At this point, from the rising sun to the setting sun, for three consecutive days, Su You's figure always stood there on a hillside outside Yecheng. His figure changed from the faint morning light to the setting sun where fiery red clouds seemed to be floating on the horizon.
, they all shone his figure and dragged a long shadow on the ground. Su You's words of persuasion to surrender three times a day were so touching, and the benefits of surrendering to Cao Ying were said to be only in the sky, not in the sky.
The human world is so chaotic.
It's just that at this time, Su You's voice has become hoarse, and the beautiful voice is definitely not suitable for him. However, Su You's professionalism still moved and admired many Cao Jun generals, including Cao Zhi, the commander of Cao Jun.
The cold wind rolled up the snowflakes, causing Cao Zhi's flag to tremble constantly. Cao Zhi stood in front of the tent with his hands behind his back, looking to the northwest. From then on, going northwest, stretching for dozens of miles, there were more than 100,000 troops stationed there.
.These armies belong to him. These armies will soon rush into this majestic city in front of them, and soon the entire four northern states will fall into his possession.
Thinking of this, Cao Zhi smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth.
The wind has subsided, but the snow has become denser. Su You climbed up the hillside several times in the past few days and shouted to Yecheng. He, Cao Zhi, was not idle either. He had been stationed in a high-rise area to look at the situation in the city, actively arranging troops and waiting.
The final result of persuading surrender is awaiting the moment of final decisive battle.
This was the third time in the afternoon that Su You went up the hillside to persuade him to surrender. However, there was still a calm white color in the distance and a few black soldiers walking around on the city defense. There was nothing strange after Su You persuaded him to surrender.
Cao Zhi shook the snowflakes on the cloak on his shoulders, rubbed his frozen hands, and let out a breath of white air. At this time, Su You, accompanied by Xu You and Guo Jia, came to the high ground where he camped.
"My lord, Su You failed to make any contribution to your lord. There are no enemies in the city..."
Hearing Su You come back to life, Cao Zhi, who was in a trance, heard the sound, his expression changed, he waved his hand to interrupt Su You's self-blame, turned around and helped Su You up, and said: "It doesn't matter, the matchmaking methods are vicious. After your defection,
, I am sure that the whole city, your family members, relatives and friends who stayed in the city may have suffered his cruelty as a warning to others. Under such severe and cruel methods, I believe that no one will dare to defect in the short term.
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When Cao Zhi said this, he glanced at Xu You, who was also pale. Xu You had also been worried about the comfort of his family. He rebelled against Cao Ying because his family was sentenced to prison. But according to him
According to the news that Shenpei has received so far, it seems that Shenpei has not killed his family yet. But the determination shown by Shenpei at this time and his loyalty to the Yuan family have given Xu You a bad feeling. Maybe when they attack
When he arrived in Yecheng, his home had been razed to the ground and his family members had no bones left.
"Huh, huh, since no one will surrender anymore, let's attack the city!"
Cao Zhi's understatement shocked everyone around him. They lost all their random thoughts and immediately obeyed the order and dispersed.
On the same day, it was almost dusk, and the sunset glow in the sky was as red as blood.
The snow stopped, and Shen Pei was about to return to the city. When his eyesight was extremely high, he suddenly saw a black line winding upright in the white snowy field in the distance.
Shen Pei quickly put his hand on the awning and looked into the distance. The moving black line was obviously an army. They were slowly walking through his city defense amidst the sound of gongs and drums. The flag held high in the wind and snow only had one big character.
.It is far away, and the reflection of geography and snowy scenery blocks the view, so it is still difficult to see the big characters on the flag clearly.
But seeing that familiar flag, Shen Pei recognized that it was Cao Zhi's team, Cao Zhi's flag to lead the army.
"They finally took action..."
Amidst the thundering drums, shouts, drum noises and the rumble of soldiers' footsteps, Cao Jun's black square formations soon appeared neatly in the sight of the Yecheng defenders.
The neat military appearance and the huge momentum of Cao's army made all the defenders who saw it have lingering fears. Although their calves were cramping, they were really unwilling to go to the city defense and accept the test of war.
But they were still driven to the city defense like ducks by rows of war supervisors and superior generals to accept their fate and the baptism of war. They could only beg for God's mercy to bless them to pass this test calmly.
lives left.
"Huhuhu..."
In the prayers of Yuan Jun's soldiers, the war finally inevitably started. The first thing that flew towards them was Cao Jun's traditional long-range heavy weapon-throwing stones.
Rows of stone bombs and fire bombs whizzed past Yuan Jun's city defense, and immediately plunged towards targets above and below the city defense.
"Boom boom..."
Immediately, dazzling red lights appeared from above and below the Yecheng city defense. Cao's officers and soldiers had already been targeted to shoot at Zhu Yuan's slinging camp. They seemed to have been holding back their anxiety for a long time. As soon as they came up, they fired ten rounds of rapid fire.
.Suddenly, the entire city defense was beaten until mud was splashed everywhere, and debris of wood and stone were flying all over the sky.
The next day, the sun rose high. Cao Jun's attack on Ye City, which was filled with gunpowder smoke and had not yet dispersed, began. Under the cover of several rounds of stone throwing, the siege troops began to cross the moat and began a formal siege attack.
