"My lord, do we really want to fight like this?" Under Nanpi City, Le Jin wiped the blood from his face. This was the eighth time that Le Jin led his guards to the city wall. He was defeated by Yuan Shao with soldiers and horses. The hearts of Yuan Shao in Hebei are really terrible, recuperating and repaying benefits to the people, these are the hearts of the people in Hebei that Yuan Shao bought.
One of the reasons why the Yuan brothers were suppressed and beaten by Cao Cao was that these brothers were unpopular.
When Cao Cao attacked them, the people didn't help at all, and with Xu You as a big traitor, the people in Hebei were pretty good if they didn't become traitors in the city.
But now it is different. Yuan Shao appeared, and his popularity in Hebei was not comparable to that of those unfilial sons. The city of Guangnan Picheng echoed it. If Yuan Shao alone had more than ten thousand soldiers and horses It was exhausted by Cao Cao, but with the help of tens of thousands of people in Nanpi City, Cao Cao's war completely turned into a war of attrition.
Back then Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang, relied on the tens of thousands of people in the Lujiang River, and was able to block the siege of Sun Ce's 50,000 army for three years, so he knew how powerful the masses were.
Cao Cao brought a total of 130,000 troops. In just a few days, there were no less than 30,000 dead bodies lying in the city. If this continues and Hebei is taken down, Cao Cao's strength will be greatly improved. of damaged. Le Jin wondered if he could use tricks or something like that, storming the city wall would consume too much energy.
"No, fight, we must fight!" Cao Cao was very firm, his eyes were firm, and Cao Cao didn't like to play strong attacks. Because this consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. If you kill one thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred. Nanpi City, the seat of Bohai County, will not be restored to its previous state for at least a few decades after this battle, but Cao Cao still wants to fight like this.
Just like in Xuzhou, why Cao Cao wanted to massacre the city was because Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, incited the hearts of the people, if Cao Cao didn't massacre the city. Then those people's hearts will always be used by Tao Qian, causing Cao Cao's army to suffer endlessly. He, Cao Cao, can't be on guard against the people of Xuzhou day and night.
So Cao Cao really slaughtered the city. This killing is not only bad for his reputation, but it is also beneficial. If Cao Mengde fights against him, there will only be a dead end, and Cao Cao didn't slaughter them all. He killed a batch of people who did not agree with him. Not only did he not slaughter them, but he also distributed food and land to them, and then sent these individuals back to Xuzhou. In this way, the common people will know that although Cao Cao is terrible, as long as you listen to him, he will not kill you. It will benefit you, if you continue to fight against Cao, then he will be the king of Hades.
And now Cao Cao is going to do this, he is not afraid of casualties, what he is afraid of is that the hearts of the people in Hebei will be used by Yuan Shao, so Cao Cao wants to kill chickens and monkeys, and take Nanpi City as a victim, even if Nanpi surrenders, the people inside will also die. Don't even think about surviving.
"Yes!" Le Jin knew that he couldn't convince Cao Cao, so he gritted his teeth, "Follow me!" Le Jin didn't understand Cao Cao's strategic thinking, he only knew that those under his command were suffering heavy casualties. , If they want to prevent them from suffering heavy casualties, there is only one way, and that is to capture Nanpi City. He Lejin must go up the city wall as soon as possible to end this war and reduce the damage.
Le Jin continued to attack the city wall.
"Yuan Shao!" Cao Cao stared at this Nanpi city, he still underestimated Yuan Shao's personal charm, if he knew he would have sent assassins to assassinate Yuan Shao, instead of letting him escape the prison.
Cao Cao's subordinates also told him that Yuan Shao was able to escape from his rebellious son. Half of the credit was due to Cao Cao. If Cao Cao hadn't sent a large army, half of Yuan Shang's power had been split to spy on the military situation. If so, it would be impossible for Yuan Shao to have contact with Yuan Shao. It was not for Cao Cao's army approaching, and it would be impossible for Yuan Shao to come out of that mansion.
I've gotten used to it going smoothly these days. Cao Cao looked at Nanpi City, this city must be destroyed.
Cao Cao made up his mind, but his eyes turned to another place. Where is Fan Yang's direction? I hope that he will not be disappointed there.
