Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 156 Cao Yuan Decisive Battle
By late September, Yuan Shao decided to launch a more powerful offensive.

In addition to the mighty Yuan Jun encircling Cao Ying like an overwhelming force, he also sent people to receive the soldiers and horses who responded to his uprising from all over Henan and called them to attack Xudu.

For a while, Xudu was shocked, and many counties in the surrounding counties were breached, so Cao Hong had to defend everywhere, exhausted.

What's more terrible is that although Kunyang is busy receiving refugees and has no intention of sending troops, their soldiers and horses are preparing in camps outside the city all day long, practicing hard every day, and seem to have the intention of going north all the time, making Xudu crumbling , Undercurrents surged inside and outside the city.

Ren Jun went north to transport grain and grass, and his troops were divided into ten groups. Although Yuan Jun fought back with great difficulty, several roads were looted and grain and grass were looted, causing heavy losses.When it was transported to Cao Ying, it barely lasted for two months.

The entire Cao camp was also in turmoil, miserable up and down, a pessimistic mood permeated the camp, and very few people firmly believed that Cao Cao could win.

In this case, Yuan Shao decided to lead the army again and attack Cao Cao.

September 25, early morning.

The autumn wind was bleak, Yuan Shao got up early in the morning, dressed in armor, high-spirited, led many generals and counselors, and came to the southeast of Cao Ying.

Guandu River is a river that flows from northwest to southeast, so Yuan Jun's camp is located northeast of the river, and Cao Ying is southwest of the river. If you want to attack Cao Ying, you can only attack from northwest, southeast, and south.

The direction he attacked last time was the northwest, but Cao Jun's defense in the northwest was extremely tight, and there were catapults, which caused heavy losses to his earth mountain wall buildings.

This time he rebuilt a large number of siege equipment, such as cloud towers, charging cars, wooden mantles, and equipped with bed crossbows, bows and arrows, just to break Cao Ying in one fell swoop, and then kill him and capture him alive. Old friend "Cao Cao!
However, due to the silt around the Guandu River, the roads were not easy to walk, so it was difficult to transport these siege equipment to the other side of the river.Now many pontoon bridges have been built before the equipment is transported over.

A large number of Yuan Jun had already assembled in the southeast of Cao Ying. The dense crowd seemed to drown the wilderness in the southeast of Cao Ying. Countless ladders rushed over and transported them. It was less than 500 meters away from Cao Ying. The soldiers were all lined up. Waiting for the order of the general attack.

Yuan Shao is standing on the Yunlou at this moment.

Yunlou is not a ladder, but a huge war machine, made of wood, with steps like a pyramid, and some are like a rectangular box, dragged by long wooden planks below, and supported by three wooden wheels on the left and right. There are stairs leading to a high platform on which archers can shoot arrows.

At the same time, the high platform can extend hooks and claws to hook on the city wall. Soldiers climb up from the bottom of the cloud tower, and then jump into the city wall to fight with the defenders in the city after reaching the high platform. This is the most common attack in ancient wars. city ​​equipment.

It's just that this kind of large equipment is cumbersome on the one hand, and difficult to manufacture, so it cannot be owned by large forces. Even Yuan Shao would spend a lot of time building it, so the number is not very large.

More than 40 cloud towers, and hundreds of rushing cars, rolling cars, crash cars, Lin Chong cars, nest cars and other equipment gathered outside the city.

At a glance, tens of thousands of troops were overwhelming, with flags and flags flying, as if they couldn't see the end.

Yuan Shao looked from the top of the cloud tower and saw a large number of Cao soldiers gathered at the entrance of the southeast camp, carrying supplies nervously, but no matter the number of soldiers, defense equipment and luggage, they were much less than him, so he smiled smugly .

"Hahahahahahahahahaha."

He laughed heartily and couldn't stop laughing.

There are no generals on the left and right, and the generals are all commanding the troops below, with only a few advisers around them.

