The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 553 Cavalry dispatched
"My lord, what should we do?" Cao Hong was at a loss. The catapults were their biggest reliance on the siege. The reason why their siege in Hebei was so smooth was all thanks to the catapults, but now the catapults are just a problem for Li Yuan. The target is useless at all.

"Temporary retreat, I need to re-discuss the strategy of attacking Qiao County." Cao Cao couldn't think of a better way, so he had to retreat first.

Li Yuan in the city couldn't help laughing when he saw Cao Cao's retreat: "It seems that Cao Cao relies too much on catapults. Catapults don't work for me and there is no other way to attack the city. I think he will not attack the city again today."

"It's all due to my lord's anticipation that Cao Cao would use the catapult to attack the city, otherwise we would not have prepared the Thunderbolt chariot to break his catapult." Xi Zhicai admired Li Yuanzhen from the bottom of his heart.

"Zhicai, when did you learn to flatter?" Li Yuan rolled his eyes at Xi Zhicai, repelling Cao Cao's attack, and Li Yuan felt much better.

"The subordinates are not flattering. The lord is wise and powerful. No one knows how to plan foresight." Xi Zhicai's flattery has been so perfect that Li Yuan almost didn't laugh.

Compared with Li Yuan's good mood, Cao Cao was much depressed. They had a bad start and their morale was hit. After returning to the camp, he immediately summoned his generals to discuss the strategy of attacking the city again.

"Everyone, now that our army's catapults are useless, what do you think is the best way to attack the city?" Cao Cao was in a very bad mood, and his face was also a little ugly.

Seeing this, everyone knew that Cao Cao had suffered a great loss, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense, for fear of making Cao Cao even more angry. After a long time, Guo Jia was the first to say: "My lord, now Li Yuan uses the thunderbolt chariot to restrain our catapult, so Right now, the catapult is useless, and we can only use conventional methods to attack the city."

"Wouldn't it be a great loss to attack our army by conventional methods? According to the spies, Li Yuanjun deployed at least 12 troops in Qiao County. Although I have [-] soldiers and horses here, a strong attack may not be able to capture Qiao. County." Cao Cao's biggest reliance was on catapults, so he sent troops to attack Qiao County, but today was only the first day, and more than half of the catapults he brought were smashed by Li Yuan. Lose half of the soldiers and horses here.

"My lord, this is a last resort. I think we will try to attack first, otherwise we will never be able to win Qiao County." Although Guo Jia knew it would be difficult to fight, he still wanted to fight them no matter how difficult it was.

"Okay, let's attack the city again tomorrow morning." Cao Cao felt that morale was a bit low now, so he decided to attack the city again tomorrow.

The next day, Cao Cao led the army to attack the city again. At this time, the thunder chariots on the city had been withdrawn. Li Yuan would only use the thunder chariots to deal with Cao Cao's catapults. If Cao Cao used soldiers to attack the city, he would use bows and arrows to defend. Although the weapon is powerful, the process of filling the stone bullets is very troublesome, so bows and arrows are more practical for defense.

"Zilian, I will give you [-] soldiers to attack the west gate. Wen Lie, I will give you [-] soldiers to attack the east gate. I will personally lead the army to attack the north gate. The first person to attack the city will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold. Win three levels in a row." Cao Cao ordered, Cao Hong and Cao Xiu each led [-] troops to the west gate and east gate, but left the south gate empty.

Li Yuan saw that Cao's army was dividing up his troops and knew that the enemy was about to attack the city. He said, "Han Sheng, where is Huang Xu?"

"The last general is here!" Huang Zhong and Huang Xu responded.

"You lead [-] soldiers to guard the west gate. You must guard it, and don't let the enemy break the city." Li Yuan asked Huang Zhong and his son to guard the west gate.

"Yes!" Huang Zhong and Huang Xu led the way,

Li Yuan looked at Hua Xiong and Zhang Xiu again, and said, "Hua Xiong, senior brother, you lead [-] troops to guard the east gate."

"Decree!" Hua Xiong and Zhang Xiu set off immediately.Qiao County has enough troops to defend, as long as there are no mistakes, it will definitely be able to block Cao Cao's attack.

The horn sounded, the war drums sounded, and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses began to attack the city. Li Yuan personally guarded the north gate, watching the swarming enemies, and when they entered the range of the bow and arrow, Li Yuan immediately ordered to shoot.

The archers on the city began to shoot freely after receiving the order. Countless arrows flew down from the top of the city, but Cao Jun was well prepared. Many of their soldiers were covered with shields, so the arrows shot from the city There were not too many casualties, only some soldiers without shields were shot to the ground.

"My lord, most of Cao's soldiers wear shields. It seems that ordinary bows and arrows don't have much effect on them. It's time to send out the flying cavalry." Xi Zhicai suggested that Li Yuan send out the flying cavalry now.

Li Yuan nodded, and ordered: "Immediately light the wolf smoke and notify the Flying Cavalry Army to dispatch."

After the soldiers got the order, they immediately ran to light the wolf smoke. This was the signal they had agreed with Zhao Yun in advance. After a while, a wisp of black smoke floated from the city. Zhao Yun, who was stationed not far away, had already prepared. Hearing the sound of fighting, he knew that Cao Cao had begun to attack the city, so he had been waiting for Li Yuan's signal. Now that he saw the rising smoke, he knew it was time to go out. He immediately rode on his horse and led the flying cavalry to the north gate.

Under the leadership of Zhao Yun, the seven thousand flying cavalry rushed towards Cao Cao's soldiers and horses. When the horses galloped up, they were very powerful. They knew what was going on before they reached Guojia, the north gate.

"My lord, look at the black smoke above the city. It must be Li Yuan who informed the flying cavalry army to harass us to attack the city. Now there is a violent vibration in the west. It must be the momentum caused by the flying cavalry army. We must take precautions, otherwise It is impossible to successfully attack the city." Guo Jia had already expected that Li Yuan would use the flying cavalry to harass him.

"Herald, immediately inform Zhang Liao to dispatch cavalry to prevent the flying cavalry from approaching. Don't let them harass us to attack the city." Cao Cao ordered Zhang Liao to send troops.

"Yes!" The herald took the order and immediately rode his horse to Zhang Liao who was stationed not far away.

Cao Cao stationed Zhang Liao's [-] cavalry in other places to deal with the flying cavalry. He had a lot of horses in Hebei and could form a large number of cavalry. For a southern expedition, he only brought [-] cavalry, [-] were commanded by Zhang Liao, [-] were commanded by Xiahou Dun, and [-] were commanded by Zhang Yun.

The herald ran to Zhang Liao's camp and informed Zhang Liao to send troops to deal with the flying cavalry.

After Zhang Liao got the order, he immediately led the cavalry to dispatch. He fought against Zhao Yun nearly ten years ago. At that time, he was still serving Lu Bu. That battle was shocking. Famous all over the world, but now things are different, Lu Bu is dead, he turned to Cao Cao, the purpose is to avenge Lu Bu, he waited for more than ten years and finally waited until today, today he will defeat Zhao Yun's flying cavalry to avenge Lu Bu.

(End of this chapter)