By late September, Yuan Shao decided to launch an even more powerful offensive.

In addition to the mighty Yuan army surrounding Cao's camp like an overwhelming area, he also sent people to receive soldiers and horses from all over Henan who revolted in response to him, and called on them to attack Xudu.

For a while, Xu was shaken, and many of the surrounding counties were breached, so that Cao Hong had to defend everywhere and was exhausted.

What's even worse is that although Kunyang is busy receiving displaced people and has no intention of sending troops, their soldiers and horses are preparing in the camp outside the city all day long, practicing hard every day, and it seems that they always have the intention of going north, which makes Xu Du crumbling, and the undercurrent inside and outside the city is surging.

Ren Jun went north to transport grain and grass, and the troops were divided into ten routes, although it was difficult to repel the Yuan army, but there were still several ways that were plundered of grain and grass, and suffered heavy losses. When it was transported to Cao Ying, it barely lasted for two months.

The entire Cao camp was also in turmoil, miserable and miserable, a pessimistic mood permeated the camp, and there were very few people who firmly believed that Cao Cao could win.

And in this case, Yuan Shao decided to personally lead the army again and carry out a strong attack on Cao Cao.

Early morning on September 25th.

The autumn wind was bleak, Yuan Shao got up early in the morning, wearing armor, full of spirit, and came to the southeast of Cao Ying with many generals and strategists.

The Guandu River is a river that flows from northwest to southeast, so the location of Yuan's camp is northeast of the river, and Cao Ying is southwest of the river.

The last time he attacked in the northwest, Cao's army was extremely well defended in the northwest, and there were catapults, which caused him to suffer heavy losses in the Tushan wall.

This time, he rebuilt a large number of siege equipment, such as cloud towers, rushing cars, wooden curtains, and also equipped bed crossbows, bows and arrows, just to break Cao Ying in one fell swoop, and then kill into it, and capture his "old friend" Cao Cao alive!

However, due to the siltation of sediment around the Guandu River, the road was difficult to walk, so it was difficult to transport these siege equipment to the other side of the river. Now a lot of pontoon bridges have been built to transport the equipment over.

A large number of Yuan troops had already assembled in the southeast of Cao Ying, and the dense crowd seemed to flood the wilderness southeast of Cao Ying, and countless ladders rushed over to transport it, which was less than 500 meters away from Cao Ying, and the soldiers were all lined up and waiting, waiting for the order of the general attack.

Yuan Shao was standing on top of the cloud tower at this moment.

The cloud tower is not a ladder, but a huge instrument of war, made of wood, like a pyramid with steps, and some like a rectangular box, dragged by long wooden planks below, supported by three wooden wheels on the left and right, with stairs on the top and a high platform on which archers can shoot arrows.

At the same time, the high platform can extend the hook and hook on the city wall, and the soldiers will climb up from under the cloud tower, and then jump into the city wall to fight with the defenders in the city after reaching the high platform, which is the most common siege equipment in ancient warfare.

It's just that this kind of large-scale equipment is bulky and difficult to manufacture, and it is not available to large forces, even Yuan Shao has to spend a lot of time to build, so the number is not very large.

More than thirty or forty cloud towers, as well as hundreds of rushing cars, rushing cars, crashing cars, rushing cars, nest cars and other equipment gathered outside the city.

Tens of thousands of troops passed by at a glance, and the flags were in the sky, as if they could not see the end.

Yuan Shao looked from afar on the cloud tower and saw a large number of Cao soldiers gathered at the entrance of the southeast camp, nervously carrying supplies, but whether it was the number of soldiers or the equipment and baggage guarding the city, they were much less than him, so he let out a smug smile.

"Hahahahahahahaha

He laughed heartily and was overjoyed.

There are no generals on the left and right, and the generals are all commanding the troops and horses below, and there are only a few strategists around them.

