Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2284 A tailless dog has a tail

The sun climbed up slowly, and then glanced at the ants with lowered eyelids, then walked forward slowly and nonchalantly, perhaps in its eyes, these people and horses gathered around Jixian County, fighting each other, like two groups The ants are as boring as fighting for a tree nest, and they can't even attract a little more attention from it.

   Gongsun Du spread out a map.

  『Dear Shan Yu...』Gongsun Du showed six teeth, 『Please look, this is the deployment map of Ji County...Of course, there may be some changes now...』

"When the Han people built this city back then, they also put in some thought..." Gongsun Du stopped slightly, feeling that his words seemed a little awkward, but under the gaze of Chief Ding Ling, he continued, "For Strengthen the defense, so there are urns on all sides. If the first line is broken, there is a second urn that can resist... But in order to defend such a large city, a lot of people are needed... and Ji County has not had one for a long time I have been attacked, so I dare to say that there must be some flaws in the defense system of this city...』

"Dear Shan Yu... I think that if we attack the city according to the old method, there will be relatively large losses, so my suggestion is to divide it into two steps..." Gongsun Du lowered his head, and then quickly aimed at Ding Ling The big head took a look.

  Big Leader Ding Ling smiled, and patted Gongsun Du on the shoulder, like patting an old dog, "Yes, yes, go on, I support you..."

"Thank you Shan Yu..." Gongsun Du's face seemed to be full of brilliance, and he seemed to have regained the feeling of licking people back then, "I suggest that you can put some pressure on Cao Jun in Ji County first, so as to test Cao Jun first. Is there any problem with your defense...then...here...」

Gongsun Du pointed to a corner on the map, "There is a small mound here. We can hide some people behind the mound during the first stage of attack, and then storm the opposite city to attract people." Cao Jun's attention..."

"There is an urn in Jixian County. If you attack the city gate directly, it will take a lot of effort, and you may be trapped in the urn. You will be surrounded by enemies. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Therefore, it is better to attack the corner of the city, and then as long as you go up... Hehe, you can directly Bypass this defensive point..." Gongsun Du said, "If you want to attack the city corner, you must first solve two problems, one is the moat, and the other is how to climb the city corner..."

"I've checked the details. This corner of the city in Jixian County is lower than the other four. It's not that the city wall is crooked, but there is a small hill outside the city at this corner..." Gongsun Du pointed on the map, " When we pretended to attack the northern city wall, we attacked the east with a main force. While defending our frontal attack, the Han people did not dare to give up their flanks, so they had no choice but to send a reserve army. We can first attract their pawns and consume their reserves. When the time is right, pretending to be the last wave of fierce offensive, Cao Jun must have thought that our main forces are on the northeast sides, and then we suddenly focus on the highest corner of the city, and we will definitely take it down in one fell swoop! 』

  『At that time, as long as we board the city, it means that all the urns in the city will be useless, and we still have mounds outside the city where we can arrange archers. Even if the Han people want to support them, they will still be within the range of our bows and arrows! ”Gongsun Du said confidently, “When the Han people lose their city walls, their morale will be hit hard. Even if they still want to persist, how long can they persist? 』

  Gongsun Du smiled and bent over, like a dog's tail flower swaying in the wind.

"So the key to this attack is how to successfully attract the attention of the Han people in the first two attacks. It must not only make the Han people think that this is the direction of the assist, but also make the Han people send a reserve team. Take the city in one fell swoop..." Gongsun Du bowed and said, "Dear Shan Yu, when the time comes, my people will gather under the small mound and we will definitely be able to capture Ji County! 』

"what? ! The Ding Ling tribe leader who stood on the other side was dissatisfied, and grasped the point, "You old bastard, you have been talking nonsense for a long time, but you just want to hide behind and wait for us to go up and fight, don't you?" 』

