006 siege
The sky was clear, there was not a single cloud in it, and the heat increased as the sun rose. The dust rose one by one with the footsteps of the Han soldiers, like a yellow mist, like a long smoke screen array. The heat gets hotter and hotter, and in July, the sun hangs like fire in the sky, burning the earth. Sweat poured down the heads of every brethren, and a drop the size of a soybean fell to the ground.
The ground is also hot, and if you step on it and lift it quickly, it will be a little spicy and difficult. The dust is getting thicker and thicker, sticking to people's sweaty faces, suffocating you and having to open your mouth to breathe.
Goofy looked up at the sun hanging in the sky, the dazzling sunlight made him have to cover it with his hands, he couldn't open his eyes a little, he could already feel the sweat beads on his back dripping down his back, not to mention the soldiers walking on the land behind him.
The weather of this son of a bitch is as irritating as the war of this son of a bitch. It was only a distance of five miles, because the soldiers of the Han army had to push those siege weapons hard, and this short distance would take so long. The slow pace of the infantry also hindered the speed of the cavalry, and the horses were also sweating like rain, walking on the road with four hooves, and from time to time neighing from their mouths, as if complaining that the foot soldiers in front of them were blocking their path.
Goofy looked around, and the army marched forward at a tortoise-like pace, encircling Gwangjong Castle on the east, south, and west, leaving only a gap in the north.
Circumference three missing one! This is Lu Zhi's cleverness, there are hundreds of thousands of thieves in Guangzong City, and they have been firmly surrounded by him for nearly a month with the strategy of deep ditches and high bases, hundreds of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of mouths, the grain looted by the yellow turban thieves from everywhere has already been eaten up, in order to prevent these hungry thieves from fighting to the death, Lu Zhi left them a way to live, and also left a back road for himself.
After a while, an unobstructed green passage opened in the middle of the team, and Lu Zhi drove from that road with his five hundred heavily armored cavalry, probably because he couldn't wait.
"See your lord!" Gao Fei, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others all bowed respectfully when they saw Lu Zhi coming.
"Excuse me!" Lu Zhi turned over and dismounted, wiped the sweat on his forehead, glanced at the yellow turban thieves on the city wall, and said slowly, "Although there are more than 100,000 yellow turban thieves in the city, most of them are old and weak women and children, and there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people who can really fight. ”
"The last general obeys!" Goofy replied.
"And the thief's head is also in the city, and he has decreed that whoever gets his head will be rewarded for his life...... Five hundred pounds! Lu Zhi stretched out his five fingers, he firmly believed that there would be a brave man under the heavy reward, and the honor and reward brought to him by Zhang Jiao's death were by no means comparable to five hundred catties of gold.
"My lord, in this way, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and the soldiers will desperately move forward, and Guangzong City will be broken today!" High Flying Road.
A smile appeared on Lu Zhi's face, looking at Guangzong City close at hand, his heart was overjoyed, and he said lightly: "For today, Ben Jiang has been waiting for a long time!" ”
"My lord, all the siege troops have been assembled, just wait for the order of the lord!" A military Sima rode a horse to Lu Zhi's side, turned over and dismounted, and said with his hand.
Lu Zhi said: "Pass the order down and start attacking the city!" ”
"No!"
When the order was issued, Gao Fei led his 1,000 cavalry to turn on their horses and get out of the way, allowing the siege troops behind to push tall trebuchets, wells, and bulky siege vehicles, ballistas, light ladders and other siege equipment past in front of them. 1,000 foot soldiers rushed to the front with shields, 200 foot soldiers carrying cloud ladders followed, 1,200 echelons drove quickly, and behind were tall and cumbersome wells and siege vehicles pushed by hundreds of people, approaching towards Guangzong City step by step.
It is the same height as the city wall, and there are archers standing on it, which are used to cover the troops who climb the city wall during the siege, and shoot at the enemy troops in the city, which can be regarded as a kind of mobile arrow tower. Under the impetus of the Han army and the wrestlers, the wells and siege engines began to approach the city wall step by step, and in their rear, there were stone throwers fixed on land.
A thousand foot soldiers with shields rushed to the city wall under the arrows of the Yellow Turban Thieves, covering all the arrows shot by the Yellow Turban Thieves. The Yellow Turban Thieves suddenly changed their tactics, shooting their bows and arrows at the charging foot soldiers, while some of the other city defenders threw many large stones from the city walls, killing many Han shield soldiers on the side of the city walls.
