The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 341 340 Soldiers Enter Handan
A fierce battle unfolded in the urn city of Xuanwu Gate. Gan Ning and Gao Shun were first-rate thugs. The generals who were killed, one on the left and the other on the right, marched side by side, and the soldiers of Cao Jun who were killed were shit.

Cao Cao had no generals under his command. Jiang Qi and Yin Kai were not the opponents of Gan Ning and Gao Shun at all.

As the saying goes, it will be the courage of soldiers!

Jiang Qi and Yin Kai were beheaded, and the soldiers under them did not dare to move forward. Facing the fierce soldiers led by Gan Ning and Gao Shun, they couldn't resist at all. .

"Kill!"

Gan Ning and Gao Shun took the lead, and when they saw the enemy army was beginning to be defeated, they were full of energy. They greeted the soldiers behind them, and killed them together, chasing after the retreating Cao army.

Cao Cao rode Jueying and stood in the door opening of Xuanwu Gate. Seeing the changes in the battle ahead, Cao Cao frowned tightly.

The enemy army is too strong. At present, Cao Cao has no generals who are used to fighting. Most of the soldiers under him are the Jizhou Army who surrendered. Once Jiang Qi and Yin Kai died, the Jizhou Army immediately collapsed, and the thunderbolt brought by Cao Cao Huo Lei had already been used up, and Cao Cao's soldiers were few, and he hurried back from Youzhou after a long journey, the soldiers would be overwhelmed.If the fight continues, I'm afraid it will make the enemy backlash.

However, Cao Cao's goal has been achieved. Since Yecheng cannot be captured in a hurry, then retreat to Handan!

Without any hesitation, Cao Cao immediately announced his retreat. The rear army changed into the front army, and they withdrew from Xuanwu Gate one after another.

In an instant, Cao Jun withdrew from Xuanwu Gate, crossed the suspension bridge, and drove into the darkness.

Cao Cao suddenly withdrew his troops, Gan Ning and Gao Shun led their troops in pursuit, Zhang Yan was a little suspicious when he saw this, and hurriedly sent people to chase Gan Ning and Gao Shun, and told them not to lead their troops in pursuit.

It's a pity that Gan Ning and Gao Shun were already red-eyed. Seeing Cao Cao's retreat, they chased Cao Cao even more fiercely, biting Cao Jun's tail tightly and refused to let go.

Cao Cao led his army back into the darkness outside the moat. Seeing that Gan Ning and Gao Shun were biting him, he immediately ordered the soldiers to form an array, let the archers spread out on the two wings, and moved towards Gan Ning, Gao Shun and the others. shoot arrows.

The archers had some hesitation, because the Jizhou army was also among them, and they were worried that they would accidentally hurt their own people.

Cao Cao gave the order, but the archer didn't release the arrow, which made him very annoyed, and said sharply, "Fire the arrow!"

Han Fan said: "My lord, our own people are also inside, just in case..."

"There is no chance, all emotions must be cut off, the enemy has already bit them, even if we don't kill them, they will be killed by the enemy. If we continue to hesitate like this, we don't even want to escape! Hurry up Order the archers to shoot their arrows!" Cao Cao said very sternly.

Han Fan frowned. Seeing hundreds of Jizhou troops in front of him being tightly bitten by the enemy, he thought for a while and felt that what Cao Cao said was very reasonable, so he made a decisive decision and ordered: "Fire the arrows!"

The archers were still a little hesitant, because many of them were brothers who had been with them day and night, and if they were asked to shoot arrows at this time, they might be killed.

"Didn't you hear my order? Shoot the arrows! Who dares to disobey, the military law will do it!" Han Fanlang said.

"Whoosh!"

I don't know who shot the first arrow first, and then the archers reluctantly shot the arrows, and shot mercilessly towards the suspension bridge where Gan Ning, Gao Shun and others were fighting. .

Arrows were like rain, shooting rapidly from the darkness. The two armies who were fighting at the side of the suspension bridge were hit by arrows one after another, screaming again and again, many people fell directly into the moat, even Gan Ning and Gao Shun People were also shot by arrows, two arrows were hit on each body, fortunately, the ones hit were not critical, for these two fierce men who came out of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, it was undoubtedly just some skin trauma.

A cluster of arrows fell, and another cluster of arrows shot in. In the darkness, it was impossible to tell how many there were. Gan Ning and Gao Shun immediately ordered the army to retreat.

After waiting for a while, Cao Jun's arrows did not shoot again, but they also lost the opportunity to chase Cao Jun. Cao Cao led the army and drove towards Handan.

The battle at Xuanwumen came to an end temporarily, and the battles at Suzakumen, Qinglongmen, and Baihumen also ended almost at the same time.

All the enemy troops who entered the city from various gates were wiped out in the city, and none of them escaped.

The battle situation at each city gate was quickly reported to Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan was not very satisfied with this operation, and he also underestimated Cao Cao's ability. The most troublesome thing for him was how did Cao Cao master the Thunderbolt technology?

Just when Zhang Yan was at a loss, a bloody man squeezed out from the crowd. After seeing Zhang Yan, he said weakly: "The Regent...the Regent..."

Zhang Yan took a closer look and found that this bloody man was one of his subordinate Jin Yiwei, and he was also the Jin Yiwei who was in charge of guarding the cell. He immediately stepped forward to support the Jin Yiwei, and immediately asked, "Did something happen in the cell?" What's the matter?"

