Chapter 240: The Battle of Runan [8]
The Cao army that attacked at night did not expect that the Yan army still had soldiers and horses to guard next to the stone cannon in the heavy rain, and the morale of the two sides was lost when they engaged, not to mention the rush to respond to the Yan army's well-armed and fierce trapping camp, and in a blink of an eye, they were beaten to the head, and hundreds of corpses were dropped after a moment of resistance, and when Han Hao reacted to the situation that there were enemy troops surrounded by the left and right, he hurriedly turned his horse back and ordered the withdrawal of the army.
Iron chisels, steel axes are smashed on catapults, and you want to leave again?
"It's late!"
With ten stone cannons as the center, the camp in the valley was on its left, and Cao Xing led a horse and spear to lead an army to ride behind the enemy in the mud and cut off its retreat. At the same time, the battalion of the lieutenants stationed under the valley on the right was shocked by the monstrous shouts of killing, even overshadowing the torrential rain, and at the same time attacked directly into the enemy's position.
The combined attack of the Cao army, which is no more than a thousand people, is easy to attack the battalion army!
Suddenly, it seemed that there were enemy troops everywhere, and there were chasing soldiers everywhere, Han Hao just ordered the whole army to retreat again, and his subordinate soldiers couldn't hear it, and he boldly shared life and death with the Yan army, and then was outflanked by more Yan troops and strangled together; He didn't have the courage to retreat, but he couldn't tell the difference between the east and the west, the north and the south, and he didn't even know that he had gotten into the formation of the Yan army, and he was killed in a moment; Only the one hundred and ten soldiers around Han Hao who were left were six gods and no masters, and they barely relied on the main general to sit in the town and had not yet collapsed, but they were all very cowardly and cowardly.
Reluctantly fought and retreated a hundred and ten steps, but there was a man and horse in front of him in the rain curtain, Cao Xing's iron spear pierced the muddy foot, pulled the reins and drew the bow, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said secretly: "I found you!" ”
Killing the enemy is not a feat, even if the attacking army that has eaten more than a thousand battles is nothing, but if you can catch or kill the father guard, it will be a great achievement!
The refined old sandalwood riding bow taken from Liaodong patrolled back and forth every 40 steps, but he didn't see a general on horseback, and the general who picked out a helmet and armor at random shot an arrow, and the fierce general who shouted at the end of the rain curtain fell in response, but the enemy army did not retreat and collapse. Cao Xing tilted his head indignantly and scolded, raised his arms and said: "Rush them, none of them are allowed to run!" ”
Hundreds of horsemen responded to the sound, and the heavy cavalry charged with great armor and dared to make the heavens and the earth change color, and the simple long lance of the bamboo and wood was majestic in the cavalry array, and only crossed the strong horse to rush to the country to level this small group of enemy troops, and the scattered Cao soldiers surrendered one after another. As for the chaotic foot soldiers in the back, they are even more killing and surrendering, and they are all down.
Cao Xing was happy for a while, and then he threw the prisoner on his horse and galloped into the Gaoshun camp in a hurry.
"General, the night attack is the Cao Clan's reinforcements, and the subordinates from Sishan City belong to Xiahou Dun." Cao Xuan shook his head, and his mouth was amazed, "Damn, I thought that if I took this camp army, I would be able to enter Chengfu City directly...... They came with 4,000 reinforcements, and there were 3,000 in the city, and the leader was led by Xiahoudun's deputy general named Han Hao. ”
Gao Shun thinks more than Cao Xing, his ass sits in the position of the main general, and his mind is naturally not as simple as Cao Xing's thoughts, just nodded and said: "Very good, I will send someone to receive the prisoners, you go back and continue to garrison the stone cannon, and wait until dawn to withdraw to the camp for food." ”
"No, General, let's just watch them attack the camp and not give them some color?" Cao Xing clapped his palms and said: "The stone cannons have scuttled two of them for us, so we can't just have no explanation, right?" ”
Gao Shun smiled when he heard this, waved his hand to let the prisoner go down, and then said: "If two stone cannons can be exchanged for a thousand defenders, Gao Mou will give you all thirty stone cannons to exchange for the five captains of Cao Jun!" ”
"But there is no stone cannon, what are we going to do to attack the city?"
This Cao Xing really thinks they are here to attack the city! If it was just for the siege of the city, Chengfu City would have been captured a long time ago, so why wait until now? In the past few years, they didn't have catapults, and they were not invincible in attacking cities, so did they have to rely on a catapult in a small town?
"General Wen Yuan's order is to contain the enemy army, and it is best to attract half of the enemy army in Runan to this side, so that he can lead the troops to drive straight from the west of Runan, do you understand this reason?" Gao Shun nodded and said: "Chengfu City will be attacked sooner or later, but before that, the bigger the disturbance, the more worried Cao Jun is, which is the purpose of our wait." ”
Cao Xuan nodded, touched his head and smiled dryly, "I said that you are not in a hurry at all, it turned out that I was waiting for Wen Yuan to come over from there." Any news on the situation over there? ”
Gao Shun shook his head, they had only been attacking Chengfu for a few days, and the message hadn't come so quickly, but he still had some guesses in his heart, and said: "General Wenyuan should have already set off for the south, and Cheng Lian sent a message this afternoon, saying that he had been ordered to lead the army to harass Xiang County, and most of it was the sound of the other side attacking the west. ”
There is a broken map behind Gao Shun, his general headquarters only has a guide and no map, this map is still picked up from the dilapidated camp when he first broke through the Cao army's fortress, the parchment is missing a corner, and it has been burned by smoke and fire, it looks very twisted, but it does not affect looking at it and allowing Gao Shun to guess the movement of Cao Jun's troops.
In the northeast corner of Runan, it was the 30,000 soldiers and horses he led who crossed the border and attacked Chengfu; On the bank of the Yingshui River in the middle of the north and south of Ru, it is Chenglian who led small soldiers to attack and disturb Xiang County; The reinforcement messenger in the northeast first informed Ruyin that Sishan Xiahoudun, who was on the left side of Cheng's father, had sent 4,000 reinforcements in the process, and after that, Cao Cao should have also sent reinforcements from Ruyin on the way, and it would take only two days to reach Chengfu.
By this time, it meant that he had dragged more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Cao clan - Xiahoudun's thousands of headquarters, Han Hao's 4,000 reinforcements, Li Dian's 3,000 Chengfu defenders, and Ruyin's reinforcements who did not know the number of generals.
If he was Cao Cao, most of them would think that the Cheng Lian Army, which was operating in the central part of the north and south of Runan, was the strategy of his troops and horses. This is the real finishing touch for Zhang Liao's strategic deployment, it looks like the Yan army is bullying Runan with an overwhelming position, the main offensive force is placed in the northeast of Runan, and the central part of Runan has not been pulled down, as if it is to drag the defenders of Xiangxian County and cannot come to help.
But they didn't know that the real horror of the tiger was not the roar of the fangs, but the claws that charged forward.
When everyone's eyes were focused on the inconsequential city of Chengfu in the east of Runan, a huge army was licking its minions in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity.