In October 1911, the eighth year of the Yanxing Period, there was no wind. The winter sun was warm and the sky was clear. It was an extremely rare good day. Even though there were rumors about wars on the Xuzhou front line from time to time, for the local people in Peiguo
For many people, it gradually seems like a story from another world. Now that winter planting has passed, the farmers have a rare period of leisure time, so they moved their horses and sat together, basking in the sun while talking nonsense.
The local dogs couldn't understand, but they lay aside and spit out their bright red tongues leisurely.
In fact, after the four years of chaos in Yanxing, the people of Pei State were almost wiped out. Most of the current farmers moved here from Qingzhou and Xuzhou. It is human nature to settle down and relocate, but people are still essentially the same.
Like cattle and sheep, they live in pursuit of water and grass. Now that the three-year farming period has expired, these people have been allocated an additional eighty acres of private land, so they don't care where they come from.
However, at noon, the native dogs suddenly felt uneasy. They stood up and barked in a low voice toward the east. This made them feel a little strange, but soon, there was a slight tremor on the ground, along with the broken pieces on the ground.
The stone also began to beat slightly, which quickly evoked the memories of the past wars among the farmers. They hid in the house in panic, blocked the door with beams, and then hid in the gap between the doors and cautiously pried outside. They were shocked to find that outside the window, accompanied by the sound of horse hooves, there was only a faint yellow dust mist. People could not see how many people were coming and going. They could only see flags flying in the dust mist, as if thousands of red carps were leaping in the torrent.
, sometimes rolling and sometimes jumping, like a dream, and it lasts for a long time. After about two moments, the sound of galloping horses gradually faded away, and people looked far in the direction of the tail of smoke and dust they left behind, and then they realized that those people were heading towards
Rush to Xiangxian County.
This was Cao Cao's cavalry. He led his troops across Jishui at night, and then rode without stopping, passing between Wuxian and Shiqiu and arriving at the bank of Suishui River. After everyone replenished water by the river, they immediately went northward to the river.
Heading to Xiangxian County. When they were still twenty miles away from Xiangxian County, Dongren openly stepped onto the official road and waved a banner. Apparently, he no longer bothered to hide his traces, but wanted to use this to reveal that he was determined to capture the granary in the north of the city.
determination. However, the Western Army counties and counties along the route had no troops and were completely unable to stop them. They could only watch the Eastern Army galloping at will within the territory.
By the end of the afternoon, the Eastern Army had arrived at the Xiangxian Granary. At this time, the Granary had already received news of an enemy invasion. Looking up, thousands of infantrymen could be seen standing between the wooden fences, swords and swords raised. Behind them,
There were drums rumbling again, which seemed extremely solemn. But compared with the Western Army camp in Lu County, it seemed too thin.
All the generals thought that time was running out and asked Cao Cao to fight one after another, but Cao Cao didn't take it seriously. Instead, he said to Cao Ang, the eldest son who was accompanying the army: "Don't panic. Let these people be nervous for a while. After my soldiers have lunch, they will have strength."
It’s not too late to attack again!” After saying that, he dismounted first, took out the dried meat from the saddle’s backpack, mixed it with water and started chewing it.
Seeing that the commander was so confident, the soldiers couldn't help but feel reassured, and they all dismounted their horses to eat and drink. The Westerners in the camp were greatly confused when they saw the Easterners suddenly stationed three miles in front of the camp, but they did not dare to go out of the camp to check.
, still stood in front of the camp as Cao Cao expected. After a while, the soldiers holding the flag and halberd gradually became a little tired, and the flagpole that was originally standing straight became a little crooked.
Seeing this, Cao Cao knew that the time for battle had come, so he sent an order to the soldiers: "Anyone who falls into the formation and kills the flag will be promoted to the third level and rewarded with a thousand gold coins!" Then he divided the entire army into five teams, and rushed to the camp with one team.
Two teams killed the enemy, and the two teams made arrangements after the robbery, vowing to completely attack the granary with one blow.
Cao Cao personally supervised the first team in the formation. This first team was all tiger and leopard cavalry who were famous for their fine armor and heavy cavalry. Although there were only more than two thousand people, when they were galloping in armor, they seemed to have the power of a thousand troops. In an instant, they
After crossing hundreds of steps, the Westerners saw these ferocious iron beasts advancing suddenly, firing crossbows at the cavalry one after another. But to the tiger and leopard cavalry, who were all covered in iron armor, these arrow rains were just slightly heavier hailstones.
, approaching the pointed fence in front of the camp almost without any obstruction.
At this time, the tiger and leopard riders had to dismount and rush to the fence to pull them out with their bare hands. Only then were the Westerners able to use a very close distance to stab and cut them with long thorns, causing some damage to the Easterners.
. But this period of time was not long. The leading men, Xu Zhudianwei and other men, approached the fence and directly chopped down the wooden fence with a long-handled giant ax. In front of them, the originally strong jujube wood seemed to be reeds, and it was very easy to chop down the wooden fence.
The ground was broken, and then these people rushed into the wooden fence. No one from the West could stop them, so they could only let the Easterners expand the gap in the wooden fence.
Among them, the most frightening to the Westerners was Dian Wei, the captain of the school who was showing off his power. He carried several halberds on his back and held one in each hand. Whenever someone came close to him, he would pierce his chest with the halberd and easily nail them to death.
