121 Mountain rain is coming
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In the following days, Yuan Shao crossed the north bank of the river with thousands of archers day and night to protect them to build the camp on the river, every day no matter day or night, you can hear Yuan Junmin Fu shouting to carry earth and stones and giant trees for building a camp on the river, because there are many archers, so the Cao army has no way to carry out a surprise attack, and can only watch Yuan Shao's camp approach the Cao army camp little by little. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This feeling is depressing, at least Cao Zhang thinks so, Yuan Shao's camp extends five meters out of the river and is just three hundred steps away from Cao's army camp, if you erect a five-zhang high arrow tower and a turret, it is enough for the archers' range to cover one-third of the Cao army's camp, Yuan Shao's main force has 120,000 soldiers, although 10,000 cavalry are folded, there are still 110,000 troops, plus the people, the army is not less than 400,000, such a large project for Yuan Jun, it will be completed in less than a month.
However, it would take twenty days for Le Jin to build the thunderbolt, that is, Cao's army had to endure the condescending indiscriminate shooting of Yuan's archers on the 20th and various onslaughts of Yuan's soldiers.
Yuan Shao obviously knew that Cao Cao would see through his offensive intentions and build a thunderbolt to block it, but he also knew that the thunderbolt process was complicated, and Cao's army had fewer personnel than him, so he built the turret wall and arrow tower day and night in order to gain a suppressive military advantage in a short period of time with these two killing weapons, hoping to capture Cao's camp before Cao's army built a thunderbolt.
When Cao Cao found that Yuan Shao's arrow tower and turret were nearly completed, while the thunderbolt car built by Le Jin was still in full swing, he knew that the thunderbolt car would be completed at least twenty days later than Yuan Shao's arrow tower and turret wall.
Seeing the boats full of boats in front of the company camp dozens of miles on the north bank of the water of Yuan Shao's chasm, and the actions of the people who wantonly cut down giant trees to make planks, the fool knew that Yuan Shao was ready to rely on the suppression of the arrow tower and the turret wall to storm the camp of the Cao army, and wanted to crush the Tucheng fortress established on the south bank of the Lincha water with superior forces in a short period of time, and the battle would be won or lost.
Therefore, during this period of time, Cao Cao was also actively deploying, except for Le Jin in building thunderbolts, Xiahou Yuan escorting grain and grass, Cao Pi in building pontoon bridges and planks, and Chen Zhi supervising the troops to dig trenches, all the generals of the Cao army received military orders to defend their own side, Cao Zhang and the 1,200 tiger guards stationed under the east wall received orders to defend the transfer and extension of the east wall and the north wall at 20 meters outward.
Directly opposite the north wall is the fifty arrow towers built by the Yuan army and the turret wall connecting the arrow tower, this row of arrow towers and the arrow wall are enough to stand on two thousand archers, and the condescending shooting is enough to make the archers of the Cao army unable to fight back on the north wall, because the range from low to high is insufficient, and it is useless to defend with bows and arrows, not to mention that the archers are not wearing strong armor, standing on them is equivalent to death, so the soldiers of the north wall defense must be equipped at least to the level of the Tiger Guards wearing two dang armor.
The situation of the east wall and the west wall is a little better, and you can use halberds to defend it, but that is in the second half, and the corner of the first half of the north wall is also within the range of the Yuan army, so you still have to use the Tiger Guards to defend, the armor of the Tiger Guards is two armors, and the weapons are ring-headed knives and half-body shields, which are more than enough to resist bow and arrow attacks, and can also hit the enemy troops who intend to climb the city wall, so the 10,000 Tiger Guards are the best choice to defend the north wall and the east-west corner, which are within the enemy's range.
As for the second half of the east and west walls, Cao Cao's Qingzhou soldiers were responsible for the defense of the halberdiers, while the tiger and leopard cavalry were responsible for leaving the camp to disperse the enemy troops who intended to log in and copy into the territory of the Cao army, and the task of most of the other halberdiers was to follow the tiger and leopard cavalry to annihilate the enemy troops who landed outside the main camp.
