Chapter 3: The Siege
"Siege?" Zhang Jiao stood up and rushed towards the city, and Zhang Cheng followed.
The streets were full of busy Yellow Turban soldiers, shuttling back and forth, and after seeing Zhang Jiao, they all got out of the way.
Many Yellow Turban soldiers were a little surprised to see Zhang Cheng following Zhang Jiao, a little elder, and now he was with General Tiangong.
Zhang Cheng followed Zhang Jiao to the head of the city and looked down, only to see that the antlers under the city had been removed, and a large open space had been created, dozens of arrow towers and nest cars were lined up in front of the formation, the infantry had been in place, and behind was an iron cavalry ready to assault.
"Tiangong General" Qu Shuai Sun Zhong immediately came over to salute.
"How's the city defense?" Zhang Jiao asked.
"General rest assured, our army is impregnable" Sun Zhong's voice was sonorous and full of neutrality. There is the style of a general.
"Okay" Zhang Jiao nodded, then glanced at Zhang Cheng, and went back, his steps were very heavy when he walked, and Zhang Cheng also noticed that Zhang Jiao's face was pale and there was a layer of fine beads of sweat on his forehead.
Obviously, Zhang Jiao's physical condition is no longer optimistic.
A veteran under the head of the city, with white hair and hair, wearing a golden armor, with a momentum that is not angry but mighty, this person is the famous general Huangfu Song in the late Han Dynasty.
Huangfu Song's eyes looked at the Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city like electricity, his brows furrowed slightly, although since he led the army, he was almost invincible in the face of the Yellow Turban Army, but now the situation is different, Zhang Jiao is sticking to Guangzong, and the 300,000 army is almost filled with the entire Guangzongcheng, plus the Yellow Turban Army has enough food and grass, if you want to break the city, the difficulty of this can be imagined.
"Siege"
Huangpu Song ordered, and immediately the soldiers of Jiangtai beat the war drums, and as soon as the war drums sounded, it was a military order!
"Trebuchet, put it on me," one of the tooth generals shouted.
Three rows of catapults immediately blasted towards the city, and huge boulders rose into the air and flew towards the city.
"All under the women's wall," Sun Zhong immediately shouted.
The yellow turban soldiers at the head of the city immediately lay down under the female wall, not daring to raise their heads.
The roar of "Boom Boom" sounded, and the head of the city was like an earthquake, and many Yellow Turban soldiers who couldn't dodge were smashed and their brains burst apart, unrecognizable, and the air was instantly filled with a smell of blood.
"Don't panic, no one is allowed to move," Sun Zhong shouted.
Zhang Cheng was lying under a female wall, his heart was pounding, and there was a corpse of a yellow turban soldier lying on the side, this person Zhang Cheng knew, it was a defender of the south gate, he was still alive before, but he didn't expect it to become a corpse now.
Smelling the smell of blood in the air, Zhang Cheng was a little angry, this is the troubled times, human life is as cheap as grass, it is better to be a peaceful dog than to be a troubled person, Zhang Cheng only now understands the meaning of this sentence.
Half an hour had passed, and the boulder had ceased to roar, but no one could rejoice, for it was a sign that the enemy's nest had begun to approach the city.
Sure enough, Zhang Cheng raised his head and took a look, only to see a series of arrow towers moving towards the city head like a huge moving city wall.
"Crossbowmen ready," Sun Zhong shouted again.
The crossbowmen at the head of the city immediately drew their bows and arrows, and waited for the enemy's nest to approach the walls and enter their attack.
"Zhang Cheng, why are you still here? Hurry up and bring people to prepare fire oil and sandalwood and other things, and there will be a big battle later," Sun Zhong shouted.
Zhang Cheng was drunk by Sun Zhong, but he was a lot more sober.
"What's going on?" At this moment, a team of men and horses came up from the front of Zhang Cheng, led by Zhang Jiao's younger brother, Zhang Bao, who was known as the general of Digong......
"Digong General" Sun Zhong saluted.
Zhang Bao ignored Sun Zhong, but after coming to the city, he glanced down, and immediately frowned.
And Sun Zhong stood next to Zhang Bao in a very natural posture, and the two seemed to have some kind of tacit understanding.
"Huangpu Song's posture, is he trying to break through Guangzong in one fell swoop?" Zhang Bao muttered to himself, his expression was very complicated.
"Huangpu Song has now sent all the trebuchets to the battlefield, and even the most elite iron cavalry under his account has been dispatched, general, the advantage of our army's armor is not as good as that of the official army, and the combat power is also inferior, so we must consider a way to get out" Sun Zhong came to Zhang Bao's side and whispered.
"Well, Zhang Bao nodded"
This scene just fell in Zhang Cheng's eyes.
"Arrow" Sun Zhong immediately shouted when he saw the enemy approaching the city. At the same time, on the nest car opposite, the officers and soldiers also released arrows.
Arrows on both sides were like flying locusts, screams came and went, and the officers and yellow turbans kept falling from the city and the nest carts.
When the archers on the nest car and the Yellow Turban Army on the city were shooting, Huangpu Song immediately grasped the situation and commanded the army to attack the city.
For a while, a large area of the official army under the city was pressed towards the city, and several of them had already leaned against the city wall.
"Putting Preparation" Sun Zhong stood at the head of the city, seemingly commanding, but in fact, his face was already very ugly.
Although the Yellow Turban Army was numerous, its combat power was not strong, and the military discipline was lax, once the officers and troops attacked the city, forming a short-handed situation, the army was likely to mutiny.
Thick push rods continued to push the ladders down the city, and there was a scream of officers and soldiers who fell from the ladders.
Even so, many officers and soldiers on the ladder have climbed to the top of the city.
"Quick, oil, sandalwood, rolling stone preparation"
The Yellow Turban Army at the head of the city immediately poured the refined fire oil down the city, and many officers and soldiers were poured on the oil on their bodies, rolling on the ground and wailing, and the screams were very terrible.
Zhang Cheng commanded his subordinates and several other chiefs to carry rolling stones and sassalwood to the city.
There were corpses all over the ground, and after sending the rolling stones and sassal wood and other things to defend the city in their hands to the city, Zhang Cheng and the others had to move these corpses down so that they could keep the road of transportation clear.
After a large number of fortified goods were transported to the head of the city, the situation of the defenders of the city was much better, and the officers and troops could not attack the head of the city for a while.
The rapid sound of "ding ding ding" resounded throughout the battlefield, and the officers and soldiers receded like a tide.
Zhang Cheng knew very well in his heart that Huangfu Song's first siege was actually to test the Yellow Turban wall garrison, and the next time would be a real battle.
After a wave of offensive and defensive battles, Zhang Cheng lay on the ground tiredly, except for the yellow scarf standing guard normally, many people sat on the side and gasped for breath.
"Zhang Cheng, you stay on guard tonight," a long-haired man walked over and said.
"Okay Brother Li"
This Brother Li is Uncle Zhang Cheng, who is now in charge of the city's defense equipment, and the Yellow Turban Army is actually the same as modern times, all of them are black and white class docking.
Several of Zhang Cheng's subordinates immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Usually the enemy army will not choose to attack the city at night, because the difficulty of attacking the city at night is too great, so they can be much easier.
But Zhang Cheng always felt that something was wrong in his heart, because he had been busy during the day today, why was he still his person at night?