Three Kingdoms: Jiangdong is no longer a rat

Chapter 52 Breaking the Door
Just as Chen Gan waved his gun to force back several defenders, a sword and shield soldier was the first to climb up the parapet, leaped up, and jumped into the city wall.

Immediately afterwards, several more soldiers jumped onto the city wall.

The dozen or so defenders around were terrified, knowing that if they could not drive these invading enemies out of the city, the situation would collapse immediately. They rushed over and tried to take back the battlements.

Sun Ju was among these defenders. He was an honest man. When he heard the sergeant shouting behind him to charge, the blood and obedient nature in his body surged out. He gripped the spear tightly with both hands, rushed to the front side by side with another soldier, and stabbed Chen Gan with his spear.

However, they had lost the geographical advantage brought by the city wall, and the gap between them and the elite troops of the Yan family was immediately revealed. The spear in Sun Ju's hand had only been thrust out halfway when it was swept away by the injured Chen Gan. Before Sun Ju could make a new move, the spear in Chen Gan's hand had already stopped steadily in mid-air, and then quickly changed direction, stabbing towards Sun Ju's chest like a poisonous snake, and went straight through.

Sun Ju fell backward, blood foaming from his mouth as his consciousness gradually faded. In his final moments, he seemed to see the Qixingli where he had grown up, and that simple yet warm home. His wife, Sun, was weaving reed mats in the courtyard, a gentle smile on her lips, waiting for him to return.
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The bloody gun tip was pulled out of Sun Ju's chest. Chen Gan didn't even look at the corpse on the ground, and immediately fought with the other defenders.

Only after he had defeated this group of defenders did he step back two steps and let a soldier bandage his wounds.

At this time, more and more soldiers were climbing up the city wall, the situation quickly reversed, and Chen Gan's troops had completely controlled this part of the wall.

As the saying goes, a single move can affect the entire body. The other defenders on the city wall had to come to support, making the situation on the other battlements immediately precarious.

Fan Yan watched this scene from below the city walls. His tense nerves relaxed, and he exhaled, "Beat the drums to cheer! Let the fourth song begin, and attack from Chen Gan's position!"

The fourth song was composed of the children of wealthy and powerful families. After seeing Chen Gan attacking the city wall, the nervousness of these children of wealthy and powerful families who were on the battlefield for the first time turned into an eagerness to make achievements. After receiving the military order, they immediately rushed towards the city wall with shouts.

But before they could climb up the city wall, the defenders on the wall began to collapse.

Chen Gan, with his wounds bandaged, led more than 30 sword and shield soldiers, advancing from east to west, unstoppable.

Under attack from both sides, the defenders on the city wall had no will to resist and fled towards the gate tower.

Inside the gate tower, the captain had already fled when he saw the situation was not good, leaving only Du Jing and his men to defend the gate.

It’s not that Du Jing doesn’t want to escape, but his wife and children are in Yuncheng. If he flees, his wife and children will die.

Although the enemy army in front of them was extremely powerful, there were only more than a thousand of them. Even if they could sneak attack and capture Qian Gonglei, it would be impossible for them to capture Yuncheng.

Du Jing believed this from the bottom of his heart. He had lived in Yuncheng for several years and had witnessed Yuncheng develop step by step from an inconspicuous small mountain stronghold to its current appearance. Both Yan Baihu and Xu Gong had attacked Yuncheng, but gave up halfway and returned in defeat.

So he must stay here, even if he dies in battle, to protect the safety of his wife and children.

Du Jing was a gentle man, usually quite popular. However, seeing the disastrous situation, he didn't care about anything else. He ruthlessly killed the two deserters and led a few trusted men to block the gate leading to the city. He shouted in a stern voice: "Go back and hold on until reinforcements arrive. Anyone who dares to escape will not be blamed for not caring about the friendship between brothers!"

Dozens of defenders who had fled into the gatehouse were frightened by his prestige, and for a moment no one dared to step forward to seize the gate. While they were hesitating, they suddenly heard screams from the direction of the arrow tower, followed by shouts of killing that were getting closer and closer. The enemy's fierce general wearing fish-scale armor rushed in from the east gate with his men.

Chaos erupted inside the gatehouse, with swords flashing, flesh and blood flying, and screams echoing. Du Jing saw that the enemy soldiers were still able to maintain a certain formation under such circumstances, with the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen coordinating with each other to advance and strangle the enemy in an orderly manner. He was filled with despair, but suddenly remembered something he had forgotten in his panic and shouted, "Quickly cut the ropes hanging on the gate!"

The hanging gate is made of hard elm wood and wrapped with a thick layer of iron sheet. It weighs two thousand pounds and is located above the city gate. In front of the city gate, once the rope that raises and lowers the hanging gate is cut, it will be difficult for the attackers to move the hanging gate in a short time due to the lack of equipment. Although they can enter the city through the gatehouse, it is impossible for cavalry to enter the city.

Chen Gan knew the importance of Xuanmen very well, so he rushed towards the turning pass that controlled Xuanmen at the first opportunity. Hearing Du Jing's shout, he quickened his pace a bit, and led several soldiers to hack and chop, rushing straight to the turning pass and stopping two defenders who were also rushing towards the turning pass.

The two defenders looked at Chen Gan's huge body and did not dare to move forward.

At this time, the remaining defenders in the gatehouse had been trapped in a small area in front of the north gate. The attackers had already lined up in the spacious gatehouse. The sword and shield soldiers held their shields in front and advanced step by step with cold steps. The spearmen stood beside the sword and shield soldiers, and long spears shone through the gaps in the shields, stabbing the defenders who could not stop retreating to death.

The defenders could no longer suppress their fear and turned to flee towards the gate blocked by Du Jing. They knocked the loyal captain to the ground and escaped.

Du Jing was trampled by twenty or thirty people and groaned in pain. Before he could get up from the ground, he was hacked to death by the soldiers who rushed over.

"Open the city gate quickly!" Chen Gan shouted while shaking the lifting rope on the switch.

The soldiers rushed out of the tower, went down the city wall along the stairs of the city gate, killed the enemy troops who came to support along the way, and headed straight for the city gate.

Following the dull sound of a hard object moving, the hanging door slowly rose up, and then the city gate slowly opened with a creaking sound.

Four hundred cavalrymen rushed into the city gate like a flood that broke through the dam. The dense sound of horse hooves quickly spread fear to the entire city.

Yan Yi stood on horseback on the south bank of the moat, watching this scene. His right hand, which was tightly gripping the hilt of the knife, slowly loosened its grip, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face after the pressure was released.

He knew that as long as this cavalry rushed into the city, it would be difficult to reverse the trend of Qian Gonglei changing hands.

Although vast plains and wilderness are the natural battlefields for cavalry to demonstrate their combat effectiveness, that refers to a large cavalry of thousands or even tens of thousands of people.

When the number of cavalry is small, the terrain restrictions on them still exist, but they are not so obvious.

In particular, the cavalry that Yan Baihu spared no expense to build can be said to be a native product of the Jiangnan water town, and has completely different characteristics from the cavalry in the Central Plains.

In terms of impact force and flexible use of various cavalry tactics, they are not as good as the cavalry in the Central Plains, but in terms of adaptability to the soil of Jiangdong, the cavalry in the Central Plains are obviously inferior to them.

What kind of soil produces what kind of flowers.

This cavalry of several hundred men already had their own unique way and style of fighting.

(End of this chapter)