Text Chapter 504 Sima Yi's counterattack

In the face of Liu Qi's fierce attack, although Liang Xi and his soldiers fought bravely, they still did not see any hope, and as the days passed, their hearts became colder and colder. ←，

About half a month later, the general attack began, this time the Han army did not use that kind of frightening artillery, but used thousands of wheeled catapults, only to see the size of a human head as if it was a meteorite falling from the sky, whistling towards the city, many soldiers even if they hid in the female wall, but still by the stone thrown from afar smashed flesh and blood.

What made them even more disturbing was that as the mountain of stones outside the city gradually decreased, their city walls were also full of holes and dilapidation, after that, the Han army, under the leadership of some generals, pushed the city carts and launched a vigorous collision against the broken city walls.

According to the usual practice, Liang Xi erected a curtain outside the city wall to counteract the momentum, but after being beaten by Liu Qi's rocketeers, it was burned clean.

The battered walls could not withstand a few hits from the rushing carts, and soon collapsed, and almost at the same time, the Han army burst through the broken walls like a tide and launched a fierce attack on the city.

Fortunately, in order to prevent the siege of the Han army, Liyang City has recently been rebuilt, and an urn city has been added in the outer city, when the army has broken through the city defense one after another, it has encountered another city wall, although this city wall is not as strong as the outer city, but because it has not been attacked by the stone thrower, it seems to be easier to defend than the outer city.

What is even more beneficial to them is that the current Han army is all concentrated in the small place in the middle of the urn city, which is very advantageous for launching a large-scale attack on them.

Therefore, Liang Xi forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, and ordered the sergeants who had already withdrawn to the inner city to take out the newly developed repeater crossbow and launch an attack on the dense Han army.

For a moment, all I could hear was the crossbow arrows pouring down the city like flying locusts.

But he didn't expect Han Jun to seem to have expected things to be like this. They took out their tall shields and formed a strong defense, struggling to resist their crossbow arrows.

At this time, Liang Xi couldn't help but be a little panicked, because they had worked hard to develop this new type of repeater, and almost all the repeaters produced in the past few years were equipped with these armies guarding the banks of the Yellow River, and now they have such powerful weapons. This round of crossbow arrows went down, but the killing effect was extremely limited, although it also caused thousands of casualties of the Han army, but it was a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of thousands of Han troops.

What's even worse is that their crossbow arrow resources are very limited, although throwing crossbow arrows looks spectacular, but they know that not to mention his army, even the entire Cao Wei regime can't withstand the huge attrition. Their tens of thousands of crossbowmen are 500,000 iron crossbows in one round, and 1 million crossbow arrows in two rounds of attack, such a huge number of crossbow arrows is enough to support 20,000 archers for half a month, and even after fighting a battle of Guandu, they did not consume so many crossbow arrows.

The price they paid for a million crossbow arrows was only thousands of Han casualties, and how many crossbow arrows would be needed if they were to pose enough threat to the Han army? 10 million? Or even more? Don't say that in his army, I'm afraid that all the arsenals of the entire Cao Wei combined, don't have so many crossbow arrows, right?

Besides. The Han army was still fighting back with the crossbow arrows in their hands, and they also had repeaters of this performance in their hands. Although the hit rate was still not high because the Wei army was hiding behind the city wall, it still brought casualties to the Wei army after all, and the most important thing was that these Han attacks suppressed the Wei army's crossbow soldiers, so that their originally powerful and incomparable crossbow attacks could no longer exert their due power.

And in such a situation. The Han army, which came in one after another, began to use the siege equipment in their hands and began to deploy to launch an attack on the inner city.

If they were allowed to continue attacking, the inner city would soon be easily breached by the Han army, just like the outer city. Once this happens, it will mean that Liyang City can no longer be saved. And once Liyang falls. Both Dangyin and Yecheng will be threatened with unprecedented seriousness, which is absolutely unimaginable for Cao Wei, and at least it will cause the imperial court to move the capital again.

Liang Xi frowned and looked at the dense Han army under the city, and suddenly thought of something in his mind, and immediately laughed, and praised with his forehead: "Heaven will never stop me." After that, he said to Liang Li, the captain of his own army: "Push the catapult handed over to us by the prime minister, and we will launch a counterattack against the enemy army at the head of the city, and let them taste the meteorite rain." ”

A moment later, two hundred catapults were deployed, and with Liang Xi's order, the catapults began to throw huge stones.

