281. The city is broken

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Deng Ji was busy pacifying Xiliang and stabilizing the rear, and Cao Cao would not be idle, and in the autumn, he had sent troops to attack Liu Bei in Xuzhou.

There was a lesson from the last time, the cavalry of Zhao Yunzhi in Henan is now a big threat to Cao Cao, and this time Liu Bei is just a pseudonym. He ordered Cao Ren and Li Dian to lead 10,000 troops and go to Xuzhou to blask under their own military flags, while he himself and Guo Jia stayed in Chenliu County, plotting to exterminate the Xiao cavalry army and plot against Henan.

It was heard that Cao Cao led a large army to attack Liu Biao, and Zhao Yun went out of Bishui Pass again and attacked Yanzhou.

There is a past, Zhao Yun also expects that Cao Jun should be on guard now, and he is a little cautious, but he really doesn't know that the main force of Cao Jun has not left Yanzhou, and has already scattered in Chen Liu to wait for him.

Chen Liu did not have much to plunder, and Zhang Yang, who was too guarded, only retreated into the city, and did not see the county soldiers out of the city, but when the cavalry army arrived outside Chen Liu, Xu Chu Cao Chun had led 5,000 tigers and leopards to ride to the enemy.

Zhang Yang refused to send troops out of the city to respond, and when he saw the tiger and leopard riding alone, Zhao Yun and the following in the Xiao cavalry army were relieved, and they all thought that Cao Cao left the tiger and leopard to ride to defend his own cavalry. Although the other party is also called elite, there are not as many people as their own, and if they can be defeated, Yanzhou will be empty again. Zhao Yun and Zang Ba Hao Zhao Duan simmered together, and then fought a decisive battle with them outside Chenliu County.

When the battle was over, the tiger and leopard cavalry almost completely ignored the casualties of the sergeants, and only fought to the death with their own family, and Zhao Yun gradually became suspicious.

However, in the hands of Zhao Yun, the Xiao cavalry has become more flexible and weird, and there are more people and horses than the other party, firmly occupying the overall advantage, and on the premise of trying to control their own casualties, they continue to encroach on the tiger and leopard cavalry, Xu Chu and Cao Chun can only resist hard, and after an hour of fighting, the tiger and leopard cavalry lost nearly half.

Zhao Yun wanted to annihilate the tiger and leopard cavalry, at this time, Cao general Li Tong Cai Yang had each led 2,000 foot soldiers from the field to help, although they added 4,000 new troops, but it was not a big danger, with the bravery of the Henan soldiers, they could still fight hard and win.

The tiger and leopard riders suffered heavy casualties. Someone took over, and gradually withdrew from the battle circle, and when Zhao Yunfu scattered the two armies of Li Tong and Caiyang, the cavalry army itself gradually became tired.

Xu Chu and Cao Chun reinstated the tiger and leopard cavalry to fight, Li Tong and Lu Qian also integrated the scattered army, and then came to participate in the battle, and the Xiao cavalry clashed left and right. The enemy can't stop it. It's just that not long after, Cao General Lu Qianman, Wang Zhong and others each led one or two thousand troops.

If Cao Cao is really bent on the eastward expedition to Xuzhou, he will leave the armies to garrison, and he should not come so quickly, Zhao Yun knows that it is not good, and he wants to leave the battlefield. The two armies are already at loggerheads, and they are anxious to see how to withdraw? Cao Chun, Xu Chu, Li Tong, Cai Yang, each led the army to entangle the Xiao cavalry, so that the full favor Lu Qian Wang Zhong surrounded it, Chen Liuxian Zhongyi City Gate was opened, Xiahou Tang Cao Hong led more than 10,000 men and horses to kill the forbidden army, and the Xiao cavalry army was besieged and killed here.

If the cavalry army is wiped out in Yanzhou, it can take advantage of the situation to fatten itself in the land of Henan!

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The cavalry military went out of the water pass. Cao Jun Tanma had urgently reported to Xiahou Yuanle of Yingchuan, the two of them had already received an order, and immediately led 10,000 soldiers to send troops to Wailiang County.

Zhou Yi, a partial general in Liang County, led 3,000 soldiers to garrison, and when he heard that the scouts reported that Cao's army was coming, he urgently sent people to Luoyang for help.

