Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3321 Death and Life

The sun comes out every day and life must go on.

As long as you are alive.

The older people revere life and want to live another five hundred years, while the young people despise life and feel that if they cannot live great, they will die heroically.

Cao Jun's siege tactics are already considered to be the top level of this era.

The most critical point is not that Cao Cao's army has a numerical advantage, but that after Cao Cao's arrival, there have been great changes in the way he organized the attack.

The city wall is only that big, and it is impossible for thousands of people to crowd in at once, but there is a big difference between a well-organized city wall and a haphazard city wall.

So Anyi gained strength in a short period of time.

When Cao Jun first besieged Anyi, Cao Hong just pretended to let Pei Jun do whatever he wanted. Cao Jun was mainly building camps around Anyi to prepare for hussar raids. As for Pei Junzhi's great talents, it was obviously impossible to put much pressure on Anyi, and Cao Hong did not give Pei Jun much authority at that time. Later, he simply kicked Pei Jun away and threw him to Wenxi.

So generally speaking, if the intensity of the attack suffered by Anyi at that time was considered to be a Pei Jun standard, then after Cao Cao arrived, it would have automatically doubled and then doubled again. After all, when Cao Cao ascends the high platform, Cao Cao can clearly see which troops are lazy and slippery. Even if these Cao troops were not led by generals, they were all serious.

At this point, Anyi's attack intensity was probably two to three Pei Jun's intensity.

Then Bao Zhong took his soldiers and horses and began to mobilize the siege, which roughly doubled again. Under his leadership, the attack power was about four or five times Pei Jun's strength, which caught the Anyi defenders off guard. Cao Jun also once attacked the city wall.

Then Cao Cao received a secret message from the rear. In a bad mood, Cao Hong also joined in supervising the battle and deployed the elite troops of Cao's army such as the Central Leading Army and the Central Guard Army in the rear to assist in the siege. Anyi was under great pressure. It is doubled again.

It was probably more than ten times as strong as before.

At this point, the casualties of the defenders in Anyi City began to skyrocket, until Pei Ji could no longer bear it, and Pei Mao also took out the last coffin book to fill it...

However, the coffin was still not enough. When Cao Hong was supervising the formation and Bao Zhong was in the front army, they tried their best to pry open the turtle shell of Anyi. The private servants of Pei Mao, Pei Ji and others Like a drop in the bucket, it disappeared in the flames of Cao Jun's raging attack in the blink of an eye.

So, why didn't Cao's army attack Anyi desperately at the beginning? Isn't it equivalent to taking the city of Anyi now?

Mainly Anyi is just incidental...

In this era, unless the defending side is completely unprepared, then the attacking side can make a surprise attack or attack the city by surprise. Or maybe the defender has no intention of defending at all, and will scream and run away as soon as the attacker's flag appears in the distance, otherwise there is no possibility of breaking the city in a short time...

Except for Fei Qian's wall hanging.

At the beginning, Cao's army needed time to build siege equipment, and it also needed time to kill the fighting spirit and strength of the Anyi defenders. They also needed to dig holes everywhere to wait for the hussars. It was not until now that they focused their attention on Anyi City.

Originally, Bao Zhong only climbed the city wall with all his strength on the first day to show that he was not a freeloader. In addition, he also took the opportunity to attack Anyi to escape from Cao Jun's base camp.

Because Bao Zhong didn't believe that Bao Xin simply "died in the rebellion".

When the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans marched into Yanzhou, Liu Dai, who was the governor of Yanzhou at the time, ignored Bao Xin's advice and rashly went into battle and died in battle. There is nothing to say about this. Even if Liu Dai does not die in the hands of the Yellow Turban, he will die in the hands of others, because most of the Yanzhou nobles at that time felt that Liu Dai was not their son, so it would be better to replace him with someone else...

However, everyone has different opinions on the choice of Yanzhou Mu. Some people like Bian Yi, thinking that Bian Yi is an outstanding talent. Others think that Bao Xin is the oldest and has the most experience. Cao Cao, at that time, was just the guy behind his back. Just Yuan Shao.

Of course, there are records saying that Chen Gong supported Cao Cao at that time, and Bao Xin welcomed Cao Cao to Yanzhou...

