Chapter 957: The Game Begins
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The deep and sonorous war drums hit people's hearts one after another, and the desolate and distant horns fell backwards around the world.
The two armies are fighting to the death.
Screams, screams, and the sound of weapons intertwined into one piece, and blood flowed down the city wall, causing small pits filled with red liquid to appear in the dry moat recesses. Outside the moat, there were bodies of fallen soldiers everywhere, some arrows were inserted into people or on the ground, and the cold wind blew a broken military flag. Under Ningling City, it was like hell on earth.
Seeing through Yuan Shu's lack of ability to continue to fulfill the conditions of the camp war, Cao Cao changed his policy of confronting stability in the early stage, and suddenly exerted force and launched a strong attack. The siege of the Yanzhou army had enough time to prepare for the siege. They made and accumulated a large number of siege equipment. After the attack order, Cao Cao's camp's army carried the ladder and pushed the city to hit the city, and launched an attack from Ningling City in all directions.
The player troops were fighting in the front row.
Players join the camp war by completing tasks or killing enemies with rewards. If they fail to complete the task, the player's sacrifice will have no value, and the camp initiator will not bear the death pension. Adventurers with relatively weak strength will find it difficult to perform well in this level of war. Therefore, most of the players siege now are the lord's NPC army.
On the city wall, Yuan Shu's army was already ready for battle.
The defenders have higher levels, well-equipped, and have the advantage of defending the city. They have obvious advantages against the soldiers of Cao Cao's camp who climbed the city wall. Teams of Cao Cao's lords tried to make a breakthrough on the city wall, but their efforts did not achieve the desired effect, but were only exchanged for ruthless killing.
The archer descended from a high place, and an iron arrow flew out, playing the music of death among the dense crowd.
An hour passed, and the central army where Cao camp soldiers were located could already faint from the bloody aura coming from the front. The player troops suffered heavy casualties, but the damage to the defenders was minimal. Cao Ren frowned. After following Cao Cao, he had experienced many battles and had long been used to life and death, but now he was still a little sad to see such huge losses on the front line.
He asked Cao Cao for a fight: "Let's go, those lord troops are useless and will only increase casualties."
War is not a joke, and sacrifice is inevitable. But Cao Ren believes that sacrifice should at least be valuable.
Cao Cao did not agree and said indifferently: "We still have many lord troops available."
Cao Ren had fully understood Cao Cao's intentions and would not say more.
The general must understand that the generals must understand, not to mention that the person who dies now is not his own army. Players join the camp war to get rewards and take money to do things. It is like a business. Therefore, now Cao Cao sent them to the siege battle to die without any psychological burden. Moreover, no matter how ineffective the lord's army is, he can achieve some results, even if he can't kill a single person, at least he can consume the materials and physical strength of the defenders.
Two hours passed.
The lords of Cao Cao's camp suffered nearly half of the battle, and Yuan Shu's Nanyang Army should have suffered more than a thousand casualties. Under the continuous attack of Cao Cao's camp, the front-line troops on the city wall consumed a lot of physical strength. So far, they have changed two out of their way. The high-intensity battle made them sweat like pulp and their arms were sore and numb. Many of them were close to their physical limits. If the siege battle could stop at this time, most people would ignore the blood and corpses on the city wall and collapse on the battlefield.
In the past half an hour, Yuan Shujun's casualties have significantly accelerated!
Cao Cao, who had been watching the battle situation, knew the changes in the battle situation very well. At this time, he was completely sure that Yuan Shu was unable to hire players to help the battle, otherwise there would be no cannon fodder. The elite soldiers in this department were sacrificed in vain.
Cao Cao still did not mean to stop the attack.
While being forced to fight Yuan Shu's desperate bets with camp war, Cao Cao paid a heavy economic price, it was not without benefits. The most obvious benefit was that the casualty rate of soldiers in Yanzhou was greatly reduced. Cao Cao didn't know why he joined the player power of his camp. It was several times more than that of Yuan Shu, but Cao Cao knew very well that he had very many mercenaries.
It is difficult for the lord army to kill Yuan Shu's army in the siege battle. If no one is killed, Cao Cao will not have to pay any compensation.
This also means that in fact, most of these mercenaries participate in the war for free!
With so many free resources, Cao Cao will certainly make good use of every point of his value.
Four hours passed.
At sunset, less than 30% of the player troops in Cao Cao's camp remained.
Just when Yuan Shu thought that Cao Cao was about to withdraw his troops, Cao Cao replaced the siege troops with his own direct line, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Dun, Li Dian, and Le Jin, each led three thousand main forces of the Yanzhou army, mixed in the lord's troops and sneaked into the city. After hearing the sound of drums in the central army, he suddenly launched a strong attack from four directions!
The exhausted Nanyang Army on the city was caught off guard and was in great danger. They were beaten by the Chongzhou Army and suffered heavy casualties. As the defenders were killed in a very short period of time, their defense was even weaker. In less than half a stick of incense, the Dongcheng, which Xiahou Yuan was responsible for, took the lead in making a breakthrough. More than a dozen Yanzhou soldiers occupied three battlements, and more soldiers were rushing up the geostairs!
At the critical moment, Ji Ling, the general under Yuan Shu's tent, led the new force to arrive. Ji Ling led the army and forcibly broke into the Yanzhou Army's battle group. Not only did it disrupt the defensive formations of these Yanzhou Army, but it also defended a battlement, greatly reducing the subsequent deployment of troops by the siege. Three minutes later, Xiahou Yuan, who was running here and preparing to climb the city himself, saw that the last Yanzhou Army in the city was chopped to the ground by random swords. The gap that he had finally occupied was blocked by Yuan Shu's army!
