Cao Cao began to attack the city of Xiapi.

An army of 300,000 began to attack.

An army of people poured into the city of Pi like a tidal wave.

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

When Tao Qian appeared on the top of the city, he was stunned when he saw the tide of the sea.

However, Tao Qian is a lot older after all, and he still has the basic concentration, so he walked around the city.

When Tao Qian got off the city, he almost couldn't stand, if it wasn't for the soldiers around him to help him in time, I am afraid he would have fallen.

After returning to the governor's mansion, Tao Qian fell ill.

But the war does not stop there.

Cao Cao began to storm.

This time, Cao Cao made a bloody investment, invested more than 100,000 troops at a time, and then prepared a large number of siege equipment, when the hundreds of thousands of troops began to attack, the shouting of killing can make people chill.

As soon as the battle began, Cao Cao ordered a fierce attack, and the soldiers at the head of the city also fought hard to resist.

Under the city, Cao Cao's army, under the command of the generals, took shields and siege equipment to the city walls, and then began to climb.

On the city wall, the soldiers of Xuzhou poured arrows down, and stones and rolling logs were also desperately thrown down the city.

Both sides came up with a desperate stance.

The defenders at the head of the city were under great pressure because the enemy was too strong and they had no experience in facing hundreds of thousands of troops.

At the same time, the pressure on the Cao army under the city was also huge.

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

Xuzhou is not a place else, although there is no danger to defend, but the economy is developed.

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 fight desperately.

Cao Cao personally supervised the battle, sent a group of soldiers and horses, and replaced a team of men and horses when they were disabled.

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

As a defensive side, the losses turned out to be so great.

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

On the second day, of course, Cao Cao continued to storm Picheng, but in Xiaopei, Cao Ren also began to attack after a day's preparations.

"Gao Shun, this battle is under your full command, and the whole army, including me, must obey your command." Zhang Yu ordered.

"No." Gao Shun came out of the queue and replied solemnly.

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

These 30,000 soldiers and horses were trained by him with high intensity, and 5,000 of them were even trained by him himself.

At this time, Zhang Yu gave him a very big stage, this stage is huge, and it is the time for him to play himself.

Gao Shun soon took over the command.

Zhang Yu watched Gao Shun's arrangement at the head of the city, while paying attention to the entire battle situation.

With Xiao Pei here, although Cao Cao was under the onslaught, it was difficult to disintegrate the morale of the soldiers in Pi City.

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

Of course, Cao Ren and the others also understood this truth, but in the face of Zhang Yu, they had to be careful, so they prepared for a day before starting to attack.

"Kill."

Cao Ren had an army of 150,000 and did not have much skill, so he personally led all the troops 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.

"The archers are hidden, and the shields are protected." Seeing Cao Jun slowly advancing with his shield on his head, Gao Shun did not order the archers to attack.

At this time, the offensive effect is not great.

When Cao's army reached the city, Gao Shun ordered the soldiers to start a counterattack.

The first to fight back was the rolling wood and stone.

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

After the attack began, Gao Shun also ordered the archers to counterattack, mainly to suppress the local archers, and not let them attack the city at will.

The archers used Zhang Yu's method, which divided the area under the city in advance.

Each area is numbered with a serial number.

The generals at the head of the city only need to give the order to attack which area.

This method has many advantages, as long as the soldiers can remember the location, they do not need to see with their eyes, and they can hide in the rear when attacking, reducing the chance of being shot by the enemy.

At the same time, after the general gives the order, he can attack one place intensively, and the fire will not be scattered because of the different places where the archers attack.

However, this requires a high level of skill among the soldiers, who can remember all directions and be able to accurately attack their targets under the command of their generals.

Obviously, Zhang Yu's soldiers reached this level.

Moreover, Zhang Yu and they have been here for more than ten days without a little preparation.

In addition to the fact that the orientation outside the city has been divided and written on the battlements for the soldiers to watch and compare, the most important thing is that the soldiers have been trained for more than ten days.

After more than ten days of training, he has been able to accurately identify the direction and shoot arrows.

It's actually not difficult, and you don't need to be very prepared in a location, just an approximate location.

The precise attacks of the soldiers made the Cao army under the city suffer greatly, and their archers were suppressed to death.

When the generals at the head of the city saw where there was a great threat, they commanded the soldiers at the head of the city to baptize with arrows.

Dense arrays of arrows often leave them with nowhere to hide.

With each attack, many soldiers who had not had time to hold up their shields fell.

More prepared to predict, when the archers under the city left the cover of the shield to attack, the arrow array at the head of the city just hit, so a large number of archers almost did not escape.

After a few rounds of attacks on both sides, the archers under the city were completely suppressed.

When the archers were suppressed, the soldiers on the castle head were much less dangerous when they threw them with rolling logs and stones, and they were able to take aim.

Therefore, the casualties of the Cao army quickly went up, the losses of the archers were large, and the losses of the besieging army were equally large.

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

"This Zhang Yu's army is really not easy to deal with." Cao Ren's face was a little gloomy, Zhang Yu's archers were hiding behind, and their archery skills were still very accurate, causing them huge casualties.

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

The half-day attack caused Cao Ren to lose more than 3,000 men and horses.

The afternoon offensive did not improve at all, and the losses were even greater, and after the first battle, more than five thousand people were lost.

And in the evening, after Zhang Yu counted them, they found that they had lost a total of more than 4,000 soldiers.

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

Zhang Yu arranged the most dangerous task for the soldiers and horses in Xuzhou, that is, the people had to poke out of the city and attack Cao's army with rolling logs and stones.

When they poke their heads out, they are dangerous, and they will be shot by the enemies under the city.

With other people's armies that can do these things, Zhang Yu naturally won't let his soldiers die easily.

(End of chapter)