Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 341

The sky was getting dark, but the rain was gradually getting smaller.

The howling southeast wind was still blowing, and in the flood around the earth mountain where Cao Hong was located, there were all the corpses of Cao Jun and the ships of the Nanyang Army.

Because the flood divided the formation, the Cao army on the earth hill could only fight on their own, and was defeated one by one by the Nanyang army. Therefore, there were fewer and fewer earth mountains that were still holding on to the camps in the east and around the center.

Even if Cao Hong stayed, it really boosted morale.

But it was easy to use at the beginning. When Cao Jun found that he had been reduced to a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, some people finally chose to surrender, which seriously weakened Cao Jun's resistance.

Cao Hong saw with his own eyes that on a dirt hill not far away, his two generals, Dong Chao and Dong Heng, led their respective subordinates to kneel and surrender to the Nanyang Army.

He was so angry that he cursed, if it wasn't for being blocked by the flood, he would have picked up a knife and chopped off the two beasts.

However, incompetence and rage are useless. The function of this flood is not to drown Cao Jun, but to separate their terrain, which makes Cao Jun unable to gather and is forced to fight more with less.

As the earth mountain here was gradually captured, the number of Cao's troops around became less and less, and now only the earth mountain where Cao Hong was left had become a lone boat in the wind and rain.

Standing on the battleship, Shen Chen took out a loudspeaker and shouted not far away: "Cao Hong! Old thief, come out!"

"Son, what are you calling Ru Gong?"

Cao Hong came out more and more, he had already disregarded his image and courage, became angry from embarrassment, and shouted loudly.

Shen Chen said loudly: "You have no way to retreat, surrender will save you from death!"

"Putting your mother's stinky fart, asking you to surrender, don't even think about it."

Cao Hong cursed.

"Old thief, I have already liquidated Cao Ren and Le Jin for the blood debt in Xuzhou back then, and now I still need you, Xiahou Dun, Xiahouyuan and Cao Cao!"

Shen Chen said coldly: "But I have never held grudges. Surrendering is the last honor I will give you. If you are sensible, you will surrender obediently. If you are not, you will die!"

The Eight Tigers of the Cao family, Cao Chun, Xia Houshang, Cao Xiu, and Cao Zhen are all younger generations. Among them, Cao Chun was a little earlier. He fought as the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry when he followed Cao Cao to fight Yuan Tan after the Battle of Guandu.

And Xiahoudun, Xiahouyuan, Cao Ren, and Cao Hong were all Yuan Cong. They all participated in the battle of the Yellow Turban and the later Eighteenth Route Princes' Meeting, Yanzhou Rebellion, and Zheng Taoqian and Lu Bu. They belonged to the elders among the elders. level.

Now with the death of Cao Ren, if the status of the Cao Cao Group is ranked, then Cao Cao must be ranked first, Xiahou Dun is second, Cao Hong is third, Xiahouyuan is fourth, and the rest will be the turn of other generals and Cao family members.

Therefore, although Shen Chen deeply hated that the four of them followed Cao Cao and slaughtered countless people in Xuzhou, if Cao Hong could be persuaded to surrender, it would be needless to say how much impact the surrender of the third person in Cao Wei would have.

The effect is the same as Zhang Fei's surrender to Cao Cao. The shock to Cao Wei and the disintegration of the army's morale are immeasurable.

But it's a pity that Cao Hong has a strong temper, and he refused without hesitation: "Damn son, just let the horse come over!"

Seeing his stubbornness, Shen Chen felt a little regretful, waved his hand and said, "Kill him!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

The soldiers on Shen Chendou began to shout loudly.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding ships, like a chain reaction, began to spread outward one after another.

As an elite soldier, the Nanyang Army showed strong combat strength at this moment, taking the lead and overwhelming with momentum.

Then a large number of ships began to rush towards that earth mountain at the same time, with thousands of boats and thousands of troops, the mountains roared and the waves roared.