It's just that Xiahou Yuan's troops are very good at long-distance marching, and the envoy has not yet arrived in Luoyang, and Liangxian has been surrounded first.

According to the law of Deng Ji. After Jia Kui was promoted to the position of Hanoi Taishou, the new Liang County Ling Lin Feng was only more than 20 years old, and after the siege of the city began by the Cao army, he urgently mobilized the people to go to the city wall to participate in the defense of the city.

Liang County has more than 20 kiosks and more than 20,000 households. However, most of them were scattered in the countryside, and there were only 5,000 households in the city.

However, with thousands of people helping to defend the city, and the archers were very fine, Xiahou Yuan waved his army to attack for two days. Lost more than 1,000 lives, but there was no hope of breaking the city, thinking that the rescue of Luoyang would come, and it was unfavorable to oppose his own army, so he thought of retreating to Yingchuan.

Le Jin dissuaded: "Whether you can take Henan depends on this battle!" Cao Gong entrusted the general with the important affairs of the southwest, and surrounded the cavalry army with hardships and hardships. ”

Xiahou Yuan said angrily: "Jun's words are reasonable, but Liang County is very strong, and it is difficult to break it, and there is nothing to do about it here, so what can I do about it?" ”

Le Jin said: "The general is missing one of the three besieged, and Dubei City has not sent soldiers to attack!" In the past two days, the defenders have gradually been withdrawn, or a small group of elites can be sent to attack and break it! ”

The other party was reasonable, and Xiahou Yuan nodded and agreed: "Then according to the words, besiege for another day, if you can't break the city, you should retreat!" ”

The next day, Xiahou supervised the troops to storm three more city walls to attract Zhou Yi's attention, and Le Jin personally led 600 elites to attack the north gate.

Cao's army stormed the three city walls for two days, and the soldiers had been transferred to assist in the defense, and now there were only 1,000 strong men left on the north city wall.

The reinforcements from Luoyang led by Gu Sheng had been reported to have passed through Xincheng County before, and they would arrive in a day or two, and the Cao army was not in a good position, and Zhou Yi was not too worried. When Le Jin began to attack the northern city, there were only a few hundred people in the report, so he didn't care, and only ordered Jingzhuang to defend as usual.

In Cao's army, Le Jin is not very eye-catching, but there are several first achievements in history, and his courage is only under Zhang Liao, because of this, his short figure is too easy to despise.

Le Jin has a short appearance, is easier to be ignored on the battle array, dresses plainly, does not look like a general, mixed in with the sergeants, if it is not specially pointed out, no one will know that this is actually a strong and good general.

Le Jin led 600 elites to attack the northern city wall, and the soldiers who climbed were all knocked down by the rolling wood and falling stones, and the six ladders that were built for the first time were quickly forked to the ground by the defenders of the city.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Le Jin said to the sergeant beside him: "You have made meritorious contributions today, don't you have a reward from Gong Cao?" A strong man and follow a certain city to the city! ”

Boosting morale, the second time the ladder was built, Lejin climbed from one of them.

When the first log fell, Lejin was in good health, and immediately turned over and avoided the back of the ladder without any injury.

On the north side of the ladder, he climbed up a little more obliquely, avoiding two falling rocks, and the horse chopping knife in Le Jin's hand could reach the fork pole propped up on the city wall, and he cut off the fork pole handle with a knife, and turned over to climb the women's wall.

Seeing that Cao Jun who came to the city wall was not amazing, although he was strong on the city wall, he was not afraid of him alone, and he wanted to drive him down from the city, and the spears, spears and halberds were stabbed one after another.

Le Ji swung his knife on the female wall and slashed left and right, breaking several wooden spear heads, and then jumped into the crowd to slash.

This person's martial arts, the strong people know at this time, there is no one who can resist, he killed several people in a row, stirring up chaos in the city, Cao Jun sergeant took the opportunity to climb the city wall continuously, and worked together to kill the strong, rescued the wounded Le Jin, and the northern city was declared lost.

When Zhou Yi heard this, he hurriedly led a thousand soldiers to return to capture the north of the city, Xiahou Yuan had already transferred reinforcements first, and two thousand crossbowmen shot indiscriminately at the head of the city, killing Zhou Yi and others to the ground.

Xiahou Yuan immediately entered the city from the north and besieged and killed the Deng army in the city.

