In Xiangcheng, there is also a new weapon developed by Cao Cao, the crossbow oxbow, but because Xiangcheng is different from the pass, it is surrounded by enemies, which makes the Cao army defenders in Xiangcheng not too fully equipped with this weapon. Mainly because Cao Cao can't make too much of it right now. The first to equip is to equip those dangerous passes.

Therefore, Xiangcheng has it, but it is not too much, and there are too many gaps for the New Han army to attack. Their crossbow arrows are only used as a usual threat, but the threat is not too powerful. Because they were too bulky, it was not easy for them to move, and the military formation of the New Han Army could flexibly avoid the striking points of the crossbow and ox bows. This is almost the same as the situation of the New Han Army's use of the bed crossbow, the power is great, but there is no suitable place to use it, it cannot face the enemy directly, and no matter how powerful it is, it will not be effective.

The army of more than 200,000 troops that the New Han Army drove earlier, and later transferred 100,000 horses, plus the 50,000 cavalry troops that Ma Chao drove over, directly besieged Xiangcheng to a point where it was impassable.

During this period of time, the guards of the Cao army in Xiangcheng, one person was equivalent to an ant placed on the hot nest, and he was in a hurry.

They asked Cao Cao for help, but the reinforcements were delayed. The plan of the New Han Army, which originally hoped to be able to annihilate Xiangcheng, also ended in vain. They could only watch with their eyes open, watching the New Han army invade and occupy the towns west and south of Xiangcheng, and they could only be pinned down in Xiangcheng and unable to move.

Yu Ban, Li Dian and other generals also tried to go out of the city with the intention of harassing the New Han army, but they all returned in vain, and they could not stop all the actions of the New Han army at all.

They couldn't figure out why Cao Cao didn't approve of their plan to annihilate the 200,000 horses of the New Han Army. Why sit and watch their 200,000 Cao army fall into the siege of the New Han army.

In fact, they are in Xiangcheng. They did not grasp the information on the battlefields of the entire world in time, and they did not learn about Zhang Liao's relationship with the New Han Army in the first place. didn't promise to send troops to help, let alone Cao Hong's failure in Jiangdu, and didn't know that Zang Ba had returned to the New Han Dynasty. All this made it difficult for Cao Cao to make a decision, and he didn't dare to casually transfer military horses to Yu Ban and Li Dian. In the final analysis, Cao Cao has no confidence in his heart, and he does not think that he relies on the ability of Yu Ban and Li Dian. It is certain to command hundreds of thousands of troops to fight a war of annihilation against the New Han army.

Moreover, Cao Cao's feeling is correct, since the establishment of the New Han Army, when will the opponent annihilate his more than 200,000 military horses at one time? Whoever really dares to do this, then he is either stupid or crazy.

Therefore, they didn't know that when Cao Cao saw their plan to ask for help, Cao Cao didn't say much at all and didn't reply to them. It was because he didn't want to break the confidence of the generals.

Now, the New Han army has been deployed, and the army has begun to launch a siege battle against Xiangcheng.

The New Han army did not besiege Xiangcheng three times, but completely besieged it.

Because the New Han army was not afraid of the decisive confrontation of the defending army. Rather, it is to be dealt with in a pouring style. The defenders of Xiangcheng were forced to either surrender or force their way through. It's easy to say surrender, but what if you force your way out? That will be the time when the New Han Army will harvest their lives. Even if it will eventually make a part of Cao's army flee from Xiangcheng, but. I believe that after this battle, Cao Jun will be able to be killed. When they encounter the New Han Army again, they will all flee when they hear the news.

At the four main gates of Xiangcheng, the New Han Army had already set up rows of staggered bed crossbows two miles in front of the city gates. The four main city gates were completely sealed, and if the defenders of Xiangcheng dared to open the city gates and leave the city, they would meet the devastating blow of the bed crossbow of the New Han army.

In the middle of the four city walls, the city wall is facing the outside, and the New Han army has stubbornly filled in several earth and stone slopes after this period of frantic advancement, and on the slope platforms, trebuchets have been erected.

Well, in order to avoid the kind of blows of the Xiangcheng defenders who threw strong bows, the New Han Army really spent a lot of effort to repair these slopes. Especially at the beginning, I had to deal with the Cao army that was killed from Xiangcheng, and later set up a bed crossbow and sealed the four main gates of Xiangcheng, and the progress of this repair was accelerated a lot.

Fortunately, when Jingzhou was captured, there were still many Jingzhou troops that were not integrated into the New Han Army, and those Jingzhou troops were temporarily organized into laborers, and rushing to repair this project was also a large slope.

