Becoming stronger from cutting Hu and Cao Cao

"Report to the general, General Cao Anmin died on the battlefield." The messenger reported.

"Brother Cao De, how can I explain to you?" Cao Ren sighed.

Cao Anmin was Cao De's son, and Cao De was also Cao Ren's elder brother. Now that his nephew died, Cao Ren felt a little distressed.

After receiving the news of Cao Anmin's death and knowing that the Black Mountain Army would arrive before dark, Cao Ren was caught in a dilemma.

This Zhending county is only a small county, and the city walls are not high or thick, so it is not considered a strong city.If he continued to defend, Cao Ren himself didn't know if he could hold on.

However, if you don't keep it.In the past, Yu Jin lost Qiao County, and later he lost Cao Anmin and his 30 troops.If this is really lost, then it is tantamount to letting go of [-] soldiers and civilians of the Montenegro Army.

In this way, in this battle, it can be said that Cao Jun failed to achieve all his military goals.He also lost the city and lost the general, which is completely because of the loss of soldiers with his wife.

After thinking about it, Cao Ren felt that he could not withdraw no matter what.At least, Zhending cannot be evacuated without Cao Cao's permission.

"Notify all the soldiers in the city that reinforcements are on the way, and they will arrive before dawn tomorrow."

"Our army must defend the city, and not a single soldier will abandon the city until the end of the battle." Cao Ren's order was conveyed.

Whether this order is true or false is naturally made up by Cao Ren himself.Cao Ren didn't know if there were any reinforcements, and Cao Ren didn't know where the reinforcements were.The reason why the lie that the reinforcements will arrive before dawn tomorrow is to give the soldiers something to look forward to.

With hope, even if this bloody battle is fought, no matter how heavy the casualties are, the morale of the soldiers will not be easily slackened.

As for reinforcements, Cao Ren was indeed planning to call in reinforcements.

"Also, send another messenger to rush to King Wei and Brother Xiahou to ask for reinforcements, and tell them that Zhending County is urgently needed." Cao Ren ordered.

The messenger who was in charge of asking for help left Zhending County in a hurry, and Cao Ren could be regarded as doing his best and obeying the destiny.Anyway, the people asking for help have been sent out, as for when the reinforcements will come.Whether to come before Zhending County was destroyed, or after Zhending County was destroyed, this can only be left to fate.

After giving all orders, Cao Ren personally rushed to sit on the city wall, ready for the upcoming battle at any time.

Chapter 2 Siege

noon.

Outside the city of Zhending, inside the camp of the Qin army, there was faint smoke rising from the kitchen at this time, and it was time for the Qin army to bury the pot for cooking.

After lunch, at the foot of Zhending City, there were [-] to [-] soldiers of the Qin Army displayed under the city, and these were not all real elite soldiers.

Although Li Chen raised an army of 10,000+, after the troops were divided into three groups, his main force was only [-] to [-].Although the strength of the army is not large, it is also quite a lot.

You must know that Li Chen's soldiers are different from Cao Jun's soldiers. The Qin Army soldiers under Li Chen's command are professional soldiers, while Cao Jun's soldiers are field soldiers.If it is a head-on battle, one soldier of the Qin army can be worth two or three soldiers of the Cao army.

Under Zhending City, the [-] to [-] soldiers of the Qin Army have a shocking morale all over their bodies. This is the soul of the army, the soul of the Qin Army.

At the forefront of these [-] to [-] Qin troops, the leader was Qin Wang Li Chen, and next to Li Chen was Chen Qingzhi in a white robe.

Famous teachers and generals should not be in prison, and thousands of troops and horses should avoid white robes.Chen Qingzhi, the white-robed army god of the human city, was the actual commander of this army just now.

Li Chen's biggest advantage is that he dares to employ people and knows how to employ people, and he never likes to be like a principal in later generations, who likes laymen to command experts.

What Li Chen likes most is to be the hands-off shopkeeper. Let Chen Qingzhi take the lead in this match, which is far better than Li Chen's own lead.

Under Zhending City, Chen Qingzhi was wearing a white Confucian robe with a long sword hanging from his waist.Chen Qingzhi is a Confucian general, so even during the war, he did not wear armor.