And several of his major strategists, Tian Feng was imprisoned by him, and he and Feng Ji guarded Yecheng in the rear, Xun Chen was originally the mastermind of his battle of Guandu, but he died of illness when he was about to start the war, Xin Ping Xin Bi assisted Yuan Tan in Qingzhou, and Xu Yu guarded in Yuan's military camp, so there were only scribes such as Fu Zhu, Guo Tu and Chen Lin around him.

Guo Tu saw that he was happy, so he asked curiously: "Ming Gong, why are you laughing?" ”

Yuan Shao pointed ahead and laughed: "Look at Cao Cao, there are no more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the weight of bows and arrows is far inferior to mine. After all, this generation is my slave, so why be afraid! ”

Frustrated, he hurriedly said: "The public must not be taken lightly. ”

"Contempt?"

Yuan Shao raised his head, looked up at the sky, his eyes seemed to recall the past, and said softly: "In the past, Dong Zhuo was chaotic in the dynasty, the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and he vainly discussed the abolition of the rebellious monarchs and ministers. How many ministers are more than a hundred? Cao Mengde was during the period, can you see that he dares to say a word? ”

Everyone looked at each other, and the events of that year really showed the majesty of the three famous families of Yuan Shao IV.

Yuan Shao suddenly pulled out the sword on his waist and shouted: "The mediocre minister of the Manchu Dynasty, only I, Yuan Shao, angrily attacked Dong Thief, raised his sword to ask about his sword, and I don't know if my sword is sharp!" Since then, who in the world doesn't know me Yuan Benchu? ”

"Later, the Han family declined, in order to revitalize the dynasty, I ascended to the heights and shouted, and the princes of the world rose up in response, killing Dong Zhuo in panic and fleeing, far away from Guanzhong, and his reputation spread far and wide. He also marched north to Gongsun Zhan, and fought at the boundary bridge, making it difficult for him to compete with me. Now Jizhou, Youzhou and Qingzhou are in hand, and the hearts of the people in the world are returned, who is my opponent? ”

"I was also willing to shed blood and cut off my head for the revival of the Han River, but the times have changed, and the heavens are always the same, and this dilapidated Han family is no longer worthy of letting me serve. Cao Cao and his ilk, with the power of ants and regret Mount Tai, how stupid! Today, I'll let him know what days are! ”

He raised his sword to look around at everyone, and shouted: "I, Yuan, have destroyed Cao Cao in the name of the Yuan clan and achieved the cause of the king!" At that time, the world will be peaceful, and then share the wealth with the princes. Soldiers, give me orders, attack! ”

"Woooooo

As the banner soldiers on the cloud tower waved the banner, countless horn sounds sounded in the wilderness, as if the whole world was only left with this terrifying sound wave.

Countless rushing cars, rushing cars, crashing cars, rushing cars, and nest cars slowly marched towards Cao Ying, behind them were densely packed, countless Yuan soldiers and soldiers, and dozens of ladders were also in the team, like giant beasts attacking towards the camp, before the people arrived, the bow and crossbow were already covering the sky and the sun.

The arrows on both sides seemed to submerge the sky, like two dark clouds intertwined in the air, and a large number of arrows were shot in the enemy's camp, rushing to the chariot, between the wooden curtains, and in the military array, countless Cao Jun and Yuan Jun were killed by the arrows.

"Ready!"

In Cao's camp, dozens of catapults were ready, and almost when Yuan Jun approached less than fifty zhang, with an order, countless boulders burst up and smashed towards Yuan Jun.

Yuan Jun was also not to be outdone, the buzzing bed crossbow sound was endless, making a ghostly wolf howl in the air, and flew into the Cao camp between the ups and downs, and the terrifying force even had several beams and pillars of the arrow tower were shot through, causing the arrow tower to collapse violently, and the archers above smashed to the ground.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

The officers of Cao's army at all levels urged the soldiers to constantly fill the gaps that were shot by the rain of arrows, and everyone held a large shield and stuck to the top of the barracks.

Yuan Shao's disadvantage was that he did not prepare a catapult, and Cao Cao's catapult was improved by the strategist Liu Ye, known as the "thunderbolt", with a long range, which dealt a great blow to Yuan's army.

