Abnormal Three Kingdoms

Chapter 542

Yuan Xi had nothing to do with the arrows on the mountain, but if Ma Chao attacked the city, it would still be difficult for him to ascend the city, especially when he got to the bottom of the city wall, the boiling oil and falling rocks would be scattered down like no money.

Time passed quietly as Ma Chao kept trying to attack the city. The 500th day agreed with Chen Gong was approaching, and Ma Chao still failed to break through the city. The [-] soldiers he brought with him lost dozens of soldiers every day. A lot, but after a few days of calculation, more than [-] people have been lost before and after!
This battle loss made Ma Chao a little overwhelmed.

"Young General, we can't attack anymore!" Dong Chao found Ma Chao, looked at Ma Chao with a wry smile and said, "If you continue to attack, everyone will be gone."

Losing these people is actually not important, the loss of 500 people is still affordable here.

It is said that if the battle damage exceeds [-]%, morale will collapse. It is in a battle, and their losses are accumulated. Although it affects morale, it will not collapse.

Moreover, the most important reason for the low morale is that everyone can't see hope. Ma Chao has exhausted all means in the past few days, but he has not been able to break through this Juyongguan. The morale accumulated from breaking the two cities has long been wiped out.

As long as Ma Chao can make some progress, morale will not be so low.

Ma Chao looked at the soldiers in the barracks, and he was obviously not as energetic as when he came here.

"How many days has it been?" Ma Chao fiddled with the fire in front of him, feeling a little pain in his head. These days, he felt that he had used his brain more times than in the previous half of his life. The feeling is really terrible.

"Today is No. 13th!" Dong Chao knew what Ma Chao was asking, and the date he agreed with Chen Gong was almost approaching, but Juyongguan was still as stable as Mount Tai, like an insurmountable moat.

From this point of view, it is not necessarily wrong for the opponent to not defend. These days, whenever the opponent takes the opportunity to come out, Ma Chao may cause heavy losses to the opponent. , has no effect.

Say the other party is incompetent?But in fact, it is they and not the other party who are low in morale now. Although the arrow array on the mountain has an impact, after getting used to it, the morale of the enemy army has not dropped any further. The other party even built a corridor on the city to let the soldiers Dodge the rain of arrows.

No matter how capable Ma Chao is, facing the tortoise-like barrier of Juyongguan, he can only watch and get angry.

Ma Chao remained silent. The day agreed with Chen Gong was approaching. When he went to ask for advice in person, Chen Gong made a bet. This made Ma Chao very upset at that time. If Gong didn't help, he wanted to break through Juyongguan and show it to Chen Gong. Without him, Chen Gong could break through by himself.

But seeing the time approaching, Juyongguan remained motionless, and Ma Chao couldn't help feeling somewhat frustrated.

"General, let's drink some broth. Juyong City sent some cows. They were just killed today, and they added refined salt to the general." Dong Chao handed Ma Chao a bowl of beef soup, with chunks of beef floating in it. Just smelling it will make the mouth salivate.

Refined salt is actually not a rare thing in the Central Plains. Under the rule of Chu Nan, coarse salt has almost been eliminated, even in neighboring Jizhou, Qingzhou, Jingzhou and other places, because Chu Nan encourages this kind of crossover. Refined salt has gradually become less scarce due to border commerce and trade. But for Guanzhong, it is not bad even if the army can have enough food after years of fighting in recent years. More extravagant, let alone ordinary soldiers.

Ma Chao took the bowl and ate the beef in big mouthfuls. Although he was a little frustrated, it was different from dry rice, and he couldn't think of an idea when he was hungry.

"I eat meat every day, and I feel uncomfortable if I eat too much." Ma Chao felt that he might not eat minced meat, but he looked at the decomposed cow skeleton in the distance, and the chef was packing the cowhide.

"This cowhide is good for making armor." Dong Chao glanced at it and said, "These cowhide should be able to make ten pieces of leather armor."

But Ma Chao stood up, brought the broth to the cow skeleton, looked down at the cowhide that had been preliminarily processed, and asked the cook, "How many pieces of cowhide are there in the army?"

"General, there are about eight in the army." The cook didn't know why, so he replied truthfully.

"Bring them all." Ma Chao said to the cook.

"Here!"

"Major General, what's the use of cowhide?" Dong Chao looked at Ma Chao suspiciously.

"I want to try again tonight!" Ma Chao said looking at Niu Pi.

"Is it related to this cowhide?" Dong Chao looked at the cowhide on the ground.

"Yes." Ma Chao took a sip of the broth, nodded and said, "I want to make a shell out of solid wood, then wrap it in cowhide, and rush down to the city wall like this!"

Cowhide can be fireproof, and the shell made of solid wood plus the package of the battlefield should be able to block the impact of falling rocks.

"Chisel...to go through the city wall!?" Dong Chao looked at Ma Chao dumbfounded: "Young General, this city wall is more than ten feet thick, how can we go through it?"

