The next day, after dawn, Lu Bu launched a full-scale attack with ingenuity, and sent troops from the four city gates to attack at the same time, digging trenches, and preparing the starting position for the siege.

Cao Cao didn't expect that Lu Bu would rely on his large number of people to attack the four city gates at the same time.

The defenders at the head of the city saw that the Han army was digging a trench in front of them, and they could not obey Cao Cao's military orders, so they fired artillery one after another to stop the Han army's movement.

Therefore, Lu Bu quickly obtained the firepower density of the artillery of the four city gates, and naturally discovered the mystery at once.

This was actually a strategy that Zhuge Liang and Lu Bu came up with, and they expected that Cao Cao would definitely adjust the artillery distribution of the four city gates.

In the end, the conclusion was that Cao Cao would definitely do everything and tear down the east wall to make up the west wall.

At this time, the numerical superiority and equipment superiority of the Han army were reflected, and Lu Bu calmly chose the South City Gate as the main direction of attack today.

All the artillery and mortars quickly maneuvered outside the southern city gate, and when the signal flare of the attack crossed the sky, the artillery of the Han army began a new day of attack.

In yesterday's artillery battle, the Han army lost only a dozen mortars.

After today's artillery battle began, the Han infantry once again began to dig trenches from a distance of 500 zhang, and dug until a distance of 200 zhang before starting to dig to both sides.

When night fell again, Cao Cao wanted to cry without tears, and the fifteen cannons at the south gate were wiped out one by one by the artillery of the Han army.

Moreover, the siege starting position outside the south gate has also been dug and can be used for siege at any time.

Cao Cao was really at a loss, he could see that Lu Bu was clearly working with him.

If you start a war tomorrow, how will you meet the enemy?

After all, the loss of 35 guns still formed a big loophole, and how to defend it next became the biggest problem.

Cao Cao also saw that Lu Bu was also determined to win Xiangyang this time, thinking that this was his first imperial expedition after he ascended the throne and became emperor, and he would definitely not accept a defeat, not even a draw.

If the artillery runs out, the rest will only be filled with human lives.

But in terms of the number of soldiers, he doesn't have as many as Lu Bu!

Since Lü Bu occupied Chang'an and divided half of the country, a large number of people in the Kanto region have lost to Guanzhong.

No matter how strictly Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Yuan Shao and others defended, they could not change this general trend.

And when Lu Bu recovered Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Yizhou, the population advantage became more and more obvious.

Although Zhou Yu is full of wisdom, in the face of this kind of conspiracy, there is no loophole to drill in the upright tactics.

In the face of a war that is destined to have no chance of winning, Cao Cao can only sigh that manpower is exhausted!

The night was sleepless, and when the sun rose again, the Han army also arrived again as promised, launching a new day's attack.

This time, the Han army chose to attack the north city gate, and the starting position for the attack under the city wall was ready, and the siege troops could move through the trench to a place only 200 zhang away from the city wall to hide and wait.

This time there were only fifteen artillery pieces on the north city gate, and when the Wei army's artillery was once again suppressed by the Han army, the first group of death squads began to rush to the city wall with a ladder, no longer waiting until the end of the artillery battle as they had done a few days ago.

The Wei army had learned that when the defending troops were shelling, they only kept a few observation posts at the head of the city, and the others hid in the anti-artillery holes.

The observation post saw that the Han infantry had begun to build ladders to attack the city, and immediately blew a sharp whistle, and the Wei troops under the city immediately swarmed to the city.

They were about to shoot with muskets, and they had already attacked the Han army under the city, but when they had just emerged and began to aim at the Han army under the city, the Han army position in the distance first sounded a crisp gunshot.

The sound of the Han army's Ma rifle was not as dull as the Wei army's flintlock pistol, and it was much more crisp.

The defenders at the head of the city could not shoot accurately, so they could only fire their guns indiscriminately at the city.

But immediately, an officer of the Wei army reacted, "Throw grenades, don't save them, throw them down, don't forget to pull the strings!" ”

As a result, hundreds of grenades emitted white smoke and were dropped from the top of the city into the crowd below.

Although the helmets of the Han army can withstand the fragments of the grenade, the other parts of the body are still fragile, so under the attack of a wave of grenades, the Han army still suffered heavy casualties.

Especially throwing grenades, you don't need to poke your body out, so that you can become the target of the Han army, and you won't be shot by snipers, which is much safer.

Seeing that the death squads were almost dead and wounded, Tai Shici, who was on the front line of command on the starting position, immediately ordered the second wave of death squads to attack.

It was his Ninth Division that served as the main attack on the North City Gate today, and Lu Bu had already told him not to be afraid of casualties, as long as he could take Xiangyang, he would be given as much as he died.

Therefore, Tai Shi Ci set up a death squad of 5,000 people, just to be the first to break Xiangyang City and win this honor alone.

By the time the Han death squads began to storm the city, the shelling had stopped, and at this moment the two sides seemed to be back on the same starting line.

The siege test is the courage and willpower of both sides, as well as the preparedness.

In order to suppress the grenade attacks of the defenders, Tai Shi Ci boldly asked the mortar battalion to continue attacking the defenders of the city head until his men attacked the city head.

The landing point of the mortar was relatively accurate, and under Tai Shici's request to ignore accidental injuries, he quickly suppressed the defenders at the head of the city.

Taking advantage of this short window period, the second wave of death squads successfully set up the ladder at the top of the city and began to climb hard.

What followed was naturally a white-knuckle battle and a battle for the city, with both sides constantly filling in the lives of each other.

Before the Cao Wei army shed its last drop of blood, it was still able to withstand the attack of the Han army.

In close combat, there is no obvious difference in the equipment of the two sides, they are both elite, and courage and morale are not a problem.

Especially after Zhou Yu successfully launched a night attack, the morale of the Wei-Wu coalition army soared.

Zhou Yu took advantage of one of the few secret passages in Xiangyang City to send a coalition death squad of 3,000 people into the rear of the Han army's encirclement.

Under the guidance of Neiying, an ammunition depot shared by the 1st and 3rd Divisions was blown up with explosives.

The sound of a huge explosion and the rising mushroom cloud were clearly visible from dozens of miles away.

The explosion was so violent that not only the thousands of Han soldiers guarding the warehouse were blown to pieces, but even the 3,000 death squads of the coalition army that launched the attack were killed or wounded.

The rest did not escape the round-up of the reinforcements of the Han army, and all the jade was shattered.

This bombing blew up most of the artillery shells and explosives reserves of the two main siege divisions, and many bullets and grenades were also detonated.

However, after using this secret passage once, it was immediately abandoned and could only be used once.

(End of chapter)