But this kind of "welcoming" is actually Chen Shou Dali's proof of Bao Xin's admiration for Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms, and also tried to prove the legitimacy of Comrade Cao Cao's rise.

But the only thing missing is that this kind of "civilian election" requires three concessions and three bows in most cases.

Only Liu Bei gave up Xuzhou three times, but Cao Cao did not give up Yanzhou three times.

Historically, Lu Bu didn't understand this, so when Liu Bei expressed humility, Lu Bu accepted it carelessly, and said that Liu Bei was really weird, but in fact, it planted the seeds of disaster.

So how could Bao Xin, who had been in the Han system for many years, not understand this? Therefore, no one knows whether Bao Xin's "welcome" was a courtesy "welcome" or a sincere desire to "welcome" Cao Cao, because Bao Xin fought to save Cao Cao in a battle with the Yellow Turban Army shortly afterwards. He took risks and fought, but finally died...

When Shouzhang was fighting the Yellow Turban Army, Bao Xin and Cao Cao were on the front line, but Cao Cao's flag was exposed for some reason, and Cao Cao's infantry force just didn't arrive!

The cups were just put on the table.

Later official announcements stated that Bao Xin heroically protected Cao Cao from retreating during the battle, but was eventually brutally killed by the Yellow Turban thieves.

After the war, although Cao Cao's classmate offered a large reward to find Bao Xin's body, unfortunately, he could not be found. Cao Cao had no choice but to carve the image of Bao Xin out of wood to worship, which also expressed his condolences and respect for Bao Xin.

Then Cao Cao became the shepherd of Yanzhou naturally, without any concessions or bows, he just became it.

It is understandable that the situation in wartime is critical and should be handled according to the authority.

In the winter of that year, Cao Cao took into his account the 300,000 yellow turban thieves from Qingzhou who had "killed" Bao Xin, resulting in the loss of Bao Xin's body, and formed the famous Qingzhou Army.

Then, Cao Cao killed Bian Yiang.

One reason is that Bian Rang said something he shouldn't have said, which made the entire Yanzhou gentry very dissatisfied with Cao Cao...

Then, Cao Cao killed Kong Rong.

One of the reasons is that the old boy Kong Rong always ridiculed him, making Lao Cao lose face, right?

Then, according to history, Cao Cao waited twenty years after Bao Xin's death before he thought of remembering Bao Xin's achievements. He made Bao Xin's son Bao Shao the new capital Tinghou, and recruited Bao Xin's son Bao Xun to serve as prime minister.

So the question becomes, what is it that Cao Cao can't bear and can't talk about?

You must know that Cao Cao had to endure Xu You's foul-mouthed bitch for a long time before secretly signaling for others to take action.

There is no answer to these things in the official language. Bao Zhong could not find any deeds to prove his speculation, just because he felt that Cao Cao would undoubtedly benefit the most after Bao Xin's death.

Moreover, Bao Zhong felt that Cao Cao actually knew that Bao Zhong was suspicious, so he kept Bao Zhong with him, intentionally or unintentionally.

Bao Zhong felt uneasy under Cao Cao, but he couldn't tell outsiders about his uneasiness, not even his own children. Because his child is so innocent that he has no idea in this world that some people would kill someone just to take one more look in the crowd...

Of course, regarding this matter, you can choose to believe in Lao Cao's character.

As for Bao Zhong himself, he didn't believe it, so he would rather attack Anyi. Because he was familiar with Bao Zhong in siege warfare, but he was not good at dealing with hussars and horses. The hussars are coming soon. If one day the hussars really come, and classmate Lao Cao gives an order to him to fight them, will he go or not? At least when attacking Anyi, Bao Zhong could still make the decision to keep his children in a safer place.

After all, Bao Zhong could at least grasp the rhythm of siege warfare. However, he never expected that after receiving the emergency report from 800 miles away, Cao Cao uncharacteristically planned to attack overnight. Anyi!

This will cost Bao Zhong his life...

