Seeing that the generals of the soldiers and horses were transferred away again and again, Mi Zhu was worried and said: "In this way, our army will have fewer troops, if Cao Ying forcibly attacks the city, what can he bear?" ”

Guo Jiayin's surname was dissolute, and when he heard the words, he couldn't help laughing loudly: "Although there are many soldiers, but the rabble, why be afraid, when did Brother Zizhong be so timid and afraid." ”

Mi Zhu's face changed, and he was unhappy in his heart.

Zhang Lang saw it and comforted him: "Brother Zizhong, don't worry about it, our army will start to defend without a fight, and it will not be a problem to insist on a month, during this time, I think Gao Shun has captured the Lu State, and Zilong has taken Liang County." The retreat is not far away. ”

Mi Zhu was surprised: "Although our army did not win a big victory yesterday, it also made Cao Ying dare not despise it, why did he come to say that he did not fight?" ”

Tian Feng said with a smile: "The public doesn't know, yesterday's victory was really luck." Our army first seized the opportunity, coerced the power of the general, and the crossbowmen on both wings attacked Cao unprepared, and then took advantage of the chaos of the other army, forcibly rushed to kill, and finally seized the opportunity to withdraw the troops. Thinking about the fact that Cao's army is so powerful, there are tens of thousands of people in our military region, and even if it is a tiger and wolf army, it is difficult to capture its edge. It's just that if you see a good thing, you will accept it, if you continue to entangle, you will definitely be defeated by Cao Jun. ”

Mi Zhu suddenly realized and nodded.

Cheng Yu sat on the chair, stroked his beautiful temples, and explained: "Our army will accept it when it is good, first of all, it boosts morale, and the soldiers below are not as confident as at the beginning, and secondly, Cao Jun does not dare to underestimate my Xuzhou army." ”

Mi Zhu nodded quite a little when he heard this, and it seemed that he had benefited a lot.

The next time, Cao Yingfu led the troops to fight. Xiao Pei hangs the free card.

Cao Ying saw that the Xuzhou army was only defending and not fighting, so he gathered the crowd to discuss important matters with the general in the Chinese army's big tent.

Cao Ying was dressed in a blue and purple brocade robe, with a jade belt around his waist, his back against the handsome chair, and he squinted his eyes and said slowly: "In the battle yesterday, Xuzhou was not defeated, why don't you fight today, do the generals know?" ”

Xun You pondered for a while in the lower row, and then bowed his hand and said, "General, there must be fraud in this." ”

Cao Ying opened his shining eyes, stared at Xun You and said with interest: "Why did Gongda say this? ”

This Xun Yu is about forty years, the heavenly court is full, the two narrows are thin, the eyes are deep-set, a few inches are clear, and the wisdom pearl is in the hand, it is in the year, mature and steady. He was very famous when he was young, and was appointed by the imperial court as a squire of the Yellow Gate, and he was imprisoned for conspiring with others to kill Dong Zhuo. Later, Dong Zhuo died, and Xun You went home to go to Shu County to be the Taishou, but stayed in Jingzhou due to the difficulty of the road, and was soon invited by Cao Ying to serve as a military advisor.

I saw him talking eloquently, quite confidently said: "Under the city of Xuzhou, the fierce generals are doubled, and Gongda is also the first time to hear that the enemy can be on the battlefield at the same time Xia Hou, Cao Ren Cao Hong has many fierce generals' army, and Xuzhou Danyang soldiers have been famous for a long time, and I heard that Cheng Yu, Tian Feng, this is also the material of heaven and earth, Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao, who have just been thrown, are even more gods and ghosts. Don't be careful. ”

Cao Ying agreed and nodded: "Yes, plus Zhang Lang, who led the troops this time, this person is both civil and military, and every time he expects the enemy to take the lead, although the soldiers are less than 60,000, he must not be guarded against." ”

This is the military advisor Xi Zhicai also came out and said: "In this case, our army must be careful and must not be careless." Before I looked at the map of Xuzhou County, there is a danger from Feng County 100 miles, the name is Jiuli Mountain, the mountain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is only 100 miles away from the county, if Xuzhou sends troops here, directly kill the rear of our army, Juanxian County and so on. ”

This drama looks like a general, but the eyes are straight, which makes people feel extremely unsimple when they look at it. Although there is no such person in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but he appeared in the official history, Xun Yu recommended this person as Cao Ying's military advisor, but he died young, and then recommended Guo Jia to replace him, which shows the high intelligence of this person.

Cao Ying was stunned when he heard this, his eyes turned straight, and he suddenly smiled: "The military advisor is too worried, even if the Xuzhou soldiers arrive, Xun Yu, and Liu Ye are scheming, how can it be so easy to capture Juancheng." ”

Xi Zhicai stood up and said confidently: "That's true, but if the Xuzhou soldiers don't attack Juancheng and cut off my grain route, there will be no generals to fight in Yanzhou at this time, which is very dangerous." ”

Cao Ying stood up in surprise and said: "What the military advisor said is extremely true, and he had some scruples about supplies in his heart, but now he said that listening to the words of the military advisor has won my heart." ”

With the order, the general forbade 10,000 soldiers, stayed in the county, and guarded the main road of Jiuli Mountain. Cao Ying was a little relieved.

