When Cao Zhang heard this, he chuckled and said:

"Of course the general knows that we are allies. Since we are allies, why did Kong Beihai and that Kong Ni frame my lord together! I advise you to open the city gate quickly, so as not to hurt the brothers in the city!"

The general on the city wall heard Cao Zhang's words and said:

"General Cao, don't waste your time talking. The city gate will never be opened. Please wait outside the city."

As soon as Cao Zhang heard this, he was determined not to open the city gate, so he stopped talking nonsense, turned his horse around, and returned to Cao Ren's side.

Cao Ren had heard the conversation between the two, and when he saw Cao Zhang return, he said:

"My lord, I, and Miaocai have all entered this Pingyuan County, and there are not many soldiers and horses in the city. They are so ignorant, so we will attack by force. We must first take down Pingyuan County, and we cannot let the brothers spend the night outside the city. .”

Cao Zhang and Xia Houyuan nodded their heads, and before they could say anything, they heard Cao Ren continue:

"Notice, let the brothers rest where they are, light a fire and cook food, and when the brothers are rested, we will immediately launch the siege."

When Cao Zhang and Xia Houyuan heard this, they directly conveyed Cao Ren's order to the rear. Outside the city of Pingyuan County, 25 troops were all sitting on the ground.

Seeing that Cao Zhang didn't say anything, the general of the city wall drove his horse back to the army formation. This person thought that Cao Zhang really agreed to wait for a few days.

But after Cao Zhang returned to the army formation, he saw that the densely packed 25 army outside the city sat down in place, not knowing what Cao Jun was going to do.

After waiting for a while, he saw cooking smoke rising from Cao Jun's army formation, and seeing the cooking smoke, he was relieved now.

It seems that Cao Jun didn't intend to attack the city directly, but what he couldn't understand was why Cao Jun didn't set up camp, but just sat down on the spot and started to make fire and cook food?

Seeing Cao Jun's behavior, the lieutenant general guarding the city couldn't help laughing, and said sarcastically:

"The last general thought Cao Jun's military discipline was so strict. I didn't expect that Cao Jun's leading general couldn't even set up a camp. It's just a joke. I don't know why my lord is so afraid of them with such soldiers and horses!"

The general defending the city didn't understand what was going on for a while, and when he heard what his lieutenant said, he began to look down on Cao Cao's army.

But after waiting for a while, thinking again, this is not right, he has seen Cao Cao's army before, so Cao Ren still has a way of leading troops, why did he act like this today.

After waiting for a while, he still couldn't figure it out, but he didn't dare to listen to his lieutenant general's words, and went back to rest. Instead, he continued to stay on the city wall. He wanted to see what kind of tricks Cao Ren was playing.

After an hour and a half, Cao Ren and all the soldiers and horses of Cao's army were full of food and drink. Cao Ren gave an order, and the whole army lined up and lined up neatly.

Then Cao Ren said to Cao Zhang and Xia Houyuan:

"Cao Zhang, Xia Houyuan, order you two to lead an army of [-] to attack the city, and make sure to take Pingyuan County!"

Why did Cao Ren clearly lead an army of 25, but Xia Houyuan and Cao Zhang were only allowed to lead an army of [-] to attack the city.

That's because there are two reasons. The first is the Pingyuan county city. The city is not big in the first place. No matter how many people attack, they can only be blocked behind, and they cannot rush up at all.

The second is that Cao Ren kept a hand, in order to prevent Yuan Shaojun of Ganling County from suddenly rushing out from behind when they were attacking the city with all their strength.

The first reason is fine, not a big problem. If it is the second problem that Cao Ren thought of, then it will be troublesome.

If they were flanked by troops from Pingyuan County City and Ganling County City this time, I am afraid that not only would they not be able to attack Pingyuan County City today, but they would also lose a lot of soldiers and horses!

At this time, in Ganling County, Yuan Shaojun had already discovered that Cao Cao's 25 troops were blocked outside Pingyuan County. They knew each other that Cao Cao must have come to seek revenge on Kong Rong for the last incident.

Although he knew that this was a good opportunity, the generals guarding the city of Ganling County still had to inform their lord of the matter first before making a decision whether to join forces with the soldiers and horses of Pingyuan County and send Cao Cao's 25 troops to the city. here.

The general guarding the city of Ganling County quickly wrote a letter, writing down everything he saw in the letter.

Then let his own soldiers guard him, and hurriedly took his letter to Bohai Sea, and let the lord decide.

He also saw Cao Jun sitting on the ground outside the city of Pingyuan County, and immediately made a fire to make food. He was a little confused why.

After all the soldiers of the Cao army had eaten their fill, Cao Ren ordered someone to lead an army of [-] and began to attack Pingyuan County.

Cao Zhang and Xia Houyuan led one hundred thousand soldiers and horses to the outside of Pingyuan City. After some tossing, the army successfully passed the moat.

I saw that many soldiers were carrying siege ladders. They wanted to attack the city immediately, and they would not give Kong Rong any chance to breathe.

When the generals defending the city in Pingyuan County saw the [-] troops rushing towards the gate of Pingyuan City, they suddenly realized why Cao Ren didn't directly order the army to set up camp.

This is the impatient to take Pingyuan County down.

Seeing this, the generals defending the city were no longer polite, and ordered all the soldiers to get ready for a fierce battle!

Just listen to the general who defended the city and said directly:

"Since Cao Jun insists on attacking the city, we brothers must let Cao Cao know that we are not soft persimmons today! Brothers perform their duties and obey my orders!"

After an order was issued, the soldiers all made preparations, and then the city lord general continued to speak:

"Archer ready!"

The soldiers in charge of bows and arrows all stood on the edge of the city wall, and then drew their bows and arrows, ready to shoot at the Cao Jun soldiers rushing down the city at any time.

Just when Cao Cao's army rushed to the moat, the general defending the city directly ordered the archers to start shooting arrows at the crowd below.

In fact, although Pingyuan County is small, in order to ensure that Pingyuan County is not lost, Kong Rong specially dispatched 15 troops to guard Pingyuan County. Including the original county soldiers of Pingyuan County, there are nearly 20 troops.

It is no problem for the 20 army to defend a small plain county, so they saw dense arrows shooting at Cao Jun under the city.

When a wave of arrows rained down, thousands of Cao's troops under the city wall were killed or injured. The distance was so close, and with the tens of thousands of shooters they specially selected, this caused Cao Cao's army to suffer a dull loss.

Cao Ren didn't know that Kong Rong had increased his troops in Pingyuan County.

Although the arrows are relatively dense, they still can't stop the continuous attack of Cao Jun's soldiers. Some of Cao Jun's people have already put the siege ladder on the city wall.

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