Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1730 Additional Questions

"My lord, your strategies are actually pretty good, at least when I was your age, I didn't think of these..." Cao Ren sat down, commanding the soldiers to set up camp, and said to Cao Pi who was following him, "But what Sikong wanted It's my son, you want to see not only the present, but also the future?"

   "In the future?" Cao Pi repeated, thinking a bit.

"Take the matter under the city of Ye as an example," Cao Ren said, "It was not wrong for us to use the strategy of luring the enemy at the beginning, and then the response in the city was not wrong, but the people in the city did not think further. For example, why do we use the strategy of luring the enemy..."

   "Isn't it just to find an opportunity to **** the city gate?" Cao Pi subconsciously interjected, and then hurriedly said, "I implore uncle to give advice..."

  Cao Ren smiled, this time Cao Cao deliberately arranged for Cao Pi to follow him, but in fact, he may not have no intention of letting Cao Ren teach him. Although Cao Ren is not like those great scholars who are full of beautiful articles, Cao Ren was also born into a family of officials. His generation was still the prefect of Yingchuan, so even though Cao Ren liked bowing, horse hunting and hunting when he was young, it didn't mean that Cao Ren was a fool. Cao Ren even had a deeper understanding of military strategy.

"The strategy to lure the enemy is only at close range..." Cao Ren waved his hand and asked the guards to scatter to the side, and then said in a low voice, "Just think about it, my lord, if we attack Yecheng all at once, or even take it down in one fell swoop, what's the point?" What are the benefits? What are the disadvantages?"

   "Take it in one fell swoop?" Cao Pi is not stupid, after turning his head around, he suddenly figured it out, "So we don't want to attack Yecheng at all?"

   "It's not that we don't want to fight, it's not that we fight now..." Cao Ren added, "We have to pretend that we really want to fight, so that we can keep both Yuans in Yecheng, and now..."

  Cao Pi clapped his hands suddenly, trembling slightly with excitement, "Take the land of Jizhou instead!"

  Cao Ren laughed loudly, nodded, and then said meaningfully: "Er Yuan just saw what was in front of him, so he ended up in such a state..."

   "I would like to be taught! My nephew will definitely strive for a long-term vision!" Cao Pi clasped his hands, said respectfully, and flattered him by the way, "My uncle is far-sighted, and my nephew is very impressed!"

"I can't talk about far-sightedness, it's all the elder brother's strategy..." Cao Ren waved his hand, and said, "Only those with a long-term vision can make a big impact... In this regard..." Cao Ren was half-speaking, and suddenly got stuck. It seemed that he was a little distracted, and he didn't know what he thought of.

   "Uncle?" Cao Pi asked.

   "Oh...it's okay, it's okay..." Cao Ren smiled, but the smile seemed to have lost the brilliance just now, "Maocheng is just around the corner, young master, would you like to watch the battle?"

  Cao Pi straightened his back and said, "It's only natural!"

"The battle of Maocheng will definitely be fierce. You must be prepared..." Cao Ren nodded. Going down to Maocheng... In addition, since Er Yuan's luck is about to run out, seeing a certain army arrive, why is the guard of Maocheng unwilling to surrender... Uh, this is actually what Sikong confessed..."

  …(￣.￣)+…

  The sun has just risen, lazily hanging in the sky, and the drums of war have already rolled across the earth rumbling like half thunder. Cao Jun under Maocheng roared, and the sound of shouting and killing filled the world, like surging waves, they rushed towards Maocheng.

   Without too much nonsense, even before the battle, without shouting a slogan, he started to act directly, so dry that Maocheng guard Yin Kai couldn't help but feel a sharp pain.

  The general attack has begun.

  Cao Pi stood in the formation, looking at the mountains around Maocheng, thinking about the previous problem.

  Maocheng is a small town in the east of the Taihang Mountains. It is located at the exit of the Taihang Mountain Trail. This place can be regarded as the junction point between Jizhou and Shangdang.

   The purpose of attacking Maocheng is of course not to attack the Shangdang along the Taihang Eight Paths west of Maocheng. After all, Cao Cao is not at this stage to provoke the Hussar General without solving the problem of Jizhou. So in this way, there is only one purpose for the first attack on Maocheng, which is to suppress this point first, and prevent the hussars from the west from coming out of the Taihang Mountain Classic...

Having figured out this problem, Cao Pi suddenly also figured out the second problem. He knew why Yin Kaiming, the guard in Maocheng Shangzhong, knew that Cao Jun was coming, but still had no intention of surrendering. He also understood why Cao Ren even tried to persuade him to surrender. He didn't even bother to say what he was waiting for, and simply swung his army directly to attack the city.

