Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

"Woo! Woo! Woo!"

The terrifying whistling sound of the stone bullets never stopped for a moment, and the defenders inside the Huguan Pass were under great psychological pressure at the moment.

"Boom!"

A stone as big as a millstone smashed hard on the city wall.

Zhong Yao, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others who were watching the battle seemed to feel the ground under their feet tremble.

Zhong Yao looked at Huguankou, which was baptized by stone bullets, and couldn't help but sigh, "It's terrible!"

Ma Teng and Han Sui felt even more terrified in their hearts, and secretly said: "There will be such a powerful trebuchet with such a long range! And it seems that Cao Jun's craftsmen can use local materials anytime, anywhere to build... the end is Terrifying!"

"If I wait to defend the city, what should I do in the face of so many boulders falling from the sky?" Han Sui shook his head and said to himself, "It's better not to become a rival with Prime Minister Cao..."

After thinking about it, the two couldn't help but shuddered together, and blurted out at the same time: "It's terrible!"

Xu Huang heard the general situation of the three of them, but the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, thinking: "This is scary? If you saw Lu Huqi's 'Heavenly Thunder', wouldn't you be so scared that you would pee your pants? "

The one stationed at Huguankou was Deng Sheng, one of the two generals entrusted with important tasks by the high officials.

Deng Sheng had basically never fought against Cao Jun. Before he came, he assured Xia Zhao confidently that it was absolutely impossible for Cao Jun to pass through the Huguan Pass.

But now, Deng Sheng, who didn't dare to take a chance, had already started to waver in his confidence: "There is only such a big place inside the Huguan Pass... Cao Jun threw so many stone bombs so densely, how can this pass be defended?"

Just as Deng Sheng thought of this, a stone bullet the size of a human head fell from the sky and hit a soldier not far in front of Deng Sheng who was trying to run from behind the cover to the city wall.

There was a muffled sound of "Boom!" Deng Sheng blinked, and was surprised to find that the soldier who had just emerged had his head above his chest gone!

And behind the soldier, white and red were painted all over the ground...

"vomit!!!"

The scene in front of him was so exciting that Deng Sheng finally couldn't help it, and began to retch.

However, Cao Jun's trebuchet also needs to rest, and it will be easily damaged after continuous high-intensity projection.Moreover, the stone bombs brought in had been exhausted, so Xu Huang had no choice but to temporarily stop throwing stones.

Though the throwing of stones ceases,

But before the defenders at Huguankou came back to their senses, Xu Huang waved his big hand, and two thousand siege soldiers rushed towards the city wall carrying ladders.

Deng Sheng, who had just arrived on the city wall, saw Cao Jun's sudden attack on the city, so he shouted:

"Send the arrow, release the arrow!"

"Prepare to fight, let me fight Cao Jun!"

......

On the third day of the siege battle, Deng Sheng repelled Cao Jun's siege again.

"How many times is this the siege?" Deng Sheng shook his head, he couldn't remember clearly.

Catapult bombing, Cao Jun's soldiers' strong attack, feint attack, tunnel digging... all kinds of methods of attacking the city have been tried, but Cao Jun's offensive was still resolved by the danger of Huguankou and Deng Sheng's vigilance.

Two hundred steps away from the pass, Xu Huang led his guards outside to observe the siege of Huguan Pass.

"Oh... I was beaten back again..." Seeing that the siege soldiers were repelled again, the guards around Xu Huang couldn't help but sighed together.

But Xu Huang was not in a hurry. He guessed that the Xiliang cavalry had already detoured Shangdang County, so he ordered: "You can project the letter of persuasion."

"Here!" The messenger led the order and left.

Not long after, the trebuchets, which had grown to three hundred, fired at the mouth of the pot again.

"boom!"

The machine was smashed down heavily, and the letter of persuasion that was hit in the wooden barrel flew into the mouth of the pot with a roar.

Deng Sheng felt that the sky was dark again, and immediately shouted: "The stone bombs are coming again! Find a place to hide!"

"boom!!!"

The sky was dark, but this time it wasn't stones that fell, but wooden barrels.

Although wooden barrels can't directly smash people into a puddle of flesh like a stone, they can also make people's heads bleed, and even take them away directly.

After the wooden barrel fell to the ground or hit the wall, it shattered directly, and there were letters of persuasion written by various Cao soldiers (Cao soldiers, in principle, require everyone to be literate), and spilled out.

After two waves of "barrel rain", the sky finally returned to silence.

Deng Sheng picked up a letter from the ground, and at first glance, he curled his lips and said, "This word is written as if scratched out by a chicken's claw..."

After browsing through it, Deng Sheng couldn't help feeling cold all over his body, "Cao Jun's cavalry has already gone to Shangdang... If this is the case, my Huguankou will become a lone army..."

Deng Sheng instinctively wanted to suppress the news, but when he looked up, he found that many soldiers were discussing something quietly around some barely literate soldiers.

Deng Sheng also became anxious, "What should I do? Apart from exiting Huguankou and returning to Huguan County, there seems to be no other way..."

