The Three Kingdoms: The strategist will stop, and Rome will be unified

Chapter 256 The Inhumane Strategy

The attack of the [-] troops still did not stop. For them, time was extremely important.

A hundred thousand soldiers came, but were stopped by this city with only [-] soldiers?
"Everyone follow me."

Looking at the flames on the ground, Ma Chao said indifferently: "Climb the ladder for me!"

After the soldiers hesitated for a moment, knowing that there were countless Lihuo ahead, they still gritted their teeth and rushed towards the city wall.

After sacrificing the lives of several people, the climbing ladders were finally erected on the city wall.

Ma Chao said ferociously: "Everyone go to the city!"

Looking at these postures of climbing the ladder, Hao Zhao's expression remained unchanged.

The barbs on the top of the climbing ladders were firmly embedded in the city wall. The soldiers on the city defense could not stop the erection of the climbing ladders at all, they could only increase the firepower, and the countless arrows did not save any.

At this moment, corpses were already everywhere in the Wengcheng, but Ma Chao had no intention of retreating.

I saw Ma Chao shouting coldly: "Today we will definitely break through Huaili County."

Originally thought that after the climbing ladder was erected, the speed of breaking the city would be greatly improved, but after a quarter of an hour, no one was able to climb the city defense.

"Squeak, squeak!"

As the voice on the city defense rang Qi Ali again, the huge log rolled down.

A huge log was covered with sharp spikes, and after it completely fell down, the huge gear shaft on the city defense recovered the log again.

The two ends of the log were fastened with chains, and the log was extremely difficult to break.

As soon as the rolling log comes out, the soldiers on the ladder will either die or be injured.

Ma Chao's face became even more ugly. As a result, his soldiers had lost more than 1 people, but they didn't even go up the city gate.

Just when he was about to shout and wanted to raise his troops to charge again, a man behind him rode his horse with a black flag high.

"General, my lord has an order to withdraw the troops immediately."

Hearing this, Ma Chao took a deep look at Hao Zhao above, and after a while, he said reluctantly: "Withdraw!"

The remaining 2 people withdrew like a tide, leaving corpses all over the urn city.

Seeing this, Wei Yan on the city defense beamed with joy.

"Haha, General Hao Zhao is really seamless, and the horse really retreated."

Hao Zhao let out a sigh of relief and said, "The army coming from Xiliang is much more ferocious than I imagined. If there is no Wengcheng, I am afraid I will not be able to defend it."

But Wei Yan and others obviously don't think so, and it doesn't matter whether there is an Wengcheng now.

However, Ma Chao was extremely displeased with such an easy withdrawal.

One person rode his horse at the front and came directly in front of Ma Teng and said lightly: "Father, why did you withdraw the army? Did you think that I, Ma Mengqi, would not be able to break through this city?"

Ma Teng said indifferently: "Don't be anxious, there are a lot of equipment in that city."

"Hao Zhao must have transported all the surrounding supplies, food and grass to this last city in order to prevent us from approaching Chang'an. Although we are defeated today, there is no need to be discouraged. We can regroup and fight again tomorrow."

Hearing this, Ma Chao's expression didn't change at all, and he still said calmly: "I don't think so, I lost today."

Then he ignored Ma Teng and walked towards the barracks alone.

Looking at Ma Chao who was leaving, Ma Teng revealed a trace of anger: "You bastard, it's too shameful."

Sima Yi on the side looked at the couple who were not in harmony, showing a thoughtful expression.

But it was interrupted by Ma Teng.

"Today, Mr. Sima laughed."

"Zhongda, how do you think this city is broken?"

Ma Teng still had great trust in Sima Yi's talent.

He bowed respectfully, looked at Ma Teng and said with a faint smile: "There is no way, this plan will hurt your reputation, but it depends on whether the master is willing or not."

Hearing this, Ma Teng frowned slightly, took a deep look at the city, and fell into deep thought.

After a while, he looked at Sima Yi again and said, "It's okay for Zhongda to say, as long as he can break the city, Shoucheng is willing to give it a try."

Seeing Ma Teng's attitude, Sima Yi showed a satisfied expression.

"Then Zhongda will tell you to listen."

"Today's Huaili County not only has a lot of arrows, but also countless kerosene. With the wealth of Cao's army, there are countless grain, grass, supplies and even hay in the city."

Hearing this, Ma Teng's expression changed, as if he had guessed something, he looked at Sima Yi with a hint of hesitation.

However, Sima Yi, who noticed Ma Teng's expression, continued to say: "All you need is [-] longbowmen and tens of thousands of rockets, wait until midnight, and shoot into the city."

"There is a lot of kerosene and even hay in Huaili County. Once the fire starts, it will be unstoppable, and Huaili County will be destroyed with a snap of your fingers."

Ma Teng looked terrified, and exclaimed: "Zhongda, are you going to burn the city?"

Preparing tens of thousands of rockets can completely cause a big fire in the city. It is too easy to shoot so many rockets into these wooden houses all of a sudden.

And the price is that no matter Cao's army, food, supplies, or even the people in this city will suffer greatly from it.

Ma Teng watched Sima Yi sink into deep thought, struggling with himself.

No wonder Sima Yi said that this plan would damage his reputation, it was a massacre of the city.

He looked at Sima Yi and asked hesitantly, "How long would it take to break the city if we didn't use this plan?"

Sima Yi looked at Ma Teng and sighed, "It depends on the food and supplies in the city. I'm afraid it will take at least seven days."

Hearing this, Ma Teng was stunned. Didn't he think that his [-] army could not break through the city at all?

This Hao Zhao has such ability?

He took a deep breath, now Xiliang can't wait so long, seven days, seven days is enough time for Cao Jun to come to support.

Soon, Ma Teng made up his mind, looked at Sima Yi, nodded and said, "It is absolutely impossible to wait for seven days, just as you said, I will immediately order someone to rectify the soldiers."

Sima Yi smiled lightly and said, "Then congratulations, my lord, for taking Huaili County."

Hearing Sima Yi's congratulations, and thinking that he was able to win Huaili County, Ma Teng seemed to have less grudges in his heart.

What about the reputation, as long as the city can be captured and directly reach Chang'an, then the entire Sizhou can be included in the bag, so what reputation do we need?
In Huaili County, Wei Yan said with a smile, "General Bodao, the defense is really tight this time."

Today they defended the city, and only 12 soldiers prevented the [-] army from attacking.

Everyone trusted Hao Zhao's ability more and more, and today's battle made everyone believe what he said before.

However, Hao Zhao waved his hands and said, "It's just a small way. If we really want to go to battle to kill the enemy, I still have to trouble the generals."

Huang Zhong on the side also laughed, "General Hao is modest."

Although they won a victory, they did not make any celebrations, because Xiliang's soldiers were only retreating temporarily. Now that the battle was serious, there was a curfew in the city.

There were no fewer guards on the city defense than during the day, and they were obviously still vigilant about whether the Xiliang army would attack at night.

(End of this chapter)