"This is called lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, Liu Qi, Liu Qi, you didn't expect that we also have catapults like yours here, right? Now your army is concentrated in the urn city, as long as I am smashed like this, at least tens of thousands of horses will be lost, I think after such a heavy loss, do you still have the confidence to fight again, hehe, if you know that our catapult is our purple your technology, it is estimated that you will be angry and jump to your feet. ”

Liang Xi was imagining the tragic scene of the stones falling into the Han army, when he suddenly heard the low exclamations of the soldiers beside him, and then saw Liang Li, the captain of his own army, shouting at him: "General, it's not good, for some reason, these stones have flown to the inner city, and the roads are blocked." Many people were also killed, or their houses were smashed down, or people were stoned to death......"

"What?" Liang Xi, who heard the news, couldn't help but be shocked. Turning around and looking back, sure enough, he saw stones smashing into the inner city like hailstones, and what he could see was a terrible scene, the people were crying and grabbing the ground, the streets were stagnant and blocked, the dilapidated houses, and the chaotic scenes, all of which made him seriously uneasy: "What the hell is going on? Why didn't the catapult throw stones outward, but into the city? ”

It turned out that after the development of the stone-throwing car, Sima Yi also personally checked it, and felt that the structure and principle were no different from ordinary stone-throwing vehicles. In addition, he actually researched this thing secretly, and even Cao Hong concealed it, so naturally he couldn't take it out publicly for debugging. Soon after, gunpowder was developed, Sima Yi was first pulled by Cao Hong to test the gunpowder, but he did not expect Cao Hong to be blown up, Sima Yi was subsequently dismissed, and then he did not order anyone to test the stone throwing vehicle in order to avoid suspicion. It wasn't until after the coup d'état in Gao Pingling that he remembered this thing, so he handed over these stone-throwing carts directly to Liang Xi.

So, no one had ever experimented with these catapults until the launch of the catapults, and no one had ever suspected that there was something wrong with them.

The Han army under the city looked at the stone throwing cart on the head of the city, and was originally very nervous and worried, but when they saw that the stones were thrown into the inner city, they immediately looked at each other, not knowing what Liang Xi was doing. But when they saw the opportunity, they were naturally happy in their hearts, and immediately organized a counterattack, so the siege battle, which had been somewhat paused, became enthusiastic again, and Liu Qi, who saw this scene in the distance, pointed to the stone-throwing cart on the head of the city and smiled at Pang Tong beside him: "Shiyuan, this seems to be a reverse catapult developed by our army, but I didn't expect the enemy to use it here." ”

Pang Tong also laughed when he heard this, nodded and said, "Weichen originally thought that the reverse catapult would only make Cao Wei waste resources and time. But I didn't expect it to be so useful, hehe. His Majesty's clever calculations are beyond the reach of his ministers. ”

As the commander of the three armies, Liu Qi naturally would not miss the opportunity, and immediately ordered the army to attack, only to see the army erect a ladder, push the city cart, and launch a fierce attack again.

As the morale of the Wei army was affected. The crossbow arrows on the head of the city were almost used up, so the Han army attacked the head of the city without much effort, and then started hand-to-hand combat with the Wei army on the head of the city, and it took less than half an hour to attack the inner city.

At this time, the soldiers of the Han army saw that the inner city was damaged by the stone-throwing carts on the top of the city, and they were all laughing and laughing. At the same time, Chikusa was also secretly afraid, if these stones were really thrown into their midst, I really don't know what kind of damage it would bring?

Immediately after, the Wei army did not give in, but fought a fierce street battle with the Han army, and the Han army finally completely occupied Liyang after nearly three hours of hard fighting, and nearly 30,000 Wei troops who participated in the battle, including the leading general Liang Xi, were all killed in battle, and no life was left.

The loss of the Han army in this battle was nearly 10,000 people, which was also the heaviest loss in recent years, but the Han army could be replenished after the loss, but it was difficult for the Wei army to replenish it.

Although Liu Qi is the emperor, he is still sad about his own injured soldiers, and he will continue to take care of the relevant officials, and must do a good job in compensating the bereaved families of the deceased soldiers, and at the same time sincerely remember these soldiers and express their commemoration of the sacrifices they have made for the unification of the world.

