"Siege!"

Riding on a tall horse, with a golden crown and silver armor and a red cloak, heroic posture, Dai Gang's eyes were blazing, and he didn't look at the tall and sturdy Shouchun city wall in front of him, and what he said was that if he didn't take down this Shouchun City after so much foreplay, the soldiers of the Wu army would not need to attack the city.

"Roar!" Countless soldiers of the Wu army howled and pushed all kinds of siege equipment towards Shouchun, in their eyes, the fortified city opposite was just a paper tiger.

Siege is an art, and in order to reduce casualties during siege, it is necessary to carry out artillery bombardment in advance to reduce the enemy's combat effectiveness. Although there were no cannons in this era, the crossbow and ballista of the same magnitude as the cannon were still equipped with a lot, and as for the catapult that was more powerful and larger at the same time, it was temporarily put aside by the Jiangdong Army because of its ultra-low hit rate and difficult to transport, but it was not completely abandoned, but the prison was still being improved.

After a burst of shelling, it's time for ladders, rushes, crashes, and the like, but generally speaking, there are more of a variety of ladders, and the so-called ladders are not as simple as a ladder. There are many forms of ladders, such as: flying ladders, bamboo flying ladders, tiptoe flying ladders, wooden flying ladders, qiqi cars, overpasses, overhead cranes, walking women's walls and cloud ladders. The structure of the first four is relatively simple, and the front end of the ladder and the tiptoeing ladder are equipped with wheels to make it easier to push the ladder and attach it to the city. The bamboo ladder is just a big bamboo as the main trunk, and a horizontal pole is installed on the ladder body.

However, today's siege battle is far simpler than expected, and even the siege equipment has not had time to be used. At this moment, more than 100 ballistas of the Wu army gathered outside the southern city (ballistas could not fire from the back, but could only shoot from the bottom and shoot flatly). The Ballista is a ranged attack weapon, a heavy crossbow. The simple task was to attach a heavy crossbow to the castle tower, and the ballista could weigh up to 70 pounds. The heavy-duty crossstring is made of spring steel and is tightened with a winch. There is a receiver on the bed crossbow, which can place seven or eight crossbow arrows, and it is self-loading, similar to the machine gun in cold weapons, but the rate of fire is low, which is not conducive to carrying. Jiangdong has both, and the ballista originated from the west, which is to place a giant crossbow on a bracket to defend the city, which can be turned 360 degrees; The ballista appeared in the Book of Ink, but it was in the Song Dynasty that it really glowed and heated, and the crossbow in Jiangdong was the three-bow and eight-ox bed crossbow recorded in the "General Essentials of the Wujing".

Hundreds of ballistas were launched at the same time, and the sound shook all over the world, so frightened that the Wei army at the head of the city squatted under the female wall, and no one wanted to be the first bird, and was made into a kebab by sharpened wooden spears.

Peng! There was a volley, the city head mountain was dusty, and about 300 soldiers were nailed to the city wall, some of them were not strong enough to be calibrated ballista to nail the wooden spears to the city wall, and a few of them were too strong to collapse the bow piers of the female wall.

"Do it! Do it! "Wang Gongzi's mouth of Zhao Xiaowei almost won the bid, at this time busy pulling his men to prepare for the incident, generally speaking, a salvo of the ballista takes three to five minutes to place the wooden spear, take advantage of this short time Zhao Xun to show his attitude, let the city hang the white flag, otherwise the next salvo he asked himself if his luck will not be good.

"Kill!! Brothers, against Wei Gou!! Zhao Xun raised his arms and took out a gray-white cloth towel and wrapped it around his right arm, which was the sign agreed by the soldiers of the uprising to identify the brothers on his side.

After Xiahoudun came to Shouchun, in order to guard against Huainan, he brought 20,000 Qingzhou soldiers and 50,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban soldiers, but the surname of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban bandits was difficult to change, and they did not get along with the local people very well after coming to Shouchun. Cao Hong, Sun Jian, and Sun Ce would rather go to Lujiang farther away to recruit troops than ask for Shouchun's local soldiers, on the one hand, because Cao Ying had recruited a group of Shouchun Huainan soldiers when he went to Yangzhou to recruit troops during the uprising, but how? Later, he actually rebelled! This is not to mention that Yuan Shu, who claimed to be 400,000 Huainan soldiers back then, directly surrendered more than 200,000.

