In order to ensure the transportation of grain and grass, Cao Cao ordered Cao Hong and Xiahoudun to escort them with 3,000 tigers and leopards.

On the other hand, Li Dian, Le Jin and others were sent to various counties to snatch grain.

Just talking about what happened to Li Dian, he came to Liaocheng.

The gates of Liaocheng were closed, and the defenders did not fight at all. The villages around the county seat were already empty, and they all ran to the county seat with food. It is a real solid wall.

Li Dian had no choice but to divide the 5,000 people he brought into 10 teams again and go to more remote towns and villages to rob.

This division of troops, something happened.

The robbery went well, they also killed some villagers, and when they were happily collecting grain from each family, the same number of Liaodong iron horsemen appeared at the entrance of the village. The cavalry came and went like the wind, and they could not outrun them. Cao Jun hurriedly hid behind the earthen wall. The hooves of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry knocked down the earthen wall, and they did not fight with them, but directly shot with a crossbow.

Even if some clever Cao Jun grabbed some villagers to cover and threatened the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, he shouted: "Hurry up and lay down your weapons, otherwise we will kill these villagers!" ”

Liaodong Tieqi did not move at all, and the captains who led the army all felt funny: really when we love the people like sons? For the sake of the people, lay down your arms and let you kill?

The lieutenant's answer to Cao Jun was: "Repeater, shoot!" ”

Don't care about the life or death of the hostages, just shoot!

There was also Cao Jun who knelt on the ground and cried for mercy, and the Liaodong Iron Horse ran silently on his horse, and with a slash, the head of the watermelon flew up, and the blood full of blood rose into the air. This is the so-called blood spilling in the sky, right?

Liaodong Iron Cavalry, which comes and goes like the wind and is very mobile, does not want a single prisoner! It doesn't matter if you surrender or resist! It doesn't matter if you have hostages in your hands or not, it's all shot! Chop!

In this way, the 4,000 soldiers who were separated were all wiped out; Only 1,000 soldiers remained in the battalion. Li Dian ran back to the camp of Fenggao Cao's army empty-handed.

If it weren't for Li Dian's extraordinary force, the captains of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry might have cleaned him up with him.

Lejin's side is a different story. He did not divide his troops, and all 5,000 men went to attack the county seat.

In the county seat, there are 1,000 county soldiers defending on the city walls. And the 2,000 Liaodong Iron Cavalry opened the city gate and directly attacked Lejin's team.

Lejin was strong in martial arts, and he slashed to death several Liaodong iron horsemen. But the good tiger couldn't stand the wolves, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry simply didn't approach him, only more than 10 meters away from him, holding a repeating crossbow and shooting.

Le Jin's big knife danced through the wind and rain, however, he couldn't stop a salvo of more than a dozen crossbows. covered his upper body, but there were more than a dozen arrows densely packed on his thighs. Sitting down, the BMW was also shot.

Le Jin fell to the ground, closed his eyes and waited for death. His own soldiers fought bravely into the encirclement, and ran away when they robbed him. Dozens of pro-soldiers died before they escaped from the siege of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.

Le Jin wanted to cry without tears, and fled in a hurry with more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated army.

Fortunately, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry was in charge of one district, and there was no cross-border pursuit of him, and Lejin picked up a life. But his legs were stained with blood, so he could only lie on a carriage stolen by his own soldiers and flee back to Fenggao. It is estimated that in the next few months, he will only have Liu Ye as his companion.

Cao's army lost his troops and lost his generals, but he gained nothing.

Cao Cao was ruthless in his heart, he had to take Fenggao City! As a result, Cao's army intensified its siege of the city.

With the cooperation of Wang Daochang, Cao Jun's stone-throwing carts and bed crossbows were also pushed near the city wall and began to exert their might.

Zang Ba had no choice but to let the bed crossbow and stone-throwing cart in the city focus on taking care of Cao Jun's three-bow crossbow and stone-throwing cart; The Second Army began the process of firing and smashing at each other. In the process, more ladder trucks and wells were pushed under the city walls.

Cao's army had already attacked the city wall several times, but was eventually wiped out by the tenacious Xuzhou soldiers. Among these Xuzhou soldiers, there are a large number of Danyang elite soldiers left by Tao Qian! Danyang elite soldiers, infantry is king! It's not for nothing. The tenacious Danyang elite soldiers, coupled with the sophisticated weapons of Liaodong: crossbows and Xiangyang iron knives, annihilated the Cao army that attacked the city again and again.

Gongsun Kang has been experiencing the wind and thunder and lightning called by Wang Daochang in the house, and he has not interfered with Zang Ba's military command at all.

The strategists Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Cheng Yu and others he brought were the Military Observation Group. did not point fingers at Zang Ba. At the most critical moment on the head of the city, the strategists were still drinking tea leisurely on the high-rise buildings not far from the city wall, watching the Fenggao city wall again and again without danger, and turning the danger into a disaster again and again.

In this stage of defending the city, there is no good strategy, so you can only fight hard.

With the Cao army's hard attacks again and again, the casualties of the Xuzhou soldiers are also increasing; What is more troublesome than the dead and wounded: a large number of soldiers have experienced too much wind and rain, and they are all sick and cold!

In advance, the military doctors who accompanied the army prepared a large number of banlan root, small chaihu, ginger soup, brown sugar, and diaphoretic medicine. It can be ensured that these soldiers will not die and will be able to return home in good health in the near future.

However, now there is a serious attrition! The sick soldier was so weak that he could not hold a weapon, and could not go to the city to fight.

Zang Ba turned to Guo Jia and others for help. So the military advisors began to help, mobilizing the private soldiers and family members of the rich families in Fenggao City, and the strong men from the poor families in the city to go to the city to assist in the defense.

Under the threat of the shining swords and guns of the Xuzhou soldiers, the rich and the poor passively joined the revolutionary ranks. There are those who dare to refuse, Zang Ba is not a soft-hearted person! After several rich families were raided on the charge of collaborating with the enemy, the master was killed, the women were divided, and the family was arrested in the city; All the rich families honestly handed over all the able-bodied people, and some of them offered to donate food.

These militiamen don't know how to use knives and guns, but they can still do it by pushing and rolling wooden stones and throwing barrels of fire oil. If you are smart, you will quickly learn to use a repeater. In terms of armaments, Gongsun Kang was well prepared. Even if you fight a year's war, you can still be sure that you still have crossbow arrows to use.

Although the militia will not protect itself and the mortality rate is high, after this big battle, a large number of elite soldiers can definitely be screened out of it. Those who can survive after learning war from war and fighting again and again are qualified veterans of a hundred battles!

Cao Cao was killed by Xu Rong's Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and more than 10,000 people were wiped out. Under the city of Fenggao, the battle lasted for two months and more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded. There are less than 20,000 Yanzhou soldiers left.

Of course, the soldiers in Xuzhou were also seriously wounded, and in the past two months, nearly 5,000 soldiers have died; Nearly 10,000 militiamen!

Cao Cao decided to attack the city again one last time, and if he couldn't do it this time, he would withdraw his troops! This time it's really a big injury! None of the 20,000 soldiers killed or injured in Yuan Shao's fight!

Even if he captures the city this time, Cao Cao will not be able to fight anymore, so he can only recuperate for a few years!

(End of chapter)