Seeing his ballista battalion being quickly destroyed by artillery, Yu Jin said helplessly: "Sure enough, artillery can only be dealt with with artillery!"
His ballistae shoots either long spears or javelins with a small amount of explosives, but this power is impossible to match the Daqian artillery!
Han Hao looked at the bloody battlefield ahead and said helplessly: "General, what should we do? The Lord has just left, and we let Daqian cross the Yellow River. Can we really hold on for this month?"
Yu Jin said resolutely: "You have to defend even if you can't defend. If we lose this battle, we will all go to the island to dig up struvite. No one will even come to save us!"
Over the years, as Xu Wei conquered more and more territory, he exiled more and more noble families. One state exiled hundreds of thousands of people. Now he has exiled nearly one million noble families and their related relatives. Some of these people were exiled to the island and may have been rescued by Cao Cao's fishermen. Of course, this is also related to Xu Wei's indifference. Anyway, these noble people can only be regarded as garbage to Da Qian, out of sight but out of mind!
But these people's escape to Cao Cao's territory was extremely shocking to the Qingzhou nobles. People like Kong Rong could clearly see what would happen to them after their defeat through these noble refugees! When there was no way to surrender, this actually The Qingzhou nobles and nobles firmly supported Cao Cao.
Yu Jin thought for a while and said: "Retreat to Linyi and hold on. There are two Yellow Rivers behind us. As long as we hold on long enough, we may not be unable to wait for the lord's reinforcements!"
Yu Jin could only tell his subordinates this way now. He also knew that Cao Cao faced an army of 100,000 and could defeat them in a month. Now he could only hope for a miracle to happen. , let Cao Cao defeat Da Qian’s army!
The fighting on the south bank of the Yellow River was fierce, and the attack of the large Gan army in the rear of Qingzhou was overwhelming. Cao Cao did not leave many troops in the rear. After Cai Yang's army was wiped out, Fan Xian's forward troops successfully broke into Beihai County.
At this time, it was Xun Yu who was in charge of Cao Cao's hometown in Beihai County. Faced with such a crisis, he did not panic. Instead, he first ordered the prefects and magistrates from all over Qingzhou to recruit all the young men to defend the city and delay the attack as much as possible. The pace of the army's offensive.
At the same time, they ordered some soldiers who could not defend the county town to flee to the forts of the noble clans, and use the forts and troops of these noble clans to defend against the attack of the Daqian army!
This can be regarded as a little reinforcement for these noble families. Since the Daqian army invaded Qingzhou, the noble families from all over Qingzhou have asked Xun or for troops to support their Wubao, but now Xun or himself does not have enough troops, and there are still soldiers there. Leaving it to these nobles, he could only transfer the soldiers in remote areas to the hands of the nobles. This could be regarded as strengthening their defense.
At the same time, this was Xun Yu's helpless move. The cities along the Yellow River and Yanzhou were basically fortified by Cao Cao, making them strong and difficult to attack. But behind Qingzhou, this was not the case. These cities were built during the Han Dynasty. Compared with other cities, the city in the east of Qingzhou could not withstand the artillery attack at all.
The reason why Cao Cao didn't build the city here was that firstly, Cao Cao didn't have enough money to turn the entire Qingzhou Wubao into a fortress, and secondly, when Lei Gongzhen attacked here, he was almost dead. So Cao Cao didn't build the Wubao at all. Plan of the masonry city.
But Cao Cao never expected that Lei Gong really hit him in the back, and it was through sea transportation, a method that he had never thought of. Now in order to concentrate his troops, Xun or could only abandon some remote counties and strengthen these troops to Go where needed!
In the east of Qingzhou, the city that was stronger than the county seat was undoubtedly the Wubao of the noble clans. Although the Han Dynasty had been in chaos for more than ten years, Qingzhou had never been in turmoil since Cao Cao arrived in Qingzhou. These noble clans After more than ten years of recuperation, and at the same time using these more than ten years to continuously strengthen their own fortress, it can be said that they are the strongest fortress in Cao Cao's territory.
That's why Xun Yu let the soldiers flee to those ancient castles. Of course, there was one thing he didn't say. He sent soldiers to support the fortresses of these noble families. In his heart, he also wanted to use the forts of these noble families to divert the troubles eastward and draw away the soldiers of Daqian. Lead them to attack these strong forts and help them buy more time to resist the large army.
Because Xun or knew that most of Lei Gong's subordinates were Yellow Turbans, many of them were Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. It was extremely cruel for the Qingzhou nobles to kill the Yellow Turbans, and they hated the Qingzhou nobles deeply. Now, If they catch up to the forts of those Qingzhou clans, they will definitely want to attack these forts for revenge.
"I, Bao Xin, will finally come!" Bao Xin led a battalion of soldiers to surround an extremely strong fort and laughed loudly!