The Jin Yiwei nodded, and said slowly: "The regent... the cell was attacked by the enemy, and Cao Hong and Xun Yu were rescued..."

After hearing the news, Zhang Yan contacted the siege battle launched by Cao Cao, and immediately felt a sense of being deceived. It turned out that Cao Cao was only using the siege as a bait, but in fact he secretly sent people to rob the prison. , the real purpose is not in Yecheng, but in rescuing Cao Hong and Xun Yu!
Zhang Yan didn't discover Cao Cao's real purpose until then, it was too late, even if he sent someone to pursue him, how could he catch up with the enemy in such a dark night where he couldn't see his fingers?
Therefore, Zhang Yan ordered to count the losses and clean up the battlefield.

At Pingming, the losses of this night's battle were counted out, killing more than 5000 enemy troops and capturing more than 300 people, but Zhang Yan lost more than 1000 at the beginning of the war because Cao Cao used weapons like Thunderbolt bombs. After the whole battle, more than 300 people were killed in Zhang Yan's army, and 600 soldiers were injured.

Zhang Yan was very curious about how Cao Cao possessed the weapon of thunderbolt, so he asked the prisoners to be interrogated.

After careful interrogation, Zhang Yan finally learned the origin of the thunderbolt. It turned out that Cao Hong accidentally obtained one when Zhang Yan attacked Yecheng a few days ago. Xun Yu handed the thunderbolt to the commander of the weapon department Lord Wang Lun, let him do some research on Thunderbolt.

This Wang Lun is also a talent, and he really imitated the thunderbolt, and configured it to create more than 400 thunderbolts, whose power is almost equal to that of the thunderbolt.

After Zhang Yan learned of the origin of Cao Jun's thunderbolt, he fell into deep contemplation. He made this weapon himself just to keep his army advanced.Now that this weapon has been leaked out, it means that the enemy also has an equivalent weapon and will use this weapon against himself, making it difficult to fight future battles.

In addition, Zhang Yan also learned from Jiang Bing that Cao Cao asked Wang Lun to go to Handan, and planned to hurry up to make thunderbolts in Handan to deal with him.

Therefore, Zhang Yan couldn't sit still any longer, he had to take down Handan as soon as possible, seize Wang Lun, and absolutely not let this scourge exist in the world, this kind of weapon can only be owned by himself.

At three o'clock in the morning, Zhang Yan assembled the army and asked Zhao Yun to stay and garrison Yecheng, while he rushed to Handan with the rest of his troops, and planned to completely wipe out Cao Cao in Handan.

The army was ready to go. Before Zhang Yan left, he specially called Zhao Yun to his side and told him, "Zilong, Ye City will be handed over to you. After I leave, you will be fully responsible for everything in Ye City."

Zhao Yun cupped his fists and said, "Please rest assured, the Regent, Zilong will certainly not disappoint the Regent's expectations."

The reason why Zhang Yan left Zhao Yun to garrison Yecheng was because Zhao Yun had led his troops to the city of Ye twice, which made the people in Yecheng panic.

It can be said that the people in Yecheng fear Zhao Yun more than they fear Zhang Yan, and Zhao Yun is brave and good at fighting, he is stable, he is capable of both offense and defense, and he is a useful general.

"set off!"

Following Zhang Yan's order, an army of [-] marched mightily towards Handan, with cavalry scattered in front, rear, left, and right, guarding the infantry in the middle.

Because Gan Ning was injured, Zhang Yan asked Xu Chu to be the vanguard of the army. He asked Xu Chu to lead a thousand Qingqi to go first, and Lu Meng came to join the army for Xu Chu.

Xu Chu received the order, and immediately left the army with a thousand Qingqi and Lu Meng, heading towards Handan.

After a fast day's journey, Xu Chu soon arrived in Handan. Together with Lu Meng, he went to the city of Handan and inspected it. He saw that although Handan City was not as big as Ye City, it was still a strong city.

Handan City was the capital of Zhao during the Warring States Period. After Qin unified the six kingdoms, Handan was also a large city in the country. After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he adopted the enfeoffment system and rewarded his relatives as kings and marquises.

The state of Zhao has always been the feudal state of the Han Dynasty, and Handan is the capital of his feudal state. After the succession of King Zhao, the city of Handan has become stronger and stronger. was captured.

Xu Chu inspected Handan City, and said to Lu Meng: "This time the regent asked me to be the vanguard, I must give Cao Jun a disarm, but Handan City is too strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack. With Thunderbolt, I wonder if you have any way to make me show off in front of Cao Jun's formation?"

Lu Meng thought for a while, and then said: "The general is one of the five tiger generals, and his force is extraordinary. I heard that there is a fierce general under Cao Cao's tent, called Dian Wei. The general might as well go to the city to fight. Dianwei alone, as long as the general can fight Killing Dianwei will give Cao Jun a downfall."

Xu Chu had fought against Dian Wei before, but he had never enjoyed it to the fullest. Hearing what Lu Meng said this time, he said without hesitation: "Okay, let's do it! Let's go and fight in Handan City!"

Lu Meng asked in surprise, "Now?"

"What? Are you afraid?"

"The last general is not afraid, it's just that I have just arrived here and the soldiers are exhausted. Why don't we rest for the night, and it won't be too late to go to the city to fight in the morning."

Xu Chu felt that what Lu Meng said was reasonable, so he said, "Okay, let's rest for the night, recharge your energy, and go to the city to fight tomorrow morning!"

(End of this chapter)