Xiaoqi

Li Ru nodded when he heard the words, and said in a low voice: "Huanyi and General Tiegu were the first generals to follow His Majesty to conquer the world. They moved from the Western Regions to the Central Plains. They have survived the ups and downs for more than ten years. It is impossible to imagine this time." , Li Ru couldn't help sighing, feeling a lot, and then said: "Especially General Tiegu, he is a mighty general in the army. His rank is equal to that of Jiuqing. Seven years ago, His Majesty intended to let him enter the ranks of the army of the county government, as the general of Pingxi and the general of Zhangye, but he was unwilling to leave the main battalion. The rear is stationed in prefectures and counties. Whether it is official rank or military merit, he is above the deputy general of the military guard battalion, but in order to stay in the main battalion, he volunteered to be the deputy general of Yu Jin. Unexpectedly."

Guo Jia continued: "Your Majesty was furious just now, and it was because of Tie Zhu's death in battle that he blamed himself. The three brothers Tie Zhu were generals under Mrs. Wuxia's account in the early years, and they fought with His Majesty for many years. Ten years ago, Jin Zhu was seriously injured and disabled. Five years ago, Yinji was also seriously injured during the Western Expedition to the Southern Barbarians, and almost died. Now General Tiegu died in battle. These three brothers are all strong fighters on the battlefield, but now they are one dead and two wounded. How can His Majesty not blame himself, how can he not be furious?"

Li Rudao: "What should we do now, should we go to His Majesty to discuss the Sili war?"

Jia Xu, Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang were silent and looked at each other, then Jia Xu said in a low voice: "Forget about today, Your Majesty has no intention of dealing with the war, you need to be quiet, I will come back tomorrow." Li Ru deeply agreed Nodding in agreement, the four of them bowed to the empty dragon chair and left the hall together.

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The night is hazy, a round of crescent moon hangs in the sky, and a dozen lonely stars dot the night sky, setting off her beauty that disdains the Milky Way.

The city of Kaifeng under the night looked extraordinarily quiet, and the offensive and defensive battle that lasted all day came to an end as Cao Jun slowly withdrew his troops.

Beacon smoke is not extinguished.But the soldiers on both sides were already hungry and overwhelmed. In addition, Cao Jun had come from a long distance, and it seemed that they could not conquer Kaifeng City in one fell swoop. Setting up camp was their top priority, and they had to stand firm before dark in order to fight again.This is the first day when Cao Wei's army stormed Kaifeng City.

In the face of Cao Jun's aggressive siege, Kaifeng City is like a small boat on the vast ocean. Facing the violent impact of the stormy waves, it is crumbling, and there is a danger of ship destruction and death at any time. Heaven's onslaught.During this period, Cao Jun attacked the top of the city several times and fought desperately with the defenders, but was beaten back again and again by the tenacious defenders; the east gate and north gate were also smashed by Cao Jun, but the defenders in the city piled up behind the gate. After entering the Shimen, the city gate was blocked for life and death, so that Cao Jun could not enter through the gate, so he could only attack the city head with all his strength and break through the city with all his strength.

It was late at night.The towers of the east gate and north gate of Kaifeng City were brightly lit. Thousands of defenders stood behind the parapet, staring down at the city with wide eyes. .Cao Jun had already sneaked in once before, so it is hard to guarantee that they will not repeat their old tricks and make a comeback.

In the early hours of the morning, the West City Gate quietly opened, and teams of cavalry rode out of the city, but the movement was very small, almost undetectable.As these [-] war cavalry with their mouths and hooves quickly left the city, the west gate was closed again, leaving only a black shadow moving rapidly from west to east in the night.

Cao Jun's camp five miles away has long since calmed down, but the defenses are heavily guarded. Teams of soldiers patrolling the night are cruising back and forth in the narrow area between the gate of the camp and the east gate, leaving no dead ends. Take a full tour.The defenses are tight and airtight, and the Xiliang army in the city is not given the slightest chance of conflict or sneak attack at night.

