Lu Qian stood on the city, raised his head, and looked at the head on the platform opposite the moat, his palms were covered in cold sweat.

Shan Xin stood beside him, beating the battlements, crying bitterly, and swearing with gritting teeth that he was incompatible with the Sun family's father and son.

Lu Qian didn't know what to say. Of course, he could say that Sun Ce was cruel, but what's the use? He was more concerned about what others would think. In addition to his family soldiers, he only had more than 800 people, and the rest were Hulu Heroes. If Hulu Heroes were afraid of Sun Ce's revenge, Hulu City would not be able to defend Hulu City. From this perspective, he hoped that the more heads the outside, the better.

But this is obviously impossible. The banner of the Du family has been raised. If Sun Ce is eliminated, Du Ju's family has already bowed to Sun Ce. Whether it is active or passive, Du Ju has to worry about it. So far, Du Ju has not responded, but he cannot believe Du Ju.

Of course, he cannot be detrimental to Duqi, which will only force Duqi to take risks. Except for single letters, other companies are unlikely to support him, and at most they remain neutral.

Although Shan Xin cried sadly, Lu Qian was most concerned about not him or other powerful men in the lake and land, but himself. Sun Ce once said that if he wanted to take Rencheng, the Lu family would be in Rencheng. If he was enemies with Sun Ce, would Sun Ce do the same to him? The possibility is that it is not that there is no possibility. I heard that the Cao family was raided by Sun Ce.

Lu Qian was a little irritated. He was really helpless when he encountered such an unreasonable opponent.

At this time, a figure appeared on the platform opposite. Before Lu Qian could react, a personal guard rushed over and threw him to the ground. Then several personal guards raised their shields and formed a small protective formation in front of him.

The man opposite seemed to be stunned for a moment, then adjusted his direction, pulled his bow and shot an arrow.

"Pu!" With a muffled sound, a feather arrow shot through between the two battlements and shot through another shield. The face of the guard behind the shield changed, and he was pale and fell to the ground. The other guards didn't bother to think about it and pushed Lu Qian down under the city wall. Lu Qian sat down against the battlements, looking at the hole in the shield, his heart beat so much that it could almost pop out of his throat.

The high platform is more than fifty steps away from the city wall. At such a long distance, it can even break the shield with one arrow. Is this person using a bow or a crossbow?

The guard who fell to the ground struggled for a moment, suddenly got up again, touched his chest, and laughed foolishly. "I'm not dead, I'm not dead, haha, I'm not dead."

"Don't get up." Lu Qian pulled him over and asked him to squat under the battlements to avoid being shot again. The guard sat next to Lu Qian, touched his chest, laughed for a while, and started crying again. Lu Qian was speechless. Just as he was about to scold him, he suddenly found something tied to the arrow stuck on the armor. He quickly pulled out the arrow, and then he realized that it was a piece of paper rolling on the arrow shaft. Lu Qian moved his heart, hesitated for a moment before slowly unfolding his paper.

There is no book of persuasion on the paper that Lu Qian thought was to persuade the surrender, but it is a picture, a picture of the defense of Hulu City. To be more precise, it is an offensive and defensive picture. A circle of pictures were drawn around the city wall, including high platforms for archery, cloud ladders, and general flags and military numbers for generals.

Apart from that, there is no word.

After reading the picture, Lu Qian's face turned pale, even paler than the personal guard who was shot through his shield.

Sun Ce drew the siege deployment in a picture to give it to him, and he was so confident that he was almost arrogant. However, judging from the signs on the picture, he was obviously qualified to be so confident. More than ten times the force, the hostages of the powerful lake and land, and the supply of supplies from various companies, all showed his advantages accurately. More importantly, he not only knew his own advantages, but also knew the situation in the city. Although the defensive forces marked on the picture were not detailed enough, they were very accurate.

Lu Qian was very angry, but he could not find a way to crack it. Sun Ce's method of siege was simple and crude. Twenty thousand people were distributed evenly along the city wall, with an attack point every fifteen steps, and more than 200 attack points in the city, each point of 100. Sixty people were crossing the archers and were responsible for long-range attacks, and forty people were infantrymen, sharing a ladder, which was used to cross the moat and ants to climb the city.

Without large siege tools, the means are simple, but they hit Lu Qian's key points. His biggest problem is that he lacks troops. If the two hundred attack points are distributed evenly, there are only ten people at each point, and he cannot stop the opponent's attack at all. If it is not distributed evenly, he can only watch the opponent climb up the city and break the city directly.

The ten times the strength comparison gives Sun Ce a crushing advantage, and there is no need to worry about it.

Lu Qian sighed, if Yuan Tan sent someone to reinforce in time, even if he only gave him two thousand men, he could still defend even if there was a ten-fold gap in force. The city wall was so long that as long as it reached a certain standard, Sun Ce would not be able to spread it. But now, he just couldn't meet this minimum standard, with insufficient manpower and loopholes everywhere.

This was when the powerful Hulu was not changing their minds. Lu Qian suddenly hit a stimulus, quickly got up, called the guards, and asked them to check them everywhere. He believed that Sun Ce would not only give him this offensive and defensive picture, but also give it to others. Once those people were frightened, Sun Ce would not need to attack the city, these people might cut off his head first.

Lu Qian poked his head out and looked at the platform in the distance, and his heart sank in waves.

There is a figure on each platform.

Lu Qian gritted his teeth, bent down, and walked to Shan Xin. "Jun Shan, I will take you to meet Yuan Envoy Yuan and ask Yuan Envoy to avenge you."

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Lu Qian broke through. Taking advantage of the night, he opened the water gate in the south of the city, crossed the Ji River, and ran west along the south bank of the Ji River.

To his surprise, he did not encounter any obstacles. Sun Ce did not send anyone to chase him, but sent some knights to follow him. He did not understand his intention, but at this moment, all he could do was to be as careful as possible to avoid being ambushed by Sun Ce, and at the same time stayed away from Sun Ce at the fastest speed possible.

When Sun Ce received the news, he was discussing tomorrow's war with Guo Jia. When he learned that Lu Qian broke through and left, he smiled and said, "Fengxiao, what do you think of Lu Qian?"

Guo Jia shook the feather fan. "If it breaks, it breaks. It's a talent. But if he lets him go this time, he won't be so relaxed next time he meets him."

"Then do you want to let go?" Sun Ce asked. He had long believed that Lu Qian was a talented person and wanted to take it for himself, so he asked someone to give him the offensive and defensive map, hoping that he could give up his unnecessary resistance. It was a pity that Lu Qian would rather take the risk of breaking through the siege than surrender. If he had sent someone to chase him now, he would have enough confidence to severely damage Lu Qian, but it would be hard to say whether he could catch Lu Qian himself.
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