Although Xun He's plan was extremely simple, it was really effective. Xu Wei facilitated Fan Xian's army to enter Qingzhou and sent a large number of officers who were originally from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army. These officers had influence on the noble families of Qingzhou. With a bloody feud, the soldiers of the Daqian Army pursued the Han soldiers to Wubao, and found that their enemies were right in front of them. They basically led their men to attack these Wubao, hoping to take revenge!
But this revenge is not so easy to avenge! In the past 10 years, the wealthy nobles in Qingzhou have seen Lei Gonggong invincible and invincible, so they are naturally frightened. Seeing the fate of their own kind, they are even more frightened. Only a strong army and a solid fortress In order to bring them a sense of security, these wealthy nobles took out the wealth they had accumulated for hundreds of years and worked hard to strengthen the family fortress.
And absorbing the sacrifice experience of those companions, the fort they built was not a flat place near the river. Instead, it was like the castle in the Western Middle Ages. Wherever it was high, dangerous, and difficult to attack, they would build their own fortress wherever it was. Wubao, if there is a cliff, they all want to build their own Wubao on the cliff. It doesn't matter whether the life is convenient or not, the key is to have strong defense. And the fortress cast in this way is naturally more difficult to conquer than ordinary county towns. , in many places even artillery can't reach them and can't hit them. It can be said that there are hundreds of small camps in Qingzhou now.
And Xun's method really slowed down the pace of the Qian's attack. Fan Xian had an army of 100,000. It was not difficult to break through one or two small camps, but it would take a lot of time and a certain amount of casualties.
, but if we were to conquer hundreds of forts, I'm afraid even if the hundred thousand troops were exhausted, we wouldn't be able to do it.
However, most of Fan Xian's officers now have a blood feud with the owners of these forts. Many of them are unable to give up the chance of revenge now. They have been delayed by the forts, and Fan Xian's army is even moving slowly.
Seeing that the opportunity to attack Beihai County is about to end, when Cao Cao's reinforcements arrive, it will cost them even more to conquer Beihai County!
Fan Xian could only find Bao Xin and wanted him to persuade other generals. At this time, Bao Xin led a battalion of soldiers to conquer the fortress of a noble family. When Fan Xian found Bao Xin, Bao Xin became a
Bloody man!
Bao Xin saw Fan Xian laughing and said, "The feud for many years is finally avenged today!"
"But we can't continue like this. Beihai County has not been captured yet, and Cao Cao's main force has not been wiped out! We should concentrate our forces to capture Beihai County." Fan Xian knew about Bao Xin.
Bao Xin is an old member of Daqian. At that time, Daqian's army was still relatively weak and did not even occupy all the states. In order to support the Yellow Turban Army in various places in the Han Dynasty, the ruling government sent a large number of officers to support the Yellow Turban Army and teach them how to fight guerrilla warfare.
and how to train the army, and Bao Xin brought hundreds of officers to Qingzhou to teach the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army to fight, but in the end they were defeated by Cao Cao, and Bao Xin and others were captured by Cao Cao, who was still in power
In exchange, 70% of the officers of the Daqian Army who were sent to Qingzhou were dead, so he could understand Bao Xin's desire for revenge! But their revenge cannot affect this war!
But Bao Xin said: "We now have 500,000 troops surrounding Cao Cao. Cao Cao cannot escape, and the noble families in Qingzhou should be our main targets. You don't know how hateful these people are. Back then, we
When we are strong, they are like good grandchildren, but as long as we are slightly weak, these people will pounce on us like vicious dogs. After our defeat, a large part of our tribe could have fled back to Mount Tai.
But the wealthy nobles in Qingzhou went crazy and massacred our tribesmen, so much so that more of our tribesmen were killed by them than by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao!"
"So now we have to pull out all these cancers in Qingzhou. If we lose this opportunity, you will soon find that these people are like Sun Tzu, they dare not resist us, and we have no excuse to kill them!"
Bao Xin just wanted revenge, so he couldn't leave these enemies to deal with after defeating Cao Cao, because he understood the policy of the Daqian Army, which only killed the chief culprits of the nobles and nobles, and most of them would only be exiled, not
Killed! It's like they captured Yuan Shao, but they only put Yuan Shao's minerals into service instead of killing Yuan Shao. If they didn't even kill Yuan Shao, how many people from the noble clans would be killed by the government, certainly not many!
But when Bao Xin watched millions of his tribesmen die at the hands of Cao Cao and Qingzhou nobles in Qingzhou, now he can only kill hundreds of noble leaders. This makes him unwilling to accept that Qingzhou is too cheap.
The noble family.
So he wanted to kill more nobles during the battlefield. Killing during war is always unavoidable. When Wang Dang killed tens of thousands of nobles in Jizhou, he didn't say anything when he was in power. Now Bao Xin wants to learn from Wang Dang.