Chapter 499: Consumption is the mainstay
"What do you say? In detail. When Guo Jia heard this, he hurriedly asked, asking Xiahou Yuan to explain the situation in detail.
Now is a time of crisis, there are Liu Bei and Zhou Yu attacking outside the city, in case Li Yi is intervening, then Cao Cao is really dangerous.
"Lord Fengxiao, there was a person who ran by from this side just now, and his subordinates recognized the figure of that person, it was definitely Shi A from Youzhou, I fought with him when I was in Chang'an......" Xiahou Yuan explained what happened just now, and then said his guess.
After finishing speaking, Guo Jia breathed a sigh of relief, if it was just Shi A, it would not be a big problem, in his intelligence, Shi A was the intelligence leader under Li Yi, in charge of the world's intelligence, and then he reported it to Jia Xu, and then Jia Xu passed it to Li Yi.
But you can't be careless, in case Li Yi knows the current movements of Cao Cao and sends a large army to participate in the battle, it will not be good.
After that, Guo Jia was anxious about many generals and began to give orders, and now Cao Cao is in a coma, and he will be in charge of the overall situation, which no one opposes, even Cao Cao's sons dare not say no.
The next day, the four generals led by Dian Wei began to attack, Cao Hong and Le Jin waited for the opportunity to move, Cheng Yu and Sima Yi went out with the army, and all three princes rushed to help, except for Guo Jia, all went to fight.
This is a bitter Liu Bei, the 500 million army that just arrived was crumbling under such a fierce offensive, if it wasn't for Zhou Yu and Xu Shu desperately resisting, it would have been defeated a long time ago.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei even ignored their injuries and fought desperately, so that the consumption of the army was reduced a little.
But that night, Liu Bei gave up the city wall again, returned to the camp outside the city to rest, after some statistics, more than 300 million soldiers died in the battle today, and the army will not be enough in one day, on the other hand, the Cao army, the number is still amazing.
In order to cope with the current situation, Gan Ning was urgently transferred to Yangzhou by Zhou Yu and asked Sun Quan to send reinforcements, no matter what, to take Xiangyang City.
And Liu Bei also asked Zhuge Liang to go back to dispatch troops and send generals, to fight to the death with Cao Cao, and if Cao Cao was not disabled, he would not retreat.
In the tent of the military camp, Liu Bei sat on the main seat, Zhou Yu was on his left, and then everyone worked in turn to discuss today's war.
"My lord, our army has suffered heavy casualties, and the enemy's high-end combat power is too much, according to today's situation, our army will be wiped ......out by tomorrow afternoon at the latest," Pang Tong said about tomorrow's calculations.
Because Xu Shu is still asleep, I don't know when I will wake up.
After listening to Pang Tong's calculations, Liu Bei's brows furrowed, he really couldn't think of any good way, his cavalry was wiped out, and it was impossible to quickly support the army, even if the backup came now, it would take two to three days to reach the battlefield, and it would be too late at that time.
Glancing at Pang Tong and looking at the tired two younger brothers, Liu Bei finally looked at Zhou Yu, hoping to get a solution from him.
Feeling Liu Bei's gaze and the current situation, Zhou Yu coughed a little to relieve the dryness of his throat.
"King Shu, everyone, our purpose in this battle is to consume Cao Cao's army, and it is being carried out for this purpose, so far, we must consume most of Cao Cao's troops, and find the lord of the great murderer, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable......" After that, Zhou Yu began to introduce the lord of the great murderer.
After Zhou Yu's explanation, the three brothers of Liu Bei began to face up to the lord of the big murderer, and when Zhou Yu finished speaking, they paid more attention to it.
Because the lord of the great murderer is in charge of military punishment, the corpses are everywhere he goes, and the bonus to the army is too terrifying, several times more than the top strategists or generals, equivalent to the body of a half-immortal, in the past, because of the injury to the heavens, once born, he will be killed by the heavenly punishment.
But I don't know what happened this time, but he was allowed to succeed, and the heavenly punishment was nothing.
Fortunately, it is known through ancient books that once the Lord of the Great Murderer appears, there will be a buffer time, and this time is a good time to kill him.
And Cao Cao's army did not go out of the city, it is estimated that it is to protect the lord of the big murderer, with the current situation, ninety percent of them are Cao Cao, or Guo Jia, except for these two people, everyone else has appeared.
After Zhou Yu finished speaking, he looked at everyone's faces, and when he saw that they were not very normal, he spoke again.
"I have a plan, I can delay time, but the danger is greater, I don't know if the King of Shu is willing to take the risk?"
Liu Bei heard Zhou Yu say this, and a smile appeared on his face.
"I want to hear about it."
"That's right, since the purpose of Cao's army is to protect the lord of the great evil, then we will attack its weakness, the generals will lead the army, divide the troops into four routes, General Guan will lead 50 million troops to the north, General Zhang will lead 50 million to the south gate, I will go to the east gate with the king of Shu, and there will be other people in the west gate, so as to disperse the enemy's forces, and then destroy the enemy in its weak points, it is the best way to delay time......"
Zhou Yu's strategy was unanimously approved by everyone, and it was decided to do so, but Liu Bei couldn't go to the war because of his special status, so he decided to change the attack from four gates to three, and stop attacking one gate, so that the army could rest.
In this way, Liu Beijun, who had rested all night, began to attack again at dawn the next day.
