Chapter 127: Meat grinder
The night passed, and the day came to the earth again. β¦ Top Novel,
In the continuous sound of horns, the Jiangdong Army once again poured out.
The Jiangdong Army really poured out, in addition to the seriously wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks, even the lightly wounded soldiers were bandaged and returned to the battlefield, which was not forced by Sun Ce, but their own request.
Slaughter order, after the city is broken, you can burn, kill, plunder, and do whatever you want in the city, who wants to miss such an opportunity to make a windfall?
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were not afraid of being attacked by the Yuan army, because now, the Jiangdong army was attacking from all sides, and the Yuan army had no chance to go out of the city to attack the Jiangdong camp.
Today's offense is still commanded by veteran Cheng Pu.
After all, Zhou Yu has cheated to death, but he can no longer appear openly.
Sun Ce wants to slaughter the city, there must be a reasonable reason, and Zhou Yu's death in battle is the best reason.
When Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Dong Xi, and Chen Wu set off with their armies respectively, Sun Ce quietly came to yesterday's hill under the escort of Zhou Yu, Lu Meng, and fifty personal soldiers, and climbed high and looked into the distance.
When Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and LΓΌ Meng climbed the hill, the Jiangdong army had already begun to attack the city.
However, the Jiangdong Army mobilized all 40 catapults and concentrated on bombarding the southeast corner.
A piece of boulders weighing hundreds of pounds constantly roared into the air, and then tumbled and smashed to the southeast corner of the south pass of the nest, and then fell from the sky with a strong inertia, and hit the city wall heavily, with each impact, the city wall in the southeast corner will inevitably tremble violently, and there will inevitably be broken stones, broken bricks and smoke and dust falling.
In less than half an hour, the outer layer of the bricks in the southeast corner has been smashed to pieces, revealing the rammed earth layer inside the bricks.
Sun Ce clenched his fists hard. said to Zhou Yu: "Gongzhen." It should be soon, right? β
"It's coming." Zhou Yu said with a smile. "A quarter of an hour at most."
(Dividing Line)
Zhou Yu was smiling, but Yuan Wei was smiling.
Yuan Wei smiled evilly, turned his head and said to Liu Ye and Ma Jun behind him: "Ziyang, Deheng, Zhou Yu is really powerful, he can accurately judge that the southeast corner of the city wall is in danger!" Hey, hey, if Deheng hadn't caused the thunderbolt in time this time, once the city wall in the southeast corner collapsed. The consequences are really unimaginable. β
Ma Jun hurriedly said: "This is the son of Hongfu Qitian, but he doesn't dare to take credit for it." β
"Deheng doesn't have to be too humble." Yuan Wei said categorically, "If you win this battle, you should be the first to take the lead!" β
Liu Ye smiled and said, "Sun Ce launched this battle, it is an unrighteous act, and this is a curse of heaven. β
"Damnation? Haha, that's well said! Yuan Wei laughed and said, "Sun Ce, young hero." Vertical and horizontal Jiangdong, invincible. Today, I will be defeated by my Yuan Wei, ha, hahahaha. β
(Dividing Line)
In front of the Jiangdong Army, Cheng Pu immediately crossed his sword and was nervously staring at the southeast corner of the city wall a hundred steps away.
The huge stone bullet is still continuously whistling over the heads of Cheng Pu and Jiangdong soldiers, and it is still continuously bombarding the city wall in the southeast corner, looking from afar, but I saw that the stone bullets kept falling, the broken bricks on the city wall were flying, and the smoke and dust were splashing, and Cheng Pu was far away from a hundred paces, and he could feel the vibration of the ground under his feet.
At one moment, a click was heard, and a large crack suddenly opened in the originally intact city wall.
"General, it's cracking! The walls are cracked! Cheng Meng, the captain of the pro-soldiers, turned his head and yelled excitedly.
Cheng Pu nodded heavily, and his heart was also excited, and he turned around and yelled at the moment: "Pass my order, the catapult will continue to attack until the city wall is smashed, continue to attack, and smash the city wall!" β
The catapult county of the Jiangdong Army continued to attack, and continued to throw hundreds of pounds of boulders to the southeast corner.
In the southeast corner, the bricks on the exterior wall have completely collapsed, and the rammed earth layer inside has been exposed.
And, under the continuous bombardment of catapults, the cracks in the rammed earth wall became more and more numerous, bigger and bigger, and in less than a moment, the entire wall was covered with large cracks like cobwebs.
Seeing this situation, the Yuan army that was originally guarding this section of the city wall immediately dispersed.
"Keep bombarding, keep bombarding, keep bombarding......" Cheng Pu became completely excited, turned his horse back, brandished his long knife, and roared hoarsely at the Jiangdong auxiliaries operating the catapult not far behind him.
Under such high-intensity and high-intensity work, nearly half of the more than 40 catapults of the Jiangdong Army have been damaged, but the remaining 20 or so catapults are still working.
At a certain moment, a stone projectile roared into the air from one of the catapults, rolled and flew in the air for more than a hundred steps, and then fell headlong towards the city wall in the southeast corner.
The next moment, an earth-shattering loud bang suddenly erupted, and the already crumbling city wall collapsed at once, and with the collapse of the city wall, the thick smoke and dust spread out in an instant, blocking everyone's sight at once.
