The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 117

Cao Cao was relieved when he saw that Cheng Yu and Man Chong were alive.He sneered and said, "Yuan Xi, if you dare to touch a hair on the two of them, when I go to the city, I must kill all of your people."

I said loudly to the city: "Don't hurt Mr. Jushou, and I won't touch your Cheng Zhongde." Cao Cao said, "Okay, it's a deal, come on, suppress Jushou."

Ju Shou kept shouting immediately: "Young Master, you must not surrender, you must fight Cao thief to the end."

Cao Zhen looked at the top of the city and thought it was time.Then he raised his horse and said to Cao Cao, "Prime Minister, our army is mainly attacking that city gate."

Cao Cao frowned, and shouted at him, "60.

On the tower, I saw Cao Cao began to dispatch troops and dispatch generals to attack the city, and immediately ordered Wen Chou and others to take their positions and stick to the city.

Cao made a deployment and mobilized all the famous generals under him: Li Dianhe attacked the west gate, Xia Houyuan attacked the east gate, and Han Hao attacked the north gate.He himself and Xu Chu attacked the main gate—the south gate.He also felt that these people were not enough, so he arranged for Lu Qian to attack the northeast corner of the city.Cao Zhen attacked the southwest of the city, Cao Xiu attacked the northwest of the city, and Yu Jin attacked the southeast of the city.The rest of the generals attacked the south gate together with him.With 10 people in each team, Liyang City must be crushed into powder.Zhang Liao also participated in the battle with injuries. Cao Cao was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he did not arrange the main attack.

The strong wind blew up, and the flags inside and outside the city were not spared. They were blown violently, and the noise was loud.Under the power of nature, even if Cao's army has millions of people, tens of miles of joint camp, thousands of horses and thousands of troops, it still looks small and helpless.

The soldiers in the city were transporting heavy defense tools such as stone mills, rolling logs, and stones to the top of the city at this time. They found that the things in their hands suddenly became lighter, and they moved a lot faster.The soldiers of Cao Jun were unlucky to find that their steps forward were very strenuous, which seemed to be a bit difficult.Hao Zhao suddenly shouted: "My lord, it's a favorable wind, which is good for us." The dark clouds were like balls of cotton wadding being blown by the wind and concentrated towards the city of Liyang.The sky was low and I felt like my head was about to touch the clouds.

God help me too.

"A thunderstorm erupted above Hong Lu Tianyu. The shock made people's ear drums hurt, and the bean-sized raindrops fell on my face, which immediately lifted my spirits.

Zhu Ling was surprised: "My mother, it's raining at this time, it's still raining!"

As soon as the wind changed, it became short and powerful, and the dust rolled up in the air fell down and hit the person's face.Then the heavy rain hit from all directions without thinking, the outline of the land in sight became blurred, and the field outside the city seemed to be shaking and trembling.

I made a quick decision; "Go, send an order to the four gates to divide the guarding soldiers into two squads, and some of them will go into the archery building to avoid the rain, but the order must not be disordered. After a period of time, they must come out to fight, hurry up." Su You disagreed; "Why are there not enough archers? What to do?" I said; "The rain shouldn't last too long. I'm afraid that the soldiers will get sick from the rain, and it will be even worse." Su You had no choice but to take someone to deliver the order.Some soldiers hid in the nearby arrow tower as if they were granted amnesty.

The heavy rain swept across the fields like walls and ravaged the earth.Cao Jun, rain or shine, moved forward with neat steps.As the wheels rolled, Li Dian, Xia Houyuan, Cao Zhen and others had already led the team to their main attack position.Cao Cao and Xu Chu also began to push forward.

Xu Chu commanded his army, divided into three groups, filled the trenches in three ways, and advanced forward.There are 5000 people in each group.The fortification soldiers passed Cao Cao and the archers and shield soldiers in front, and pushed forward the thousand toad carts that filled the trenches, as well as the arrow shield carts and the city rush carts.One foot, two feet, three feet, four feet——

The crossbowmen on the city tower and the big flying stone crossbowmen are ready.Everyone stared at the city without taking their eyes off it, their eyes were all red.

