Chapter 444: The Decisive Battle of Guangzong (8)
More than 100 meters away from the city of Gwangjong, many sappers were nervously and quickly assembling trebuchets. The parts of the trebuchet were assembled by their hands to form a behemoth, until finally, a trebuchet appeared outside the city of Gwangjong Castle.
The first, the second, appeared one after another. There were almost just over two minutes before the siege was launched, and it was almost effortless to break a trebuchet into pieces and assemble the various parts. All that is needed is memorization, familiarity with each part of the trebuchet, and the ability to assemble it step by step.
In the past 20 minutes, thousands of besieging Han troops at the four city gates have died, and this number is still rising. The wounded Han army is not much different, when they are injured, their combat effectiveness is almost lost, after all, what they want to capture is a city, even a scratch on the palm of the hand can make the speed of the soldier climb extremely slow, and this is equivalent to death.
Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Dong Zhuo almost did not spare the lives of Han soldiers, and every wave of siege was defeated, the next wave of Han soldiers would take over. It looks like a moth to a fire, but it's not, at least in their hearts, if they really care about the lives of their soldiers, then the price they have to pay will be more.
The foreshadowing of this siege had already begun more than a month before, and even as early as when Lu Zhi and Zhang Jiao were facing off in Guangzong. It was not until the ambush a month and a half ago that the Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army retreated to Guangzong, and in the large and small battles that followed a period of time, the Yellow Turban Army successfully approached the city of Guangzong. Then, there was the siege of the city, digging ditches and building towers around Gwangjong Fortress to firmly enclose Gwangjong Castle. and again and again, so that the Yellow Turban Army is tired, let them relax, accustomed to the actual fatigue of the army again and again, but it seems to be in the siege of the city.
Until today, it is the real siege! This night, late at night, is the time when Lu Zhi and the others choose to attack the city. The fourth watch, the hour when the night is the thickest, is also the time when people are most likely to be tired and lose their minds, and even the moon and stars in the sky are hidden.
Once the siege of the city is not carried out this time, any conspiracy after this is useless, only to use the strong attack again and again, with the blood and lives of Han soldiers to fill this incomparably large hole. And whether Guangzong City can be attacked is still unknown.
Lu Zhi smiled bitterly, if he failed to speak with facts and satisfy the princes of Gon and even His Majesty the Emperor, who were far away in the court, it might not be long before he, the commander, would have to be replaced. Watching the soldiers under his command attack the city in blood, every moment passes, there will be soldiers who die, especially now, when there is no way to effectively inflict effective damage on the Yellow Turban soldiers at the head of the city, their death is as if there is no meaning at all.
There was a little unbearable in his eyes, but he was immediately replaced by a cold gaze. Lu Zhi understood that if Guangzong City was not taken tonight, these dead soldiers would be truly meaningless. And as long as he takes Guangzong City, at least, he can have an explanation for their heroic souls.
"Dispatch the catapult!"
When the trebuchet was still about to be assembled, Lu Zhi and the four chose the trebuchet, although it did not cause as much damage as the trebuchet, but it could suppress the Yellow Turban soldiers at the head of Guangzong City. When the trebuchet is assembled, it will be able to continuously bombard Gwangjong Castle with stones, so that the strength of the city's defense will continue to weaken.
"Whoa, whoa." Huge stones were thrown out with the sound of the wind breaking through the air. Unlike the sound of the feather arrow, it was very dull, and with a sense of power, it roared away.
"Be careful!" The guard of the East Gate screamed, his whole face distorted incomparably, and his voice incomparably sharper.
He saw more than a dozen stones, flying from the air towards the wall where he was standing, so fast that it only took a blink of an eyelid, and what had been a small stone had become incomparably huge, occupying the center of his vision.
Some soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army looked at the main general in confusion, very confused, "What? ”
There were also soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, the two of them were carrying rolling logs, and they felt a strong wind pressing down on them, and subconsciously looked up and saw the stones falling in the sky. The torches at the head of the city shone brightly on the surroundings, and only where they stood was surrounded by shadows.
