The soldiers crowded into the narrow urn city. First, the defenders at the east gate retreated in droves, and then Sun Jian's army immediately pursued them.
However, because the capacity of the urn city is very limited, after the defenders retreated, only half of the space was left. Therefore, although Sun Jian's army was large in number, only a thousand people could squeeze into the urn city to fight with Cao's army, and the rest were mostly
Most people could only watch onlookers outside the barbican.
The troops were fighting hand to hand and the battle was fierce.
Although the number of Sun Jian's troops who squeezed into the Wengcheng to fight Cao Jun was not large, in this case, the thousand defenders would not be defeated immediately, allowing Cao Ren to buy some time. But despite this, the situation is still urgent, don't forget
, the base of Sun Jian's army is extremely huge. Even if the Wengcheng cannot accommodate too many people, they can still make use of their huge base to consume the few remaining strength of the defenders in batches.
In Cao Ren's mind, it was now a matter of time to see whether the east gate defenders would be exhausted first or whether the reinforcements would arrive first.
Reinforcements must arrive quickly, and there is still hope of restoring the situation.
However, the time war is only Cao Ren's unilateral idea. In Zhou Yu's view, since the city gate has been breached, the offensive and defensive battle of Wengcheng will definitely end with his side's victory, even if all the reinforcements from the other side arrive. Just like the other three gates
If the reinforcements did arrive before the fall of Wengcheng, the most impact it would have would be to postpone the time for our army to conquer Xuchang City and slightly increase our army's casualties.
In short, now that they have entered the city, Jiangdong's army has no reason to withdraw from the city. The combined number of all the soldiers in the city is far less than that of Jiangdong's army. As long as Jiangdong's army firmly holds one of the city gates, it will be a sure-win situation.
Even if all Cao's troops in the city come to help, at most Jiangdong's army will suffer some greater losses. As for trying to reverse the situation, I'm sorry, you have no chance!
Cao Ren may know these truths, but he is absolutely unwilling to think about it now, let alone think about it in that direction.
Kill the enemy! Now you just need to put aside all distracting thoughts, don't think about victory or defeat, don't think about the consequences, the only thing to do is to pierce the enemy's chest with the spear in your hand!
Cao Jun and Sun Jianjun were strangled together, engaging in a life-and-death fight in this small place.
Five steps of blood splattered, disembowelled, body and head separated... In such a small place, the sight of blood, body parts, and internal organs flying all over the sky is particularly eye-catching. Compared with the thousands of troops rushing back and forth on a large battlefield, in such a small place,
In a narrow battlefield, the fighting between the two armies had a uniquely tragic atmosphere.
A group of people were cut down, and then another group of people were cut down, and then...the sergeants suddenly found that they could not cut down the enemy soldiers...
Why?
Before he knew it... corpses were piled all over the floor, and it was difficult for him to move, let alone kill the enemy.
Although the number of casualties on both sides has not been high so far in the battle, and it is estimated that the two armies have killed less than 300 people in total. However, in this narrow barbican city, the corpses of 300 people are still piled everywhere, which makes people feel uncomfortable.
It is difficult for people to move even an inch.
At this time, Cao Ren suddenly discovered that the effect of facing the enemy in Wengcheng seemed to be better than imagined. If blocked by corpses, the enemy's attack speed would inevitably slow down, while his own army could persist longer.
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At this time, Zhou Yu also saw that his army was obviously hindered. He thought carefully and understood the reason after a moment's thought.
It seems that if we insist on storming Wengcheng, we will definitely be able to conquer Xuchang, but it will still be too troublesome after all. It seems that we have to think of other methods.
"Lord, withdraw all the soldiers. We can attack with fire." Zhou Yu just thought about it and had already come up with a plan. As far as the narrow terrain of Wengcheng is concerned, at the gate of the city has been occupied by our own troops.
Under the premise of control, using fire attack is a natural decision.
"Yeah." Sun Jian nodded slightly and approved Zhou Yu's suggestion.
"What? The enemy has withdrawn? Why?" Just as Cao Ren was still thinking about what to do next, he suddenly saw Sun Jian's army in Wengcheng quickly retreating to the rear, and they retreated completely in the blink of an eye.
Zhou Yu would never let him go without any reason, there must be some trick in this.
"Not good!" A thought suddenly flashed through Cao Ren's mind, making him pale in shock.
Fire attack! The enemy definitely wants to conduct a fire attack!
It must be like this! The Wengcheng is only so big in total. If it is set on fire, there will be absolutely no place for the one thousand people to escape. The only result will be piles of barbecued meat.
Fighting your way out of the urn? That is also a way to die.
However, being hacked to death by the enemy's sword seems to be much more comfortable than being burned to death by fire.
"Brothers, the enemy is trying to set fire to us, let's go out and fight with them!" Cao Ren shouted to the soldiers. At this point, there is no other way but to kill ourselves!
If you don't want to go to war, then wait to be burned alive in Wengcheng.
Choosing between being hacked to death with a sword or being burned to death by fire, I'm afraid no one would choose the latter. Being burned to death is extremely painful. Almost every corpse that was burned to death was deformed and curled up, which was horrible to look at.
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Cao Ren took the lead and rushed to the front of the army.
A thousand people followed closely and rushed out of the barbican city.
Outside the Wengcheng, Sun Jian's soldiers were about to light a fire when Cao Ren suddenly stepped out and stabbed him over with a shot.
"Kill!" has reached this point. If you can kill one, you will earn one, and you can no longer care about the others!
"Kill!" Cao Jun's soldiers rushed towards Sun Jian's army in front of them with the mentality of being dismounted even if they died.
"Huh?" Seeing Cao Ren leading his troops to fight out, Zhou Yu was slightly startled, and then he couldn't help but express his admiration for the enemy general again.
When the city fell, they immediately retreated into Wengcheng. When they saw their own troops withdrawing from Wengcheng, they immediately guessed the intention of their fire attack. This Cao Ren was definitely the best general in the world.
It's a pity that he is Cao Cao's clan brother, and he is someone who is absolutely impossible to conquer. Otherwise, I would really want to persuade Sun Jian to try to take him into his account.
"Surround them, kill them, and capture Xuchang City!" Sun Jian looked at the battlefield in front of him and ordered.
With an army of 26,000, it would take at most one stick of incense to kill the one thousand enemy troops. In other words, after one stick of incense, Xuchang City will be yours!
Sun Jian finally couldn't help the excitement in his heart, and a look of joy spread across his face.
These one thousand people are just ordinary city defenders, not elites like the Xiangzhao camp. Even if the Xiangzhao camp is here, with a numerical difference of more than 20 times, it will definitely not be able to hold on for long.
Although each of these more than a thousand people fought with Sun Jian's army with the intention of dying, they were quickly slaughtered before long. Now, only Cao Ren and ten people around him are left on the battlefield.