Zhang Xiu's scout's on-the-spot investigation confirmed Chen's suspicions. After Cao's army, the army hoarded grain, and the battalion transported twice as much grain and grass to the west camp every day as the east camp!

According to the report of the old scouts who have been in the past ten years, the daily supply of grain and grass to Xiying is enough for 80,000 to 100,000 people! Dongying, on the other hand, has 100,000 tents and 100,000 stoves every day, but only 40,000 or 50,000 people have food supplies.

A few days later, the Cao army's large-scale offensive equipment arrived from the rear, and the improvised equipment made in a hurry was also completed.

Cao Cao personally commanded the camp of the Chinese army, rode out of the battle with claws and yellow lightning, pointed at Zhang Xiu, who only showed one head on the city tower, and shouted loudly: "Zhang Wenjin, I respect your uncle Hussar General Zhang Ji is a hero, as long as you are willing to fight with me when you go out of the city now, no matter whether you win or lose, you will be exempted from capital crimes, how about it?" ”

With a bandage on his nose and a slightly obscene appearance, Zhang Xiu looked at the high-spirited Mr. Cao, and used the common sense of later generations - relying on his fingers and left and right eyes to measure the distance from the head of the city to Cao Cao, and suddenly shouted directly: "Cao Xing!" ”

On the other side, the head of the city immediately handed out an open strong bow and aimed it in the direction of Cao Cao.

Cao Cao naturally didn't have to dodge, the moment the feather arrow was shot, Dian Wei and Xu Chu, who were not half a step away from Cao Cao, each used their tiger bodies to protect Cao Cao. Cao Xing's feather arrow didn't have a chance to get close to Cao Cao at all, and was cut off by the tiger-eyed Xu Chu in mid-air.

The comic side is revealed, and the inside of the broken arrow shaft is actually hollow, filled with powdered quicklime. Because of Xu Chu's knife, the lime mist instantly enveloped Xu Chu and Dian Wei. Unexpectedly, Xu Chu, who had the lower limit of Cao Xingxiu, even had a lot of lime in his eyes.

Zhang Xiu, who was on the city tower, had already stood up at the moment when the arrow shaft was broken, raised a strong bow in his hand, and released an arrow towards Xu Chu.

At the same time, hundreds of Qianghu archers who had been waiting for a long time appeared at the battlements of the main city tower, all holding strong bows and crossbows, and released a rain of arrows towards Cao Cao and the others.

These more than 100 feather arrows are also mixed with a few Zhang Xiu's special lime arrows!

Xu Chu was blinded by lime, and scolded Cao Xing and Zhang Xiu for being despicable and shameless with lewd tricks, but he could hear the sound of a bowstring, and immediately closed his eyes and danced his double knives.

On the other side, Dian Wei saw that Pao Ze had been subjected to Zhang Xiu's trick again, and immediately became furious, and took two small iron halberds from behind his back with one hand and threw them at Zhang Xiu. With the other hand, he took out his weapon, a pair of large iron halberds, to block Zhang Xiujun's arrows.

As soon as the small iron halberd in the right hand was taken off, a large iron halberd taken out of the left hand was in the right hand. A pair of large iron halberds wielded very ugly, but none of the feathered arrows could pass through. The speed of the hand is staggering.

Zhang Xiu was standing at the battlement, about to pull the second arrow, when Dian Wei's flying halberd appeared in front of him, heading straight for him. I couldn't afford to shrink my head, so I was so frightened that I immediately leaned back. But the flying halberd, from more than a hundred paces down the tower, shot at the tower, and the speed was still fast.

Thanks to Zhang Xiu's fast back, this flying halberd just wiped the feathers of Zhang Xiu's helmet and nailed it to the city tower.

Even though there were dozens of guards of the Wuwei battalion holding shields, there were 360 degrees from the front and back, left and right, and there were no dead angles to protect Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu took off his helmet, and half of her feathers had been scraped off. I tried to pull out the iron halberd again, and it was more than two inches deep into the wood of the gatehouse of the city tower......

