Chapter 63: A rout is not as good as a bandit
When attacking, there may be people who will fall behind, they may be afraid of death, or they may not want to be the vanguard. When I ran away, no one ran slowly, and I felt like my lungs were about to run out.
I ran into the city only to find that I saw Wu Dalang with the soldiers of the east gate and the few poor soldiers left in the west gate also ran over.
We ran to the north gate for our lives, and I saw that they were already waiting at the north gate.
The war horses were torn apart, and hundreds of war horses gathered at the north gate. That's the foot power we use to escape.
"Get on the horse! Everyone, withdraw! Not enough, two people ride a horse. The old fox screamed desperately.
There were only four or five hundred horses in the whole city, and they were all pulled out of the stables. We rushed to our horses in a panic.
Thank God, I used to learn to ride a horse. At least I know how to ride this thing.
The old fox miscalculated, we have less than five hundred soldiers left, and a few war horses left. After two rounds of charges, less than 500 of our more than 3,000 heads remained.
"Open the gates!" The old fox commanded.
The north gate of the city slowly opened, and we saw countless heads, the heads of Cao Jun, who were holding spears in their hands.
"Captain Qian, come on!" The old fox waved his hand.
Only then did I see that the old Qian of the equipment battalion and the dozens of people of the Slender Mobile Unit were holding bows and crossbows in their hands.
Zhuge Repeater, the old fox, the bastard, has been doing something for a long time.
I understood why the old fox kept urging, he wanted these crossbows to be completed as soon as possible. In order to break through.
We have only a few hundred people left, and there are thousands of Cao troops at the north gate. If we want to break through, it's just a dream.
With these bows and crossbows, it would be different, if it weren't for Zhang Liao's army coming too fast, it would be incredibly fast. We don't have time to build more repeaters, and the outcome of this battle is yet to be known.
Later, we learned from the mouth of the fine work that was planted in Cao's camp that it turned out that our looting of grain and the capture of Guancheng were all expected by Cao Cao. He deliberately gave us the city of Guancheng, and finally surrounded the city to catch turtles in an urn.
I said that Cao Jun didn't react after we robbed the grain, and it was so easy for us to take Guancheng. It turned out that all this was a conspiracy of Cao Cao, I thought that the old fox was cunning enough, but I didn't expect to meet someone like Cao Cao or not their opponent.
However, what Cao Cao didn't expect was that we were able to recruit an army of more than 3,000 people, and what we didn't find was that we were able to break through.
No one shouted, we were silent, silent charges. The guy named Lao Qian and Xian Xian rushed towards Cao Jun with dozens of people, and we followed.
No one would have thought that we would dare to charge, and that a few hundred of us would dare to break through to the north gate of these five or six thousand people. It wasn't until we got closer that they began to regret it. But it was too late.
Zhuge repeater, our repeater drawings are from the old fox's handwriting, and they can be fired in an instant. Death can be put within 50 meters.
The disadvantage of the repeater is that it has a short distance, and we have to rush into close range to trigger the repeater.
Even so, the Cao army blocking the north gate had already suffered heavy casualties.
The power of the crossbow was like a machine gun, and the Cao army fell to the ground one after another wherever they went.
Crossbow arrows are limited in power, and they can't even pierce a soldier's armor at a distance. But you can't be covered in armor.
Our people attack the weak points of the human body, especially the neck. Cao Jun's weakness.
When we rushed over, Xian Xian and Lao Qian quickly changed from the front team to the back team. We charged ahead, and the crossbowmen broke behind.
Although we have artifacts in our hands, we still have casualties. When we broke out of the encirclement of Cao's army, there were only more than 300 people left.
Cao's cavalry pursued behind. They are well-dressed and well-equipped.
And we ran for our lives, embarrassed. The only good thing is that Cao's cavalry is afraid of our repeaters. They didn't dare get too close.
At the north gate, Cao's army only had more than 2,000 cavalry. The others were archers, shieldmen, spearmen, and axemen.
If the old fox hadn't turned to a mountain col and used roundabout tactics to counterattack the pursuers with a crossbow, we would have been wiped out.
We fled and were defeated, and the cavalry of Cao's army pursued and defeated. The rout has long been out of formation, and we are running for our lives.
Cao Jun ran out of the system, and they thought that we were lost dogs, and we had no fighting spirit. The cavalry of the Cao Army, which had more than 2,000 people, chased after our more than 300 people, and they were not yet captured.
They were wrong, there was a col ahead. Cao's archers couldn't be used, and as we fled, we suddenly turned around and launched a counterattack against Cao's army.
Poor Kou Mo chases, they didn't expect us to fight back. Too close, our crossbow bolts fired in unison.
Now that they had run forty or fifty miles out of Guancheng, the cavalry of Cao's army began to retreat under our onslaught. The pursuers turned into routs, and of course we didn't dare to chase them.
"What about Wu Dalang?" I suddenly realized that I was missing a few people.
Ye Xianxian and the old fox are still there, and Wu Dalang is gone.
"Sledgehammer and Xiaojuan, why didn't they come with me." Slim is also looking.
Ah Mao looked at us: "Ran away, the hammer they ran away when they rushed out of the city, maybe they have ......"
"Why didn't you say it earlier!" I started a fire at Mao, and there were only four of us left with us.
"Is it too late? Hammer and Xiaojuan were scattered by Cao Jun after rushing out of Guancheng, and Wu Dalang was lost when he was being pursued just now. ”
I'm speechless. Wu Dalang and Hammer Xiaojuan are uncertain, and the monkey is now nowhere to be found. If the monkey takes Hua Tuo to Guancheng, he will definitely not find us.
When it got dark, we finally got rid of Cao Jun. We didn't continue to the north, the north was Cao Cao's hinterland, and we didn't have any place to stand.
We bypassed Chenliu and turned westward. Enter Xiangyang through Sizhou.
We are a group of routs, with no supplies and no logistics. The rout is not as good as the bandits, and the towns we passed through have robbed grain and spoiled the people.
Passing by large households, we rushed in like bandits, robbing money and food.
For ordinary people, we take a three-way approach. It is to snatch one of the three portions of food from the people's homes, and then give them a blank paper IOU. In the name of beauty, it is said that after he wins the world, he will double it back.
That's a nice thing to say. The common people themselves couldn't eat enough, and the old fox even set up troops to grab food. Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and besides, the old fox strictly ordered that the people should not be harmed, so we became street rats that everyone shouted and beaten.
This is impossible, and if you want to grab the food of the common people, you can't use force yet. No common man would be so stupid, I saw our soldiers being chased and beaten by village women, and then the soldiers began to fight back, and the old fox acquiesced in this practice, but if it caused civilians to bleed and wounded, they were punished severely.
Even so, the clashes between the soldiers and the peasants continued, and the old fox and I gradually chose to ignore it, and we had to eat.
When I came, I was impassioned and vowed to give back a whole new world. Now we are arsoning with the army to grab food, and we are incompatible with the common people.
The lost dog is a true portrayal of our present, but we don't have deserters. Because everyone knows that deserters will starve to death.
They will go hungry just like us, but it is better for a group of people to go hungry than for one person to starve. Our 300-strong army was unprecedentedly grouped, and we marched in the direction of Xiangyang.