Chapter 1298: Observing into the distance

At this moment, Gu Yi was also standing on the city wall, beginning to observe the distance.

He discovered many Cao soldiers outside, all staring covetously at his city, Nanyang City.

"It seems Cao Cao still intends to attack us. We must be cautious and prudent." Gu Yi sighed and looked at Zhao Yun beside him.

"My lord, the Cao army is about ten-plus miles away. If we break out from here, I believe we can succeed, but I fear being surrounded by the Cao army; it would be difficult to leave then," Zhao Yun analyzed, frowning.

"Hmm?" Upon hearing Zhao Yun's words, Gu Yi also became somewhat worried. "You are right. The Cao army arrived here so quickly; they must have made defensive preparations. We cannot act rashly; it is better to stabilize first."

"Yes!" Zhao Yun nodded and said nothing more.

At this time, Gu Yi looked at the Cao soldiers below the city wall and frowned.

Because there were so many Cao soldiers below the wall, he could not judge exactly how many there were.

Just as Gu Yi was pondering how to escape from the Cao army's encirclement, a soldier suddenly ran out from the city gate and rushed toward Gu Yi's direction.

"General, General, many Cao soldiers have arrived outside the city and have blocked our north gate."

"What?" After hearing the soldier's words, Gu Yi's expression changed drastically.

Cao Cao had come; he had actually come.

What was his purpose in coming?

Could it be to retake the North City?

"Damn it!" Gu Yi cursed to himself and immediately ordered: "All soldiers, prepare for battle."

Gu Yi did not directly issue an attack order, but instead had his soldiers prepare their defenses first.

"Yes!"

Upon hearing Gu Yi's words, the soldier nodded, then led his men and ran toward the outside of the city gate.

Soon, the soldiers gathered around Gu Yi and looked at him.

"General, the enemy is attacking. Should we go out of the city to meet them?"

"Go out of the city to meet them!" Gu Yi nodded and said to the soldiers, "Follow me, and we shall go out to meet the enemy."

Gu Yi led his soldiers out of the city to meet the enemy, which stunned all the soldiers guarding the city walls; they had not expected Gu Yi to actually dare to go out and face the enemy.

"General!" Seeing that Gu Yi was truly going to go out to face the enemy, the soldiers were all dumbfounded, not knowing how to react.

"What? Are you afraid?" Gu Yi snorted coldly and looked at the soldiers. "If you are afraid of death, don't follow me out to fight."

"No!" Upon hearing Gu Yi's words, the soldiers shook their heads quickly. They were not afraid; they just didn't understand why Gu Yi would do this.

"Since you aren't, then pull yourselves together and prepare for battle!" Gu Yi looked at the soldiers and snorted twice. "You bunch of trash!"

Upon hearing Gu Yi's words, the soldiers' faces flushed red instantly. They knew Gu Yi was insulting them, but they had no way to argue back and could only swallow their anger, silently waiting for Gu Yi's arrangements.

"General, what do you intend to do?" Zhao Yun walked to Gu Yi's side and asked.

"What do you think?" Gu Yi asked Zhao Yun in return.

"I believe the General should retreat from the back gate of this Nanyang City!" Zhao Yun said after thinking for a moment.

"Hmm, what you say makes a lot of sense!" Upon hearing Zhao Yun's words, Gu Yi nodded, agreeing with Zhao Yun's suggestion.

Zhao Yun was indeed correct. Although this Nanyang City looked small, it was very spacious inside, and the architecture was very complex; retreating from within was not such a simple matter.

Moreover, at this time, Cao Cao must have already known that Gu Yi had gone out to meet the enemy, so they would have already made preparations.

"Good, then we shall follow your suggestion. I will go first; you all follow me to retreat in a moment."

After speaking, Gu Yi led the soldiers away from the city wall and headed toward another path.

Meanwhile, on another city wall.

Cao Cao was sitting in his main tent drinking wine.

"Report!" Just then, the tent flap was lifted, and a soldier ran in and knelt on the ground.

"What is it? What happened?" Cao Cao put down the wine cup in his hand, raised his eyes, and looked at the soldier on the ground as he asked.

"Reporting to my lord, news just came from the South City Gate that many Cao soldiers are rushing toward us."

Upon hearing the soldier's words, Cao Cao was slightly stunned.

"What? Cao soldiers went toward the South City Gate?" Cao Cao widened his eyes, showing an expression of disbelief.

"My lord, this subordinate is not clear either; I just received the news that the Cao soldiers have already reached the bottom of the city gate," the soldier replied.

"What? How is that possible? This is impossible!" Upon hearing the soldier's answer, Cao Cao could not help but be shocked, his eyes widening.

"The Cao thief actually dares to charge at our city gate with such fanfare; he is courting death!" Cao Cao sneered twice, stood up, and walked toward the city gate.

Soon, Cao Cao arrived at the city gate.

He looked up and saw, not far ahead, thousands of Cao soldiers galloping continuously below the city wall.

"Pass the order down: strike them hard!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Soon, the soldiers below the city wall began shooting arrows toward the Nanmen.

Dense arrows flew toward the Nanmen, and instantly, the soldiers below the city gate were knocked to the ground, screaming.

"My lord, the archers on the city wall cannot reach us!" Just then, a Cao army general shouted loudly, "The soldiers on the city wall are too weak; we don't need archers, we only need to use the catapults."

Upon hearing the general's words, Cao Cao nodded and said to him: "Good! Give me the catapults to throw!"

Soon, soldiers were holding catapults and throwing them toward the position on the city wall.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The catapults smashed into the city wall, making a loud noise. The archers on the city wall could not resist at all and were smashed to the ground one after another by the catapults.

Soon, the catapults stopped attacking.

After seeing the performance of these soldiers, Cao Cao nodded with satisfaction; it seemed these soldiers were quite clever after all.

"Continue the attack, strike them hard. I don't believe that with these soldiers under my command, I can't deal with these small-time characters." ===== CHAPTER 1299 =====