Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

"Feng Xiao, this Pengcheng is indeed a strong city in the world. Xiahou Dun failed to take the top of the city even after five days of attack!" Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia.

"My lord, I heard that Pengcheng was a big city during the Warring States Period, and it had a huge population. Tao Qian used Pengcheng as his government to gather food and troops from a state. General Xiahou only had 1 people. It would not be easy to capture it!"

"Yes." Cao Cao asked again, "Where are we going?"

"We've already reached Mount Mang, and we still need to march for two days to reach Xiao County."

"Order to speed up the march, and rest for another day when we arrive in Xiao County!"

"Here!" Guo Jia immediately went to convey Cao Cao's military order.

Cao Cao returned to his frame.

In order to avoid Liu Zhang's attack, Cao Cao moved his office from Xuchang to Chen County in Chen State. After gathering in Chen County, his army marched to Liang State, crossed the northern part of Pei State, and then attacked Xuzhou.

The northern part of Peiguo in Yuzhou was occupied by Cao Cao, and several counties in the southern part were in the hands of Yuan Shu, so he had to take a long way.

Cao Cao's army assembled and marched to the north of Peiguo. Yuan Shu's spies discovered that Yuan Shu was shocked because half of his army was taken by Ji Ling to Jiangdong for conquest, and the army near Shouchun was only more than [-].

He immediately ordered his subordinates to continue to investigate, and he was relieved when he learned that Cao Cao's target was Xuzhou.

He sent an order to Ji Ling to speed up the progress and must capture Wu County within this month.

Finally, Cao Cao's [-] main force arrived in Xiao County.

After rushing continuously, his soldiers were very tired.

Xiao County, as the location of grain storage, is also very strictly defended. Cao Cao ordered the army to camp outside Xiao County for repairs, and then ordered Cao Ren to contact Xiahou Dun, wanting to know the specific information on the front line.

He was not angry when he learned that Xiahou Dun's [-] vanguard army not only failed to capture Pengcheng for ten consecutive days, but lost [-] troops.

He summoned Guo Jia, Le Jin, Yu Jin and other generals to discuss how to attack Xuzhou.

Guo Jia suggested that there are more than [-] defenders in Pengcheng, and it is not easy to attack by force. You can attack Liuxian and Wuxian first to disperse Pengcheng's troops.

Cao Cao accepted and ordered Le Jin and Yu Jin to lead [-] troops each to attack Liu County and Wu County, and then ordered Cao Hong to lead [-] troops to reinforce Xiahou Dun, and ordered him to continue to attack the city.

In Wu County, there are only a thousand defenders. The defenders in the city knew that Cao Cao was attacking, and they had already prepared to take precautions.

When the scouts found a large number of troops outside the city, they immediately reported to the guard.

The guard of Wu County immediately ordered his subordinates to close the four gates. Sure enough, after half an hour, he found that the enemy was approaching. He immediately ordered the soldiers to report to Pengcheng.

Pengcheng Tao Qian had just received information from Wu County, and immediately called Cao Bao, Jian Yong, Chen Deng, and Mi Zhu to discuss.

Chen Dengdao: "It's difficult to defend the lonely city in Xia. There are only a thousand people in Wu County. I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist for a long time. You can order 3000 troops to reinforce it!"

Tao Qian looked at Cao Bao. As a lieutenant of Xuzhou, Cao Bao was basically in charge of Xuzhou's military.

Cao Bao immediately said: "Second!"

Tao Qian then ordered one of Cao Bao's generals to lead 3000 men to reinforce Wu County.

Not long after, someone from Liu County came to report that they were attacked by the enemy. Tao Qian also ordered Yibian to lead 3000 people to go.

Cao Bao's official position is the captain of Xuzhou, and only the imperial court has the right to appoint generals, but now everyone doesn't care much about the imperial court's orders.

So Cao Bao is the captain of Xuzhou, and also the biggest military officer in Xuzhou. The small characters under him are now promoted to generals like generals and generals.

