Chapter 228: Rhombic Thorn
Listening to Jia Xu's strategy, Cao Xuan couldn't help but shudder, this Jia Xu is really worthy of the title of poisoner, just a few words, all those irrelevant people are implicated, anyway, it means the same thing, I'm not happy, so don't think about it.
Although Jia Xu's trick is very insidious and vicious, Cao Xuan just wants to say that I like it.
Immediately, Cao Xuan ordered his soldiers to first drive a series of siege equipment such as well-opened bed crossbows, which were placed on the top of the city and could also be used for defense, and at the same time began to use Jia Xu's strategy, while asking for help from the Assassin's Mansion, he also began to spread false news to confuse the attention of Hadoli and others, making them mistakenly believe that there were convoys for transporting grain in Changshan County and Yanmen County, and the defense was lax.
Sure enough, when Hadoli heard the news, he was really moved, they really need food, but no matter how Hadoli said it, it can be regarded as a battle-hardened battle, he can guess that this is likely to be a strategy of Cao Xing, but the food of Baihuahua is in front of him, even if he can bear it, but the generals below him can't bear it, and in the end, Hadoli still compromised everyone's opinion, divided 10,000 horses, and hijacked the grain on both sides.
Although Jia Xu's suggestion did work, but then again, Ha Duoli was also fully prepared this time, and he had only one goal, that is, Bianyun County, which was his pain and a turning point in his life, this time no matter what, he had to take Bianyun County.
On this day, he directly let his soldiers besiege the city on all sides, and then launched a general attack, this war was indeed miserable enough, although Cao Xing personally sat on the head of the city, let his soldiers shoot wildly, and now Cao Xing's archers are not only well-equipped, and all of them are professionally trained, I dare not say that they are all shots and hits, but the bow and arrow skills are also much stronger than ordinary soldiers.
But the biggest problem of guarding the city is that all sides of the city may be besieged, if the enemy's mobility is too strong, seeing that this place can't be beaten, immediately change to another place, which is also a headache, Hadoli has been observing the battle situation, constantly deploying his own soldiers, hitting the east gate for a while, hitting the west gate for a while, and Cao Xing is also being led by Hadoli by the nose and constantly running, but this is also a helpless thing.
After a day's fighting, both sides have their own losses, although the losses on Hadoli's side are indeed heavier, but before Haduoli came to fight Bianyun County, he made full preparations, so that all the soldiers who charged were wearing heavy armor and holding huge shields, so that the casualties were greatly reduced, although in the end the losses on Haduoli's side were more serious, but Haduoli had the advantage of numbers, so if it was calculated according to the proportion, the battle loss ratio was only one to two.
Bianyun County is surrounded by plains, there is no chance of any sneak attack, and there is no trick to speak of, the only way is to fight hard, Ha Duoli originally thought that in this case, Cao Xing would definitely choose the strategy of fighting and retreating, Bianyun County He couldn't hold it, but what Ha Duoli didn't expect was that Cao Xing didn't know which wind he was pumping, anyway, he didn't retreat, and he fought fiercely with Ha Duoli for two days and two nights, and both sides paid a heavy price, but Cao Xing just stuck to it.
Hadoli vaguely felt that there seemed to be a problem here, so he convened the generals to hold a military meeting, and the final result of the discussion was that this Yun County was Cao Xing, which took a lot of effort to build, and invested countless manpower and material resources, although the current situation is unfavorable, but it is almost impossible to make Cao Xuan give up the Bian Yun County created by himself, so the reason why Cao Xuan did not retreat should be reluctant.
It seems that this statement makes more sense, and it is also the only explanation, Hadoli thought about it, and couldn't find other problems, so he could only nod in the end, but what Hadoli didn't expect was that in the early morning of the third day, Cao Xing actually took the initiative to attack with soldiers and horses.
At this moment, under the city tower of Bianyun County, the flag was waving, Cao Xing was wearing a helmet and armor, riding a war horse and walking in the forefront, and behind him was standing Zhou Cang and the tiger warriors under the car.
