Chapter 330: The Princes Siege (Medium)
Under the Tiger Prison, there were countless corpses of coalition soldiers, but the war drums in the coalition army were still ringing, and some soldiers just looked back cautiously and continued to march towards the Tiger Prison Pass, and the row of knife hands behind them was specially prepared by Yuan Shao for deserters.
Jia Rong pointed to a well in the middle with his hand, and the ten bed crossbows were immediately aligned, and the crossbowmen were responsible for adjusting the direction.
After loading the crossbow arrows, the crossbowman looked at Jia Rong quietly, waiting for Zuihou's order, and the sound of a squeaky winch sounded, and only four soldiers could operate a bed crossbow.
Jia Rong gave an order, and ten crossbow arrows headed towards the well.
These bed crossbows were originally equipped with a sharp weapon to defend the city in the Tiger Prison Pass, and the bed crossbows were huge, although they were not very accurate, but they did not need to aim at the coalition soldiers under the pass.
Six out of ten crossbow arrows deflected elsewhere and landed among the coalition soldiers, causing a wail.
The crossbow bolts fired from the bed crossbow are comparable to the thickness and length of a spear in a soldier's hand, and a crossbow arrow containing the power of a few bows can easily take the lives of several soldiers.
Four crossbow arrows hit Jing Yan, under the powerful impact of the crossbow arrows, Jing Yan squeaked and twisted a few times, and finally did not stand the test, and collapsed violently, and the huge crossbow arrows directly shot Jing Yan at the waist.
The soldiers on the well let out a frightened cry, when the top soldier fell to the ground, it was already unknown, the well was about ten meters high, and it was seven meat and eight vegetables when it fell, and it was trampled by the soldiers who rushed to kill from behind, and it was difficult to live even if it did not die.
The fate of the middle well naturally did not escape the eyes of the other soldiers on the well, staring at the movement on the tiger prison with a pale face, but he didn't expect the advantage of the well to become the enemy's target, the crossbow arrows comparable to spears easily pierced the three soldiers, and this was still the situation where the soldiers were wearing armor.
Yuan Shao said with a heavy face: "I didn't expect that there was such a sharp weapon to defend the city in the Tiger Prison Pass. â
Cao Cao on the side said: "The alliance leader doesn't have to worry, the Han Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, although there is a heavy crossbow in the Tiger Prison Pass, if you don't use it for a long time, I'm afraid that the bowstring will be broken if you send a few arrows. â
Some of the princes looked embarrassed, the defenders of the Tiger Prison Pass were so strong, and the soldiers who lost countless after the strong attack were countless, but what Cao Cao said was also reasonable, and the princes were not easy to refute.
Jia Rong pointed his hand at a well, which was rushing forward, and the closed bed crossbow immediately turned the crossbow head, and after a few measurements, the crossbowmen nodded one after another, and the huge crossbow arrows were also loaded into the bed crossbow.
The sound of squeaking sounded again, although the well that Jia Rong pointed out was not as tragic as the last one, it was not much better, under the powerful impact of the crossbow arrows, it was crumbling, and the soldiers on the well kept watching, for fear that the well would collapse, and the timid soldiers began to climb along the ladder xiangxia.
As Cao Cao expected, after knocking down three wells, six of the ten bed crossbows were heroically sacrificed, the bowstring broke, and the remaining four could not be used because of one or another problem.
Jing Qian slowly came to the pass, and with the suppression of Jing Qi, the coalition soldiers under the pass gradually climbed the city wall and began to meet the defenders of the pass.
None of the soldiers of the Xiliang Army, the Dong Army and the Zuihou Army were easy people, and the soldiers who rushed up were killed by the defenders before they could gain a firm foothold, and the ladders were pushed down one after another, and several screams were made.
The sound of the soldiers fighting and shouting at the close and the end was endless.
Among all the generals defending the city, Li Shun was the most leisurely, they were infantry, and they were unparalleled in the world in terms of infantry and combat cooperation, and they were not afraid of the small coalition soldiers at all.
There was a rain of arrows from the well, and the defenders on the gate could not dodge, and about a dozen of them were hit by the arrows, and let out a painful wail.
Although the slowly moving well guards were constantly threatened by the crossbow to close the bed, there were still seven well guards who survived tenaciously and began to fight against the soldiers on the tiger prison.
The arrows fired at the soldiers on the well fell to the ground weakly, and the distance between the well and the Tiger Pass was just outside the range of the bow and arrow, but the archers on the well were able to threaten the defenders of the Tiger Pass.
Jia Rong's eyes breathed fire, with these seven wells, the numerical advantage of the allies will be greatly exerted, and the soldiers on the gate only care about avoiding the soldiers on the wells, and they will also take care of the soldiers who are besieging the city.
When the coalition soldiers gained a firm foothold in the gate, it was when the end of the defenders came, after all, the coalition army had 100,000 people, and the defenders in the city only had more than 10,000 people.
The well was not satisfied with the effect of just suppression, and slowly leaned towards the city wall, there were about 700 soldiers on the well wall, and they were able to gain a firm foothold in a short period of time, and the soldiers behind took the opportunity to go up.
Lu Bu took the bow and arrow handed by the soldier, mounted the arrow, pulled the arrow, and then shot the arrow, the whole process was done in one go, and the arrow pointed directly at the archers on the well.
At this time, the archers on the well were looking at the defenders who were busy dealing with the closure with a smug face, and a sense of danger hit his heart, only to see an arrow coming straight towards him, and he had even seen a cluster of arrows.
