Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 49 065. Fire Bull Formation

Not long after Wang Hao, Zhang Liao and others returned to Xinye City, Cao Ren led [-] troops and surrounded the small town of Xinye with water. Wang Hao, Zhang Liao and others were trapped in Xinye and could not leave the city.

Gan Ning and Tai Shici led the navy up the river from Jiangxia Ferry to Liu Biao's base camp in Nanyang. Huang Zhong attacked six cities in seven days. All nine counties in Jingzhou, except Nanyang County, fell into Wang Hao's pocket. inside.

After successive battles, Wang Hao's soldiers were exhausted. Cao Mengde sent Li Dian and Le Jin to lead [-] troops from Wancheng, and Cao Ren's [-] troops besieged Xinye. Huang Zhong's several rescue efforts were repulsed by Cao Ren.

After the first battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao was unable to go south. Cao Mengde wanted to take the opportunity to attack Wang Hao, leaving Xia Houyuan and Cao Hong to garrison the north, dispatching troops and condemning generals to go south to the Jingbei area, and Jiangdong Sun Quan also began to move around.

Wang Hao had [-] soldiers at his disposal, and the small town of Xinye as a defense. He was unwilling to fight Cao Ren all the time, and was actually waiting for space to gather enough horses.

A fire by Zhuge Liang on Bowangpo burned all Wang Hao's war horses, and none of the surviving horses could go on the battlefield. Now they can only rely on space to produce horses.

"My lord, we can't wait any longer. There is not much food and grass in the city, and there are not enough soldiers..."

There are more than 8000 households in Xinye City, nearly 8 residents, plus Wang Hao's 120 soldiers, about [-] people. They consume about [-] tons of grain a day, and need more than [-] tons of grain in a month. Zhang Liao has already seen the Xinye granary. There are less than three tons of grain left.

"Wenyuan doesn't have to worry about food, I can solve this problem, the most urgent thing is to stabilize the morale of the army..."

Wang Hao ordered the three armies not to disturb the people. Food will be delivered after nightfall, and horses will be delivered one after another. The soldiers who were injured before can be killed as meat.

In this era of marching and fighting, as long as there is food, soldiers will not rebel. The people in Xinye City did not have much food.
Before Liu Bei and others left, they collected and scraped again. Within a month, the people would have no food to eat.

"Gao Shun, you are familiar with military books, have you ever heard of the Fire Bull Formation?"

Wang Hao recruited Gao Shun and Zhang Liao to discuss the matter of breaking out of the siege. Gao Shun had heard of the Fire Bull Formation, but he had not seen any records on it.

Unfortunately, among the tens of thousands of volumes in Wang Hao's collection, there happened to be one volume that recorded this formation.

Cao Ren was stationed outside the west gate of Xinye, Li Dian and Le Jin guarded the two southeast gates, and Xiahouba was stationed at the north gate, with [-] troops stationed at each gate, patrolling day and night.

Wang Hao asked the spies to go out of the city overnight to find Xu Huang in South County. Wang Hao chose to break out from the north gate this time. Cao Ren, as the coach, thought that Wang Hao would not dare to go north, but Wang Hao chose to go north.

Every night, Wang Hao asked his soldiers to beat gongs and drums on the wall. Cao Jun thought that Wang Hao and others wanted to break through and leave overnight, so the three armies were ready to go, but the soldiers on the wall went back to sleep after knocking for an hour.

It was like this for several days in a row. Cao Jun was kept awake at night by Wang Hao's exhausted strategy, and the soldiers even dozed off during the day.
During the day, Wang Hao asked Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and others to go out of the city to lure the enemy. Every time he led a thousand cavalry out of the city and turned back, Cao Jun was even more devastated.

If it wasn't for the siege equipment, it would take a few days to reach Xinye. Cao Ren really wanted to attack Xinye.

Just after Cao Ren's siege equipment arrived, Huang Zhong led [-] heavy cavalry to surprise Li Dian's troops at the south gate.
Li Dian built Lugou with [-] troops, and the Nanyang Jingzhou Army attacked from both sides, so Huang Zhong had no choice but to retreat.

