Chapter Ninety-One: The Siege of the City
The soldiers were fast, and Xu Huang led 1,500 flying tiger horsemen to advance and support Huangfu Biao stationed on the Great Wall from Youzhou. Huang Zhong led 500 school swordsmen and escorted 2,000 sharpshooter battalions from Hedong to Taiyuan to garrison.
The words are divided into two ends, outside Taiyuan County, the sky is bright, and the horns of the Xiongnu have been blown.
Hearing this, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were dressed in armor and waited for them at the head of the city. Today is destined to be a vicious battle, there have already been archers to carry boxes of bows and arrows on the arrow tower, it should be considering that the Xiongnu have no siege equipment, the Han army can be condescending to shoot at will, with arrows to attack instead of defend the most cost-effective.
"Well !!"
"Where did the Huns find it?!"
Not only was Zhang Liao dumbfounded, but even Lu Bu gasped, the Huns didn't know where to transport the wells, and there were two of them!
The well is higher than the city wall, there are four wheels under it, it was heavy and clumsy, but the Xiongnu was dragged by a war horse, it moved quickly, there were several Xiongnu eagle warriors, and they were constantly approaching Taiyuan County.
The dense Hun soldiers came in a surge, and if they were allowed to fight along the Jingqi to the city, the Han army would lose its condescending advantage and would become a war of attrition, and Taiyuan County would be the most short of soldiers.
"Zhang Liao guards the city! Wait for a certain to break his two wells! ”
Now it is already the cavalry as a foot soldier on the city tower to defend the city, if the wolf cavalry of Bingzhou is consumed here, Ding Yuan will have no soldiers available in the future, Lu Bu wants to lead the wolf cavalry out of the city to destroy the well.
"General, never!"
Zhang Liao hurriedly stopped, out of the city at this time, this point of men and horses rushed into the Xiongnu camp like a mud, not only could not destroy the well, but also lost most of the soldiers and horses, it was really worth the loss.
Lu Bu slammed the halberd, he also understood that it was completely impossible for the soldiers and horses to go out of the city and destroy the well with the current point, and there was a Xiongnu king on the left and right of the right Xian King outside the field, and he might be waiting for the fighter.
Ding Yuan couldn't figure out where the Xiongnu got the wells, no wonder they had never attacked the city in the past few days, it seemed that they were waiting for these two siege weapons. At the moment, he was powerless, so he had to divide the army and horses at the head of the city into two, the left army was handed over to Lu Bu to lead, and the right army was handed over to Zhang Liao to lead, and he instructed that Jing Yan should not be allowed to get close to the city.
The two sides began the most brutal war of attrition, the Huns wore cowhide armor, extremely light, agile movements, but used to riding war horses, which suddenly let them climb the well, but not skilled, which gave the Han army a little respite.
There were really too many Huns, at first the Han army dared to show their heads and poke with spears, and shoot with arrows, but when the Hun cavalry shot arrows at the head of the city with the help of horses, the unsuspecting Han army was suddenly killed and wounded, and the Huns also took advantage of this juncture to climb the city.
Seeing this, Zhang Liao held two short halberds in his hands in hand-to-hand combat, slashing and stabbing and killing, just like chopping melons and vegetables, and the severed hands and heads kept flying out with the blood, and the Huns who killed them retreated. Zhang Liao's personal guards were also spear stabs, and they happened to push all the way at the narrow head of the city, and when they saw that they had reached the edge of the well, they were busy asking the people behind them for iron rope hooks.
"Shoot the arrows!"
At this time, Ding Yuan also came up with a reserve force to support, and saw that there were still dense Huns climbing on the well, so he quickly ordered the archers to greet them.
The archery of the wolf rider in Bingzhou was a hard kung fu, and the Xiongnu siege team was hit by arrows one after another and fell into the well. At this time, Zhang Liao waved the iron chain and threw it out, and actually hooked a corner of the well to prevent the well from retreating.
"Pull! Pull! Pull! ”
Everyone put the spear and dragged the chain together to help Zhang Liao accumulate strength, and pulled towards the city wall, while the Huns drove the war horse that pulled the well away from the city wall, and the two sides actually had a tug-of-war competition in the sky, which made people laugh and cry.
"Pour fire oil! Burn it! ”
With Ding Yuan's order, the two strong men picked up the oil pot and poured a large pot of hot oil on the well, and the hot oil was not only poured on the well, but also on the buttocks of the war horse that pulled the well.
It's too late, it's too soon.
Ding Yuan held a rocket in his hand, took a bow and shot it, hitting the main beam of the well, and the place where the oil was poured was instantly full of flames, not only climbing up, but also burning down along the oil stains. Before the burning well ran back to the Hun camp, it was divided by the startled war horse, and I saw that each war horse dragging the well was running with a piece of burning wood, and the scene was quite spectacular.
It's a pity that when the crazy war horse was fifty steps away from the Hun array, it was ordered to be shot by King Youxian, and it did not collide with the Hun camp, in exchange for a more grim look from King Youxian.