The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 120

Cao Cao finally thought of a way to deal with the platoon crossbow. He adopted the method of skirmishing in a line, with archers and siege soldiers alternately covering and leaping forward.But it was useless, the fire bricks and wooden guns on the city wall were smashed on the millstone below, and after the explosion of "Boom, Boom", gravel, iron water chestnut, and sawdust scattered like raindrops. As long as the skin is scratched, A bloodstain, a hit to a vital point, is bound to be a life.The one who escaped by chance, was about to turn back when he was dragged to the top of the wall by a strange weapon with a hemp rope.There was a flash of swords on the top of the city, and a headless corpse was thrown down.

The soldiers of Cao Jun became more and more frightened as they grew older, and they were a little afraid to move forward.Seeing this situation, Hao Zhao decisively replaced all the overworked archers.In exchange for the few five hundred Wuhuan soldiers assigned to him.These 500 string-controlling fighters can be called super sharpshooters.Their sparse archery does not constitute a rain of arrows at all.But countless Cao soldiers were firmly controlled by this sparse condescending arrows on the other side of the moat. If anyone crossed the river and walked to the middle, he would be guaranteed to have a feather arrow inserted into his forehead or chest.Everyone was so frightened that their faces were ashen, and they retreated in disobedience to the command.Hao Zhao thought, this is very good, if everyone's arrows are so accurate, how many arrows will be saved.This is a great contribution to economic development and money saving.

Xu Chu was so angry that his whole body was smoking! !This battle has been fought since the morning until it is getting dark now, and many of my own people have been killed or injured, but the city gate in front of me is as indestructible as a steel fortress and cannot be moved away.

What kind of place is this, what kind of monsters are there, mother, I am in too much pain!

Xun You had been watching the battle and pondering, but now he raised his horse and said, "Prime Minister, please retreat for a while, you have a plan to break the city."

Kid, are you worthy of Uncle Xun Yu?
The moat, the impassable river of death.Outside the city, most of the burning chariots and arrow defense carts had turned into ashes, and some were still burning, sending out clouds of thick smoke, covering the already dark sky.There are arrows sticking down all over the city with their tails cocked, and the whole city looks like a prickly cactus.Corpses are everywhere, both outside the city and inside the city.Countless sacrificed souls narrate under the night, kindness and pity are small and ridiculous here.

I began to understand the true meaning of war, which is cruelty and calmness.Only by commanding the army to advance and retreat with a mentality of only seeking success and doing whatever it takes can the final victory be achieved.

Xun You returned to the barracks, and said to Cao Cao, "Prime Minister, Sun Tzu said: firstly attack the enemy, secondly attack the enemy, secondly attack the army, and then attack the city. All strategically important cities have thick walls, high walls, and ravines. To defend a city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can win more with less. Therefore, Sun Tzu said that attacking the city is the last resort—"

Cao Cao looked around at the generals, and said with a smile, "I understand the truth, but I didn't expect Yuan Jun to have such a strong will and fighting power under the new defeat. Yuan Shao's son is really hard to hear. Gongda, didn't you say There is a clever plan to break the city, let's talk about it quickly."

Xun You nodded and said, "Prime Minister, You's strategy is to encircle and not fight, and wait for the right time. As the saying goes, if you work hard, you will decline again, and then you will be exhausted. This is true for elite soldiers, let alone newly defeated ones. If we don't fight now, Wait until his army's morale is slackened, the city is alive and the people are there, and the vigor of the city's perishing people is completely exhausted before fighting, and he will definitely win a complete victory."

Cao Cao hesitated for a moment, then smiled wryly, "Gongda, we can't afford to wait. It's not like you don't know the food and grass situation in the army. It's only enough for one month at most."

Xun You smiled and said, "The Prime Minister is too worried, it won't take so long." Cao Cao wondered, "But Liyang City has a lot of food and grass, so they may not lose confidence. On the contrary, they will have a chance to recuperate. By then I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to win." Xun You said: "I have thought of this a long time ago. During the siege of the city, we can lure the enemy out of the city and eat him little by little outside the city."

Cao Cao's eyes lit up: "The plan will come out."

Xun You smiled and said, "Didn't Lord Mao Jie mention Weihui City that day? This city is currently guarded by General Yuan Shao Zhang Nan, with less than [-] troops. If Yuan Xi is defeated, it will be impossible to return to Yecheng because of the long distance. The only way is to abandon the city and go to Weihui City. We might as well capture this city first, then cut off the traffic between Liyang and nearby cities, and turn it into an isolated city. If you want to kill, you have to do what you want."

