Chapter 456: Bloody Battle in Puyang (3)
84_84334 Almost at the same time as Liu Qi shot Xiahoudun, outside the south city gate, Zhang Fei led his army, set up a ladder, pushed the city car, and launched a fierce siege battle, due to the collapse of the north city gate, the order of the soldiers in the city was chaotic, Sima Yi spent a lot of effort to restrain the soldiers under his command, but at this time Zhang Fei's soldiers had already crashed open the city gate with the city car, and Zhang Fei personally stepped forward and launched a fierce attack on the city.
Seeing this, Sima Yi immediately ordered his soldiers to form a goose marching formation, surrounded the city gate and released arrows inside, only to hear the arrows raining down, and the soldiers of the Hubu battalion were killed by arrows one after another, but Zhang Fei waited for the moment when the feather arrows stopped, danced the snake spear like a windmill, and rushed out with the men and horses. Zhang Fei rushed not long ago, then heard the sound of breaking the air, the enemy's feather arrow fired again, because in the dark night can not see clearly, Zhang Fei's shield in his hand can only protect himself, but can not protect the horse, only heard a mournful roar, the horse has been hit by the arrow, and ran a few steps, the black horse finally could not withstand the dense feather arrows, was shot into a hedgehog, and then slowly lay on the ground, depressed and died.
Until he died, the horse did not hesitate to throw himself to the ground, but slowly lay down and died.
This BMW has been with Zhang Fei for more than ten years, Zhang Fei has always treated it like a relative, and he didn't expect to die here today, which made Zhang Fei burst into tears.
Zhang Fei gritted his teeth, determined to avenge his beloved horse, but he was by no means reckless, knowing that the enemy's feathers and arrows were sharp, but he did not dare to break through, but lay on the ground, and after the rain of arrows, he let out a roar, holding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, and rushed forward with all his might.
Zhang Fei ran like flying. Before the enemy could shoot the third round of feather arrows, he had already come to the enemy formation alone, taking advantage of the enemy's surprise, and the spear in his hand danced like a windmill, even thorning and picking. Killed more than a dozen enemy soldiers in an instant.
Because Zhang Fei was as fast as the wind and shot with hatred, those Wei soldiers who were caught off guard had bows and arrows in their hands instead of swords, so they suffered heavy injuries for a while. By the time they came to their senses, hundreds of people had already died under Zhang Fei's spear. At this time, another soldier recognized that the big man who broke in turned out to be Zhang Fei, the world-famous enemy of 10,000 people, and couldn't help but exclaim, as a result, the enemy soldiers were afraid of Zhang Fei's prestige. They didn't dare to resist, and they all desperately dodged backwards, and after Sima Yi stopped these soldiers in time, the Chu soldiers and horses behind had already taken the opportunity to catch up.
It turned out that when the soldiers in Zhang Fei's camp saw Zhujiang riding alone into the city, they were all frightened, and immediately followed Zhang Fei and prepared to rush forward together, but first, because Cao Cao's black horse was very fast. It was because of the subsequent round of arrow rain from Cao Jun, and these two reasons slowed down their speed, and when they came to their senses. Zhang Fei has disappeared without a trace.
Since it was at night, these Hubu battalion soldiers didn't know where Zhang Fei had gone, they suddenly felt that they looked at each other, and searched in the camp of the army, and when they heard that Zhang Fei couldn't be found, they panicked. He prepared to go forward to find Zhang Fei.
But just as they were about to move forward, they suddenly noticed another rain of arrows coming from ahead. In desperation, they could only dodge again, and at the same time, some soldiers still had an ominous premonition in their hearts. They thought that Zhang Fei broke into the enemy camp under such circumstances, and they were very willing to be the end of nine deaths, so they were all nervous.
But not long after, they heard a commotion in the enemy camp in front of them, and they couldn't help but be shocked, and some even burst into tears, because it meant that Zhang Fei should be safe, and he had successfully broken into the enemy camp and took advantage of the situation to kill.
Therefore, they naturally cheered up, and when the enemy army was unable to shoot crossbow arrows because of Zhang Fei's disturbance, they roared and rushed towards the enemy camp in front.
Sima Yi heard the sound of the enemy killing not far in front of him, so he knew that he could not do anything, and immediately led the army to retreat.
In fact, Zhang Fei was not unable to beat Sima Yi's army even worse, but the lord Liu Qi didn't know why, as if he had special care for Sima Yi, he ordered himself not to kill them all, and not to forcibly chase after him as long as the other party retreated.
"Lord, I don't know why?" Zhang Fei can still remember the puzzled expression on his face at that time, so he couldn't help but ask.
Unexpectedly, Liu Qi just raised a finger with a smile, and then said: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed, and then you will understand the arrangement of this king." ”
Although he was still puzzled until now, Zhang Fei saw that Liu Qi's explanation was very solemn, and he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to follow Liu Qi's explanation, just symbolically chased and killed for a while, and then led the army to retreat, clean up the battlefield, and deploy defense.
