Chapter 518 The army is coming(1/2)
After hearing Cao Cao's plan, Zhang Miao nodded in agreement, but Zhang Chao looked worried and hesitant...
"Meng De's plan is very wonderful. Gongxu (Kong Yichang) is from Chenliu. Chenliu's hometown was robbed by thieves. Gongxu will definitely come to save him! If Gongxu sends troops to rescue him, if Yuan Benchu doesn't come to rescue him, no one will believe him in the future."
"But... If my brother goes to Sour Jujube, what if Chenliu County is going to?"
After hearing Cao Cao's words, Zhang Miao completely relieved and said with a smile: "With Meng De here, Meng Gao (Zhang Chao) doesn't need to worry!"
After saying that, just as he was about to speak, the previous servant rushed into the hall again, and this time he seemed even more panicked.
"The master is not good. The people fleeing outside the city said... a large number of thieves are coming to us..."
"What--"
Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao were startled, and Cao Cao held his fists solemnly.
"Mr. Zhang, Prefect Zhang, please make a quick decision. At this time, the thieves have not yet besieged the city. Once the thieves trap us, it will be extremely difficult to ask for help from outside..."
"Come here! Get ready now!"
Zhang Miao didn't wait for Cao Cao to finish his words, and hurriedly shouted. There was another riot in the hall, and the Zhang brothers could not care about so much. As Cao Cao said, they could still escape from the city to ask for rescue at this time. If it was one and a half days at night, once the city was surrounded, it would be all over.
The matter was urgent, and the Zhang brothers couldn't care about so much. They ran to the front hall to discuss with the heads of the family. The clan elders urgently discussed it. After Zhang Miao roughly explained Cao Cao's plan...
"Everyone knows that Dong Bid is cruel and unkind. At the critical moment, if no one comes to rescue him, Chenliu County will definitely fall into the hands of the thieves. Therefore... I want to take Meng De to take over Chenliu affairs. Do you have any objections?"
...
The situation is critical and Zhang Miao cannot be allowed. The Zhang Chao brothers hesitated for a moment, and the Chenliu families also have no choice.
Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao led their men out of Chenliu County. It took Cao Cao only a few quarters of an hour to become the "acting" prefect of Chenliu County. I don't know how Dong Hu would sigh that Cao Cao's fate would be.
If Dong Hu knew that Cao Cao was so easy to become the "prefect", he would definitely be moved, but he didn't know that after Cao Cao left the sour jujube, he did not take the opportunity to return all the way back to his hometown. Instead, he stayed in Xiangyi County to observe Zhang Liao's movements. Until he saw Zhang Chao leading his troops to leave Chenliu County, he did not hesitate and only brought Cao Ren day and night...
Cao Cao did not enter the city directly, but stayed in an empty village outside the city for two days until Zhang Chao was defeated and fled back to the city. Then he came to the prefect's mansion with Cao Ren.
Because Cao Hong was a good friend of Yangzhou Governor Chen Wen, Cao Cao ordered him to go to Yangzhou with Xu Chu, hoping to get Chen Wen's support, while Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Dun and others returned to their hometown Qiao County. A big defeat killed all the children in their hometown. Whether they could recruit troops from their hometown again, they would need to send the pension to the soldiers' families.
Cao Cao originally wanted to return to his hometown. When he saw Zhang Liao really breaking into Chenliu County, he stayed with Cao Ren, but he really made him bet right!
In just a few quarters of an hour, Cao Cao became a prince of the county.
Zhang Chao was defeated, and the people in the city were panicked. He was in short supply and wanted to recruit soldiers again. The families hiding in the city were helpless, and in the end they could only take out money and grain again and recruit thousands of soldiers again.
It was a day of emergency. Before countless soldiers with sticks, knives and forks climbed to the top of the city, there were already war drums outside the city...
"Boom boom boom..."
The war drum shook the sky, and countless soldiers raised their shields to the outside of the city. Seeing this scene, Cao Cao looked cold. He did not expect that the one who came this time was Sun Niu and Hu San's troops.
The ruthless army formation rumbled and pushed everything, with countless people on the city wall, but no one cheered up...
"Ha ha……"
Cao Cao laughed, pointed at countless strictly stern military formations, and laughed to the sky.
"Ha ha……"
"My Chenliu City is tall and thick, and there is no cloud ladder in Dong's army. How can I attack? Such an incompetent general leads troops, and there is no reason to be invincible-"
"Ha ha……"
Cao Cao laughed, and countless people turned their heads to look down at the city, but it wasn’t as Cao Cao said? Square military formations seemed mighty, but none of them carried the ladder!
"Ha ha……"
Countless people laughed loudly, pointed at the city and laughed loudly, and Cao Cao laughed even more wildly, but his eyes were filled with worries that were undetectable by others.
