Chapter 386 [Shouchun Attack and Defense: Third Round]
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Zheng! The spears and halberds were connected, and the sharp blades rubbed together, like a bloody dusk, bursting into brilliant sparks.
Two resolute faces stained with specks of blood quickly approached, their eyes facing each other, full of anger, and the sparks that burst out were almost as sparks as the sparks of a soldier's blade.
At this moment, the earth-shattering shouts seemed to be muted, and the heavy figures rushing around to kill had become the background.
The next moment, Gao Shun drew his sword, and Cao Hong raised his shield.
Boom! The strong shock caused the two of them to take three steps back.
The two figures suddenly split up and collided again.
Gao Shun stabbed out with a spear, Cao Hong waved his shield to block, and then pressed down violently, his body was half squatting, and a halberd stabbed Gao Shun under the ribs.
The ring-headed knife dipped and turned in Gao Shun's palm, and the positive grip changed to the reverse grip, blocking the halberd blade, pressing down, and the halberd blade poked into the soil. Gao Shun raised his leg and stepped on it violently, with a click, and the halberd rod was broken in two. The ring head knife spun again, the reverse grip became a positive grip, and the knife was swept away, and Cao Hong's helmet was chopped off.
The whole process is a long story, and it only takes two breaths to happen.
Cao Hong's weapon was broken, his helmet was shot down, and his cape was scattered, looking like a wolf and dangerous, but Cao Hong was Cao Hong, not Cao Ang, and he still had the strength to fight in the face of Gao Shun.
When Gao Shun slashed the air with a knife and was about to cut back, Cao Hong raised his head violently, revealing a sharp look in his eyes, his arm was retracted and raised, the leather shield was taken off, and he flew out with a snort, hitting Gao Shun's chest hard.
Gao Shun pedaled and stepped back five steps in a row. A hint of red appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he stared at Cao Hong.
Cao Hong also pulled out his halberd and glared angrily.
However, the two no longer had a chance to fight again, because the tide of servants had separated the two.
In the shadow of the sword and sword, Cao Hong pointed at Gao Shun, grinding his teeth and saying something, but Gao Shun didn't hear a word clearly-not only because the sky was getting darker, but also because Cao Jun's cymbals sounded again.
This time, it's a real retreat.
Night falls. The first day of offensive and defensive battles ended, and Cao's army failed to break through the first line of defense.
It was night, and the entire Shouchun City was patrolling the buildings, the sound of passwords, and the lights everywhere, and the sound of galloping horses' hooves and hurried footsteps did not stop for a moment. The residents of Shouchun City were panicked and frightened, and their households were closed and no one traveled.
On this night, the eastern barracks and the main hall of Shouchun Palace occupied by Cao's army. The lights were kept out all night.
At dawn, the barracks in the east of the city were boiling, eating, gathering, forming a team, opening a dial, and once again killing in front of Shouchun Palace.
Even though I slept for less than two hours. Cao Cao didn't see any fatigue on his face, and as soon as he arrived at Shouchun Palace, he summoned Han Hao, who was in charge of surrounding and guarding, to ask if there was any change last night.
Han Hao replied in an affirmative tone: "Ma Han is not abnormal. The dragon and wolf did not move. ”
Cao Hong was a little incredulous: "Didn't you see reinforcements in the Watergate passage?" ”
Han Hao shook his head, also puzzled, but still replied honestly: "I haven't seen any reinforcements." ”
The dragon and wolf army controls the west and north gates of zhì. It is connected to Miyagi by water gate and waterway. Although the Cao army had surrounded Shouchun Palace, if reinforcements sneaked in through the waterway, it would be difficult for the Cao army to intercept it.
Cao Cao exhaled a turbid breath: "It seems that Ma Han is accumulating strength." The only way to disrupt his deployment is to break through the palace as soon as possible and enter the inner temple. ”
Cao Hong asked for another order: "In today's battle, Hong will break it." ”
Cao Cao nodded: "But, give you two battalions of troops - you don't believe it, the camp is iron-clad." ”
Of course, the trapped camp is not iron-clad, so today's defensive battle was replaced by Yuan Yao and his five hundred palace guards.
