Chapter 363: Purgatory
It was not only the blood that infected the snow-white earth, but also the snowflakes that hindered the flow of blood, and the poignant blood gradually expanded in the sight.
Cao Ren was shocked by the strength of the Jingzhou army in front of him, and after repelling the cavalry, he defeated two thousand-man teams one after another, and nearly half of the Jingzhou army was lost.
In the field battle, those who suffered three percent casualties without being defeated were already called elite, but the morale and military spirit of the Jingzhou army in front of him had already exceeded this limit, and Cao Ren didn't know what gave this Jingzhou army such a strong fighting spirit, which was definitely not given by sophisticated equipment.
He watched with his own eyes a bruised Jingzhou army, frantically chasing three Cao soldiers, and finally died under the random arrows, the shock brought by the difficult moment, but Cao Ren had an indescribable surprise, they seemed to be facing not an army composed of humans, but a group of beasts, killing red-eyed beasts, but with the discipline and calmness of this human army.
"Roar~" Liao Hua's eyes were also red, he only felt that the blood in his body was boiling, his bloodshot eyes, he did not hide his crazy killing intent and greed for blood, and he stopped when he was about to reach a stone's throw before chasing Cao Jun to Cao Ren's array, raised the spear in his hand high, and let out a beast-like howl.
"Roar, roar, roar~" The remnants of the Jingzhou army stopped, as if in response to Liao Hua, waving the weapons in their hands one by one, the wild and uninhibited roar and roar, gathered into a wave of sound, in this silent snow, the wave was straight to Xiao Han, so that the soldiers and horses led by Cao Ren turned pale one by one, and the morale of the army of 8,000 people was depressed at this moment, and it was in front of these hundreds of people, intimidated by the momentum of the other party.
Such a result made Cao Ren unacceptable, since when did Liu Beijun dare to be so rampant in front of Cao Jun? This is not Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's spirit of intimidating all directions with one person, but the spirit of an army, like a beast-like army.
The shock brought by it is more thrilling than that of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
On the wall of Xinye City, Liu Yi looked at the battlefield full of messes, sighed faintly, and ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and the three thousand-man teams of Cao's army were defeated, but the real loss was only seven or eight hundred, although the Jingzhou army won, but it was only a small victory, but that crazy state made Liu Yi a little worried about whether it would get out of control on the battlefield.
Although the beast has a strong attack and destructive power, but it is in exchange for ignoring its own casualties, just now he found that several times, the Jingzhou army actually killed the opponent against the rain of arrows, although it caused a great psychological impact on the enemy, but the loss of his own side was mostly brought by those charges, but then again, if there is no such courage, it is impossible to defeat the opponent's three thousand-person teams in succession under such a big loss, whether it is a profit or a loss, it is really difficult to calculate at this time.
Wars are never fought on the surface.
The sky was dark, when Liao Hua heard the sound of Mingjin and retreated to Xinye, Cao Ren ordered people to start camping, and he himself personally led people to guard against the attack of Xinye and the surrounding Jingzhou army, no matter what, Xinye must be captured, otherwise the battle situation will be very unfavorable to Cao's army.
"Zhongda, what do you think?" It was already midnight when the military camp was built, and after Cao Ren returned to the camp, he immediately summoned Sima Yi, Sima Yi had already proved his strategic vision before, and Cao Ren was very convinced of this, and at this moment the initial battle was frustrated, and Cao Ren wanted to hear Sima Yi's opinion.
"This ......" Sima Yi said with a wry smile: "Now the Jingzhou army has taken the lead, the lower officials think that at this time, you can try to attack, after all, Xinye Town, the opponent will not have too many soldiers and horses, our army has an advantage in the strength, before watching in the rear, and found that Xinye is strengthening the city defense, this, the general needs to be careful, although I don't know whether it is Liu Boyuan in Xinye City, but the ability of the Jingzhou army to build, the best in the world, can not be underestimated, if the Xinye can not be broken tomorrow, the general can not attack again, can camp on the spot, waiting for the arrival of the army. ”
Before, it was Pang Tong's five-way virtual soldiers and Guan Yu's appearance on the battlefield, so that Cao Jun couldn't judge Liu Beijun's true intentions for a while, so he could only follow the rhythm of the other party, but now, now that he knows the real purpose of the other party, the next war will revolve around this line.
In one day, it is best to snatch Xinye back, if not, you can only wait for the arrival of the Cao army in the rear, and the two sides will start a battle with Xinye as the center.
"Liu Boyuan?" When Cao Ren heard this, his eyes flashed with a cold murderous intent: "I hope it's really him, I will kill him with my own hands in this battle, and I will be ashamed!" ”
The grievances between Cao Ren and Liu Yi have to be traced back to before the Battle of Chibi, over the years, every time he has been frustrated, there seems to be the shadow of the other party, not to mention that Cao Hong's revenge has not been avenged, if Liu Yi is really here, then Cao Ren will be very happy.
