Chapter 531: The Battle of Xiaopei
What is called a lying gun, this is called a lying gun.
Cao Cao in Xuzhou can be regarded as marching fast, Dongguan City, resisted for less than two days and was bitten down by Cao Cao, no wonder, after all, Xuzhou Lao Cao has fought many times, starting from Tao Qian, Lao Cao has been worried about Xuzhou.
After that, I have been operating in Xuzhou for a long time, can I not be familiar with it?
Dongguan City was not a solid city, and the defenders stationed in Dongguan were not cronies of the Huainan Army, Lao Cao fought for a day, and on the second day sent people to threaten to break through the city and slaughter the city, and immediately the defenders of Dongguan City opened the city gate and surrendered.
But Xiao Pei is different, Xiao Pei City is considered to be a strong city, after all, it was used as a bridgehead to resist Lao Cao, and Lao Cao has fought many times, and every time he has hit his head and bled out.
After Yuan Yao took Xuzhou, there was Xiao Pei in the repaired city, and Xiao Pei's moat was not as bad as a city like Shouchun Xudu, the entire river was widened, and the water flow became turbulent because of the river.
If you want to attack Xiao Pei without solving the moat, it is simply wishful thinking.
"Lord, our army's bows and arrows can't shoot into the city at all, so we can only use a stone thrower to attack the city for now!" The military generals on the side suggested Cao Cao.
Cao Cao nodded, waved his hand, and asked his army to prepare wood to build a stone thrower, Xiao Pei was not as good as the previous Lujiang, before in Lujiang, Yuan Yao knew that Cao Cao was coming, so he asked people to cut down all the trees around Lujiang for him.
This attack on Lao Cao in Xuzhou was a noble and fast soldier, and Yuan Yao didn't have time to react at all.
Soon Cao Cao was equipped with nearly 100 stone throwing machines, lined up, and beckoned to the Xiaopei defenders above the city outside the city.
The boulder smashed on the top of the city, splashing countless dust, and falling into the city, and the houses of each family could not stop the power of the first shot, and they collapsed one after another.
Of course, Xiaopei is not sitting still in the city, Yuan Yaojun also has a trebuchet, and this trebuchet is much farther than Cao Cao's trebuchet.
It was immediately pulled out, and the two sides slammed into each other.
"Lord, this can't be done!" Although there are few stone throwers in Xiaopei City, there are city walls as defense, and it is difficult to be destroyed, but Cao Cao's army is different, his stone throwers are all exposed outside the city, as long as they are hit by boulders, they are basically scattered.
Cao Cao has lost more than a dozen horses, and there is only one point in the city that no longer sends out boulders.
"This moat is so annoying!" Cao Cao frowned, if it weren't for this moat, he Cao Cao would have taken Xiao Pei a long time ago, and no matter how powerful the city was, it would be vulnerable to his enemies ten times.
What's more, the defenders defending the city are second-line troops, while the siege is basically a field army.
"Pass my military order, give me a strong attack!" Cao Cao gave the order, and soon Cao Jun was ready to cross the moat with planks.
Cao's army was indeed an elite, but the elite also had to bow their heads in front of the fortifications, and countless arrows rained down from above the city.
Brought countless screams and blood flowers.
After paying the price of thousands of people, Cao Cao called a halt.
"Do you see clearly?" Cao Cao asked like a group of generals on the side, and soon gathered some intelligence information from the generals one by one, and figured out the shooting points of Xiaopeicheng, as well as the shooting corners.
"It's clear from the temptation just now!"
"Good! It is rumored that our military order relies on these shooting dead ends, as well as some weak areas with bows and arrows, to send troops and horses to fill in the moat! "What Cao Cao needs is to find out the shooting corners of Xiaopeicheng and some weak shooting points, so that the soldiers can carry sandbags to attack the moat, and only when the moat is filled can they attack Xiaopeicheng again.
"Yes!" Soon, the soldiers and horses along the way were photographed, and one by one the soldiers pulled the cloth bags and stuffed the soil inside, and some stones rushed towards Xiao Pei.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" Countless arrows rained down on the head of Xiaopei City, but it was mortal that was shot.
"General?" The defenders above the head of Xiaopei City also found that their bows and arrows fell, and they couldn't hurt a few people at all, while Cao Cao's soldiers and horses under the city kept throwing some stones into the moat.
"This Cao Cao wants to fill my moat?!" This military general guarding Xiaopei is none other than Feng Li from Hebei.
Yuan Yao didn't know what Feng Li was capable of, and this Feng Li came all the way, so Yuan Yao gave Xiao Pei to Feng Li to guard.
This Feng Li is also a skill, he didn't go out of the city and surrendered directly, no wonder, after all, he Feng Li defected from Yuan Shao and joined the Huainan Army, if he defected to Yuan Yao again, it would be a slave with three surnames.
Lu Bu is strong-skinned and originally a prince, so he doesn't care, but this Feng Li is just a military general, but it's different, after all, the general is not good.
