Zhao Yan didn't know until he died, which feather arrows that could be set on fire and had a long range were called rockets, which were the ideas of Liu Qi who came through time and space and Huang Yueying's many years of research and success, and the kind of catapult that could continuously send stones was called a rotary catapult, which was the masterpiece of the most famous mechanical and inventor Ma Jun at that time, a small Kunyang, which could use the invention of three of the most creative figures in the world at the same time, in fact, Zhao Yan is also worthy of pride.

Of course, with the death of Zhao Yan, he naturally did not have any pride, but his soldiers saw that the lord was about to die, and the city wall was crumbling by flying stones.

In front of these overwhelming stones, even the bravest soldiers were extremely desperate in their hearts, so when a partial general proposed to surrender, more than 3,000 soldiers surprisingly none of them opposed.

Du Xian, who came to Kunyang with Liu Qi, couldn't help but be silent when he heard the news of Zhao Yan's death, as a friend, he had admired Zhao Yan's keen insight and shrewd and skillful learning of life when he lived in Jingzhou, and later he heard that in the battle of Guandu, Zhao Yan in order to stabilize the situation in Yang'an, relieved Cao Cao's worries about the battle against Yuan Shao, persuaded Li Tong to return the taxes collected, and personally wrote to Xun Yu to explain the matter. Later, when Cao Cao heard about this, he appointed him as the chief secretary of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After that, when Zhang Liao was ordered to guard Shouchun, he was proud of his high merits, and he was at odds with the generals Zhu Ling, Le Jin and others, and often quarreled because of some trivial matters.

After Cao Cao learned of this, he was often appointed as the governor of the army, commanding and coordinating Cao Cao's senior generals to go out on expeditions. Later, he was invited by Cao Ren to be a military officer many times, and played an important role in some of Cao Ren's major wars.

This person has always been upright, upright, when he was the head of Lang Ling in Runan County, he did not care about the face of Li Tong who was too protective of Runan at that time, and betrayed the uncle of Li Tong's wife.

And Liu Qi, of course, knew that this person was Cao Wei's famous minister. He served as a waiter, a scholar, a secretary, and so on, and also solved the siege of Fancheng when Guan Yu was besieging Fancheng and saved the crisis. Because of this, Zhao Yan is a friend of Fanqin and Du Xian, and this time he even specially transferred Du Yan to persuade him to surrender after capturing him, but he didn't expect that he, as the main general of one party, would have such an accident. So after he led his army into the city. After hearing the news of Zhao Yan's death, he also sighed.

Liu Qi ordered someone to bury Zhao Yan, and then ordered the people to go out of the list, and began to prepare the next battle plan.

At this time, Cao Ren didn't know what was happening in Kunyang, and he, like Zhao Yan, was full of confidence in Zhao Yan, thinking that with Zhao Yan's ability, he should be sure to hold Kunyang for a month, so he had already decided. In any case, it is necessary to break through Yingyin and Changshe within a month, and open up the traffic artery between Luoyang and Kunyang via Xuchang. And then deter the traitors of the other three counties and consolidate the entire Yingchuan County.

After two days of rapid marching, Cao Ren's army had reached Fanchang County, which was close to Yingyin, and prepared to attack the rebels in Yingyin the next day after repairing here for the night.

Although he was already cautious, Cao Ren still thought that although the Xun clan of Yingyin controlled the county seat. But it's just a rabble, how can it really compete with its own elite? As long as Yingyin is occupied, the siege of Xuchang can be relieved, and then Xuchang will be used as the foundation to further break through Changshe. It's a natural thing.

But unexpectedly, he encountered the situation of the enemy army robbing the camp that night.

Hundreds of soldiers of the Chu army were still two hundred steps away from the camp before they began to shoot arrows, and these bows and arrows not only shot into the camp unbelievably, but also somehow caused a fire, turning the entire camp into a sea of fire.

The Cao army in the flames was in chaos in an instant, some were burned to death by fire, some trampled each other to death, and some were killed by their own soldiers who fled the way.

It was only then that Cao Ren knew that Fanchang City had already been occupied by the Chu army, and it was the Fanchang County Commander who greeted him today, but this person had surrendered to Liu Qi. Tens of thousands of troops, hiding in the houses of the city, gathered at night and launched a surprise attack on his camp.

In fact, Cao Ren was not unwary, his camp had already been built impregnable, but he didn't expect the enemy to attack with fire. Moreover, with the use of rockets that can shoot 200 paces away, the entire camp was ignited by rockets fired in all directions, and the entire camp was set on fire in just a short period of time.

The sudden change made the morale of Cao's army collapse suddenly, the camp was razed to the ground, the soldiers died or fled, Cao Ren desperately collected the soldiers in the camp, and finally found that there were only more than 20,000 people. The 40,000-strong army lost nearly 20,000 in less than an hour.

Although Cao Ren was resentful in his heart, he also knew that now was not the time to fight, and he had to break through as much as possible, otherwise he was afraid that he would probably be wiped out.

