Dong Cheng took his son Dong Ping, all the way to the horse, spent three or four days, drove more than 1,000 miles, arrived at the Cao army camp stationed in the county, and asked to see Cao Cao.

Hearing Dong Chengdao's intentions, Cao Cao thought for a while, and replied simply: "Gu and Liu Wei have a grudge against their sons, and sooner or later there will be a battle." However, the northern Hu Kou has not yet been swept away, and the time has not yet come, and it is not yet time to settle accounts with Liu Wei. It was not that Cao Cao was afraid of Liu Wei and did not let your army go, but he was afraid that he would be suspicious of each other, resentful of each other, and destroy the alliance between them. ”

"I don't know why King Wei said this?" Dong Chengfu had to ask.

Cao Cao said in a loud voice: "If you let your army cross the border, you are worried that I will cut off the back road, I beware of you being ruined by false paths, suspicious of each other, can An Neng not be suspicious?" If the war goes well, they may still be able to get along, but if the war is not going well, they will pass the buck to each other, and if they are not careful, they will turn against each other. It is not a wise move to take advantage of a strong enemy! Your army can attack Xiangyang in Hanzhong, and its effect will be the same as that of attacking Runan through Chen Liu. ”

Guo Jia and Fan Zeng next to him said in unison: "Nine times out of ten, the Western Han Dynasty court has made two preparations, and if Chen Liu's can't get through, he will go to Hanzhong." ”

"I really didn't dare to deceive the King of Wei, when Dong Cheng left, the court did formulate two strategies. The upper strategy borrowed Chen Liu's expedition to Runan, and the lower strategy was to attack Xiangyang in Hanzhong. Dong Cheng didn't hide it, and told the truth.

Cao Cao frowned and asked, "Why is it the best policy to borrow Chen Liu, and the next policy to go out of Hanzhong?" ”

Dong Cheng replied: "If you go out of Hanzhong, the first to bear the brunt is Guan Yu's army, and you need to defeat Guan Yu to threaten Xiangyang." And if you can take advantage of Chenliu and Xuchang, you can reach the city of Runan without losing a single soldier. ”

Analyzing this, Dong Cheng made another request: "In the past, when Meng De was a military captain. You and I have a thin relationship, and I still hope to let our army cross the border on a thin side. The sneak attack on Chen Liu made Yue Fei uncomfortable. If you wait for Liu Bian's class to return to the court. Consolidate the defense of the whole line, miss the opportunity, and regret it too late! ”

Cao Cao's attitude was extremely resolute, and he said loudly: "Although Gu and Uncle Guo have old friends, they dare not abolish their public affairs for personal reasons. If you let your army cross, it will be a declaration of war with Liu Wei, and Qin Qiong's army will inevitably go out of Pengcheng to attack Peixian, Yanzhou and other places, and go deep into the hinterland of our army, and the gains outweigh the losses. In the case of Hu Ko not extinguished. it's never risky.

After I had destroyed Temujin, I swung my army south to declare war on Liu Wei, and sent troops to attack Runan and Huainan to seek justice for my son Huan. If your army is unwilling to go to Hanzhong to fight Guan Yu head-on, you can rest and recuperate for another year, and after I destroy Temujin, we will join forces. ”

"When will Temujin destroy the Huns? I'm afraid that I will miss the opportunity, and when Liu Wei's class teacher returns to the court, it will be too late to regret it! "Dong Cheng still doesn't give up." Cheng Dou dared to guess that the king was afraid that he would not be able to destroy Temujin in three years and two years, right? ”

Cao Cao boasted proudly about Haikou: "Slow is a year, fast is half a year, and before the arrival of this winter, we can chase the Huns in Mobei." Extinguish Xian and humble the grassland, swing Wuhuan and plug outside. Completely eliminate the troubles in the north! ”

"It took Temujin three or four years to integrate the various Xiongnu tribes, but it was not comparable to the generations of Yufuluo and Huchuquan. What's more, with the assistance of the Xianbei Murong clan, King Wei is too complacent to say this, right? Dong Cheng shook his head slightly. Questioned Cao Cao's words.

