"Oh?" Suddenly, the news came, which made the Cao army's tent quiet for a moment. Then, Cao Cao was shocked and asked immediately: "Come on the secret letter!"

"No!" responded, and the military officer immediately picked up a blood-stained letter and submitted it respectfully. Without Cao Cao's own actions, General Cao Ren had already taken the letter and handed it over to Cao Cao for personal reading.

"Yes." After reading the secret letter in his hand, Cao Cao couldn't help but narrow his eyes, but there was no expression on his face. After pondering for a while, he said to the military officer: "Where is that spy? Bring him up too! I have something to ask him!" After that, he handed the letter in his hand to Cheng Yu next to him, and his current intention was fully revealed.

Cheng Yu took the letter and immediately looked it up. Then, a hint of joy appeared on his face. It turned out that the letter was exactly what everyone had discussed about the princes and ministers in Chang'an City!

Obviously, the princes and ministers in the city had already received the news that Cao Cao led his troops to attack Chang'an. As the proposal was made, he specially sent people to inform them, hoping to cooperate inside and outside, break through Chang'an and rescue the emperor!

After reading the letter in his hand, Cheng Yu was inevitably excited. After passing the letter to other generals for review, he immediately smiled and said, "Lord, it seems that we have hope of breaking the city this time!"

Cao Cao spoke calmly: "Whether there is hope of breaking the city, you still need to see that person before you know."

It took not much time for the two soldiers to escort a tied soldier into the tent. As soon as the soldiers came in, they saw Cao Cao and others in the tent, and immediately shouted loudly: "Sirs! The villain was ordered by the Grand Marshal Yang to go out of the city to find several adults!"

"Shut up!" Cao Cao frowned slightly, snorted coldly, and immediately stopped the soldier. Then he asked in a deep voice: "To be honest, who are you? What is the intention of escaping from the city and mingling into our army this time? If you dare to deceive at all, be careful of your own head!"

The soldier was so scared that he couldn't help but fight a cold war. He looked at Cao Cao with fear on his face, and then he responded tremblingly: "Master... Lord. The villain is the general of the Grand Marshal Yang's mansion. This time, he was ordered by Lord Yang to come out of the city."

"Oh?" Cao Cao narrowed his eyes, but stared at the soldiers' expressions. Cheng Yu and others were about to say something, but waved to Cao Cao to stop him. He smiled and asked, "It's important. Do you say you were sent by Grand Marshal Yang Biao? What evidence is there?"

"Yes! Yes! Of course, there is!" Seeing that Cao Cao was so majestic, the soldier quickly spoke out: "The villain brought Lord Yang's handwritten letter. He has already handed it to the adults. If the adults still don't believe it, the villain has a private seal from Lord Yang in his chest! The general can use it to verify it!" After that, the soldier stood up straight and everyone saw that his chest was bulging, and then he realized that there was something hidden inside.

Cao Cao waved his hand and his personal guard stepped forward to untie the rope for the soldier. He took out his private seal from the soldier's arms and made a little identification. He could believe that it was indeed the private seal of the Taiwei Yang Biao of the dynasty.

It was not until this time that Cao Cao finally showed a complete smile on his face and said, "Tell me, Lord Yang sent you out of the city, but what do you want to tell us?"

The soldier hurriedly said, "Sir. My family has joined forces with many ministers in the court who are loyal to the Han Dynasty and are preparing to launch an attack at midnight tomorrow. At that time, my family will send someone to open the city gate and use torches as a call to welcome the rebels of the adults into the city and kill Dong's thief's followers together!"

While the storm inside and outside Chang'an City was surging, Youzhou, Daijun, and Gaoliu City were completely in a panic. Countless Gaoliu County soldiers gathered on the top of the city in a panic, looking at the enemy troops who began to arrange troops in an orderly manner in the distance.

