Chapter 102: Burning Fancheng
When Cao Ren was about to order the soldiers to use their halberds to knock down the well fence, he was shocked to find that the Jingzhou soldiers in the well fence took out countless iron hooks and sickles and hooked the city bricks at the head of the city. No matter how the soldiers pushed, the well fence simply did not move.
Just when Cao Ren was shocked, the well fence was actually a little higher, and the head of the well fence was actually the Jingzhou sergeant, from which the crossbow arrows were fired to kill the Cao sergeant at the head of the city, there were indeed several cloud ladders rising inside the well railing, and they were also made of hooks and sickles, hooking the city head to stabilize well, and countless Jingzhou troops appeared in front of the head of the cloud ladder.
Cao Ren's eyes were dark, he hadn't rested for several days, and everything in front of him made Cao Ren exhausted.
Man Boning, who was on his side, reacted very quickly, supported Cao Ren, and pinched Cao Ren's middle man with his fingers. Fortunately, the soldiers at the head of the city were dealing with the Jingzhou army, and they did not realize that the main general had fainted.
Not long after, Cao Ren woke up from a coma, looked full of favors, and said with regret: "I regret not listening to Berning's words, how can I live now?" ”
But too, Cao Zixiao wanted to hold the city for ten days, but he never thought that the Jingzhou army had been clamoring for two days, and on the first day of attacking the city, there were signs of breaking through the city, how could Cao Ren not be in a hurry?
Man Zhong looked at the eager Cao Ren, and said slowly: "General, now you can only abandon the city and fight in the streets of the city, or you can hold on for a while!" ”
Cao Ren said helplessly when he heard this: "This is the last step to take, for I thought, this Huo Shaoxian is such a capable person, but just with this strange thing, he forced me to take this last step, it can be seen that his person, alas, Berning, I have an extremely bad feeling, I am afraid that this Huo Shaoxian has already done the details of our army in this city, entering the city and fighting in the streets, our army may be able to take some advantage, after all, it is the end of the road." ”
Man Zhong looked at Cao Ren carefully, as if he didn't know much about this great man, yes, Cao Zixiao is an indomitable character, otherwise, how could he be called the first general to keep the good guard? Defending the city is a battle of wills. It is often not the soldiers who are consumed, but the will of both the offensive and defensive sides, such a character, so depressed, really makes the full pet a little moved.
Niu Jin saw that the general he had always respected was so depressed on the side, and he really said loudly: "General, our army died here." is also a well-deserved death, the general and cheer up, the general is the hope of the five thousand soldiers of Fancheng, how can he be so decadent! ”
Cao Ren got up, he was already angry when he fainted, and he had already recovered some of his strength at this moment. Looking at the Jingzhou soldiers who were constantly surging up at the head of the city, he took a slow breath: "Order the troops, go down to the city, mainly near the left of the west city, and fight with the Jingzhou army in the streets!" ”
Cao Ren has been running Fancheng for a long time, and he has long seen Guan Yu's thoughts, which is to move all the people in Fancheng inward. The reason why Cao Ren decided to fight in the streets was because his own side of the city could no longer take advantage, and the number of enemy troops was large, so he could only drag Huo Yi into the quagmire, and he could meet in the city with short arms, or he could rely on his own elite to cheapen. Kill as many of Huo Yi's military horses as possible.
Cao's army retreated to the city like a tide, leaving thousands of corpses of Cao's soldiers at the head of the city, and more Cao's soldiers fled to the city.
Huo Yi led a group of armor soldiers to the east city gate, and immediately ordered the troops not to enter lightly, but only to hold the city gates in the north, south and east, and the troops to rest. Deng Ai was ordered to be on guard to prevent Cao Ren from escaping from the West Gate.
And Huo Yi knew what the situation was in the city, those private houses had been transformed into a place for killing people everywhere for Cao Ren, and there were no half civilian facilities in the houses. This huge Fancheng has become the Shura field transformed by Cao Ren. There are countless traps in the inner trap.
It is the old scouts under Ye Zhi's command who know the most about traps, and there are also two people who are not very successful and lose their lives. Huo Yi would not be fooled, and led the military horse to rush in without a head. How could ordinary soldiers recognize the power of these traps?
