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August is about to pass halfway, and the mountains and fields are even more autumn. On the first night of the first day of the garrison of Yunshi Valley, the Han soldiers who were sleeping in the high places of the valley experienced the personal experience of the changing seasons. The rain kept raining all night, and the beaten tents sounded like drums. The temperature was surprisingly cold late at night, which forced the soldiers to use braziers in the tent to keep the cold.

As the head coach, Pan Chongche naturally felt the power of God, but he regarded it as a warning from God to him, and he needed to attack the city immediately and not to delay.

At the 13th of August, Pan Chongche ordered an attack on Chenzhou City. A dense rain of arrows covered the sky and covered the city. Hundreds of siege tanks rushed in turn. While suppressing the Wuping defenders on the city, they wanted the brigade of armored infantry to quickly advance under the city wall, and finally carried the ladder to start the tragic ants tactic.

After the siege began, the defenders' counterattacks were very fierce. In the tower, several Wuping's defending crossbow machines roared from time to time. Once the crossbow arrows of eight or nine feet were penetrated into the Han army formation, they could directly skew several Han soldiers who were charging into meat skewers. This terrifying lethality made the Han army very frightened.

At the same time, the Wuping defenders on the top of the city also braved the rain of arrows, and in turn returned the arrows to the charging Han army from time to time. When the Han army approached the city wall, a large number of huge pieces of rocks were thrown down from the city walls, and the boiling golden soup was poured on the head. The bodies of the Han soldiers soon stacked small buns of hills under the city walls everywhere.

Pan Chongche watched the battle in the Central Army with a expressionless face. After all, he had experienced a lot of battle formations. He was already numb in the face of life and death. He still did not retreat at this moment. It was normal for the siege to cause a large number of casualties, but he had the capital to deal with it.

Because the Chenzhou City in front of me is really short and the number of defenders is at a disadvantage, the city will be broken if it is attacked. After the city is broken, all these Tang people will be unable to escape. At that time, they can be allowed to slaughter the Han army, and the gap between the casualties between the two armies will be immediately balanced.

The siege lasted until the evening. The Han army launched seven large-scale charges in succession and attacked the city several times. However, the Han army failed to break through Chenzhou City, and more than 3,000 soldiers were injured and killed, and more than ten generals and officials of all sizes were injured and killed.

The Wuping Army was naturally quite injured, but these thousands of defenders stubbornly resisted the attacks again and again. Even the corpses of the comrades who died in battle were not cleaned up, and they always stood on the top of the city with weapons in their hands, as if they were determined to die with the Han army.

This situation was obviously beyond Pan Chongche's expectations. Seeing that the soldiers were in a state of unrest, they had to order to stop siege and withdraw their troops and return to the camp to rest first. However, they did not forget to announce the order for the entire army to conduct a large-scale siege at the hour of Hai. Pan Chongche clearly ordered that in addition to the injured soldiers and more than a thousand logistics troops, all the other soldiers, including the soldiers of the elephant cavalry, had to take off their mounts and participate in the night siege. This night battle would definitely take down Chenzhou City in one fell swoop, and if anyone retreated, he would be killed immediately.

At the hour of Hai, it was already dark. More than 10,000 Han troops took advantage of the darkness to rush to Chenzhou City like a tide along the daytime siege path. This time it was surprisingly smooth. Hundreds of ladders were laid on the edge of the city wall, but they did not encounter any resistance. With almost no effort, thousands of Han troops took the lead in attacking the city.

The strangest thing is that when a large number of Han troops rushed to the city, the Wuping soldiers and horses in the entire city seemed to have evaporated from the earth and disappeared without a trace.

When Pan Chongche received the report and entered the city, he stood on the top of the city and looked at the dark city, he was puzzled. Just as he was about to order the troops to rush into the streets and alleys of the city to search for the traces of Wuping's army, fire suddenly lit up everywhere, and the mountain wind was filled at night, and soon it turned into a sea of ​​fire. Looking vaguely, many figures were setting fire to the city. It seemed that Wuping's army was setting fire to the city.

As if he shook his head contemptuously, Pan Chongche felt funny in his heart. This obvious trick to lure the enemy was too rough. Before the Han army entered the depths of the city, they could not wait to ignite the fire. Then they waved their hands and ordered the entire army to withdraw from the city immediately, only to let the Tang people enjoy the pain of burning fire.

The fire burned all night until dawn, and it was not extinguished. Pan Chongche waited outside the city for a long time, and finally decided to lead his troops into the city. The oncoming heat suddenly made the whole army feel uncomfortable, but the streets and alleys in the city were covered with black charcoal, and all the houses were completely destroyed, but there was no body on the ground.

Soon, the sergeants who searched came to report that there was no trace of the Wuping army in the city, and there was not even the people. The Wuping army who had previously fought against the city seemed to have disappeared out of thin air in the fire, and there was no trace at all. Pan Chongche was even more puzzled. Last night, the army was deliberately surrounded by three sides outside the city, and no one escaped from the city gate. Even if he died of self-immolation, he would have to have a handful of ashes, right?

When Pan Chongche drove his horse to the East City Gate and saw the river bank facing the water in the east gate, he suddenly realized. He saw dozens of small boats docked in a row on the shore, as if they were simple ships temporarily built with lush grass and trees on the riverside. And there were even a few weapons and supplies scattered here, and the footprints were chaotic.

"Haha, it turns out that Tang Jun fled down the river, mom..."

Pan Chongche frowned and cursed halfway. Looking north, his eyes turned around inexplicably along the calm river, and turned to the opposite direction. His heart suddenly felt an unknown premonition in his instinctively, and he shouted: "No! The Tang army is probably going to go back to us, so I will send an order to return..."

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