Chapter 35: Attack
On August 22, the flood-soaked soil around Fancheng was still wet and soft.
However, the Han army of Jingzhou has gathered in Tushan, which is about 12 zhang wide and can accommodate 50 people to advance side by side.
The towers behind the dirt and the thirty warships moored in the dirt stood full of crossbowmen, ready to attack.
Guan Yu stayed behind on the south bank, and the battle on the north bank was handed over to Guan Ping to command.
Guan Ping is only eighteen years old, but he is the oldest of the second generation, and he was born with many missions.
He rewarded the assault warriors selected from each battalion with ox wine, more than 300 heavily armored foot soldiers sat together, Tian Xin was the first to sit cross-legged, the shield was on his knees, a stewed soft beef leg, three catties of beef, a dish of salt, a plate of sauce, and a plate of vinegar were placed on the shield.
Because he didn't drink alcohol, the more than 100 assault warriors selected from his Fengyi army also refused to drink.
Cut the meat with a dagger, or sprinkle it with salt, or dip it in sauce, or dip it in vinegar.
He still wears the iron basin collar armor, but the negative badge on his back is a big red 'Tian' character on a white background, in order to cover him, the other seven selected commando officers all wear the iron typhal collar armor, the difference is only the negative badge behind the back.
After Yu Ban surrendered, the most direct spoils of the Jingzhou army were nearly 20,000 sets of iron armor, but unfortunately, most of the cattle and horses were washed away and drowned by the flood.
With his current influence, revealing his identity during the siege of the city will inevitably attract special attention from the defenders.
While they were feasting, about 2,000 crossbowmen began to suppress the defenders of the city wall, and nearly 100 bed crossbows were placed in the towers, or the earth mountains were close to the obstacles piled up on the city wall, and the defenders were in disarray.
At about eleven o'clock in the morning, Tian Xin led a group of sudden warriors to climb the earth mountain, from which you can overlook the city wall, about a foot higher than the city wall, and you can see the movement of the defenders after the city wall is broken and obstacles.
Chen Feng led more than 100 assault warriors to line up and press towards the city wall, and the defenders counterattacked weakly, and there was no damage to the assault warriors with heavy armor and shields.
Chen Feng's more than 100 people arrived at the city wall, waving Changge to hook the obstacles on the wall, preparing for the follow-up to the city.
After clearing the obstacles, Chen Feng led the people to retreat, and now he is on the rise.
Tian Xin and Xi Hong glanced at each other, raised their halberds in their hands at the same time, and each led a hundred people down the dirt mountain, easily climbing the wall where the defenders retreated, Tian Xin to the south, and Xi Hong to the north.
On the roofs of the houses in the city, the defenders built improvised fortifications, and about 500 crossbowmen scattered scattered to shoot intensively.
Tian Xin held a shield in his left hand, but the rain of arrows came from the right, which was not conducive to shielding, and suddenly more than a dozen people were hit by arrows, and the arrow wounds were not deep, and then he stood by the wall with a shield to resist the arrows fired from the city.
"Kill!"
The guard general Xu Cheng raised his sword and swung it, and more than 200 armor soldiers rushed in with shields, almost instantly entangled with Tian Xin.
There was a shout of killing on both sides, the sound was noisy, and the hearing was almost lost.
Tian Xin held the shield in his left arm, lowered his head and gritted his teeth, and held the four-sided Han sword in his right hand and constantly pierced from the gap in the shield, whether it was armor or shield, it was pierced by his four-sided Han sword, and a famous defender armor soldier fell in front of him, and the fallen armor soldier was immediately trampled by the two sides of the tug-of-war, or simply died, but was held and clamped by the shield of the enemy and me, swaying from side to side.
The width of the city wall is only one and a half zhang, and there are only more than ten people crowded side by side, counting the spears and halberds in the second and third rows, and at the same time, more than 30 people can participate in the battle.
Both sides are heavily armored at the moment, the front row is almost shielded against the shield, each other's foreheads are against each other's foreheads, in addition to the two rows behind can assist in the attack, more people behind them are pushing hard.
More and more Jingzhou soldiers climbed the city wall along the earth mountain, and more than 1,000 Jingzhou soldiers were crowded on the forty-zhang long city wall.
The more armor there were, the more chaotic the formation became, and they suffered from the damage of the city's crossbowmen.
At this moment, Tian Xin couldn't take care of much, and kept repeating the stabbing action, and his feet were covered with blood and corpses.
Trampling on the corpses of unknown enemies, he struggled forward.
The guard general Xu Cheng saw that the Jingzhou army was attacking strongly on this road, and then saw that the Jingzhou army in the north had been blocked in front of the city tower, and immediately led his own private troops into battle.
