It was twilight, but the rain was getting lighter.

The howling southeast wind was still blowing, and in the flood around the Tushan where Cao Hong was located, there were Cao Jun's corpses and Nanyang Army's boats.

Due to the flood dividing the formation, the Cao army on the earth mountain could only fight separately and was broken by the Nanyang army one by one, so there were fewer and fewer earth mountains in the east and around the central camp.

Even if Cao Hong stayed, it really boosted morale.

But it just started to work, and when the Cao army found that they had been reduced to lambs to the slaughter, some people finally chose to surrender, which seriously weakened the resistance of the Cao army.

Cao Hong saw with his own eyes that on the dirt mountain not far away, his two generals, Dong Chao and Dong Heng, led their respective subordinates to surrender to the Nanyang Army on their knees.

He was so angry that he cursed, if it wasn't for the flood, he would have wanted to pick up his knife and cut down the two beasts.

However, the incompetent rage was useless, and the effect of this flood was not to drown the Cao army, but to separate their terrain, so that the Cao army could not be assembled and was forced to fight more with less.

As the Tushan here was gradually captured, the number of Cao troops around it became smaller and smaller, and now only the Tushan where Cao Hong was located had become a lonely boat in the wind and rain.

Shen Chen stood on the fighting ship, took out a loudspeaker, and shouted loudly not far away: "Cao Hong! Old thief, you come out for me! ”

"Dead son, what is the matter with your father?"

Cao Hong came out of the crowd, already ignoring his image and courage, annoyed and angry, and shouted and scolded.

Shen Chen said loudly: "You have no way to retreat, surrender will save you from death!" ”

"Let your mother's stinky fart, and ask your father to surrender, don't think about it."

Cao Hong scolded.

"Old thief, I have already liquidated Cao Ren and Lejin for the blood debt in Xuzhou back then, and now I still send you, Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Cao!"

Shen Chen said coldly: "But I have never held grudges, surrender is the last dignity I give you, if you know each other, you will surrender obediently, and if you don't know each other, you will die!" ”

The Eight Tigers of the Cao Family, Cao Chun, Xiahou Shang, Cao Xiu, and Cao Zhen are all considered to be juniors, and Cao Chun is a little earlier in it, and he fought as a tiger and leopard cavalry commander when he followed Cao Cao to fight Yuan Tan after the Battle of Guandu.

And Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, and Cao Hong are all Yuan Cong, and the Battle of the Yellow Turban and the subsequent battles of the Eighteenth Route Princes' Alliance, the Yanzhou Rebellion, and the Expedition to Tao Qian and Lu Bu were all involved, and they belonged to the veteran level among the elders.

Now with Cao Ren's death, if the status of Cao Cao's group is ranked, then it must be Cao Cao first, Xiahoudun second, Cao Hong third, Xiahou Yuan fourth, and the rest will be the other generals and the Cao family.

Therefore, although Shen Chen hated that the four of them followed Cao Cao to slaughter many people in Xuzhou, if they could persuade Cao Hong to surrender, it was needless to say how much impact the surrender of Cao Wei's No. 3 person would be.

The effect is the same as Zhang Fei's surrender to Cao Cao, the shock to Cao Wei and the collapse of the army's spirit are immeasurable.

But it's a pity that Cao Hong has a strong temperament, and he refused without hesitation: "Dead son, just let the horse come!" ”

Seeing that he was stubborn, Shen Chen felt a little regretful, and waved his hand: "Kill it!" ”

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The soldiers on the Shen Chen Dou began to shout.

Immediately after that, the surrounding ships, like a chain reaction, began to spread outward.

As an elite soldier, the Nanyang Army showed strong combat strength at this moment, taking the lead and overwhelming with momentum.

Then a large number of ships began to rush towards the dirt mountain at the same time, thousands of ships and thousands of troops, and the mountain roared with a tsunami.

The current situation is a bit like a siege, the previous earth mountain is not as big as this, the height is not so low, and the number of people is naturally small, the Nanyang army can fight more and less, and slowly encroach.

However, this earthen mountain is high and large, and Cao's army is numerous, so it is not so easy to win with bows and arrows.

The main reason is that the Nanyang army is below, and the Cao army is on the dirt mountain, condescending, and uses wooden planks, fence fragments, shields, etc. as defensive tools, and archery from a high place has a certain advantage over the Nanyang army, so that the Nanyang army will suffer more from long-range shooting.

Therefore, relying on the advantage of a large number of people, forcibly rushing to the foot of the earth mountain, and relying on close combat to eliminate this Cao army is the best choice.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Cao Hong waved his hand and issued a military order.

The Nanyang army erected planks and shield walls on the boat, resisted the rain of arrows, protected the oarsmen and rowed the boat, and soon rushed to the foot of the Cao army's dirt mountain.

The two sides were a little farther away from each other, and after getting closer, Cao Jun began to poke down with spears, while Nanyang Jun began to rush up with shields, especially Gan Ning and Shan Yi rushed the most.

Shen Chenjun built three fighting ships, and among the Jiangxia Navy Division and Jiangdong Army, fighting ships can only be regarded as one of the main assault ships or frigates, not the main ships.

