Yu Ban looked at Zang Ba on the left, and then at Cao Ang behind him, and suddenly a lot of pride rose in his heart, "Okay, give Jiangdong dog thieves some color and take a look!" ”

The three of them went hand in hand to kill. Cao Ang and Yu Ban jointly shot, one shot was faster than another, Zang Ba held a sword and shield in the center, blocking the gun and arrows for Cao Ang and Yu Ban, and the three of them cooperated very tacitly in the fierce battle, and Zhou Tai and Xu Sheng, who were killed, were tired of parrying and retreated again and again.

At the same time, with the addition of a new force to the church, the Jiangdong army became weak again. In the high-intensity battle, he finally couldn't hold on and showed signs of retreat.

Seeing this situation, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, who were watching the battle from afar, decisively chose Mingjin to withdraw their troops in order to avoid further casualties.

"What?" Zhou Tai was so angry that he yelled.

"Don't love to fight!" Xu Sheng dispelled Zhou Tai's thoughts of continuing to kill, and covered him to retreat to the female wall of the city wall. "You go down first, I'll cover you!"

When Zhou Tai heard this, he shook his head and said, "You go first, and I go later." ”

"It's all at this time, and I'm going to let go. You are injured, you retreat first! After landing, keep an eye on the top, I'll jump down, and you follow me. ”

Zhou Tai was relieved, "Got it!" With that, according to Yu Ban, Zang Ba, and Cao Ang, who were chasing after him, he threw the knife and shield in his hand. Later, taking advantage of the opportunity for the three of them to dodge sideways, they jumped and slipped down the ladder like an ape.

"Wen Xiang (Xu Sheng's word), jump!" Zhou Tai shouted, Xu Sheng didn't say a word, followed Zhou Tai's appearance, threw away the weapon, and turned over and went down to the city.

At the moment when he was about to land, Zhou Tai dragged two soldiers to Xu Sheng's bottom and caught him who fell from a high altitude. "Retreat, retreat!"

A group of Jiangdong soldiers came like a tide, and then retreated like a tide.

When the church guards saw that the enemy had finally been killed after a bloody battle, they were all excited, and shouted excitedly, "Coward, go back to your hometown!" ”

Cao Cao was embarrassed to discourage the interest of his officers and soldiers, but only he knew best in his heart that the most difficult stage of the war had just begun, and today alone, more than 11,000 people died in the battle formation, and more than 6,000 people were seriously injured. The remaining 23,000 men had to garrison four walls, or less than 8,000 men on each wall. With 8,000 men, he faced Sun Ce's army of 100,000...... Difficult.

Cao Cao didn't know that at this time, Sun Ce had less than 100,000 horses in his hands. Since yesterday, the number of casualties of the Jiangdong Army in less than two days is more than the total number of casualties they paid in the capture of Jiaozhou in previous years. Nearly 30,000 horses and horses slept forever under the city of Xiangyang. Their blood stained the moat of Xiangyang into a river of blood, and the corpses of many of them were now frozen in the walls of Xiangyang, always reminding Sun Ce that "shame" was constructed by "ear stop inch".

Sun Ce went completely crazy. He paced back and forth in the main tent of the Chinese army, like a mad lion in heat, "Lao Tzu personally went out on horse, I don't believe that the city gate of Xiangyang could not be demolished." ”

So, early the next morning, the huge Jiangdong army array assembled outside the city again.

Because the handmelon is overdrawn. Today's catapults are no longer bombed by handmelons, but replaced by traditional boulders.

For the church guards, after experiencing the power of the handmelon, the flying stone is undoubtedly nothing more than a big thing for them, and it can't create much fear.

They were methodically set up in their respective posts, and at the same time, the ballista modified by the Zang Ba Engineer Corps was also sent to the city wall to engage in fierce fire with the catapults in the distance.

"Ballista calibration!"

"Calibrated complete!"

"Draw your bow and put your arrow!"

"Whoa!" Two of the three guards held the strings in both hands, pedaled and pulled hard, pulling the thumb-thick bull tendon crossbow string onto the bracket. Another guard then placed a large crossbow bolt slightly thicker than a spear in the throwing slot and pressed the tail of the arrow against one end of the crossbow string. "Finish loading the arrows."

"Ignition!" Own guards use torches to ignite the flammable materials of the arrows.

"Fifteen on the left, twenty on the inclination. Get ready! ”

"Ready!"

"Put!"

Zang Ba gave an order, and seventeen ballistas loosened their strings at the same time, and seventeen iron spears slashed through the void and fell to the ground suddenly.

The iron spear weighing more than 60 pounds is enough for a person to drink a pot of basic weight alone. In addition, shooting from a hundred paces away, the huge elastic force and gravity brought a fatal blow to the wooden structure of the catapult.

Nine catapults were destroyed, and more than a dozen unlucky soldiers were killed on the spot in the dense military formation of the Jiangdong Army. The barrel of the iron gun happened to hit one person's head, directly opening the scoop to the other person, and the skull burst out, revealing a wrinkled brain.

With the advantage of fast reloading, the church ballista fired one after another, which brought a huge threat to the Jiangdong soldiers, especially the catapult array.

