Chapter 295, Siege and Bloody Battle
In line with the principle of the minority obeying the majority, Zhao Yun finally made a decision, feasted on war tomorrow, and attacked the city on time.
That night, Zhao Yun called Gan Ning and others to the tent and asked them to prepare some letters of persuasion or letters from home, and shot them into the city with bows and arrows to disturb the morale of Yuan Bing's army.
Gan Ning applauded repeatedly, "Great, it's time to do this." ”
Leaving the tent, everyone hurriedly prepared, no less than 3,000 letters were shot into Shouchun that night, Yuan Shu's soldiers knew that the city was trapped, they were panicked a lot, after reading the persuasion letter, their hearts were even more flustered, can this city be held? How long can it last? No one knew the bottom of their hearts, and an atmosphere of panic gradually shrouded in the sky over Shouchun.
But the siege battle has not yet begun, and most of the Yuan soldiers still have a little luck in their hearts.
With more than 150,000 troops in the city and plenty of food and grass, the situation was optimistic, and the defenders had reason to believe that they would be able to repel the coalition forces.
Zhao Yun didn't expect that relying on these persuasion letters would make much of a difference, and he would use practical actions to completely crush the confidence and hope of Yuan Bing's soldiers.
After the turn of the day, before the sky was completely brightened, the four-way coalition army was ready to attack the city.
With a rumbling drum and trumpet, Zhao Yun took the lead, leading people to take the lead in attacking Dongcheng, tens of thousands of soldiers brandished knives and guns, striding forward, the sonorous and powerful footsteps, the metal sound of armor rubbing, and a wave of shouts, mixed together, the military majesty, shaking the heavens and the earth.
Zhao Yun straddled the horse and held the gun, urged the horse forward, personally supervised the battle, less than two hundred steps away from the city gate, Zhao Yun restrained the mount, raised the silver spear high, the sharp spear head fell abruptly, and the spear head pointed directly at the Shouchun city wall.
Xu Huang held the mountain tomahawk in his hand, and shouted loudly, "Soldiers, kill—"
"Kill—" Gan Ning also let out a thunderous roar almost at the same time.
He Yi, He Man, Liu Bi and others also responded in unison, and after a while, the soldiers rushed towards the high wall not far away.
It was the enemy general Le who was guarding the east city, Le had just been awakened, his eyes were still a little swollen, and his heart suddenly sank when he saw that the city was so powerful.
Le was uneasy, the soldiers around him were not happy, not long after, all sides sounded earth-shattering shouts and killing, no need to ask, Sun Jian and others also launched an attack, the four armies attacked the city at the same time, which can definitely cause a huge deterrent to the Yuan soldiers who defend the city.
The ladders were like fast-moving dragons, straight forward, accompanied by earth-shattering shouts of killing, quickly approaching the city wall.
Le forced himself to stabilize, pulled out the ring knife, and shouted "Get ready!" ”
Soon, there was a violent tremor on the ground, and the Han army that was rushing to the front had approached the city wall. ”
"Whoosh!"
As soon as Le Zuo's words fell, a wolf's tooth arrow slashed through a white light and shot straight at Le Kui.
Le stared at him in surprise, instinctively flashed to the side, poof, the sharp arrow shot into his shoulder, Le snorted, gritted his teeth and glared, followed the direction of the arrow, and looked down the city.
He saw Zhao Yun, who was holding a treasure carving bow in his hand.
Le grinned in pain, seeing that the soldiers around him were still in a daze, just like that, after a while, the Han army approached a distance, and the angry Le scolded "What are you still doing in a daze, release the arrow immediately." ”
Yuan Bing came back to his senses and hurriedly fought back.
The sound of the bowstring sounded, the whizzing arrows with a sharp sound of breaking the air, pouring down the city like a torrential rain, Gan Ning and Xu Huang, who rushed in front, hurriedly raised their shields, and the arrows shot on the shields, and the lucky ones would not be shot, but most of them were unfortunately fallen to the ground, and the dead bodies fell to the ground one after another, and after a while, a large area lay down under the city, this is war, cruel and ruthless.
Siege warfare, in particular, is always inevitable with thousands of casualties, and there is no other shortcut.
The charge will not be stopped because of this, the soldiers went forward one after another, continued to move forward, the rear stepped on the corpses of the fallen comrades in front, full of fiery passion and surging fighting spirit to move forward, murderous, many soldiers even to the death of their comrades, aroused a stronger anger and killing intent, more desperate to charge forward.
Although the rain of arrows of the Yuan soldiers was fierce and the rolling logs were ruthlessly rolling down, the soldiers of the Han army were still fearless, desperately smashing the ladder on the city wall, and quickly climbed up, there were more and more ladders, and the people on it were becoming more and more dense, and the attack was amazing, but the density of casualties was also more tragic.
Sometimes, a rolling log was smashed down, chirping, killing and injuring more than a dozen people, even if they were not stoned to death on the spot, once they fell, they were either killed or injured.
Although the soldiers defending the city did not stop with their hands and feet, and their movements were not slow, there were more and more Han soldiers gathered under the city wall, and the atmosphere was suffocating.
Le shouted over and over again, "Shoot the arrows-"
"Smash me, smash hard."
"Fuck the aim, don't smash it."
The voice of the shouting music was about to burst into flames, and the voice of the shouting was hoarse, he still didn't dare to stop and take a breath, the Han army below was attacking desperately, and the ladder was densely packed with people, and the music didn't dare to relax at all.
Behind the ladder, Zhao Yun also prepared other siege equipment, including nest carts, bed crossbows, rushing carts, and amazing catapults.
"Put!"
After some proofreading and aiming, the catapult quickly took its place, and a creaking and hoarse sound sounded, and one stone projectile after another flew into the air, whistling towards the city wall.
There was a loud bang, and several stone bullets were not accurate enough to hit the side wall, and suddenly the stones flew wildly, stirring up a terrifying cyclone.
Although he did not hit the enemy soldiers, many Yuan soldiers who were still frightened shrank back, and escaped physically, but they were still frightened mentally.
Not long after, a stone bullet landed right next to Le Yu, and with a bang, it smashed into the crowd, splashing a tragic blood splash.
The stone bullets flew towards the high wall again and again, and from time to time smashed into the crowd, bursting into blood-colored flowers one after another.
The archers in the rushing car also did not show weakness to shoot at Yuan Bing, the three armies were killed, and the top and bottom were united, everyone went all out from the beginning, and they all went crazy, and the huge movement not only made the earth tremble, but also the heart of Yuan Bing who was defending the city was trembling nervously.
The charges were repulsed again and again, but the offensive of the Han army was still continuous, continuous, and Le gritted his teeth and worked hard, and finally survived until noon, thinking that when it was time to eat, Zhao Yun would temporarily stop the attack, who knows, Zhao Yun divided the team into two teams, one team stopped to eat and rest, and the other team continued to attack.