Next, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Chen Deng, and Sun Ce took turns to attack the Tiger Pass, day and night, the Tiger Pass was only one side of the enemy, and the other three sides, one side faced the river, one side was against the mountain, and the other side was towards Luoyang, if they could bypass the encirclement, at this moment the coalition troops and horses might have already attacked Luoyang.
Only one side of the enemy, but also make their military advantage can not be brought into play, can only through this turn of continuous attack, consume the energy of the soldiers in the Guannai, 400,000 horses at the beginning by the princes under their own command, but after a long time, everyone found that this is really not a way, there are strong and weak among the princes.
Yuan Shao had 200,000 soldiers and horses, but the weakest Sun Ce only brought 10,000, and now even 10,000 is not enough, which cannot effectively cause enough pressure on the Tiger Prison Pass.
In the end, it is better to deploy the princes' forces in a unified manner and elect a powerful general to command in a unified manner, so that there will be no phenomenon of people disobeying the yin and the yin.
It's just that who will be the commander of the general is a big question.
First of all, there is the issue of rights, the soldiers and horses under the command of the princes are all commanded by this person, if this person has bad intentions, I am afraid that no one can control it; The second is the problem of ability, don't say that the 400,000 army, even if every time the city is attacked now, it is only tens of thousands of people to attack, but those who can command so many men and horses can be called famous generals in the entire history, and there are not many such characters in the princes' camp; The other is the question of whether it can be fair, in case this person takes this opportunity to attack the opponent and use the opponent as cannon fodder, then even if he wins in the end, he has nothing to do with the princes who are used as cannon fodder.
Although Yuan Shu is the leader of the alliance, this is only nominal, and it is obviously impossible to get the princes to obediently hand over the military power, but this is also the most effective method at present.
The princes fought with each other for three days before finally deciding on the commander, not the talented and powerful Yuan Shao, nor the current alliance leader Yuan Shu, although Cao Cao is all-rounded in civil and military affairs, but between him and Yuan Shao, with the full contact between the two sides, secretly dirty, Yuan Shao naturally did not want to give this opportunity to Cao Cao, so in the end, the task of being responsible for the commander's deployment of the three armies fell on Chen Deng.
In terms of ability, Chen Deng is not bad, the most important thing is that although the Chen family is a prince, it is the weakest one, not only has Cao Cao next to him, Yuan Shu has been coveted for a long time for Guangling and Xiapi counties, if he has any changes, the princes can destroy him in minutes, in comparison, the other three princes are too strong, and although Sun Ce now has four counties in Jiangdong, but nominally after all, he appears as a subordinate of Yuan Shu, and he is regarded as a branch of Yuan Shu, so he naturally does not have this qualification.
In addition, the Chen family is also a family, although there is no ambition to annex the world, but they attach great importance to the family, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, at least in their hearts are somewhat supportive of Liu Xie's policies to weaken the family, but the Chen family is a firm family faction, so in this matter, the Chen family is definitely willing to die.
Therefore, in the attack on the second day after Chen Deng was decided to be the head coach, Liu Xie could obviously feel the pressure of defending the city.
"It seems that the coalition forces have realized their problems" Liu Xie looked at this scene, but he was not too nervous, in fact, the level of the coalition forces in the past few days disappointed Liu Xie, according to that kind of offensive strength, even if the 400,000 troops are exhausted, they may not be able to break through the tiger prison, and now, it can be regarded as the real beginning of the battle.
"Your Majesty, do you want to use a new weapon?"
Gao Shun bowed.
"Don't move for the time being" Liu Xie shook his head, what they want is not only to kill the enemy, but also to morale, at this moment, the new weapons of the Ministry of Labor can certainly suppress the enemy army, but the blow to morale will not collapse.
Give them hope, and then give them a head-on blow when they see that hope is about to come true, in order to deal the greatest psychological blow to the morale of the coalition forces The sound of fighting in the Tiger Prison Pass, in the following month, no matter day or night, did not stop for a moment, even if Chen Deng rested, the siege would not stop.
Day and night non-stop attack, the coalition army suffered considerable losses, in a month's time, the coalition army lost nearly 80,000 soldiers and horses, and under this high-intensity rotational attack, even if there is a strong city to help, the Tiger Pass defenders have paid a lot of price, after all, the Ministry of Industry has set up a military merit system for only about three years, although there has been a gradual gap, but this gap is not enough to achieve the effect of crushing, in the coalition army regardless of losses, regardless of casualties under the attack, the Tiger Pass defenders lost more than half The female wall of the Tiger Prison Pass, as if soaked in blood, has changed color, even if the re-reinforced Tiger Prison Pass is much stronger than before, in the continuous battle for more than a month, there are still many places damaged, there are a large number of cracks and potholes on the wall, it seems, miserable, walking on the city wall, Liu Xie can clearly feel the fatigue of the soldiers, and it is no longer as morale as a month ago.
