When the first long ladder was erected on the collapsed city wall, Ma Jiajun's reaction was still very calm, seven or eight of them joined forces, carrying a huge resistance pole, hidden in the city wall, and when the Cao soldiers roared and climbed halfway, only 123 suddenly exerted force, and pushed the ladder down outside the city, and the Cao soldiers on the ladder howled in mid-air like a rapid funeral song, and it stopped abruptly as soon as it landed.

Immediately afterward, more gaps in the walls were blasted out by thunderbolts. There are more and more places where coalition forces can erect ladders. On the one hand, they were afraid of death to suppress Gan Ning's archers with archers, and on the other hand, they organized infantry to charge towards the destroyed city walls.

However, after all, the bow and arrow could not compete with the mountain-destroying crossbow, after paying more than 8,000 people and achieving the battle of the collapse of the city wall. The coalition finally suspended the offensive for a while. Gan Ning immediately ordered the city wall to be repaired, but before the reservists could bring the repair materials, a soldier shouted in shock: "General, look! ”

As soon as Gan Ning turned around, his eyes turned red. It turned out that Cao Cao, this guy came up with a bad trick again, they cut down the wood and set a fire, and in the summer, the south wind, the wind blew and smoke, and it blew into the eyes of Ma Jiajun, and for a while the eyes were choked red, whether it was to release arrows, or to attack the enemy, it was greatly affected for a while. What's even more odious is that Guo Jiadu couldn't help but scold: "Cheng Zhongde, you really added wolf dung and chili peppers to the firewood!" ”

Wolf dung is the main material used for beacon fire communication in this era, and after adding wolf dung to the firewood, the smoke burned out is black and does not disperse, often reaching the sky without dispersing. And this kind of thing is chili, when Guo Jia was still in Cao Ying, he and Cheng Yu enjoyed the Majia hot pot together, and unintentionally dropped the seasoning chili pepper into the fire, and the smoke choked people's eyes, and Guo Jia and Cheng Yu were embarrassed. And it was at that time that Guo Jia opened his mouth and said a joke: "If this is used on the battlefield, I am afraid it will also be a big killer!" ”

Guo Jia even had the heart to cry now, he couldn't imagine that Cheng Yu not only remembered his original joke, but also combined the ancient method of wolf dung with the emerging thing of chili peppers, and temporarily increased the lethality of the smoke attack by several levels.

The coalition army took the opportunity to attack frantically at this moment, but fortunately, Gan Ning had the advantage of the terrain, and in the face of such a shameless siege method of the coalition army, he was also beaten out of real anger. After adjusting the trebuchet on the wall, it smashed it towards the coalition army. Those thunderbolts that did not have time to withdraw became the focus of the attack. For a while, the soldiers at the head of the city shouted and cheered with tears, and the soldiers under the city risked their lives to save the thunderbolt carts, but most of them were smashed into pulp by the Ma family's trebuchet.

At the same time, Gan Ning ordered the whole army to cover their faces with water, in addition to counterattacking those siege soldiers who also suffered from themselves, while continuing to organize the rush to repair the city wall, prepare various fortifications, demolish dozens of houses, and repair the city wall with bricks and stones.

However, Cao Cao and Sun Ce seemed to be planning to fight to the death here this time, they refused to rest, did not care about losses, and organized troops to attack forward regardless of the cost. Gan Ning put a tun of troops at the head of the first ruined city, but in a quarter of an hour, all of this tun was killed, the corpses of the coalition soldiers and the Jinfan sailors were mixed together, the severed ring knife, the broken bow, the arrows stuck in the ground and the human body were all over the ground, and the blood flowed along the city wall into a red waterfall. The moat had long since overflowed, and countless severed arms and limbs were floating on it.

Following the boundless bloodstains, at night, the soldiers of the coalition army finally rushed to the top of the city, and it seemed that the main city was about to fall into their hands, and the flat ground was in front of them. But they were greeted by a dense rain of arrows, which were released by the Yuanrong crossbow of the Wenpin science and technology light crossbow army, and the overwhelming metal storm penetrated the human body like a piece of paper, and the advancing coalition forces were beaten to pieces of flesh and blood. Under the cover of crossbow arrows, Tai Shici's reserve troops rushed to the top of the city and launched a powerful and frantic counterattack, driving the remaining coalition forces out of the city at once. The vanguard general Xiahou Yuan was extremely angry about this, and then he concentrated 300 archers to fire arrows at this section of the city wall, and half of the Taishi Ci new army that rushed to the head of the city fell under the first wave of arrows.

