Chapter 9: The Defeat of Cao Jun
Wang Daochang cultivated for a day, and the next day he started to practice again. The tragic battle between Cao Jun and Xuzhou soldiers and horses really came.
Cao's army was arrayed five hundred steps away from the city wall, and they were frightened by the bed crossbow in Liaodong and did not dare to get too close.
Since the blood and filth of horses were prepared on Fenggao City, the royal Taoist omitted the spell of summoning heavenly soldiers and generals. To get started is to summon wind and clouds, thunder and lightning.
When the wind was strong and the lightning and thunder roared, Cao Jun's ladder trucks, wooden carts, and wells began to quietly advance in the direction of the city wall.
On the city wall, Zang Ba's sharp eyes were fixed on Cao Jun's siege equipment.
Although ordinary Xuzhou soldiers can't pull their bows and arrows, the bed crossbow is not affected by wind and rain. Zang Ba ordered: "Aim at these siege equipment and predict their trajectory." ”
Not only the bed crossbows, but also the dozens of stone-throwing carts placed behind the city wall and on the pre-piled earthen high platform began to aim.
When the right distance appeared, Zang Ba shouted: "Put! ”
Suddenly, dozens of crossbow arrows and dozens of hundred-pound boulders smashed at these siege equipment.
There was a lot of ladder trucks, crashing wooden carts, and the well was smashed, and the soldiers inside were pressed inside before they could react and turned into meat sauce.
"Put it again!" Waiting for the bed crossbow and the stone throwing car to adjust the angle, Zang Ba ordered again.
Bang bang bang another batch of siege equipment was smashed, and another batch of soldiers was stoned to death.
Cao Cao was shocked to see it, the road to the city wall is the road to death!
Fortunately, Liu Ye supervised the construction of a large number of siege machinery in advance, and after paying the price of thousands of soldiers' deaths, half of the siege equipment still reached the city wall and began to play a role.
There was a hook on the ladder cart, which hooked to the city wall with a snap and was firmly fixed. Cao Jun in the car held a small shield in one hand to cover it, and began to climb with a war knife in the other.
Ji Ling commanded the defenders of the city and shouted: "Throw the rolling wood and stones!" ”
The two Xuzhou soldiers together, the big wood and big stones piled on the city wall, retreated together, snapped, and smashed on the shield, Cao Jun's body, and smashed on the ladder.
Cao Jun was smashed like dumplings, and the ladder was also broken.
According to the division of labor, the Xuzhou soldiers took out the Xiangyang alloy knife and cut it on the iron hook of the ladder, and with a few clicks, they cut off the thick iron hook, and there were two soldiers next to them, and they used the long wood to push the ladder away from the city wall. The soldiers on the ladder were halfway up the ladder and were also pushed to the ground.
After approaching the city wall a few dozen meters away, the well cart stopped, and dozens of soldiers on it began to shoot arrows condescendingly.
Zhang Xun took the crossbowmen and began to shoot back at the Cao army above the well. Although the wind and rain were heavy, the repeater was still unaffected. At a distance of tens of meters, one shot is accurate. Just like the machine gun, the dense fire shot the Cao Jun on the well into a sieve!
After Cao Jun's hundreds of people pushed the wooden cart to the city gate, they had just hit the city gate a few times, and many wooden barrels were thrown on the city, which fell to pieces when they landed, and a pungent blue and yellow liquid flowed out of it. It's the legendary oil of fire.
Cao Jun, who had heard of fire oil, shouted: "Fire oil! Come on! ”
But it's too late! Torches were thrown down from the city, and the torches that could burn in the wind and rain were themselves soaked in fire oil! With a bang, the fire surrounded the hundreds of Cao troops. Turned them into hundreds of bright torches that would not be extinguished, no matter whether they were jumping or screaming.
Cao Jun, who thought he was clever, began to roll on the ground in an attempt to suppress the fire, but the result was: they stuck more oil and burned faster!
Cao Cao and his subordinate generals gasped, this is the legendary Liaodong fire oil? It's terrifying!
The miserable screams of hundreds of Cao soldiers were heard in their ears, and the Cao soldiers behind them hesitated, not daring to climb the city wall again.
Sure enough, a lot of wooden barrels were also dropped on the city wall and smashed on the ladder truck and the well. Torches were thrown out. As a result, there were more burning people.
It wasn't until Cao Jun was burned to black charcoal that the oil was extinguished.
Cao Cao shouted repeatedly: "Collect the troops!" Collect the troops! ”
The bronze Zheng on behalf of the collection of troops was sounded again, and batches of Cao Jun retreated in embarrassment.
Almost all the siege machinery was burned under the city, and Cao's army suffered another 6 or 7,000 casualties, but they didn't even touch the head of the city.
The soldiers of Xuzhou were also killed and wounded, and were shot by Cao Jun in the well, with less than 1,000 dead and wounded.
The battle loss of eight to one is an unbearable burden for Cao Cao!
Liu Ye still didn't wake up, but he was breathing normally, and the military doctor repeatedly assured that there was absolutely no fear for his life.
Cao Cao announced that he would trim for three days, and according to the drawings left by Liu Ye, he would go around cutting down trees and continue to build ladder trucks and well cars.
This time, Gongsun Kang had clearly felt the wind element and the water element. Feel how they have come together from nothing, from less to more.
In the air, the animal shapes of thunderclouds accumulated, the shapes of mountains and hills, the silver-white electric light in the depths of the clouds, and the thunderballs the size of basketballs colliding one by one can be seen clearly, and even the process of the formation of thunder and lightning, the aggregation of thunder and lightning molecular ions, the birth and death, and the changes of all things, are all well understood, and they can be seen clearly with spiritual power.
In Zuo Ci's words, Gongsun Kang has completed the separation of spiritual power from the body, that is, the process of separation of divine consciousness from the body. There is only one step away from the Yin God.
With the help of Gongsun Kang, Zuo Ci also felt the thunder element. There was no way, Gongsun Kang drove the thunder element and piled it up on Zuo Ci's body, and his clothes were scorched and fried. If you don't feel it, how sluggish will it be? Is he still the founder of the Danding faction? Or was he the first person in the world to control the fire element?
Of course, Gongsun Kang would never say that he drove the thunder elements to Zuo Ci's side purely for revenge. Of course, he did this tirelessly so that Daoyou could sense the thunder element as soon as possible.
While Cao Jun and Zang Ba were tragically attacking, Xu Rong was not idle.
He sent several small units of cavalry to reconnoiter the grain transportation route of Cao's army. Then the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, which gathered 5,000 people, began the process of looting and burning Cao's grain and grass.
Those that can be taken away threaten the migrant workers who transport the grain, pushing the grain into the nearby county town; A large number of Cao troops came to respond, and those who could not be transported away in time were all set on fire and burned out!
Cao's army's grain guards, which increased from 1,000 to 5,000, were still unable to stop the Liaodong Iron Cavalry of the brigade. Killed! In just one month. The number of Cao soldiers killed by Xu Rong was greater than the number of soldiers killed and wounded under Fenggao City.
Only then did Cao Cao realize that on the plains, the cavalry was king! Coming and going like the wind, not to mention, the trampling of the iron cavalry, the infantry can't resist it at all! What's more, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry also has a repeating crossbow, a Xiangyang iron knife, and shameless kite flying and kraft candy tactics!
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