Hadoli looked at the pilgrimage from afar, at this moment he still kept a distance of three hundred steps from Cao Xing, after all, Cao Xing's bow and arrow skills made him remember it vividly, he couldn't figure out Cao Xing, this time Cao Xuan only brought more than 3,000 soldiers out of the city to face the battle, isn't this a move to find death?
The two troops were stalemate for a while, Ha Duoli felt that it was not a way to go on like this, more than 3,000 people under Cao Xuan were mainly infantry, since this was the case, Ha Duoli didn't care so much, he directly ordered one of his generals to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses, and prepare for a charge, to see if he could completely defeat the army led by Cao Xing, after all, it is very easy for cavalry to fight infantry.
With Hadoli's order, one of his generals shouted, and then beckoned his soldiers, charging with him, the speed of the cavalry was extremely fast, and the distance from the city tower was only two hundred steps away in an instant, but at this moment, Cao Xuan suddenly raised the order flag in his hand and commanded him heavily.
When Fengyun on the top of the city tower saw this scene, he immediately understood what Cao Xuan meant, and at the same time, the corners of his mouth also raised an imperceptible smile, only to see him beckoning to the soldiers behind him, and those soldiers also understood, and under Fengyun's unified order, they all moved the trebuchet.
The main role of the trebuchet is to throw huge stones, causing huge damage to the opponent's city gate, and to hit the opponent's morale, but this time the trebuchet throws out things, but not huge stones, these things are scattered in the air and have a feeling of sparkling.
Hadoli and the others watched as the things on the trebuchet flew into the air, and then fell quickly, and everyone couldn't understand what was the use of Cao Xing throwing these things the size of small stones.
It's just that when this little stone-like thing falls to the ground, it quickly works, and when these things appear on the ground, everyone can finally see that this seems to be a kind of thorn, and in the middle is a round ball, and there are four diamond thorns around this round ball, and these four diamond thorns can be well fixed on the ground, and there is a diamond thorn that is always on the paper side up.
Seeing this, Hadoli only felt that something was wrong, but it was too late at this moment, and those cavalrymen who were charging on their horses couldn't stop suddenly, and finally their war horses stepped directly on these diamond thorns.
The sharp spikes pierced directly into the four kicks of these horses, and the horses were stabbed by the diamond thorns, all of them looked up to the sky and wailed, no longer running, and even some horses couldn't stand the pain, or they stepped directly on multiple rhombic thorns at one time and fell directly to the ground.
In this way, the Xianbei soldiers who were charging, the front row of people fell, and the back row of people also fell, and in this way, the charge of five thousand cavalry came to an end, and many knights were hovering in place and at a loss, for fear that the war horse under their crotch would suddenly step on this kind of diamond thorn.
When Cao Xuan saw this scene, a trace of war intent flashed in his eyes, and he directly ordered Zhou Cang behind him, led people to charge, Zhou Cang gave an order, and then held a big knife and led the car to get off the tiger soldier, and frantically killed the cavalry opposite.
Zhou Cang's car, although everyone was wearing heavy armor, but the nurses who took off were all elite infantrymen selected by thousands of people, and everyone's skills were extremely ingenious, so these rhimbal thorns on the ground did not have much effect on them at all, only to see them take clever steps, easily dodged these rhombic thorns, and in an instant came to those Xianbei soldiers who fell off their horses.
A Xianbei soldier fell from his horse and was hit by the Siling thorn on the ground, and was groping his ass at the moment, in pain, but Zhou Cang came to him in an instant. The obviously inferior soldier looked at Zhou Cang coming, struggling to stand up and pick up his weapon, but Zhou Cang sneered and brandished the big knife directly, but Zhou Cang did not hack the humble soldier to death with a single knife, but slapped the head of the obviously inferior soldier with the back of the knife, and the obviously inferior soldier only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and finally fainted like this.
And other tiger soldiers under the car also followed Chen Hu's approach, for these Xianbei soldiers, they can be captured alive, and those who can't be captured are killed.
Anyway, in Cao Xing's new military reform, it has been clearly stated that troops like Chexia Hushi belong to Cao Xing's special forces and are under Cao Xing's direct jurisdiction, and they are better than ordinary soldiers in terms of treatment or whatever, so the Ten Jue military merit system has little effect on them.
