Seeing Cao's army rushing into the city gate one after another, Liu Bei sneered.
After Xiahou Dun led his army into Xinye City, the gate of Xinye City suddenly closed.
In an instant, arrows and stones shot towards Cao's army like raindrops. Xinye City is not large in scale, and the streets are not very wide. Many Cao's soldiers were crowded in the streets, and they had no way to dodge when facing arrows. After a while,
During the Kung Fu, thousands of casualties occurred in Cao's army.
Has been trapped? Seeing the scene in front of you, how could Xiahou Dun still wake up?
Humph, even if I get trapped, so what? The number of troops I brought is not comparable to that of Liu Bei's army. Even if I was accidentally attacked by Liu Bei, the absolute difference in quantity is definitely not something that some arrows can fall.
It can be offset. Since I led this army into Xinye City, as long as I eliminated Liu Bei's army hidden in the dark and quickly controlled the situation, even if I suffered a little casualties, it would not be a big deal.
By then, you, Liu Bei, will still be just a stray dog.
However, just as Xiahou Dun was about to order the Cao army to attack the Liu Bei soldiers who were hiding in the city walls and other places, fire dragons suddenly emerged from the private houses and streets. In just a moment, Cao army was trapped in a sea of fire.
What, what's going on! Seeing the fires rising, Xiahou Dun was truly shocked.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bei was so cruel that in order to repel Cao's army, he even burned the entire Xinye City.
The body was ignited by a raging fire, and stones and arrows were thrown and shot down around him. The Cao army soldiers quickly fell into chaos. No matter how Xiahou Dun shouted, the Cao army's defeat was already successful and the defeat could not be restored.
"General, general, the matter has come to this point, so I can only retreat first!" Man Chong came to Xiahou Dun's side under the protection of his personal guards and exhorted him loudly. Now that the situation is over, the army continues to stay in Xinye City for only a lot.
If you add casualties, the only way is to withdraw from the city as quickly as possible.
Among the chaos, although Man Chong was protected by his personal guards, he was shot on his shoulder. At this time, his face looked quite pale.
Xiahou Dun looked at the more and more Cao army soldiers falling around him. Although he was angry, he also knew that he had to evacuate Xinye City as soon as possible. Otherwise, the 100,000 Cao troops would have to be explained to this small Xinye today.
"Get out of the city! Go out of the city!" Xiahou Dun shouted violently.
The Cao army soldiers near the city gate heard the order and rushed to open the Xinye City Gate. As soon as the city gate opened, all the Cao army soldiers immediately ran to the outside of Xinye City. The fire was everywhere in the city, and if they evacuate a moment ago, they would have more lives.
A guarantee.
Everyone rushed towards the Shinye City Gate, causing all the soldiers to block the Shinye City Gate, and became an excellent target for those archers. After several rounds of shooting, Cao's army increased a lot of casualties.
The Cao army general Yan Ming was unfortunately shot in the chest by an arrow before leaving the city and fell off his horse. When Yan Ming was shot, he was not dead for a while. However, after he was caught, he was attacked by Cao army soldiers who rushed to escape from the city.
After stepping on one after another, it soon turned into a pool of meat paste, and the situation was terrible.
Liu Bei felt a little reluctant to see the miserable scene in the city that was swallowed up by the flames. Although the strategy of burning the city with fire can cause great damage to the Cao army, it also suffered heavy losses to the people in Xinye City.
He did not want to use this strategy until he had no choice. However, Cao's army was powerful and a hundred thousand troops came overwhelmingly. If he did not use extraordinary means, the situation in Xinye City would be difficult to protect.
Once Xinye loses, Jingzhou will be in danger. At that time, I will lose my foothold again.
Therefore, Shinno cannot make any mistakes. Even if you use extraordinary means, you must ensure that Shinno Castle is in your own hands.
Although the strategy of burning the city caused huge losses to the people in the city, it was mostly for property. When the fire broke out, at least 60% of the houses in the city were burned. Cao's army attacked from the north of Xinye, and one day before, Liu Bei asked him to do so.
All the people in the city went out of the south gate and moved to some villages outside the city one after another. Therefore, although the fire destroyed many houses, none of the people in Xinye died in the fire.
Although the people were heartbroken by their property losses, most of the people at that time were simple. Liu Bei did enough mobilization in advance and described Cao's army as more vicious than tigers and wolves, saying that once the city was broken, it would be slaughtered.