Cao Cao stroked his beard and laughed: "Even though Temujin is alive, today's Huns are not yesterday's Huns. The troops are insufficient, the armor is backward, and my tiger and leopard cavalry has been built, which will definitely defeat the Hun cavalry. Our army is preparing to attack Zhuoxian tomorrow, and Uncle Dong Guo can follow me to the front line to watch the battle and see how our army's combat strength is? ”

Before Dong Cheng arrived, Cao Cao had already dispatched his generals and dispatched 200,000 troops, preparing to capture Zhuo County, the seat of Fanyang County, and drive the Yuan army to the Shanggu area, and completely expel them to the north of the Great Wall.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Cao Cao took Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Fan Zeng and other strategists, under the escort of Xu Chu and Niu Jin, and went straight to the city of Zhuoxian. And Dong Cheng, Dong Ping, father and son also followed and watched the battle together.

I saw that the mountains outside Zhuoxian were full of Cao soldiers, dense like ant colonies, roughly estimated to be nearly 100,000, and the city of Zhuoxian was surrounded by water. The breeze blows, the flags are unfurled, the dust covers the sky, and the sound of killing moves the ground.

Cao Cao led all the strategists to a high slope to erect a handsome flag, waved his hand and ordered: "The whole army will attack the city, and the city will be broken within three hours!" ”

"Xu Chu is willing to lead the Tiger Guard Army with Dian Wei as the first to attack the city!" Xu Chu, who had a tiger's back and a bear's waist, bowed his hands and asked Cao Cao for battle.

Dong Ping was born in a big family, and has never seen such a big battle, at this moment to see nearly 100,000 horses surrounding the city, people shouted horses neighing, the sound of killing shook the sky, the blood in his heart was surging, he put the two guns in his hands on the ground, and arched his hand: "The young general is willing to attack the city with the army, please allow the king!" ”

Someone worked for himself, Cao Cao naturally would not refuse, stroked his beard and smiled: "Since this is the case, then Dong Pingxian's nephew will take out your ability to let Gu take a look!" ”

"Please watch the king!" Dong Ping agreed, shouted his mount under his crotch, brandished his two guns, and followed Xu Chu down the hill, braving the smoke of beacon fires and wolves, and went straight to the city of Zhuoxian.

The general who supervised the battle under the city was Cao Wenzhao, and with the wave of Cao Cao's banner, the drums on the hillside shook the sky. Cao Wenzhao galloped back and forth with his sword, urging thousands of troops and horses to launch a tidal attack on Zhuoxian County in the face of arrows and rolling stones.

There are 20,000 regular Yuan troops in the city, and 13,000 puppet Yuan troops recruited and hired, all of whom are on the top of the city to defend desperately under the leadership of Daxi Changru.

For a time, the arrows flew in the city, and the defenders of the city smashed the rolling stones and wood towards the Cao soldiers who were charging with the ladders, and the Cao army was not to be outdone, and there were crossbowmen who were good at shooting with quivers on their backs, and they tried to get close to the city wall under the cover of the shield soldiers, and shot back at the city. With the shouts one after another, people on both sides continued to fall to the ground with arrows.

In the noise of "squeak, squeak", Cao Cao's army built fifty "thunderbolts" were pushed to the foot of the city wall, and under the control of the sappers, huge stones were thrown at the city wall. When it landed, the stone chips flew everywhere, and there were countless people who could not avoid being smashed into meat cakes.

"Catapult" this siege weapon does not have much technical content, since it was invented by Liu Ye four or five years ago, all the princes have basically mastered the principle of manufacturing over the years, in the siege war around China, the catapult has become the most common siege weapon.

Now that siege engines have become a regular weapon, the defending generals will think about how to deal with them, and try to resist the damage caused by boulders to the defenders on the city, and cowhide is the most common one.