But Cao Xing also made it clear that as long as the tiger soldier under the car can kill people on the battlefield, he can go directly to him to receive the silver taels of white flowers, and if he captures one alive, it will be a heavy reward. Therefore, the Chexia Tiger Warrior formed by Cao Xing not only has strong individual combat effectiveness, but also has very high morale.
Looking at the past for dozens of breaths, you can see that the five thousand people who charged the Xianbei soldiers, basically half of them are dead and dizzy at this moment, and the remaining half are still on their horses at a loss.
Seeing this scene, the Xianbei generals in the rear were stunned one by one, and Ha Duoli gritted his teeth angrily, he didn't expect Cao Xuan to come up with such a thing again, just this little thing, plus 1,500 soldiers and horses, beat his elite soldiers so embarrassed.
Seeing that the Hushi under the car was frantically slaughtering his own soldiers, Hadoli knew that Cao Xing must not be allowed to mess up again, but just when Hadoli's soldiers walked forward for a distance and put the Hushi under the car into the firing range, suddenly Fengyun at the head of the city organized archers again and began to shoot frantically at Hadoli and others.
In the face of the boundless arrows, Ha Duoli and the others only felt a burst of pressure, and the archers in front did not dare to enter the range of Cao Xing and the others again, so they could only retreat in a hurry, and in the end, Ha Duoli could only watch Zhou Cang take the car to get off the tiger soldiers, and slaughter his own soldiers frantically.
And Hadoli couldn't do anything, when the cavalry sent out by Hadoli for the first time rode back one by one on horseback, you can see Chen Hu and other tigers getting off the car, directly holding the weapons in their hands, and letting out a high shout, this battle is undoubtedly won by them.
Chen Hu directly ordered his soldiers to drag back those Xianbei soldiers who were still alive.
Seeing this scene, Hadoli's eyes were on fire, and he stared at Cao Xing on the opposite side with burning eyes, and Cao Xing looked at him from a distance, and the corners of Cao Xing's mouth also turned up a smile.
Although Haduoli still wants to continue fighting, as long as he dares to attack, Cao Xuan will immediately throw that kind of diamond thorn, and then let Haduoli's war horse not be able to get close to Bianyun County at all, if it is infantry to fight infantry, not to mention whether Haduoli's infantry can beat Cao Xing's infantry, it is said that once the infantry enters Cao Xing's range, it will be directly shot into a sieve, so there is basically no need to fight here.
Hadori sighed helplessly, beckoned to his men, and then turned around and left, losing the battle again.
Over the next few days, Hadoli made several more tentative attacks, each of which resulted in no success. The two sides were in a stalemate for a month, and finally Hadoli finally withdrew because the supply of food and grass to the troops could not keep up.
Hadoli wrote a letter to Cao Xing before leaving, and when Cao Xing opened the letter and looked at it, the whole person laughed, and the content on it seemed to be that Hadoli put cruel words, he told Cao Xing, this matter is definitely not over, and the struggle between him and Cao Xing will definitely not end so easily, and it will not be long before he will make a comeback.
Cao Xing doesn't know how this Hadoli behaved in history, but this time it seems that it was precisely because of Cao Xing's arrival that the fate of this guy was changed.
It may seem a bit troublesome to have an extra opponent, but it is also a good thing, which can make Cao Xing always remind himself that he must not relax.
He defeated Hadoli, and now he can check the spoils of war, the trophies of this war are nothing more than more than 2,000 Xianbei soldiers captured by Chen Hu and others.
Cao Xing went directly to the prisoner camp and visited these Xianbei soldiers, although everyone is alive and dead on the battlefield, but as long as you take off this armor, everyone is an ordinary person.
These Xianbei soldiers were more resistant to Cao Xing at first, but Cao Xing was not annoyed by this, and gave these captives the most basic needs for life, and at the same time let them slowly see within a certain range what life was like for the people in the area of Cao Xing's rule.
In the end, Cao Xing directly issued an order to let the more than 2,000 Xianbei prisoners stop being idle there and join the troops who built Yongdao.