"Bang bang!"

The thick arrows of the bed crossbow shot at the planks of the curtain, and in an instant the sawdust flew sideways and splattered.

The heavy wooden plank was directly shot through by the crossbow arrow, and it entered the wood for three points.

The soldiers of the Cao army hid behind the wooden curtains, cowering forward, but there were always people who had to be exposed to lay wooden bridges to make way for the rear army.

As a result, a crossbow arrow passed, and even the wooden plank was directly nailed through, and the wail could not be released.

One by one, the crossbow arrows continued to pierce through, but the hundreds of bed crossbows shot thousands of crossbow arrows at most, and most of them were stopped by the wooden curtains, but they did not cause much damage.

Soon Cao's army crossed the first outer ditch under the cover of a wooden mantle, followed by the second and third, and slowly advanced towards the Han army camp.

Outside, the sound of "bang-bang-bang" crossbow arrows shooting through the wooden mantle kept coming, and there were also unlucky Cao troops who kept falling, and as they got closer to the Han army camp, the casualties naturally increased, and many people were shot through their bodies and shattered.

"The enemy is a hundred steps forward!"

With the shouts of the lookouts above the high turrets inside the Han military camps, the Han army crossbowmen who were originally shrunk under the fence raised their heads one after another and began to build the bows and crossbows in their hands.

After a while, about three minutes later, the lookout shouted angrily: "The enemy has advanced eighty steps!" ”

"Shoot!"

Immediately afterwards, the generals of the camps let out an earth-shattering roar.

In an instant, the heavens and the earth were darkened.

I saw thousands of feather arrows flying into the air, crossing countless brilliant arcs in mid-air, and then falling into the formation of the Cao army one after another.

In front of the Cao army is the wooden mantle, followed by the rushing car and the cloud tower, and the main foot soldiers are slightly behind, but here is basically the coverage area of throwing arrows, and dense clusters of arrows fall from the sky and attack the Cao army.

"Raise your shield!"

Cao's officers responded almost immediately.

At the same time, the soldiers raised their shields in their hands.

"Dingding, dingding!"

It's like holding an umbrella in a rainstorm, and the metal arrows fall on the shield with a clanging sound.

Then came the second rain of arrows, the third and the fourth.

Three waves of normal field combat is already very limiting, because the range of arrows is generally within 100 steps, and after two or three crossbow shots, the two sides have already rushed to the front and engaged in close combat.

But this kind of rain of arrows in the defense of the city will not stop, both sides will not stop, and when Cao Jun's cloud tower approaches, they will also begin to fight back against the camp.

Their cloud tower was three stories high, and it looked like an arrow tower, packed with archers, who began to shoot arrows like raindrops.

But the bed crossbow of the Han army is not a dry meal, and the cloud tower aimed at the enemy will fire in a burst of "tom tom", even if the cloud tower has a baffle similar to a railing plank, but it is still as brittle as tissue paper in front of the powerful bed crossbow.

Many of the archers of the Cao army were shot directly from the cloud tower by the bed crossbow and fell into the crowd, and even a few cloud towers were shot by the dense bed crossbows, and collapsed and killed many Cao soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, the bows and arrows of the Han army were shot, covering the sky and the sun, almost suppressing the archers on the dozens of cloud towers of the Cao army who could not raise their heads, and there was no room for resistance at all.

"Strange."

Shen Chen, who was watching all this from the high oar in the distance, felt a little puzzled.

Cao Jun's offensive was already relatively hasty, because the number of Yunlou was too small, and there were only more than 1,000 archers on it, which was not at the same level as the Han army.

When Yuan Shao fought Cao Cao, it was an exaggeration, hundreds of cloud towers surrounded Cao Ying, and nearly 10,000 archers shot arrows into Cao Ying.

Cao Cao's soldiers almost did not dare to walk in the camp, and even when they traveled, they had to carry shields, and they were suppressed to the extreme.

If it weren't for the catapult, Cao Cao probably wouldn't have survived the sneak attack on the Black Nest.

At the beginning, Yuan Shao's army of more than 100,000 troops, after marching into Henan, first prepared in Yangwu for half a year, built a large number of siege equipment, and then surrounded Cao Ying and confronted each other for more than four months, and built a lot of equipment again, which pressed the Cao army.

Cao Zhen and Shen Chen had only been confronted for more than a month, less than two months, and there was not so much time to build large equipment, making their siege equipment far from enough, and they could not threaten the Han army at all.

But why should he storm it?

