Since the catapult trail can't directly destroy the fence of the camp, what does Wei Xuan want to do by sending catapults now? Such catapults are a sharp weapon for defense in a hard wall, and they are also quite powerful in infantry phalanxes. But if it is in front of an open gate, the cavalry can destroy it with a single assault.

Yes, Wei Xuan put the cavalry out of the crane wing formation in order to intercept his cavalry from the pass. But the catapult can't help the brick-clad city wall of Yuyuan Pass? As soon as he fires, the closed archers will instantly destroy them with rockets. And judging by the position of the cavalry phalanx, already stepping on the range of the archers, then the catapults could only be fired from other positions protected by infantry.

Niu Fu has too many questions, he has dealt with Wei Xuan, and knows that Wei Xuan is not a stupid person, and he will definitely not drop a batch of catapults in vain.

Soon he found that there were more and more infantry of the Weixuan Army assembled outside the Yuyuan Pass. Entire phalanxes of infantry have appeared, all within range of the archers.

Could it be that Wei Xuan wants to attack? This would explain why he blocked the gate with cavalry. This is to prevent their own cavalry from going out to raid???????????????? But when the infantry is in good formation, Niu Fu will not rush to dispatch cavalry. Even if there is no cavalry of Wei Xuan, Niu Fu's cavalry does not even have two hundred steps from the gate to the infantry phalanx, and the speed does not rise, and the cavalry will hit the infantry to grab the formation, which is to send corpses!

What's more, there are nearly 4,400 infantry in Yuyuan Pass, which is enough to deal with Wei Xuan's attack, but it is really not good, and the cavalry can also fight on the city wall.

Niu Fu has been stationed in Yuyuan Pass for half a year, and all kinds of materials such as rolling wood and stones for defense are very sufficient, not to mention more than 20,000 people, that is, another 20,000, it is almost impossible to break through Yuyuan Pass in a few days. Moreover, it is not far from Yuyuan Pass to Taigu, Yique, Tiger Prison and even Luoyang. If you really can't do it, ask for help. Now he only needs to hide on the tower and watch his soldiers beat the attacking Wei Xuan army down wave by wave. Although he prefers the feeling of galloping on horseback, Xu Rong and Lu Bu of the Tiger Prison Pass have transferred too many cavalry, and he himself has sent a thousand to Wei Yan for nothing, and now he can only endure it temporarily, once Wei Xuanjun is tired and suffers heavy losses, it is the time for his cavalry to go out of the pass again.

The fog was getting lighter and lighter, and standing on the Yuyuan Pass, you could already see two hundred paces away, but what you saw was still only Wei Xuan's infantry. The kind of one-person high catapult was arranged after the cavalry and archers were still ready to be used to block the gate to prevent the cavalry in the tube from coming out, it seems that Wei Xuan took advantage of the dense fog to attack the Yuyuan Pass, but fortunately he withdrew back in time, if he fought with Wei Xuan in the dense fog, the speed of the cavalry could not be played, and the infantry was blocked in the camp and would soon be completely annihilated. Then even if the cavalry can win a big victory, the Yuyuan Pass will be in jeopardy.

Niu Fu called the two cavalry captains and the two infantry captains to the city tower again, inquired about their preparations, and then pointed to the three or four crane wing formations outside the gate and said, "Now the cavalry will definitely lose a lot if they want to get out of the pass. Then next Wei Xuan will attack, don't take it lightly when you defend, and tell the soldiers of the cavalry to prepare to fight on the wall. ”

Wei Xuan's actions proved that Niu Fu's guess was correct, and after another half an hour, the dense fog had turned into a light fog, and the ladder behind Wei Xuan's infantry was clearly visible.

There are seventy or eighty of them, good fellows, and this line up basically occupies a third of the wall. You must know that it has only been three days since the arrival of the forward Wei Yan, it seems that Wei Xuan began to build these siege weapons as early as when he was in Yangcheng and Lunshi, no wonder the other battalions marched so slowly, it turned out that they were carrying so many siege weapons.

Crunch, crunch, the tooth-sore sound rang out again, but then a huge stone projectile flew over Wei Xuan's infantry phalanx and slammed into the wall to the left of the tower.

The movement was so great that Niu Fu couldn't sit still anymore, because he felt that this stone was not simple, it must be big, and the catapult that launched it was still hidden in the fog!

Fortunately, there was only one piece, and it did not fall directly onto the city wall. But a moment later, the crunching sound sounded again, one after another. And then the countless soldiers on the city wall let out a frightened scream, because this time a dozen huge stones flew over the infantry phalanx in front of the pass and smashed into them!

Click, click, the sound of the boulder falling to the ground, followed by the screams and wails of the soldiers on the walls, and more people screaming and running.

Those who were stoned were either killed or injured,???????????????? The stones that fell on the open ground smashed the city wall open a layer of skin, and the debris splashed hurt many people!

Crunch, crunch, crunch, clack......

A huge stone fell on the castle tower, smashed the three-story gate open, and then led a guard through the hall and landed in the gate. The gambling house where the giant stone flew before was only two or three steps away from where Niu Fu was!

Niu Fu was no longer calm, and rushed directly down the castle tower, and when he came to the city wall, he found hundreds of defenders looking at him with frightened eyes. There was a mess on the walls at both ends!

