Just when Cao Jun, who was in the mist and rain, was about to approach the city and start firing arrows at the top of the city, the two sides started shooting at each other. The arrows shot from the city were like a continuous curtain suddenly falling from the sky.
In the blink of an eye, the city walls, city walls, and alleys above the archery towers were covered with a layer of black and oily arrows. Many soldiers of Yuan Xi's army defending the city were killed or injured.
Although there were dense arrows as cover, Cao Cao's forward army still suffered heavy losses. Cao Jun, who took time out of his busy schedule to shoot arrows to fight back, also caused many casualties to the defenders on the city due to their large numbers.
Due to the heavy rain just now, most of the soldiers of Yuan Xi's army had rested and recuperated, and they were not as embarrassed as Cao's army, so their combat effectiveness was relatively stronger. A soldier who had chopped off an arrow fell down, and his comrades immediately took his place and continued shooting.
Cao Cao's army's offensive was repeatedly frustrated by the bravery of the defenders, leaving behind enough corpses to block the water of the river on the edge of the moat. Dian Wei organized four consecutive charges, but was forcefully pushed back.
Every time the soldiers rushed forward, half or less would be unable to come back and join the dead bodies on the moat. Just when it was getting late and Cao Cao wanted to withdraw his troops, dozens of ladders were finally set up on the moat.
With a cry, the soldiers threw down their shields and rushed towards the city wall crazily on the ladders. Cao Cao lowered his raised hand again. He saw hope. A smile appeared on his lips.
Earthen jars filled with pungent kerosene were thrown down from the city wall and onto the ladders, followed by a string of rockets. Fire flew across the moat, burning more than a dozen ladders into ashes.
But some of Cao's troops had already rushed to the city. The smoke was filled with countless howls and shouts. Another dozen ladders were set up on the river, and then another one or two thousand people attacked the city.
And Guo Huai has been waiting for this moment for a long time. He ordered the archers and soldiers manning crossbows to ignore Cao's troops below the city and only shoot at Cao's troops on the other side of the river and not let them cross the river. Come as hard as you can, keep cumming, don't stop.
When the soldiers got this order, they didn't care about anything. They only knew how to draw the bowstring and shoot across the river. It didn't matter if they could hit people or not.
Cao's army arrived soon after, and the soldiers who wanted to cross the river were immediately blocked by a drifting rain of arrows.
Behind Guo Huai stands a team of fortification soldiers, each in a group of three, erecting a huge millstone.
Dian Wei shouted angrily from behind, raised his halberd, dismounted and charged, but Cao Cao couldn't stop him. When the soldiers saw General Dian Wei taking the lead, they rushed forward even more recklessly.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at the city, Guo Huai waved his hand, and Cao Jun encountered an overwhelming black rain and flaming oil. Cao's soldiers were suddenly frightened, and their charge immediately slowed down.
This charge was the highest morale of Cao's army since they approached the city wall. Guo Huai felt strongly that a huge threat was approaching. I thought it would be impossible if I didn’t try my best this time. Suddenly he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Do it."
This "action" was considered to make the arrogant Cao Jun infantry realize what it means to be a master of city defense. It is not unreasonable for Guo Huai to be able to resist Zhuge Liang and become as famous as Hao Zhao.
Arrows roared in the sky, wooden muskets and fire bricks roared on the ground, rolling wood, rocks, and giant crossbow arrows combined with boiling oil enveloped Cao's soldiers below the city into a sea of smoky fire. Many of the powerful and effective weapons were unprecedented in Cao's army.
In the unobstructed open space beside the moat, under the tower several feet wide, flying fireworks swept across the earth, and thousands of firearms ruthlessly destroyed the spirit and body of Cao Jun's soldiers. All this must be attributed to the Qi Cao Sima Jun.
Seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, Cao Cao's expression began to change. Now he only hoped that Dian Wei was still alive and everything else would be easy to talk about.
Wen Chou was not very good at defending the city, and his performance was far worse than that of Guo Huai. As a result, Li Dian's army had already built a pontoon bridge with wooden planks on the moat and drove the city rush vehicle over.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom!" The two city ramming vehicles hit the city gate one after another. It was only a matter of time before the city was destroyed. "Boom!" The strong west gate finally withstood the impact. The morale of Cao's army who was attacking the city was greatly boosted, and the shouts rose to the sky, covering up the sounds of fighting and weapons. But what greeted them was.
The assault vehicle responsible for ramming the door retreated hastily, leaving the road open to the infantry and the cavalry regiment behind it. Li Dian looked behind and wondered, why did his soldiers suddenly fly out one by one instead of rushing in? When he saw clearly that all the soldiers who flew out had a crossbow arrow ten times larger than an ordinary bow and arrow stuck in their chest, he finally understood what was going on.
