Cao Ren, who was standing on the top of the city, was holding his sword, looking down at the Qi army outside the city. Seeing the war elephants being forced back by the fire, Cao Ren's originally uneasy face could not help but show a look of ecstasy. "Captain, your strategy of using fire to scare the elephant really nailed the elephant's weakness. Look, the Qi troops outside the city were all dumbfounded." When Cao Ren finished praising him, his face changed. There was no concealment of pride and surprise. "Yuan Fang, the traitor who has usurped the Han Dynasty, thinks that he can conquer all by himself with a few giant southern barbarian elephants. This is really a delusion. With me, Fu Wan, I can't allow him to be arrogant again." Fu Wan stroked his white beard, He mocked Yuan Fang proudly. Cao Ren sneered again, but couldn't help but wonder: "Guo Zhang, how do you know the weakness of this southern barbarian war elephant?" "It's actually very simple." Fu Wan smiled proudly and said slowly: "Yuan Thief thought this giant elephant was No one in our Central Plains has ever seen the beasts of the Southern Barbarians. In fact, he does not know that the Southern Barbarians once presented several giant elephants to the late emperor. I was in Luoyang at that time and had seen many of them. I also heard from the Southern Barbarian elephant tamer. , Although this giant elephant looks scary, it is afraid of fire like all wild beasts, so I thought of using this fire trick to scare away the giant elephant of Yuan Thief. " So, Cao Ren suddenly realized. Looking at the blazing fire outside the city, Cao Ren sneered: "Tie Yuan, thief Yuan, now I know the weakness of your war elephant, now I see how you can still be so arrogant." A few hundred steps away, Yuan Fang has opened his telescope, The proud expressions of Cao Ren and Fu Wan were clearly visible. "It turns out that this old thief, Fu Wan, was also in Xinye City. This old thief was an official in Luoyang when Emperor Ling was in power. He must have seen the elephants that the Nanman presented to Emperor Ling, so he knew the weaknesses of elephants. " Yuan Fang recognized Fu Wan and immediately guessed the reason. That remnant of the Han Dynasty, the murderer of Hao Zhao, is now serving Cao Cao. Blocking Yuan Fang's steps to dominate the world made Yuan Fang hate Fu Wan even more deeply. "Cao Ren has seen through the weakness of the war elephants. It seems that these elephant soldiers cannot be used a second time. I think that today is not a good time to attack Xinye City." Fa Zheng's implication was that he naturally wanted to persuade Yuan Fang to withdraw his troops. How could Yuan Fang be such a reckless person? He immediately raised his whip and gave the order to withdraw his troops and return to camp. With the sound of gold ringing, the troops in various formations retreated slowly, heading back towards the camp. On the top of the city, Cao Ren looked down at the retreating Qi army, stroked his beard and sneered: "Yuan Thief, Yuan Thief. Today, you finally broke the city and were defeated by Cao Ren, haha~" "Yuan Thief, you usurper" You traitor, as long as I survive for a day, you will never be able to secure your position in this world." Cao Ren laughed proudly. A sinister smile appeared at the corner of Fu Wan's lips. Cao Jun on top of the city, seeing the Qi army being forced back, all laughed excitedly. ¡ Yuan Fang, who was riding his horse back to the camp, heard the loud laughter of Cao Jun behind him, his sword eyebrows were slightly condensed, and his eyes were starry. The cold murderous intention is circulating. "Cao Ren, after the attack, you can laugh as much as you want. You may cry sometimes." Yuan Fang returned to the camp with an unhappy mood, and immediately summoned all the civil and military officials to discuss strategies to break the city. Xinye City is strong, and the Thunderbolt Car will not work. The weakness of the war elephant was seen and it was of no use. The ministers discussed it for a long time, but they all came to a common conclusion. That is, the city can only be besieged with a large army first, and the city can be broken through a long siege. Of course, Yuan Fang cannot delay for too long, otherwise, he would not use the strategy of making an attack on the east and attacking the west, and rush to launch the southern expedition so quickly. This won¡¯t work, and that won¡¯t work either. After a long discussion with