"Report! Emergency military intelligence! ”

A guard beside Hao Zhao trotted in front of Sun Li and reported to Sun Li in a loud and eager voice:

"Captain Sun, Captain Ejia asks for reinforcements! The enemy is too strong! ”

Hearing the request that Hao Zhao's personal guards bring back, Sun Li's heart tightened.

Hao Zhao's ability Sun Li is quite clear. Being able to force him to ask for help so quickly meant that the turmoil in the city had exceeded his expectations. Sun Li saw the key to defending the city at this time very clearly, and immediately mobilized 500 personal soldiers and mobile troops from his headquarters to rush to the north of the city to support Sun Li.

The area of Liyang City was not large, and for Sun Li, who was familiar with the roads in the city, it did not take much time to mobilize troops. It only took half an hour for Sun Li to come to the place where the enemy had reportedly appeared in the city.

It was a large mansion with a large area, and the one who lived in the house before was a local Li surnamed Haoqiang. This family surnamed Li Haoqiang was very uninterested in the rule of insolence, and when Yuan Shaobing was defeated and died, he fled from Liyang, the border area between Jizhou and Yanzhou, in a panic, and moved to the inner area of Yanzhou to escape the insolent rule.

As for this Haoqiang's old house in Liyang City, it was burned to ruins because of a fire when Haoqiang surnamed Li evacuated. Since then, this burned ruin has not been inhabited by other families, and it has been abandoned. A few years later, only a handful of homeless people live in ruins built in ruins of this house.

At this moment, there were many mutilated corpses and wailing wounded scattered around the perimeter of this abandoned house, and broken swords, guns and weapons could be seen everywhere, and it was obvious that this place had just experienced a fierce battle.

Sun Li looked at it from a distance, but saw that the figures in the house were longing, judging from the color of the clothes and the banner, they were all Cao Cao's regular subordinates. And fifty steps away from the house. It can be seen that the soldiers of Zhao Guo, who have gathered in groups, are waiting for the battle with swords in hand.

Looking at the position of his own flag, Sun Li quickly found Hao Zhao who was covered in blood. A medical officer accompanying the army was bandaging the wounds of Hao Zhao, who was sitting on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Sun Li realized that the enemy in the house in front of him was afraid that it would be extremely difficult to deal with. Meantime. He also roughly guessed how Cao Jun, who had such a large number of them, sneaked into the city.

"Authentic, only authentic ......"

Sun Li's guess is not much different from the actual result. The family surnamed Li Haoqiang has lived in Liyang City for a long time, and it can be said to be deeply rooted in the local area. However, since the Yellow Turban bee was raised, Li surnamed Haoqiang began to be prepared for danger in times of peace, and quietly spent several years digging a secret passage leading to the outside of the city from Liyang City, unknown to outsiders.

This dark passage. Originally, Haoqiang, surnamed Li, planned to use the descendants of the clan to flee from the city when he encountered disasters such as the "Yellow Turban Rebellion". It's just that this Haoqiang didn't use this back road before he took charge of Jizhou arrogantly. And Li surnamed Hao is intimidated by the arrogant forces, and he takes the initiative to flee his home, and he doesn't need to go through the tunnels......

Since this Haoqiang joined Cao Cao's forces after settling in Yanzhou, the tunnel that was not activated was also dedicated to Cao Cao by the head of Haoqiang's family. It became a secret trick secretly mastered by Cao Cao.

The day before, Cao Cao would camp only two or three miles from the city wall, because of the exit of the tunnel outside the city. It was in the camp that Cao Cao had deliberately chosen. Cao Cao's attack at night was on the one hand to confuse the defenders in the city, and on the other hand, it was also to cover his own efforts to explore the current situation of the tunnels and take the opportunity to transport troops to the city.

If there was no such tunnel that could sneak into the city, and Cao Cao didn't go crazy, how could he dare to rely on less than 10,000 people. Why not raid a city with a well-developed defense?