Then Xi Zhicai turned his capable eyes and continued: "There is a Manggu Mountain less than a hundred miles away from Jiuli Mountain, where you can bypass Liang County, Liang County was originally guarded by heavy troops, but it has been transferred by the lord, so we must not guard against it." ”

Cao Ying lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and then ordered Mao Jue to lead 5,000 troops to guard the town.

At this time, Xun You also came out of the column and said: "Xiaopei moat is deep, the wall is high and thick, Zhang Lang is deep for the way of the general, it is difficult to conquer Xiaopei for a while, if the adults attack Xiaopei with all their strength on the one hand, at the same time send troops to take Langyao, Teng, and the counties of Pi, and besiege Xiaopei Xuzhou. ”

Cao Ying stood up and paced back two steps, and said with a smile: "Just like Gongda's words, come and say that our army will attack the city with all its might." ”

He also ordered Li Dian to lead 10,000 troops to take Pi, Le Jin to lead 10,000 troops to take Tengjun, and Xia Houyuan to lead 20,000 to take Langyao.

Cao Jun was deployed outside, and in the afternoon he slowly and continuously transported all kinds of siege tools from the rear, which was exactly what Zhang Lang longed for, that is, to bring a large number of Cao Ying's troops here, and then Gao Shun, Zhao Yun and other strange soldiers came out.

Cao Ying's besieging army had a total strength of more than 100,000 people, mainly infantry, and heavy armor. Zhang Lang originally had 60,000 soldiers defending the city, but Tai Shici and Zangba took away 20,000, Yan Ming took 5,000, and Zhao Yun also took 3,000, and there were only more than 30,000 available soldiers in the city.

The next morning, under the loud shouts of Cao Ying, the war drums sounded, the killing was all around, the drums shook the sky, there were thousands of soldiers with neat steps, bright armor, ten high spirits, holding a huge shield, rushed to the city and river, and then quickly squatted down, holding a big shield, and then another team of thousands of crossbow archers, quickly rushed up, hid behind the shield hand, raised the crossbow and fired, and a large rain of arrows flew to the wall for a while. The cooperation between the two arms is very tacit.

Zhang Lang knew that the first victory was underprepared for Cao Ying's soldiers, and then he ordered to defend to the death, and the other party would attack the city with all his might, and specially sent generals to guard the city wall at all times.

At this time, the guard was Zhang Liao, he saw that Cao Jun beat the siege drums, the army rushed over like a tide, and the flying arrows came overwhelmingly, and began to attack the city with all his might, and hurriedly ordered to inform Zhang Lang, while ordering all the soldiers to hide behind the battlements and not to fight back.

At this time, Cao Jun stopped shooting arrows, and another team held shields, protecting dozens of soldiers with iron armor all over their bodies, and rushed up with more than a dozen temporary pontoon bridges across the river.

Zhang Liao saw that the arrows had decreased significantly, and when he saw the enemy's movement on the other side, he didn't think about it, so he instinctively reacted intuitively, and shouted loudly in an extremely majestic voice: "Crossbowman, the archers are fighting back." Prepare boiling oil, boiling water, falling rocks. Fire extinguishing team equipment. ”

After the words were finished, a group of more than 3,000 firearms rushed out of the enemy formation, and fired at the city wall with burning rockets. Then a group of nearly 3,000 infantry in heavy armor rushed out, carrying ladders, under the cover of firearms and crossbowmen, stepping on the makeshift pontoon bridge just erected over the moat, ready to climb the city. Countless soldiers followed closely behind like ants.

The offensive and defensive battle between the two armies finally began.

Zhang Liao was a soldier, leading the city guards to stay on the front line, and the soldiers braved countless arrows to push the ladder.

At the same time as the ladder fell, the soldiers who had climbed halfway up screamed and fell from mid-air, some broke their hands and feet, and some fell directly into the river. However, Cao Bing went forward one after another, the ladder fell, and many soldiers stood up again regardless of the danger of their lives, and continued to climb in full swing. In the heavy casualties, the opposing soldiers finally climbed to the top of the city, but they were immediately slashed by the Xuzhou defenders, and the blood was sprinkled into a mist and kicked to the city.

Zhang Liao immediately ordered to use long hooks and other long weapons to deal with the enemy's climbing siege, and poured a pot of boiling oil and boiling water down, poured on the soldiers who climbed the city, and brought huge stones to smash the ladder and pontoon bridge, and the city screamed for a while, the sound was continuous, the flesh and blood were flying, and the death was quite terrible, Cao Jun fell down in waves, and climbed up on the corpses of his accomplices, all of them looked numb, brave and not afraid of death, and the Xuzhou soldiers were never soft, killing people like numbness. The wounded were transported to the city in a steady stream.

