Chapter 65: The Decisive Battle of Huaiyin (4)
"The lord General Zhang Liao sent an urgent report. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "Chen Yu, who was responsible for carrying grain and grass to Baima Lake for hoarding, personally sent a letter to Huaiyin.
Lu Bu unfolded the bamboo slip and looked at it. Zhang Liao has successfully taken Guangling, and Gao Shun and Lu Qiling have successfully trained 200 female soldiers, which can be carried out as originally planned. Seeing this letter, Lu Bu calmed down, from the resurrection of Xiapi to now, it can be regarded as a real escape, and he can enter the counterattack stage. If Lu Bu didn't want to cripple Cao Cao, he could choose to take people south and hide in Guangling City to confront Cao Cao, and eventually it would be dragged until Cao Cao retreated, but he was unwilling to let Cao Cao run rampant in Xuzhou for almost a year.
According to the prior arrangement, LΓΌ Bu sent Wu Dun's subordinates to carry his general order to Guangling, saying that Huaiyin was in danger, and ordered Zhang Liao to lead the army to come to the aid and hand over Guangling to Wu Dun for defense.
There were not many bows and arrows left in Huaiyin City, and it was not easy to stay up until night again, Lu Bu thought that Cao Cao would be like last night, and sent soldiers out to pretend to attack the city and exhaust his army, but he didn't expect that as soon as it was dark, several huge fires were lit in the Cao army's large array, illuminating the north gate as if it was day.
A column of soldiers came to the moat with long wooden poles, and several soldiers worked together to push the long poles and push the corpses of Cao Bing on the banks of the moat into the moat.
Zang Ba was about to order the soldiers to shoot arrows, only to find that Cao Bing did not enter the range at all, but instead pushed the corpses of the soldiers killed in battle into the moat to fill the moat, and said to Lu Bu in disbelief: "Is Cao Cao crazy? β
Lu Bu saw that Cao Bing suddenly filled the moat with the corpses of soldiers killed in battle, and his heart was also shocked, he didn't expect Cao Cao to dare to do this as tens of thousands of Cao soldiers, it was easy to lose the morale of the army in this way, from ancient times to the present, what is emphasized is to enter the soil for peace, after the soldiers are killed, the victorious side will clean up the battlefield, and the soldiers who died on both sides will be buried in the nearest pit.
"Cao Cao is really bold! It is worthy of the heroes of the world! Lu Bu was soon relieved, between survival and morality, Cao Cao must choose survival.
Lu Bu turned back to Zang Ba and said, "Cao Cao can use human flesh as military food, and pushing a few people to fill the moat is nothing. β
"Isn't Liu Bei known as a benevolent and righteous person? Why not stop him? β
Liu Bei is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and even dares to acquiesce in the use of human flesh as military food, not to mention that thousands of corpses fill the moat. He likes to fill it, there is a fierce battle tonight, and he ordered the soldiers to have a full meal, and if they can keep it, they will retreat to Huai'an. Ignite a warning to Chen Gong and Sun Guan. Lu Bu said indifferently, Huaiyin was originally a dilapidated city, how could he stop Cao Cao's 100,000 army, he did this to let Cao Cao advance little by little, and maximize the exhaustion of Cao Cao's soldiers.
Filling the moat with corpses was really fast enough, and Lu Bujun on the city tower couldn't even stop it, and watched the moat being filled up little by little.
"Ho... Ho... Ho": As soon as the moat was filled, Cao Bing shouted in the big array to launch the siege vehicles that had been prepared, and there were arrows shot from the siege vehicles to defend the city tower, and Cao Bing only sacrificed dozens of soldiers to push the siege vehicles down the city.
Lu Bu saw it, but just smiled contemptuously, it is not easy to build a siege vehicle, and Cao Cao can't build a lot in a short time, and Lu Bu doesn't seem to pay attention to a siege vehicle.
"Burn siege engines!" The generals and men of Lu Bu's army commanded the soldiers to smash the prepared fuel into the siege vehicles, and the stones and logs were pushed down the building as if it were raining. There are siege trucks, and the lethality of rolling wood and stones to Cao Bing is greatly reduced.
"Stones hit siege vehicles, rolling logs and smash them on the ladder!" As soon as the soldiers saw the siege vehicle approaching, all the things in hand greeted the siege vehicle, and Zang Ba hurriedly overturned a ladder and beckoned.
"Death Legion will kill with me!" Lu Bu shouted, with the death army blocked in front of the siege vehicle, Huaiyin City is too short, the roof of the siege vehicle is barely higher than the city wall, under the cover of Cao Bing's bow and arrow, there are constantly Cao soldiers from the roof of the car to kill the city, and the bottom is a steady stream of Cao soldiers are climbing up along the siege vehicle.
Lu Bu held a three-pointed knife and blocked the front of the siege vehicle, so that Cao's soldiers could not advance an inch.
"Dead open!" Suddenly, a big knife slashed at Lu Bu and cut Lu Bu back two steps, but the other party remained motionless.
"Xu Chu!"
Lu Bu was secretly frightened in his heart, he almost couldn't block Xu Chu's condescending blow in foot combat. Secretly shocked in his heart, Xu Chu's horse combat is not as good as him, but his waist and legs are thick, his strength is infinite, Lu Bu's arm strength is strong, and his horse combat is invincible, but his foot combat strength is indeed inferior to Xu Chu, Xu Chu's strength is as if he is drawn out of the earth and used it, and his feet are hooked on the siege vehicle, not moving.
The soldiers around Xu Chu took advantage of Lu Bu's retreat to rush forward quickly, and they were about to break through Lu Bu's defenses, Li Damu Wei Yueer would kill from his side, and the soldiers of the Death Legion slashed with their swords, cutting down the Cao soldiers who had just stepped on the city wall.
Xu Chu's big sword swept away, swept Wei Yue and Li Damu back at the same time, and took another step forward.
Lu Bu threw away the three-pointed knife, at this time, the short combat strength was not as good as Xu Chu, and he was suppressed by Xu Chu with a long knife, pulled out the double-strand sword at his waist, and the long sword was obliquely picked aside, and the knife cut by Xu Chu was obliquely picked to the side, and the short sword was held in his left hand, and he stepped forward, and plunged into Xu Chu's arms, and the short sword was inserted into Xu Chu's chest.
"Whew!" Xu Chu screamed, let go of the long knife with one hand, picked up the big slap of the pu fan and slapped it towards Lu Bu.
Lu Bu succeeded in one blow, and when he saw Xu Chu fanning, he couldn't pull out the short sword stuck in the armor with all his strength, bent down to dodge, and slammed the short sword into the hilt with the helmet on his head, knocking the short sword into a few points again. The long sword in his right hand slashed towards Xu Chu's thigh, cutting off half of Xu Chu's flesh and skin, Xu Chu was too burly, and his skills were far less flexible than Lu Bu, so he could only be beaten passively, and he couldn't even dodge.
"Huh..." Xu Chu screamed in pain, and had the intention to compete with Lu Bu, Lu Bu had already bullied him, and the long knife in his hand seriously affected his flexibility, and he couldn't touch Lu Bu at all. Xu Chufa ruthlessly abandoned the long knife, forcefully pulled out the short sword stuck in his body, and fought with Lu Bu.
Lu Bu's swordsmanship is not much subtle, it is more than enough to clean up Xu Chu, who is good at strength, and in a few rounds, he was picked by Lu Bu to pick his hand holding the sword into a blur, and he can no longer hold the short sword, as soon as his hand is loosened, the short sword falls to the city, Lu Bu's long sword rolls, and the short sword is in his hand again.
"Tiger Marquis, retreat!" A young general saw that Xu Chu was cut by Lu Bu and covered in blood, he didn't know how serious the injury was, and Lu Bu was blocked here in his heart, and they didn't want to go up to the city wall. The young general commanded the soldiers to protect Xu Chu and retreated. Seeing Xu Chu retreating, Lu Bu did not dare to step on the siege vehicle to chase Xu Chu, once he got on the siege vehicle, Cao Bing pulled the siege vehicle away, and Lu Bu would fall into the Cao soldiers under the city.
As soon as Xu Chu retreated, Lu Bu had time to look at the rest of the city tower. A big man with a big axe in his hand, a bearded man is on the city tower to kill his own soldiers defending the city to retreat, once there are too many soldiers besieging him, the big man swings the big axe like a rage, the courage is unstoppable, he is dead at the battlement, the Cao soldiers behind him continue to rush up the city wall along the ladder, and the soldiers under the command of Sun Kang are killed and retreated, and in a short time, they occupy a small half of the city.