With a jump in their hearts, the two of them let go of their hands without hesitation, and let the rolling wood fall to their feet. As soon as they took a step, the faces of the two people instantly turned pale, fearful, unwilling, and all kinds of emotions appeared on the pale faces.
"Why don't you make it clear?" These were the words that the two Yellow Turban soldiers thought in their hearts, but did not utter. They complained to the master very much, and they just said to be careful, but they were not able to accurately tell them what to be careful of!
Huge rocks fell, smashing into the middle of the two men. "Bang", the rubble splashed, and the two Yellow Turban soldiers, when they were hit by the stones, were smashed into a pile of flesh and blood, and the flesh and bones were mixed together, and there was almost no delay, and the stones smashed on the masonry aisle at the head of the city.
The masonry in the entire aisle became shattered, and many cracks appeared around the stones. And near these cracks, at the edges of the stones, there were some red flesh remaining, and blood seeped out from above, falling drop by drop. Almost instantly, the two Yellow Turban soldiers were smashed into a ball of meat sauce.
In the violent collision, the stones and masonry collided, and the fragments that flew out at once struck the bodies of many of the Yellow Turban soldiers. In one fell swoop, it was like being punched hard, and some of them cut through the bare skin of the Yellow Turban soldiers, tearing open a hole filled with blood.
"Hide, hide!" Seeing the tragedy happening in front of them, many Yellow Turban soldiers screamed in panic. What's more, the whole person was stunned, and after a while, he screamed, because there were some minced meat on his cheeks, hanging on his head, and warm blood was sliding down his cheeks.
There were dozens of identical sounds, and each time, the stones thrown by the trebuchet were able to hit some of the Yellow Turban soldiers. Even with the reminder of the commander, even if the body reacts, the stones come much faster, and you hardly have time to dodge.
In this first wave of stone-throwing attacks, dozens of Yellow Turban soldiers died, and they were crushed to the ground by stones, and there was no meat sauce in the shape of a human being. Countless others were scratched by the rubble. In particular, the archers of the Yellow Turban Army, who were holding their bows and shooting arrows in the rear, suffered heavy casualties in this wave of stone-throwing attacks, and they were almost unable to make effective dodge movements before they were stoned to death. Not to mention, in order to shoot a dense rain of arrows, they stood on the head of the city in a dense formation.
As soon as they took a breath, many of the Yellow Turban soldiers had palpitations, looking at the huge stone not far away, it was not difficult to imagine what kind of tragedy it would cause if it hit themselves. Many of the Yellow Turban soldiers got up, and just flew forward to dodge, very embarrassed, but compared to such a way of dying, what was this?
A Yellow Turban soldier smiled at the pile of bright red meat sauce under the rocks, glad that his quick reaction had saved him. In this way of death, he would rather be hacked to death with a knife several times than experience this kind of death in a pile of meat sauce.
"Again?" He heard the exclamations of the other soldiers, looked up again, and saw more than a dozen stones, which were falling towards the city again.
"Damn, damn the Yellow Turban Army, this is sending us to death!" The player who was coerced and had to become a member of the Yellow Turban Army scolded that this defending the city was really far more difficult than he imagined.
If it was relatively easy at the beginning, he only had to stand guard, then when the Han army launched a siege, the difficulty rose in a straight line. At first, he and other Yellow Turban soldiers moved rolling logs and rocks to the besieging Han soldiers, and when they killed the Han soldiers in the area he was responsible for, they were able to gain a lot of experience and points every time. Just when he thought he could paddle down like this, he didn't have to wait long for him to be happy, and the rain of arrows from the Han army also came, and he had to guard against the Han soldiers who climbed up the ladder, and at the same time be careful of the feathered arrows on their heads.
Until now, the stones thrown by the catapult finally shattered the luck in his heart. In the face of the triple threat, he hardly knew when he would die, if the first two, the death threat brought by the Han soldiers and the feather arrows, he could accept, then when he saw the death of the Yellow Turban soldier who was hit by the stone, his courage disappeared at all.
