The city of Pei County is tall, the moat is wide, before the Cao army attacked the city, it took a day to fill the moat of a few meters at the north gate, and this time Cao Cao was prepared early in the morning, and the next day the large siege equipment was all used, and it was like razing Pei County to the ground in one fell swoop.

And Cao Cao knows the way to attack the city, if under normal circumstances, encounter such a defender, Cao Cao will choose to smash the Yellow Dragon, make a big attack on Xuzhou, destroy its lair to look like, then he knows that the back road will be intercepted, the grain road will be cut off, and he will have to go out of the city, then I will ambush the soldiers and the road with elite soldiers, and I will be able to win a big victory.

This is the best strategy to break Pei County, but because Cao Cao did not dare to rashly attack Xuzhou City, and the purpose of his trip was only to take Pei County and open the road to Xuzhou, so he could only choose to attack the city, and the siege of three and one was obviously the most suitable siege method for him at the moment.

But the opponent he met was extraordinary, it was his old opponent Chen Gong, this former confidant and old friend, knew too well the way this old opponent used troops, so under the premise that the enemy was outnumbered, the enemy was strong and I was weak, and the enemy came from afar but was endlessly fed, it was not advisable to cut off his grain route, and it was definitely the way to take the initiative to attack.

And if you blindly defend the wall, although Pei County can be a barrier, but because of the enemy and I am outnumbered, the enemy is strong and I am weak, although the enemy can be avoided and not fighting, but Cao Jun can rely on the advantage of troops to choose to attack the city, for this Liu Lan and the order, Pei County can be guarded, not abandoned, at this time not only Liu Lan, including Chen Gong also understands, as long as Cao Cao attacks the city, Pei County will break sooner or later, so blindly defending is also the next policy.

In this way, Pei County is undoubtedly defeated whether it is a battle or a defense, and retreat is the first choice, but just when Zhang Liao, Xu Sheng and Shan Zichun thought that evacuating Pei County was the best choice, Chen Gong vetoed this suggestion, because it was too late to retreat now, Cao Cao surrounded three in the morning, and did not send a soldier to the north gate, the purpose was to force us to flee from the north gate, and he must have ambushed the army at the north gate early in the morning, and once our army chose to break through, it would inevitably be annihilated, even if it was a fluke, Now there are less than 20,000 troops, and there will not be many people left by then.

As soon as these words came out, several people in the field were silent, they couldn't fight, they couldn't retreat, they couldn't defend it, could they only wait for death in Pei County?

Many people were about to despair, but the reason why Chen Gong dared to stay, and even dared to say in front of Liu Lan that 10,000 people could defend Pei County, naturally had his reasons, looking at the three people who were almost on the verge of collapse, he suddenly laughed: "Don't be discouraged, there is no way." ”

"Will the plan be released?" Zhang Liao was the first to stand up, compared to Xu Sheng and Shan Zichun, it was obvious that Zhang Liao had unconditional trust in Chen Gong, and he also believed that when the enemy army was pressing the border, he was the only one who could turn the tide.

"It's very simple, just defend instead of attack!"

"But ......" Shan Zichun blurted out, but soon stopped, in military terms, he is obviously a layman in Peixian County, although he doesn't understand that Chen Gong said that it is not feasible to take the initiative to attack, why is it now that he wants to say that he will attack with defense, he doesn't understand, he wants to say his incomprehension, but he is afraid of saying something wrong, it is better to shut up and listen to the answer directly.

Chen Gong twisted his beard and glanced at the three people in the hall, except for Shan Zichun, who stared at him tightly with a pair of eyes, the other two were all in contemplation, especially Zhang Liao, who raised his head and showed a touch of joy in a very short family, and Xu Sheng, who was not very old, but was entrusted with a heavy task by the lord, did not have much more time to figure out than Zhang Liao, and he was also able to become one of the two deputy governors in Pei County, and finally became one of the two deputy governors in the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion, leading the troops to garrison Pei County, if he didn't have the ability, It is impossible to become the number three person under Zhao Yun and him in the Xuzhou army.

Seeing that the two of them had figured out the truth in this, Chen Gong slowly spoke: "I have already said before, blind defense will not be able to hold Pei County, and it is also not feasible to take the initiative to attack and cut off its grain route to force Cao Cao to withdraw his troops, as for the evacuation of Pei County, there is also a certain risk, in this case, the best way is undoubtedly to defend instead of attack." The key to attacking the tactics of attacking is not the same as cutting off the grain routes and forcing the enemy to withdraw, because our purpose is to defend the city.

