Early the next morning, before Sun Tu had even washed up after getting up, there was a cry of surprise outside the door.
Opening the door and asking questions, Tan Ma came forward like flying: "Report to General Qi, the enemy army suddenly marched in full force, and now they have begun to attack the city."
Sun Tu took a deep breath.
The enemy's attitude was very tough, and it was still dark, so they drove the entire army to attack the city. Apparently, they wanted to gain more time to attack the city, complete their victory in one battle, and capture the Wei County city before sunset.
Sun Tu hurriedly put on his helmet and went out of the mansion to Nancheng. As soon as he left the mansion, he met Cao Deng who was also in a hurry.
"Brother Sun, are there enemies in Nancheng?"
"The situation is not clear yet, so I won't say more for now. Just follow me to Nancheng and you will find out."
The two stopped talking, got on their horses and ran towards Nancheng quickly.
Climbing the south city tower of Captain's County, Sun and Tu, protected by their personal guards on the left and right, raised their shields and looked down.
Thousands of soldiers were densely packed outside the city. They held up countless door leaves and bed boards to resist the rain of arrows shot from the city wall. They held several huge wooden beams as thick as an arm and rushed towards the south gate of Wei County.
After Cao Den looked down for a while, he stretched out his hand and pushed away the shield-holding guard beside him. There was no such type of archer in the army under the city, and there was no need for the protection of a shield.
"Brother Sun, look at the unorganized attacks below the city. This is a typical Yellow Turban bandit army."
Sun Tu agreed with Cao Deng's judgment, but this made him even more confused.
Yanzhou had been wiped out countless times by Cao Dabailian. Not even a single soldier of the Yellow Turban bandits had room to survive. How did such a large army appear?
It doesn't make sense to cross the border from Yuzhou. Although there is no strong person in Yuzhou to unify, it is the basic base of the old Yuan family. When Huangfu Song and Taiping Dao Zhang Liang fought against Yuzhou, they were entrusted by Yuan Wei to deliberately
After driving away the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou, the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou were almost the weakest among the nearby states.
When the Yellow Turbans swept the world, there seemed to be only a few teams of tens of thousands of people in Yuzhou. Now that the Yellow Turbans are in a situation where everyone is shouting to kill them, how can they have the opportunity to develop such a strong army?
When Cao Deng saw that Sun Tu ignored him, he felt anxious. He stretched out his hand and took Sun Tu's arm and shouted: "Brother Sun, please give me a general order. I will lead the cavalry out of the city and attack the thieves outside the city."
The army attacked head-on."
Sun Tu shook his head: "The information about the enemy troops outside the city is unclear, so you and I don't need to take risks. Let them have some time to attack the city first, and it will also be a good time to observe the combat effectiveness of the bandits outside the city."
Cao Deng was anxious: "Brother Sun, the rebels dare not send generals to fight when they attack the city. This shows that they are a temporary bandit army. As long as our army uses cavalry to crush them head-on, the rebels will inevitably collapse without fighting due to panic.
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Cao Deng's words made Sun Tu hesitate.
The thieves outside the city, regardless of their appearance or fighting style,
The methods were the same as those of the Yellow Turban bandits he had encountered before.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that Cao Deng's suggestion is not wrong. The best way to deal with the ant attack is to use powerful cavalry to penetrate the city. Only by breaking the luck of the bandits can the siege be carried out logically.
It became a pursuit battle.
In the end, unable to withstand Cao Deng's repeated requests, Sun Tu approved the battle plan to attack Kaicheng.
Cao Deng jumped three feet high in excitement, turned around and went to the school field to order troops to prepare for the expedition.
Sun Tu stood on the city wall and looked down for a long time, and finally heaved a sigh of relief. Cao Deng's judgment was correct. There was indeed a yellow scarf thief who appeared from nowhere in the city.
There were 1,500 cavalrymen in the city of Wei County. Cao Deng counted the number of cavalrymen and ordered all the cavalrymen to tidy up and prepare for war. They waited quietly in the south gate of the city, waiting for Sun Tu's order to open the city.
Sun Tu, who was on the top of the city, thought about it and felt really uneasy, so he simply went down to the city and came to Cao Deng: "The bandit army outside the city is ten times our army. You are still young, so I am really worried. How about you and I take control together?"
The army went out of the city to kill the enemy side by side."
Cao Deng's face was full of dissatisfaction, but he could not refuse Sun Tu. He was indeed responsible for supervising the army, but he was only supervising secretly. Military command still had to follow Sun Tu's instructions.
