The sky gradually brightened, and when the sunlight passed through the heavy clouds, casting thousands of golden lights on the head of the city of Chencang, the bell of the jǐng was in the head of the city. While! When the sound rang, 8,000 Cao soldiers rushed up to the city, holding bows and arrows and crossbows, and waited for them.

Outside the city, the overwhelming main force of the Han army has been swept away, they are divided into four large phalanxes, from four directions to Chencang City, the horn sounds, the drum is like thunder, spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, heavy infantry, barbarians, 40,000 troops like waves undulating, gradually stopped, about three miles away from the city.

The Han soldiers wore scarves on their heads, and wore double leather armor decorated with fish scales and iron plates, and their weapons were giant shields, war knives and spears, as well as a large number of bows and crossbows, although they were southern soldiers, they came from Jingchu and Bashu, which created a brilliant civilization, and the Chushu civilization was left to their descendants, their weapons were advanced and sharp, the siege weapons were complete, the formation was neat, and the morale was high.

The army of 50,000 had hundreds of siege ladders, and instead of using ladders, they used dozens of giant trebuchets and thirty nest carts, and even five huge battering rams.

The Han army obviously realized the siege problem faced by the general of the attack on Guanzhong, and the hundred siege ladders when attacking the west city were not enough to capture the city of Chencang, Liu Jing sent tens of thousands of people to transport siege weapons from Bashu as early as after capturing the west city, and they needed the sharpest siege to break the gate of the city of Chen Cangcheng.

Xu Huang anxiously looked at Sanguan in the distance, the army of Sanguan should have arrived a long time ago, but now there is no news, so he has to worry about something wrong, there is only one explanation, Liu Jing sent troops to intercept Hao Zhao's army, as for the fate of Hao Zhao's army, he has no way of knowing.

At least one thing he knew in his heart that Hao Zhao's army would not come to support him again, and he could only rely on 10,000 defenders to hold Chen Cang, but in the face of the huge Han army attacking the city, could Chen Cang hold it?

Xu Huang didn't have a little bottom in his heart, but fortunately, the defense of Chen Cangcheng was also quite well prepared, and he might be able to reach the large-scale attack of the Han army.

The city was covered with flags and densely packed with Cao soldiers, and behind them, dozens of huge trebuchets stood high above the city walls.

Xu Huang had participated in the battle of Guandu and knew the power of trebuchets, when Cao's thunderbolt catapults brought heavy losses to Yuan Shao's army, although Cao's army was not as strong as Yuan's army, but it was the emergence of powerful trebuchets that Yuan Shao's camp was finally captured.

It's a pity that he didn't expect the Han army to attack Chencang in a big way, let alone that the Han army would carry so many siege weapons, so that Xu Huang didn't make too many preparations to strengthen the city wall, and the other party also had a huge monster-like nest car, and the siege power of the Han army made Xu Huang's heart full of worries.

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The horns under the city were whimpering, the morale was high, and the main force of the 40,000 Han army had surrounded Chencang from four directions, and would launch an attack on the city at the same time.

Liu Jing looked at Chen Cang from a distance outside the West City, Chen Cang City is obviously not as tall and strong as Ji City, the city is only two feet and five feet high, it is old, it does not seem too strong, but there is an extra moat.

But for the Han army, which was good at siege, there was no threat to this moat, it was no more than three feet wide, and it could be paved with wooden planks.

"Qiyu State Shepherd, trebuchets and nest carts are ready!" An officer rushed to report.

Liu Jing looked back and saw hundreds of healthy cattle dragging dozens of huge trebuchets and nest carts, the trebuchet was three feet high, and the throwing rod was five zhang long, and it took hundreds of people to pull this giant trebuchet.

Although Liu Jing still had doubts about Cao Jun's trebuchet, he also wanted to see how powerful Cao Jun's trebuchet was.

"Order the army of the northern city to attack first!"

The 10,000 troops in Beicheng were prisoners of war who surrendered to the Han army in the Battle of Longxi, and their life and death were not too important to Liu Jing.

"Boom! Boom! The drums of the attack sounded, and the Han army outside the northern city launched the first offensive, and 10,000 Han troops rushed towards the city like cháo water, carrying dozens of staircases, brandishing swords and spears, holding shields and crossbows, and rushing towards the city gate with shouts.

The Cao army at the head of the city was extremely nervous, and without waiting for Xu Huang's order, the Han army was still a few hundred steps away, and they struck, and the arrows rained down, but there was no effect.

Behind the watery army of Cháo were five gigantic nest carts, slowly moving forward under the pull of hundreds of healthy oxen.

At the head of the city, Cao Jun's ten trebuchets began to creak and rattle, because it was attacking from top to bottom, Cao Jun's craftsmen adjusted their arm spacing, and set up a clever lever, so that the trebuchet no longer needed 200 people to pull, only 50 people to start.

