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Ma Teng wanted to take Liu Zhang the next day, but Liu Zhang didn't give him a chance. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

That night, Liu Zhang ordered someone to make a distance mark outside the city. And he took all the people outside the city back into the city, and abandoned the trench positions outside the city.

The next day, Ma Jiajun had just begun to charge, and shooting had already begun in the city.

"One hundred and fifty steps, step/crossbow shooting!"

"One hundred steps, strong crossbow shooting!"

"Fifty paces, repeater shooting!"

As soon as the Ma Jiajun charged, arrows rained down on the city.

On the first day, Liu Zhang suffered a loss and there were people outside the city. The people outside the city, first, attacked too late, and second, there were no crossbows outside the city, and after being quickly approached by the cavalry, the only effective weapon was grenades, so they suffered heavy losses.

Therefore, Liu Zhang simply withdrew all the people outside the city to the city and gave up the trench positions outside, so that he could concentrate on defending the city.

Using a javelin against the soldiers behind the city walls will not be very effective, and it will be under the blow of the opponent's powerful crossbow arrows.

In order to go down with a drum, Ma Teng let Han Sui's iron cavalry battalion follow closely behind the Hu people's army.

Running, accelerating, and at eighty paces from the wall, the Hu legion began to throw the first round of javelins, and at sixty paces, the second round of javelins.

The rain of arrows on the city, especially the powerful lethality of the tread/crossbow, caused heavy losses to the Hu army, however, after two rounds of javelins, the tread/crossbow on the city was also destroyed under the blow of the javelin. Although the step/crossbow is protected, it can only defend against ordinary bows and arrows, and it can't stop the speeding iron javelins at all. Expensive tread/crossbows, in a dense rain of javelins, turned into waste.

Forty paces away from the city wall, the Hu army threw the last round of javelins, and all the treadmills/crossbows on the city wall were destroyed. This is the king of cold weapons, which is highly expected by the military and Liu Zhang, and is praised by Liu Zhang as the highest technical level in the era of cold weapons, and still can't stop the brute force blow of the javelin rain of the Ma Chao Legion.

The charge of the Ma Chao Army today is as sharp as yesterday.

Not only did they destroy all the crossbows in the city, but they also caused the defenders to suffer huge losses.

Of course, the Ma Chao Army itself also suffered heavy casualties, with three to four percent casualties.

Under the heavy and powerful crossbow bolts in the city, it is absolutely impossible to avoid casualties.

Seeing that the other party was about to cross a distance of thirty steps and was about to rush into the city, Liu Zhang yelled in the city: "Ignite the fire, detonate!" ”

At the sound of an order, under the city walls, several soldiers hurriedly lit the fuse.

It was only a few seconds, just when Ma Chao had just rushed to the front of the city more than ten steps away, and when he saw that the city gate was close at hand, "boom, boom," a series of explosions sounded behind Ma Chao, from near to far. The huge explosion directly overturned Ma Chao off the horse.

Outside the city, within a hundred paces, there were explosions, and almost no people and horses survived.

The defenders of the city, because of the distance, were so close that their ears were buzzing, and for a time many people were temporarily deaf and could not hear the sound.

Ma Chao's 5,000-strong Hu army, and the 3,000-iron cavalry battalion that followed closely behind, were completely lost in a battle.

Liu Zhang had already planted countless landmines outside the city last night.

The technical difficulty of mines is much lower than that of grenades, and they are easy to make.

For more than a year, the Academy of Engineering did not produce a few grenades, and the excess gunpowder had to be produced into mines and sent to Liu Zhang. Landmines are not easy to carry, and they are passive weapons, buried on the ground waiting for people to step on, or be detonated, and can only be used to defend the city or the like.

At first, Liu Zhang did not lay mines in front of Xicheng, but only on the necessary passages outside the other three city gates. But he didn't expect the Ma Jiajun to be so powerful, Liu Zhang had to change his original deployment, and began to secretly deploy a large number of mines in the front of the enemy's attack overnight, which destroyed the elite of the Xiliang Army with one blow.

Ma Teng on the opposite side was dumbfounded.

The smoke cleared, and the entire battlefield was in shambles, with stumps and corpses scattered all over the city.

Liu Zhang, who was in the city, did not give the order to go out of the city to pursue, and Ma Teng outside the city did not give the order to continue the attack.

In the first war, the Xiliang army was completely frightened.

Yesterday, the explosion of those grenades, although it was also terrifying, was far less violent, so terrifying, and so unforgettable than today.

What kind of scene was that?

That's clearly countless Thor being angry!

It was a thunderstorm that was clearly going to crush everyone!

The legend that Liu Zhang can summon heavenly thunder seems to be true.

Liu Zhang is invincible!

The Xiliang army was timid.

Ma Chao didn't die, but he was stunned and was carried back by Pang De, who was following him.

It was also because the battlefield was chaotic and full of smoke just now that the two of them picked up a life.

When he returned to the camp, Ma Chao woke up.

"Father, what about the casualties of our army?"

When Ma Teng heard this, he tapped his head with his hand, his expression was very painful, and he seemed unwilling to answer.

"Big brother, our army's Hu Ren Legion has suffered all casualties, only a few dozen horsemen remain, and the Iron Cavalry Battalion has also lost most of it, and there are only more than 1,000 people left of the 3,000 people." Matthew replied for Matthew next to him.

"Father, why don't you withdraw." Ma Chao again proposed to withdraw his troops.

Ma Teng frowned, as if he was very unwilling. "Our army is mobilizing, seeing that Liu Zhang's thief is in front of him, if he misses today's opportunity, he may not even be able to come back to Liangzhou in the future. Meng Qi, you have an injury, you might as well go back and rest first. If there is anything, we will talk about it tomorrow. ”

What Ma Teng said is also true.

With a warlord like him, he has to raise so many troops under his command, and it is impossible to do without a large territory. Without the base of Liangzhou, his power will gradually decline, and it will be even more difficult to return to Liangzhou in the future.

Liu Zhang was right in front of him, and there were more than a thousand people left around him.

If you catch Liu Zhang, you can turn the whole situation around, even if you fight the entire Hu army, he Ma Teng is willing.

But today's thunderstorm almost wiped out the morale of the entire Ma Jiajun.

"Father, it's time for our army to withdraw, I'm afraid it's too late."

"What are you afraid of, our army is all cavalry, even if Liu Zhang's city defense is powerful, or if he has some secret weapons, but our army wants to fight and go, what can he do with me?"

"Father, aren't you surprised, our army is coming, Liu Zhang is only more than 2,000 people, two or three days, Liu Zhang has not lit the wolf smoke for help, isn't it strange?"

"Perhaps, Liu Zhang'er is very confident in himself and thinks that our army can't take him." Ma Teng groaned.

"Perhaps, but the child thinks it's more likely that he doesn't want anyone else to save him, and he doesn't want to affect the other armies' plan of action."

"Are you worried that Liu Zhang's other two roads will be outflanked from the two flanks to the rear of our army?" (To be continued.) )