Zhang Xiu's heart was on fire, and he immediately wanted to remove the round shield and put a lime arrow on Dian Wei, but the Wuwei battalion under his command refused to move half a step or remove the shield at this moment.

Zhang Xiu pushed the shield on his head and protected the front, I don't believe that he Dian Wei can still throw an iron halberd over and just hit me?

It's just that the moment Zhang Xiu removed the shield above, he instantly regretted it.

Yes, although Dian Wei's skill in throwing iron halberds is profound, it is true that he is not very good at throwing iron halberds. However, as long as you can fly, it's enough, because if you control it well, you can still crush some despicable and shameless person.

The other iron halberd was slashing the big word on Zhang Xiu's head. The thinner flagpole in the upper half was cut off in half, and the other small half of the connection could not bear the weight of the large flag and that part of the flagpole at this time, so it was broken. The big flag and a small section of flagpole attached to it smashed straight towards Zhang Xiu.

Everyone said that Dian Wei's skill in playing halberds was not inferior to that of the flying general Lu Bu, and I believed it. At the critical moment, Hu Che had to go out, and the first-class star hammer smashed the pole smashed by the fallen Da Xu.

Hush! Luckily, my Hu Che'er has all the weapons of his eighteen kinds, oh no, he is proficient in everything.

It's just that it always feels like something is wrong.

Looking at Cao Cao and the three of them again, there were already guards and guards and tigers and leopards riding to follow Cao Cao's return to the battle. Although his own dark arrows were unexpectedly released, it is estimated that the two arrows with thick skin and thick skin of Dian Wei Xu Chu are not a big deal.

Cao Cao, who retreated to the military formation, laughed instead of being angry: "Zhang Wenjin, I never thought that you would be so despicable and indecent, but you are just jumping off the wall in a hurry." Your Daxu has been broken, and God has ruled that my king and master are victorious, why do you still want to fight with me, or persuade you to open the door and surrender quickly, so as not to continue to suffer from God's curse! ”

The siege is the next and the heart is the top, Zhang Xiu also reacted, and immediately shouted: "My arrows are coated with poison dichlorvos!" ”

Cao Cao's color immediately changed, although he didn't know what dichlorvos was, he still stopped his attack tactics at the moment, and turned his face to look at the military doctor who was washing Xu Chu's eyes with water.

The military doctor also reacted quickly and bowed to Cao Cao: "Ming Gong rest assured, although General Xu was hit by a few arrows, they were all flesh wounds, and the arrows have been experienced and are not poisonous." ”

Cao Cao turned his head to look at Zhang Xiu on the city tower, couldn't help laughing, and immediately ordered: "Three armies attack the city!" ”

"The lord has an order, and the three armies will attack the city!"

"The lord has an order, and the three armies will attack the city!" At that moment, several sentry riders galloped in front of the army.

The sentinel cavalry has been galloping towards the east and west, and it is estimated that it has also given orders to the military horses of the east and west battalions of the Cao army.

Zhang Xiu sneered at Cao Cao at this time, and he didn't care about the decline in the morale of the soldiers under his command when they saw the big silk break and heard Cao Cao's words. Immediately, he also ordered all departments to prepare to defend the city, and the superintendent Gao Shun was in charge of the command of the front defense of the city, and Zhang Xiu only sat in the center to boost morale.

Cao's first siege weapons were trebuchets and crossbows. At this time, because Liu Ye had not yet taken refuge, Cao Jun had not mastered the technology of the giant power-enhanced trebuchet, that is, the thunderbolt. However, Zhang Xiu, who was defending the city, consulted Liu Ye, although he did not get the pattern technology of the thunderbolt, but he made some improvements to the original bed crossbow and trebuchet in Huainan, and the power would not be inferior to Cao Jun's trebuchet and crossbow.