Dou Mao, a general on the side, asked, "Governor, what's strange?" ”

Shen Chen said: "It is unlikely that Cao Zhen's weapons want to shake my military camp, he should not be so stupid, let's attack forcibly under the condition of insufficient preparation." ”

Dou Mao said with a smile: "Didn't the Metropolitan Governor say before that as soon as Xu Huang is destroyed and there is no one to defend the state, Cao Jun will be faced by us with a situation that threatens Luoyang and Hebei?" He must be worried that Xu Huang's side won't be able to support it for long. ”

"Hmm."

Shen Chen nodded slightly and said, "But you can't take it lightly, be careful." ”

As he spoke, the situation below quickly began to change.

Cao Jun forcibly crossed the front few trench bridges, and finally came to the outside of the camp, where a large number of rushing carts were pushed over and began to storm the fence.

The crossbowmen on the fence kept shooting arrows, and at the same time some people threw out ceramic jars and jars, wrapped in lighted linen cloth, which were filled with fish paste and grease, and threw them on the rushing cart, and the flames burst into flames.

For a time, the entire periphery of the Han army camp was in chaos, the flames were soaring to the sky, the flames were rolling, and many equipment such as rushing cars and cloud towers were burned, which made the Cao army, which was already short of supplies, even worse.

After that, the other party wanted to erect a wooden ladder and forcibly climb the camp, and all kinds of rolling stones and sasswoods in the Han army camp were smashed out as if they didn't need money, in fact, they didn't need money, they were next to Leishou Mountain, and it didn't take much time to mine stones and cut down trees.

The battle lasted until noon, when the voice of Ming Jin rang out after the Cao army had suffered huge casualties, and they hurriedly left two or three thousand corpses, carrying countless wounded and a large number of weapons, and left in disarray.

And Shen Chen had been standing on the high oars and watching, and when he saw Cao's army retreating like a tide, he ordered each battalion to clean up the battlefield, and then summoned several important generals to take back to his headquarters commander's tent to hold a meeting.

At the end of the afternoon, Shen Chen had already returned to his tent, and several generals such as Deng Ai, Jiang Wei, Yan Zhi, and Dou Mao came over one after another.

After everyone arrived, Shen Chen looked around at everyone and said: "Cao Jun's battle today is strange, recently scouted to investigate, that Sun Li originally wanted to rush to Zhu Ling's aid, but Zhu Ling had been defeated by General Pang at that time, so he retreated halfway, and now he has gone to Cao Zhen's camp." ”

"Xu Huang also sent his cavalry away before, it seems that Cao Zhen should have 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry, but today I didn't see any trace of them, which shows that the cavalry has another role."

Deng Ai quickly thought of the key.

"Not bad."

Shen Chen nodded and said, "I think the same way, and there are only two places they can go, one is Pusaka, to relieve Xu Huang." ”

"The other one is us"

Jiang Wei immediately took over the conversation.

This is something that can easily be thought of, because one of the enemy's branches of the army has simply disappeared, and it is impossible not to perceive this as a good general with a keen sense of smell on the battlefield.

So Shen Chen was thinking about why Cao Zhen dared to attack when he lacked siege equipment, and what did their cavalry do?

Cao Zhen is also an excellent general in history, although he basically brushed up his achievements on the side of Eastern Wu, and suppressed the Xiliang Rebellion in the early days, but it is undeniable that he is indeed a second-generation Cao family with a level.

Even an ordinary general should not make such a low-level mistake, so why should Cao Zhen do this?

The obvious answer is to contain them.

So the next thing to consider is where does the opponent's cavalry want to attack?

It's possible anywhere.

Cao Allah launched an attack, probably to prevent Shen Chen's side from sending people back to Pusaka, or it may be to contain their main force so that Cao's cavalry could attack their rear camp.

These are all things that can be thought of.

Deng Ai thought for a while and said, "Metropolitan Governor, it shouldn't be Pusaka." Pusaka has an army of 40,000, and General Pang is still in Xie County, and there are more than 10,000 people on Xu Huang's side, even if you add 20,000 cavalry of Cao's army, less than 40,000, how can you be an enemy of General Zhao? ”

"But the enemy doesn't know that we secretly replaced General Zhao with Kasaka, maybe they think that we don't have a main general in Kasaka, but can launch a surprise attack, leave us without a leader, and defeat our main force?"

Jiang Wei said.

"It's possible."

Shen Chen nodded, looked around and said, "Cao Zhen wants to sneak attack our rear, and we also want to sneak attack his rear. Now it's a confrontation, it's up to who can win, today I didn't expect Cao Jun to attack, give orders to Ma Dai and Pang De, and prepare to cross the river! ”

All the soldiers suddenly lifted their spirits, and the plan of the three bread copies was about to be implemented.

