Chapter 204: The Battle of the Tiger Prison (for the book friend HBHJF)
Wang Xiao took Huang Zhong and them to gallop into the Tiger Prison.
The heavy city gate was immediately closed, and a large number of soldiers rushed over with bags full of sand, gravel and dirt to block the city gate directly.
Here is a complaint about the plot in the film and television drama.
In film and television dramas, during the siege battle, the city gate was a layer of wood, at most it was painted with a layer of paint.
But in a real siege battle, the city gates are blocked.
It's either rocks, or dirt, or some other mess. It is to completely close the hole in the city gate.
After the blockade, even if the besieging party can smash the city gate, it will not be able to enter in the face of the blockage inside.
Yuan Shao, who was extremely angry, desperately urged his soldiers and horses to attack the Tiger Prison Pass, but where is this kind of Xiongguan in the world so easy to defeat.
Moreover, they lacked siege equipment, so they had to join the siege of the city.
The allied soldiers faced the strong city defenses, resisted the rolling wood and stones, and suffered heavy losses in the rain of gold juice and arrows.
After a whole day of fierce fighting, the coalition army lost thousands of men, but they did not even climb the city wall a few times.
It wasn't until it was getting late that the troops were gradually withdrawn.
"It's not rude to come." Wang Xiao called Zhang Liao and instructed him, "At night, you take people out of the city to attack the camp, and others don't fight Yuan Shao." â
"Whoa."
After all, the coalition army is a coalition army, and they are essentially not subordinate to each other, but only nominally obey Yuan Shao's orders. The camps of each family are stationed separately, and if anyone is really beaten, there must not be many who dare to come out to rescue.
During the day there was a fierce attack, and there were losses in all divisions. In addition, all of them were defeated when they fought alone, and even the famous Hebei general Yan Liangwen Chou died. The morale of the military is very low.
At night, all the units were treating the wounded and busy building siege equipment. Then Zhang Liao's night attack troops came.
More than 1,000 elite soldiers rushed to Yuan Shao's camp, filled a trench, pulled down a fence, and then killed and set fire everywhere in the camp.
Zhang Liao's subordinates did not love war, and immediately withdrew after lighting fires everywhere.
By the time Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses came back to their senses to surround and intercept them, they had already run out.
The surrounding battalions were also in chaos, with some coming to support and others closing the camp gates to watch. Under the chaos of the night, he couldn't kill many Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses, but his own people had a good time.
The next day, when Yuan Shao learned that only his camp had been attacked, his face darkened.
On this day, the Kwantung coalition army was busy building siege equipment and did not attack the city. However, at night, except for Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's subordinates, everyone else felt that the night attack that came yesterday would definitely not be today.
Then, Huang Zhong raided Tao Qian's military camp with a small 2,000 men and horses, killing a man who turned on his back.
By the evening of the third day, the enraged coalition forces were all in full formation, waiting to besiege the daring night raiders.
However, they endured until dawn with red eyes, and did not see a single hair.
After dawn, the yawning coalition forces pushed all kinds of siege equipment and pressed towards the Tiger Prison.
"Highway, you take the lead."
Yuan Shao stiffened his face and assigned Yuan Shu to send him to death first.
Tiger Prison Pass is a powerful pass in the world, and if you want to attack it head-on, you can only fill it with human lives.
This time it is a total attack, and the first one must have suffered heavy losses.
"Why!" Yuan Shu was very dissatisfied with this.
"Your troops are strong, and there was no loss in the previous battle. If you don't go, do you want to let Master Tao go? â
Tao Qian was attacked by night before, and the losses were very heavy. Not to mention the first formation, it is difficult to press the tail of the formation.
Yuan Shu glared at his half-brother with red eyes, and that gaze seemed to be able to ignite Yuan Shao.
They are indeed brothers, but Yuan Shao was passed on to Yuan Cheng, and the two became nominal brothers.
"I am the fourth and third dukes of the Yuan family, and my name moves the world. Do you want to lose the face of my Yuan family at this time? â
Yuan Shao looked at his brother coldly, and directly used the righteousness of the Yuan family to suppress him.
If you want to be the boss, you have to show something in front of the younger brothers. In the event of a tough and bloody battle, let the younger brother go to death, so that people's hearts will be scattered.
Yuan Shao didn't want to lose his strength, so he pushed his rival Yuan Shu out of the Yuan family at this time.
Yuan Shu wants to compete with his brother, and the Yuan family is his biggest reliance. He couldn't afford to lose the reputation of the Yuan family no matter what.
Even if he knew that this was Yuan Shao's strategy, he had to pinch his nose and respond.
Yuan Shu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a stupid idiot, but in fact, as the sister-in-law of the Yuan family, he has received elite education since he was a child, how can he be a fool.
After returning to the camp, Yuan Shu immediately sent people to arrest the local people as meat shields.
Even though most of the people have fled, there are still some people who are difficult to leave their homeland or have difficulty moving. I hope that God can open his eyes and let them escape this catastrophe.
It's a pity that it's been cloudy lately.
Under the persecution of the sharp blade of the warlord's team, these people cried and pushed the shield cart, the ladder, the rushing cart and even the Lu bus to slowly move towards the Tiger Prison Pass.
The shield cart is mainly used to defend against bow and crossbow shooting. The crossbowmen who cover their own side are used to suppress the city.
The ladder is a device with wheels and shields, which can be pushed under the city wall and fixed to climb the city directly.
