Liu Bei was lamenting on his side, but Yuan Shu on the other side couldn't help but mock.

Liu Xuande is really getting more and more down, and he actually wants to do it during the negotiation. If he didn't want to keep this guy to deal with Cao Cao, he really wanted to kill him directly on the spot. Yuan Shu's eyes were not blind, and the red halo on Guan Yu's head turned a little black when the two sides were negotiating, obviously wanting to kill him. If there was no hint from Liu Bei behind this, Yuan Shu wouldn't believe it.

"Lord, the overall situation is important, it's better for Liu Bei to keep this person." Fa Zheng explained.

"It's clear, otherwise Liu Xuande wouldn't be alive today." Yuan Shu said lightly.

He ordered Huang Zhong to lead the army to rest in place for an hour, preparing to attack the city, and Pan Feng led the army to build a camp. Heavy troops went to the surrounding dense forests to cut down trees, and as soon as possible to form enough siege equipment such as wells, ladders, and other siege equipment. Also, did the core parts of the catapult come with the army? ”

"Fifty, no less than one, all intact." Pan Feng said solemnly.

"Hmm." Yuan Shu nodded: "Quickly assemble the catapult before noon tomorrow." ”

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An hour later, Huang Zhong's army, which had been marching all morning, was almost rested, and came to Guanxia under Huang Zhong's organization. And Liu Beijun had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Huang Zhong's army, he nodded slightly, and pushed out the siege equipment such as the well-mounted chariot and the cloud ladder that had been prepared.

On the Tongguan, Cao Xiu had already led 20,000 Cao troops to wait for a long time, and when he saw the movement in Yuan Shu's army, Cao Xiu hurriedly shouted: "Get ready, the other party is about to attack the city!" ”

Yuan Shujun has just arrived, the siege equipment has not been prepared, today's siege is naturally led by Liu Bei, Huang Zhong's 50,000 troops are all used as archers to suppress the defenders on the Tongguan city wall and cover Liu Bei's army, which is a good consensus between the two sides. Although it was a little unfair to Liu Bei, Liu Bei couldn't help it when he was in a hurry, he couldn't let Yuan Shu forcibly attack the city without siege equipment.

Huang Zhong led his army into several rows below the city, and his soldiers were armed with longbows and shot towards the city in unison. Tens of thousands of archers shot in unison, completely enveloping the space on the entire Tongguan city wall, under the impenetrable rain of arrows, the Cao army, whose number and archery skills were inferior, was simply pressed to raise its head, and only a few crossbowmen barely fought back under the cover of the foot soldiers on the city wall raising a giant shield.

Seeing that Huang Zhong's army easily suppressed the Cao army above Tongguan, Liu Bei was overjoyed and surprised in his heart. The good thing is that it seems that he will be able to take Tongguan soon, and he is worried about the horror of Huang Zhong's army.

The bow is not like a crossbow, the crossbow is powerful, the accuracy is high, the range is long and the control is simple, basically even some people can grasp it, so it is basically counted as contraband among the people. However, compared to bows, they can only be used for flat fire, and they are troublesome to reload, so they are not suitable for continuous output. The exception, of course, is repeater.

The crossbow has so many advantages, but it still has not completely replaced the bow, because the bow is low in cost, it is more suitable for large-scale combat, and its coverage and continuous output ability are stronger than the crossbow, especially in siege warfare, compared to the flat-fired crossbow, the bow is the mainstream. Of course, the same exception is the bed crossbow and the like.

The control of the bow is far from being as simple as that of a crossbow, and all the soldiers under Huang Zhong's command are good at it. Although the cavalry in Jiangdong is weak, it is precisely because of this that the naval army and archers are much stronger than those in the north, so Huang Zhong can easily form such an elite army with good marksmanship.

Similarly, Huang Zhong's legion talent is also very simple and crude, plus range. Therefore, despite the siege battle, the range of the archers of Huang Zhong's army was no worse than that of the condescending Cao army archers above Tongguan.

Huang Zhong's excellent suppression made Liu Bei's 30,000 siege army rush to Tongguan very smoothly with many siege equipment.