The current situation is a bit like a siege. The previous earth mountain was not as big as this one, and its height was not as low. Naturally, the number of people was less.

However, this earth mountain has a higher height and a larger area, and Cao's army has a large number of people, so it is not so easy to win with bows and arrows.

The main reason is that the Nanyang army is below, and the Cao army is on the earth hill, condescending, and uses planks, fence fragments, shields, etc. as defensive tools. Archery from high places has certain advantages over the Nanyang army, which makes the Nanyang army suffer from long-range shooting.

Therefore, relying on the advantage of a large number of people, forcibly rushing to the bottom of the earth mountain, and relying on close combat to eliminate this Cao army is the best choice.

"Fire arrows!"

Cao Hong waved his hand and issued a military order.

The Nanyang army erected wooden boards and shield walls on the boat to protect the oarsmen from rowing the boat against the rain of arrows, and soon rushed to the foot of Cao Jun's earth mountain.

When the two sides were a little further away, they exchanged arrows. After getting close, Cao Jun began to stab down with spears, while Nanyang Army held up their shields and began to charge upwards. Among them, Gan Ning and Shan Yi charged the most fiercely.

Shen Chenjun built three fighting ships. Among the Jiangxia Navy and Jiangdong Army, the fighting ships can only be regarded as one of the main assault ships or frigates, not the main ship.

But now this kind of fighting ship that can only carry 300 people has become the most powerful ship. The three ships, led by Shen Chen, Gan Ning and Chang Lin, attacked Cao Jun's Dongying, Zhongying and containment from three directions respectively. west camp.

The direction of Shen Chen's attack was Dongying, and Gan Ning used to sail across the Yangtze River in his early years, so he was good at water warfare. It is necessary to go to the vicinity of Cao Hong's earth mountain first.

After discovering this big fish, he had been the main attacker before, but now that Shen Chen's reinforcements arrived and gave the order for the general attack, he was naturally the first to take the lead.

They saw Gan Ning in the south, naked, holding a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right, and began to climb the ladder.

The Cao army above kept poking with spears to push the ladder, but some of the Nanyang army below were on the escalator, and some were also stabbing up with spears to cover Gan Ning's actions.

The earth hill is less than three feet, about six meters, but now the water level is already at a height of more than two meters, so the distance between the two sides is only two or three meters. The surrounding Cao army fought hard, and the defeated Nanyang army , or Cao Jun who was dragged down fell like raindrops.

Gan Ning protected himself with a shield. Halfway through the climb, two Cao soldiers kept stabbing him. Although they were blocked by him with shields, they kept harassing him, making it difficult for him to climb. knife, right hand to pull the spear.

Over 50 years old is already an old man's age, but Gan Ning's figure can be described as a hulking figure, with bronze-colored skin exposed, extremely strong back muscles, and bulging muscles in his arms, showing strong strength and a kind of wildness. beauty.

He blocked one of the spears with a shield with his left hand, and grabbed the other spear that had come down with his right hand, and then yanked it down violently.

"what!"

Hearing a scream, Cao Jun was pulled down and fell on the deck of the Ganning battleship, and was hacked to death by the Nanyang army below.

With one enemy missing, Gan Ning immediately seized the opportunity to climb up and rushed up.

"kill!"

Cao Jun rushed over immediately.

Gan Ning was not afraid, took the knife from his mouth, swung it left and right, slashing and killing.

At this time, the flood was still rolling in waves. Although the fighting ship was fixed with anchors, the hull would continue to shake with the flood.

The Nanyang Army is not a navy, and its ability to fight on water is far inferior to that of the Jiangxia Navy and the Jiangdong Navy.

This is the case in ancient water warfare. Ships confront each other, first shoot a few rounds of arrows at each other, and when the two sides approach, they use hooks to pull the enemy's ships over, and then use ladders to climb onto the opponent's ships to fight at close range.