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"Kill, kill, kill!" Fan Yangcheng was completely in chaos, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan were completely dumbfounded, because the situation was out of control, and the whole of Fan Yang was in chaos, not just Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan's soldiers The horses joined forces to attack Yuan Xi's soldiers and horses. Now the soldiers and horses of the two began to fight each other.
"Yuan Tan control your subordinates!" Yuan Shang's heart was about to bleed. All the dead and injured were his elite subordinates. All the armored ones have entered the battlefield, Yuan Shang doesn't feel sorry for people, but for those weapons and armors, losing one is all money.
"How can I control my people? It's you, Yuan Shang, take a look, look for yourself, why do your people want to kill my soldiers and horses? Is it you, is it you who taught me!" Yuan Tan was also angry Looking at Yuan Shang, it can be said that Yuan Tan's soldiers are worse than Yuan Shang's. After all, Yuan Shang has obtained the background of his cheap father, so his soldiers are more elite and stronger.
In the sudden war that broke out, Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses had the upper hand.
But it was only temporary, because although Yuan Tan's strength was weaker than Yuan Shang's, it was not much worse, and soon in this kind of attrition war, it was tied.
"Damn it, Yuan Tan, since you can't control your subordinates, don't blame me!" Yuan Shang looked at Yuan Tan with red eyes. There is no brotherhood. Since childhood, they have spent their time in intrigue. , both of them are masters who wish that the other party would choke to death when drinking saliva, fall to death while walking, and choke to death while eating. Yuan Tan's men were attacking his soldiers, and Yuan Shang stopped immediately.
"I'm afraid you won't make it if you come here!" Yuan Tan's complexion would not be much better, after all, he is also an elder brother, but Yuan Shang didn't show any face.
"Brothers, kill me!" Yuan Shang drew out the saber in his hand. Fighting towards Yuan Tan over there. Yuan Tan's men didn't show mercy either. All of them came to fight like a deep hatred.
"It's messed up, it's messed up, it's all messed up!" Guo Tu, Xin Juanpei and the others panicked. Just now they were allied with Yuan's army, but now they have become enemies. The three of them are all counselors and scribes, and they are helpless. . The army over there is in chaos, so naturally they can't care about these three people. But this didn't bother the three foxes. One of the three foxes found a garbage dump and hid behind it. The other simply found a dung bucket, opened the lid and hid in it.
Xin Ping was not as shameless as these two people, and he couldn't make up his mind to hide in the dung bucket, so he found a dead man, took out a knife, and chopped the dead man into eight pieces. Borrowing some flesh and blood from others, smeared all over his body and lay down on the ground to pretend to be dead.
This one doesn't suffer from the smell of trash and manure though. But he couldn't stand the trampling of one foot after another. Xin Ping's face turned green, but he still insisted on pretending to be a dead person.
"Kill, kill, kill!" The terrifying sound of killing in Fanyang City naturally couldn't hide Cao Cao's army outside the city.
Cao Cao's army is still waiting in full force, because this appearance is too abnormal.
"Brother Miaocai, brother Miaocai, good news, good news!" Cao Jun's camp, the curtain of the main general's camp was lifted by a one-eyed man, and hurried in: "Good news, good news!"
"En?" Xiahou Miaocai and Xiahouyuan frowned. The flustered one was none other than Xiahouchun, his second brother. Although the two were not directly related by blood, they were still as close as brothers.
"What's the point of being frizzy and irritable? Didn't that Lu Bu and Lu Fengxian give you a long memory?" Xia Houyuan reprimanded Xia Houchun sharply. What Xia Houyuan was talking about was that when Lu Bu attacked Yanzhou, Cao Xing shot Xia Houchun's eyes with an arrow. That time it was because Xia Houchun was frizzy, someone seized the opportunity, and shot an arrow in the eye socket, if the arrow hadn't been caught by Xia Houchun in time, Xia Houchun might have killed Xia Houchun at that moment.
