Chapter 385 [Shouchun Attack and Defense: Second Round]

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Taking advantage of Cao Ang's attraction of most of the trapped camp's troops, Cao Hong launched an attack on another section of the palace wall on the right.

If Cao Ang's attack was just a temptation, then Cao Hong was the real attack. Cao Cao allocated him 2,000 troops, of which 1,500 were soldiers and 500 auxiliaries. Counting that Cao Cao has invested nearly 3,000 troops, he is really out of the way.

Cao Hong's attack was simple and brutal, and he first ordered the demolition of nearby residential houses, the removal of ten purlins, and the use of door panels as baffles. Then send a hundred auxiliary guards, ten people to hold a purlin, and rush to the palace wall a hundred steps away side by side - this is the rhythm of demolishing the wall after the house is demolished.

Snort! Tuk tuk tuk!

Arrows were all over the door panel, and the auxiliary pawns who were sandwiched in the middle were basically fine, only the auxiliary guards who were in groups of ten on both sides were scattered by the rain of arrows. The wounded fell to the ground, the purlin fell, and those who were lucky enough not to be injured could not escape the fate of being injured by the purlin.

By the time they reached fifty paces, four groups of auxiliaries had been cleared, and only six groups remained. The arrows still don't stop, and the two groups of people on the outermost edge are the main targets of the attack at all times. When two more groups were brought down by the arrows, the last four groups finally rushed under the palace walls.

A 100-meter desperate sprint, a purlin beam weighing a thousand catties, ten people rushed hard, and under the acceleration of gravity, there were several loud bangs, the palace wall burst, and even a big gap was knocked out.

Originally, according to the plan, they should make persistent efforts to knock down all the walls, but after the collision, all the auxiliary guards froze. The wall is collapsing, yes. But obstacles remain. Behind the wall was a pile of sand, rocks, and wooden bars more than a person high, and the broken wall collapsed, and instead of forming a passageway, it became part of the rocky and dirt barricade.

Just when dozens of auxiliary soldiers were at a loss, more than a dozen armor soldiers jumped out from behind the broken wall, dancing wildly with swords, axes and halberds in their hands. The figures rushed, the cold light was dazzling, the flesh and blood were flying, and the screams were endless. It was only a cup of tea before and after, and more than 30 auxiliary guards who successfully rushed to the palace wall were all killed. There is no life left.

After the trapped dead men cut people, they also wiped the blood stains on the corpses, arranged a semi-arc shield array, and drilled back along the gaps in the palace wall one by one. When the last dead man disappeared, the tabletop-sized gap seemed to be a grinning mouth.

Cao Hong saw it from a distance, and he didn't even move his eyebrows, but it was just a hundred auxiliary pawns, in his eyes. It's no different from ants.

Soon, the experienced Cao Hong came up with another countermeasure: "Take the cloth bag containing the millet, smash all the four walls of the house where the beams are removed, and use the cloth bag to fill the sand." Pad out a passageway. ”

I have to say that this hand is indeed much stronger than Cao Ang's human ladder tactics.

At the cost of nearly 100 auxiliaries, a sandbag slope three feet wide was completed. At the same time, 1,500 soldiers have also finished their formation. Assemble to be ordered. At this time, it was not the drums of the advance that sounded, but the cymbals of the retreating troops.

However, no one dared to move more than a thousand Cao pawns. Because this cymbal was not directed at them, but at Cao Ang and his subordinates.

Cao Ang led fifty armor soldiers up the ladder and engaged in a fierce battle with dozens of dead soldiers on the palace wall. They struck with shields, slashed with knives, stabbed with halberds, and even after their weapons were broken or knocked out, they grabbed their opponents with their bare hands, fell off the wall, and rolled and beat each other.

Cao Ang climbed the wall three times and was knocked over three times, but fortunately, the palace wall was not high, and there were many corpses under the wall, so Cao Ang was not injured when he fell. It's just that the armor is heavier, and it is quite difficult to climb up, but fortunately, there is always a servant to take care of it.