But now this kind of fighting ship, which can only carry two or three hundred people, has become the most powerful ship, and the three ships led by Shen Chen, Gan Ning, and Chang Lin respectively attacked the eastern camp and the middle camp of the Cao army from three directions, and contained the western camp.

The direction of Shen Chen's attack was Dongying, and Gan Ning had been rampant on the Yangtze River by boat in his early years, and he was already good at water warfare.

After discovering this big fish, he had been the main attacker before, and now that the reinforcements arrived in the morning and gave the order for the general attack, he naturally took the lead.

I saw Gan Ning in the south shirtless, holding a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and began to climb the ladder.

The Cao army above kept poking with spears to push the ladder, but some of the Nanyang troops below were on the escalators, and some were also stabbing up with spears to cover Gan Ning's actions.

The earth mountain is less than three zhang, about six meters, but now the water level is already more than one zhang about two meters high, so the distance between the two sides is only two or three meters, the surrounding Cao army struggled to resist, the Nanyang army that was beaten down, or the Cao army that was dragged down fell like raindrops.

Gan Ning protected himself with a shield, and when he climbed halfway, two Cao soldiers kept stabbing him, although he blocked him with a shield, but the constant harassment from above made it difficult for him to climb, he was ruthless, biting the knife with his mouth, and pulling the spear with his right hand.

In his fifties, he was already the age of an old man, but Gan Ning's figure could be described as a tiger's back, with bronzed skin exposed, extremely strong back muscles, and bulging muscles in his arms, showing strong strength and an almost wild beauty.

He blocked one of the spears with his shield with his left hand, grabbed the other spear he had stabbed down with his right hand, and then pulled it down with all his might.

"Ahh

Hearing a scream, Cao Jun was pulled down and fell on the deck of the Ganning Fighting Ship, and then was hacked to death by the Nanyang Army below.

With one less enemy, Gan Ning immediately seized the opportunity and began to climb up, rushing up.

"Kill!"

The surrounding Cao Jun immediately rushed over.

Gan Ning was not afraid, took the knife from his mouth, and began to swing left and right, constantly slashing.

At this time, the flood was still rolling in the waves, and although the fighting ship was fixed with an anchor, the hull of the ship would continue to shake with the torrent.

The Nanyang Army is not a naval army, and its ability to fight on the water is far inferior to that of the Jiangxia Naval Division and the Jiangdong Naval Army.

In ancient times, water warfare was like this, the ships hedged, first shot a few rounds of arrows at each other, and when the two sides approached, they used hooks to pull the enemy's ships over, and then used ladders to climb to the opponent's ship to fight at close range.

There are many records in the history of the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", such as Ling Tong's father Ling Cao climbed onto the enemy ship to kill Huang Zu's vanguard when Sun Ce attacked Xiakou, and was then shot by Gan Ning. There are also records of Lü Meng, Ling Tong, Dong Xi and others rushing to the enemy's ship to fight.

Therefore, climbing ladders was a very important training subject in the naval army at that time.

But the Nanyang Army is an army.

This led to the fact that when many Nanyang troops climbed up, they were actually not stabbed down by the Cao army above, but by the rocking boats.

Therefore, in the initial offensive, the losses of the Nanyang army were even greater than those of the Cao army, which was much smaller than them.

But Gan Ning grew up on the Yangtze River in Ba County since he was a child, and he established a brocade sail thief when he was young, and he was born as a water thief, and the battle on the boat can be described as walking on the ground.

He rushed to the front first, as if waiting for the dead, constantly slashing, quickly seizing an area, and slashing several Cao soldiers around.

The soldiers of the Nanyang Army behind him followed him like ants and also rushed to the dirt mountain.

Cao Jun's already fragile defense line was torn apart, and Gan Ning began to continue to expand the results of the battle, and an officer of Cao Jun next to him, who had made up in time, reluctantly slashed at his head.

Gan Ning shrank back, hid himself behind his shield, then rolled on the ground, dodging the blow, and then quickly stabbed upward.

The sound of "poof" into the flesh was heard, and the officer of the Cao army was stabbed to death.

Cao Jun, who was not far away, saw that someone had killed him, and hurriedly shouted in his mouth, howling like a wolf, and moved to this side, trying to fill the gap.

However, there were few Cao soldiers, and there were few people on their side, and the pressure on the nearby Nanyang army was greatly reduced, and they began to rush up.

There were more and more people behind Gan Ning, and he quickly seized this beachhead.

And Shen Chen's side is the main direction of attack, Cao Jun has the largest number of people, Shan Yi, as a Wuxi barbarian, is stronger than Gan Ning, has practiced martial arts for many years, and is tall and big, and it takes four or five people to help him hold on to the ladder to climb up.

In Cao Jun's arrows and countless spears and spears, Shan Yi suffered several wounds, but he seemed to be unconscious, and he still rushed hard, and he was killed by him and rushed to the dirt mountain.

With Gan Ning and Shan Yi ascending first, Cao Jun's could only retreat step by step.

This dirt mountain is actually the highest and largest place in Cao Hong's own camp, and it is used as a watchtower and to store some supplies, so it is a huge flat land on it.