He lay on the ground, then took another halberd from his back, and waved it casually to fight again. When the Westerners saw that he was killing people like chickens, they couldn't help but retreat in fear. However, Dianwei gained momentum and advanced so hard that at one point a man chased him down by 30 people.
The scene of Yu Ren.
Soon, the second and third groups of Eastern cavalry were moving in. They were not eager to expand the fighting front. Instead, they concentrated their forces in two or three places, intending to take advantage of the cavalry to continuously attack at several points.
By encircling a corner of the Western Army, the defenders, whose troops were already smaller than the enemy's, fell into an embarrassing situation of being outnumbered.
At the same time, Guangyang's light cavalry had taken advantage of the situation and circled behind the camp. They were ready. As long as there were sporadic defenders escaping, they would hunt them down like elk. If a large group of troops escaped, they would kill them.
They will track and bite them from behind, causing the Westerners to leave more corpses.
But after waiting for a while, the Qingqi who were on the outside heard the loud sounds of killing in the camp, and the continuous clash of weapons, but they still could not wait until the Westerners retreated to the outside of the camp. This surprised them greatly, and they all thought to themselves secretly:
Could it be that something changed in the camp? But without the coach's order, they couldn't act rashly. They could only keep cruising to prevent fish from slipping through the net.
Sure enough, after a while, the sound of fighting in the camp gradually weakened, but the solemn atmosphere did not weaken at all. Soon a messenger came to inform Cao Ang and Chewei, asking them to enter the camp to attack and kill together. At this time, the surrounding area
Only then did the light cavalry realize that there were actually two urn cities built in the camp. Although the Westerners could not defeat the Eastern cavalry who were several times their own, they relied on the fortifications in the camp to retreat step by step, and then hid in
In the urn city, they fired arrows from a high position to counterattack. Although the urn city was only one foot or three feet high, it was like a natural chasm for the cavalry who were fighting on horseback without any baggage.
In this case, Cao Cao could only call in the peripheral light cavalry and have them shoot at the Wengcheng defenders, hoping to force the defenders back with a rain of arrows, and then let the knights take the opportunity to attack the Wengcheng. However, although the Wengcheng was small,
, but the fortifications are all in place. The light cavalry are shooting arrows under the city, and the guards are hiding behind the ditch to prevent arrows. When someone tries to climb the wall, they pour the hot soup they have prepared down, and the approaching Dongren
They were all so hot that their skin was torn open and their flesh was rotten, and they were screaming and moaning.
The elite troops of the East were actually blocked by two urn cities. This was something no one expected before setting off. As the commander-in-chief, Cao Cao's thoughts at the gate were the most chaotic. He thought in his heart: How could there be urn cities built in ordinary granaries?
Even if he was prepared in advance, it would be too cautious. This thought gave him another hunch: he had stepped into a trap, but it was already here, how could he give up so easily? But what should he do?
How about overcoming the obstacles in front of you?
Cao Cao then thought about it. There was already a lot of food and grass in the camp, but more food and grass must be in the barbican city. Why not use fire attack instead? The idea was confirmed, and he immediately ordered the soldiers to attack the city with rockets that lit up the pine trees.
He fired with the city, and the fire suddenly fell like a flying star. This move had an immediate effect. The food and grass in one of the urn cities was ignited by the fire, and a huge wave of flames immediately rolled up. The gray smoke in the raging fire went straight into the sky.
There were only a few scorching screams in the city, but soon there was no follow-up sound, and it was obvious that he had fainted in the fire.
But there were two wells dug in another urn city, and the guards were able to store dozens of jars of water in the city. The fire from the East flew in, and they were put out very quickly. At this time, Cao Cao simply put out
The captured grain and grass were piled around the Wengcheng, and fires were set directly under the city. Under the black smoke, even the soldiers who set fire around were dizzy from the heat wave temperature. They commented: Even if they can't burn these Western thieves to death, they must be smoked.
These guards were smoked to death.
While these people were discussing words, Cao Cao was already making plans to evacuate. Cao Ren, who was accompanying him, asked: "Why don't we take down this urn city?" Cao Cao looked at the east from time to time and replied absently: "We have been delayed here for too long.
, I’m afraid Liu Bei and the others have got the news and are on their way here. Since they have burned most of the Western bandits’ food and grass, there is no need to spend any more time here, let’s retreat quickly!”
However, just as they were reorganizing their troops among the ruins of the camp and counting their casualties, suddenly a scout came from the east and reported to Cao Cao: "Marshal, the Western bandits have arrived from the east!"
"Come so fast?!" Cao Cao was surprised, but quickly calmed down and asked the scout: "How many people are here? How far is it from here?"
The scout quickly replied: "The bandit army is filled with smoke and smoke, and the head and tail are not visible. It seems that the whole cavalry army is coming. It is less than three miles away from here!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Cao noticed the low sound of horse hooves in the distance. Under the afterglow of the evening, it seemed like a cruel prelude to the coming darkness. Soon, he saw the banners of the Westerners rising like a forest in the southeast.
On the shallow hills, the densely packed figures of Westerners seemed like devils whispering endlessly in the darkness, bringing great pressure to the Easterners after the fight.
Cao Cao clenched the Yitian Sword in his hand and smiled at his eldest son with a blank expression: "It seems that I fell into a trap."