Gongsun Du still showed his six teeth, "You are overthinking, my people have been busy all the time, yesterday when you were sleeping, my people were still building ladders and carts overnight until early morning, otherwise How do you attack the city walls? Climb up by hand? 』

  『You old bastard…』

"All right! The leader of the Dingling tribe stared and was about to attack, but was stopped by the commander of the Dingling People's Congress, "The people of Guduhou have been tired for several days, and they should take a rest... I said, aren't you afraid?" Think your warriors can't take the lead? 』

  Ding Ling's tribal leader immediately jumped up, "How is that possible! My warriors are the strongest! 』

"That's good. Ding Ling nodded and said, "Then let's do it like this!" However, Marquis Gudu, let’s talk about it beforehand, if we have done all the offensive in front of us, but in the end you have loose bowels...you have to know the consequences...』

  Gongsun Du bowed his head, "The old minister knows. The old minister understands. 』

  …(￣..￣)…

  Cao Hong stood on the city wall, looking at the camp of the Hu army in the distance, with a solemn face.

  Behind him stood Le Jin.

  Cao Hong is reflecting.

  The situation of the war is sometimes elusive or even destructive. A little negligence that was initially thought to be insignificant may become the fuse of the final defeat.

   Is it because the plan was too smooth at the beginning that led to the relaxation of vigilance?

   Or are there too many Dingling people?

   Or maybe the Wuhuan people and Xianbei people were too weak, while the Dingling people were too strong?

   Is there any division of troops that may be caused by the continuous occupation of new territories...

   Of course, you can also push all the reasons to objective reasons, and then declare that everything is a force majeure factor that you cannot resist, avoid, or handle, and then refuse to pay... er, refuse to admit your mistakes.

   This is the trouble on the battlefield, especially the difficulty of farming peoples not changing their combat thinking. The main point of the farming nation's battles has always been to occupy the city, and the purpose of occupying the city is to obtain the resources around the city and obtain the output of these resources, but this kind of occupation cannot be like in the game, the color of the forefoot has just changed, Resources can rise on the back foot, but there must be a process.

  So Cao Hong had to divide his troops to maintain local stability, and even if each county was divided into one or two hundred, ten or twenty counties and villages would reduce the number of troops by two to three thousand. Moreover, these assigned soldiers are extremely easy to be defeated and wiped out, so that Cao Hong's current force has been reduced.

  Dingling people are different from Wuhuan people and Xianbei people after all.

The Wuhuan people themselves were divided internally, and after several consecutive defeats, both the fighting spirit and the organizational system have fallen to the lowest point. They belong to the kind of troops whose morale may collapse at any time. Cao Hong defeated the Wuhuan people by a little bit. There is no difficulty at all, which means that the Wuhuan people gathered by Cao Jun also have no "difficulty" when they encounter other opponents.

The Xianbei people will be better than the Wuhuan people, but the Xianbei people themselves have big problems, mainly because Xianbei has no strategic depth and no backup. At the beginning, the number of people was not large, but it has gradually decreased today. One hundred, one fifty less tomorrow, and another two hundred less the day after tomorrow. At the beginning, he looked powerful, like a giant who couldn't eat. If he starved day by day, the Xianbei people without follow-up supplements would become Gradually weakened, and after being knocked down, I couldn't get up at all...

  Ding Lingren is different.

Not only did they have a large number of slaves because they gathered the tribes in the northern desert, but also they were in the process of rising in momentum. It was not so easy to lead to the collapse of fighting spirit. It stimulated the madness of the other Dingling people, so that when Cao Jun faced the Dingling people, he felt that the positive pressure was greater and more difficult than that of the Wuhuan people and the Xianbei people.

Although Cao Hong has repeatedly shrunk the line of defense, and even voluntarily withdrew from some sites, and then concentrated in Jixian County, prepared all the defense equipment, and prepared to fight the enemy to the end, but his troops were limited, and he faced a small number of people. Wan Dajun's attack, he also felt somewhat stretched, and there was nothing to cook.