Those who carry ladders in film and television dramas are counted as ladders, which are all nonsense. At most, it can only be regarded as a long ladder, the kind that can be broken by throwing stones and rolling logs.
The car is covered with a thick wooden shield on the top of the head, which can be fireproof and smashed, and is used to smash the city gate.
As for the Lu bus, according to legend, it was invented by the famous Jiang Taigong. Because his fief was LĂź, he was called LĂź Gong.
Of course, this is just legend. In fact, this is a siege tower, and the specific style can be referred to the Battle of the Plains of Perranno in the Lord of the Rings movie, the kind of large siege towers used by those siege orcs.
It is a large siege machine that is the same height as the city wall, and can go directly to the top through an internal ladder and jump into the wall for close combat.
More than 100,000 Kwantung coalition troops almost cut down the nearby trees and houses, and all of them were used for this.
Looking at the dense large number of siege equipment in the distance, Wang Xiao did not feel the slightest nervousness, but laughed.
The reason why he came to Tiger Prison a few days late was because he stayed in Luoyang City to supervise the making of equipment.
The production of muskets as weapons of mass destruction is insufficient, and it is not yet time to take them out. But trebuchets and bed crossbows are available.
The man-powered trebuchets of the public transport class were too cumbersome, heavy, and cumbersome. Wang Xiao gave an improved type, which greatly increased both power and range. In addition, a large number of steel parts are used, and the manpower requirement is greatly reduced.
This trebuchet, capable of firing tens or hundreds of kilograms of stones, is a powerful weapon against siege equipment.
As for the bed crossbow, there is nothing to say, Dahan originally had it, and the quality was very good.
Wang Xiao has not been idle in the past two days, he arranged for people to place a large number of city defense equipment on the head of the city, and also sent people to mark the distance line outside the city, marking it with stones.
By the time the large machines had crossed the stones and entered range, dozens of trebuchets whizzed and smashed the stones out.
This kind of thing doesn't pay attention to accuracy, and completely relies on range coverage to improve the hit rate.
Dozens of large rocks smashed over, and two shield carts were also smashed.
Many shirtless men shouted slogans and pulled the trebuchet down with a winch of winch to pull the trebuchet down. Then place the heavy stone in the throwing spoon and secure it.
This was followed by the second round of throwings.
Round after round of stones flew over, and many siege engines were smashed.
In particular, a Lu bus full of people was stopped and smashed, and dozens of people suddenly fell down screaming.
Then the bed crossbow also joined the shooting competition.
The bolts used for bed crossbows are very large, the thickness of an arm. The force was strong enough for him to shoot more than a kilometer.
If you are hit head-on by this thing, you will be nailed directly to the ground with several layers of heavy armor.
Even if it is a thick shield car, if it is hit at close range, it will be directly shattered by penetration.
The besieging side of the city stiffened the flying bed crossbows and stones, and endured huge casualties as they approached the city wall step by step.
Finally entering the firing range, the crossbowmen of the Yuan Shujun Army, who were hiding behind the shield cart, came out sideways, holding their crossbows and crossbows to suppress the city.
The defenders also showed no weakness, and a large number of crossbowmen stepped forward to fire at each other.
The rushing car finally came to the city gate, and dozens of well-dressed men pushed the huge rolling logs with sharpened heads, like a pendulum, and slammed into the city gate again and again.
The defenders at the head of the city threw down the rocks and logs and smashed the rushing cart with a roar, but it could not smash the skin of the rushing cart.
Then he threw down the oil and immediately turned the following into a sea of fire. It's a pity that the skin of the car has been specially fireproofed, and it is still non-combustible.
The ladder leaned against the foot of the city wall, dozens of people held shields to fix the ladder, followed by a large number of armor soldiers holding blades in one hand and shields in the other to climb the ladder.
The defenders tried to overturn the ladder with a fork, but to no avail. The ladder is very securely fastened.
When the armor climbs up, it can only be a hand-to-hand fight.
In the end, the only two remaining Lu buses finally leaned against the city wall.
The thick cowhide baffle fell, and the iron hooks at the edges stuck the city walls. A large number of shield-wielding warriors shouted and jumped towards the wall.
They were just greeted by a dense array of dozens of spears.
The battle has entered a white-hot and extremely tragic situation.
"I'm running out of people, it's time to replace!"
Yuan Shu roared with a pale face.
Although most of them were captured, there were also two or three thousand soldiers and horses under his command. Especially those armor soldiers who rushed to the city, they were all elites that he had recruited and trained with great difficulty.
Yuan Shao ignored his younger brother's terrifying eyes that seemed to be able to eat people, and his eyes fell on Jizhou Mu Han Fu.
Han Fu was also a little frightened by the tragic battle in front of the Tiger Prison. But the people of the Yuan family are all on it, and it is not easy for them to refuse. He could only bite the bullet and send his own soldiers and horses to take over the attack.
The fierce battle lasted from the morning until sunset.
The princes of all walks of life took turns to fight, and only after all the siege equipment was exhausted did they retreat unwillingly.
The corpses under the tiger prison are piled up, and the rich smell of blood attracts a large number of crows to hover in the sky.
The wails of the wounded were chilling.
Wang Xiao took a deep breath and looked at the Kwantung coalition camp in the distance.
"Send someone to clean up the corpses outside the gate, and prepare again, I will personally lead the team to rob the camp tonight."
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