Niu Fu realized that he might have been passive from the moment Wei Xuan's striker arrived, and Wei Xuan used the cover of the dense fog to quietly transport the catapult that could shoot large stones from a long distance to the front of the pass. Or rather, he used the time he had withdrawn his troops to calmly assemble such a huge catapult in front of the pass.

At the same time, he made a decisive battle in the field and forced all his troops into the pass, so that he could exert all his strength.

The two cavalry captains had already followed Niu Fu to the city wall, and one of them asked for battle: "General, let me wait for the battle, disperse the enemy, as long as they retreat, we will find an opportunity to destroy those hateful catapults." ”

Niu Fu did not agree, although he felt that his cavalry had an advantage, but he needed to pass through a long culvert and then complete the assembly to run to have enough lethality. Now Wei Xuan is blocking the gate, and his side goes out for more than 20 horses at a time, basically without Wei Xuan's cavalry, the archers can be directly wiped out with one round of projectiles. Even if the space of the Crane Wing Array is all full, it can't fit two hundred cavalry, such a huge disparity in strength, it's not cost-effective to fight hard! Unless it's a heavily armed cavalry general!

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Even if you successfully rush out, if you want to break through at least two sieges of cavalry and infantry, the losses will definitely be not small.

But the constant exclamations and wails from the city walls made Niu Fu, a veteran of the battlefield, a little uneasy. Each boulder will make the tall and wide city wall tremble, and those unfortunate soldiers who are unfortunately hit will naturally be killed or injured, and the destruction of the tower by the stone directly affects the morale of the whole army.

Crunch, crunch, crunch, snap...... Wei Xuan attacked so shamelessly, more than 20,000 people watched, and more than a dozen gravity catapults more than two zhang high kept throwing boulders at Yuyuan Pass. Almost every time a stone fell, there was a cheer outside the gate.

Behind the gravity catapult, Wei Xuan looked at these big killers with a smile, which were made by Ma Jun and others for more than half a year based on their own design research. Originally, I wanted to wait for the two sides to reach a stalemate before exposing it. But after he arrived at Yuyuan Pass, news came from Sun Jian's side, and it was going well! This means that Sun Jian, who set off in advance, has almost arrived in Liang County, and once Liang County is defeated, he can attack Taigu Pass, which is closer to Luoyang, only less than 100 miles.

Sun Jian's breakthrough to Taigu would definitely attract Dong Zhuo's army to support, and this was a good time for him to take the opportunity to attack and approach Luoyang. Tiangong was also beautiful, and on the evening of his arrival, there were burning clouds in the sky, so Wei Xuan took advantage of the brief sunshine of the second day to conduct a drill, and then took advantage of the dense fog of the third day to march along the trajectory of the previous day, and succeeded in attracting all the attention of Niu Fu, and forced his whole army to retreat into the pass.

However, Wei Xuan did not get carried away with him, he ???????????????? to Zhou who was standing beside him Cang said: "Order: Zhao Yun, Du Peng, Han * Meng, Huang Zhong, Tai Shici, Wen Ping, Guan Hai, Xin Ai, Wei Tong and others gather before the gate, and be sure to block Niu Fu's cavalry in the pass. ”

As soon as these words came out, the people around were slightly moved, because in addition to the captains of several battalions, some brave generals in the army were sent out by Wei Xuan to block the door, which shows the determination of the lord. Zhou Cang was about to leave, but Wei Xuan said with a smile: "You and Zhongkang also go, and bring your own personal soldiers with you!" ”

Zhou Cang looked at Dian Wei with a little hesitation. Dian Wei is now the pro-guard Sima, but Dian Wei does not look the slightest worried.

Seeing Zhou Cang like this, Wei Xuan said angrily: "As long as you block the gate, there will be no danger if the enemy can't come out, not to mention that Ah Wei is here, and there are five hundred guards and thousands of Chinese soldiers, what are you worried about?" ”

Zhou Cang thought about it, if it really reached the point of running away, Ah Wei and the lord should be able to escape to the nearby city.

Dian Wei looked at Xu Chu with a little envy and said, "Old Xu, find a way to capture a few Dong generals for me." ”

Xu Chu grinned, patted the horse's buttocks, waved to the guards behind him, and walked towards the closed door of Yuyuan Pass.

Dian Wei watched Zhou Cang and Xu Chu leave, Wei Xuan said angrily: "I can't let you go up and capture a few generals every time, in that case, wouldn't Ben General be the first to promote you to Zhonglang General?" ”

Dian Wei touched his big light head and smiled innocently: "Lord, I understand that the safety of the lord is the most important. The drama master told us that Lao Xu and I must leave one person by the lord's side whenever and wherever we are. I just think that the generals of the Xiliang soldiers must be more powerful than that Kong Ling's subordinates, and their hands are itchy. ”

Wei Xuan nodded: "The generals in Dong Zhuo's army are very brave, especially Na Lu Bu, the so-called Lu Bu among people, and Red Rabbit among horses. I have good martial arts, and the endurance of the red rabbit horse is also strong. If you want to challenge him, you need to at least strengthen your riding and a good horse. You see why Hansheng lost to Zilong, it's not that the horse war is worse, and the war horse is not as good as Zilong. Wait, if the ladder hits up and the enemy can't carry it, you can also go up and join in the fun. ”