When swinging a sword on horseback, the power can be maximized by cutting to the right. If you stand on the ground and use a spear with both hands, stabbing to the left is the most convenient and convenient. But if you use other weapons, there are different opinions. The light of the sword
Dian Wei was close to him and felt a strong wind blowing in his face. His muscles all over his body tensed up. He drew an arc with his iron halberd in his left hand and blocked it forward. Then he raised his right hand and threw the other iron halberd at Guan Yu.
Seeing a black dot flying towards him, Guan Yu was startled and turned his head to avoid it. The iron halberd flew past his ears with a "whooshing" sound. While avoiding, the movements of his hands were inevitably a little deformed. Originally,
The intended blow failed to kill the enemy general as expected. It only broke through the double iron armor on Dian Wei's body, leaving a wound deep enough to show the bone.
The war horses ran out, leaving the seriously injured Dian Wei behind. Guan Yu wielded the Qinglong Yanyue Sword and killed more than ten Cao Jun soldiers, repelled Xu Chu and Cao Hong, fought a bloody path, and flew away with his cavalry.
After burning all the siege equipment of Cao Jun, Chen Dao had already fought and retreated until he reached the city gate. Cao Jun on the wall saw the fire behind him and soldiers and horses in the city came out to kill them, thinking that they had encountered an ambush.
So they all withdrew. Guan Yu rode his horse across the ditch and said to Chen Dao who was guarding the city gate: "You go first into the city!"
The Xuzhou soldiers who came out of the city to counterattack finally retreated, but Cao Cao's face darkened. He said with some dissatisfaction to the generals who came to help: "You didn't stay in your original position well, but you all came to me. This
That's why Guan Yu can come and go freely! Now that there is only one Guan Yu, you are already in a state of panic. If Zhang Yide comes too, won't you behave even worse?"
The generals were reprimanded, with expressions of injustice on their faces. Dian Wei was seriously injured, and Xu Chu stepped forward and shouted: "I will rush into the city, chop off Guan Yu's head, and present it to the lord's tent!"
"no!"
Cao Cao waved his hand and said angrily: "You have already injured one of my generals, we cannot bring in another one!"
Xu Chu's face turned red and he was breathing heavily, as if smoke was about to come out of his nose.
Cao Cao looked at the generals with expressions of injustice on their faces, but suddenly laughed again. He pointed at Xiapi City and said: "I originally thought Liu Bei sent troops and horses to lurk nearby at night to fight against Guan Yu in the city.
Let's cooperate inside and outside. Now it seems that Liu Bei is really discouraged and does not dare to come again. Although Guan Yu fought well just now, he only won a small victory and was of no great use!"
He said confidently: "The Xuzhou army is at the end of its rope. After a few days of repairs, our army will be able to defeat this city!"
The generals also became happy and said one after another: "That's right, let us rest for two days and then we can make Guan Yu look good!"
Cao Cao laughed a few times and then led his troops back to the camp. When they entered the Chinese army's tent, the smile on Cao Cao's face immediately disappeared. He worriedly said to Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia: "The surrounding trees are all covered with wood."
If you want to rebuild the siege equipment after all the felling, you have to transport trees from more than ten miles away. This cannot be done in a short time. However, there is not much food and grass in the army, so it is better to retreat temporarily and come back after the summer harvest.
,how?"
Xi Zhicai immediately said: "No! Our army attacked Xuzhou twice and lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and consumed countless grains. We are about to conquer Xiapi, how can we fail in the success? It is easy to retreat at this time, and we want to come again.
It won’t be that easy! Yuan Benchu had already taken Yuzhou from the lord before and sent high-ranking officials to Qingzhou. If the lord cannot capture Xuzhou as soon as possible, I’m afraid he will always have to rely on others!”
Cao Cao looked up to the sky and sighed: "I know what you are saying. Yuan Shao is on the one hand, and the Xiliang people are on the other. Now that Chen Wenzheng has controlled the court, he has sent people to recruit refugees for farming near Luoyang.
It will come out east, and then we will really be besieged on all sides!"
He said distressedly: "It's just that although Liu Bei has been defeated by me many times, he has always refused to surrender. If Xiapi is not eliminated, we will not be able to continue to attack the eastern part of Xuzhou. Now we have forty troops under the strong city.
For many days, Yanzhou has almost run out of food and grass... What can we do if we don't retreat now?"
Guo Jia coughed on the side and said: "It's actually not difficult to break Xiapi."
Cao Cao turned his head, with a happy look on his face, and asked, "What's the trick to serve as a filial piety?"
Guo Jia coughed a few more times and said, "My lord, do you still remember the story of how Uncle Zhi besieged Jinyang City in the past?"
Zhibo was a minister of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period. Together with the three families of Han, Wei and Zhao, he controlled the military and political power of the Jin State. Among them, Zhibo was the most powerful and always oppressed the other three families. The two families of Han, Wei and Han would endure it again and again, regardless of humiliation.
Or things like compensation from various places, all comers are welcome.
But the Zhao family couldn't bear it. The Zhao family was the weakest at that time, but they were the first to stand up and say "no" to Zhibo. Zhibo then launched an army and took the troops of Han and Wei to form three families.
