"Quick! Let all the crossbow reserves go to the southeast corner of the city wall to isolate the enemy's rear team! You must never let the subsequent Guan Yu army climb up the wall! Captain Su, you immediately bring all the spearmen in the South Camp to the wall and form an array to block the entrance!"

Faced with the surging offensive of the Han army and the rebellion of Yin Kai and Yang Xiu and others in the city, Cheng Yu, who organized the rescue on the front line, was completely in a panic. He could only support the left and right, and resist for a moment if he could resist for a moment.

Thousands of crossbowmen and spearmen were mechanically thrown into the gap, and the spearmen advanced neatly on the wall, trying to squeeze back the Han army with only more than a thousand people.

Unfortunately, the width of the top of the city wall is only five or six meters, and there are only a dozen people standing in a horizontal row. Therefore, Cao's advantage of many powerful soldiers cannot be fully utilized in the local contact front.

The vanguards of the Han army were all made of horse-killing swords made of iron armor and steel, and some even held large shields wrapped in iron.

Although the length of the weapon is inferior to that of the Cao army's spearmen, he is mainly because he cannot carry a spear when climbing the city wall with a flying ladder.

But by relying on the collision of the shield, he could successfully approach the enemy with his armor advantage, killing Cao soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables.

The Cao army supported the archers reserve team, so there was no need to worry about the "front expansion width". After all, it was a long-range unit and had a certain output space.

However, the defense zones chosen by Yang Xiu and Yin Kai were also vicious when they launched the mutiny, which happened to be near a corner tower, reducing the output angle and position of Cao Jun's crossbowmen at least half.

The Han army's crossbowmen and catapults also responded very quickly, and had already made firepower deployment long before the general attack.

At this moment, the Han army brigade of divine arm crossbowmen carried large vine shields and pushed them to the city wall for more than a hundred steps, and shot wildly at the top of the city.

The Han army's catapults also replaced them with gravel bombs. Under the guidance of Wanglou, they avoided the areas where the two armies were fighting in close combat, and specifically picked up places with dense crossbowmen behind the Cao army to smash them.

Cao's crossbowmen could not afford the steel helmets and breastplate. Being covered with such dense amounts of death and injuries were immediately caused by heavy casualties and blood. The wall was covered with blood.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, the Han soldiers and mutiny righteous men who had gained a foothold on the city wall gradually increased from more than one thousand to more than two thousand and more than three thousand, and they also grabbed several steps into the city from the back of the city wall.

The generals and schoolmen around Cheng Yu were frightened and anxiously asked for countermeasures:

"Wei Wei, the matter is urgent! I am afraid that this Yecheng cannot be defended, so I will show you the way for the soldiers!"

"Why should we lead the cavalry to break through the east side of the city? The infantry archers in the city can at least hold Guan Yu back for a while."

"Why don't we surrender, ah..."

A bunch of suggestions made Cheng Yu's scalp numb, but he still had a bottom line. When he heard those people talking, he became more and more arrogant. In the end, someone said something about surrender. Cheng Yu was also unambiguous and attacked and drew his sword to cut off the officer who surrendered.

It's not assassination or killing. Who made Cheng Yu unable to do martial arts? He could only use his sword to drag and cut it casually, without any rules.

The injured officer was not dead for a moment, but fell to the ground and screamed, and asked the warrior beside Cheng Yu to finish the knife.

Seeing that Cheng Yu killed someone and established his authority, the others did not dare to speak more and more arrogantly. Cheng Yu calmed down for a few seconds and realized that Yecheng must be unable to defend it.

However, there are more than 20,000 regular troops in the city and more powerful men in the city, so it seems that street fighting can last a long time.

Yecheng is very big, and the news that the enemy broke through the southeast corner could not be heard in another direction for a while, so it is still possible to drag for a few hours. Now I want to run away.

But if he ran away, the defenders in the city would probably collapse faster, and they would not even have the chance to cause casualties to the enemy for their own battles.

Moreover, if Yecheng was thrown too fast, he would not even have time to notify Xiahou Yuan dozens of miles away to run together. Wouldn't Xiahou Yuan run slowly and be surrounded by Guan Zhang and Ma?

Cheng Yu thought quickly and set the tone: Surrender is absolutely not possible, running is OK, but you must try to preserve your vitality. It is best to take all the cavalry out, and at the same time, you cannot sell your teammates, mainly you cannot sell your officials.

He immediately recruited several brave and famous grassroots generals and ordered: "En Xiahou! I ordered you to take hundreds of cavalry out of the city from the north and rush straight to Handan, informing the former general Yecheng that he was about to fall, and asked him to break through and withdraw his troops quickly. It would be useless to stay in Handan again!"

(Note: After Cao Cao became the prime minister, he appointed Xiahou Dun as the general of the guard, Xiahou Yuan as the former general, and Cao Ren as the latter general, and was the highest military position among the generals of the Cao army. The positions of generals, generals of the cavalry, and generals of the chariots are currently vacant.)

Xiahou En immediately responded and took the order and left.

Then, Cheng Yu recruited Zhang He and asked him to organize all the cavalry troops in the city and a small number of infantry who opened the way to attack and break through from the east of the city.

The reason why Zhang He was not allowed to inform Xiahou Yuan just now was that Cheng Yu was also considering that Zhang He was seriously injured in the autumn and winter season last year. Now he has been recuperating for more than half a year and has not completely recovered. His martial arts skills have been greatly reduced, so it is better to let Xiahou En go, because he has strong endurance.

Zhang He's injuries last year were mainly two, one was stabbing his shoulder and arm. This was actually easy to recover. Even if he had been injured for 100 days, he had recovered after more than half a year of rest.