A halberd of the defenders hooked to Tian Xin's helmet and pulled it back vigorously, as if to tear the helmet away, and by the way, tear Tian Xin's neck.
Tian Xin was in pain, and he stabbed wildly with a sword.
Suddenly, a stream of blood sprayed onto his helmet, which had already been stained red with blood, the war halberd on his helmet was cut off with a knife, and the elbow of Lin Luozhu's right arm who was holding the knife was scratched by another halberd.
Lin Luozhu took off the war knife in his hand, and the whole person shrank behind the shield and whined and shouted, struggling to push the shield.
Feeling a burning pain in his leg again, he looked down to see a wounded defender lying on the ground wielding a dagger.
The defender was quickly stabbed in the face by another assault warrior lying on the ground, and Tian Xin had a subordinate soldier on each side crouching and rolling on the ground, wielding a short knife to protect him.
The casualties of the enemy and the enemy rose rapidly, and as Geng Jaw led a battalion of Dangkou troops to climb the city wall, a large number of armored soldiers slid into the city with bamboo ladders under his command, and the scope of the battle expanded rapidly, and the defenders on the roof were divided and fought separately, unable to concentrate on suppressing the city wall, and the casualties increased sharply.
Bullfight.
At this moment, what appeared in Tian Xin's eyes was a bloody bullfight, what is the difference between himself, the surrounding enemies and the bullfighting?
Liu Bei's benevolence, Zhuge Liang's wisdom, Guan Yu's weight, and Guan Ping's friendship are so far away at this moment, just like the red cloth in the hands of a matador.
There were so many people around him shouting and screaming at the moment that no one could hear their last screams clearly, not even their own voices.
Fighting for the revenge of the original owner's parents and brother?
Or is it fighting for the revival of the Han family?
No, just to stay alive at the moment!
To live, to figure out your limits!
I also have to take care of the sister who depends on me, and I have to make the soldiers who follow me live better!
Tian Xin's eyes were indifferent, and he kept stabbing with the sword in his right hand, so that the front was suddenly empty, and no defenders dared to come in front of him, and more and more defenders avoided him, retreated, or were squeezed off the city wall.
Before the meeting, there was a gap, Tian Xin stepped forward with a shield, and the armor soldiers behind him rushed closely, the defenders fled in embarrassment, and the guard Xu Cheng could not prohibit it, but was coerced by the rout and fled backwards.
Tian Xin chased all the way to the enemy tower in the southeast corner of Fancheng, cut off the battle flag of the Cao army here with a sword, climbed the enemy tower and gasped, looking around the battlefield.
Seeing that Xiahou Lan's battle flag had been erected on the tower, the battle in the city had been taken over by the experienced Xia Hou Lan, and many of the battle flags he was familiar with were distributed on the east city wall, or in the city.
The wounded soldiers on the city wall have been sheltered and transported outside the city by special personnel, indicating that the initiative in the battle has fallen into the hands of the Han army in Jingzhou.
He looked around and saw that only more than thirty assault warriors were still standing beside him, and the other armor soldiers were mostly fresh faces, although they looked up to him with reverence.
Looking outside the city, there are still eight battalions in full formation at the foot of the earth mountain, ready to enter the battle at any time.
He saw the banner of his Fengyi army, and the officers and sergeants there were also looking up to him.
Tian Xin raised the bloody four-sided Han sword and raised his arms at them to greet their cheers.
Protector Luo Qiong looked up at Tian Xin's posture with bright eyes, raised his arms and shouted: "Cai! ”
The whole army shouted, the north bank shouted, the sailors and the Dangkou army left behind on the south bank also shouted, and more than 30,000 prisoners were at a loss.
If Fancheng is broken and Cao Ren is dead, the situation in the Central Plains will be greatly changed, and even the 26th Huainan Army will mutiny and escape, so that Sun Quan's soldiers will march into Yuzhou, Xuzhou, and Qingzhou without blood.
In Xiangyang City, Pingdi General Lu Chang sighed, drew his sword in public, and his body fell from the city tower.
He still opened his eyes and saw the gate of Xiangyang creak open, Li Ji and other military officials walked out of the door with their heads down, and his old officials threw themselves around his body and wept.
In the wild shouts of the Han army in Jingzhou, suddenly a dense rain of arrows shot from the city to the southeast enemy tower, three or four arrows hit Tian Xin's back, and the arrow force staggered Tian Xin from the enemy tower two steps and fell into the mud outside the city wall.
Dizzy from the fall, Tian Xin looked at the blue sky and breathed a long sigh of relief.