Many of them were killed by arrows from the city before they swam to the other side. However, the remaining Han swam to the shore stubbornly and rushed to the suspension bridge. The archers who climbed the tower went crazy and shot arrows at them. Almost instantly, the suspension bridge was covered with a thick layer of arrows and rain.
"Big brother, this can’t be done!" There are more than a dozen strong men who quickly hid the suspension bridge surface according to circumstances. Although they can’t stop arrows coming from the side here, at least they can barely take shelter for a while with their backs to the city gate.
Being called big brother and strong man is a broad face with a little red hair. He calmly looked around, raised his hand and pulled out his left arm. The arrow sank and said, "If you want to put the suspension bridge down, how can the siege car come?"
Obviously, he is the backbone of these strong men. When he said this, everyone nodded straight and wait for a while looked at him.
"After a while, I will cut the iron chain with Erzhang. You will surround me and Erzhang, and even if you die, you will block the disorderly arrows for me!" The strong man with red beard didn’t talk nonsense. When everyone nodded, he exclaims, "Go!"
Seeing them coming out of the suspension bridge, Zhang Fei shouted, "Shoot the arrow!"
The archers have not stopped shooting, and some people bravely rushed to the moat to throw sharp arrows at Chengtou.
The secret arrow Rain City Head and the city are screaming and screaming. An archer in Chengtou has just been shot in the eye socket. He jerked forward and fell from the mouth of Chengtou crib to the city.
The dull sound has just sounded, and Red Beard Han and another strong man he selected have climbed to the front end of the suspension bridge, which has a slope because of being pulled up. However, they all hold the two of them tight even if they are pierced by arrows.
"clang!" The heavy mountain axe was smashed by the red beard Han with a semicircle, and the iron ring of the suspension bridge made a crisp noise.
Before he could cut a second sharp arrow from Chengtou, he saw a figure suddenly blocking his own flesh and blood in front of Redbeard Han, who blocked the arrow.
At this time, two piles at the other end have been chopped down for several times in a row, and then the suspension bridge shook violently. The iron chain has been cut off by two piles, and the other end suddenly collapsed because of the loss of pulling force. Before everyone could react, the red beard Han side has also succeeded, and he saw that the wide and heavy suspension bridge collapsed and aroused a burst of smoke!
"Go!" Liu Jun soldiers saw that the morale was high and the heavy siege vehicle was pushed by several big hands, and then suddenly rolled away.
Yuan Shang, who personally supervised the East Gate, saw that the enemy had cut off the suspension bridge, and that the monster siege vehicle had been pushed over the suspension bridge. He couldn’t help shouting, "Put the rocket! Raise the fire! Throw a torch! "
However, the siege vehicle covered with cowhide has already been drenched with water, fire and arrows, and it soon went out. It looks like the siege vehicle is suddenly covered with white hair, and even some rockets that have not been extinguished continue to burn the arrow shaft.
"Hey!" After the sharp steel-toed wooden stake severely hit the city gate to guard the city gate, Yuan Jun’s foot soldiers were horrified to see a lot of dust falling in the dark city hole, and even more frightening was the brittle crack of the city gate latch.
At the same time, the Liu Jun soldiers who crossed the river bank from the ladder have erected the ladder and climbed to the city head with shields and steel knives, while the Liu Jun archers are getting closer and closer to the cover of the city comrades.
Ants attached to the city will only adopt tactics as a last resort for the siege party, because such an attack is purely to fill in the lives of the soldiers. However, there are not many left for Liu Beishi, although it has successfully prevented the city from sending out a letter of help, but for one thing, food and grass are limited, and for another, Yuan Jun will soon find that Yecheng is under siege. Liu Bei must take Yecheng as soon as possible.
The offensive and defensive sides are not only Yuan Jun, but also forced to come to the people’s strong. Because they can’t protect themselves, the casualties are even heavier. Those injured foot soldiers are also ignored, screaming and screaming, which is very demoralizing. But who sometimes cares about them at this time? You can die.
The drums are getting more and more urgent, and the soldiers of the dense ladder want to defend the city head, but they don’t budge. Stones and crossbars are held high and smashed. Some ladders "crack" because they can’t bear the weight, and they fall from the clambering foot soldiers screaming.
There has been a sea of fire near the city gate. This is because the soldiers guarding the city lit a lot of straw and firewood and threw them all at once, causing people to scream and fall from the city head from time to time and people to catch fire and struggle distorted from time to time.