Guan Yu led the army to kill the north gate, and Zhang Fei came to the south gate of yesterday's attack, shouting loudly, so that the enemy in the city quickly came to die.
"Listen to Cao Jun in the city, your grandfather Zhang is here, open the city gate quickly, otherwise grandpa will be killed." Zhang Fei's loud voice is the best way to lure the enemy.
No, as soon as Zhang Fei finished shouting, the city gate was opened, and the four of Dian Wei took the lead in killing, Zhang Fei saw this, and directly took the spear and shouted.
"Second brother help me." Zhang Fei's roar made the four of Dian Wei nervous, although they had the advantage in numbers, but if the enemy sneaked attacked, it would also cause them a lot of damage, and even had a certain chance of being killed, which had to be guarded against.
However, their guards were all superfluous, Zhang Fei and the four of them shook a spear, and then turned around and fled, not only Zhang Fei, but also Zhang Fei's army.
The four Dian Wei people who watched it were a little dumbfounded, they wanted to chase it, but they were afraid that Xiangyang City would be raided, so they were a little unwilling not to chase it.
Time passed slowly like this, and after a while, Zhang Fei ran away, and the army was gone.
The four of Dian Wei were just about to withdraw their troops, when suddenly there was a shout from the city.
"Oh no, the enemy is attacking the North Gate, the North Gate is in danger, please let the four generals go to the North Gate quickly." As soon as the herald's voice was finished, the four of Dian Wei began to hurry non-stop.
Leave the army to guard the south gate, anyway, there are many troops in the city, as long as they arrive.
When they felt the north gate, they saw that the city gate had been shattered, and Guan Yu was wantonly slaughtering the army with the Qinglong Yanyu knife in his hand, without the containment of the top generals, these armies were all sending food to Guan Yu.
"Wow, the red-faced one is dead." Looking at the countless Cao soldiers at the end, the anger of the four Dian Wei soared and they killed them directly.
Seeing this, Guan Yu ran away directly, not even having the intention of fighting, which made the four of Dian Wei even more furious, and chased them far away before they returned in a huff.
Then they received the news of the crisis at the East Gate, and they had no choice but to rush to the East Gate, and when they arrived at the East Gate, just like the North and South Gates, the enemy saw them coming, and withdrew directly, not confronting them head-on, and fought guerrilla warfare with them for the purpose of killing and wounding Cao's soldiers.
In this regard, Dian Wei and others directly discussed, one person went to one door, if it was dangerous, let Cao Hong, who was waiting, go to help, it was really not good, they were rushing, and they could no longer let the enemy lead the nose.
This method alleviated part of the crisis at that time, because after Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and Zhou Yu launched an attack, they gave up the attack when they saw that there were top generals guarding them.
When the news was passed on by everyone, the second step began, which was to assemble the army, attack one gate, and take the enemy by surprise.
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhou Yu attacked the South Gate again, and the South Gate guard Dian Wei was furious.
"Haha, the ugly ghost is dead, and he escapes." Zhang Fei's roar made Dian Wei's face sink into the coal, his expression was like a ghost king descending into the world, and his facial features were displaced.
But he didn't dare to stop, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei behind him joined forces to attack him, and with the blessing of Zhou Yu's skills, he stayed to find death, as long as he delayed for a while, and the others arrived, it was when he chased Zhang Fei and Guan Yu.
At this moment, Zhou Yu began to command the army to kill the Cao army's soldiers, and after a quarter of an hour, Zhou Yu ordered the army to blow the horn of retreat, and then slowly retreated.
Seeing this, the two people who were chasing in front also hurriedly turned around and killed in other directions.
In this way, under the command of Zhou Yu, the four of Dian Wei were tricked around, and as soon as things were wrong, Zhou Yu directly withdrew the army, so that the ambush of the four of Dian Wei was unsuccessful.
When Dian Wei went to ask Guo Jia for help, Guo Jia said: "It's business as usual, if the enemy wants to kill, let them kill, but every time you have to kill and wound the enemy's army, this must be successful." ”
With Guo Jia's order, the four of Dian Wei had to be appointed, in addition to protecting Cao Cao's Lejin, Cao Hong also joined the defensive array, Cheng Yu and Sima Yi were improvised, but they couldn't go out of the city to prevent the sneak attack of Youzhou, that Shi A was not a weak person, once he approached Cao Cao, the consequences were unimaginable.
In this way, Zhou Yu's guerrilla lasted for five days, killing and wounding more than 500 million Cao troops in these five days, and his own casualties were only 100 million, which greatly alleviated the embarrassment of having no soldiers, and then Sun Quan's backup arrived, and Liu Bei's army was about to arrive.
Even Sun Quan himself came, and for a while, the three kings gathered in Xiangyang City again, which made the battle white-hot.
With the Sun-Liu alliance of the new army, continue Zhou Yu's previous strategy, attack several gates at the same time, consume the number of Cao army, and prepare for the final extermination of the lord of the great murderer.
This time, the speed of Cao's casualties increased significantly, seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers, and Dian Wei and other generals were also injured, and they were attacked by the enemy, which was very aggrieved.
However, Guo Jia is very happy about this, because the magic circle is still continuing, and all the dead army is absorbed by the formation and converted into energy to supply Cao Cao, and even the extra part can be used to heal the wounded generals.