In Liangxian County, fireworks broke out, and more tragic street battles and city wall battles were staged everywhere.

On the west city wall, three hundred generals led the soldiers and hundreds of strong, bloody battles to the end, no one was willing to surrender, all shouted in unison: "You can gather in Sankun Mountain!" ”

Under the eastern city, a soldier shot the last arrow in his hand, faced the Cao army that embraced him, drew his sword and killed himself, and shouted before he died: "There should be a place in Sankun Mountain!" ”

On the streets of Dongcheng, surrounded by dozens of Cao troops, two swords, shields, and auxiliary soldiers fought against their backs, fighting for more than half an hour, and when they died of exhaustion, there were seven or eight corpses of Cao Jun lying on their sides.

In a small courtyard, several archers, under the command of Shi Chang, held on to the house to the death, shooting dozens of Cao soldiers in succession, until the other party set fire to it and turned into ashes.

When the enemy entered the house, a civilian and the woman at home fell to death the infant child, and together they bit a Cao soldier to death, and the husband and wife were both stabbed several times, and the man lying in the pool of blood looked at his wife's face after death, and sighed: "My family is worthy of Deng Mu'an!" ”

A young man in the strong middle school, the long halberd is strange and difficult to prevent, and he killed seven Cao soldiers in a row, although he was wounded, the surrounding Cao soldiers did not dare to step forward, so they had to shoot them with arrows. When the young man was hit by a few arrows, he still used the halberd handle to pestle the ground, and laughed: "Brother who has not suffered a pimple in the end!" ”

A master in the thatched hall, Cao Jun was trembling with fright when he entered, but he still poked his head into the hanging sleeve with a trembling voice, kicked off the table on the ground with both feet, and suffocated to death in a few moments.

The partial general Zhou Yi was killed, and the city was already in chaos during the street battle, the people panicked, and the soldiers lost their commander, and they could only fight separately, and were finally separated and surrounded by Xiahou Yuan, and were annihilated one by one, and none of the three thousand soldiers surrendered, and all of them died in battle.

Hearing that Zhou Yi died, the county order Lin Feng summoned the messengers to finally guard the county office, and finally broke through for the Cao army, and tied up to the Chinese army. Now that Cao Gong was ordered by the Son of Heaven to ask the Quartet not to surrender, why not descend early and set things right? ”

Lin Feng laughed and responded: "A certain person has been a thief since he was a child, and he doesn't know what the Son of Heaven is!" And even your Cao Gong, I am afraid that he is also mistaken by the Son of Heaven and mistaken for a loyal and good person! ”

Hearing that the county commander Shang Yu, who was a prisoner under the stairs, insulted the lord Cao Cao, Xiahou Yuan was furious and ordered him to be beheaded, Lin Feng smiled and said: "Death is death!" However, my lord is in the west, and he will be punished in the west! ”

Sure enough, he stood facing west, and was killed by the knife and axe.

When Liang County was initially decided, Xiahou Yuan inspected his own army, but the whole army was only more than 5,000 left, and the city had an advantage in the melee, but the loss of lives was more than when attacking the city, which made Xiahou Yuan unbelievable, frightened, and Le Jin said: "I heard that the people of Henan are fierce, and now I know!" One county is already like this, and the whole county is not Cao Gong may also be mapped! ”

Such a large loss is like a defeat rather than a victory, and if it were not for the superiority of the family, more than half of the sergeants who lost more than half of them would have fled in a hurry.

Le Jin can only smile bitterly, although Liang County gnawed this hard bone, but also bad their own teeth, the loss of personnel is indeed more than worth the loss, but the benefits are also some - Henan is rich, Guangliang County obtained cattle and horses livestock, there are nearly 10,000, more than 6,000 horses, and the tiger and leopard riding that is suffering from insufficient mounts can be greatly supplemented.

The reinforcements of the lazy army have reached the left, although Xiahou Yuan has Liang County, the loss is too great, and the soldiers are few but they do not dare to defend it, and after forcibly capturing the people with the army, they will first withdraw to Yingchuan.

After a battle, there were less than 10,000 surviving people in Liang County, and some people had begun to seek opportunities to flee on the way to Xiahou Yuan's withdrawal, and the rest had fled back to Henan within a year or two. (To be continued.) )