   Le Jin is also a veteran in the battlefield. He stood silently behind Cao Hong, watching the Ding Ling army marching down the city, feeling heavy in his heart.

  Yesterday’s Kuaiqi has already set off, requesting reinforcements from Cao Cao in Yecheng, Jizhou.

  Cao Hong knew in his heart that it would not be a problem to defeat the Wuhuan people, Xianbei people, and even Gongsun Du in the field with the current troops and soldiers.

  Now, you can only defend the city.

  If Ji County falls, then Jizhou will face the most direct risk. If Cao Cao’s reinforcements cannot arrive, then the possibility of Cao Hong and others dying here will be very high.

  Of course, Cao Hong still believed that Cao Cao would eventually come to reinforce the army.

  『The old thief Gongsun has been building siege equipment for Ding Lingren for two days and two nights... 』 Le Jin pointed to the far direction, gritted his teeth and said, 『If I knew it, I would have burned that piece of forest on the top of the mountain! 』

  Cao Hong was silent and did not speak.

  In fact, burning the forest in the distance is somewhat useful, but it is not of much use. At most, Gongsundu will find another place farther away to cut down trees.

  『This group of barbarians haven’t launched such a large-scale invasion for several years... 』 Le Jin said fiercely, 『It’s just the beginning of autumn, don’t these guys have to think about the autumn fat of livestock? 』

In the original plan, it is not that Ding Lingren was not considered, but most people, even including Cao Cao, thought that even if Ding Lingren wanted to do something, it would be after Mid-Autumn and early winter. As a result of the battle, the Dingling people will withdraw their troops, so the time to fight against the Dingling people as a whole is naturally shorter, and the pressure is not too great.

but now…

  『Hmm...』 Cao Hong looked to the north, 『There must be something...maybe...the hussars went over there...』

   Le Jin was taken aback, "What? The general meant..."

  『I’m just a guess...』Cao Hong said, 『I don’t know the details, unless it’s a few big bosses who are arrested to ask... But for now, let’s push the things in front of us first! Look over there..."

  Cao Hong has seen many Ding Ling people digging soil at the foot of the mountain in the distance since the morning, and then stacking up bags of soil, and some people are responsible for carrying...

   "This is..." Le Jin frowned, "Dingling wants to fill the moat? 』

  Cao Hong frowned, "Filling the moat... is not wrong, but it takes so much? 』

The moat in Jixian County is a standard moat, and its width and depth are not much different from those of ordinary county towns. Because of this, the amount of soil used to fill the moat can actually be estimated. Obviously much more...

  『Could it be that...』 Le Jin frowned, staring at Ding Lingren's movements, "Ding Lingren planned to attack from two directions? 』So the amount of soil to fill the moat naturally needs to be doubled.

  Cao Hong nodded slightly.

"Dingling people filled the soil, it must be used to fill up a certain place..." Cao Hong turned his head and looked around the city wall of Ji County, "Then... I think they may also want to attack that corner...the city corner over there was built on On the mountain, it goes up with the mountain, and it is no more than three feet high. If the Dingling people start from the middle of the mountain and stick to the base of the city wall to form a platform with soil bags...』

  『Pile it up with earth bags? Le Jin looked at it, hesitating a little, "Impossible, how many bags of soil do you need?" 』

  『But there are more than ten thousand of them...』 Cao Hong frowned, then turned his head and looked into the distance.

The Ding Ling people claimed that there were 100,000 people, but internally they said that there were 50,000 people, but not all the Ding Ling people could be gathered here in Ji County, so in fact, there are more than 10,000 people around Ji County, including Gongsun Jun .

  Cao Hong looked up to the sky, the sun in the sky seemed to notice his gaze, and stared back unceremoniously, what are you looking at? Cao Hong was defeated, and immediately lowered his eyes, blinked twice, and recovered some of the stinging eyesight, "It will be fine if there is heavy rain... Tsk..."