The first wave is a sealed jar of oil wrapped in a tarpaulin, lit and then thrown. There were no less than 100 trebuchets of Cao Jun, and Zhang Xiu could be regarded as having seen the scene of hundreds of fire bullet salvos. It's like a group of meteorites that rub together and start a fire, dragging their tails and smashing them straight at themselves.

Fortunately, the people defending the city are all the elite of the Yongliang army, and they still have some immunity to this kind of scene, but it is estimated that the soldiers of the other troops will inevitably have some panic.

Most of the Yongliang soldiers hid under the battlements, and the soldiers in the city as reserves also drove the people to take refuge under the city wall.

In fact, even if everyone stands up, the power of trebuchets is very limited. The reason for this is that the trebuchet is so biased that the person who launches it doesn't know where it will end up. Even if two stone bullets are fired in the same direction and with the same force, the two stone bullets in front and back will often deviate by tens of meters.

This kind of fire bomb, in particular, is more deviated than a pure stone bullet. There have been cases where trebuchets were fired behind the military formation, but they hit their own people in front of the formation.

On television, the general gave the order, fired firebombs, and then smashed them on the city walls to kill and wound the enemy in large numbers. Even in modern times, the accuracy of bombarding the city with artillery is very painful for the artillery commander.

The real combat significance of this kind of thing is to intimidate the enemy army and motivate the self-army. It may be useful in attacking wooden camps or when two armies are facing each other, but when used to siege a city, the practical meaning is far less than the symbolic meaning.

For example, the hundred fire bombs fired by Cao Jun's salvo were lucky enough to fall on the city wall with only a pitiful jar of fire oil, and because the tarpaulin burning in the air accidentally fell, when it finally touched the ground, there was no other damage except for the fragments of the altar that injured two Zhang Xiu soldiers.

As for the other "fire bombs", it is good to hit the city wall or burn the houses in the city. And the ones that are not accurate are those that are aimed at the wall but fall into the moat.

Cao Jun released thousands of fire bombs in a row, and finally made some noise. A considerable part of the city wall was covered with fire oil, but at least half of the fire oil did not burn, and Zhang Xiu's army suffered less than 100 casualties.

At this point, it's finally time for the crossbow to come into play. The crossbows, which retreated a little further forward than the catapults, were placed with arrows at least the thickness of a thumb, made of stainless steel and covered with tarpaulin. The soldiers set it on fire and shot it on the wall of the city to ignite the oil that was not burning.

Don't think about shooting soldiers on the walls with a crossbow, it's less reliable than trebuchet projection. Although the accuracy is much higher than that of the trebuchet, the crossbow machine is always fired horizontally, and the Yongliang army, which has sufficient experience and high quality, knows how to keep calm and hide under the battlement, and can't do damage at all.

What's more, the crossbow machine is no more effective than the catapult, and the effective range is slightly shorter. The city walls are generally equipped with bed crossbows, and the horizontal range of bed crossbows is similar to or even farther than that of the crossbows, and they are condescending, which can suppress the besieging crossbow troops.

Therefore, the mission of the crossbowmen is not to kill or injure the enemy at all, but to cause effective interference. For example, igniting all the oil and relying on the smoke interference to interfere with the crossbowmen's firing boundary in the city bed to cover the troops filling in the trenches and moats. Of course, you can also smoke the eyes of the guards guarding the city, reduce their combat effectiveness in defending the city, and facilitate their own access to the city.

Finally, the bed crossbow and giant arrows have another mission, that is, to nail them to the city wall and assist the soldiers who climb the city with ants to climb the city! The arrows made of stainless steel combined with the enormous thrust power of the crossbows were enough to nail the arrows to most of the walls of the era. If necessary, the ants can even climb the giant arrows to the city!

After all, in this era, the city was still mainly built of mud, and the walls of the adobe brick buildings could be called fortified cities. This is another reason why there were many cases of flooded cities in ancient times: the adobe walls were easy to leak and collapse. And like the city built of bluestone bricks in later generations, only Luoyang Chang'an has such courage at this time.

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