Chapter 47 Cao Yuan's soldiers crossed the South Pass and work together to pass the five levels 5

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were particularly jealous when they met before the battle. Xu Chu and other generals surrounded Cao Cao before leaving the battle. Cao Cao pointed to Yuan Shao with a horse whip and said, "The four generations and three princes of the Yuan family are all loyal to Hanlu. Now that he claims to be the emperor at the beginning, is he worthy of his ancestors?

Yuan Shao said, "The world is the world of all people. Those who have virtue live in it, and those who have no virtue will lose it. The Han Emperor was not virtuous and was not enough to guard the community. Therefore, Zen gave way to Yuan Highway and Zen gave way to me again. With the jade seal as evidence, how could he claim to be the emperor? Your name is Han Xiang, and you are really a Chinese thief! Holding the former emperor is more criminal than Dong Zhuo and Li Wei. How dare you slander me to rebel?

Cao Cao said, "Today I am ordered to beg you by the emperor of the Han Dynasty!"

Yuan Shao said, "I am clothed and edicted to ask the thief to save the emperor!"

When Cao heard that Yuan Shao also knew the edict, he suddenly thought that Liu Bei had voted for Yuan Shao. At that time, he was furious and ordered Xu Chu to come out to fight. Yuan Shao had already made up his mind not to fight with Cao Cao, so he ordered Gao Lan to lead 10,000 strong crossbowmen step by step forward, followed by 10,000 strong archers.

Xu Chu is nicknamed a tiger idiot, but he is not stupid. No matter how powerful he is, he can't resist thousands of crossbows, so he can only retreat. Cao Cao ordered the Xiahou brothers to attract 5,000 swords and shield soldiers each to break Yuan Shao's crossbow array. Unexpectedly, Gao Lan ordered the archer to shoot back. Ten thousand arrows were fired at once, and the arrows were like rain.

Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan hurriedly ordered the soldiers to shield to cover the arrow rain falling from the sky. At this time, under another order from Gaolan, 10,000 strong crossbowmen in the front row tucked the crossbow machine, and the crossbow arrows shot out flat. The rain of arrows on his head could not be covered, and the crossbow in front of him came again. How could Cao Jun resist this? For a while, there were countless people who hit the arrows. Yuan Shao took the opportunity to drive the troops to cover up, and Cao's army was defeated.

It's okay for Nan Ye's more than a thousand elites to follow Cao Cao's downwind battle. It's really unrealistic to help Cao Cao defeat Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops. Unless Nan Ye risked more than 1,000 people and went straight to Yuan Shao's camp for a beheading operation. But how can Nan Ye be willing to let his cronies work hard for Cao Cao? He is not that stupid. So he retreated with Cao's army and went down to Guandu.

Cao's defeat was to return to the pre-liberation overnight, and the territory captured by Yan Liang and Zhu Wenchou was returned to Yuan Shao. If Cao Cao's official camp hadn't been strong and comparable to a city, I'm afraid it would have been taken away by Yuan Shao in one fell swoop. Now Cao Cao can only stay in the camp to avoid the edge.

Yuan Shao's army approached Guandu Xiazhai and attacked Cao Cao's camp several times, all of which were guarded by Cao Cao. Cao Cao's camp is surrounded by huge wood like a wall, and there are antlers and iron terrothus outside the wooden fence. Yuan Shao's cavalry could not rush in, and bows and arrows could not enter. If infantry was used to advance, Cao Cao's men would defend against the fortress and shoot arrows outward to kill Yuan Shao's people and horses.

After several attacks failed, Yuan Shao gathered to discuss countermeasures and said, "Now Cao's camp is like defending the city. Although our army is difficult to capture it for a while, do you have a good strategy?"

Guo Tu said, "Your Majesty, why don't you break the camp by rushing the car and ladder to attack the city?"

Fengji said: "Cars and ladders are all ways to break the city. Cao Ying has neither a gate to rush nor a wall for soldiers to climb and foot. What about the ladder? In my opinion, an earthy mountain can be built in front of Cao Cao's village, and then a tower can be set up on the earth mountain, so that the sergeant can stand on the tower and shoot arrows into the village. If you abandon the village and leave, your majesty will get this passed, and Xu Chang can break it.

