Volume 1: Xu Du Fengyun Chapter 58: Seeking Yuan (6)
At noon, the drums of the attack were beaten,
'Boom! Boom! Boom!'
The dull and fierce sound of war drums shook the heavens and the earth.
The 20,000 infantry of Cao's army shouted almost neatly, like a raging tide, covering the battering ram to attack the gate.
At the head of the city, Liu Xun calmly watched the charge of the Cao army, with a thick bandage on his shoulder blades, his face was a little pale, he as the commander would not directly participate in the command of the defense of a certain place, what he needed to do was to coordinate the overall situation, and lead the elite soldiers, ready to support the critical place at any time. Even if he is wounded by an arrow at this moment.
He crossed his hands on his hips, two soldiers carried the halberd for him, and a personal soldier next to him stared nervously at the enemy soldiers who rushed forward like a sea of people, and said in a panic: "General, they are about to enter the attack range!" "The range of attack that the pro-soldier said is about 400 steps away from the city wall, a soldier on the arrow stack is all with bows and arrows, waiting for the order to release the arrows at any time, there is a sturdy soldier behind each archer, from time to time to look at the stone behind him, ready to lift dozens of catties of boulders, just wait for Liu Xun to attack, throw down.
At this time, Cao Ren's army had already attacked within the distance, and Liu Xun shouted, "Release!" "A group of archers, each of them holds a foot bow, the arrow on the bow winding, the bow shooting is throwing, and the use of large arrows, the arrow is thicker and heavier than the general arrow, falling from a height of tens of meters, their own gravity plus sharp arrows, the breaking force is very strong, the general leather armor can not resist at all. Thousands of wolf-tooth arrows rained down into the dense crowd of soldiers, and suddenly a scream rang out, and hundreds of people fell to the ground.
The arrows at the head of the city could not stop the momentum of Cao Ren's army's attack, they continued to run, and in the running, people kept falling, and the second round of 2,000 arrows was fired, and hundreds of soldiers fell, but Cao Ren's army had already attacked the city.
Siege ladders were set up at the top of the city, and thousands of Cao soldiers climbed up frantically
Liu Xun drew his sword and shouted: "Change the spear, all the soldiers are in place!" With that, the long sword in his hand almost fell off his hand because of the sharp pain in his arm.
The soldiers lowered their bows and arrows one after another, rushed to the top of the arrow stacks, and threw them down the city with pieces of rolling wood and stones.
This is a war to the death, for the Yuan army, they have no way to retreat, once the city is breached, it is a dead end, they are fighting against the water.
More than 100 siege ladders were lined up, arrows rained overhead, large stones and huge trees fell down like hailstones, and the Cao soldiers on the ladders were smashed to the point that their bones were broken and their tendons were broken, and they suffered heavy casualties. But they still couldn't stop their attack.
'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’
The drums of the war were like thunder, and Le Jin galloped under the city, issuing a heavy reward order, and the first soldier to kill the soldier in the city was rewarded with 10,000 yuan, and even if he himself died in battle, the reward would be given to his family.
Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men. The soldiers besieging the city rushed forward one after another, although there were constantly soldiers shooting arrows and falling boulders, but in the tide of nearly 10,000 people's offensive, this could only belong to hitting a small reef, and could not change the momentum of the attack. Cao's soldiers were smashed down the ladder, and then another soldier rushed up and struggled to climb up.
The battlefield on both sides was also constantly moving, first bows and arrows within 100 paces, and then turned into a mess of rocks under the city, and after paying heavy casualties, a large number of Cao soldiers attacked the edge of the city wall, and the situation became serious. The two sides fought on the edge of the city wall, and the soldiers of the Yuan army stood on the mud bags, condescending, occupying the advantage, but at the same time exposing their bodies, and there were constantly Yuan soldiers who were shot by cold arrows under the city and fell down the city screaming. At this moment, there was a defensive crisis at an arrow battlement not far from the city, several Yuan soldiers were continuously shot by cold arrows, and there was a gap in the defense, several strong Cao soldiers jumped on the city, and several Yuan soldiers were shocked, and stabbed with spears from all directions.
