Chapter 194: The Siege Method of the Escort Battalion
"You drove the cavalry up the wall." Zhang Bao arranged all the defense matters, stood at the head of the city and looked at Ye Chen's guard camp and said.
At this time, Ye Chen was also ready, and when he received the order from Huangfu Song to start attacking, he began to give the order to attack.
This siege battle doesn't need Ye Chen's participation at all, he can just command it from the sidelines. In this case, Ye Chen couldn't command better than Tai Shi Ci and Guan Yu.
The war horse urged and slowly began to run, getting faster and faster.
"Hey, are you really going to use cavalry to attack the city? Do you want to knock down the walls? Zhang Bao said in confusion.
Huangfu Song and Cao Cao in the rear both observed intently, afraid of missing a single detail.
The war horses galloped, and the rest of the Han army and the yellow scarves did not make any moves, watching the escort battalion perform.
"Ready!" Guan Yu and Tai Shi Ci both waved their weapons.
The guards received the signal, and at the same time took out their bows and arrows, and mounted the arrows.
“???”
Zhang Bao's head suddenly crashed, because he had a bad feeling when the guard battalion took out the bow and arrow, but it came too suddenly, he lost his ability to think, and looked at it blankly.
"Shoot"
More than 6,000 war horses, more than 6,000 guard battalions, and more than 6,000 arrows flew at the same time.
In the sky ahead, a black oppressive patch suddenly appeared, and at this time Zhang Bao finally reacted.
"It's not good, hide it." Zhang Bao hurriedly squatted down with his head in his hands.
His shout was still too late, and he saw a rain of arrows enveloping a large section of the city wall, and an extremely terrifying scene appeared on this city wall.
Under the arrow array, there were naturally heavy casualties, and those yellow scarves didn't have time to react at all, except for a few who were lucky, they were not shot by arrows, and most of the yellow scarves were wounded by arrows.
Some of the people who were wounded by arrows did not die immediately, lying on the ground and wailing, and the yellow turbans on the walls that were not covered by arrows began to tremble at this scene, because they had never seen such a situation before.
Even if these are elite yellow turbans, without any protection, they can only be killed under the dense arrows, although some people are not dead, but the yellow scarves lack medical treatment and medicine, and there is no way to save them.
Zhang Bao finally knew how the cavalry of the guard battalion was going to attack the city, and a round of arrow rain would kill and wound more than 1,000 people, and if there were a few more rounds of arrow rain, the troops he had arranged at the head of the city would be reimbursed.
Zhang Bao wanted to cry without tears, he prepared so much, and wanted to give the guard battalion a head-on blow, but without hurting a single hair of the other party, he suffered heavy losses.
"Shooting" another round of arrow rain down, although the yellow turban has been prepared, but the place where the city wall can hide is only a small place under the battlements, so hundreds of people are still killed when the arrow rain falls.
The yellow turbans at the head of the city were in panic all day, and they all crouched down to avoid the arrow array as much as possible, but they had no shields and few armor on their bodies to protect them, so every round of arrow rain killed and wounded hundreds of people.
"Hey, the arrow rain is a lot sparse, isn't there enough arrows in the Han army?" Zhang Bao, who was hiding under the battlements, said.
By this time, the guard battalion had already covered the city, so the density of arrows was reduced, and only a third of the men were firing bows and arrows, and the rest were waiting.
Finding that the arrow rain was scarce, Zhang Bao stood up secretly, carefully poked his head out to look, it was okay not to look at it, but he was so frightened that he almost fell, and his face turned pale.
Zhang Bao saw that a group of infantry had approached the city wall, holding a ladder and preparing to attack the city.
At this time, the people on the city wall were hiding by themselves, where did they still have any intention to defend, if they didn't take a look at it themselves, the Han army would not know if they were on the city wall.
"Quick, quick, get up and defend, defend." Zhang Bao was so frightened that he screamed under the battlements.
At this time, the rain of arrows continued, but it had thinned out a lot, but it was really difficult for them to stand up and defend now after experiencing the terrifying scene just now.
In fact, as long as the yellow turban has a shield, all this can be solved, and the guard battalion can't attack the city like this, just like the Wuhuan people were invincible in Liaodong at the beginning, but when they arrived at Yejiabao, which was prepared, they had to sink into the sand, and in the end they ended up with the annihilation of the whole army.
Zhang Bao saw that his shouting was fruitless, and the Yellow Turban still didn't have the courage to stand up and defend, so Zhang Bao had no choice but to go down to the city to mobilize the rest of the Yellow Turbans to come up.
"I didn't expect that General Jianwei's cavalry would be able to shoot on horseback on the grassland, and this cavalry archery technique is really first-class." Huangfu Song is well-informed, of course, he knows that Ye Chen and they use a unique cavalry shooting on the grassland.
"Yes, General Huangfu, as soon as this General Jianwei makes a move, I'm afraid he will be able to attack the city wall soon." Cao Cao said with a sigh.
"It's not so easy to capture the city on the city wall, there are still hundreds of thousands of yellow turbans in this Guangzong, and the defense of the city is also very strong." Huangfu Song said.
"General Huangfu, if General Jianwei had used this method of warfare earlier, wouldn't Guangzong City have been breached a long time ago, and the Han army would not have been defeated at the beginning." Cao Cao said suspiciously.
"It's not that easy, this tactic is just to raid those unguarded situations, once the opponent is on guard, just need some shields, then the effect of this tactic will be greatly reduced." Huangfu Song said.
Cao Cao thought about it, the other party would not let the other party go on like this, there would definitely be a way to deal with it, Ye Chen and they could only make a surprise attack, kill a large number of people once, and then hit the other party's morale, and the most important thing was to improve their own morale.
The Han army began to climb the city, and these soldiers were all elite soldiers who Ye Chen asked for Huangfu Song, and they had rich experience in attacking the city, so they quickly climbed up the ladder.
As soon as the Han army climbed the city wall, Zhang Bao came with reinforcements, but fortunately, Zhang Bao had arranged a part of the yellow scarves under the city wall in order to deal with the guard battalion.
"Drive them off the walls for me, quick."
Zhang Bao shouted in fright, he had just left for a while and the other party climbed up to the top of the city, if he was one step late, I was afraid that the Han army would attack the city.
"Put"
Tai Shi Ci commanded another volley, because he saw the reinforcements of the Yellow Turbans arriving and were fighting with the Han army that had climbed up to the top of the city.
These yellow turbans, who had just come to support from under the city wall, had never seen the arrow array of the Han army, so the arrow array still did not dodge when it reached the head, and there were heavy casualties at once.
"What, damn it, it's hateful." Zhang Bao was so angry that he jumped to his feet, and the reinforcements he had just transferred died hundreds of people at once.
This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that it is too big a blow to morale, and many of the yellow scarves who have just come up are frightened when they see this situation.
The Han army wanted to attack, but he had no choice, so he hurriedly commanded the Yellow Turban to defend, at least to drive these people down.
The guard battalion did not continue to shoot arrows, because the Han army had already attacked the city, and it was easy to be injured by mistake when attacking with bows and arrows at this time, although in the end the yellow turbans were killed and wounded more, but they could not do this.
The escort battalion did not continue to attack, and the pressure on the Yellow Turbans was much less, so they hurriedly commanded the Yellow Turbans to defend.