With Yuan Yao's background, there is no doubt that he has undergone systematic military training, but no one has ever seen his military command ability. The only thing that is certain is that he lacks combat experience. Therefore, Ma Han sent Chen Zhi as his deputy to help him defend the palace.
When he learned that the commander of the opposite side was Yuan Yao, and the army was also replaced by palace guards, Cao Hong's tense face couldn't help but ease, and said to Cao Ang on the side: "This battle will be won." ”
The gap in the palace wall that was opened yesterday has been repaired by the defenders overnight, and the slope that has been piled up has also been carried into the palace wall as a new obstacle. However, Cao Hongjing fought yesterday and already had a bottom in his heart. He first ordered his assistants to continue to hold a dozen square giant trees to crash down the palace wall, and then put the giant trees side by side on half of the wall, spread them with door panels, and finally sprinkled fireproof soil to form a simple and sturdy pedal. Of course, in this process, it is necessary to pay the lives of hundreds of auxiliary soldiers and servants.
The opponent was different, Cao Hong also changed his playing style, and led two hundred sharp soldiers to stand in front of the battle, shouting: "In today's battle, Hong is the first, I am invincible, and I am alive and dead!" "After drinking, a halberd and a shield, bravely take the lead - it is the real first, which is completely different from Cao Ang's kind of being taken from the ring protection after not running a few steps.
"Drink-kill!"
Cao Hong was the first to rush to the pedal, stepped on the corpse of the auxiliary pawn that had not yet stiffened, jumped up, waved his shield to block several sharp arrows, and poked out a halberd, assassinating the first palace guard in front of the array.
The Lord will be so brave, who will dare not play with his life in the subordinates behind? One by one, like a frog jumping over a pond, they pounced on the pedals, and even people with shields and blades rushed into the array, setting off a bloody storm.
I have to say that Cao Hong really deserves to be a veteran general who has fought for more than ten years, and he is good at formulating different tactics according to the different opponents. If he took the lead in the battle against the trapped camp yesterday, the biggest possibility and end would be a "pawn"! And today's opponent is replaced by Yuan's palace guard, and the result will be very different.
Attack strongly, break the courage. This is Cao Hong's tactic.
The combat effectiveness of Yuan's Huainan soldiers is well-known. Once besieged a county town with thousands of men, only to be defeated by dozens of guards. In the Yuan Shu era, tens of thousands of troops went into battle at every turn, and as a result, they were often defeated by thousands of enemies. In such an army, the so-called elite is selected as palace guards, which is actually similar to ordinary Qingzhou soldiers.
Cao Hong and two hundred sharp soldiers attacked desperately, and instantly shook the palace guards' position. It was clearly seen from the corner tower that the entire formation had been deformed and chaotic, and if it continued like this, it would soon be chiseled, divided, and annihilated.
Chen was in a hurry, and urged Yuan Yao to come to the front line to stabilize his position. And Yuan Yao's face was pale, his body trembled, and his hands clung to the fence. As if he was afraid that Chen Zhi would tear him away from the corner tower and push him onto the battlefield of flesh and blood.
Chen Zhi was defeated by the children of this family, stepped forward and snatched the flag from the overwhelmed flag commander, held the lance in one hand and the flag in the other, and jumped down from the corner tower. While waving the flag and shouting, "Whole team!" The whole team! While rushing into the contact surface of the two armies, the horizontal lance pushed forward sharply and let out a violent roar: "Duh! "With the strength of one arm, he moved the block and knocked down a group of Cao pawns.
The crowd fell on their backs. Revealing a large gap, Chen Zhi inserted the Lingqi behind his neck, so that everyone could see it, and the sound of crackling was endless. Broken shields, broken spears, picking knives, breaking armor, and flying blades, swaying a large rain of blood. For a while, no one dared to take advantage of it, and he was born with his own strength. Forcing back the Cao army allowed the palace guards to breathe and the crumbling formation to stabilize.
Cao Cao, who was behind the battle, saw it from a distance and couldn't help but sigh: "If Zhongkang is fine." When it can be a lonely capture of this fierce general's ear. ”
As soon as Cao Hong saw this might, he knew that this person was better than yesterday's Gao Shun, and he was no match for him, so he turned his eyes. Suddenly, he said to his side, "Take my bow." ”
With the bow and arrow in hand, Cao Hong opened the bow and arrows, but he was not aiming at Chen Dao. Instead, it was aimed at Yuan Yao on the corner tower.
