Chen’s shirt is dotted with small holes. shoulder pad, a rhinoceros, was blackened by smoke. It was a burning wooden beam that hit his shoulder and left a mark. The wooden beam was not heavy, otherwise it is hard to say whether he can live now.
But Chen obviously didn’t have time to take care of these. He commanded a department as scarred as himself to launch a counterattack against Deng Jun.
Chengtou is a mess. There are some bricks and rubble at the mouth of the crib. There are bodies and blood everywhere. It takes an occasional moan to see that there are still living people in those bodies, but no one knows how long he can live, just as he doesn’t know how long he can live.
Because there is no crib to cover the defenders of the city, it is easy to be captured by the arrows of Cao Jun, and many soldiers who died were killed by the arrows of Cao Jun.
However, compared with the collapse of the city wall bombarded by Jun Thunderbolt, it is particularly terrible. The dense bodies will pile up higher and higher. There are both Jun soldiers and city defenders with broken knives and broken guns scattered everywhere. Some of them are just inserted into the body wound. The blood has dried up and condensed, showing a dirty scarlet.
"whoosh!" A sharp arrow grazed Chen’s helmet and flew away, but Chen frowned and even didn’t bother to wave a pike in his hand.
He has at least five or six wounds wrapped around his body, and the knife wound on the back of his hand is so bare that the good wound is not deep.
Chen’s tired face doesn’t have much expression, as if he had exhausted Cao Jun. He still stands like a rock in front of a huge wave. Every time Cao Jun retreats, although he will have one or two injuries, he still stands firmly in Chengtou, but the flag behind him is already in tatters.
"general! Beicheng jun has been beaten back, but we also suffered heavy casualties. "A Sima staggered up and said this sentence, and then suddenly his knees were soft and he knelt beside him and shouted," General, retreat! Highlight the city and leave some seeds for our Runan soldiers! " Suppressing crying didn’t make Chen move. He looked down calmly. The Sima bent down to help him get up and whispered, "Hold on for three days!" There was a glimmer of hope in Sima’s desperate eyes, but three days was so long. Can they hold on for another three days?
☆, Chapter one hundred and twenty-three Array must be a father soldier.
Although Cao Cao is eager to attack Yecheng, he doesn’t want to destroy Yecheng too thoroughly. Otherwise, the power of the thunderbolt that he brought with him will not only collapse one or two walls, but even the houses in the city have not been attacked by firebombs. At the same time, his various troops are also attacking everywhere. After all, Cao Cao’s strategic goal is far more than a Yecheng.
When I first arrived in Yecheng, because of carelessness, Chen arrived at the camp successfully, but Chen arrived at a small number of troops and burned down the Xia Houlan camp, so he led the army back to the city. However, this war still made the morale of the city defenders high, which brought a lot of trouble to the attack the next day.
The good thunderbolt car was quite sharp and suppressed the defenders, which made Cao Cao pay more attention to Cao Ang. Since Cao Ang came back from Nanyang, he has made many suggestions. Imitating Jingzhou Army Thunderbolt Car is only one of them. It seems that Cao Cao is more mature and more fond of him.
This time, Cao Cao personally led the troops to the war, but Cao Ang was supposed to stay in Xu’s capital, but he took Cao Ang with him to make the cultivation of joining the army no longer obvious.
Although Cao Jun’s attack was fierce, he still left a west gate for the defenders of the city. Naturally, in order to disintegrate the will of the defenders and have a way to go, it is difficult for ordinary foot soldiers to die.
It is precisely because of this that the famous Sima Cai will retreat and beg Chen to leave with his troops. If Yecheng is surrounded by Jun, I am afraid he will also choose.
However, Chen has to stick to it for another three days and naturally has his consideration.
Before Cao Jun attacked Yecheng, Chen had promised Liu Bei that he could lead his troops to stick to it for less than a month. However, it was only a few days before he felt difficult to support him. Although Liu Bei specially sent someone back to Yecheng to tell Chen that it was difficult to stick to it, he could choose his own opportunity to give up Yecheng and retreat to the north, but Chen realized that if he wanted to stick to it for one more day, he would have one more chance.
But this opportunity is not Liu Bei’s place in Cao Cao’s place, but Jingzhou’s Liu Cong’s place. If Liu Cong sends troops there, Cao Cao will definitely not let Xu Du fall into the hands of Liu Cong, so it is natural for Yecheng to lead his troops to Huiyuan.
Chen still doesn’t know that the generals in China have joined forces with 100,000 soldiers to split out in two ways. Although these two roads didn’t go straight for Yecheng, it made the situation more complicated.
Sticking to these days has caused heavy casualties among the city’s soldiers. Lv Xiang failed to rob the camp that night and led the troops to deus ex. He has been injured. In recent days, a captain and Sima from various ministries have also lost a lot of casualties, with a total of more than a thousand.
