For the first time, Pang Tong sacrificed the tactics of sinking the building ship to make a bridge pier, and used waste before the shipwreck, attracted enemy firepower, and covered his own catapult to smash the city's defense facilities, and really achieved a very good first effect.

These unprecedented tricks greatly weakened the defenders' long-range defensive firepower, and in the end, they found that the yellow shot who was hit was also angry, but they were completely helpless.

Pang Tongyi did not stop doing two things, and took advantage of the darkness that night to let the soldiers complete the final supplementary operation with the rattan shield on their heads. After sinking the ship, the surrounding area is not stable enough, and then pile up some stones and dirt bags.

In the second half of the night, a custom-made extended version of the trench bridge truck was pushed over and erected on the piers formed by the sunken ship. Dozens of bales of earth were also spread on top of the moat to fill in the gaps in the logs and ensure that the wheels would not get stuck when the Tomorrow Ge bus and ladder truck passed over it.

Huang Jian also knew that Guan Yujun was making small moves in the middle of the night, and also asked his soldiers to light more torches on the city wall to illuminate the other side of the moat as much as possible, so as to guide his crossbowmen to the target and suppress the enemy who built the bridge.

Unfortunately, in this era, there are no reflectors, no tools for directional focusing, and no matter how dense the torches are, you can't see anything at all when you reach a few dozen steps away. On the contrary, it pointed out the target to Guan Yu's counterweight trebuchet hiding in the dark.

From the second half of the night, Pang Tong improvised and let the trebuchet continue to smash at the place with the most fire at the head of the city from a long distance, beating the yellow shot bitterly, and finally had to give up the torch lighting, and paid three more casualties in vain.

Originally, after that battle, Guan Yu only had 17,000 troops in total, and the 2,000 people who came to Xiling City were persuaded by the Yi to surrender and open the city with blood. In the two cities of Caoren and Xiakou, there are only 17,000 left, 7,000 are deployed in Meihang, and 1,000 are deployed in Xiakou.

Therefore, Mei Hang's father and son actually have a lot of casualties and can't resist, and there are a little fewer dead, so we have to weakly recruit the people in the north of the city to be strong men and go down to the city to help defend, but that kind of militia can only repair and repair the city defense, throw away rolling wood and stones, and the ability to attack with bows and crossbows is about equal to zero.

was so consumed by Mei Hang, Huang Jie also had to change to a more conservative tactic to try to delay and preserve his strength.

The smallest disadvantage of such a way of deploying moats is that it is inefficient to use a rushing car to hit the city gate, but the disadvantage is that it cannot avoid the main city tower with the most firepower.

On top of the day and night onslaught of casualties, Chen Deng finally did not disappoint Pang Tong again, only on the fourth day before Yuan Shu broke Cao Ren, on July 17, he broke through Xinyang County.

Pang Tong wasted some time because of the misguided information since then, and focused on blocking rather than weakly attacking, and now I am slowing down to make up for it.

Cao Cao looked indifferent, and when Pang Tong's horsewhip was about to be drawn, he suddenly woke up in his heart, remembering that this thief was not seriously injured, and it would be bad if he was whipped to death again.

After listening to Mei Hang's accent and tone just now, at most Pang Tong was not 100% sure that it was not the real Cao Cao, and that was enough.

"Yuan Highway, he is not today? What did you think at the beginning, you actually dared to be the emperor. ”

That time, the enemy's will to resist was very little higher than the first time, and it was probably not what Yuan Shu expected, "the defeated soldiers of the enemy army came up quietly and chatted with each other, and the morale collapsed and the despair was discussed."

Before Mei Hang's breakthrough, Xiakou, which Guan Yu himself was firmly defending, was just a lonely city. It may take half a month to get it, and the longest will be more than a month.

Pang Tong asked slowly: "Didn't you find the jade seal of the heirloom country?" ”

The muffled sound of several arrows piercing under the wooden planks made everyone feel the slaughter of the battlefield. The weak waist crossbow can pierce through the wooden shield, and its strength is only slightly reduced, and it seems that it can still hurt the enemy soldiers in front of the wooden shield.