Of course, Xiahou Dun, Li Dian and Le Jin also attacked with all their might, but while Ji Ling rescued the East Wall, Zhang Xun, Leju, Li Feng and other generals of Yuan Shu's army did not dare to be idle, and they all climbed the city to fight. The two armies fought hard for half an hour, and the Yanzhou army finally failed to break through the city wall guarded by the Nanyang army.
Cao Cao invested in the main force at the last moment, causing great losses to the Nanyang army. He seized the opportunity to get some advantage. If he continued to fight, the loss would be great. Cao Cao stopped when he saw it, and called the gold to withdraw his troops.
Perhaps because today's siege battle lost a large number of lord troops and its military strength was not as good as before, after the siege battle, Cao Cao's camp quickly made adjustments. He transferred the troops stationed outside the east gate and the south gate of Ningling, and only faced Ningling from the west and north to maintain oppression.
At the third update that night, Yuan Shu, who was no longer interested in fighting, quietly led 8,000 remaining troops to withdraw from Ningling.
Only the East Gate and South Gate can be walked, and to the south is Liu Biao's territory. With Yuan Shu's current situation, going to compete with Liu Biao for territory is undoubtedly a death. Therefore, in the end, Yuan Shu made the same choice as in history, leaving Ningling East Gate, preparing to go to Yangzhou to avoid the limelight, find a place to settle down first, and then make a comeback.
Unfortunately, Yuan Shu's reaction was all as Cao Cao expected.
The continuous strong attack during the day. After the truce, the net was opened on both sides, all for Yuan Shu to abandon the city and break through.
Yuan Shu walked forward, and Cao Cao walked into the city.
Less than five miles away from the city, Yuan Shu fell into Cao Cao's ambush.
After letting Yuan Shu go to the front team, Cao Hong and Cao Ren each led a group of troops out from both sides, holding torches. The sound of killing shocked the sky. In the darkness, Yuan Shu was ambushed by many enemies and dared not fight. In addition, the front team was not attacked, Yuan Shu was anxious and wanted to break out of the siege as soon as possible. The coach lost his position, and the soldiers under his command seemed to have lost their backbone and their formation was in chaos. It was important to just escape in a panic.
This was cheaper, Cao Hong and Cao Ren led their troops to fight, and they almost encountered any resistance from the established system!
Before Yuan Shu could take a breath, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun came together and attacked halfway.
Yuan Shu was even more frightened and hurriedly ordered Zhang Xun and Le to lead their troops to resist, while he continued to flee with his large army.
Although Zhang Xun and Le were quite brave, they were not opponents of the Xiahou brothers. They were also worried that Cao Ren and Cao Hongfu led their troops to kill him, so they were not interested in fighting and were killed. After more than ten rounds, Le was killed by Xiahou Dun. Zhang Xun became even more panicked, and he flew into the path with a fifteen shot, and he turned around and ran into the trail. He disappeared.
Zhang Xun and Leju's sacrifice did not buy Yuan Shu much time.
Le Jin, Li Dian robbed and killed him again!
After being ambushed many times, Yuan Shu was so scared that he was no longer looking at him and lay at a loss. Fortunately, Li Feng and Lei Bopao stepped forward and led their troops to fight. Before leaving, he said to Ji Ling: "Take the lord away!"
The situation was urgent, and Ji Ling did not dare to neglect it. He led his troops to protect Yuan Shu and Yan Xiang and continued to flee.
After another breath, he ran for more than ten miles, and no Yanzhou army intercepted him. The dispersed Nanyang army came to join him one after another. Yuan Shu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Including the daytime battle, the Nanyang army was pitiful when they rested on this day and night. Now they were all exhausted. Just now, a river was blocking the road ahead. Yuan Shu asked everyone to rest by the river. While gathering scattered troops, he sent people to explore the road upstream and downstream to see if they could find a bridge or cross the river in shallow water.
After a night of melee, most of the soldiers in Nanyang were separated. The 8,000 people left the city, and at this time there were only more than 2,000 people!
The sound of roosters crowing faintly came from the countryside, and it was almost dawn.
Yuan Shu felt relieved, and it seemed that he had finally passed this level. Although he was defeated and was forced to withdraw from Jingzhou, with his current strength, Yangzhou could be found and a decent land. With Yuan Shu's family background and reputation, he recruited troops to buy Ma Guang and recruit talents, and a comeback was just around the corner.
But he was still too happy.
The sky is getting brighter and the vision is getting farther and farther away.
The soldiers of Nanyang who were resting suddenly discovered that they were surrounded!
The upstream and downstream directions of the river, each with heavy infantry is ready to fight. The Nanyang Army's origin is shocking. Behind it is the river. The Nanyang Army gathers by the river, but there is no way out. Even if someone is water-friendly, he is pointed at by thousands of yellow crossbows and jumps into the river for a lifetime.
Yuan Shu's lips turned blue: "Cao thief is treacherous! My life is over!"
Ji Ling also had a pale face: "It's not Yanzhou Army, it should be Fengxiang Army..."
Yuan Shu was stunned for a moment and suddenly screamed: "This is impossible! Zheng Aniu wanted to conquer the Japanese island. The emperor issued an imperial edict that his navy had set out a few days ago, all! Many strange people confirmed this matter!"
Yan Xiang seemed to be thinking.
Ji Ling said with difficulty: "I recognize that flag."
Under Fengniu, a alchemist player slowly walked out.
Yuan Shu said angrily: "Zheng Aniu, why are you an enemy of me?"
A Niu smiled: "Today I will just repay you with my kindness."
Yuan Shu's eyes stagnated, and he immediately remembered that he sent Ji Ling to attack Luoyang twice, both of which fought undeclaredly.
Chapter completed!