This proportion of casualties makes the combat power of various ministries drop sharply. Although there are people who have not been trained or have only been lightly trained, are those people who have been trained by Cao Jun?
If it weren’t for staying in the city and guarding Chen, it would be estimated that these people would have been killed and injured.
"General Simon Jun also returned" made the scouts limp because of an arrow in the leg. When Chen arrived, he was dressed and tied up. Chen has been observing and evaluating the attack of Jun.
On the surface, Cao Jun’s offensive is not violent. However, after careful observation, Chen found some clues. For example, although Cao Jun was aggressive when attacking the city, he used more bows and arrows to kill his own city. The main soldiers really set up ladders and ants attached to the city, and there were fewer wall collapses. The defenders should fight to the death and not retreat. Cao Jun often attacked once or twice and then led his troops to retreat.
In this way, it seems that Cao Jun consciously protects his strength and wants to break Yecheng at the minimum cost. If he can’t resist this level of attack and retreats, it is naturally the best for Cao Cao.
However, even so, Chen Chen is not arrogant enough to think that he can defend Yecheng with these troops. For Cao Cao, Yecheng is bound to lose more troops if he sticks to it, but Chen Chen does not want Cao Cao to attack Yecheng so easily. If there are no other changes in these three days, he can also test the real strength of Cao Jun’s attack.
Before you know it, Chen arrived in the evening and ate a few mouthfuls of dry food in a hurry, so Chengtou patrolled. Today, Cao Jun attacked the city a little harder than yesterday, which made the defenders of Chengtou suffer more casualties. At this time, the people were carrying the bodies of the dead soldiers from Chengtou and looking for whether there were any living people from the corpses.
After a few days of hard work, the soldiers looked very tired and a little numb, so they didn’t reprimand them for being able to live from cruel fighting. Most of the soldiers were so numb after looking down on life and death, not against themselves.
"It seems that I can sleep well today!" Looking at Chen’s fading back, a man leaning against the parapet told his brothers around him that he was in his early forties, but he seemed to be in his fifties all the year round. His military career made his face look very vicissitudes, and his hair on his temples was already a little gray.
Lying next to him is a young foot soldier with a faint fluffy look on his lips. "Then I’ll sleep now!"
"What’s the hurry? Eat some dry food! " What long high-handed dragged him up and pulled out a piece of cloth bread from his arms. It was difficult to distinguish the pungent smell of blood in the cloth, but the young foot soldier smelled his excitement and couldn’t wait to take it.
After carefully wrapping the outer cloth, a complete cake appeared in front of him.
"Eat and drink some water, and don’t choke." The young foot soldiers told them that they were from the same town. To be exact, he and the young foot soldiers’ father were from Runan, but the young foot soldiers’ father had not left a word when he died in battle last year. Since then, the name has always looked at his young face. Why do you often think that if your son is not dead, he is so big now?
The foot soldiers from Runan don’t always follow Chen to Liu Bei, but the commander and young foot soldiers are Chen’s fellow villagers. Although they have never received special treatment for this, Runan soldiers are quite loyal to Chen.
Strictly speaking, the position of a commander is just a foot soldier, but this commander has long planned to train young foot soldiers before he dies. Sooner or later, he will become even taller than himself. Whether he can realize this small wish depends on whether he can live and live to have hope …
☆, Chapter one hundred and twenty-four Have a full meal and jump into Chengtou.
Autumn doesn’t feel like it’s chilling, the wind is dying, and the yellow leaves are falling with the wind, but they still refuse to go. The branches are shaking and rubbing against each other, making bursts of "rushing" sounds, which are not like the pines, but people can’t help thinking.
Of course, most of the soldiers in the team will not have this kind of emotion. Although they are silent, the atmosphere is not depressing, but it is quite serious.
Liu cong rode on the hill beside the war horse road and looked back. The winding team could not see the end. The autumn wind blew through the banner and hunting armor, and the soldiers seemed to be more and more cold and angry.
There are still forty or fifty miles away from Yecheng, but you can already see the blue mountains in the north.
After starting from Xiangyang, Liu Congsuo led more than 20,000 steps to ride Wancheng and took a short rest for a day. This part of the troops came directly to Yecheng. Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao and other generals had led their troops out of Yecheng to their father city, Kunyang and Dingling.
According to the spy camp, although Cao Cao led a great army to the north, there are still more than 10,000 left-behind commanders in Xudu, that is, if Cao Hong added more than 50,000 troops from Ma Chao, there would be nearly 100,000 troops in total.
Of course, among the nearly 100,000 troops, it is only the Ma Chao-zhong coalition forces and Cao Hong, the capital of Xu, who led the troops. It goes without saying that Cao Hong’s troops should be the elite soldiers trained by Cao Cao. It goes without saying that the customs of Xirong, where the people are brave and brave, are accustomed to fighting. Since Shang Yang’s reform, Qin people’s ploughing and fighting have had a far-reaching impact, forming a very different social fashion in the outer and eastern regions.