Suddenly, a "swoosh" pierced through the silence of the night, and instantly drowned a night patrolling Cao Jun centurion.However, the people died, and their horses were still alive. Suddenly, the long hiss of "Xi Yuyu" broke the silence of the night, resounding through the sky.The neighing of the horse revealed the whereabouts of the sneak attacker hidden under the night, so the premeditated night attack turned into a storm to rob the camp in an instant.

Chapter 246 Drive the tiger and devour the wolf ([-])

Xi Yuyu!

The sudden roar of war horses broke the silence under the night sky, which not only gave Cao Jun an early warning, but also exposed the whereabouts of the sneak attackers hidden under the night.

"Break through the enemy camp, kill!" The horse neighed, but saw a silver-white figure leaping forward on the horse, pointing the gleaming spear directly at Cao Jun's camp in front of him, shouting angrily, and charging forward with a spear.

"Da da da kill!" The sound of horseshoes boomed, and the sound of killing resounded through the night sky.

Following the command of the general, the originally hidden ten thousand cavalry no longer had any scruples, let their horses loose one by one, screaming and rushed straight to the gate of Cao Jun's camp.

At the same time as they showed their figures, the Cao army patrols cruising in the Yuanmen wilderness quickly assembled from all directions, trying to intercept and surround these Xiliang cavalry who suddenly came out.

Suddenly, with the sound of "booming" fires, Cao Jun, who was watching the night, lit the torches and illuminated the wilderness.Immediately, a "swoosh" rain of arrows pierced through the night sky, and the horses and horses of the two armies dived head-on to meet each other, and the fighting broke out at this moment.In the flickering flames, I saw a silver figure taking the lead and rushing into Cao Jun who was trying to intercept him, followed by ten thousand cavalrymen galloping and shooting, each cluster of arrows was aimed at the flames.

"Puff, puff, puff!" There was a sudden sound of a sharp weapon breaking through, followed by a horrific scream.The light of the torches exposed the location of Cao Jun's soldiers, and virtually provided the Xiliang iron cavalry under the night with a target for precise shooting. The first time the two sides encountered each other, Cao Jun's soldiers were hit head-on, and the arrows never failed.The large-scale shooting caused Cao Jun's scouts who were blocking the charge road to be shot down one after another.Removing the obstacles to the charge provided the army with valuable space to attack the gate.

obvious.This Xiliang iron cavalry that went out of the city late at night to rob the camp was exactly a 3000-man cavalry team in the Wushuang Iron Cavalry Battalion under Zhao Yun's tent.The Peerless Iron Cavalry Battalion is fully staffed with 3000 people, and there are three cavalry teams of 1000 people. Of the remaining 2000 people, [-] are the personal guards directly under the account of the chief general and deputy general, and the other [-] are scouts and sentry cavalry.

During the offensive and defensive battle during the daytime, more than half of the 2000 city guards under Zhao Yun's tent were killed or injured. Today, there are less than [-] county soldiers still standing at the top of the city.At the same time, the [-] cavalry who reinforced the city also suffered heavy casualties. The cavalry was converted into infantry to defend the city, and their combat effectiveness dropped sharply.Only [-] of the [-] cavalry survived.Therefore, after defending the city for a day, Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses lost more than [-] infantry and cavalry, which was a heavy loss.

Seeing this, Zhao Yun knew that Kaifeng City might not be able to hold on.In a maximum of three days, nearly [-] soldiers in the city will wipe out the entire army, and the city will be destroyed.It is not wise to do something knowingly.Therefore, Zhao Yun made a decisive decision to abandon the city and retreat.However, he, Zhao Yun, was by no means a person who would not fight back when he was beaten, so he decided to give back to Cao Jun and attack the camp at night before the army withdrew from Kaifeng City.

It's called Jieying. In fact, Zhao Yun didn't even think about breaking Cao Jun's camp in one fell swoop. After all, there are 10,000+ troops stationed in the camp.The 10,000 cavalry he led alone could not shake Cao Jun, let alone successfully rob the camp.So he settled for the next best thing, and the purpose of this trip was simple.Just to create confusion for Cao Jun.As long as [-]+ Cao Jun soldiers can be thrown into chaos, there is no need for him to lead the army to charge.Cao Jun soldiers in the camp will trample on each other and suffer huge losses.If so.Zhao Yun's goal of leading the army's sneak attack late at night was achieved, and then taking advantage of the civil strife in Cao's army, he led his army to withdraw from Kaifeng City and retreat to Zhongmou, so that he could retreat completely.

