"Woooooooooo..." The sound of drums and horns rose up, as vigorous as pine trees.
"Set up the crossbow..." Continuous orders came and went, and the huge military columns also rose and fell, like waves in a lake and sea.
"Creak...quack!" The muffled sound of the strings made the teeth of those who heard it sore involuntarily, and the heartstrings tightened even more. In this wilderness where the fighting was fierce, the sense of solemnity and vastness was even more intense.
gas.
Under the overwhelming military might, the entire city of Ren was trembling!
Hiding deep in the city tower, Guo Gong held his head and covered his ears, his whole body shaking like chaff.
"Xiao General Li, does it really not matter whether it's outside the city or outside the city? If it doesn't work, just abandon the city... The Qingzhou Army is so powerful that it's really hard to resist with manpower! If you retreat now, you can also go to Juye for temporary refuge.
, Not to mention Juye City’s Gao Chi Shen, there is also Daze to rely on, it’s better than living in such hardship now!”
Guo Gong's intestines almost turned green.
The Guo family is a long-established family in Shanyang County, and he himself is one of the few well-known celebrities. He is familiar with the classics and knows that heroes emerge in troubled times. After the chaos in Luoyang, he organized more than a thousand elite private soldiers of the family as the core.
After taking possession of his family's wealth, he opened a granary to attract the refugees and brought out a troop of soldiers and horses.
There are many people who behave like him, such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Li Tong who died in Fengqiu City, etc. The difference is only their own ambitions. Cao Cao aspired to the world, so after he raised his army, he has been working hard, training his troops, and conquering the outside world.
, in order to expand the territory and recruit more troops, thus forming a virtuous cycle.
But Guo Gong was not like that. At the beginning, his power was limited to the Dongmin area. He was just an ordinary rich man. Intimidated by the power of several major forces around him, he only clung to his own one-third of an acre.
The Tu emperor did not engage in any expansionary behavior. It did not have any impact on the general trend of the world.
Later, Wang Yu defeated Yuan Shao and focused his operations on Hebei. Cao Cao also had concerns about Wang Yu, so he focused his strategy on Guanzhong, leaving a large blank area in the east of Yanzhou.
Just like that, Guo Gong started shaking and couldn't control it.
He actually occupied almost four counties, and his territory spanned Yanzhou and Yuzhou vertically. His vision was limited. There were no critics around him, so he immediately became excited and consciously entered the forest of princes who were expected to compete for the world.
Before the outbreak of the Central Plains War, what he was thinking about was not which side to join. Instead, he was similar to Yuan Shu. He wanted to sit on a mountain and watch the fight between tigers. When one side failed, he would take advantage of the convenience of being near the water to rob the losing side in order to expand his power.
, and then in turn join forces with other princes to fight against the winning side.
The ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny. Guo Gong never expected that he would clearly declare neutrality and shrink his troops to the city far away from the border. Wang Yu would still refuse to give up.
Isn't that Pengju boy afraid of making enemies on many fronts and dying? Guo Gong is quite depressed.
He is not afraid of how powerful Wang Yu is. He also has tens of thousands of troops and is defending the city. As long as he nods his head, Cao Cao's army will quickly come to reinforce him. What is there to be afraid of?
But after such a start, his wishful thinking would come to nothing.
With such emotions, he was cruel at the beginning of the war and decided to give Wang Yu some color so that the other party would regret it.
But who would have thought that his tens of thousands of troops would be nothing compared to the two famous generals in Qingzhou?
Huang Zhong attacked and fought hard all the way from Zhangxian to Shouzhang. The Thunder Army conquered ten cities in a row on the 15th day. The momentum was extremely fierce! Zhang Liao's side had a different style. He obviously led thousands of infantry.
But their movements are not much worse than cavalry. Their movements are erratic, they move quickly, and they attack fiercely, often with one hit.
Guo Gong was so confused by these two groups of soldiers and horses that he could no longer defend, and there was no way to counterattack. He was completely stunned.
After completely losing the Dongping Kingdom in less than half a month, Guo Gong finally realized that he, Wang Yu, and Cao Cao were not on the same level at all.
The dream was shattered, but life had to go on. It was definitely too late to kowtow to Qingzhou now. During the time when Guo Gong lost Dongping Kingdom, Xia Houyuan's troops had already stationed in Shanyang County and headed straight for
Renchengguo came over. Guo Gong wanted to defect to Qingzhou, but he had no leverage, so he had to bite the bullet and continue to support.
Fortunately, Xia Houyuan arrived quickly enough and arrived at Rencheng almost at the same time as Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong's army. Guo Gong did not need to face the terrifying Qingzhou Army alone. However, when the war started, Xia Houyuan did not seem to have anything new to offer.
No matter how he tried, he was still hit by the overwhelming arrows of the Qingzhou Army. Guo Gong felt that the situation might be bad, and he only wanted to grease his feet.
As for whether he could block the Qingzhou Army after escaping to Juye, Guo Gong no longer cared. He just wanted to get home quickly, take his wife, children and the wealth he had gained in the past few years, and escape far away.
Go to a place where the Qingzhou Army will never be found again.
"Guo Shijun just wants to sit quietly in the city. The enemy troops outside the city have their own talented generals trying to resist them. Please don't act like a woman, so as not to disturb the morale of the army." Li Dian looked at Guo with disdain.
