From such an idea, Cao Zhang was afraid of Liu Cong from the bottom of his heart, living in this yamen, and the affairs of the city defense were handed over to Cheng Yu and Zhou Xing to arrange, and after he sent someone to send a letter to his father Cao Cao, he lay on the wooden couch in the bedroom in the yamen all day long, waiting for his father's reply. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, after waiting for a few days, my father didn't get any information from him, and then he got the news that Liu Cong led his troops to attack the city.

(So, Cao Zhang hurriedly found Cheng Yu and Cao Ren to discuss the city defense, and even Ma Teng also came.)

Because Cao Chang knew that Ma Teng's son Ma Chao was commanding more than 100,000 troops in Xiliang at this time, he mistakenly thought that Ma Chao was still with Cao Cao at this time.

So everyone discussed the defense of Yecheng together.

Cao Zhang, this person, has some brute strength, and he also knows some things about leading troops to fight, but he is far worse than his father Cao Cao.

Basically, it can be said that Cao Zhang is just a mediocre general, and among the military generals in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he belongs to a simple-minded and well-developed figure.

It's just that his father Cao Cao didn't feel at ease when he handed over these hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers to others, so he handed over this important task to him.

Besides, Cao Cao knew his son's ability, so before the war between the two of them against Liu Cong began, he sent Cheng Yu and Cao Ren over to assist him.

However, Cao Ren and Cheng Yu have all learned Liu Cong's power, and they are all defeated by Liu Cong, so after coming over, his words have no weight, and some strategies have been denied by Cao Zhang, resulting in the loss of this battle.

If you don't escape from the path, how can you escape to Yecheng? Maybe they have all become Liu Cong's captives now.

Since Cao Zhang is such a waste, so to this point, there is no charter, and when he saw everyone coming in, he asked with a sad face: "I heard that Liu Cong has occupied Yanzhou with his troops, and he is leading troops to attack Yecheng at this time, I am afraid that it will be killed in three days." I have reported the situation of this battle to my father, asking him to give instructions on what to do next, but I have not heard from him yet. However, Liu Cong led the troops to kill again, let's discuss, what should we do next? ”

When Cao Zhang said this, he was anxious and remorseful, his face was full of sorrow, his voice was choked, and he almost cried.

What to do? No one has the art to return to heaven, and they all know that things are not easy to do, so they all puff out their mouths and do not squeak.

After staying for a while, Cheng Yu spoke, and he said: "Little general, we have all seen the current situation, Liu Cong is powerful, and our army is in a weak position. In this case, the only way to do this is to stick to it.

After years of construction, Yecheng is a strong moat, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Besides, we still have tens of thousands of horses here, all of whom are elite divisions. As long as they work together, it is enough to hold Yecheng.

Besides, the prime minister's side hasn't instructed to send it over, so maybe the scout is on his way at this time. As long as we hold on for ten days, we will receive instructions from the prime minister, so in my opinion, we must be determined to hold on, and there is no other good way.

Besides, if we abandon the city and flee, it will be a good idea.

Do you think, why did the prime minister hand over the Hebei people and horses to you to lead, just so that you can hold the ground in Hebei.

If Yecheng is lost, Hebei will no longer be owned by the prime minister, and the prime minister's world will be a major event!

From here, we must hold on to Yecheng here and wait for the Prime Minister's instructions. ”

As soon as Cheng Yu said this, Cao Ren listened to it, nodded frequently, and then said: "What Mr. Cheng said is reasonable, we can only stick to Yecheng and wait for the Prime Minister's instructions."

Besides, the prime minister is now using troops at Hangu Pass, as long as Hangu Pass is broken, Luoyang will be in the hands of our army. The prime minister was killed from Luoyang, and Xuchang could be recovered within ten days. As long as Xuchang is recovered, the prime minister leads the troops north, and we will defend Yecheng here to echo each other, which is enough to make Liu Cong unbearable.

Hehe, if it's smooth, chase the deer to the Central Plains, and don't know who will kill the deer? ”

Cao Ren said this, looked up at everyone, and then said: "I agree with Mr. Cheng's analysis, the current plan, we can only hold Yecheng and wait for the Prime Minister's instructions as the best policy." ”

"But Liu Cong has more than 100,000 horses, and now he is out of Yanzhou, and he can reach here in less than three days, and we only have 10,000 horses" This was said by Cao Zhang, although he said it with a lot of words, but everyone heard it, Cao Zhang no longer had the confidence to defend Yecheng at this time.

At this time, Ma Teng sat on the side, his face was solemn on the surface, and he was sneering in his heart, and said to himself: "I can't imagine it, I can't imagine that Cao Mengde's father and son will also fall to such a point!" Hehe, the mountains and rivers are exhausted.

Defend Yecheng? This is wishful thinking! Liu Cong led more than 100,000 horses from Yanzhou to kill, it was really imposing!

Yecheng, less than 10,000 Cao soldiers, already panicked, all of them have become frightened birds, as soon as Liu Cong's army arrives, with the momentum of destroying the withering and decaying, it is enough to conquer Yecheng in less than three days!

Hehe. Cao Cao, Cao Cao. How did you treat Yuan Shao's father and son back then, and today, you also taste Yuan Shao's failure. ”

It turned out that before Liu Cong sent troops from Yanzhou, he sent plainclothes scouts to deliver a letter to Ma Teng, instructing him to secretly take matters into account in Yecheng.

