"Marquis Ding Jun."
Seeing that Cao's army, which had been attacking furiously, finally retreated, Lu Tao's tense nerves couldn't help but relax. Although his casualties were almost negligible, the psychological pressure he endured was definitely not small. You must know that this is a killing battlefield after all. What is being killed is a living person, not a group of chickens. There are many kills. As long as they are still human, there will be no one who is not afraid of it. Fortunately, everything has finally passed.
"My subordinate is here!"
Ding Hao, a native of Lecheng, Bohai, was originally a commander of the Bohai Navy. Later, he led his troops to break through the fence in front of the enemy camp during the night attack on Chunyu Qiong, and was promoted to military lord. He is currently serving under Lu Tao. He was previously a military commander. During the battle, his troops did not have a chance to fight, so he stayed at the center of the army to wait for orders. At this moment, he heard Lu Tao's name being called, so he did not dare to delay at all, and quickly stepped out from the side. , and loudly agreed.
"Take your men down to the bottom of the slope and throw all the enemy corpses into the river."
Lu Tao glanced at Ding Hao, then at Cao's troops who were retreating, and gave the general's order without expression.
Upon hearing such an order, Ding Hao couldn't help but have a bitter look on his face. He was about to refuse, but when he saw Lu Tao, he frowned and obviously didn't intend to explain the reason. Ding Hao had no choice but to do so. He responded helplessly, led his troops and hurried down the ramp, carried the corpses all over the ground to the river, and threw them into the surging river. Although everyone in Cao's army saw this clearly, they also couldn't. No troops were sent to stop it. After all, it was just after the Mid-Autumn Festival and the weather was still hot. If the corpses were not disposed of, the plague would break out, which would obviously not be a good thing for both parties.
"General, look!"
After the Zi River passed Xiaofengkou, there were rapids all the way. The corpses thrown into the river by the Youzhou army were flowing down the river at a very slow speed. In just over two-quarters of an hour, a large number of corpses had drifted to the rear of the Cao army. In the area where the troops were ambush, a sharp-eyed soldier followed closely and shouted.
"hiss……"
Hearing something wrong, Zhang Wu, the general behind Cao's army, hurriedly followed the sound. When he saw corpses floating on the river, all of them were Cao's soldiers, he couldn't help but sucked in a breath of cold air, and his face turned pale.
"Look, my lord, floating corpses are coming along the river!"
Three miles downstream of the ambush site of Cao Jun was the Lushan Pass. Gongsun Ming personally led 10,000 infantry troops to rest outside the pass. As the corpses floated down the river, a sharp-eyed guard shouted loudly.
"Okay, pass on the order and let the whole army march into the valley!"
The floating corpse was a signal. Gongsun Mingdu and his troops had been waiting here for most of the day. Now that the signal had appeared, he would not hesitate. After giving the order, a large number of Youzhou Army infantrymen The soldiers quickly formed a formation and marched toward the mouth of the valley while pushing the Western heavy trebuchet.
"General, look, the bandits are coming!"
Zhang Wu was looking at the floating corpses floating down the river with a gloomy expression on his face. Suddenly, he heard a guard next to him shout again. Zhang Wu was so shocked that he couldn't help but tremble.
"Quick, prepare the entire army for war!"
Zhang Wu suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of the valley entrance. Sure enough, he saw a large number of infantrymen of the Youzhou Army coming. His pupils couldn't help but shrink. He didn't dare to be careless at all. He immediately gave the general's order, and immediately Seeing that the five thousand soldiers of Cao's army all lowered their bodies and hid behind the grass and trees on the top of the slope and even behind the big rocks, they had their arrows on the strings and their swords out of their sheaths, ready to ambush the Youzhou army.
"The whole army stops, the trebuchets come forward and line up!"
Zhang Wu's preparations were obviously doomed to fail. No, following Gongsun Ming's order, the Youzhou army came to a stop about 150 steps in front of Cao Jun's ambush point. A defensive formation was quickly set up, and more than a hundred soldiers moved the three heavy trebuchets to the front of the formation and deployed them one by one.
"Listen, people on the hillside, your attempt to ambush our army is just a wishful thinking. Your plan has been in the control of my lord for a long time. Now, Xiahou Dun's troops have been trapped by our army, and there are no calculations of casualties. Without fighting power, I am a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. If you don't surrender early, you will end up like this."
Just as the soldiers of the Youzhou Army were busy adjusting the trebuchet positions, a soldier with a loud voice marched proudly to a distance of about 80 steps from the ambush site of Cao's army, and roared towards the top of the slope. Even though all the officers and soldiers of Cao's army couldn't help but riot.
"Stand still, anyone who dares to move will be killed without mercy!"
Zhang Wu really wanted to scold the Youzhou Army soldier for spreading rumors, but there were a large number of floating corpses floating down the river earlier. He couldn't say these words, so he had no choice but to speak out. The general's airs and his cold and stern voice finally suppressed the commotion of his soldiers.
"You think that by hiding at the top of the slope, our army can't do anything to you? You are stupid, just wait and see!"
The Youzhou soldier who shouted waited quietly for a moment. After the commander of the heavy trebuchet unit behind him waved the small red flag in his hand, he shouted again towards the top of the slope.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Before the soldiers of Cao's army could understand what the shouting Youzhou soldier wanted them to see, they heard three loud noises. Three heavy trebuchets opened fire almost at the same time. In an instant, three stones weighing nearly a hundred kilograms were fired. The bullet quickly rose into the air, whizzing and smashing towards the top of the slope. Even though several soldiers who could not avoid it were smashed into pulp, the poor Cao soldiers had never seen such a powerful trebuchet. Even though everything was in chaos, even Zhang Wu, the general, was so frightened that his legs and toes trembled.
"Listen carefully, our army has nearly a hundred of these heavy trebuchets. If we want to destroy you, we can only do it in a snap. However, my lord has a good life and cannot bear to cause more killings. I have granted you permission." You have been thinking about it all night. If you still refuse to surrender tomorrow morning, then don’t blame our army for attacking the mountain in a large scale. Now that I have said this, it is up to you to choose where to go!"
After a round of ejection, the Youzhou army did not launch another attack. As the shouting soldier dropped the ultimatum, the Youzhou army that was waiting in formation slowly retreated, but it did not withdraw from the valley mouth. Instead, they set up a camp on a gentle slope one and a half miles away from the ambush site of Cao Jun, completely blocking the road out of the valley for Cao Jun. The front of the camp was densely covered with antlers, caltrops and other objects, leaving no gaps at all. Several iron cables have been deployed on the river to block the river. Under such strict defense, it is difficult to send a small force down the river, let alone a large number of Cao's troops...
