After a day of repairs, Lu Yan moved out more than twenty trebuchets. Before dawn, he began to hurl stones at Ji Ling's camp.
Who can stand this?
Many soldiers were awakened from their sleep.
Big rocks falling from the sky collapsed the camp tent, killing a few unlucky people... and the whole camp began to commotion again.
Ji Ling's soldiers, who were already very resentful because they didn't have enough to eat, almost blew up the camp!
It has been almost five days since Ji Ling has been without food. Now he only has a bowl of porridge, so the soldiers needless to say.
Coupled with the harassment of Cao Jun's trebuchets, although their lethality was not great, the pressure they exerted on people's hearts was extremely huge.
Ji Ling saw that his soldiers were demoralized and had no fighting spirit, so he had no choice but to order the army to retreat.
There has been no news from the soldiers sent to check the grain road. Ji Ling was sure that the grain road had been cut off by Cao's army. He no longer had any hope and finally announced: "Withdraw, withdraw to Xiaopei!"
The soldiers who finally got the order to retreat finally calmed down some of their resentment.
But I haven't eaten enough in the past few days, and my feet feel extremely weak even when I run.
The scouts Lu Yan sent out to monitor Ji Lingjun's movements had clearly seen their retreat.
How could Lu Yan and others let go of such a good opportunity?
So, four thousand Cao Cao's troops mobilized and stabbed Ji Ling's army in the back, who was struggling to even escape!
After charging and fighting all night, Ji Lingjun had no fighting spirit, his morale was dispirited, and he could not escape the fate of being defeated.
However, Ji Ling and others escaped less than fifty miles and encountered Zhao Yun's cavalry... What a sin!
Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan, a group of four-legged cavalry, chased the two-legged soft-footed shrimp and carried out a brutal pursuit.
One day later, Ji Ling's remaining eight thousand soldiers finally fled in all directions like birds and beasts, barely escaping the fate of being annihilated by Zhao Yun's cavalry.
Looking at Sergeant Yuan's soldiers running all over the mountains and plains, Xia Houlan said "tui" and said to himself: "A bunch of soft-footed shrimps are really boring... It's more interesting to fight the Huns. Playing with these people, I almost got them."
I dozed off..."
Zhao Yun shook his head and said: "Ji Ling's men are not actually so unlucky. It's just that they were cut off by the master. I'm afraid these people have been hungry for several days. Where is the fighting power? Zi Heng, don't underestimate the enemy!"
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Xia Houlan seemed to have remembered something very scary, and nodded with a serious face and replied: "Of course, I don't dare to forget Sir's teachings."
"Don't you dare to forget the pain of copying books? Hahaha" Zhao Yun rarely teased Xia Houlan, which immediately aroused a burst of good-natured laughter from the people around him.
"Don't laugh!" Xia Houlan shouted angrily.
But we are all brothers in life and death, how could we miss this opportunity to tease our general?
"Hahaha! General Xiahou, how do you hold your pen?"
"I'm very curious. You are extremely fast with guns, but why are you so slow when copying books?"
Xia Houlan's face turned red and white, and finally couldn't help but burst out: "Whoever talks more, next time I want to copy books again, I will definitely tell my husband, 'Take him with me'!"
This move was so cruel that the noisy atmosphere just now instantly became audible!
Thinking about the fear of being dominated by teachers, many people couldn't help but start to grin...
When Ji Ling returned to Xiaopei, he was unlucky. He happened to encounter Zhao Yun's cavalry and was defeated again.
In the end, less than 3,000 of the 8,000 soldiers were able to gather together. Ji Ling had no time to feel sad, so he had to lead the remaining soldiers and continue to flee in panic towards Xiaopei.
As Ji Ling fled for his life in a hurry, he was also thinking about the gains and losses of this battle.
Why was the battle defeated so miserably?
After thinking about it, he still felt that this battle was not a mistake on his part, but simply because he was ruthlessly crushed by Cao's army's new weapons.
Although trebuchets have been around for a long time, the trebuchets at that time had a short range and the stones they threw could only reach the size of watermelons. They were not durable and were useless.
However, the trebuchet used by Cao Jun this time could throw a boulder weighing a hundred kilograms to a distance of two hundred steps, and its lethality was doubled.
Wei Yan cut off Ji Lingjun's food route, and the soldiers could not even fill their stomachs. Coupled with Yuan Jun's lack of faith, most of the 100% combat effectiveness was eventually lost.
Zhao Yun held off Xiaopei's reinforcements. Although it was only delayed for two days, it was enough for Lu Yan to use the time difference to defeat Ji Ling.
"I didn't expect that in addition to a cavalry force that cut off our army's food route, there was also a cavalry team that cut off the connection between our army and Xiaopei... But the opponent was the invincible Lu Yan after all! Defeat to him,
It’s not too embarrassing for me, right?” Ji Ling shook his head, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his defeat was quite reasonable, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was a bit hasty for his lord to proclaim himself emperor in such a hurry.
"That's not right!" Ji Ling thought and suddenly trembled. "After Lu Yan defeats me, he will definitely march to seize Xiaopei and seek to unite with Cao Cao. If I go to Xiaopei City now, it will be another wolf invasion.
jaws of death?"
Thinking of this, Ji Ling couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his back. After a long time, he muttered to himself: "I should go to Pengcheng to join the army. At least Pengcheng is high and deep, and it is relatively easy to defend.
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After making the decision, Ji Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me south, let's take a detour to join the army!"
After Lu Yan met Zhao Yun, he went straight to Xiaopei.
A few days later, when Lu Yan led his army to Xiaopei City, spies reported that there were only 5,000 defenders in Xiaopei City.
Without saying a word, the trebuchets fired two volleys at Xiaopei, and the generals who stayed behind in the city abandoned the city and fled.
In the past few days, reinforcements mobilized from Wancheng and Xuchang have gradually arrived at the Xuzhou border.
After Lu Yan left, they filled the gap. When they gradually established a foothold in Xuzhou, they began to slowly encroach and annex Xuzhou.
...
Just as Ji Ling fled south,
Zhang Xun, Li Feng, and Lejiu recently sent by Yuan Shu joined Chen Ji's four-pronged army and launched an attack on Pengcheng with about 50,000 people.
However, what these proud and powerful generals did not expect was that Chen Deng, the prefect of Pengcheng, managed to defend the city with 10,000 regular troops and tens of thousands of civilians in the city!
When Lu Yan and others arrived thirty miles away from Pengcheng, they were all amazed by Chen Deng's talent when they heard that Pengcheng had actually carried Yuan Shu's 50,000 army with 10,000 defenders.
But there is one exception, and that is Lu Yan, who has long known how powerful Chen Deng is.
"Changsheng, what should we do next?" Xiahou Dun asked Lu Yan.
Since the emergence of trebuchets and repeating crossbows and the defeat of Ji Ling, Xiahou Dun has been accustomed to asking Lu Yan first no matter what he does. As a result, the military advisor is not Xun You but Lu Yan...
Lu Yan observed the enemy's situation with a telescope and said: "The enemy's army is huge. With only more than 7,000 of us, it's basically nothing if we go..."
"Then...we're just going to watch like this?"
"Observe and observe the situation first before talking."
"But what about the eldest brother? He must be under a lot of pressure, right?!"
Xiahou Dun was a little impatient and unwilling, but Lu Yan trusted Lao Cao's ability to withstand pressure, "Yuan Shu's four armies besieged Pengcheng. Although Yuan Shu may send additional reinforcements, I believe Cao Cao can still withstand it.
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"Alas..." In desperation, Xiahou Dun could only sigh and retreat.