Chapter 884: The Battle of Rencheng

"Woo woo woo ......" the sound of the drum horn rose violently, as vigorous as a pine.

The continuous sound of "crossbow ......" came and went, and the huge military columns also rose and fell, like waves in the lake and sea.

"Squeak...... Ga! The sound of twisting strings was hoarse, making the teeth of the listener involuntarily sore, and the heartstrings were even tighter, adding to the recklessness of killing on this fierce wilderness.

Under the monstrous military might, the entire Ren City was trembling!

Hiding in the depths of the city tower, Guo Gong held his head, covered his ears, and his whole body trembled like chaff.

"General Xiao Li, the city, does it really matter outside the city? If it doesn't work, just abandon this city...... The momentum of the Qingzhou Army is too strong, and it is really difficult for manpower to resist! Now that you are retiring from the army, you can also go to Juye for temporary refuge, not to mention that Juye City is high and deep, and Daze can rely on it, it is better than being so bitter now! ”

Guo Gong's intestines are about to turn green.

The Guo family is a veteran family in Shanyang County, and he himself is also a rare famous person. He is familiar with the classics and knows that heroes come out in troubled times, and after the chaos in Luoyang, he took more than 1,000 elite family private soldiers as the core, scattered his family wealth, opened a granary to attract displaced people, and pulled out a team of soldiers and horses.

There are many people who act like him in general, such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Li Tong who died in Fengqiu City, etc., the difference is only their own ambitions. Cao Cao's ambition was to be in the world, so after he raised his troops, he has been conscientious, constantly training, and constantly recruiting from outside to expand his territory and recruit more troops, thus forming a virtuous circle.

This was not the case with Guo Gong, and at first, his influence was limited to the area around Dongyi. is just an ordinary local tyrant. Intimidated by the strength of several major forces around him, he only clings to his own one-third of an acre. As a soil emperor, there is no expansion. It has no impact on the general trend of the world.

Later, Wang Yu defeated Yuan Shao and put the focus of his business on Hebei, and Cao Cao also turned the focus of the strategy to Guanzhong because of his scruples about Wang Yu, leaving a large blank space in the east of Yanzhou.

In this way, Guo Gong trembled, and he was out of control.

He actually occupied almost four counties, and his territory spanned Yan and Henan vertically, and his vision was limited. There were no ministers around, and he immediately fluttered, and he consciously entered the forest of princes who were expected to fight for the world.

Before the outbreak of the Central Plains War, he didn't think about which side to take refuge into, but about the same as Yuan Shu, wanting to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and wait until one side failed, and then take the opportunity to take advantage of the convenience of the building near the water to rob the losing side. to expand their power, and then in turn to join forces with other princes to fight against the victorious side.

The ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny. Guo Gong never expected that he had clearly declared neutrality and shrunk his forces to a city far away from the border. Wang Yu still didn't give up.

That Pengju kid is not afraid of making enemies in many faces, and he will die? Guo Gong was quite depressed.

He wasn't afraid of how powerful Wang Yu was. He also has tens of thousands of troops, and he is defending the city. As long as he nods, Cao Cao's army will also be quickly reinforced, what's so scary?

But after the war started like this, his wishful thinking could not be played.

With such emotions, at the beginning of the war, he was also ruthless, and decided to give Wang Yu some color to see, so that the other party could regret it.

But who would have thought that his tens of thousands of troops were completely like chickens and dogs in front of the two famous generals in Qingzhou.

Huang Zhong attacked all the way, from Zhangxian to Shouzhang, the Thunder Army conquered ten cities on the fifteenth, and the momentum was extremely fierce! Zhang Liao's side is another style, obviously he is leading thousands of foot soldiers, but his actions are not much worse than cavalry, his whereabouts are erratic, his actions are fast, and his attacks are fierce, often hitting in one hit.

Guo Gong was dazed by these two lines of soldiers and horses, and he couldn't defend it, and there was no way to talk about a counterattack, so he was completely stunned.

In less than half a month, he completely lost the country of Dongping, and Guo Gong was able to think about it, it turned out that he and Wang Yu and Cao Cao did not belong to the same level at all.

The dream is shattered, but the days have to go on, and it is definitely too late to grovel to Qingzhou now. During the period when Guo Gong lost Dongping Kingdom, Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses had already entered Shanyang County and went straight to Renchengguo. Guo Gong wanted to take refuge in Qingzhou, but he had no bargaining chips, so he could only continue to support him.

Fortunately, Xiahou Yuan came quickly enough, and almost rushed to Rencheng at the same time as Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong's army, and Guo Gong didn't need to face the terrible Qingzhou army alone. However, when the war began, Xiahou Yuan didn't seem to come up with any new methods, and was pressed and beaten by the overwhelming arrows of the Qingzhou army, Guo Gong felt that the situation was probably not good, and he only thought about smearing oil on the soles of his feet.

As for whether he can block the edge of the Qingzhou Army after escaping to Juye, Guo Gong doesn't care anymore, he just wants to go home quickly, take his wife and children and the family wealth collected in the past few years, and escape far away, to a place where the Qingzhou Army will never be found again.

"Guo envoy Jun Dan is to sit in the city, the enemy army outside the city, there is a talented general who tries to resist, so that Jun Mo should be this woman's attitude, so as not to disturb the morale of the army." Li Dian glanced at Guo Gong contemptuously, and replied softly and firmly.

