817. Difficult siege progress
Originally, Cao Jun thought that Zhu Weijun would not be able to gain a firm foothold on the city wall, so a large number of Cao troops were also in a dense formation under the city wall, waiting for military orders to attack, but now these Cao troops have naturally become the best target for Zhu Weijun's archers.
A continuous rain of arrows fell from the city walls, quickly causing confusion among the Cao troops below.
And the Zhu Wei army on the city wall had the follow-up troops to rush to help, and the front was a sharp military formation with Tai Shi Ci and Zang Ba, which inevitably pressed the Cao army to retreat step by step.
The area of the city wall controlled by Zhu Weijun is also getting bigger and bigger.
Among them, the direction of Tai Shici's attack is the direction that can lead to the city wall of the urn city in the city, and continue to rush forward along the wall of the urn city, you can lead to the inner gate of the urn city under the city wall and the inner main road of Puyang City.
Once Tai Shi Ci rushed to the city, he could not only destroy those trebuchets, but also help Zhu Weijun open the inner and outer city gates, so as to let more Zhu Weijun rush in.
At this time, Cao Cao stood on the newly built command platform about 100 steps away from Puyang Dongcheng, watching the development of the war in front of him, and once again felt a kind of helplessness in his heart.
He and his military advisors and strategists struggled to think of such a clever defensive tactic, but Zhu Weijun's side came up with a means of dealing with it in a blink of an eye, and now the other party is relying on a net, so that the catapult arranged by himself is almost no longer threatening.
And without the rocks thrown by catapults to suppress the follow-up strength of Zhu Weijun, then the strength of Zhu Weijun rushing to the city wall really made it a little difficult for Cao Jun's soldiers to resist, and now Cao Cao saw that the soldiers in front of him were being beaten by Zhu Weijun and retreated step by step, so that the outer city wall of Puyang City was afraid that it had lost its defensive significance.
It can be seen that this change made by Zhu Weijun make Cao Cao's original defensive tactics a little unchangeable, as predicted by Jia Xu, the military advisor next to Zhu Wei, Cao Jun could not resist Zhu Weijun's forced charge, and there was a great danger of being broken through by Zhu Weijun.
Cao Cao hurriedly instructed some of his brave generals to lead his troops up to block the continued advance of Zhu Wei's army, thus delaying the time for Zhu Wei's army to capture the city wall.
Then Cao Cao also asked the strategists standing beside him, "What should we do in this current situation?" But I don't think that Zhu Wei can dissolve our army's defensive methods like this! Now if Zhu Wei takes advantage of the situation to attack, I am afraid that Dongcheng will not be protected! ”
"Lord, I look at the net as if it is cloth, so our army can use fire oil to splash it, and then burn it with rockets, it only takes a long time to dissolve this net, and then use flying stones to smash it, so that Zhu Wei's army can be weak, and our army can take advantage of the situation to recapture the city wall!"
A scribe behind Cao Cao also observed the net that Zhu Weijun had made on the city wall in front of him, and said to Cao Cao, obviously his idea was feasible, and it couldn't help but make the others here nod their heads in agreement.
Cao Cao was overjoyed when he heard this, "Okay, filial piety is reasonable, come and burn it with fire!" ”
It turned out that the literati who made the suggestion was Mao Jue, an inconspicuous military advisor around Cao Cao, but he was originally better at government affairs, so he was not Cao Cao's usual military advisor.
It's just that now Cao Cao is facing the threat of extinction, and Guo Jia has been captured by Zhu Weijun again, so government talents like him can only think about the problems on the battlefield together.
However, at this moment, Mao Jue seemed to have really given a way to crack the net constructed by Zhu Weijun, so on the frontal battlefield, a stone-throwing cart soon threw oil cans into those nets, trying to splash the fire oil inside on the net.
It's just that the elasticity of the net is very good, and the oil tank has not been broken, so it can't let the net be soaked in grease, but some people in Cao Jun still thought of a way, so some cloth soaked in fire oil wrapped the rock and threw it over with a catapult.
Some of these tarpaulins fell on the compass with the rocks, and some of them were directly hung on the compass nets, and some of them slipped off the compass with the rocks, but the fire oil impregnated on the oilcloth still stained a lot on the compass nets.
Then Cao's archers shot rockets into the net, causing a lot of sparks to burn in the net.
With the help of the burning oil, these nets were soon burned out of a large hole, naturally could not continue to block the falling rocks thrown up by the catapults, for a time in the city wall area within the range of the Cao army's stone-throwing vehicles under the city wall, many Zhu guards were hit by the falling stones again and suffered heavy casualties.
But soon another net appeared on the wall, and then Zhu Weijun's offensive on the city wall was also strengthened.
Zhu Weijun just needs to grab time now, only before these nets prepared by Zhu Weijun are destroyed, can they rush to the city wall in time, and they can also kill those catapults, destroy these catapults, and completely eliminate the threat of the follow-up army continuing to encounter catapults throwing rocks.
At this time, Zhu Weijun had also rushed from the city wall to the head of the urn city wall inside the outer city gate, but he still had to kill from the city wall of the urn city to the inner gate of the urn city, so that he could kill the city and kill the area framed by those catapults.
But the Cao army's resistance is also getting stronger and stronger, although Zhu Weijun has a fierce general who rushes to the front and charges in the Cao army's array, but the Cao army also sent generals to resist.
For a time, at the forefront of the two military formations, it was often the place where the generals of the two sides fought.
On the city wall that is not very spacious, in the situation that the surrounding soldiers may help the sneak attack at any time, the generals under Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's account are also fighting hard, at this moment for these generals, it is also a challenge of life and death, they must have full energy to have the possibility of survival.
However, generally speaking, only after the generals on both sides have almost decided the victory and defeat, Zhu Weijun can continue to advance, or temporarily retreat.
Of course, Zhu Weijun's soldiers were followed by the throwers and crossbow archers of the thunderbolt palm thunder, and on this narrow city wall, the thunderbolt palm thunder and crossbow arrows were definitely deadly weapons.
Even the generals with extraordinary martial arts in Cao's army, in the face of the sneak attack of palm thunder and crossbow arrows, are often dealt with by the ordinary soldiers of Zhu Weijun.
In addition, Tai Shi Ci, who fought on Zhu Weijun's side, can be regarded as the top ten fierce generals in the history of the Three Kingdoms, and now Cao Cao's side, except for Xiahou Dun, there are no more fierce generals with a force value of more than 90, so almost no one can resist Tai Shi Ci's charge.
So under Tai Shici's courage, on the whole, Zhu Weijun is still steadily advancing forward, while Cao Jun is still retreating step by step.
Even if Cao Cao kept sending soldiers and generals to stop him, he still couldn't stop Zhu Weijun from gradually rushing to the inner gate of the urn city, and the staircase passage leading to the city wall could already be found here.
It was only at this staircase walkway from the city wall to the city that the battle between the two sides was tangled again......