At the same time, the Jiangdong slingers under the leadership of Ling Tong also began to launch a sharp counterattack, "See? Beat me up like those ballistas! ”

The overwhelming boulders flew towards the head of Xiangyang City. Under this situation, Zang Ba commanded his subordinates in a loud voice, "Avoid, avoid!" ”

At the moment when the engineers were facing the danger of fire, the shield soldiers sent by Yu Ban arrived in time, slapped the shield array in front of the ballista, and formed a strong defense line with the steel shield and his own flesh to protect the precious ballista behind him.

"Ah...... "Ahh A stone flew in, and immediately smashed a fully armed guard into a blur of flesh and blood. The shield was bent, the bones of the hand were broken, the chest of the armor was deeply dented, and the guards spat blood from their mouths and saw that they had more air in and less air out. In the cruel battlefield, although his death was insignificant, the ballista he saved with his life played an important role.

The sappers went crazy when they saw the robes and ballistas falling in front of them in order to protect them and not leave all the corpses. Desperately pulling the strings, desperately loading the arrows, "let go...... Put...... Put ...... "even if the hands are wiped out of the blood blisters by the bowstring...... The blood bubbles burst and broke, and they refused to rest when they rubbed off a layer of skin on their hands.

Seventeen days of ballista unexpectedly erupted in the momentum of a rain of bullets. smashed the Jiangdong Army's catapult array to pieces, with countless casualties.

At this time, the siege force of the Jiangdong Army rushed to the city of Xiangyang. This time, they learned the lessons of yesterday's defeat and came up with a new way to siege the city.

At the same time as they set up a ladder to ascend the city, they gathered together the fifty remaining handmelons from yesterday, and packed ten into one bag and packed them into five large bags, which were transported by special personnel to the direction of Xiangyang City Gate, and another soldier dug a big pit under the city with shovels.

When Cao Cao saw this posture, he was so frightened that he immediately thought of the scene where Zhao Yun planted a hundred catties of explosives under the east gate of Chang'an in the past and sent the east gate of Chang'an to the west sky. "Quick, stop those guys?"

"Which ones?" Yu Ban turned around and asked.

"The ones that were sacked by hemp! Shoot them, those sacks are filled with explosives. ”

"Dynamite? It's not good to ......" Yu Ban instantly realized the seriousness of the situation from the situation, and hurriedly organized the soldiers to shoot with all their might, threatening to shoot the five people carrying sacks to death under the city.

The arrows then poured down the city pass like a torrential rain, and the effect was extraordinary, and the three Jiangdong soldiers carrying sacks were shot into a sieve.

Sun Ce, who personally led the troops to supervise the battle, was in a hurry when he saw this situation. "Come, go and pick up the sack, and be sure to send it to the gate of the city. Run separately for me! Where are the shields, protect them, and if they die, you will all be buried with them. And archers...... Shoot me back hard and suppress the cult bastards. ”

With Sun Ce's deployment, it suddenly became difficult for the church to kill the target. What's even more disgusting is that even if the target is successfully shot, there will be other people in the vicinity who pick up the sack and continue to run towards the city gate.

"Damn! Zangba, let your people them! Yu Ban was domineering to Zang.

"No...... It's too close. The angle is too low to shoot, don't worry, look at me! Zang Ba snatched the oak bow of an archer, lit a fire arrow, drew his bow and arrow, and aimed at a target again and again, "Give me the hit!" ”

The arrow pierced through the air and hit the sack behind the target. The sack bath flamed and lit the full load of handmelons. The handmelon fuse detonated and went straight into the gunpowder warehouse, "booming ......"

The target carrying the sack was torn apart like a watermelon under the close-range blasting, with arms, legs, muscles, and bones...... The heart, liver, spleen and lungs sprayed everywhere, and it turned out to be a living human bomb.

With him as the center, the dominoes of the surrounding Jiangdong soldiers generally fell, and most of them never got up after falling, only a few people covered their ears that were bleeding, screaming and shaking in place.

"Good shot!" Yu Ban praised several times, followed Zang Ba's example, and also took a bow and arrow, and sniped the target with Zang Ba.

The two of them left their hands at the same time, ......and with two violent explosions, there were two more no-man's lands in the Jiangdong army's formation.

"You bunch of shit!" Seeing that there were only two of the five sacks left, Sun Ceqi's eyes were red, "Xu Sheng, Zhou Tai, protect them!" ”

"Order!" Xu Sheng and Zhou Tai, who were busy killing, wiped the blood on their faces and personally brought a team of soldiers over. Zhou Tai was the most direct, and with a big hand, he grabbed the sack and carried it onto his shoulder. Xu Sheng formed a small circle with his subordinates and guarded the target tightly.

In this way, Yu Ban and Zang Bake on the head of the city were sweating. Zang Ba stood tall with a longbow in his hand, ignoring the tingling sensation of salty sweat flowing into his eyes, staring at the target behind Xu Sheng without blinking, just when Xu Sheng and his party jumped over a small pit, he grabbed the arrow string in a flash, and vented the tension in his heart with a loud "drink".

The long arrow passed between the shoulders and neck of a Jiangdong soldier as if it had eyes, and shot straight at Xu Sheng's eyebrows.

Out of the most primitive survival instinct of people, Xu Sheng subconsciously dodged sideways, and this dodge just exposed the target behind him who was carrying a sack, and the rocket was in the sack.

"...... Not good! Hide! Xu Sheng's long legs swung quickly, and he jumped into the moat.

He ran away, but the soldiers behind him were hit by the seedlings, and the blood and meat crumbs fell to the ground like rain on the "......". Another sack was successfully detonated.