As a county seat, Gaoliu's county soldiers should not be so unbearable. In the past, even when facing the plunder of the Hu people outside the border, they had never been afraid. As the front line city where the Hu people went south, Gaoliu City's county soldiers were all elite troops baptized with blood. But at this moment, they were really panicked because the enemies they faced were too strong and their reputation was too great.

The Taiping Army swept over the Taiping Army, which occupied most of the Han Dynasty, and finally advanced to Youzhou. In other words, the Han Dynasty was no longer there, because the land that originally belonged to the Han Dynasty was basically occupied by the Taiping Army. With the victory or defeat of the Battle of Jieqiao, the Han Dynasty no longer had the power to resist the Taiping Army.

Facing the Hu Qi on the grassland, in order to defend his country and for the glory in the bones of the Han army, they can put life and death aside, even if they die in battle, they will do whatever they want. But at this moment, they are facing the Han army. Even if the Taiping Army does not belong to the Han Dynasty, they are all named China. Therefore, this time, it is a civil war, and invisibly, before the war begins, they have already lost three points of their own strength.

On the city tower, the county magistrate Gongsun Xu led a group of soldiers to stand on the city, looking at the Taiping Army's rigorous formation and grand momentum in the distance, and his face was full of condensation.

The Taiping Army swept the world. As we all know, Xiao Lan's command is full of powerful generals. Not to mention Huang Zhong, who can compete with Lu Bu head-on, are Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Taishi Ci, Gao Lan, Chen Dao, Zhou Tai and others, all of whom are the most powerful and brave generals in the world, with extraordinary force.

Chen Dao and Xu Chu, who came to attack Dai Jun, were both rare generals in the world. Although Gongsun Xu asked himself that he was a first-class general, he really had no chance of winning against Chen Dao and Xu Chu.

"General, the enemy has moved, they have begun to attack the city!" A few soldiers beside Gongsun Xu couldn't help but scream when they saw something happening to the opposite military camp.

The heavy horn sound of "Wuwuwuwuwuwu" kept echoing on the battlefield. All soldiers who were familiar with the battlefield understood that this was a signal that was about to be launched.

Then the sound of war drums rose, and tens of thousands of Taiping troops pushed the siege equipment and kept approaching forward. Soon, they were about to enter the boundary of siege defense.

Gongsun Xu suddenly raised his mind and immediately greeted the soldiers around him: "Brothers, we are all the Han border troops. It is our duty to guard the Han Dynasty. Now, the Taiping rebels are about to invade, and we must be mentally prepared and repel the thieves at all costs!"

"No!" The soldiers guarding the city were not ordinary soldiers, they were all real elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty. With Gongsun Xu's call, they immediately burst into high fighting spirit. When the Taiping Army entered the attack limit, they would obey the general's order and launch their most fierce attack.

However, as soon as it was about to enter the attack limit, the Taiping Army suddenly stopped attacking, and then, catapults were pushed up.

That's right, it's the catapult, to be precise, the improved long-range catapult. In this era without gunpowder, this long-range catapult is the most terrifying war machine.

"Let it go!" With Chen Dao's order, dozens of long-range catapults were launched, and dozens of huge stones flew out, like a sudden rain of locusts, heading straight to the top of Gaoliu City and hit the top of Gaoliu City.

Faced with this terrible scene, the defenders on the city were shocked. They used to face the grassland Huqi. They had never seen such a powerful weapon of siege. A huge stone hit the city wall, which immediately swayed. The guards who could not avoid it would be killed on the spot if they were not careful.

Seeing this scene happening, Gongsun Xu couldn't help but look bloody at him, but he knew in his heart that this might be just the first wave of attacks from the Taiping Army. If he couldn't even hold on, Gaoliu City would probably not be able to defend anyway.

Sure enough, his idea was right. With Chen Dao's call, dozens of long-range trenchers of the Taiping Army launched attacks one after another. Piles of huge rocks continued to fall on the city wall, shaking the city wall, making people panic. For a moment, it opened the beginning of the offensive and defensive battle in Gaoliu City... (To be continued...)
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