1261 Fire trapped Wei soldiers
"Extinguish the fire quickly!" Cao Pi was out of proportion and ordered without thinking.
Once the fire burned, the usual water could not be extinguished, and the pungent smoke made it difficult for the soldiers outside to get close.
On the city of Yiling, the war drums rumbled, and after the fireball cannon ignited the fire on the ground, it began to launch a fierce artillery bombardment on the besieged soldiers on the earth mountain, and the shells hit the earth mountain, and the mountain soon ignited a fire.
The Wei soldiers on the mountain were frightened, and there was no order at all, because the people were relatively dense, and the phenomenon of stampede injuries emerged in endlessly, and the sound of screaming and wailing was endless, shocking.
After a few rounds of fireball cannons, a dense rain of arrows poured down, and more than half of the Cao soldiers in Tushan had been killed or wounded in less than half an hour.
"If it goes on like this, this smoke will choke people to death!" Cao Pi looked at the soldiers struggling and crying on the dirt mountain, but he couldn't think of a better idea for a while.
"Holy Lord, water can't extinguish this fire, so why not cover it with earth?" Liu Ye's mind turned and he said something very reasonable.
"Hurry up and try to extinguish the fire with earth!" Cao Pi hurriedly gave the order.
It was Liu Ye's words that saved the lives of many soldiers, and the soldiers on the periphery began to throw earth and stones into the flames, the effect was obvious, and the fire was quickly covered by the earth, but as a last resort, they still stoned many of their own people to death.
Liu Ye hurriedly personally commanded the peripheral soldiers, as long as they threw a passage down the mountain to minimize casualties. In less than half an hour, a life safety passage was finally smashed out, and the soldiers on the dirt mountain ran down with their armor unloaded, one by one choked black, like a ghost in the underworld.
A fire attack killed more than 30,000 soldiers of Cao Pi, because Liu Ye came up with this method of extinguishing the fire with soil, Wang Baoyu did not achieve the goal of annihilating the soldiers on the earth mountain.
"It seems that Cao Pi's brain hasn't rusted yet!" Wang Baoyu sneered.
"Baoyu, at this time, you must not give Wei Bing a chance to breathe!" Mo Qianhiro urged.
"Yes, it's time for a general attack!"
After a brief discussion between the two, they resolutely issued a general attack order, the gate of Yiling was opened again, and Ma Yunlu led an army of 30,000 and rushed out.
The fire had already demoralized the Wei soldiers, and Ma Yunlu's team was like a whirlwind and clouds, and the Wei soldiers fell one by one wherever they passed.
At the same time, Fan Jinqiang and Qian Mo, who had just evacuated to the south side, rushed back again, and the original 20,000 elite soldiers had become 70,000 at the moment, and it was with the 50,000 troops of Nanjun who had been ambushed here for a long time.
The attack ability of the 100,000-strong army can be imagined, and with the death of a large number of Wei soldiers on the battlefield, Cao Pi's mental strength was also discharged, and he wanted to sit everywhere, and he didn't even have the strength to be angry.
"Shengshang, the shape is not good, let's withdraw first, and then make plans!" Liu Ye hurriedly said to Cao Pijian.
"The strength of our army is still above Wang Baoyu!" Cao Pi really couldn't bear to let the duck fly in his mouth, and his mouth became harder.
"Shengshang, Wang Baoyu is used to inciting people's hearts, and there are many monks in Yiling, and if the stalemate continues, I am afraid of endangering the Shengshang!"
Cao Pi couldn't help but shudder, he never thought that the day he would be captured, Wang Baoyu might not save his life, is it a knife or Ling Chi? Maybe Wang Baoyu's subordinates are merciful, and it is difficult to say whether they can save their lives.
Bah! What with what! Cao Pi stopped imagining, knocked on his head in annoyance, finally admitted the fact of defeat, reluctantly ordered the withdrawal of the army, and retreated to the west in a panic.
After running for more than ten miles, the chasing soldiers behind him did not stop, but the rumbling drums sounded in front, and Tian Ye led an army of 50,000 in Xiangyang to block Cao Pi's way.
If it weren't for the current rout, the 50,000 army would not be fearful for Cao Pi at all, but now the soldiers have no combat effectiveness, let alone 50,000, even 10,000 may not be able to fight, not to mention that the army behind is constantly chasing and coming.
Cao Pi did not dare to fight head-on with it, and hurriedly ordered the army to retreat to the north, and was chased and killed by the army of the field, panicked, desolate and desolate, from day to night, the Wei soldiers just fled, no matter how far they ran, until the next day the sky was bright, and the sound of chasing and killing behind gradually disappeared.
Cao Pi was so tired that he was panting, ordered the army to stop, just sat down to catch his breath, and didn't even have time to drink saliva, but saw another army appear in the mountain pass in front of him, the number of people didn't seem to be much, about 10,000 people, it was the old cat who led Jiangxia's soldiers and horses, and he had been waiting here for a long time.
"Cao Zihuan, look where you run today!" The old cat let out a burst of laughter, which reached Cao Pi's ears, but it was like a thunderbolt.
"Evacuate quickly!" Cao Pi hurriedly beckoned everyone to flee again.
"Don't panic, our army is still there!" Liu Ye reminded.
"That's right! I almost forgot that there were only soldiers and horses ahead, so I didn't have to be afraid. Cao Pi nodded, turned around and saw that the four generals Cao Hong, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu and Cao Zun were still there, reinvigorated their spirits.
Just when Cao Pi led the tired army and rushed forward, the old cat's army unexpectedly withdrew.
"Holy Lord, may it be a fraud?" Liu Ye reminded again.
Cao Pi was a little impatient, eager to break through the encirclement, he didn't think so much at all, blindly chased forward, and when he rushed into the valley, he found that he had been fooled.
This place is an extremely dangerous place, both sides are steep cliffs that cannot be climbed, as soon as the army entered, a large number of Jingzhou soldiers appeared on the cliffs, and countless boulders poured down.
Cao Pi's army was stoned dead and wounded countless times, and he didn't know what ambush was when he moved forward, so the army had to retreat back in a panic.
This road was impassable, Cao Pi had to lead his men and horses to continue to retreat north, and at dusk, he finally saw the surging water of the Han River. As long as you leave here by boat, you can be relatively safe.
However, there was another thing that made Cao Pi extremely mad, originally he left 10,000 soldiers and horses to guard the warships crossing the river, but at this moment, there was not a single warship on the river, but there were many corpses floating, all of which belonged to his own side.
"Wang Baoyu! I will never die with you in my lifetime. Cao Pi said angrily, this is actually not to blame others, only to blame him for not thinking of failure at all, these warships were unceremoniously accepted by the army of old cats who came along the river, and successfully fought an ambush battle.
It was getting late, Cao Pi could finally sit down and count the number of people, and the result was better than he imagined, there were still 200,000 troops left.
The horses reported again and again, the Jingzhou soldiers did not chase after them, but withdrew to their respective cities, Cao Pi breathed a sigh of relief, and finally fell asleep in the small tent that was temporarily erected.