Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 750 Cao Cao's Helplessness

After all, Zhu Weijun is now facing two attacks from Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's coalition forces. As far as the total strength is concerned, Zhu Weijun is still somewhat insufficient.

Therefore, Zhu Weijun can only resolve the disadvantage of insufficient troops by implementing defensive counterattack tactics, and use a small amount of troops to kill Yuan Shaojun and Cao Jun's large numbers of troops by taking advantage of the geographical advantage in defense.

But now if Zhu Weijun doesn't take the initiative to attack, facing the rockets fired by Cao Jun on the mound every day will indeed cause some trouble for Zhu Weijun's camp.

Inside the camp, all the tents and buildings could be evacuated out of the range of the rockets, but the outer walls of the camp could not be moved. Therefore, under Cao Cao's kerosene and rocket attacks, the outer walls of the camp caught fire all around. It was too late to put out the fire.

Many of the outer walls of the camps have been burned to black charcoal, leaving little defense.

Of course, this is nothing. Anyway, Zhu Weijun's strength at Hulao Pass is actually not much less than Cao Jun's. The big deal is to wait for Cao Cao to attack.

This can still take advantage of defensive counterattacks, reduce the loss of one's own troops, and greatly reduce the strength of Cao's army.

Unexpectedly, after Cao Cao saw Zhu Weijun's stone chariot, he asked his craftsmen to study this long-range weapon. As a result, although Cao Cao did not have the original blueprint of the thunder chariot presented by Liu Yao in history, he still obtained it from the royal warehouse of Xudu. Found the blueprint for the stone car.

Fashi chariots had already been used on the battlefield during the Spring and Autumn Period, but the technology at that time was slightly behind, so naturally there are related design records in the Han royal warehouse.

Therefore, Cao Cao found the design drawing of the Fashi chariot, which was also built by someone and transported to the frontal battlefield, so when Cao Cao attacked Zhu Weijun's camp, he also pushed the Fashi chariot up.

Even though Cao Cao's stone-throwing cart may not be as good as Zhu Wei's stone-throwing cart that has been improved by craftsmen in terms of speed and power of throwing stones, it is like a tank with different performance. After all, it still has the effect of a tank.

So when Cao Cao launched another attack on Zhu Wei's army, the stone-launching carts of both sides threw rocks, fire oil cans and flints at the opponent's formation, so the battle became a bit head-on.

This is still not in line with Zhu Weijun's current defense and counterattack strategy. There is no need for Zhu Weijun to leave such a dangerous pass as Hulao Pass and fight Cao Cao.

So after the two sides fought each other for a day and lost almost two to three thousand troops, Zhu Weijun gave up the camp on the east side of Hulao Pass and withdrew the entire army to Hulao Pass, preparing to take advantage of the geographical advantages of Hulao Pass and wait. Cao Cao's next offensive.

I also mentioned the terrain of Hulao Pass in the previous article. Now Cao Cao can place only three to 5000 frontal offensive troops in front of Hulao Pass. Even if he can build mounds outside Hulao Pass again, he wants to reach Hulao Pass. Compared with the height, it is not achievable in a short period of time.

At the same time, it is meaningless to pile up the mounds far away, but if they are piled up close, they will naturally be attacked by Zhu Weijun from Hulaoguan.

This time Cao Cao didn't have many troops in front of Hulao Pass, and Zhu Weijun had the long-range attack support of the defenders at Hulao Pass, so he naturally dared to come out and fight back.

So Cao Cao's army tried to build mounds several times, but Zhu Weijun counterattacked and repelled the civilian auxiliary soldiers who built the mounds. If the back and forth continues like this, as the height of these mounds rises, the mounds built by Cao Cao can become Another line of defense for Zhu Weijun outside Hulao Pass.

After discovering that this mound-building tactic was meaningless for attacking Hulao Pass, Cao Cao had no choice but to give up this tactic and thought about using a stone cart to attack Hulao Pass.

But Zhu Weijun's stone chariot placed on the wall of Hulaoguan had a condescending advantage, and the throwing distance was farther than Cao Cao's stone chariot. As a result, several of Cao Cao's stone chariots were destroyed during the attack.

At the same time, the narrow valley terrain in front of Hulao Pass also allowed Cao Jun to advance in a dense formation, which could maximize the lethality of Zhu Weijun's stone chariot.

As a result, after Cao Cao lost three to four thousand troops here, he still made no progress, and Cao Cao did not dare to attack by force. He could not afford to waste his troops. So far, his troop losses had reached [-].

Although Cao Cao's total strength may reach more than [-], except for the [-] elite soldiers he brought now, the rest are second-line troops stationed in various places, so if these elite soldiers are lost in front of Hulao Pass in vain, it is equivalent It's taking out Cao Cao's money.

Now that more than ten thousand elite soldiers have been lost, Cao Cao is heartbroken. If it weren't for the fact that this battle is related to the success or failure of the future, Cao Cao would have no choice but to not fight. I am afraid that Cao Cao would have withdrawn his troops long ago.

What's more, Cao Cao also calculated from the previous battles that Zhu Weijun's losses would only be two, three, four, or five thousand at most. Therefore, if he continued to fight like this, Cao Cao's losses would eventually The number of troops may not be as large as that of Zhu Weijun stationed at Hulao Pass.

Especially now facing the offensive battle at Hulao Pass, the battle loss ratio between Cao Cao's army and Zhu Wei's army can reach almost ten to one or twenty to one. In the terrain of Hulao Pass that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Cao Cao is really Somewhat unbeatable.

For this reason, Cao Cao had to slow down his offensive on Hulao Pass, and discussed with his advisers such as Guo Jing and Cheng Yu in his own military tent how to capture Hulao Pass with the least cost.

For a while, Cao Cao thought of retreating as an advancing strategy, thinking of pretending to retreat, and waited for Zhu Weijun to leave Hulao Pass to pursue the attack, and then ambush and counterattack.

It's a pity that there is Zhuge Liang on Hulao Pass, so although Cao Cao pretended to withdraw his troops, Zhuge Liang didn't care at all, and blocked Pang Yan's idea of ​​sending troops to pursue him.

For Zhuge Liang, as long as Zhu Weijun can stop Cao Cao's attack at Hulao Pass, he will win strategically. As long as Cao Cao really withdraws his troops, then there will naturally be a chain reaction on Yuan Shao's side.

At that time, Zhu Weijun can completely repel Yuan Shao first, and then attack Cao Cao on a large scale. Now Cao Cao's retreat will only wait for death. On the other hand, it doesn't matter that Cao Cao retreats.

As a result, Cao Cao pretended to retreat, and found that Zhu Weijun was completely unmoved, so he had to kill him and come back. Just as Zhuge Liang expected, it is impossible for Cao Cao to really retreat now.

Next, Cao Cao really couldn't think of any strategies. He couldn't attack Hulao Pass. Even if he moved to other levels, he would still face the same problem.

At that time, it will take time to mobilize the army, not to mention, it may make the current temporary ally Yuan Shao have some bad ideas, so Cao Cao had to continue to spend time with Zhu Weijun outside Hulao Pass, at least he can contain Zhu Weijun in Hulao Pass. A solid force.

Cao Cao also knew that the main force of the Zhu Wei army, the Xiongba Battalion, was stationed at Hulao Pass, so now he can contain the main force of Zhu Wei's army at Hulao Pass, which has certain strategic significance for the attack on Zhu Wei...

(End of this chapter)