   Now there is only hard on.

  『It’s about to attack. ’ Cao Hong said in a chatty manner.

Suddenly, a huge ox horn came out from Ding Lingren's side. With the first sound of the ox horn, several, even a dozen ox horns sounded one after another, with a long and deep sound Like a gust of wind, it swept towards Ji County.

   Cao Jun soldiers in Ji County also stood up following the sound, and looked towards Cao Hong on the city wall.

  Cao Hong looked at Ding Lingren who had started to move, and waved his hands behind him. The messenger standing behind him whistled, and made a gesture to the bannermen on the gate tower.

With the swaying of the flag soldiers, the sound of war drums in Jixian County rumbled unhurriedly, and many soldiers of Cao Jun who seemed a little nervous after hearing the sound of ox horns gradually calmed down amidst the sound of such war drums. , clenched the weapon in his hand.

In the later Three Kingdoms games, riding and archery seems to be the patent of Baima Yicong. Only Youzhou cavalry can ride and shoot, but in fact this is not the case. Most cavalry can ride and shoot, but it’s just good or bad. Hu people can basically ride and shoot, and their riding and shooting skills are not too bad.

  Ding Lingren's war horses began to gallop back and forth around the edge of the moat, and then lobbed at the top of the city from time to time. Because the city wall and the moat itself must be placed within their own range, the people on the city can shoot at the enemy on the opposite side of the moat, and the enemy on the opposite side can also shoot at the top of the city, but there are some disadvantages in terms of range and shooting angle. That's all. But Ding Lingren is a moving target. When the horses are galloping, not all Cao Jun's archers can control the amount of shooting in advance, so the two sides shoot back and forth...

But in this way, unlike the general point-to-point, or array-to-array, the shooting of both sides has some suddenness, and it is not known whether the next wave of arrows will be shot from the left or the right. Sometimes it is perfectly drawn. A silhouette dodges unscathed, and sometimes finds hundreds of arrows coming towards him!

  Cao Hong's eyes suddenly opened wide, and he let out a loud roar: "Up the shield!" 』

The shieldman subconsciously raised his giant shield with a clatter, and then pushed it against the gap in the battlements. Immediately, he heard a scream coming from the air, and Cao Jun's soldiers without shields immediately rolled and crawled or hid in the battlements. On the inside, they either curled up under the shield, holding their heads instinctively, reducing the projected area of ​​their bodies.

A huge variegated arrow rain roared, and the arrows pierced the position near Cao Hong with ear-piercing screams, making all kinds of creepy sounds. Some arrows fell outside the city wall because of insufficient range, and some The arrows flew into the city wall because the range was too far, but most of the arrows still landed on the city wall. Sound, some shield soldiers were knocked over by the huge force of many arrows that happened to shoot together, and some soldiers were injured by the arrows that fell on the blue bricks, and suddenly several fell down from the top of the city. , The sound of blood and wailing followed.

  Looking at the situation in Ji County in the distance, Commander Ding Ling of the National People's Congress was obviously satisfied with the oppression his troops had brought to Cao Jun on the top of the wall. Three more rounds! The slave soldiers are ready to step forward and fill the moat! 』

  『Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…』

  The horn sounded again,

   Standing in front of Ding Ling's array are slave soldiers, and in front of these slave soldiers are piles of soil bags, big and small, different. There are still some small people beside the mud bag, standing in twos facing each other.

  A commander Ding Ling heard the sound of the horn, immediately drew out his saber, and shouted loudly: "Slaves step forward, put mud bags on their shoulders!" 』

  The slave soldier stepped forward, bent down, and lowered his head, and then the Ding Ling who stood facing each other put the bag filled with soil on the slave soldier's shoulder.

"quick! rush over! 』

  The slave soldiers roared wildly, and rushed towards the moat of Ji County with mud bags on their backs!

  (end of this chapter)