Gan Ning and Tai Shici led [-] troops each, and sent troops from Wyoyang to attack the two northeast gates respectively. Le Jin and Li Dian drove them back with [-] troops. As long as they survive tonight, Cao Jun can attack tomorrow. city.

After nightfall, Xu Huang led [-] Mo sword soldiers to attack Cao Ren at night. Cao Ren was forced to retreat step by step. Le Jin sent [-] cavalry to support him when he learned about it.

When Wang Hao saw Cao Ren and Xu Huang fighting in the city, he selected more than 2000 cows from space, and put a quilt on the cows, which were painted with strange patterns of red and green. On it was tied a sheaf of reeds soaked in oil.

Wang Hao ordered the soldiers to dig out more than a dozen city walls. As early as a few days ago, the soldiers had already dug many holes under the city walls of Xinye Town. Wang Hao ordered people to go to the tower to beat drums and gongs again. Cao Jun was used to the comparison and ignored it.

Wang Hao ordered his soldiers to break through all the holes in the city wall and drive the cattle out of the city. Cao Jun only heard the sound of gongs and drums, but did not notice that the city wall was smashed through. Saw the flames of the city in the distance.

As soon as the tail of the ox was on fire, more than 2000 oxen became angry and rushed towards Cao Jun's barracks. Cao Ren thought that Wang Hao ordered the soldiers to light torches and attack overnight. .

Wang Hao and Zhang Liao led [-] "death squads" to follow closely behind. At the same time, countless ordinary people in the city also went to the top of the city to beat bronze wares to make a loud noise.
These days, Wang Hao beheaded the wounded war horses, hired them to dig the city walls, and gave them the meat as wages. The people did not feel bad towards Wang Hao.

The moment Fire Bull rushed out, he felt that the sky was collapsing and the earth was shaking. Two thousand Fire Bulls and [-] troops rushed towards Cao Jun's camp, which was loosely defended. More than half of the army was killed or injured, and even the generals died in the chaos.

Wang Hao took the opportunity to go north, and [-] Qingqi went straight to the police. Huang Zhong and others also retreated to Jiangling and Baoyang. After Wang Hao's Xinye fell, Liu Biao was captured because of Jingzhou. Now there is only one county in Nanyang.
Cao Jun was staring at Wancheng and Xinye again, so Liu Biao fell ill like this, and Liu Qi handed over Jingzhou and his [-] troops to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei obeyed Zhuge Liang's words and knew that Nanyang could not hold it anymore, so he led [-] Jingzhou west to Shangyong, and went to Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew in Yanzhong. Zhang Xiu knew that he could not beat Liu Bei, so he chose to give up his territory to serve Liu Bei.

Most of the Jingzhou army joined Liu Bei, but some people were unwilling, such as Wenpin and Huang Zu, who were unwilling to give up Nanyang, and were finally captured alive by Huang Zhong.

Even Cai Mao, a famous person in Jingguo, has many staying behind. Wang Hao will not deliberately embarrass them, but disarming is a must.
There is also the payment of commercial taxes, etc., and the previous special powers no longer exist.

After Liu Bei fled to Hanzhong, he first conquered Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew, then defeated Zhang Lu, the Five Dou Rice Sect, and secretly contacted Xiliang Han Sui,
Because after the Ma family received food from Wang Hao, they rejected Liu Bei's request for an alliance, and they continued to fight with Han Sui in Xiliang.

After Nanyang was captured by Huang Zhong, Cao Ren knew that Xinye was difficult to defend, so he retreated to Wancheng and looked at Jingzhou. Wang Hao's crusade against Liu Biao was safe,
Liu Biao died of illness and Liu Bei went to Hanzhong. This was originally a happy event, but suddenly a big bad news came from Jiangxia, and Wang Hao had to return to Jiangxia immediately.

Leaving Huang Zhong at Nanyang, Cao He and the newly descended Wenpin stationed at Wuling and Nanjun, led Gan Ning, Tai Shici, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and others down the river, and rushed to Jiangxia from Baoyang.

Wang Hao's order to Huang Zhong is that there is no need to take the initiative to fight to defend Jingzhou, as long as Cao Ren is not allowed to enter Jingzhou, everything else is ignored.

(End of this chapter)