Xu Sheng looked at the Guangling Iron Cavalry who had gradually gone away, and he was also afraid in his heart, fortunately, the Guangling ambush had appeared for a while, and he and Sun Quan had just gotten off the boat and had not had time to pursue, if the two of them had chased out for a distance, then today's situation would be dangerous.

Although he Xu Sheng is a martial artist and brave and good at fighting, but he is not an iron fighter after all, if there is no assistance from the soldiers, let him face the siege and killing of thousands of iron horsemen alone, he will have to explain here; What's more, there is a Sun Quan by his side, if he encounters thousands of iron cavalry to kill, it will be a little difficult for him to be alone, let alone protect Sun Quan!

Xu Sheng was glad in his heart at first, but after he saw the soldiers behind him who suffered heavy casualties, he immediately felt a little heartache, you must know that these five thousand elite soldiers are all deployed by his cronies, and these soldiers and horses are his lifeblood! Now after the first battle, nearly half of these 5,000 elites have been lost and nothing has been gained, and his losses are really extraordinary!

However, the main general of this battle is Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Quan, and he can't blame Sun Quan, so he can only swallow this bitter fruit alone like eating coptis dumbly.

Xu Sheng hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and bowed: "Childe, the enemy army has gone away, what should we do?" ”

After experiencing two defeats in a row, Sun Quan no longer had the initial vigor, and asked bitterly: "I don't know what the general thinks he should do?" ”

If you had been willing to consult me on all matters and follow my advice, how could my army have come to such a state?

Xu Sheng complained in his heart, and replied: "My army has just suffered a great defeat and suffered heavy losses, and the army is completely lost, this place is only more than ten miles away from Sheyang, and the Guangling Iron Cavalry can be killed in a moment, and this place can no longer stay longer." Gaoyou City is strong, and there are no defenders in the city, so it can be used as a barrier temporarily! How about I wait to return to Gaoyou after collecting the corpses of the soldiers, and wait for General Huang's rear army there? ”

Sun Quan nodded lightly and said, "My heart is blank, I really didn't pay attention, everything is up to the general!" ”

"No, the last general will take the order!"

Xu Sheng bowed down and retreated, and ordered some of the sergeants to go to collect the bodies of the fallen soldiers, and after Chen Deng returned to Sheyang, he saw that the Jiangdong soldiers and horses were only collecting the corpses and had no intention of attacking, so he did not send iron cavalry to attack again. After the Jiangdong Army cleaned up its own corpses on the battlefield, the army boarded the ship again, and the entire fleet immediately turned its bow from the shore and went straight down the river in the direction of Gaoyou City downstream.

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Xuzhou, Xiapi County, outside Xiapi City, Cao Jun camp.

As mentioned above, when Yuan Yao and Sun Ce reached a peace agreement to conspire with Guangling County, Cao Cao also led an army of 100,000 to reach the city of Xiapi, and he divided Xu Huang and Yu Ban to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Xiaopei to snipe Zhang Fei, and sent Zhang Liaole to attack the prime minister, wanting to intercept Guan Yu's retreat, so that Guan Yu's 20,000 soldiers and horses could not return to Xiapi to respond to Liu Bei.

After arranging these two lines of soldiers and horses, Cao Cao led the remaining 30,000 soldiers and horses into the camp outside Xiapi City, and joined forces with the 20,000 former troops led by Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Cao had a total of 50,000 elite soldiers outside Xiapi City at this time!

Early the next morning, Cao Cao personally led the army to attack Liu Bei under the city of Picheng, Cao Cao ordered his soldiers and horses to line up the formation, 50,000 troops slowly pressed to the outside of the city of Xiapi, Cao army soldiers are all following Cao Cao for many years of daring to die, everyone is well-trained, well-equipped, is an invincible division that is enough to dominate the world!

Liu Bei learned that Cao Cao personally led the army to attack the city, and had already climbed to the top of the city to watch the battle, Cao Cao covered his forehead with his right hand, and checked the situation on the city wall. ”

Liu Bei replied in a cold voice: "Yes, it is Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, who are descendants of the Han Queen, are here, Meng De is so forgetful, don't you even know me?" ”

"Hahahaha, hahahahaha......"