For this waste wood that is extremely arrogant when he gains power and is like a rat when he loses power, Li Dian doesn't look at it at all. If it weren't for the fact that Guo Gong still had a lot of local troops under him, and keeping him would still have the effect of calming people's hearts, Li Dian would have been eager to throw him off the city. People can have ambitions, but if they have such waste ambitions, it is really better not to have any.

"But ......"

"No, but!" Li Dian's voice was violent, and he directly frightened Guo Gong, "Because of the envoy's unconspiracy, how much extra blood and sweat the soldiers have left, can the envoy know?" Now that the soldiers are fighting with arrows and stones, and it is not enough to make the king sit high in the city? If you want to make noise again, Li recognizes you Guo Yuanjun, and the knife in Li's hand must not recognize you! ”

"Yes, yes......" Guo Gong shrank his neck, his body dodged back, he tripped garlic under his feet, and fell on all fours.

Seeing Guo Gong's embarrassed appearance, Li Dian wanted to laugh, but the loud noises from outside the city made him unable to laugh, and his heart was just heavy.

The siege equipment of the Qingzhou army is too strong, especially the means of blasting the city wall, as long as it is close to the city wall, it is almost impossible to resist. I heard that the Qingzhou military used the method of Taoist alchemy, gathering saltpeter and sulfur and other fire-causing things together to turn them into a kind of medicine stone that will explode violently.

As long as you dig a large hole under the city wall, and then stuff the explosive in a wooden box or iron box, you can easily blow out a large hole in the city wall, which is difficult to prevent.

There has been no proven countermeasure, and the only precaution is to prevent the enemy from approaching the walls easily. However, under the almost overwhelming long-range attack of the Qingzhou Army, how easy is it to do this?

Rencheng is not a tiger prison, General Miaocai didn't have time to arrange too many defensive facilities here, and the few battalions that were hastily laid out were soon in danger, and now they are completely adding human lives to it!

But there is no way, Rencheng is a stronghold that must be kept. If Rencheng is lost, the eastern front of the Qingzhou Army will be connected with Xuzhou, and the two soldiers and horses can echo each other, and the difficulty of breaking through will be more than doubled?

Thinking very clearly intellectually, but when he thought of the bloody casualties that the army that had been recruited and trained with great difficulty could only fight back in front of the bed crossbow of the Qingzhou army, Li Dian's heart was also in terrible pain. You must know that in the Cao army on the Eastern Front, at least 20% of the soldiers and horses are his private soldiers of the Juye Li family!

"Man Cheng, why are you still here? Quick, go to the city and watch the battle! Lu Qian suddenly walked in, and when he saw Li Dian, he greeted him loudly.

"Spectating? What's impressive? Li Dian laughed miserably.

Outside the city is the commander of the Qingzhou general Huang Zhong, although the veteran is older, in recent years rarely go out, the name is not as loud as Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and others, but its command level is quite strong, under his command, the Qingzhou army's attack is very rhythmic and layered, give full play to the power of all long-range troops, and beat Xiahou Yuan, the general, to the point that he can't raise his head.

This kind of battle, what is there to see?

"Don't you know?" Lu Qian looked left and right, approached Li Dian's side, and said mysteriously: "The reinforcements that the lord said have arrived!" ”

"Which reinforcement?" Li Dian was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "Could it be ......?"

"That's it!" Lu Qian nodded vigorously, his tone full of excitement and joy.

His identity and Li Dian are very similar, the difference is that he is from Rencheng, while Li Dian is a giant savage, for Lu Qian, this battle to defend Rencheng must not be lost, otherwise the Hulu Lu family will no longer exist. If you leave your hometown, you are rootless, so what's the use of just keeping people?

"Don't look at that Ma Deheng's young age, but his skills are quite good, with those more than 100 disciples, he assembled 200 thunderbolts overnight! This is not the kind that those people in Liang Bofang made according to the atlas presented by Liu Ziyang, but a real super weapon! ”

The faster Lu Qian spoke, the more excited he became: "This car is reliable to pull with manpower or horsepower, and it is equipped with a pivot, which can launch a boulder to 500 steps away, and the sound is like a thunderbolt, and the blocker is invincible!" Huang Zhong's husband relied on the power of the ballista to bully me, and today he is just using his way to give back to him, so that he knows that there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky! ”

"How can there be such an artifact? If Cao Gong had taken it out earlier, it would not have made the Qingzhou thief army arrogant! ”

Li Dian didn't have time to answer, but Guo Gong's eyes lit up, jumped up, and grabbed Li Dian and Lu Qian's arms unconsciously, and said enthusiastically: "With the help of this artifact, General Miaocai will break the enemy, and we will go to the city as soon as possible." Even if you can't go into battle to help the battle, you can still wave your flag and shout to cheer for the talented generals and soldiers. ”

Li Dian and Lu Qian both despised Guo Gong's shamelessness, but they were really eager to watch the battle, so they did not refuse, and were pulled out by the latter. As soon as I arrived at the gate, there was a sudden earth-shattering cheer from the city, and the sound was so loud that it made people feel like they were on the flat boat and were lifted by the huge waves.

"Could it be...... Already won? Li and Lu Erjiang glanced at each other, and they both saw the ecstasy in each other's eyes. (To be continued......)