In the early morning of the next day, Cao Zhen got up under the service of his personal entourage,

The first thing Cao Zhen asked after he got up was: "Did the thief army leave the city last night?" ”

Faced with Cao Zhen's inquiry, his personal entourage immediately bowed down and replied, "No." ”

After hearing his personal answer, Cao Zhen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he was quite satisfied with yesterday's results, he also knew that Mi Yang was not a person who sat still.

As for himself, Cao Zhen expected that if Mi Yang wanted not to sit still, then he would most likely focus on how to destroy the dirt mountain outside the city.

This is the best way that Cao Zhen can come up with.

Once the earth mountain is destroyed, then the condescending advantage of the Wei archers will be lost, which will give the Han army on the city wall a chance to counterattack.

In order to prevent this, Cao Zhen secretly ordered an elite army to hide in the camp last night, if the Han army wanted to repeat the night attack strategy, then this was also exactly what Cao Zhen wanted.

Now after learning that Cao Zhen's Han army had not moved all night, Cao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but also inevitably had disappointment in his heart.

And after the ease and disappointment, Cao Zhen's heart couldn't help but be suspicious.

With his understanding of Mi Yang, the Han army last night should not have any abnormal movements.

Facing such a tricky opponent as Mi Yang, Cao Zhen's mood seemed very complicated.

Due to the suspicion in his heart, Cao Zhen couldn't help but ask again: "Last night, there was really no movement inside and outside Nanzheng?" ”

In order to verify the doubts in his heart, Cao Zhen expanded the scope of the doubts in his heart.

Under Cao Zhen's questioning again, the relatives thought about it carefully, and seemed to remember the incident that Wang Shuang had come to report.

"General Yu, according to General Wang, there were frequent sounds of construction on the Nanzheng city wall last night."

As soon as he heard this, Cao Zhen put down the food in his hand and sighed heavily.

After hearing this, the experienced Cao Zhen immediately guessed what the Han army was most likely doing last night - repairing the city wall.

But after guessing this, Cao Zhen's suspicions became even deeper.

Repairing the city wall is a self-protection measure that the city defenders often do at night, but at present, the city wall of Nanzheng is not damaged, what is the strength of the Han army to repair it?

Unless the Han army is not repairing the city wall, but raising the city wall.

But when this idea came to mind, Cao Zhen felt even more ridiculous.

Is it an overnight effort to raise the walls?

Mi Yang will not do this kind of useless work.

Many speculations surged in Cao Zhen's heart, and out of the importance of Mi Yang, coupled with his own rich experience, all kinds of speculations were secretly rejected by Cao Zhen.

This made Cao Zhen feel like there were ants crawling in his heart.

Cao Zhen, who had something in his heart, couldn't eat the breakfast in front of him anymore, so he got up directly and asked his entourage to serve him to wear his armor - instead of many speculations, it is better to go to the city and take a look.

About half an hour later, Cao Zhen on the turf slowly appeared outside Nanzheng City under the guidance of the soldiers below.

Before Cao Zhen appeared outside Nanzheng City, those dirt mountains were already full of Wei archers.

All the Wei generals knew that Cao Zhen was eager to win, and the archers of the Wei army who had long been lined up on several dirt mountains were a gift they gave Cao Zhen this morning.

Sure enough, before Cao Zhen saw him coming, after the archers on the earth mountain were all lined up, he couldn't help but nod in the watchtower.

General Cao Wei appeared and had his own pomp.

After a burst of war drums, Cao Zhen's tower stopped not far from the Nanzheng city wall under the gaze of tens of thousands of Wei troops.

After the tower stopped, Cao Zhen carefully observed whether there was anything different on the Nanzheng city wall.

After careful observation, Cao Zhen found that the Nanzheng city wall had not been heightened, and there was nothing unusual, as if it was no different from yesterday.

If there is a difference, it seems that the two towers on the wall of Nanzheng City have been raised by the Han army.

And if he looked closely, Cao Zhen found that there were still some scorched traces on the wood used to raise the city tower.

Most of the timber was taken from the houses that he had burned down with rockets yesterday.

What's the use of Miyang and the tall city tower?

Cao Zhen will soon know the answer.

Mi Yang, who was hidden in the city tower, saw Wei Jun's tower reappeared, and he knew that this was Cao Zhen.

Seeing this, Mi Yang did not hesitate, he let people blow the horn.

At the call of the trumpet, groups of archers wearing iron armor and iron masks began to appear on the city walls.

And just when Cao Zhen was surprised by this scene, something unexpected happened to Cao Zhen.