However, Yan Zhi was still a little worried: "If General Pang is transferred away, wouldn't General Zhao be on his side. In case Cao Wei's cavalry is directed against General Zhao, then."

"Sometimes, you should trust your general."

Shen Chen looked at everyone seriously and said: "General Zhao is also a veteran for many years, I believe that even if the Cao army raids Pusaka, he will be able to hold on, and he will not let Xu Huang run back to Bingzhou, pass the order." ”

"Yui!"

Immediately, there were heralds out of the camp, and each of them went separately to convey the order.

Ma Dai was in Huayin, where he could cross the river directly from Weishui to Fenglingdu and then attack from the rear of Cao's army, while Pang De could take a boat from the Yellow River west of Puban to attack Cao's left flank.

The three bread copies are Shen Chen's means to deal with Cao Zhen.

Soon the next day, Cao Zhen attacked the Han camp again, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle, and the fight was inextricable.

On the morning of April 20, this was the fifth day of the battle between the two sides, and after five days, Cao's army suffered heavy losses.

Just after the morning meal, the Cao soldiers and Han soldiers who had eaten breakfast were ready, and the black pressure of the crowd began to attack the Han army camp like sea water.

The Han army camp once again resounded with various sounds, making the entire battlefield noisy, and the buzzing arrows continued.

By noon, the battle had come to an end.

A large number of Han troops poured onto the wall to fight the Cao army in a decisive battle, and Cao Zhen also gave a death order, allowing the soldiers to break through forcibly under the rain of arrows, and even Cao Jun had already killed the wall and had a fierce confrontation with the Han army.

It was at this time that suddenly the melodious sound of a horn was heard in the distance, and the rolling and rushing vibration seemed to make the whole earth tremble.

Miles away, you could feel the ground shaking.

Cao Zhen was about a mile away from the Han army camp, and he stood on the high turret and looked condescendingly, and saw that the rear of the Han army camp in the distance suddenly became extremely chaotic, and the dust and smoke were billowing out, as if thousands of troops and horses were galloping forward.

He then laughed and said to the left and right: "My cavalry is the best, and now the Han army is all fighting with us on the southern periphery, and the rear camp is undefended, Sun Li and they will definitely be able to break the thief!" ”

At this time, the Han army in the rear was indeed as he said, with a shout, "The camp is broken!" At that moment, the heavens and the earth seemed to be silent, and in a moment he could hear the sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

Cao Jun came in?!

This is the thought that sounded in the hearts of all the Han soldiers who were fighting on the front line.

Many people almost subconsciously look in the direction of the main business.

I saw that the figure of a person standing steadily like Mount Tai on the top of the main camp was standing like Mount Tai, and the word "Shen" on the high oar was fluttering with the wind, like a needle of the sea god.

Seeing this scene, everyone stabilized their minds, and they firmly believed that under the leadership of that person, they would never be defeated.

At least the former Jingzhou military god has now become the Han military god.

Even if Guan Yu's status is above him, in the minds of many people, Shen Chen is still the invincible god of war, and they believe that he will not be defeated here.

"Yan Zhi, bring the two people over and guard the middle camp."

Shen Chen said lightly.

"Yes."

Yan Zhi took the order and left.

At this moment, the rear camp was already in chaos, and the Cao army who had come in set fire everywhere, igniting their material baggage, hoping to shake the morale of the soldiers who were fighting in the front camp of the Han army.

But they obviously thought too much, and the Han soldiers not only fought desperately on the front line, but also sent some people to the middle camp to garrison.

Soon when Cao's army continued to attack the middle camp, they encountered resistance, and thousands of Han troops fought with them fearlessly, holding Sun Li and others to the footsteps and stopping them outside the middle camp.

Time passed minute by minute, and after about an hour, Cao Zhensaw that he still couldn't take the Han army camp for a long time, so he was furious and decided to attack the whole army and press everyone up.

It's all or nothing.

He felt that if the Han army was more tenacious, the Han army in Pusaka might rush to the rescue, so he had already gambled everything.

And at this time, the sound of rolling thunder shook the four fields.

Cao Zhen was shocked: "Where did the cavalry come from?" ”

He hurriedly looked back.

Because he found that the voice of the cavalry this time actually came from the rear of his camp.

At the same time, on the surface of the Yellow River, I don't know when, countless boats slowly floated in, slowly approaching the shore.

Above those ships, there were flags, some of which were written "Han", and some of which were written "Pang"!

Pound's army actually appeared here!

(End of chapter)