King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 473

Li Lin looked at Zhu Ling's appearance and nodded slowly. Indeed, if Zhu Ling's men don't even have a chance to go to the battlefield, Zhu Ling still has the face to mess around here. Li Lin said to Zhu Ling: "Okay! Wenbo, since this is the case, I will order you to order your troops to follow Zilong and Zhang Nan to ambush Cao's army on the north bank of Yingshui in the west of Xuchang!"

Zhu Ling immediately became excited, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, my lord!"

Li Lin said to the crowd: "All battalions immediately prepare for tomorrow's battle. In the early morning of tomorrow, we will prepare meals at the fifth watch and bring the soldiers to have a full meal. Immediately the whole army will attack Xuchang!"

All the soldiers shouted in unison: "No!" Then they went back to the camp, but Xu Miao, who was the most scheming, stayed behind.

Li Lin asked suspiciously, "Jingshan, what else is there?"

Xu Miao asked: "My lord, there are still nearly [-] advanced and capable soldiers around me, but tomorrow General Zhang He will take away [-], General Gao Lan will take away [-], General Zhao Yun, General Zhu Ling, and General Zhang Nan will take away [-] soldiers." The total strength of the army is nearly ten thousand, so the lord is surrounded by less than [-] troops? And there are more than [-] defenders in the city of Xuchang. With only [-] troops, how can the lord win the city of Xuchang? !"

Li Lin smiled, patted Xu Miao's shoulder, put his arm on Xu Miao's shoulder, and the two looked at Xuchang City opposite, Li Lin said very relaxedly: "Don't worry, everything will be fine!"

Xu Miao also didn't know how Li Lin was so confident that he was going to take down Xuchang, which was guarded by more than 3 people, with only [-] people. Li Lin suddenly laughed and said, "Jingshan, I heard that the Xianbei raided Beiping, De Da and Yan Rou are also participating in the battle!"

Xu Miao nodded, and said, "Well, I heard from the grain transportation team that came back from the north, and I think these two boys will definitely not sit idly by!"

Li Lin smacked his lips and said with a smile: "Hehe, we brothers are separated from north to south, even yin and yang. It's been a long time since we let go of the carefree days we had in Beifeng City!" Hearing Li Lin's words, Xu Miao also looked at each other. Looking deeply into the distance.

The next day, the real decisive battle finally came. Zhao Yun, Gao Lan, and Zhao Hu had already set off. Li Lin led the army to the foot of Xuchang City, and then turned to the west. Ju Yi also led eight thousand troops from Chen Guo. The elite soldiers went to the east gate of Xuchang, while Li Lin rode his horse and stood at the north gate of Xuchang.

"Huh!" Li Linchang exhaled a foul breath, and said quietly: "This day has finally come!"

Li Lin rode his horse to the top of the city and shouted, "Meng De is here!" Cao Cao said that he and Li Lin were old friends, and Li Lin said Meng De was smooth.

"Haha! Yuan Jie! Someone Cao is right here!" As soon as Li Lin's army moved, his soldiers rushed to report to Cao Cao.

Li Lin shouted: "Meng De, you and I have been fighting for more than two months under the city of Xuchang. The two sides have lost tens of thousands of people. They are all big men and people. We will die under the hands of you and me!"

When Cao Cao heard Li Lin's words, he felt a little subdued at that time. Could it be that Li Lin is going to retire?Cao Cao thought about it in his heart, and said: "Yuan Jie, I don't want to, but Yuan Jie, you come with a large army, and I must lead troops to stop it. Yuan Jie, why don't you and I stop our troops?" Cao Cao also said If this is the case, and Li Lin agrees truthfully, then the two sides will stop fighting.

Li Lin chuckled lightly and said, "Meng De, don't you think what you said is a bit ridiculous? Meng De should know in his heart that Xu Du, who ordered you, will fall sooner or later. Meng De, I, Li Yuanjie, say something sincerely. As long as Meng De Kaesong surrendered, and I will definitely not move the people in Xuchang City, and the soldiers have a hair!"

"Li Yuanjie!" Cao Cao yelled, and said: "I thought you were the common people of this big man, and I dared to lay down my arms, but I didn't expect you to come to persuade me to surrender. Do you think that I am really afraid of you? You ask me?" Ask a certain soldier behind, are they willing?"

"Hahaha!" With roars, the thousands of Cao troops behind Cao Cao had already given Li Lin the answer.

At this time, Yu Jin ran up to the top of the city, and beside Cao Cao, he whispered, "My lord, Ju Yi of the Youliao army, and Zhang He each leading more than ten thousand troops are already outside the east and west gates of Xudu, and they are attacking the city!"

Cao Cao nodded, raised his eyebrows, and muttered in his heart, "Could it be that Li Yuanjie already knew that if he didn't take Xudu within a few days, he would have no chance. He pretended to risk the lives of all the soldiers to take the city, hum Delusion, Li Yuanjie, you have underestimated me, Mr. Cao!"

Li Lin shouted, "Meng De, do you and I have to fight to the death when we see each other? As long as you surrender, everything can be forgotten, even if you use tricks to join forces with Xianbei to attack my city, I don't care anymore !"