The defenders of Maocheng are still firing arrows, but compared to before, it is much less. On the one hand, the archers will always lose their physical strength after shooting quickly and continuously, and on the other hand, the stones not far in front gun.

Accompanied by the sound of the winch creaking and the chanting of the soldiers, the stone cannons lifted the boulders high into the air. Some of these stones flew directly into the city over the city wall, and some of them hit the gate tower accurately. Broken human bodies and fragments of the city wall cracked into mud and rocks flew all over the sky above the battlements, which also caused a heavy blow to the archers originally arranged in Maocheng.

The direct kills were not as many as imagined, but the suppression and blow to morale was heavy and there was no way to recover in a short time. Even if it was only splashed by gravel, there was no direct injury. These bows and arrows on Maocheng The hands were still screaming, in a mess, completely forgetting their original duties.

   There are not many stone cannons attacking the city, only eight, but they are very powerful.

  The person in charge of commanding the stone cannon is a guy named Song Hang Song Zijing. Song Hang and Cao Pi also knew each other. After all, they had met several times before, and knew that Song Hang wrote a good handwriting, and even got praise from Cao Cao. But Cao Pi did not expect that Song Hang also had such accomplishments in equipment. An inconspicuous team of about 800 people can play such an important role at the moment. This may be Cao Ren's confidence in daring to attack Maocheng directly.

  Under such a powerful stone-throwing attack, in less than a moment, the turrets and gate towers on the east side of Maocheng had all collapsed.

The original intention of Maocheng construction was to guard against the Taihang Mountains in the west, so the east side was relatively weak. Now under the ravages of stone cannons, it seems to be full of loopholes. Amidst the debris of stone bricks flying randomly, Cao Pi saw that it had already A group of soldiers arrived at the gate of the city surrounded by huge battering rams, and slammed into the gate heavily. With each impact, there was a shock that seemed to knock down even the city wall.

  Three cloud carts and dozens of ladders were also pushed under the city wall of Maocheng almost at the same time. The iron hook on the ladder was deeply caught on the battlement of the city wall, and dozens of roads leading to the city were built in an instant. Countless soldiers immediately followed the road built by the ladder and the cloud cart, and went to the city. Charge madly above the city.

  The troops of the first wave of attacking the city let out deafening shouts while fighting aggressively forward, trying to expand the territory above the city wall and gain a firm foothold.

More than half of the soldiers Cao Cao brought this time were veterans. Although these Qingzhou soldiers had some problems of lax military discipline and rebelliousness, they were brave enough to die on the battlefield. It is because some soldiers have better skill experience and battlefield intuition than ordinary soldiers. With these experiences and intuition, these Qingzhou soldiers did not suffer too much damage from the suppressed archers above Maocheng. The wounded began to ascend the city.

Taking advantage of the difficulty for the soldiers in the city to come out and shoot arrows straight down, some of them held their shields high, and quickly and orderly climbed up the numerous ladders erected, while others pushed the stones made of rough wooden stakes. The rushing car also came under the city gate under the protection of several layers of thick cowhide. There was a huge impact, one louder than the other, and even the sound of the war drum was suppressed.

  On the other hand, the defenders above Maocheng City seemed unable to adapt to such a fierce and sharp attack all of a sudden.

Cao Pi saw that although some guarding soldiers ran out of the smoke and dust scatteredly and fought with their own soldiers, these soldiers were scattered in formation, and some of them didn't even have armor, so they were hacked like this, or were they killed? Shouting, he was shot down from the top of the city.

   "The city is about to collapse..."

  Amidst the cheers around, Cao Pi murmured.

  Although he didn't actually go into battle to kill the enemy himself, Cao Pi has experienced some battles more or less, so he still has some basic judgment. Seeing the scene in front of him, Cao Pi could almost conclude that the defenders of Maocheng did not have any adequate defensive preparations at all, not even rolling stones and beating trees.

Normally speaking, the best way to deal with the cloud ladder cloud cart is the fork pole and spearmen. Facing the dense spear formation like a forest, no matter how brave the soldiers are, they will not be able to climb up like this smoothly, let alone The rocks are lowered down the ladder and the trolley...

There is also a battering ram to deal with the city gate. The best way is to smash two or three kerosene down, and then throw a torch, and all the cars and people will be wiped out immediately. Otherwise, it is just shooting with bows and arrows. Through the thick cowhide, and the wooden board behind the cowhide?

Knew it!

  The defender of Maocheng never thought of defending to the death! Strictly speaking, I never thought of dying from this at all!

