Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 809 The Battle of Puyang Begins

After all, Yuan Shao's army also gradually grew from conquering Wuhuan, Xianbei, Gongsun Zan, and Zhang Yan's army in Heishan in the north. In addition, Yuan Shao has the background of the fourth generation and three princes of the Yuan family, so the equipment for the army is also good.

Before Yuan Shao's tent had a special crossbow formation, Yuan Shao's general Ju Yi used a thousand crossbows to wipe out Gongsun Zan's Baima Yi from the whole army in the battle of Jieqiao.

Although Ju Yi has already been convicted and killed by Yuan Shao because of his great achievements, Yuan Shao still keeps Ju Yi's first camp. At the same time, Yuan Shao's army still has many sharp weapons against cavalry. in stock.

Therefore, the main force of the heavily armed Yuan Shao army faced the cavalry of the Southern Huns, naturally it was like a regular military and police force meeting gangsters, and it was easy for the Southern Huns to know why the flowers were so popular.

In this battle, the Southern Xiongnu cavalry led by the wise kings of the Left and Right were killed by Yuan Shao's army and killed no less than 2 people. The other remaining [-] Southern Huns also fled in all directions.

However, apart from some of these fleeing Southern Huns who fled directly back to Bingzhou, most of them were scattered like bandits in Yizhou, Zhao Kingdom, and Julu. They were still like psoriasis, which made Yuan Shao annoyed that they couldn't clean up. .

At the same time, the Tiger Wing Battalion cavalry led by Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao took advantage of the opportunity of Yuan Shao's main force to deal with the Southern Huns cavalry, and took the opportunity to kill the cavalry from Changshan County to Zhongshan Kingdom, almost completely losing Yuan Shao's local counties along the way control.

Although Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao's Tiger Wing Battalion cavalry did not burn, kill or loot locally, what they did was more military meaningful than the Southern Huns.

They attacked county towns all the way, and every time they captured a city, they completely destroyed the weapons, grain stores, and official documents stored in the city. At the same time, they also killed some of Yuan Shao's county magistrates, subordinate officials and other grassroots officials, so that these states and counties were suddenly Falling into a state of unmanagement.

Even if Yuan Shao wants to send people to reorganize, he may not have enough people. Even if there are enough people, it will take a lot of time to fully restore the control of the place.

In addition, Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao adopted the method of avoiding the real and attacking the false, avoiding the encirclement and suppression of Yuan Shao's army and the county towns with strong military equipment in the local area, so Yuan Shao could not find the opportunity to encircle them.

So when Cao Cao asked Yuan Shao for help, Yuan Shao was also suffering from the chaos in his own hinterland.

Naturally, it was impossible for Yuan Shao to let his family's affairs go unnoticed. In order to deal with those scattered Southern Huns, he needed to deploy manpower to encircle and suppress them in various counties and towns. Try to contain it, but all this is not so easy to solve.

At the same time, news came from Bohai County, saying that an unknown army came from the sea to harass the place, and even threatened the land of Fuyang and Nanpi.

Yuan Shao really didn't know why there were so many rats in his house all of a sudden, but before that he had mobilized most of his troops to concentrate on Yecheng, so there were indeed not many garrison troops left in other counties of Yizhou.

And now these troops entering Yuan Shao's territory are not ordinary bandits, not the type that can be solved by a small number of garrison soldiers in the county. This makes Yuan Shao can only organize the army to encircle and suppress everywhere. There is still room to rescue Cao Cao.

Of course, Yuan Shao also resented Cao Cao's uselessness in his heart. Why didn't he play the role of stagnant Zhu Wei's army at all, so how could his original military strategic plan be used.

Now Cao Cao has directly withdrawn to Puyang City, lost so much land for nothing, and still has to ask for support from himself, this Cao Cao is really too spineless.

Yuan Shao originally wanted to ignore it, but in the end, under Ju Shou's suggestion, he reluctantly sent Gao Lan, Guo Tu, and Jiang Qi to lead [-] Yuan troops to Puyang to support Cao Cao. Among them, Gao Lan was the leader and Guo Tu was the marching commander. Jiang Qi is a lieutenant general.