At that moment, Sun Tu and Cao Deng each carried weapons and ordered the sergeants to open the city gate and prepare to go out to fight.
As the city gates rumbled open from side to side, the new recruits outside the city who were desperately banging giant trees against the city gates burst into ecstasy.
Being inexperienced, they thought they had broken open the city gate. According to General Lin's previous promise, each person would receive a reward of five taels for breaking open the city gate. Wouldn't they be rich now?
Five taels per person is enough to take home and marry a wife. How can two wives give birth to seven or eight cubs?
Immersed in the longing for future happiness, the recruits threw away the giant trees they were holding and hurriedly picked up weapons from their backs or waists.
When the city gate was opened wide, following Sun Tu's loud shout, the Wei County cavalry suddenly dispatched. 1,500 tall horses rushed out of the city gate at high speed like a moving iron wall and slammed into the recruiting team.
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The cavalry regiment with sufficient impact distance faced the untrained new recruits, and it ended up being a unilateral crushing situation.
Countless recruits were knocked off the ground and rolled into the crowd behind them. The screams and wailing could not be heard endlessly. The recruits in the distance didn't know what happened. They just saw the city gate open from a distance and became even more excited.
Surge forward, causing more recruits at the front to be knocked away and killed by the Wei County cavalry.
The area outside the south gate instantly turned into a field of Shuras. With each slash of the cavalry, heads and severed arms flew all over the sky with hot blood spraying out.
Cao Deng killed Cao Deng very quickly. As one of the two arrows of the Wei County cavalry, the broadsword in his palm could be used to kill at will. Let alone any enemy in front of the horse, he would often cut them with one sword, and two or three heads would fly up at the same time.
The feeling of being a general who dominates the world and is invincible is so satisfying.
Sun Tu also gradually became more and more interested in fighting. As soon as the two armies fought, he was relieved of his worries.
Seriously, the Yellow Turban Army is indeed outside the city.
It doesn't matter. The reason why the Zhang Jiao brothers were able to sweep the world was not because of the Yellow Turban Army's ability to fight, but because of the overwhelming number of the Yellow Turban Army.
The locust-like Yellow Turban Army has always had a chance of defeating the official army by hitting one out of ten. Sometimes when encountering the elites of the army, they cannot achieve the goal of hitting one out of a hundred, and they don't even have the courage to fight head-on.
Currently, there are only about 10,000 Yellow Turban troops outside the city. Sun Tu is confident that he will completely defeat the rebel army before lunch. If he cleans the battlefield faster, it will not even affect his lunch today.
In just about twenty minutes, Sun Tu and Cao Deng defeated the recruits outside the city. What was left behind them were thousands of recruits lying on the ground with unknown life or death.
The remaining recruits were so frightened that they were still able to stand with their swords in hand. This was not because they were brave, but because they were so frightened that they forgot everything and just stood there blankly.
The Wei County cavalry whirled around and attacked the recruits again from left to right.
Now the recruiters reacted.
Oh my god!
It turns out that fighting really kills people.
How can we stop these demons on horseback? Let's run.
The army was defeated like a mountain!
The uncommanded recruits screamed and turned around and ran back, but they happened to encounter the Wei County cavalry who turned back and fought back.
The cavalry met them with another killing spree. When the formation was penetrated again, another two to three thousand people were killed or injured and fell to the ground.
The remaining less than 5,000 soldiers rushed through the Wei County cavalry and ran towards their own barracks. They only regretted that their parents had given birth to two legs for them.
Sun Tu gathered up the cavalry that had charged twice and followed the fleeing recruits leisurely.
This situation is the most ideal. The cavalry slowly follows the slain infantry, constantly killing the lagging infantry.
Not only will you not suffer any losses, but you can also maximize the damage to the enemy. This kind of good thing can only be encountered when fighting against the Yellow Turban Army.
Well-trained soldiers will never give the enemy such a chance. Even if a strong man breaks his wrist, there will definitely be a small number of troops left behind to fight to the death and give the majority of their escaped companions a chance to survive.
Cao Deng was far more excited than Sun Tu. The fight against the drowned dog was so enjoyable that he didn't need to think about anything. He just followed behind with a knife and chopped off his hands one by one.
The two men led their troops in pursuit to the enemy's barracks, and countless recruits fell down along the way. Anyway, those who could escape back to the barracks were estimated to be no more than a thousand.
Cao Deng saw Sun Tu starting to slow down and was about to step forward to urge him to continue the pursuit.
Suddenly, there were gunfire and killing sounds everywhere, and they fell into an ambush.