The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 154 Cao Jun Sieges the City
Cao Jun's first siege force of more than [-] people, led by generals, rushed towards Rangcheng with earth bags and ladders. Although they knew that they would die if they rushed up, they never dared to disobey orders.This is the cruelty of war. Ordinary soldiers are used for sacrifice in the eyes of those in power. No matter how many people die, it is only a number in the eyes of those in power.

After paying the sacrifice of more than [-] people, Cao Jun's siege squad finally filled the moat and began to climb up the ladder.The defenders on the city shot with arrows, smashed with stones, splashed with boiling water, and stabbed with spears, resulting in Cao Jun's various death methods.However, some of the defenders were unlucky and were shot by arrows or stones. After avoiding various attacks, the brave soldiers of Cao Jun jumped onto the city wall and hacked to death.

But overall, Cao Jun suffered more casualties, but he was indeed the best infantry in the world at attacking cities. Even if his comrades around him died one by one, these Cao soldiers did not retreat at all, and climbed up the city wall one after another.

Upon seeing this, Xiahou Dun ordered the catapult not to stop, regardless of whether the catapult would hit his own people, and then organized a siege force of 5000 people to attack the city.

Huo Jun, the defender of Rangcheng, calmly directed the defenders to carry out various counterattacks. Zhang Wu, Huang Zhong and others also led the soldiers to kill and scatter the Cao soldiers who jumped up.Zhang Wu did not expect that Cao's army would attack the city so fiercely on the first day and be so desperate. They were much stronger than the Jiangdong soldiers who attacked Jiangxia at the beginning.

Fortunately, at the beginning, the defensive materials were relatively sufficient, and he had the advantage of defending the city. Huo Jun was worthy of being the top defensive general in the Three Kingdoms, and he never allowed Cao's army to rush to the city wall on a large scale.

When dusk was approaching, Cao Jun finally called gold to withdraw his troops, and then sent soldiers to clean up the battlefield. Those who could be cured were brought back for treatment, and those who could not be cured had to be spared.The Jingzhou army also abided by the rules on the battlefield and did not attack these Cao troops who were sweeping the battlefield.

"Yuan Zhi, what are the casualties of our army?" Zhang Wu held a summary meeting in the lobby of the county government office and asked Xu Shu.

"My lord, our army suffered more than 200 casualties and lost more than 400 catapults in the First World War today. It is estimated that Cao Jun lost more than [-] soldiers and more than [-] catapults." Xu Shu replied.

Preliminary calculations show that the battle loss ratio is not bad, but among the 7000 Cao Jun lost, more than 2000 were lost when filling up the moat, and his side still has the advantage of defending the city, and there are sufficient supplies for defending the city.If they defend for a few more days, the battle loss ratio will definitely not be like this. Most of the 2000 people lost on their side are city guards. If the city guards are all dead, the elite infantry will die, Zhang Wu is not willing to part with it.

There are nearly 30 Cao Jun here. Even if three are exchanged for one, Zhang Wu is not willing to trade his soldiers with Cao Jun. Moreover, it is convenient for Cao Jun to replenish the catapults. If the catapults in his city are broken, it will be difficult to repair.

"Cao Cao's infantry is really powerful. We can't fight like this. Although our losses are small, we have few people. Today's defense of the city is more difficult than I imagined. Even if we can use the walls of Rang City to consume a large number of Cao's soldiers, but We can't afford it." Although Zhang Wu has a lot of soldiers in his hands, there are many navy troops and few infantry, so when defending Rangcheng, the navy troops are useless.If Zhang Wu had 10,000 infantry now, he would dare to spend [-] to replace Cao Cao's [-]+. Cao Cao would definitely be reluctant.

Zhang Wu said again: "We will defend for another three days, and then retreat to Fancheng. First, Fancheng relies on the Han River, so our water army can play a role; secondly, let Cao's army's transportation line be longer, so that they can consume more food. One point; in the end, we voluntarily retreat, which can give Cao Jun the illusion that our army is afraid to fight, and can also lure the enemy to go deep, which is conducive to the development of our next plan."

In the next three days, Cao's army risked their lives to attack the city, and Jingzhou's army resisted bravely. Both sides suffered relatively heavy losses.After the third day of siege, Cao's army suffered a total of nearly 5000 casualties, while the Jingzhou army lost nearly 4000 people.There are very few of the thousand catapults left that Cao Jun had built when he first arrived. In the past few days, he has been building new ones while attacking the city. There are only more than 200 catapults left in Rangcheng, and most of the defense supplies have been used up. .

Therefore, Zhang Wu ordered to destroy all the catapults and large equipment, and before it was dark, he opened the west gate and retreated to the Han River.

Although Cao's army mainly attacked the south of the city, they also stationed some soldiers in the west of the city, led by Yuan's generals Ma Yan and Zhang Wei. Send someone to report to Cao Cao.

Cao Jun's camp was cleaning the battlefield and making a fire for cooking. Cao Cao, Xun You and others didn't expect that Zhang Wu would run away after guarding for three days, and he was still killing so fiercely during the day.

So Cao Cao quickly ordered Cao Ren to lead his troops to catch up first and entangle Zhang Wu as much as possible. Cao Cao and his generals arrived soon after.

Xu Shu, Fu Wei, and Kou Feng led the army first. Zhang Wu, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Xing Daorong led [-] military guards to intercept the rear in person. Ma Yan and Zhang Wei only led their troops to follow from a distance, not daring to come forward to fight. Zhang Wu was the only one to fight. The power of the six generals in a duel directly frightened the two of them.

When Cao Ren led his troops in pursuit, the Jingzhou army's former army had joined the Xiangyang navy who came to meet them, and Ding Feng commanded the army to board the ship quickly.Cao Ren was about to lead his troops to rush forward to prevent the Jingzhou army from boarding the ship, but Zhang Wu led his troops to block it.

Zhang Wu laughed and said: "Cao Zixiao, since you are so reluctant to let me go, why not come with me to Xiangyang to stay for a few more days?"

"Ah! Zhang Wu! Line up, line up quickly! Archers get ready!" Cao Ren quickly ordered the soldiers to resist. None of the six of them had ever beaten Zhang Wu. At that time, he will be arrested by this person again!

"Hahahaha, it scares you!" Zhang Wu didn't attack, but just delayed the time for the main force to board the ship.

When Cao Cao led his generals to arrive, the Jingzhou army had basically boarded the ship, and Zhang Wu also led his army to retreat slowly.

Zhang Wu, one man and one horse, walked at the end, treating Cao Jun's generals as nothing, but none of Cao Jun's generals dared to step forward.

"The power of one person is so great that I don't know who else in the world can defeat this person!" Cao Cao said with emotion, "However, no matter how brave a person is, he can't defeat thousands of troops. This weapon is not abandoned. Have you fled from the city? Sooner or later, I will flatten Jingzhou and capture this person alive. Yuan Rang, pass down the order, and the army will enter the city."

"Yes, Prime Minister."

Cao's army entered Rangcheng, but Rangcheng was a county seat and could not accommodate so many troops, so most of Cao's army was still stationed outside the city. Cao Cao and his advisers and some generals stayed in the city, while Cao Renhe Yu Jin and Li Dian stationed in the camp outside the city.

(End of this chapter)