Moreover, how long would it take to dig through a city wall of more than ten feet?
"This plan is the only one I can think of right now." Ma Chao drank the broth in one gulp, looked at Dong Chao and said, "There are still two days left, and I will personally go to dig through the city wall, and let me just admit defeat like this, I really can't be reconciled! "

"The general understands!" Seeing Ma Chao's expression, Dong Chao suddenly had the feeling of an old father seeing his son grow up. In the past, Ma Chao's eyes were mostly unruly. When encountering setbacks, he often avoided them. Apart from practicing martial arts, It is rare to see Ma Chao complete one thing completely, but this time, in Ma Chao's expression, Dong Chao rarely felt a kind of perseverance that he did not have before. In order to win Chen Gong and overcome this Juyong Pass, Ma Chao These days, I almost dream about how to break the city.

Regardless of whether it can be done or not, since his major general wants to do it and is so determined, Dong Chao naturally has no reason to stop it.

Immediately ordered someone to bring a rush car to refit.

Charging a car is not as simple as having four wheels and a bumper. A regular bumper will hit a log so that it can be hung to facilitate force. Secondly, there is a baffle on the top to protect the siege soldiers from harm. It is large in size and can usually be used. Accommodates two 30 people.

Dong Chao asked people to remove the rams, then wrapped the roof with cowhide, and also covered the sides. Because it was a modification, by midnight, a ram without the rams was ready.

"Major General, how about giving it a try tomorrow?" Dong Chao looked at Ma Chao and smiled.

"Let's go tonight!" Ma Chao shook his head, looked in the direction of Juyongguan and said, "I'll go and take the people there myself, and let them prepare the tools!"

Dong Chao nodded. It was difficult for ordinary soldiers to hurt Ma Chao with all their arrows. He immediately ordered people to prepare the tools for cutting stones, and followed Ma Chao to push the cart towards the city wall of Juyongguan in the dark.

It was impossible to hide the sound of the rushing car from the opponent, and soon there was a reaction from the top of the city. Arrow clusters rained down like raindrops, but they were not accurate. After remodeling, it became stronger, and all the way to the city gate was the result of discussions between Ma Chao and Dong Chao. Even if the city gate was sealed, it must be looser than other places.

With all his strength, Ma Chao began to bombard the city gate crazily. Under Ma Chao's bombardment, the thick city gate shattered open piece by piece.

The defenders at the top of the city were also stunned when they heard the movement below the city.

In previous night raids, such an array of arrows could scare the opponent away, why is it still there today?

"Over here!" A soldier above the city gate could clearly hear the sound below, and quickly called the night watch general.

"No, they are breaking down the city gate, kerosene!" After listening for a while, the general finally knew what the other party was going to do, and immediately ordered someone to bring kerosene and smash it down!

"Boom~"

The kerosene tank smashed on the car, and then the torch dropped to ignite it, but facing the car wrapped in cowhide, it could not cause actual damage. After the kerosene was burned, the side of the car was just hot. The soldiers who probed to check the situation could clearly hear the sound of tinkling from below the city.

The city gate had been smashed to pieces by Ma Chao, and at this moment it was the accompanying soldiers who dug up the gravel from the city gate and moved it out.

"General, the thieves are dredging the city gate!" The soldiers turned their heads back and looked at the generals defending the city.

"Fire oil, falling rocks, don't stop here!" The general sneered, the gate was more than ten feet long, and it took a long time to seal it with various huge stones. It's not easy to talk about it, if the kerosene falls like a stone, even if the opponent has any defense method, the high temperature formed by the kerosene burning alone can suffocate the opponent to death!

After receiving the order, all the soldiers immediately threw fire oil cans down, lighting up the vicinity of the city gate for a while.

The fact is as the general thought, although the car wrapped in cowhide was not burned, the high temperature generated by the burning of kerosene was unbearable.

As for the stones in the city gate, only one layer has been dug up to now, and if it continues like this, it will be impossible to dig through.

"Get out of the way!" Ma Chao shouted, took the sledgehammer from his hand, and hit the rivet that had just been nailed on the stone with a vicious blow.

"Boom~"

Under the heavy blow, the rivet sank directly into the boulder, and then the stone split suddenly, and everyone hurriedly cleared these stones out.

"I'll hit it, tell me where to hammer it!" Ma Chao wanted to hammer it himself, but after hammering it several times, although there were a lot of broken stones, it didn't have the effect of the hammer just now, but there was a soldier in the army. Those who help people open mountains know where the force will cause the most damage to the rocks.

Under his guidance, Ma Chao dug out a foot in just two hours, and now they can hide in the city gate. Although the temperature is still high, it is at least much better than under the car.

There was a clear division of labor among the people. Ma Chao and a few strong men were in charge of smashing the rocks. The mountaineer instructed everyone how to dig, and the others were responsible for throwing the rubble outside. In the middle of the night, two stones were dug out of the city gate Ma Chao estimates that if this continues, he will still be able to break through the city in two days, so he will work harder now...

(End of this chapter)