Because Yu Ban punished Tai Shici, the military and Chinese warriors all had a sense of awe for the ban, more precisely, military law, and no one dared to offend in the slightest, so they all carefully obeyed the order, and no one dared to propose to go out of the city to fight.

And in this way, Cao Ren was a little unable to sit still, he led his elite troops to Lu'an City, the original purpose was not to attack the city, but only to lure the enemy out of the city to fight, and then his own ambush troops, all the opponent's mobile forces were annihilated, and then draw troops north as soon as possible to participate in the struggle against Yuan Shao. But I didn't expect that after more than ten days in a row, there was no movement in the city.

"How should the enemy not be fooled?" Cao Ren couldn't help but hesitate, and hurriedly asked the military advisor Zhao Yandao.

Zhao Yan sighed and said bitterly: "For today's plan, I'm afraid we have to withdraw our troops." ”

"How can this work? Now the reason why we send troops to Lu'an, mainly because we are worried that Yuan Shao will lead the army to cross the river and attack my Xuchang after the year, the prime minister has urged the general several times, be sure to end the war in Yangzhou, and transfer the general force to Guandu to jointly fight against Yuan Shao, it is precisely because of this that we are anxious to fight a decisive battle with Yu Ban of Lujiang, a traitor, if we withdraw our troops like this, the army will continue to be in a state of confrontation, and we will not work in vain? ”

Cao Ren's psychology is already a little anxious now, it is really too much pressure that Yuan Shao has brought to his side, if he is not defeated first, I am afraid that the Yanyu Qingxu Sizhou occupied by his brother Cao Cao will never have peace.

So this time, Cao Ren made up his mind to help his brother no matter what, and concentrate all his strength to defeat Yuan Shao, and to be able to do this, he must first defeat Yu Ban's army in Lujiang, not to mention destroying all this army, at least its main force, so that Yu Ban would not dare to attack from the rear when he was going all out to deal with Yuan Shao.

Cao Ren pondered for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately said to Zhang Liao: "Send the order to go down and build a building outside the city, pile up soil for a mountain, and prepare to attack the city." ”

"No." Zhang Liao clenched his fist at Cao Ren, immediately agreed to come down, and then personally went down to deploy the siege matters.

Yes? But general, in this way, we will suffer a lot of losses, and even if we can win, I am afraid it will be a miserable victory, and it may even ......."

But he didn't expect Cao Ren to suddenly smile and say to him: "Military advisor, do you guess if Yu Ban dares to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with our army?" ”

Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Yu is cautious, I'm afraid I don't dare to go out of the city." ”

Cao Ren nodded and said: "Ben Jiang thinks the same, in fact, Ben Jiang is still looking forward to him being able to get out of the city." Since he didn't dare to go out of the city, then let's give them some greeting gifts, maybe we can rely on this greeting gift, we can force Yu Ban to go out of the city for a decisive battle, so that we can bow down to Lu'an in one fell swoop, of course, if he doesn't go out of the city, it doesn't matter, we will rely on the well and the earth mountain, shoot their guards first, suppress the defenders on the city, and wait until we have the advantage before attacking the city. ”

Zhao Yan understood Cao Ren's intentions at this time, and couldn't help but admire his face, and praised sincerely: "General Zixiao is really wise, and he can come up with such a method, hehe, Xia Guan believes that as long as our army successfully suppresses the defenders on the city, even if Yu Ban is calm, in the end there is only one way to lose, because he is defeated when he goes out of the city, and he is defeated if he does not go out of the city, but if it is cold today, our soldiers are standing at a high altitude, and I am afraid it will be difficult to last......"

Cao Ren smiled without thinking: "Hehe, this matter is not difficult to do, the soldiers in the high altitude are divided into two waves and take turns on duty, so that our bows and arrows will not stop, and the soldiers can rest a little." ”

Zhao Yan immediately said with admiration: "The general's clever plan, the subordinate admires, in this way, I am afraid that Yu Ban will inevitably fail." ”

Cao Ren smiled, and then said coldly: "Yu Ban, a traitor, dares to betray the Lord to seek glory, this time he is going to let him see the fate of being sentenced to be prime minister." The next day he brought with him caught this traitor, and he will not spare him. ”

Early the next morning, Cao Ren's army came to the city, pushed the built well to the bottom of the city, and then ordered the soldiers to climb up and began to shoot down on the Yu Ban army on the city, and ordered the soldiers to carry the mound of dirt in an attempt to stand on a high place and completely suppress the city defense troops.

Yu Ban didn't expect Cao Ren to go against the norm and start a large-scale siege of the city, so the soldiers of the city defense army were suppressed by the other party at the beginning, and the city defense soldiers were all exposed to the range of the other party, and they were suppressed by the bows and arrows of the soldiers on the well and the earth mountain, and they could not raise their heads, although they were still unyielding to guard the city, but the situation was still not optimistic.

"General, please allow the last general to lead a group of troops and horses out of the city and destroy Cao Ren's well, so that our situation will be much better, otherwise, if we are suppressed for a long time, I am afraid that our army will be in danger." Seeing the heavy casualties of the soldiers on the city, Tai Shici couldn't help but feel anxious, and immediately asked Yu Ban to fight.

