"Gongsun Bai broke Cao's army, killed 120,000 people, captured 80,000, Hu Chief Kebineng was beheaded, Mobei surrendered, and Gongsun Bai has led the troops on the way back to Jizhou."
Although the secret letter was very short, the words were like thunder, and they resounded in Cao Cao's heart.
Stretching for thousands of miles, 250,000 wolf-like grassland cavalry, Gongsun Bai was pacified in less than half a year, and he was ahead of him to end the battle of Xuzhou.
Whether it is Cao Cao or Gongsun Bai, they all know in their hearts that the big war between the two is not far off.
For Gongsun Bai, the north is flat, and Cao Cao has become an obstacle to his domination of the world; For Cao Cao, Gongsun Bai has always been a big trouble in his heart, and only by getting rid of Gongsun Bai can he sleep soundly, otherwise he will repeat Yuan Shao's mistakes sooner or later.
Cao Cao was anxious to sweep away Lu Bu, while Gongsun Bai was anxious to set the desert in the north, in order to devote himself to this pinnacle battle, defeat the opponent, and the world would be half decided.
Now that Gongsun Bai has pacified Mobei, how can Cao Cao not be alarmed Cao Cao, who was frightened, jumped up from the couch and shouted urgently to order the guards outside the tent to order the generals under his command to come to the big tent to discuss matters.
The sky dawned, and the cold did not subside.
Under the city, the horn of the horn soared into the sky, shouting to kill the earth-shattering, Zhang Liao, who was standing at the east gate, saw a black cloud floating from the sky under the city, and his ears seemed to be able to hear the terrible cry of the black cloud tearing the air.
After bombarding with trebuchets for more than ten days, Cao Jun really came this time "Dodge the Arrow" The arrows in the sky roared like a downpour, and the shield bearer on the head of the city involuntarily raised his shield, looked back at Zhang Liao, who was clinging to the city wall, and then heard the sound of bows and arrows.
They cried out in horror and immediately crouched down and erected their shields.
The soldiers without a shield were like frightened rabbits, and in the blink of an eye they crawled to the inside of the city wall, instinctively holding their heads in their hands and clinging to the base of the wall.
The soldiers near the plum tower on the mountain were like frightened birds, and they immediately dispersed in a hurry, and each found a place to escape.
For a while, there was no one on the top of the city wall except for the soldiers hiding behind their shields.
A huge rain of black arrows roared, and the long arrows were nailed to the city wall with a piercing sound of wind and thunder, making a terrifying "whoosh", "thump" and "crackle" sound.
Some shield soldiers were knocked down by the tremendous force of many long arrows shot together, and some long arrows bounced to the ground but still drilled into the soldiers' bodies with full strength, and the wooden roof and wooden pillars of the cloud tower, doors and windows, were full of long arrows inserted diagonally on them.
Rhubarb Gongsun Bai's record of sweeping the north with a rhubarb crossbow has made Cao Cao have been making rhubarb crossbows in recent years, and they have become the standard crossbow of Cao's army.
Under a banner embroidered with the word "Xiahou", Xiahoudun, the commander of the East Gate Army, sat on a jujube red horse, very satisfied with the wonderful performance made by his soldiers.
"Blow the trumpet, order the front army, approach the wall, throw dirt bags."
Xiahoudun turned his head and shouted to the horn soldier.
The sound of the horn "woo" rose to the sky and resounded in the sky.
The 2,000 soldiers, all of whom had been placed behind the dirt bags, were all strong men, and they stood near dozens of piles of dirt bags, ready to attack.
When a military commander heard the sound of the horn, he immediately shouted: "Shoulders."
The soldiers worked in pairs, one squatting on the ground, and the other grabbed a bag of dirt and put it on each other's shoulders.
"Chong" With the order of the military commander, more than 2,000 soldiers carried dirt bags, roared wildly, and ran towards the city wall quickly.
Above them, a denser rain of arrows whistled by.
On the wall of the east gate, the soldiers all looked down at the city, they heard the dense sound of horns under the city, and saw the dense long arrows raging under the city wall.
Zhang Liao was calm, glanced at the city lightly, and then still stared at Cao Jun, who was slowly coming out of the camp, unmoved.
On the earthen platform far from the east gate, Cao Cao was dressed in gilded leather armor, leaning on the heavenly sword at his waist, sitting on the claw yellow flying electric horse, looking coldly at the fierce battle at the east gate of Xiapi, with a calm expression.
Behind him, surrounded by Cheng Yu, Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Li Dian, Le Jin, Liu Ye, Man Chong and other henchmen generals.
Cheng Yu glanced at the East Gate City, and said to Cao Cao beside him with a smile: "General Xiahou has been holding back for too long, and he is making a big show of his might."
Cao Cao laughed: "This Yuan asked him to make the movement smaller, but he seemed to be unaware, and moved the entire east gate. ” Dian Wei and Xu Chu, who were on the side of the "Woo", were overjoyed and hurriedly left.
Zhang Liao heard the shouts of hundreds of soldiers under the city wall, the sound of running, and the sound of heavy objects being thrown under the city wall.
He thought of the dirt bags.
It seems that Cao's army is preparing to fill the moat so that he can set up a cloud ladder to attack the cloud tower.
It's just that now the arrows in the sky are flying like locusts, and they can't stick out their heads at all, let alone block them.
However, the moat is five or six meters deep and more than ten meters wide, and it is not so quick to fill up.
Sharp arrows still roared and raged at the top of the city, and the entire city wall was covered with dense long arrows.
