The power of the bed crossbow is indeed extremely strong, but it is a pity that it is controlled too much.

A bow and crossbow that shoots straight through must be in a flat area to exert its maximum power, and it is still a direct shot.

As for the advantages and disadvantages of bed crossbows, Cao Jun soldiers were naturally very clear, because they not only produced crossbows and oxbows, but also made bed crossbows similar to those of the New Han Army. It's just that their bed crossbows are not as powerful as the bed crossbows of the New Han Army, and it is difficult to produce them in large quantities like the bed crossbows of the New Han Army.

In this way, although the New Han army blocked the main streets in the city with bed crossbows, they could not cause much damage to the Cao army who charged and killed, and they all avoided the dead spots that bed crossbows could threaten. For example, you can climb along the side of the street, with the help of the wall in the street, or simply climb from the roof of a house. In this way, the bed crossbow of the New Han Army basically did not pose any threat to the Cao Army. However, it also greatly limited the charge of the Cao army and delayed their direct charge.

100,000 Cao troops, from the streets and alleys that the bed crossbows could not control, or from the roofs of those houses. It looks like it's very loud.

The leveled areas that have been demolished by the New Han Army are only two or three hundred steps away from the array of the New Han Army, and this is still the New Han Army seeing that the Cao army is outnumbered, and the general column has retreated two or three hundred steps, so that the Cao army that has been killed out to the leveled area can be killed to the greatest possible extent, and the area covered by the arrow rain will be larger.

However, the earlier New Han army only had seven or eight thousand vigilant men, and the large array of archers was only three or four thousand. The rain of arrows of three or four thousand bows and arrows faced the charge of so many Cao troops. It doesn't play a big role either. It can only strike at a certain point, but Cao Jun can kill it in a roundabout way. Of course. Cao Jun rushed over to avoid the range of the fixed bed crossbow. They didn't dare to get into the range of the bed crossbow to meet the long whizzing crossbow arrows that the New Han Army kept firing.

"Kill!"

"Rush over!"

"Take advantage of the current emptiness of the New Han Army, rush!"

Cao Jun's shouting of killing shook the sky. One by one, they swooped forward like a wolf, even in the face of the Cao soldiers covered by the rain of arrows of the New Han Army, they seemed to see the hope of victory, and the hope of being able to break through the blocking position of the New Han Army, and rushed forward one after another.

This is completely using human life to open a gap, in the face of the Cao soldiers who went forward and followed, the archers of the New Han Army really had a feeling that they could not be busy, and when the Cao Army entered the arrow range, the archers of the New Han Army kept sending arrows. His hands were stretched to the point of a little cramp, but he still couldn't stop Cao Jun's forward advance. At this time, they were almost close to the bow and arrow position of the New Han Army at a distance of nearly 100 paces.

You must know that the melee combat ability of the archers is extremely poor, and once the Cao army is allowed to kill them, these thousands of Xinhan soldiers will be over. And this distance of about 100 paces can be killed in the blink of an eye in only about ten breaths.

It stands to reason that in the current situation. The archers of the New Han Army did not even have time to retreat, and they were about to be overwhelmed by the crowd of Cao's army.

At this time, the other New Han Army had not yet arrived, and the officers and soldiers of the New Han Army led by Chen Zhi. He had just entered through the city gate, and he had no time to rush to the position to protect the thousands of archers.

However, those soldiers of the New Han Army who were constantly casting crossbow arrows while controlling the bed crossbow. Urgency makes sense, at a critical juncture. They directly pushed the bed crossbow fixed on the ground and cast crossbow arrows diagonally at the Cao army who was killing.

Originally. The bed crossbow is too heavy, and it is not easy to move it, but it is still possible to push the bed crossbow and make the bed crossbow deviate from the original fixed trajectory.

The whining bed crossbows, rows of long crossbow arrows, with incomparable power, slammed obliquely into the crowd of Cao soldiers who rushed over.

In an instant, among the crowd of Cao Jun, flesh and blood flew sideways, and countless Cao soldiers were stopped by powerful crossbow arrows, and where the crossbow arrows passed, there were bloody roads.

There was a kill two miles away, and it directly penetrated the tide of Cao soldiers who were killing horizontally. It is equivalent to the oblique general Cao Jun's charging crowd to stop it.

Dozens of bed crossbows cast crossbow arrows at the same time, forming a cross-firing netting against the Cao soldiers in front. It's like using the machine to turn off the machine and cross-fire at Cao Jun.

