The older people revere life and want to live another five hundred years, while the younger people despise life and feel that if they cannot live great, they will die heroically.
Cao's army's siege tactics were already at the top level of this era.
The most critical point is not that Cao Cao's army has a numerical advantage, but that after Cao Cao's arrival, the methods of organizing attacks have changed dramatically.
The city wall is only that big, and it is impossible for thousands of people to crowd in at once, but there is a big difference between a well-organized city wall and a haphazard city wall.
As a result, Anyi gained strength in a short period of time.
When Cao Jun first besieged Anyi, Cao Hong just pretended to let Pei Jun mess around. Cao Jun was mainly building camps around Anyi to prepare for hussar raids. And Pei Jun was ambitious and talented, so it was obviously impossible for him to do so.
It really put a lot of pressure on Anyi, and Cao Hong didn't give Pei Jun much authority at that time. Later, he simply kicked Pei Jun away and threw him to Wenxi.
So generally speaking, if the intensity of the attack suffered by Anyi at that time was regarded as Pei Jun's standard, then after Cao Cao arrived, it would have automatically doubled and doubled again. After all, if Cao Cao ascended the high platform, which unit would be lazy and slippery?
From Cao Cao's experience, he can clearly see that. Even if these Cao troops are not led by generals, they are all serious.
At this point, Anyi's attack intensity is probably two to three Pei Jun's intensity.
Then Bao Zhong took his troops and began to deploy troops to attack the city, which roughly doubled again. Under his leadership, the attack power was about four or five times Pei Jun's strength, which caught the Anyi defenders off guard. Cao Jun
The city wall was also stormed for a time.
Then Cao Cao received a secret message from the rear. In a bad mood, Cao Hong also joined in supervising the war deployment. He began to mobilize the Central Leading Army, the Central Guard Army and other elite Cao troops in the rear to assist in the siege. Anyi was under great pressure.
That’s doubling it again.
It's probably more than ten times as strong as before.
At this point, the casualties of the defenders in Anyi City began to skyrocket, until Pei Ji could no longer bear it, and Pei Mao also took out the last coffin book to fill it...
However, even if the coffin was added, it was still not enough. On this day, when Cao Hong was supervising the formation and Bao Zhong was in the front army, trying desperately to pry open the turtle shell of Anyi, Pei Mao, Pei Ji and others' private servants
Just like a drop in the bucket, it disappeared in the flames of Cao Jun's raging attack in the blink of an eye.
So, why didn't Cao's army attack Anyi desperately at the beginning? Isn't it equivalent to taking the city of Anyi now?
Mainly Anyi is just incidental...
In this era, unless the defending side is completely unprepared, then the attacking side can make a surprise attack or attack the city by surprise. Or the defending side has no intention of defending at all and sees the attacking side's flag appearing in the distance.
Just scream and run away, otherwise there is no possibility of breaking the city in a short time...
Except for the wall hanging by Fei Qian.
At the beginning, Cao's army needed time to build siege equipment, and it also needed time to kill the fighting spirit and strength of the Anyi defenders. It also needed time to dig holes everywhere to wait for the hussars. It was not until now that they focused their attention on Anyi City.
Originally, Bao Zhong only climbed the city wall with all his strength on the first day to show that he was not a freeloader. In addition, he also took the opportunity to attack Anyi to escape from Cao Jun's base camp.
Because Bao Zhong didn't believe that Bao Xin simply "died in the rebellion".
When the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans marched into Yanzhou, Liu Dai, who was the governor of Yanzhou at the time, ignored Bao Xin's advice and rashly went to war and died in the battle. There is nothing to say about this. Even if Liu Dai did not die at the hands of the Yellow Turbans, he would die at the hands of others.
In his hands, because most of the Yanzhou nobles at that time felt that Liu Dai was not a human son, so it would be better to replace him with someone else...
However, everyone has different opinions on the candidate for Yanzhou Mu. Some people like Bian Yi and think that Bian Yi is an outstanding talent. Some people think that Bao Xin is the oldest and has the most experience. Cao Cao, at that time, was just the guy behind his back.
Just Yuan Shao.
