Chapter 1064: Besieging Cao Jun
Zhang Yu and Cao Cao, this kind of pre-war chat is not once or twice.
Don't think that it's all nonsense to fight with words, it's about the morale of the two armies, so it's not meaningless.
Zhang Yu has the upper hand and is aggressive.
Cao Cao was helpless, and after pestering for a while, he went back.
After Cao Cao returned, he watched from the top of the city.
"Lord, go back quickly, the catapult has no eyes." Cheng Yu persuaded on the side.
Cheng Yu: They saw Zhang Yu, and they had already started to install the catapult.
Once this catapult starts attacking, the whistling sound can make people have nightmares for days.
However, Cao Cao and they were not very nervous, and at this time, they also installed a lot of catapults on the city, so it was not certain who won or lost.
Cao Cao looked down with cold eyes, this decisive battle was very different.
"Let's go."
Cao Cao looked at it for a while, and two words came out of his mouth, revealing helplessness and coldness.
Cheng Yu and other strategists followed him down the city wall.
They didn't know when Zhang Yu would attack.
Zhang Yu was not in a hurry to attack, but waited.
His arrangements were complete, and he only needed to attack when the Fuso army arrived.
A few days later, the Fusang army arrived, and Zhang Yu told them to rest for a day before preparing to attack.
All kinds of ladders have already been built, and Zhang Yu is also ready to fight.
The catapults began to roar, and at the same time, the enemy catapults began to attack.
Soldiers on both sides were desperately attacking, and catapults were fighting in the air.
From time to time, catapults were smashed.
The soldiers on both sides had numb scalps, and the whistling boulder was hit by a mess of flesh.
But they are soldiers, and there is no choice.
"Attack."
The catapult smashed for an hour, and Zhang Yu ordered an attack.
Tens of thousands of Fuso troops and tens of thousands of Jiangdong soldiers and horses began to charge.
After Zhang Yu ordered the attack, he went to the rear to observe, this kind of battle, he didn't need to go into battle in person, and several generals were also supervising the battle below.
The army began to attack, and the army rushed forward.
The bloody battle began, and on Zhang Yu's side, the army kept storming the barracks.
The army of the Tang Dynasty was not afraid of death, and they continued to storm the city wall after the attack began.
Catapults bombarded back and forth, and Zhang Yu also ordered to throw the wine jar and burn on the city wall.
But the army at the head of the city was prepared, and covered it with sand, and did not cause much trouble.
The battle continues, and arrows fly.
Both sides began to suffer considerable casualties.
The soldiers on both sides worked very hard.
Zhang Yu was in the rear, looking at all this calmly, I don't know how many people will die this time, but no matter how many people die, we will fight.
Since the beginning of the bloody battle, it has not stopped, and for five consecutive days, more than 20,000 people have died.
The battle for the city walls has always been fierce.
Zhang Yu continued to burn the city wall with fire, and a large number of clay pots were thrown up and burned on the surface of the city wall.
Zhang Yu tried to burn the city wall so that the catapult could smash it open.
Cao Jun defended very well, and the two sides fought like this.
After fighting for a few days, Zhang Yu knew that this battle was not easy to fight at all.
"The essence of Cao Jun is here, it's good to hold them down."
Zhang Yu remembered the war in the north, and at this time Zhang Liao's attack was smooth.
Zhang Yu's forces occupy a great advantage, and he will replenish as much as he consumes, at this time he has enough ability to start a big war in the south, and the north can also support a big war.
Zhang Yu immediately increased Zhang Liao's troops, and at the same time sent Guo Jia to assist.
The two sides fought together, and Zhang Yu was not so anxious here.
Zhao Yun led 50,000 troops to guard against the defenders of Liu'an.
Originally, Cao Jun always thought that Zhang Yu would go to Lu'an first, after all, the difficulty of Lu'an was small after all, but Zhang Yu didn't, and kept attacking Shouchun City.
In the blink of an eye, it had been a month since Zhang Yu attacked Shouchun City.
In one month, Zhang Yu lost 170,000 troops, half of which were Fusang troops.
Fusang's army was almost exhausted, so Zhang Yu withdrew them, and he couldn't let them continue, otherwise they would inevitably collapse.
Although it is the Fuso army, there is no need to send it to death.
Fuso's madness is not without effect.
At this time, the city wall was already full of holes, and many places were breached.
Cao's army also lost about 110,000 soldiers and horses, which was very uncomfortable.
Cao Cao's mood has always been bad, and this battle is difficult.
"Zhang Yu's attack strength has not weakened at all, this is not to stop if Shouchun is not broken." Cao Cao said helplessly.
At this time, Cao Cao was even older, and there were too many things for him to worry about.
They were well prepared for this battle, but it was still more difficult than he expected.
"If Cao Cao can be trapped inside, as well as his generals, I'm afraid the Cao Jun Group will be worried." Zhang Yu thought.
Cao Jun was surrounded by support, with his back to the rear, so they were not worried.
But Zhang Yu's strength is even stronger.
"Forcing their armies from other places to come to their aid."
Zhang Yu suddenly didn't want to fight.
He doesn't fight, it's too tiring to fight such a big city.
"Order the whole army, retreat two miles, and begin to prepare for defense."
Zhang Yu's order puzzled many people, but he resolutely carried out the order.
The sudden retreat of the army made Cao Cao very puzzled, and he hurriedly led his advisers to the city.
"What is this Zhang Yu going to do?"
Several of the strategists were also confused.
"This Zhang Yu is determined not to care about casualties, maybe they have suffered a lot of casualties this time, and they want to use their other armies to make up for this huge casualties." Cheng Yu said.
Cheng Yu guessed that Zhang Yu was going to form a new Fusang army.
But Zhang Yu had no such plans.
Two days have passed, and Zhang Yu and the others have been building defenses there without any action.
After building a defense, Zhang Yu ordered a trench to be dug.
Digging trenches?
This makes more people not understand, you are the besieging side, not the defending side, what kind of trench to dig.
"Does this Zhang Yu still want to flood our Shouchun City?" Xu Yu snorted coldly and said at the head of the city.
The water system around Shouchun City is very developed, but the geographical location makes it impossible for them to flood the city.
Huang Zhong was also puzzled, he came over and asked after arranging everything: "Lord, is this to trap Cao Jun inside?" This Shouchun City has been replenished by Poyang Lake, there is plenty of grain and grass in it, and there is also a water source, and I am afraid that they will not be able to trap them for a year and a half. ”
Zhang Yu smiled and said: "We can't do that, the first to suffer must be the people, I just want Cao Cao to stay in it and recuperate." ”
Rest?
Zhang Yu looked at Huang Zhong puzzled, and then said: "Cao Cao and his generals are inside, we trapped them, so that they could not handle government affairs normally, and then Zhang Liao in the north slowly attacked, encroaching on their territory little by little. ”
Huang Zhong understood Zhang Yu's plan, Zhang Yu did not want to trap Cao Cao, but to make the entire high-level of Cao Jun unable to effectively handle military and political affairs.
However, is this really a good deal?
To trap a city, it is not simply a matter of letting the army defend it.
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