The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 10 010 Burning the Company
Zhang Yan and the others galloped all the way, and encountered many burned villages on the road. Even though there were no traces of people in these villages, they still did not escape the catastrophe.

Zhang Yan could guess with his toes that this must be what Le Jin did to vent his failure in Peicheng.

The group soon arrived at the boundary of Pengcheng. At this moment, Zhang Yan became more cautious, and slowed down his speed, moving closer to Pengcheng little by little.

In order to let the defenders in Pengcheng know that they had completed the task of burning Cao Jun's food and grass, Zhang Yan specially selected three soldiers to report back first.

At the same time, Zhang Yan sent more than a dozen sentinels one after another, first went to the front to inquire, while he led the army to march slowly.

After walking for a few miles, the sentinels sent by Zhang Yan returned one after another, and brought back a scout of Cao Jun.

Zhang Yan ordered the army to stay where they were, and asked someone to bring Cao Jun's scout to him, and said sharply, "I'm asking you something, and you must answer truthfully, otherwise, I will let you live or die."

Cao Jun's scout glanced at Zhang Yan, his eyes were full of contempt, and he snorted coldly: "If you want to kill or cut, you can listen to me!"

Zhang Yan looked at Cao Jun's scout and said with a sneer, "Very well, you have a bit of backbone. Judging by your age, you should be about 25 or [-] years old, and you are just at the age of youth. If you are not willing to answer my questions, I will." I won’t kill you. As I said, I will let you live or die. If you are willing to answer my question, I will not make things difficult for you, and let you go immediately. How about it?”

Cao Jun's scout didn't answer Zhang Yan's question, but just stared at Zhang Yan fiercely with a pair of eyes, but without the slightest fear.

Seeing that Cao Jun's scouts ignored him, Zhang Yan sneered, and said to several Danyang soldiers: "Press him to the ground, take off his pants, cut off the thing in his crotch with a knife, and turn him into a eunuch." ..."

As soon as the sound fell, the four Danyang soldiers moved immediately and pushed the Cao Jun scout down on the snow. The root of the scout touched lightly.

The Cao Jun scout was so frightened that his face was livid, and he lay on the ground not daring to struggle, for fear that his lifeline would be cut off because of his struggle.He never expected that Zhang Yan would use such a bad move to deal with him. After cutting off his lifeblood, he would become a eunuch.

He would rather die than become a eunuch, so he hurriedly shouted: "I said, I said, if you ask anything, as long as I know, I will answer you, please don't let me become a eunuch. My family has been passed down for nine generations, and I am the only man, and I haven't passed on the family line yet..."

There was a smile on Zhang Yan's face, and he said lightly: "I knew this before, so why bother?"

After finishing speaking, he waved to the Danyang soldiers, signaling them to let go of the Cao Jun scout.

Cao Jun's scouts were crying, and hurriedly stood up from the ground, lifted their pants, and stood there, motionless.But because of the fright just now, his legs trembled unconsciously.

Zhang Yan hurriedly asked: "Let me ask you, has Cao Cao ever retreated now?"

Cao Jun's scout replied truthfully: "My lord has not retreated..."

"Didn't retreat?" Zhang Yan was a little puzzled.

He has already burned Cao Jun's food and grass. Cao Jun has nothing to eat, so what are you still doing here?
"Where is Cao Cao stationed now?" Zhang Yan asked sharply.

Cao Jun scouted: "Still stationed outside Pengcheng."

Zhang Yan questioned Cao Jun's scout carefully again, and Cao Jun's scout answered them one by one.But Zhang Yan still couldn't guarantee whether the Cao Jun scout was telling the truth, so he asked someone to temporarily tie up the Cao Jun scout, and waited quietly in place for the person he sent to come back.

After about a meal, the scouts sent by Zhang Yan came back one by one, and reported to Zhang Yan the situation of Cao Jun they had inquired about, and they all basically matched the answers of the Cao Jun scouts.

Zhang Yan, who has always been cautious, was still a little worried, so he asked someone to take off the clothes of Cao Jun's scouts, and changed into the outfit himself, leaving the army to hide here, planning to go to Cao Ying to find out by himself.

Zhang Yan changed his clothes, jumped on the horseback, galloped away, and disappeared without a trace in a flash.

He walked along Surabaya all the way, and after walking about seven or eight miles, he suddenly saw rows of Cao Jun's camps standing on the banks of the Sishui River. Groups of Cao Jun came out of the camps and headed for Pengcheng in the distance. go.

"Cao Jun's food and grass were destroyed, but Cao Cao advanced instead of retreating. What is he trying to do?" Zhang Yan looked at Cao Jun from a distance, full of doubts in his heart.

Zhang Yanyi was a bold man, and after some thinking, he decided to enter Cao Jun's camp alone to find out.

Because he was wearing the clothes of Cao Jun's scouts, he did not arouse Cao Jun's suspicion at all when he gradually approached Cao Jun's camp.

When he was more than ten meters away from Cao Jun's camp, he suddenly saw Cao Cao wearing armor and armor, walking out of Cao Jun's camp under the protection of more than ten generals. The soul-stirring coldness.

Zhang Yan stopped in his tracks, fearing that he would show his feet if he got too close, and stood quietly by the edge of Cao Jun's camp, but looked around.