What really annoyed Cao Ang was not the dead men who fought him face-to-face, but the seven or eight crossbowmen who fired cold arrows at them from time to time on the left corner tower, fifty paces away. Although the distance is long, the double armor is thick enough, and the arrows are often ineffective, but if you are accidentally shot in the face, even if you don't die, you will lose the ability to continue fighting.

Cao Jun also had archers on his side to fight back, but the opponent was protected by a baffle and could barely inflict damage on him, which was the advantage of the defenders.

Cao Ang rushed up the palace wall for the fourth time, this time throwing away the cracked wooden shield, holding a knife in one hand and a halberd in the other, stepping up the ladder, swinging his knife and slashing at a fallen man. Cao Ang's portable sword, the texture of which does not need to be said, at least fifty refining starts. The two knives flew, sparks splashed everywhere, and the opponent's knife burst into a large gap.

Cao Ang swung his halberd in his right hand, slashed again with his left-handed knife, and after four or five consecutive blows, he cut off the opponent's ring-head knife. As he slashed at his opponent's neck, there was another local thud, and sparks flew - at some point, the opponent took out a copper sword and shattered Cao Ang's fifty steelmaking knife.

Cao Ang was almost scolded, and he actually took a knife with a sword? And bows and arrows and long soldiers, how extravagant is this? His subordinates don't have so much equipment, how many weapons does this horse get from Liaodong. He didn't know that the fighting equipment trapped in the camp was all the remnants of the Lu Bu era, and he hadn't learned the real Liaodong equipment yet.

Just as Cao Ang gritted his teeth and wanted to cut off the handle of the copper hammer, there was a sound of cymbals from behind. Cao Ang was stunned, the golden light flashed in front of him, he instinctively raised his sword to block, and with a bang, he was smashed by the opponent for the fourth time and fell down the ladder, and the helmet flew out.

When Cao Ang was helped up, he jumped like thunder, gritted his teeth and gritted his teeth, and almost wanted to rush up again, chopping the smug opponent over, but when the roar came to his mouth, it turned into one word: "Withdraw!" ”

In fact, there was no need for Cao Ang to give an order, and with the sound of the cymbals, the slackers who had been killed and discouraged had already rushed back to their main formation like a tidal tide, leaving corpses all over the ground behind them.

Cao Ang limped to his father's car cover, crossed his sword and halberd, and hung his head in despair: "The last general is incompetent and has failed to break through the enemy's defensive line, please punish the general." ”

Cao Cao put his sword in both hands, looked at the battle situation in front of him, and did not speak, and after a while, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the side, signaling Cao Ang to sit down, and then pointed forward to watch the battle.

After Cao Ang's remnants retreated back to their own camp, the drums of war finally sounded.

Knock knock knock! The dull sound of drums signaled the arrival of the second round.

When the soldiers of Cao Ang's first battalion set off the battle of climbing the ladder and crossing the wall, Gao Shun on the right corner of the tower never gave another order, let alone came to the battle in person. When Cao Cao was still using a five-color stick to establish his authority against the magnates of Luoyang, Gao Shun had already followed Lu Bu and fought with Qiang Hu in Bingzhou, how could he not see that the attack of Cao Ang's battalion was just a temptation.

So Gao Shun didn't invest heavily in it. Cao Ang rushed as he could, he blocked it, neither slackened nor spent any more strength, and did not personally command, only let his subordinates and commanders lead the team to counterattack by themselves. Gao Shun believed that this little scene could not help his hundred battles, and it turned out to be so.

But when the second round of war drums sounded, and Cao Hong's 1,500 soldiers stepped on the drums and launched an attack on Shouchun Palace, Gao Shun, who had been sitting, finally stood up and tightened his double swords at his waist. Hold the spear shaft and begin to command the flag.

In the southeast section of the palace wall (that is, on the right side of the attacking side), more than 50 fallen dead soldiers retreated and stood by; The formation of the 300 fallen dead soldiers who had been arrayed moved eastward to block the entrance of Cao's army's attack; More than 70 dead soldiers in the southwest section of Miyagi rested in place to prevent Cao's army from attacking from here again; The palace servants served as auxiliary soldiers, and transferred the wounded and dead to the palace for treatment.

