Whoosh!

At this time, the dense bamboo arrows rose into the sky, drew a parabola under the black, and went straight to Cao Jun under the city tower.

Ding Ding Ding.

Some of the arrows missed, missing anyone.

But the other part of the arrows fell on Cao Jun, who was charging forward, although the power was not great, but it could easily break through the clothes of those soldiers under Cao Jun's command and pierce into the body.

"Ahh Yes! ”

For a while, downstairs in Zhu County, there was a tragic shout.

Some Cao Jun, who was not very lucky, was even directly shot by this bamboo arrow.

He was killed on the spot.

There are two or three thousand arrows in a rain of arrows, but there are not many of these arrows that can really cause lethality, and it is estimated that only three or four out of ten can hit the enemy.

But even so, it can deal a big blow to the attacking Cao army.

Soon after the rain of arrows was over, a second round of arrows began to be loaded with arrows, and then continued to shoot down the castle tower.

The bamboo arrows prepared by Yuan Yao, plus some of the arrows that were already left in the city, were actually not very numerous.

It was only enough for him to fire three rounds of arrows in a row.

But in reality, no amount of insight is of much use.

Because after three rounds of arrow rain, the enemy army attacking outside the city has basically appeared under the city tower.

The battle to the city begins, where some undaunted enemy soldiers will use ladders to rush up the towers and engage the defenders in hand-to-hand combat.

In addition, the weather is dark and it is not clear to see, after two rounds of arrow rain, the opponent must be prepared, will look for shelter and raise a huge shield to defend against arrow shooting, in fact, continuing to shoot arrows has little effect, it is better to use rolling logs, falling rocks, fire oil and other ways to damage the enemy.

Two rounds of arrows rained down, and there were obviously fewer figures on the dark battlefield.

After seeing this scene through the firelight, Xiahoudun, who was outside the city, turned pale.

He never expected that this small Zhu County was not unvigilant, but deliberately made this gesture to lead them to attack.

It seems that an ambush has been prepared for a long time, waiting for them to attack the county seat.

But by now, the army has already arrived.

At this time, if Mingjin withdraws his troops, it will be too cost-effective.

Not only did they take down this city, but they withdrew before they even climbed the other side's tower.

And it also lost a lot of manpower, if this word reaches Cao Cao's ears.

His Xiahoudun's status in Cao's army is afraid that it will plummet.

"General, what should I do? The enemy seems to have been prepared for a long time, should we withdraw our troops and wait for the next day to fight again? ”

The adjutant general beside him asked Xiahoudun for his opinion.

But Xiahoudun did not hesitate at all, and directly dismissed the deputy general's idea.

"Can't be returned! We haven't figured out the details of the other party yet, so we will retreat now, and the preparations ahead are all in vain! Even if you want to retreat, you have to go up and fight to see how much strength the other party has! ”

"What's more, Cao Gong's army is about to arrive tomorrow, if we can't take this county seat, what will I take to see Cao Gong?"

"Even if you can't defeat this county, you have to find out to me the strength of the defenders in this city! How are the soldiers and horses, how is the combat power, consume their spirit, and when the Cao Gong army arrives tomorrow, they can take this city in one fell swoop! ”

Xiahoudun thought more than the deputy general, and the deputy general only thought about the life and death of the soldiers.

And what Xiahou is thinking about is how to build this city, even if he loses some soldiers and sacrifices some manpower, he will not hesitate to do it, what he wants is victory, even if he pays a big price.

The adjutant general listened to Xiahoudun's advice and did not dare to retreat, so he could only choose to continue to let his soldiers attack at this time.

The first wave of soldiers who rushed forward were soon beaten to pieces, and more than half of the 1,000 vanguard troops were killed or wounded before they could approach the city wall.

When the rest of the people arrived at the city tower, held the ladder, and erected it on the city tower, the battle between the two sides could be regarded as entering a fierce state.

Zhu County is not a big county seat, but fortunately, because of the large population of the city in the south, the area of the city is generally quite large.

In this way, the city towers are still quite tall, and the ordinary small county town is only one or two zhang high, and the same is true of Zhu County, which looks like only four or five meters.

A ladder can be easily erected next to the battlements, and the Cao army at the bottom only needs a few quick steps to approach the ladder, and then start to fight in the city.

The soldiers of the Cao army have always had strict military discipline, and there are relatively clear regulations for fighting in the city, that is, those who ascend first will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan!

100,000 yuan, for ordinary people, that is not a small amount, even if there are no soldiers who have climbed the city tower, as long as they dare to charge, they will also have a relatively generous pension.

This also makes Cao Jun a lot of people who are not afraid of death.

At this time, among the army, there were many dead soldiers who were willing to climb the city tower first.

After the pioneers set up the ladder, they looked terrified, and began to climb the ladder with their long knives, and quickly climbed towards the castle tower.

The ladder has a total of twenty or thirty sections, and in a few breaths, it can reach the county seat of Zhu County.

However, the defenders did not allow them to climb so easily, and a large number of stones were thrown from both sides of the battlements and smashed directly on the dead soldiers.

The huge impact force made many people who climbed the city fall directly, even if they didn't hit the dead soldiers who climbed the city, it was also a huge blow to the Cao army gathered under the city, and the boulder rolled down, which was extremely easy to cause fatal injuries.

Many Cao troops dodged the rain of arrows during the first wave of charge, but they couldn't dodge the boulders falling overhead.

Dozens of boulders rolled down, and dozens of lives could be easily acquired.

Several waves of defense in succession made the Cao army charging below suffer more and more casualties.

Xiahoudun's side has already sent a third wave of charging soldiers.

The first two groups of men were wiped out, and they didn't even climb the tower.

It was not until the third wave of soldiers that the ladder was erected by the pioneers in front of them, and they gradually relied on the city tower of Zhuxian, and more than ten people successfully relied on the time difference to climb Zhuxian.

It's a pity that although these people have climbed the city tower, they still haven't established an inch of merit, and a large number of soldiers waiting on the city tower have rushed up after seeing more than ten Cao soldiers, and those Cao soldiers have not had time to exert their abilities.

was hacked to death on the city tower with a random knife, and Cao Jun in the back saw this situation, even if he had the heart to continue to rush to the city tower, he did not have the momentum at the beginning.

Half an hour passed, and outside the county seat, Cao Jun was killed and wounded, but he still did not break through this small county seat.

Xiahoudun's face was already dark.

Looking at the soldiers around him who had been killed or wounded, he finally had a trace of hesitation.

Thinking that with this little manpower left, he can still break the gate of this county seat.