no results, Yuan Fang could only adjourn the meeting. It was night, and all the soldiers had fallen asleep, but Yuan Fang was still tossing and turning, thinking about strategies to break the city. It was early summer at this time, and the weather was still a little cool at night. Yuan Fang warmed up a pot of good wine, listened to the crackling of the fire and the whistling of the night wind outside the tent, and thought about a plan to break the city. The wine on the fire was already hot. Yuan Fang poured himself a cup and drank it all in one gulp. With the hot wine in your throat, the thick warmth spread all over your body in an instant, making you feel warm and comfortable indescribably. After drinking several glasses of wine, Yuan Fang put the wine pot back on the stove. A few drops of wine splashed into the stove, causing a large puff of steam to rise immediately. Looking at the white steam filling the air in front of the furnace, Yuan Fang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly thought of something. He stood up in a hurry, paced in the tent, clenched his fists, and his thoughts were tumbling. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. "It seems that if we want to break through this Xinye City, I can only rely on my own strength" Yuan Fang's eagle eyes were filled with murderous intent. ¡ ¡the next day, at dawn. Amidst the rumbling war drums, the elite divisions of the Da Qi Empire gathered again. This time, a hundred thousand troops?Force the north gate of Xinye. Cao Ren in the city had just gotten up. He originally thought that Yuan Fang's attack yesterday was frustrated and he would not launch another strong attack in the near future. However, he did not expect that Yuan Fang would come to attack again today. After hearing the news from the city, Cao Ren rushed to the city without thinking too much. After the ambush, when he heard that the Qi army was coming to attack again, he was worried that Yuan Fang had some plot and that Cao Ren would not be able to deal with it, so he hurried to the north gate. Cao Ren and Fu Wan arrived at the north gate of Xinye at almost the same time. Looking down directly in front, I saw 400 steps away, 100,000 Qi troops formed into more than ten military formations of various sizes, and the black mass stretched for hundreds of feet, standing in front of the city. "Tie Yuan, thief Yuan, haven't you had enough of yesterday's lesson?" Cao Ren snorted coldly. In his opinion, Yuan Fang's attack today was nothing more than repeating his old tactics, first bombarding the city with thunderbolt chariots, then launching infantry, and finally sending in war elephants. "It's a pity that yesterday's battle has proved that the weakness of the war elephant is its fear of fire. Today Yuan Fang used the same trick again, but it just humiliated Cao Ren again. Nafu Wan frowned slightly, pointed outside the city and said: "General Zixiao, don't underestimate the enemy. When I looked at the enemy's formation, it seemed that there was no thunderbolt chariot this time, and no shadow of the elephant was found. I feel that Yuan Thief This attack is a little different." Cao Ren raised his eyes and took a closer look. Sure enough, as Fu Wan said, there was no sign of the thunder chariot or the war elephant. While being suspicious, Cao Ren snorted coldly and said proudly: "No matter what tricks he plays, without the thunder chariots and war elephants, the Yuan thieves can't even hope to break through our Xinye Fortress City with only infantry." After thinking about it, it's the same. The suspicion on his face disappeared. Cao Ren took a deep breath, held the long sword in his hand, and shouted sternly: "The whole army is ready to fight, for Duke Cao. For the sake of the righteousness of the world, I will defend Xinye to the death!" There were more than ten thousand Cao's troops at the top of the city, all holding on to their swords and guns. Prepare to face the unprecedented fierce attack of the Qi army. However, the Qi army has been in formation for a long time, but there has been no attack. A few hundred steps away, Yuan Fang immediately raised his halberd. He stood quietly, staring coldly at Cao Ren at the top of the city. The 100,000-strong army remained motionless in formation. As time passed, the soldiers gradually became restless. Attack but not attack, retreat but not retreat. The soldiers of Da Qi were somewhat confused as to what their emperor's