There are many records in "Three Kingdoms" in history. For example, when Sun Ce attacked Xiakou, Ling Tong's father, Ling Cao, climbed onto the enemy's ship and beheaded Huang Zu's vanguard, and was later shot and killed by Gan Ning.There are also records of Lu Meng, Ling Tong, Dong Xi and others rushing to the enemy's ship to fight.

So climbing ladders was a very important training subject in the navy at that time.

But the Nanyang Army is an army.

As a result, when many Nanyang soldiers climbed up, they were not stabbed down by Cao Jun above, but were shaken down by shaking ships.

Therefore, in the initial offensive, the losses of the Nanyang Army were even greater than that of the Cao Army, which was much smaller than them.

But Gan Ning grew up on the banks of the Yangtze River in Berkshire. When he was young, he established the Jinfan Bandits, who roamed the rivers and committed crimes everywhere.

He took the lead and rushed to the front, as if waiting for the dead first, he kept slashing, quickly seized an area, and chopped down several Cao troops around him.

The soldiers of the Nanyang Army behind him followed him like ants, and rushed to the dirt hill.

Cao Jun's already fragile defense line was torn open, and Gan Ning continued to expand the results of the battle. An officer of Cao Jun who came up in time suddenly chopped off his head.

Gan Ning shrank back, covering himself behind the shield, then rolled on the spot to avoid the blow, and then quickly stabbed upwards obliquely.

"噗嗤" came the sound of entering the flesh, and the Cao Jun officer was stabbed to death.

Not far away, Cao Jun saw that someone had killed him, and quickly shouted, howling like a wild wolf, and moved to this side, trying to fill the gap.

However, Cao's army was small, and there were only a few people on their side. The pressure on the nearby Nanyang Army was greatly reduced, and they began to charge up one after another.

There were more and more people behind Gan Ning, and they quickly seized the beach.

And Shen Chen's side is the main direction of attack. Cao's army has the largest number of people. As a Wuxi barbarian, Shan Yi is stronger than Gan Ning. .

In the midst of Cao Jun's arrows and countless spears, Shan Yi suffered several wounds, but he seemed to be unconscious, and he continued to charge. He was forced to kill a bloody road and rushed up the dirt hill.

With Gan Ning and Shan Yi ascending first, Cao Jun could only retreat step by step.

This piece of earth mountain is actually the tallest and largest part of Cao Hong's own camp. It is used as a watchtower and storage of some supplies, so it is a huge flat ground.

After all, when Shen Chen dug the trenches, Cao Hong and Zhao Yan also figured out that he might choose to pour water into Cao Ying, like when Cao Cao attacked Yecheng and Xiapi, he let the water in the city be two or three feet high and soaked for a long time, so that To achieve the purpose of breaking the city.

So Cao Hong and Zhao Yan had already transferred a large amount of supplies to the earth mountain, which was why they had more arrows.

It's just that they never expected that Shen Chen didn't want Cao Ying to be soaked in water, but directly blocked the dam, and when the rainstorm season used the flood to destroy their camp and divide the battlefield, this caused Cao's army to fight on their own .

There were only a few thousand Cao troops on this dirt hill, while the Nanyang army besieging them was nearly [-]. Cao Hong was attacked by the enemy, and the surrounding slopes were quickly captured, so he had to retreat to the central flat ground behind.

As the main general, Shen Chen rarely went to the battlefield to kill the enemy himself. After the soldiers seized the outer edge of the earth mountain, he also disembarked and went ashore to take command on the high ground.

Under his command, the Nanyang army quickly cut the battlefield, kept closing the encirclement circle, and gradually ate up all the Cao troops on the periphery.

By the evening, the number of Cao's army had become smaller and smaller, and there were only more than 1000 soldiers left in a circle, protecting Cao Hong and retreating step by step, retreating to the watchtower in the middle of the earth mountain.