The coalition forces did not attack the city today, which made the hustle and bustle for a month outside the Tiger Prison seem extraordinarily calm, but this calm made people feel a suppressed sense of suffocation, like the calm before the storm.
"Your Majesty."
Jia Xu, who was walking beside Liu Xie, couldn't help but say: "The minister thinks that the time is almost over, today's coalition army is repaired, I am afraid that it is just to be able to break through the tiger prison pass in one fell swoop tomorrow, with the current state of our army, I am afraid it will be difficult to survive this round of attack." ” A month ago, they had sufficient troops, even if there were casualties, they could quickly replenish them, but after a month of fighting, the number of soldiers in Tiger Prison Pass was reduced by half, and it became difficult to mobilize troops, unless Liu Xie was willing to transfer troops from other checkpoints.
Don't look at the number is about half of the previous one, but the combat effectiveness, I'm afraid it can't even be compared to one-third of a month ago, and the combat effectiveness of the coalition forces has been continuously improved in this month's coordinated operations, and the most important thing is that there are many people, even if they lose 80,000 people, they can still use the soldiers and horses that have been kept at the peak of the state to put into the battlefield, and Liu Xie's side, there are no new soldiers and horses to mobilize, and the gap between the two sides has begun to widen.
I'm afraid that even if new weapons are taken out at that time, they may not be able to suppress the morale of the coalition forces.
"Your Majesty" Wei Zhong quickly ran to Liu Xie's side, handed a letter to Liu Xie, and said: "The urgent message that just came from the imperial court" "Oh" Liu Xie's eyes lit up when he heard this, he quickly took the letter and read it carefully, his face was flushed with joy, and he nodded to Jia Xu and said: "Okay, inform the generals, next time, as long as the thieves come to attack, they will use new weapons, in addition, you must be careful tonight, beware of the thieves stealing the city, I will return to Luoyang secretly tonight, and the next thing will be handed over to Aiqing." ” A clear smile flashed in Jia Xu's eyes, since Liu Xie didn't take the initiative to tell him the content of the letter, he wouldn't ask more, nodded and smiled: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister knows what to do." ” Liu Xie nodded, and without much delay, he immediately took Wei Zhong, Xu Chu and a team of personal guards, changed their clothes, and under the cover of Gao Shun, quietly left the Tiger Prison Pass and went straight to Luoyang.
Not to mention how Liu Xie returned to the dynasty, after a day of rest, early the next morning, Chen Deng mobilized 50,000 elite soldiers and horses, these soldiers and horses all survived after a round of fierce battles, and after at least half a month of repair, they were re-sent to the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than in the past.
"Everyone" Chen Gong first saluted Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and then said in a deep voice: "Today, the Tiger Prison Pass will be broken, please prepare your generals, and when the Tiger Prison Pass is broken, we should lead the army and attack Luoyang directly."
"Yuanlong rest assured, we are already ready, 300,000 troops are enough to level Luoyang," Yuan Shu said heroically.
Chen Deng smiled slightly, did not answer, Qingjun was just on the side, leveling Luoyang, if you really do that, just wait for death It's just that he didn't say this to Yuan Shu, no matter what, with Yuan Shu's character, if the world is in his hands, it is definitely not a good thing, since he wants to find death, then let him die Taking a deep breath, Chen Deng was about to give an order, but he heard a burst of exclamations behind him, and Cao Bao on the side pointed to the direction of the Tiger Prison Pass in astonishment and said, "Young boy, look, what is that?"
When Chen Deng heard this, he turned around and looked towards the Tiger Prison, but saw that the Tiger Prison was closed, and strange-shaped things were pushed against the female wall.
It was three feet high and two feet wide, with a stand below it, and an object shaped like a giant fly above it "What is this" Cao Cao looked at the strange things that there were more than twenty families in the city, and was a little puzzled.
Chen Deng had a bad premonition in his heart, took a deep breath, and said with a smile: "Meng Degong should not panic, it is probably a new research and development of the Ministry of Industry, but now, the general trend is the trend, no matter how exquisite things are created, it is impossible to stop our army from breaking through the Tiger Prison today."
Yes, it has come to this point, even if the other party comes up with any powerful weapons, how can it be difficult, with only twenty strange-looking things, it can reverse the defeat If so, why didn't you take it out before Chen Deng cheered for himself in his heart.
"Attack" took a deep breath, Chen Deng waved away the bad feeling in his heart, and then waved the command flag, 50,000 elites, and began to take sharp steps towards the direction of Tiger Prison Pass.
The catapult and the well also began to move forward, and at two hundred paces, the opponent's catapult began to exert its might, Chen Deng ignored it, and at fifty paces, the rain of arrows fell from the city, which was just a conventional means, Chen Deng did not pay attention to it, and stared at the newly made things.
Thirty steps, Chen Deng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, such a close distance, no matter how powerful the weapon was, it would not be of much use, and at this moment, a series of dull sounds suddenly sounded on the city wall, followed by Chen Deng's pupils suddenly dilated several times, and he looked at the scene in front of him incredulously. t1706231537: