The first tentative attack was a close fight between the two sides, which Zhang Yang did not want to see, but he had to face it, because the city wall was not a fence for a field camp, and the average heavy infantry did not have enough physical strength to hope that they could continue to fight on the city wall. Light infantry, on the other hand, were easily targeted by enemy archers during the climb due to their lack of armor protection.

At the same time, Yang Feng at the North Gate was slightly better than Zhang Yang, because his 10,000 men were already equipped with a thousand Divine Arm Bows, and it was by relying on the range advantage of these Divine Arm Bows that he was basically on a par with the archers in the defenders on the city wall. In this way, the heavy infantry in the team can cover the light infantry across the moat and reach the city walls with all their might. In charge of the north gate was Guo Tu, who also received 7,000 people, but not many of them were the former Jizhou elites, and they were the weakest of the three defenders in terms of combat strength.

However, the enemy is only 10,000 people, and the high walls of Yecheng City are thick and there is a moat, Guo Tu does not think that Jia Xu and others will be able to get the 25,000 defenders in the city within a month or two.

As Guo Tu had predicted, Yang Feng also seemed to be afraid of the walls of Yecheng,???????????????? Just let the Divine Arm Bow stay outside the moat and use the bow and arrow to raid the defenders on the city walls, occasionally shooting a few defenders who are not well protected.

It is different from the East Gate and West Gate battles Gao Gan and Guo Tushang who can deal with it. The main force of Ximen, Huang Zhongbu, also did not launch a fierce attack at the beginning under the personal command of the supervising army Jia Xu, but only sent heavy infantry and divine arm archers to test it. Although it was only a temptation, there were nearly 5,000 Divine Arm Archers in Hoang Zhong's camp, and these people were originally the main force stationed in Hanoi. If Yuan Shao didn't call on the five parties to crusade against Wei Xuan at the same time, but only sent Chun Yuqiong or Zhang He and others to attack Hanoi, Wei Xuan planned to ignore it at all, and he planned that Huang Zhong's 15,000 people would rely on the bonus of the city, and under the protection of the divine arm bow and heavy infantry, 30,000 or 40,000 people would not be able to help Huang Zhong.

Despite being the attacker, Huang Zhong demanded that all the soldiers in charge of the anti-cloud ladder be heavy infantry. Therefore, as long as the soldiers of Huang Zhongbu did not climb the city wall, it would be difficult to cause harm to Huang Zhongbu, even if they kept rolling wood and stones from above the city wall.

And Chun Yuqiong took 10,000 people to be in charge of guarding the West Gate, and he divided the 10,000 people into five teams, each with 2,000 people. Of the 2,000 men, there were less than 600 archers, and although they had a geographical advantage on the walls, they were at a disadvantage when they were shot against a thousand divine arm bows. So when the heavy infantry walked unhurriedly over the planks erected on the moat, and then the ladders were constantly erected on the walls, and then several people held on to a ladder. The other group of heavy infantry came to the ladder unhurriedly, and then saw the opportunity to climb up quickly.

Unlike the other three generals, Yang Feng belongs to the wisdom generals, and Zhang Yang can only be regarded as a second-class military general although he has some bravery. And Huang Zhong is not only a top general, but also led troops in Jingzhou, the first to accept Wei Xuan's training system, and the trained heavy infantry is naturally the strongest among the three.

When one heavy infantry after another climbed the city wall, Chun Yuqiong finally realized that he was not wronged to be surrounded by such three infantry and two infantry cavalry. Because when the heavy infantry jumped from the ladder to the city wall, they slashed the defenders in the air with their horizontal swords, and then landed on the city wall and swept a few times, and were emptied two or three steps in front of them. The defenders had to send more men to charge the ladder, and the rows of archers were also disrupted, and the speed of the arrows was significantly slower, resulting in a greater advantage by the Divine Arm Bow outside the city.

One person is like this, two people are like this, everyone who climbs up is like this, and it can be seen that Chun Yuqiong's heart is beating the drum. He even had to immediately use his reserves to avoid being broken through too quickly.

However, this situation did not last long, and when the first group of enemies who jumped onto the city wall were cut down and torn down the city wall, Huang Zhong actually called in to withdraw his troops. The heavy infantry in charge of guarding the ladder under the city simply took the risk of carrying away their fallen comrades.

Chun Yuqiong was angry in her heart, the enemy didn't want to lose at all, so he lost less than fifty people and Mingjin withdrew his troops, you must know that it was these people who climbed the city wall that caused at least 200 casualties among the defenders, plus the injuries caused by the archers, the casualty ratio reached five to one or even six to one. In this way, the attacker is not satisfied, and he really looks down on people.

If Huang Zhong stormed as soon as he came up, don't say 15,000 people, as long as ???????????????? 5,000 heavy infantry are fighting one after another, and their own side will soon break the defense!

Huang Zhong did not continue to attack the city in the afternoon, and when Chun Yuqiong returned to the city in the afternoon, he learned that the battle between the other two gates was similar. The enemy is reluctant to suffer casualties. Chun Yuqiong was depressed, but she also seemed to see the enemy's weakness, that is, she had no determination to die and was reluctant to suffer casualties. This is a good thing for the defenders, the longer it drags on, the more troops Yuan Shao will gather, and the more likely it is that the situation will be reversed.

The next few days were almost the same, with each day the enemy attacking in the morning and ending in less than an hour, with the occasional siege organized in the afternoon. The daily casualties in Yecheng are about 1,000 to 1,3400. This is within the tolerance of Yecheng, except for those who died on the spot, most of them can return to the battlefield. Because the population of Yecheng is also quite large, it can be replenished to the city wall after three or five days of raising 5,000 young men with a little training, and it should not be a problem to persist for a month at this attrition rate.

Chun Yuqiong discussed with Guo Tu, Fu Zhu and others, and decided to send someone out to inform Yuan Shao in Julu of the situation in Yecheng, and the three felt that Yuan Shao did not need to rush to rescue Yecheng, but could properly assemble troops and horses in Julu, and according to the scale of 20,000 people in half a month, they would camp outside the city to contain the enemy or break through the interception of cavalry and enter Yecheng, so that the garrison of Yecheng could continue.

Three days, five days, ten days, just when Chun Yuqiong was looking forward to Yuan Shao's first batch of reinforcements arriving safely in Yecheng, in the early morning of this day, a Sima hurriedly broke into Chun Yuqiong's military tent: "General, the big thing is not good, Ximen, Ximen...... A kind of giant catapult appeared, which the enemy seemed to assemble on the spot. ”

Chun Yuqiong frowned, there were giant catapults in the Wei Xuan army, and they had been put into use in Yuyuan Pass and Yique Pass, which can be described as a brilliant record. It was with this kind of catapult that Wei Xuan conquered the Yuyuan Pass one day, the Monkey Clan garrisoned by Lu Bu one day, and the Yique Pass where Dong Zhuo personally sat in one day.

Although the news had already spread, it had never appeared on any other battlefield since, and the princes of all walks of life had repeatedly sent people to infiltrate the workshops in Luoyang in an attempt to steal the blueprints of the catapult without success. Just when people were about to forget, Wei Xuan actually put it on the battlefield in Hebei, which cannot but make people vigilant.

Obviously, this Sima is also a knowledgeable veteran. When Huang Zhong finished the procession outside the city and the first catapult was assembled, he noticed that something was wrong, because the catapult was indeed too big, and he stood on the city wall and looked at the catapult almost the same as the city wall. Not to mention how powerful it is, even if you push these catapults to the edge of the moat and let those archers stand on them and release their arrows, your own archers will suffer a great loss.

And when the first catapult began to be test-fired, this Sima finally realized the reason why the enemy had been taking a tentative offensive these days.

When Chun Yuqiong came to the west gate city wall, Huang Zhong's camp had already completed the assembly of the second catapult, and when two hundred-pound stones smashed towards the city gate tower, Chun Yuqiong's eyes were as wide as bull's eyes.

Bang, bang, two stones smashed on the city tower back and forth, and Sima hurriedly set up Chun Yuqiong and cannon it on the city wall. It's too dangerous here, even though it's just two stones, but it's the whole city tower and a few of them???????????????? The windows were smashed open. Drop directly on the floor.

A quarter of an hour later, the third catapult was assembled again and began to throw boulders, still aiming at the gatehouse.

"Quickly send people to check on the other gates, and if there are no catapults in the other gates, please invite the Fu Jian Army, Guo Shenjun and General Gao to come to the West Gate to watch the battle." ”

Although Chun Yuqiong is brave and average, he has also experienced many battles when he is middle-aged, and the offensive and defensive battles that were originally balanced will soon be broken by the appearance of this giant catapult. Once the defenders of the West Gate are suppressed, then it is very likely that Huang Zhong will have the right to attack next.

On the fourth and fifth planes, when Fu Zhu, Guo Tu and Gao Gan came to the city wall of the West Gate, the formation of Huang Zhong's infantry battalion outside the city had changed dramatically, with four or five thousand heavy infantry standing at the front, followed by the Divine Arm Archer. The rest of the infantry lined up around the catapults.

If only Huang Zhong's troops were attacking the city, Fu Zhi and Guo Tu would definitely choose to go out of the city to destroy these catapults, and then now the enemy Huang Zhong had 13,400 men in front of him, as well as 10,000 light cavalry in the northeast who had nothing to do, plus the other two enemies who were eyeing each other. Fu Zhi and the others stood on the city wall under the city gate and watched for a while, and they all frowned and said nothing.

After a long time, he said, "It is rumored that there are craftsmen in the army of the Guard, but this kind of catapult requires dry wood. Obviously, these were made in Luoyang, transported through the Yellow River to Neihuang, and then transferred from Neihuang, no wonder there had been no action for the past few days. At present, the number of catapults is not much, the soldiers can dodge on the city wall according to the landing point, if they are lined up, then it will be difficult to stand on the city wall, they can only stand by on the slope, and wait until the enemy's hair stone ends when the ladder siege is out again, in this way, if the enemy adjusts the range, the soldiers in the city may also be concentrated, which is indeed a blow to the morale of our army. ”

Chun Yuqiong nodded: "Supervising the army, Qiong suggested asking Yuantu to go out of the city immediately to negotiate, while Pegasus reported the beginning, if Wei Zhongdao was allowed to break through Yecheng, he would definitely be wrapped in such a catapult and pushed all the way over." Jizhou is located in the plain, which is easy to transport. ”