Cao Cao drew his sword with a bang, pointed the tip of the sword at the head of the city, and shouted: "I don't think I'm forgetful, but you Liu Xuande is too forgetful, right?" Do you still remember when the princes of the Eighteenth Route crusaded against Dong Zhuo, who put you on the throne of the princes? When Lu Bu treacherously plotted against you in Xuzhou, who defeated Lu Bu and saved you? ”

"Hahahaha, hahahahaha, good you Cao Mengde, really good at sophistry!!"

Liu Bei also laughed a few times, and replied loudly: "When the princes of the Eighteenth Road crusaded against Dong Zhuo, it was my second brother Guan Yu who made great achievements in Wenjiu and Huaxiong, and thanks to the love of the lord of the Yuan League, this allowed me to sit on the throne of the princes!" ”

"When Lu Bu treacherously plotted against my Xuzhou, although it was you Cao Mengde who defeated Lu Bu, why didn't you want to plot Xuzhou?"

"Although you have some kindness to me, it is only a personal righteousness; Your Cao Mengde's name is Han Xiang, but he is actually a thief, this is the righteousness of the world! A certain Liu Bei, as a descendant of the Han Queen, swore by the blood edict of the Son of Heaven to eradicate the traitors and thieves, and he will move forward, eradicate the national thieves, and prosper the Han Dynasty! ”

"Cao Mengde, you don't need to say more about these words, if you have the courage, you can wave your army to attack the city! Even if I, Liu Bei, die in battle, I will not grovel to you!! ”

"Hahahaha, Liu Bei, Liu Bei, what a sharp mouth, what a hypocrite and a traitor!!" Cao Cao listened to Liu Bei's words, laughed angrily, and shouted: "Liu Xuande, you really dare to fight with me?" ”

Liu Bei smiled indifferently and replied, "Cao Mengde, are you really a bluff?" To tell you the truth, I have already asked people to go to Hebei to ask Yuan Shao for help, and let him personally lead the army south to attack Xuchang, as long as you can't break my Xiapi within half a month, Yuan Shao will definitely be able to break through Xuchang and rescue the Son of Heaven! If you have the ability, you can break my city within half a month, otherwise this time next year will be your Cao Mengde's death day!! ”

Cao Cao heard that Liu Bei had sent someone to ask Yuan Shao for help, his face suddenly changed greatly, he personally led the elite army to crusade against Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou land is empty, if Yuan Shaozhen led the army south at this time, it would be really troublesome! When Cao Cao thought of this, he didn't have the heart to answer Liu Bei again, so he returned to the military formation, pointed his sword at the sky, and shouted: "Siege the city!! ”

"Knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! ”

"Knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! ”

"Knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! ”

……

Cao Cao gave an order, and the trebuchet behind the military array instantly fired countless stone bullets, which were all roaring and smashed straight to the head of the city, and the defenders of the city were already a little unstable after seeing Cao Cao, and now they saw countless stone bullets attacking, and they all hurriedly leaned against the female wall and did not dare to rise.

There are countless famous generals in Cao Cao's army, they naturally will not waste such a great opportunity, the generals shouted, and the soldiers of the Cao army in front of them all lifted the sandbags that had been prepared, and took advantage of the efforts of the defenders in the city to be suppressed, and they all desperately rushed forward to fill the moat outside the city.

Xiapi City is an important town in the Central Plains, and heavy city defense equipment is naturally indispensable in the city, Liu Bei saw that Cao Jun launched an attack first, and hurriedly shouted: "Counterattack!! ”

"Whoosh!! Whoosh!! Whoosh!! ”

"Whoosh!! Whoosh!! Whoosh!! ”

"Whoosh!! Whoosh!! Whoosh!! ”

……

Liu Bei gave an order, and the trebuchets lined up in the city were immediately launched, and countless stone bullets and oil bombs rose into the air one after another, and smashed straight towards the Cao army's formation, and the stone bullets fell into the Cao army's formation, and instantly knocked down a group of sergeants, and even two or three catapults were hit by fire and oil bullets, and the fire was instantly ignited and was turned into parts!