Of course, there are records saying that Chen Gong supported Cao Cao at that time, and Bao Xin welcomed Cao Cao to Yanzhou...
But this kind of "welcoming" is actually Chen Shou Dali's proof of Bao Xin's admiration for Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms, and also tried to prove the legitimacy of Comrade Cao Cao's rise.
But the only thing missing is that this kind of "civilian election" requires three concessions and three bows in most cases.
Only Liu Bei gave up Xuzhou three times, but Cao Cao did not give up Yanzhou three times.
Historically, Lu Bu's classmate didn't understand this, so when Liu Bei expressed humility, Lu Bu accepted it without hesitation, and said that Liu Bei was really weird, but in fact, it planted the seeds of disaster.
So how could Bao Xin, who had been in the Han Dynasty system for many years, not understand this? So, was Bao Xin's "welcome" a courtesy "welcome", or did he really want to "welcome" Cao Cao?
No one knows, because Bao Xin risked his life to save Cao Cao in a battle with the Yellow Turban Army shortly afterwards, and eventually died in battle...
When Shouzhang was fighting the Yellow Turban Army, Bao Xin and Cao Cao were on the front line, but Cao Cao's flag was exposed for some reason, and Cao Cao's infantry force just didn't arrive!
The cups were just put on the table.
Later official announcements stated that Bao Xin heroically fought to the death to protect Cao Cao from retreating during the battle, but was eventually brutally killed by the Yellow Turban thieves.
After the war, although Cao Cao's classmates offered a large reward to find Bao Xin's body, unfortunately, he could not find it. Cao Cao had to carve Bao Xin's image into wood to worship, which also expressed his condolences and respect for Bao Xin.
Then Cao Cao became the shepherd of Yanzhou naturally, without any concessions or bows, he just became the governor.
When the situation is critical during wartime, it is understandable that we should handle it according to our authority.
In the winter of that year, Cao Cao took over the 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban thieves who "killed" Bao Xin and left Bao Xin's body intact, and formed the famous Qingzhou Army.
Then, Cao Cao killed Bian Cang.
One reason is that Bian Rang said something that he shouldn't have said, which made the entire Yanzhou gentry very dissatisfied with Cao Cao...
And then, Cao Cao killed Kong Rong.
One of the reasons is that the old boy Kong Rong always ridiculed him, making classmate Lao Cao lose face, right?
Then, according to history, Cao Cao waited twenty years after Bao Xin's death before he thought of remembering Bao Xin's achievements. He named Bao Xin's son Bao Shao as the Tinghou of the new capital and recruited Bao Xun's son Bao Xun to serve as the prime minister.
Then the question becomes, what is it that Cao Cao can't bear and can't talk about?
You must know that Cao Cao had to endure Xu You's foul-mouthed bitch for a long time before secretly signaling for others to take action.
There is no answer to these matters in official documents. Bao Zhong could not find any deeds to prove his speculation, but it was just because he felt that after Bao Xin's death, Cao Cao would undoubtedly benefit the most.
Moreover, Bao Zhong felt that Cao Cao actually knew that Bao Zhong was suspicious of him, so he kept Bao Zhong with him, intentionally or unintentionally.
Bao Zhong felt uneasy under Cao Cao, but he couldn't tell outsiders about this uneasiness, not even his own children. Because his children were so simple that they had no idea that some people in this world would do it for their own sake.
One more glance in the crowd would kill someone...
Of course, regarding this matter, you can also choose to believe in Lao Cao's character.
As for Bao Zhong himself, he didn't believe it, so he would rather attack Anyi. Because Bao Zhong was familiar with siege warfare, but he was not good at dealing with hussars and horses. He saw that the hussars were coming soon. If
One day when the Hussar really came, Lao Cao gave an order to him to fight the Hussar, so should he go or not? At least when attacking Anyi, Bao Zhong could still make the decision for himself.
The children stay in a safer place.
After all, Bao Zhong could at least grasp the rhythm of siege warfare. However, he never expected that after receiving the emergency report from 800 miles away, Cao Cao uncharacteristically planned to attack overnight.
Anyi!
This will cost Bao Zhong his life...
