Chapter Seventy-Five: The Siege of the City
"Archer, counterattack!" On the city wall, Du Yuan picked up a longbow, bent the bow and arrows, and didn't look closely, and shot towards the Han army formation with all his strength, while roaring at the panicked crowd.
It's just a cluster of arrows, shot out so casually, even if you shoot the enemy, it can't have the effect of deterrence, followed by a wave of dense arrow rain, which frightened Du Yuan and quickly pounced, and hid under the female wall in embarrassment, and the little momentum just created disappeared in an instant, and the rain of arrows poured down made the already panicked crowd even more panicked.
Liao Chun picked up a shield and said in a deep voice under the rain of arrows: "Shieldman, raise the shield!" Array! ”
Some clever shield bearers hurriedly raised their shields, and began to gradually stabilize their positions on the city wall according to Liao Chun's instructions under the rain of arrows.
The panicked crowd gradually calmed down with Liao Chun's command, and the archers began to counterattack, taking advantage of the city wall, and began to suppress the archers, and then a steady stream of reinforcements were transferred from the city, only to barely stabilize and begin to shoot at the Han army.
Rolling logs and stones were smashed down the ladder that had been erected on the city wall without money, and the casualties of the Han army began to increase.
"Crunch~"
The heavy and harsh voice, even if it was more than a hundred steps away, could be heard very clearly, Liao Chun's face changed, and he said sharply: "Lie down~"
"Boom~Boom~Boom~"
With a piercing roar, more than a dozen catapults roared at the same time, more than a dozen stone bullets fell on the city wall one after another, the ground shook the mountain, for a while, the entire city wall seemed to fall into the end of the world, a yellow turban general was walking around the city, boosting morale, suddenly heard a terrible whistling sound, too late to react, was a stone bullet falling from the sky firmly smashed on the body, even the scream was too late, half of the body was directly blasted by the stone bullet, blood, broken corpses and internal organs splashed everywhere.
The position that had just stabilized under Liao Chun's calm command fell into a panic again, more than a dozen catapults, the real damage that can be caused is actually very limited, the stone bullet is so big, and it is difficult to achieve accurate strikes, on average, a stone bullet may not be able to take away a life, but the blow to morale is disastrous.
The terrifying power of natural disasters and the tragic deaths of those soldiers who were hit made these Yellow Turban Army, who had not yet completed the transformation from farmers to soldiers, completely extinguish the morale that Liao Chun had managed to lift in an instant.
Many people directly threw away their weapons and ran in a panic to leave this hellish place, Liao Chun and Du Yuan killed more than a dozen deserters one after another, but they couldn't deter them.
"Kill~"
The Han army besieging the city took advantage of the time when the enemy was in a panic, and kept climbing the city wall along the ladder, a Han soldier with a war knife in his mouth, climbed up the female wall, and saw two Yellow Turban soldiers at a loss, the tiger roared, took off the war knife and flew down, cutting off the neck of a Yellow Turban soldier, blood sprayed his face, but he didn't realize it, but he pounced on another person with an excited look.
A Yellow Turban soldier next to him wanted to come forward to help, but another Han soldier had already climbed the city wall, seeing this, he directly threw the knife in his hand, the heavy war knife in the stunned eyes of the Yellow Turban Army, Qi Gen did not enter his chest, but before he could jump down, a Yellow Turban soldier roared and rushed up with a spear, in the fierce gaze of the Han army, the spear stabbed into his chest with a snort, pushing him down from the city wall.
The same scene, constantly staged on the city wall, more and more Han troops rushed to the city wall, even if Liao Chun, Du Yuan and other generals did not touch the ground everywhere to remedy, still can not make up for the damage caused by low morale, the bigger the Yellow Turban Army is more chaotic, on the other hand, the Han army is after attacking the city wall in an orderly manner began to deploy, from the beginning of the stalemate, in less than a quarter of an hour later, the Yellow Turban Army defending the city appeared to rout.
The catapult was no longer used, and it seemed that it had been moved from afar to send a wave of a dozen stone bullets, but the blow to the morale of the Yellow Turban defenders was huge.
Liao Chun glanced left and right, the Han army was not in a hurry to chase and kill the soldiers defending the city, but was constantly driving, driving the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army defending the city to the stairs of the city tower, and the Yellow Turban Army who kept coming to reinforce were crowded together, from time to time someone was squeezed to fall from the city wall, this is using the Yellow Turban Army to impact the Yellow Turban Army's own formation, the Yellow Turban Army that has been killed by the Han Army lacks courage in the face of the Han Army, but it is unceremonious to the friendly troops who come to support, and they can't escape for a while, and some people even draw their swords directly to each other, the scene is chaotic, It has reached a situation that Liao Chun can't control.
The city gate was knocked open by the Han army with a hammer in the case of no one defending, a large number of Han troops swarmed in, Liao Chun closed his eyes in pain, the city gate was broken, although there were still Yellow Turban troops in the city, but the morale fell, plus he was trapped on the city wall at the moment, the defenders in the city were under no command, Liao Chun could almost imagine that the Yellow Turban Army, which was already demoralized, coupled with no one to organize the commander, faced with these wolf-like Han troops, it was simply a touch of collapse.
In fact, it was similar to what Liao Chun thought, after Ye Zhao opened the gate of Mengxian County, he quickly ordered Meng Hu and Dian Wei to lead the army into the city and seize the key points, and the Yellow Turban Army in the city saw that the Han army broke through the city gate, and their morale plummeted.
And Ye Zhao is not just blindly killing, after entering the city, Ye Zhao ordered some loud soldiers to shout the slogan of surrender and not killing, the Yellow Turban Army is already good and bad, many people just go with the flow or are coerced to join, at this moment the city is broken, how can there be a stubborn resistance, have thrown away their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender, driven by these people, more and more Yellow Turban Army chose to surrender, until Ye Zhao will initially level the Yellow Turban Army in the city, the war at the head of the city has not completely ended, but at this moment, The stubbornness of the walls is no longer meaningful.