Amid the sound of "Qiang Qiang" weapons colliding, Zhao Yun took the lead, seated on a BMW snow lion, and holding a magic gentian gun in his palm.Behind him, [-] iron cavalry formed a sharp arrow charge formation, and he was the sharp arrow, following him like an arm and finger, approaching Cao Jun's camp at a speed visible to the naked eye.

About 150 paces away from the camp, Zhao Yun reined in his horse and stood upright before the Yuanmen guards fired their arrows. He raised his gentian gun and shouted loudly: "Two wings turn around, throw fire and thunder, and scatter!"

The tens of thousands of iron cavalry following him dispersed at the sound, and dispersed in front of the gate of Cao Jun's camp, avoiding the main gate and the archers on the tower of the gate. Charge up the side wall.At the same time as the formation was scattered, these cavalrymen took out black bumps the size of melons from the black leather bags on both sides of the horses. In a group of two, the cavalry with the black bumps rode their horses to charge, and the other followed closely behind. Finally, while charging, he took the bow and stringed it.The moment the cavalry in front threw the black lump with all their strength, the cavalry behind lit the rocket and shot the arrow in the direction of the black lump. Crashing against a sparkling fence wall of stakes.

"Boom!" The black lump that hit the wooden post exploded when it encountered fire, and there was a loud "bang", which caused the wooden fence wall to vibrate violently, causing the defenders standing on the wall to lose their senses, lose their minds, and even panic. Two defenders were so frightened by the loud explosion that their legs and feet became weak, their bodies crooked, and they fell from the wall, splashing their brains and dying on the spot.The foundation outside the wall is very solid, and it is full of rocks or traps. It was originally set up to prevent the enemy from robbing the camp, but this time it was used on Cao Jun himself. spared.

In contrast, the cavalry who threw the black bumps did not approach the wall, but rode their horses around and rushed, throwing all the black bumps in the black leather bags out continuously.After the first black lump exploded, the black lump thrown out later did not need to be ignited, because the fence wall had already burned, and there was wind at night, and the flames flickered.So as long as the second black bump hits not far from the flames, it will explode immediately. The effect is better than the first one. At least the sound is loud enough, like a thunderbolt, which makes the defenders on the wall dizzy. , with Venus in front of his eyes.Under such circumstances, the defending soldiers with a little less psychological quality will be scared to death. The mild ones are so frightened that they sit paralyzed on the pallets on the wall and dare not show their heads, and the severe ones fall directly and are smashed to pieces.

Cao Jun’s camp was built by logging. In order to ensure that the wall will not deform and be stronger, the wooden piles used to build the wall need to be slightly baked to remove water, so that the wall built by such trees is strong enough.It is worth noting that Henan County is located in the north, and most of the trees in the forest are pine trees, and the newly felled pine trees will overflow with a lot of light yellow grease after a little baking, that is, resin, which is very viscous and easy to burn. Just touch the fire.

Moreover, once the resin burns, it is persistent and stubborn, and cannot be easily extinguished.In addition, black bumps are flammable and explosive, so the fence wall spread rapidly after being ignited, burning more and more vigorously, and the fire became bigger and bigger, forcing the defenders on the wall to be unable to stick to their positions at all. Don't retreat in a hurry, or jump directly off the wall, or move far away along the wall planks to avoid the fire.

When the Xiliang cavalry below the city approached the wall, the defenders on the top of the wall drew their bows one after another, trying to shoot and kill these reckless Xiliang soldiers.However, as the first black lump exploded, the loud noise like thunder instantly overwhelmed the shouts of killing in the wilderness, resounding through the night sky and spreading throughout the camp.As a result, the defenders on the wall were the first to bear the brunt, panicked by the huge noise, and suddenly lost their positions and lost their sense of proportion. More than half of the defenders' archers forgot to release their arrows, and only a small number of sergeants with calm minds put their arrows in their hands. His arrows were fired, but they missed their aim and were not strong enough to effectively kill the Xiliang cavalry, and they were useless.

