Dense black shadows flew high across the early morning sky, arrows with clanging strings streaked across the sky, and a black oppressive projectile covered the city.

Rain of arrows rained down –

Thousands of arrows stretched for miles on the city wall, the crowd at the head of the city ran and shouted, "Raise the shield-" In a hurry, someone ran forward with a shield, raised it above his head, and pressed his comrades around him within the scope of the shield protection, Xu Chu threw the tiger head knife, took a shield and pulled Cao Cao into his arms, and the surrounding guards formed a circle, and then the ears were full of crackling sounds, the arrows were nailed to the shield and bounced, and some were directly pierced on it, and many people on the city wall shouted, wailed, and some people fell to the ground with arrows, More arrows then landed on the body, nailed like a hedgehog.

Cao Cao shrank under the shield and said loudly: "Everyone can't be on the city wall, the shield soldiers stepped forward to resist, he Yuan Shao has nothing to do, this is sending us arrows!" ”

Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent.

The situation of a war will change at any time, and those who are commanders and generals must have a certain or even more clever way to deal with it, not only in the arrangement of troops, the response of various arms, but also how to press down the initiative of the other party and get themselves out of the situation of being beaten in a passive situation.

On the siege of the city, Cao Cao held it firmly with a small number of troops, but the grain and the source of troops were still the biggest problem, Yuan Shao piled up the mound to try to suppress the defense of the earth city condescendingly and hit the morale of the Cao army, which was actually not wrong, and Cao Cao also organized words to comfort the soldiers' emotions in an instant, at least so that the morale did not drop to the lowest point.

However, Yuan Shao's sudden hand also really made the Cao army in the turtle shrinking earth city a little rushed to the battle, and it was not just a day or two, the condescending rain of arrows overturned the city from time to time, and even the school field in the city, which had a great impact on the awareness and arrangement of the Cao army to defend the city, so that when he went out, he had to carry a shield with him to defend himself.

Boom!

The arrow was nailed to the shield, and then put it down, Xiahou Yuan pulled away the soldiers in front of him, took the bow and arrows and aimed at the mound outside the city, aimed, and finally had to give up, gritted his teeth and scolded angrily, turned around and left here. The distance between the city wall and the earth mountain, and the height of the mound, no matter how good his archery skills were, it would be difficult for him to throw arrows on them, let alone shoot people down.

Walking back to the school field, from time to time there were arrows piercing the ground, Xiahou Yuan picked up the arrow angrily, with a bang, it broke in his hand, in front, Cao Cao's face was gloomy, and he was surrounded by a group of guards raising shields to come this way, and then beckoned to him: "Miaocai, follow me into the account!" ”

Opened the tent curtain and walked straight in, the cloak behind revealed a few holes, obviously Cao Cao was also to the point of embarrassment, but after that, the generals and strategists in the army came to the big tent successively, for Yuan Shao's sudden change of attack mode, and also made corresponding strategies in consultation with everyone, the imperial prince named Liu Ye was also a little familiar with the war, and in the midst of the discussion, he proposed to use a stone-throwing truck to suppress the five mounds outside the city, and there were archers standing on the tower.

"Well, Ziyang's strategy should be feasible, then try it first!" Cao Cao was quite optimistic among the soldiers, but in fact, he was under great pressure, and Guo Jia and Xun Yu, who were good at scheming, sat in Xu Du to prevent small troubles, and only Xun You, a strategist who was proficient in tactics, was in the army, and at the moment, Liu Ye made a suggestion, and he could only try to use it once.

A few days later, the rolling equipment with the wooden wheel ran over the ground heavily, and more than a dozen soldiers pushed it towards the side of the city wall, extending left and right, and more equipment stopped in the push, and the captain who rode his horse ran over the front with the command flag, and roared angrily: "Twist up, school angle!!" ”

The dense crowd was busy in front of more than a dozen stone-throwing trucks, the winch was turning in people's hands, the sound of squeaking sounded, the wooden spoon that was pressed downward was tied to the wooden stake driven into the soil with ropes, two or three soldiers moved stones larger than their heads and put them on ....... one after another, and the remaining ten or so stone-throwing trucks were also loaded with rocks.

On the side of the mound outside the city, some of the archers on the turret were surprised: "What is Cao Jun doing in the city?" "I don't know, it just so happens that they are gathered together, let's put a few arrows and kill some more people!" "I always feel like there's something wrong with ..... them." "Then shoot a few arrows first, and then talk about it after shooting if there is a problem."

"No, there seems to be another voice....... "Youyou lowered his bow, looked over the wooden railing, and spoke.

In front of his field of vision, within the city wall spanning several miles, soldiers rushed to the head of the city, Cao pawns with bows and arrows hid behind the big shield, and the back extended was an empty earthen city, stretching military camp tents, thousands of soldiers gathered in the school field, only a dozen points left, which seemed abrupt.

The wind blew through the sky, the sunlight pierced the eyeballs, the lord of the three states, the person who controlled the imperial court strode out of the handsome tent in armor, he looked at the cloudless clear sky, and the towers on the five mounds for a while, and then, slowly raised his arm, and his palm was clenched into a fist in the air-

"Smash them down for me!!"

