Chapter 47: The Siege
Liu Biao's first wave of attacks was finally launched at dawn on the second day, apparently during the day to better observe the reaction in the city and see the situation of the defenders. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 At the same time, 100,000 enemy troops also arrived in the middle of the night last night, and then the troops began to besiege Xu Ducheng in two ways, according to Yuan Yun's calculations, at this moment, Xu Ducheng has been completely surrounded.
Cao Ang still didn't let the game stop, ordered Xu Yi and others to hold it as scheduled, and even rushed to the stadium in person, in front of a group of people, bought a bet full of 1,000 yuan for that team, which immediately reassured everyone, even though there was a large area of enemy footsteps and shouts outside the city, but the big guy was more concerned about the money bet on the game, and in the end, the shouts of the stadium overshadowed the trumpet of the soldiers defending the city, which in turn improved the confidence of the defenders, and the people in the city were not worried. The soldier himself was worried about a bird, so everyone fought bravely, hoping that the enemy would rush to the city now.
Liu Biao's vanguard did not come up to attack the city, but set up a formation outside the city, only then a team of men and horses slowly rode to the west city gate, not far from the city gate, one of the enemy horsemen immediately shot a range-measuring arrow, just under the city gate, they stopped the footsteps of the mount, the leader seems to be a shouting general, the voice of this goods seems to be made of iron, even if the voice shouted is far away, it can still make Yuan Yun hear every word clearly.
At first, the general who shouted still had an attitude of persuasion to surrender, but after shouting for a while, he felt that it was impossible for the other party to surrender, so they began to change to scolding.
The content of the scolding array is nothing more than what Cao Cao has no virtue and holds the Son of Heaven hostage, now that the general trend has gone, it is better to go out of the city and surrender Yunyun, Yuan Yun really found that the people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty really did not know how to scold, thinking that he would have the opportunity to scold the formation in the future, it is estimated that he will be able to scold the other party and vomit blood.
Sou! The sound of a powerful arrow breaking through the air came, and the general who scolded the formation did not understand what was going on, he had already been hit by an arrow in his chest, turned around and fell off his horse. Cao Ang stood majestically at the head of the city at this time, one foot on the battlements, the crossbow string of the steel crossbow in his hand was still trembling slightly, and the defenders of the whole city let out a shocking cheer, and several enemy troops under the city immediately packed up the corpse of the general, and then fled to their camp in a panic.
Suddenly, Liu Biao's 10,000 vanguard troops suddenly let out a shout, and everyone raised their shields and pushed the siege equipment they brought to the forefront, and the battle finally began.
Cao Ang still stood still on the battlements, and then watched the enemy's army gradually approach, the lieutenant generals were all around him at the moment, all waiting for Cao Ang's order, and those soldiers on the city wall, everyone stood in their positions, and now all they lacked was an order.
When the enemy finally crossed the cordon that Cao Ang had measured himself, the lieutenants left his left and ran to their respective combat positions, and then heard the heavy winch of a catapult creak and rattle, and the four soldiers pushed desperately, pulling the cable tighter and tighter, and a powder bag the size of a water tank was placed in the catapult.
"Put!" With a shout from Cao Ang, the catapult fired the first powder pack.
The thick twist of fire ignited on the gunpowder pack pulled out a long black smoke in the air, and quickly fell into the enemy formation along the arc, and just before the gunpowder bag hit the ground, an incomparably shining strong light burst out, followed by an earth-shattering sound, rumbling around, Liu Biao's neat forward formation, as if a hole had been torn open, and then the radial continued to expand, and the corpses thrown high by the blast wave of the explosion splashed everywhere.
The 10,000-strong siege party seemed to be frozen in time for a moment, and everyone stopped, not knowing what was happening in the middle of the procession, but they had already sketched a cruel picture in their minds, and before their fear could come to their heads, the next explosion was heard, followed by one explosion after another, and so on and so forth.
The morning sun was replaced by the bright light that burst out of the morning, and the blood and various parts of the flesh rained down, and the still alive soldiers could no longer maintain their formation, and their commander began to order them to gather, huddle, twist into a rope, and then be blown apart by another gunpowder bag.
Soon, the same explosion was heard at the south gate, and the fight finally began.