"Crossbow" Li Dian was a famous general of the generation, so he had naturally heard of this thing, but he didn't expect that all the lost weapons of the Warring States Period had come out.
Before he finished speaking, another burst of rocks flew from the city and hit the soldiers who turned around and fled. Cao's soldiers screamed, rolled and crawled, held their stumps and broken legs, and ran backwards.
Seeing that the opportunity was favorable to his own side, Wen Chou led the most elite Jizhou cavalry to attack Li Dian. The fast and string-controlling warrior left a pile of corpses wherever he went. In order to defend, Li Dianjun's camp was assassinated suddenly.
The stunned Li Dian was ultimately no match for Wen Chou, who had 93 points of force. He was beaten violently by Wen Chou and ran away. The soldiers behind him were immediately defeated and retreated. Wen Chou chased him for a while, but did not dare to go too far away from the city. He led his troops back to the city and closed the city gate again. Sure enough, stupid people have their own ways, although they are violent, they are not practical.
Zhang He and Tian Yu, who had withdrawn from Puyang in advance, were dealing with Yu Jin in the southeast of the city when they heard news that Gao Lan had trapped and killed Cao Cao's guard general Han Hao. This guy has a clue, and he is indeed one of the four pillars of Hebei.
Han Hao didn't take Gao Lan seriously. He thought Gao Lan was a brainless warrior. Otherwise, why didn't Yuan Shao reuse him? He didn't know that Gao Lan's specialty was defending the city, but he suffered a big loss. He wanted to correct his attitude and could only wait for reincarnation in his next life.
When Han Hao's army attacked the city, they discovered a problem. When the arrows from his side were intensive, the people on the city wall shrank their necks one by one and did not dare to show their heads. They looked like pustules. Han Hao thought to himself, it seems that the great success of destroying the city belongs to me. So he relaxed his vigilance and went up to attack the city himself.
The reason why Gao Lan did this was that he had something in his hand that none of the other Li Yang guards had. That is - poison arrow, yes, it is poison arrow. Do you still remember that Yuan Xi asked Zhen Mi's brother Zhen Yao for a batch of poison a few years ago?
Because there is an observation tower on the north gate tower that overlooks the defense. It is three feet high and made of big stones. It is very majestic with carved beams and painted buildings. It can hide thousands of soldiers. Four red painted doors are open at the same time, and more than twenty soldiers run away. Step 1, it’s time to chop the arrow.
Therefore, he stored the poisonous arrows in the lookout from the beginning, out of the rain.
Therefore, Han Hao will be unlucky.
Yu Jin's offensive in the southeast corner has been steady and steady. Among the famous generals in the Three Kingdoms, there are heroic men who can fight, and there are also versatile men who can both fight and command thousands of troops. Yu Jin was born in the army. He started as an ordinary horse archer and has reached his current position. He is an all-rounder.
This man is calm-minded, resourceful, experienced in actual combat, and extremely strict in running the army. Among Cao's troops, his army is the outstanding trump card. This time Cao Cao did not send him to attack the main gate, which actually had a profound meaning. He wanted to use surprise to open a gap from the southeast corner.
Huh, others don't know about Yu Jin, Jia Xu doesn't know yet, so he sent someone to inform Zhang He early in the morning to beware of Yu Jin's sneak attack in the southeast, just like the battle of Wancheng.
Only those who are proficient in the laws of war can make use of limited laws, exert infinite wisdom, and formulate higher strategies and tactics. They can be in a dominant position in war, adapt to the situation, and do good.
Yu Jin has always believed that he holds the key to victory. Yu Jin had been thinking from the beginning: Although the Yuan family dominated Hebei, benevolent to the world, and had many soldiers, Cao Sikong conquered the world under the emperor's name, had a famous army, and had political advantages, which was what the people wanted.
Secondly, the Battle of Baima and the Battle of Cangting had actually consumed most of Yuan's army's elite forces, and the main force was killed.
At this time, the top of Liyang City is just a few defeated soldiers who are vulnerable to attack and would be frightened to death by the sound of bowstrings. In less than two or three days, they will surely be able to reach Yecheng in Jizhou.
But when he saw the mighty and generous Liyang City Wall and the Yuan Jun soldiers standing on the city, he found that the faces of these people clearly showed their unyielding morale and eagerness to try.
Moreover, they are by no means old and weak soldiers, but elite soldiers who are all powerful and fierce, with a flash of light in their eyes. Damn it, what's going on? Yu Jin felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Once he discovered that the situation was different, Yu Jin immediately calmed down. Instead of blindly attacking the city like other generals, he first sent a small group of troops to harass, hoping to test the reaction of the defenders on the city.
Yu Jin also had 100,000 soldiers in his hands, and he divided the 100,000 soldiers into ten teams. Each team has 10,000 people, including 3,000 archers, infantry and cavalry, and 1,000 fortification soldiers. Let them attack in stages and take turns to rest.
