Chapter 69: Heaven Doesn't Follow People's Wishes
Cao De finally launched a siege battle against Jibei City. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhou Cang took a thousand soldiers as the first batch to launch an overwhelming attack on Jibei City. The tragic siege battle began.
Zhou Cang abandoned his horse, with a shield wrapped around one arm and a ring-headed broadsword in the other. He carried a spear on his back. Hurriedly ran to the city of Jibei City. Behind Zhou Cang were a thousand siege soldiers with shields and ladders.
The first thing that greeted Zhou Cang was a dense rain of arrows. Although, the combat power, weapons, and equipment of the Yellow Turban Army are not very good. But as the side defending the city. And before the siege, Cao Dejun did not carry out harassment and other actions as before. Therefore, this wave of arrow rain is very intensive. And the spirit and strength of the Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city are also very sufficient. In this way, it brought a huge threat to the Zhou Cang Department who were besieging the city.
At first, Cao De didn't want to do something first. However, it was smooth for nearly a month one after another. Cao De couldn't help but swell a little. Imagine, Huangfu Song fought alone with more than 30,000 people deep into the hinterland of Jizhou, and the Yellow Turban Army was powerless. Zhu Jun relied solely on more than 10,000 men and horses to fight the 60,000 or 70,000 Yellow Turban troops in Yingchuan City, and did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle. At present, he also has 15,000 elite soldiers under his command, plus the assistance of fierce generals such as Cao Ren and Zhang Fei, not to mention the existence of Xu Shu, a think tank. Even if they make any mistakes, these people are enough to turn things around. More importantly, Cao De wanted to see how the soldiers under his command would behave when they collided with each other with real swords and guns. For various reasons, Cao De didn't use his brains to think about how to weaken the enemy himself first. Instead, it's a head-to-head confrontation with the other party.
After Zhou Cang rushed to the city wall. Zhou Cang leaned his back against the city wall, and then raised the shield on his arm above his head to protect his head. Inadvertently, Zhou Cang's glance back made Zhou Cang feel afraid. I saw that from a dozen steps behind Zhou Cang, dense arrows were stuck in the ground like wheat waiting to be harvested. Hundreds of soldiers who charged with Zhou Cang were lying on the ground with arrows stuck in them. And the soldier with a breath of air is constantly convulsing his body.
Zhou Cang took a deep breath. He knows. Now is not the time to sigh. Only by attacking the city wall as quickly as possible can the soldiers behind not suffer this damage in vain. In Zhou Cang's shouting, the Cao Dejun soldiers who rushed to the city wall immediately put the ladder on the head of the city. However, Zhou Cang did not immediately order the ladder to be climbed, but let people constantly shake the ladder.
The Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city shot a few waves of arrows as if venting. The recruiter found that there were two more wooden poles in front of the female wall in front of him, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a ladder. Soon after, there was a constant vibration at the top of the ladder at the head of the city. This shows that the people under the city are climbing the ladder. Just when the Yellow Turban Army at the forefront was about to show up to take a look. From the military formation of the officers and soldiers outside the city, another burst of shouts and killings came from the sky.
I saw that Cao Dejun's main formation was ahead. Another thousand people rushed towards the walls of Jibei City. This is the second batch of offensives. It was Xu Shu who saw that Zhou Cang had rushed to the city and set up a ladder. Xu Shu immediately ordered Liao Hua to lead a thousand people to attack Jibei City. This time, only 400 men were swords and shields, and the remaining 600 were all archers. Liao Hua's task was to lead 300 people to rush to the city to join Zhou Cang. Then the remaining two hundred sword and shield soldiers protected the archers of six hundred people to suppress the Yellow Turban Army on the head of the city, and then the troops of Zhou Cang and Liao Hua climbed up to the head of the city together.
