Beat!

In the face of the impregnable Xiangyang, the Cao-Sun coalition army, which had been advancing all the way, did not even have a decent temptation, and directly tore off all the coats outside the war, and even the additional attributes of war such as assassination, sabotage, discord, and internal response, they did not intend to use them at all.

In this way, they unscrupulously put on a decisive posture, although the anger of Gan Ning and Wen Ping finally had a point to vent, but at the same time, they couldn't help but be a little more suspicious of the crazy Cao Sun coalition army.

"Military advisor, does the lord expect that the Cao Sun coalition army will come up like this?" Gan Ning fiddled with the mountain-destroying crossbow that had been installed and debugged beside him, and looked at Cao Cao, who was dressed in a bright battle robe, not afraid of the Xiangyang crossbow arrows at all, and rode the peerless divine horse like a heavenly man in front of the battle, and couldn't help but feel more indescribable about the menacing Cao Jun.

"Naturally, it has already been expected," Guo Jia smiled, and the feeling of seeing the old master again also made him very uncomfortable, but then he patted Gan Ning's shoulder and asked with a smile: "Why, is it because you know that there will be no reinforcements, so you are afraid of Cao Sun's 300,000 army?" ”

"How is that possible?!" Gan Ning's face turned pale, and his expression couldn't help but feel a little more arrogant: "If they dare to come, I will let them know how beneficial the Ma family's bow and crossbow are!" ”

The crossbow is powerful, accurate positioning, long range, and strong penetration. There are only two disadvantages, one is expensive to build and easy to damage. Second, the launch speed is slow and seriously affected by the weather.

This is also the reason why crossbow machines have not been widely used in many eras.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, many soldiers were holding a wooden stick to the battlefield, when a ring knife became a valuable weapon, the high-end product of the crossbow machine was simply unimaginable to most heroes.

But they don't know that although the crossbow machine is expensive, the components are mostly the same, and if the management is standardized. Unifying the size of each part of the crossbow machine will greatly reduce its cost. The versatility of wearing parts will make it easy to be damaged, and this shortcoming can be easily solved. And Jingzhou has Wancheng, the smelting city, and Jingzhou, the foundation of the hometown of bows and arrows, and a powerful crossbow army defending the city has become possible.

As for the disadvantage of the slow firing speed of the crossbow machine, in fact, it is only the user himself who does not know that the crossbow machine is a powerful weapon. It is best not to use it alone. Instead, it is necessary to form a formation and take turns to launch. Alternate reloading, and even if necessary, the division of labor mechanism between loading, opening the bow, and launching site can be realized, so as to give full play to its true strength. In the crossbow army battle, there is a kind of array of ten thousand crossbows fired together, once this array is formed, it is unstoppable, supreme, powerful, and invincible.

During the time when Ma Chao was stranded in Xiangyang, in addition to secretly investigating the conspiracy of the Cao Alliance, the rest of the effort was to transport a large number of crossbow machines and crossbow arrows from Wancheng, fill up several fixed armories in Xiangyang, and even build several temporary armories. During this period, the garrison equipment and grain and grass reserves simply surpassed the largest scale of any city in this era. These have become the confidence of Gan Ning and others in the face of the world-famous Cao Cao and Sun Ce.

"General, the crossbow machines of each department have been debugged, and the lookout mountain, machine teeth, hook heart, crossbow body, arrows, all parts are normal!" The junior colonel of Yishoucheng stepped forward and reported to Gan Ning with a solemn salute.

"That's right," Gan Ning licked his lips and looked at the enemy army under the city, revealing a wolf-like fierce look: "Since they are not even willing to be tempted, then let me start the prelude to this decisive battle!" After that, Gan Ning personally manipulated the three-foot-four-inch Xiangyang Maozhu crossbow arrow to the mountain-destroying crossbow beside him, aimed at Cao Cao through Wangshan, and then pulled the trigger fiercely!

With a 'bang' sound, the crossbow arrow seemed to draw a lightning bolt in the clear sky, and flew towards Cao Cao! The fierce generals and guards around Cao Cao didn't have time to react at all, and they saw Cao Cao's helmet being shot down by crossbow arrows!

"Damn it!" Gan Ning punched: "It's two inches taller, I didn't expect Lao Cao to be so short!" ”

However, this sudden crossbow bolt still shocked the entire Cao army. All the Cao generals saw that Cao Cao was almost sniped by the crossbow arrows in the city at a distance of one hundred and fifty steps outside the city, and his morale couldn't help but plummet, and there was an unnatural commotion in the strict formation.

