Chapter 444: Xiao Pei Goes to War

Cao Cao began to attack Xiapi City.

An army of 300,000 began to attack.

A large army flooded into Xiapi City like a tide.

Tao Qian barely supported, and then went to the top of the city to boost morale.

When Tao Qian appeared on the top of the wall, he was terrified when he saw the enemies rushing into the sea.

However, Tao Qian was quite old after all, and he still had the basic strength to walk around the top of the city.

When Tao Qian got down from the top of the wall, he almost couldn't stand. If the soldiers around him hadn't supported him in time, he might have fallen down.

After returning to the state pastoral mansion, Tao Qian fell ill.

But the war doesn't stop there.

Cao Cao began to attack violently.

This time Cao Cao spent all his money, investing hundreds of thousands of troops at a time, and then prepared a large number of siege equipment. When the hundreds of thousands of troops started to attack, the shouts of killing could make people terrified.

The battle entered a fierce state at the beginning, Cao Cao ordered a fierce attack, and the soldiers on the top of the city also fought hard to resist.

Under the city, Cao Cao's army, under the command of the general, rushed to the city wall with shields and siege equipment, and then began to climb.

On the city wall, Xuzhou's soldiers poured arrows down, as well as stones and rolling logs, and threw them down the city desperately.

Both sides put up a desperate posture.

The defenders on the top of the city are under great pressure, because the enemy is too strong, and they have no experience in facing hundreds of thousands of troops.

At the same time, the pressure on Cao Jun under the city was also enormous.

This is a majestic city, a city with a population of hundreds of thousands.

Xuzhou is not other places. Although there is no danger to defend, it has a developed economy.

Tao Qian is also very prestigious in Xuzhou.

There is a lot of pressure on both sides, but in this case, both sides can only do their best.

Cao Cao personally supervised the battle, sending troops up one by one, and replacing them with another team if they were disabled.

On the first day, when the two sides fought, Cao Jun lost more than 10,000 people, and Xiapi City also lost more than 10,000 people.

As the defensive side, the loss was so great.

It can be seen that the level of generals in Xuzhou is really limited.

On the second day, Cao Cao of course continued to attack Xiapi City by force, but in Xiaopei, Cao Ren also started to attack after a day of preparation.

"Gao Shun, you are in full command of this battle. The whole army, including me, must obey your command." Zhang Yu ordered.

"No." Gao Shun stepped out and replied solemnly.

Gao Shun was originally a highly capable general, especially good at defense.

These 30,000 soldiers and horses have been trained intensively by him, and 5,000 soldiers and horses among them have even been trained by him personally.

At this time, Zhang Yu gave him a very big stage, which was huge, and it was time for him to express himself.

Gao Shun quickly took over the command.

Zhang Yu was watching Gao Shun's arrangement from the top of the city, while paying attention to the whole battle situation.

With Xiaopei around, although Cao Cao was storming Xiapi, it was difficult to break down the morale of the soldiers in Xiapi city.

After all, they are not in a desperate situation, and Xiaopei can provide them with support.

Of course Cao Ren and the others understood this truth, but they had to be more careful when facing Zhang Yu, so they prepared for a day before attacking.

"kill."

Cao Ren had an army of 150,000, without much skill, surrounded by three and lacked one, and personally led a group of soldiers and horses to attack.

An army of 150,000 besieged a small city, and Zhang Yu's defense was much more difficult than Tao Qian's and the others.

"Archers should be concealed, and shields should be protected." Gao Shun didn't order the archers to attack when he saw Cao Jun advancing slowly with the shields on his back.

At this time, the attack effect is not great.

When Cao Jun reached the city, Gao Shun ordered the soldiers to fight back.

The first to counterattack is the log and the stone.

Zhang Yu and the others prepared a lot of rolling logs and stones in advance, and threw them at Cao Jun under Gao Shun's command.

After starting the attack, Gao Shun also ordered the archers to counterattack, mainly to suppress the archers in the local area and not let them attack the city head indiscriminately.

The archers used Zhang Yu's method, which not only divided the area under the city in advance.

Each area is marked with a serial number.

The generals on the top of the city only need to order which area to attack.

This method has many advantages. As long as soldiers can remember the location, they don't need to see it with their eyes. They can hide behind when attacking, reducing the chance of being shot by the enemy.

At the same time, after the general gives the order, one place can be intensively attacked, and the firepower will not be dispersed due to the different places where the archers attack.

However, this requires soldiers to be of a high level, remember all directions, and be able to accurately attack the target under the command of the general.

Obviously, Zhang Yu's soldiers have reached this level.

Moreover, Zhang Yu and the others were not unprepared for being here for more than ten days.

In addition to dividing the directions outside the city and writing them on the battlements, it is convenient for the soldiers to watch and compare. The most important thing is that the soldiers trained for more than ten days.

After more than ten days of training, he was able to accurately identify the direction and shoot the arrow.

This is actually not difficult, and does not require a very prepared position, as long as the approximate position is enough.

The precise attack of the soldiers caused Cao Jun under the city to suffer greatly, and their archers were suppressed to death.

When the generals on the top of the city saw where the threat was great, they ordered the soldiers on the top of the city to baptize with arrows.

The dense array of arrows often leaves them nowhere to hide.

Every time there was an attack, many soldiers who were too late to support their shields fell down.

I was more prepared to predict that when the archers under the city left the cover of their shields to attack, the arrow array on the top of the city just hit them, so a large number of archers hardly escaped.

After several rounds of attacks from both sides, the archers under the city were completely suppressed.

After the archers were suppressed, the soldiers on the top of the city were much less dangerous when they hit the rolling logs and stones, and they could also aim.

Therefore, the casualties of Cao's army quickly increased, the losses of the archers were great, and the losses of the siege troops were equally great.

After Cao Ren attacked for a while, he gradually discovered the problem.

"This Zhang Yu's army is really difficult to deal with." Cao Ren's face was a little gloomy, Zhang Yu's archers hid behind, and their arrows were very accurate, causing them huge casualties.

Cao Ren did not stop attacking, but continued to attack, but he observed carefully, trying to find the secret, so that he could respond.

After half a day's attack, Cao Ren lost more than 3,000 troops.

The offensive in the afternoon did not improve at all, and the losses were even greater. After the first battle, more than 5,000 people were lost.

And at night, after Zhang Yu and the others counted, they found that they had lost more than 4,000 soldiers in total.

However, more than 3,000 of them are soldiers and horses from Xuzhou.

Zhang Yu arranged the most dangerous task for Xuzhou's soldiers and horses, which was to attack Cao Jun with rolling logs and stones from the top of the city.

It is very dangerous when they poke their heads out, and they will be shot and killed by the enemies under the city.

There are other people's troops who can do these things, Zhang Yu naturally will not let his soldiers die easily.