Yuan Yun looked at the tragic picture in front of him, and was shocked in his heart, the team of 10,000 people had been reduced by one-third, but the remaining soldiers were still holding their shields high, pushing siege equipment and moving forward desperately, the sound of those explosions had scared their courage, but they were still like zombies, moving forward mechanically, even if there were timid people who were scared and weakened, those determined veterans would continue to move forward with them, and continue to send them to death.
Yuan Yun didn't understand this kind of behavior at all, just like a movie he watched back then, which depicted the Eight Banners cavalry at the end of the Qing Dynasty, they were so resistant to the bullets of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and then charged without hesitation, and finally only one person barely rushed to the front of the enemy's formation, and then was knocked off the horse by the enemy's short fire, and then was divided by a group of enemies with bayonets.
These people are not afraid, but they don't know about gunpowder, so they are very at a loss, the past combat experience tells them that as long as they gather, as long as the team does not disperse, then maybe they can survive, their own people have 100,000 people, and the other party has no intention of going out of the city to kill at all, then the city is their own people, and they will be killed if they run away or turn back, and now they can survive as long as they rush to the city, this is the only way.
Luck did not happen, when the enemy finally came to the city wall with a shield, what was waiting for them was not stones and oil, but a black iron lump, which was still smoking, when a Liu Biao's pawn curiously picked it up, the iron lump exploded, and the pawn had not even had time to transmit the pain from the brain, it had been blown apart.
"Don't throw your grenades too soon, wait until the fire twist is about to burrow into the iron shell!" Cao Ang kept shouting loudly, and the adjutants also kept shouting, but soon their voices were muffled by bursts of explosions coming from under the city walls, and in a moment, the black smoke under the city rolled up, and the enemy had not even had time to build a siege ladder, it had been blown to pieces, and the soil on the ground instantly turned into a piece of scarlet, and it opened radially one by one, and from the perspective of the city, it really looked like a bright red flower blooming.
Yuan Yun stood at the head of the wall in full gear, looking at the crowd under the city wall like ants rushing in, the shock in his heart was far beyond imagination, and even his fingers began to tremble slightly, he had experienced a battle formation on Xu Chu's side before, but it was dark at that time, and he couldn't see the whole picture of the battlefield at all, but now it was completely different, the tall city wall of Xu Du seemed to be washed by a flood, and those Liu Biao's soldiers kept pouring up, and then kept being blown up by grenades, even so, there were more people who continued to rush.
The wails and explosions continued wildly, Yuan Yun was about to take another look at the city, but suddenly felt a strong thrust from his left shoulder, squinted and looked, it turned out to be a strong arrow shot by the enemy, but the arrow did not even penetrate the first layer of fish scale armor, so it fell to the ground so softly, he just gently patted the position where it was shot, and then continued to look at the city.
Yuan Yun didn't care, but the soldiers who were hiding behind the battlements opened their mouths wide, they had long heard that this Tiger Ben Zhonglang would be a child of immortals, but he didn't expect that it would be true, he could be invulnerable, such a powerful arrow shot at his body, but he couldn't penetrate his body, which made them very excited inexplicably, so the soldiers who saw it began to shout and continue to throw grenades, stones, and everything they felt could kill the enemy.
Yuan Yun glanced at a few soldiers around him who were inexplicably encouraged, and said in his heart: It is estimated that it is not very reliable to let Lao Tzu go into battle to kill the enemy, but waving the flag and shouting that he is his strength, Lao Tzu will come to pretend to be a god and cheer you up, damn, Lao Tzu is the biggest god stick in this era, wouldn't it be sorry for Lao Tzu's name if you don't show it.
After thinking about it, Yuan Yun suddenly straightened up, and then began to walk back and forth on the top of the city, it was like walking in his own back garden, and those flying feather arrows clanged on his black armor, and then bounced to the side, which did not cause him any harm at all, which suddenly gave the courage of those timid young defenders who only dared to hide in the mouth of the wall battlement, and they lit the grenades in their hands and threw them out.