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A force of about two thousand people took the lead in crossing the river in a hundred small boats and headed straight for the south city. In less than half a quarter of an hour, Cao Jun's two thousand vanguard had already approached the other side of the moat.
Subsequently, the main force of Cao's army also boarded boats, large and small, and rushed towards the defenses and gates of Ye City on the other side of the river.
The gongs and drums of a battle alarm sounded immediately above and below the city of Yecheng, followed quickly by shouts of death, the buzzing of bowstrings, the explosion of stone bullets hitting the city defenses, and screams rang out throughout the entire city of Yecheng.
But except for one place, it was somewhere in the defense of Nancheng. The Yuan army here wanted to fire arrows immediately and hit a few hurled stones to prevent Cao Jun from crossing the river and counterattack the arrogant Cao Jun soldiers under the city.
However, Shen Pei, as the actual supreme commander in Ye City at this time, never ordered a counterattack. Instead, he kept watching Cao Jun's actions coldly. What was he waiting for?
Shenpei knew that his military strength and weapons equipment at this time were far inferior to Cao's army outside the city. Sharp weapons such as catapults were used to attack dense infantry formations or large fixed targets. The lethality was still good, but if they were used to attack the water,
If it's a moving target, the hit rate will be impossible to judge, and they don't have much reserves of these weapons. Good steel must be used on the blade and cannot be wasted carelessly.
Of course, if Shenpei had sharp firearms like those in Cao's army, Shenpei would never mind sinking the enemy's ferry in the middle of the water.
It's a pity that he doesn't have such a sharp weapon in his hand. But Shen Pei still has a killer move, but he has to wait until the critical moment to use it, so as to surprise Cao Jun and Cao Zhi.
On the water, Cao Jun's 2,000 forward squad had already approached the embankment under the city in a fan shape, climbed up the embankment, and behind them were the trenches and wall foundations of Yecheng.
Cao's army's tactics were actually very simple. They were to use a forward team of two thousand to seize the landing point first, clear obstacles for the large troops to land and the city, and attract and distract the enemy troops on the city. Finally, this would be the breakthrough point.
Conquer Yecheng.
Once Cao Jun's large force can successfully land ashore, enter the city, and quickly launch an attack formation, there will really be no suspense about this battle.
When Cao Jun's vanguard was still forty or fifty meters away from the landing shore, the giant crossbows and bows and arrows on this section of the Nancheng city defense finally opened fire under the instructions of the judge. More than forty heavy giant crossbows fired at several arrows per minute.
With such speed, he threw giant arrows wildly at the water surface of the moat below the city, causing water to splash everywhere, and dozens of Cao Jun troop transport ships were immediately beaten into leaky sieves.
Countless soldiers of Cao's army were also lying under the moat and the outer trenches and wall foundations of Ye City forever under the dense ordinary arrows of the defenders.
However, Cao's army was worthy of being an elite force, with excellent tactical skills, experienced soldiers and generals who had experienced hundreds of battles, and their counterattacks were even more sharp.
After being attacked, most of Cao's soldiers quickly jumped into the cold river water and swam while pushing the boat forward. A small number of Cao's soldiers knelt down in the cabin vacated by their companions and raised their bows.
The crossbows began to counterattack, and the buzzing sound of the arrow strings was heard. Rows of arrows flew up and down. From time to time, soldiers from both sides of the city let out muffled groans of arrows, falling to the ground or flying down the city defense.
Calling sound.
"Boom, boom, boom!" There were several muffled sounds, and a row of ten stone bullets roared towards the right side of the city defense. Then they quickly hit a certain part of the city defense, or the person's body immediately erupted with loud noises and blood.
Light.
Taking advantage of this gap, Zhao Yun quickly jumped off the warship he was riding on, clenched the silver spear in his hand, raised it at the soldiers behind him, and shouted: "Charge over, we want to seize the city! Whoever gets to the top of the city first will win.
If you advance to one level, those who kill enemy chiefs will advance to two levels, brothers!"
"Kill!" When the soldiers of Cao's army quickly crossed the trench and rushed to the city under Zhao Yun's fierce force, all the soldiers of Cao's army roared one after another. It was as if the flood had found a way to vent, and the two thousand soldiers shouted in unison.
The screams set off a terrifying roar in the night, sweeping towards this majestic city.
As support, in the silent night, the large troops behind also heard the roars of Zhao Yun and his two thousand sergeants. At the same time as they roared in support, there was a sound of "clang". It was the uniform troops moving at the same time.
There was a sound of armor rubbing against each other. The hillside around Yecheng suddenly seemed to rise up, and the sharp blades of swords and halberds shone with a cold light in the sun. The simple tools for storming the city were quickly lifted up by the soldiers, who were like the tide.
As if rushing down the hillside, the footsteps gradually began to sound, like a giant elephant stamping on the ground, and the earth rumbled.
In the other direction, the same war blade was waved, and the thick and pointed ramming tool hit the thick city gate, making a heavy impact and muffled sound. Rockets in the air poured into the city like a meteor shower, and blood and fire shot into the sky.