The Three Kingdoms are invincible

Sun Jian led his army to retreat. After the western front, the war on the eastern front also ended with Cao Cao's victory.

Logically speaking, the first credit for Sun Jian's retreat should be attributed to Zhang Liao and others who burned all the food and grass of the Jiangdong Army, but they could not get any reward for this.The massacre of Hefei City is a fact that Zhang Liao and others must face, and they cannot shirk their responsibility for it.Cao Cao discussed with several civil servants and military generals, but Zhang Liao and the others had done nothing.

It would be fine if it was an ordinary fault, but tens of thousands of people in Hefei City were brutally slaughtered. This crime is really serious and the impact is too bad.Even if Cao Cao wanted to cover up Zhang Liao and others, he had to think twice, after all, he had to consider various other factors, such as public opinion and popular sentiment.What's more, Cao Cao didn't want to protect Zhang Liao and the others in his heart.

Burning food and grass is indeed no small credit, and it can be said that it directly led to the retreat of Sun Jian's army.But before Sun Jian's army came to Xuchang, the war on the western front had ended ahead of schedule, and Xia Houyuan had already brought his army into Xuchang. Even without Lu Xun's act of burning food and grass, the defense force of Xuchang City was already strong enough, and Cao Cao had enough Confident that Xuchang City can be firmly held.

In this way, Zhang Liao's act of burning the food and grass of the Jiangdong Army did not seem so necessary, and their act of abandoning Hefei City for this reason was also meaningless in hindsight.

Of course, no matter how clever Lu Xun was, it was impossible for him to calculate in advance that Chang'an would win so quickly.After all, the guarding force of Xuchang City was indeed limited at that time, and if there was no such thing as Sun Jian's massacre of the city, the result would have been perfect.It's a pity that Sun Jian became unexpectedly ferocious and started killing in Hefei City. Since things developed like this, someone must be responsible for the massacre of tens of thousands of people in Hefei City.

After some discussion, Zhang Liao, Li Dian, and Le Jin were directly demoted to be generals in the end. Lu Xun, the one who proposed to abandon the city, was not demoted because his position was already very low, but Lu Xun was also punished in other ways.

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— At that time, there was also a fierce offensive and defensive battle in Wancheng on the south line of Xuchang.

One after another, soldiers from Liu Biao's army struggled to climb up the walls of Wancheng, but what greeted them were stones, logs and boiling oil that were continuously thrown down from the top of Wancheng.

After a few days, the [-] Liu Biao army has dropped by [-], which shows the huge consumption of the siege.

However, the situation in Wancheng is not much better. Liu Biao's army attacked the stones very fiercely, and they have attacked the city several times. Although relying on the support of the city wall, the casualties of Cao's army in Wancheng are much less than those of Liu Biao's army outside the city. , but nearly ten thousand people have been lost.

Moreover, because Liu Biao's army attacked like crazy every day, the consumption of defense equipment in the city was extremely serious, and the rolling wood and rocks were almost used up. A tool for defending the city.

The lethality of the tiles is naturally much smaller than that of rolling logs and falling rocks. If a large rock falls down, even if it does not kill the enemy soldiers who are climbing the city, it will at least knock him off the ladder.But throwing a piece of tile, at most, can smash the head of the enemy soldiers below, and it can neither kill anyone nor fall down.

What's more serious is that the arrow branches in the city are almost used up.

The most important support in the defense of the city is the archer. Whether it is rolling logs or falling rocks, the role in the defense of the city is not as good as large-scale bow and arrow shooting.

Once the bows and arrows are exhausted, Cao Jun will fall into an extremely passive situation, and the difficulty of defending the city will increase several levels at once.

Without the cover of the archers, although Wancheng would not fall quickly, it was only a matter of time after all.

But the problem of bows and arrows is difficult to solve. Even if Guo Jia gathers all the artisans in the city to work around the clock, he can only make hundreds of arrows in a day, and it will be gone after a round of salvo.

Faced with this dilemma, Gao Shun, who was assigned by Cao Cao to help guard Wancheng, had a sudden idea and came up with a solution based on the examples of later generations.He made hundreds of straw figures, and then tied these straw figures with ropes and threw them from the top of the city to the bottom of the city at night.The night was not clear, Liu Biaojun saw a figure under the city wall from a distance, thinking that the defenders in the city were out of the city to attack at night, so they raised their bows and shot arrows one after another.After Liu Biao's army finished shooting, Gao Shun asked people to pull up the straw figures, and saw dozens of arrows sticking densely on each straw man's body. After one night, Gao Shun collected six or seven thousand arrow sticks. .

Although the number can't be considered a lot, at least a few rounds can be shot.

This is very similar to Zhuge Liang's straw boat borrowing arrows in the legend, but Zhuge Liang did not have this in history, and the straw man borrowing arrows used by Gao Shun was historically based on the fact that Zhang Xun, a general of the Tang Dynasty, defended Suiyang deeds at that time.

Guo Jia was also full of admiration for Gao Shun's ingenious strategy.For his bad friend and brother-in-law, Guo Jia thought that he knew him very well, and knew that Gao Shun was a rare wise general who could often come up with some excellent strategies. Jia had a feeling of not fully understanding Gao Shun.