The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 121

Xia Houyuan was about to get off his horse and crawl towards the middle of the road when he suddenly heard a few brave soldiers shouting loudly: "Protect the general, protect the general." Then they shamelessly ran past him and became deserters.

When he got angry, he drew his knife and wanted to hack them to death.Coincidentally, the mare that one of the deserters was riding was probably Xia Houyuan's war horse's confidante. The mare neighed softly, and he put his mouth on the horse's buttocks as he got under the horse's crotch.When the mare got angry, she gave it a kick.This dead horse is really daring. At the critical moment of life and death, he still thought of hooking up with him, but the wind paid the price.He and his master, General Xia Houyuan, one of Cao Jun's Eight Tiger Cavalry, fell off the cliff together.

Hearing the wind in his ears, Xia Houyuan fell rapidly, and the moment before he died, he was still thinking; my death is too worthless——

Once Xia Houyuan died, the leaderless Cao Bing lost the consciousness of resistance. Everyone was terrified, and countless people fell off the cliff without killing themselves.Some of them fled along the mountain road relying on the speed of their horses. When these people returned to the camp, they even euphemistically said: "Prime Minister, I rushed back to report."

Cao Cao took a look, oh, more than 5000 people came back to report, isn't it too many?One by one running sweating profusely, hissing and panting, they are really fucking loyal ministers.These bastards, my brother died, why didn't you die? In grief and indignation, each of these soldiers was beaten with fifty army sticks.Several leading generals were beheaded.

Xun You stomped and sighed beside him: "Unexpectedly, General Xiahou's own strategy killed himself. It's really sad and lamentable. God, why are you jealous of talents." Sadly, as if dead It's his own father.

Cao Cao wondered, his own plan?How do I remember that you came up with this idea!

In this battle, Wen Chou not only "killed" the general Xia Houyuan, but also captured nearly [-] Cao soldiers and horses. This was the first victory since Guandu.Omg, I finally see the money back.

Xun You failed to make a plan and made a living. One day later, after the funeral of General Xiahou was completed, the grief-stricken Cao Jun began to implement the iron wall siege plan.

Cao Hong was thinking all day, General Xiahou was dead, what would happen to the twenty or thirty concubines in his family!Hi, this is so miserable.The general and I belong to brothers, do you want to take care of——

After the army besieged the city on all sides, Xun You suggested that Cao Cao build wooden towers and columbine chariots in order to solve the problem of the soldiers' difficulty in attacking the city towers and their ignorance of the reality of the city.The wooden tower is divided into three floors. Standing on the tower, you can overlook all the situation in the city, and each floor is equipped with bows and crossbows, and small stone launchers. Now Cao Jun also has the strength of air strikes, not good!The columbine cart can be used as a watchtower, and it can move and shoot arrows to assist, a bit like a tank.

In the past few days, the blacksmiths have suffered the most in Cao's army.They built nearly a thousand feet of iron chains, erected them with wooden stakes, and connected them together to form a long fence around the city.Seal all the cavalry in the city inside.Poisonous enough!
After completing these, Xun You, who hated Yuan Jun to the core, gritted his teeth and offered a plan to the Prime Minister, which was called "cut off its water source and shallow its gate".In short, it is to cut off the water source of the moat and make it a dry ditch.In this way, you don't have to work hard to take the ladder.Fill the earth and transport the stones directly, and throw the car full of earth and rocks into the ditch.Let these useless toad carts fill up the ditch.

In this way, at the head of Liyang city, there is a flat plain, and there is no barrier to defend.

As for the air strikes on the towers, there is no need to worry, because after they have the wooden tower, they have the same one as our army-the air force.Air Force, referred to as the Air Force.

After all these matters were completed, Cao Jun began to besiege the city and shoot arrows. For several days, he "airstrikes" every day, but he did not send out infantry.The two sides began a ten-day "artillery battle".