The so-called slope platform is actually a mound that has been piled up artificially, but the side facing Xiangcheng is a large mound that goes up at a right angle, making it difficult for the Cao army in Xiangcheng to kill in the past.

On top of the mound, a large wooden stake was also erected, which was mainly used to resist the strong bows and crossbows fired from the walls of Xiangcheng. However, it does not affect the stone-throwing projectile of his trebuchet.

The New Han army did not hesitate to spend so much effort because these trebuchets had to advance to a distance of about 500 steps from Xiangcheng, in order to avoid the defenders of Xiangcheng from attacking, and in order to better protect the mounds of trebuchets. In this way, the trebuchet can concentrate on bombarding Xiangcheng without distractions, and keep hitting and pressuring the Cao army in Xiangcheng until they are psychologically broken.

Therefore, when it is said to be a strong attack, in fact, it is impossible for the New Han Army to use the lives of a sergeant to attack, and it will only flexibly find a way to use its own advantages to attack the shortcomings of the enemy army.

In addition, there are naturally countless ladders to climb the city, as well as building troop vehicles and so on. It's just that these will only be useful at the last moment.

With the orders of Qin Jie, Wei Yan and other generals, the siege of Xiangcheng finally began.

The roaring sound of stone bullets breaking through the air suddenly sounded, and there was a loud sound like piercing the eardrum, which shocked people's hearts.

As the stone bullets fell, the ground shook and the dust and smoke rolled.

The loud noise covered up the screams of Cao Bing when the stone bullets fell, and you could only see that among the rolling dust, those Cao soldiers who were rushing to the wolves opened their mouths one by one, looking for hiding places in a panic.

War, in fact, has been doomed from the very beginning to who will win and who will lose.

In the face of the attack of the New Han Army, the Cao Army, which was basically powerless to fight back, how could it confront the New Han Army?

You can't be enemy head-on, you can't do a sneak attack, and you can't grasp the opportunity. The weapons of long-range attack are not as sophisticated as those of the New Han Army. How does this call Cao Jun's war? Except for being passive or passive. So. This war was doomed from the beginning.

Imagine. The soldiers of the Cao Army, with the soldiers of the New Han Army, fought one-on-one, and did not have an advantage; Group P is not dominant; The cavalry, archers, spearmen, sword soldiers, etc., were not superior at all, and the frontal and flank battles were all opponents of the New Han Army. It's not a contest at all.

Here, too, it is not a war game in the future, a game with data. Combat effectiveness can be shown on the data. Even if your attack defense is inferior to that of your opponent, you can always give your opponent a certain amount of attrition. But now, it is a real war, in the face of the new Han army that has already set up a position, if the Cao army dares to go out of the city, it will be tantamount to harvesting their lives like mowing grass, do they dare to come out?

What are they going to do to fight with the New Han Army, which is armed to the teeth?

Perhaps, like later generations, the Chinese people were able to defeat the powerful Wa State and many Western powers with millet and rifles. But at what cost did the Chinese people pay? There is more strategic and tactical relationship. It's definitely not like Cao Jun now. Centered on the city, there is no flexibility to defend it. In this way, it will not be eaten to death by the New Han Army?

In the face of the incessant bombardment of the trebuchets of the New Han Army. The Cao army defenders in Xiangcheng are not without a plan to deal with it.

Their trebuchets at the head of the city. They also launched an attack on the Xinhan army besieging them, but alas, the throw distance of their trebuchets. It's just a little bit worse, it's just a little bit. It was difficult to threaten the trebuchet array of the New Han army erected on the artificially piled mound. It is even more difficult to threaten the soldiers of the New Han Army who have calculated the distance to deploy the formation.

Their strong bows, crossbow bull bows. is also constantly releasing arrows, but the New Han Army has long been familiar with calculating the range distance of the crossbow bow, near the landing point of the crossbow bow, either an area is vacated, or there are soldiers of the New Han Army blocking with heavy solid wood shields. After all, it is a strong arrow thrown at them, which is not as powerful as a bed crossbow that shoots directly, and with a thickened wooden shield, they can block their strong arrows.

Or, they can adjust the landing point and distance of the shot by themselves, but their crossbow bows are not many, and they are bulky, inconvenient to move, and the rate of fire is a little slow, when their first round of strong bows are fired, the new Han army will soon take dodge or grid measures, even if there are certain casualties, but they can also be controlled within a certain number.

How long does it take for a person to be beaten passively to break his will?

Three days or five days?