When the trapping camp moved frequently, Cao's army had already launched a charge.

The three-zhang slope can only accommodate six or seven people to charge side by side at a time, and the dead soldiers behind the wall are arranged in a row of twenty people according to Gao Shun's order. A total of fifteen columns, just forming a wide half-arc, surrounded the oncoming Cao sergeants.

"Whew-"

Rushing to the front was the veteran Cao Jun. There are hundreds of people, and they will play a leading role in demonstrating and frustrating the enemy's spirit; It was followed by a battalion of recruits. They will be the main force that will deplete the enemy's forces; The next few hundred people are Yuan Shouchun's descendants, whose tasks are the same as those of the recruits; In the end, there are three hundred elites led by Cao Hong. This will be the key to victory on the battlefield.

"Steady! Steady! ”

From time to time, the calm voices of the commanders and team leaders came from the phalanx of the trapped camp. The dead soldiers lined up in front of the battle, their bodies bowed slightly, like taut bows, and their entire upper body and most of their faces were hidden behind the rectangular infantry shields, revealing only a pair of bloodthirsty black pupils and a shining halberd.

"Ahh

The old pawn of Cao Jun at the front had already rushed up the slope, and several arrows suddenly shot out from the tower in the right corner, and the first three Cao pawns stumbled and fell forward. Behind him, Cao Zu didn't stop at all, or couldn't stop at all, countless pairs of big feet stepped on, and the three of them were trampled into the soil......

"Kill—"

"Kill—"

The fighters on both sides shouted the same word in unison. The next moment, they slammed into each other.

Bang bang! Click, click! Zheng Zheng Zheng!

Shields, halberds, and even bodies collided violently, making a dull crashing sound that made you want to vomit blood. People crowded, people pressed people, the shield creaked unbearably, and then shattered with a click. Every soldier did his best to stab and cut out the blade in his hand, regardless of who he stabbed or which part he struck. As long as the blade is red, there will be casualties among the enemy; Only if the enemy suffers casualties, can he live.

Gao Shun stood in the corner tower and looked over, but saw the ups and downs of the two armies' contact with the swords, halberds and spears, bringing up a large rain of blood, and the rows of soldiers in front were peeled off layer by layer like garlic skin, more than ninety percent were Cao pawns, and his own trapped warriors had only been "peeled" off two layers in the bloody battle.

The trap camp is worthy of being a first-class heavy infantry battalion of the Three Kingdoms with equipment second only to the dragon and wolf cavalry, and the dense armor of the sleeve armor blocks most of the swords and halberds, and only the leather helmet can't resist the continuous and vigorous slashing of the divination halberd, which is split into the skull and difficult to pull out. Almost every fallen soldier died in a strange and tragic posture with a long halberd or long gege attached to his head.

Three hundred against one thousand five, this is a bloody battle with a huge disparity in numbers but equal strength.

A moment later, more than half of the more than 100 Cao soldiers were killed in the battle and collapsed.

Two quarters later, more than 500 recruits were killed and defeated.

Half an hour later, the 500th Shouchun Descendant was defeated.

And at this time, hundreds of dead soldiers were killed and wounded. Gao Shun had already pressed all the reserves in his hands, and only then did he defeat several times the enemy one after another. But after a long battle, the soldiers were exhausted, and their bodies were close to their limits.

At this moment, Cao Hong led three hundred elites to press up, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

It was almost dusk, the remnant sun was like blood, the earth was bleeding, and the blood of heaven and earth gradually converged and blended, covering the entire field of vision......

In the chaotic battle, Cao Hong fought all the way with a halberd and a shield, and gradually broke through to the center of the formation.

Dozens of steps away, a general held a spear to kill step by step, and the place where he passed was lying full of Cao pawn's corpse, facing the direction of Cao Hong.

At dusk, the three trembling white feathers on the general's helmet were particularly eye-catching—Gao Shun. (To be continued......)