Seeing that Liu Qi still did not change his true colors, not only did he share weal and woe with all the soldiers, but also remembered the merits of the fallen soldiers, and they couldn't help but be grateful for the dead soldiers and their families, and at the same time, a sense of pride rose in their hearts, even if they died a hundred times for such an emperor, they had absolutely no complaints.

At the same time that Liu Qi led the army to break through Liyang City, the other armies have also made significant progress, Liu Qi sent Zhuge Jin to secretly contact his brother Zhuge Dan, although Zhuge Dan is not as smart as Zhuge Jin, but he also knows that he wants to fight against Sima Yi with his own strength, which is tantamount to a fool's dream, and saw that his brother Zhuge Jin came to persuade him to surrender, so he decided to accept the invitation of his brother, and left Zhuge Jin to help, and jointly plotted to deal with Sima Yi, so that Liu Qi easily got Leling, Yangxin and other places, and got the help of Wei Yan's army, More than 100,000 troops besieged the plains, even if Sun Li was a contemporary famous general, he was helpless and had to be trapped in the plains.

Huang Zhong's army used the power of artillery to easily break Pingtao, Daling and other places, forcing Guo Huai to retreat to Jinyang, although Guo Huai relied on the bear soldiers to hold on, but because Huang Zhong was numerous, and controlled the powerful siege weapons, and the grain road was cut off by Huang Zhong, Taiyuan was broken sooner or later.

In fact, Taiyuan County is adjacent to Shangdang in the south, Xinxing in the north, and Leping County in the east. And the reason why Leping and Shangdang Erjun can't take care of it is mainly because of Zhou Yu's army. It turned out that Zhou Yu's Hanoi army used the means of attacking the east and the west, in the name of attacking Dangyin, so that the enemy of Shangdang lost his vigilance, and then personally led the army over the Taihang Mountain, conquered Shangdang County in one fell swoop, the army in the surprise conquered Huguan, in addition to leaving a small number of troops to stay in Shangdang, immediately led the army into Shexian, now the forward is less than fifty miles away from Wu'an, as long as Wu'an is occupied, and then occupy Handan along the line, then Ye County will be attacked by Liu Qi and Zhou Yu's north and south.

The news of Zhou Yu's conquest of Shangdang came, the whole Yecheng shook, and even Sima Yi faintly felt uneasy, but fortunately, at this time, the news that the Wei army had quelled Cao Xiu's rebellion came, which made him feel a little comforted in his heart, in fact, he didn't plan to keep Jizhou from the beginning, just thinking that he would also divide Liaodong like Gongsun's father and son in the future, and become a vassal king, even if it was to pay tribute to the Han Dynasty on the surface, his heart was more satisfied, and now Youzhou has been recovered, Cao Xiu was executed, and the three tribes of Yi, he finally put his mind at ease, With such a big rear, he didn't have to worry about the back road being blocked, so he appointed his third brother Sima Fu as the assassin of Youzhou as his future retreat.

"I heard that Liu Qi sent the Huns Liu Quanzhong and Liu Cunxiao brothers to lead the army to attack Fanyang, and there was no movement these days, which shows that these two brothers are becoming stronger and stronger, and they are no longer willing to obey Liu Qi's orders. Wang Si, this minister ordered you to go to the Xiongnu to see Liu Quanzhong, persuade him to unite with the Xiongnu to fight against Liu Qi, as long as he is willing to agree, the prime minister will make him the Xiongnu Shan Yu, and help his ethnic group occupy the land of Mobei, in addition, the prime minister also promised to be in alliance with the Xiongnu world, never offend. There was a hint of shrewdness in Sima Yi's eyes, and he ordered a scribe beside him.

I saw that the scribe named Wang Si bowed down and agreed, and after a little preparation, he immediately said goodbye to Sima Yi and went to Yanmen.

After Sima Yi saw Wang Si leaving, he smiled faintly: "Hehe, Liu Qi, I'm afraid you didn't expect that your most trusted stepson would also be against you, right?" Once this person betrays, I am afraid that the entire annex state will no longer belong to you, and you will be in a hurry to quell the rebellion at that time? Or are you in a hurry to attack me and annex the state? (To be continued.) )