Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 495 This Pressure Is A Little Big

Before dawn, the Xiliang army, led by Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu, bypassed Huguan Pass and headed north.

Lu Yan handed over the commanding power to Xu Huang, and he happily became the hands-off shopkeeper.It is a beautiful name to give full play to the advantages of talents and cultivate excellent generals. In fact, Lu Yan thinks it is troublesome and wants to fish
The battle at Huguankou was basically not too difficult, so it was good for Xu Huang to practice his hands to prepare for the future and accumulate experience.

After the Xiliang army left, apart from Lu Lingqi's 4 wolf cavalry battalion, there were about [-] Cao army siege soldiers.

Huguan is high in the east and low in the west, circling on the top of the mountain all the way to the east. Most of them are located in Huguan in the Taihang Mountains. One can imagine the danger of the terrain.There are two Sunzi Mountains nearby in the Great Taihang Mountains, the names of which are unclear.The two peaks confront each other, forming a natural gap, like a mountain pass, like a pot spout.

After entering the gap, there is a large pot-shaped space and flat land, which seems to come in from the spout and fall into the huge round belly. The slopes are gentle on all sides, and the mountains and peaks are walls. This is Huguan County.

As for Huguankou, the terrain is narrow, and there cannot be too many defenders in the pass.Those who can go up to the city wall to defend, I am afraid that more than a thousand people will die.But because of the narrow terrain of the pass, Cao Jun couldn't get too many siege soldiers at once.

In the official history, Huguankou, where senior officials were stationed, firmly kept Le Jin and Li Dian's army out.

In the end, in desperation, Cao Cao could only choose to lead an army to conquer high-ranking officials.

But now Xu Huang is not in a hurry at all, and he doesn't need to fill this pot with the lives of his soldiers.

Before the official start of the siege battle, two hundred trebuchets were lined up in three rows, and then they took turns roaring and throwing stone bombs into the mouth of Huguan!
"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 to build them anytime, anywhere. The end is extremely terrifying." !"

"If I wait to defend the city and face so many boulders falling from the sky, what should I do?" Han Sui shook his head and said to himself, "It's better not to become an opponent 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, began to waver in his confidence: "There is only such a big place inside the Huguan pass, and Cao Jun has thrown so many and such dense stone bombs. 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 and various methods of attacking the city were tried, but Cao Jun's offensive was still resolved one by one 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, "The words are written as if they were scratched out by chicken feet."

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, our 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." , at least he hadn'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.
(End of this chapter)