But another inhaled pneumonia is more troublesome and has always had some sequelae. So Zhang He is still good at muscle strength and explosiveness now, but his endurance is greatly reduced.

Similar to a fitness expert who practices muscles but does not practice cardiopulmonary function, after a set of anaerobic outbreak, it immediately collapses when it reaches the stage of durability.

Or like the Jamaican sprinter with sickle-type anemia, the anaerobic sprint within twenty seconds is very strong. Once the mid-to-long-term running that requires oxygen, the Jamaican has no one to beat.

Therefore, Zhang He is no longer known for his martial arts, he can only lead his troops. Although he was injured last year, he had some sequelae of drowning and brain hypoxia, the little intelligence loss did not significantly affect the commander's value.

At this moment, under Cheng Yu's coordination, all the cavalry troops in Yecheng were organized, and five thousand infantrymen were collected to break through the east gate.

Guan Yu's tribe in the south of the city and Ma Chao's tribe in the north of the city were both busy siege and seize the land, so they were not wary of the enemy's escape.

After all, when siege, you just hope to surround three vacancies and one to give the enemy hope so that the enemy will not fight to the end and fight to the end.

As soon as Cheng Yu and Zhang He left the city, the troops in the city were already greatly reduced, and the morale was also clamored by the Han army, and all the high-level guards were advocated to run away. The morale of the Cao army in Ye City naturally collapsed and ended the battle sooner than originally expected.

Guan Yu led his troops to rush into Yuan Shao's general's mansion and pseudo-movies, cleared and controlled the core area of ​​the city where the government offices gathered. He also captured several prisoners to ask about Cheng Yu and Zhang He's movements, so he took the cavalry troops to pursue him without stopping.

Ma Chao also quickly noticed the situation and divided his troops to chase him. When Cheng Yu broke through, he brought five thousand infantrymen behind the palace. These infantry were already running slowly, and after being caught up by the Han army, they had to turn around and take the battle.

Because of the fact that they were fighting against the cavalry with their own hands or the number of few, the 5,000 infantrymen were quickly strangled by Guan Yu and Ma Chao and over half of them were defeated, and all the remaining weapons were left to surrender.

But after being blocked by them, Cheng Yu had already gained more time to retreat to the vicinity of Feixiang County in the east.

"I thought Zhang He was arrogant back then, but I didn't expect that after so many years, he was so cowardly and could run away so much! I miscalculated it!"

Guan Yu was also a little regretful. After finding out that he couldn't catch up, he sighed regretfully.

After all, they were occupied by Cao's army, so Guan Yu's troops could not ignore the city that was still in the enemy's hands and kept chasing them.

Ma Chao, who chased him together, also felt a pity, but his mentality turned around faster and asked in a negotiated tone: "Fortunately, it was a great achievement to take down Yecheng easily. As for encirclement and annihilation of the entire enemy, it was an unexpected idea, and it was nothing that could not be done.

It is better to go back to the army to siege Xiahou Yuan so as not to let Xiahou Yuan run away. Handan County is much more broken than Yecheng, and our army is enough to siege and strive to wipe out the entire country."

Guan Yu stroked his beard and agreed. He immediately ordered the army to return, and tried to turn northward to block Xiahou Yuan's retreat as much as possible.

They estimated that Cheng Yu would definitely try to notify Xiahou Yuan before breaking through. Xiahou Yuan probably might not dare to leave in the afternoon. If the target is too big, it is easy to be discovered, but at the latest it will definitely leave in the middle of the night, using the cover of the night.

Guan Yu and Ma Chao rushed back at high speed, leaving some people trapped and exhausted. By the evening, they were approaching southeast of Handan, but suddenly they saw Cao's defeated soldiers scattered in front of them.

Guan Yu was alert and immediately asked the cavalry with him to cast a net to encircle him, captured a group of prisoners, and pulled him back and asked slowly: "Where are you here? Whose subordinates?"

The captives were not satisfied with hiding it, and quickly stated that they were Xiahou Yuan's subordinates and broke out from Handan. At noon, Handan City received a warning from Xiahou En sent by Cheng Yu early in the morning, saying that a traitor in Yecheng had been sold out and that Xiahou Yuan had also escaped.

At that time, Xiahou Yuan sent a scout to investigate briefly and found that Ma Chao's troops in the south of the city were loose. He seemed to have sent the main force to chase eastward, so he was determined that Ma Chao would go to chase Cheng Yu and Zhang He.

Xiahou Yuan took a risk and wanted to take advantage of the time when Ma Chao left and break through during the day.

Guan Yu heard this, but it was nothing, but this time it was Ma Chao's turn and regretted it:

"I didn't expect that Xiahou Yuan would not follow the military tactics. He did not use the night cover when he retreated and broke through the siege. Instead, he felt that our troops were empty and he left decisively at noon! I had known that I would not have been able to chase Zhang He, so I would not have come to chase him. I would squat to death with Xiahou Yuan!"

The distribution of the three Han troops is that Guan Yu is south of Yecheng, Ma Chao is north of Yecheng, between Handan, and Zhang Fei is north of Handan.

Therefore, when Ma Chao was sandwiched in the middle, he was responsible for monitoring the enemy on the north side of Yecheng and the enemy on the south side of Handan. If he pursued and moved away, there would naturally be gaps.

After hearing Ma Chao's regret, Guan Yu was quite calm: "We have notified our third brother about Yang Xiuxian City's proposal. I have taken care of him. When Bo Qi supported the attack on Ye, he asked him to take more responsibility for surveillance at Xiahou Yuan.
Chapter completed!