Chapter 32: Breaking through the city
Lu Bu was indeed laughing at the moment, just after such a long time, he seemed to have been spinning in place, but while dodging the continuous attacks from the city tower, he was also doing something very meaningful.
He was also shooting arrows, but not at the top of the tower, but a little below, at the suspension bridge that hung high above the moat.
In fact, he had noticed just now that although the suspension bridge in Xingyang Dongcheng was tightly held by iron cables on both sides, and there was also a row of iron pieces surrounding the bridge body, the suspension bridge itself was a wooden structure, except for a welded joint at the interface between the iron sheets that had been surrounded on the bridge body and the two iron cables, there were no more reinforcement measures in other places.
This was of course good news for Lu Bu, others might just be able to stare dryly, but he thought of how to take advantage of this flaw in the enemy's defense.
Nowadays, the vanguard of the alliance army, if you want to get to the city tower, there is almost only one way to climb the cloud ladder, and although the few towers that finally came over in the stone forest and arrow rain have also begun to play an effect, the archers who have long been standing on it have also begun to condescendingly shoot feather arrows at Dong Zhuojun on the tower of Xingyang East City, which has also caused more and more casualties, which indirectly enables more and more coalition soldiers who climb the cloud ladder to climb the city tower; Of course, on the other hand, it is also because the Beicheng side has attracted a lot of people to come over, and now the defenders of the East City are already a little stretched, and Lu Bu's keen eyes have long noticed that many of them are being filled by Xu Huang with people's husbands, and this effect is naturally greatly reduced. However, in this siege battle, the current alliance side still did not take much advantage, and the casualties were increasing.
Although this is not entirely his people, he has long been downset about the survival of war in this world, and he can't talk about how distressed he is, but it is always a good thing to be able to break through the city gate as much as possible.
And there is no doubt that the ladder has not been able to achieve the desired effect for a long time, although more and more soldiers have been able to climb up, but they cannot occupy the advantage, Xu Huang's arrangement is very close, and the limited number of people in his hands is now used to the maximum. It made it difficult for the coalition forces to advance an inch. In this case, Lu Bu had to consider opening another road, that is, a frontal siege, so naturally this drawbridge must be used.
Since the city has suspended the drawbridge, he simply lowered it. And according to the observation just now and some careful attempts. He's already got the hang of it. And be sure that this will be successful with a high degree of certainty.
Fortunately, his actions were still secretive, and while testing the limits of the iron cable interface on the suspension bridge, he also pretended to be anxious about how to attack the tower but had nothing to do. In this way, Xu Huang looked puzzled, but he didn't have much suspicion, but he was still vigilant, and he always kept a little mind to observe his side.
But at this time, since Lu Bu had already been determined, there was no need to cover it up, and he was not afraid that his smile would be seen and discovered by Xu Huang, and when Xu Huang was still strange and guessing in his heart, he finally made a move.
This time it looks the same as many times before, so many times before it didn't shoot on the city tower, and it also made many Xiliang soldiers who didn't know the situation on the city tower secretly laughed, thinking that this and the state Wenhou is known as riding and shooting, in fact, it is just a waste of fame, the real ability is nothing, the arrow in front can hit the flagpole of the banner on the city, it is just a shit luck once, but when this arrow is finally shot, Xu Huang suddenly has a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart, He seemed to notice that this time was a little different from the previous one.
As soon as this arrow left the string, it swept through the sky with lightning speed, and flew diagonally upwards to the side of the drawbridge, and there were still Dong Zhuojun soldiers on the city tower ready to laugh at Lu Bu, which was not only a relaxation for his own side, but also could hit the morale of the enemy, at this time, even a few coalition soldiers of the non-state army around Lu Bu did not understand, but Xiahou Yuan understood, because he had always been observing Lu Bu's movements, and he had already faintly guessed something, and now it has been confirmed.
And Xu Huang on the city tower over there was still at a loss, as if he was affected by the laughter of the surrounding soldiers and Lu Bu's seemingly unreliable arrow, because he really didn't understand what Lu Bu was doing.
But he won't be confused soon, because Lu Bu's arrow finally reached the edge of the suspension bridge, and then almost went straight to the thinnest point at the interface between the iron cable and the bridge body, this time the strength and speed have reached the extreme, but the most important thing is to find the real weakness, one arrow succeeded, so he only heard a "z", very crisp, very fast, and then the huge and bulky suspension bridge was actually half so fast.
Soon the other half also collapsed, because Lu Bu re-launched the second arrow in the gap, and in the same arrow, the iron cable interfaces on both sides were disconnected, and the bridge could no longer be restrained, and the entire suspension bridge lost the power of this suspension, so it naturally fell down heavily.
Xu Huang in the city was really frightened at this time, he didn't know what was going on, how to hang up the suspension bridge well, the iron cable would be broken and then the bridge would fall, just between the two banks of the moat, and developed a shortcut for the enemy army who was attacking the city on the opposite side.
Although this road may not be easier to walk than other ways, and it can only accommodate a certain number of people at a time, otherwise no matter how strong this suspension bridge is, it will not be able to support the collapse, but they don't need too many people to pass through guò at once, as long as they let the city crash wood come over first, and the strength of the specially selected wrestlers in the alliance army, with this Xingyang East City Gate is not very strong, I am afraid it will not be long before it is knocked open.
No matter how intact the city defense construction is, there will always be some shortcomings, and the defect of the Xingyang East City Gate is in this city gate, because the city gate was built too tall at the beginning, and it is a little insufficient in thickness, although it was deliberately thickened later, compared with the overall strict city defense, it is still the weakest, so there must be a moat, only to hang its suspension bridge, and even Xu Huang wants to simply destroy it, and he will not regret it here.
Now that this weakest point is completely exposed, the alliance army will naturally not let go of such an opportunity, under the leadership of Lu Bu, a group of coalition soldiers rushed to the east gate of the city with the crashing city wood, while resisting the full force of the resistance from the city tower, but whenever one person falls, someone will immediately replace him.
In the end, I don't know how many times it was bombarded, the city gate was finally knocked open like a paper paste, and after making persistent efforts to completely knock it open, Lu Bu took the lead again, and went directly to the city, under his leadership, a continuous coalition army of soldiers poured in from here, and then went around the city tower.
Since then, the situation has been settled, the east city of Xingyang has been broken, the city tower has been fighting all the way from the bottom to the top, the main general Xu Huang and a number of generals have been captured, and the remnants of the defenders have been surrendered.
At this time, Lu Bu had already run to Xu Huang, who was tightly tied by his arms with the backhands of two Alliance Army soldiers: "I don't know how Gongming plans to deal with himself in this situation?" (To be continued......)