"General, where do we break through?" Cao Ren's subordinate Zhang Nan gasped and hurriedly asked.

Cao Ren raised his eyes and looked into the distance, seeing that the south was silent and there was no fire, while the north was the sound of killing, and the snare drum was beaten so that it could deafen the eardrums, he thought for a while, then pointed to the north and said, "We break through from the north." ”

"However, there seems to be no fire in the south, and there is no shouting of killing, and here we were the way to live." Zhang Nan hesitated, but still plucked up the courage to say.

Unexpectedly, Cao Ren laughed and said: "This is the enemy's trick, the so-called virtual is real, the real is false, I expect that the north will be empty, and the south is ambushed with heavy troops." ”

After finishing speaking, he no longer paid attention to Zhang Nan's beautiful words, and immediately led the army to break through to the north.

But as soon as his army reached the gate of the camp, he heard a sharp sound of breaking through the air in the midst of the fireworks. Tens of thousands of crossbow arrows were like flying locusts, fiercely burrowing into the bodies of Cao Jun's soldiers, like bloodthirsty monsters, and never let go after biting them.

Zhang Nan, who had just praised Cao Ren's clever plan, was full of remorse at this time, and couldn't help but scold: "Pifu Cao Ren, I thought I had a plan, and I actually killed Lao Tzu to be buried here, even if Lao Tzu is a ghost, he will not let you go." ”

Zhang Nan's chest was pierced by a crossbow arrow, even his calf was discounted by the crossbow arrow, and he was covered in blood, knowing that his life was hopeless, he no longer maintained his previous respectful and flattering demeanor when he was dying, but scolded when he was disappointed to vent the anger in his heart.

Anyway, he's already dead now, where is the need to hide it anymore?

Cao Ren, who was not far away, heard Zhang Nan's scolding, but he didn't have a trace of anger, but felt deeply ashamed, because of his own judgment error, more than 20,000 people under the command of the guide zhì were wiped out in one day, as the so-called incompetent, tired of thousands of troops, he hurt others and even lost his life, what if people scolded themselves a few words?

"General, what are we going to do? Do you want to move on? Zhang Nan's friend, who was also a general from Yuan Shao's Hebei Army, looked at the soldiers who died tragically, and asked tremblingly.

But Cao Ren laughed miserably, and then said: "This round of crossbow arrows has lost at least 10,000 of our 20,000 troops, how can we still rush through it again?" Since the enemy army shot so many crossbow arrows at once, it must have been ambushed here, judging by the Chu army's ten crossbow arrows shot by a pair of crossbows, there are at least 50,000 troops ambushed here, presumably the main force is ambushed here, even so, the southern exit must be empty, let's break through from the south gate. ”

After Cao Ren finished speaking, he ordered the rear team to change into the front team and led the army to break through from the south gate.

But the next scene made Cao Ren feel absolutely incredible, because not long after his army left the "camp gate", he saw a large army immediately outflank and besiege his soldiers, and the number of that army was at least 20,000.

"This, how is this possible? There are 50,000 enemy troops in ambush outside the north gate, and there are 20,000 here, doesn't this mean that Liu Qi's 70,000 army was deployed in Yingyin alone? But this time, the total number of Liu Qi's army to conquer Yingchuan was only 70,000, how could it be possible to get all here? If all of them really came, there was no way that the military advisor would not have sent me the news. Cao Ren looked incredulous and thought suspiciously.

At this time, the general on the opposite side laughed and solved the doubts in his heart: "Cao Ren, you should be very confused now, how many men and horses did our army ambush in Yingyin, right?" I might as well tell you the truth, our army has a total of 30,000 troops here, and the 10,000 Janissaries and 10,000 Wudang Flying Army under the command of the King of Chu are surrounding you, and the ones who blocked you outside your Beiying Gate before were actually only 10,000 crossbow troops, but you don't underestimate the 10,000 crossbow army, because the crossbows in their hands are the latest weapons of our army, and each crossbow can shoot martial arts crossbow arrows at once, fortunately you retreat quickly, otherwise your army will definitely be wiped out there, and now you have no way out. It is better to lay down your arms and surrender obediently, Ben will guarantee that you will not take your life. ”

Although the general on the opposite side told the truth, it caused a greater shock to Cao Jun, before it was a repeater that fired fifty crossbow arrows at the same time, but now it is surrounded by the most elite Praetorian Guards around Liu Qi, I am afraid that even if they put on their wings, it will be absolutely difficult to escape, Hugh said that there are no rescuers coming from Luoyang, even if there is really one, there is no army of more than 50,000, how can they break through the defense of the Praetorian Guard?

As for Luoyang being able to send 50,000 troops, that is definitely something that you don't have to think about.

Therefore, the desperate soldiers of the Cao army saw that the general trend had gone, and they threw down their weapons and surrendered. (To be continued......)