The war in which Sun Jian led his army to retreat to the Eastern Front also ended with Cao Cao's victory

It stands to reason that its first credit should be attributed to Zhang Liao and others, who burned all the grain and grass of the Jiangdong army, and the slaughter of Hefei City, for which they bear unshirkable responsibility

If it is an ordinary fault, it is enough, this sin is really heavy, even if Cao Cao wants to protect Zhang Liao and others, he has to think twice, such as public opinion and people's feelings, etc., Cao Cao did not want to protect Zhang Liao in his heart

The burning of grain and grass is indeed a great achievement, but before Sun Jianjun's troops arrived in Xuchang, Xiahou Yuan had already entered Xuchang with his army, and the defense force of Xuchang City was strong enough

In this way, they gave up the behavior of Hefei City for this reason

Of course, it is impossible for him to calculate in advance that Chang'an can win so quickly, and if there is no such thing as Sun Jian's massacre of the city, it is a pity that there is a large-scale killing in Hefei City, then someone must be responsible for the slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Hefei City

After some discussion, as the initiator of the abandonment of the city, Lu Xun himself, but Lu Xun was also punished in other ways

Just before the war on the Western Front and the Eastern Front ended, Wancheng on the southern front of Xuchang was also engaged in a fierce offensive and defensive battle

One after another, Liu Biaojun's soldiers struggled to climb the city wall of Wancheng, and stones, logs and boiling oil were constantly thrown down from the head of Wancheng

In a few days, the cost of attacking the city was huge

But the situation in Wancheng was not much better, and it had already attacked the city several times, so that the casualties of the Cao army in Wancheng were much less than that of Liu Biaojun outside the city

And because Liu Biaojun is attacking frantically every day, rolling logs and falling rocks are about to run out, and they use tiles as tools to defend the city

The lethality of tiles is naturally much smaller than that of rolling logs, falling rocks, etc., even if you don't stoning the enemy soldiers who are climbing the city to death, you can't kill anyone if you throw a tile down

More seriously

The most important support for the defense of the city is the archers falling stones

Once the bow and arrows run out, the difficulty of defending the city will also increase by several notches at once

If there is no cover from the archers, it will only be a matter of time after all

But the problem of bows and arrows is difficult to solve, working day and night, and a round of salvo is gone

In the face of this dilemma, according to the examples of later generations, come up with a way, and then tie these straw men to ropes, the night is unknown, I thought that the defenders in the city went out of the city to attack at night, and after Liu Biaojun finished shooting, I saw that each straw man was densely tied with dozens of arrows, but Gao Shun collected six or seven thousand arrows

Although the number is not very much

This is very similar to the legendary Zhuge Liang's straw boat borrowing arrows, and Gao Shun used the straw man borrowing arrows

For Gao Shun's Qi Ce, for his friend and brother-in-law, he knew that Gao Shun was a rare wise general, but Gao Shun borrowed arrows from the straw man this time