"The general must not underestimate this person, the subordinate officials look at his past combat examples, this person is quite good at defense." Sima Yi persuaded that he didn't know what kind of grievances there were between Liu Yi and Cao Ren, and Cao Ren rarely said those things to people, but looking at Cao Ren's attitude, Sima Yi always felt that something was wrong, and such a mentality was easy to be taken advantage of by the enemy.
Cao Ren nodded, he naturally knew how powerful the turtle was, when he was in Fangling, he relied on a closed city, blocking tens of thousands of Cao troops in the mountain road and not being able to enter an inch, but this is not Fangling, Xinye is surrounded by a horse and a flat river, it is not as easy to defend as Fangling, and now he has a heavy army to see how he can defend this Xinye in front of him.
That night, Cao Ren recruited two generals under his command, and prepared to divide the soldiers and horses in his hands into three roads, encircling three and missing one, regardless of the main and secondary, which side would attack which side had the opportunity, and this new field would be broken within one day.
The plan was decided, and Cao Ren ordered the three armies to rest well that night, and after breakfast the next day, he waved his troops to attack Xinye.
There were three soldiers and horses, each with 3,000 men.
"Cao Cao has increased his troops again?" On the bucket arch, Liu Yi put down the binoculars and frowned, he remembered that at the beginning, the intelligence showed that Cao Cao's three-way army was 10,000 people each, and after fighting for so long, the troops on both sides had different degrees of attrition, Cao Ren had already lost some yesterday, and today he can still send nearly 10,000 horses, which made Liu Yi wonder if Cao Cao had transferred a new force from the rear.
"This ...... I don't know. Liao Hua shook his head, during this time, the two sides fought in a dark way, and the ghost knows if Cao Cao had any soldiers.
"You go and command the war, act according to the plan, put the enemy into the fight, our arrow cluster is a little insufficient!" Liu Yi put away the binoculars and said to Liao Hua.
In one day's time, it is necessary to build the framework of the new city wall, and to strengthen the original city defense, hundreds of broken crossbows are placed on the city wall, as well as a piece of bucket arches, and the arrow clusters brought and the arrow clusters that were made yesterday add up to only about 50,000, if you use archers to use them, then there is no problem, but although the broken army crossbow is powerful, it is also a money-burning machine, and these crossbow arrows do not know if they are enough for these three hundred broken army crossbows for a day.
One round is 3,000 arrow clusters, plus the soldiers shoot arrows, at most a dozen rounds a day, this arrow cluster is naturally more efficient, and wait for the opponent to rush close before firing, and the lethality will naturally be doubled.
"Whoa!" Liao Hua agreed, quickly ran down the dougong, and ordered the three armies to fight.
Liu Yi continued to stay on the dougong and take charge of the overall situation.
"Attack!" There was no extra nonsense, after Cao Ren approached the city wall, he immediately issued an order to attack the city, no matter whether Liu Yi was in the city or not, he must capture this new field.
The three-way army, regardless of priority, began to attack the city walls.
"Shoot the arrows!" The range of the bows and arrows of the Jingzhou army was much longer than that of the Cao army, and for this, the Cao army had already prepared, and put their shields in front of them early to protect the archers, and began to move towards the city, and after the archers included the city wall into range, they began to counterattack above the city wall.
The whistling rain of arrows gathered in the air and then quickly separated, falling towards the soldiers on both sides.
"Bang~"
A stray arrow landed on Liu Yi's sturdy armor, was ejected from the distance, and fell directly under the city wall, Rao is so, Liu Yi was also taken aback, he was thinking about whether to make himself a blindfold or something.
Cao's archers stopped, some of the shield men continued to protect, and the other part began to protect the ladders and siege vehicles slowly coming in the direction of the city wall, and the thunderbolt carts in the rear were also pushed up and began to pour stone bullets towards the city wall, and the attack power of the defenders began to be suppressed.
Liao Hua looked at a large number of Cao troops who had already entered the firing range, raised their arms high, and looked indifferently at those Cao troops who began to charge, the raised right arm waved down fiercely, accompanied by the sound of passionate horns, the crossbowmen who had been preparing for a long time manipulated the broken army crossbow, and began to pour arrows at the Cao army that was becoming dense under the city.
"Buzz~"
With a piercing sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air, they poured down towards the Cao army, and the priority was the Cao army around the ladder, catapult, and battering ram.
The arrows pierced through the fragile leather armor, and the blood and flesh they brought up blurred their vision, and in the terrible screams, the Cao army in front of them was planted down in pieces under the roar of three hundred crossbow machines, but they were not dead, and there was only breath left.
Cao Ren didn't expect that this war had just begun, and it was such a terrifying weapon in the face of Cao Jun, this broken army crossbow he had seen when he was in Fangling Guancheng, and the power was extraordinary, but at that time there were only three in Guancheng, although the lethality was high, but the loading of crossbow arrows was quite slow, and now this new field is open, but it also means that there will be more broken crossbows that can be erected.
Looking at the battlefield of flesh and blood, blood accompanied by stumps and severed arms, infecting the surrounding snow, and the wildness around Xinye City turned into a human purgatory in an instant, Cao Ren looked at this scene with some confusion......