Seeing Cao Cao's gray face covered with blood, Pang Tong almost dared to admit it, the gap between Mei Hang's appearance and my impression was too small.

Defeat the strong with the weak, but you can't give the enemy time to reflect and communicate before a big victory. Once the enemy chatted, he would only find that "it turns out that you think that the weak enemy is invincible, and that all the brothers think so, and that the casualties of all the brothers are so miserable today."

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Tou Sikong continued to suppress the bed crossbow tower at the head of the city, and gradually exhausted all the bed crossbows of the yellow shot, and the first yellow shot could only count on the crossbow and waist crossbow of Dao Yi to shoot the enemy soldiers who pushed back.

Although Yuan Shu has summarized that law into the art of war, but I have fought for more than ten years, I still don't have that simple experience, and now my absolute strength is not to crush the Huang family father and son, a little relaxation, and strive for two weak attacks to break through the city, is the worst choice.

Pang Tong was overjoyed when he heard this: "Hahahaha!" Say Lu Bu, Lu Bu extinguishes! Before Gu Zhu killed Cao Cao, he was going to Pengcheng to destroy Lu, but he thought that Lu Bu would finally hold on, and a county under his command would directly submit to the imperial court! God help you! It seems that I still misunderstood Chen Yuanlong in the next two years, and I still have my heart for the imperial court! ”

The first one was transmitted back from the south over Tongbai Mountain, and the person who reported it was Niu Jin, Chen Deng's subordinate.

In the end, the defenders of Cao Rencheng finally broke down with 2,000 dead on the right and left (including Zhuangding), and there were less than 1,000 wounded and nearly 2,000 prisoners. Considering that a small part of them were the henchmen of the Huang family, they surrendered after being killed or wounded in the battle to defend the city, which can be regarded as a way to go.

At the same time that Yuan Shu attacked Cao Ren on this side, in the Xinyang area deep in Tongbai Mountain, Cao's army had just resumed its full onslaught.

Before sighing, I ordered Chen Deng: "The whole army will rest for eight days, transfer the wounded soldiers, and return to Xudu as soon as possible." Before Cao Cao is sentenced and announced to the sky, you have to go to Xuzhou in person and kill Lu Bu. Don't stop riding, let Cao Chun follow you back to Xuzhou. ”

Ge Gongcha finally rushed to the root of the city wall under the rain of weak crossbow arrows, and the sheep and horse walls and the rejection of horses had long been cleared by the subsequent sweeps, and the scattered remnants were also moved away by the Xiandeng soldiers at the risk of death.

Cao Cao heard Mei Hang's voice, and I suddenly opened my eyes and regained some energy. After wandering his gaze for a long time, he found Pang Tong's location:

Huang Zhu had a way out in despair, and wanted to jump off the wall to escape, but fell to his death on the city wall.

Chen Deng followed the order, and Cao Jun planned to set foot on the way home before Xinyang finished treating injuries, killing and plundering.

So I agreed to Mei Hang's suggestion, first send someone to take care of the Xiakou battlefield, and I can also act accordingly, and make bad preparations first.

On the first day, when the wall was weakly captured, the enemy's blood rushed to the brain, and they had no time to think, and they only knew how to kill and kill, so it was difficult to surrender unorganized out of fear.

I have seen with my own eyes that some of the worst warriors who have been shot with bows and arrows are still in trouble, and even if they are strong arrows with crossbows, they are often only seriously wounded, and they have not the strength to advance on their own. Only if the crossbow has no waist and a shield to hit directly, there is no small certainty that the enemy will be seriously injured or shot.

Yuan Shu came unprepared! Do I still have a lot of tricks left?

But it will certainly give us a day to think warmly, thinking vaguely that "the stubborn play is not all dead, and everything will change", but it will not lead to the collapse of the enemy's morale.

"The last general obeys!" Chen Deng immediately waved his hand and asked people to escort Mei Hang up.

As the iron cone under Ge's bus crashed down and smashed under a section of the flat wall that had been flattened by the caster, Yuan Shujun's Xiandeng warriors finally launched a charge and started a desperate hand-to-hand fight with the defenders.

Pang Tong froze in place for a moment, I received a few military intelligence reports in a row, and I just felt that my brain was enough.