In the face of the endless blows of trebuchets, in just one day, the defenders of Xiangcheng were already panicking.

Especially the full favor of this military advisor with the army.

Every stone bombardment on their city wall, when the city wall shook, full of favor will raise his heart to his throat, his heart has always been hanging, and he is worried that his Xiangcheng city wall will collapse at any time.

In the council hall in the city, Yu Ban, Li Dian, Man Zhong and other generals are extremely defeated, and no one has a better way to break the situation.

Li Dian angrily punched the case table in front of him, and said angrily: "It's really hateful!" How can there be such a war? What is it that they always use that trebuchet to bombard us? Could it be that they can really knock down our walls? No matter! Let's fight them out! ”

"Fight? How do you spell it? If you really want to fight, why did you go earlier? Why don't you fight before the New Han Army completes the siege of us? "Full of resentment.

"Mr. Man, isn't this because you said that you would wait for our lord to send reinforcements to encircle and annihilate the Xinhan army? Otherwise, our old canon would have ...... a long time ago."

"Mancheng!" Yu Ban snorted and said: "There is no need to say this kind of thing anymore, we actually understand in our hearts that our Cao Army is actually lagging behind the New Han Army in all aspects, so there is no way for us to passively fight now." ”

Yu Ban said helplessly: "In the field, we can't fight the New Han Army, and the offensive and defensive battles are in a passive situation. And we are also aware in our hearts of the importance of Xiangcheng to our entire imperial court. The prime minister sent us, we must guard Xiangcheng, no matter what, we can't mess with ourselves. ”

"Okay, if you don't say it, you won't say it, but now you have to come up with an idea. Is this to defend or break through, how to defend it, and how to break through the siege? Li Dian sat down angrily.

"According to Man, let's take advantage of the fact that the morale of our army is still good, and the fighting spirit is still there, so it is better to break through as soon as possible." Full Pet put forward his opinion.

"Mr. Man's proposal is actually what Yu Mou thinks in his heart, but how about I, the soldiers of the three armies, swear to protect Mr. Man and leave Xiangcheng first?" Yu Ban now, he couldn't help but have a little contempt for Manzhong in his heart, and looked at him with slanted eyes.

Because he was confused in his heart, he didn't listen to what he said for a while, and nodded again and again in a panic: "This dare is good...... Uh......"

"Humph!" Yu Ban didn't wait for Man Zhong to continue, so he interrupted him with a cold snort: "Flee back to Xudu, and Prime Minister Cao Cheng will be able to spare you and me for the sin of losing Xiangcheng?" What is the difference between dying in Xiangcheng and returning to Xudu to be executed? I am forbidden to make a statement here! Xiangcheng must be defended, defended! Who dares to say anything about it, or who dares to say it! Yu Mou first told others to hit the ground! ”

"That's right! We, Li Dian, were the first to kill him first! Li Dian resolutely supported Yu Ban's decision.

Manzhong's face turned a little pale all of a sudden, and his mouth moved, but he didn't say anything more.

Yu Ban glanced at the generals in the hall, and saw that all the generals seemed to acquiesce to Yu Ban's decision, so he said again: "Everyone, our Xiangcheng cannot afford to lose, this is not only clear in our hearts, but I am afraid that the prime minister's heart is even clearer." We have sent people to break out of the encirclement of the New Han Army, and reported the situation to the Prime Minister, I believe that the Prime Minister will not sit back and watch our Xiangcheng collapse, and I believe that it will not be long before the Prime Minister's reinforcements will be killed. When the time comes, the siege of Xiangcheng will be relieved. ”

"Of course, as for the attack of the New Han Army now, in fact, we don't have to worry too much. Yu Ban carefully observed the situation on this day. We have some plans in mind that may allow us to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements from the Prime Minister. "Yu Ban has a confident way.

"Wen Ze! So you have a way? Come quickly, don't let our old man be in a hurry. When Li Dian heard that there was a way to ban it, he asked anxiously.

"Don't worry, listen to Yu Mou first. In the end, whether everyone thinks this is okay or not, then make a decision on whether to implement it. Yu Ban waved his hand.

"Okay, please."

"That's right, I found that although the trebuchets of the New Han Army are very powerful, the accuracy is really poor, as long as our soldiers in the city are reduced, they are equivalent to no threat to us at all, or very little threat. With the strength of our Xiangcheng, they want to destroy the city wall, and it is definitely not possible in a short time. In this way, we can use this time to repair another line of defense in the city. There is really no way, or you can simply open the city gate, let the New Han army enter, and then fight with them in the streets! ”

"Street fighting?" (To be continued.) )