The eighth time, Cao Hong had no choice but to die Chen Guo
After Lü Guang arrived in Chen County, he began to attack the city with Ma Chao and Pang De.
Ma Chao is very good at commanding cavalry, but he is not very good at siege. When he was in the Academy of Martial Sciences, when Ma Chao was conducting siege drills, his grades were countdown, and if it weren't for his cavalry mastery, he might not have been able to graduate. Therefore, among the advice given by the Ministry of War, do not personally command the siege of the city unless it is absolutely necessary.
Pound's siege results are much stronger than Ma Chao, but he is not much stronger, only two times higher than him, and Ma Dai is sandwiched between the two of them.
This is the same as when they rarely attacked the city in the Yongliang area, and there was very little research on the siege. In history, it took eight months for Ma Chao to attack Ji County, you must know that he has at least more than 20,000 troops (he himself is tens of thousands, and Yang Ang sent by Zhang Lu is 10,000), although Ji County belongs to Liangzhou County, but in fact, it is only a medium county seat, and there are not many soldiers in the city, which shows what Ma Chao's siege ability is.
and after Yang Fu and their rebellion, Liang Kuan and Zhao Qu secretly occupied Ji County. Secretly, pay attention to this adjective, it can be described as secretive, there will not be many soldiers and horses to form two people, maybe not even a thousand people. Driven by the hatred of killing his wife and children, Ma Chao still couldn't capture Ji County.
However, Ma Chao, Pang De, and Ma Dai are all very capable cavalry, and with their own bravery, he is not afraid of anyone at all in the field.
But Cao Hong was afraid of them, Cao Hong had 5,000 people, and when he heard that Ma Chao was coming with an army of 10,000, he didn't dare to go out of the city to meet them. He knows Ma Chao's name, Cao Cao was almost killed by Ma Chao back then, and Cao Cao was rampant in Guanzhong, threatening Qiang Hu, what kind of majesty is it? Cao Hong knew that he had a few catties and a few taels, and a field battle would be equivalent to sending him to death, so it was better to defend the city.
Fortunately, Lu Guang came, and Ma Chao immediately handed over the siege to Lu Guang, otherwise, he could only hand it over to his lieutenants to command, and any lieutenant would be better than him. Lu Guang didn't learn much under Su Lie, and he still had some experience in siege, and his siege results were quite average when he was in the Academy of Martial Sciences.
Ma Chao had already built a lot of siege equipment before this, and all of them were handed over to Lu Guang. After Lü Guang obtained these siege equipment, he immediately launched an attack on Chen County.
Trebuchets and wells were powerful outside the city, and Pound and Ma Dai even climbed first. Ma Chao didn't go, his reputation was too great, and many people knew what he looked like.
On the first day of the attack, the morale of the soldiers in Chen County was not strong, and in the face of trebuchets, there were few people to talk and laugh, and they basically couldn't survive if they were hit by stones.
However, Cao Hong personally commanded at the head of the city, and led the soldiers to keep an eye on the attack. But at night, he couldn't stand it a little, although he was not injured in a day, but the casualties of the soldiers in the city were too great, more than 500, and the casualties had exceeded 10%. If he hadn't personally commanded on the city walls, someone might have fled long ago.
But Cao Hong had no choice, he didn't even dare to flee out of the city now. Outside the city, Ma Chao was waiting for him with cavalry, and even if he could escape Ma Chao's pursuit, he would definitely not be able to escape Cao Pi's persecution in the end.
Cao Hong didn't think about surrendering, but when he thought of surrendering Zhang Yi, he couldn't accept it. Cao Hong and Cao Cao are the best, among these princes, the person Cao Cao hates the most is Zhang Yi, if it wasn't for Zhang Yi's betrayal, Cao Cao would have ruled the world long ago. Cao Hong has also always been dissatisfied with Zhang Yi, and he does not want to surrender to Zhang Yi. After holding on for so long, Cao Hong let the soldiers who participated in the battle yesterday rest the next day, and replaced them with another group of soldiers who did not participate in the battle, so that he could hold on for one more day.
Cao Hong's trick made him withstand it for another day, but on the third day, he couldn't resist it. Pang De led people to the city and took control of a section of the city wall, and then Lu Guang quickly sent people up to support.
Pound relied on his bravery and only occupied the city wall for a cup of tea, and dozens of soldiers climbed the wall, helped him withstand the attack, and quickly gained a firm foothold on the city wall.
Cao Hong saw that the enemy had ascended the city wall, and immediately organized a counterattack, wanting to recapture the city wall. But after several attempts, he was unsuccessful, but Zhang Yijun controlled a large section of the city wall.
As more and more Zhang Yi's troops on the city wall, Cao Hong immediately retreated into the city. It will not work if you don't retreat, and the soldiers in the city have already begun to flee. Zhang Yijun, who occupied the city wall, immediately cleared the city wall and shot arrows on the city wall to block the reinforcements of Cao soldiers under the city. There was already an advantage in bows and crossbows, coupled with the advantage of the city wall, and the Cao army couldn't resist it at all.
Cao Hong finally defended in the county government, and there were only more than 100 personal soldiers, and the rest of the Cao soldiers either surrendered or fled.
Soon, Lü Guang commanded his soldiers to control the whole city, and Ma Chao took the cavalry to stop the Cao army from deserting.
Lu Guang led people to surround the county office, smashed open the gate with a pillar, and easily rushed in. Cao Hong led people to strictly guard for half an hour, and finally swore not to surrender and was hacked to death with a knife.
A few hours later, Ma Chao also drove Cao Jun to escape and return to Chen County, and Lü Guang completed the attack on Chen County. After capturing Chen County, Lü Guang launched an attack on Chen State. Ma Chao took Ma Dai from Chen County to the west, attacked Changping, entered Xinji County in Yingchuan County, and then threatened Yanling, joined up with Su Lie, and deterred Cao Chun. Pang De went north from Chen County, went to Xinping to attack Yangxia, and Fule deterred Chen Liujun.
Lü Guang himself attacked Ningping in the east, then Kuxian, Wuping, and Zhexian in the north, and then Liang in the north. Liang is the last Yuzhou county that Zhang Yi has not yet touched, and as long as he takes it, Zhang Yi can establish another state-level government.
Lü Guang attacked Yan County of Liang State from Zhe County, Ningling, Mengxian, Yu County, Suiyang, and Gushu, and finally stationed in Suiyang, and sent another lieutenant to the east to capture Yi and Dangxian.
Zhang Yi got the list of Shouchun's nominations, and then finally named Pang Shanmin as the assassin of Yuzhou, Xu Huiyan as the Taishou of Yingchuan, Zhang Su as the Taishou of Peijun, Peng Yi as the Taishou of Liangjun, and Wang Lian as the Taishou of Chenjun. Peiguo, Chen Guo, and Liang Guo were all changed to Pei County, Chen County, and Liang County by Zhang Yi when he went to the country.
After sending troops for a month, he took two states, and Zhang Yi was very satisfied with this progress. This time he was going to fight the war for five months, and the target was set south of the river.
As for the area north of the river, it will be a few years away. Zhang Yi wants a stable world, not a chaotic unity. If he wanted chaotic unity, he would have beaten Cao Cao a long time ago. Zhang Yi dared to say that the generals under his command could easily be killed even by opponents like his three Cao Cao.
At this time, Luoyang also began to have a situation.