In the rumbling war drums, Cao Cao, Cheng Yu, who hurriedly landed in the city, and Xiahou Yuan, Yu Ban, Le Jin, and other generals who commanded the battle, stood solemnly at the head of Chen Liucheng, looking at the slowly approaching siege army outside the city.

Looking at the neat military formation outside the city, Cao Cao's face was solemn, and his green hand clenched the long sword at his waist hard.

He was a man who knew the soldiers, and he could see the gap between the two armies at a glance. Zhang Liao's method of training has long been learned, and used in his own army, originally thought that after two years of training, the gap is not big, but now when the two armies are facing each other, he found that the gap between the two armies is still a world apart, not only equipment, but also the spirit of the army, the most intuitive embodiment is the murderous spirit of the sky, his army is far from comparable.

Cao Cao squinted his eyes to the left and right, and found that the soldiers guarding the city under his command were really nervous, and a few of them were trembling, and even a few generals were pale and nervous, obviously all of them were intimidated by Zhang Liao's military momentum.

"Hahaha." Cao Cao rolled his eyes, and suddenly laughed twice, startling the soldiers in the city.

On the side, Cheng Yu immediately asked, "Why is Ming Gong laughing?" ”

Cao Cao shook his head and said with a smile: "I laugh at Zhang Liao's unwise ears, the labor division is thousands of miles away from the outside of the Saiwai, and he comes non-stop to attack my Henan, although there are strong soldiers, but the end of the tired division and strong crossbow, as long as the generals guard the city, he can't drum, the second drum can't, and the third drum will decline!" The arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and it is easy to break! ”

Dong Zhao responded loudly: "What Ming Gong said is true!" Horses are still unbearable for a thousand miles, not to mention that the people in armor travel thousands of miles, and their physical strength will be exhausted, and they are not afraid! ”

When the soldiers in the city heard Cao Cao and Cheng Dong's second army division say this, their panic was greatly relieved.

At this time, Cheng Yu said again: "The war has started, Ming Gong please go down to the city." ”

Cao Cao looked at the approaching army, drew his sword and said loudly: "I should work with the generals to kill the unrighteous army!" ”

Xiahou Yuan followed and shouted: "Kill the unrighteous division together!" ”

The morale of the generals was greatly boosted.

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Under the city, as Zhang Liaozhong's military drums sounded rhythmically, tens of thousands of people shouted in unison:

Forest!

Zhang Liao marched and fought, and set nine orders for combat: wind, forest, fire, mountain, rise, fight, shoot, kill, and kill!

The wind is marching or pursuing at full speed, the forest is to maintain the formation and march slowly, the fire is to launch a full-scale invasion attack, the mountain is to defend in array, and the siege equipment such as thunderbolts and ballistas are to attack, the battle is to fight to the death at all costs, the archers and arrow carts are to attack, the killing is to disperse the array and kill the enemy by themselves in the unit, and the killing is to start a war of annihilation!

The nine combat orders are issued by the rhythm of the Chinese army's war drums, and the battle plan has been determined before the war, but just in case, there is also a lookout in front of the ten war drums of the Chinese army, and you can use the clairvoyant mirror made by Zhang Liao to watch the battlefield situation.

Under Lin's order, the army slowly advanced like a forest, approaching Chen Liucheng,

At the front is a row of sword and shield soldiers, in groups of five, two shield soldiers with swords at their waists, and together they hold a large iron shield like a door panel to push forward, two sword and axe hands with broadswords to protect the left and right, and one spearman to the rear.

The sword and shield soldiers were followed by a forest-like gun array, and in the center of the gun array was the most elite 3,000 camp under Gao Shun's command, behind the gun array were archers, and then behind were hidden siege equipment such as thunderbolts and ballistas.

In the solemn and neat advance of the military formation, the momentum of the army is improving step by step.

Five hundred steps away from Chen Liucheng, tens of thousands of people shouted again as the sound of the Chinese military drum changed again:

Mountain!

The army formation took another ten steps, and then came to an abrupt end, as if cutting off a foot, and the shield array stood in front of it, and the middle shield, spear, and arrow were separated in turn, revealing a row of thunderbolts and ballistae behind it.

Cao Cao, who was supervising the battle on the city tower, and the generals couldn't help but change their colors when they saw this.

Under the city, Zhang Liaozhong's army, the drum beat changed again, slow and powerful, like a huge thunder rumbling.

Rise!

Tens of thousands of people raised their weapons and shouted.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

With a muffled sound, twenty thunderbolts were the first to strike.

Each thunderbolt is operated by six people, with a clear division of labor, such as winching, stone loading, diagonal and launching. After the improvement of Zhang Liao and Ma Jun, the power of the thunderbolt using levers and pulleys far exceeded that of the same period in history.

Dozens of stones the size of a sea bowl were thrown out of the thunderbolt car, cutting a large arc over the battlefield, whistling and smashing into Chen Liucheng's head.

The cruelty of the war was vividly displayed at this moment, the stones the size of the sea bowl fell, and all the soldiers who were hit were broken in their bones and died on the spot.

At the moment when the stone flew, Cao Cao and the army divisions on the city tower were protected by the personal guard regiment, and even so, two staff officers were stoned to death on the spot, and even Cheng Yu was injured in one arm.

"Quickly protect Ming Gong and go down to the city!"

Le Jin roared, pulled the frightened Cao Cao and rushed to the city.

Cao Cao saw that a personal guard had his head smashed off, and at this time he was terrified, how could he still have his previous calmness, and hurriedly went down to the city in Lejin's guards, while shouting: "Back to the city wall to avoid flying stones!" ”

As soon as he hurriedly rushed to the city, as the muffled thunder came, a second wave of stones fell over.

Cao Cao hurriedly pulled Cheng Yu aside, leaned against the city wall, watched the stones falling from the sky smash a big hole on the ground, and then ejected one after another, smashing and injuring the soldiers under the city, listening to the screams of the soldiers on the city tower, Cao Cao's face was extremely ugly, he was thinking of a fierce offensive and defensive battle with Zhang Liao, but he didn't expect Zhang Liao to be on the ground at all, and directly smashed the city with a thunderbolt.

At this time, there was another scream from the city: "The oil pot has been overturned!" Yes! Scalded! ”

Cao Cao's mood was even heavier, and two oil pots were put on the city to cook boiling oil to defend the city, but now it seems to be useless.

Three waves of flying stones fell, and Cao Cao heard a burst of screaming sounds outside the city.

It's the sound of a giant crossbow breaking through the air!

As soon as this thought flashed through Cao Cao's mind, he saw a soldier flying upside down from the city tower, pierced through his body by a long crossbow with the thickness of an arm, and nailed directly to the wall of a house dozens of paces away.

"Order the soldiers to dodge against the wall, temporarily avoid the edge, and wait for the enemy to attack nearly ten steps before fighting."

Cao Cao gave another order, closed his eyes, the hand holding the long sword trembled, he really felt the gap between his soldiers and horses and Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses at this moment, the previous morale-boosting tired army theory became a joke, this catapult and giant crossbow alone, his soldiers suffered heavy casualties, morale plummeted, it was really powerless.

With more than ten waves of boulders and giant crossbows staggered attacks, more than half of the Cao soldiers on the city tower were lost, and there were wails and cries, and the situation was extremely tragic.

At this time, the thunderbolts and ballistas under the city stopped attacking, and with the rhythmic sound of drums again, the earth-shattering roar of "Lin" was heard, and the army marched forward again.

Four hundred steps, three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred steps......

Xiahou Yuan, who was in charge of the entire army in the city, shouted: "Archers prepare!" ”

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