Seeing this centurion like this, Zhang Liao nodded with relief.
"The defenders on the city, listen, I am Qu Commander Peng Tuo. Open the door quickly. I want to enter the city!"
Peng Tuo came to the city gate and shouted loudly to the top of the city. He saw the surrendered centurion sticking his head out, and through the night, he saw clearly that it was his commander-in-chief, Peng Tuo.
"Wait a moment, Commander Qu, I will open the door for you right now."
"Come here, open the city gate quickly and welcome Qu Shuai into the city!"
The centurion gave Zhang Liao a look, and Zhang Liao quickly nodded to the soldiers behind him. At this time, thousands of soldiers were ambushing in the houses on both sides of the street not far from the city gate.
Not only that, there were a lot of haystacks piled up on both sides of the road.
As the city gate slowly opened, Peng Tuo led his army slowly into An City, while Xiang Kunlun and a group of Han soldiers in the dark held their breath, waiting for the opportunity to come.
When half of the Yellow Turban Army entered the city, Zhang Liao waved his hand and said to the deputy general beside him, "Close the city gate and start the fire!"
"promise!"
After a moment, the city gate suddenly closed tightly, and just as Peng Tuo looked behind him in confusion, flaming rockets shot into the hay that had been piled on both sides of the road and soaked in kerosene. .
With a "swipe", the haystacks on both sides of the road burned instantly, lighting up the entire street, and the Han troops who were ambushing in the houses on both sides slowly lowered their long bows at Xiang Kunlun's order. Aiming at Peng Tuo's army who was stunned on the spot.
"Soldiers, fire your arrows!"
Xiang Kunlun gave an order, and the 3,000 Han soldiers immediately released their bow strings, and sharp arrows flew through the air, hitting the unsuspecting Yellow Turban soldiers.
Zhang Liao, who was on the top of the city, led 1,000 soldiers and threw down the rolling logs and stones that had been prepared on the top of the city.
For a moment, the Yellow Turban soldiers wailed loudly. Countless Yellow Turban soldiers died under the rain of arrows, and those who survived were also killed by the impact of rolling logs and stones.
Seeing this familiar scene, Peng Tuo's head banged, "This, how is this possible? It's that evil thief again, ah..."
"It's too much to bully others! Hold on to me, Commander! Hold on!"
Peng Tuo looked at the chaos among his subordinates and yelled loudly. However, it had no effect. The Yellow Turban Army was completely in chaos.
A group of Yellow Turbans pushed each other and tried to escape. Under such circumstances, countless Yellow Turbans died under the trampling of their own people.
Listening to the screams and wails of the Yellow Turban Army, Xiang Kunlun smiled coldly, waved his arms, "Kill with me!"
After saying that, he took the lead to kill. With the light of the fire, the Tianlong city-breaking halberd in his hand directly pierced several fleeing Yellow Turban soldiers. The 3,000 Changshe Han troops behind him also came out and followed Xiang Kunlun closely. behind.
Peng Tuo led a group of personal guards closer to the city gate, preparing to cooperate with the remaining 5,000 troops outside the city to capture the city gate. Zhang Liao saw Peng Tuo protected by a group of personal guards from a distance. .
"Everyone, shoot at the enemy general!"
Under the command of Zhang Liao, a group of white horse Yiyi soldiers holding long bows fired arrows in the direction of Peng Tuo, and Peng Tuo, who was unprepared, was hit in his left shoulder by this wave of arrows.
Zhang Liao looked at this scene, smiled coldly, and led 1,000 white horse Yi Congmen to kill Peng Tuo from the top of the city. At this time, Peng Tuo, who was wounded by an arrow, was covering his wound. Under the protection of a group of personal guards, he avoided the rain of arrows.
But he saw an enemy army heading towards him, led by a general, who was heading directly towards him. Peng Tuo could no longer hold back the aggrieved anger in his heart and pushed away the bodyguard beside him. , holding his own three-pointed two-edged sword and rushed forward.
Seeing Peng Tuo charging towards him, Zhang Liao was secretly happy. He chopped down the two yellow scarf soldiers and attacked them directly with his sword.
There was a clear sound of "clang", and Peng Tuo felt a huge force coming, and the weapon in his hand flew away. He flew backwards and fell hard to the ground.
"He's handsome, he's handsome!"
Several personal guards rushed to Peng Tuo's side and helped him up.
Looking at the white horse Yi Cong led by Zhang Liao who had gathered around him, Peng Tuo knew that he was defeated this time, completely defeated. He fell powerlessly into the arms of his guards. Peng Tuo felt a tightness in his chest and vomited. After taking a mouthful of blood, his eyes went black and he passed out.
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As the sky gradually became brighter, Xiang Kunlun led his army to extinguish the fire that had been ignited in the city. On the street, a group of soldiers were supervising the surrender of an unarmed Yellow Turban soldier, while 5,000 Peng Tuo soldiers outside the city Seeing that the situation was over, he also fled towards Qiao County under the leadership of two men named Liu Pi and Gong Du.
Xiang Kunlun took Zhang Liao to the prison in Ancheng. Looking at Peng Tuo who was locked up inside, he sneered disdainfully, "Peng Tuo, the commander of Runan Canal, I have admired him for a long time."
"Hmph, who are you? You have repeatedly attacked our unit, and your dirty tricks failed at your hands. Peng refuses to accept it!"
Peng Tuo roared coldly, and his expression became ferocious. It may have been caused by the arrow wound on his right shoulder. Halfway through his words, he fell to the ground while covering the wound on his right arm.
"You are the magistrate of Zhongling County, Xiang Kunlun. You and other yellow scarf thieves are causing trouble in the world and murdering the people. Who are you qualified to say that Xiang's plan is undermining?"
Hearing Xiang Kunlun's name, Peng Tuo opened his eyes wide and laughed loudly.
"Hahaha, it turns out that you used a fire trick to defeat Xiang Kunlun, the commander of Bo Caiqu, and Peng actually fell into your hands. Don't say anything. If you want to kill or behead him, please do as you please."
After saying that, he turned away and said nothing, waiting for Xiang Kunlun to execute him. Xiang Kunlun didn't say anything when he saw this, he just looked at the jailer next to him.
"Have a good time entertaining Peng Qushuai, don't neglect him."
After saying that, he turned around and led Zhang Liao out of the prison. Zhang Liao followed Xiang Kunlun closely. After leaving the prison, he finally couldn't help the doubts in his heart and asked.
"My lord, why don't you kill that traitor Peng Tuo?"
"Now is not the time. There are thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers in the city, not to mention there are still more than ten thousand Yellow Turban troops in the entire Runan County. If we want to regain Runan County, we have to rely on him, Peng Tuo."
After listening to Xiang Kunlun's words, Zhang Liao realized that Runan County had not been completely recovered yet. As long as Peng Tuo was here, he could easily recover the entire Runan County through Peng Tuo.
The news that Xiang Kunlun defeated Peng Tuo in Ancheng and captured Peng Tuo alive quickly spread back to Yingchuan County. Huangfu Song had just led his troops to recover the entire Yingchuan County. While celebrating, he received another battle report from Xiang Kunlun.
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(End of chapter)