Super Cultivation System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 592: Strong Breakthrough
"Quick, set up a shield formation to guard..."

"Use stones and rolling logs to smash the well-trap cart..."

"Hold the city gate. You must hold it..."

The soldiers on the city gate threw away their bows and arrows, picked up stones and rolling logs, and threw them at the well-catching cart.

“Dong…Dang…Dong…”

All kinds of noises rang out, but the dozen or so well-lifting vehicles were still standing.

When the Jizhou soldiers paused in their attacks, waves of crossbow arrows were shot out from the opening again, continuously taking the lives of the defenders on the city gate.

Yuan Shao, who was resting, was disturbed by the sudden loud noise outside. When he was about to go out to check, he saw a general running towards him in a hurry.

"What's going on? What has frightened you so much? How can this be disgraceful?"

The general hurriedly said, "My lord, something bad has happened. Liu He has suddenly brought in a group of strange-looking siege vehicles and siege engines. They are very powerful and are wrapped in iron sheets. Soldiers are hiding inside them. It is impossible for our army to hurt them at all."

"What? There is such a strange thing. Come on, take me to see it."

Yuan Shao followed the general and quickly went up to the city gate. When he looked out, he was also frightened.

"This... How could a siege vehicle and a siege vehicle look like this..."

Even as they were talking, there were constant crashing sounds coming from the city gate below. Every crash made Yuan Shao terrified, as he always felt that the city gate would be smashed to pieces at any time.

"My lord, what should we do? If this continues, Huguan will be breached in less than half a day."

The general was so frightened that his face turned pale.

Yuan Shao was anxious and angry, and kicked him directly: "How should I know what to do? I order you to be fully responsible for guarding the pass, and you must not lose it. If Huguan is not protected, I will kill your whole family."

Upon hearing that, the general knelt down with a plop.

"My Lord... I have followed you for many years. Even if I have no merit, I have worked hard. How can you... How can you treat me like this..."

At this time, Ju Su hurried over and said, "My lord, this is absolutely not allowed. The situation is critical now. Only if you personally take charge, can all the soldiers work together to resist the enemy."

Yuan Shao was very impatient: "You said it lightly, this Liu He is so hateful, he deliberately concealed his weakness before, and waited for our army to relax, and then came to seize the pass with such a powerful siege weapon. Now he can hit me, but our army can hardly hurt him. How can we fight this battle?"

At this point, Ju Shou was still very calm. He took a look at the siege vehicles and siege engines.

"I've heard that Liu He has a group of skilled craftsmen under his command. They must have spent a lot of time to modify this thing. I think this thing is very expensive. Even with the wealth of Bingzhou, Liu He would definitely not be able to make many. The only plan now is to guard the city gate first, and when the enemy is tired, use bows and arrows as cover to send troops out of the gate to attack and kill, snatch a well-locking vehicle and this siege vehicle, bring them back to the pass for careful study, find out their flaws, and then defeat the enemy."

"What you said is useless. How can we defend the city gate with such a powerful weapon?"

Yuan Shao questioned sternly.

Ju Su thought for a moment and said, "We can quickly send people to remove all the wooden boards inside the pass and place them on the city wall, leaving gaps between every two boards. The enemy's crossbows are powerful, but difficult to aim. We can send our skilled archers to fire back at the crossbows on the chariots. As for the city gate, we can pile all the baggage inside the pass behind the gate. Even if the enemy has a force of ten thousand pounds, it will be difficult to break through in a short time."

Yuan Shao was delighted: "Great, great idea, great idea, do it now!"

Soon after, pieces of wooden boards were placed diagonally between the city wall and the tower. The crossbow arrows kept shooting at them, but apart from making bursts of "thump thump thump" sounds, they could no longer hit the Jizhou soldiers.

The city gate, which had been shaking violently, seemed much more "stable" after being supported by many heavy objects.

A few hundred steps away from Huguan, Cheng Liang put his hand on his forehead, watching every move at the city gate. After discovering this scene, he hurriedly started shouting.