The ladder was erected, and it was pushed down by the thieves, or smashed with stones. After Lu Zhi's order, a steady stream of foot soldiers began to rush out from the front of the Han army, shouting and whistling, expressing their fearlessness in their hearts with extremely uplifting voices. The archers on the well began to counterattack the thieves in the city, greatly reducing the pressure on the siege troops, but there were still many Han soldiers who were killed by the thieves in order to climb the city wall.
When the siege wagons were pushed down by the city gates, the soldiers who rushed to the city walls first and did not die in battle used their shields to shield the siege wagons.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The siege engines began to pound the gates with all their might, and soldiers were shot or stoned to death in front of the gates. One was killed in the battle, and the soldiers behind hurriedly made up for it, using their flesh and blood to break through the city gates.
After a period of fighting, perhaps because the Yellow Turban Thieves did not have enough to eat, the arrows of those archers became more and more powerless, or perhaps because they were suppressed by the powerful arrow array of the Han archers on the well, in short, the Yellow Turban Thieves on the city wall retreated from the city tower and turned to the city.
Gao Fei looked carefully, it was the first time that he had witnessed the cruelty of the ancient siege warfare so truly, in just half an hour, the east city gate in front of him alone had killed thousands of soldiers, and countless people were injured.
"Boom!"
The city gate was breached in an instant, and the siege vehicles quickly retreated, making way for the troops behind, and the soldiers who used the ladder to climb the city wall also stood on the city wall one after another, and began to rush into the city.
"My lord, the south gate and the west gate have been breached, and Zhang Jiao has begun to escape from the north gate!" A fast horse flew over and told Lu Zhi the information on the battlefield.
"Goofy! The speed department turned to the north gate, and if he met the thief leader, whether he lived or died, he couldn't let Zhang Jiao escape! Lu Zhi hurriedly turned his head and shouted loudly to Gao Fei, who was waiting for him beside him.
Gao Fei "No" and shouted at the cavalry behind him: "Follow me!" ”
A thousand cavalry galloped quickly to the north gate, galloping fast, and soon reached the north gate, but saw some old and weak women and children wrapped in yellow scarves between some thieves with weapons in their hands, and fled all the way north.
"My lord, those who mess with the world, and the yellow turban thieves. Those people are all bewitched by Zhang Jiao, they are innocent, please don't kill them! When Liu Bei saw this scene, he hurriedly shouted.
Goofy nodded and said, "Well, I have my own measure." The whole army obeyed the order, all soldiers must not kill innocents indiscriminately, only those thieves with weapons in their hands, and the rest of the people are not allowed to be violated! ”
"No!"
"Yun Chang and Yide, each of you leads 200 people to the front along the official road, blocking those bewildered Yellow Turban people, telling them that those who surrender will have food and drink, and those who resist will be killed!" Gao Fei hurriedly shouted when he saw the long human dragon heading north along the official road.
"The last general obeys!" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei replied in unison.
"Brother Xuande, please lead two hundred people each to kill you and Lu Heng on both sides of the road." High Flying Road.
Liu Bei and Lu Heng said in unison: "Obey!" ”
After the order, the 1,000 cavalry quickly divided into five squads, each killing the enemy. Goofy led 200 cavalry galloped to a short distance from the city gate, and immediately hundreds of thieves with swords blocked the way.
Gao Fei took the lead with a dragon spear, and led two hundred well-equipped and well-trained cavalry like wolves and sheep, and only one charge to kill the hundreds of thieves and soldiers.
"Ignore these shrimp soldiers and crab generals, quickly rush to the city gate with me."
At this moment, a group of thieves in iron armor poured out of the city, surrounded by this group of iron armor soldiers, a middle-aged man with a yellow ribbon on his head, wearing a Xuanhuang robe, appeared from the city on a thin horse, his face was frightened, and he looked back from time to time.
"My lord! This person is the thief's first horn! One of the cavalrymen beside Goofy shouted.
Goofy was shocked, and shouted, "It's all effortless, rush over with me and kill the thief!" ”
At the sound of the order, the high-flying cavalry troops quickly rushed over.
Surrounded by ironclad soldiers, Zhang Jiao was frightened, and suddenly saw a small group of cavalry killed, so he shouted loudly: "Guan Hai! Block them! ”
Zhang Jiao's side, a yellow-faced man with a height of about 1.8 meters "Nuo" said, led the group of infantry wearing iron armor to immediately form a small phalanx, and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”
Dozens of thieves armed with bows and arrows used all their strength to shoot arrows.
"Whoosh! Sou! ”
Gao Fei saw the arrow coming, hurriedly leaned over the horse, and shouted loudly: "Don't be afraid, rush over, the thieves are already at the end of their rope!" ”
As soon as the voice fell, more than a dozen screams were heard behind him, and more than a dozen cavalrymen fell from their horses and fell heavily to the ground.