Yuan Shao would not be so stupid as to attack the north wall from one side only, but would build pontoon bridges all over his camp that stretched for dozens of miles, fully land on the south bank, and then divide his troops to attack the south and east walls of Cao's camp, and take advantage of the chaos to let the sergeants with dry rations mix into the rear hinterland of the Cao army and wait for an opportunity to intercept the grain road, so the defense range of the Cao army is very wide, because after letting too many enemy troops copy into the hinterland, even if they use the reformation to transport grain, they will still be intercepted.
This means that the task of more than 3,000 tigers and leopards is still arduous, because they have to maintain a defense line of dozens of miles and help the halberdiers behind them to arrive in time to annihilate the enemy troops who have landed, so the 3,000 tigers and leopards not only have to divide their troops into multiple routes, but also fall into a terrible bloody battle.
The second shoulder is the 10,000 tiger guards who braved the rain of arrows to protect Cao Ying, the rain of arrows and the enemy's strong attack, the difficulty of the double blow can be imagined, but fortunately, Yuan Shaogang folded 10,000 cavalry, and folded Yan Liangwen Chou two fierce generals, so the morale of the Cao army is high, and it is ready for a bloody battle with the enemy.
At the same time that Yuan Shao had built the turret wall and arrow tower, Cao Cao had already retreated the tent in Cao's Tucheng to the rear that could not be covered by bows and arrows, and a large open space was vacated behind the north gate of the entire Tucheng, which looked quite awkward, and also implied that this open space would be filled with enemy arrows and the corpses of the Tiger Guards.
Moreover, after Yuan Shao built the turret wall and arrow tower, the tiger and leopard cavalry of the Cao army, the tiger guards, and half of the halberders were all in their bodies, sleeping on their pillows, and the tense atmosphere could be seen.
This morning Cao Zhang met with several Yanjin people brought by the guards in the tent, several people were very familiar with the terrain around Yanjin and Wuchao, Cao Zhang treated them with dried meat and let them stay in the camp, and gave them Su Juan and the sergeant to draw various routes to Wuchao, and at this time Chen to dig the trench also reached the final stage, only the rear of the south wall of Tucheng was not completed, because it was in the rear, so it was not affected by the attack of the Yuan army, so Cao Zhang asked him to continue digging.
Cao Zhang was stationed in the camp under the east wall, and the 1,200 tiger guards were naturally at his disposal, and the deeds of shooting halberds and killing Yan Liang at the city gate have now been deeply rooted in the hearts of Cao Jun's people, no one thinks that this third son, who is only eleven years old, is a soft egg, not to mention that Cao Zhang also quelled the bandits in Runan, and the other Sima who initiated the general to order the three generals to lead 400 people each is also very convinced.
"I've seen the earthen wall, we can defend the area at most sixty people at a time, the north wall is thirty, the east wall is thirty, so we take the chief as a unit, each time let six chief take his men on the wall to defend, one after another, when the Yuan army attacked, it must be amazing, people shouting horses neighing one after another, and the order has not achieved the effect, so the three Sima must put a bright move below, as long as there are few people on the wall, immediately send someone to make up for it!" Cao Zhang said to the three of them in the tent.
"No!" The three of them agreed.
"Don't, be sure to stand outside the firing range when waiting under the wall, and use the shield to protect yourself at full speed when you go up the wall, considering the time it takes to sprint, so the wall is broken and thirty percent of the sergeant will be ordered to replenish!" Cao Zhang continued.
"No!"
"Sima Zhu, your people are in charge of the defense of the east wall!"
"No!"
"Yang Sima. Your men are in charge of the defense of the North Wall! ”
"No!"
"Lin Sima, your men are in debt to defend the open space under our wall, and if anyone takes advantage of the chaos to rush down the camp, they will be shot in the rain of arrows!"
"No!"
Cao Zhang glanced around at the three of them and said: "The three of them have worked with their subordinates for many years, and they are quite prestigious, they must not be in danger, and the snake is not headless, so the three of them should remember that if they do not kill the last person, they must not climb the wall to kill the enemy!" ”
The three of them agreed in unison: "No! ”
Cao Zhang then said: "I should wait in the rear, if there is no order to go down the city wall, I will shoot him!" Three of them must tell their sergeants! ”
The three of them agreed in unison: "No! ”
Cao Zhang nodded and said, "In this way, please do your own thing!" ”