Chapter 536: Siege

The catapult loaded the boulder and began to bombard. The stones were whistling and flying all over the sky, the scene was thrilling, raindrops fell on the city wall and under the city wall, there was a loud bang, the smoke and dust filled the sky, the blood and water were flying, and I saw that the soldiers of the Cao army were smashed to the flesh and blood.

The people's army had never seen such a scene, and they were already frightened to death, and they rushed to the city in a panic. The officer who supervised the battle led his soldiers to stop in front of him and ordered them to return to the city, and some people did not obey the order and wanted to break through, but the officer did not say a word, and cut down the civilian army who took the lead in making trouble to the ground. All the people's soldiers were so frightened that their faces turned white and they were silent. The officer shouted and ordered the people to return to the walls at once. The people looked at each other and re-entered the city wall with a thud.

Cao Xiu ordered the catapults mounted on the city walls to counterattack, and the soldiers immediately activated the catapults and sent out a wave of stones. However, those stones only flew to the middle and fell to the ground, stirring up dust in the sky, and the movement was not small, but it did not pose the slightest threat to Lu Bujun.

Lu Bujun's heavy catapults continued to bombard, and the loud crackling sound was endless; Bricks crumbled down, and catapults were torn apart; A boulder roared into the air, and there was a loud bang on the ground, and in the middle of the city gate tower, there was a loud noise, and the tall and majestic city gate tower collapsed by a third; A soldier shrank behind the battlement, trying to dodge the screaming stones, and suddenly, a boulder hit his long battlement, and with a loud bang, the battlement was smashed off by a third, and the soldier hiding behind was thrown to the ground, his face covered in blood, trembling, and his mouth made a painful uh-uh sound; A boulder jumped over the wall and fell into a house near the wall, where a large hole was smashed, and the frightened cries of children and the scrambling of adults could be heard from the house.

The bombardment of Lu Bujun's heavy catapults suddenly stopped. Cao Jun, who was dizzy and frightened, was very surprised, and poked his head out to look at Lu Bujun outside the city. I saw that Lu Bujun put a lot of ignited things on the catapult. Seeing this, Cao Xiu was shocked, turned his head and shouted: "Everyone go down the city wall immediately!" ”

Before the words fell, I heard a loud whistling sound in the sky, and hurriedly followed the sound, only to see countless burning clay pots flying all over the sky. Crackling, the clay pot smashed up and down the city wall, burst open, and the gunpowder stored in it burst out, and the ignited oilcloth that was originally stuffed in the mouth of the bottle immediately ignited the fire oil, and in a whirring burst of explosion, I saw a ball of fireball rising into the air, and several city walls instantly turned into a sea of fire! The soldiers of the Cao Army, who were burned by the flames, let out heart-rending screams and ran in all directions, and other soldiers fled with horror on their faces, and some brave, rushed forward with flags or battle robes to throw their burning comrades to the ground, and used flags or battle robes to set fire to them. However, oil fires are so easy to extinguish, and often they cannot extinguish fires and save people, but are skewered by the flames, burned into a mess, and cannot be cleaned up.

The soldiers who were on fire were screaming and screaming, some of them fell to their deaths after falling off the city wall, and some were running around and were burned alive.

The fire oil canisters continued to fall on the city wall, and the flames burned more and more, and some of them also ignited the fire oil stored on the city wall, and there was a bang, and a huge fireball rose up, and many Cao soldiers were torn off the city wall by the flame shock wave.

The soldiers of the Cao army rushed down the city gate. Turning his head to look, he saw a sea of fire on the city wall, and the city gate tower was burning fiercely, and the firelight reflected the faces of horror or indignation. In the army, half noisy, half silent, a sense of hopelessness haunted me.

The bombardment of Lu Bu's army stopped, the flames on the city gradually subsided, and the sound of beeping and burning gradually fell silent.

Cao Xiu ordered the armies to prepare to go to the city, knowing that after the flames were completely extinguished, Lü Bu's army should storm the city walls.

The flames on the walls were completely extinguished, but smoke was still rising. Cao Xiu gave an order, and the soldiers of Cao Jun couldn't care about the smoke and dust, the walls and the ground were hot, and they poured onto the city wall; At the same time, the 30,000 attacking troops of the Long Tao Army of the Lu Bu Army and the Wuxi Barbarian Army were divided into three groups, and they rushed towards the city wall from the east, west, and south respectively with dense rushing carts, flying arms, and arrow towers!

"Crossbowmen ready!" With the order of the generals of the Cao army, the crossbowmen of the Cao army loaded their arrows one after another, ready to shoot. The city wall was originally equipped with many catapults, bed crossbows and other heavy equipment, but in the bombardment just now, they were either smashed or burned, and the city wall was scattered with fragments of heavy equipment.

The soldiers of the Cao army held their breath and stared at the rapidly approaching Lu Bujun, and they could hear the sound of heavy breathing between them; The soldiers of the People's Army were dressed in cloth clothes and wrapped in turbans, holding spears or knives in their hands, and everyone looked very nervous, some were swallowing their saliva, and some were babbling words.

Lu Bu's army attacked the troops, advanced to a place about two hundred steps away from the city wall, slowed down, suddenly accelerated, and ran towards the city wall like a tide with a shout, raising smoke and dust in the sky, covering the sky and the sun.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Cao Jun's crossbowmen fired arrows one after another, and the arrows flew down like locusts. Ding Ding Dong hit the shield, Di Di Duo was nailed to the siege equipment, some sergeants fell to the ground in the middle, and were immediately saved by their companions, and some were hit by arrows in the arm, and he didn't care to continue the charge.

The archer in the Lu Bu army, using the special arrows of the crescent arrow dysprosium to shoot arrows at the rope of the drawbridge, several rounds of shooting, the rope was cut, the drawbridge smashed down, stirring up the smoke and dust of the boss, the city car immediately rushed onto the drawbridge, rushed to the doorway, and began to crash into the city gate, making a loud noise like knocking on the mountain and shaking the sea, and the soldiers of the Cao army pushed the city gate hard behind the city gate, and every loud noise shook all of them.

Flying over the moat, directly put the ladder on the head of the city, Lu Bujun attacked the troops, holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, climbed the ladder and quickly rushed towards the city wall! The Cao army on the city wall hurriedly fired arrows, and the rain of arrows leaped over the cloud ladder, and the soldiers of the Lu Bu army above fell down one after another. The crossbowmen of the Lü Bu army under the city shot back at the head of the city, and the rain of arrows jumped over the head of the city, knocking down many Cao troops. The assault troops crossed the ladder, climbed the city walls, slashed with their swords, killed the enemy, and then fell themselves in a pool of blood. The assault troops continued to rush to the head of the city, several bloody battles on the head of the city, the sound of killing shook the sky, the long knife slashed, the spear stabbed, a Cao army was just cut off the head, almost at the same time, a Lu Bu sergeant was picked off the city wall by several spears.

The battle situation became more and more critical for Cao's army, and Cao Xiu led his personal guards to fight with Lu Bu's army.

At this moment, Lu Buzhong's army suddenly heard the rapid sound of golden bells, and the siege troops in all directions were very surprised when they heard this signal, and they didn't understand why the general ordered to retreat when they saw that the city was about to be captured. Although they were puzzled, everyone still carried out the general's order without hesitation and quickly retreated.