The so-called "going out to the east and going out to the west" is what Liu Cong saw in "The Later Han Dynasty" and what Liu Cong later knew. Since the late Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Xianbei military aristocrats combined with the northern Han gentry to form a group power-the Long Group became the basis of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty.
There are also many younger brothers in the Jingzhou Army sequence, among which Zhang Xiu led the army. Although most of the middle-ranking soldiers have been dispersed to various ministries after the Nanyang New Deal and the Jingzhou military system was reorganized and mixed, the best of them, such as Fei Xiongjun, are still alone. In several battles of Jingzhou Army, Fei Xiongjun’s soldiers in other ministries have shown the characteristics of being tough and belligerent and stronger.
In recent years, although Liu Cong has been recruiting younger brothers to join the army among the refugees, the number of recruits has become less and less. According to the analysis of Xu Shu, Du Xi and others, it is because the number of refugees is decreasing after the gradual stability of China and the population control of the generals is gradually strengthened, which makes it easy for refugees to leave.
This time, although the Chinese generals joined forces to attack many cities, it made Liu Cong realize that they could take this opportunity to pacify China. After deliberation, Liu Cong, Jia Xu, Fazheng, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Lu Su and others decided that Zhao Yun, Gao Shun and Zhang Xiu would divide their forces to attack China from Hanzhong and Nanyang. On the one hand, it would distract the Chinese Coalition forces and on the other hand, it would mobilize the Chinese Coalition forces to create opportunities for their Ma Chao and other departments to fight.
It is precisely because of this that the original invasion plan has been changed. After some emergency mobilization, Seibel led more than 10,000 troops from the Han Dynasty. At the same time, Zhang Xiu led the troops from Yecheng North to Tong and Zhao Yunze led his troops from the Han River upstream.
If Han Sui, Ma Chao and other Chinese allied forces don’t return to the base, I’m afraid that the old nest will be destroyed by Jingzhou Army. In this sense, it is Liu Cong’s greatest help to his ally Liu Bei.
From a strategic point of view, it is also very important for Liu Cong to recognize Yecheng, but the struggle for balance in the north is often manifested in the struggle for balance in the north of the river. The key point is that if the Taihang Mountains are the same link from the map, Bing will be like a wedge in Hebei, so whether Cao Liu can control the situation in Taihang Mountain will be the point of success or failure for both sides.
There are several passes in the Taihang Mountains along the first line, which strangle the communication channels. Managing these passes well can ensure the right wing’s security, and there is a high-rise building in the southern Central Plains or the western entrance of Bingzhou. Compared with being located in the Central Plains, it is convenient and not suitable for Liu Cong. It seems that this is also the reason why Cao Cao must attack Liu Bei in the north. After all, whether the terrain is favorable or not is still very important in this era.
However, whether Liu Bei can stand on the Hebei key depends on the strength comparison between him and Cao Cao. It is not terrible to lose Yecheng, even if Bing is captured by Cao Jun. It is not terrible to want Liu Bei to be able to destroy Yuan Shang, Yuan Xi to defend Youzhou and Qingzhou before Cao Cao conquers Yecheng. Part of Bing still has Cao Cao’s capital.
As for Jingzhou army, various ministries have successively sent troops to Yecheng in the north, which has fallen into the final bitter battle.
Chen Zhi, the broken city head, said to all the captains and Sima around him with bloodshot eyes, "I hope you can hold on with me until dark and then go north immediately after breaking through the East Gate!"
"hey!" Everyone solemnly promised that although everyone was hoarse, they looked quite calm and did not feel afraid and worried about giving up Yecheng’s breakthrough.
It’s not easy for Jun to attack and resist for dozens of days. Chen noticed that everyone’s face was swept one by one, but he didn’t say much anymore.
At this time, the winners dispersed after the military salute. Maybe someone will fall before dark, but if there is hope, it is full of fighting spirit now.
The soldiers were quite excited when the city Cao Jun retired temporarily. Obviously, the defenders were losing control of Yecheng, but I don’t know who would take away the first achievement of breaking the city.
The smell of delicious food made the soldiers feel hungry immediately after a fierce battle for one afternoon. They grabbed the bread and took a rough wooden bowl without taking a sip of hot soup in the bowl.
Sitting on the floor, the foot soldiers gulped down the fragrant bread. These northern Han people have long been used to the rough diet in the army. Besides, it is not easy to stutter these days. Who will be picky about the taste?
"This soup is really good today! Willing to put salt! " An old soldier shook his head and exclaimed, looking at his appearance as if he were carrying something rare instead of a bowl of hot soup.
His words drew all the soldiers to echo. Compared with meals, salt grains are more precious. If people can’t get enough salt for a long time, they will easily become weak. Salt grains are even more important for soldiers who make a living.