Two of the twenty ladders were destroyed by the large repeater, and the other eighteen ladders reached the city without any problems.

Everyone used all their strength to erect the ladder little by little, and the iron hook at the top tightly grasped the battlement.

Hundreds of people who were the first to climb the ladder flocked to the top.

You can climb the ladder for three people at the same time, which is indeed a lot more efficient, and the destruction of the Yaksha is not as fast as climbing the ladder.

Soon someone climbed to the top of the city and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the long-awaited Central Army.

The troops defending the city, the troops of the Fourth Division, the Tuntian Army, and the garrison brigade were matched in a one-to-one ratio.

Most of the people in charge of hand-to-hand combat at the head of the city were veterans of the Central Army. The squad leaders, platoon commanders, and company commanders were constantly reminding the clumsy recruits and the tuntian soldiers.

The clerks constantly boosted the morale of the battalions, companies and platoons. Therefore, although they are new soldiers and Tuntian soldiers who have never seen blood, they do not flinch, although they are afraid, they have the courage to overcome their fears.

At the same time as the ladder came into play, the chariot also rushed under the city wall and began to destroy the foundation of the city wall.

Zhu Ling shouted loudly: "Hurry up and move the big guy, smash the car for me, hurry up!" ”

Immediately, there was a rumbling sound of heavy wooden wheels rolling on the city wall, which made the soldiers of Yuan Shujun under the city very curious, but they couldn't see anything.

Only those warriors who climbed to the top of the city and fought hand-to-hand with the Central Army saw an amazing picture.

A tall monster carved out of stone, placed on a platform with many pairs of wheels, was dragged by hundreds of people.

The stone beast was dragged to the head of the city above a rushing cart, and the iron chains that were firmly bound to the stone beast were hoisted under the winch on the tall wooden frame.

Then a number of people wrenched together to lift the stone beast off the ground, and finally to a position higher than the battlement, and then slowly dragged it beyond the city walls.

Someone shouted slogans, and finally it was the same person who shouted "Put!" ”

The stone beast with an iron chain, roared down from the six-zhang high city, and the weight of nearly 1,000 catties plus gravity smashed the rushing cart to smithereens, and many Yangzhou soldiers who pushed the cart and pushed the wood inside died one after another.

There was even a big pit of blurred flesh and blood on the ground, and Yuan Shu, who was watching the battle from a distance, almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, who thought of this idea! It's too vicious, more ruthless than fire!

Don't leave a living mouth, the Kwantung princes in the distance are also exclaiming, this move cracks the attack of the rushing car, it's amazing, I don't know which one of the Central Army came up with it?

Who else could have thought of such a vicious trick?

Of course, it's Jia Xu, after the last siege, Jia Xu is thinking about more techniques to defend the city.

He was inspired by the counterweight stone thrower, and suddenly thought of a pair of stone slenders in the Tiger Prison City, each weighing 800 catties, after twisting it with a winch, to smash the rushing car, it will inevitably completely destroy the rushing car.

The winch can be recycled, which is really amazing.

The appearance of this big killing weapon, coupled with the terrifying effect and the messy scene, made the morale of the Yangzhou army plummet.

Before the stone sly moved to the top of the second rushing car, the Yangzhou soldiers in the rushing car gave up the rushing car and turned around and ran wildly.

Seeing this, Yuan Shu knew that the defeat was decided, so he ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

The dead soldiers of the Yangzhou army at the head of the city basically did not have time to leave, and the Yangzhou infantry under the city gradually retreated under the cover of the big shield.

Yuan Shujun is quite elite and well-trained, although he retreats, he is not chaotic, and he knows how to cover each other.

However, they left behind more than a dozen ladders that had not been destroyed, and when the enemy retreated, Zhu Ling ordered people to pour fire oil on these ladders and rush cars to burn them all.

The siege of the next day ended at the cost of 4,000 casualties of Yuan Shu.

The defenders of Tiger Prison Pass also suffered more than 1,000 casualties, after all, the two sides were shooting at each other, and there were hand-to-hand combat, and the elite of Yuan Shu's army was still stronger than the Tuntian army.

After the day, Liu Bei, who was the second to attack the city, simply didn't use the car, but just brought a ladder to attack the city, and the 20,000 Xuzhou army was also complete and well-equipped.

Carrying a ladder, he braved the rain of arrows in the city and began to charge.

This time, Liu Bei chose the northern section of the city wall, repeating the siege process of filling the moat, shooting, erecting ladders, and climbing the city.

However, with the increase in the number of sieges, the experience of these siege soldiers has also increased, and many of them even put on two layers of chain armor, preferring to move slower than to save their lives.

The Xuzhou army was much braver than the Yangzhou army, and there were more soldiers who rushed to the city to fight hand-to-hand than the Yangzhou army.

The casualties caused to the defenders were also greater, and by the time Mingjin withdrew his troops, 3,000 casualties were exchanged for more than 1,000 casualties of the Central Army, and the efficiency was significantly improved.

And when retreating, Liu Bei's army also brought back more than a dozen ladders that had not yet been damaged.

Because the craftsman battalion said that the nearby trees six or seven zhang high have been cut down, and the ladder cannot be used at one time, so if it can be recycled, it can be recycled!

Next, Cao Cao, the third besieger of the city, dispatched 25,000 men, with thirty ladders and three rushing vehicles, led by the general Cao Hong himself.

The Cao army attacked the middle wall of the last attack, and there was no need to fill in the ditch, so from the beginning they put all their forces into the siege.

Thirty ladders can climb ninety people at the same time, which is very efficient, and there are not many ladders that can be directly destroyed by yaksha and crashes.

This time, hundreds of Cao soldiers attacked the city, and Cao Hong personally led the team.

The troops defending the city have been replaced by Xu Rong's first division, and the area of responsibility for hand-to-hand combat has already been divided into squads.

Therefore, when two or three Cao soldiers climbed up to the top of the city, there would often be a squad of central troops surrounding them and killing them soon.

However, the large number of repeating crossbows equipped by Cao Jun can play a huge role this time.

They can form a fierce confrontation with the head of the city on the side of the moat, and they are not inferior in speed or density.

The only advantage of the Central Army was the addition of a series of ballistas, but Cao's hoplites always stood in the way of the crossbowmen.

After Cao Hong personally climbed to the top of the city, he also fell into a siege.

The squad tactics of the Central Army were not ordinary, with three shieldmen besieging Cao Hong in the front row, two spearmen waiting for the opportunity to stab the fatal blow, three crossbowmen standing at the end, and two longbowmen replacing them with horizontal knives.

Cao Hong and a few Cao soldiers gathered back to back, but they couldn't defend against the spears and horizontal knives, but they couldn't defend against the repeaters.

The main energy of the defenders is still on destroying the ladder, as long as the ladder is destroyed, the Cao army on the head of the city is a rootless tree and a sourceless water, which can be slaughtered by others.

Finally, when most of the ladder was destroyed, Cao Cao ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Cao Hong covered several Cao troops to withdraw from the city, and he was the last to climb down the ladder, two of the three rushing cars were destroyed by stone beasts, fortunately, the people inside scattered in a hurry before they were smashed down, and a few did not die, and one rushing car was burned by fire.

狻猊 (suanni)

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