In front of more than a dozen stone-throwing vehicles, the knights who ran to give orders waved the order flag, and their voices rang out loud again: "Ready!" The soldier with the weapon stepped forward and stood on the side of the taut rope, raised his arms, and the blade was raised in the air for a moment, and the voice shouted again: "Release-"

One after another, the sword light slashed down!

………

On the top of the mound building, the voice said: "There seem to be other voices ......" At the same time, huge black shadows flew out of the city with the sound of the howling wind, and the words stopped abruptly at this time, and the archer saw the sky, a ...... Two ...... Four rocks of different sizes ..... quickly magnified in his vision, and he shouted "Hurry up—" and quickly climbed down the stairs, and the crowd suddenly panicked and crowded.

Boulders burst in.

Boom Boom Boom –

- Boom Boom Boom.

The rocks that flew over the city wall before and after drew a trajectory and extended towards the mound in the distance, through the bright skylight, the figure there was running in a panic, and the next second, there was a loud bang, the boulder smashed on the building, sawdust, wreckage, stone chips, splashed fragments scattered like knives and flew out, the stairs and wooden pillars were broken one by one, the figures climbing on it screamed and flew into the air together, and dozens of figures on the top platform screamed crookedly, and fell down with the collapsed building. Many Yuan soldiers rolled down the mound with a bitter wail, and the flesh and blood of the fall were blurred, and the shape of a person could not be seen.

A moment later, the second batch of boulders flew into the sky again, and more than a dozen black shadows poured on the remaining turrets, some of which were lucky not to be hit, others were touched by the rocks, and the crooked ones had not yet fallen, and the mounds were flat, and the bodies of the dead and wailing were all over it, strange and mutilated corpses, wounded soldiers with broken arms and thighs twisted together, and occasionally boulders that fell into the air fell on top of their heads.........

Dark red plasma flowed out of the crevices with minced flesh and seeped into the soil.

In the camp on the field behind, Yuan Shao lifted the curtain and walked out, looking stunned, watching the buildings collapse under the rock bombardment, and then his expression sank, after all, he was the commander of the first army, the lord of the four states, and he could not easily be depressed for what the result was.

And this time, the friend on the opposite side, who is also the enemy, showed tenacity beyond his imagination.

On the ninth day of the first month of June, Cao Cao did play a lot of roles for a while by relying on the condescending suppression of the mound, but a few days later, Cao Cao rushed to make more than ten stone-throwing trucks overnight to fight back at the buildings on the mounds, and destroyed all seven or eight buildings on the five earth hills.

On June 15, there was no more movement in the Yuan army, the military advisor Xun You was escorted out of the city by Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Liao and other generals to inspect it, and returned to the city to talk to Cao Cao about his doubts, and soon the Cao army dug a long ravine under the city wall, and soon, a large number of Yuan soldiers who broke out of the ground were shot to death by Cao pawn who was guarding the ravine, and Li Dian, Le Jin and other generals led the troops into the tunnel to slaughter the enemy fleeing inside.

On June 20, Yuan Shao once again lit the troops and horses, led by Jiao Touch, Guo Yuan, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang brothers, and the offensive for the city wall suddenly stretched fiercely, and Cao Cao personally kicked the wall and beat the drum to cheer for the soldiers........

The 50,000 soldiers and horses brought by Cao Cao had already been reduced when they attacked Yan Liang's troops in Baima, and then in several battles in Guandu, more than 30,000 people were lost, and Yuan Shao's losses were even more serious, and the number of soldiers and generals who were dead or seriously injured and could no longer fight had reached more than 20,000, but in front of 200,000 people, it was not too heavy a casualty.

"Yuan Benchu, whatever ability you have, I, Cao Cao, will accompany you to the end!"

Pinching the drumsticks, the figure standing in front of the war drums, looking at the fierce battles on the city wall, said softly, and then Cao Cao threw the drumsticks to the soldiers, waved his hand violently, and ordered: "Send everyone up, only ten guards are enough, and the others go up with Xu Chu!" ”

On the far city wall, Xiahou Yuan pulled his bow and flew out of the insinuation of the people who climbed up, Zhang Liao rushed through the middle of several soldiers, slashed at a Yuan general's knife, forced the other party to retreat, and then hit the wall battlement, when the dust fell down, it was another knife that cut the Yuan general into two sections.

"Kill! Don't be soft-" wiped the blood on his face, half of Zhang Liao's armor was blood, his majestic face showed ferocity, and more soldiers around him raised their knives with the same ferocity and shouted: "Kill them!" When you come, you leave your life behind!! ”

Under the canopy, Xu Chu was reinforcing the city wall, and the sword light and blood were intertwined and poured together.......

The battle continued until the sun went down on the top of the mountain, and Yuan Shaofang withdrew his troops and returned to the camp, looking at the bloodstained and broken earthen walls in several places, he was confident that in the next few days, Guandu would be completely taken down.

Time was advancing, and when the Cao camp was making noise, pacifying the soldiers, and re-boosting the morale of the soldiers, the Yuan army scouts outside the city were sweeping and patrolling in the second half of the night, and met a general from the north, Han Meng.

led the other party through the military camp that stretched for dozens of miles, and the message first reached the ears of Yuan Shao, who had fallen asleep, and he woke up in shock, and then, Han Meng was summoned into the account, and the rest of the generals and strategists were also awakened one by one, and in the handsome tent, an astonishing news came out of Han Meng's mouth and was placed in front of everyone........