Chapter 418: How can Cao Cao be underestimated
The next day, Cao Cao really regrouped his army and began to attack the city again, each person who failed may have different reasons, but all those who succeeded had a common trait, that is, resilience! Indomitable tenacity!
It's a pity that sometimes no matter how strong the subjective factor is, you have to bow your head in front of reality.
Cao Cao's use of players to balance players did partially offset the advantages brought by the gathering of players in the Yellow Turban camp, because the width of a city wall is limited, so even if there are more players gathered in Zhaoling City, it is impossible to appear on a city wall at the same time, and although the number of players gathered on Cao Cao's side is not as large as in the city, but outside the open city, it can form a numerical advantage locally.
Therefore, Cao Cao was able to take advantage of this short-term imbalance of strength in one fell swoop yesterday and attack the city, although he then encountered the Yellow Turban Thief's big killer paper talisman! However, Cao Cao's situation yesterday was indeed better than the siege of the previous day!
In fact, Cao Cao has been mentally prepared today, and has made some arrangements in advance, but today the Yellow Turban Thief has also changed his strategy, since he has leaked the hidden secret weapon, he will naturally not wait until the critical moment to use it, in case the situation cannot be reversed by then, but it will be too late to cry.
Therefore, today Cao Cao has begun to be attacked by the paper talisman of the Yellow Turban Thief under the city wall, of course, the paper talisman is not a cabbage, and the Yellow Turban Thief is also very particular when using it, and it must be at a very critical time and a very critical position to use this kind of lethality is a very considerable weapon.
And Cao Cao and numerous players. I have also seen more types of paper runes, in addition to those auxiliary skill paper runes that appeared yesterday, in today's siege process, the Yellow Turban Thieves also used fire attacks, falling rocks, rolling logs and other offensive paper runes, which on the one hand shows what kind of paper runes may appear if there are any skills.
On the other hand, Cao Cao observed the frequency and density of the Yellow Turban Thief's use of paper symbols. Paper talismans are indeed not cabbages, at least they can't be used as freely as a real strong general, and presumably there are conditions for stimulating paper talismans. The other is that the cost of paper talismans is definitely not low, and the yellow turban thief is also very cautious in using it.
With this understanding, Cao Cao's heart settled down a little. In the case of the Yellow Turban Army's abundant paper talismans, Cao Cao had to admit that there was indeed no way to take Zhaoling, but the fragile balance between the Yellow Turban Army and the official army was built on an extremely dangerous basis. Everyone has learned the Tao and gone to the truth.
In the morning, Cao Cao saw that the other party had consumed at least fifty paper talismans, and the pace of use was getting slower and slower. Obviously, in just half a day, it has already made the Yellow Turban Thief's paper talisman a little stretched, and if it continues, I believe it will not take a few days. can exhaust the other party's resources, and then
Naturally, the players in the city are not stupid, but a group of real soldiers, at least those who will be strong soldiers must be soldiers, so. Something that sits and waits for death will never happen to the Strong Soldiers, and their resilience and self-confidence may not be worse than Cao Cao.
What Cao Cao relied on was to form a situation of fighting more and fighting less locally, which the generals in the city quickly discovered, so is there a way to solve this local disadvantage? In this world, in fact, there is no dilemma that cannot be solved, since the city wall is too narrow, so that the defender can not invest more manpower at one time, then it is very simple, just widen the city wall!
Is this difficult? In fact, it is not difficult at all, it may be too late to build with earth and stone, but with wood, among the large number of players, it is really not difficult to find enough people with carpenter sub-positions, so overnight and in the morning, players finally build some temporary platforms behind the city wall, just like scaffolding for modern buildings, simple and strong, and more importantly, can stand people!
After noon, Cao Cao also discovered that the local advantages he had worked so hard to gain were lost again, Cao Cao was a very simple person, once he found this, he immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army, not at all.
Although the official army attacked the city for three consecutive days without success, Cao Cao came up with a solution to the dilemma overnight every time, which allowed the players in the imperial camp to maintain their confidence in Cao Cao for a long time, of course, the pay and the benefits are still disproportionate for the time being, which will naturally make the players criticize, but at least there is still hope for breaking the city, and everyone will not say anything too frustrating, but there are naturally people who say strange things, but Cao Cao can't hear it, even if he hears it, he will treat it as if he didn't hear it.
In the anxiety and anticipation of both sides, the fourth day of the siege came, Cao Cao still maintained a suitable intensity of siege this time, urging the other party to consume the limited precious paper talisman faster, and at the same time mobilized those players and auxiliaries to start building an earthen barrier less than fifty steps away from the city wall, it was obvious that Cao Cao was going to push the heavy crossbowmen to this position, and form a killing effect on the players on the city wall and the scaffolding behind it.
The problem is that the players in the city can only watch Cao Cao raise the earth ramparts little by little, because they do not have strong mobile troops, and when defending, they appear quite passive, since the other party wants to push the heavy crossbowmen closer, the only thing the city can do is to strengthen the defense of the crossbow arrows, such as adding stronger metal arrow plates to the city walls, and covering the scaffolding with raw cowhide, which is the favorite thing for the border city guards.
