Chapter 594: Breaking through Dongping
A thousand armored horsemen rushed up the slope and crashed into the enemy's thicket. The ironclad warrior in the middle rushed forward on the top of the city, and the dense infantry of Cao's army trampled down one by one, while many people were knocked out of the city wall and fell, flesh and blood flew sideways, and screams rang out; For a while, Cao Jun didn't know how to deal with these ironclad warriors raging on the city walls.
The 20,000 elite infantry of the Longtao Army and the 20,000 infantry of the Luoyang Legion followed the gap opened by the armored cavalry and rushed in, killing the chaotic Cao army and killing the Cao army backwards!
Cao Pi saw the terrible scene on the city wall from the attic, and was shocked, and shouted urgently: "Reinforcements!" Reinforcements! "All the reserve troops of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed towards the eastern city wall, desperately counterattacking. The armored cavalry of the Long Tao army finally lost its impact power in the sea of people, stopped, and was surrounded and killed by the enemy; The soldiers of the Long Tao Army relied on their iron armor to resist the spears and slashing blades of their opponents, and at the same time danced the mace in their hands vigorously, only to see the surrounding Cao soldiers splashed blood and fell to the ground.
However, the tigers couldn't stand the wolves, Cao Jun used the hook and sickle to first hook down the mounts of the armored war horses, and then swarmed up with swords and axes, no matter how thick the armor was, they couldn't resist such a blow, only to see one by one the armored war horses crash down in the tide of enemy soldiers; At this moment, tens of thousands of infantry troops of Lu Bu's army are also fighting with the Cao army, which is increasing in number, nearly 200,000 people are fighting with their lives under the west city wall, the sound of the impact of weapons is loud, and the roars and screams of people are screaming and screaming, and the spears and swords are dazzling, and from a distance, it is like a sparkling river.
Knock knock knock...... Lu Bujun's war drums changed their rhythm and rang out. Originally, in the direction of the South City Gate, where the offensive was not very violent, Lu Bujun suddenly exerted his strength, and the power of the attack suddenly doubled, and the defending Cao Jun immediately felt a heavy pressure. Immediately, another loud bang shook the world, and I saw a huge cloud of flames from the sky, and there was a loud noise from the sky and the earth shaking.
When the smoke and dust dissipated, I saw that the southern city wall had also collapsed, and tens of thousands of Lu Bu's infantry troops took a thousand Longtao army armored war cavalry as the forerunner of the industrial and commercial city, and the defenders on the southern city wall couldn't resist it at once.
The direction of Nancheng was urgent, and Cao Pi hurriedly ordered the army that was gathering Lu Bu's army in the west city to divide a part of its forces to support the direction of Nancheng. A part of the army immediately felt that the direction of Nancheng could withstand the offensive of Lu Bu's army. However, at this moment, there was another loud noise in the northern city, and then tens of thousands of Lu Bu's infantry rushed to the north city wall under the guidance of the armored iron cavalry of the previous Long Tao army, and the north city wall was immediately advanced. At this time, Cao Pi was no longer able to support the direction of Beicheng.
There was a fierce battle on the city, the army was killed in the dark, the sun and the moon were dark, and life became so small at this time, and the ground was already full of corpses and rivers of blood!
The people who were hiding in their homes in the city hugged each other, and they all trembled and panicked when they heard the terrible sound of fighting.
Cao Pi saw the fierce scene of scuffle and fighting on three sides, and felt overwhelmed, and hurriedly asked Sima Yi: "Sir, what should I do now?" ”
Sima Yi frowned, "Lord, we can't resist it!" Lu Bujun's attack was too fierce! Far more than we could have imagined! That gunpowder rendered our walls completely useless! Glancing at Cao Pi, "Lord, now, you can only retreat!" Cao Pi frowned tightly and sighed heavily.
Cao Pi and others retreated first, and the army that was fighting with Lu Bu's army in front heard that the lord had retreated, and the original drum of morale was immediately discharged, and they rushed to flee for their lives, trampling on each other and killing countless people, and were chased and killed by Lu Bu's rank, and the rest of the people saw that they couldn't escape, so they all surrendered!
The Battle of Dongping ended. The more than 300,000 troops guarding here were wiped out, and Cao Pi and others escaped with only 30,000 remnants of the defeated wolf bèi.
The blow to the morale of Cao's army in this battle was immeasurable, they had more than 300,000 soldiers and horses to garrison it with the advantage of defending the city, and they were almost wiped out by Lu Bu's army in less than a day! This would have been unimaginable before! This is thanks to the enormous power of gunpowder, of course!
However, the losses of the Lü Bu army were not few, the three thousand ironclad cavalry who attacked on three sides as the vanguard were basically all killed, and the attacking infantry troops were also killed and wounded nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses under the crazy counterattack of the Cao army, if it was not for Cao Pi to escape, it is estimated that the Lü Bu army would have to lose at least 100,000 horses to be able to take Dongping. But there are no ifs in war.
Cao Pi and others fled all the way like a frightened bird, ran into Dong'e County, after a short rest, they left Dong'e to flee to Jinan County, ran to Jinan City, Xu Chu went out of the horse to call the city to open the door. However, to everyone's surprise, Lu Bu's banner was erected on the city wall. Just when Cao Pi and the others were in doubt, the Jinan Taishou appointed by Cao Pi himself came out and shouted: "Prime Minister, I am polite." I've already surrendered to the general, so don't go out! ”
Cao Pi was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and the horsewhip pointed at Na Taishou, "You ......"
Sima Yi hurriedly said: "This is not a place to stay for a long time, you have to leave quickly!" Cao Pi immediately led the army to bypass Jinan and go to Taishan County.
After Jia Xu led a large army to capture Dongping, he left 30,000 soldiers and horses to garrison and guard the prisoners, and at the same time sent fast horse scouts to Xuzhou to report the victory to Zhang Lang. Jia Xu then led the army to continue eastward, and a few days later entered the city of Jinan. The army stopped temporarily, and after discussing with Zhuge Mengxue, Jia Xu and Zhuge Mengxue decided to send envoys to persuade the counties of Qingzhou to surrender. Jinan Taishou volunteered, so he asked him to send people to the counties to persuade him to surrender.
Cao Pi and others did not stay much in Taishan County, after a short rest, they packed up the grain stored in the city, set fire to the baggage materials that could not be taken away, and then left Taishan County to the east, came to Qingzhou City, met the 30,000 soldiers and horses here, bypassed Qingzhou City, and pushed all the way to Beihai City.
The night is as cold as water, the clouds are faint and the stars are sparse, and the moon is bleak and clear. Cao Pi stood at the bottom of the stairs looking at the night sky in a daze, his mood was extremely heavy and gloomy, he couldn't see any hope! Cao Pi was a little incredulous, and some doubted whether this qiē experience was a nightmare, otherwise why would there be such a thing? Not long ago, his Cao family was still the world's leading prince, controlling most of the world, with two million male soldiers, and looking down on the world! But how long has it been, everything has changed, Lu Bu's three-surnamed family slave is rampant in the world, and the Cao family, which was extremely brilliant back then, is now defeated again and again, like a lost dog!
God, are you going to destroy my Cao family?