Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 662 I Can't Fight Anymore
"Come on, prepare rockets and burn them!"

Zhang Liao looked at the grain, grass, and warehouse areas guarded by Mi Zhu and Wu Dun in front of him. As long as he sent the archers to the forefront, they would all be within the range of the bows and arrows.

Anyway, the obstacles formed by those cars prevented his men from approaching, but they also made it impossible for Liu Bei and Zang Ba's army to come out and hurt the archers. Food and grass can also achieve his strategic goals.

"No! No!"

Several military lords accepted the order and agreed, and then went to arrange archers. After a while, feathered arrows with flames jumped over Liu Bei and Zang Ba's soldiers defending inside, and shot towards the rear storage area.

Soon a rocket landed on a granary, but it was extinguished by the yellow mud smeared on the outside, but one rocket after another pierced up, and finally ignited the vegetation inside and the stored corn and grains.

"Go away, go out!"

When Liu Bei and Zang Ba soldiers in Neizhong saw the fire, some auxiliary soldiers and young men couldn't help exclaiming in their mouths, and Mi Zhu and Wu Dun also understood Zhang Liao's intentions, but at this moment they had no countermeasures. Some people were assigned to put out the fire.

Seeing this, Zhang Liao's heart was moved, and he looked around for a few more times, and quickly ordered his soldiers to pick up some burning tents, etc., lifted them up with bamboo poles, etc., and put them in the windward place, and suddenly some were dotted with stars. The fluff of sparks also drifted to the storage area over there with the wind.

The effect of this kind of ignition is wider than the area that the rocket can cover.

Even though the storage area here has a special distance between the grain and material piles for fire prevention, which can prevent the flames from spreading quickly inside, but now, under Zhang Liao's arrangement, a large number of sparks are flying in the wind. Once they got in, not to mention blocking them, it was not easy to even find the location where they fell.

However, as long as they can ignite dry vegetation and food, they will naturally cause fireworks, so it didn't take long for smoke to rise in many places in the storage area, and many places ignited fire.

Seeing this, Zhang Liao couldn't help laughing complacently. At this moment, a scout Kuaiqi came to report, saying that soldiers and horses had returned from the direction of Pengcheng.

"withdraw troops!"

Zhang Liao looked at the more and more smoking and burning storage areas over there, and no longer hesitated, he directly asked his subordinates to evacuate. Although Liu Bei and Zang Ba's food and grass had not been completely burned, at least they could be burned. Part of it.

Anyway, this time he destroyed the camp completely, and he still has a chance to come again. At that time, it will depend on whether Liu Bei and Zang Ba dare to dispatch the whole army to attack Pengcheng.

As long as Liu Bei and Zang Ba are afraid, their attack on Pengcheng will naturally be weakened.

So Zhang Liao led his troops quickly through the burning camp area, and then retreated northwest along the Sishui River. The soldiers and horses were guerrilla on the periphery.

As a result, Zhang Liao withdrew in a timely manner. When Guan Yu led his troops back, he basically only saw the ruined camp here.

Now there were originally more than 1 auxiliary soldiers, and [-] to [-]% of the young and strong had fled. Including the troops retained by Mi Zhu and Wu Dun, there were less than [-] remnants in total.

Even in the storage areas for grain and supplies guarded by Mi Zhu and Wu Dun, many places caught fire. Even if Mi Zhu and Wu Dun put out the fire in time, more than [-]% of the stored grain and grass were burned, which can be regarded as a huge loss.

Guan Yu knew from Mi Zhu and Wu Dun that Zhang Liao had left for some time, and he knew that he had no way to catch up, so he had no choice but to stay and extinguish the flames burning in the camp to clean up the mess.

Not long after, Liu Bei and Zang Ba also came back with an army, but knowing the situation here, they also reluctantly accepted the current situation.

Of course, tonight, the soldiers of Liu Bei and Zang Ba's allied forces can only sleep in the open air. Even if they want to rebuild the camp, they may not be able to find enough trees and supplies.

Fortunately, Mi Zhu and Wu Dun kept a lot of food, so they would not be hungry, otherwise the morale of the army would be completely lost.

However, that night Liu Bei and Zang Ba could only hold a meeting to discuss the current situation. Obviously Zang Ba really had no intention of staying and fighting again, but Liu Bei was still a little unwilling.

"Mr. Xuande, it's not because Zang Ba is cowardly. We really can't fight anymore! Now we can't even build camps. If our army attacks Pengcheng again, and Zhang Liao comes to attack again, how can we resist it! We have already lost a lot this time." There is little food and grass, if Zhang Liao attacks the food and grass next time, our army may not even be able to return to Mount Tai!"

Now the tents and everything were burned down, so now Liu Bei and Zang Ba could only find rocks by the Sishui River and sit on them. Zang Ba pointed out the ruined camp, talking in a nonchalant manner.

Zang Ba admitted that he was defeated, and now the battle has become like this before Zhu Wei's reinforcements arrived, so if Zhu Wei's reinforcements arrive later, wouldn't they even have a chance to retreat.

What's more, judging from the current battle situation, they may not be able to capture Pengcheng. Now even the ladders needed for the siege have been destroyed, and it is difficult to find bamboo and wood to build new ladders around. Then how do they attack the city?

"Xuan Gao, it's because the war has come to this point that we can't retreat! If we can't break through Pengcheng, let alone our wasted effort this time, even if we negotiate with Zhu Wei in the future, we will be underestimated!"

Liu Bei still persuaded unwillingly, this time the loss is so big, if he can't gain anything in Pengcheng, he will also suffer a big loss.

"But Mr. Xuande, now that we don't even have the equipment to attack the city, why don't you let your subordinates take a ladder to climb the city?"

Seeing that Liu Bei still said the same thing, Zang Ba mocked with an ugly face. The city wall of Pengcheng was five or six stories high, so naturally it was impossible to climb up it with a ladder. It was really a display for the guards of Pengcheng.

This method can only be used when attacking ordinary Wubao and small county towns, and it is useless to die in Pengcheng.

Hearing this, Liu Bei frowned and thought about it. This is a tricky question. Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and said to Zang Overbearing, "Xuan Gao, don't worry, the previous time, Bei participated in the battle of Shouchun, but he saw that When Zhu Wei attacked Shouchun City, he used the art of digging the city, now since we can't climb the city and attack, we can also dig through Pengcheng!"

"Digging the city? Wouldn't it take a lot of time? What if Zhu Wei's reinforcements come?"

Zang Ba didn't expect Liu Bei to say such a siege method. After thinking about it, it is feasible, but it will take time.

"Even if Zhu Wei's reinforcements come, they won't be the main force. Now that Zhu Wei has just passed his birthday, he has no time to look around, and our coalition forces are not weak. Even with Zhu Wei's reinforcements, it's just a fight. !Xuan Gao, this battle is unavoidable, it's just in Pengcheng, or in Taishan in the future!"

Seeing that Zang Ba was still worried about Zhu Wei's army, Liu Bei said coldly, now that Liu Bei has made up his mind, if he can't capture Pengcheng this time, he will simply abandon Xiaopei and go north to join Yuan Shao...

(End of this chapter)