On the other hand, he also tried his best to use the trebuchet and other curve shooting weapons in the city to interfere with the opponent's construction, of course, at that time, he could also use the trebuchet to hit the opponent's crossbow array, but Cao Cao could not guard against this move, on the one hand, he used his own long-range weapons to suppress the opponent's trebuchet, on the other hand, Cao Cao entrusted a lot of players to protect the construction soldiers on the construction site, adding a certain defense bonus to them, and once they were injured, they could be treated in time.
The four-day Zhaoling offensive and defensive battle, as well as the highlights of the Ruyang offensive and defensive battle, especially Cao Cao's side, the two sides fought wits and courage and came up with their own strategies. staged an extremely wonderful offensive and defensive war, a cruel siege battle, for the first time people feel a sense of war art, Cao Cao deserves to be a hero through the ages!
Compared with the wonderful and abnormal Zhaoling City, Fang Zhiwen, who was far away in Bo Luojin, Jizhou, had a feeling of idle egg pain at the moment, Bo Luojin was not a city, and he didn't want to do a task. Fang Zhiwen had no choice but to keep practicing martial arts, practicing the basic skills of spear and spear skills, and going fishing when he was free. The level of fishing is increasing very quickly.
Of course, there is also a repertoire program every day, that is, everyone will have an analysis meeting on the war in Runan at the General Staff Headquarters every morning. When there is no war, analyzing and analyzing other people's wars can also be enjoyable.
"Brother, Cao Cao is indeed very smart! Although he has not seen the player's tricks, he will definitely have a way to deal with it the next day, and he has always found the weakness of the other party, but even so, it is still impossible to break the city quickly, and the more serious problem is that the situation on Zhu Jun's side is not very good, and the Yellow Turban Army seems to have gathered the main forces in Ruyang. The two sides are fighting a war of attrition, but the problem is that Huang Yu is just an inhuman army with weak combat power, while the official army consumes elite combat power, and once the main force of the Yellow Turban Army intervenes at the right time, Zhu Jun's side is likely to collapse1
Xiangxiang's statement was not something she came up with alone. It is the result of the analysis of several young staff officers of the War Department, this result is reasonable and well-founded, and it is difficult for people to refute it, in fact, Fang Zhiwen also feels that this is the final plan of the Yellow Turban Camp Inhuman. dragged Cao Cao and shook Zhu Jun hard, Zhu Jun collapsed, and Cao Cao naturally had to retreat.
This is a typical way of concentrating forces to annihilate a department, but even Xiangxiang can see it, with Zhu Jun, an old soldier, and Cao Cao, a smart person, it should not be impossible to see this tactic, even if at the beginning, both of them misestimated the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army, but in the current situation, if they can't recognize the facts, it will be a pure joke.
But since the two have discovered the player's tactical intentions, but still adhere to the original strategy, there is a lot of problem here, as the saying goes, if something goes wrong, it is a demon, Fang Zhiwen has to suspect that Cao Cao and Zhu Jun are planning something, and the players in Runan may not have noticed it yet.
Seeing this Fang Zhiwen's pensive look, Zhao Yun and Taishi Zhaorong couldn't help but overturn the conclusion in their hearts and rethink it, as for Zhen Xiang, he turned around Fang Zhiwen and Tian Feng with expectant eyes, his thoughts were very simple, since he was stupid, then listen to smart people!
Tian Feng thought for a moment, stroked his goatee and said: "It's hard to say how Cao Cao is, but with Zhu Jun's ability, it is impossible not to see the situation in front of him until now, but Zhu Jun is still storming Ruyang and fighting with the Yellow Turban Army, which is definitely unreasonable." ”
Tian Feng's opinion really coincides with Fang Zhiwen's, but what means will there be?
Zhao Yun thought for a while and said: "Could it be that Zhu Jun and Cao Cao have any contradictions, originally Zhu Jun wanted to use himself to attract the Yellow Turban Army, and then let Cao Cao attack, but Cao Cao refused?" ”
"Cao Cao is not such a person1
Xiangxiang denied Zhao Yun's speculation from Cao Cao's character, Cao Cao's personality must be very dark, but now Cao Cao needs to be famous, and everything else can be temporarily put behind, but the reputation cannot be bad, so it is absolutely impossible to do anything that damages the reputation, if you see the perish of the friendly army and ignore it, or if you disrespect the general's order and lead to the defeat of the battle, what good is such a loss to Cao Cao? Even if Cao Cao takes Zhaoling at that time, he can't atone the credit, and Cao Cao will never do this kind of thankless thing.
Fang Zhiwen nodded: "Xiangxiang is right, Cao Cao is so smart, he won't do these things that will obviously make people criticized, I think Cao Cao is waiting, waiting for an opportunity." ”
"Timing?" Zhao Yun rubbed his hands in confusion, feeling a little anxious, what time? Why such a timing? Zhao Yun desperately thought that as an independent general, constantly honing his overall situation and tactical level was Zhao Yun's new requirement for himself.
When Tian Feng said the word 'timing' in Fang Zhiwen, he immediately connected all the problems, not that Tian Feng was inferior to Fang Zhiwen, but Tian Feng's war experience was too little, and he didn't know some doorways on the battlefield, so he didn't think of this first, but as soon as Fang Zhiwen mentioned this word, Tian Feng immediately understood where he was thinking.! ~!