In fact, Jia Xu was right to say that Gongsun Bai was unscrupulous.
Cao had 300,000 troops, half of whom were makeshift recruits.
Gathering together, relying on defensive bunkers such as walls and trenches, and holding on with defensive weapons such as crossbows and arrows, trebuchets and rolling stones, all it takes is a little training for new recruits.
However, if they withdraw from Yongqiu City and Gaogang, the disadvantages of these recruits will come out, and once the 300,000 army retreats, it will inevitably be a mess, and it will not be able to advance and retreat in an orderly and orderly manner like the Gongsun army.
Even if the water failed to cause any damage to Cao's army in the end, as long as the formation was chaotic when retreating, and the Gongsun army took the opportunity to turn around and chase after it, Cao's army would be defeated without a fight.
It is clear that this is a naked contempt and provocation, but Cao Cao is helpless.
Just like a clever chess player, who calculates that there are still three moves to win, he will directly tell his opponent that you have lost, don't struggle.
In the early summer, when the scorching sun was in the sky, Cao Cao's heart was cold, and his face became pale, as if he was a few years older in an instant.
At this moment, Cao Cao knew that he was really gone, and he was powerless to return to the sky.
The strategists and generals at the head of the city were also silent for a while, silent, retreating or not retreating, this is a question.
"Fifty miles of river, how can it be said that it will be dug up, maybe Gongsun Bai is just bluffing, luring the lord to withdraw from the army, and then take the opportunity to cover up and kill, the lord needs to send scouts to investigate first and then make a decision, don't be fooled."
Liu Ye still had a glimmer of hope after all, and this idea of self-comfort was approved by several people.
There is still a distance of twenty or thirty meters between the newly dug river channel and the water of the vortex river, forming a large embankment between the empty river channel and the river water, as long as the distance of twenty or thirty meters is dug up, the river water will slope out of the embankment.
On the embankment of the vortex river, the flags are rolled, the armor is like snow, and thousands of Gongsun soldiers stand solemnly with shovels and hoes in their hands, looking at Gongsun Bai, waiting for orders.
A cavalry scout rushed over: "Qi Wei Gong, all the troops have been evacuated and retreated to the high gang." ” Gongsun Bai took a deep breath, drew his sword with a brush, and roared angrily: "Break the embankment" After the order, countless soldiers waved their shovels and hoes in unison, drew neat arcs in the air, and dug down the river embankment, splashing dirt for a while.
Soon, a small opening was dug in the embankment that was half a meter deep and three or four meters wide, penetrating the embankment, allowing the river to flow out slowly.
Although the mouth is small, once the river gushes out, it rushes and gradually washes the soil on both sides, making the mouth bigger and bigger.
The order flag waved, and all the Gongsun troops hurriedly mounted their horses and retreated to the nearby heights.
The water that flowed out of the river was still rushing, making a huge roar, and the rushing waves of water continued to wash the soil on both sides of the gap, making the mouth bigger and bigger, and the roar became louder and louder, like thunder.
Then the whole embankment gradually loosened under the continuous washing of the flood, and at a certain moment, with a loud bang, in an instant, the surging flood was like a wild horse that had escaped the reins, galloping down In less than half an hour, the gap has expanded from less than three or four meters to more than 20 meters, and is still expanding rapidly, and finally expanded to more than 40 meters, the same width as the newly dug river channel, and the turbid water is pouring down from the gap, forming a huge flood peak, roaring towards the low place.
At this time, at the head of Yongqiu, Cao Cao was still waiting for the return of the scouts.
Suddenly, dozens of scouts rushed in unison, and before everyone could ask, the scouts were already shouting: "Water, the great water has come from the newly dug river, and it is ten miles away, and the lord must retreat quickly."
There was an uproar in the city.
Someone exclaimed, "Isn't it just before the time to send water, and now it's not even noon?"
” No one answered his questions, and soldiers never tired of deceit, and so it has been since ancient times.
Cao Cao's face was no longer bloody, and he waved his hand bitterly: "The whole army retreats, retreat to the direction of Gaoyang Pavilion" Woooooooo The sound of the horn rose continuously, like a hurricane blowing through the twenty-mile company camp, stirring in the sky above Yongqiu, so helpless and desolate.
The 300,000 army was in chaos in an instant, some soldiers heard that the water was coming, and ordered the soldiers under their command to retreat, and some were reluctant to carry the baggage and grain and grass, so they ordered the troops to move the grain and grass and then run, and more soldiers were afraid of being flooded into fish and shrimp, and the trees were scattered and scattered, and they ran south in an uproar, only hating their father and mother for missing two legs, especially those recruits, who had long been thinking about leaving, and now they see where this opportunity will be missed, some people even threw weapons away, and just ran away.
Just when the soldiers of the Cao army were retreating from the south in a chaotic manner, there was a loud sound like shaking mountains from the direction of the north gate, and when someone looked back, they saw that a few miles away in the north direction, a monstrous huge wave rolled down from a high post, spread rapidly to the flat ground under the post, surging forward, and then one after another huge waves roared, rushing into the field like ten thousand horses galloping.
This sudden and drastic change made Cao's army more and more chaotic and collapsed, and countless soldiers trampled to death during this period.
Fortunately, it will take a while for the flood to spread to fill the flat land, so that when the flood spreads to those low-lying hills, eighty percent of the Cao army has retreated, and only those soldiers who are reluctant to give up their baggage and grain and grass have been driven up by the flood and gradually submerged.
