"Pass my general's orders to set up camp, build forts, and surround Wancheng on all sides."
Xiahou Dun issued the military order in a loud voice.
"General Xiahou, you can't do this.
We should leave a city gate for him to retreat.
Otherwise, the soldiers in the city will fight with each other, and our army will suffer huge casualties, and it may even make it impossible to capture the city."
Guo Jia quickly admonished from the side.
Although Xiahou Dun disagreed with the truth in Guo Jia's words, he had to listen to Guo Jia's words because Cao Cao had told him.
This time Guo Jia did not follow Xu Zhu to attack Tongguan, but followed Xiahou Dun to Nanyang.
This is because Guo Jia believed that conquering Nanyang was more meaningful than conquering Tongguan.
Capture Wancheng and cut off the Shang Yu Road.
The entire Guanzhong, including the The Lu troops in Tongguan will all retreat without fighting.
"But I will act according to Guo Jijiu's orders," Xiahou Dun replied respectfully.
Then he ordered again, leaving the south side of Wancheng unencircled, and setting up camps on the other three sides.
The nearest stronghold in Cao Cao's control area is Wuyang, which is adjacent to Runan where Yuan Shu is entrenched in the south and Wancheng in the west.
Therefore, Wuyang, as the front line, has a large number of siege equipment, and Xiahou Dun can use them directly without having to build new siege equipment.
At dawn the next day, Xiahou Dun began to attack Nanyang from three sides.
Huge boulders flew towards the Nanyang City Wall, and arrows from heavy crossbows and strong bows shot towards the top of the wall like a gust of wind and rain.
The defenders at the top of the city were all crouching behind the wall stacks, feeling the trembling of the city wall after being bombarded by huge rocks, and were unable to show their heads to fight back against Cao's army.
At the same time, Cao Jun under the city carried loads of gravel, soil and firewood to fill the moat.
Not long after, a section of the moat was filled in.
Cao's soldiers carrying ladders crossed the moat one after another, set up ladders along the city wall, and then climbed up.
At this time, the trebuchet stopped throwing boulders to avoid accidental injury.
At the same time, there is a giant rush car behind, slowly coming towards the city gate.
When the defenders at the top of the city saw that the boulders did not continue to be thrown, they knew that Cao's army had already arrived at the city.
Under the command of the school officer, they stood up one after another and began to throw rolling stones and arrows toward the city, and waited for opportunities to overturn the ladders.
The sword soldiers and spear soldiers in the defenders fought with Cao's troops who were ascending to the top of the city one after another.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were still few of them, they fought hard to kill them on the top of the city.
The ram finally reached the city gate and began to ram repeatedly.
Finally, the city gate opened with a "clang" sound.
Xiahou Dun, who was supervising the formation, was overjoyed and rushed away on horseback.
The rest of Cao's soldiers under the city were also eager to make a contribution and swarmed towards the opened city gate.
When these Cao Jun soldiers entered the corridor, they found that there was "a door" on the inside of the city wall that was slowly closing.
This is actually not a door, but a new door-stopper designed by Lu Bu.
This car is actually a wall with wheels, placed behind the city walls on both sides of the city gate.
When the gate is breached, the gate-blocking knife car can move horizontally to seal the city gate corridor again.
It is called a knife cart because there are many blades on the "wall" to prevent enemy soldiers from approaching.
The reason why it is necessary to prevent enemy soldiers from approaching is because there are many grating holes in the "wall" for the crossbowmen behind the gate to shoot.
Now, the crossbowmen of Lu Bu's army were struggling to shoot arrows one after another behind the Semen sword cart.
The soldiers of Cao's army who poured into the city gate fell down screaming after being hit by arrows one by one.
They could not get close to the cart to stab the crossbowmen of Lu Bu's army behind them.
They could only be used as living targets in the hole of the city gate.
In desperation, The soldiers of Cao's army who had not yet been hit by arrows could only retreat from the city gate.
At this time, Xiahou Dun was riding his horse towards the city gate, followed by dozens of cavalry soldiers.