Cheng Pu knew that the city wall had collapsed, the gap had been opened, and then there should be a one-sided massacre!
With a long roar in the sky, Cheng Pu raised the long knife in his hand, the tip of the knife pointed to the gap in the southeast corner of the city pass, and roared: "Wuzhong's sons, kill ......."
"Whoa......"
"Hahaha......"
"Kill, kill, kill, kill ......"
Behind Cheng Pu, more than 2,000 Jiangdong troops were like wolves that smelled the smell of blood, and they all looked up to the sky and howled, and the huge sound was not inferior to the sound of the collapse of the city wall just now!
In the next moment, Cheng Pu pulled the long knife in his hand forward, and the two thousand Jiangdong elite soldiers who were shouting in place were like a flood that broke the embankment, swarming towards the collapsed southeast gap.
(Dividing Line)
Inside the nest city.
Yuan Wei had already gotten down the city pass and came to the gap in the southeast corner.
Last night, the huge thunderbolt had been carried and placed in the gap.
Moreover, the direction that the backer of the thunderbolt was aiming at was the gap in the wall that had just collapsed.
The smoke and dust were filled, and the sight was seriously affected, and neither the Jiangdong Army outside the city nor the Yuan Army soldiers in the city could see the exact scene in the smoke and dust at all.
However, the eyes cannot see, but the ears can hear.
Outside the city, the howls of the Jiangdong Army were getting closer and closer.
Obviously, the Jiangdong Army is rapidly approaching, approaching the gap!
The momentum of the Jiangdong Army is so huge, and the morale is so high that it seriously affects the mood of the Yuan soldiers in the city, whether it is the Yuan Army armor who is stationed on the periphery of the gap, or the craftsman Minzhuang who is responsible for operating the thunderbolt car, all of them have a nervous look on their faces.
There is a classic saying in later generations, which is called football is round, and anything can happen!
In the same way, the soldier is really treacherous, until the last moment, who dares to say that there is a certainty of victory?
Throughout the ages, no matter what kind of hero he faced, he would never dare to say that he would be able to win!
A small screw can lead to the downfall of a huge empire, and how do you know that the thunderbolt will not break down at a critical moment?
"Eighty steps!"
"Fifty steps!"
"Forty steps!"
"Twenty steps!"
"The gap has entered, the Jiangdong Army has entered the gap!"
On the city walls on both sides of the gap, the Yuan army that was sticking to it continued to report the distance of the Jiangdong army to Yuan Wei.
In the gap, the soldiers of Yuan Jun who were guarding the surroundings and the craftsmen who were in charge of operating the thunderbolt car were also becoming more and more nervous, and even their faces changed with nervousness.
"Steady, steady!" Yuan Wei was afraid that these craftsmen and men would be nervous and ruined, so they had to remind loudly, "Without my military order, no one is allowed to move, and those who violate it will be killed!" β
"Steady, steady"
"Don't mess around, don't panic!"
"Steady, steady!"
"Steady, give me a steady ......"
Yuan Wei shouted loudly and raised his right hand high, but he refused to fall.
At the gap, the Jiangdong Army's shouting and killing sound is getting louder and louder, and even the Jiangdong Army can already hear the clatter of the Jiangdong Army stepping on the collapsed rammed earth, the rammed earth that has just collapsed from the city wall is dry, and the dry rammed earth covers the damp and soft mud underneath, but it facilitates the action of the Jiangdong Army.
"Kill, kill, kill......" In the overwhelming shout, the figure of the first Jiangdong Army finally burst out of the smoke and dust, followed by the second, then the third, and the fourth...... In just a moment, dozens of Jiangdong troops rushed out of the smoke and dust, and in the smoke and dust, there were more Jiangdong troops approaching.
The armor soldiers of the Yuan army, who had already set up a circular defensive array around them, instinctively bent down and hid behind the big shield, and the second row of armor soldiers quickly put their spears on the big shield, and then the third and fourth rows of armor soldiers pointed the spears in their hands at an angle of 45 degrees diagonally, and instantly formed a hedgehog array.
The craftsman in charge of smashing the crossbow machine was already so nervous that he was about to suffocate, twisting his head and staring at Yuan Fu's right hand.
At a certain moment, Yuan Fu's raised right hand finally fell fiercely, and the craftsman immediately roared hoarsely, and then smashed the thunderbolt's crossbow machine with a heavy blow.
"Click!" First, the soft sound of the crossbow machine opening.
"Bang!" Then there was the loud bang of the bowstring.
Immediately after, there was a loud sound of the sky and the earth cracking: "Karala ......"
Suddenly, like a bolt of lightning suddenly bloomed in the gap, not only the Jiangdong army that rushed into the gap, but also the Yuan army armor soldiers who were defending in array around them, as well as the people and craftsmen, were also deeply affected, and everyone's ears only felt a buzz, and then no sound could be heard, and only a buzzing sound remained in their ears.
Yuan Wei shook his head vigorously, gathered his mind that was a little distracted by the loud noise, and when he looked at it again, he saw a hellish miserable image, so tragic, really tragic! (To be continued......)