  Cao Pi couldn't help but sneered, "Do you want to use this as a step to become a hussar? It's a pity, you are not waiting for the hussars, but me, Cao Jiaerlang!"

   There should be no suspense...

  The city wall is an important fortification of the city, and it is also a psychological barrier for the defenders to defend against the enemy. Now that they are quickly broken through after only one blow, this is a great blow to the fighting spirit of the defenders, and the troops with a slightly lower quality will collapse directly in all likelihood.

  Cao Pi breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the Cao soldiers who had already stood on the city wall, he couldn't help showing a happy smile.

   "Ah! Not good!"

  The surrounding soldiers suddenly screamed, startling Cao Pi, and quickly looked up at the city.

I saw only one place on the city wall of Maocheng, two Cao Juns splashing blood, screaming and falling from the top of the city, followed by the third and fourth ones, not long after, Cao Jun on this piece of the city wall The soldiers were either killed or driven off, and even the ladder that was originally built was pushed down and fell down.

At this moment, a soldier of the Cao family just jumped onto the top of the wall, but before he could stand still, his head flew into the air amidst the blood splattering, and the headless body was kicked backwards, and he followed behind on the ladder Several of the soldiers took them down. The guard who saw him shouted: "This is the enemy general!"

   "Who is it?" Cao Pi asked

   "I can't see clearly, I only see... it's the Gao family! I see the battle flag! It's the Gao family!" The guard pointed at the top of the wall and shouted.

  Cao Pi looked intently, and there was a flag raised on the top of the city, on which was written the surname of the general, which was the word "Gao"!

   "Gao Shi?" Cao Pi murmured, "Who is it..."

   is a high view.

Gao Lan had a good relationship with Qu Yi before, so Yuan Shao was left out for a period of time during his lifetime, and after he was reactivated, he was born at an untimely time. First, he met Tai Shici who attacked Ye City, was defeated and was punished, and later he met with Tai Shici again. Together with Zhang He, they were ambushed by Cao Cao's design, were defeated again, and were fined again. They fell from general to lieutenant all the way. After Zhang He surrendered to Cao Cao, Yuan Shao even doubted whether Gao Lan, who had a good relationship with Zhang He, would leave. Zhang Ying's way, did not dare to continue to let Gao Lan stay on the front line of the battle with Cao Cao, and dispatched him to Maocheng.

Maocheng guard Yin Kai naturally knew the problem, so when Gao Lan came here, he almost assumed the function of a subordinate Cao, catching thieves and bastards, and he had no military power at all. If the current situation was not urgent, Guard Yin Kai will not hand over the military power to Gao Lan...

   Seeing Gao Lan suppressing Cao Jun who had climbed the city wall little by little, Cao Pi couldn't help feeling a little anxious, but at this moment, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed again!

Gao Lan beheaded two more people one after another, and was about to move forward to suppress and defeat the last batch of Cao Jun. Suddenly, he felt a violent vibration under his feet, he couldn't stand upright, and almost fell to the ground. In the corner of the eye, a boulder the size of a wheel roared from mid-air!

Gao Lan rushed to the side in a hurry, only to see a huge boulder passing across him with a buzzing sound, hitting several soldiers who were following him beside him, running over them who were still in awe just now, and then the boulder dragged With a red tail, it landed in the city with three jumps and two jumps...

Just when Gao Lan was rejoicing that he escaped to death, he suddenly heard the loud cheers of Cao Jun's soldiers. Gao Lan suddenly realized something, and his heart was filled with sadness. The action seems to be impossible now.

  The huge shock just now was the east gate of Maocheng, which was finally broken by the battering ram...

  As soon as the city gate was broken, Cao Jun swarmed in. The soldiers guarding the city in Maocheng, like Gao Lan, were like punctured balloons, and they collapsed, without much resistance.

   "Good! Good! Good! The city is broken! The city is broken!"

  Cao Pi laughed, and like the surrounding soldiers and guards, they all cheered for the breakthrough of Maocheng, but shouted and shouted, Cao Pi's eyes turned to Song Hang and the soldiers under Song Hang's command.

This time the attack on Maocheng was so smooth and fast. Among the credits, the 800 siege equipment troops led by Song Hang scored not to mention eight points, at least four or five points. If there were no such sharp stones It takes a lot of effort to break through the city with the aid of equipment such as cannons and cars!

  However, Cao Pi immediately thought of another problem.

   It is said that Song Hang learned these skills from the big man's hussars, so the siege equipment under the big man's hussars...

  Father, is this another question you want me to see in person?

  (end of this chapter)