Yuan Shao knew that the building is also called a building car or well, which is also a siege weapon. Its main body is a very high wooden frame. The upper watchtower can hide soldiers, and the lower wheel shaft can move. The soldiers can be higher than the city wall in the watchtower and shoot arrows into the city. According to Feng Ji, if you build a dirt mountain first and then set up a well, you can shoot arrows into Cao's camp from a long distance, and make Cao's army unable to fight back.

Everyone said it was a good plan when they heard the words of Feng Ji, and Yuan Shao was also overjoyed, so he chose strong soldiers in the army to pick up the soil to build a mountain on the edge of Cao Cao's village.

Although Cao Cao saw Yuan Shao's soldiers building a dirt mountain in the camp, he knew that Yuan Shao was not well-hearted. He ordered several people to lead the army to rush out and wanted to destroy Yuan Shao's project, but they were shot back by Yuan Shao with a bow and crossbow.

Others may not know Yuan Shao's intention, but Nan Ye knows it. He did not bother to stop Yuan Shao from building mountains, but let his men and horses go out of the rear camp to cut trees and transport them back to the camp.

Cao Cao heard that Nan Ye was collecting wood everywhere, so he came to Nan Ye's camp and asked, "The mage ordered people to cut wood to prevent Yuan Shao from building mountains?"

Nan Ye nodded and said, "That's right!"

Cao Cao was surprised and said, "In this way, the mage already knows what Yuan Shao's intention is?"

Nan Ye smiled and said, "Why is this difficult? Yuan Shao wants to shoot arrows in the city. I want to order people to build wooden houses in the village and build more wooden shields to avoid them. Not only can you defend against arrows, but also get Yuan Shao's arrows for your own use. Why not?

Cao suddenly said, "If the illegal teacher said it, I still don't know Yuan Shao's intention. Now I can let the whole army use the strategy of the teacher." After saying that, he ordered the sergeants in the battalion to also cut wood and build shields.

When Cao Cao left, Guo Jia asked, "Why didn't the mage tell Meng De earlier that there was a Thunderbolt car that could break the well?"

Nan Ye smiled and said, "If I told you in advance, how could Meng De come to me for a plan?" How can I ask Mengde for benefits?"

Guo Jia couldn't help laughing and said, "The mage is so shrewd that he won't suffer losses if he doesn't bring me here this time."

Cao Cao and Nan Ye were preparing for logging in the camp. Yuan Shao kept picking up the earth and mountains outside the camp. For a while, the two armies were peaceful and busy with their own projects. Ten days later, Yuan Shao built more than 50 earth mountains, and the upper standing well sent archers to stand on it and keep shooting arrows into Cao's camp.

Nanye prepared early, and his subordinates were few. He had replaced the tent with a wooden house and let Yuan Shao shoot arrows on the mountain. Nan Ye was not afraid at all. On the other hand, Cao Cao's soldiers are not so lucky. The wooden houses of 100,000 troops cannot be built in ten days, so only a small number of wooden houses have been built for generals to hide. The rest of the soldiers are about to defend against the wooden shield.

Yuan Shao saw Cao Jun lying on the ground in the camp, like a turtle, and couldn't help laughing. The soldiers also shouted and laughed when they saw the situation. They rewarded Cao's army with a rain of arrows when they had nothing to do, jokingly calling Cao's army "the bastard in the rain".

Cao Cao was reminded by Nan Ye to prepare, so Yuan Shao's move sent tens of thousands of arrows to Cao's army caused little casualties. However, he was beaten and scolded by Yuan Shao's soldiers for several days. Cao's morale dropped a lot, but he was still suppressed by Yuan Shao for a long distance and could not fight back. So Cao Cao summoned the generals and asked, "Do the princes have a plan to break Yuan Shaotu's mountain well?"

Xun Yu, Xun You and other counselors are not low in intelligence, but none of them are proficient in civil engineering. Liu Ye, who was supposed to contribute to Cao Cao, has already been poached away by Nan Ye, so everyone is at a loss. Suddenly, Li Ru said, "Since Guanghua's national teacher was prophetic and expected Yuan Shao's strategy, he might also have a way to deal with it. Why don't the Prime Minister ask the master about the plan?"