Although Sima Yi sent crossbowmen to suppress the formation, he knew that these crossbowmen were actually used to send them to death, and their real role was just a meat shield to cover the retreat of his main force, but he couldn't understand why the brave Zhang Fei would order to stop the pursuit when the battle situation was favorable?
"Why is Zhang Fei, a reckless man, no longer chasing me? This thing is really weird, could it be that he suddenly had a convulsion? Or is it stupid? Hehe, no matter what the reason, anyway, my Sima Yi can retreat with the whole army today, this is a good opportunity for me to establish prestige among the Cao army, just think about Xiahoudun, Cao Hong, and the lord They are all defeated, and only I, Sima Yi, have retained the formed army, and from now on I will definitely make the lord pay more attention to it, and then there will be less of my military power? ”
Although he didn't understand, he also knew that this was a good opportunity for him, not only to retreat with the whole army, but also to take the opportunity to rescue the lord Cao Cao, which was definitely not a small credit.
Therefore, secretly delighted, Sima Yi immediately personally pressed the formation, led the army to slowly retreat, and went to meet Cao Cao's army that was resisting at the West Gate.
At this time, at the West Gate, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Wen Ping, Li Dian, Le Jin and Xu Huang and other generals led an army of 100,000 and launched a fierce attack on here, and the Wei army commanders who were responsible for guarding here were Cao Hong and Xu Chu, Cao Hong was guarding the periphery and was responsible for the guards of the city gate and the city wall, and Xu Chu's tiger guards were naturally responsible for Cao Cao's safety.
Although it was night, but under the light of the torches under the city, it was also as bright as day, Huang Zhong led the soldiers of the Tuifeng battalion to hold bows and crossbows, suppressing the defenders on the city, so that they did not dare to take the head at all, while Gan Ning, Wen Ping, Li Dian, Le Jin and Xu Huang and other generals relied on siege equipment to launch a fierce attack on the city gate and city wall.
Although Li Dian, Le Jin and Xu Huang were originally Cao Cao's generals, but after so many years of Liu Qi's envelopment, coupled with Liu Qi's "brainwashing" of them with the concept of loyal ministers of the Han family, these three generals unanimously believed that Liu Qi was the desired figure to overcome the chaos and end the war at the end of the Han Dynasty, and Cao Cao was at most a warlord who made a lot of achievements, although his rule could not be regarded as **, but the unification of the Han family would be an irreversible trend, so he either surrendered to the Han family and handed over all the military and political powers. Either wait for Liu Qi to come to the door and eliminate his regime, there is no third way to go.
Therefore, even if Cao Cao is the old master and has a lot of kindness to them, but this time today, he can't take care of this much, no matter how important the small favor is, it can't compare to the righteousness of the world, they would rather be scolded as ungrateful, and never dare to live up to the righteousness of the world.
It is precisely because of this that their siege not only did not slack off because of the late lord Cao Cao, but was more active and brave, saving them from being accused by others of being nostalgic.
Because Xu Huang, Li Dian, and Le Jin personally braved the arrows and stones, took the lead in the soldiers, and personally led the soldiers to fight in the city, their morale was greatly boosted, and the soldiers launched a fierce attack on the city as if they were all dying.
The soldiers were already very heroic, and the news of the fall of the North City Gate made the soldiers of the Cao Army frightened and lost their fighting spirit, so the army only went through a cup of tea, and the West City Gate was hit open by the soldiers of the Chu Army with a rushing car, and then Huang Zhong, Gan Ning and Wen Ping led the soldiers from the city gate to launch a fierce attack on the city.
Huang Zhong's Tuifeng battalion was at the forefront, all armed with full-length repeaters, and as soon as they saw a large enemy ambush ahead, these soldiers fired repeaters under Huang Zhong's orders.
Each repeater can shoot fifty crossbow arrows in one breath, and the army is a row of ten people, and each row can fire five hundred crossbow arrows at the same time, and once the previous row is fired, they will immediately crouch down and stretch out, waiting for the back row to continue firing crossbow arrows, and at the same time they are not idle, but load the spare crossbow arrows on the crossbow machine.
Because there was no interruption between the front and back, the narrow city gate cave was immediately dissatisfied with the dense crossbow arrows, and anyone who was in the way was shot into a honeycomb, and the sharpness of the crossbow made Cao Jun frightened from then on, which was also the main reason why Sima Yi was determined to steal the crossbow technology.
In desperation, Cao Hong had no choice but to order a change of formation, so that the army hiding behind the city gate relied on shields and spears to form a tight defensive formation, which made the threat of the crossbow smaller.
However, in this way, the sergeants who were originally used to snipe the enemy from a distance actually put on a complete defensive formation, and those crossbowmen were almost exhausted, which made the long-range threat of the Cao army suddenly completely removed, and the soldiers of the Chu army changed their formation, let the sword and shield soldiers move forward, and launched a fierce attack on the Cao army's formation.
At the same time, the army led by Li Dian, Le Jin and Xu Huang at the head of the city also fought a bloody battle with the enemy at the head of the city.
As a result, another fierce offensive and defensive battle began at the West City Gate (to be continued).