The soldiers of Cao Jun who were walking in front suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, and all the siege vehicles walking in front stopped, screaming one after another, covering up the sound of pouring rain.Most of the fortification soldiers hugged their feet, pulled them out, and pierced into the soles of the feet, connecting the three-edged barbed wire with flesh and blood.The barbed wire was covered with a thin layer of floating soil, so Cao Jun couldn't see it.Coupled with the rain beating the eyes, the vision is blurred, and it is impossible to find it.

Cao Cao's face changed slightly, but he still hadn't realized what was going on.Hao Zhao sneered, and raised his dripping right hand above his head.All the guards' eyes were on his fingertips.

"Let go!" Hao Zhao quickly let go of his hand.

With a range of a thousand steps, the Da Feishi and the Cloud Piercing Crossbow were launched with the efforts of the two hundred soldiers.The strong tension of the bowstring made the arrows of the rowing crossbow powerful and fast, like hundreds of poisonous dragons, flying into the place where the archers in front of Cao Cao were most concentrated.Bang bang bang bang, after a series of noises.The shields of dozens of shield soldiers were pierced, and powerful arrows pierced through different parts of their bodies, and were nailed into the ground, only half of the body of the arrow was exposed.All the bodies that were hit by more than two arrows were sent a foot behind by a powerful explosive force, and some bodies were dismantled into pieces by three or two arrows.Cao Cao and Xu Chu beside him changed color at the same time.

The target of the big flying stone attack is the siege engine and the arrow blocker. Boulders weighing more than 50 kilograms fell one after the other among the soldiers who were at the forefront, suffering from barbed caltrops and howling and crying bitterly.Immediately, a burst of blood and brain matter flew up.More than a dozen of the wooden arrow shielding carts and the city rushing carts made of giant wood covered with three layers of cowhide were smashed to pieces immediately.Can't move anymore.

Xu Chu hurriedly ordered, and the archers fought back.His archers stretched their bowstrings fully and shot out the arrows. Under the headwind, the range was less than two hundred steps, and they drew an arc in the air, pierced down and wedged into the soil.Cao Cao was dumbfounded all of a sudden, and issued a death order. Even if he stepped on the corpse, he would fill up the double trench in front of him within an hour.

Each cloud piercing crossbow is equipped with eight to ten soldiers to load arrows. Although the speed is not as fast as that of a single soldier, it can still complete a supplementary shot within a dozen breaths.Within a short time, under the cover of the storm, the big flying stone and the crossbow created an astonishing killing performance.A total of [-] arrow-blocking vehicles, toad vehicles, and city vehicles were destroyed.The opponent's shield archers lost nearly a thousand.The powerful power of the platoon crossbow makes one's scalp numb. Some soldiers were shot in the shoulder and fell down with a strong force. Then the thick arrow nailed the person to the ground. When his comrades came over, they wanted to When I pulled him up, I found that no matter what, it was impossible to pull out the arrow five or six feet deep into the ground.So they had to stab him in the chest to make him die more quickly—some were shot in the legs, and the thighs were separated from the body in an instant, and they were thrown a few meters away bloody.

Although Cao Cao was shocked by the power of these two heavy weapons, this loss was still nothing to him.It can't be described with a hair of nine cows, it should be a hair of a hundred cows.

A thousand corpses were thrown on the road that must be passed through the siege city sprinkled with barbed briers.The remaining engineering soldiers of Cao Army shouted loudly, stepped on the corpses of their comrades-in-arms, and rushed towards the trench with their chariots.The wheels of thousands of chariots crushed the caltrops into pieces and plunged them into the ground, which facilitated the safe passage of Cao's rear troops.

The cloud-piercing crossbow is flexible and changeable, with springs on the wheels, which can be looked up and dived, so although the charging distance of Cao Jun has been shortened, adjusting the angle can still take their lives.

The three trenches were filled in two hours later.The 5000 Cao troops who filled the trenches were under the long-range strikes of the big flying stones and crossing crossbows, leaving less than [-] people to go back.There were a total of [-] city-charging and arrow-blocking vehicles, nearly half of which were destroyed, leaving less than [-] vehicles.

This result made Cao Cao, who had been used to fighting for half his life, and a traitor who had survived nine deaths, couldn't help being a little shocked.He had never even heard of filling a trench and losing so many people, and it was at a distance of a thousand steps that this kind of arrow could not reach.When Cao Cao first came up, he was amused at first, and thought, Yuan Xi is just a child and doesn't know the art of war. Digging trenches at such a long distance without sending people to defend them is just for nothing. Isn't it a waste of military power? I'm full.Only now did he understand that they had prepared a super 'rocket launcher' for him.