Countless stone bullets and oil bombs are intertwined in the sky above the Xiapi city and the Cao army's military formation, and the soldiers on both sides are smashed to death at every moment, but fortunately, the two sides of the battle are well-trained elite divisions, these casualties did not frighten the soldiers of the two armies, the soldiers of the Cao army are still desperately moving forward to fill the moat, and the defenders of the city head saw the soldiers of the Cao army rushing to the front, and hurriedly shouted: "The Cao army has come to fill the moat, and quickly shoot the enemy with arrows!! ”

The defenders of the city were already a little reluctant to fight to the death with the Cao army, and now they were suppressed by trebuchets, so they were naturally even more reluctant to take the lead to counterattack, the Cao army soldiers had rushed to the front to fill the moat, but there were only sporadic defenders in the city who were shooting outward with arrows with bows, and these sporadic arrows were simply difficult to block the momentum of the Cao army!

Liu Bei saw that the defenders in the city were slacking off and tired of fighting, he sighed in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Pass my general's order, shoot freely, and those who shoot and kill Cao Jun will be decapitated and credited!! ”

When the heralds heard Liu Bei's shout, they all hurriedly shouted:

"The lord has an order, free shooting, there are those who shoot and kill Cao Jun, and the number of records is recorded according to the beheading of the meritorious !!"

"The lord has an order, free shooting, there are those who shoot and kill Cao Jun, and the number of records is recorded according to the beheading of the meritorious !!"

"The lord has an order, free shooting, there are those who shoot and kill Cao Jun, and the number of records is recorded according to the beheading of the meritorious !!"

……

Liu Bei's military order soon spread throughout the city, and all the defenders were overjoyed, you must know that now the record of military merits is registered according to the number of beheaded heads, even if they risked their lives to shoot Cao Jun, but there is no way to cut off the head of bacteria, there is no way to record military merits, which is also an important reason why the defenders are unwilling to risk death to fight back.

Now Liu Bei gave an order, as long as the number of Cao soldiers shot and recorded, they could be recorded according to the beheading, and all the soldiers were immediately overjoyed, you must know that the current military merit reward is very generous, as long as they shoot a few Cao soldiers, then they can make a big windfall!

Although there are some dangers in shooting at the enemy in stone bullets, such a danger is far less than fighting to the death and beheading the enemy, isn't it?

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, countless defenders heard the military order, and began to draw their bows and arrows with the help of the cover of the female wall to shoot the Cao army under the city, in an instant, there were countless feather arrows as if they were leeches and went straight to the Cao army's army array, the Cao army under the city did not expect that the city would suddenly shoot such a rapid rain of arrows, the soldiers were caught off guard, and immediately suffered heavy casualties!

Fortunately, at this time, the well car behind the Cao army finally retreated, and more than a thousand Cao army archers stood on the well car and began to shoot at the Xiapi defenders, and the defending archers were attacked by the enemy archers on the well car after being attacked, and for a while, the defenders in the city did not have the energy to care about Cao Jun filling the moat.

"Trebuchets, bed crossbows, aimed at the enemy's wells, reflecting !!"

At the head of the city, the defenders of the catapult machine crossbow could turn around and shoot at Cao Jun's well car, and countless stone bullets, fire oil bombs and giant crossbow arrows went straight towards Cao Jun's well car.

In a matter of moments, three or four well-mounted carts were hit by fire bombs, and a fire broke out on the well-mounted carts, and the Cao army archers above could only howl and jump downward; There were also several well carts that were hit by stone bullets, some of which were smashed into tatters, several Cao army archers fell down when they were shocked, and even some of the well carts were directly smashed and smashed by stone bullets, and the Cao army archers above fell down with the well carts and did not know whether they were alive or dead; There were also several well-mounted carts that were shot by giant crossbow arrows, and these crossbow arrows were all backed by ropes, and the defending soldiers saw the bed crossbow hitting the well-mounted carts, and they all dragged the ropes backwards, and these well-mounted carts were dragged to the ground by ropes, and the Cao army archers above did not know whether they were alive or dead after landing.

After three or four rounds of salvos, there was not much left of the Cao army's wells, and the Cao army's archers suffered heavy injuries, but the Cao army under the city also filled one or two rounds of moats, and after the Cao army soldiers threw the sandbags in their hands into the moat, they had all returned to the military formation.

……

Cao Cao saw that the battle in front of him stopped for a while, and said, "Zixiao, what do you think of this battle?" ”

Cao Ren is known as the first general of the Cao clan, and Cao Cao also intends to train the generals of the Cao clan, so he often takes Cao Ren with him to cultivate, and often discusses the military situation of the Great War with him to cultivate his tactical and strategic literacy.