Because Cao Hong didn't care whether Bao Zhong was intentional or unintentional, or whether he was loyal or disloyal, seeing that Bao Xin's children seemed eager to lead troops to attack the city, he waved his hand and said, "Go!" 』

So Pop Pikachu screamed and rushed forward, completely ignoring his father's good intentions.

For Cao Hong, his own children died in Hedong, so would Cao Hong care if other people's children went to die? Cao Hong only cared about what happened behind the scenes, which made Cao Cao lose his composure!

Although Cao Cao finally controlled his emotions and said it was nothing in an understatement, Cao Hong knew that there must be something serious.

For example, although Cao Pi was not dead, he was injured and disabled?

Or...

Cao Hong didn't dare to think about it, so he had to do something to make himself feel at ease.

So Cao Hong drove his soldiers and attacked the city at the risk of his life!

As for the future, we can only wait until the future!

Cao Hongdu personally urged his soldiers and braved arrows and rolling stones to reach the front of the formation. Who dared to slack off?

Nowadays, Anyi has used various materials such as rolling stones and hammering wood. There are still some scattered materials that are basically obtained by demolishing the houses in the city. However, the more the houses are demolished, the farther away they will naturally be, and the manpower will become more and more It's because of fatigue, so the main threat to Cao's army when they climb the city is boiling water...

Even the golden juice is gone, only water is boiled in the pot where the golden juice was originally boiled, and then poured down!

Generally speaking, this thing is much less lethal than gold juice. After all, gold juice is viscous, corrosive and toxic. As long as it is contaminated with a little bit, it will be life-threatening. As for boiling water, as long as it is not the first few What an unlucky guy, it could be called boiling water from the top of the city, but when it was splashed down the city, it could only be called scalding.

And if it is covered by a shield and does not come into contact with the skin immediately, the threat is indeed more than one level lower than that of gold juice and fire oil.

But talking about harm without considering the dose is just a hooliganism.

The soldiers guarding the city obviously did not intend to repel Cao's army with a pot of boiling water. They just dealt with the ladders erected on the top of the city and drove back Cao's army who were armed with swords, guns and armor.

So when I didn't go all out to attack the city, I would often see what looked like a long line of Cao Jun on the ladder, and then two ladles of boiling water would be poured on it. The Cao Jun soldier at the front would be doused in the face and howl. After falling down, the remaining soldiers of Cao's army on the ladder quickly slipped down and dispersed, waiting for a while before continuing to climb the ladder.

But now that Cao Hong has issued a death order to attack the city, things are immediately different.

Even if the boiling water leaked along the gaps in the shield, and the exposed heads, faces, and hands of Cao Jun's soldiers were burned to pieces, they still screamed and continued to charge upward!

Bao Zhong didn't know that his son had led another group of soldiers to the other side of the city wall in Anyi. He thought that his child could survive this disaster and escape the ruthless swords and guns under his protection. . Bao Zhong risked his life in order to at least prove that his father and son were not just freeloaders, and that they could be more or less justified in front of Cao Cao. However, his son did not think so. He always felt that Bao Zhong did not believe him and looked down on him, and he became more and more angry. He wants to do something earth-shattering to make his father admit how powerful he is...

To the defenders of Anyi, Bao Zhong's son led a fresh force to launch a fierce attack on another city wall, but it seemed like Cao Jun was using a strategy to attack the east and attack the west!

So when faced with a plan to seize the opportunity to attack the east and attack the west, should we focus on dealing with the east or the west?

Bao Zhong still didn't know what was going on. He felt that there seemed to be some slack on the top of the city. His old arms and legs couldn't always board the steamer and step on the ladder. He was somewhat complacent and lazy. When he took the time to look back, he suddenly saw My heart goes cold!

Where is his child? !

This is a feeling you can never feel unless you are a parent. Just like in the small broken station, some people saw the parents of the lost children fainting with anxiety, but still holding on to their mobile phones, which means that the blind monk discovered Hua Dian, and the trainee discovered the water-like excitement, and screamed and published Gao Jian, but he didn’t know that at that moment, fainting was the body’s instinctive protection when the stimulation was too great. If he had poor cardiovascular condition, he would die on the spot!

Bao Zhong searched eagerly, but could not see the figure that should have been standing under the battle flag in the distance!