He noticed that almost all of Cao's army was dispatched this time, and there were only a few hundred soldiers left in the camp. It seemed that Cao Cao was going to give it a go and storm Pengcheng.

Zhang Yan didn't dare to stay in one place for a long time, so he walked around Cao Jun's camp, spying on the situation of Cao Jun's camp clearly.

"Dong dong dong..."

At this moment, the deafening sound of war drums came from not far away. Zhang Yan turned his head to look, but saw a crowd of people outside Pengcheng. rush.

The dilapidated Pengcheng is like a flat boat in the sea, whether it can withstand Cao Jun's turbulent waves, everything is unknown.

Zhang Yan's heart was in a panic, without even thinking about it, he immediately withdrew from Cao Ying and quickly returned to the place where the army was assembled. In his eyes, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to force Cao Cao to retreat. In one fell swoop.

"drive!"

Zhang Yan waved the whip desperately, clamped the horse's belly tightly with his legs, returned to the station as fast as possible, put on his armor again, and galloped towards Cao Jun's camp with more than 2000 strong Danyang soldiers. .

Before leaving, Zhang Yan had someone behead the Cao Jun scout to sacrifice the flag, and use the blood of the Cao Jun scout to burn the anger of the Danyang soldiers.

More than 2000 cavalry, under the leadership of Zhang Yan, rushed all the way along the Sishui River, and soon saw Cao Jun's camps standing by the river.

In the distance, Pengcheng was fighting fiercely. Cao Jun kept attacking Pengcheng like ants.

Xuzhou Mu Taoqian even took command of Maoshi Shi Dengcheng himself. The school lieutenant Cao Bao led the Danyang soldiers to guard Tao Qian, and Chen Deng also commanded from the tower with injuries.

From time to time, the people of Xuzhou can be seen on the tower. They braved Cao Jun's arrows, delivered arrows to the arrows on the tower, and carried Xuzhou soldiers who died or were injured on the tower down the tower.

At this moment, Xuzhou's army and people are united as one, and they are fighting against Cao Cao's majestic army with a small city. The intensity of the battle is beyond words.

"Kill! Kill me! First, the one who climbs the city will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins, and the one who cut off Tao Qian's dog's head will be rewarded with ten thousand gold coins!" In the army formation, Cao Cao, who had been watching the battle, grabbed the horse's reins and kept spinning around in place, waving his hands. The Yitian sword in the middle screamed hysterically.

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man. For the high reward, Cao Jun's soldiers climbed up Pengcheng desperately and launched a new round of fierce attack on Pengcheng.

In the face of Cao Jun's new round of onslaught, Xuzhou's army and civilians resisted reluctantly for a while, and became more and more powerless, and there were insufficient troops in several places.

At this moment, Cao Ren, the vanguard general of the Cao army, stretched out his hand extremely nimbly. Holding a long knife in his hand, he quickly climbed up the ladder and climbed towards the city wall.

With a flurry of long knives, Cao Ren hacked to death one after another Xuzhou soldiers who came to stop him. He took the lead in climbing the city wall of Pengcheng. The people on the top of the city.

Behind him, Cao Jun soldiers climbed to the top of the city one by one, and started a bloody battle with Xuzhou soldiers on the top of the city.

Cao Cao, who had been riding restlessly on horseback, finally got some comfort in his heart when he saw such a scene, and laughed loudly: "How dare you stop Cao Cao from a small place? Tonight I will use Tao Qian's The head is a memorial to the late father and all the soldiers who died in battle!"

"Fire! Fire!"

Cao Cao's laughter was mixed with arrogance, and his laughter was still echoing in the air. Dian Wei beside him suddenly cried out. He hurriedly turned his head to look, but saw the Cao Jun camps on the banks of the Sishui River bursting into flames. Huge fire dragons were devouring everything with the help of the wind. Many Cao soldiers were on fire and rushed out of the camp, wailing in pain.

Before Cao Cao could react, screams came from the army formation on the right rear. More than 2000 cavalry, led by a young general, pierced directly into Cao's army like a sharp knife. The back, the momentum is like a broken bamboo, and the courage is unstoppable.

Cao Cao sent almost all of his troops to attack the city. There were only a thousand Cao troops around him. Seeing that Pengcheng was about to be captured, something happened at this juncture.

First, the food and grass were destroyed, then the barracks were burned, and now they were threatened by a sudden cavalry, Cao Cao was in a state of disarray.

At this moment, what happened behind Cao's army had already affected Cao's army who was attacking the city. They saw the flames shooting up to the sky by the river and the commander who was about to be surrounded by Xuzhou soldiers, and the morale of the army was shaken.

On the contrary, the Xuzhou soldiers in Pengcheng were encouraged by seeing such a scene, and all the soldiers fought desperately, trying to repel Cao Jun!

"My lord, the barracks have been burned, and our army has no grain at the moment, and Pengcheng will be difficult to conquer for a while, please make a quick decision, my lord!" Guo Jia, who had been staying by Cao Cao's side, said hastily when he saw these scenes.

Cao Cao understood Guo Jia's meaning, glanced at Tao Qian on Pengcheng again, and ordered with hatred: "Withdraw the troops and return to Yanzhou!"

(End of this chapter)