"Up! All on! ”

A team of Liu Jun rushed to the bottom of Tongguan with a ladder, erected the ladder on the city wall, and rushed up to the city wall one after another. However, the Cao army on the city wall was not a weak brigade, and they threw the stones and rolling logs that had been prepared one after another, and countless hot gold juices were poured down one after another. Countless Cao soldiers were cracked and rolled down the ladder by the five organs directly smashed by the boulder rolling wood, and fell into flesh.

And the soldier Liu, who was covered in gold juice and covered his face, was even more frantically wailing with pain, constantly rolling on the ground. Not to mention countless red, swollen and blisters appeared on his body, and the wounds were still festering. The foul smell and terrifying scene sent chills through the hearts of the surrounding soldiers and soldiers.

Liu Jun, who was pushing the rushing car, also came to the closed city gate of Tongguan at this time, shouting in unison and pushing the rushing car to continuously hit the huge city gate.

The huge roar of hitting the city gate resounded throughout the battlefield, and after Cao Xiu heard this huge sound, he hurriedly came to the city wall and shouted: "Shoot them with rockets, shoot them with rockets." ”

When many Cao soldiers heard this, they immediately lit the arrows behind them wrapped in flammable materials and coated with fire oil, rushed out of the hiding place, and desperately held bows and arrows to shoot at the rushing car under the city and the soldiers around it.

"Ahh Yes! ”

The screams on the battlefield continued to sound, and countless soldiers of Liu either fell down the ladder and died, or died in pain and wailing with arrows or flames and gold juice in their bodies. Cao Jun's ample preparation caused Liu Jun to suffer heavy losses as soon as he came up, and I have to say that although Cao Xiu was a little tender, his character was cautious, and his defense of the city was indeed orderly.

At the same time, a large number of wells were pushed not far from the city wall, and the Liu army archers on them shot towards the Cao army on the city wall, and together with Huang Zhong's army, suppressed the Cao army on the city wall.

The siege war was so barbaric and rude, and the entire Tongguan was directly turned into a meat grinder, and soldiers died here every moment.

Although the Yuan-Liu coalition army was several times larger than Cao's army, due to the lack of siege equipment in Huang Zhong's army, it could only be suppressed remotely, and Tongguan was no less dangerous than the Tiger Prison Pass, and its towering and solid city walls were really difficult to attack, so the scene fell into a stalemate.

Under Cao Xiu's adequate preparation and Cao Jun's courage and fearlessness, Liu Bei's soldiers attacked for half an hour, and they were stunned to rush to the city wall after heavy losses. However, the losses of the Cao army were not small, and under the suppression of many archers, many soldiers on the city wall were shot by bows and arrows every time they shot.

"Whoever is the first to climb the city wall will be rewarded with 100 gold!" Liu Beijun's lieutenant kept shouting to boost morale. Under the heavy advantage, Liu soldiers and soldiers rushed towards the city wall frantically without fear of death.

Similarly, Cao Xiu on the city wall also kept shouting: "Quick, push all the rolling stones down!" Is the gold juice boiled, quickly pour it down, pour it on the flushing car, and let this group of miscellaneous pieces die! ”

"Archers! Hide behind shield soldiers and behind walls, don't show your head easily, pay attention to concealment! ”

"Put the rocket! Burn that well for me! ”

The sound of fighting, angry shouts, and screams, under Tongguan is like a Shura hell, and the battle situation is extremely tragic.

Yuan Shu stood from a distance and watched this scene, his brows furrowed slightly: "The siege battle is really tragic. ”

Fa Zheng sighed slightly: "At the beginning, a tiger prison pass blocked the princes of the Sixteenth Road, and this Tongguan could not be taken without paying tens of thousands of casualties." ”

"This kind of simple and brainless battle is really blind to these elite soldiers under my command." Yuan Shu sighed softly.

"Ci is not in charge of the army, casualties are inevitable, and if you want to capture this kind of Xiongguan, you can't spare the casualties of the soldiers." Fa Zheng said lightly.

"Liu Bei is also out of the way, we can only paddle today, so he is still so desperate. At this rate of casualties, Liu Beijun's losses today would be no less than 3,000. Yuan Shu slightly estimated the situation on the battlefield and said in a deep voice.

Fa Zheng chuckled: "He's in a hurry, Cao Mengde went out to attack Qingzhou in three ways, and there is not much time left for him!" ”

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