Invincible from the beginning of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 399 Confusing Cheng Yu
Cao Hong died in battle, destroying Cao Jun's plan.

Cao Jun has a huge loophole.

Originally, they could rely on Xiapi City in their hands. As long as they hold on, they can buy enough time.

However, [-] troops were missing in the city, and the main general died in battle, and the city of Xiapi was about to fall.

Zhang Ming completed the arrangement, but he was not in a hurry to attack.

"Tell the city that I am not Cao Cao, I will not be bloodthirsty, and let them not touch the city. Masters on both sides, follow the rules of the battlefield."

Zhang Ming told his subordinates to keep shouting at the four city gates, and they had to shout for a long time if they changed people.

"My lord, we are ready now. If casualties are not counted, we can capture the city within seven days." Xu Rong said.

"Siege is easy, but if we take it down too early, the enemy's reinforcements won't come."

Xu Rong thought about it, and understood Zhang Ming's plan. He wanted to gather around to fight for aid.

"My lord, if this is the case, it will take a few more days. As long as we capture Xuzhou early and threaten Cao Cao's rear, in Jizhou, Cao Cao will definitely retreat."

Jizhou, the focus of the two sides' contention, Jizhou is too important, and it is completely cost-effective to change to Xuzhou.

"I believe in Zhicai and those generals."

Both sides are fighting for time, but Zhang Ming will waste time this time.

"My lord, what about ambushing the enemy?"

"I've arranged for Gao Shun, and I still have [-] light cavalry on standby, ready to fight."

Xu Rong didn't say much, and went to arrange his affairs.

Guan Yu and Zhang He were also nervously making arrangements.

Once the war started, they would attack Xiapi City madly.

Zhang Ming made people shout, and this is also a good time to win the hearts of the people.

Zhang Ming wanted to weaken the will to resist in the city.

At the same time, Cao Cao didn't have much popular support in Xuzhou. He didn't get the support of the people, and there wouldn't be too many people to help him defend the city.

Zhang Ming kept shouting.

On the other side, Cheng Yu has been on his way with the army.

At the same time, he had sent fast horses to let Yanzhou and other places guard the city well, and Zhang Ming might take the opportunity to attack their rear.

Cheng Yu had been on his way, and when he approached Xiapi City, he ordered to rest.

"Military commander, a few days have passed, and the spies came to report that Zhang Ming is already preparing to attack the city, and we are still resting here. I am afraid that we will not be able to secure the city of Pi."

Xiahou Dun said anxiously.

Cheng Yu shook his head and said, "We can't just pass like this. I'm sure that Zhang Ming must be ready to ambush and wait for work. We ran over, and the soldiers lost their strength, so we could only lose miserably."

Cao Ren nodded to Xiahou Dun, that would indeed be the case.

Cao Ren said: "As long as we are close to the battlefield, then Zhang Ming must send troops to guard against us, and the number of troops to attack Xiapi City will be much smaller."

"Report."

When several people were discussing, a fast horse came, and it was their scout.

"Report, the spies found that seventy miles away, an enemy army had set up a formation on the road, blocking our way."

The spies' report made Cheng Yu stunned for a moment, and then said: "Send more people to find out detailed information."

"Zhang Ming is trying to stop us and give priority to taking down Xiapi City."

After the spies left, Cheng Yu walked back and forth a few steps, guessing what Zhang Ming was thinking.

Cao Ren said: "Military Master, according to your estimation, how long can Xiapi City be blocked."

Cheng Yu was very anxious. He said: "Zhang Ming has 5 elite soldiers and more than 1 miscellaneous soldiers. There are only [-] people in the city. I'm afraid they won't be able to hold out for ten days."

With Cao Hong without Cao Hong, the gap is too big.

The morale of the entire Xiapi City plummeted.

Without morale, once the battle goes wrong, it will naturally collapse.

"Master, what should we do?"

Xiahou Dun was very anxious.

Cheng Yu pondered for a long time and did not speak for a long time.

"Let the soldiers rest first. If Zhang Ming has no other ambushes, we will go to fight them."

On the main road, Gao Shun was waiting for the enemy in formation.

He took 3 people with him.

Among them, 1 are the newly surrendered miscellaneous soldiers, and he only brought [-] elites.

Moreover, Gao Shun deployed the army [-] miles away from Xiapi City.

With such a long distance, it is not so easy to provide support. At least before the arrival of support, the enemy still has a chance to withdraw from the battle.

Gao Shun was on the road, ready to intercept Cheng Yu.

Later, Cheng Yu received more detailed information.

"Ten thousand elites, twenty thousand miscellaneous soldiers, what does Zhang Ming want to do?"

Cheng Yu has a lot of soldiers and horses, and they are all elite.

They are all elite, can these troops stop themselves?

"Go fifty miles tomorrow."

Cheng Yu still couldn't figure it out and decided to let the army approach.

And over there, Zhang Ming has already started to attack.

After shouting for a long time, Zhang Ming attacked from all sides, leaving no hope for the enemy at all.

In fact, it also leaves hope for them. As long as they surrender, Zhang Ming will not embarrass them.

But it is impossible to rush out.

They can only arrange more than 2000 people on one wall, and they can't support each other.

After two days of fighting, their physical strength was almost exhausted.

Zhang Ming attacked from all sides.

The enemy began to bow and shoot arrows.

In the beginning, the arrows were still very powerful.

But after two hours, their arrows weakened.

It's no wonder they haven't weakened, they don't have enough soldiers to replace, and now many soldiers can't hold bows and arrows.

Zhang Ming believed that many of them even injured their muscles, and it was difficult to recover after a short rest.

Many archers lost their strength.

Of course, moving stones and logs also requires physical strength.

Zhang Ming attacked from all directions, but did not give them time to rest.

On the first day, Zhang Ming stopped attacking after half a day of onslaught.

He didn't choose to attack overnight. Of course, if he attacked overnight, the effect would be better.

Attacking overnight, the enemy can't hold on much, can't take a good rest, and how can they have the physical strength to fight.

But Zhang Ming wanted to save Xiapi City, hang on to Cheng Yu, and see if Cheng Yu would fight him desperately.

There is no distinction between the strategies of the two sides, and they are almost all on the bright side.

Only the strategy is different. The strategy Cao Cao chose was to take the risk of Xuzhou and win Jizhou.

And Zhang Ming is betting with them.

On the first day of the siege, the losses in the city were not small, and more importantly, the soldiers were tired.

At night, half of them had to be careful on the top of the city to prevent Zhang Ming from attacking suddenly.

The four city gates are now guarded by only 200 people each to prevent sneak attacks in the city.

Now Picheng is too big, and it is even more difficult to defend at this time.

The density of the army's defense is too small, which is very unfavorable to them.

The next day, at dawn, Zhang Ming shouted again.

If you want to shout, it will damage their morale.

And Cheng Yu was approaching Gao Shun.

He scouted dozens of miles around Gao Shun.

Indeed, no ambush was found.

After a day's march, Cheng Yu had advanced fifty miles, and was only twenty miles away from Gaoshun.

Twenty miles, the distance to the battle has been reached.

At least, if you want to fight within half a day, you can definitely do it.

"Rest well tonight, and tomorrow morning too, and meet the enemy in the afternoon." Cheng Yu had already decided to fight.

(End of this chapter)