Hao Zhao was able to defeat Cao Cao's vanguard slightly, but it did not mean that the Zhao army in Liyang City really had the strength to confront the elite of Cao's army.

In the battle that lasted for half an hour just now, Hao Zhao took more than 600 people from his guards and subordinates to the tunnel. More than 300 Cao troops who had infiltrated the house launched an attack. As a result, the Cao army, which was defending the wall, under the command of the military officer Li Dian, not only easily thwarted Hao Zhao's offensive, but also took advantage of the retreat of Zhao's army to launch a sharp and swift counterattack.

That counterattack brought Hao Zhao a great threat. If it weren't for the huge advantage of Hao Zhao's forces at hand, and Cao's army had the main task of guarding the tunnel exit, he could only draw out one hundred and fifty elite soldiers to counterattack, maybe the more than 600 defenders of Zhao State would be defeated in that counterattack at once.

However, even so, before Sun Li led the army to help, the more than 400 remnants of the army that Hao Zhao had collected after the fierce battle had lost the ability to attack the Li family's mansion, and could only barely maintain the blockade of the Li family's old mansion. Moreover, when Sun Li led the reinforcements to arrive, Hao Zhao could sense that the number of Cao troops in the house had increased to a certain extent compared to before.

In this battle, both in terms of quantity and quality, Cao Jun had a clear advantage. As the Cao army outside the city continued to enter the city, what Sun Li and they needed to consider was not how to drive the Cao army out of the city, but how long they could hold out in the city.

The speed of Cao Jun's accumulation in the mansion was considerable. Even if the tunnel was a little narrow and could only accommodate single traffic, at the foot of the well-trained Cao army, reinforcements continued to appear in the Li family's old mansion.

"Gotta hold on! Tell the brothers, hold on for one day, as long as one day, the tide of battle will turn around! ”

Repelled the Cao army, which numbered no less than five hundred, and launched a wave of fierce attacks, Sun Li was also bitten in the waist. He asked his soldiers to bandage their wounds, gritted his teeth and encouraged his soldiers, leading them to fight in the city.

The current situation of the defenders of Zhao State can be described as quite bad. As time continued to pass, with the size of Cao's army entering the city approaching 1,000 people, Cao's army was no longer willing to defend passively, but began to tentatively launch an active attack. If it weren't for the Zhao State [] army, which was defending the city, using the buildings of some private houses to form a temporary defense line, the wave of attacks launched by the Cao army just now would have made Sun Li suffer a lot.

However, no matter how unfavorable the situation is, Sun Li still holds on.

If nothing else, just because he Sun Li and Hao Zhao were both personally promoted by the lord arrogant, the two of them have the consciousness of repaying the country with death. The end of the Han Dynasty. The folk style is so strong.

Relying on the residential buildings in the city, Sun Li commanded his subordinates to deploy layers of defense lines, effectively delaying the offensive of Cao Cao's army. However, Cao Cao's army was limited by the speed of entering the city through tunnels, and for a long time, it was still at a relative disadvantage in terms of troops. Therefore, the two brothers Li Chuan and Li Dian, who were in charge of the infiltration mission, were also a little conservative when attacking, which can be described as steady and steady.

This situation lasted until Cao's army succeeded in capturing the north gate of Liyang.

The forces in Sun Li's hands were already limited, and they had to be used to encircle the Cao army and defend the four gates. As a result, when Li Chuan led the main force of Cao's army into the city to launch a strong attack on the north gate of Liyang, the north gate, which was already weakly defended, was finally successfully conquered by Li Quan. Let the main force of Cao's army enter the city.

But in this battle, Cao Jun also paid a lot of costs. The vanguard general Li Chuan was hit in the thigh by a strong crossbow because he was charging forward during the battle of ascending the city, and he still fought to the death. When the main force of Cao's army entered the city, Li Chuan fell into a coma due to excessive blood loss.

Time passed bit by bit. For a whole day, Cao Cao's army relied on superior forces to gradually encroach on the territory in the city. But the Zhao army defending the city was under the wounded command of Sun Li and Hao Zhao. Still insisting on preserving parts of the west gate and south gate.

