Chapter Seventy-Two: The Battle of Luoyang
This time, the Xiliang army was fully prepared, and its siege equipment was specially made for the tall city wall of Luoyang, otherwise it would not take months to attack.
Specially made wells and chariots slowly marched towards the city wall under the impetus of the soldiers.
And more Xiliang troops were holding shields in their hands and carrying elongated ladders on their shoulders, running quickly towards the city wall.
Each city wall has more than 20,000 Xiliang soldiers to attack, and the defenders on each city wall have more than 10,000 people, the number of the two sides is two to one, this ratio is no advantage for the besieging side, not to mention that Luoyang City is known to the world, this is also the confidence of Cao Cao and Lu Bu, the field battle is not good, they are full of confidence in defending the city.
Seeing that the enemy army entered the firing range, the defenders of the city naturally did not skimp on the arrows in their hands, and greeted those Xiliang soldiers with a rain of arrows.
But Cao Cao and Lu Bu have too few archers, Lu Bu needless to say, and the state army is famous for its powerful cavalry, there are archers, but not many, only more than 3,000 people, and Cao Cao was defeated by Lu Bu when he conquered Dong Zhuo and lost a large number of soldiers, although he returned to Chen Liu, although he recruited troops and bought horses to obtain a lot of troops, but the time was still short, archers not only need talent, but also need training, not just a soldier with a bow and arrow can be called an archer, so his archers are only 4,000.
Seven thousand archers may seem like a lot, but if you divide the four walls into four walls, each of them is less than two thousand, which is a bit of a meager number.
The rain of arrows fell, and the wails in the Xiliang army sounded one after another, although there was the protection of the shield, there were still many Xiliang soldiers who were killed by arrows.
But the soldier who was not shot gritted his teeth and rushed forward, and the soldier who was shot just fell, and someone next to him stepped forward to take his place and continue to move forward, plus the number of archers on the city wall was not large, and the speed of the advance of the Xiliang army was not slowed down because of the rain of arrows.
Cao Cao naturally knew the disadvantages of his own army, but he didn't expect the arrows to cause a lot of damage to the Xiliang army, but he just had the idea of shooting one person is one person, and it was better than nothing, and his real reliance was on a large number of garrison materials and tall city walls in Luoyang City.
After a few rounds of arrow rain, the ladder troops of the Xiliang soldiers came to the city wall, and the special ladder was much longer than the ordinary ladder, so climbing the ladder would take more time and take more damage during the process.
When the ladders reached the head of Luoyang City, the Xiliang soldiers began to climb upward.
There are pros and cons to the elongated ladder, and the benefits are now apparent, the elongated ladder is heavier, the more soldiers it carries on it, the heavier it is, and the defenders on the walls need more manpower to push it up.
But there were too many ladders, like mushrooms after a rain, and the defenders couldn't push it at all, so Cao Cao waited until the Xiliang soldiers had climbed nearly half of the time and ordered: "Throw rolling stones, giant trees, and pour boiling water." ”
"Boom" a large number of boulders were pushed down from the city walls by the defenders, and a large amount of boiling hot water was poured from the city.
"Ahh The Xiliang soldier, who was drenched in boiling water, wailed and fell down the ladder and fell to his death.
It was even worse to be hit by a boulder rolling log, and the brain was shattered before it could make a sound.
The number of casualties of the Xiliang army suddenly increased, and no one was able to climb the city wall at all.
Cao Cao was also slightly relieved, there were many materials to defend the city, not to mention that he could completely destroy the enemy army, but it was enough to destroy half of it.
But this favorable situation was soon broken, and the Xiliang Army's well and the rushing car were slowly approaching, and they were too far away before, and Cao Cao couldn't see the details at all, but at this time, Cao Cao gasped after seeing the truth.
He didn't care about it before because these siege equipment were very common in siege warfare, but with the height of the Luoyang city wall, these equipment could play a very small role, but now he saw something, a well that was about the same height as the Luoyang city wall, and a rush car that was slightly shorter than the city wall.
"This, this." It was no wonder that these siege engines were moving much slower than usual, and Cao Cao had some foreboding in his heart.
"Quick, shoot the enemy soldiers above the well, and hurry up and prepare molten iron, hurry." Cao Cao shouted.
But where to find molten iron for a while? Boiling water is there, but it can only deal with the ladder troops, but it has little effect on the rushing car, and only the molten iron can kill all the soldiers in the rushing car.
The height of the well is enough for the Xiliang archers to shoot at the defenders on the city wall, although the number is not enough to suppress the defenders, but the defenders cannot throw the garrison materials as they like.
The "boom" rush car was also close to the city wall, the wooden plank on the top of the rush car was opened, and a Xiliang soldier drilled out of it, and jumped to the city wall with an arrow step, but just landed on the ground and was hacked to death by the defenders around him with knives.
But this is just the beginning, countless Xiliang soldiers went forward and jumped out of the rushing car to the city wall, not everyone is so unlucky, slowly there are a few soldiers who stand in the position, for the later people to build a defensive line, fortunately, the number of rushing cars is not much, the Xiliang soldiers on the city wall are simply not enough to repel the defenders and occupy the city wall.
However, they managed to attract most of the defenders' attention, not forgetting that the ladder troops were still climbing relentlessly.
Not long after, there were Xiliang soldiers who climbed the city wall along the ladder, and the siege battle entered the fiercest battle for the city wall.
The Xiliang army is really not afraid of death, it is completely a way of fighting with life, you cut me, as long as you don't lose your breath immediately, I will give you a knife, so the defenders are stunned.
Cao Cao also knew that at this critical moment, although the enemy army suffered a lot of losses under the blow of the defending materials, it was still more than his own army, and if he let it continue to climb the city wall, he was afraid that Luoyang would not be protected.
So he took the sword in his hand and killed a Xiliang soldier who had just emerged from the ladder, and shouted: "Soldiers, when the Xiliang army came, they threatened to slaughter the city, and we have no way to retreat, if we don't fight to the death, we will be the ghost of the sword." ”
Cao Cao deliberately exaggerated the rumors, but his subordinates did hear that the Xiliang army was going to slaughter all the officials to avenge Dong Zhuo, although they did not hear Cao Cao's statement at this time, but there was a preface as a basis for all the soldiers and soldiers also believed it, after all, all the officials were killed, and they were still missing? The slaughter of the city is a real possibility.
The defenders, who had been beaten a little dazed, were also ruthless when there was no way to retreat, and the two sergeants were desperate.
Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, although the situation was grim, it had not yet reached the point of no return.
At this moment, a general emerged from the previous cloud ladder, and Cao Cao was still a soldier of Xiliang, and slashed down with a sword without thinking about it.
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