Fighting opportunities are fleeting. Cao GUI and Cao Shen are famous generals in the world, so they can naturally understand this truth. If they still cannot capture Mengjinguan before the enemy's reinforcements arrive, it means that their operation this time has failed.
Therefore, after capturing Xiaopingjin Pass, they only rested for less than two days to allow the soldiers to restore their combat effectiveness. After that, Cao GUI and Cao Shen began to lead the army to attack Mengjinguan.
Catapults and crossbows can be used as both defensive and siege equipment. These things were naturally stored in Xiaopingjin Pass.
On that day, when the enemy troops broke through the border, Xu Huang immediately ordered the burning of the granary and these equipment when nothing could be done. However, Cao GUI and Cao Shen also responded very quickly and immediately implemented remedial measures.
In the end, although a lot of food and grass were burned, most of the equipment was seized by Cao GUI. In order to break through Mengjin Pass as soon as possible, all these equipment were used by Cao GUI.
But Zhang Liao, the leader of the five good generals, was not a vegetarian. Although the enemy's offensive was fierce, the Mengjinguan guarded by Zhang Liao remained standing like a solid stone.
But today, everything seems to have changed slightly.
"Gong Ming, get everything ready. When the time comes, we must not leave any food for the enemy!" Zhang Liao couldn't help but let out a cold smile as he looked at the Cao and Yuan coalition forces that were launching fierce attacks one after another under the wall.
"Don't worry, general!" Xu Huang replied with cupped hands, with a hint of paleness on his face.
Although Xu Huang escaped back to Mengjinguan alive last time, the injuries he suffered were not minor. If Zhang Liao was not really short of manpower, Xu Huang would not have been injured and went into battle.
Now, in Mengjing Pass, the only generals Zhang Liao could use were Xu Huang and Li Zongtang.
"Zongtang, have the military advisor's orders been completed?" Zhang Liao turned to the other general next to him and asked again.
"General, don't worry, everything has been done according to the military advisor's requirements!" Li Zongtang replied confidently.
"Okay!" Having received the answer he wanted, joy suddenly appeared on Zhang Liao's face.
"General, the enemy general Cao Ning has already attacked the city wall, and the brothers are about to be unable to stop him!" Before long, a low-level officer ran over in a panic and said in a panic.
Previously, in order to deal with the two masters Cao Ning and Jiao Ying, Zhang Liao specially sent 300 strong crossbowmen to keep an eye on these two people. But today, Zhang Liao withdrew the 300 strong crossbowmen. In addition, due to the strong attack by Cao and Yuan's coalition forces, during this period, especially the new army with low combat effectiveness, suffered a lot of casualties.
Therefore, some small flaws in the customs defense began to appear one after another. It was precisely because of this that Cao Ning climbed onto the city wall in one fell swoop today.
"Send the order and let the brothers start to retreat!" Zhang Liao glanced at Cao Ning from a distance, who was killing everyone in all directions, and said coldly.
Hearing this, Xu Huang and Li Zongtang were not surprised. Although they did not know the entire content of Wang Meng's letter to Zhang Liao, they just had to do their own thing well.
Although I don’t know what Wang Meng’s plan is behind abandoning the pass, there are tall men holding up the sky when it falls, and the two of them are not qualified to interfere in these matters.
Zhang Liao had already made preparations. In addition, there were two thousand new troops with low combat effectiveness who were abandoned. Therefore, the retreat was continuing in an orderly manner.
"No, I order generals Cao Ning and Jiao Ying to take down the wall first. Don't rush into the pass!" Zhang Liao retreated like this, and Cao GUI immediately noticed something was wrong. If something goes wrong, the enemy must be the enemy. Zhang Liao's retreat this time is so strange, I'm afraid there must be a trick behind it!
Next to Cao GUI, Cao Shen nodded with the same understanding. Cao Shen was no worse than Cao GUI, and he also realized something was wrong at the first time.
On the city wall, although Cao Ning and Jiao Ying were unwilling to let Zhang Liao go, they did not dare to openly disobey orders and pursue them, so they had to first deal with the group of abandoned sons Zhang Liao had left behind to delay the attack.
Soon, the command of the general was lost, and the combat power of Cao and Yuan's coalition forces was far superior to that of these new armies. Finally, these new armies could no longer withstand the pressure of the battlefield and the killings, and collapsed and abandoned one after another. He took off the weapons in his hands and began to kneel down to beg for surrender.
"Take three hundred sergeants to escort the surrendered troops, plant many military flags, enter the pass quickly, and investigate carefully!" After successfully taking over the pass wall, Cao Shen ordered Sima, a member of the army beside him.
The Army Sima was also a veteran for many years. In this situation, he already realized that something was wrong, but he did not dare to say no. There is still a possibility of survival after entering the pass. If he, a small army commander, dares to disobey the general's order, Cao Shen will kill him on the spot.
The fierce fire started, from the granary to the armory to every corner of the pass, even for nearly half of the pass.
When Cao GUI and Cao Shen saw such a sudden change, they immediately secretly said that it was a fluke. Fortunately, they had been more careful. Otherwise, the army behind them would have been doomed.
At the same time, at the next moment, the two of them issued orders to the soldiers behind them to quickly put out the fire. After they captured Mengjinguan today, the target of sending troops this time was achieved.
Next, Cao Yuan's main army, which was originally on the front line of Hulao Pass, will continuously pass through Xiaopingjin and Mengjin passes and enter Sizhou in one fell swoop. Before that, they only needed to defend Mengjing Pass in front of Cao Yuan's main army and not let the opponent take it back.
However, although he avoided this fire attack, Cao GUI always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong!
However, despite this, this did not affect Cao GUI's formal takeover of Mengjinguan. In Cao GUI's view, once Meng Jing passes, they will be in an invincible position. Even if the enemy has any conspiracy, he only needs to remain unchanged in response to changes.
As long as the main force at Hulao Pass arrives, everything will be a foregone conclusion. Even if the enemy has any plans, they will be in vain.
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Not far from Mengjin Pass, Zhang Liao did not show any surprise when he received the news that the fire there had not caused any damage. In this fire, Zhang Liao never expected to achieve any results.
The other party is a veteran on the battlefield, and they will not step into this kind of trap easily. This fire was just to make the other party think that this was the plan behind them.
But in fact, the moment Cao GUI and Cao Shen personally led the army into Mengjin Pass, the battle finally really began.
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