He's just a gamer! Originally, he didn't want to join the Yellow Turban Army, if he hadn't lived in Jizhou, he had met the Yellow Turban Army in the wild and was threatened by it, he wouldn't have stood here at all. It's the game! It's just a game, and he's here to play a game, not to be abused, not to try a thousand ways to die!
Moving backwards, he looked around for an opportunity to sneak down the walls. Anyway, now the Han army is attacking the city very fiercely, and there is almost no time for the Yellow Turban Army to breathe, and no one will notice him. As long as he slips down the city wall and finds a place to hide in the city, then when the battle is over, he will be a chic player again.
As soon as he stepped back, he felt a chill on his neck, and the whole world turned upside down, and finally went dark.
The Yellow Turban general defending the city withdrew his blood-stained long knife, raised his right foot, and stepped on it again, stepping on the bone-rolling skull. He glanced indifferently at some of the Yellow Turban soldiers at the head of the city, smiled coldly, and said loudly: "Those who intend to escape, die!" ”
"The knife and axe hand retreats, and those who take twenty steps back, kill! There are those who are cowardly, kill! Those who intend to remove the city walls, kill! "Three cold killing words in a row, with **** killing intent. Coupled with the sword and axe hands who lined up in the back and retreated to the edge of the inner passage of the castle to guard the stairs on both sides, there was no need to imagine the final result.
"Damn it!" Many players who had the same idea as the previous player retracted their backward steps, and there was not much chance of choice, the former one, guarding the wall, could not know when he would die, and the latter one, but he died immediately. They all know how to choose, and they can only quietly wait for the opportunity to see if they can find a chance to run down this dangerous wall.
"Bang bang bang!"
Another wave of stones smashed down, smashing down on the aisle of the city wall again, and the entire Yellow Turban Army's formation defending the city head was extremely chaotic. Hardly a single archer could shoot the feathered arrows in his hand safely, and when the falling stones kept appearing, it was already doomed, and once he stood still, it was the result of death.
"General! The Han army's rush is almost in front of the corridor of the city gate! A Yellow Turban soldier poked his head out, turned around and shouted loudly.
But the next moment he turned around, his body trembled violently, and he had already been hit by no less than four feather arrows. He tried hard to maintain his balance and retreat, but in the end his body lost support and fell towards the city.
"Get out of the way!" Pulling away from the soldiers beside him who were blocking his path, the guard moved forward quickly.
"Damn, why haven't there been reinforcements yet? Haven't woken up yet? This bunch of damn it! He scolded a few times in a row, and it was difficult to hide the anger in his heart.
"Hurry, hurry! Push the rolling logs and rocks down, and even if they can't hit the rushing car, they must block their way! ”
"Yes!" The panicked Yellow Turban soldiers at the head of the city quickly calmed down when they heard his order. At the head of the city facing the city gate, the rolling wood and falling stones were pushed downward, and suddenly, the road ahead of the rushing car was completely blocked.
"Smash smash, smash them!" The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army looked at the Han soldiers who wanted to clean up the rolling logs and rocks they pushed down, smiled fiercely, and worked hard together, and smashed the rolling logs that were carried down to the bottom.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" The four Yellow Turban generals led by Zhao Hong, leading their respective four armies, were rapidly advancing towards the four city walls. They could already see the gates of Guangzong City, and the top of the city where the shouts shook the sky, and from time to time stones fell from the sky, smashing down the houses in the city.
They were only the first wave of troops to aid the city walls, and behind them, there were also troops that had assembled and had already set off. It can be said that a steady stream of reinforcements is daring to come, no matter which city wall has no loopholes in the defense, not to mention the huge number of the Yellow Turban Army, unless the entire city wall of Guangzong City is smashed out of a gap, or the city gate falls, otherwise the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong itself is a strong city wall built with human flesh!
If the Han army wanted to capture the city, it was almost an impossible task.
(End of chapter)