After thinking for a while, Deng Sheng made up his mind:

"Let's go back to Huguan City first. There are still enough defenders and food in the city. As long as the governor's reinforcements arrive, Cao's army may retreat..." Deng Sheng also had great expectations for Gao Gan. So for surrender, at least he hasn't considered it so far.

But he didn't know that there was a high probability that Gao Gan would not be able to invite reinforcements back...

Chapter 325 Ma Mengqi is cruel and merciless

Hundreds of letters of persuasion to capitulate were thrown into Huguankou, and it is almost impossible to cover up this matter.

After many soldiers knew the content of the letter of surrender, they suddenly became suspicious, wondering whether they had been abandoned by the senior cadres.

This is not finished.

After Xu Huang threw out the letter of surrender, he sent out soldiers with loud voices to shout outside the city in turn.The content of the propaganda is roughly that the high-ranking cadres have run away, and they are only used as cannon fodder for delaying time.One should cherish one's own life, and there is no need to take the most precious thing of one's own for the sake of those who abandoned one...

The letter of surrender inside the pass and the shouting outside the pass, under a two-pronged approach, and Huguan County, there has been no reinforcements and luggage to arrive... Finally, three days later, Deng Sheng couldn't hold on anymore, and took the eight people inside the pass Thousand defenders switch surrendered.

In fact, Deng Sheng really had no choice. He didn't even dare to sleep in the last two nights.

If I don't switch to surrender, maybe one day when I can't hold on to closing my eyes one night, I will be tied up by my own soldiers or even have my head removed, and then sent to Cao Jun's camp to ask for surrender...

When Huguankou surrendered, Lu Lingqi bid farewell to Lu Yan, led the wolf cavalry battalion as the vanguard of the army, and went straight from Huguankou to Huguan County.

Lu Lingqi led the troops one step ahead, and Lu Yan led the army to follow after changing the defenders at Huguankou.

Although Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu had already arrived first, the line from Huguankou to Huguan City still needs to be cleaned, and the checkpoints along the way must be replaced by their own people, so as to avoid their own back road being cut off.

......

Huguan County.

Two powerful cavalry suddenly appeared outside the county seat three days ago.

Xia Zhaoyi sent his cavalry to fight against them at first, but they were defeated by the opponent in a face-to-face encounter.

Especially the generals of the two cavalry, it was like killing gods descended into the world, killing their own cavalry indiscriminately...

Xia Zhao didn't want to fight with them in the wild after he suffered a setback.Anyway, they couldn't attack the city, so Xia Zhao chose to shrink all his troops into the city, and still let the two cavalry wander outside.

But these two cavalry are very hateful,

In order to force the defenders in the city to open the city gate, all the houses of the people where they passed were destroyed, and the people were driven to Huguan City one after another.

Looking at the ragged people outside the city with despair or numbness on their faces, "To accept or not to accept?" became a difficult problem for Xia Zhao to decide.

If it is collected, how can there be so much food to support so many people, and maybe the enemy cavalry will rush in when the door is opened; Morale was also a huge hit.

Although Gao Gan has similar faults as Yuan Shao, it is undeniable that he is quite talented.

Under Yuan Shao's order, Gao Gan has governed Bingzhou for several years, and he has made outstanding achievements during his administration.Moreover, he and his cousin Gao Rou recruited wanderers from all over the world, which can be regarded as a model of recruiting talents.So Gao Gan still has a good reputation in Bingzhou.

It's a pity, just like the famous scholar Zhong Changtong's evaluation, high-ranking officials have ambitions but no talents, and they are good scholars but cannot choose people. Although there are many soldiers under their command, there are not many talented people who can be properly appointed.

Xia Zhao's deputy general looked at the people outside the city who were already struggling to stand, and couldn't bear it, and said, "General, why don't we open the city and let them in."

Hearing this, Xia Zhao glared at the lieutenant general and said, "If Cao Jun raids the city gate while the people are entering the city, can you guarantee to keep them out of the city? Besides, we don't have so much food to feed these people!"

The lieutenant general opened his mouth to say something, but Xia Zhao didn't give him a chance to continue: "The ones outside are the Xiliang army. Wherever they pass, even the wild dogs on the roadside have to be scratched twice. You can kill them!" Have you passed them?"

The deputy general wanted to say yes, but when Xia Zhao said this, he suddenly lost his mind.

Yes, the bravery of the Xiliang army is famous all over the world.

Back then, Dong Zhuo had conquered all the feudal lords in the world by relying on a hundred thousand iron cavalry from Xiliang.One-on-one, almost no one is their opponent.

Although the current Ma Teng has not reached the height of Dong Zhuo in the past, the deterrent power of the Xiliang Army is still there.

After all, the defenders of Huguan City did not open the city gate to admit the people. When Lu Lingqi arrived, she happened to see the hellish scene outside the city.

"What did the Xiliang army do?" Lu Lingqi confirmed to Gan Ning with a livid face.

Gan Ning replied with certainty: "The last general personally questioned several common people, and it was indeed the Xiliang army who did it."

Lu Lingqi yelled angrily, "How is this behavior different from barbarians?"

The people in her hometown were brutally tortured, and Lu Lingqi was naturally angry from her heart.

