Three Kingdoms: I choose Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, why are you crying, Diao Chan?

Chapter 138 Is my Tiger and Leopard Cavalry worse than the Xianzhen Camp? (Thanks to Siweitiao for the monthly ticket support~)

Five thousand troops led by Wei Yan and Wen Pin joined the siege team.

The siege troops, which originally had an overwhelming advantage, suddenly fell into panic.

After a day and a half of fighting, Cao Cao's original 40,000 troops were reduced to 25,000.

They are just located on both sides of the north gate and west gate of Yundu City.

There are actually only more than 10,000 people at one side of the city gate.

In addition, many people were on the other side of the moat, and there were only a few thousand people who could stop Wei Yan's troops.

Led by two powerful generals, Wei Yan and Wen Pin, even though Cao Cao responded in time and sent Dian Wei and Cao Zhen to contain the enemy, he still failed to achieve good results.

Wei Yan and Wen Pin had no desire to fight, and they charged from the west gate to the north gate, and finally went around to the south gate to enter the city.

Although this battle caused the instant loss of two thousand of his five thousand soldiers, it also caused the enemy to lose two to three thousand soldiers.

Most importantly, their arrival disrupted Cao’s army’s siege rhythm!

No matter what you do, you need a certain rhythm.

The consequence of disrupting the rhythm is that the efficiency of work will be greatly reduced!
Cao Cao was also well aware of this, so he immediately sounded the call to call back his troops and reorganized the remaining 23,000 soldiers.

On the other hand, with the addition of Wei Yan's three thousand troops, the number of troops defending Yundu City reached 14,000.

In addition, two thousand people had been isolated in the city by Zhang Zhongjing because they were infected with the plague.

Dong Xian personally went downstairs to welcome Wei Yan and Wen Pin into the city, his bloodstained face showing an expression of joy that was difficult to conceal:
"The two generals arrived just in time! If you hadn't come, I'm afraid Yundu City would have been breached by the enemy today."

Wei Yan sighed:

"We encountered some trouble on the way, otherwise we would have come to support you long ago."

At this time, Zhang Zhongjing came over with a bunch of face towels and asked Wei Yan and his men to take them all, and instructed:
"Try not to take it off except when eating and drinking."

Wei Yan immediately put on his face towel and asked in a calm voice:

"What is the current plague situation in the city?"

Zhang Zhongjing shook his head:
"The situation is not optimistic. Nearly two thousand soldiers have been infected, and I have isolated them in the houses of ordinary people.

"But there are definitely cases of infection among the soldiers who are still fighting.

"If the war continues, I'm afraid the situation will get worse..."

Seeing that everyone's morale was somewhat low, the always optimistic Wei Yan immediately comforted them:

"Why are you panicking? We are in a crisis right now, and the lord must have known about it.

“Since he didn’t send troops to support Jiangxia directly, then he is most likely supporting us in other ways.

"I believe that if we hold out for another two days, the enemy will surely retreat!"

Hearing Wei Yan's encouragement, everyone forced themselves to boost their morale.

……

Cao Jun's side.

Cao Cao looked at his soldiers who were resting, his face looking extremely solemn.

Although Yundu City is now in danger.

But the progress of the siege and the loss of manpower this time were far beyond his expectations.

Even if they finally captured Jiangxia, they probably wouldn't have many troops left to attack Nanjun.

It was almost impossible to annihilate Lu Bu in one fell swoop. In his eyes, Lu Bu was just a wild horse that was difficult to tame.

But he didn't expect that this guy could gather so many unknown but very powerful generals or strategists in a short period of time.

Whether it was Wei Yan, Wen Pin, Dong Xi, or Yu Fan who designed to capture Yu Jin and kill Man Chong.

These people's names are almost unheard of, but there is no doubt that they are all top talents!

And Lu Bu can not only find them accurately, but also make them serve wholeheartedly...

Is this still the fool he knew who would kill Ding Yuan for a Red Hare?
Moreover, after killing Dong Zhuo and making great contributions, the other party actually left Chang'an and came to Lujiang to develop...

Either this guy suddenly became enlightened like Liu Bei, or he is just like Liu Bei and has some expert guiding him behind the scenes!
It seems that this world is really not as easy to conquer as imagined...

Just as Cao Cao was feeling emotional, a scout suddenly came rushing in from the north and said to Cao Cao in panic:

"My lord, something bad has happened! Xinye City has been captured by Lu Bu's army!"

"what?!"

Cao Cao's face changed instantly!

How dare Lu Bu send out troops?

Could it be that the other party saw through the strategy of confusing the enemy with his troops in Deng County?

How could he see through it with his walnut-sized brain?
Moreover, even if the enemy saw through the defenders of Deng County, there were still 10,000 troops guarding Xinye City.

How could the enemy capture Dengxian and Xinye successively in such a short period of time?

As if seeing Cao Cao's doubts, the scout continued:
“The other side used a reinforced version of the catapult.

"Moreover, Lu Bu captured General Shi Huan and used him in exchange for Pan Zhang who was captured by our army.

"When the city gate was opened for exchange, Lu Bu suddenly shot and killed the people escorting Pan Zhang, and took advantage of the city gate being wide open to lead his army in!
"Before the soldiers could close the city gates, Lü Bu and his Red Hare cavalry charged in!
"Xinye City was destroyed just like that."

After hearing what the soldier said, Cao Cao was so angry that his beard was shaking!
He immediately drew the Yitian sword from his waist and cut the scout in front of him into two pieces!
When the subordinates saw this scene, they were all frightened and broke out in cold sweats, and no one dared to step forward and say anything.

Only Xi Zhicai stepped forward and bowed to Cao Cao, saying:
"My lord, calm down! Now that Xinye has been captured, our only remaining food supply route is through Fuyang County.

“But there is a food route, which is barely enough.

“We should quickly capture Yundu, and then transfer General Xiahou and 40,000 troops from Runan to the city for defense.

"After that, we will lead half of our troops to support Xinye..."

Before Xi Zhicai could finish his words, there was chaos in the army again.

The hurried sound of horse hooves immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Cao Cao and Xi Zhicai both looked in the direction where the sound came from.

Cao Chun, who led three thousand Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to stop Sun Ce, was seen fleeing in a panic with hundreds of remaining soldiers.

Even Cao Chun's left arm was chopped off!
Seeing this scene, both Xi Zhicai and Cao Cao were shocked!
Who could defeat the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, which was outnumbered ten to one, so badly?
Even the leader of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry had his arm chopped off?
Just the five hundred soldiers that Sun Ce brought out?
Cao Cao, feeling increasingly uneasy, immediately rushed towards Cao Chun and asked sternly:
"Who beat you like this?"

Cao Chun knelt on the ground with a guilty look on his face, holding his bleeding broken arm and crying:
"My lord... I am incompetent. I was killed like this by the 1,000 cavalrymen and 1,000 trap camps brought back by Sun Ce..."

When the words "Entrapment Camp" appeared, Cao Cao was slightly startled, and then he flew into a rage:
"The Xianzhen Camp is indeed famous, but can my Tiger and Leopard Cavalry be worse than them?"

Cao Chun immediately lowered his head, his voice becoming more and more guilty:

"It's all my fault that I became jealous of my enemies and wanted to avenge my brother, so I acted too aggressively.

"In the end, Sun Ce and Gao Shun schemed against us and combined with their infantry from the rear to defeat us..."

(End of this chapter)