With a "poof", the arrow pierced the soldier's throat, and the tail of the arrow trembled slightly.
The soldiers on the well were shocked, they didn't expect there to be such archers in the defenders, they put away their contempt, and paid attention to the movement on the pass, but whenever the arrows on the pass came, they bowed their heads to dodge, and the infantry on the well was not harmed, and the outside of the well was wrapped in raw cowhide, and the arrows fell weakly when they hit it.
"Go and call General Lu!" Jia Rong said in a deep voice.
A moment later, Lu Bu came to Jia Rong's side under the leadership of the herald, bowed down and said, "Meet the general!" â
Jia Rong went straight to the point and said: "Fengxian, you lead a thousand cavalry to rush down the pass and break through all these wells. â
Lu Bu clenched his fists and promised, and was about to leave, but Jia Rong stopped: "You ask Li Shun for a little oil, and set fire to these wells." â
Lu Bu hurried away after receiving the order.
No matter how powerful the well is, it is only wooden, and a fire has not burned it to ashes, the cavalry of the Xiliang Army has been in the limelight recently, and the coalition army has seen the arrival of the cavalry, and it is too late to dodge.
The gate of the Tiger Prison creaked open, and under the stunned gaze of the siege soldiers, more than a thousand cavalry rushed out and went straight to the well.
The siege soldiers were all infantry, and when they saw the arrival of the cavalry, they scattered in all directions, and the power of the Xiliang cavalry had penetrated into the hearts of all the allied soldiers a few days ago.
The soldiers in charge of watching and watching immediately spread the news to Yuan Shao's Chinese army, Yuan Shao was shocked when he heard it, the alliance of the princes of the Eighteenth Road seemed to be mighty, but the siege equipment was not as much as imagined.
"Send 2,000 soldiers, and be sure to protect the well." Yuan Shao hurriedly said.
LĂź Bu led a thousand cavalry, and the soldiers were divided into two roads, pointing to the two wells.
The soldiers on the well were concentrating on shooting arrows at the gate, how could they see this change, the soldiers at the top panicked, and retreated to the bottom of the well.
The infantry of the coalition army collapsed in an instant under the powerful impact of the cavalry, and under Lu Bu's order, dozens of jars of oil were smashed on the well, and the oil was splashed all over the ground.
Several cavalrymen threw the haode torches that had been prepared on the well, which was already dry, and after pouring oil, a raging fire instantly ignited, and the soldiers on the well were unable to retreat, and shouted loudly on the well in vain.
Lu Bu did not look back, and led the cavalry to continue to set off from a well in Xiangxia.
When the battle reached Zuihou, the cavalry led by Lu Bu was met with more and more resistance, and five or six hundred soldiers guarded a well, and in the face of this scene, Lu Bu had no choice but to lock on to the next one.
After Lu Bu made such a fuss on the battlefield, the soldiers on the well had no heart to attack, and shot numbly one arrow after another, but the corner of his eye never left the cavalry on the battlefield.
In the army of the princes, the soldiers in front of the formation slowly walked away, and the sound of the rumbling iron cavalry of the cavalry came, and the first few hundred cavalry were all dressed in white war horses with solemn expressions.
One of the generals held a long lance, and with a wave of the lance, the 2,000 cavalry behind him rushed towards the battlefield.
Two thousand cavalry galloped, and the sound shook the sky completely, and the soldiers under the gate couldn't help but cast their eyes over.
LĂź Bu led the army to destroy four wells, and when he saw that the princes' army sent cavalry to come, he withdrew his army and returned.
The siege soldiers intended to follow Lu Bu into the city, and the soldiers of the princes' army were blocked outside the pass.
Gongsun Zhan sneered: "What Xiliang Army, but so, Bai Ma Yi is unparalleled in the world, and when he encounters it on the battlefield in Japan, he will not leave a piece of armor that will be killed." â
The 2,000 cavalry behind him roared in unison.
The Allied soldiers' wells were destroyed, and their morale immediately dropped, and without the cover of the wells, the soldiers who kept climbing became moving targets, and the wooden boulders and crossbow arrows continued to claim the lives of the soldiers.
The coalition soldiers who climbed to the pass were all wiped out when LĂź Bu attacked Jingqi.
After the three wells were close to the Tiger Prison, the soldiers on the wells were desperate to kill the passes, but the distance from the wells to the gates became a deadly road, and the crossbow arrows were unavoidable, and the soldiers who came to the gates were greeted by bright knives and guns.
To a certain extent, the three wells put a lot of pressure on the defenders of the pass, and hundreds of people rushed to the pass together, and it took some time for the defenders to kill them, and during this time, there were coalition soldiers on the city wall, and the battle was approaching the white-hot stage.
Dong Zhuojun of the Zhou Army, the Xiliang Army, the Northern and Southern Army, which of the soldiers of these armies is not experienced in a hundred battles, dealing with such an unorganized and undisciplined coalition soldiers, with ease, the coalition army seems to be powerful, and there are only a handful of people who can climb the city wall, and some coalition soldiers even keep wandering under the pass, but they dare not climb the ladder.
After listening to the battle situation reported by the watchers, Yuan Shao of the Chinese army sighed and withdrew his troops, and today's battle for tackling key problems came to an end.
Seeing the retreat of the Allied soldiers, there was an earth-shattering roar from the gate, many soldiers hugged each other excitedly, and the Allied troops invested 30,000 troops at a time, saying that it is strange not to be afraid, if the Allied army continues to be powerful, I am afraid that the Tiger Prison Pass will really be captured.