After all, Shen Chen dug a trench, and Cao Hong and Zhao Yan also calculated that he might choose to pour water into Cao's camp, like when Cao Cao fought Yecheng and Xiapi, so that the water in the city was two or three feet high and soaked for a long time, so as to achieve the purpose of breaking the city.

Therefore, Cao Hong and Zhao Yan had already transferred a large amount of materials to Tushan, which is why they had more arrows.

It's just that they never expected that Shen Chen didn't want Cao Ying to soak in water, but directly intercepted the dam, and waited until the rainstorm to use the flood to break down their camp and divide the battlefield, which caused Cao's army to fight separately.

The Cao army on this dirt hill was only a few thousand people, while the Nanyang army besieging them was nearly 20,000.

Shen Chen, as the main general, rarely goes to the battlefield to kill the enemy in person, and after the soldiers seized the periphery of Tushan, he also disembarked and landed on the high ground to command.

Under his command, the Nanyang Army quickly cut the battlefield, constantly closed the encirclement, and devoured all the Cao troops on the periphery step by step.

By evening, the number of Cao's army had become smaller and smaller, and only more than a thousand soldiers were left in a circle, protecting Cao Hong's retreat step by step, and retreated to the watchtower in the middle of the mountain.

The rain in the sky has become much lighter at this time, from the heavy rain a few days ago to yesterday, it has only been moderate rain, and now it has become light rain, and it is developing into a drizzle.

Almost imperceptible raindrops continued to fall, and water droplets fell down his helmet onto Shen Chen's cheeks, and he saw that his soldiers had surrounded Cao Jun in three layers and three layers outside.

There was almost no tail visible in front of him, there were all crowds, the weapons in his hands were held high for fear of hurting his teammates, and the sound of iron armor grinding was endless.

"The general is here!"

"Let's go, the general is going to the front."

"Separate, step back a bit."

Under the command of the guards and middle and lower rank officers, the soldiers on the periphery began to evacuate in an orderly manner.

Shen Chen slowly moved forward, and the crowded soldiers parted the way.

When he went to the innermost, he saw Cao Jun besieged inside, they were surrounded in an open space of less than 1,000 square meters, and in the center was a watchtower, on which Cao Hong was standing.

There were a large number of supplies in the back, bows and crossbows, arrows, weapons, armor, grain and grass, etc., and the soldiers of the Cao army piled their baggage in front to form a trench.

The distance between the two sides was more than two zhang, and the spears of the Nanyang army and the Cao army stretched out and almost touched each other.

"Cao Hong, give you another chance at the end, surrender or not!"

Shen Chen's eyes noticed that the hands of the Cao army soldiers holding guns were trembling, everyone's faces were hesitant and overwhelmed, panic had spread among the Cao army, this was the best opportunity to destroy morale.

Cao Hong stood on the watchtower and shouted loudly: "Dead son, how many times do you want Duke Ru to tell you, the Cao family only has generals who died in battle, and there are no bad breeds who surrendered." ”

"Oh?"

Shen Chen chuckled and said, "Do you mean to let all the soldiers under your command die?" They also have families, oh, and come to think of it, many of their wives and wives seem to have been forcibly assigned by you to others, and maybe they don't have families anymore. ”

"This ......"

"Is this true?"

"I think I've heard rumors."

"Don't believe it, it's all fake."

An officer hurriedly dissuaded.

"Hahahaha."

Shen Chen laughed and said, "Do you dare to admit it?" This is what Zhao Yan did, in recent years, Cao Cao has been recruiting widows to be assigned to those who have not married wives in order to expand Dingkou, Zhao Yan has collected a large number of soldiers' wives and wives in Henan and other places to hand over to the imperial court, if there are Henan people among you, then congratulations, your wives and wives may have been collected by the imperial court and redistributed to others. ”

"Little thief, Hugh is talking nonsense."

In the distance, Cao Hong knew that Shen Chen was shaking the hearts of the army, so he hurriedly roared and interrupted, and at the same time drew his bow and arrows and let go in one go.

He actually knew that he couldn't shoot Shen Chen.

Because there are so many shield-wielding guards on the left and right, and they don't eat dry food.

But he must not let Shen Chen blow this matter out.

So this is the only way to do it.

Naya's arrow broke through the air.

Shen Chen's disciple Wu Dang raised his shield and stopped in front of him.

I heard a "ding" sound, and the arrow was bounced off by the shield.

"Annoyed and angry, you want to kill people?"

Shen Chen put aside Wu Dang, stepped forward and said with a smile: "Cao Hong, you can't hide it, do you know where my cavalry went?" ”

"Where?"

Cao Hong subconsciously asked.

Shen Chen said: "I went to Runan, Zhao Yan is the Taishou of Runan, and many of the wives recruited must be from Runan, seize the county orders in Runan, search according to household registration, and let those wives write letters to their families, even if the flood recedes, I see if your soldiers can continue to work for you when they learn that their wives and wives have been forcibly requisitioned." ”

"You ......."

Cao Hong's face was pale, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Kill people, but also punish the heart!