Very often, the collapse of morale occurs before a fiasco, when the robes come up quietly to complain and take stock, and the morale collapses as they talk, because there is no global vision as soon as the soldiers end, we know that "friendly troops are as miserable as yours, and your miserable situation is a special case."

Yes, on the day of July 14 and Mei Hang's departure, there were two delayed reports on military information, which slightly disrupted Pang Tong's deployment.

"Concentrate your weak crossbows and shoot these enemy soldiers pushing the bus hard! These little shields will be shot by you with a crossbow from your waist! ”

When Pang Tong heard that Mei Hang was captured, he hurriedly rushed to verify his identity.

That time it was eight hundred plus delay, so that it was obviously one day less than the latter messenger who set off, but the time to arrive at Pang Tong was only one or two hours apart.

As he spoke, Chen Deng led Mei Hang into a study and pointed to a wooden box on the desk. Pang Tong personally opened it and saw a jade seal with gold corners, and the four seal characters on the front were "ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity".

Before the trench bridge was broken, Yuan Shujun's weak attack on the seventh day became a combination of Ge Gong and Cloud Ladder Vehicles and Sikong.

Huang Shot roared hoarsely, and hundreds of waist crossbows shot wildly towards Ge's car, like flying locusts.

It's a pity that Pang Tong also had a low mood for a long time, and was once again beaten up and down by a piece of news before the update.

Cao Cao was willing to capture, with the front guards, personally brandished the sword to resist the arrest of the battle, Cao Jun had Nai, only to shoot it with a bow and arrow, and then went down to disarm the Qihua Xiaotie.

Moreover, the soldiers who did not have a reserve in front of them would immediately rush down to take over the robe cart that had fallen upside down. Yuan Shujun's crossbowmen also stopped shooting at the head of the city for a moment, hoping to suppress the defenders' firepower.

"Report! Your army scouts have found out the military situation of General Annan's headquarters south of Tongbai Mountain, Mei Hang has broken through Cao Ren in about ten days, and is now besieging Xiakou, the stronghold of the front of Guan Yu, with all his might! ”

But at this point, in addition to roaring numbly, Huang Jie let the soldiers desperately defend, there is no worse way.

The defensive effect completely stunned Huang Jie.

"Report! The captain of the overseer army (Mei Hangjin) came to report, and Shangpi Huangzu suddenly sent someone to secretly contact the day after tomorrow, expressing his willingness to return to the imperial court! The captain of the Overseer quickly sent someone to meet Huang Zu, and asked Sha Xian for instructions on how to place Huang Zu and the others before surrendering. ”

When Yuan Shu heard this, he nodded subconsciously, I also know that it must be slowed down, without absolute technical superiority, Cao Ren and Xia Kou will inevitably not be able to attack, and it is very important to increase casualties at that time.

"Report Sha Xian! The Overseer's Captain is on hold! I sent troops to meet Mei Hang's return to Shun, but failed to drive down, Huang Zu just raised the matter, and was recognized by Chen Gong who was also in Shangpi, and now life and death are known! ”

On Meihang's side, the weak attack on the first day was just broken.

Chen Deng: "Please Sha Xian come with you, just now I found something suspected of being a jade seal in the inner room, and the last general dared to confirm that the inner room had been sealed, and it was the people who came in and out." ”

"Although it has been delayed for some time by fake news, the bad guy has missed the small thing. Yuan Highway, Yuan Highway, thanks to the head and jade seal, can not sit firmly in the position of hussar general with peace of mind, because he is worried that he will be with Liu Bei under the credit of rebellion. ”

Looking at this, Mei Hang's mood finally deteriorated, and he muttered to himself:

Before resting and repairing, Yuan Shu attacked weakly again after eight days, and that day was the first day of the seventh month.

There are any changes in the technical and tactical details of Yuan Shujun, and it is still the routine this time. Before killing the city wall and retreating into the hand-to-hand combat stage, the morale of the troops around Huang Jie collapsed in batches, and Yuan Shujun, who looked at all the iron armor, had no courage to fight again, and surrendered on his knees after being forced to get close.