Many times, Zhang Lang led the generals to come over and plunge into the battle to defend the city.

The offensive and defensive battle of Xuzhou was quite brutal, arrows flew around in the sky from time to time, swords and swords on the city wall, and the blood that flowed out stained the red stone wall. Xuzhou is ten miles away, and you can hear the sound of drums and killing.

The death toll on both sides is rising. The generals were all covered in blood and their arms were sore, but the crazy and tragic and thrilling plot made people's blood boil. For the first time, in a large-scale siege and defensive battle, Zhang Lang's blood was surging, agitated and flying, and for the first time he felt that a person's strength would be so small, and only the strength of all the soldiers could be cast into a steel defense line. Like all the soldiers, he held a big knife in his hand, took the lead, fought tightly on the front line, and used his actions to fiercely attack the Xuzhou soldiers.

Zhang Lang shouted again and cut down a Cao soldier who had climbed into the wall into the city. At the same time, his waist twisted, and he flashed the stray arrows that flew in the air.

Yang Rong also followed Zhang Lang closely, and the pair of lancets kept going through the baptism of war, and the testimony of life and death became purer and more ruthless.

And Dian Wei is aggressive, almost becoming a murderous demon king, his strong body is covered with blood, it was originally a cyan iron armor, it has long been red, the turban has been lost, the hair is a little messy, the two of them are like lanterns, a pair of iron halberds like the king of Hades to seduce the soul to guide the way, I don't know how many souls have been added to his subordinates during this period. Zhang Liao, Han Juzi, Zhao Yu, and the three generals also fought on the city of Xuzhou, trying their best to hold Xiaopei, and fighting for every inch of land on the city wall, and never allowed Cao Ying's army to step over the thunder pond half a step.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Lang and his generals successfully sank the dozen or so pontoon bridges with boulders, and repelled the first wave of siege battles of Cao's army. During this time, Zhang Lang and their generals did not eat a single meter, did not drink a drop, and could not tell whether it was their own blood or the blood of the other soldier, but only knew that they were slashing with the mechanical side of their hands, killing two red eyes, and repelling Cao Jun who was dressed one after another.

Cao Jun did not expect such a ferocious resistance, and the temporary pontoon bridge was not well prepared, and it was impossible to keep up for a while.

Xuzhou Bing took this opportunity to get a respite.

Next, the two sides each attacked each other with arrows and stone firearms, on the outer wall of the city, there were traces □of impact, but the general structure was not damaged, Xiaopei Xuzhou army was condescending, flying arrows, boiling oil, falling rocks, full of equipment, solid defense, although the army was fierce, helpless nine thousand peaks, the success fell short.

At this time, in order to capture Xiaopei in the shortest possible time, Cao Ying obeyed the idea of plotting things, ordered to invest 30,000 soldiers, dug tributaries in the rear, decided to divert the water of the Wen River, and then prepared sandbags to fill the moat at any time. It's so convenient to storm the city in an all-out way.

That night, the second batch of pontoon bridges was ready, and Cao's army began the second wave of siege.

At this time, Zhang Lang knew why Dun Jiajin said that his soldiers should rest in batches, just to deal with the Cao army's non-stop siege of the city day and night, and Zhang Lang, as the main general, in the full persuasion of the generals, still went to the front line without looking back, although he didn't know much about the art of war, but he also knew that the commander of the three armies was the soul of the army, and his participation in the war could most directly ignite the high morale of the soldiers.

In ancient battlefields, the influence of morale was the determination of surnames.

In the next few days, under the fearless leadership of Zhang Lang, the two sides were in a state of stalemate, with mutual casualties and stalemate, but the attackers suffered heavier losses. And Zhang Lang didn't sleep for three days and three nights, fighting all night, and the generals were similar, all of them had bloodshot eyes, and a strong smell of blood emanated from their whole bodies, killing Cao Jun wave after wave of impact.

However, Zhang Lang knew that he would hold on for one more day, and the victory would go one step further. If there were no two-step surprise soldiers, he would never have taken such a risk to defend Xiaopei, and he would have to block Cao's army from attacking Xiapi, Tengjun, and other fronts. His own troops are insufficient, but in addition to the siege of the city, although the Cao army has the advantage in the number of troops on other fronts, it is not the decision to take the surname. And the Tibetan tyrant, Tai Shici took away the 20,000 soldiers, almost all of them were the Yellow Turban soldiers who descended from Langjiao with the Tibetan tyrant, they have dominated Shandong for a long time, they are quite familiar with the geography of this area, and after Zhang Liao's training, the combat effectiveness can not be underestimated, I believe that there is no problem in supporting the opponent's reinforcements to the north for a period of time, so what is waiting now is Gao Shun's all-out attack on Lu State, and Zhao Yun's light cavalry. As long as there is a breakthrough in the two wings, then Cao Bing retreats without a fight.

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