When Xiahou Dun saw his soldiers fleeing from the city gate, he thought they were too timid to fight.
Without asking why, he shouted: "If you are afraid of the enemy, the first will die."
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After that, he raised his sword and killed the two retreating soldiers.
Later Cao Jun.
Then he rode his horse and ran into the city gate corridor.
After entering, he discovered that the city gate was blocked by a "wall" again.
Before he could react, dozens of powerful arrows came towards him.
Xiahou Dun waved his spear and tried to deflect all the arrows, but one arrow still slid along the barrel of the gun and hit his eye with a "chi" sound.
Xiahou Dun screamed in pain and almost fell off his horse.
Fortunately, the arrow was blocked by the gun barrel and lost most of its kinetic energy, otherwise it would have penetrated into his brain.
Xiahou Dun turned his horse's head and ran away.
The guards on both sides protected him tightly.
Several of the guards were hit by arrows and rolled off their horses.
The general was injured and the attack on the city was frustrated, so Cao Jun had to sound the gong and withdraw his troops.
After returning to camp, Xiahou Dun pulled out the arrow from his eye and swallowed all the eyeballs he brought out.
Guo Jia next to him was stunned.
The military doctor quickly applied medicine and bandages to him.
"I didn't expect that Nanyang Wancheng would be so difficult to attack."
Xiahou Dun spoke calmly while applying the medicine.
Guo Jia replied: "We can capture Wancheng with more force.
We will attack again after the general's injury stabilizes.
The gate can be broken with kerosene, and the city gate can be repaired before they come." , it can be broken with one blow.”
Xiahou Dun waved his hand and said: "There is no need to wait until the injury is healed.
After the soldiers have rested for a night, we can attack the city tomorrow."
After that, he called the soldiers and ordered to alert the Wancheng defenders to repair the city gate.
If they came out to repair the city gate, The door was opened, and the crossbowmen fired a volley at it.
Early on the next morning, Xiahou Dun, who had lost one eye, mounted his horse again as if nothing had happened, and ordered his troops to beat drums and attack the city.
With the rumbling drums, Cao's army once again surged towards Wancheng like a tide.
The infantrymen of Cao's army who rushed towards the city gate first threw cans of kerosene under the gate-blocking knife carts, and then ignited the kerosene with torches.
To their surprise, they were not attacked by arrows from behind the Semen Truck this time.
The soldiers of Cao's army who climbed up the city ladder also easily climbed to the top of Wancheng City, and found that the top of the city was empty.
A moment later, Xiahou Dun galloped on the streets of Nanyang, and more than 5,000 people from the vanguard of Cao's army also poured into Wancheng.
It seems that this is an empty city, and the defenders have completely withdrawn from Wancheng.
Originally, Xiahou Dun wanted to let the whole army enter Wancheng, but Guo Jia was afraid of fraud, so he and he led more than 5,000 people to enter the city first, leaving the main force to guard outside the city.
Five thousand soldiers of Cao's army began to rummage through the empty Wancheng, checking house by house.
At first, nothing suspicious was found.
Guo Jiali was hiding from the sun under the eaves of the government office.
A drop of water fell on his forehead.
He touched it and felt something was wrong.
He put it to his nose and smelled it.
He was shocked and said to Xiahou Dun not far away: " Yuan Rang, let the army evacuate Wancheng."
Before Xiahou Dun understood what he meant, rockets were already flying out from all corners of Wancheng, and they quickly ignited the thatched roof soaked in kerosene and the piles of straw piled up in advance.
This was done by a group of fifty dead soldiers who stayed in Wancheng.
The fire was fierce and the wind was fierce, and the entire Wancheng was quickly in flames.
Xiahou Dun led his soldiers to protect Guo Jia and fled out of the city.
The five thousand soldiers suddenly became a mess.
Many people were trapped in the sea of fire.
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Those who were not yet trapped rushed towards the four city gates.
People trample on each other.
Xiahou Dun brandished his sword and killed all the soldiers in his way.
Braving the fire, he reached for the city gate: