Chapter Ninety-Three: Impact
Cao Ren's soldiers marched into Puyang City, and were crossing the streets with the county commander in the city, when they heard the noisy chaos outside the city. In fact, the outside of the city has always been noisy and chaotic, and Puyang's county order is one of the few county orders that has not been lowered by the wind, so Cao Ren has a good sense of him. However, this county commander also sweated in his heart, fortunately, it was Cao Ren who came first, and if it was Zhao Wangbei's army that came first, he would also open the city.
This is something that can't be helped, it has nothing to do with integrity, the whole world is full of Han soil, and Zhao Wangbei is the army of the imperial court, even if the prince is not right...... But isn't it just the state pastor of Cao Yanzhou?
In the end, it was canonized by the imperial court.
Outside the city has always been noisy and chaotic, and Cao Ren's subordinates rode seven thousand, enveloping tens of thousands of people. Since it is a people's husband, it cannot be measured by military discipline, especially when entering the city, the crowd is loud, and it cannot be contained. Cao Ren's arrangements all the way are very reasonable and secure, there is nothing wrong, the 7,000-step cavalry maintains a high combat power when there is far more than the usual people's baggage, and it is invincible to meet mountains and rivers and bridges along the way, not to mention the front and rear pressure of the foot cavalry, even if the enemy army is attacked when crossing the river, it will not panic. What's more, most of those people were also issued with shoddy spears and long ges, and at the very least, there were sharpened wooden sticks, and if they were really attacked in the middle of the road, they were not powerless to fight back.
The only loophole is that when entering Puyang, most of the foot cavalry took the lead in entering the city, leaving only more than 1,000 soldiers outside the city, commanding the people to dig trenches and lay down wooden barriers...... Before sending troops, Cao Ren knew that this was a battle of speed, and in the local battlefield of Puyang, whoever was the first to be stationed in Puyang City would get enough advantages; And in the entire Yanbei battlefield, the same is true, whoever arrives at the expected position first will get more advantages.
The first step to enter Puyang made Cao Ren, who was worried all the way, relax, but the only thing he didn't expect was that Yan Zhi, the general sent to Puyang by the Yan army, was intimidated, and ran all the way to Puyang but did not dare to enter the city, and led the army to sleep in the small mountain col in the countryside, staring at him coldly into the city.
Most of them rode into the city, and the people behind them also continued to carry things from inside and outside the city, Yan Zhi turned over and raised his horse with a hard bow, and led four thousand Wuhuan horsemen to rush straight to Puyang City.
The Wuhuan cavalry whistled and rushed to the outside of the city before the long march had just ended, and they were not allowed to think about it at all, and the results of the battle were bound to be one-sided. Before Hu Qi rushed closer, tens of thousands of people outside the city were shocked by this scene, and they were in chaos in a moment.
Even those Yanzhou soldiers who took on the responsibility of overseeing the work could not control it, there were too many people, and fear was contagious outside the city, and panic was boiling. It is impossible to form a formation, even if most of the people are holding their blades, they can't suppress the fear in their hearts when they see the sight of the cavalry galloping with the earth dragon, they drop their weapons and turn their heads and run towards the crowded place...... But what's the use of that? Those Yanzhou soldiers under Cao Ren are not generals, and barely letting themselves be afraid is already the limit of what they can do, where can they command these people to resist the enemy army.
Even if there are many of them, there are few horses.
In fact, in the direction of Hu Cai's charge, there were not many Yanzhou soldiers. The outside of the city was full of people sitting on the ground, and if there was no Hu cavalry attack, they would have dug trenches and built wooden fortifications outside the four gates according to the instructions of the general Cao Ren after resting for two hours, and added camps outside the moat that they could guard. But now everything has not yet begun, they have no danger to rely on, behind them is the moat of Puyang, at this time of panic, Yan Zhi took the lead in attacking the people outside the south gate, because outside the south gate is the place with the fewest people.
The south gate is a fierce gate, Yan Zhi chose this place because he didn't dare to take risks in his character, there are only more than two hundred Yanzhou soldiers here, and the rest are all people, and his tactics are extremely simple.
"Shoot the arrows, force them towards the city gates, and divide your troops to attack the east and west gates!"
Simple and efficient.
In the face of these people who only had sackcloth on their bodies, Hu Qi bypassed the edge like the wind, and the rain of arrows shot out like locusts. There were too many people, and there was no armor to cover them, and the galloping horsemen did not even need to open their bows to the fullest, and they could fall precisely at twenty or thirty paces.
Cao Junminfu, who did not have a bow and crossbow, had no way to deal with such a cavalry that came and went like the wind, panicked like a plague outside the city, allowing groups of people to storm the city gate, and even many people were squeezed and fell into the moat, and for a time Puyang City could hear the mournful crying and wailing.
Yan Zhi's only bold move in this battle was to divide his troops and let his subordinate leaders lead their troops to attack the people of Simen separately, instructing chaos outside the city, while Cao Ren in the city was helpless.
Cao Ren is really helpless, even if he changes Cao Cao, he is also powerless. After hearing the disturbances outside the city, he rushed to the city without waiting for the scouts in the city to report that Cao Ren had already rushed to the city, but he had no way to help the people outside the city, or to help them save their own decline.
"I shouldn't have given weapons to the people!"
With a fierce punch on the battlements, Cao Ren gritted his teeth and cursed. Perennial fighting in the Central Plains, whether it is to pacify Yuzhou or Jingzhou in the south, there are no large number of cavalry troops between the enemy and me, which makes the Minfu Xiangyong unable to rise to resist when he encounters the Wuhuan archers, and he blocked the city gate in a blink of an eye.
What's the use of giving them weapons, is it just to attack your own allies?
The foot rider couldn't get out, and the bow and crossbow couldn't be shot, so he had to let the soldiers withdraw and open the four gates to let the people rush into the city...... Cao Ren couldn't sit idly by and watch them trample on each other under the impact of the Wuhuan soldiers outside the city, and they lost everything.
His original idea was that these people would be trained here and become county soldiers next year, and then join the army. They are all young and strong, if they kill all the enemy troops in Puyang, even if Yanzhou is not lost after the war, they will not be able to recover in the next five years.
Yanyu is not one of the five states of Yanbei, with tens of millions of people.
However, Yan Zhi outside the city was extremely happy, they did not pay anything in this battle, but they got great results. Most of the Wuhuan cavalry only fired two or three arrows, which frightened the people, and then the scattered soldiers stopped firing arrows, but just galloped past the edge of the people's front, so that they trampled on each other. However, in half an hour, the thousands of Wuhuan cavalry scattered across the four gates did not suffer any losses, but the Yanzhou people outside the city suffered heavy losses, and the spears and horses were lost to the ground, and they crowded towards the moat suspension bridge.
However, bad things often happen when there is great joy, and the Wuhuan soldiers who have tasted the invincible taste of invincibility have looked at the weapons and baggage scattered on the ground after their fighting spirit has relaxed.