But now that the Xiliang army is a friendly army, it is obviously unwise to clash with them.

Suppressing her anger, Lu Lingqi said to Gan Ning: "Xingba, you lead the army to gather the people, I believe that the master will arrange them properly."

If you fight a war, you will fight a war. What are you doing to harm these innocent people?

Gan Ning was also very displeased with the Xiliang army's behavior, so he cupped his fists and said, "The last general will go here!"

In a small village more than ten miles north of Huguan City, Zhang Xiu came to Ma Chao and said, "General Ma, it's time to stop, right?"

Ma Chao turned around and saw that it was Zhang Xiu, and immediately laughed and said, "It's General Zhang Xiu! You talk too much, we can almost stop, and drive a group of people to Huguan City, and they may surrender .”

Zhang Xiu has lived in the Central Plains for many years, and under the baptism and influence of the Central Plains culture, his thoughts have gradually changed.

"General Ma, Lu Hussar has always loved the people like a son, if he finds out about your behavior, this matter may be against you..."

Ma Chao was born in a family and never put civilians in his eyes.Moreover, Ma Chao is ruthless. In order to prevent Cao Cao's power from spreading to Yongliang and Hanzhong in the official history, Ma Chao actually found Han Sui, the enemy who killed his mother, and recognized Han Sui as his father, and cooperated with the sworn enemy.He even said: "Now Chao abandons his father and regards the general as his father, and the general should also abandon his son and regard Chao as his son!" It can be said that he recognizes the thief as his father.

You know, at that time Ma Teng and his brothers were still in Xuchang as hostages, and Ma Chao joined forces, how could Cao Cao let them go?

Obviously, Ma Chao also knew what would happen to his father Ma Teng and his brothers who were in Cao Ying after he raised his troops.But Ma Chao can "abandon his father" and "recognize his father" in advance in order to achieve success. This is a rebellious wolf!

The fact is just as Ma Chao expected, after he attacked the counties and counties in Longshang, Cao Cao executed Ma Teng, Ma Tie, Ma Xiu and others, and the three Ma clans were wiped out.For his own great cause, Ma Chao can abandon his father, brothers and even the three tribes, which is much more ruthless than Liu Bei abandoning his wife and concubine.

But now, in the eyes of Ma Chao, sacrificing some insignificant civilians for a victory is nothing at all.

Zhang Xiu's persuasion is obviously useless, because in Ma Chao's thinking, these civilians are just like bugs on the ground...

But Zhang Xiu knew Lu Yan's character well, and he was not sure how Lu Yan would react after knowing what they did...

Dissuading him to no avail, Zhang Xiu turned and left expressionlessly, sighing in his heart:

"Oh...forget it, although I didn't do it myself, it's more or less a crime... When the city of Huguan is broken, I'll take the initiative to ask Lu Hussar to bind me..."

Chapter 326 Disagree?heads-up!

When Lu Yan was fifty miles away from Huguan County, he suddenly received a secret letter from Lu Lingqi.

It was said that the soldier handed over the letter to Lu Yan and left in a hurry. Seeing him like that, he seemed a little afraid of what would happen next.

Lu Yan opened the secret letter suspiciously, and immediately frowned at first glance.

More and more, the content of the letter made Lu Yan more and more angry, and at the end, Lu Yan's face had turned livid.

Seeing that Lu Yan's face was livid, Xu Huang asked cautiously, "Lu Hussar, has something happened in the county?"

After Lu Yan handed the letter in his hand to Xu Huang, he said with irrepressible anger, "You can read it yourself."

Xu Huang had never seen Lu Yan so angry before, so he quickly took the letter and opened it to read.

"This...this...this is a bastard!" Xu Huang was shocked, but also very angry, "In order to win the hearts of the people in Hebei, the lord did not hesitate to offend the nobles of the aristocratic family by opening warehouses and distributing land. Is it true that the Xiliang army's actions will make the Lord's efforts all in vain?"

In addition to these, Lu Yan knew what Ma Chao did in history.

He said with a serious expression: "Ma Chao is rebellious, and his actions are even more ruthless and unscrupulous. If we don't strictly discipline him now, there will be big troubles in the future."

"If Lu Huqi wants to take down Ma Chao and question him, he will eventually be willing to be the vanguard!" Xu Huang clasped his fists to challenge Lu Yan.

Xu Huang has always attached great importance to military discipline, and Cao Jun's military discipline has one rule: Do not disturb the people.

Ma Chao expelled the people and destroyed the people's residences. This is a very serious violation of discipline, and Xu Huang naturally hated it.

Zhong Yao, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others were about to come to see Lu Yan. When they were about a few meters behind them, they heard Xu Huang's words asking Lu Yan to fight... The three of them were taken aback for a moment, and then He walked quickly to Lu Yan and Xu Huang.

It was Zhong Yao who spoke first, and asked Lu Yan: "Lu Huqi, I don't know what crime Meng Qi committed, why do you want to question him?"

Xu Huang looked at Lu Yan, saw that Lu Yan nodded in agreement, then handed the letter in his hand to Zhong Yao, and said, "Lieutenant Zhong, General Ma, take a look for yourself."