The coalition forces attacked the Zhao family together. The coalition forces made good progress in the early stage and defeated the Zhao family until only one city in Jinyang was left.
But even though there was only one city left, the Zhao family refused to admit defeat. Zhibo attacked for a long time but could not capture Jinyang City, so he came up with the method of "diversion of water into the city". Although this method is vicious, it is
It was so effective that it almost wiped out the Zhao family. If the Han and Wei families had not temporarily betrayed each other, the future Zhao state would have been stillborn.
Cao Cao himself had a high level of cultural literacy and knew all kinds of historical allusions in detail. When Guo Jia said this, he immediately understood what it meant. The reason why Xiapi City is difficult to defeat is not because it is backed by Surabaya.
Do you often receive reinforcements of troops and supplies from outside?
But "Misfortune lies where blessings depend, and misfortune lies where misfortune lies." Surabaya can provide supplies for Xiapi, and it can also become a help in destroying Xiapi. Cao Cao immediately laughed heartily and said: "Okay, tomorrow I will
So I asked people to dig the embankment of the river! It has been a time of continuous spring rain recently, and the water in the river is so strong that it will definitely send all the enemies in Xiapi City to join the fish and shrimps!"
Since he led the army, Cao Mengde has done countless things to kill and massacre cities. Things like digging up river embankments do not burden him with any psychological burden. So what if a mere hundred thousand people drown?
After leaving the Chinese army's tent, Xi Zhi asked Guo Jia in a low voice: "Feng Xiao must have thought of this strategy a long time ago. Why not offer it to the lord earlier?"
Guo Jia coughed a few times and replied: "How can we easily use the digging of river embankments until the last moment? Once this plan is used, not only the enemy troops in the city will be submerged by the river, but also the surrounding people."
Everyone will suffer from it too!”
Xi Zhicai was very dissatisfied and said: "If you don't have mercy, how can you fight without death? Only when the lord grows stronger quickly can we end this troubled world as soon as possible and save more people from dying in the world."
Cao Cao was a man of action, so he did what he said. The next day he sent people to survey the surrounding terrain, and then moved the general camp to a higher place. There were few Guan Yu soldiers in the city. Although he noticed some changes in Cao Cao's army, he
He did not dare to send troops out of the city, so he failed to detect the enemy's plot.
Two days later, at midnight, Cao Cao ordered people to dig up the Sishui River embankment and divert water to Xiapicheng. After the embankment was dug up, the river water surged out from the breach and slapped on the ground, making a loud noise.
On the high ground in the distance, Cao Cao couldn't help laughing when he saw how powerful the water was. He looked around and said, "The beauty of the art of war lies in one mind! No matter how persevering Liu Bei is, or how brave Guan Yu is, how can he resist it?"
Can you withstand this terrifying power?"
When the soldiers on the left and right saw how strong the water was, their faces turned pale. At this time, they saw that Cao Cao was talking and laughing freely, and seemed not to be affected at all, and they couldn't help but admire him very much.
In Xiapi City, Gao Shun, who was guarding the city head with a bandage on his head, suddenly heard a strange noise. He jumped up suddenly and ran to the edge of the battlements to look out. He had been knocked unconscious by a mace before.
After that, he didn't complain at all when he woke up, but returned to the top of the city.
He heard the noise outside, fearing that it was Cao Jun's night attack, so he looked a little nervous. But after listening for a while, the sound became louder and louder, and it became less and less like the enemy was launching a night attack. Gao Shun raised a torch and
It was thrown outside. The torch spun and flew up, and then it fell towards the ground again.
Maybe it was the fire that played a role, or maybe it was because he was close enough, Gao Shun finally saw clearly where the sound came from. At the end of his sight, white waves rushed towards the city wall quickly.
"It's broken!"
Gao Shun shouted with all his strength, "Get up, the river bank has burst!"
The soldiers who were sleeping soundly on the top of the city were awakened and saw the horrific scene outside the city, and then they shouted together. The sound of gongs and the shouts of the soldiers resounded in the dark night, waking up the soldiers and civilians in the city.
Guan Yu jumped up from the bed, grabbed the horizontal sword and rushed out. He stood in the yard and asked: "Is Cao's army coming to rob the city?"
A soldier recruited from the local area replied in panic: "The river embankment is broken!"
Xuzhou is crisscrossed by waterways, and there will be floods every now and then. The locals have suffered from it, and they all know how terrible the floods are. Guan Yu's face changed color, and he said in disbelief: "How could it happen at this time?"
Most people would never think of digging up river embankments. Anyone who can or dares to do this kind of thing needs to have a big heart. Guan Yu has been in the north before and doesn't know much about things in the south. He also
I thought it was because of the war that no one was maintaining the embankment, so the breach broke out.
Not only him, but few soldiers and civilians in the city could have imagined that this was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.
The sound of running water became louder and louder, and the waves hit the city wall, causing the solid wall to sway together. After being hit by Cao Jun's catapults for more than ten days, Xiapi's city wall persisted, but it was only knocked down by the waves.
A gap several feet long collapsed.
Now is the turn of spring and summer, with more rain than at other times, and the water level in the river is very high. The river embankments are dug at this time, causing greater damage than at other times.