However, the granaries in the city. However, most of them fell under the control of Cao Cao's army. Several of the granaries were already on fire, but they were set on fire by the defenders when they evacuated to hinder Cao's pursuit.

If all the grain and grass controlled by Cao Jun were burned in one fire, Zhang Qi would lose more than 100,000 grains. But. With the several granaries that Zhao Guojun still kept, Cao Cao was not sure that the arrogant army of tens of thousands would definitely run out of food.

Due to the layout of the granary in the city, the problem of fire prevention is fully considered, and many streets in Liyang City have been specially cleared out as a partition area for fire prevention. Just set fire to a part of the granary. There is no way to spread the fire to the whole city. Therefore, if Cao Cao wants to destroy all the grain in Liyang, he needs to control all the grain and grass warehouses.

Fortunately, the current battle situation is quite beneficial to Cao Jun. According to Cao Cao's estimates, even if the defenders are quite resilient, they can still support them for two or three hours at most. After nightfall, as long as Cao's army continues to attack, it should be enough to completely crush the defenders before dawn.

However, just as night was about to fall, the tide of battle changed dramatically again!

A huge cavalry, surging from the north, was like a sledgehammer, instantly smashing Cao Cao's hope of victory!

This time, luck was on the side of the insolence again.

The cavalry that suddenly attacked was the reserve cavalry transferred from the Youzhou area in the north after the all-out battle in the south began. These cavalrymen went all the way south, and yesterday they came to a place not far north of Liyang City, and in the morning of the same day, they received a message sent by Sun Li overnight to ask for help.

Knowing that Cao Cao was raiding Liyang City, the commander of the cavalry immediately decided to let his subordinates hurry up and rush south, and ran for more than 80 miles in four hours. These cavalry hurried and hurried, and finally successfully joined the battle that was about to end before Liyang City was completely destroyed, rewriting this crucial battle!

"Kill Cao Cao! Kill! ”

Han Dang, the chief general of the cavalry reinforcement team, led his subordinates to shout loudly, and with a huge impact and cavalry shooting, the unprepared Cao Cao army was divided piece by piece, and then gathered superior forces to solve them one by one.

Han Dang has been serving under Zhang Qiang's subordinates for more than ten years, and although his qualifications are quite old, he has never made much achievements. This time, he rushed to the south with the reserves, and was able to encounter the surprise army led by Cao Cao himself, Han Dang's heart didn't know how happy he was!

"Zhao Gong has an order, and those who are awarded Cao Cao will be sealed as the marquis of a thousand households! Seal your wife and son, right now! Kill! ”

Han Dang loudly inspired the fighting spirit of his subordinates, while the cavalrymen who were eager to make meritorious contributions greedily harvested the lives of Cao's soldiers. In the darkness, I don't know how many enemies will come to help, even if Cao Jun has experience and training, he can't avoid the end of collapse.

When the Cao army outside the city completely collapsed, the Cao army inside the city also lost the courage to continue fighting, and stopped fighting one by one, wanting to retreat from the city gate controlled by their own family. The crisis in Liyang City was actually resolved. Sun Li and Hao Zhao, who were exhausted from the fierce battle all day, looked at each other, and there was a sense of joy in a desperate situation.

But who knows that Han Dang's subordinates are full of calculations, in fact, there are more than 2,000 cavalry, and they have traveled nearly 100 miles, and they are already quite tired, and their real combat effectiveness is not stronger than Cao Cao's army?

The defeat is like a mountain, and it is completely reflected at this moment. Cao Jun, who was completely defeated psychologically, had little idea of resisting at all, and only fled in panic.

Han Dang heartily led his subordinate cavalry to pursue everywhere, and chased and killed him for half the night. It wasn't until the slightly larger Cao Cao army could no longer be seen, and the cavalry soldiers who were full of heads in front of the horses were satisfied, so they were satisfied to collect their troops and return to Liyang. (To be continued......)