Of course, because Cao Jun had too many military horses, it seemed that the damage to Cao Jun was not too great for a while. However, such a mowing of grass slaughter soon affected the entire Cao army. Especially those Cao Jun who rushed to kill in front, they were hit head-on by the bed crossbow arrows that were shot diagonally, even if they were lucky not to be directly shot by the bed crossbow arrows, they were scared to stay on the spot.

Think about it, when they were fanatically risking death and kept moving forward, rushing and rushing, suddenly a row of crossbow arrows shot from the side, and the Cao soldiers on his left and right were directly penetrated by the crossbow arrows, and even flew away with their whole people like meat skewers, leaving only a tent of blood and their screams.

The loud noises and gusts of wind that roared past them sent chills down their hearts.

Such a blow made those Cao Bing, who could see the hope of a breakthrough at the sight, collapse directly.

"Brothers, hold on, we're coming!"

Fortunately, the bed crossbow soldiers were alert, pushing the inclined bed crossbow to launch, just when the Cao soldiers were stunned, the soldiers of the New Han Army who were first resting in the city had already been killed, and the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers directly rushed to the arrow array, protecting the archers, and at the same time, the newly joined archers instantly expanded the entire bow and arrow array to double the scale.

The Xinhan Army's hardly trained military formation was even more effective at such an urgent moment, and as soon as their men and horses arrived, they could directly form a formation and join in the attack on the Cao army that was rushing over to cover the attack with arrows.

The Cao army had 100,000 men, although there were many, but there were more than the men and horses of the New Han army. However, due to the restrictions of the specific terrain in the city, the 100,000 military horses of the Cao army actually had no way to attack the New Han army at once. Therefore, the soldiers of the New Han Army who joined could break up the Cao Army's charging array. With the cooperation of the bed crossbow, Cao Bing rushed out. There was no chance to rush closer to the New Han Army's military formation at all.

Don't look at it just for a while, but with the killing of Cao Jun. But it made Cao Jun tremble, because before the military formation of the New Han Army, Cao Bing's corpse had been poured over, and the blood flowing out of Cao Bing's corpse had already flowed into a river, full of blood and red, and a fishy wind.

Knock knock!

"Kill!"

With the sound of war drums, Chen Zhi led the army to kill, making it inside the city gate in the north of the city. Nearly 50,000 New Han troops have been assembled. With 50,000 horses, it is enough to hold the gate in the north of the city, so that the Cao army, who rushed over and wanted to break through, could only look at the gate and sigh.

It will be easier to handle it with more manpower, and the bed crossbowmen of the New Han Army immediately asked Chen Zhi to transfer more manpower to them. This way, they can load the bolts and adjust the direction of the bed crossbow's attack. Cast crossbow arrows at places where Cao's army is concentrated.

At this time, standing on the roof of a civilian house outside the area covered by the rain of arrows of the New Han Army, he saw the situation on the entire battlefield clearly. He was looking at his Cao army, and he was about to enter the archer formation of the New Han Army. Looking at the sudden change, looking at his own Cao soldiers, he was shot to death by the powerful bed crossbow of the New Han Army.

That moment. Yu Ban was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood, and his eyes were almost black. Fell off the roof.

His lips were bitten and bleeding. He was really unwilling, really. It's a pity that the success fell short, and he knew that when the military horses of the New Han Army reacted and blocked the city gate, it would be impossible for him to lead the 100,000 horses to kill out of the north gate of the city.

It is no longer possible to charge directly, intending to break through a gap. If you let your own soldiers charge out, I am afraid that they will really be slaughtered by the New Han Army.

Yu Ban took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the tumbling blood in his heart, and shouted: "Suspend the charge, Mingjin withdraws the army back, relies on the private houses to form a formation, pushes out the heavy weapons we have prepared, and confronts the New Han Army to the end, delaying it for as long as possible, and buying more time for Mr. Man Chong and General Li Dian to escape." ”

Rushing out again will only become a refueling tactic, and you will sacrifice as much as you go. Therefore, Yu Ban had no choice but to order Cao's army to withdraw and adopt a second plan.

The second plan was for Yu Ban to concentrate almost the entire army's bows and arrows, crossbows, bull crossbows, a few trebuchets and other weapons, and set up a formation to engage the New Han army, entangle the New Han army, and contain the New Han army, so that Man Chong, Li Dian and others could lead the remaining more than 100,000 Cao soldiers to leave Xiangcheng from the secret road.

Tens of thousands of horses and horses left through a secret passage, which really took a lot of time. The longer Yu Ban was contained, the more people Cao Jun could escape.

In this way, Cao's army withdrew to those houses that had not yet been demolished, and relied on those houses to shoot at the Xinhan side.