Dian Wei and Xu Chu led 5,000 troops to line up under Xiapi City, fluttering flags, and the sea of people was like a tide, which was quite spectacular.
The main direction of attack they chose on the battlefield was to the left and right of the east gate of Xiapi.
At this time, Xiahoudun was attacking the main gate with his troops, and the Lu Bujun on the city tower was too busy to take care of himself, and there was no way to help the troops on the left side of the main city wall to defend.
Zhang Liao stood on the city wall and saw the enemy's intentions, and he shouted loudly: "Cheng Lian, Hou Cheng" Adjutant generals Cheng Lian and Cao Xing commanded their respective troops to meet the enemy on both sides not far away, and hurriedly ran over when they heard the shouting.
"The thief army Dian Wei and Xu Chu each led the army to attack the left and right sides, these two people have the courage of ten thousand people, you must hold on."
"Yes, please rest assured, General."
Xiapi four gates, Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian, Hou Cheng guard the east gate, Lu Bu, Cao Xing guard the south gate, Chen Gong, Wei Xu, Song Xian guard the west gate, Gao Shun, Zang Ba guard the north gate.
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Although there was no movement from the other three gates, Zhang Liao did not plan to ask for help from the other three gates, because he already sensed that the movement of Cao's army today was very abnormal, and it seemed that he was going to launch a full-scale fierce attack, rather than just a shallow taste.
The horn sounded, Dian Wei and Xu Chu's troops began to spread their formations, the crossbowmen and infantry began to advance, and the assault infantry were in groups of ten people, carrying eight-zhang long ladders to the city; Behind each ladder to the city, there is a commando team of twenty people.
These squads of soldiers held knives in one hand and shields in the other, looking like they were at home.
The drums beat louder than the other.
The towers were full of soldiers in full armor, and under the loud orders of the commanders of all ranks, the troops began to enter a state of imminent battle.
Below the city, the enemy army was still advancing, gradually entering the firing range.
Under the cover of crossbow arrows, Xiahoudun's soldiers successfully threw more than 1,000 bags of earth under the base of the city wall, and the moat was about to be filled.
Xiahoudun struggled to raise his arms and waved: "Attack" Woooooooo In the desolate and distant sound of the horn, countless Cao troops pushed more than a dozen ladders and a siege car surging out.
"Stepping on the Lower Pi" "Stepping on the Lower Pi" "Stepping on the Lower Pi" With the passionate and confident cries, Cao Jun rushed desperately towards the city wall like a bloodthirsty beast.
Zhang Liao looked at the sky, as if there was no crazy shooting.
He slowly stood up, and when he landed, he saw a black oppressive, dense group of ant-like siege soldiers.
He shouted: "Prepare to meet the enemy, and those who retreat without permission will be killed" The enemy army is getting closer and closer, like a tide, and the exuberant shouts of killing are like a mountain and a sea, and they are noisy under the city.
"Release the arrow" Zhang Liao roared loudly, took the lead in drawing the bow and arrows, the bow pulled the full moon, the arrows were like meteors, and shot towards the city, and a Cao Ying general riding on horseback under the city fell to the ground with an arrow.
Woohoo In the rain of arrows, Cao Jun held his shield high, while resisting the long arrows shot down from the city, while struggling to advance, the thousands of bows and arrows on the head of the city, for tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were too powerful, and the long arrows were sprinkled into the enemy's impact formation, as if splashing a little hydration on the surface of the pond.
Immediately, from the cloud tower, from the other defensive sides of the city wall, the soldiers of the Lu Bu army shot angry arrows at the Cao army running under the city.
Cao Jun's crossbow arrows continued, and the Lu Bu army at the head of the city still couldn't raise his head, so he could only let Cao Jun's siege ladder rumble towards the Xiangping city wall.
The upper half of the movable ladder that was originally folded and pressed on the fixed ladder was slowly raised with the top frame as the axis, and then the whole live ladder was completely erected and slowly tilted towards the head of Xiangping City, and finally the bang was heavily pressed on the top of the city, and the Xuzhou army in front of the arrow battlement hurriedly retreated again and again.
The rain of arrows from Cao's crossbow had stopped, and more than a dozen cloud ladders were connected at the top of the city to form more than a dozen inclined passages connecting the upper and lower parts of the city.
The next moment, hundreds of Cao Jun's sharp soldiers poured up the ladder like ants, screaming and going straight to the city to kill.
Zhang Liao was the first to stand up, and with a slash of the long knife in his hand, Lu Bujun, who was originally prostrate under the city tower, stood up with a hula, drew his sword one after another, and rushed to the front of the battlement.
Boom, boom, boom Huge rocks and logs rolled down, smashing Cao Jun on the ladder to the point of bleeding, crying for his father and mother, and constantly rolling down from the top of the ladder.
The fierce siege battle has finally officially begun The continuous Cao army, led by Xiahoudun, Xu Chu and Dian Wei, went on the offensive.
Although Zhang Liao is brave, he can't stand the enemy's soldiers after all, especially Dian Wei and Xu Chu, two perverts, who took the lead several times, ignoring the rolling stones and trees on the city tower, killing the city tower, if it weren't for Zhang Liao's desperate hard fighting, the city tower almost fell, and Lu Bu's army gradually couldn't support it, Zhang Liao hurriedly sent someone to Lu Bu to ask for support.
After a while, when Lu Bu's tall figure appeared on the city tower, Cao Cao, who had been standing still, finally showed a relieved look on his face, and immediately drew his sword and began to give orders.
To be continued
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