"Hey, big brother, look, our weapons are useless. Let me lead the charge for a while."

Liu He smiled calmly: "Don't worry, third brother. You have time to charge. These things have been developed by me and several craftsmen for a long time. How can they only have this much? Just watch them."

A group of Jizhou soldiers were busily moving various heavy objects and piling them behind the city gate. At this moment, the movement of the city gate suddenly stopped.

A soldier wondered, "Hey? Did the enemy stop attacking? Why is there suddenly no sound?"

"No way, is there any new trick?"

As soon as these words came out, many Jizhou soldiers became extremely nervous. Everyone looked at each other, and finally a few brave ones came forward and moved some of the heavy objects, wanting to look through the crack in the door to see what was going on outside.

Suddenly, a heat wave came in through the heavy city gate and blew towards the faces of several people.

"Oh……"

Although several people were not burned, the burning sensation still made them very uncomfortable. They staggered back in panic, and some of them accidentally fell to the ground.

"This...what's going on..."

These soldiers were all confused and frightened.

I don't know who cried out at the city gate, and it was heard by everyone behind the city gate.

"Fire... that siege vehicle is breathing fire!"

When the soldiers behind the door heard this, they were so shocked that they retreated repeatedly, rolling and crawling to get farther away.

"Why are you panicking!" a general yelled angrily.

"This city gate is covered with iron sheets. How can a few sparks have any effect? ​​They are really a bunch of rubbish."

He said this beautifully, but he himself was standing at a distance watching and did not dare to come forward at all.

However, although the door was covered with iron sheets, there were still many obvious gaps on the top, bottom, left and right of the door. The battering ram continued to spew flames, and the flames floated in through the gaps, quickly igniting the heavy objects piled behind the door.

Except for some stones and stone tablets, the rest of these heavy objects are mostly made of wood, such as tables, cabinets, huge trees, etc. As the saying goes "dry wood meets fire", in a blink of an eye, the fire burned extremely vigorously, making a roaring sound.

Now the soldiers ran further away and did not dare to get closer.

Ju Shou ran over in a hurry and saw this scene, he was so anxious that he was furious.

"What are you all standing there for? Are you going to put out the fire? Hurry up and put it out! Send 300 people to put out the fire, and the rest of you to prepare sandbags and use them to block the city gates. Send people to pour water on the gates continuously. Hurry!"

He kept running around and shouting, and many frightened soldiers and generals finally woke up from their fear and acted according to his words.

After a long busy period, when everyone was still in shock, they finally threw bag after bag of wet sandbags into the city gate, and at the same time ordered a group of soldiers to continue pouring water on it. Screams were heard from the city gate again.

"Ah... the board is broken..."

“It’s broken here too…”

"It's a heavy crossbow. They used a heavy crossbow!"

All the trolleys in front of the gate retracted to their original heights, and not far behind them, a row of huge crossbows were shooting waves of crossbow arrows at the gate. The base of each crossbow was ten feet square, and each crossbow arrow was like a long sword. One arrow could penetrate the wooden boards. After six or seven waves of continuous shooting, the wooden boards were either riddled with holes or directly broken into pieces.

The soldiers defending the city had already been frightened by the tremendous power and had to retreat back.

Seeing this, Liu He frowned slightly and said lightly: "This stone-breaking heavy crossbow is really good. Xiangzi, it's your turn."

"The last general takes orders."

Ye Xiang had become impatient waiting, so he took a group of archers from the Shenji Camp and quickly ran behind the heavy crossbows.

They took their longbows and aimed at the city gate.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

A round of arrows drew beautiful arcs, and almost without exception, all of them hit the city gates accurately.

A general on the city gate shouted, "Haha, we will just hide behind them and see how they can hit us. It will make them anxious to death, haha..."

Wave after wave of arrows were continuously shot out from the hands of Ye Xiang and others. Soon, a large pile of sharp arrows accumulated on the ground on the city wall. Many of them were inserted into the pillars and walls of the city tower. Some unlucky guys were hit by the rain of arrows and twitched for a long time beside their comrades before they died.

(End of this chapter)