An arrow shot out, hitting Yuan Yao's sleeve.
Yuan Yao screamed and fell backwards, not in the middle of an arrow, but in fright.
Chen Zhi fought hard to inspire the army, and finally stabilized the position of the palace guards and regained their momentum. But he never expected that all his efforts and hard work would be ruined by one person's actions.
When Chen Zhi fought bloodily, there were bursts of commotion and exclamations behind him.
Burst! The lance blade was pulled out of the chest of a burly Cao Junshichang, Chen Zhi's wrist shook, shook off the blood stains on the lance, and looked back in a hurry, his chest was stuffy, and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood - Yuan Yao, who was the main general, actually slipped away!
Yes, the frightened Yuan Yao threw down his soldiers, didn't even say hello, ran down the corner tower in a hurry, and fled towards the main hall.
The Lord will escape, how can he still expect his subordinates to die? The morale of more than 400 palace guards was like an avalanche, and the formation that had finally stabilized was scattered. Cao Jun took advantage of the situation to attack, if it weren't for Chen Zhi's courage to win the support of some palace guards, he would have been united by more than ten palace guards at a critical juncture and fought and retreated, and almost lost in the battle......
Due to Yuan Yao's dereliction of duty, the first line of defense of Shouchun Palace, the outer palace wall, was lost.
It was nearly noon, the sun was poisoning, and Cao's army suspended the attack and rested and replenished.
An hour later, the sun was slanting westward, the air was cooler, Cao Hong put on battle armor again, and led 3,000 troops, which was already half of Cao's army.
2,000 soldiers, and 1,000 auxiliaries with swords and spears, a total of 3,000 troops. And the opponent is less than a thousand, nearly half of them are defeated, victory has beckoned to him, if you don't defeat it in one go, how long will it be?
Before the battle, Cao Cao held Cao Hong's hand, looked at the bloodstained brother on his face, and was sad: "In the past, there were star-studded and talented people under the lonely tent, but now the generals have been adjusted to zero, and the only way to count on Zilian is to count on Zilian." ”
Cao Hong clenched his fists heavily and paused: "Hong is not only Mengde, but also Zihe." The voice was slightly choked, Zihe is Cao Hong's brother Cao Chun, who was folded in the hands of Ma Han that day, which has always been an eternal pain in Cao Hong's heart. Cao Hong didn't know that the Chen Zhi he saw just now was the "murderer" who killed Cao Chun, otherwise, he would definitely be desperate for his life.
Cao Hong counted the account on Ma Han's head, and when he thought that he was about to put the halberd blade on the neck of this brother-killing enemy, he felt hot all over his body, and his strength doubled.
At this moment, Han Hao, who had been ordered to monitor the three gates of Shouchun, hurriedly walked over, and his voice was low: "Duke Ming, there is movement in the defenders of the three gates, and each of them has dispatched two or three hundred pawns to attack our army, all of them are elite armor soldiers. ”
"This is to contain our army in order to relieve the siege of Miyagi." Cao Cao took out an arrow and said to Han Hao, "Gu will give you another thousand pawns, plus three thousand pawns of the three defense gates...... 4,000 pawns, can you withstand half a day? ”
Han Hao took the order and paused: "Hao will do his best." ”
Cao Cao's gaze swept over Cao Hong, Cao Ang, and Han Hao's faces one by one, and his tone was heavy: "This battle, we can't fight for too long, within three or five days, we will see." Otherwise, once the dragon and wolf plundering fire army on the border of Yan and Henan get the news, they will attack and plunder like fire and kill Huainan. If we don't hold on to the horses by then, the consequences will be ...... Don't dare to think about it, think for yourselves. ”
Cao Hong glanced in the direction of the palace and bowed his hand to Cao Cao: "Meng De, I'm going." This time, please don't hit the cymbal. ”
Han Hao also bowed his hand: "Ming Gong, before Zilian comes back, Hao will never return first." ”
Cao Cao bowed deeply to the ground: "The life and death of the lonely will be paid to the kings." ”
This will be the last round of the contest, and the head of the Cao army has made up his mind to die and vowed not to return Miyagi.
Ma Han, what about it? (To be continued......)