"Ha ha……"
"Liangzhou barbarians, you don't have wings, fly into the city--"
"It's impossible to fly in, it must be a burrow-digging mouse-"
"Ha ha……"
The city was filled with people laughing, officials, generals, soldiers, and people strengthening the people...
"Ha ha……"
The sky-shaking laughter came into his ears. Sun Niu narrowed his eyes slightly, and the next moment he turned to look at Hu San.
"A group of turtles who only dare to hide in the city dare to ridicule us and Liangzhou men. Do you want to teach them a lesson?"
"What do you think?"
Hu San looked at the top of the city with a cold face, and Sun Niu turned to the more than ten generals behind him.
"I'll send a command to the cavalry of each battalion to teach them a lesson so that they can know that I don't have wings or dig holes and claws, and I can still beat them to cry for my parents--"
"promise!"
The generals clasped their fists and turned their horses' heads together, and in just a moment...
"Boom boom boom..."
Countless cavalry run, even if they break the military camp, the Shanzi camp is just an infantryman, and the two battalions also have four or five thousand knives and archers.
Thousands of iron cavalry kicked and accelerated towards the tall city wall like surging tides. Seeing this scene, officials, soldiers, generals, and people who had not been truly baptized by war for hundreds of years were even more sarcastic and laughed wildly, but when countless iron cavalry were only a few dozen steps away from the city wall...
"Shooting the arrow—"
Countless people were shooting arrows under the city.
“Buzz buzz…”
The arrow rain was like a tide, wave after wave, countless cavalry did not pause at all, team after team, splashing arrow rain towards the city wall, and screamed in pain, originally one by one, one by one, jumped and cursed, laughed and sarcastic, after the waves of arrow rain were shot, no one dared to stretch his head and exposed his body?
Cao Cao was recognized as a military expert in later generations, but he had never really seen how the grassland man attacked the city. He was forced to hide under the city wall by waves of arrows. He was like this, so what should others think of it?
The body and head are exposed in the gap in the female wall, and the light cavalry is most likely to be shot and killed by the high-speed light cavalry. This is not an archer aiming at a gap, but several people, and dozens of people aiming at a gap at the same time, while there are only a gap in the female wall.
People exposed to the gap in the female wall are most likely to be shot, but it does not mean that arrows cannot be shot and killed by others running around in a panic. Arrows are parabolas. As long as you do not hide under the female wall, even if you cannot see people, arrows can still kill people like headless flies.
"Arrow...Arrow..."
Cao Cao yelled, but at this time it was panic, so where was anyone willing to listen to him? Occasionally, some stupid guys raised their bows and arrows and emerged from the gap in the female wall. As a result, before the arrow was shot out, several arrows were hit on his forehead.
Perhaps others think this is nonsense, how could the city be suppressed by a group of horses? But this is the reality. Whether it is Liang and Qiang and Hu attacking the city in this era, or the various dynasties in later generations, cavalry suppressed the city infantry in this way, and cavalry often had more advantages.
The cavalry's rushing was just to suppress the bows and arrows on the city. Unless a slope outside the city was built in a few months and a slope that could directly rush up the city, the cavalry would have no way to attack the city directly.
Cao Cao had never really been to the frontier to guard and did not know the methods of cavalry. He was similar to his first love. He would often suffer a big loss for the first time if he had no experience.
After wave after wave of arrow rain, Cao Cao suffered a heavy blow in just a quarter of an hour, and thousands of cavalry returned to the military formation, and lived on the two wings of the huge square formation.
Sun Niu and Hu San looked at the chaos on the city from afar. Like a group of generals, all their mouths raised, looking extremely disdainful. If they were to do so, they would not have been so desperate that they would have stretched their heads and jumped up.
Sun Niu kicked forward immediately...
"Old Zhang Miao--"
"The imperial army came, but the city was not open to surrender-"
Sun Niu roared, and countless soldiers rushed to the ground with their spears.
"Boom boom boom boom--"
"Surrender! Surrender!"
...
Cao Cao was furious and stood at the gap in the female wall, pointing at Sun Niu and cursing.
"The Urgent Thief--"
"Everyone can kill it-"
Sun Niu and Hu San recognized Cao Cao. The two sides had a deal in the first year of Zhongping. When they heard Cao Cao cursing, they were furious.
"Cao Cao!"
"Don't think I can't kill you-"
Sun Niu pointed to the city and was furious.
"No ladder!"
"No siege equipment!"
"Can you rebel rampantly by waiting for the thief-"
"You are stupid and ignorant. Do you think the siege army will carry their own siege tower cars-"
"It's ridiculous-"
Sun Niu pointed at Cao Cao, whose face changed drastically.
"Cao Thief--"
"Your grandfather's great eunuch Cao Teng harmed the loyal and the good-natured--"
"Your father Cao Song, as a sergeant, colluded with the ten general servants, was corrupt and abused the law, and gave himself a full net—"
"You Cao Cao are planning to rebel with the thieves today-"
To be continued...