On the tenth day of the fight, Jia Xin, who was in charge of commanding the artillery [Stone Machine] on the wooden tower, discovered a problem.The caliber of his own cannon is too small, and the range is too short, so it is not an opponent of the opponent's Big Mac.Also, on the other side's towers, one or two Cloud Piercing Crossbows have been added every day recently. In the past ten days, every city gate has been filled with crossbow machines, and there are almost eighty or ninety machines in total.This guy is so powerful that the powerful arrows can smash the stones from the stone cart in the air.These days, more than a dozen wooden pagodas were destroyed.But it doesn't matter, it's ruined and it's under construction.
After the siege, Cao Jun easily cut off the gate connecting the moat and the Yellow River, and dug a tributary from the other end of the river to let the water flow to the downstream shallows.He doesn't care if it will flood the farmland, anyway, it's not his own people.It didn't take a few days for the moat to dry up.

It was airtight, and everyone was out of breath. Although after the siege, the city did not suffer any losses, and the food and grass were still sufficient, but when the water flow of the moat was cut off, some people fell into panic first, as if The end is coming.The representative of these people is Yuan Shang.

He advocated abandoning the city and fleeing. For this reason, a quarrel broke out between us.The impact of this war is immeasurable, and the morale of the army is in a mess.

"Liyang City can't be defended anymore. How can we have tens of thousands of people against Cao Jun's hundreds of thousands? I will take people out and go back to ask for help." Yuan Shang shouted hysterically.Sweat dripped from forehead to mouth.

Most generals, except his cronies, looked at him with contempt and disdain.Deserters, spineless.

Before Yuan Shang said these words, he had already thought of the consequences, knowing that he would lose his prestige, but he couldn't care about these anymore, he wanted to live, and, his father who was far away in Jizhou, his health didn't know what was going on, so don't—

"Shut up," I snapped. "I will never give up on Li Yang, and neither can you."

Yuan Shang sneered, "Then let me die here with you?"

"As long as we can persist for a month, Cao Cao will definitely retreat, you believe me." I said solemnly.

Yuan Shang roared: "Forget it, even the last barrier moat is gone now, how can you persist for a month. Only ghosts will believe your words."

"Third brother, don't talk nonsense, it will affect the morale of the army." I got angry and shouted loudly.

Yuan Shangdao: "Military mind, do you still need me to influence the military mind? Go outside and listen to what the soldiers are saying and thinking? They dare not fight anymore."

I took a deep breath and said coldly, "No matter what, third brother, you can't leave. If you leave, your morale will be completely lost. Besides, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses are besieging the city outside. It will be dangerous for you to go out."

"It's more dangerous here." Yuan Shang sternly said, "My lord must go, who dares to stop me?" As he spoke, he drew his saber from his waist.With red eyes, he walked out the door.

My angry eyes blazed, and I turned my head and shouted, "Chang Xi, Zhang Xiu, take the third son down for me, lock him up first, and wait until I defeat Cao Jun."

Zhang Xiu hesitated for a moment, Chang Xi didn't care about this, he was originally a desperado who was not afraid of anything, he was so stunned, he was ready to betray anyone he followed.Now just obey me alone, and always carry out my orders with a single-minded heart. He doesn't care about these, the second son gave the order, not to mention the third son, even the lord Yuan Shao and Han Xiandi will follow the same order.

Chang Xi went outside the door, waved his hands and called seven or eight soldiers with big arms and round waists, saying that it was the second son's order to tie up the third son.The soldiers rushed forward without saying a word, and together with Chang Xi, they snatched the third young master's knife, with their arms behind their backs, and took it off into the room.

Su You looked at Guo Yuan, what did he mean, should he do something.Guo Yuan didn't agree to run away, he was quite embarrassed, so he stood silently at the door and pretended to be troubled.Su Yu saw it, I don't care if you pretend.Just let Yuan Shang hang out.

Seeing that something was wrong, the judge rushed over and said, "Second Young Master, how could you treat Third Young Master like this, and spread the word to make people laugh, let him go first."

I thought to myself that if I don't do this, there will still be more places to make people laugh in the future.

Yuan Shang said furiously while struggling; "Let go of me, Yuan Xi, I will never end with you—"

Unmoved, I waved my hand and said: "Take the third son down, Chang Xi, you go and take care of it yourself, don't let him go out, if something goes wrong, I'm the only one to ask."