Chen Qingzhi raised the long sword in his hand and shouted: "Today, Zhending City will be destroyed."

"The real city must be broken."

"The real city must be broken."

"The real city must be broken."

The soldiers of the Qin Army behind Chen Qingzhi roared at the top of their lungs.This is the momentum that a strong army can have just now.

"Break the city."

After holding the long sword in Chen Qingzhi's hand for a while, he saw a soldier carrying a ladder rushing towards the loess city wall in Zhending County.In front of these soldiers carrying ladders, there were also some sword and shield soldiers holding round shields.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

At the same time, Cao Jun in Zhending City would naturally not watch Qin Jun attack the city.I saw a dense rain of arrows shot from the city wall, and landed on the soldiers carrying the ladders.

Just as a soldier carrying a ladder was shot at the front foot, someone immediately made up for it.However, the closer the ladder was to the city wall, the more casualties there were.At this time, Chen Qingzhi's order was issued again.

"Cover." With a wave of the long sword in Chen Qingzhi's hand, the order was conveyed.

"Crack, creak, creak."

There was only a sound of wheel axle rotation, and one after another catapults were pushed out from the rear of the army, and beside the catapults, there were dozens of eight-ox crossbows.

At this time, after some probing just now, Chen Qingzhi had already judged the location of Cao Jun's archers on the city wall.After the catapult and eight-ox crossbow were in place, Chen Qingzhi immediately let them aim at the archer's position on the city wall.

"put."

With Chen Qingzhi's order, countless boulders the size of human heads and crossbow arrows as thick as arms were shot towards the city wall.

The power of the crossbow bolts of the Baoxu crossbow is beyond everyone's imagination. These crossbow bolts can easily shoot through the loess wall stacks of the Zhending city wall, and then shoot through the armor of Cao Jun on the city wall, piercing them together like candied haws.

Each ballista with eight oxen crossbows can fire seven bolts at the same time, the largest of which can completely ignore the defense of the city wall.After dozens of ballistas fired more than ten rounds in succession, Cao Jun's archers had been completely misfired.

"What kind of crossbow is this? It's so terrifying?" Cao Ren couldn't help being shocked when he saw the crossbow that pierced through the wall, pierced three soldiers into sugar gourds, and nailed them to the gate tower. .

Not to mention anything else, Cao Ren had never seen such a sharp crossbow arrow in his more than ten years of military career.Such a powerful crossbow bolt is enough to be called invincible in the world.

"The crossbow of the Qin army is invincible in the world." On the city wall, Cao Ren couldn't help sighing.

Although the two sides are now rivals, Cao Ren has to admit that Qin Jun is really the only one in this big man with a crossbow arrow that can shoot through the city wall.

You must know that although the city walls of Zhending County are made of rammed loess, the loess mixed with glutinous rice juice is also extremely hard.

Soon, Cao Ren also discovered that the Qin army under the city was a master.No matter how many positions he changed the archer phalanx, every time they fired arrows, at most three rounds, the Qin army under the city would be able to find the position of the archer phalanx on the city wall from the point where the arrow fell.Then, it was a round of heavy crossbow bolts.

Before the soldiers of the Qin Army began to climb the city wall, the two sides had a long-range contest. In this long-range contest, Cao Jun can be said to have lost in a mess.

It has to be said that Cao Ren is definitely one of the few generals under Cao Cao who can stand alone, after discovering that the group of archers is vulnerable to attack.Cao Ren immediately thought of a countermeasure. He divided the archers on the city wall into small teams of five or sixty people and hid behind the city wall. Then he ordered the sword and shield soldiers to erect a large shield in front of the archers. shot.

Cao Ren divided the crossbowmen into small teams, which made it impossible for Chen Qingzhi to judge the position of the archers.However, if the same archers do not shoot in groups, then the threat they can bring to the soldiers carrying the ladders below the city will be very small.

After Cao Jun's crossbowmen misfired, Qin Jun's soldiers rushed under the city wall of Zhending County carrying ladders.