However, the [-] Yuan Jun's support is really a drop in the bucket.

Not to mention how Yuan Shao arranged for support, but Cao Cao on the Puyang side of Yanzhou immediately strengthened the defense of Puyang City, and at the same time let Dong Heng's troops who were originally stationed in Jiyin County withdraw to Juancheng. It can produce the meaning of assisting defense on the northeast flank of Puyang City.

Of course, there are only about [-] regular troops on Dong Heng's side in Juancheng, and the rest are about [-] to [-] young recruits temporarily recruited. It is actually impossible to attack and support Puyang's side.

Besides, there is also the Hanzhong army sent by Zhu Wei to restrain him. It can be said that Dong Heng can protect himself in Jiyin County, which is already a good result.

And Zhu Wei's army of nearly 15 also arrived in Puyang. Zhu Wei took the troops of Huang Zhong and Tai Shici as the vanguard, and soon defeated and repelled Cao Cao's troops stationed outside Puyang City, forcing Cao Cao to take the whole army. The army tortoise retreated into Puyang city.

Because he had seen Zhu Weijun's siege methods in Shouchun City, Cao Cao did not set up an army camp outside Puyang City, but built many urns in Puyang City to resist Zhu Weijun's powerful siege methods.

Then Cao Cao deepened the moat outside the city, and nailed many wooden stakes outside the city, all of which were to prevent Zhu Weijun from approaching the city wall with bridal carts.

Even if this cannot stop Zhu Weijun's approach forever, it can at least delay the war for some time.

Although Cao Cao's Hao Zhao, who is best at defending now, resisted Taishici and Zang Ba's army in Xiangyi, he was surrounded by the Dongzhou army brought by Zhang Ren and Huang Quan from behind, and finally broke through under the attack of Zhu Weijun. But Cao Cao himself was also a military master, so he naturally thought of many defensive tactics against Zhu Weijun's siege methods.

Therefore, Puyang City is now built by Cao Cao to be extremely defensive, and sufficient materials for defending the city have been prepared on the city wall.

On September 199, [-] AD, the main force of Zhu Wei's army came to Puyang City and completely surrounded Puyang City. For a time, more than [-] Zhu Weijun camps seemed to form another outer city outside Puyang City.

Before the official start of the war, Zhu Wei inevitably arrived in front of Puyang City, preparing to have a pre-war meeting with Cao Cao.

So across the moat and the surrounding wooden stake obstacles about an arrow's range away, after Zhu Wei's army set up a defensive posture, Zhu Wei stood on a chariot, surrounded and protected by the surrounding guards, and came to Puyang. beyond the east gate of the city.

"Please also ask Mr. Cao to come out and speak!"

No need for Zhu Wei to speak, the loud messengers around Zhu Wei had already shouted to the east gate of Puyang that Cao Cao appeared.

"Qian Tanghou is safe and well, so far today, it's just a showdown, I don't know what else Qian Tanghou can say!"

Naturally, Cao Cao had already arrived at the gate tower of the east gate of Puyang, but it seemed that there was nothing to say now. Naturally, Cao Cao could not easily surrender in such a situation.

"Cao Gong, I heard Mr. Xu Shao commented that you are a capable minister and a hero in troubled times in the early years. Now you are not the one who governs the world, Cao Gong is indeed a hero! But if I can make today's world return to rule the world, Cao Cao Would you like to be a capable minister again? Duke Cao’s talent is rare in the world, so why bother to perish with the destruction of Puyang city!"

Zhu Wei looked at Cao Cao on the top of the city gate from a distance, seeing this traitorous hero who was not tall but could leave his name through the ages, and said as if he wanted to persuade him to surrender.

Of course, now Zhu Wei also knows that Cao Cao is unlikely to surrender, but this process still has to go. This is also the moment for Zhu Wei to show his generosity, or to buy the hearts of Cao Cao's subordinates. It can be accepted, not to mention the people under Cao Cao's tent...

(End of this chapter)