? After Zhang Kai and Zhao Yu completed the task of exhausting the enemy, they ran into Xia Pi City, and there was no one of the soldiers under their charge. As for the troops that Cao Bao and Sun Guan had really attacked, they also achieved great success. Not only did they cause certain casualties to Zhang Xun and Pan Feng's troops, but when the rockets fell in the last round, they also burned down a lot of camps and wooden equipment used for siege.

Four people returned to the city safely and fell asleep, but caused several coalition forces outside the city to suffer. Because they were worried that the Xuzhou soldiers in the city would take out the city to fight night again, the soldiers outside the city would not dare to rest and were always on guard against the enemy's attack on the camp. They yawned and even the world was dawn.

During the day, the leaders of several armies asked each other, and then they realized that the Xuzhou soldiers had really taken action, but the unlucky ones were Zhang Xun and Pan Feng. Because they were exhausted by the Xuzhou soldiers' attack camp the night before, the soldiers arranged for the soldiers to take turns to rest during the day to prevent them from being attacked again that night. In this way, the speed of the troops outside the city preparing to attack the city slowed down, achieving Chen Deng's expected goal.

That night, the four coalition forces arranged half of the troops to stare at the eyes and stay awake, lying around the military camp, preparing to attack the city guards who dared to go out of the city to sneak attack again. Unfortunately, things went against their wishes, and there was no mouse in Xia Pi City. During the day, half of the soldiers who did not sleep at night naturally had to rest, and only the other half were left to continue to make siege equipment, so the speed was slowed down again.

On the third night, Chen Deng suddenly changed his strategy and asked Cao Bao and Sun Guan to lead 6,000 elite soldiers to go out from the west gate. The target of the night attack suddenly became Xiahou Yuan's troops. In this attack, Chen Deng let the troops leaving the city set off at dawn, and actually carried five catapults and some big black iron balls with his army. Three thousand soldiers left the city with large shields that could form shield walls, and three thousand people with long-range waiting bows. It seemed that they were going to do a big battle and would not stop until they hurt Xiahou Yuan's troops.

Xiahou Yuan and Xi Zhicai did not expect that the Xuzhou soldiers would attack their camp at dawn with real swords and guns. They had been attacked from the first time Zhang Xun and Pan Feng's troops were attacked, while Wen Chou and his own troops were only harassed and analyzed that the Xuzhou soldiers in the city were afraid of Yuan Cao's troops and dared to send people from afar to provoke, and would never dare to come with their troops.

During the day, Sun Guan and Cao Bao had already visualized the distance and direction of the Cao army. So when the troops leaving the city came to the position where the catapult car could attack the Cao army, they stopped the troops and then first let the three thousand shield soldiers form a solid shield wall to effectively protect the long-bow soldiers behind them, and then let the archers responsible for indiscriminate shooting turn the arrows on the strings, and finally let the five catapult cars shoot long distances at the same time.

What the catapult cart threw out was not heavy stones, but the new "thunder" with steel on the outside, filled with gunpowder and triggering the print. Since this thing was produced by the Cold Tiger Equipment Research Institute, it has shown its mighty under Linzi City. As a result, Yuan Shaojun suffered enough. Until now, he will be scared when he sees something big and round.

At dawn, the vigilance of the soldiers in Xiahou Yuan's army had been reduced to a minimum. In their opinion, it was time for them to rest and sleep after dawn. How could the Xuzhou soldiers in the city come out to attack the camp at this time?

Just as the Xiahou soldiers who were in charge of the alert and guard began to doze off in a daze, the "thunder bomb" that fell from the sky and exploded when they landed on the ground made a huge explosion. Although there were only five sounds, it was enough to wake up all the officers and soldiers in Cao's army.