Similar encounters took place over the next five hours, at various places where the walls collapsed, and this short but fierce hand-to-hand combat caused a large number of soldiers on both sides to fall quickly. In such a situation, it is difficult for an individual's martial arts to show his might. Although Gan Ning and Xiahou Yuan were both ten thousand enemies, they both stood firmly in the position of command.

At this moment, none of them had a way out, let alone a comfortable rest.

The battle of one day and one night passed like this, and when the sun rose as usual on the second day, there was a strong sense of sadness inside and outside the city of Xiangyang. On the second day, when we woke up with our hands rubbing our hands and sore eyes, we were very tired both physically and mentally, and no one had the strength to fight again. The attrition of the troops on both sides exceeded the limits of the siege of this era, the corpses were piled up and down the city walls, the wounded soldiers fell to the ground and groaned in pain, but no one cared, the ownerless war horses wandered back and forth on the war horses, the broken weapons were thrown all over the ground, and the blood stained all the positions that could be seen red.

Xiahou Yuan looked at the city tower that was still in Gan Ning's hands, and looked at the soldiers who were more than half dead and exhausted and unable to fight again, and his heart was like a knife; And Gan Ning bandaged his arms, his face was covered with mud and blood, he could hardly see his true face, and he was also listlessly paralyzed on the city tower.

The fierce generals under Xiahou Yuan cried one by one, and tears flowed down their cheeks: "My lord, it's so miserable, the three hundred brothers I brought out with my own hands, only yesterday's battle, there are less than thirty percent left, it's over, it's all over!" ”

"My lord, leave some seeds for our Jinfan Navy, let's run from the Three Gorges to the Yellow River, and from Jizhou to Jingzhou, until now, is it difficult to fight all the hard work in this Xiangyang City?" The old man in the Jinfan Navy looked at fewer and fewer familiar faces, and he couldn't cry at Gan Ning.

How can the vanguard generals on both sides feel good? Seeing that the troops they had brought up by themselves had been reduced by more than a third in just over a day, and seeing the wounded soldiers screaming in pain without enough doctors to bandage them, and without enough medicine to treat them, they could only sit there and wait for death, which made it difficult for them to breathe.

However, the pleas of his subordinates and his own heartache can only make the devil of war see the joke. After the smoke cleared, the drums of the siege sounded again, and the two sides seemed to have no other choice than gritting their teeth and continuing to fight hard to decide a winner!

"Military advisor, are Cao Cao and Sun Ce crazy?" Gan Ning listened to the sound of the siege golden drum from the opposite side, as if he had heard the most strange sound in his life, and roared: "I, Gan Ning, have been defending the city for a few years, and I have never seen such a crazy and unreasonable thing!" ”

"It's a bit counterintuitive." Guo Jia is familiar with military books, and he has already mastered the siege routines. It is not uncommon for incidents of continuous sieges to attack cities, but such continuous general attacks by Cao Cao and Sun Ce, regardless of the number of waves, regardless of casualties, are completely unreasonable.

This completely strange way makes Guo Jia, who has always been a scheming figure, unable to figure out what the coalition is planning. However, Guo Jia knew one thing that if Gan Ning held on the Xiangyang battlefield for one more day, it would consume one of the strength of the three allied forces of Liu, Sun, and Cao. Yesterday's battle was very fierce, but the casualties between the defending and besieging the city were very different. The coalition army lost nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses in one day and one night, and although they lost nearly 4,000 men here, they were generally in line with the proportion of siege losses.

"No matter how unreasonable the Cao and Sun families are this time, Xingba, you remember, the more crazy they are, the more we have to stick to it. If we hold out for one more day, there will be less pressure on the lord's army in the future! Listening to the shouts and golden drums under the city, Guo Jia said bluntly: "This time, we are going to fight with Cao Cao and Sun Ce, consume with them, and guard the strong city of Xiangyang, even if we grind and polish their blood and blood, and collapse their minions!" ”

"Got it!" With Guo Jia's instructions, Gan Ning seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, his face flushed and roared: "Raise the banner of the Jinfan Army for me, and Lao Tzu will fight with them today!" ”