As for the general's flag in the distance, I don't know when it changed from "Bao" to "Cao"!

"Dalang!" Where is Dalang? ! 』

Bao Zhong hurried back, and the further back he went, the more desolate he felt. He tried his best to sing, chant, beat and play in front of others, pretending to be stupid, wasn't it just to earn a living for his children? Although his children are indeed not that smart, they are still his flesh and blood and his future.

"Where did Dalang go?" Has anyone seen Dalang? ! 』

Bao Zhong's pocket is crooked and he always asks questions when he sees people. All the soldiers and generals of Cao's army who were originally in the rear formation have been replaced by a new group of people. Those who knew Bao Zhong responded a little, while those who didn't know or were unfamiliar with him just shook their arms and left.

When Bao Zhong asked General Cao under the banner, he saw Cao Hong's face was solemn and fierce, "What are you doing here?" ! Why don't you hurry up and supervise the soldiers to capture Anyi quickly! 』

Bao Zhong didn't dare to talk back, but he didn't see his child after all, so he asked in confusion, "May I ask, general, where has my elder... gone?" 』

Cao Hong glanced at Bao Zhong from the corner of his eyes, "What's wrong?" Your eldest son felt that it was hard for you to attack the city, so he led another group of soldiers to attack the west wall to share the worries of the lord! You...you retreated without orders. I will take note of this for now and return to the front line to command as soon as possible! Now Anyi has his last breath left! If you work harder, you can conquer it! If Anyi is captured, it will be nothing more than retreat without Lingshan! If... huh, you might as well do it yourself! 』

"But my uncle..."

Bao Zhong still wanted to fight for one or two, but he saw Cao Hong's eyes piercing towards him like a knife.

"how? Do you think someone can’t kill you? 』

Cao Hong's voice was cold, and murderous intent overflowed from his teeth.

Bao Zhong didn't dare to say anything more and retreated.

At this time, Anyi was indeed at the last moment as Cao Hong said. Whether it was the private soldiers of the Pei family or the civilian men recruited in the city, they were still suffering from heavy casualties and exhaustion.

The original garrison at the top of the city was almost completely wiped out. Even the common people who were recruited to go up to the city were reduced to seventy-seven or eighty-eight.

Some civilians had no armor at all, and then Cao Jun's arrows roared in. No matter whether they were men, women or children, young or old, they were all shot to the ground. Blood soaked every floor tile on the city wall, filling the city wall with blood. Cover all the gaps. When stepped on, some purple-black colors surged out from under the feet, like hands stretching out from hell.

The utensils used to defend the city were either used up or damaged. Even the pots and cauldrons used to boil gold juice and water were burned out. Two or three of the remaining pots and cauldrons were dumped into ashes due to lack of fuel.

Large numbers of wounded people were wailing on the city walls and under the inner walls, but no one paid any attention to them and no one treated them. There were also many corpses that had no time to move and be dragged, so they were left lying or lying on their backs, and their incomplete remains were scattered all over the city walls and in the corridors.

At the moment of the battle, whether it was the soldiers guarding the city or the civilians, it was exactly as Cao Hong said. They were just holding on for a breath, relying on their own instincts to fight and resist Cao Jun's attack.

Many people in the city died under Cao Jun's attack, including fathers and children.

When the war did not come to them, the people in Hedong always felt that war was just like this, and troubled times were just like this. But now in the face of death, no one will say a word. Even the keyboard warrior who usually dances the most happily is silent...

Pei Mao dragged his old body and fought against Cao Jun's double attack with Pei Ji.

The war will not give Pei Mao special treatment just because he is old or in poor health. On the contrary, the more troubled the times, the more dangerous the old and the weak are.

The same is true for Pei Mao, but when Cao Jun's soldiers saw Pei Mao with gray beard and hair, they would respect and love his elders and be friendly and avoid him. Instead, when they saw Pei Mao in full armor, they knew he was a big fish and moved more and more towards Pei Mao. Mao slashes past!

Coincidentally, Bao Zhong's son Bao Dalang also discovered Pei Mao and thought that this old man must be a big experience bag. It was his time to get the merit. So he secretly hid in a team of Cao's soldiers and climbed towards the top of the city...