Several sturdy Cao Jun with a big knife in one hand and a wooden shield in the other, were looking for an opportunity to jump, at this time, two off-string arrows missed, one after the other in order, the force was so strong, the speed was so fast, there were Cao soldiers who could not dodge, the arrow fell, and rolled over and fell under the city.
Yuan Jun found that the main general Liu Xun in the distance opened his bow with one foot, and looked at this side coldly, it turned out that the two arrows were shot by Liu Xun, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted when they saw this, and they killed several Cao soldiers in a row to re-hold the gap.
At this time, there was also a crisis at the arrow battlement in another place, there was a defense point lost, and dozens of Cao Jun were killed on the city, and the captain of the defense urgently sent someone to Liu Xun for help, but Liu Xun was commanding the operation in another place at this time, and the soldiers who asked for help saw Liu Xun and rushed forward to report: "General Qiyu, the enemy has attacked the city, and the captain asks for support!" ”
Liu Xun's face sank, and he was about to think of some disposal measures, "I'll come." Seeing Wang Fang wearing armor all over his body, he held a golden axe, and shouted coldly.
"You send 300 men and horses from the barracks to go with General Wang." Liu Xun's face was overjoyed, Wang Fang nodded and shouted to the soldiers beside him: "You go with me!"
He took the golden axe and led his soldiers in the direction of galloping......
At this time, dozens of Cao soldiers rushed to the city, more than 100 Yuan soldiers resisted desperately, the two sides tried their best to fight, the ground was full of corpses of soldiers on both sides, and the battle scene was extremely tragic.
Under the command of Le Jin, the soldiers of the Cao army besieging the city cooperated with each other, and seeing that the third defense point of Huainan County was about to be broken through, Liu Xun shouted with all his might: "Resist, resist me, you must not let them kill you!" ”
The situation had reached a very critical level, and at this moment, the reinforcements led by Wang Fang arrived. I saw Wang Fang roar and jumped into the crowd of Cao Jun, and under the sweep of the golden axe, several Cao Jun soldiers and soldiers couldn't dodge. Knocked down by the split, the dead and wounded, the big axe in Wang Fang's hand flew over, mercilessly chopping, and the enemy troops were killed and turned over on their backs, and their formation collapsed in an instant.
The bravery of his own commander led the other Yuan soldiers, which greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers defending the city, and defeated the vanguard of the Cao army that attacked the city, constantly forcing the Cao soldiers to the wall, and piercing the city with a spear. The effect is remarkable, in less than a cup of tea, under the leadership of Wang Fangyong, Yuan Junfu recaptured the defense point and slaughtered the Cao army that attacked the city!
At this time, Liu Xun raised the halberd with one hand, shouted, withstood a siege ladder, and pushed it outward, this siege ladder was crudely made, there was no iron hook to hook the city head, but it was directly placed on the city head, the long ladder gradually left the city head, pushed outward, and dozens of Cao soldiers on the ladder let out desperate screams,
"Boom".
The ladder finally toppled outward, and the soldiers on it jumped for their lives.
Liu Xun overthrew the three siege ladders with a halberd in one go, and the soldiers defending the city got a revelation, and a group of Yuan troops worked together, and several ladders began to leave the city wall and tilt outward, and in a terrible shout, one after another siege ladders fell to the ground.
A group of soldiers pushed happily, but ignored it, and on the side, Xu Gai and Le Qi quietly climbed up to the top of the city with healthy soldiers, rushed left and right, and cut down a few Yuan soldiers who overthrew the ladder to the ground. I saw that Xu Gai and others who climbed to the top of the city were all wearing heavy armor, holding knives and shields, under the leadership of Xu Gai and Le Qi, a group of healthy soldiers cut down dozens of people in an instant, which made the morale of their own side, which was originally a little sluggish, Xu Gai waved a knife through the chest of a Yuan military captain, and roared: "Brothers, the achievement is now, go first!" Then he took the lead and fought hard.