Cao Ren came to Cao Cao's carriage with a horse, bowed his hand, and said: "Back to the lord, when our army filled the sandbags before, the counterattack in the city was scarce and arrows were scattered, which must be because the defenders of the city are weak and unwilling to be the enemy of our army!" ”

Cao Cao nodded and smiled, and said: "Nearly half of the sergeants under Liu Bei's command are the soldiers and horses that I handed over to him to intercept Yuan Shu when I was in Xudu, and most of the rest are our soldiers who were incorporated by Liu Bei after the defeat of Che Zhou. ”

Cao Ren nodded and replied: "What the lord said is very true, now that Liu Bei's army is not attached, the lord will personally lead the army to crusade against Xuzhou, and it will be very difficult to defeat Xuzhou if you wait until Liu Bei subdues the army." ”

"Well, that's exactly what happened!" Cao Cao nodded slightly, and then said, "You go on!" ”

When Cao Ren heard this, he continued: "After a while, the defenders suddenly began to counterattack the city like a rain of arrows, and the last general thought that this must be some trick Liu Bei used to boost the army's fighting spirit. ”

"What tricks do you think Liu Bei used?"

Cao Ren pondered for a moment and said: "There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and the last general will think that Liu Bei must have given a heavy reward!" ”

"Yes! When soldiers eat food, most of the people who serve in the army are for fame and fortune and glory, Liu Bei can only mobilize the morale of the army in a short period of time by promising heavy rewards, you go on! ”

"After the defenders of the city began to counterattack, our army's well carts also just arrived, and the archers of the two armies began to fight, although our army lost twenty or thirty well carts and hundreds of archers, but the former army also took advantage of this time to fill in one or two rounds of moats, if it can continue like this, our army will be able to fill the moat in three days! The defenders of the city are already lacking in fighting spirit, and they all rely on Liu Bei to issue heavy rewards to maintain their morale, but such military morale is not to be worried, as long as our army can directly attack the city wall, the defenders of the city will definitely collapse at the touch of a button! ”

When Cao Ren said this, he bowed down and said: "As long as we can maintain such an offensive, within three days, our army will definitely be able to fill the moat and attack the city wall, and within five days, our army will definitely be able to break through Xiapi and capture Liu Bei!! ”

After Cao Cao heard Cao Ren's words, he laughed and said, "Hahahaha, good, Zixiao is worthy of being the important general of my clan!" Now that you have understood the essentials of this battle, I will leave this battle to you! Liu Bei said that within half a month, Yuan Shao could wave his army south to attack Xuchang directly, then I would break through Xiapi and kill Liu Bei within five days, and then use Liu Bei's head to send a big gift to Yuan Shao!! ”

Cao Ren answered the promise and said: "The lord can rest assured that within five days, I will break through Xiapi and take Liu Bei's head!! ”

……

After Cao Ren bid farewell to Cao Cao, he continued to attack the city with his army, constantly using trebuchets and well carts to draw the energy of the defenders on the city, creating opportunities for the rest of the soldiers to fill the moat. Although the two armies have not yet directly launched a white-knuckle battle, the arrows and stones on the battlefield are intertwined like rain, which still brings a lot of casualties to the officers and men of the two armies, and the battle on the battlefield has also come to a white-hot stage.

After a day of fighting between the two armies, the Cao army lost more than 100 well carts, two or three thousand archers and hundreds of foot armor, but within this day, the Cao army had filled in a small half of the moat outside Xiapi City, and if this continued, within three days, the Cao army would be able to fill the moat to the ground!

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Xuzhou, in the city of Xiapi, the state pastoral mansion.

After a day of the war, all the people in Xuzhou came to the governor's mansion, looked at Liu Bei, bowed down and said, "I'll wait to see the lord!" ”

Liu Bei was physically and mentally exhausted after a day of fighting, forcibly lifted his expression, and said: "No need to be polite, today I can defend the city thanks to the merits of all the kings, all of us are seated!" ”。

"I've thanked my lord!!"

After everyone took their seats, Liu Bei sighed and said: "In today's battle, our army bravely killed and wounded thousands, although it temporarily repelled the Cao army, but the moat outside the city was also filled in by the Cao army. If this continues, within three days, the Cao army can fill the moat and directly attack the city wall and start a white-knuckle battle with our army, if this is the case, our army has ...... chance of winning, hey, I don't know if you have a good plan to deal with it? ”