Ye Ji was also standing behind Huo Yi at this moment, and said slowly: "General, the results of the statistics of each army have come up, and there are about more than 1,300 soldiers and soldiers killed and wounded in the city. Our army suffered more than 1,000 casualties. ”
Huo Yi nodded: "Let Fei Wenwei do a good job of the aftermath, the Cao army has more than 8,000 people, and General Guan has killed and injured more than 3,000 people in several sieges of the city before." So there are 3,000 people who fled out of the city? ”
Ye Ji frowned and said slowly: "I'm afraid that's the case!" ”
Huo Yi looked at the dense houses in the city, and couldn't help but have a headache, before Fancheng became a soldier, it was not a small city, the scale was not small, at this moment, these houses would evolve into devouring machines at any time, and Huo Yi couldn't help but feel like he couldn't start.
Huo Yi looked at Ye Jiong: "How long will it take for your scout camp to remove these traps?" ”
Ye Zhi said slowly: "There are a lot of people in the scout camp, but there are less than three hundred people who can eliminate these, and we have to guard against the attacks that will occur at any time in this Cao army, I don't know how long it will take." ”
Huo Yi said helplessly: "Then this one doesn't work?" Do you really want to do that? ”
Guan Xing said hatefully: "At this moment, the battle situation in Xiangfan can't allow me to waste time here, brother-in-law!" The battlefield is a place to kill, is it true that the victory that allows us to pile up our robes with human lives is victory? ”
Huo Yi nodded: "But Yi thought too much, and gave the order to let Shentu Junhao do it!" ”
Ye Zhi took the order and left.
The sky gradually darkened, but the inside of Fan City was clear, and there was already a monstrous fire in the city, and countless Cao soldiers were struggling and wailing in it.
It turned out that Huo Yi had already prepared countless fire-starting things, Fancheng was full of private houses, but most of them were grass and wood structures, and the fire was ignited, Cao Ren made these private houses into traps, but Huo Yi was ready to burn Fancheng clean with a fire, and the people in the city had already migrated away, leaving behind all Cao Ren's soldiers, although it was a little inhumane, but in order to avoid the damage of his own soldiers, Huo Yi could only do this.
In fact, Huo Yi and the others had already discussed how to capture Fancheng before preparing to attack the city, and Huo Yi had already known the details of the city, so he had such a plan to set fire to Cao Ren.
Many Cao soldiers were too deep to find the fire in time, and they couldn't escape, but they struggled in the fire, but Huo Yi saw it clearly in the city. At this moment, Huo Yi couldn't help but feel a little uneasy about such a scene, although Huo Yi had already killed a lot of people on the battlefield, but at this moment, it was extremely hurtful to kill with fire.
Huo Yi slowly closed his eyes, and Ye Zhizi saw Huo Yi's expression on the side, but he comforted him slowly: "General! The exchange of troops between the two armies was originally a wound to Tianhe, but whether the fire was burned or not, it was the same. ”
"Having said that, I was still uneasy to witness such a scene!" Huo Yi said slowly.
"General, look!" Guan Xing pointed to the vicinity of the West Gate, Huo Yi looked at it, but saw a group of people and horses going straight to the West Gate, although the fire in the city was huge, but the scene in the city was all displayed in front of Huo Yi and other people standing at the head of the city. Huo Yi knew that it must be Cao Ren.
"Anguo, you lead a team of men and horses to follow, don't let him run, although the soldier is ahead, but be careful! This person is a famous general of the Cao army, even if you kill him, you can't let him go! If you can kill this person, you will definitely be able to boost the morale of our army! Huo Yi said loudly.
Guan Xing was about to receive the order, but Huo Yi waved his hand: "Forget it, you and others come with me, hand it over to Youming here, gather the general's personal guards, and follow the general to chase down the remnants of the enemy!" ”
"Whoa!" All will be there.
However, it was said that Deng Ai left a lot of rangers on the official road outside the West Gate, cruising in case the Cao army retreated, and the three thousand crossbowmen were ambushing the Cao army on the only way to the north of Xiangyang at this moment, and countless cold stars pointed to the open land, as long as the enemy appeared, he would immediately be shrouded in the arrows of the three thousand crossbows.
After a while, a figure flashed into Deng Ai's field of vision, this is a ranger under Deng Ai's command, the man went up the hillside, reached the near side of Deng Ai, and said loudly: "The enemy army has gone out of the West Gate, about 2,000 people!" ”
Deng Ai raised his eyebrows, waved the battle flag in his hand, and countless soldiers quickly maneuvered, ready to deal a fatal blow to Cao's army.
After a while, a group of men and horses appeared on the field, Deng Ai's breath suddenly lifted, and all the shooters on his side looked at the young general. (To be continued...... )