In terms of actual combat effectiveness, the explosion range of the sky thunder is limited. If it were not used on a large scale, it would be difficult to cause major casualties to the enemy. The main function is to shock the enemy, especially the war horses of the cavalry unit. When they see the fierce flames and explosions, they will definitely be frightened and fled. The 20,000 troops brought to Xuzhou this time were elite infantry soldiers trained by Yu Jin and Li Dian. Because Cao Cao also mastered the method of making gunpowder, these infantry had been exposed to the explosion of gunpowder during training. Although they were successfully attacked by Xuzhou soldiers, they did not act very flustered.

The well-trained Cao army immediately responded, picked up the weapons in their hands, and began to kill Sun Guan and Cao Bao army who continued to fire thunder one after another.

Looking at the Cao army rushing towards him in a dark circle, Cao Bao measured the distance between the two sides. When Cao army approached the maximum range of the archers, he immediately ordered: "Bowmen fired in a volley, release!"

"Swish, swish, swish..." The sound of arrows piercing through the sky sounded neatly. The next moment, the Cao army rushing in front fell down in groups. The Cao army soldiers following behind watched the brothers in front were shot to the ground by the Xuzhou soldiers. The smell of blood was aroused and they rushed towards the Xuzhou soldiers even more desperately.

Just as the Cao army rushed to the Xuzhou soldiers for more than 400 steps, the three thousand Xuzhou archers had already desperately fired more than a dozen feather arrows. If they were combined, this crazy rain of arrows would probably shoot 50,000 arrows. Although the Cao army was fierce and fearless, the power of the super large bows created by the Jin State was not something they could withstand by their will. So when the Cao army soldiers charged in front of the shield wall commanded by Sun Guan, the number was less than a thousand.

Sun Guan calmly ordered: "The crossbowman is ready, five volleys are fired, and release them!"

As Sun Guan's order landed, a row of military steel crossbows suddenly stretched out from the shooting hole specially reserved by the shield wall. He shot in a row at Cao's army, who could already see the figure clearly, and sent these heroic soldiers who escaped the rain of arrows to the road to the underworld.

Xiahou Yuan, who thought that a charge of five thousand soldiers would make the Xuzhou soldiers abandoned their armor completely speechless. Although it was still dark and he could not see the real scene of the enemy and us taking action in the distance, listened to the charge shouts that became weaker and weaker, until they completely disappeared, Xiahou Yuan couldn't believe his ears.

During this time, Cao's army was defeated!

Before Xiahou Yuan could give the order, there were continuous explosions in the camp. The Xuzhou soldiers on the opposite side seemed to be provoking, and at this time they still did not forget to shoot an annoying big iron ball.

After the Wen Chou army garrisoned at the north gate, he faintly heard the explosion of thunder and evacuated quickly outside, fearing that someone would be targeted.

Pan Feng's army garrisoned at the south gate had never seen the sky-booming thunder, but they had no time to support Cao's army, because the annoying Zhang Kai brought another two thousand people out to beat drums and drums, which disrupted the morale of the army.

Zhang Xunjun, who was stationed at the east gate, was the farthest from the west gate, so he could only vaguely hear the explosion. Because he couldn't figure out the situation, he stayed in the military camp honestly and did not go out.

After firing the last few thunders, the Xuzhou soldiers began to organize their retreat in an orderly manner. The team of the poker chariot turned into the front team and headed towards the Ximen Cave first; the longbow soldiers took a bow and arrow toward the west, retreating steadily; the large shield soldiers remained motionless, and remained in place to cover the retreat of the rear troops.

After the catapults and longbow soldiers retreated into the city one after another, a shield wall that showed its outline in the morning light suddenly collapsed. The next moment, three thousand large shield soldiers rushed into the city like a tide, leaving only the scarred Cao Junk resentment.

The formation used by Cao Bao and Sun Guan is the "Iron Hedgehog Formation" created by Zhao Xing. It once caused the arrogant Xianbei people to suffer all the hardships. Now, the battle outside Xia Pi City has caused Xiahou Yuan to lose thousands of elite soldiers, which is indeed extraordinary. ~


Chapter completed!