Chapter 80: Pengcheng's Great Victory
Lu Bu, who was fighting with Guan, Zhang, and Xu, had already discovered the chaos in his army at this time, and immediately drank violently, brandished the halberd in his hand, and fought with the three of them to make a move, first beat Zhang Fei back, and then shook Guan Yu, neither of them retreated, but their bodies shook, and finally fought against Xu Chu, Lu Bu took a few steps back, and just moved out of the battle group from the gap where Zhang Fei retreated. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's not that Zhang Fei's strength is not as good as Guan and Xu, but because of the reason that he has been exhausted again and again, and again and again. In the first time, Lu Bu relied on his heavy blade and slightly greater strength than Zhang Fei, so he had an advantage, and in the second time, because Zhang Fei was not strong enough to fight with him, he could only be on a par with Guan Yu, and the third time Lu Bu was actually exhausted, but with his skillful steps, he achieved the goal of getting out of the battle group.
But seeing him greet, the flag-raising soldiers who were protected by more than ten soldiers carried the soldiers and retreated with him, and as soon as the soldiers retreated, the other armies suddenly began to retreat, and Cao Cao here also called the battalion sergeant Ming Jin to collect the troops, and no longer entangled with the other party.
At the end of the meal, Lu Bu's army had already retreated to Pengcheng, leaving behind a pile of corpses, Cao Pi couldn't count how many corpses there were, but he felt that the front of the stockade was full of corpses, some of them were enemies, and some of them were their own, in short, there were a lot.
Cao Jun returned to the camp and left, Yu Ban and Manzhong's troops still stayed outside, responsible for leading the people to clean up the battlefield, the armor on the dead sergeants, the Ge Mao in their hands, and even the boots of the march would be removed, and after a little repair, they could be equipped with new soldiers.
As for the Mingguang armor similar to the tiger and leopard cavalry, the trap camp and even Cao Xing, the ring head knife and hook inlay will also be stripped off, and the weapon can be equipped directly, and the armor needs to be recast because of the size, and when these things are taken off, the corpse of the soldier will be removed and burned to avoid the plague.
"Drunk and lying on the battlefield, don't smile, a few people have been fighting in ancient times." It sounds open-minded and romantic, but for these burned corpses, open-mindedness or romance has nothing to do with them, but his weapons will continue to roam the battlefield, and the users may be their enemies or their robes.
In this battle, Cao Hong had to make the first merit and was awarded the title of general protector. The so-called Du Hu, in fact, is the meaning of the chief protector, this Du Hu general to the biggest, any army except Cao Cao Zai in the army, the Du Hu general is the largest, because he is the chief protect, to the smallest, if Cao Cao is in the army or the Du Hu general does not conscript, this Du Hu general is useless, of course, if you talk about status, it is definitely a very Xuan He military position.
Since Cao Hong and Cao Cao, he has been promoted very quickly, and has successively served as Captain Yingyang, General Yangwu Zhonglang, Counselor, General Li Feng, and now General Duhu. At the same time, he is also a Guoming Pavilion. In terms of the speed of promotion, so far, Cao Ren, who is also a disciple of the Cao family, is inferior to Cao Hong, and now Cao Ren is still a councillor and governor, and there is no marquis.
It is precisely because Cao Cao was defeated in the early years when Cao Cao defeated Dong Zhuo and lost his horse when he retreated, when the enemy was chasing very closely, Cao Hong immediately dismounted and gave the horse to Cao Cao, Cao Cao resigned, Cao Hong said: "There is no Hong in the world, and there can be no king." Later, the two got rid of the pursuit, and Cao Cao always remembered this kindness, which is why Cao Hong's promotion was so fast.
After watching the battle, Cao Pi said goodbye to Cao Cao and returned to his tent, at this time the people outside the account were still working in full swing, a smell of roasted meat came from the place where the corpse was burned, and the wounded soldiers in the camp were being bandaged by their comrades, and from time to time they would curse a few words, Cao Pi only at this time fully felt the feeling of the battlefield, bloody, cruel, and cold.
Despite this, he hopes that he can enter such a war as soon as possible, because only in this way can he have more chips.
This night, the smell of burnt meat has not dissipated.
In the early morning of the next day, Cao Pi was woken up by the rumbling war drums, and the sergeants in the camp had already left the stockade, headed towards Pengcheng, and came to the guard tower, Cao Pi found that the dam built yesterday had been demolished, and the iron railing on the water gate of Pengcheng downstream had been deformed by a giant tree, and the water of the moat had overflowed, and a hundred steps outside the wall of Pengcheng had become a depression.
Cao Jun's chariot had been neatly parked a hundred paces away, and there were ten of them, each of which had twenty people standing, and they kept shooting arrows at the head of Pengcheng.
As for the rushing car, several huge trees are tied to the river, floating on the river, and the boulders are placed on both sides, and there are ropes on the boulders to connect the rushing car so that it cannot go down the river.
Behind the rushing car were Tiger Guards lying on a simple wooden boat converted from a truck, with five people in one wooden boat, lined up on the river.
Behind the car, there are four ladders, this ladder is very large, and the kind of manpower erection in the head of the city to climb the ladder is not the same, this ladder is obliquely erected on a movable wooden cart, the front end of the ladder has a hook, six zhang high, can span one hundred and fifty steps distance, can be hung on the head of Pengcheng in a place where there is no flooding, soldiers can also rush up diagonally along the ladder, do not need to climb vertically like a ladder, so the efficiency of the siege is higher, and the casualties are smaller.
At this time, there was Liu Bei's army under the cloud ladder. Pengcheng is the capital of Xiang Yuchu, the overlord of Western Chu at the end of Qin, and it is also the first strong city of Pengcheng State, but because Pengcheng is not the seat of Xuzhou after Pengcheng, the city wall has not been heightened, so it is relatively easy to attack.
I only heard the drums of war stop for a moment, and after a few moments, the drums beat more intensively. The sergeant standing on the side of the rushing car cut the rope connecting the stone to the rushing car, and the rushing car went down the river and hit the deformed iron railing of the water gate amid the shouts and curses of the sergeant Peng Cheng.
The iron fence was broken, and the rushing car carried the wreckage of the iron fence to the city, and the tiger guards behind floated into Pengcheng.
Then the four ladders moved in response, and soon hung on the head of Pengcheng, Liu Bei led the army to attack the city along the ladders, the car stopped shooting, the archers above quickly got off the car, Cao Jun who had been waiting below pushed the car down in the water, Cao Pi found that the water depth outside the city was only about one meter five, and the car that fell to the ground became ten wooden bridges, and saw the ten Cao Jun holding the ladder and stepping on the wooden bridge that had just been formed and rushed to Pengcheng.
Several siege sergeants were very aggressive, Lu Bu failed to attack yesterday, and today was flooded, the morale of the sergeants was very weak, and he led the troops to collect for a while and then abandoned the city. In less than half a day, Cao's army had already captured Pengcheng, and the big clans in the city saw that Lu Bu was leaving, and immediately went out of the city to cooperate with Cao's army to drain water, and at the same time sent prostitutes, grain and meat to please Cao Cao, and invited Cao Cao to live in the city, so that Cao Pi endured the smell of burnt meat for another 10,000 and then lived in a comfortable house.
Not long after settling down, he heard that thousands of soldiers gathered outside the city, and later asked Guo Jia, only to know that he had come to seek refuge in Cao Cao, and this person was Chen Deng, Chen Yuanlong, the Taishou of Guangling, Xuzhou.