As for several of his advisers, Tian Feng was imprisoned by him, and Shenpei and Fengji guarded Yecheng in the rear. Xun Chen was originally his mastermind in the battle of Guandu, but died of illness when the battle was about to start. He assisted Yuan Tan in Qingzhou, and Xu You was guarding Yuan Junying, so there were only scholars around him, such as Ju Shou, Guo Tu, and Chen Lin.

Seeing that he was happy, Guo Tu asked curiously, "Duke Ming, why are you laughing?"

Yuan Shao pointed to the front and laughed loudly: "Look at Cao Cao. He has no more than ten thousand soldiers and horses, and his bow and arrows are far inferior to mine. He even wants to call himself the number of days. He is really hitting a stone with an egg. After all, this generation is my slave, so why not worry about it!"

Ju Shou hurriedly said, "Don't underestimate the public."

"contempt?"

Yuan Shao raised his head, looked up at the sky, his eyes seemed to recall the past, and said softly: "In the past, Dong Zhuo messed up the rules of the court, power was poured into the court and the public, and he made unreasonable opinions and abolished the rules and regulations of the monarch and ministers. There are more than a hundred ministers under the court? Cao Mengde is here, everyone It can be seen that he dares to say a word?"

Everyone looked at each other, what happened back then really showed the majesty of the famous family of Yuan Shao IV and San Gong.

Yuan Shao suddenly drew out the sword from his waist, and shouted: "I, Yuan Shao, the mediocre minister of the whole court, angrily attacked Dong thief, raised my sword to try his sword's strength, and I don't know if my sword is sharp! Since then, no one in the world knows I, Yuan Benchu?"

"Later, the Han Dynasty was in decline. In order to revitalize the imperial court, I ascended to call out, and the princes of the world responded. Dong Zhuo was killed and fled in a panic. It is difficult to compete with me. Now that Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou and Qingzhou are in my hands, and the hearts of the people all over the world, who is my opponent?"

"I was also willing to bleed and beheaded to revive the Han Dynasty. However, the times have changed and the laws of heaven and justice have changed. This dilapidated Han Dynasty is no longer worthy of my life. Cao Cao and his like, regretting Mount Tai with the power of ants, what a shame Yu Ye! Today, I will let him know what the number of days is!"

He raised his sword to look around the crowd, and shouted sharply: "I, Yuan Benchu, in the name of the Yuan family, defeated Cao Cao and became a king! At that time, the world will be peaceful, and we will share wealth and honor with all the princes. All soldiers, pass on my order and attack!" "

"Woooooo!"

As the flag soldiers on the Yunlou waved the banner, countless horns sounded above the wilderness, as if the entire world was only left with this terrifying sound wave.

Countless rushing carts, rushing carts, crashing carts, impending rushing, and nesting carts slowly marched towards Cao Ying. Behind them were densely packed, countless soldiers of Yuan Jun, and dozens of ladders were also in the team, attacking the camp like giant beasts. Before the people arrived, the bows and crossbows already covered the sky and the sun.

The arrows from both sides seemed to flood the sky, like two dark clouds intertwined in the sky. A large number of arrows were shot in the camp of the enemy and us, rushing into the chariot, between the wooden curtains, and in the army formation. Cao Jun was shot to death by the arrows. And Yuan Jun is countless.

"Prepare!"

In Cao Ying, dozens of catapults were ready. Almost when Yuan Jun approached less than [-] feet, with an order, countless huge boulders exploded and fell towards Yuan Jun.

Yuan Jun was also not to be outdone, the buzzing sound of the bed crossbow was endless, and there was a sound like howling ghosts and wolves in the air, and he flew into Cao Ying's camp during the ups and downs. The terrifying force even pierced the beams and columns of several archery towers, causing the archery tower to collapse. , the archer above fell to the ground.

"Hurry up!"

Cao Jun’s officers at all levels urged the soldiers to continue to fill in the gaps shot by the arrow rain. Everyone held a large shield and stood firm above the camp. Fight, lost a lot of people.