Seeing the thunderbolt carts under the city constantly shooting, and huge stones flying towards the city, Daxi Changru hurriedly ordered in a loud voice: "Set up a horseskin cloak to defend against Cao Jun's catapults!" ”

The cowhide is strong and tough, and after mixing it with hemp rope, wire, fishing nets and other items using a special process, it can be spliced into a huge cloak, which can resist the impact of boulders after hanging overhead, form an effective protection for the defenders on the head of the city, and greatly reduce the lethality of the thunderbolt.

The Huns lacked cattle, but they did not lack horses, although the toughness of horses was not as good as cowhide, but it was okay to replace cowhide, so after the beginning of spring, Temujin killed tens of thousands of horses on the grassland, used horse meat as military food, made horses into cloaks for city defense catapults, and sent them to the front line to Daxi Changru, hoping to use Zhuoxian as a bridgehead to withstand the onslaught of Cao's army.

"Bang...... Bang...... Bang......"

As the Yuan army erected the horse cloak on the city wall, the boulder thrown by the Cao army's thunderbolt made a muffled sound, and it was no longer as bloody and screaming everywhere the boulder reached as at the beginning.

After being protected by a leather cloak, the threat to the Yuan army on the city wall was greatly reduced, and they intensified their shooting at the Cao army under the city, and for a time arrows rained down from the city wall like arrows and rolling stones like hail.

You have a good plan, I have a wall ladder, I saw the Yuan army erecting a cloak on the city wall, Cao Cao waved the flag on the high slope, and ordered: "Release rockets and burn the cloak!" ”

After a few moments, Cao's catapults stopped firing, and the archers, led by Li Tong, bent their bows and arrows, shooting arrows with flames on their arrows on the top of the city. A torrential rain of furious fire. Some of the cloaks slowly burned under the continuous scorching of the flames, and ignited the connected cloaks, and the smoke filled the smoke after the leather was burned, choking the Yuan army at the head of the city from opening their eyes.

"Ascend to the city!"

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Yuan army at the head of the city, Cao Wenzhao galloped on his horse and urged the whole army to attack hard. Cao Cao, who supervised the battle in a high place, also personally beat the war drums and cheered for nearly 100,000 Cao troops.

"Tiger Guard, follow me to attack the city, and the first to climb the city wall will be my Tiger Guard!"

Dressed in a light hat, carrying a pair of iron halberds, Dian Wei carried a cloud ladder several feet high on his shoulders, crossed the moat in one step, and led thousands of the most elite tiger guards to launch the most ferocious attack on the city wall of Zhuoxian.

Xu Chu was not to be outdone, the sun was in the sky on his head, he was sweating profusely, and he simply took off his shirt. Shirtless, carrying a big knife and charging hard, he rushed to the city wall of Zhuoxian County, waving his knife to dial the carving feather to block the rolling stones, and at the same time urging the Tiger Guards to erect a ladder for themselves.

The composition of the Tiger Guard under Cao Cao's command is similar to that of the warriors formed by Wu Qi, and it is also composed of Jianghu rangers, heavy prisoners, large martial artists, and green forest thieves. The difference is that Wu Qi's warriors pay more attention to each other's cooperation, while Cao Cao's Tiger Guards, with Dian Wei and Xu Chu as commanders, pay more attention to individual fighting alone and winning with bravery.

As Cao Cao personally beat the war drums, Dian Wei carried the double halberd to preempt Xu Chu to enter the city, waved the halberd and cut down several Yuan soldiers, and the tiger roared: "Dian Wei is here!" ”

Xu Chu was a step later than Dian Wei, but he was not to be outdone, and he slashed down a Yuan soldier with a knife, and roared: "Xu Zhongkang of Qian County is here, and Hu Kou is not captured?" ”

(Today, Monday, the double monthly pass is still being implemented, and the recommended tickets and monthly passes of the brothers support it) (To be continued.) )