In a short while, a frame of ladders was erected on the city wall, and the upper end of the ladders was fitted with an iron hook. The soldiers on the wall pushed back.

In a short period of time, more than a dozen ladders were put on the city wall, and groups of Qin soldiers holding shields and long knives immediately began to climb up the spear one after another.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

After a while, I saw more than a dozen ladders, each of which was covered with densely packed soldiers of the Qin Army, just like ants climbing a tree.

They held a round shield in one hand and blocked their heads to avoid the damage of arrows and rocks. With long knives in their mouths, they kept holding on to the ladder and climbed up quickly.

In this era, the first batch of soldiers who could climb the city wall were called Xiandeng.Those who can act as the first climbers are undoubtedly the bravest soldiers in the entire army.

The scattered archers on the city wall are already difficult to effectively kill the soldiers climbing on the ladder.At this time, Cao Ren from the city wall waved his hand and gave an order: "Pull stones and roll logs, smash them for me."

Chapter 2

On the city wall, Cao Ren said throw the rock and log at me, and I saw Cao Jun on the city wall immediately threw the prepared rock and log down.

Cao Ren was also one of the famous generals in the Cao army. He knew that Zhending County was only a small town, so he had prepared enough rocks and logs on the city wall to assist in the defense.

Of course, rolling stones and rolling logs is not Cao Ren's trump card. Cao Ren has something more vicious in his hands.

At this time, the city wall was filled with a stench, which was a smell of boiled excrement and boiled urine.The stench on the city wall is the cauldron on the fire.These cauldrons are full of boiling golden juice.

Golden juice can be said to be a sharp weapon for defending the city. It is a liquid that is mixed with feces and urine and then boiled.The material of this thing is easy to find, easy to prepare, not to mention, and it can be said to have miraculous effects.

The soldiers on the ladder were all holding round shields in their hands. These round shields could block most of the arrows and even the rolling stones and logs, but they didn't know the golden juice.

It is conceivable what kind of scene it would be if the soldiers who were climbing the city wall were doused with hot golden juice head-on.Leaving aside being scalded, there can be a lot of bacteria in these feces.In this era without antibiotics, a large area of ​​bacterial infection means death, and it is an extremely painful death.

At this time, the soldiers of the Qin army on the ladder were struggling to climb the ladder under the huge logs and gravel.However, just as they were about to climb up the city wall.

All I could hear was Cao Ren's voice on the city wall: "Shangjinjiu."

At this time, a few soldiers were seen carrying a cauldron and pouring it on the ladder fiercely.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

A soldier of the Qin army who was poured head-on let out a heart-piercing roar. Taking advantage of this time, Cao Jun poured a few pots of gold juice on the city wall, which seemed to stop the first wave of the Qin army. attack.

Just when Cao Ren thought that the Qin army would attack violently again, he heard the sound of "Dang! Dang! Dang!" from the battlefield.

After a burst of golden sounds, the attacking Qin army swarmed down like the ebbing tide.

Chen Qingzhi ordered the attacking Qin army to retreat, which was really a mysterious behavior for the generals.Because, at this time, the Qin army is actually working harder, as long as they attack a few rounds and pay a few casualties, they should be able to climb the city wall.

However, at this moment, Chen Qingzhi ordered to retreat. In this way, wouldn't all the previous efforts be in vain.

"General Qingzhi, why did you order the army to retreat?" At this moment, Pei Yuanqing asked a little puzzled.

Chen Qingzhi said: "There are too many casualties in the fight, and I already have a way to break the city. Let's rest for now. When the Black Mountain Army reaches the opposite side of the city, we will attack."

Although I can't figure it out, on the battlefield, military orders are falling like a mountain. Whether you want to understand it or not, you have to execute the order in the end.

After the Qin army withdrew, they began to rest on the spot, as if preparing for the next round of attack at any time.

Looking at it, the sun has slowly set to the west.

"Whoosh."

At this moment, a loud arrow appeared in the western sky.

At the same time, Zhending is on the city wall.

"report"

"General Cao, the Black Mountain Army has been found in Beicheng." A soldier said.