Cao Cao's complexion changed drastically. Hearing what Li Lin said, it must have been news from the north, but seeing Li Lin's appearance, he didn't have any pressure at all. He could tell at a glance that Man Chong's plan had failed, at least it didn't make Li Lin feel ashamed. Lin was forced to the point where he could not advance and retreated. Cao Cao also knew that Li Lin said this to let all the generals in Checheng know about it and disturb our army's morale, so he immediately shouted: "Li Yuanjie, attack if you want to attack!" , how can there be so many words, let me surrender, this is absolutely impossible, how can this be worthy of my dead soldiers, generals and counselors!"

Li Lin nodded and shouted: "Cao Mengde, this is the last chance I'll give you. Since you don't want to cherish it, then I'm not going to be polite. If you break through the city, you will never leave behind!"

Cao Cao laughed and said: "Hehe, you said this two months ago, but after more than two months, Xudu is still standing, and I, Cao Mengde, are still standing at the head of Xudu city!"

Li Lin tightened his nose and said with a sneer, "Hmph! Xu Du, this is the capital you sealed, Cao Mengde! Today is the day to break the city, so do it yourself!" Li Lin rode his horse back and shouted Said: "Prepare to attack the city!"

Cao Cao also shouted loudly, and said: "Be careful of the opponent's catapult, and the archers are ready!" Immediately, there was a sound of spears at the top of the city, and the archers aimed at the city.

Li Lin returned to the formation, waved his hand, and shouted: "Push up!" Immediately, more than a hundred soldiers of the guard battalion, guarding the three ready-made bed crossbows, retreated slowly, and Li Lin flew off his horse immediately. At such a moment of epochal significance, Li Lin will personally command the attack on the city of Xuchang.

Li Lin shouted to several soldiers who were operating: "Aim at the suspension bridge at Xuchang City Gate!" After speaking, the soldiers immediately adjusted the angle of the bed crossbow and aimed at it. They said it was a suspension bridge, but it was actually in dilapidated condition. After two months The baptism of half of the trebuchet that Li Lin saved from Cao Cao's hands is already in dilapidated condition, and it can be hung there.

After adjusting the three bed crossbows, several guard battalion soldiers nodded to Li Lin, and Li Lin immediately shouted: "Bring the bowstring closer!"

Two soldiers turned the gears. A bed crossbow was assembled with five hard bows. The power of the bowstrings was so great that the two sturdy soldiers of the guard battalion had to spend a lot of effort to pull it under the action of the gears. Full, put it on top of the organ.

Li Lin shouted again: "Fire the shells!" The soldiers of the guard battalion hurriedly put the arrows the size of javelins that had been modified into pear-shaped necks into the arrow slots.

"Ignition!" Li Lin yelled loudly, and just raised his right arm, this exciting moment finally came, how many days he had been waiting for!

At the head of Xuchang City, Cao Jun, who thought that Li Lin would either attack the city with his army or order a catapult to attack the city, was already tense and stared at the every move of the Youliao army on the opposite side. The strange thing is that Liao didn't order the army to come out, or attack from the sky, but calmly returned to the formation, and three cars were slowly rolled out in the formation, which can be said to be strangely shaped cars.

Cao Jun talked a lot, and Cao Cao was also full of question marks, wondering: "What is this Li Yuanjie going to do?"

Cheng Yu on the side was suddenly surprised and said: "Then the Youliao Army's formation launched a bed crossbow?"

"This..." Everyone looked at each other, not knowing why, Cheng Yu immediately said in surprise: "My lord, quickly hide behind the city wall!" As he said, he quickly grabbed Cao Cao and pulled him.

Cao Cao was surprised: "What's going on! What is Zhongde doing?"

Cheng Yu said in surprise: "My lord, this is the siege. I only heard that the defenders can use bed crossbows. Li Lin must have made some powerful weapons. The bed crossbows that he launched might be able to use them." Shoot to the top of the city and take the life of the lord!"

Cao Cao suddenly stopped, and hurriedly hid behind the last city wall, wondering: "Really?"

Cheng Yu just wanted to answer, but following Li Lin's shout, he said, "Let it go!" The arrows that had been lit on the three bed crossbows shot out, heading straight for the suspension bridge in front of Xuchang City Gate.

"Bang!" There was a loud noise, and three crossbow bolts were directly inserted on the suspension bridge. Even due to the great impact force, and the suspension bridge has been damaged a lot, there were two crossbow arrows and pear-shaped arrows with gunpowder behind them. The projectile penetrated the drawbridge directly.

"Bang!" There was another loud bang, but this time it was different. Cao Jun at the top of the city only felt a tremor. , splashed directly onto the top of the city, and the archers in the front row, who had already drawn their arrows to the string, immediately let out a scream. When they let go of their hands, the arrows on the bow immediately flew out, but there was no target at all. loose, the bows and arrows immediately fell from the top of the city, and these archers immediately squatted on the ground, wailing and covering their faces, because the splashed wood chips, and even the splashed iron shrapnel directly hit It pierced their unprotected faces, and some unlucky soldiers were even stabbed directly in the eyes, bleeding instantly.

Because Cao Cao hid back and got behind the thickest city wall, he suffered the least trauma and was the fastest to react from the loud noise, and immediately shouted: "What's going on!" But the roar was also suppressed. The screams were covered, and even if there were no screams, everyone's ears had fallen into a state of semi-deafness, and they couldn't hear Cao Cao's roar...

(End of this chapter)