Chapter 969: Feeble Resistance
"Defend Zhaowu City!" Zhang Fei waved his fists and hissed in response to Liu Bei's impassionedness.
Liu Bei's expected tsunami-like response did not happen, and the soldiers were just listless and responded a few times.
Liu Bei's heart chuckled, and he felt more and more bottomless.
Just when Liu Bei was uneasy, the Wei army's divine thunder cannon in front of the city was already in place, just waiting for an order.
Su Zhe raised his horse whip and shouted: "Beat the drums, bang the city!" β
Tom tom tom ~ ~
The earth-shaking war drums suddenly rose, breaking the tranquility of heaven and earth, and shocking the Han army at the head of the city.
The heartbeat of Liu Bei and his soldiers also increased with the sound of the war drums of the Wei army, and the nerves became more and more tense.
They knew that when the drumbeat was over, the nightmarish bombardment would fall from the sky again, giving them a taste of hellish horror again.
Liu Bei's heart was empty, and the idea of escaping could not be restrained from the bottom of his heart, and he turned around and wanted to retreat to the city to take refuge for a while.
At this time, Zhao Yun grabbed Liu Bei and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, today is different from the past, the morale of the soldiers is low, and Your Majesty must be present to inspire people's hearts, and Your Majesty can't go." β
Liu Bei frowned and looked at Guan Yu.
Guan Yu said: "Your Majesty is a member of the Jiangshan Society, how can you risk your life, if there is a bad pool, Zilong, do you have to take responsibility?" β
Zhao Yun was stunned, but he didn't expect that at this time, Guan Yu would still treat Liu Bei as a flower in the greenhouse.
Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief, shook off Zhao Yun's hand, and hurriedly went down the city.
Zhao Yun looked at Liu Bei's back and could only shake his head and sigh helplessly.
The surrounding Han soldiers and soldiers saw that their own son of heaven actually went down to the city first at the moment before the Wei army bombarded the city, and the already low fighting spirit immediately suffered a blow, and the fighting spirit became even more depressed.
In my ears, the earth-shattering sound of war drums suddenly stopped.
In the next moment, the whining sound of breaking the wind suddenly sounded, and the three hundred divine thunder cannons were launched almost at the same moment, and the huge stone projectiles flew into the sky, drawing a wonderful arc, like falling stars, overwhelmingly towards the head of Zhaowu City.
"All the troops, dodge the bombs!" Guan Yu shouted, first crouched down, and picked up an iron shield to block it above his head.
The Han soldiers along the front line of the city, without Guan Yu's reminder, had already hid under the battlements like turtles with shrunken heads, tensing their nerves, trembling and praying that they would not become the unlucky ones.
Bang bang bang!
The stone bullets fell, and the sky and the earth cracked with a loud sound, as if the end was coming.
The walls at his feet shook in a huge crack, dust and debris flew in the air, and in an instant, the entire city wall was shrouded in a raging fog.
The panicked Han soldiers were eager to turn their bodies into pieces of paper and stick them on the battlements for protection.
It's a pity that Zhaowu City is just a small city in the northwest, and how can it withstand the terrifying bombardment of the Divine Thunder Cannon.
With the sound of crumbling one after another, the battlements were smashed like paper paste, and the Han soldiers and soldiers hiding below were directly smashed into pieces, and blood* splashed in the air.
The screams came one after another, and Zhaowu City and the 20,000 Han troops above it became lambs ravaged by the Wei army, and they had no power to fight back.
Outside the city, Su Zhe looked at the city with a smile, admiring this grand occasion.
Every time this moment came, he had a desire to thank Zhuge Liang, for inventing such a powerful siege weapon and helping him solve many troubles.
I don't know how long it took, the loud sound of the sky cracking finally fell silent, and the raging dust slowly descended.
The vision in front of me became clear again, and I saw that this small city had been bombarded beyond recognition at this moment, and it was miserable.
The main city tower in the center has been half destroyed under the bombardment, and the surface of the city wall on both sides has also been razed to the ground, and there are three collapsed areas each, up to three or four zhang wide.
On the ruined city wall, thousands of Han soldiers died under this terrifying bombardment, either their heads were smashed or their bodies were bombarded into meatloaf.
Looking at this tragic scene, the soldiers of the Wei army all danced with joy, shouted excitedly, and their high fighting spirit was boiling to the point of exploding, just waiting for a bloody killing.
The corners of Su Zhe's mouth swept up with a sneer, the murderous intent in his eyes was burning, and the Heavenly Sword was pulled out abruptly, pointing towards the enemy city, and shouted: "The enemy city has collapsed, what are you waiting for, raze Zhaowu City to the ground for me!" β
"Kill all the enemies~~"
"Capture Liu Bei aliveβ"
Thousands of soldiers roared in the sky, and the roar of hunting shattered the hearts of the enemy.
Woo woo ~ ~
The trumpet sounded, the flag waved like the wind, and the order to attack was given.
Yan Liang, Zhang Ren, Xu Huang, Ma Chao and other members of the Great Wei fierce generals, all rode out of their horses, leading tens of thousands of Wei troops, like a torrent of steel, towards the crumbling enemy city, a mighty roll.
The general offensive of the Wei army begins!
At the head of the city, the surviving Han soldiers had just risen from the dust, and when they raised their heads and looked out of the city tremblingly, they saw countless Wei troops attacking and rolling in.
The Han soldiers were all timid, and the cowards whose fighting spirit collapsed got up and fled to the city.
"Whoever dares to run away will be killed!"
Guan Yu threw away the shield in his hand, jumped up with his sword, and cut off a soldier who was about to escape.
The remnants of the Han army, under the shock of Guan Yu, were in a dilemma for a while, and they didn't know what to do.
Zhang Fei also jumped up, brandished a snake spear, and shouted: "As soon as the city is broken, you all have to die, give me the blood of men, and if you want to live, follow Lao Tzu to defend it!" β
Finally, the collapse of the Han army was slightly curbed, and one by one they reluctantly grabbed their weapons and trembled in the face of the surging tide of Wei troops.
Fifty steps!
Just when the Han army had just settled down, the Wei army had already rushed close to the range of fifty paces.
Guan Yu hurriedly beckoned the big knife and ordered the crossbowman to release the arrow.
When the order was laid, thousands of sharp arrows rose into the air, instantly pinning dozens of Wei pawns to the ground.
But the Wei army had no scruples, one by one, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, they didn't even bother to use shields, and rushed towards the collapsed city wall like crazy.
In the blink of an eye, the Wei army rushed to the city, and tens of thousands of soldiers, like hungry tigers and wolves, rushed to rush through the collapsed gaps everywhere.
Guan Yu and other Han generals drove the demoralized soldiers and desperately filled the gap, trying to prevent the Wei army from breaking through the city.
It's a pity that the Han soldiers, whose numbers and fighting spirit are far inferior to those of the Wei army, can not resist such a rapid ferocity, and the ghosts who were killed in a blink of an eye cry wolf howl and began to disperse again.
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and other generals were relieved, with their own prestige, they could barely suppress it slightly, but in the defense area where Wu Ban was located, the soldiers were defeated and fled in pieces, and he couldn't stop it even if he roared through his throat.
"Don't escape, whoever dares to retreat will be killed!"
Wu Ban's voice was hoarse and angry, brandishing the big knife in his hand, and beheading several soldiers in a row, but he still couldn't suppress the defeat.
Suddenly, he felt a violent and unscathing force behind him, which suffocated him instantly.