"Bang bang bang! Boom!" Just as the defenders on both sides of the gate panicked, hundreds of black bumps roared to them, extending from the east wall to the west, and exploded continuously on the 500-meter-long fence wall. .In an instant, the sound of explosions became one piece, and the loud bangs enveloped Cao Jun's front camp, and spread rapidly, affecting the entire camp.A long and narrow fire dragon formed under the dark night sky, and the flames soared into the sky, then roared into the sky with explosions one after another, and the thick smoke shot straight into the sky.Not long after, the entire Cao Jun camp erupted, the horses screamed and neighed, the hooves of the horses rumbled chaotically, and the sounds of screams, running, and screams intertwined together, causing the Xiliang army far away from the camp to die. I could clearly hear the sound of crashing and trampling from the camp, as well as the panicked figures scattered under the firelight. It was extremely noisy, and it was not much worse than the explosion of Heipidao, or even worse.

However, the huge thunder-like explosion continued. Unlike before, this time the explosion was no longer limited to the perimeter of the fence and wall, but exploded directly inside the camp.Amidst the rumbling explosion, thousands of war horses in the Cao camp screamed and ran wildly. Tens of thousands of Cao soldiers rushed out of the camp with their arms bare, and some even ran out with their buttocks naked. But what greeted them was not the iron cavalry from Xiliang who broke through the gate, but the sergeants who were awakened by the same fright as they were, and the war horses that were frightened and ran wild.

In the chaos, the lantern in the tent fell down, and the sergeant with torches outside the tent was knocked into the air by the horses, and the torch fell on the tent, and the tent was set ablaze.Seeing that the camp was on fire, no one put out the flames immediately, they all turned a blind eye and ran for their lives.In this way, a tent caught fire, and when the fire got a little bigger, it immediately ignited the tents next to it; this cycle repeated, and hundreds of tents in the front camp turned into a sea of ​​flames in an instant.

The wind roared with the power of the fire, and the fire roared and raged with the power of the wind; in an instant, the wind and the fire went hand in hand, quickly engulfing the tents, and also engulfed Cao Jun who had no time to rush out of the tents.The fire was raging, and thick smoke billowed over the entire camp.

The camp was on fire, the horses were frightened, the 10,000+ soldiers of the Cao army were boiling, and the Cao army was in chaos.

Chapter 247: Driving Tigers and Devouring Wolves ([-])

Cao Jun's camp was in chaos, and the tens of thousands of defenders on the gate tower of Yuanmen had long since disappeared and disappeared, so that Yuanmen was on fire but no one paid attention to it.

When a fighter plane appears, how can Zhao Yun, who has experienced many battles, easily miss it?

Outside the Yuanmen, Zhao Yun led the Wushuang Iron Cavalry who sneaked into the camp to break through the Yuanmen, blatantly rushed into the front camp of Cao Jun, and forced tens of thousands of Cao Jun from the former battalion to the camp of the Chinese Army.

At this moment, Zhao Yun tried to lead the army to pursue the victory, turned a feint into a strong attack, destroyed Cao Jun's camp in one fell swoop, and dealt Cao Jun a fatal blow. ,

However, when he led thousands of iron cavalry to approach the camp of the Chinese army, he suddenly saw an iron armored cavalry fighting out in the middle of the camp, the number of which was as many as [-], and the leader of the army was General Cao Chun of the Cao Army. .

At the same time, Zhao Yun also saw that in front of the tent of the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, Cao Ren, the general of the Cao army, was leading his personal guards to disperse the rebels from the front battalion who were fleeing in panic.This scene shows that Cao Jun has stabilized his position and is doing his best to reduce losses, organizing troops to withdraw from the camp one after another.

At this moment, Zhao Yun didn't even need to think about it, he knew that the iron armored cavalry oncoming was the tiger and leopard cavalry, the ace of Cao Cao's ace in the Northern Wei Dynasty.However, Cao Ren's actions made Zhao Yun realize that the looting of the camp was only limited to this, the opportunity to fight was lost, and it was impossible to destroy Cao Jun's camp in one fell swoop.

