Chapter 22: Breaking the City in One Day
I have always heard that the equipment in Guanzhong is the best in the world, but most of them are known through word of mouth, although Cao Cao has long known that Ye Zhao pays more attention to these things, and he did steal a lot of technology from Guanzhong, but it is all civilian technology, in terms of military industry, Ye Zhao now shows only weapons, crossbow arrows, armor These conventional equipment, as for large equipment, Ye Zhao is very strict, so Cao Cao knows how powerful, but he doesn't know how to be powerful.
In Cao Cao's view, it was nothing more than a higher well, a catapult with a farther range, and a giant crossbow with a greater power.
Cao Cao has not yet gone to the city, he saw a Cao general rolling down the stairs of the city tower with a rolling belt, and when he saw Cao Cao, the general of the Cao army said astringently: "Lord, this Xingyang, I'm afraid it can't be defended!" ”
Cao Cao: "......"
A group of civil and military: "......"
Cao Cao suddenly had the urge to scold his mother, this siege war has just begun, and he ran to say such frustrating words, I'm afraid you don't know how to write dead words, right?
"Uptown!" Cao Cao's face was gloomy, and he barely drew his sword to cut down the general who shook the army's heart.
"Lord, don't go up ......"
"Qiang~"
The general wanted to say something more, Cao Cao had already drawn his sword, and in the stunned gaze of the general, the cold sword blade slashed through the throat of the other party, Cao Cao ignored the Cao general who hugged his neck and was a little unwilling to fall slowly, and silently led the generals to the city.
"Boom~"
Cao Cao had just entered the city, a stone bullet happened to fall on the city wall not far away, the special stone bullet was cracked by the huge impact force at the moment it landed, and countless small gravels were like small crossbow arrows, and the Cao army within a radius of three zhang was emptied in an instant.
This......
Cao Cao's eyes widened, looking at this scene incredulously, the usual stone bullets fell on the city wall, and when the crowd was not dense, it was considered lucky to be able to smash two people to death, but this time the stone bullets actually killed seven or eight people with those flying gravels.
This is because the crowd is not dense, if the soldiers defending the city are more compact, I am afraid that this stone can kill more than a dozen of them.
For this era, this kind of stone bullet can be regarded as a strategic weapon, not only Cao Cao, Xiahoudun and others followed Cao Cao to fight in the south and north, but also veterans who are accustomed to fighting, and they were also shocked by this scene, especially such stone bullets are still falling one after another, and the blood that continues to splash, Cao Jun is like a leek in the field is harvested by this stone bullet.
"Lord, get down to the city!" Seeing that this stone bullet had no intention of stopping at all, Xiahoudun hurriedly pulled Cao Cao and ran down the city without saying anything.
At this time, everyone was finally able to understand why the previous general fled in such a hurry, this kind of stone bullet, let alone being hit, even if it fell around, it was either dead or disabled!
Cao Cao's face was also a little pale, and he looked at Xun You and the others beside him: "I don't want Guanzhong to have such a sharp weapon!" What are your best ways to defeat the enemy? ”
If it goes on like this, I'm afraid Xingyang City won't be able to keep it, and this is just the beginning of the fight!
When all the civil and military officers heard this, they couldn't help but fall silent, Cao Cao couldn't think of a way, they couldn't think of it either, in the face of Ye Zhao's offensive, Xingyang City was broken, it was almost a sure thing, but ...... It's only been less than a day, but there are 70,000 troops in the city, and they were broken by Ye Zhao with 30,000 troops in less than a day, this is a joke, even if you retreat now, with those terrifying stone bullets fired by trebuchets, I'm afraid that even if you retreat to Aocang, you can't stop it.
"Those trebuchets must be destroyed!" After a moment of silence, Xiahoudun on the side suddenly spoke: "Lord, please allow the last general to lead the cavalry to destroy those trebuchets!" ”
Cao Cao saw that everyone stopped talking, and after a moment of silence, he took a deep breath and said: "Pass my military order, abandon the city and retreat to Aocang, Yuan Rang, you command the cavalry, and when the enemy infantry enters the city, go around the enemy's rear, and destroy the trebuchet at all costs." ”
Ye Zhao has this batch of trebuchets here, Cao Cao has no chance of winning at all, even if he retreats to Aocang, it is just to delay the time of defeat, let Ye Zhao's trebuchets continue to bombard like this, unless it is a fortified city like Tiger Prison, otherwise ordinary cities are bombarded by that kind of trebuchet, and it is even better to go out of the city directly to fight.
"Whoa!" Xiahoudun bowed with a serious face, regrouped the cavalry at the moment, and went out from the north gate to take a detour and go straight to the opponent's rear camp.
Cao Cao ordered the army to abandon the city wall, and prepared to entangle with Ye Zhao in street battles to buy time for Xiahoudun, but what made Cao Cao hate it was that after Ye Zhao broke the city, he did not directly rush into the city, but quickly seized the high ground of the city wall and shot Cao's army with crossbow arrows.
Ye Zhao's crossbow arrows can shoot one hundred and eighty steps at worst, plus the bonus of the city wall, the range is longer, the Cao army that retreated into the streets and alleys not only failed to usher in the fight of the Guanzhong soldiers, but under the suppression of the archers, they were defeated and retreated, because of the low morale of the broken city, it was even worse, until this time, Ye Zhao ordered Ma Teng and Ji Ling to wave their troops into Xingyang City, and it was still steady and steady, not greedy at all, Cao Cao played guerrilla warfare with Ye Zhao in the city, but Ye Zhao was as steady as a rock, with the help of the archers on the city wall, A little bit of oppression of Cao Cao's living space.
Cao Cao tried to induce Ye Zhao to attack several times, but failed to do so.
