Mi Han

Chapter 494
In the early morning of the next day, Cao Zhen got up under the personal service,

The first thing Cao Zhen asked after getting up was: "Did the bandit army leave the city last night?"

Facing Cao Zhen's question, the attendant immediately bowed and replied: "Never."

After hearing the answer from his entourage, Cao Zhenxin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he was quite satisfied with yesterday's results, he also knew that Mi Yang was not a person who would sit still.

As for judging people by himself, Cao Zhen expected that if Mi Yang didn't want to sit still, then he would most likely focus on how to destroy the earth hills outside the city.

This is the best way Cao Zhen can come up with.

Once the earth mountain is destroyed, the condescending advantage of the Wei army's archers will be lost, which will give the Han army on the city wall a chance to counterattack.

In order to prevent this, Cao Zhen secretly ordered an elite soldier to hide in the camp last night. If the Han army wanted to use the old trick of night attack again, then this would be in Cao Zhen's hands.

Now after learning that Cao Zhen's Han army has not moved all night, Cao Zhen is relieved, but also disappointed.

After being relaxed and disappointed, Cao Zhen couldn't help feeling suspicious.

Based on his understanding of Mi Yang, last night's Han army shouldn't be incapable of any changes.

Facing such a difficult opponent like Mi Yang, Cao Zhen's mood seemed very complicated.

Due to the suspicion in his heart, Cao Zhen couldn't help asking again: "Is there really no movement inside and outside Nanzheng last night?"

In order to verify the suspicion in his heart, Cao Zhen expanded the scope of the doubt in his heart.

Under Cao Zhen's questioning again, the attendant thought about it carefully, and seemed to remember something that Wang Shuang came to report just now.

"General, according to General Wang, there were frequent construction noises on the walls of Nanzheng City last night."

Upon hearing this, Cao Zhen put down the meal in his hand and let out a heavy sigh.

The experienced Cao Zhen, after hearing this sentence, immediately guessed what the Han army was probably doing last night - repairing the city wall.

But after guessing this point, Cao Zhenxin became more suspicious.

Repairing the city wall is a self-protection measure that the city defenders often take during the night, but the city wall of Nanzheng is not damaged at present, so what is the Han army doing to repair it?

Unless the Han army is not repairing the city wall, but raising the city wall.

But when this idea surfaced in his mind, Cao Zhen felt even more ridiculous.

Would it be an overnight effort to heighten the city wall?
Mi Yangduan would not do such useless work.

Many speculations emerged in Cao Zhen's mind. Out of the importance he attached to Mi Yang and his own rich experience, all the speculations were secretly rejected by Cao Zhen.

This made Cao Zhen feel like ants were crawling in his heart.

Cao Zhen, who had something on his mind, could no longer eat the breakfast in front of him, so he got up directly and asked his personal attendants to wait on him to wear armor—rather than making many guesses, it is better to go to the top of the city to see it.

About half an hour later, Cao Zhen on the oar slowly appeared outside Nanzheng City under the push of the soldiers below.

Before Cao Zhen appeared outside Nanzheng City, the several earth hills were already full of archers from the Wei army.

All Wei generals know that Cao Zhen is eager to win, and the archers of the Wei army who have been lined up on several earth hills are a gift to Cao Zhen this morning.

Sure enough, before Cao Zhen saw him coming, after the archers on the earth mountain had lined up, he in the watchtower couldn't help but nodded.

General Cao Wei appeared on the stage with his own pomp.

After a burst of battle drums, the Loulou where Cao Zhen was located stopped not far from the city wall of Nanzheng under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of Wei troops.

After the Lou Lu stopped, Cao Zhen seriously observed whether there was any difference on the city wall of Nanzheng.

After careful observation, Cao Zhen found that the city wall of Nanzheng had not been raised, and there was nothing unusual, as if it was the same as yesterday.

If you really want to talk about the difference, it seems that the two towers on the city wall of Nanzheng seem to have been heightened by the tied timber of the Han army.

And if he took a closer look, Cao Zhen found that there were still some scorched marks on the wood used to raise the tower.

Presumably, most of these timbers were taken from the residential houses that were burned down by his rocket yesterday.

But what's the use of raising the towers?
Cao Zhen will know the answer soon.

Mi Yang, who was hidden in the city tower, saw Wei Jun's Lulu reappeared, and he knew that it was Cao Zhen.

Seeing this, Mi Yang didn't hesitate, he asked someone to blow the horn.

Under the call of the horn, batches of archers in iron armor and iron masks began to appear on the city wall.

And just when Cao Zhen was surprised by this scene, something unexpected happened to Cao Zhen.