Fortunately, Yuan Shao planned to resist the attack of the catapult today and forcibly attack the Cao army camp, as long as he could enter the camp, no matter how big the sacrifice was, it was worth it.

Soon the Yuan army forced the attack of the catapult, killed outside the camp, the hook on the cloud ladder was connected with the camp, a large number of Yuan troops climbed up the cloud tower, stepped on the plank on the cloud tower, killed the Cao army camp, and Cao army started a desperate struggle.

But Yuan Shao obviously also troughed Cao Cao's resilience, in order to repel the Yuan army, Cao Cao sat on the rear soil mountain at the moment, only less than a hundred meters away from the battlefield, constantly commanding the soldiers, let the standard-bearer wave the flag, the flag is called the five-color flag, each has its own usefulness, whenever there is a gap on the battlefield, Cao Jun can quickly fill it in time.

For this reason, the two sides are in a stalemate around the walled wall, which is two or three miles long and comparable to a city wall. There were corpses everywhere inside and outside the wall, broken arms, severed heads, tattered armor, and two blades everywhere, and mutilated feathered arrows seemed to cover the entire camp wall.

The sound of shouting and killing, screaming, and the handover of blades was endless, and Yuan Shao personally supervised the battle and cheered with drums. The drums beat loudly in the rear, and the horns continued continuously. Not to be outdone, Cao Cao played gongs and drums to help, and at the same time constantly ordered reserve soldiers to come and go everywhere to fill in the gaps.

This offensive and defensive battle was fought extremely fiercely, and just when Yuan Shao was standing on the cloud tower, nervously and excitedly looking forward to the soldiers being able to enter the Cao camp, suddenly someone climbed to the cloud tower and shouted to him: "Benchu, Benchu!" ”

"Huh?"

Yuan Shao was very dissatisfied, and he didn't need to look back to know that it was Xu You.

Xu You relied on knowing him since he was a child, and called him never Ming Gong, but called him directly, which was unpleasant.

It's just that Yuan Shao has not had a seizure because of his acquaintance with Xu You since childhood.

Now is the critical moment of the siege, and he is disturbing his mind again?

I didn't bother to pay attention to it at the moment, and continued to watch the battle.

Xu You hurried anxiously, and after going up to the cloud tower, seeing that Yuan Shao didn't take care of himself, he hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Ming Gong!" ”

"Hmm."

Seeing that his attitude was a little more respectful, Yuan Shaocai turned around and said, "Ziyuan, what's the matter?" ”

Xu Yu hurriedly said: "Please also ask Ming Gong to save my family, my family accidentally broke the law in Yecheng, and the trial matched them to arrest them, and they will be killed on the same day, Ming Gong, please give an order immediately." ”

"Hmph."

Yuan Shao snorted coldly and said, "What do I need to do with this little thing?" Don't you see that I'm fighting Cao Cao? ”

Xu You said anxiously: "Ming Gong, I have nothing to do, if it is any later, the trial will kill someone." ”

Yuan Shao waved his hand impatiently: "Kill it, kill it, your family has broken the law, and the crime is unforgivable, how can you abolish the public for personal gain?" ”

"Huh?"

Xu You was dumbfounded.

He never expected Yuan Shao to be so disregarding the old feelings.

He was a little with him, and Cao Cao also invited him to contribute to him, but he did not hesitate to defect to you Yuan Shao.

If it weren't for my Xu Ziyuan, would Yuan have been able to get the foundation of Jizhou?

Now that he is about to destroy Cao Cao and win the world, he is so ruthless and unjust, abandoning the past kindness!

Good.

You Yuan Shao is ruthless, then don't blame me for being unrighteous!

A trace of resentment flashed in Xu You's eyes, and he immediately turned around and went down the cloud building, leaving without looking back.

Report the results, 31 days this month, take a day off, and 316,000 words, I was originally running for 350,000 words, but unfortunately I really lack energy, I'm sorry everyone, I will make persistent efforts next month, and strive to finish this book in the first half of next year, come on!

(End of chapter)