, and began to send troops to control other troops in the city.
Today's Jingzhou soldiers and horses, except for the soldiers and horses guarding around the palace, were either scattered or surrendered.
Of course, there were still many soldiers and horses guarding the warehouse, so Zhang Yu didn't arrange for anyone to move them.
Hundreds of them are scattered all over the place, and there are more than a thousand people at most. It is enough for these people to help him guard the warehouse.
In the palace, Cai Mao waited left and right, but still did not receive any news.
After Commander Cai went out, it was too late to come back.
After his army was dispersed, he hurriedly led dozens of people to flee back, but they were stopped after passing through the blocked streets.
"You, you are fake." Commander Cai said in shock.
It's a pity that he understood too late, hundreds of people rushed up to chop them up, then dragged the corpse away, and wiped away the blood on the ground.
That night, the city was surrounded by shouts of killing, and everyone hid at home trembling, which was terrible.
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