Because Cao Hong didn't care whether Bao Zhong was intentional or unintentional, or whether he was loyal or disloyal, seeing that Bao Xin's children seemed eager to lead troops to attack the city, he waved his hand and said, "Go!"
So Pop Pikachu screamed and rushed forward, completely ignoring his father's good intentions.
For Cao Hong, his own children died in Hedong, so would Cao Hong care if other people's children went to die? Cao Hong only cared about what happened in the rear, which made Cao Cao so rude!
Although Cao Cao finally controlled his emotions and said it was nothing, Cao Hong knew that there must be something serious.
For example, although Cao Pi was not dead, he was injured and disabled?
Or...
Cao Hong didn't dare to think about it, so he had to do something to make himself feel at ease.
So Cao Hong drove his soldiers and risked their lives to attack the city!
As for the future, we can only wait until the future!
Cao Hongdu personally urged his soldiers and braved arrows and rolling stones to reach the front of the formation. Who dared to slack off?
Nowadays, Anyi has used various materials such as rolling stones and hammering wood. There are still some scattered materials that are basically obtained by demolishing the houses in the city. However, the more the houses are demolished, the farther away they will naturally be, and the manpower will become more and more
It's because of fatigue, so the main threat to Cao's army when they climb the city is boiling water...
Even the golden juice is gone, only water is boiled in the pot where the golden juice was originally boiled, and it is poured down with your head covered!
Generally speaking, the lethality of this thing is much less than that of gold juice. After all, gold juice is viscous, corrosive and toxic. As long as it is contaminated with a little bit, it will be life-threatening. As for boiling water, as long as it is not the first few
You unlucky guy, from the top of the city it can be called boiling water, but when it is splashed down below the city, it can only be called hot water.
And if it is covered by a shield and does not come into contact with the skin immediately, the threat is indeed more than one level lower than that of gold juice and fire oil.
But talking about the harm without considering the dose is just hooliganism.
The soldiers guarding the city obviously did not intend to repel Cao's army with a pot of boiling water. They just dealt with the ladders erected on the top of the city and drove back Cao's army who were armed with swords, guns and armor.
So when I didn't go all out to attack the city, I would often see what looked like a long line of Cao Jun on the ladder, and then two ladles of boiling water would be poured on it. The Cao Jun soldier at the front would have his face poured over him, and he would scream.
After falling down, the remaining soldiers of Cao's army on the ladder quickly slipped down and dispersed, waiting for a while before continuing to climb the ladder.
But now that Cao Hong has issued a death order to attack the city, things are immediately different.
Even if the boiling water leaked along the gaps in the shield, and the exposed heads, faces, and hands of Cao's soldiers were burned to pieces, they still screamed and continued to charge upward!
Bao Zhong didn't know that his son had led another group of soldiers to the other side of the city wall in Anyi. He thought that his child could survive this disaster and escape the ruthless swords and guns under his protection.
Bao Zhong risked his life in order to at least prove that his father and son were not just freeloaders, and that they could be more or less justified in front of Cao Cao. However, his son did not think so. He always felt that Bao Zhong did not believe him and looked down on him.
He wants to do something earth-shattering more and more to make his father admit his power...
To the defenders of Anyi, Bao Zhong's son led a fresh force to launch a fierce attack on another city wall, but it seemed like Cao Jun was using a strategy to attack the east and attack the west!
So when faced with a plan to seize the opportunity to attack the east and attack the west, should we focus on dealing with the east or the west?
Bao Zhong still didn't know what was going on. He felt that the city seemed to be a little looser. His old arms and legs couldn't climb on the steamer and step on the ladder all the time. He was somewhat complacent and lazy. When he took the time to look back, he suddenly saw
My heart goes cold!
Where is his child?!
This is a feeling you will never experience unless you are a parent. Just like in a small station, some people faint when they see the parents of their lost children, but they are still holding on to their mobile phones, which means that the blind monk has discovered it.
At Hua Dian, the trainee discovered that he was extremely excited and screamed to express his opinions. Little did he know that at that moment, fainting was the body's instinctive protection when the stimulation was too great. If he had poor cardiovascular condition, he would die on the spot!
Bao Zhong searched eagerly, but could not see the figure that should have been standing under the battle flag in the distance!