Siege car Many people are choked by smoke, and the frequency of heavy logs hitting the city gate is getting lower and lower. Although every impact seems to knock down the city gate, the heavy city gate covered with copper nails still stands. After guarding the city gate, Yuan Jun soldiers are a little quiet. Many people have already sweated unconsciously, but they feel uncomfortable when they think that the city gate has not been broken for a while.
Yuan Shang’s handsome face was also smoked at this time, but he couldn’t help but feel relieved that the enemy siege vehicle had stopped.
But before he could catch his breath, he heard that the enemy in the city suddenly cheered. Many people also held their swords and guns high, and his heart suddenly made a sudden look at both sides with horror.
Turned out to be Liu Jun soldiers since the ladder attack ChengTou defenders are desperately fighting Yuan Shang a grind was about to personally led the troops to get to the city to see a captain of the marines rushed forward disorderly gun qi out, that a few soldiers attacked the city of Liu Jun killed and commanded the captain of the marines who looked very familiar. Yuan Shang looked intently at Shen Pei.
Liu Bei, the governor of the city, could not help sighing, but this little setback did not make him waver in his determination, but prompted Liu Bei to intensify his attack.
Lv Kuang, the south gate tower, paced back and forth with a sword in his hand, and his face was uncertain.
To tell the truth, he doesn’t have much affection for Yuan Tan, and the same is true for Yuan Shang. Now, if there is no soldier in this troubled times, he will lose his life foundation. It is not as good as his heart to be the general and shepherd him in Jizhou. If Yuan Shao returns the words, Lv Kuang will naturally not have infidelity. Now that Yuan Shao is dead and Yuan Shang is like this, there is not much for young people with no hair to grow. After listening to Liu Bei’s words, Lv Kuang will feel that he has a different mind.
Lv Kuang, who attacked Liu Bei’s camp the night before, finally brought his most faithful song back to the city. Because he died in the trial, he was arranged to guard the south gate every discipline.
Although the East Gate is the main direction of Liu Jun, there are also thousands of men and women in the South Gate who command a desperate attack. If they don’t occupy the city, where will Lv Kuang dare to fight? Is this yecheng exactly can hold what even if held and can be like all kinds of thoughts once Lv Kuang is born, I can’t help but think more and more.
Lv Kuang, it seems that Liu Bei is definitely not helping Yuan Tan seize Yecheng. If Liu Bei can take root in Jizhou, he can rely on the large population in Jizhou and Bingzhou to compete with Cao Cao. Compared with Liu Bei, he is worthy of entrusting his master …
As soon as I read this, Lv Kuang settled down and his face showed a resolute expression. This contribution to the city should be big enough, right? "Come!" After Lv Kuang made up his mind, he immediately called a pro-guard and said to him, "I have a big thing for you to do!"
☆ Chapter 53 How to choose between North and South
The sharp and narrow blade easily split the horse’s head, split the knight’s armor of Jun, and brought up a few hot blood. The autumn sun was full of smoke and dust, and the battlefield seemed to suddenly bloom with several scarlet flowers.
However, the cavalry formation did not suddenly slow down in the charge, not wanting to stop, but not being able to.
The minced meat mixed with blood made Liu Pan smell a familiar smell. Although he was hit head-on, Liu Pan’s brother pushed behind him and didn’t fall down. Instead, he raised his knife again and burst into a roar from his throat. "Kill!"
The phalanx of strong men like nearly a thousand iron towers has become a moving hedgehog because of its heavy and sharp knives. Every step forward is a flash of knife light and bloody pieces flying!
Attacking from two wings, Cao Jun’s cavalry field is no better than killing the cavalry head-on. Even if the horse collides with a stranger, the swordsman is injured or killed, but he will soon emerge from the phalanx in the same costume and hold the same stranger to fill his position.
In the mourning of war horses, knights fall from horseback like fallen leaves in autumn. Many people have their arms cut off, and some people have been cut into two pieces. The blood on the ground flows quickly and is trampled into black mud. When the metal hits each other, it is crisp and explosive, and it is heart-rending.
Although the cavalry didn’t witness what happened in front of them later, they could guess from the sound. However, the horses and Mercedes-Benz were all rushing forward to kill the cavalry, and they didn’t know what they were going to face until they rushed to the front of the enemy even if they had doubts.
