Chapter 42: The Battle of Chengdu (7)

Outside Chengdu, Liu Bei's military camp. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Because there is going to be a fierce battle today, Liu Bei specially ordered at breakfast to improve the food for the soldiers, so that the big guys can eat enough, after all, there will be many people in today's battle who will sleep forever under the city of Chengdu.

There is still a moment left before the time, at this time all Liu Bei's troops have been assembled, General Zhang Fei led the 10,000 soldiers he brought from Jingzhou to stand at the north gate, followed by the Jingzhou soldiers led by General Zhao Yun, these 20,000 soldiers can be said to be the most elite troops in the entire Liu Bei military camp at present, the Jingzhou soldiers at this time have been trained for a long time, and many of them are still following Liu Bei when they were in Xinye, and the tacit understanding between the soldiers is needless to say. Shi Yuan put all 20,000 people at the north gate, and also planned to use the north gate as the main attack point. After these 20,000 soldiers are 10,000 soldiers led by Liu Feng and Guan Ping, these 10,000 soldiers are mainly newly recruited after Liu Bei entered Xichuan and some soldiers surrendered by Liu Zhang, and the combat effectiveness of these 10,000 soldiers is much worse than the soldiers led by Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun.

Dozens of ladders are placed at the front of the team, there are more than a dozen people standing on both sides of each ladder, and there are rows of infantry standing behind, and there are rows of archers standing behind the infantry. There was also a crash car in the middle of the entire procession, facing the gate of the northern city wall, surrounded by dozens of soldiers, ready to push the cart to crash the gate. In the middle of the procession, there are several catapults, each catapult is surrounded by a team of large stones, each stone seems to weigh dozens of pounds, dozens of soldiers stand behind the catapult, each holding a rope in his hand, next to each catapult stands a soldier with a small flag in his hand, commanding the soldiers with the rope, everyone works together to throw the boulder fast and far.

General Zhang Fei was also riding a horse at this time, constantly shouting something at the front of the team, and all the soldiers kept shouting loudly after hearing General Zhang Fei's words, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, one by one like wolf cubs. In the end, General Zhang Fei came to the middle of the team, standing at the front, holding his own Zhangba snake spear in his hand, with a majestic appearance.

At this time, a rapid drum beat came from the direction of the barracks, and when the time came, this drum beating was the signal for the attack. After hearing the signal, General Zhang Fei raised the Zhangba snake spear in his hand and shouted loudly:

"Attack!"

Suddenly, the soldiers next to the catapult shouted one by one, and the piercing sound of breaking the air came from the middle of the team, only to see a few dozens of pounds of stones on the top of the soldiers' heads at this time, quickly flying from the middle of the team like meteors to the city wall of Chengdu City, and then smashing on the city wall. After a while, the piercing sound of breaking the sky was gone, and it was estimated that the catapult had reached its limit. If only the catapult could be used all the time, I guess these soldiers thought so at this time!

Subsequently, I saw the rows of soldiers behind walking forward step by step, the entire team of 10,000 people did not see a trace of chaos at this time, at the front of the whole team was the soldiers of the ladder, more than a dozen people carried the ladder in one hand, and held a shield in the other, after walking to a distance of about dozens of steps from the city wall, I saw that these soldiers suddenly accelerated and ran, and the soldiers behind also followed these soldiers at this time to speed up and run, and the whole team was like a torrent at this time, moving quickly towards the city wall.

I only heard the dense swishing sound at this time, and the sound of arrows fired by the enemy's bows and arrows on the city wall flying at a high speed in the air, but the troops who had been rushing forward did not seem to hear it, and the movements under their feet did not slow down at all at this time, and there was a faint sign of getting faster and faster, and the shield held by the soldier who rushed to the front at this time looked more stable, after all, this was a life-saving weapon.

After walking to a distance of about fifty or sixty steps from the city wall, the archers behind the infantry stopped, and one by one they took bows and arrows in their hands and shot above the city wall of Chengdu.

50 meters, 40 meters, 30 meters, closer and closer to the city wall, the siege soldiers were shot by arrows more and more, especially the soldiers holding the ladder at the front of the team in such a short period of time almost half of the people have been replaced, some are even worse, the people holding the ladder have almost changed all compared with the beginning, it can be seen that the casualties are very large!

20 meters, 10 meters, arrived, finally arrived, only to see at this time one by one the ladder leaning against the city wall erected, the soldiers below at this time scrambling along the ladder section by section towards the city wall to climb above, at this time from the city wall above the arrow more dense and also more powerful, the closer the distance, the greater the power of the arrow, rushed to the city wall under the soldier constantly someone fell down the arrow, that is, the soldier on the ladder, not yet a few steps, the arrow fell from the ladder. In addition to the arrows, there are many stones that continue to fall from the top of the city wall, although these stones are much smaller than the stones fired from the catapult in Liu Bei's army just now, but after hitting the soldiers under the city wall, the heads of these soldiers are like watermelons being crushed, shattered, compared to arrows, these stones are more lethal, after all, the shield in the hand can resist these arrows, but the stones smashed from above the city wall can not be resisted with a shield, at this time can only pray for more blessings.

The fierce battle continued, the soldiers in front fell, and the soldiers in the back continued to rush forward without fear of death, wave after wave, like the waves of the sea, endlessly.

General Zhang Fei, who was standing in the distance, the hideous color on his face had not disappeared since the battle began, and as the battle progressed, it became more and more terrifying. What's more, General Zhang Fei was already prone to irritability. However, it can also be seen how tenacious the defensive soldiers in Chengdu are, how rich the defensive weapons in the city are, arrows, stones, hot oil, these defensive weapons have not stopped for a moment, and they continue to shoot and smash at the soldiers under the city, especially stones and hot oil, which are almost certain to die.

The battle lasted for almost an hour unconsciously, and in one hour, the soldiers under his command suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, which is not a small casualty! After a short time, there was another rapid beating of drums from the direction of the barracks, and when the hour came, General Zhang Fei's troops heard the drums and retreated from the battlefield, and the wounded soldiers were all sent to the barracks, where there was a special place to treat the wounded soldiers. General Zhang Fei looked at these soldiers, lowered his head and sighed slightly.