The Cao soldiers who filled the trenches retreated and retreated to the camp.They are already exhausted, their hearts are torn apart, they have suffered from the wind and rain, and the damp and cold, not to mention the rows of arrows that can tear people apart, and the meteor showers of flying stones from the sky. , It is really overwhelming.Many veterans are thinking in their hearts, I have fought for so many years, how come I have never encountered such a situation!

The rain weakened a little, and the strong wind also showed the fatigue after a vigorous effort, and it was much gentler.The sky and the earth are still covered with heavy rain, but the black walls have turned into curtains, and the sight line is much clearer. The sound of the wind and rain covered up the shouts of the soldiers and the sound of the wheels. The second batch of fresh troops began to advance in the rain. The infantry was a mixture of sword and shield soldiers, archers and engineering soldiers.The three teams crossed the filled trenches across the plains, and their goal was the moat.Each siege force is still led by the few remaining heavy chariots that can block arrows and hit the city gate, clearing the way.The shield soldiers behind have ladders in their hands.Like three evil dragons, slowly but steadily approaching the violent and powerful huge arrows.From time to time, people fell to the ground with arrows or were stoned to death.

The moat is already close to two hundred steps, but is the distance between these two hundred steps really windless and risk-free?Cao Jun's soldiers, who were in panic twice, became cautious and did not dare to drive straight in.As long as he is a little closer to the moat, Cao Jun can shoot back and fight back, and he doesn't have to be beaten so uselessly.At this time, every Cao Jun was full of hope and prayed to God, don't let us suffer, let us kill the city! ! ! !

But the relationship between God and them is obviously not very good!No convenience was given to them, on the contrary, the god of death is spreading its wings to them——

Boom!Boom!Boom!Three to five hundred war drums beat at the same time, as if to counter the power of the torrential rain.Commanding and adjusting the pace of the [-] soldiers ahead also infinitely added to the killing atmosphere in the dark.

At this time, bloody battles from the four corners of the city gate and the other three gates were also going on at the same time.Zhu Ling, Suyou and Guo Yuan have already been sent out to defend by me. Fortunately, before the battle started, Jia Xu was expected to attack the corner of the city. The 'big flying stone' and 'cloud piercing crossbow' were arranged in advance so that I would not be caught off guard.

Cao's troops from all directions suffered almost the same blow, suppressed by the big flying stone and the piercing cloud crossbow, they couldn't cross the thunder pool one step further.Among them, Xia Houyuan suffered the heaviest loss.Xia Houyuan's main attack on the east gate is guarded by old partners Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu.

Xia Houyuan suffered heavy losses not because Jia Xu designed him, nor because Zhang Xiu's soldiers were ruthless with arrows, but because he himself was too crazy.As soon as this guy came up, he put on an indomitable posture, urging the soldiers to charge, not even using the city charging cart and the arrow blocking cart, but letting people push the trench filling cart and the ladder, rushing madly, and pulling out the saber in his hand, He kept shouting, "Kill, kill and go into the city."

While being fettered by barbed wire, his soldiers were bombarded by Jia Xu's crossbows and big flying stones. Because there were no arrow-blocking vehicles and city-charging vehicles to cover them, countless people were killed and injured all at once.Instead of ordering the retreat, Xia Houyuan dismounted and killed the wounded retreating soldiers himself, ordering them to move forward.

Under the threat of retreating and beheading, the soldiers rushed to death one after another.As a result, many people died, but it was difficult to make progress.Xia Houyuan scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously, howling.It took almost [-] lives to get close to the moat.When the soldiers saw the flatness in front of them, they were happy, shouted, and rushed forward frantically.There was a bang, and a piece of ground with a width of five feet suddenly collapsed. The soldiers walking on it suddenly fell into a three-foot deep pit. What awaited them were sharpened bamboos——

The soldiers behind ran so fast that they didn't have time to brake, and they also fell down.

The land subsidence spread like an infectious disease in the four gates and the corners of the city, appearing one by one in sequence.Every time one appears, it will correspondingly take hundreds of lives.Twelve deep pits buried nearly [-] Cao Jun warriors.

(End of this chapter)