Mo Dao camp is like a cold meat grinder, and Cao Jun cavalry is like a moth, but he can’t hold his horse even though he knows the danger ahead.
Compared with the results achieved, it is easy to overlook this point.
Xia Houyuan’s reaction was unpleasant. After the striker suffered heavy casualties, he immediately ordered the troops not to storm and retreat. However, it was difficult to coordinate and command the two-wing cavalry riding a captain. Relatively speaking, many frontal cavalry were killed, and they fell into chaos.
Once the horse stopped charging, it lost its impact. For the soldiers in Mo Dao Camp, it was an excellent opportunity to hit the enemy hard. Liu Pan didn’t have the opportunity to wave. Although he was injured in the waist, he still gritted his teeth and led his troops to slash and kill the enemy in front.
In the eyes of Cao Jun’s cavalry, this is a knife wall. If you touch it, you will die. You can survive. Someone tries to turn the horse’s head to the side or simply turn around. However, the chaotic and dense formation seriously hinders the cavalry from moving. Even if someone tries to kill, it will be affected.
The terrain in the north of Yecheng City is fairly flat and wide. However, the ground is full of greasy viscera, sticky blood and broken corpses, or there are horses and spears that have been cut off by strange knives and inserted obliquely into the ground or corpses.
Jun cavalry set off a wave like touching a hard rock, splashing not white water but scarlet blood …
When this wave finally receded, the center of the phalanx formed by Mo Dao Camp was littered with several residual limbs and broken arms. From time to time, there were injured fallen horses holding their necks high and moaning, but more of them were dead bodies that had already made a sound.
Liu Pan was also stunned by this scene. Although he had fantasized about similar scenes several times before, it was a fantasy after all. He finally realized why Liu Cong spared no effort to build such an army.
Looking at the retreating Jun cavalry shivering, Liu Pan grinned at his pale face.
The first battle of Yecheng Mo Dao Camp killed more than 100 Cao Qi and ended with nearly 100 casualties. However, this battle made Cao Jun’s striker suffer setbacks and his morale was somewhat low, which did not have much impact on the main force of Cao Cao’s army.
The victory of Guandu War made Cao Jun’s cohesion soar before and Cao Cao’s prestige reached a new height. If it hadn’t been for Liu Cong’s spoiler, Cao Cao would surely continue to sweep the north with great victory. However, Liu Cong made Cao Cao have to choose whether to go north first, then south or south first.
After learning that Yuan Shao died of illness, Cao Cao intended to send troops to the north. However, it was immediately reported that Liu Cong was invited by Liu Zhang to lead the troops to Yizhou, which made Cao Cao somewhat tempted. For Cao Cao, the north is of course to compete, but whenever I think of Liu Cong sitting on Jingyang, especially occupying Wancheng, how can Cao Cao lead the troops to the north to crusade against Yuan Shang with peace of mind?
In particular, Huang sent emissaries to Xudu and expressed his willingness to deal with Liu Cong and invited troops. After that, Cao Cao finally made up his mind. Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others also agreed that even if Jingzhou could not be taken, it would be a victory to seize Wancheng from Nanyang to Xudu Gate.
After Xia Houyuan led the striker to be beaten by Mo Dao Camp, Cao Cao led 20,000 troops to Yecheng the next day. At the same time, a group of people led by Coss tried to cut into the back of Yecheng from Lushan, so it depends on the changes in the situation.
The original north wall of Yecheng is not as tall and strong as the south of the city, but it has been strengthened and raised since Liu Cong occupied Yecheng.
In addition to fixing dozens of large-scale trebuchets, there is also a fixed position of hundreds of artillery battalion soldiers in the city, but the angle can be adjusted by rotation. The large-scale trebuchet is called "Thunderbolt". Who wrote this vulgar name and wanted to come to others except Liu Cong?
Because the ordnance camp craftsmen have been groping for innovation for years, the power of thunderbolt has been far away, and the giant stone shells launched by the thunderbolt car need special slings to be carried into the net bag. When they were first built, they immediately left a terrible impression.
When Cao Jun set up an imitation thunderbolt car outside the city and attacked it, it was not that Liu Pan commanded the soldiers of the artillery battalion, but that he wanted all the thunderbolts of Cao Jun to join the attack and then suddenly attacked.