Yuan Shao's disadvantage was that he didn't prepare a catapult, and Cao Cao's catapult was improved by the counselor Liu Ye.

Fortunately, Yuan Shao planned to forcibly attack Cao Jun's camp against the attack of the catapult today. As long as he could enter the camp, no matter how big the sacrifice was, it was worth it.

Soon Yuan Jun forcibly passed the attack of the catapult and killed outside the camp. The hooks on the ladder were connected with the camp. Cao Jun launched a desperate struggle.

But Yuan Shao obviously also underestimated Cao Cao's toughness. In order to repel Yuan Jun, Cao Cao is now sitting on the earth hill behind, less than 100 meters away from the battlefield, and constantly directs the soldiers to let the flag bearers wave the flag. , Whenever there is a gap on the battlefield, Cao Jun can quickly fill it in time.

For this reason, the two sides fell into a stalemate of contention around the section of the wall that was two or three miles long, which was comparable to a city wall.Corpses were everywhere inside and outside the walls of the camp. Broken arms, severed heads, tattered armor, and two pieces of weapons were everywhere. Incomplete feathered arrows seemed to cover the entire camp wall.

Shouts of killing, screams, and the exchange of weapons could be heard endlessly. Yuan Shao personally supervised the battle and beat drums to cheer.The sound of drums and horns was loud in the rear.Not to be outdone, Cao Cao played gongs and drums to help out, and at the same time ordered the reserve soldiers to come and go everywhere to fill in the gaps.

The offensive and defensive battle was extremely fierce, and when Yuan Shao was standing on the Yunlou, nervously expecting the soldiers to enter Cao Ying, someone suddenly climbed up on the Yunlou and shouted to him: "This At the beginning, at the beginning!"

"Ok?"

Yuan Shao was very dissatisfied, and knew it was Xu You without looking back.

Xu You relied on his acquaintance with him since childhood, and never called him Ming Gong, but directly called him, which was unpleasant.

It's just that Yuan Shao didn't get angry because of the relationship he had known with Xu You since childhood.

Now is the critical moment of the siege, and he came to disturb his mind again?
At the moment, I don't bother to pay attention to it, and continue to watch the battle.

Xu You rushed over anxiously, and when he went up to the Yun Tower, seeing Yuan Shao ignoring him, he cupped his hands and said, "Duke Ming!"

"Well."

Seeing that his attitude was slightly more respectful, Yuan Shao turned around and said, "Ziyuan, what's the matter?"

Xu You hurriedly said: "I also ask Minggong to save my family members. My family members accidentally broke the law in Yecheng. The judges arrested them and they will be killed immediately. Minggong, please give me an order immediately."

"Humph."

Yuan Shao snorted coldly and said, "What do you need me to do with such a trivial matter? Didn't you see that I was in a decisive battle with Cao Cao?"

Xu You said anxiously: "Duke Ming, there is nothing I can do. If it is later, the trial match will kill someone."

Yuan Shao waved his hands impatiently: "Kill it, kill it. Your family has already broken the law, and the crime is unpardonable. How can you abolish the government because of private interests?"

"what?"

Xu You was dumbfounded.

He never expected that Yuan Shao would be so disregarding old feelings.

I grew up with him, and Cao Cao once invited him to help him, but I didn't hesitate to join you, Yuan Shao.

If it wasn't for me, Xu Ziyuan, how could Yuan Benchu ​​have obtained the foundation of Jizhou?
Now that Cao Cao is about to be wiped out and the world will be conquered, he is so ruthless and ignorant of his past kindness!
it is good.

You, Yuan Shao, are ruthless, so don't blame me for being ruthless!

A trace of resentment flickered in Xu You's eyes, and he immediately turned around and went down the Yunlou, without looking back.

　Report the results, this month is 31 days, one day off, and I changed 31.6 words. I originally rushed to 35 words, but unfortunately I really lack energy. I am sorry everyone. I will continue to work hard next month and try to finish this book in the first half of next year. ,come on!

　　
　
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