As for the general's flag in the distance, I don't know when it changed from "Bao" to "Cao"!
"Da Lang! Where is Da Lang?!"
Bao Zhong hurried back, and the further he walked, the more desolate he felt in his heart. He tried his best to sing and chant in front of others, pretending to be dumbfounded, wasn't it just to earn a living for his child? Although his child was indeed
Not that smart, but it is still his flesh and blood and his future.
"Where has Dalang gone? Has anyone seen Dalang?!"
Bao Zhong's pocket was crooked and he asked questions when he saw people. However, the soldiers and generals of Cao's army who were originally in the rear formation had all been replaced by a new group of people. They knew who Bao Zhong was and still responded. Those who didn't know him or were unfamiliar with them were
He threw his arms and left.
When Bao Zhong asked General Cao under the banner, he saw Cao Hong's face was sullen and fierce, "What are you doing here?! Why don't you hurry up and supervise the soldiers and capture Anyi quickly!"
Bao Zhong didn't dare to talk back, but after all, he didn't see his children, so he asked in confusion, "May I ask, general, where has my elder... gone?"
Cao Hong glanced at Bao Zhong out of the corner of his eyes, "What's wrong? Your elder brother felt that it was hard for you to attack the city, and to share the worries of his lord, he led another group of soldiers to attack the west wall! You... you retreated without orders, I
Just write it down for now, and quickly return to the front line to command! Now there is only one last breath left in Anyi! If you try harder, you can capture it! If you capture Anyi, it will be nothing more than retreat without permission! If... hum
, you might as well do it yourself!』
"But my uncle..."
Bao Zhong still wanted to fight for one or two, but he saw Cao Hong's eyes piercing him like a knife.
"What? You think I can't kill you?"
Cao Hong's voice was cold, and murderous intent overflowed from his teeth.
Bao Zhong didn't dare to say anything more and retreated.
At this time, Anyi was indeed at the last moment as Cao Hong said. Whether it was the private soldiers of the Pei family or the civilian men recruited in the city, they were still suffering from heavy casualties and exhaustion.
The original garrison at the top of the city was almost completely wiped out. Even the common people who were recruited to go up to the city were reduced to seventy-seven or eighty-eight.
Some civilians had no armor at all, and then Cao Jun's arrows roared in. No matter whether they were men, women or children, young or old, they were all shot to the ground. Blood soaked every floor tile on the city wall, filling the city wall with blood.
All the gaps were closed. When stepped on, some purple-black colors surged out from under the feet, like hands stretching out from hell.
The utensils used to defend the city were either used up or damaged. Even the pots and cauldrons used to boil gold juice and boil water were burnt out. Two or three of the remaining pots and cauldrons were dumped into ashes due to lack of fuel.
Large numbers of wounded people were wailing on the city walls and under the inner walls. No one paid any attention to them, and no one went to treat them. There were also many corpses that had no time to be moved and dragged, so they were left lying or lying on the incomplete cloth.
All over the city walls and in the corridors.
At the moment of the battle, the soldiers and civilians guarding the city were indeed just like what Cao Hong said. They were just holding on for a breath, relying on their own instincts to fight and resist Cao's army's attack.
Many people in the city died under Cao Jun's attack, including fathers and children.
When war has not come to them, the people in Hedong always think that war is just like this, and troubled times are just like this. But now in the face of death, no one will say a word, even the most cheerful dancers on weekdays
The keyboard warriors also fell silent...
Pei Mao, dragging his old body, and Pei Ji respectively faced Cao Jun's double-sided attack.
The war will not give Pei Mao special treatment just because he is old or in poor health. On the contrary, the more troubled the times, the more dangerous it is for the old and the weak.
The same is true for Pei Mao, but when Cao Jun's soldiers saw Pei Mao with gray beard and hair, they would respect and love his elders and avoid him in a friendly manner. Instead, when they saw Pei Mao in full armor, they knew he was a big fish and moved more and more towards Pei Mao.
Mao slashes through!
By chance, Bao Dalang, the son of Bao Zhong, also discovered Pei Mao. He felt that this old man must have a lot of experience and it was time for him to achieve his feats, so he secretly hid in a group of Cao soldiers and climbed towards the top of the city.