A soldier ran in from outside and said loudly: "Paper, my lord, there is a letter from outside the city, it's for you." I frowned and asked, "Who wrote it?"

The soldier said loudly: "The signature on it is Princess Anyang of the Han Dynasty?"

"Princess Anyang, I don't know him, why is he writing to me?" I reached out to receive the letter and murmured.Wen Chou was almost scared to cry by this sentence; "Young Master, Young Master, how can you not know that Princess Anyang, she is, she is your wife."

"It suddenly dawned on me, why did I forget about this. It was all caused by Yuan Shang, an unbelievable thing.

I opened the letter and saw that it was a letter of persuasion.It is written in beautiful and clean handwriting in meaningful lower case letters, to the effect that Prime Minister Cao is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, respects the emperor, and respects her as a princess.If you want me to be careless, give up resistance, and surrender, then the couple will be reunited soon.Otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous? !
I was in a depressed mood at first, but this made me even more unhappy, so I took up my pen and wrote back a letter. "Women know nothing, their hair is long but their knowledge is short, do you know what is carelessness? What is loyalty to the emperor and patriotism? You stay in Xuchang for me. If you talk nonsense, I will divorce you. Also, Cao Cao is a national thief , you should pay less attention to him in the future, do you hear me?"

It is estimated that Princess Anyang would almost cry to death when she read this letter.It wasn't for Cao Cao's persecution, she would never write.

After finishing writing, ask the soldier just now to go out and shoot out of the city with an arrow.I think Cao Cao is a bit ridiculous, how could he come up with such an idea, it has no lethality at all, really he is at the end of his rope.

After the soldier received the letter, Jia Xu picked it up and looked at it. His nose was almost crooked, and he thought to himself, you may be the most daring son-in-law in the history of the Han Dynasty.

Jia Xu said, "Tie Cao is about to attack the city."

I was stunned; "Why do you know that?" Jia Xu said with a smile: "Obviously, the letter just now was a tactic to slow down the army, trying to stabilize the young master, making the young master think that he has nothing to do with us, so that he can relax his vigilance."

Jia Xu is Jia Xu, she is smarter than me, I can't accept it.

Zhang Xiu and Wen Chou said at the same time: "What should I do?" I laughed; "Soldiers come to serve as generals, and water comes to cover them with soil, what can we do?" With a wry smile, "No, I must do it—it must."

Sure enough, as Jia Xu expected, before dawn the next day, Cao Jun's infantry, cavalry, archers, and all the fucking arms came up, stealthily killing them without even blowing the horn, despicable.Thankfully we were prepared.A white cloth was wrapped around Cao Pi's head, claiming to avenge his uncle Xia Houyuan.The question is, Xia Houyuan committed suicide, so it's none of my business?
This time Cao Cao still surrounded the four gates and attacked. Han Hao and Xia Houyuan were replaced by Zhang Liao and Jia Xin respectively, and the rest remained the same.Thanks to the help of wooden pagodas and columbine carts, Cao Jun had an understanding of the situation in the city, and took precautions in advance, so the casualties were much smaller.The arrows shot from the wooden tower are also much more accurate, and the waste situation has improved compared to before.Cao Jun's blacksmiths finally don't have to work overtime day and night.

Just because blacksmiths don't work overtime doesn't mean soldiers don't work overtime.Starting from this morning, Cao Cao's infantry, archers, and fortification troops fought together to attack the city day and night.The infantry attacked under the city, and the 'artillery' kept shooting arrows and throwing stones from the wooden tower.Cao Cao is a loyal supporter and executor of labor law.He strictly followed the eight-hour working system, divided the soldiers into three shifts, and took turns to attack at twelve hours, trying to break the will of our soldiers.

Our army has limited personnel. If more than 4 people want to defend such a large city, the whole army must be mobilized. There is no eight-hour work system, all of them work full-time, and vacations are cancelled.In other words, Cao Jun can rest, but our soldiers can't close their eyes and have to fight day and night.

(End of this chapter)