The Black Mountain Army is coming. This is not good news for Cao Ren. The Black Mountain Army also has 4 to [-] soldiers. Although some people were killed and injured in the battle with Cao Anmin, there are definitely [-] to [-] soldiers who can fight at this time. , These [-] to [-] people will also contain part of his troops.

However, for Cao Ren now, the good news is that the Black Mountain Army came from afar, and they had no siege equipment in their hands. At most, they could only cut wood temporarily to make a few simple ladders.

On the city wall, Cao Ren decided to allocate [-] troops to guard the north wall after thinking about it for three days, so as to prevent the Black Mountain Army from breaking through the city wall from the other side.But again, once the troops are divided, the defensive pressure on him will be even greater.

At this moment, looking at the setting sun in the distance, Cao Ren suddenly felt that he might not be able to defend Zhending City today.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

At this time, what Cao Ren was most worried about came, and the Qin army began to launch the final general offensive.

The purpose of Li Chen's dispatch of troops was to serve the 30 soldiers and civilians of the Black Mountain Army, and now the 30 soldiers and civilians of the Black Mountain Army have arrived at Zhending City.Now there is a Zhending City between the two sides, what Li Chen has to do now is to penetrate Zhending and welcome the Black Mountain Army out.

A fierce drum sounded, and Cao Ren on the city wall saw the man beating the drum.The drummer was wearing a boa robe, Cao Ren took a closer look, and it was the famous King of Qin, Li Chen.

Li Chen personally beat the drums for the attacking soldiers, which boosted the morale of the soldiers of the Qin army to an extremely high point.

Zhending City was originally a small city with low walls and loess walls.The defensive advantage that such a city wall can bring to Cao Jun is actually not great, but now the morale of Qin Jun is inflated, and they are not afraid of death. At this moment, Cao Jun on the city wall can't help but worry.

It was the same attack method as just now. Qin Jun first used long-range firepower, catapults and eight-ox crossbows to suppress Cao Jun on the city wall.Under such intensive long-range firepower, Cao Jun's crossbowmen on the city wall could only be beaten, and there was no room for retaliation at all.

At this time, the soldiers of the Qin Army took the opportunity to put the ladder on the city wall, and then started another round of climbing.Fortunately, Cao Ren had prepared enough rocks, logs, and gold juice on the city wall. Although the Qin army climbed up bravely, they did not climb the city wall in a short time.

Cao Ren was very confident in his defense. If the Qin army wanted to climb the city wall, it would be impossible to take Zhending without throwing thousands of corpses under Zhending.

However, who is Cao Ren's opponent? His opponent is Chen Qingzhi.What Chen Qingzhi is best at is using tricks.Could Chen Qingzhi really just be so stupid and let the soldiers of the Qin Army attack the city in such a barbaric way?

At this time, when the siege battle was at its most intense.Chen Qingzhi summoned two of Li Chen's generals, Yuwen Chengdu and Pei Yuanqing.

General Yuwen, General Pei, you two led five hundred masters, climbed from these crossbows to the city wall, and dealt a fatal blow to Cao Jun on the city wall.

At this time, look in the direction pointed by Chen Qingzhi.I saw that it was about ten feet away from the main attack of the Qin army, where was the place where the Qin army's eight-ox crossbow launched long-range suppression on the archers on the city wall.

On that section of the city wall, there are densely packed crossbow bolts, and these crossbow bolts are all the crossbow bolts in the middle of the eight bull crossbows.These crossbow bolts were inserted straight into the city wall, obviously deep into the soil.At this time, the attention on the battlefield is on the ladder. If you lead people to climb up from here, you can indeed catch Cao Jun by surprise.

Chapter 2 Battle for the City Wall

As soon as Chen Qingzhi's order was issued, Yuwen Chengdu and Pei Yuanqing selected five hundred of the most elite soldiers to climb up from the crossbow bolts nailed to the city wall.

Zhending County is only a small city, and the height of the city wall is only two or three feet high. For experts like Yuwen Chengdu and Pei Yuanqing, climbing the city wall is not a very difficult task.

Now with the help of these crossbow bolts that go deep into the wall, climbing the city wall is even less difficult.

"Catapult ready."

"The eight-ox crossbow is ready."