When Wei Jun was unprepared, many fire arrows were suddenly shot out from the heightened tower.

Since the city tower was heightened by the Han army, the city tower is taller than the towers of the Wei army.

Being condescending, the power of the fire arrows was even more invisible, and even greatly enhanced the accuracy of the fire arrows of the Han army.

Almost immediately after that, multiple fire arrows shot at the oar in an instant.

When the fire arrow is nailed to the scull, the grease covered on the fire arrow will gradually flow along the arrow and onto the wood that fixes the scull.

A single fire arrow may not harm the tall Lou Lu, but when many fire arrows covered the lower half of Lou Lu, it didn't take long for Lou Lu's lower body to burn rapidly.

The hot and dry weather accelerated the burning process.

When a scull was completely ignited by the fire arrows of the Han army, the Han army in the tower shifted their targets to other sculls.

Just like the countless houses in Nanzheng city that were burned down by the fire arrows of the Wei army yesterday, the buildings and oars of the Wei army are now also facing the fate of being covered and swallowed by the fire.

Since the Han army had been prepared for a long time, they waited until the oar appeared before releasing the fire arrows. Therefore, thousands of Wei army archers on the nearby earth hills were shocked by the scene in front of them after seeing this scene.

It's not that the archers of the Wei army wanted to organize a counterattack, but the situation of the two armies today is completely different, and the Han army has regained the condescending advantage.

The most important thing is that there is a cooperation between the Loulu and the earth mountain. To put it bluntly, the Wei army inside the Loulu is the eyes of the archers of the Wei army on the earth mountain, and it is their command system.

It was precisely because of the tacit cooperation between the Wei army in the building and the Wei army on the earth hill yesterday that the continuous arrow rain offensive was able to force the Han army on the city wall to be unable to fight back.

But now that our own command system seems to be in danger, how can we command the archers of the Wei Army on the dirt hill to launch a counterattack.

In this case, even if some Wei troops spontaneously shot arrows at the city wall of Nanzheng, since the Han troops on the city wall were already armed to the teeth, this part of the attack, which was more like harassment, had little effect at all.

Leaving aside the reaction of the archers of the Wei army on the earth mountain, Cao Zhen, who was inside the scull, saw that the scull next to him was on fire one after another. In order to escape for his life, the Wei army on the scull jumped from the watchtower several feet high. Suddenly, a bone-piercing chill instantly permeated his whole body.

In order to save his own life, Cao Zhen didn't have any thought to think about the strategy against the enemy. A stern order came out of his mouth in an instant:
"Go, go!"

The personal attendants who received Cao Zhen's order immediately passed the order to the lower part of the building.

After receiving this order, the Wei army below hurriedly pushed the Loulu where Cao Zhen was located and retreated back.

Not only Cao Zhen's Lou Lu was retreating rapidly, but the Wei generals in the surrounding Lou Lou saw that Cao Zhen was starting to retreat, and they also hurriedly ordered the Wei army under the Lou Lu to push them back to the camp.

All of a sudden, the surviving buildings and oars, like lost dogs, hurriedly withdrew towards their own camp.

It can be said how calm and majestic Cao Zhen was when he came just now, but now he is in such a mess to escape for his life.

This scene happened to be completely under the gaze of tens of thousands of Wei Jun, causing blank and ashamed expressions to appear in the eyes of tens of thousands of Wei Jun.

The situation yesterday did not develop like this!

Why didn't the general persist for a day, why did he run away again?

Mi Yang saw that the oars on several towers retreated to the rear, so he ordered the Han army in the tower to shoot arrows at the Wei army on the earth hill.

After the Wei army on the earth mountain saw that all their generals had fled, their military spirit was in a mess.

At this time, there were thousands of arrows shooting at them on the city tower and the city wall, which directly made them drop the weapons in their hands, and ran towards the bottom of the earth mountain like a defeated army.

In the panic of fleeing, I don't know how many Wei soldiers died under the trample of their comrades, and how many Wei soldiers died under the arrow attacks of the Han army.

When the scene of Wei Jun's rout fell into the eyes of Mi Yang and Han Jun on the city wall, it caused them to burst into bursts of hearty laughter.

It can be said that their counterattack today made them express the anger in their hearts that has been suppressed since yesterday until today.

Also for those people who lost their lives innocently yesterday, a little debt was recovered from Wei Jun.

The hearty laughter of thousands of Han soldiers on the city wall drifted along the wind into the ears of Cao Zhen who had not fled far away, almost making him vomit blood in anger.

And when the bursts of hearty laughter fell into the ears of tens of thousands of Wei Jun, it even hit the morale of tens of thousands of Wei Jun.