Xia Houyuan was discouraged when he heard it, and thought to himself that I thought it was a clever plan, and I had thought of this idea a long time ago.Relying on his identity as the prime minister's brother, he said carelessly: "No, this method won't work. If we go around to Weihui City, it will be a big deal if Yuan Xi sends troops to cover us up behind us. Yuan Xina Little bastard, we can't underestimate him, he has two tricks."

Xun You said inexplicably, "A clever plan, a wonderful plan, it's really wonderful."

Everyone was stunned, thinking to themselves, why is Xun You so shameless, even praising his clever plan, disgusting.Cao Cao also thought he was weird, why was he not reserved at all.This is not as good as the truth, you see I am so smart, who did I tell, right?

Xun You saw that everyone in the room looked like they were puffing up their cheeks and wanted to vomit, and knew that everyone had misunderstood, so he quickly explained; "I am not praising myself, but saying that General Xiahou's strategy is very good."

"Me!" Xia Houyuan tilted his neck and almost jumped up. If Cao Cao wasn't by his side, he would have gone over and beat Xun You up. Damn, are you mocking me?
"It's the clever plan the general said just now!" Xun You was not frightened by Xia Houyuan's gnashing of teeth, but still said in a serious manner.

Xia Houyuan wondered, I have a bullshit plan, just now I was thinking of sleeping with three concubines, Wushan Yunyu.This, this is also a good idea.If that's the case, I have a lot of tricks here.

Xun You said, "That's right, I understand what General Xiahou meant just now. He said, let's make a false move. First send troops to defend Huicheng, and then set up a few lines of ambushes on the road to wait for Yuan Xi to attack." Send troops to rescue, we turn back and kill him, if he doesn't send troops out, then we just take advantage of Weihui City, isn't this a good idea."

Xia Houyuan was amused when he heard it, and said with a smirk, "Yes, that's right, that's what I thought. Gongda really understands me, so you guessed it." Cao Cao rolled his eyes, and said to himself that you are the only one who can think of such an idea, shameless, Shame on me.But Xun You sneered in his heart, beautiful you, when something happens, I will blame you for it.The idea is risky and I can't take it on my own, really! ! !

Cao Cao walked towards the sand table and pointed, "This plan is very clever——"

"Thank you, Prime Minister, for your compliment." Xia Houyuan immediately took credit for Cao Cao's praise.He will not let go of this opportunity.

Cao Cao didn't bother to pay attention to him, and continued, "But from Liyang to Weihui City, although it's only a hundred miles away, the mountains and rivers are complex and the terrain is complex. We need to lay an ambush there. Xiahouyuan, tell me."

Xia Houyuan is stupid, how do I know?! Cao Cao stared at him, he coughed a few times and frowned as if thinking; "Prime Minister, this matter is not trivial, I have to think it over, how about it, I will tell you tomorrow." After a while, the meeting ended, I invited Gongda to drink, and asked him if it was over?It's hard for me to do this.My brain!
Cao Cao said to himself, forget it, you will die if you don't brag. "Gongda, what do you think?"

Xun You said: "We will set up an ambush in the valley in front of us. It extends in all directions, and the terrain is complex and changeable, so it is easy to ambush." ​​He pointed to the sand table.

Cao Cao nodded.Xia Houyuan shouted from behind; "It's the same as I thought, it's there." Cao Cao glared at him angrily: "Then send you there."

When Xia Houyuan stepped out of the handsome tent, he slapped himself twice, telling you to talk too much, and his face turned red, which surprised Cao Hong who was standing by; "General Xiahou, are you okay?"

Xia Houyuan forgot that anyone was there, and said hastily, "I'm too angry, my tooth hurts."

The mountains are tightly folded, the faults are bundled, the mountain roads are rugged, and there are cliffs on one side. The bottomless bottom is dizzying.Xia Houyuan tightened the reins, sweaty palms, depressed, inexplicably anxious and annoyed, and an unknown fear welled up in his heart.There is verdant green birds and flowers in front of me, and the green hills in the distance are misty and cloudy.The high mountains on both sides are like screens, and the fields, villages, and streams on the high mountains are like ink paintings by famous artists.The soldiers looked down from a high place, and felt a feeling of wanting to fall from the bottom of their hearts.Everyone's scalp is prickly and their hair stands on end.

