212 Ambush in the city
Cao Zhang jumped all the way on the women's wall, and soon arrived in front of the gate, facing him and Zhao Yun in front of the gate, there were two men with Huren's pigtails guarding, at this time the two roared, one rushed towards Zhao Yun, and the other killed Cao Zhang, who jumped off the women's wall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Cao Zhang jumped off the female wall, and cut down several defenders in a row, the pigtailed Hu man killed with a knife, and the scimitar slashed at Cao Zhang's neck, Cao Zhang sneered and hit the opponent's knife with a tiger's head and shoulder, and the man's strength naturally could not compete with Cao Zhang's whole body strength, and he was suddenly hit with a soreness in his arm, Cao Zhanghuan's head knife waved, and he cut off the opponent's head, and at the same time flashed into the gate.
However, at this time, Zhao Yun had already entered the gate tower one step ahead of him, and there were several defender corpses lying in the gate, and when Cao Zhang came in, the defenders of the last gate tower were also killed by Zhao Yun.
There is a wheel axle in the lock tower, which is used by the soldiers to turn and twist the rope connecting the drawbridge, and there is a roller on the axle, and the role of the roller is equivalent to a small gear, and the pinion is also used to twist the rope, in order to reduce the weight of the suspension bridge.
Cao Zhang cut the rope connecting the axle and gear with a knife at this time, and the rope immediately rushed to the outside of the gate, and then there was a loud "bang", and the suspension bridge fell and smashed on the moat.
Cao Zhang and Zhao Yun glanced at each other, the two of them fought side by side out of the gate tower, beckoning the guards on the city wall to kill towards the city gate together, the stairs of the Puzi city wall only allowed two people to walk side by side, and now there are still guards on the stairs rushing up, trying to wipe out the Cao army at the head of the city.
However, Cao Zhang and Zhao Yun were strong in martial arts, and the two ring-headed knives were like two dragons churning, slashing and killing all the defenders who rushed up the stairs, and led the sergeants to the dougong where the city gate was located.
Cao Zhang shouted: "Open the city gate!" ”
The soldiers shouted in unison, removed the two huge wooden poles that were embedded in the city gate, and then opened the city gate, and at this time the defenders of Puzi City poured out from the various streets facing the south gate and killed Cao Jun who was in the middle of the city gate.
Seeing that the city gate had been opened, Cao Zhang didn't want to entangle with them anymore, so he shouted: "Brothers, get out!" After saying that, he smashed the wooden pole used to get stuck at the city gate, and withdrew from the city gate with the sergeant.
As soon as he withdrew from the city gate, he saw Wei Zhen's 2,000 tomb guards cavalry rushing wildly, and slammed into the south gate and collided with the Puzi defenders who were rushing out.
These tomb guards held the eight-sided Han sword in both hands, and then they could pierce through the two defending soldiers with a single stroke, and then wave them up, and with the momentum of the inexhaustible momentum, they slashed several people to death in a row, and then rushed out of the dougong and entered Puzi City.
Then the cavalry that followed rushed in without hindrance, and fought with the soldiers defending the city, Xiahou Nan, Gongsun Xu's cavalry also killed, and Zhang Yan's army also drove out.
Cao Zhang only had time to take a look at the siege on the left side of the south wall, but found that the siege ladder on the side had been smashed to pieces and scattered on the ground, the city wall was full of bright red bloodstains, and under the city wall was the corpse of Cao Jun, it can be seen that the five hundred soldiers attacking the city on the left side of the south wall have been wiped out.
Cao Zhang's distress was also secretly lucky, if it weren't for Zhao Yun, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to attack this side, and he divided his troops into eight ways to attack the city in order to disperse the density of the defenders' arrow rain and rolling stone and sassal wood, so that his phalanx could resist the blow of the opponent's arrow rain with a dense halberd forest, and the casualties on the rolling stones and sassalwood under the city could also be smaller.
As early as when he made the siege plan, he knew that there would be heavy casualties, but he couldn't think about it, the siege was a matter of attrition, even if thirty people died, as long as one person climbed the city wall, it would be successful, after all, the opponent's combat strength was far inferior to his own personal guards.
