Chapter 779: Attack Puyang Again

During the few days under Puyang City, Xu Rong had reorganized the troops. All the wounded soldiers were arranged to return to Baima City. They were accompanied by the wounded among the 20,000 Cao Cao prisoners. As for the other prisoners of Cao Cao, they would be used by Xu Rong to fill the river and open the siege passage at the beginning of the siege.

As for the guards of Baima City and Baima Port, they were also transferred to the camp of Puyang City, and the troops defending the two places were handed over to the nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers.

In addition to the 20,000 troops transferred from Sizhou and the 10,000 guards transferred from Baima, Xu Rong replenished all the soldiers of several schools with his suitable soldiers, and all the other soldiers were reorganized into several divisions.

On the 15th, Xu Rong began to arrange Cao Cao's prisoners to fill the river and open the siege passage to Puyang City.

At the same time, the 5,000 digging troops of the Dugu brothers began to work, digging siege tunnels from a forest five miles north of Puyang City. The 5,000 digging troops were divided into ten teams by the Dugu brothers, each team was equipped with 500 prisoners to transport the excavated soil, and at the same time, ten passages were dug into Puyang City.

According to the result of the discussion of the three brothers Dugu Xiong, it would take four to five days to dig through all five tunnels starting from five miles outside the city. The most difficult position was the distance from the moat to the bottom of the city wall, so Xu Rong also prepared to capture Puyang in five to six days.

Although there were tunnels in preparation, Xu Rong's attack was still pressing step by step, leaving Cao Jun in the city with no time to take care of other things.

On the first day, Xu Rong ordered the prisoners to fill the river and open up the siege passage regardless of casualties. In less than a day, Xu Rong filled the moat of Puyang City again at the cost of 2,000 casualties and prisoners, and prepared nearly 30 siege passages. This was the third time that the moat of Puyang City was filled in less than a year.

After a night of silence, the attack on the second day officially began. Although Xu Rong's attack always seemed so tepid, he was quite prepared for the rhythm of the attack. Often, the soldiers of the previous round of attack were still on the way to retreat, but the soldiers of the next round of attack had already started.

In this way, after several rounds of attacks in a day, although the number of Cao Cao's soldiers killed and injured was limited, the pressure on the city head was always maintained.

Not only that, each round of attack did not use ordinary soldiers, but in a certain round of attack, a large number of soldiers from the battle camp could be mixed in. In this way, the soldiers of Cao Cao's army on the city head were miserable. After a day, they basically did not dare to relax at all.

Xu Rong's command once again amazed everyone. That night, in Huangfu Chaobo's camp, the generals in the army were full of confidence in taking Puyang.

In Puyang City, Cao Cao's army was crying. Although Cao Cao was unwilling to admit it, he knew in his heart that he had been defeated twice in a row by Xu Rong, and if nothing unexpected happened, there would be a third time soon.

Cao Cao was concerned about the morale of the army and his own face, but Xiahou Dun did not consider so much. There were some things Cao Cao could not do, but he had to do them.

In Puyang City, in the county government, Cao Cao was also summoning all the generals to discuss matters. After Cao Cao finished speaking, Xiahou Dun stood up and said: "General, in my opinion, we must consider withdrawing the army. Our army has just been defeated and morale is low. There are less than 20,000 soldiers who have escaped back to the city, plus the 5,000 defenders in the city, there are only more than 20,000 soldiers. The morale of the Sizhou army outside the city is strong and they are coming to attack with the remaining power of the great victory. Judging from today's battle, Xu Rong is not an easy person to deal with. Instead of fighting to the death with the Sizhou army in Puyang City, it is better to lead these 20,000 elite troops to break through and preserve their strength, and then fight a decisive battle with the Sizhou army."

"Yes, my lord, these are elite troops who have experienced a real battle. With them, we can successfully train more More strong soldiers. "Le Jin said on the side;

"Puyang City is strong, the Sizhou Army has started to attack the city, how can we give up so easily? We are not as good as the Sizhou Army in field battles, can't we defend the city?" Cao Ang immediately retorted;

Cao Anmin also stood up: "Yes,

Even if we want to retreat, we have to tear off a few pieces of meat from Huangfu Chaobo, otherwise this battle will really be in vain. "

Several veterans are quite cautious, especially Xiahou Dun. He and Cao Cao have suffered several losses at the hands of Xu Rong. A few years ago, Cao Cao was almost defeated by him, and it was Huangfu Chaobo who rescued him. Now, a few years later, he did not expect Xu Rong to become Huangfu Chaobo's subordinate.

When seeing Xu Rong outside Baima City, Xiahou Dun also had the idea of ​​avenging the arrow shot in the past, but a battle a few days ago once again brought him back to reality. Xu Rong beat him up with one move and he had almost no power to fight back.

In today's battle, Xiahou Dun clearly felt that Xu Rong did not try his best, but still made his army somewhat clumsy, so when it came to the evening meeting, he did not hesitate to propose a breakout.

In his opinion, there were only 15,000 elite soldiers left in the 50,000-man army, and the remaining nearly 10,000 soldiers would serve as a cover for the army to break out. With these 15,000 elite soldiers who survived the battle, it would only take a few months to replenish the army.

However, the two young generals were still unconvinced. Although their army failed in the field battle, could they not defend the city?

According to Cao Cao's inner thoughts, he actually wanted to lead his troops to retreat immediately, but facing his eldest son and nephew, Cao Cao did not want to admit defeat so easily. You know, this was their first battle. If the army broke out before the defeat of the city was obvious, it would be very disadvantageous for their future leadership.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao looked at the two military advisors beside him. Sima Yi was too young. Seeing Cao Cao looking at him, he immediately suggested not to give up so easily.

Cheng Yu, however, was silent, stroking his beard. Seeing Cao Cao looking at him, he did not answer immediately, but stood in front of the map in deep thought.

After a long time, Cheng Yu asked Cao Cao: "My lord, have you received any news from Cao Hong, the governor?"

Cao Cao was stunned and said: "Zi Lian sent someone to bring news the day before yesterday. He has already captured Yongqiu. According to the itinerary, he should have arrived at the city of Chenliu today. Zhongde's intention..."

"Yes, since we have to evacuate sooner or later, then, we only need to ensure the combat effectiveness of the most elite soldiers. The longer we delay, the more time we can buy for General Zi Lian."

"Yes," Xiahou Dun clapped his hands and praised: "You are worthy of being Mr. Cheng. Since we can't defend Puyang, it's better to buy more time for Zi Lian..."