The cold wind is bleak, the dead leaves are fluttering, and the world is vast!

Dong Zhuo stood on the top of the hill in the north of Tongguo City, his face was slightly cold.

The movements of the Huns in Tongguo City were exposed to Dong Zhuo's eyes at a glance.

A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and Dong Zhuo said coldly, "It seems that the Huns in the city have 30,000 troops!" ”

Xu Jiang, who was standing with the bridle, also had a bad face, and whispered softly, "Lord, it is about to enter winter, the winter in the north is so cold, which is not conducive to our army's long-term war, and the city is high and deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Huns are based on the city and defend, occupying the time and place; Moreover, the Huns have sufficient troops, and they have strong bows and cold arrows, if they attack strongly, our army will inevitably suffer heavy losses! ”

Facing the Huns with the same strength and occupying the right time and place, I have to say that Dong Zhuo felt a little tricky!

The only thing that comforted Dong Zhuo was that the Huns were not good at defending the city.

This is not to say that the Huns are too stupid to defend the city, but to say that the defensive ability of the Hun generals is that for limited troops and resources, different generals can hold on to the same situation for different times, and the Huns have always been good at field warfare and do not have much such experience in defending cities.

"Drink! If the defender of the city is Ling Lang, maybe a certain family can't break the city in front of them, but they are Huns, and a certain family has never put the 30,000 Huns in this Tongguo city in their eyes! ”

Dong Zhuo is telling the truth, Xu Huang is good at guarding, this is true, just talking about the ability to defend the city, among the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms in the late Han Dynasty, no one can stand out!

Dong Zhuo was not worried about not being able to break through Tongguocheng, the previous Huns' defense seemed to be orderly, but in fact it was full of loopholes, Dong Zhuo was confident that he could break through Tongguo City in one fell swoop.

However, the price was too great, and without the lives of one or two thousand soldiers, it was impossible to break through the city of Tongguo.

Dong Zhuo had no way to joke with the lives of so many soldiers!

Although, the victory of the war in this era was originally piled up with human lives!

One will be a success!

War is always sacrifice!

In order to win, the necessary sacrifices are inevitable!

It's just that Dong Zhuo hopes to be able to compress this sacrifice figure to the minimum!

"Baichuan, how many siege equipment do I have?"

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles!

As the commander-in-chief of the First Army, Dong Zhuo must not only have a clear understanding of the enemy's situation, but also thoroughly understand his own strength from all aspects.

Xu Jiang knew these statistics clearly, and only listened to him talk eloquently, "Most of the battles in Bingzhou are mainly field battles or defenses, so our army does not have many siege equipment, not counting the equipment taken away by General Jianyang, our army has a total of eight catapults, four siege vehicles, and more than 100 ladders!" ”

Dong Zhuo frowned first, and then bowed his head, although there were not many of these instruments, they were barely enough.

"Transfer all the main forces of the army to the north city!"

Dong Zhuo understands that since there is no way to take advantage of it, he can only fight hard.

Xu Jiang was dumbfounded, "The lord wants to attack from the northern city?" ”

Dong Zhuo took a deep breath and said, "We don't have much time!" ”

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Looking at the large scale of the Han army under the city, the young Hun guard Hu Yanxiu Tu at the head of the city couldn't help but gasp, although he had heard the elders of the clan say that the Han siege was terrible, but now that he was there, he couldn't help but be nervous and excited.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Listening to the sound of neat and powerful footsteps, you can know that the quality of this siege force must be extraordinary.

"Immediately transfer the soldiers from Xicheng to help defend the city!"

Huyan Xiutu didn't know the bottom in his heart, there were too many Han troops under the city, and the eight huge catapults showed their hideous faces, he didn't dare to underestimate the enemy, he had to go all out.

As for Xicheng, Huyan Xiutu was not worried, Xicheng was backed by the Yellow River, and the Han army would not be able to attack from Xicheng at all.

Dong Zhuo stood on the top of the mountain, staring closely at the city in front of him, this time, he invested a full 10,000 soldiers and horses, but he had no confidence in his heart whether he could win a battle.

"Kill!"

At the moment when they were about to reach the range of the archers at the head of the city, the siege army under Dong Zhuo's command suddenly let out an earth-shattering shout of killing, and at the same time accelerated the speed of its advance.

"Shoot the arrows!"

With Huyan Xiutu's order, the defenders at the head of Tongguo City immediately fired ten thousand arrows, and countless arrows shot out like flying locusts, shooting straight at the head of Dong Zhuo's army under the city.

?Shout! Shout! Shout!