Therefore, no matter how selfless Xiahoudun is, he will unconsciously favor the Qingzhou soldiers, so naturally the Huainan soldiers are not convinced, and the Huainan soldiers are famous for not having a position, at this life-and-death juncture in Shouchun City, the five thousand Huainan soldiers led by Zhao Xun turned back.

"Kill!!" "Damn Huainan dog!!"

For a while, the city was in chaos, and taking advantage of the chaos, Wang Gongzi and his group quietly came to the gatehouse responsible for managing the city gate and drawbridge, only to see that Zhu Ling, who was originally supervising the war, had long since disappeared, and only about 20 guards were guarding the iron cables of the hammock.

"What are you waiting for? Why is it here? A soldier-like guard asked Wang Gongzi.

"Hey, hey!" The man surnamed Wang smiled, and suddenly slashed the ring head knife in his hand at the military waiter. "I want your life!"

Bang! The fight started, and the gatehouse of the Sword and Sword Shadow City was not spared, although Zhu Ling's personal guards were all elite soldiers who had experienced hundreds of battles, and they were not inferior to hundreds of people, but after all, Wang Gongzi had a lot of people, and seeing that he couldn't solve these personal guards in a short period of time, he let a dozen or so people leave the battle circle and go to put the suspension bridge.

Rumble! There was chaos in the city, and a white flag was raised on the gatehouse. The generals of the Wu army under the city were dumbfounded, but at this moment, the situation changed again, the originally high hanging suspension bridge was lowered, and the closed city gate also had a tendency to open.

"General Hou, it seems that there are really people in the city who have sacrificed the city!" Xu Sheng pointed to the suspension bridge and the city gate hole and said happily.

But Dai Gang looked solemn, looked at the ghost-faced knight behind him and didn't know what he was thinking, and waited until the city gate was wide open before he spoke: "General Huang, you will rush in with cavalry, and Song Qian and Ding Feng will follow with their headquarters." ”

"Whoa! Sigh! ”

"Whoa!"

The range of bows and arrows is only about one hundred and fifty meters, the crossbow carts in Jiangdong are several times that of them, and even the range of Hengjiang shooters is two hundred and nearly three hundred meters, so the military formation on the side of Dongwu is more than two hundred meters away from the city, and I didn't think it was at first, but at this time it seemed a little farther away, because Huang Zhong's cavalry needed more than twenty seconds to rush to the city gate! At this time, although the city was in chaos, there were still certain archers who stayed out of the way and shot arrows under the city.

The cavalry of Eastern Wu are all treasures, and it is a great loss to die one, if the stray arrow hurts the ghost face, Dai Gang will be heartbroken. "How strange! Originally, it was General Jiang Qin's clansmen who agreed with our army, and they only opened the city gate, but now the city is in chaos. ”

"General Hou, it must be the Huainan soldiers in the city who refuse to follow Zhu Ling to martyr the Cao family!" Although Xu Sheng said it in passing, he didn't expect to guess a ** not far from ten.

Dai Gang nodded when he heard this: "It is very likely that the loyalty of the Huainan soldiers is extremely low, and they must be properly disposed of after the city is broken, otherwise there will be trouble!" Headache, the problem of Qingzhou Yellow Turban has not been solved yet, so there are so many Huainan soldiers, it is better to attack the city in a real way!! ”

To be honest, the losses of the Wu army will not be very large, but Dai Gang still has to face a certain number of Cao army prisoners, because at this time, the Cao army in the city has already frightened the bow bird instead of the indomitable northern army before.

"Then let them all die!" Xu Sheng whispered to Dai Gang with a hideous face: "It's better to let Song Qian and Ding Feng take the official office in the city first, Xiahou Dunjiu has been in the inner city government office in Shouchun for a long time, and the wall is high and the courtyard is deep, I am afraid that the Cao army will resist stubbornly with the grain and ordnance inside, and our army will not be able to perform in the city." ”

"Hmmm! It is reasonable, Wen Xiang immediately ordered the two generals to first attack the inner city official office, granary, and arsenal, and then take these military supplies, and then let the Wei army eat the dog at the head of the city! ”

"Whoa!"

Sure enough, no matter when and in what force, the grass on the wall is not pleased, especially Huainan, the land of four wars, these soldiers are not at ease to stay, killing a bad reputation and not conducive to winning people's hearts, leaving it to Cao Jun to kill is the most appropriate, and it can also make the people of Shouchun hate the Northern Army, why not?

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