Although the city wall suffered a lot from this, Liu Pan knew it was all worth it when the huge stone bullet of Thunderbolt was thrown across the city wall and flew to Cao Jun’s thunderbolt.
Although dozens of thunderbolts look huge and complicated, in fact, the speed of pulley launching is not much slower than that of the thunderbolt. Those huge stones are backward, and they roll and crush everything that dares to block the front because of great kinetic energy. Even though the trebuchet is not very accurate, it still makes Cao Jun suffer huge losses, especially the thunderbolt is slow to move …
☆, Chapter 54 Dare to attack so first
Dozens of miles outside Chengdu, a fast horse is running along a winding path. The knight on horseback is wearing leather armor and crouching on his back, whipping his whip from time to time. He still feels that the speed is too slow and keeps shouting "Drive!"
Mud-covered horseshoes are flying, and the mud is scraped up and scattered on the weeds on both sides of the road. Larks looking for food near the road are scared to "edge" and go straight to the sky.
Turning a wooded hill, the knight turned to the road leading to Chengdu, but he didn’t dare to relax for a moment and continued to gallop, because he had to rush to Chengdu to report to the shepherd that Liu Cong had led a great army three miles outside the city.
On both sides of the road, the paddy fields are about to be harvested. The heavy ears of rice seem to have overwhelmed the rice stalks. The farmers are making preparations before the harvest. They are cleaning the ditches beside the paddy fields to drain the water in the fields to see if it can be harvested in a few days.
Seeing this knight flying by the road like the wind has long been familiar to the farmers, who are still busy with their farm work. Compared with farmers in Yizhou, especially in Chengdu, they have not been affected by the war for a long time. For them, facing the loess and facing the sky is the eternal theme. Who has become an emperor and who has become a shepherd has to open his mouth to eat, dress and house?
Although this field is not owned by farmers, they rent a kind of tenancy, but this year, God bless the good weather and good harvest. After paying the rent, it will always be a little more food in previous years. If you have to marry and marry farmers at home, you will wonder whether you should pull two feet more cloth or hold a more decent banquet. They don’t know that their plans for the future will often suddenly become difficult because of the words of those big people. This is the sorrow of Wang, but even if you know it, what can you do?
When the knight entered the city to report, it was already noon. Liu Zhang heard that Liu Cong’s army had hurriedly called Huang and others to come to the meeting.
"Master must worry!" See Liu Zhang a face of hard to hurry Huang hurriedly said, "Now there is an ambush outside the city. Even if you are prepared, you will be besieged by our army in the city! At that time, people from all walks of life will continue to come! "
Wang Lei, who just got back to Chengdu a few days ago, also said, "Yes, Liu Cong’s going deep into the country alone has committed a military taboo. We will be annihilated in one fell swoop when all the military forces come together!"
Liu Zhang was barely calm when he heard this. He believed the judgment of Huang and others when he learned that Liu Congling’s army was going to Chengdu instead of leading 300 guards. However, whenever he thought of this, he couldn’t help but want to retreat. Now he had to crustily skin of head and say to Huang, "I went out of the city to meet my paralyzed heart. I always feel a little wrong when I think about it."
Although he didn’t say what was wrong, Huang and Wang Lei looked at each other and knew in their hearts that Liu Zhang was afraid of the real yellow heart and tasted it. It is now a retreat, knowing that the danger will continue.
Pondering for a moment later, Huang said to Liu Zhang, "Master! Now that the arrow string has to be sent, please don’t hesitate! "
Liu Zhang hesitated, "What if Liu Cong suddenly and violently attacked the chaotic army like a guard?" He wanted to invite Liu Cong to lead the troops to the ambush, so he had to take risks to make a banquet.
"We are all around the master and will definitely not make the master have something!" Huang said hurriedly, how could he design this way if he was not worried that the ambush could not beat Jingzhou Army? Now I see that Liu Zhang has a retreat, and he has only such a guarantee.
Wang Lei, etc. Don’t drive and engage in it, and they all echoed it, forcing Liu Zhang to agree to come.
"Liu cong immediately asked the master to leave the city?" Yellow don’t stimulate Liu Zhang added, "everything is ready outside the city, master, just take care!"
Even if Liu Zhang is not at ease, there is no reason to go back on his word again. His woebegone guards crowded out of the shepherd’s house. As soon as he reached the front steps of the house, he stopped and looked back at his look as if it were the last time.