Judging from the rampant laughter of the Han army, why does it seem that they are the one under siege?

No matter what the tens of thousands of Wei Jun thought in their hearts, judging from the current situation, it is obvious that Cao Zhen's siege method that imitated Yuan Shao's combination of towers and earthen mountains has been cracked.

The Wei Army Camp is not far from Nanzheng City.

The Loulu where Cao Zhen was running was fast enough, and the Wei army kept coming out to meet Cao Zhen in the camp, so the Loulu where Cao Zhen was at finally returned to the camp safely.

Fortunately, Cao Zhen was careful not to hang his handsome flag on the oar, otherwise, if Mi Yang's viciousness made him realize where he was, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Cao Zhen, who returned to the camp and went downstairs to the oar, was grateful for this with lingering fear.

And when Cao Zhen landed, the Wei generals who had been guarding the side for a long time immediately surrounded him, wanting to see if Cao Zhen was injured.

The caring eyes of everyone fell on Cao Zhen's eyes, which made Cao Zhen feel even more depressed, and felt a little bit ashamed.

Seeing that Cao Zhen's face was not very good, Wang Shuang, as Cao Zhen's confidant and beloved general, felt that it was time for him to comfort Cao Zhen.

"Don't be discouraged, General. Today's bandit army's small victory is due to the advantage of surprise and condescension. As long as our army continues to increase the height of the earth mountain, we may not be able to achieve more results."

After hearing Wang Shuang's words, Cao Zhen became even more angry.

His favorite general has extraordinary force, but this head is not very easy to use.

Even though the Wei army has a large number of people, how many earth mountains have been piled up in such a long time?

Well, even if he continues to pile up the height of the earth mountain without hesitating to spend manpower and material resources, compared to the huge manpower and material resources he will spend, the cost of raising the tower is extremely low.

If it goes on for a long time, how long can Wei Jun last?
Human and material resources cannot be used indefinitely.

However, even if the Han army is short of military resources, there is always no shortage of timber in Nanzheng City.

Moreover, if Tushan wants to play its greatest role, it must cooperate with Loulu.

And the scull.
Thinking of this, Cao Zhenxin became more and more angry. Feeling helpless, he gave Wang Shuang a cold look.

It's just that Cao Zhen, who was overwhelmed with anger, still called his followers and asked him to go to the city and shout a word:

"As long as you bind the building to the sky, I will go through the city to fetch you!"

After uttering these cruel words, Cao Zhen turned his head and walked towards his big tent.

After hearing Cao Zhen's harsh words, the surrounding generals felt some strange emotions in their hearts.

After Cao Zhen, who was depressed, returned to the big tent, he unexpectedly found a person waiting for him outside the big tent.

This person was Liu Ye who was reprimanded by him before.

Cao Zhen didn't want to talk to Liu Ye at this juncture.

But after Liu Ye noticed Cao Zhen's face, he knew that he should have suffered under Mi Yang's hands again today.

This was within Liu Ye's expectations.

Mi Yang has become a famous general in the world with his public security defense battle. He can be said to be one of the best generals in the world who are good at defending the city.

Although Cao Zhen's previous siege method was good, it is impossible for Mi Yang to be helpless.

But Liu Ye thought again, isn't it because Cao Zhen was frustrated that he just came up with a strategy he just came up with?

Seeing that Cao Zhen was about to pass by him, Liu Ye successfully stopped Cao Zhen with one sentence.

"General, do you still remember the Battle of Ye City?"

After hearing Liu Ye's words, a gleam flashed in Cao Zhen's eyes.

As a key battle to establish Cao Wei's foundation, how could he forget it.

And Liu Ye suddenly mentioned this past incident to him at this juncture, it was definitely not aimless.

After Cao Zhen stopped, Liu Ye bowed and said:

"In the past, Emperor Wu led a heavy army to besiege Yecheng, but the guard of Yecheng, Shenpei, relied on his extraordinary talents to hold on to Yecheng for several months. The situation on that day is very similar to today.

Although Houye City was successfully captured by Emperor Wu because of the trial and surrender, this was only the result, not the cause. "

Liu Ye's words made Cao Zhen more curious. He waved his hand to make the surrounding guards retreat, and then asked Liu Ye:

"Then in your opinion, what is the reason?"

Under Cao Zhen's inquiry, Liu Ye slowly spit out four words:
"Decisively fill the city!"

These four words of Liu Ye made Cao Zhen seem to have grasped a certain key point.

"You mean?"

Seeing that Cao Zhen had realized something, Liu Ye smiled.

"Of course, praise and Han can be used!"

(End of this chapter)