The battle developed as if it had already been auditioned according to the script. After the six hundred archers entered the attack range, they immediately bent their bows and arrows, suppressing the Yellow Turban army at the head of the city, and did not dare to raise their heads. The remaining hundred shield men immediately lined up their shields together, forming a defensive wall of steel in front of the archers. After Cao Dejun's archers released two waves of arrows, Liao Hua and his people finally converged with Zhou Cang. Liao Hua and Zhou Cang looked at each other. One person took a ladder, abandoned the shield on his arm, bit the big knife of the ring, and climbed up the ladder. And the siege soldiers who had rushed to the city also began to climb towards the city under the leadership of Zhou Cang and Liao Hua.
The course of the war seems to have been firmly in the hands of Cao De and Xu Shu. But, suddenly. The otherwise sunny weather quickly darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye. The sky that was originally white clouds is now full of dark clouds.
Zhou Cang and Liao Hua jumped onto the city almost at the same time. At the same time, the ring-headed broadsword in the mouths of the two also reached the right hands of the two of them. I saw that the two of them waved their right arms in unison, and three or four Yellow Turban soldiers were instantly cut open chests. Immediately after, the two kept waving the ring-headed broadsword in their hands and moved closer to each other.
At the head of the city, it is ten out of ten to strike more with less. If the two of them don't huddle, it is estimated that they will soon be hacked to death by the enemies who are constantly pouring into the city. No matter how brave you are, no matter how superb your martial arts are. As long as you are tired, you will be stabbed into the body by the ubiquitous spear, the tip of the knife, and then end this life. Moreover, while the two of them were getting closer, they were also trying to make way for the soldiers who kept climbing up behind them. Otherwise, you will be blocked in the way of your own people. The people behind climbed up and wanted to stand on the ladder and fight the enemy.
Gradually, the Cao De army under the city is getting smaller and fewer, and the Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city is constantly being eaten.
Just when nearly half of Cao De's army under the city was left. For the third time, Cao Dejun's main formation sounded a deafening shout of killing. The third group of siege teams began to attack. The beating of drums was accompanied by the charge of the overwhelming army. Showing its own hideousness on the earth. And at this moment, Tiangong also began to show his hideousness.
The third batch of siege teams was led by Zhang Fei. Just when Zhang Fei was leading people to charge. Raindrops began to fall in the sky. When Zhang Fei led the people to rush halfway, the sparse light rain turned into an almost connected torrential rain.
Cao De, who had been beating the drum, wiped the rain from his face. Then hit the drum face hard. At this moment, the siege battle of Jibei City has entered a white heat. Although the Yellow Turban Army in the city occupies a favorable position, the essence of the Yellow Turban Army will not change.
The third group of siege troops of 2,000 people led by Zhang Fei was the most important straw that crushed the Yellow Turban Army. As long as Zhang Fei led people to successfully climb the city wall. It didn't take long for Jibei City to be like a disarmed little daughter-in-law, opening up for perverts to enter and exit freely. At that time, Cao De only needed to wave his hand lightly, and the whole army pressed on and attacked the city from the city gate. In the offensive and defensive battle of Naji North City, Cao De was even a victory.
However, the heavens are not beautiful. At the most critical moment, a deadly rainstorm fell on the heads of both sides of the fight. However, the current Cao Dejun cannot retreat, as long as he retreats, his previous achievements will be wasted. Not only will it not be able to take the Jibei City that is about to be reached, but it will also cause a certain loss of morale, and more importantly, the people who die on the road of charging today will be sacrificed in vain.
Therefore, Cao De beat the marching drum even harder.
Seeing that Zhang Fei was about to jump to the top of the city. Cao De, who was still beating the drum, raised his drumstick high and waved it. With a click, the drumstick in Cao De's hand was shortened in response. At the same time as the drumstick broke, everyone in the vicinity turned their heads to look at it in unison. I saw Cao De panting, and he was also stunned to look at the drumstick in his hand, which was only half a section left.
And at this moment, a sound from far and near pulled everyone back from their stupor.