Chapter 751: Fighting in Puyang (Part 2)
The next day, when the morning light first appeared, the Sizhou Army camp began to get busy. The soldiers ate quickly, and then after a short rest, the entire army left the camp and marched towards Puyang City a few miles away. At the same time, the two armies in the east and north also began to prepare to attack the city.
As soon as the battle began, Xiahou Dun found that the battle was much more intense than yesterday. It could be seen that some of the soldiers participating in the battle today were obviously more elite than yesterday. Xiahou Dun immediately transferred some Qingzhou soldiers to the city wall to assist the county soldiers in crossing the city. . At the same time, he also sent an order to Cao Charlie, who was stationed on the east wall, and asked him to send a Tiger Guard battalion to the north to assist in defending the city.
With Xiahou Dun's response, the battle on the city wall slowly improved. However, after one day of fighting, when Xiahou Dun counted the casualties of the soldiers, he found that the casualties of the county soldiers today were almost three times that of yesterday. The main reason was that during the first round of siege battle, the elite of the Sizhou Army caused losses to the Yanzhou County soldiers. casualties.
The war is still going on according to Huang Zhong's arrangement.
On the 16th, after three days of bloody battles, Sizhou's army finally attacked Puyang City. At this time, Cao Cao's Xuzhou army was less than fifty miles away from Puyang City. Because they were marching within their own sphere of influence, the whereabouts of the army were well hidden.
After Cao Cao left Tan County, he ordered the cities along the way to prepare meals for the army, and he led an army of 20,000 troops to move quickly. After entering a city, they would eat quickly and then let the soldiers rest. After resting for half an hour, the army set off again, repeating the process.
It took only four days for the 20,000 Qingzhou Army to reach the distance of nearly 800 miles from Tan County to Lihu. When the army entered Lihu to rest, Huangfu Chaobo had not yet received news of the return of Cao Cao's army.
On the 17th, Sizhou's army launched another attack on Puyang. There had been no news from Cao Cao's army for several days, but Huangfu Chaobo's uneasiness became more and more intense, so he decided to capture Puyang today, otherwise this time Sending troops is really a waste of effort.
Therefore, in addition to the less than 8,000 infantry around him to guard the central army, except for his own 5,000 personal guards and 2,000 ordinary archers, all other soldiers and horses were sent out. Moreover, he also sent out 5,000 cavalry. Spread them all out and carefully explore the traces of Cao Cao's army.
Not only that, Huangfu Chaobo also ordered He Ruolong's golden eagle to patrol dozens of miles around Puyang in order to discover traces of Cao Cao's army as soon as possible.
As Huang Zhong and Dian Wei each led a group of soldiers from the Huben camp to attack the city, the fighting at the top of the city became extremely fierce.
As soon as the battle began, Xiahou Dun noticed something unusual. Different from the previous few days, today's Sizhou Army's first round of siege soldiers seemed to have the same equipment as yesterday, but they were much more elite. He quickly attacked the city and forced the defenders on the city to retreat step by step.
Fortunately, Xiahou Dun had already prepared. In addition to the two thousand county soldiers on the west city wall, there were also five thousand Qingzhou soldiers he personally led. As for Cao Charlie's five thousand Tiger Guards, he had divided them into two parts, two at the north gate. There are three thousand Qiandongmen, responsible for assisting the county soldiers on both sides of the city wall.
After seeing that Sizhou Army's offensive was stabilized by himself, Xiahou Dun breathed a sigh of relief. Who knew that in less than two-quarters of an hour, a large number of Sizhou soldiers suddenly swarmed on the west city wall, and the leader turned out to be Dian Wei, who had captured Xiliang's fierce general Hua Xiong in front of Hulao Pass.
Seeing this situation, Xiahou Dun knew that Sizhou Army was preparing to capture Puyang City in one fell swoop today. Xiahou Dun already knew the layout of Sizhou's army outside the city. In addition to Huangfu Chaobo's Chinese army, Huangfu Chaobo's chief general Huang Zhong was also at the west gate.
Now that Dian Wei has already ascended the city, it is very likely that Huang Zhong will also ascend the city in person. Both of them are powerful generals, and neither of them may be able to resist it alone. However, there is only one general above the west gate. If they both ascend the city at the same time, If so, Ximen will most likely be lost.
Without thinking too much, Xiahou Dun ordered two personal guards to go to the east gate to transfer Xu Zhu to the west gate, while he led hundreds of personal guards to stop Qu Wei.
As expected, it was not what Xiahou Dun expected.
As soon as he fought with Dian Wei, he realized that he was definitely no match for him, as the opponent was extremely powerful. Seeing this situation, Xiahou Dun immediately adjusted his strategy. Instead of fighting Dian Wei head-on, he used his personal guards to form a formation and fight with him. In this way, Dian Wei Kankan was held back.
After Dian Wei was held back by the personal guards led by Xiahou Dun, the Sizhou Army's offensive immediately stalled, and the battle at the top of the city soon fell into a stalemate again. Huang Zhong, who was under the city, immediately realized that the only Chinese troops under the city were Huangfu Chaobo's Guards Battalion and Huang Zhong's Huben Battalion.
Seeing that the attack on the city was blocked again, Huang Zhong immediately led the soldiers of Huben Camp to start the attack. As the "bang bang" of the Chinese army's war drums sounded, Huang Zhong quickly led the soldiers of Huben Camp to attack the city.
Xiahou Dun, who was in the midst of a fierce battle, saw that Huang Zhong had led his troops to fight in person as he had expected. He couldn't help but feel anxious in his heart. While leading his soldiers to continue fighting with Dian Wei Hui, he looked back to the east from time to time.
At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, Xiahou Dun suddenly saw dozens of fast horses galloping towards the streets in the distance. The person on top of the horses was a burly general. That was not the Tiger Guard under Cao Charlie. General Xu Zhu or who?
Seeing Xu Zhu finally arriving, Xiahou Dun couldn't help but let out a long breath, gave an order to the guards around him, and used all his strength to block Dian Wei and Sizhou beside him.
A moment later, with a loud roar from the wall, Xu Zhu, who was known as the "Tiger Maniac" in Cao Cao's army, ran up from under the wall. With a loud roar, he waved his long sword and rushed towards Dian Wei.
Xiahou Dun gave an order and led his guards to withdraw from the battle with Dian Wei, and turned to kill the other side of the tower.
At this time, Huang Zhong had led a school of soldiers from the Tiger Camp to the wall from the other side of the tower, killing people in all directions. Although the soldiers of Cao Cao's army on the wall were fearless and tried their best to stop them, Huang Zhong was a god general, and the guards around him were soldiers from the Iron Wall Camp specially sent by Huangfu Chaobo.
The elite Qingzhou soldiers of Cao's army were no match for them, and now they were being killed by Huang Zhong and his troops and retreated step by step. It can be said that Xu Zhu came at the right time. If he came a quarter of an hour later, the west tower would probably be occupied by Sizhou.
Soon, Xiahou Dun led his personal guards to engage in a battle with Huang Zhong. Although Cao Cao's army still had the upper hand on the entire city wall, as more and more soldiers of the Sizhou army rushed to the top of the city wall, Cao's army was inevitably forced to retreat step by step.