When the Wei army was defenseless, many fire arrows suddenly shot out from the elevated tower.

Because the city tower was raised by the Han army, the city tower was higher than the Wei army's tower.

Condescendingly, the power of the fire arrow was invisibly strengthened a little, and even greatly strengthened the accuracy of the Han army's fire arrow.

Almost immediately, a number of fire arrows shot down on the turret.

When the fire bolt is nailed to the roof, the grease covering the fire bolt gradually flows down the arrow to the wood that holds the turret in place.

A single fire bolt may not be harmful to the tall turret, but when many fire bolts cover the lower half of the turret, it doesn't take long for the lower half of the turret to start burning rapidly.

The hot and dry weather accelerated the burning process.

When one of the towers was completely ignited by the Han army's fire, the Han troops in the tower shifted their targets to other towers.

Just as the countless houses in Nanzheng City were burned down by the Wei army's fire yesterday, the Wei army's buildings are now facing the fate of being covered and engulfed by the fire.

Because the Han army had been prepared for a long time, they specially waited until Lou Lu appeared before releasing the fire arrows, so the thousands of Wei archers on the nearby earth mountain were shocked by the scene in front of them after seeing this scene.

It was not that there were no Wei archers who wanted to organize a counteroffensive, but today the situation of the two armies was completely different, and the Han army had regained its superiority.

The most important thing is that there is a cooperation between Loulu and Tushan, to put it bluntly, the Wei army in Loulu is equivalent to the eyes of the Wei archers on Tushan, and it is also their command system.

Yesterday, it was precisely because of the tacit understanding between the Wei army in the building and the Wei army on the earth mountain that they were able to take the continuous arrow rain offensive and force the Han army on the city wall to be unable to backhand.

But now that their own command system is looking like it is difficult to protect itself, where can they command the Wei archers on the mountain to launch a counterattack.

In this case, even if some of the Wei troops spontaneously shot arrows at the southern Zheng city wall, since the Han army on the city wall was already armed to the teeth, this part of the attack was more like a harassment and played a little role at all.

Putting aside the reaction of the Wei archers on the earth mountain, Cao Zhen, who was in the building, saw the towers next to him catch fire one after another, and when the Wei troops on the towers jumped down from the watchtowers several feet high in order to escape for their lives, a biting chill instantly soaked his whole body.

In order to save his life, how could Cao Zhen still have any mind to think about the enemy's strategy, and a terrible order instantly came out of his mouth:

"Let's go, let's go!"

After receiving Cao Zhen's order, he immediately passed this order to the bottom of the building.

After receiving this order, the Wei army below hurriedly pushed back the building where Cao Zhen was located.

Not only was Cao Zhen's Lou Lu rapidly retreating, but the Wei generals in several Lou Lu around him saw that Cao Zhen was starting to retreat, and they also hurriedly ordered the Wei army under Lou Lu to push them back to the camp.

For a time, the surviving buildings, like defeated dogs, retreated towards their own camp in a panic.

It can be said that Cao Zhen came so calmly and majesticly just now, and now in order to escape for his life, how embarrassed he is.

This scene happened to completely fall under the gaze of tens of thousands of Wei soldiers, making tens of thousands of Wei soldiers have a blank and ashamed look in their eyes.

Yesterday's situation didn't develop like this!

Why didn't the general hold out for a day, why did he run away again?

Mi Yang saw that several towers were retreating to the rear, so he turned to order the Han army in the city tower to shoot arrows at the Wei army on the earth mountain.

After the Wei army on the earth mountain saw that their generals had fled, their military morale was already in chaos.

At this time, thousands of arrows were fired at them from the towers and walls, which directly caused them to drop their weapons and run towards the bottom of the mountain like a routed rebel army.

In the panicked rout, I don't know how many Wei troops died under the trampling of their comrades, and I don't know how many Wei troops died under the arrow attacks of the Han army.

When the scene of the Wei army's rout and escape fell into the eyes of Mi Yang and the Han army on the city wall, it caused them to let out bursts of hearty laughter.

It can be said that their counterattack today has made them all come out of the evil spirit that has been suppressed from yesterday to today.

also for those people who died innocently yesterday, a little bit of a debt was recovered from the Wei army.

The hearty laughter of thousands of Han soldiers on the city wall drifted into the ears of Cao Zhen, who had not fled far away, along with the sound of the wind, almost making him vomit blood in anger.

And when this burst of hearty laughter fell into the ears of tens of thousands of Wei troops, it hit the hearts of tens of thousands of Wei troops.

Judging from the rampant laughter of the Han army, how can it seem that they are the one who is besieged?

