The heavy city gate shattered beneath a single strike of Lü Bu's halberd and collapsed with a thunderous crash. It had been breached!
At the sight, the morale of every officer and soldier soared!
"Duke Wen is invincible!"
"Follow Duke Wen! Charge! Kill!"
"Capture the Yuan Thief! Kill!"
The sheer individual might Lü Bu displayed set every soldier's blood boiling. Since ancient times, nothing on the battlefield had stirred morale more than a fierce general whose valor could match ten thousand men.
Once the gate fell, the soldiers quickly cleared the stones and sandbags from the passage, then charged inside under Lü Bu's lead!
Lecheng County, as impregnable as an iron barrel and unbroken after ten days of continuous assault, had finally been torn open!
Elsewhere, Han Army soldiers had carried up siege ladders and set them against the fortifications. Zhang He, Huang Zhong, and the other generals led their soldiers fearlessly up onto the battlements.
The first soldiers to scale the walls this time all belonged to Gao Shun's Dare-to-Die Battalion. Every one of them fought with unmatched ferocity, leaping onto the battlements and engaging the enemy in fierce combat to create openings for the soldiers climbing behind them.
"General! We can't hold them off!"
"General Yan! The walls are about to fall!"
"The gate has been breached!"
Yan Liang was deploying troops to hold back the enemy pouring into Wengcheng. At these reports, he turned and saw that, without his noticing when, vast numbers of Han Army soldiers had already stormed the walls. Even Zhang He, Huang Zhong, and the others had fought their way onto the battlements!
Meanwhile, Lü Bu was leading his troops against Wengcheng's gate, and he was close to breaking through that as well!
"Gong Ji, we can't hold it. Retreat!"
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