Chapter 434: Siege Battle
"it!" He Yuan Yao patronized his mouth and felt comfortable, but he forgot that his purpose was to delay time, not to fight with Lao Cao quickly.
His two-way army went all the way to Yanzhou, the hinterland of Lao Cao, and went all the way to Xuzhou in order to cut off Lao Cao's retreat.
These two armies may have already begun to implement the plan, but Lao Cao still has food stocks, and before these stocks are used up, Lao Cao is still a tiger.
He Yuan Yao greeted Lao Cao's parents, and his heart was happy, but Chen was so quick to speak for a while, he must pay a price.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Sergeant Cao surged towards the city like crazy. Because Lao Cao has already issued an order, as long as the first person to go to the city will be rewarded with 10,000 yuan, Yuan Yao's Huainan army, a head is 100 yuan, and the colonel will be doubled, if he can kill Yuan Yao.
A head is worth a thousand gold, and not only that, but also directly qualified as a general.
Such a temptation reward is naturally like everyone going crazy.
Isn't it just to be a soldier and fight a war just to stutter and then be a marquis and pay homage to the general? What a great opportunity to do so now.
Now Yuan Yao is no longer a human being in the eyes of these Cao Jun soldiers, but glittering money.
As the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food.
These Cao soldiers are already crazy.
The first detachment that Cao Cao put into Lujiang City was Li Dian's soldiers and horses, and there were a total of two elites under Lao Cao's hands, one was Yu Ban's soldiers and horses, and the other was Li Dian.
Yu Ban's soldiers and horses are already incomplete because of Xiahou Chun, and they need to be corrected, and the rest is Li Dian's army.
Now that Lao Cao came up directly and invested Li Dian's soldiers and horses, it was enough to see Lao Cao's anger.
Li Dian's soldiers and horses are worthy of being the elite of the Qingzhou Army.
Lujiang River is the city of Huainan, and Huainan has many water systems, so Lujiang City has the conditions to assume a moat.
Li Dian's soldiers and horses were basically a sandbag in their hands, and they ran towards Lujiang City with him on their backs, and some of Li Dian's soldiers and horses carried the newly built ladders, or the remaining wooden planks were directly laid on both sides of the moat and rushed over.
"Poof, poof!" Countless sandbags were thrown into the moat.
Although the moat of the Lujiang River is not the longest in the whole Huainan, it is not small.
He quoted the flow of the Yingshui, so he quickly built a moat that was seven or eight meters wide and could be surrounded on all sides.
But such a moat can't stop them in front of Cao Jun.
One by one, the ladders were sandwiched on the moat, one by one the sandbags were thrown into the moat, the soldiers of the Cao army went forward one after another, and in the era of cold weapons, the siege battle that could be regarded as a meat grinder was about to begin.
Yuan Yao's calves and stomach were shaking.
What the villain Dezhi said was Yuan Yao, he could directly face Cao Cao at the beginning, because he had enough soldiers and horses under his hands, and he had confidence, your old Cao had tens of thousands of troops, and I didn't have it? Leaning against the city wall, your old Cao may not be stronger in combat than me.
But now it's different, Lao Cao is still an army of tens of thousands, and he, Yuan Yao, is really an empty shell now.
Fortunately, there is a Lu Jiangcheng, otherwise, Yuan Yao's soldiers and horses would not be enough for Lao Cao to see.
In the encounter outside the city, in the last two rounds, Yuan Yao may be invited by Lao Cao to drink tea in Cao's military camp.
There are no soldiers and horses in his hands, and he is panicked, although Yuan Yao is nervous, but on the surface, he still looks calm.
There's no way, now he's really catching ducks on the shelves.
He Yuan Yao is the commander of the Huainan Army, and he is also the highest commander in this city, countless Huainan Army officers and soldiers are looking at him Yuan Yao, if Yuan Yao is panicked at this time and his legs are shaking, then everything will be in vain.
The soldiers in the city were not the elites left behind, the elites were all taken away by Xu Shu and Zhang Liao, and half of the soldiers who could be left were recruits, and half were veterans.
So looking at the swarming enemy troops under the city, these soldiers and horses in the city were terrified.
Yuan Yao can only take the lead.
"Pass my military orders, archers prepare!" Yuan Yao roared loudly, hoping to dispel his fear with a loud roar.
"What are you doing, haven't you heard the lord's orders? Archers, archers, go to the walls! The lieutenants below were scolding, and the soldiers were panicking.
"Hey!" Yuan Yao sighed bitterly, this is the soldiers and horses in his city, and the real elite is the Xuanjia Army and Lou Jiang's scout battalion.
But these two soldiers and horses Yuan Yao didn't dare to move.
Use the hard-earned field trump card to defend the city?
Put the hard-trained flexible scout battalion on the city?
Don't even think about it.
Fortunately, in Yuan Yao's "calmness", these masters still went up to the city wall well, and the bows and arrows in their hands were also pulled away one by one.
"Raise your bow!" Yuan Yao's order was issued again. All the soldiers and horses raised their bows and arrows high.
Some of them are not skilled, and some of them are still playing tricks.
But it doesn't matter, if this battle continues, the entire defenders of Lujiang will become skilled veterans.
Because they will slowly metamorphose from the practice of blood.
Those who have excellent psychological qualities, those who are bold, and those who dare to fight hard, will survive, and those who are timid will not have a second choice but to die under the sword.
"Projectile!" Yuan Yao's order was given.
Two thousand archers above the city tilted their rain of arrows toward the top of the city.
Although these archers are very unfamiliar, siege warfare is not about hunting, it is about numbers.
This dense rain of bows and arrows won't care if you miss one or two shots.
There is no need to aim, the group of enemies under the city is the target.
"Boom!" The rain of arrows fell from the sky and went directly towards Li Dian's soldiers and horses.
"Ahhh Some of the Cao soldiers and horses who ran fast found the shooting dead angle and could dodge, and the slow runners had sandbags in their hands and could resist them, and the group of people in the middle were unlucky, and there was a cloud ladder left in their hands, and how many bows and arrows could the cloud ladder crotch?
So in an instant, he was shot as a hedgehog.
"Shoot, shoot!" Yuan Yao shouted above the city, the two thousand archers slowly became familiar with the atmosphere of the battlefield, and the speed in their hands also accelerated.
But after all, there were only 2,000 people, and most of Li Dian's soldiers and horses were veterans, and they always seized the gap in shooting, and more and more soldiers and horses approached the city wall.
"Whoosh!" Under the command of Li Dian under the city, Cao's bow battalion also began to return fire towards the top of the city.
"Ahh From time to time, the soldiers and horses of the Huainan army were shot and fell to the head of the city, and there were also archers of the Cao army who were shot by the rain of arrows and hedgehogs.