When the first batch of soldiers were injured by caltrops and attacked by large flying rocks and crossbows, Yu Jin decisively ordered to retreat. I thought to myself, there is indeed a conspiracy, luckily I was careful. He ordered his soldiers to cut down the leafy branches and use them as brooms to sweep away the thorns on the ground. Of course, this also involves sacrificing human lives.
Yu Jin was so shrewd that he did not ask people to fill in the trenches, but only filled in the middle and three wide lanes on both sides that could allow chariots to pass through. Then the infantry advanced and the chariots advanced to the edge of the moat.
There is no doubt that his soldiers also fell into the horse trap, but because he did not dare to concentrate his troops, the losses were not great. Only one or two hundred people fell into the pit.
After passing through a series of traps, I finally came to the river and could shoot arrows. Only then did Yu Jin's tense face reveal a hint of relief. Famous generals are famous generals. As expected, Marquis Yishou Ting of the Jin Dynasty did not get it by eating hard work. This boy has some real talent and practical knowledge. It's not easy to deal with him.
"Fire arrows, attack the city, and go up the ladder." Yu Jin formally issued the order to attack the city. Ten armies faced the rain of arrows and attacked the city tower together. The shouts of killing and howling suddenly increased tenfold, causing a tremor like a volcanic eruption.
After a lot of fighting and casualties, the imperial army finally erected a ladder under the city, and a large number of soldiers risked their lives to climb onto the city. The Wuhuan soldiers on the city suddenly became energetic and withdrew all their swords. Rows of pale scimitars were waiting for Cao's soldiers to move forward.
First, thousands of hook guns appeared on the city wall, knocking over the ladders again and again. Then, they used all the means, including lime powder, boiling oil, millstones, wooden blunderbuss, and fire bricks, to defeat Yu Jin's ten armies. After becoming the ninth team, they entered into hand-to-hand combat.
As soon as he fought with the Wuhuan soldiers, Yu Jin realized something was wrong. Why were these guys' swords so fast? My soldiers' necks became soft. Under the city wall, it has become a watermelon field, with heads rolling everywhere and bones everywhere.
In less than a cup of tea, the two thousand soldiers who climbed up the ladder three times were all turned into headless corpses. How could this be done? Although the defenders at the top of the city also suffered casualties, these guys were too resilient. He saw with his own eyes that a Wuhuan soldier had one of his arms chopped off. He raised his arm with crazily red eyes and smashed it at the people rushing towards him. soldier, then swung his other arm and chopped off a man's head.
Although this action has no lethality, it is quite terrifying, and it still has some impact on the morale of Cao Jun. These people on the grassland are indeed born soldiers. No wonder Wu Huan Hua can last for four hundred years. It is not unreasonable. .
Yu Jin was different from Xia Houyuan, Dian Wei and others. He decisively ordered to stop the attack and withdraw all troops. Because if the battle continues like this, Cao Jun will definitely suffer heavy losses.
He felt that if he wanted to meet Sikong, the battle was not fought like this! ! ! Yu Jin handed over command to his deputy, He Mao, and told him to retreat out of the range of the Chuanyun crossbow and defend carefully. Take a pair of personal soldiers with you and quickly go to see Cao Cao.
"Lord, we can't fight any more. Brothers can't bear it anymore. Please retreat first." Yu Jin came to Cao Cao and whispered. Cao Cao glanced at him and thought, you are just like me. If you say such things under Yuan Shao, it would be strange if he didn't chop you up.
But what Yu Jin said was also true. Seeing that Dian Wei's army had suffered more than five thousand casualties, they were helpless against the city gate in front of them. Even Dian Wei was almost dead just now. If he hadn't run back quickly, he would have died in the landslide. Cao Cao was confused.
At this time, Dian Wei's armor was rotten, his face was covered with blood and black ash, his loose hair was hanging on his shoulders, and he stood on the ground with red eyes supervising the battle while roaring: "No, lord, I must fight, The city gate must be breached."
Seeing Dian Wei being so reckless, Yu Jin smiled bitterly in his heart, you would be cruel, and it was not you who rushed to death because of your emotions.
Cao Cao finally thought of a way to deal with the crossbows. He adopted a skirmish line, with archers and siege troops alternately covering the forward leap.
But it was useless. The fire bricks and wooden muskets on the city wall kept hitting the millstone below. After the explosion, the gravel, iron water chestnuts and sawdust were scattered like raindrops. As long as the skin was scratched, it would be A trace of blood, if shot to the vital point, must be a life.
Those who managed to escape were dragged to the top of the city by a strange weapon with a hemp rope just as they were about to turn back. There was a flash of sword light on the city top, and a headless corpse was thrown down.