Ye Zhao knows very well that for himself who pursues the policy of elite soldiers, once he walks into the alley, in the face of the dense Cao army, the advantages of elite soldiers and equipment will be weakened, and he is really not able to play Cao Cao, it is precisely because he knows this, so no matter how Cao Cao lures, Ye Zhao pursues a steady and steady routine, constantly compressing Cao Cao's living space, so that his military advantage cannot be brought into play, and he is forced out of the city by Ye Zhao little by little.
At the same time, outside the city, Xiahoudun led the cavalry to confront Ma Chao again.
Because the cavalry is not suitable for attacking the city, so Ma Chao's cavalry was left by Ye Zhao to guard the equipment outside the city, when he saw that Xiahou Xuan, a defeated general, actually led the army to kill here, Ma Chao couldn't help laughing loudly: "The defeated general, if you don't flee with that Cao Cao, how dare you come here to die!?" ”
When Xiahoudun heard this, he felt a lot of anger in his chest, and he didn't say much, and led the army to rush directly to those siege equipment.
"Sons, kill with me!" Seeing this, Ma Chao didn't say much, and directly led a group of Xiliang cavalry to meet Xiahoudun's cavalry.
"Qiang~"
The two spears collided in the air, and Ma Chao, who had already given birth to a little bit of light on the enemy, only felt a shock to his arms, and the spear in his hand was almost shocked and flew out.
How can this defeated man be so powerful?
Ma Chao hurriedly made an iron plate bridge, lying on the horseback, avoiding the opponent's spear, waist force, a shot lightning towards Xiahoudun backstabbed, the two of them fought fast and fast, and fought on horseback for more than a dozen rounds, Ma Chaoyue was more frightened, in the previous conflict, he and Xiahoudun also fought hand, because of the stirrup, Ma Chao's strength was much stronger than Xiahoudun, so Xiahoudun was quite embarrassed by Ma Chao before.
This is a lot of effort, at this moment, Xiahoudun and Ma Chao are fighting, they are already equal, and then look at the surrounding soldiers, Cao Jun relied on the advantage of numbers, and actually began to suppress the Guanzhong soldiers.
What's going on?
Ma Chao and Xiahoudun were killed together, but similar questions flashed in his mind from time to time, until he passed by the wrong horse with Xiahoudun again, and saw the triangle pedal under the other party's feet, and suddenly realized that the feelings Cao Jun actually learned their stirrups in such a short period of time, which made Ma Chao quite unhappy, as if someone else was holding their own weapons to beat him.
"Will Cao Jun only follow our army like this?" Ma Chao took a breath and pointed a gun at Xiahou and said.
"Don't talk nonsense, just win you!" Although Xiahoudun was also panting, but his heart was very refreshing, he was pressed and beaten by a hairy boy before, not to mention how aggrieved he was in his heart, but now he pressed it back, and he felt comfortable in his chest, and it was getting smoother and smoother.
Not only Xiahoudun, but also the cavalry of the Cao army are this feeling, their riding skills are exquisite, after cooperating with the stirrups on both sides, although there are no stirrups, but in terms of combat power, it is not much worse than the cavalry in Guanzhong, plus the number of people is better than the other party, this battle lasted for nearly an hour, Ma Chao finally couldn't resist, and the cavalry in Guanzhong gradually showed signs of defeat as the number of people became smaller and smaller, so they had to retreat while fighting.
Xiahoudun did not pursue, he was not a reckless man, he clearly remembered the task of his trip, so after Ma Chao was repulsed, he immediately divided his men and horses to destroy those siege equipment, and without waiting for Ye Zhao to return to the army to attack, after destroying the siege equipment, he quickly left the battlefield, went around in a circle, and went straight to Aocang.
"My lord, the last general is incompetent! Please, the Lord to condemn him. In Xingyang City, Ma Chao knelt in front of Ye Zhao with a bitter face, with a thick look of unwillingness on his face.
"It is indeed a crime not to listen to good words and to be careless to the enemy!" Ye Zhao stood on the city tower, looked at the direction of Cao Jun's departure in the distance, turned his head and glanced at Ma Chao and said, "You will be fined fifty rods, and your salary will be one year, and you can be executed!" ”
"Lord......" Ma Teng hesitated to glance at the direction where Cao Jun left, and then looked at Ma Chao, after all, he was still a little unbearable: "At the moment of the great enemy, these fifty military sticks will be beaten, and I am afraid that I will not be able to get out of bed for half a month, why don't I write down this military stick first, and then punish it after breaking the enemy?" ”
The fifty sticks in the army are not light, even if the horse is super young and strong, the fifty sticks have to peel off the skin.
Pang De, Ma Dai and other Xiliang generals also pleaded with Ye Zhao one after another.
"Take Xingyang, this battle is almost over." Ye Zhao shook his head: "Military law is ruthless, if there is no shortage of him today, won't all the generals follow suit in the future?" ”
When Ye Zhao attacked the city before, he had already asked Ma Chao to be careful, and in the end he was broken by Xiahou Xuan, although it was only a small defeat, but the loss was not light, the craftsmen and the equipment carried by the army were lost, Ma Chao could not escape the blame, and Ye Zhao also intended to knock on this kid, although the ability is good, but sometimes, but it is more crazy than Guan Yu, which has already converged a lot of results.
"Minister...... Confess the sin! Seeing that Ma Teng was still asking for mercy, Ma Chao directly stalked his neck and said sonorously.
You......
Ma Teng glared at Ma Chao fiercely, and could only retreat helplessly.
Ye Zhao waved his hand and motioned for the overseer to start the execution, while he took Guo Jia and Li Ru and a number of important generals into the palace to discuss matters, while the rest of the generals began to clean up the city and clean up the battlefield.
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