"Li Damu took a hundred soldiers to support Sun Kang." Lu Bu said to Li Damu, who was struggling to kill the enemy beside him. Li Damu was the only general recognized by the Death Legionnaires other than Lu Bu, and he brought a hundred dead soldiers to kill, and he broke through the counterattack of the Cao soldiers at the head of the city, and slowly drove the Cao soldiers who came up down. Cao's soldiers, who had no time to retreat, were forced/violently pushed down the city wall by the dead legionnaires.
At the other end of the city wall, Zang Ba was also fighting with a white-faced handsome young man in white clothes and white robes at the head of the city, and the two went back and forth to fight for the ownership of the city wall.
"Zhao Yun?" Lu Buchu saw the young general and thought it was Changshan Zhao Yun, only looked at a few rounds and denied it, although this young general's marksmanship is sharp, but it is far less subtle than Zang Ba, only a few rounds are full of flaws, if it weren't for the soldiers around him who are brave and difficult, very strong, and work together to save each other many times, the young general would have died in Zang Ba and snatched it.
The general waited for the soldiers behind him to climb up twenty or thirty people and retreated to the formation to command the soldiers to intercept and kill the soldiers defending the city, this group of soldiers are all spears, spears pierced out, several spears are more like a fusion, a few breaths, the soldiers behind him will slaughter the soldiers defending the city, the general pointed to the soldiers behind him will attack where they are, occupy a large section of the city, and reject the soldiers led by Zang Ba to fight back.
"When did Cao Cao have this army?" Lu Bu didn't know the young general, and he was puzzled.
Zang Ba was beaten back by a seventeen or eighteen-year-old general, and he was angry in his heart, and shouted at the young general: "Come to the general to be famous, and a certain person who does not kill no name." β
"No nameless general, Chen Zhi." The young general replied without humility or arrogance, and began to command the soldiers again, and beside him gathered almost two hundred pikemen, and then the Cao soldiers who climbed up were different in weapons and messy.
"White-eyed elite soldiers?" In the past few years in Xuzhou, Lu Bu never knew that Liu Bei had such an elite soldier, but as soon as he heard the name of Chen Zhi, he remembered that later generations recorded the most elite and mysterious pikemen under Liu Bei's command, seeing that the number of this soldier was less than two hundred, it should be a soldier who Chen Zhi had just trained, and Lu Bu and Liu Bei had been fighting for Xuzhou for several years.
"Wei Yue will take two hundred people to drive them down the city tower, and it is best to kill that young general." Zang Ba's soldiers, like himself, have the thief nature of the Yellow Turban Army, they can fight if they can, run away if they can't, and it is difficult to effectively counterattack when they are suppressed.
Wei Yue led the Death Legion to join, and the Death Legion soldiers rushed forward without Wei Yue's orders, and directly attacked the opponent's gun formation without fear of death, tearing a gap with the enemy's life, Zang Ba took the opportunity to kill into the formation, and picked Chen Zhi down the city tower with one shot. Seeing that the Lord would be shot down from the city, the white soldiers did not know whether they were alive or dead, and they were attacked by thousands of soldiers defending the city, and climbed down the ladder.
The battle lasted from dark to the sun rising in the east, Cao Cao saw that he had attacked the city several times and was driven down, and downstairs was a pile of corpses that were killed by rolling wood, stones, oil, etc., and the scene was terrible. Cao Cao saw that the casualties were too serious, and now he couldn't take Huaiyin by force, so he ordered Mingjin to defend the troops.
As soon as Cao Cao collected his troops, Lu Bu counted the number of people, although he was defending the city, he had nearly 1,000 casualties, and the death legion was even more close to 200 people, and he was distressed.
"Li Damu selected two hundred strong and brave soldiers from all the soldiers to supplement the Death Legion, and the others must not object." Lu Bu said to Zang Ba and the other generals.
"Send someone to Guangling to report the emergency, and order Zhang Liao to quickly reorganize the army to the north." LΓΌ Bu again sent the soldiers left behind by Wu Dunbu to Guangling to urge Zhang Liao.