Liu Cong said in his letter that Yecheng was the political, economic, and military center of the north that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao had established over the past 20 years, and that after Cao Zhang fled here, he would definitely wait for help. In order to keep Yecheng from being destroyed and the people of Li were spared from soldiers, "General Ma was asked to mobilize some people who were willing to abandon Cao and join Han among Cao's soldiers, secretly take matters into trouble, and put Cao Zhang and other major generals under house arrest."

At this time, Ma Teng was listening to Cao Zhang's words, and he was planning a plan to clean up Cao Zhang. Although the plan was not well conceived, Ma Teng already knew Cao Zhang's plan and knew that they were determined to stay here and wait for help, so he secretly applauded and said to himself: "When the time comes, I will have a good reward, in return to Liu Zhizhong's great kindness to me." ”

So, after the meeting ended, Ma Teng went home and secretly informed several generals who knew Cao Bing, telling them to be ready and secretly take care of things when the time came.

Here Liu Cong came, not alone, but with a large group of soldiers and horses, after coming, he besieged Yecheng, and began to attack the city, but the siege was not fierce, and I don't know what the reason is.

First, three thousand Jingzhou iron cavalry lined up in a column, holding dozens of black flags in front, circled around Yecheng a few times in the sound of drums, and then returned to the hill outside the east gate of the city and stopped, and then the Jingzhou infantry lined up in a square march around the city with the sound of drums.

When Cao Bing saw it, they were all dumbfounded, and they all didn't know why Liu Cong did this? "Acting? This is? Cao Zhang asked Cheng Yu in fear on the city wall.

Cheng Yu withdrew his gaze from the city, stared at Cao Zhang with a pair of presbyopia, and said, "Little general, this Liu Cong is demonstrating to us!" There is no other meaning, just thinking about surrendering without a fight! Wait, it's late to-day, and he won't be attacking the city; Tomorrow, under normal circumstances, he will send someone to write a war letter. At the beginning of the war book, our army will be forced to surrender, and we will be asked to surrender on a limited date. If he doesn't surrender, he's going to take the city. ”

When Ma Teng heard this, he happily said to himself: "There is." Hehehehehe. ”

Besides, after Liu Cong brought his troops over, he set up the camp on the high post east of Yecheng, and then ordered Zhang Liao, Wei Yan, Deng Bao, Liu Feng, and Guan Ping to lead the troops to march around the city. When Xu Shu saw it, he didn't understand a little, so he asked: "Lord, the men and horses have already arrived, and the siege is enough, why do you still have to parade?" ”

Liu Cong smiled: "Look, I'm playing Cao Zhang here." Patrolling the city for three days, without a single soldier, Cao Zhang was captured alive, why not do such a good thing? ”

Xu Shu had never seen such a tactic, and when he heard Liu Cong say this, he knew that Liu Cong already had a plan, so he didn't ask anymore.

After waiting for the team to finish the parade, Liu Cong ordered to set up camp. When it was dark, all three armies took up their tents and rested.

Liu Cong did not rest, and ordered the barracks to "After dinner today, except for the sentries, all the people in the camp will rest, and not a single lantern will be lit." ”

After the order was conveyed, until the third watch, the Cao soldiers in the city did not see the slightest movement of the Jingzhou soldiers under the city.

The more this is the case, the more Jingzhou soldiers do this, the more nervous Cao soldiers in the city become, and Cao Zhang also didn't close his eyes all night.

During the day of the next day, Ma Teng led the troops to patrol the city wall, came to the east gate tower, and when he looked down, he saw that the Jingzhou soldiers were resting in the camp, and only a few small groups of men and horses were patrolling around Yecheng. Ma Teng tied the secret letter that he had written long ago to the shaft of the arrow, and when he saw the opportunity of the sentinel's disappearance, he shot the secret letter down the city.

When the Jingzhou soldiers patrol saw it, they hurriedly picked it up and returned to the camp to present it to Liu Cong. Liu Cong took it apart and looked at it, and said with a smile: "The plan is done." Hehehehehe. ”

Then he ordered Wei Yan, Deng Bao, Liu Feng, Guan Ping, "each of them to lead two thousand men and horses, and attack the four gates of Yecheng respectively." Wei Yan attacked the east gate, Deng Bao attacked the west gate, Liu Feng attacked the north gate, and Guan Ping attacked the south gate. Act now. ”

All the generals looked at each other, looking at Liu Cong but not moving.

Liu Cong asked, "Why don't you take action?" What to wait for? Among these generals, counting Wei Yan dared to speak, he said: "My lord." Didn't you deliberately give us a problem by ordering us to attack the city, with only two thousand men each? Two thousand people and horses, not to mention that there are too few people and horses, there are no ladders and collisions, such a high city wall, a single person can't climb it with his bare hands? How can you conquer Yecheng? ”

Liu Cong smiled and said: "Wei Yan, you are really, my arrangement must be reasonable, and there is no need to explain it for a while."

You just lead the troops to attack the city, now is the time, an hour later, it will be dark, after dark lead the troops back to the camp, have dinner, a little rest, the second watch, just the four of you, each led 5,000 men and horses quietly ambushed outside the four gates, see the third watch, no matter which city gate, as long as you see the city gate open, there will be people and horses coming out, you will lead the troops to meet you, cover the Cao soldiers out of the city to stop outside our camp gate. I have my own arrangements. ”012

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