Chapter 165
Chapter 168 – n.o.bles Siege (1)
Translated by Bloodfalcon
Night has pa.s.sed and right now the sun is already quite high (around 7:00 AM), Sun Ce quickly screamed his order from midst of Sun Ce army "ALL ARMY, BESIEGE THE CITY!!!!"
"SHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!" Screamed all of soldiers and they start running toward Wancheng city at the same time. All of them are wearing the same color of banner and same armor like Sun Ce army, but there are some differences in their equipment from scaling ladder to the weapons they wield.
"Hrm?!" Liu Mang’s brow wrinkled when he looked toward the banner of Sun Ce army who is approaching. Each banners are followed with a battalion and the most surprising one, they are all flying different characters on them.
All of the banners written Zhang, Li, Bao, Wu, Ling, Qian, w.a.n.g and none of them are bearing Sun. "Sun Ce have this much generals?" Liu Mang thought. If Sun Ce have this much generals, then this Wancheng city will fall in just one a.s.sault. An officer who can lift up their own banner is at least a second-cla.s.s general and have leaders.h.i.+p prowess. Cheng Yu in Urban Army should have fly his own colors as his strength and ability already reached second-cla.s.s general but since he is placed as lieutenant general, he is unable to do that, but strangely, he did not bear any resentment at all toward his placement.
"Sun Ce really goes all out this day" Thought Liu Mang in his heart. In his heart, Liu Mang is really restless but on the outside, he must force himself to be calm if not, all of Wancheng city defenders will just drop their weapons and surrender.
Liu Mang took a deep breath and thought "Come on, come on, I don’t care how many elites, how many generals you have. I will cut your treasures one by one, Sun Ce!!!!"
"Report, Little lord. The enemy has crossed the moat!!!" Xu Sheng quickly reported to Liu Mang. Huang Zhong has been a.s.signed by Liu Mang on the north wall to help reinforce the defense.
"Hmm, moat, eh?!" Liu Mang just closed his eyes and just keep thinking of strategy.
"Little lord, please, your order!!!" Xu Sheng is really worried as in his eyes, Liu Mang already scared stiff. Even though this is Xu Sheng’s first time working with Liu Mang, he still knew that moat is essential to deal huge damage the enemy and halted their advance by showering them with volley. Halting Sun Ce army’s advance is Lu Bu’s army primary duty, but Liu Mang just kept silent.
Xu Sheng just see Sun Ce army crossing moat one after another without any difficulties at all, soon they will be putting their ladder and climb the wall.
"Wait!!! Advance slower, this maybe a trap!!!" Several of old Jiangdong n.o.bles slow down their pace. Compared to those hot blooded young n.o.bles, they are much calmer and able to more cautious on their move. Their movements toward Wancheng city is too smooth with no resistance at all, their movements is so fast, it is as seems that the moat is only a piece of flat land. They are all thinking, is this a ploy to kill them all? They have been working so hard to become one of n.o.bles by suspecting the others, of course they will be suspecting this ploy too.
Seeing the older n.o.bles and their soldiers stopped their movement, the younger n.o.bles smiled happily and ordered to rush more quickly. In their mind, the merit is already theirs for the taking.
Xu Sheng just continued his timely report "Little lord, they are 100 steps before reaching city wall!!!" Liu Mang heard his report but just kept silent.
Xu Sheng screamed "50 steps!!!" Finally Liu Mang opened his eye but still did not give command.
"40, 30, 20 steps again!!!" Xu Sheng become more desperate in his tone. Finally Liu Mang start his order, but his order made Xu Sheng puzzled "Urban Army, unleash volley!!! Black Flag to standby. No orders or signal from me, Black Flag must not move!!!!!"
"YES SIR!!!!" Urban Army quickly execute Liu Mang’s order. Less than 1,000 troops quickly pull out their longbow and start raining arrow toward them.
"Little lord, what are you doing?!" Xu Sheng got little angry. "Does this little lord want to looks down upon us, Black Flag?!" Xu Sheng thought. Xu Sheng has full confidence that Urban Army and Black Flag will be able to withstand the attack this time. He also had observed that the enemies are all rabble soldiers. He also understands Liu Mang’s intention for the enemies to get closer in order to maximize the damage, but what he cannot understand is why Liu Mang only order for Urban Army to move and leavin Black Flag to standby only. Feeling discontent, Xu Sheng raised his hand to order Black Flag to join the fray.
"Xu Sheng, do you want to disobey order?I have told you, you can question me, you can display discontent to me, but once I issue order!!! Like it or not, you must obey it completely!!!!" Liu Mang said his words while kept his gaze toward Xu Sheng. He knows that Xu Sheng’s skill in wushu is very strong and is a very dependable person. But if he unleashes his