The sound of arrows breaking through the air was endless, and then there was a continuous scream of Dong Zhuojun's soldiers.

Although the shield was erected, the condescending dense rain of arrows still made the soldiers of Dong Zhuo's army at the forefront suffer.

Patches of soldiers fell from arrows, but the soldiers who followed did not flinch, stepping on the corpses of their comrades and continuing to rush forward.

At the same time, Dong Zhuojun's archers also opened their bows and arrows and began to return fire, in order to suppress the opponent's long-range firepower and reduce the casualties of the siege troops.

In the midst of the earth-shattering shouts of killing, a part of Dong Zhuo's soldiers finally broke through the rain of arrows of the defenders at the head of the city and began to erect a moat bridge over the moat for the subsequent siege troops to pass.

Under the cover of shields and archers, the subsequent siege troops braved the rain of arrows to pass through the moat one after another, and began to erect ladders about a foot from the city wall, while the siege vehicles covered with cowhide began to move slowly towards the city gate.

Although the defenders at the head of the city shot the soldiers pushing the siege cart with intensive fire according to the order, Dong Zhuojun prepared batch after batch of reserve forces, and the soldiers in front of the cart fell, and quickly made up for it in the back.

The corpses of groups of Dong Zhuo's soldiers paved the way for the siege vehicles to advance.

After paying a considerable price, Dong Zhuojun finally rushed to the city wall, climbed the ladder one after another, and began the battle to capture the city.

In this era of cold weapons, the besieging side is undoubtedly at a disadvantage. Before the siege soldiers rushed to the city, they were already shot by nearly half of the archers defending the city. After that, a ladder was erected and climbed straight up, but what you had to face was oncoming wood and rolling stones, and even boiling oil!

Fortunately, the Huns only defended with bows and arrows, and did not use fire oil!

Rao is so, the war is already very heavy!

A soldier of Dong Zhuojun stubbornly climbed the ladder, but when he was about to reach the top of the city, his hands were cut off by a sharp knife that suddenly stretched out, and he fell down with a scream in the blood light.

Within a kilometer of the ground below the city, a large number of spiked wooden stakes like dogs' teeth were waiting for him, and hundreds of Dong Zhuoshi's corpses were already hanging on them.

In contrast, the defending army hid behind the wall of arrowheads, waiting for their work with little damage.

The offensive and defensive damage is so uneven, so Sun Tzu Youyun: "The method of siege is a last resort!" ”

In the earth-shattering shouts of killing, they couldn't hide the terrible screams one after another.

"Fight for land and kill people; Fight for the city, kill the city! This is war! Looking at the incomparably tragic situation, Dong Zhuo's face showed a complicated expression.

"Life is like mustard in this terrible war, but it is necessary, in this troubled world, if a person, a force or a dynasty wants to survive, it can only rely on 'iron' and 'blood'!"

The battle continued, and with the momentum of not fearing death, Dong Zhuo's soldiers finally climbed the wall with a cloud ladder and began a more tragic white-knuckle battle.

At the same time, the eight large, somewhat dilapidated catapults were gradually approaching the city walls.

"Catapult, prepare! Put! ”

?? Seeing the siege vehicle slowly approaching, the catapult behind the siege force began to launch under the command of the Lingqi.

Catapults of this era were only capable of projecting small stones, and while they could not be used as a powerful siege machine, they were often used to destroy the defenders' archer formations or kill a densely packed army.

For a time, countless stones roared in, although the placement was not very accurate, but Rao was so, and also caused great harm to the Huns' defending army.

The Huyan Xiu Tu on the wall of the air roared again and again.

The pavilion at the head of the city was smashed into a pile of broken wood, and there were even more rubble and gravel that injured the soldiers defending the city, and the huge beams and pillars were also hit by the stones.

If it hadn't hit the house, the stones that fell from the sky would have smashed the dense Hun soldiers at the head of the city into a blur of flesh and blood.

The battle to capture the city has become white-hot, Dong Zhuojun's few remaining cars finally succeeded in approaching the city wall, the soldiers behind the car immediately rushed up, pushing the siege vehicle to hit the wood, desperately hitting the seemingly dilapidated but still solid city gate, wanting to open the city gate as soon as possible, so as to meet with the soldiers who climbed up from the ladder, and attack the Hun soldiers defending the city together.

It's a pity that Huyan Xiutu, who defended the city, was quite shameless, and even used a boulder against the city gate to fill the entire city gate hole tightly, even if Dong Zhuo's military engineering vehicle smashed the city gate, he couldn't enter the city.

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