But he didn't expect to be flatly rejected by Yu Ban: "No, I know that Cao Ren is doing things very safely, since he dares to erect a well outside the city and pile up a mountain of earth, then he won't worry about us going out of the city to intercept and kill, and even he may set a trap to wait for us to go out of the city, so we must not act rashly, now that the weather is cold, Cao Ren's army will not stay long on the earth mountain and the well, as long as we hold on long enough, they will definitely retreat." ”

"But we have caused a lot of casualties back and forth, and even if Cao Ren retreats, or even directly confronts Yuan Shao, we will not have the strength to take advantage of the situation."

Tai Shi Ci was also in a hurry, and said impatiently.

"Then I can't help it, we can't clearly watch each other set a trap outside the city, or drill inside." Yu Ban was still as calm as usual, and said lightly.

And at this moment, Liu Ye on the side suddenly arched his hand and said: "General, the lower officials have a plan to crack the other party's well and earth mountain." ”

"Oh? I don't know what Ziyang's plan is? Yu Ban had already heard the lord Liu Qi say that Liu Ye was a great talent, and now when he heard the other party say such things, he couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, and quickly stood up and asked in surprise.

Although he was very calm on the surface, Yu Ban's heart was actually very impatient, because if the other party was allowed to go on like this, his own soldiers would definitely suffer a lot of casualties, and the result could only be that even if he held Lu'an City, he also caused huge casualties, and he would not be able to attack Jiujiang in the future. And if the other side takes the opportunity to attack the city, I'm afraid it is still a question whether it can hold it.

Now that he suddenly heard Liu Ye say that there was a way to deal with the current situation, he was naturally pleasantly surprised, and quickly stood up and asked for specific methods with an excited face.

For a general like Yu Ban, who has always been calm, there was a touch of excitement on his face, which shows how much he expects from Liu Ye's strategy!

I saw Liu Ye arch his hand slightly, and said calmly: "The subordinate can teach the sergeants under his command to make a thunderbolt car, so as to smash the enemy's wells and earth mountains, so that their gains outweigh their losses, so that Cao Ren will definitely not be able to continue to attack the city." ”

"Huh? It turns out that Zi Yang can actually make a thunderbolt car, this is really good, it is said that this thunderbolt car is equipped with a pivot, bullet stones, can cause huge destructive power, as long as there is this thing, Ben will believe that he will be able to crack Cao Ren's well and earth mountain, hehe, Zi Yang has such a talent, but it is really a blessing for the lord. ”

Yu Ban couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately gave Liu Ye the greatest authority, ordering him to mobilize a qiē manpower and material resources to make a thunderbolt car, and at the same time ordered the soldiers at the head of the city to continue to be on duty at the head of the city as usual, but these soldiers should all carry shields and curtains to minimize the casualties caused by the opponent's archers.

A few days later, the thunderbolt was caused, and Yu Ban ordered Liu Ye to pull the thunderbolt cart to the top of the city, and then loaded it with stones, and launched a fierce attack on Cao Ren's wells and earth mountains, only to see the stones roaring and smashing into those wells and earth mountains, and soon those wells were smashed.

In addition to the wells, some of the stones thrown fell into the air because of poor accuracy, and some fell directly into the enemy army group on the dirt mountain, smashing some unlucky enemy soldiers into meat cakes.

Although the damage caused by these stones falling into the army was not strong, it caused panic among Cao Ren's army, so that the earth mountain that the army had worked so hard to build was not guarded, and naturally it could no longer cause any damage to the city.

At this time, Cao Ren was drinking comfortably in the army with Zhao Yan, Zhang Liao and others, and they knew that the current Yu Ban was helpless against him, and he could not defend the city with peace of mind, let alone go out of the city for a decisive battle.

"Hehe, General Zixiao really has a clever plan, as long as some time passes, presumably even the traitor who is forbidden will slowly shake his confidence, whether he chooses to abandon or continue to hold on, there is only one way to defeat in the end."

Zhao Yan picked up the wine glass and smiled at Cao Ren: "Xiaguan is here to congratulate the general first, if there is no accident, it must not be long before Yu Ban's military spirit will be dissipated, and at that time, it will be the beginning of our army's general offensive." ”

Cao Ren also had a smile on his face, but suddenly sighed slowly: "An opponent like this is really not interesting, I really hope that one day I can personally compete with the rumored Liu Qi who is like a god of soldiers, and share a male and female with him." ”

"Hehe, although Liu Qi has never been defeated, what enemies are he facing? How can the rabble in Jingnan be compared to the general's mind? Even Sun Ce's reckless man is far inferior, if he encounters an opponent like the general, Xia Guan believes that he will definitely be defeated. ”

A scribe named Xun Yao raised his wine glass and said those fleshy flattering words.

Although Cao Ren knew that this person had always liked flattery and flattery, but today's words happened to be in his heart, so not only did he not feel disgusted, but he felt a sense of confidant, and just wanted to open his mouth to be humble, when he suddenly saw a military marquis break in and said loudly: "General, the big thing is not good, the enemy army has destroyed all our wells, and no one dares to climb even the dirt mountain again, there are stones in all directions, and our army is now terrified." ”

"What? Stone? Where did you get so many stones? How did the enemy destroy our wells? Tell the truth. Cao Ren's face sank when he heard this, and his previous smile suddenly disappeared, and he immediately asked.

Because of work problems, the second shift will be around 7 p.m., sorry