Xiahou Dun received Cao Hong's reinforcements, but he did not attack the city immediately. He transported the wounded in the general camp to Xiao County in the rear, and then waited for the opportunity.

Pengcheng is in the south of Sishui. Although Liu County and Wu County are the same distance from Pengcheng, the army to reinforce Liu County needs to cross Sishui.

Just near Surabaya, Cao Chun led the tiger and leopard cavalry, which had just taken shape, and was watching closely.

Soon, scouts came to report that the Xuzhou army crossed the river.

Cao Chun gave the order, and the tiger and leopard cavalry rushed out.

This is exactly the half-crossing attack in the art of war. Cao Chun is Cao Ren's younger brother and a direct descendant of the Cao family in Qiao County, so he is naturally familiar with the art of war.

Two thousand tiger and leopard riders rushed out, and only one thousand of the three thousand Xuzhou troops had just arrived at the north bank by boat. They were in a panic and could not form an army formation.

Two thousand tigers and leopards rushed them away with one charge, and then there was an asymmetrical fight.

However, in less than half an hour, the more than a thousand Xuzhou army on the north bank of Surabaya was completely lost. Cao Chun still felt that it was not enough, so he ordered the tiger and leopard cavalry to shoot arrows at the Xuzhou army in Surabaya.

The upper range of the ship is under the jurisdiction, and the Xuzhou army on it has no extra place to hide, and many of them fell into the water with arrows.

The partial general who led the 3000 men was also beheaded by Cao Chun himself. The more than a thousand Xuzhou troops who were still on the south bank of Surabaya saw that nothing could be done, so they had to abandon them and return to Pengcheng the same way.

However, another team of 3000 people was also intercepted and killed by Cao Jun on the way, losing 1000 people.

They rushed to Wu County and were escorted into the city by the defenders.

Yu Jin was originally full of confidence in capturing Wu County, but because he didn't investigate for a while, he let this reinforcements enter the city, and it was impossible to besiege Wu County with 5000 people.

He could only give up the siege of Wu County and think about how to attack the city.

But when Cao Chun led the tiger and leopard riders back to Xiao County, Cao Cao was a little happy.

It turned out that that day he sent Yu Jin and Le Jin to attack Wu County and Liu County, and Cao Chun and Cao Ren each led an army to ambush on the road to Pengcheng.

In this way, he made two-handed preparations.

If Pengcheng doesn't send reinforcements to reinforce Liu County and Wu County, then take these two cities first;

Sure enough, Tao Qian sent reinforcements, and in this way, more than [-] Tao Qian's men were eliminated and hundreds of prisoners were captured.

Cao Cao thought to himself that the reinforcements sent by Tao Qian had already been ambushed once, and he might not send reinforcements again, so he ordered Cao Chun and Cao Ren to return to Xiao County and not to ambush again.

At the same time, Yu Jin and Le Jin were ordered to capture Wu County and Liu County as soon as possible.

There were only a thousand defenders in Liu County, and Le Jin ordered Tao Qian's reinforcements to send the heads to the city to break the defenders' fighting spirit. After three days of strong attack, they broke the city and captured Liu County.

Because Wu County had received reinforcements, there were [-] defenders in the city, and it was difficult to win by force. Yu Jin tried every means, and it took five days to finally capture it.

After Pengcheng's left and right wings were captured, Cao Cao's army could encircle Pengcheng in three directions.

However, Pengcheng is still difficult to capture.

Surabaya lies to the north of Pengcheng, and the city wall of Pengcheng would be impossible to attack without a naval force. Cao Cao personally led the army to the west gate of Pengcheng.

He found that the support was really magnificent, and such a fortified city would suffer a lot of losses if it was attacked by force.

He ordered to continue attacking the remaining cities of Pengcheng Kingdom, and wait until Pengcheng really became an isolated city before attacking the city.