Chapter 1035: Battle of Changyi (Part 2)

So, Cao Cao also arranged to strengthen the city's defense overnight. First, he arranged a thousand Qingzhou soldiers in several suspicious places, and added a thousand county soldiers to assist. However, Cao Cao himself must have found some tunnels that he had not discovered, so he specially arranged a thousand tiger and leopard cavalry and a thousand Qingzhou soldiers around the four city gates, and another thousand tiger and leopard cavalry and a thousand Qingzhou soldiers to patrol everywhere in the city, and control the situation as quickly as possible once they found something abnormal.

In this way, 15,000 of Cao Cao's most elite Qingzhou soldiers and tiger and leopard cavalry have been dispersed. Since the expeditionary army will attack the city with all its strength, the defense of the city must be strengthened, so another 15,000 Qingzhou soldiers were arranged on the east, south and west walls to assist in the defense. Cao Cao himself only left 5,000 Qingzhou soldiers and 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry as the last mobile force.

There was no conversation overnight, and both sides were making final preparations.

A new day finally arrived. When the sky was just getting light, the camp of the Eastern Expedition Army was noisy again. The breakfast prepared in advance was all ready. Not only that, the cooks also prepared some dry food for all the soldiers and asked them to carry it with them. Seeing these things, everyone understood that today's battle must not be as simple as usual.

After all the soldiers had breakfast silently, they quickly sorted out their weapons, and then walked out of the camp one by one to line up, quietly waiting for the order for the army to set off.

When all the soldiers were ready, the horn of the expedition at the central army tent sounded "woo woo". The desolate horn sounded for a long time on the field, and then the army formations, led by the generals, slowly approached the direction of Changyi City.

When the first rays of sunlight appeared in the morning, more than 100,000 soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army had already appeared in neat formation under the city of Changyi. In the morning mist, red square formations were looming in the white haze, silent and silent. The only sound in the air was the "rustling" sound of the morning breeze blowing over the big flags, and occasionally the snoring of a few war horses echoed in the air.

On the central army's nest car, Huangfu Chaobo slowly pulled out the long sword from his waist with his right hand, swung it forward fiercely, and shouted: "Attack!"

Then, the messenger on the nest car raised the flag in his hand high and swung it forward fiercely, shouting loudly: "The general has an order! Attack!"

"Dong Dong Dong..."

In an instant, the largest war drum in the central army was beaten "dong dong" by the drummer, followed by dozens of war drums. Then, hundreds of war drums of the western army all sounded, and then the sound of the attack horn followed.

In just a few breaths, the war drums and horns in the south also sounded, and then spread to the east. For a time, the horns and drums of the expeditionary army outside the entire Changyi City sounded together, and echoed for a long time in the sky above the entire city.

As early as when the first drum sounded outside the city, the alarm bells on the tower were also hurriedly struck, and the "dangdang" alarm bells quickly spread to the four walls. Cao Cao's army in the city also quickly ran up the wall and prepared to fight.

On the central army nest car, Huangfu Chaobo looked at the soldiers in front of him who were attacking the city wall with drum beats, without saying a word. The first wave of attacking soldiers made adjustments at the last moment. Considering that although the tunnel has basically reached the city, it will take some time to really open it, so the first wave of attacking soldiers were replaced by guards. They will be the first wave to attack the city wall, and at the same time consume most of the city defense supplies for the subsequent troops.

When the first wave of soldiers approached the city wall, all the siege equipment of the Eastern Expedition Army was desperately pouring towards the top of the city. Hundreds of catapults continuously fired stone bombs at the top of the city, suppressing the attack of the army on the top of the city on the siege soldiers. Hundreds of well fences were also approaching the top of the city rapidly. On the well fences, thousands of archers and crossbowmen shot their arrows at the top of the city after reaching their attack range. The arrows like clouds covered the sky and flew towards the top of the city.

In the siege wars of the past,

the first to climb the city is always the one with the largest casualties. When the first wave of soldiers began to climb the city, Huangfu Chaobo's order was issued again, and the second wave of attacking troops that had been prepared quickly set off and quickly approached the direction of the city wall. At this time, the battle had started for nearly a quarter of an hour, and the battle on the top of the city entered a white-hot stage from the beginning.

At this time, thousands of people were working frantically under the walls of Changyi City, digging forward with short pickaxes in their hands. The excavated soil was directly put into cloth bags, and then passed out of the tunnels one by one by the civilians. At this time, they could not care about being discovered by the defenders in the city.

In Changyi City, the Cao Cao soldiers who were responsible for listening to the underground were still concentrating on listening to the underground movements. Unfortunately, the huge roar outside the city and the sound of the swords of the soldiers fighting on the top of the city were mixed together, making it difficult for him to hear any movement. Even so, the soldiers in the big jar still pressed their ears tightly against the jar wall and listened carefully.

Suddenly, the soldiers suddenly stood up and reported to the generals waiting on the ground: "General, they are coming!"

This is a listening surveillance point located in the east city. It is one of the five tunnel excavation points discovered in these days. Within a few hundred steps around this place, there are already two thousand Cao Cao soldiers waiting for it.

The words of the soldier in the jar cheered up the soldiers around. They held their weapons tightly in their hands and stared at the ground, as if they wanted to see through the ground and reach the tunnel dug by the Eastern Expedition Army. Unfortunately, all this was in vain. Their eyes were sore from staring, but they did not see anything unusual on the ground.

The general pointed to the soldier in the jar and said, "Have you determined their direction?"

"Not yet, but their voices are much louder and clearer than the previous two days. It seems that they are digging quickly." As he said that, the soldier squatted down again and listened carefully.

Seeing this, the soldiers next to him hurriedly held their breath and tried not to make any noise to avoid affecting the soldier in the jar.

A quarter of an hour later, the soldier in the jar stood up again and reported to the captain in a low voice: "General, they are approaching, the sound is getting louder and louder, and they are at most ten steps away from the big jar."

As he said that, the soldier pointed in the direction of the sound, and then once again leaned on the wall of the jar to listen carefully.

Upon seeing this, the leading general quickly directed his soldiers to move in the direction indicated, surrounding the street corner within a few dozen steps. All the soldiers held their weapons tightly, quietly waiting for the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army to emerge from the ground.