The traditional method of defending the city is to defend according to sincerity, using stone rolling wood, bed crossbow boiling oil, supplemented by archery, crossbow infantry and soldiers to guard the city wall, so that the enemy can not enter the inner city from the city gate and the city tower. And Cao's army has many and fine soldiers, if our army uses this traditional method to defend the city, the city will be broken, so I thought of a more proactive way to defend the city, which can be summarized in two sentences and eight words: fight according to the city, and attack as defense. ”

At the moment when Chen Gong said these eight words, although Zhang Liao and Xu Sheng, who had already thought of Chen Gong's plan, could not have imagined that the next situation would be so smooth, just when he was, Chen Gong spared a day in the city tower, no one knew what Chen Gong who said the eight characters was thinking, but after walking around the city tower and returning to the Chen Palace in the council hall, he pointed out that there was a leak in the camp of the Shouchun Army, and the camp gate was unstable, which could be a breakthrough, so that night, Zhang Liao was under his order, Led 3,000 wolf cavalry to attack the Shouchun army.

Chen Gong, who had been guarding Pei County for five days, suddenly sent Zhang Liao to attack the camp at night, not to mention that Zhang Xun couldn't think of it, even Cao Cao would not have any precautions, the best time for a general raid was undoubtedly the first three, taking advantage of their distant foothold and the camp was not firm, night raids could often achieve great gains, and in these three days, Cao Cao had always been released, but the enemy did not appear.

But who would have thought that the enemy army would launch a night attack on them on the fifth day, when they had already gained a foothold, Zhang Liao did not stay in the camp too much after attacking the Shouchun army camp, but directly attacked the Cao camp, after attacking the Cao camp, it was even more direct to Cao Cao's army tent, Cao Cao was rescued by Dian Wei in the chaos, although unscathed, but Zhang Liao broke the Cao army camp three in a row, and safely withdrew to the city.

Zhang Liao's grasp of the battlefield is very unique, at the moment when the breakthrough began to become difficult, he chose to retreat, no longer too entangled, which made the three thousand wolf cavalry led by him almost not suffer many casualties, and it can even be said that there were zero casualties, although some knights were injured, but they were not fatal, it can be said that the plan of Chen Palace this night was extremely perfect, and the big victory made the morale of the defenders high.

Cao Jun suffered countless casualties in this night, paid an extremely heavy price, Cao Cao, who was embarrassed and angry, carried out a retaliatory attack on Pei County on the second day, besieging the city on three sides, but Cao Cao would not have thought that from the beginning of the operation, the defenders of the city had completely changed their tactics, and in the moment when the normal defenders of the city repelled the retreating Cao army, the defenders of Pei County opened the city gate under the cover of long-range firepower such as bed crossbows, and chased them out, they fought and rushed all the way under the leadership of Xu Sheng, and even killed the Cao army that was originally retreating to rest and scattered, It became a real rout, and under Xu Sheng's pursuit, such a rout affected the soldiers who were originally ready to attack the city, and for a time the Cao Yuan coalition army was completely chaotic.

Cao Cao heard the news and walked out of the camp, if it weren't for the fact that he would rather die than retreat, he couldn't say that the Cao army would really be repelled by Xu Sheng in one fell swoop, seeing that the enemy army was desperately defending, Xu Sheng was difficult to break through, Chen Gong hurriedly Mingjin withdrew his troops, which forced Xu Sheng, who was still unsatisfied, to withdraw his troops.

Although this battle was very cool, but he was a little too obsessed with repelling Cao Cao, which Chen Gong couldn't bear, if it wasn't for him Mingjin to withdraw his troops, the consequences would be unimaginable, he reprimanded Xu Sheng fiercely, although he felt a little uncomfortable, but after the big victory, he also calmed down, apologized for his impulsiveness just now, and promised not to take it as an example.

It's all said and done, what else can Chen Gong say, continue to entangle, no one can hang up his face, he will accept it when he sees it, and next, Chen Gong will come up with a night attack plan again, Zhang Liao and Xu Sheng and even Shan Zichun are dumbfounded by his decision, only a night attack yesterday, and if you go again today, how can it be successful?

But Chen Gong has his own ideas, because it is precisely because of the sneak attack last night that the Cao army will also be prepared today, and we will use the cavalry as a harassment, that is to say, our troops must attack the front and only attack the surface, and the real purpose is to rush to the rear of the army and kill them by surprise.

The purpose of Chen Gong is very simple, no matter whether Cao Cao is prepared or not, even if there is, then it must be an ambush in the camp, and what Zhang Liao has to do is to feint, only attack its surface, break its antler camp fence, pretend to attack the camp, but do not enter the camp, this is to attack its table, and at this time, Cao Jun did not dare to make any changes, even if they pursued out, and the wolf cavalry of the state could be safely evacuated, but at this time, General Xu Sheng spared him to break through the camp fence and attack his camp, when the enemy reacted, it was too late.

At that time, Cao Jun will know that he will be deceived, if he returns to the division to rescue, the cavalry will chase him, if he does not retreat, he will get rid of it with the advantage of cavalry, and go around to cooperate with General Xu Sheng.

And this time, although the effect has been achieved, because Cao Cao has been on guard early in the morning, the effect is not as obvious as yesterday.

Chen Gong, who had been guarding Pei County for five days, suddenly sent Zhang Liao to attack the camp at night, not to mention that Zhang Xun couldn't think of it, even Cao Cao would not have any precautions, the best time for a general raid was undoubtedly the first three, taking advantage of their distant foothold and the camp was not firm, night raids could often achieve great gains, and in these three days, Cao Cao had always been released, but the enemy did not appear.

But who would have thought that the enemy army would launch a night attack on them on the fifth day, when they had already gained a foothold, Zhang Liao did not stay in the camp too much after attacking the Shouchun army camp, but directly attacked the Cao camp, after attacking the Cao camp, it was even more direct to Cao Cao's army tent, Cao Cao was rescued by Dian Wei in the chaos, although unscathed, but Zhang Liao broke the Cao army camp three in a row, and safely withdrew to the city.

Zhang Liao's grasp of the battlefield is very unique, at the moment when the breakthrough began to become difficult, he chose to retreat, no longer too entangled, which made the three thousand wolf cavalry led by him almost not suffer many casualties, and it can even be said that there were zero casualties, although some knights were injured, but they were not fatal, it can be said that the plan of Chen Palace this night was extremely perfect, and the big victory made the morale of the defenders high.

Cao Jun suffered countless casualties in this night, paid an extremely heavy price, Cao Cao, who was embarrassed and angry, carried out a retaliatory attack on Pei County on the second day, besieging the city on three sides, but Cao Cao would not have thought that from the beginning of the operation, the defenders of the city had completely changed their tactics, and in the moment when the normal defenders of the city repelled the retreating Cao army, the defenders of Pei County opened the city gate under the cover of long-range firepower such as bed crossbows, and chased them out, they fought and rushed all the way under the leadership of Xu Sheng, and even killed the Cao army that was originally retreating to rest and scattered, It became a real rout, and under Xu Sheng's pursuit, such a rout affected the soldiers who were originally ready to attack the city, and for a time the Cao Yuan coalition army was completely chaotic.

Cao Cao heard the news and walked out of the camp, if it weren't for the fact that he would rather die than retreat, he couldn't say that the Cao army would really be repelled by Xu Sheng in one fell swoop, seeing that the enemy army was desperately defending, Xu Sheng was difficult to break through, Chen Gong hurriedly Mingjin withdrew his troops, which forced Xu Sheng, who was still unsatisfied, to withdraw his troops.

Although this battle was very cool, but he was a little too obsessed with repelling Cao Cao, which Chen Gong couldn't bear, if it wasn't for him Mingjin to withdraw his troops, the consequences would be unimaginable, he reprimanded Xu Sheng fiercely, although he felt a little uncomfortable, but after the big victory, he also calmed down, apologized for his impulsiveness just now, and promised not to take it as an example.

It's all said and done, what else can Chen Gong say, continue to entangle, no one can hang up his face, he will accept it when he sees it, and next, Chen Gong will come up with a night attack plan again, Zhang Liao and Xu Sheng and even Shan Zichun are dumbfounded by his decision, only a night attack yesterday, and if you go again today, how can it be successful?

But Chen Gong has his own ideas, because it is precisely because of the sneak attack last night that the Cao army will also be prepared today, and we will use the cavalry as a harassment, that is to say, our troops must attack the front and only attack the surface, and the real purpose is to rush to the rear of the army and kill them by surprise.

The purpose of Chen Gong is very simple, no matter whether Cao Cao is prepared or not, even if there is, then it must be an ambush in the camp, and what Zhang Liao has to do is to feint, only attack its surface, break its antler camp fence, pretend to attack the camp, but do not enter the camp, this is to attack its table, and at this time, Cao Jun did not dare to make any changes, even if they pursued out, and the wolf cavalry of the state could be safely evacuated, but at this time, General Xu Sheng spared him to break through the camp fence and attack his camp, when the enemy reacted, it was too late.

At that time, Cao Jun will know that he will be deceived, if he returns to the division to rescue, the cavalry will chase him, if he does not retreat, he will get rid of it with the advantage of cavalry, and go around to cooperate with General Xu Sheng.

And this time, although the effect has been achieved, because Cao Cao has been on guard early in the morning, the effect is not as obvious as yesterday.