Chapter 559
Yongqiu is a necessary place to go south from Yanzhou.
In addition to the high walls of Yongqiu City itself, there are many sandy mounds around the suburbs, which have become natural trenches and defensive points.
Cao Cao was at the boundary of Yongqiu at this time, and received the news of Xiahou Yuan's defeat, so in the area around Yongqiu City, he connected the sand soil gang with camp fences and horse rejection to form a tight defense against the Haobai army.
For Xiahou Yuan's defeat, Cao Cao did not criticize Xiahou Yuan too much, after all, even if he is not a trick of Chinese ugliness, once Haobai's main army arrives, then Haobai will cast a spell to sacrifice the battleship, and Cao's army will not be able to hold it after all, and he still remembers it when he attacked Yuan Shu.
This time, all of his set-ups were to put on a full-strength defensive posture and never attack.
In addition to digging a deep trench in front of the city wall, erecting a high wall, and setting up an urn city in the city, the surrounding horse rejection array alone was fifty or sixty paces wide, and behind it were trebuchets, crossbows, and bed crossbows.
The 300,000 Cao troops that had recently been hastily recruited formed a fortified defense line of twenty miles with Yongqiu City as the center to resist Haobai's troops.
In addition, Cao Cao gave a death order to all Cao troops, requiring all defenders to be divided into two shifts, the soldiers on duty should not leave their posts, and the soldiers who were not on duty must sleep with A.
In less than three days, Cao Cao personally beheaded more than 200 heads, some of whom secretly escaped, some who slept while on duty, some who slept without armor, and some who left their posts without permission during meals.
Under Cao Cao's bloody butcher's knife, those loose recruits quickly became conformist, and no one dared to joke about their heads.
......
Thundered!
In the sky north of Yongqiu City, there was a rolling muffled thunder, followed by a dark cloud emerging on the horizon, slowly obscuring the entire sky.
"It's coming,......," Cao Cao, who was standing at the head of the city, muttered.
The dark clouds that covered the sky and the sun were getting closer and closer, and it was gradually recognizable that it was a myriad of military horses galloping forward.
The embroidered flags like clouds, the halberds of the forest, the horseshoe of the drum, the smoke and dust of the fog, just like this, are swept in this way, not in a hurry, and slowly advance like this, like a monstrous flood, which is unavoidable and desperate.
When he ran to the front again, the whole ground was shaking, and Cao Jun, who was standing on Yongqiu City, even felt that the city under his feet was trembling, as if it was about to collapse at any time, and a desperate breath swept over Yongqiu like a hurricane.
This aura even Cao Cao felt, he didn't understand why he felt so vulnerable in the face of an enemy army larger than his own strength, and he felt like an ant in front of this sweeping army.
Soon, he found the reason.
The 200,000 army, stretching for more than ten miles, is so neat and calm, and there is basically no chaotic sound, which means that at least seventy or eighty percent of the military horses are at the same pace in order to suppress those chaotic footsteps, which is an extremely terrifying thing.
And 200,000 people and horses are surging, except for the footsteps of the horses, quietly, there is no imaginary situation of people shouting and neighing and making a mess.
It was this terrifying neatness and silence that formed an overwhelming coercion that made the 300,000 Cao troops feel a kind of powerless despair.
Although the strength of the enemy army is almost the same as theirs, the other side is full of elite soldiers.
This is the real warrior, compared to these soldiers, at least 150,000 people in the 300,000 Cao army can only be regarded as ordinary people, not at the same level at all.
The army was getting closer and closer, and the terrifying coercion was getting stronger and stronger, and those veterans of the Cao army didn't feel anything, but those newly recruited soldiers couldn't help but tremble and be shocked.
Cao Cao obviously felt this panic, he calmed down, suddenly looked back, and shouted coldly to the soldiers behind him: "The whole army blows the trumpet!"
Woooooo
Hundreds of trumpeters raised the crooked horns at the same time, and in an instant, the distant and low horn horns rushed into the sky, and resounded over Yongqiu City in an instant.
The majestic and suffocating and desolate sound of the bull's horn, like a violent whirlwind, instantly blew throughout the city, sweeping a radius of twenty miles around Yongqiu City, making those originally restless recruits infected by this majestic horn sound and gradually quieted down.
Cao Cao saw that the Cao Jun around him finally quieted down, took a deep breath, and raised the sword in his hand high, piercing the sky.
A thunderous cry immediately sounded among the cloud-like Cao Jun armor behind him.
Wave after wave of heroic calls finally completely infected the panicked recruits, and many recruits raised their weapons and shouted loudly.
In the midst of the cries of landslides and tsunamis, the 200,000-strong army finally slowly stopped more than 200 steps away from Cao's camp.
In the cloud-like embroidered flags, the Chinese army array flag was opened, and Haobai slowly came out under the support of more than a dozen brave generals, and galloped until more than 100 steps away from the city before stopping.
He looked at the Cao army on the city, nodded slightly, and secretly praised Cao Cao for being a dragon and phoenix among the people, originally wanted to surrender the army without a fight, causing coercion to the Cao army, disturbing its military morale, and reducing its morale, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to quickly inspire the morale of the 300,000 Cao army.
He slowly raised his head, looked at the opponent with thin eyes and long beard at the head of the city, and roared loudly: "Meng De, you are gone, why bother to resist and increase the killing, if you lead the neck to apologize, I will ensure that you will be rich and prosperous in the future, and you should also treat your soldiers well, and still retain your name, how about it?"
Guo Jia, who was not far behind him, couldn't help but laugh secretly, it was obvious that he would rather die than surrender to a hero like Cao Cao, Haobai put on such a high posture, it was nothing more than to claim to be the victor and suppress the morale of the other party.
Before the words fell, three sharp arrows flew down from the city, like lightning, and went straight to Haobai.
The generals beside Hao Bai were shocked, and they were about to ride out on horseback, wielding weapons to shield Hao Bai's arrows, but they saw a hand shadow come out and meet the three powerful sharp arrows.
The three sharp arrows disappeared in a flash, and above the BMW, the vast white stood proudly, holding three long sharp arrows in his hand like pinching chopsticks.
There was an uproar at the head of Yongqiu City, and all the soldiers couldn't help but gasp, because these three sharp arrows were not shot by others, they were shot by Xu Huang, a famous general of Cao Ying, and they were gently grabbed by Haobai like child's play.
"Carving insect skills, smiling and generous!"
Hao Bai laughed and shook the three swords casually.
Woohoo!
When everyone reacted, three sharp arrows flew towards the castle tower like meteors.
The soldiers of the Cao army were shocked, Xu Chu hurriedly stepped forward to block in front of Cao Cao, and many guards raised large shields to cover Cao Cao's front and the top of his head.