The large stones of the millstone were put into the throwing bag, and at the sound of Xu Huang's order, ten trebuchets fired at the same time, and the ten boulders were thrown high, tumbling in the air, drawing an arc, and slamming into the dense crowd.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang on the ground, screams abounded, the Han soldiers avoided it, and were smashed into meat cakes by the boulder, the huge habitual xìng made the stones roll in the crowd, the speed was abnormal, and they rolled out more than 20 steps in a row, and the soldiers besieging the city desperately dodged on both sides, but more than ten people died under the collision of the boulders, and dozens of people were injured, their bones were broken and their tendons were broken, and the wailing sounded together.

Immediately after the second, third, and fourth rounds of trebuchets shè out, accompanied by Cao Jun's bow and crossbow, the arrows on the city were like a dense rain, and the city was heavily killed and wounded, and each round of boulders fell down, bringing hundreds of casualties, it was simply a slaughtering machine, bringing heavy losses to the besieging army.

The role of trebuchets in defending the city is incomparable, the most famous such as the defense of Taiyuan in the Anshi Rebellion in history, Li Guangbi, who was poor in troops, used dozens of giant trebuchets to kill nearly 100,000 rebels, and achieved a brilliant victory in the defense of Taiyuan.

It was the same in Chencang, the Cao army used a trebuchet no less than the Han army, causing huge casualties to the attacking Han army, and the battlefield was already full of corpses, smashing flat bodies, smashed human heads, brains smeared on the ground, blood flowed like rivers, and the big stones were dyed red.

At this time, the attacking Han army had gradually approached the city wall, and under the cover of bows and arrows, more than 1,000 Han soldiers laid wooden planks on the moat, and nailed the giant nails at both ends of the planks in the soil, so that the moat lost its defensive role.

Thousands of Han soldiers carried siege ladders and rushed across the moat, the ladder set up the head of the city, the rolling wood and stones on the city fell like hail, and the Han soldiers raised their shields to protect and climbed to attack on the city.

The five nest cars continued to move forward and gradually drove onto the moat, at this time Xu Huang sneered and shouted: "Change the fire oil and throw shè!" ”

Cao Jun quickly brought in dozens of small trebuchets, threw their rods, and threw dozens of barrels full of fire oil into the moat under the city.

The situation that the Han army feared the most finally happened, Cao Jun used fire oil when the Han army killed the moat, as dozens of burning fireballs rolled down from the city and smashed into the crowd, a sea of fire suddenly formed inside and outside the moat, countless people were ignited by the fire oil, became fire people, they opened their arms, wailed and ran around, did not run a few steps, fell to the ground, the fire burned them and curled up.

Cao Jun's fire oil dealt a fatal blow to the nest car, as the fire burned and spread, the huge nest car was also ignited, a large number of bullocks pulling the nest car fled frantically, and the five nest cars overturned in the flames and were engulfed in the raging fire.

'When! While! While! The bell for the withdrawal rang, and after nearly thirty percent of the soldiers were killed or wounded, the Han army that had attacked for the first time retreated like cháo water, and the huge nest cart did not do anything and was destroyed by fire.

Liu Jing looked at the city coldly, although he knew the power of Cao Jun's trebuchet, but he didn't expect it to be sharp, as well as the terrifying fire oil weapon, but these were all in his expectation.

At this time, he glanced back at the trebuchet of the Han army, and slowly ordered: "Pass my order, attack on all sides, and the first person to attack the head of the city will be rewarded with a thousand taels." ”

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After the failure of the first tentative attack, the Han army launched another full-scale attack, and eighty giant trebuchets slowly approached the head of the city of Chencang from four directions, twice as many as the trebuchets on the head of the city, and their shè was in the early four hundred steps, and the hundred-pound boulder was enough to destroy everything on the head of the city.

At the head of the city, Xu Huang's expression was extremely grim, he knew in his heart that Chen Cang could not be saved, he only had 10,000 troops to defend the city, and the Han army attacked from four directions at the same time, and he could only deploy more than 2,000 people at most on each city wall, and only pulled the trebuchet to remove half of the soldiers, how could he hold the city in the face of an enemy attack four times his size.

At this moment, there was a strange sound in the sky, and dozens of black dots were seen roaring towards the city, and the soldiers panicked and scattered to hide, and with a loud bang, the first round of eighty boulders smashed into the city.

"General flash mob!"

The soldiers shouted, and several pro-soldiers threw Xu Huang to the ground, only to see a hundred-pound boulder flying towards and hitting the battlements, the battlements were shattered, and the gravel flew wildly.

The boulder the size of the millstone bounced up, tumbling and passing over Xu Huang's head, 'Bang! With a loud bang, it struck the bottom of a trebuchet, and the thick wood broke, and with a piercing creak, the massive trebuchet fell backwards, and finally tumbled down from the city, and fell to the ground with a thud.

The first round of boulder attacks caused nearly 200 Cao soldiers to be killed and wounded, five trebuchets were destroyed, countless soldiers were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, and died tragically on the spot.

Xu Huang's face turned pale, on the one hand, he ordered the trebuchet at the head of the city to counterattack, on the other hand, he found a personal soldier, gave him an arrow, and whispered: "You go down to the city immediately, go to find Liu Jing, and say that I am willing to lead the army to evacuate Chen Cang, and ask him to remove the siege of Dongcheng." ”

When the city was difficult to protect, Xu Huang could only choose to keep the soldiers safe as much as possible.

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