I thought that this Xia Houchun would learn a lot of wisdom, but I didn't expect it to be the same as before. This is the camp of the chief general of the Chinese army. Not to mention that he needs to be notified when he comes in, but he is Xia Houchun, a general of the former army. Now that the whole army is under martial law and he is not standing by among the former army, why are you running to the main camp of the Chinese army
"Hey, brother Miaocai, you wait for me to finish, you wait for me to finish, then you punish me! I will admit how you punish me!" Over there, Xia Houchun saw his brother Miaocai and began to touch Looking at the military badge on the table over there, I immediately panicked. He Xia Houchun can be said to be a person who is not afraid of anything, but he is really afraid of two brothers, one of whom is Cao Cao and Cao Mengde. , this black fat man has been torturing Xia Houchun since he was a child, and the second one is Xia Houyuan.
"If you fart, let it go!" Xia Houyuan said to his brother of the same clan with a bad face.
"Brother Miaocai, good news, good news, among Fan Yang, the Yuan brothers are fighting among themselves!" Xia Houchun said to Xia Houyuan over there.
"The brothers of the Yuan family are in conflict?" Xia Houyuan's eyes widened when he heard the news, but he quickly realized, "Impossible!" Xia Houyuan didn't believe the news at all.
"Really, Brother Miaocai!" Xia Houchun said anxiously, this is a good opportunity, if you seize this good news, you will definitely be able to take the opportunity to attack the city, once Fan Yang, an important town in Youzhou, is destroyed , then the Yuan family brothers in Youzhou are not enough evidence.
"Then the brothers of the Yuan family are now uniting to deal with the lord. How could there be internal strife?" Xia Houyuan shook his head. The reason why he didn't believe it was that it was a time of life and death for the Yuan family brothers. Isn't this a pig's brain? Xia Houyuan really didn't expect that the Yuan brothers were really stupid.
"Really, you have to believe me, Brother Miaocai!" Xia Houchun over there scratched his ears anxiously, not knowing how to convince his elder brother. This news was finally obtained by him, Xia Houchun.
"Report, report to General Xiahou, the front army came to report and found a spy!" Just as Xiahouyuan was about to send Xiahouchun away, a personal guard ran in and reported to Brother Xiahou.
"Spies?" Xia Houchun was in a bad mood. He came here enthusiastically, wanting to tell his elder brother that there was internal strife in Fan Yang City, and let his elder brother send troops to attack Fan Yang immediately, but who knew his hot face His ass is so cold, so Xia Houchun's complexion is good, there must be a ghost. "It's just a spy, just drag it out and chop it up!" Xia Houchun waved his hand and said to the guard over there.
"No, it's not General Xiahou, it's that spy, that spy wants to see General Xiahou!" The guard almost confused the people over there because he was anxious.
"The spy wants to see me?" Xia Houyuan frowned and asked.
"Yes, this spy has been clamoring to see General Xiahou since he arrived in the former army!" The personal guard reported to Xiahouyuan. This spy came to vote on his own initiative.
"Bring him up to meet me!" Xia Houyuan said to his subordinates.
"Brother Miaocai, what is there to ask about such a spy? Fan Yangcheng, Fan Yangcheng is the key. You said that Meng De went to kill Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu. If we destroy Fan Yang before Meng De returns Cheng, what a credit this is, that is, you want to give up this credit." Xia Houchun said dissatisfied to Xia Houyuan.
"Hmph, I don't know how high the heavens are and how thick the earth is!" Xia Houyuan snorted coldly at Xia Houchun. Even the 300,000 troops could not break through this Fanyang City when the lord was around. Take down Fan Yang
"If Mengde can't take it down, it doesn't mean we can't take it down!" Xia Houchun muttered.
"You still say!?" Xia Houyuan asked with wide-eyed eyes.
Xia Houchun then closed his mouth.
"Report, General Xiahou, bring the spy!" Just when Xiahouchun was wronged, Xiahouyuan's personal guards brought the so-called spy to him.
"This is the spy?" Xia Houchun shifted his attention to the spy in front of him. He's a hippie, so he's still a spy? "Are you a spy?"
"You are the spy! I am not a spy, I have a secret report to tell Prime Minister Cao Cao!" the young man said to Xia Houchun.
"You have a security guard to tell Prime Minister Cao? Who are you?" Xia Houyuan stood up and asked.
"You don't need to know who I am, you just need to send me to Cao Cheng to get along with him, and we will naturally give him a satisfactory answer!" The young man said calmly. (to be continued..)
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