Seeing that nothing could be done, Zhao Yun made a decisive decision, immediately reined in his horse, turned around, and led his army to break through.Fortunately, there were only four thousand war cavalry behind him, and the remaining several thousand cavalry stayed outside the camp to support him, so that he did not encounter decent resistance when he led the army to retreat, and rushed out of the gate quickly.Leading more than 6000 warriors into the night again, they disappeared from Cao Jun's sight.

Almost at the same time that Zhao Yun led his army into the darkness.Cao Chun led the tiger and leopard riders out of the gate, trying to follow and pursue them.However, he led his army to chase outside the east gate.But he didn't see the shadow of the Xiliang iron cavalry who attacked and robbed the camp at all. Instead, the defenders on the top of the city fired arrows, forcing him to lead his army back and return to the camp.

"Has Zihe ever caught up with the enemy general Zhao Yun?" Outside the Yuanmen, Cao Ren led the army to line up outside the camp.

Cao Chun shook his head when he heard the sound, and sighed softly: "It's a step too late, let him run away!"

Cao Ren was not at all surprised by Cao Chun's answer, after all he and Cao Chun went out one after another.If the tiger and leopard cavalry caught up with the Wushuang cavalry under Zhao Yun's tent, then the two armies must be fighting fiercely at this moment, and Cao Chun would definitely not lead his army back so quickly.

"Damn it! Zhao Yun is a famous general of the Western Jin Dynasty after all. He was already famous in the world ten years ago, but unexpectedly, this thief would do such a sneak attack. It is really disgusting, and it has tarnished the prestige of the famous general!"

Seeing the ashamed expression on Cao Chun's face, Cao Ren couldn't help yelling at Zhao Yunlang for his false reputation, and Cao Chun's face softened a little.He changed the subject abruptly, and asked, "While Zihe led his troops in pursuit, did you ever notice the black lumps used by the enemy to rob the camp tonight?"

When he mentioned black bumps, Cao Ren's face was very ugly, and there was a look of horror in his brows.Looks terrified.Obviously, at this moment, he is very afraid of Hei Pi Da, a sharp weapon of siege, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is extremely frightened.Therefore, he paid more attention to this object than Zhao Yun himself.

In Cao Ren's view, it was not surprising that Zhao Yun led his army to flee.After all, Zhao Yun had only 3 or [-] troops under his tent, knowing that he was invincible.Zhao Yun naturally wouldn't fight to the death, escape was his inevitable choice.In addition, Zhao Yun is a well-known general in the Western Jin Dynasty for a long time, and he himself is a warrior on the battlefield. Even if Cao Chun can lead an army to stop him, it may be difficult to capture him.

Knowing that it was impossible to capture and kill Zhao Yun, Cao Ren didn't care about him at all. Anyway, he couldn't keep him, so he ran away if he escaped.In contrast, Cao Ren was more concerned about the black lumps used by the cavalry under Zhao Yun's tent tonight.This thing is very powerful, a few hundred black things in the area actually scared away the [-] soldiers stationed at the Yuanmen, and burned down the [-]-step-long wall in one fell swoop, it can definitely be regarded as an attack. Supreme weapon.

It was precisely because of the emergence of this kind of siege weapon that the rock-solid Yuanmen of the former camp seemed to be empty. In just a quarter of an hour, more than [-] cavalry led by Zhao Yun broke through the Yuanmen, causing the [-] soldiers of the former camp to be in chaos. Thousands of war horses were frightened and ran wildly, abruptly destroying the entire front camp, which in turn affected the entire camp, causing heavy casualties to the entire army.

Although the casualty data has not yet been calculated, Cao Ren knew that the loss was not small just by visual inspection.The casualties of the front battalion soldiers alone amounted to 3 to [-], and countless camps, food, and weapons were burned; what distressed Cao Ren the most was that thousands of horses were rampaging amidst the loud noise of the black lump , and eventually crashed and trampled to death or buried in a sea of ​​flames.

You know, these more than 4000 war horses are used to exchange food and grass with the Jingzhou army.Although they are all old horses or stallions that have been eliminated, each horse is valuable and the number is limited.Now that they have lost more than [-] horses at one time, Cao Ren will have to draw horses from his own account to make up for the shortfall when he exchanges with the Southern Han Dynasty.This is really going to kill me!