"I, Cao Mengde, the person who belongs to the destiny of heaven, the soldiers under my command are even more righteous soldiers for the way of heaven, how can they hurt me with just crossbow arrows?!" After Cao Cao was startled, his astute courage immediately reacted to the situation, and the heroism in the high-pitched laughter was full of arrogance. After a word, the guards around him immediately reacted, and then shouted loudly: "King Wei is invincible, he will break Xiangyang!" ”

The morale of an arrow was immediately transformed into a sky-high arrogance by Cao Cao's improvisation, and Sun Ce on the other side couldn't help but admit that Cao Cao was indeed a hero. After all, if that arrow was shot at him, I am afraid that he would be angry and directly order the siege of the city, right?

But Cao Cao was so improvised, and after reversing the morale of the entire battlefield, he waved the command flag fiercely: "Kill me!" ”

"Kill!" Sun Ce also waved the command flag at the same time, and this time he did not take the lead. With Cao Cao, an excellent teacher, he learns everything quickly.

"Kill!"

The shouts of killing all over the mountains seemed to shake the whole sun down. After that, the vanguard carrying the ladders, the operators pushing the thunderbolts, and many more brave siege pioneers quickly and slowly flooded the entire front of Xiangyang City. At the same time, the mountain-destroying crossbow on the city also burst out with a neat sound of strings, and the array of ten thousand crossbows that had not appeared in a hundred years finally reappeared at this moment!

Thanks to the protection of the Xiangshui River, Xiangyang City has a wide enough moat. In this way, those siege pioneers can only look at the city and sigh, and can only attack by the river. The long ladder could not erect the towering walls of Xiangyang City at all, and the siege soldiers who came at this time, although their morale was fierce, but the losses were also the greatest.

The shouts of killing under the city became more and more dense, and Gan Ning immediately got up and went to the watchtower in more places, only to see that the captain of the first guard under him was shouting angrily with his upper height bare, waving a big knife in his hand, and directing his subordinates to release arrows. Looking down further, I saw that the Cao Sun coalition army was densely packed, charging towards this side like ants. Because of the proximity, I saw that the faces of the coalition troops were distorted, screaming with their mouths wide open, and charging towards this direction with a rain of arrows on their backs. Many pioneers who knew how to swim directly across the moat and bite the ring head knife to climb the Xiangyang city wall.

And on the front outside the moat, the crossbow arrows that had been piled down like a torrential rain had already been shot all over the field, and there were countless casualties. But I have to admit that the incoming army is really brave, although the formation has been broken, the flag bearer has changed several rounds, but the rear army is still rushing forward to assault, those who know the water directly jump and swim across, and those who do not know the water climb the city on the ladder, and the morale is very high.

Just when Gan Ning sighed, an army almost crawled in front of Gan Ning's eyes. If it weren't for the rapid support of the reserve army organized by Tai Shi Ci, maybe it would have really broken through such a lifeless attack of the coalition forces.

At this time, any intrigue is useless. In the siege war, it is more of a test of the command and adaptability of the general defending the city, Gan Ning, Tai Shici, and Wen Ping's official positions are not distinguished, but Guo Jia has adjusted and deployed from it, and the three of them perform their own duties, and there is no improper command and inconsistent military orders. Gan Ning was in the watchtower, looking at the six roads, focusing on the overall situation, one after another orders quickly spit out from his mouth, and through the whole army of the heralds, the entire Xiangyang city was like a whole, more adjustment and less supplementation, and the mobile defense was seamless.

However, Ma Jiajun's good fortune finally ran out at sunset. Liu Ye's invention of the thunderbolt is no less than the Ma family's new trebuchet, the huge whistling stones have repeatedly made contributions, like an unhappy but tenacious blunt knife, layer by layer cutting the walls of Xiangyang City, splashing earth and stones, Xiangyang City is slowly broken up with the speed visible to the naked eye.

"We've got to burn those thunderbolts!" Gan Ning roared with red eyes, but before the words fell, he heard the loud bang under his feet, and the city wall collapsed a large area at once, it turned out that this city wall was the place where Cai Mao's family Ding hid and assassinated Ma Chao, although it was rebuilt, but it was not very solid, Cao Cao naturally would not let go of this little advantage, the boulder bombarded for most of the day, and finally smashed a few big stones, and the city wall collapsed again.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Bing's ladder finally had a place to set up. The white-knuckle hand-to-hand combat that all the defending generals did not want to see was still inevitable!