The rain in the sky has become much lighter at this time. From the heavy rain a few days ago to yesterday, it has only been moderate rain, and now it has become light rain, which is developing into drizzle.

Almost insignificant raindrops continued to fall, and the water droplets fell down the helmet onto Shen Chen's cheeks. He saw that his soldiers had surrounded Cao Jun's three layers outside.

There was almost no end in sight in front of them, and there were crowds of people, the weapons in their hands were held up high for fear of hurting their teammates, and the sound of armor pieces rubbing against each other was endless.

"The general is here!"

"Give way, the general is going to the front."

"Separate, and retreat a little."

Under the command of the guards and the middle and lower ranks, the peripheral soldiers began to evacuate in an orderly manner.

Shen Chen moved forward slowly, and the soldiers who were crowded together parted ways.

When he got to the innermost part, he saw Cao Jun who was besieged inside. They were surrounded by an open space of less than [-] square meters. In the center was a watchtower, on which Cao Hong stood.

There are a lot of supplies in the back, such as bows, arrows, weapons, armor, food and grass, etc. Cao soldiers piled up the supplies in front to form a trench.

The distance between the two sides was more than two feet, and the spears of Nanyang Army and Cao Army stretched out, almost touching each other.

"Cao Hong, I will give you one last chance, surrender or not!"

Shen Chen noticed with his eyes that the hands of Cao Jun's soldiers were trembling with their guns. Everyone's face was full of hesitation and bewilderment. Panic had already spread among Cao Jun. This was the best chance to destroy morale.

Standing on the watchtower, Cao Hong yelled loudly: "Son, how many times do you want Rugong to tell you that the Cao family only has generals who died in battle, and there are no cowards who surrendered."

"Oh?"

Shen Chen laughed lightly and said, "Do you mean to let all your soldiers die? They also have family members. Oh, come to think of it, many of their wives and wives seem to have been forcibly assigned to others by you." , maybe they all have no family anymore."

"This"

"is this real?"

"It seems to have heard the rumor."

"Don't believe it, it's all fake."

An officer quickly dissuaded.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Shen Chen laughed and said, "Do you dare to do it or not? Zhao Yan did this. In the past few years, Cao Cao has been recruiting widows and assigning them to unweds in order to expand the population. Recruiting soldiers’ wives and wives to serve the imperial court, if any of you are from Henan, congratulations, your wives and wives may have been recruited by the imperial court and redistributed to others.”

"Little thief, stop talking nonsense."

In the distance, Cao Hong knew that Shen Chen was shaking the army's morale, so he quickly interrupted with an angry roar, and at the same time drew the bow and set the arrow to let go.

He actually knew that Shen Chen couldn't be shot.

Because there are so many guards holding shields around them, and they don't eat dry food.

But he must not let Shen Chen expose this matter.

So this is the only way to go.

That sharp arrow pierced through the air.

Shen Chen's disciple Wu Dang held up his shield and stood in front of him.

There was a sound of "ding", and the arrow was bounced off the shield.

"You become angry from embarrassment, and you want to kill someone?"

Shen Chen pushed Wu Dang away, stepped forward and said with a smile: "Cao Hong, you can't hide it, do you know where my cavalry went?"

"Where did you go?"

Cao Hong asked subconsciously.

Shen Chen said: "I'm going to Runan. Zhao Yan is the prefect of Runan. Many of the strangers recruited must be from Runan. Grab the magistrates of various counties in Runan, search by household registration, and ask those strangers to write home letters. , even after the flood recedes, I see if your soldiers can continue to serve you when they learn that their wives and wives have been forcibly taken away."

"you"

Cao Hong's face was pale, and he was speechless for a long time.

Murder, but also punish!

　Good news, I have moved back to my hometown, but there are still some problems to deal with, such as the network, computer desks and chairs, etc. After two days, I will stabilize. I will make a schedule for myself, start a healthy life every day, and double change every day. .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)