Cao Ang, who was still commanding in the distance, saw this scene, just smiled bitterly and shook his head, this Yun brother has never been serious, but now the two armies are fighting, he is good, and he still has the leisure to wander around, but seeing the defensive power of the black martial arts armor on Yuan Yun's body, Cao Ang is still secretly frightened, although he knew his powerful performance before, but seeing Yuan Yun walking in the arrow rain like this, he still felt very shocked, and couldn't help but subconsciously touch the other set of black martial arts armor he was wearing, according to Yuan Yun's words, This is just the 1.0 version of the black martial arts armor, and there are even more powerful ones in the back, thinking of this, it is a little understandable why Yuan Yun said at the beginning, he made that workshop is actually to lay the foundation for him Cao Ang, if the workshop continues to produce these immortal gods, until 10,000 people are armed, who else is the opponent in the world?
Suddenly, an enemy with a bloody face climbed onto the wall and jumped in front of Yuan Yun in one fell swoop, which immediately made Yuan Yun stunned, and he forgot to dodge, and was instantly slashed on the shoulder by the opponent's sword, and the huge force made Yuan Yun almost kneel on the ground.
Just after the enemy's first sword was cut down, he found that it had no effect at all, and even the opponent's armor was not cut off, but only left a deep fracture, so the enemy soldier who finally climbed the city wall raised the sword in his hand again, but at this time he suddenly found that a crossbow arrow had penetrated his chest, and he didn't even have time to wail, and he was cut off by Shi Shen's sword that rushed up.
Yuan Yun eased the fear in his heart, and then he saw Cao Ang in the distance holding a steel crossbow, and the crossbow arrow just now was shot by him. This made Yuan Yun very unhappy, bastard Cao Ang is not afraid of shooting off, what if he hurts me? Damn, it's all a bunch of savages. After scolding in his heart, he glanced at Shi Shen next to him, after this guy cut off the enemy's head, he immediately picked it up and hung it on his waist, and he already had two heads hanging on his waist at the moment, so he looked very weird.
"Shi Shen, you bastard, know how to rob the military, your lord and I were almost chopped up, damn." Yuan Yun felt that he needed to vent the sulking in his heart.
Shi Shen smiled, then pointed to Xiao Liu behind Yuan Yun and said: "Don't panic, Xiao Liu has been following you, even if I didn't make a move just now, Xiao Liu would have ended up with the other party, rest assured, this enemy head is worth three hundred Wen, idle is also idle, Lord and watch me kill the enemy to give you anger." ”
Shi Shen's words fell, and he cut down an enemy who attacked the city wall to the ground, and then he couldn't wait to pounce on it and cut off the other party's head, and now he already had four heads hanging on his waist, and the blood and brains that kept dripping down made Yuan Yun feel sick again and again.
There are not many enemies who climb the city wall, most of them died in the gunpowder bullets of the secret book under the city, and the pits are full of all kinds of stumps and broken arms, some are dead, some are holding broken arms or broken hands and wailing, and thick smoke is constantly coming out of the pits, and the picture is as terrifying as hell.
Yuan Yun decided to retreat from the city wall, although he has the protection of black armor, but he is not sure what kind of perverts will rush up, in case he grabs his small body and throws himself off the city wall, it will be a big loss, his main purpose is to see the power of these gunpowder sheets and gunpowder packs, as well as the degree of use on the battlefield, now that the goal has been achieved, there is no need to continue to be heroes.
Science and technology are always developing with war, I forgot who said this, but now it seems that this sentence is quite philosophical, those gunpowder bags and grenades were used on such a large scale, immediately had a huge impact on the victory or defeat of the battlefield, and also exposed a lot of flaws, but as far as the current effect is concerned, it is already very satisfactory, as for how to adjust and improve, Yuan Yun is not worried, just look at the two people who are following Cao Ang who are constantly recording the advantages and disadvantages of firearms, You can guess that these records will have a positive effect on future improvements.
What makes Yuan Yun happiest is that compared to the last time he vomited and knotted his intestines at Xu Chu's place, this time he has obviously made great progress, looking at the corpses in one place, as well as all kinds of plasma and brain, he is not uncomfortable, and the biggest reason for forcing himself to climb the city wall is that he found that he can't escape the war at all in this era, rather than hide, it is better to learn to accept it earlier, and the days on the battle line will be long in the future, sad urging.