After Cao Cao finished speaking, Cheng Yu also fell silent. In this situation, was Cao Cao's decision wrong?
Cheng Yuneng said that he was absolutely right. If he did not attack the city today, Cao Cao's clan generals would have disagreements with Cao Cao in the future. This consequence would be even greater than the immediate loss.
Cheng Yu was helpless and stopped trying to persuade Cao Cao.
After Cao Hong and others went down, they quickly began to organize a large army to attack Xiaopei. Xu Sheng, Wei Xu, and Song Xian, who were above Xiaopei, looked at the charging Cao army and admired Zhang Liao even more.
Especially Wei Xu and Song Xian were filled with admiration in their hearts. Only Zhang Liao and Cao Cao's army would attack the city before and prepare them well. Now, Cao Cao's army has really attacked, how can they not feel admiration in their hearts.
Xu Sheng also admired Zhang Liao very much. Although he had made conjectures, he only made such conjectures after Zhang Liao reminded him. This is enough to show how unfathomable Zhang Liao is.
Xu Sheng made up his mind to strengthen his studies after returning. If he is not outstanding in martial arts and military strategy, how can he get ahead? How to repay Lu Bu?
Zhang Liao did not feel the emotion of these people at this time. When he saw Cao Jun starting to attack the city, he immediately looked at a few people.
"What are you doing here? Go and get ready. Cao Jun is attacking the city!"
After hearing this, several people left immediately and went to command the sergeants to defend the city.
When Cao's army got closer and within the range of the bow and arrow, Zhang Liao quickly gave the order.
"Archer, shoot! Throw!"
Zhang Liao and others were all ready, and the archers were ready. After Zhang Liao gave the order, a dense rain of arrows immediately rained down on Cao's army.
Throwing is the farthest range of a bow and arrow. After Cao Jun advanced again despite three rounds of arrow rain, Zhang Liao gave the order again.
"Archer, shoot flat!"
Another rain of arrows filled the sky. Even though Cao Jun moved forward under the cover of shield soldiers, he still suffered heavy casualties.
The first batch of 2,000 people led by Cao Hong attacked the city, but they had already lost hundreds of people and still could not reach the city wall.
Cao Hong had no choice but to order the army to move forward quickly. When they got closer, Cao Hong also gave the order immediately.
"Shield soldiers cover, archers fight back!"
The shield soldiers immediately stopped and began to cover the archers and began to fire arrows at the city wall, while the rest continued to advance against the rain of arrows.
The difficulty of shooting from the bottom of the city to the top of the city instantly increased, and most of them fell on the battlements or city walls. Under the orders of Zhang Liao and others, Lu Bu's army on the city continued to rain arrows on Cao's army who was still charging forward.
Zhang Liao looked at the archers covered by Cao Jun's shield soldiers below, and suddenly sneered. How could they come here without some preparations this time.
Zhang Liao looked at this scene and then spoke.
"Someone, pull up the bed crossbow!"
Zhang Liao's great weapon is the bed crossbow, which has a range of thousands of steps and is so powerful that even if he is wearing armor, if he is shot, he will definitely be wounded or killed.
The closer the distance is, the more likely it is that if the arrow does not pass through the person's body, the person will be knocked back directly.
However, the bed crossbow is very powerful, but there is only one disadvantage, that is, the accuracy is too poor, and it can only be used for range strikes. Whether it can hit or not depends entirely on God's will.
The bed crossbow has extremely high requirements for bow strings. It is extremely difficult to mass-produce it now. Most princes do not have many or even none.
During this period, the bed crossbow was actually called the car crossbow. After the Song Dynasty, it was uniformly called the bed crossbow.
Each bed crossbow requires three to five people to fire. The bow strings used are at least four single bows and are composed of multiple bows.
Of course, this is a small bed crossbow, which only requires three to five people. If it is a large bed crossbow, such as the octagonal crossbow, dozens or even hundreds of people are needed to work together to shoot the arrows.
Lu Bu's bed crossbows were all plundered from the Han treasury. There were ten of them in total. Five thousand bows and arrows were needed to make the bed crossbows.
This time Zhang Liao came with five crossbows and five hundred arrows, which could fire ten rounds.
Under Zhang Liao's order, the bed crossbow was quickly pushed to the top of the city, and the sergeants immediately began to prepare.
Zhang Liao saw that the sergeant was ready to finish the preparations soon, so he immediately gave the order.
"Fire the arrow!"
The arrows fired from the bed crossbow immediately rushed towards Cao Jun's archers. Of the five arrows, three missed and two hit. Two of the arrows were shot through, including the archers and their shields.
The arrows of the bed crossbow are also specially made, especially the arrowheads. The defense of the shield soldiers was taken into consideration when making them, so the materials at the arrowheads are particularly delicate and sharp.
When Zhang Liao saw this scene, he was both satisfied and helpless. What he was satisfied with was the power of the bed crossbow, which was indeed powerful. What was helpless was that there was no way to control the accuracy.
When Cao Hong and Cao Cao saw this scene, their pupils widened instantly. They could tell that it was a bed crossbow!
Upon seeing this, Cao Hong immediately rushed forward with an army of less than a thousand men. He knew that it would be safer to go under the city wall with the bed crossbow at the top of the city.
But Cao Cao was very horrified. He also had this bed crossbow, but he didn't bring it with him this time. When he came to Xiaopei this time, except for some simple ladders, other siege equipment was still in the warehouse or camp. On.
At the moment when he saw the bed crossbow, Cao Cao already knew in his heart that this siege would definitely fail, and his own army would definitely suffer heavy losses.
Just relying on the few arrows shot by the bed crossbow will definitely not cause great damage to his army, not to mention that each time the bed crossbow shoots an arrow, it takes time.
Cao Cao thought this because he saw the crossbow, so Lu Bu's army must have been prepared and was not hastily stationed in Xiaopei.
But then he saw a horrifying scene. He saw the gate of Xiaopei City wide open, and the cavalry and wolf cavalry of Lu Bu's army came out of the city and headed straight for Cao Hong.
When Cao Cao saw this scene, he immediately gave an urgent order to Dian Wei beside him.
"Dian Wei, you lead three thousand people there immediately, and cooperate with Zi Lian! Go quickly!"
When Dian Wei heard about this, he immediately led three thousand of Cao Cao's troops and rushed toward the walls of Xiaopei.
Cao Hong was watching the arrival of the Wolf Cavalry with horrified eyes. At this moment, he felt that he was in danger.
Song Xian and Xu Sheng, with a thousand wolf cavalry, excitedly rushed towards Cao Hong and more than a thousand people, and soon rushed into Cao's army, and a massacre began.
Xu Sheng faced Cao Hong, while Song Xian quickly cleared out Cao's army. However, in less than a stick of incense time, there were only less than 300 Cao's troops left among the more than a thousand Cao troops. At this time, Dian Wei's 3,000 men were carrying crossbows. And the arrows from the bows and arrows came rushing.
Seeing this, Xu Sheng and Song Xian quickly retreated their troops and headed towards the city gate. Cao Hong wanted to rush over, but finally endured it. In the end, the wolf rode into the city, leaving only the dead corpses of Cao's troops on the ground.
After Dian Wei arrived, he and Cao Hong continued to attack Xiaopei.