I have to say that at this time, Cao Jun's bed crossbows, crossbows, oxbows, trebuchets, etc., did play a lot of roles, allowing the Xinhan army to also taste the blow of the enemy's bed crossbows, trebuchets, and crossbows.

This is mainly because the New Han army had to stop these Cao troops and set up a formation in the open space in the city. Cao Jun launched their bed crossbows and aimed them at the New Han Army's military formation to release arrows, as well as their crossbow ox bows, which could just shoot into the New Han Army's military formation, and the stone projectiles thrown by their trebuchets could also be smashed into the crowd of the New Han Army.

Such a blow caused thousands of casualties on the spot of the New Han Army.

However, Chen Zhi saw that the opportunity was not good, and immediately ordered the army to retreat, and all of them were withdrawn to the city wall, so as to avoid greater casualties.

It's just that Cao Jun didn't dare to rush out of the open place easily.

In addition, Cao Jun's purpose of trying to deal with the New Han Army in this way and diverting the attention of the New Han Army failed.

Because, don't forget, in addition to Chen's Chengbei Army, the New Han Army also has other military horses.

Ma Chao didn't say anything, he received a report from Chen Dao, and he immediately led the cavalry to the north to kill. And the two generals, Qin Jie and Wei Yan, after receiving the information, they immediately realized that the Cao army in Xiangcheng was about to break through.

They did not directly lead their troops to support Chen Zhi, because they had confidence in Chen Zhi, believing that no matter what, Chen Zhi's New Han Army should be able to deal with Cao's army that wanted to break through to the north of the city. In this way, they all waved their troops directly into the city.

Of course, they first sent a group of men and horses to test the depth of the city, and sure enough, in the streets and alleys of the city, only a small number of Cao soldiers were found, but there were no large number of Cao troops in ambush. So they boldly waved their troops and killed directly in the central area of Xiangcheng.

The two armies were like bamboos, and they crushed the Cao soldiers left behind in the south and west of the city by the Cao army, and soon reached the center of Xiangcheng.

At this time, the Cao soldiers who were gathered near the official office in Xiangcheng were constantly entering the secret passage, and the Cao soldiers who wanted to escape from the secret passage, there were still 30,000 or 40,000 horses who had not had time to enter the secret passage.

When Qin Jie and Wei Yan led the army to kill, these 30,000 or 40,000 Cao troops relied on the official office to fight to the death.

Qin Jie and Wei Yan didn't expect that there would be a secret passage in this official office for these Cao soldiers to escape. Seeing that Cao's army had been trapped in the official office, the two generals left a part of their troops to confront the Cao soldiers of the official office, and both led their troops to the north of the city, and launched an attack on the forbidden Cao army from behind.

Fierce fighting took place between the two armies in the streets and alleys north of the city. made the street battle imagined by Yu Ban finally staged, but at this time and that time, this street battle was not the street battle prepared by Yu Ban, but was forced to fight to the death with Cao Jun who came from behind to fight to the death in the streets and alleys.

At the same time, seeing the chaos of the Cao army, Chen Dao saw that there was an opportunity, and immediately led the army down from the city to attack the Cao army.

The two armies were close to each other, which once again made Yu Ban see the strength of the New Han Army, and his Cao soldiers were not the opponents of the soldiers of the New Han Army at all. Tens of thousands of Cao soldiers were killed by the New Han Army, and they were defeated and retreated.

Let Yu Ban's eyes crack, hate his teeth, and feel helpless, all thoughts are discouraged. is obviously quite strong, even if it is a short battle, the soldiers of the two armies are fighting to the death, and the soldiers of the New Han Army are all victorious. They are very scoundrels, and many times, they seem to be too lazy to fight more hand-to-hand with their own Cao soldiers. After they approached a bunch of their Cao soldiers, they followed by the archers who came to them, which was directly a random arrow, so that their Cao soldiers would not be blinded, and they would not even give a chance to fight to the death with the New Han army.

Looking at the Cao soldiers who were forced to retreat, the arrows of the New Han Army, and the situation of the Cao soldiers being shot and killed, Yu Ban's psychological embankment finally collapsed.

He knew that there was no point in fighting any longer. He really couldn't bear to watch the Cao soldiers who had followed him for many years being killed in front of him one by one.

"Stop!"

Yu Ban shed tears, pushed away the soldiers and generals who had been protecting him, rushed out, stood in the middle of the street, raised his hand and said loudly and sadly: "Stop!" Stop it! I give up! All the officers and men of the Cao army obeyed the order, laid down their arms and surrendered! (To be continued.) )