After letting the cavalry into the city, Zhang Yan's vanguard army came, and it was Zhang Yan's son Zhang Fang who took the lead, and when he saw Cao Zhang, he shouted: "My lord, what a good job!" ”
Cao Zhang entered the city with him and asked, "What is the situation of the other sieges?" ”
Zhang Fang replied: "Before a tea time, the spies reported that the soldiers of the northern city wall were still storming, and the middle base of the eastern city wall had already attacked the city, but they were still fighting on the city wall, and my father's two thousand soldiers also went to the east city wall to reinforce, and as for the soldiers on the west city wall, they also attacked the city, but they were surrounded by enemy legions, and I am afraid that there is not much left now."
Hearing this, Cao Zhang took out the seal ribbon on his body, handed it to Zhang Fang and said: "General Xiao Zhang, no one in my command knows that I hold the Jinwu seal, they have received a death order, if there is no seal ribbon or my own order, they will not stop attacking, please General Xiao Zhang let the north wall sergeant withdraw, attack from the east wall, and let your family immediately rush to the east wall to reinforce Shu Zhi!" ”
After Zhang Fang took it, he replied: "No! Then he hurried away with a few words of instruction to his subordinates.
Cao Zhang said to Zhao Yun: "Zilong, we will take the remaining brothers to the Western Wall for reinforcements, no matter how many people are left, we must rescue them, and then take them to the county government to wait." ”
Zhao Yun replied: "No! ”
Then Cao Zhang and Zhao Yun took the rest of the guards and Zhang Fang's team to part ways Yang Biao, one team went to the east, one team went to the west, Puzi's houses were lined up one after another, it seemed that there were many residents, Cao Zhang and Zhao Yun ran into a bunch of houses at this time, this path can only accommodate four people in parallel, Cao Zhang and Zhao Yun took the lead, and the guards followed closely.
While he was running, Zhao Yun suddenly stopped and shouted: "Avoid entering the house!" "After that, I should bang on the door first."
Cao Zhang's reaction was slightly slower, and he felt the sound of the wind above his head, this kind of wind was extremely familiar to him, when Linfen was assassinated, the crossbow arrows shot by the assassin with a crossbow machine were also this kind of sound, this time, it was even more dense! At least five crossbow arrows were fired at him.
Cao Zhang's footsteps were wrong, and he also slammed the door to avoid the house, and then he heard continuous screams sounding outside the room, this round of shooting, I don't know how many pro-guards were broken, and at the same time let Cao Zhang know that Puzi's defenders were not demoralized because of the city's break, but they had long been ready to fight in the streets, these crossbowmen must have been ambushed here in advance, so to speak, the entire Puzi has ambushes!
The screams were followed by a burst of shouting and killing, obviously the other party was down to fight after shooting the crossbow arrows, Cao Zhang raised his eyes and looked at this private house, and found that there was only one private house, the couch, the case, and the stove were all in this room, and there were still vegetables and dried meat hanging on the top beam of the house, and there were a few eggs on the stove, and there were two people curled up on the side of the stove, an old man and a young man, the old one was a rickety old man, and the young one was a girl in a thorn hairpin cloth skirt, the old man looked frightened, his eyes were empty, and he turned a blind eye to Cao Zhang, and he was blind at first glance.
The girl looked at Cao Zhang, showing a serious look of fear, grabbing the neckline of her clothes with one hand, as if she was afraid that Cao Zhang would be violent to her.
At this time, Zhao Yun's shouting sounded outside the room, presumably fighting with those ambush soldiers, Cao Zhang was about to rush out to help, but heard Zhao Yun scolding: "Be careful, sons!" There are also crossbowmen on the roof! ”
Cao Chang was furious when he heard this, stepped on the stove, jumped and grabbed the top beam, turned over on the top beam, and hit the roof tiles with both feet and jumped on the roof, and found that there were crossbowmen on the roof and the roof opposite, about a dozen people, at this time they were all loading crossbow arrows, and the two people closest to Cao Zhang saw Cao Zhang jump up, and immediately put down the crossbow machine and drew their knives to kill. (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )