Chapter 559: Cao Cao's Choice
Kill...... Behind the city wall, the enemy soldiers thought that there would be a big Chinese rush in, but they did not wait for the enemy, but many catapults thrown by catapults smashed into the crowd. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Boom ......"
Finally, they couldn't bear the depression of waiting for death, Huang Zhong and Qin Qiong unanimously ordered that the army go out of the city to face the battle, even if it can't fight Dahua, it is better than waiting for death behind closed doors.
But as soon as he opened the city gate, he was dumbfounded, and the enemy crowd dispersed with a hula, followed by a blindfolded ploughing oxen, and the heart-rending hissing sound did not know what kind of pain they suffered......
With a bang, several ploughing oxen just rushed into the city gate, how could those soldiers be so crazy ploughing cattle, dozens of people were overturned in an instant, and as soon as the hooves of the oxen fell, even the first-class generals couldn't stand it, let alone these small soldiers.
The soldiers who took the lead panicked, and the men and horses behind heard the uproar ahead, but they couldn't see the movement, they didn't know what was happening, and the aura of fear gradually spread.
"Knock...... Knock knock ......"
Hundreds of muffled sounds spread farther and farther, and the ploughing oxen crashed into the crowd while castrating unabated, and then bombarded the city wall, cracking their heads, killing and wounding countless ploughing oxen, but also bringing great trouble to the enemy.
The traces of the explosion of those bamboo pieces after being heated, and the cracks in the city wall that had been torn by the fires of the war, all expanded at this moment, and more than ten city towers were crumbling, and the Dahua army, which had been prepared, suddenly shouted, and hit the city wall again and again with the help of the rushing car, and three or four completely collapsed in a short period of time.
Cao Cao's eyes lit up, and at this time there were already three soldiers tied behind him, and Ma Chao was one of them.
Regardless of his intentions, he waved his hand and said: "Order the catapult to replace it with a boulder strike, strive to completely collapse the city wall, and order the army under the city to light a fire, so that the enemy army cannot retreat......"
It turned out that Cao Cao's clay pots in the city were not to attack the city walls, but to establish a fire belt, which was prepared to prevent the enemy from retreating into the city.
The fire was filled, the smoke was billowing out, this was the most tragic battle, 12,000 people, there were less than 2,000 people left at this time, more than half of them were engulfed by the fire, and many of them died under the rampage of ploughing cattle and throwing stones, tragic.
Cao Cao nodded in the distance, waved his sword and shouted, "Siege!" ”
The Xiahoudun brothers, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately waved their troops out, carrying 40,000 soldiers to the gap, and the arrows in their hands fell without money, harvesting their lives.
"Kill!!"
The soldiers specially selected the lone kill, followed by 30,000 archers to escort, there were almost no casualties, the only thing to guard against was the archers at the head of the city, but many of the walls collapsed, and the damage caused was extremely limited.
Cao Cao waved his hand and said: "General Ma, General Xiang, please lead a group of soldiers and horses into the city and capture Huang Zhong and Qin Qiong, and I will make a note on the merit book." ”
The two glanced at each other, Cao Cao had made up his mind, it was better to take the order happily and go to the battlefield to fight.
Waiting for the two to go farther and farther away, Cao Cao also breathed a sigh of relief, he was taking revenge, avenging the innocent soldiers who died in the previous war, so he concealed King Li and set this desperate plan, otherwise King Li was reforming at this time, for the sake of fame and influence, it was impossible to agree with his decision, which was a last resort.
Why is it a last resort, because he can see from the news that King Li concealed the news of 3,000 different races, King Li has a deep fear of himself, although it is not that there is no reason to kill himself, but it is inevitable that his own people will be implicated because of this.
And this is not a good opportunity, not only to take revenge, but also to give the soldiers under the command of King Li the opportunity to impeach themselves, this is an alternative kind of wise self-preservation, if you have to give a word, it is to abandon the car to protect the handsome, give up their own merits and future, in exchange for King Li's letting go of the clansmen.
However, Cao Cao was not worried, since ancient times, the emperor was afraid that the military power was held by important ministers, as long as he could give up the military power, I believe that there would be a place in the Yecheng court.
After all, King Li's road has been paved, and Cao Cao's side can compete with Wang Shouren and Wanyan Sect, and it is impossible for King Li to break this balance, unless someone can rise to prominence one day, but at least before he dies, King Li will not do it.
People are selfish, not to mention a generation of emperors, they don't want the country they have worked so hard to build will be stolen by others one day.
Cao Cao was about to continue watching the battle, but a cold sound sounded behind him, but he had to turn back.
"Cao Mengde, Cao Mengde, what do you want me to say about you. Didn't you put yourself in an awkward position? ”
Cao Cao bowed down and said: "How dare Cao Mengde not do it, as for the rest, I can't take care of it, and I hope that Your Majesty will remove my military post after this battle." ”
King Li stopped and said: "That's it, since you can make a choice, I will naturally fulfill you, but the overall situation of Jingzhou is laid out by you, wait for Xiangyang to take it down, and I will arrange Li Jing to take over the battle of Nanjun." ”
Said respectfully: "Thank you, Your Majesty, and thank you." ”
King Li waved his hand, the battle was nearing the end, and he ordered someone to extinguish the fire, help Cao Cao, and stand side by side.
At this time, several gaps rushed out of countless enemy troops, and Ma Chao Xiang Yu was also gone, and it seemed that he had already killed the city.
The sound of begging for mercy and surrender resounded on the battlefield, and the enemy soldiers were disgraced, throwing their weapons on the ground and raising their hands high.
However, at the same time as collecting the weapons, Dahua's soldiers were bloodthirsty, remembering the tragedy of the previous battle, the sadness of the brothers falling one after another, and the anger was born from the heart, plus Cao Cao also issued a general order to despair, and suddenly stretched out the butcher knife one by one......
Killing prisoners, this is very common in history, but King Li's forces rarely appear like this, the only time is when the enemy is against the enemy Fuyu alien race, and this time, Cao Cao's butcher's knife is sharper, directly killing more than 50,000 prisoners, even the sky is dark, and the curtain ends.
Night fell, but the fire was still blazing, for the soldiers threw the bodies of the captives into it, and a second flame rose and endured.
"Your Majesty, please enter the city ......"
King Li sat in the car and took the lead in entering Xinye, there were countless ruins along the way, there were still a lot of sparks beating in it, the city was dead and silent, those people must have no sleep, the shouting and killing lasted for a day, the ghost knows if King Li will slaughter the city to vent his anger, at this time he should hide in the surviving home, trembling.
King Li sighed faintly and said: "In the future, the people in the city will be my people, go to collect the origins of the enemy soldiers who died in battle, and distribute pensions according to Liu Biao's policy. ”
Cao Cao nodded, asked the soldiers to write it down, drafted the documents overnight, and put up a list to calm the people...... (To be continued.) )