In the darkness a few hours before dawn, Wen Chou and a group of cavalry stopped on the right mountain road.The mountains here are too steep and the terrain is too complicated, and the soldiers are a little scared.Although there are many dense forests and vegetation in the ravine, the road he ambushed on is all iron-gray bare rocks, and it looks gloomy, cold, and imposing in a radius of ten miles.It forces people to raise their hearts to their throats, as if speaking loudly can jump out of their mouths.He didn't understand why Mr. Jia Xu insisted that he bring troops here to ambush, Jia Xu didn't say anything, he didn't ask, the second son nodded in agreement, let's bring people here.He only said it was an ambush, and when he saw Cao Bing, he went up and beat him violently.Cao Bing ate too much, why come here if he has nothing to do!He felt that his escape was probably in vain this time.When I go back next time, I want to taunt Jia Xu and ask him to offer random advice. Isn't this tossing people?Besides, you can't send someone else to come, you have to let me come, you know how difficult the road is, really! !Roll your eyes!

Seeing Cao Bing retreating, Jia Xu came to me immediately; "Young Master, be careful of Cao Bing attacking Weihui City. Once Weihui City is broken, our army will lose all foreign aid and fight alone. The situation is in crisis.”

I looked back at the battle map and said with a smile, "It's okay, we can follow him when he sends out troops, and we will surely win."

Jia Xu smiled wryly and said, "No way, Cao Cao is cunning and wise, and is good at using troops. He will definitely leave one or two ambush soldiers in the valley ahead of time. At that time, we won't be able to pursue them. If we don't pursue them, Weihui City will surely fall. It's a dilemma for both sides. "

"Oops." Jia Xu's words awakened the dreamer.

I jumped up, and suddenly laughed again; "Mr. seems to have a plan in mind, let me tell you what strategy you have." Jia Xu folded his fan and shook lightly; "Don't you know that knowing yourself and the enemy is invincible. Son, let's send a strong army to ambush in advance On the left and right mountain roads of Weihui City, wait until the enemy soldiers enter the ambush area, immediately fight out, and catch him by surprise, the enemy soldiers will definitely be turned on their backs and suffer heavy losses."

The hoofbeats roared, startling Wen Chou, my mother, here we come, is this Jia Xu a human being?Thirty thousand fine riders passed through the dense forest in front of them like a whirlwind, and rushed towards the fork in the mountain road here.

Wen Chou immediately ordered all soldiers to enter a state of combat readiness, ready to charge at any time.

Xia Houyuan carefully identified the path, and kept cursing in his heart, "Damn it, Xun You is playing with me, where is the fork in the road he said, why can't I see it."Suddenly a captain next to him pointed to him and said, "General, this is the place." Xia Houyuan reined in his horse, and saw that there was a fork in the road on the right, and a bottomless cliff on the left, just like what was said on the sand table. exactly the same.Immediately wave your hand to stop the cavalry.

"Hurry up, go to the fork road on the right to ambush, hurry up." Xia Houyuan shouted hoarsely.

After hearing his words, the soldiers immediately divided into left and right teams, and pushed forward against the stone walls on both sides of the fork.In this way, after all of them have entered, turn your head and tune one by one, you can relax and wait for work.

The two winding black dragons just got their heads into the side road when they were shot out by a rain of arrows ready to go.The formation was in chaos.

Wen Chou's soldiers are all infantry, which Jia Xu can arrange.Wen Chou can understand this point very well, the road is too difficult to walk.Cavalry is not conducive to combat and will mess up.In fact, Cao Cao also thought of this, but it was half an hour after Xia Houyuan set off.How can the lethality of infantry be compared with that of cavalry?It was on flat ground, and the situation would be different if the terrain was changed to such a steep terrain.

The two teams, like two opposite carriages, collided suddenly at the intersection, causing an earth-shattering bang.The respective vanguards quickly strangled together.The team retreated because of frustration.The difference is that behind Wen Chou's army is Chaotian Road, while behind Xia Houyuan is a cliff.

Xia Houyuan was urging the cavalry to hide in the back, and was suddenly squeezed to the edge of the cliff by the horses that were suppressed by the rain of arrows and retreated rapidly.He was so frightened that he almost lost control of his bowels and urine and peed his pants.

(End of this chapter)