No matter what tens of thousands of Wei troops thought in their hearts, judging from the current situation, it is obvious that Cao Zhen's siege method of imitating Yuan Shaolou and Tushan has been cracked.

The Wei army camp was not far from Nanzheng City.

Cao Zhen's Loulu ran fast enough, and the Wei army kept coming out to meet Cao Zhen in the camp, so Cao Zhen's Loulu finally returned to the camp safely.

Fortunately, Cao Zhen was careful before and did not hang his handsome flag on the building, otherwise if Mi Yang's badness made him aware of his location, the consequences would be really unimaginable.

Cao Zhen, who returned to the camp and walked downstairs, was glad to have some palpitations.

And when Cao Zhen landed, the Wei generals who had been guarding the side immediately surrounded him, wanting to see if Cao Zhen was injured.

The caring eyes of everyone fell on Cao Zhen's eyes, but it made Cao Zhen's mood even more depressed, and he was vaguely a little ashamed.

Seeing that Cao Zhen's face was not very good, Wang Shuang, as Cao Zhen's confidant and favorite general, felt that it was time for him to comfort Cao Zhen for a word or two.

"The general does not need to be discouraged, today's small victory of the thief army is just relying on the advantage of surprise and condescending, as long as our army continues to increase the height of the soil and mountains, it may not be able to achieve results again."

After hearing Wang Shuang's words, Cao Zhen was even more angry.

This favorite general of his is extremely powerful, but this head is not very useful.

Even though the Wei army has a large number of people, how many earth mountains have only been piled up for so long?

Well, even if he does not hesitate to spend manpower and material resources to continue to pile up the height of the earth mountain, compared to the huge manpower and material resources he has to expend, the cost of Miyang to raise the city tower is extremely low.

For a long time, how long can the Wei army hold out?

Manpower and material resources cannot be used unlimitedly.

But even if the Han army is short of military funds, there is always no shortage of wood in Nanzheng City.

Moreover, if Tushan wants to play the greatest role, it must be cooperated by the building.

And the Lou Lu.

Thinking of this, Cao Zhenxin became more and more angry, and he felt that there was nothing he could do, and he glanced at Wang Shuang coldly.

It's just that Cao Zhen, who couldn't get angry, still called his relatives and asked him to go to the city and shout a word:

"Binding the building to the sky, I will go through the city to take it!"

After leaving this cruel remark, Cao Zhen turned his head and walked towards his big tent.

After hearing Cao Zhen's cruel words, some strange emotions arose in their hearts.

After Cao Zhen, who was in a depressed mood, returned to the big tent, he unexpectedly found that there was a person waiting for him outside the big tent.

This person is Liu Ye, who was reprimanded by him before.

Cao Zhen didn't want to deal with Liu Ye at this juncture.

But after Liu Ye noticed Cao Zhen's face, he knew that he should have suffered a loss under Mi Yang's men today.

This was expected by Liu Ye.

Mi Yang became a famous general in the world with his public security defense of the city, and he can be said to be one of the best generals in the world at defending the city.

Although Cao Zhen's previous siege methods were good, it was impossible for Mi Yang to deal with them without a way.

But Liu Ye thought again, wasn't it precisely because Cao Zhen was frustrated that he just proposed a plan he had just come up with?

Seeing that Cao Zhen was about to walk past him, Liu Ye successfully stopped Cao Zhen with a sentence.

"General, do you remember the battle of Yecheng back then?"

After hearing Liu Ye's words, Cao Zhen's eyes flashed with a gleam.

As a key battle to lay the foundation of Cao Wei, how could he forget.

And Liu Ye suddenly mentioned this past incident to him at this juncture, which was definitely not untargeted.

After Cao Zhen stopped, Liu Ye bowed and said:

"Back then, Emperor Wu led a heavy army to besiege Yecheng, but the Yecheng guards relied on their talents to defend Yecheng for several months, and the situation that day was similar to today.

Although Hou Yecheng was successfully taken by Emperor Wu because of the trial of Rong and Chengcheng, this was only a result, not a cause. ”

Liu Ye's words made Cao Zhen more and more curious, he waved his hand to let the surrounding guards retreat, and then asked Liu Ye:

"What, then, in your opinion, is the cause?"

Under Cao Zhen's inquiry, Liu Ye slowly spit out four words:

"Break the city!"

Liu Ye's four words made Cao Zhen seem to have grasped a key point all of a sudden.

"You mean?"

Seeing that Cao Zhen had already comprehended, a smile appeared on the corner of Liu Ye's mouth.

"Yes, praise and Han are available!"

(End of chapter)