intentions were. "Your Majesty, at the military meeting yesterday, we did not agree to surround Xinye City without attacking it, and not to attack by force for the time being. Why did your Majesty suddenly change his mind today?" Fa Zheng beside him. Couldn't help but wonder. Yuan Fang didn't even turn his eyes, he just said calmly: "I don't have time to delay any longer. We must pacify the world as soon as possible. Today, I will definitely conquer Xinye." Today, we will break Xinye? Fazheng was shocked and didn't know what to say. He glanced at Guo Jia on the other side. Guo Jia coughed a few times. He smiled and said: "Your Majesty is right to want to pacify the world as soon as possible, but your Majesty also saw the result of yesterday's battle. The weakness of the war elephant has been seen by Cao Ren. If he wants to conquer Xinye by force, I'm afraid it will take only a day or two. It can be done. As the saying goes, haste makes waste." Fazheng nodded repeatedly and said, "Besides, your Majesty did not send out any war elephants today, just our infantry. If we attack Xinye by force, not only will we not be able to capture it, we will probably lose our soldiers, so I thought" "Who said I was going to attack Xinye by force?" Yuan Fang interrupted Fazheng with one sentence. Fazheng was stunned for a moment and looked at Guo Jia. Both of them were confused and confused. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Instead of storming Xinye, are what are you doing by placing these hundreds of thousands of men in front of the enemy city? Do you want to scare Cao Ren into abandoning the city and fleeing just by relying on his momentum? This is obviously unrealistic. While Fazheng and Guo Jia were still at a loss, suddenly, the wind suddenly picked up and blew from behind, heading in the direction of Xinye. The northwest wind is blowing. "Today is indeed my lucky day." Yuan Fang Yingwu's face showed a bit of joy, and he raised his halberd without hesitation and shouted: "The time has come. Let the generals lead their troops to approach Zhicheng for me. , Smoking with the wind.¡± Smoking with the wind? Fazheng and Guo Jia looked at each other again, and the confusion on the faces of the two top counselors became even stronger. The sound of war and drums has sounded. The emperor's order was released, and Qi Jun moved, and more than a dozen military formations, large and small, slowly began to approach the north gate of Xinye. The direction of the city head. "Tie Yuan, you really can't stand it anymore, you still want to attack by force." Cao Ren snorted coldly, holding the long knife in his hand, and ordered the whole army to concentrate and prepare to deal with the Qi army's attack. ? ?Under the watchful eyes, thousands of Qi soldiers, holding large shields high, quickly approached within a hundred steps in front of the city. Cao Ren gave an order, and the crossbowmen of Cao's army at the top of the city rained down arrows, and the overwhelming arrows rushed towards the Qi army. The soldiers of the Qi army held their large shields high and approached until the trenches were filled. This distance was enough for them to rush towards the enemy city with all their strength and set up ladders to attack. However, the Qi army did not break the formation and charge. Instead, they stationed themselves less than ten steps away from the city wall and stopped moving forward. Then, all of a sudden, large and small wolf smoke ignited in various military formations. Tens of thousands of Qi troops actually lit up countless beacons in front of Xinye City. On the top of the city, after Cao Ren laid down, there were still Cao soldiers, and he suddenly became extremely suspicious. Fazheng and others who were watching the formation were all shocked. Just when everyone was shocked, the Qi army officers and soldiers in the military formation threw smoke towards Xinye City. Thousands of black smoke, in an instant, completely enveloped the north gate of Xinye, and darkness fell like night. "You wait here, I'm going." Yuan Fang rode out of the formation, raised his halberd, and ran straight towards Xinye. Fazheng was startled and asked urgently: "What is your Majesty going to do?" "Capture thieves and kings, shoot people and horses." Yuan Fang didn't even look back. Before he finished speaking, the red rabbit and horse had gone away like the wind and disappeared in the blink of an eye. In the midst of billowing smoke.