Feng Li knew that he was careless, and he actually let Cao Jun figure out the firepower of the entire Xiaopei.
"What should the general do now!?" The people under his command were a little flustered, after all, Lao Cao's soldiers and horses were over there, nearly 100,000 troops, and there were less than 5,000 people in their Xiaopei City. With the defense of the moat and Xiaopei City, he dared to fight with Cao **
"Panic what!" Feng Li cheered up his subordinates: "How can he fill the moat, Cao Cao can fill it if he wants to!" Feng Li sneered.
The moat here was dredged by the lord Yuan Yao, but there was also a credit to Feng Li.
The water of this moat is connected to the undercurrent of the earth, and these stones and clods of earth thrown in the moat cannot withstand the rushing current.
No matter how fast the river was, it couldn't withstand the accumulation of tens of thousands of people, and soon a simple cross bridge was piled up.
Cao Cao waved his hand, and the generals under his hand immediately nodded and attacked Xiaopei with their soldiers and horses.
Countless ladders were driven towards the top of the city.
Feng Li also did not slack off, and personally led his soldiers and horses to meet the siege soldiers and horses of the Cao army.
"Push the ladder, push the ladder! Shoot the arrows! "Feng Li can be regarded as having seen the elite of Cao's army, he is only a captain in a city in Hebei, not a general who commands troops abroad, and he has never fought with Cao Cao, but now he finally understands why Yuan Shao lost to Cao Cao in the two battles of Guandu.
In addition to Cao Cao's top ten luck, it is true that the strength of Cao Cao's soldiers and horses is over there, if it weren't for the elite of the tiger and leopard riders, he Cao Cao would not be able to go to the black nest.
Now after Cao Jun finished fighting Guandu, all the soldiers and horses in his hands are veterans who have been on the battlefield, and only 2,000 soldiers and horses in Feng Li's hands are former Huainan veterans, and the rest are recruited from Xuzhou.
Under the city, you can rely on the high defense of the city, which is no different from Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, they all have a head and a body, but it is different when you are close.
Several groups of Cao soldiers who climbed the ladder to the city wall were a soldier who could deal with three to four Huainan troops.
If it weren't for Feng Li's eyes, the bell at the head of the city would be the old soldier of the Huainan Army, and I am afraid that Feng Li would have lost half of the city wall in the first round just now.
"Resist, resist!" Feng Li personally rushed up, killed two Cao soldiers, wiped the sweat on his face, and violently pushed away two cloud ladders, which was able to withstand Cao Cao's first wave of attacks.
"Again!" In the middle of Cao's army, the command flag waved down, and a group of 3,000 people attacked Xiaopeicheng.
"Reserves!" Among Xiaopei, the Huainan defenders were only 5,000, and they couldn't withstand Cao Cao's wheel battle, so when the attack reached the second wave, Feng Li had to use the 2,000-man reserve in his hand.
"Kill, kill, kill, you must not let Cao Jun climb the city wall!" Feng Li shouted loudly.
The Huainan army over there was really a little frightened by Cao Cao, because the strength of the two sides was really not on the same level.
"Those who dare to retreat will be killed!" Feng Li has seen several recruits recruited from Xuzhou retreating, killing a retreating recruit, Feng Li is full of hideousness, he came all the way from Hebei to Huainan, just to run for a good future, seeing that the new lord Yuan Yao gave him a small Peicheng garrison captain, Feng Li is about to show his strength, this Cao Cao called.
This is a crisis for Feng Li, an unprecedented crisis, and he has no choice.
The surrender of Cao Cao was already extinguished before Cao Cao's temptation, and the only thing left was to fight hard, once Cao Cao broke through Xiao Pei, he would definitely not let Feng Li go.
This is also an opportunity for Feng Li, an opportunity to show his Feng Li's ability, although Yuan Yao gave him Feng Li a guard lieutenant and reinstated him as an official, and even Xiao Pei is no less important to Xuzhou than a city like Guangling County in Langya County, but Feng Li still has a grudge.
Because he Feng Li wants to climb higher and farther, in Yuan Shao's Hebei Army, it depends on the qualifications and the background, who has strong background qualifications to be promoted, he Feng Li is just a military general who came out of the cold How can he have a backstage, and the only backer is the eldest prince Yuan Tan, but in the end, he still regarded Feng Li as a waste and carried the black pot.
And in Yuan Yaojun, Feng Li saw that many generals were like him, Feng Li generally climbed up step by step, they could, why couldn't he Feng Li?
This time Xiao Pei is an opportunity, Dongguan Changcheng has been breached, if Xiao Pei is not broken, or rather, he Feng Li can hold on until the arrival of reinforcements, then this is a great achievement.
Opportunities and risks are always proportional.
If he wants to get ahead, he has to crawl out of the pile of dead.
"Have you forgotten who is under the city? He is Cao Cao, Cao Butcher, have you forgotten that Cao Cao slaughtered the city back then? Retreating can only be a dead end, and only by fighting can we have a way to live! Feng Li yelled at the soldiers under his hands.