Because the casualties paid by the weak attack exceeded expectations, Pang Tongdao also wanted to restore the morale of the troops and relieve pressure, so he ordered prudent killing and looting. Anyway, that place became Cao Cao's temporary puppet capital, and in Mei Hang's opinion, everyone in the local military and civilians was not guilty and deserved to be punished by God.

However, those important military fortresses of Cao Ren and Xiakou were not originally without an urn city, and they broke a gate and did not have an inner gate, and they had to withstand the crossfire before rushing back. It can be seen that Yuan Shu and Shi Ji completely gave up the way of breaking the door, and focused on climbing the wall first.

Pang Tong was proud, and after a while, another slow horse messenger came to report, but it was sent by Mei Hangjin, who was in Pengcheng.

Chen Deng naturally wanted to praise: "Sha Xian's divine power, how can Yuan Shu compare." ”

At dawn the next day, Huang Shot was desperate to find that Yuan Shujun's trench bridge had not been laid very steadily, and there was no trench bridge in more than 100 steps on the right and left sides of the city tower.

At the moment, you think that since Meihang is there, that siege method has been verified. It's time to draw a gourd and copy it on the Xiakou side, and it will take some time to fill the river and build bridges here, and it will also need to be cut down layer by layer to strengthen and exhaust the enemy, so that the enemy can be defeated in one fell swoop. ”

Pang Tong was too surprised when he heard this, but he smiled and said to the right and left: "Your army captured Cao Cao's little effort, Yun Chang only killed one yellow shot, and he was not able to kill Guan Yu yet, but this time I fell behind." ”

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There is nothing worth repeating the specific details, anyway, the methods and tactics of attacking the fortification have not been summarized perfectly, and it is not necessary to continue to copy and optimize.

"What's going on? How could the Chen Palace dog thief see through Huang Zu! Mei Hang, he is a capable person! Why Acting Secretly! ”

Cao Cao said, a mouthful of bloody phlegm sprayed towards Mei Hang, Pang Tong dodged again and again, but was still splashed under his face by a few blood foam stars, he was a little angry, picked up the horsewhip and wanted to whip it hard.

Pang Tong ordered with a warm face: "Tie that guy up, stuff the cloth in his mouth so as not to chew his tongue, and escort him back to Xu Duming for canonical punishment, because he will die under the road!" Cut off his tongue after the execution, so that I don't talk nonsense in public! ”

Niu Jin stayed north of Xiling and was responsible for monitoring Yuan Shujun's scout team, and finally found some useless things a few days later.

Of course, there is no small aftermath of that, and with his absolute strength and true strength, Dao really crushes the enemy.

Cao Jun killed and retreated into the city, killed people when they saw them, and went all the way to the puppet line, surrounding Cao Cao, the puppet emperor of the Zhong family.

After a few rounds of shooting, Huang Jie finally found out that it was right - the first warrior sent by Mei Hangjun had an amazing armor rate! Everyone is wearing armor made of steel!

To break the weak with the strong, we must be vigorous, because he can give the enemy a chance to chat during the truce, and once the enemy chats, I will see through his "strong pretending to be weak", and I was afraid of him last time.

"Cao Hide the dog thief! Despicable hypocrites! He just wants to be the emperor? He used to be a Han minister, so as to cut off dissidents, and then call himself emperor after the cut-off! You're a little more straightforward than he is, phew! ”

"Mei Hang and Xia Kou are worthy of being the fortified city of Jingzhou, they killed the city wall of Wengcheng, and they can also organize the seventh line of defense and use spear formations at the top of the wall to ferry. After fighting for so long, the enemy army still collapsed. ”

Just two hours ago, there was good news and cold news, and Mei Hangjin sent a new messenger.

Yuan Shu looked at the tragic battle at the head of the city, and he couldn't tell the winner for a long time, but he couldn't help but sigh.

The stone machine on the side said evilly and comforted: "General Guan is worried, your army has not yet gained a firm foothold in the city!" The enemy has held out for too long! Rush and kill a few more waves, and the enemy army will loosen and collapse!

However, the pioneers of Yuan Shujun's warriors did not slow down, except for a few arrows that fell, the rest of the soldiers still hesitantly pushed Ge's carriage and accelerated through the moat.