The water rushed for a day and a night, and finally gradually calmed down, except for some of the higher high hills, most of the earth hills have been submerged, and the walls of Yongqiu City have also been flooded more than half high.
In the early morning, the air was filled with water vapor mixed with the smell of earth, and on the high post ten miles away from Yongqiu City, 30,000 Gongsun soldiers stood solemnly, quietly looking at the white flood in front of them.
Gongsun Bai Zongma stood in front of the army, and there were words in his mouth.
After a while, a miracle happened.
In front of him appeared a battleship with a capacity of dozens of people, and then a second battleship appeared, next to the first one.
Immediately, the third, the fourth, and the fifth, and finally, on the water in front of everyone, were densely packed with warships, covering a full mile of land, and there were at least two or three hundred of them.
Although more than ninety percent of the elite cavalry of the Gongsun army have long been commonplace, and it is not strange to see it, there are still many cavalry selected from Cao's army, and when they saw this strange scene for the first time, they were stunned, suddenly like a dream, and couldn't believe their eyes.
"People say that Wei Gong has immortal arts, and now it is true," someone couldn't help but exclaim.
Since the great war between Cao Cao and Gongsun Bai, Gongsun Bai rarely shows the power of the system in public, and the weapons and armor are not under the management of Pang and Xu, so Pang and Xu are also the first time to see the immortal art of this great change warship, and they were also stunned for a while, because the scene in front of them completely subverted their worldview.
"There really is immortal art in this world, is Wei Gong really an immortal disciple?"
Just when the two were in a mess, five thousand white horse Yicong had already taken the lead in leading the horse to board the warship, pulling the sail and pulling the sail, rocking the oar, although the white horse Yicong was a cavalryman, but it was not the first time to operate a warship, although it was impossible to manipulate the warship for water warfare like the Jiangnan naval army, but it was still very skilled in driving the boat on the water.
By noon, all 30,000 iron horsemen had crossed to the opposite high ground, and under the personal command of Gongsun Bai, they rolled south, and pursued Cao Cao's army with light horses.
Cao Jun, who had escaped for a day and a night, finally escaped to Gaoyang Pavilion thirty miles away, and ran for more than a hundred miles in one day and one night.
In fact, there were not many new recruits who followed, but only fifty or sixty thousand, and all of them were old, weak, sick, disabled or timid.
In just one day, more than 100,000 people were directly lost, including more than 90,000 recruits and more than 10,000 veterans.
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Those recruits were originally forcibly recruited, and when they saw the opportunity, many people took the opportunity to bypass the Yongqiu boundary and go north to the Gongsun Bai occupation area.
And those veterans had a premonition that the war between the two princes, Cao Cao was already in decline, and sooner or later he would be defeated, and he didn't want to be a meat shield anymore, so he also took the opportunity to flee for his life.
Cao Jun chose a hill to rest at the foot of the hill, because most of the baggage and grain and grass were thrown in the water, and he had to walk another thirty miles to get food and grass supplies in the Gaoyang Pavilion, which made everyone hungry, sitting on the ground sighing and sighing, and there was a gloomy cloud and mist everywhere.
Only Cao Cao and a cadre of commanders had the dry food that the Tiger Guards carried with them to satisfy their hunger.
Cao Cao held two pieces of bread and looked at the dejected soldiers around him, his heart was sad, and he couldn't swallow a mouthful of bread after chewing it for a long time.
"Lord, Gongsun Bai is menacing, it is not appropriate to defend its edge, it is better to avoid it" Cheng Yu beside him hesitated for a long time before saying to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao's brows furrowed slightly, and after thinking for a while, he finally felt unwilling, and said in a deep voice: "The strength of our army is still there, and this battle is nothing more than the loss of a bunch of new soldiers, and it is not yet time to withdraw from the Central Plains, and there may be a turnaround." ” Cheng Yu immediately stopped talking.
Clear-eyed people know that Cao Cao's general trend has gone, and it is undoubtedly self-defeating to resist Gongsun Bai, only by taking the plan and retreating into the pass, maybe he can find a trace of life, at least he can survive, and to put it nicely, Taoguang is obscure.
After all, the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan in Guanzhong, which once supported the swept Great Qin Empire, has not been in war for six or seven years since Li Dao and Guo Yan were killed a few years ago, and production has gradually recovered, which is a good place to recuperate.
After Cao Cao withdrew, Gongsun Bai would face the two forces of Sun Ce and Liu Biao, who were emperors in the south, and it was difficult to devote all his forces to attack Guanzhong.
What's more, the land of Yuzhou and Hanoi in Cao Cao's hands has become full of holes under his rampant conquest, and the people have fled north, which is no longer a place of ointment, and what is left is just a mess, and there is no oil and water to squeeze out, and it is useless to stay.
But this kind of thing, after Xiahoudun and other cronies went to Guanzhong, maybe only he Cheng Yu dared to say it, but he could only say it casually, and he didn't dare to continue to entangle, otherwise there might not be good fruits to eat.
At this moment, Cheng Yu suddenly felt a chill on his face, hurriedly touched his face, and immediately saw the water marks on his fingers.
Immediately afterward, two more drops of cool liquid fell from the sky, dripping on his forehead and nose. it's raining S: Important things again, there are only 3 hours before the deadline for double monthly passes, and those who have monthly passes should hurry up, thank you for the unfinished future
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