Chapter 1029: War in Ju County

Time goes back to twenty-two days ago, when the city of Ju County was breached. On the top of the northern city of Juxian County, Xu Rong looked at Cao Cao's soldiers who were slowly approaching, and his heart stopped. It had been fifteen days. Xia Houyuan's army had been attacking the city non-stop since they first arrived in Juxian County. With the recent A large number of reinforcements arrived in the past few days, and Cao Cao's army's attack became more and more intense, but Jixian's defense remained rock solid.

The surrender of Zang Ba and others gave Xu Rong a lot more generals at his disposal. All the family members of the Taishan Army were temporarily resettled in Shuanghe City. Due to the needs of the war, Xu Rong and other generals were brought to Ju County by Xu Rong. After several months of running-in, the generals have basically adapted to the style of the Eastern Expedition Army, so this time, Xu Rong arranged for the generals to take turns guarding the city. Judging from the situation in the previous ten days, in addition to Zang Ba's talents In addition to being able to serve as the chief general of an army, the other generals are all suitable candidates for county captain or deputy general in the army.

Xu Rong looked up at the sky. It should be Shen Shi now, which is around three o'clock in the afternoon. It seems that this is the last round of attack by Cao Cao's army today. Looking at the appearance of Cao Cao's army under the city, it is different from the usual soldiers and horses. The arrangement was the same, but even so, Xu Rong still did not relax. Following his order, the soldiers at the top of the city immediately began to prepare for the battle.

After more than half an hour of fighting, Cao Cao's army's attack had slowly slowed down. The attacking Cao Cao soldiers were already a little weak. Xu Rong knew that it wouldn't be long before Xia Houyuan would withdraw his troops.

At this moment, a huge noise suddenly sounded on the west city wall, which was different from the situation on the north and east sides. The sound was getting louder and louder. Xu Rong could vaguely hear shouts of "the city is broken".

Xu Rong's expression changed after hearing this, and he immediately called one of his guards and shouted sternly: "Quick, go to Xicheng to have a look, how on earth are you going to come back?"

The guards took the order and rushed towards the west city. For a quarter of an hour, the noise on the west city wall became louder and louder. Xu Rong already felt that something was wrong. Could it be that Sun Kang, who was responsible for the defense of the west city today? Xicheng has been captured. So Xu Rong quickly called Zang Quan next to him and said: "Pay attention to the situation at the top of the city. I will lead the guard battalion to the west city to take a look at the situation!"

Zang Quan quickly clasped his fists and accepted the order, Xu Rong said no more, waved his hand and led his guards along the city wall towards the west city. Unexpectedly, just halfway through, he met the personal guard he sent to West City, and saw him rushing towards this direction with a look of fear on his face.

Seeing Xu Rong and his party, the soldiers ran forward quickly and hurriedly stepped forward without even bothering to salute. They took three steps and two steps at a time, leaned into Xu Rong's ear, and whispered: "General, it's not good. Cao Cao's army has attacked Xicheng, and General Sun Kang is leading his troops to resist, but he is being forced back by Cao Cao's army!"

When Xu Rong heard this, he was furious: "What does Sun Kang do for food? When will the reinforcements from the city arrive?"

The guard was about to answer when he saw a guard sent by Sun Kang rushing over. Seeing Xu Rong here, he hurriedly stepped forward to report: "General, General Sun sent a villain to report that Cao Cao's army is looking like a fool. There were a large number of elite soldiers hidden among the ordinary siege soldiers. General Sun was caught off guard and was attacked by Cao Cao's army on the city wall. General Sun led his troops to fight back desperately, but the enemy's soldiers were too powerful and our soldiers could not drive them off the city wall. Instead, Cao Cao's army occupied several places at the top of the city. General Sun sent a villain to ask for help, and asked the general to send troops to support! "

Xu Rong, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, didn't understand what was going on. Sun Kang must have relaxed his vigilance, so Cao Cao's army caught the flaw and said angrily: "Did any of the reserve troops under the city board the city?"

The soldier replied in a panic: "The reserve troops and horses below the city have boarded the city, but they can't stop Cao Cao's army. Now the defense line is still retreating step by step."

Xu Rong was stunned. The reserve troops and horses under the city were all the battle camps of the Eastern Conquest Army. They were at least as good as the ordinary Chinese soldiers and horses of Cao Cao's army. Even they couldn't stop the attack of Cao Cao's army. So then There is only one possibility, that is, the siege soldiers are much stronger than the ordinary central army of Cao Cao's army.

For a moment, Xu Rong thought of a troop that Xia Houyuan had not used in the past few days: the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Xu Rong's inference was correct. Xia Houyuan indeed used tiger and leopard cavalry in Xicheng this time, and invested 5,000 troops at one time. There are also 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry in the central army, ready to deal with the cavalry of the Eastern Expeditionary Army at any time.

There were 20,000 tiger and leopard cavalry under Cao Cao. In order to attack Qingzhou this time, Cao Cao gave 10,000 of them to Xia Houyuan. Originally, Xia Houyuan did not want to use the tiger and leopard cavalry to attack the city, but Cao Cao's order was to let him ignore the losses. He wanted to capture the two counties of Qingzhou as soon as possible, so Xiahou Yuan used this army.

Under each city, Xu Rong deployed two thousand soldiers from the Canglang Battalion to deal with possible crises at the city. However, this time due to Sun Kang's negligence, Cao Cao's army was not discovered in advance at all. This small move caused the reinforcements under the city to fail to arrive in time.

As an experienced general, if he is vigilant enough, he should be able to find problems from many details of the siege soldiers, such as the physical strength of the soldiers, their movements in battle, their temperament, etc. If Sun Kang was really vigilant enough and should have been prepared. However, when the elite of Cao Cao's army attacked the city, they realized something was wrong. It was undoubtedly Sun Kang's dereliction of duty.

However, Xu Rong no longer cared about this at this time. While leading hundreds of his personal guards to run towards the West City, he kept giving orders: "Send orders to the other cities to step up their defenses!"

"Order the rest of the soldiers who have not yet climbed the city walls to climb the city walls and participate in the defense!"

"Pass on a certain order, and transfer another 2,000 soldiers from the city to support the West City!"

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Every time he gave an order, a personal soldier flew forward to convey his military order. After issuing four or five orders in a row, Xu Rong stopped passing orders, holding a big knife in his hand, and led a group of personal guards to rush towards the West City Tower.

Unfortunately, when he led his personal guards to the west wall, more than a thousand Cao Cao soldiers had gathered on the wall. Xu Rong could see at a glance that more than half of them were elite soldiers who were far more than the Cao Cao soldiers who had been attacking the city in the past few days. They cooperated with each other, slowly expanding the area occupied by the top of the city, and constantly supporting the Zepao soldiers under the city to climb the city.

By the time Xu Rong arrived two hundred steps away from the west city tower, Cao Cao's soldiers had already divided into several groups and advanced northward, blocking Xu Rong and other reinforcements coming from the north city wall, and besieged the tower all the way. The last group attacked from the top of the city wall along the ramp down towards the city gate.