All living creatures in the city will of course choose the former when facing the choice of life and property. Therefore, although Liu Bei's strategy of burning the city burned a lot of the property of Xinye people, they not only would not resent Liu Bei, but would instead regard him as a
The heroes who repelled Cao's army and saved the lives of the people in the city. Their property suffered huge losses, but they would only spread their resentment on Cao Cao, who was the invaders, and would not blame Liu Bei for saving their lives and Liu Bei's benevolence.
Not only did the reputation not decline because of this fire, it increased.
Outside Xinye City, Cao Jun soldiers who escaped from the sky did not have the joy of survival on their faces, but only the depression after the defeat.
Liu Bei and Xu Shu, standing on the wall of Xinye, looked at Cao Jun outside the city from afar, with a smile on their faces.
"The enemy's fighting spirit is completely lost. At this time, General Zhang will lead the army to pursue him, and there will definitely be a big gain." Xu Shu said with a smile.
Liu Bei nodded and ordered Chen Dao to organize people to put out the fire in the city. After the fire weakened, Zhang Fei immediately led 20,000 elite troops out of the city, in order to give Cao's army a heavy blow.
After Zhang Fei got the order, he was extremely excited and led 20,000 people out of the city to kill Cao's army.
The chief general of Cao's army is Xiahou Dun, and who is Xiahou Dun? That is his enemy who killed his brother!
Now that I have the opportunity to kill this enemy with my own hands, how can I not be excited about Zhang Fei? I have been waiting for this moment for too long!
Three years, three years! You should know how many nights Zhang Fei tossed and turned and couldn’t fall asleep in these three years? How many nights did he wake up from nightmares and sweat profusely?
Xiahou Dun led the declining Cao army to retreat to the north. He tried hard to scold him, trying to speed up his progress. But no matter how he scolded him, the legs of Cao soldiers were as if they were filled with lead, and it was difficult to take big steps.
It is no wonder that in such a big defeat, the Cao army was not as disintegrated as Xiahou Dun had the ability to command the troops, so how could they continue to have the ability to march quickly?
But Xiahou Dun was anxious. Now that his army is in such a state, he has no combat power at all. If Liu Bei sent troops to pursue him, the situation would be extremely bad.
As the saying goes, what you are afraid of is what you are. Just when Xiahou Dun was so worried, Liu Bei's army shouted and killed in the back.
The Cao army had no desire to fight, and Liu Bei's army was full of morale, so it didn't take long for Liu Bei's army to catch up with the down-and-out Cao army.
"Let's array and meet the enemy!" Xiahou Dun muttered loudly. Since the enemy has been chasing him, escaping will only cause more and more casualties. Only by turning back to fight can the losses be minimized.
Xiahou Dun shouted there, and several other generals of the Cao army - Yu Jin, Le Jin, Cao Chun and others were also desperately trying to reorganize the formation. Unfortunately, Cao army was already exhausted, and Xiahou Dun and others' efforts were simply useless.
,like water off a duck's back.
Twenty thousand infantrymen rushed into the Cao army formation and launched a one-sided massacre. In the blink of an eye, more than a thousand Cao army soldiers died under the swords and guns of Liu Bei's army.
Zhang Fei, the general of Liu Bei's army, had already entered the enemy's formation and headed straight for Xiahou Dun.
Zhang Fei's eyes had long been red, and endless murderous aura emanated from his body unscrupulously. The only thing he thought about now was - kill Xiahou Dun!
Seeing a leopard-edged whisker-bounding general killing him, Xiahou Dun immediately recognized the other party's identity - Zhang Fei.
When Guan Yu was in Cao's camp, he once said that my brother Zhang Fei had the courage of thousands of men, and taking the head of the enemy general among thousands of troops was like taking objects. When he first heard this sentence, Xiahou Dun was quite dissatisfied, but at this moment he felt the following.
Xiahou Dun realized that what Guan Yu said was not false.
Zhang Fei rode his horse to Xiahou Dun, raised his snake spear and stabbed him at the other side.
Faced with Zhang Fei's fierce attack, Xiahou Dun hurriedly raised his gun to resist.
With a "clang" sound, the moment the two guns intersected, Xiahou Dun felt that all his strength was about to be shaken away, and his tiger's mouth was even more numb and painful.