"!" Gao Fei straightened his body again, clenched the dragon spear in his hand, looked at the group of ironclad soldiers less than 100 meters, and scolded hatefully.
"Great sage and good teacher! Please get out of here, I'm in my way! Guan Hai saw that the high-flying cavalry was menacing, so he immediately shouted loudly.
"Take care!" Zhang Jiao only left a whisper, and with a loud shout, he quickly bypassed the Yellow Turban thieves in front of him with dozens of light horsemen and fled to the northwest.
Gao Fei saw Zhang Jiao running, and there were ironclad soldiers in front of him blocking the way, shook his spirit, used his gun to pull away the arrows that were shooting, gritted his teeth, and instantly rushed into the group of ironclad soldiers, using the rapid collision force of the horses, directly hit the dozen thieves with spears in front of him, and at the same time he also jumped off the horse's back, only to hear a tragic neighing of horses, and the sound of several thieves breaking bones, and he fell to the ground.
His body was still rolling on the ground, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Guan Hai holding a big knife and surrounding him with a group of ironclad soldiers. He hurriedly propped himself up with the palm of his hand, and rose up just as the thief was about to stab him with his sword and spear. The dragon spear in his hand swept away, and immediately several thieves were cut in their throats, and blood gushed out from the throats of those thieves, and before they could scream, they fell to the ground and died, leaving a gap for him to settle down.
"Bang!"
At the moment when Gao Fei landed, he heard a loud sound in his ears, a big knife slammed on the ground, the person holding the knife had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his body was strong, it was the Yellow Turban Thief Guan Hai!
"It's dangerous!" Gao Fei secretly screamed in his heart, and before he could breathe, he felt the wind behind him, and his cold hair stood up, he hurriedly bent down, only to hear the sound of "dang chang", and the iron helmet on his head was shot down and landed on the body of the yellow turban thief.
His body flipped suddenly, and he kicked out with his legs with the dragon spear in both hands, kicking away the yellow turban thief with a long sword behind him, and at the same time twisting his body vigorously, his feet quickly stepped on the chest of the soldiers around him, quite a sweep of thousands of troops, and when his body turned around, the group of thieves all rolled over and fell to the ground.
"Get out of the way!" Guan Hai roared, jumped up, and slashed with a big knife in the air.
Gao Fei hurriedly blocked the big knife with the dragon spear, and after the roar of "Zheng", he only felt that his hands were slightly numb from the shock, and the big knife that he was holding was like a thousand catties of weight, and under the effect of the force, he felt quite struggling.
Guan Hai landed on the ground, and the head of the knife was suddenly flattened, trying to cut off Gao Fei's head, and shouted: "I didn't kill you last time, this time you don't want to escape!" ”
Gao Fei hurriedly blocked it with his gun, and at the same time, his body took a few steps back, quite surprised by Guan Hai's strength. He turned the head of the spear and pierced a thief who was killed from behind, staring at Guan Hai with indifferent eyes, and asked loudly: "The hero is brave, and leave his name!" ”
"Lao Tzu is Guan Hai!"
"Guan Hai? has fought with Guan Yu on horses for dozens of rounds, and he can be regarded as a mighty young general, so I should take it for my own use. Goofy secretly admired in his heart.
"Bang!"
At this moment, more than 100 cavalry rushed over at the same time, knocking all the thieves who surrounded Gao Fei into the air, the cavalry turned over and dismounted, quickly gathered together, and wherever the spears went, they opened a bloody road, and immediately reversed the situation of Gao Fei's passivity.
Gao Fei's face was overjoyed, and after stabbing three thieves to death in succession, he turned around but disappeared Guan Hai, and looked around, but saw Guan Hai riding on this fast horse and heading towards the northwest with a few relatives.
"Those who surrender are not to die!" The soldiers of the Han army shouted one after another, the deep sound was like a burst of thunder, the leader of the thieves was gone, and they could not resist the offensive of the Han army, and they immediately became afraid, and they threw down their weapons and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.
"You stay, come and go with me fifty people, and chase and kill Zhang Jiao!" Gao Fei shouted, turned his head and saw that there was chaos on the official road, and the people with yellow scarves on their heads ripped off the yellow scarves on their heads, and threw them to the ground mercilessly, allowing them to be trampled on, and retreated to both sides of the road, as if they had been controlled.
As he spoke, Gao Fei and fifty cavalrymen turned over and mounted their horses, regardless of how many Yellow Turban thieves there were in the city, they just cared about heading northwest, after all, Zhang Jiao's head would become the ladder for him to enter.
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