A captain of the Yuan Army was about to sneak attack Xu Gai from the side and rear, only to see a black shadow flash, and knocked the captain to the ground with the shield in his hand, and the captain got up and saw Le Qi looking at him with a cruel smile on his face, "Hey, you want to sneak attack my fifth brother?" First ask him if the fourth brother agrees. Then he swung his knife and slashed at the lieutenant.
Xu Gai, who was rushing to kill, naturally heard what Le Qi said, the tiger's body was shocked, the corners of his mouth were smiling, and he fought harder.
Under the city, Cao Ren raised his hand. A group of shield-bearers, each group of many people, raised their huge shields above their heads and stood under the city. Dozens of Cao troops, under the cover of the shield bearers, pushed the battering ram cart under the city gate and began to ram the city gate.
Cao Ang clenched the overlord gun in his hand, looked around at this "hot" battlefield, the corpses were full of mountains, the blood flowed like a river, nothing was the same, the medical soldiers shuttled on the battlefield, put the wounded one by one on improvised stretchers, and carried them back to the rear, they were either seriously injured and fainted, or they were missing arms and legs and howling in pain, why did they want to fight? The so-called righteousness is just a political whitewash, and the soldiers from poor backgrounds don't care who the world is in today's China, they follow the principle that I fight for you and give me a full meal, so simple and cruel.
Cao Ang shouldn't have had these feelings, his goal has always been very clear, and now is not the time to be a saint, only when he really helps the world, he has the time and ability to change everything now, looking at Xu Gai and Le Qi who are fighting hard at the head of the city, and looking at Cao Ren with a cold face. Nodding heavily, he saw a report from the Malays, "There are about 8,000 enemy reinforcements, and they have reached the city of Huainan." ”
Cao Ang looked over, Lu Qian and Zhu Ling were leading troops to intercept Ji Ling and Yan Xing, who were rushing to help. Cao Ang galloped away with a gun, "Zidan and Zijun come with me." ”
Wang Ping and Cao Zhen glanced at each other, and after holding their fists at Cao Ren, they followed Cao Ang with their horses.
Liu Bei knew that Cao Ren would not let himself make a move, but he still asked pretendedly: "Boss, I ask for orders to lead troops to attack the city." ”
As Liu Bei guessed, Cao Ren said: "Don't worry, Xuande Gong is not in a hurry, it's not time to make a move." Liu Bei didn't say anything more, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at each other. Feelings, a few of our brothers are here to watch the excitement.
Let's say that on the city, under the hard work of Xu Gai and Le Qi, there are more and more Cao troops on the top of the city, and the city gate is also crumbling by the impact, and the city is about to be broken. As soon as the words fell, he hurriedly raised his halberd to resist Xu Gai's slash. Xu Gai raised his foot and kicked Liu Xun in the lower abdomen, followed by another slash, and Liu Xun hurriedly got up to block.
"Reinforcements? What can I do with Lao Tzu? Xu Gai laughed out loud, standing with Liu Xun, and a group of pro-soldiers shouted when they saw this: "Protect General Liu." "Attack Xu Gai together.
"Fifth brother!" Le Qi's sharp eyes and quick hands saw that Xu Gai was "surrounded" by everyone, knowing that he would suffer, and he was about to rush to help, but he was blocked by a golden axe, "You are Cao Ang's brother, right?" Wang Fang said coldly. Le Qi glared at him angrily and said, "It's your grandfather and me." ”
"A hairy little ghost with sharp teeth and a sharp mouth will become the ghost of an axe today." Wang Fang is thinking about killing this little ghost first, and then go down to kill Cao Ang, and let them go to the underworld to worship!
Hearing Wang Fang's words, Le Qi couldn't help but sneer, and rushed to swing his knife first, and fought with Wang Fang on the city wall......