Gong glanced at him and replied softly but with a strong tone.
Li Dian didn't take any notice of this loser who was extremely arrogant when he was in power and was like a rat when he was losing power. If it weren't for the fact that Guo Gong still had many local troops, keeping him would have the effect of calming people's hearts.
Dian wished he could throw him off the top of the city. People can have ambitions, but if they are such useless ambitions, it is really better than nothing.
"But……"
"There is no but!" Li Dian's voice was stern, which directly frightened Guo Gong, "Because of your incompetence, do you know how much blood and sweat the soldiers have lost? Now the soldiers are fighting hard despite the arrows and stones, and you are high in the city.
Isn’t it enough to sit still? If you continue to make noise, Li will recognize you, Shijun Guo, but the sword in Li’s hand will not recognize you!"
"Yes, yes..." Guo Gong shrunk his neck and ducked back. Unexpectedly, he tripped under his foot and fell onto his back.
Seeing Guo Gong's embarrassed look, Li Dian wanted to laugh, but the loud bangs coming from outside the city made him unable to laugh, and his heart just felt heavy.
The siege equipment of the Qingzhou Army is too powerful, especially the means of blasting the city wall. Once it is close to the city wall, it is almost impossible to resist. It is said that the Qingzhou Army uses the method of Taoist priests to make alchemy, gathering saltpeter, sulfur and other fire-generating substances into
Together, it becomes a medicinal stone that explodes violently.
As long as you dig a big hole under the city wall, and then put the explosive in a wooden box or a tin box, you can easily blow up a big gap in the city wall, making it difficult to prevent.
There is no effective countermeasure that has been proven yet. The only preventive method is to prevent the enemy from easily approaching the city wall. However, under the Qingzhou Army's almost overwhelming long-range attack, it is not easy to do this. ?
Rencheng is not Hulao Pass. General Miaocai did not have time to deploy too many defensive facilities here, so the several camps he hastily set up quickly became in danger, and now he is risking lives to add to them!
But there is no way. Rencheng is a stronghold that must be defended. If Rencheng is lost, the Qingzhou Army's eastern front will be connected with Xuzhou. The two armies can respond to each other, and the difficulty of breaking through will be more than doubled?
He thought very clearly rationally, but when he thought that the troops he had finally recruited and trained could only bleed and die in front of the crossbows of the Qingzhou Army, Li Dian felt terrible pain in his heart. You know, Dong At least 20% of Cao's troops on the front line were private soldiers of his Juye Li family!
"Mancheng, why are you still here? Come on, go up to the top of the city to watch the battle!" Lu Qian suddenly walked in and greeted Li Dian as soon as he saw him.
"Watching the battle? What's so impressive?" Li Dian laughed miserably.
The person commanding the attack outside the city was Qingzhou General Huang Zhong. Although this veteran general was older and had rarely gone on expeditions in recent years, and his reputation was not as good as that of Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and others, his command level was quite strong. Under the command of the Qingzhou Army, the Qingzhou Army's attacks were very rhythmic and layered, giving full play to the power of all long-range troops and beating the veteran general Xia Houyuan to the point where he could not even lift his head.
What is there to see in this kind of battle?
"Don't you know yet?" Lu Qian looked around, came close to Li Dian, and said mysteriously: "The reinforcements my lord mentioned have arrived!"
"Which reinforcements?" Li Dian was stunned and hesitated: "Could it be..."
"That's it!" Lu Qian nodded vigorously, his tone full of excitement and joy.
He and Li Dian have very similar identities. The only difference is that he is from Rencheng, while Li Dian is a giant savage. For Lu Qian, this battle to defend Rencheng must not be lost, otherwise the Hulu Lu family will no longer be able to win. It exists. If you leave your hometown, you will be a rootless person. What’s the use of just saving people?
"Despite his young age, Ma Deheng is quite capable. With more than a hundred disciples, he assembled two hundred Thunderbolt Chariots overnight! This is not what Liang Bofang and others offered Liu Ziyang. It’s the kind made from the picture book you came here, but it’s a real super weapon!”
Lu Qian spoke faster and faster, and became more and more excited as he spoke: "This chariot can be pulled by manpower or horse power. It is equipped with a hinge and can launch huge rocks to a distance of 500 steps. The sound is like thunder, and anyone who blocks it is invincible! Huang Zhong relies on the crossbow chariot. He used his power to deceive me, and today I just used his method to return it to him, letting him know that there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky!"
"There is such a magical weapon? If Duke Cao had taken it out earlier, he wouldn't have made the Qingzhou bandits so arrogant!"
Before Li Dian could reply, Guo Gong's eyes lit up and he jumped up. He took Li Dian's and Lu Qian's arms without conscious thought and said warmly: "With the help of this magical weapon, Miaocai General will definitely defeat the enemy. I'll rush to the city as soon as possible. Even if I can't go to the battle to help, I can still wave the flag and cheer for General Miaocai and his soldiers."
Li Dian and Lu Qian both despised Guo Gong's shamelessness, but they were really eager to watch the battle, so they did not refuse and were pulled out by the latter. As soon as they reached the door, a burst of earth-shaking cheers suddenly came from the city. It is so big that it gives people the feeling of being on a small boat and being lifted up by huge waves.
"Could it be that...we have already won?" Li and Lu looked at each other and saw the joy and ecstasy in each other's eyes. (To be continued...)