My Three Kingdoms is a bit fierce

The herald received the order, so he immediately held the command flag and gave the order to attack the artillery in the city.

At the same time, the observers who were in charge of indicating the direction of the target for the catapult troops had already conveyed the target to the catapult troops through the flag.

"Directions..., ,...... distance" With a burst of busyness, five hundred catapults were ready to go.

"Launch!!" With the officer's roar, stones larger than basins flew into the air. What a shocking sight!

Tian Feng, who was standing on the tower of the city gate, saw such a scene for the first time, and suddenly felt dizzy. It's no wonder that he feels like this, don't talk about him, even a fierce general like Zhang Fei was shocked when he saw such a scene for the first time.

The boulder flew into the air, and the next moment it smashed into the two Cao military formations that were slowly advancing with shields on their heads.

Hundreds of large rocks poured down like a shower, kicking up a cloud of dust as it landed. In the dust, many Cao soldiers were smashed to the ground, their shields shattered, and blood splattered everywhere. Then there was a wail, and it was the wounded soldier expressing his pain.

This wave of catapult long-range strikes did not achieve the optimal attack effect, and only about 20% of the stones hit the target directly. Even so, the scene was a mess, with the flesh and blood of the soldiers who were knocked down by direct hits, and the smashed city trucks and ladders were crooked.

Zhang Fei was very dissatisfied with the effect of such an attack, and he thought that the effect of the attack should be better.

At the same time, the officers and men of the Cao Army of the Chinese army were deeply shocked by the scene in front of them! They couldn't imagine how the Northern Expeditionary Army had thrown those big rocks so far? In fact, it is normal to encounter stone attacks from the defenders during the siege of the city, but it is all on the side of the city wall, and there has never been a situation where it has been attacked by stones more than 100 meters away from the city wall!

"Bonghyo, what's going on?" Cao Cao frowned tightly and asked Guo Jia on the side with a shocked expression.

But Guo Jia is not an immortal, how can he guess what is going on out of thin air. However, Guo Jia is Guo Jia after all, and he still made some speculations because of his knowledge, "My lord, such a scene has never appeared, and even ancient books have never recorded it, but I speculate that the Northern Army may have created some kind of machinery that can throw stones far away!" Otherwise, it would be impossible for manpower to do this!

Cao Cao nodded, although Guo Jia's explanation did not completely solve the doubt, it was the only reasonable explanation at present.

"Lord, the enemy situation is unknown, do you want to withdraw your troops?" The general on the side, Le Jin, admonished.

Cao Cao frowned, a grim look flashed in his eyes, and then shook his head and said; "There's no need, let's see the situation." Cao Cao's plan in his heart was actually to use the lives of these 10,000 soldiers to test how many hole cards the Northern Army had.

The scheming Le Jin is not a brave man like Xiahoudun. Listening to Cao Cao's answer, Le Jin immediately thought of Cao Cao's plan. However, Le Jin didn't say anything more, because although Cao Cao's decision was cruel, it was like this on the battlefield, and the kindness of a woman not only could not save people on the battlefield, but would kill more people.

This round of stone artillery attacks caused a lot of damage to Cao Cao's army, but Cao Cao's army was not confused by this. After a brief period of consternation, the soldiers of the two battalions immediately regrouped and continued to advance towards the city wall. Perhaps because they didn't have the experience to deal with catapults, they were more densely packed after regrouping.

When Cao Cao's army advanced to a distance of seventy or eighty meters from the city wall, the second round of stone rain came overwhelmingly.

This time, since Cao Caojun had been paying attention to the mid-air, they all saw the scene of the stone rain falling. When they didn't see it, the soldiers didn't feel anything, but now they couldn't help but be terrified as they watched the rain of stones bigger than a basin fall.

When people are afraid, they have some natural reactions. Seeing the stone rain coming, the two squares that were originally neatly arranged suddenly became chaotic.

The stone rain fell in an instant, stirring up a cloud of dust with a sudden and dull sound.

This round of stone artillery attacks was much better than the previous round, and Shi Yu basically covered a phalanx of Cao's army.

After the dust cleared, I saw Sergeant Cao lying on the ground. The shape of the deceased was strange and miserable, some of the heads were smashed off, some of the chest and abdomen were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, and some were smashed to pieces, and the internal organs of the limbs were scattered everywhere; The wounded lay on the ground and wailed in pain. The place that has been swept by the stone bullet is like a hell on earth, and people can't help but feel creepy when they see it.

This round of stone artillery attacks caused great casualties to Cao's army, and the effect was obviously much higher than just now.

However, the Cao army was not defeated from the will to fight, they did not retreat, they were still advancing, but this time they did not line up together again, learning the lesson just now, the Cao army rushed in the form of stragglers carrying the cloud ladder Cao City Wall.

Zhang Fei, who was standing on the tower of the city gate, couldn't help frowning when he saw this scene. At this time, Cao Jun scattered relatively widely, and the impact of the catapult was bound to be greatly reduced.

Cao Caojun roared and rushed forward, and when he rushed to a distance of forty meters, the third round of stone rain came. Next, the same dust and rumble, but the blow was far less effective than the first two rounds.

At this time, an adjutant general standing beside Zhang Fei asked Zhang Fei: "General, can you order the crossbow car to attack?"

Zhang Fei frowned and thought for a moment, and ordered: "The crossbow cart retreats, the crossbowmen step forward, and the sword and shield hands and horizontal sword warriors are ready to fight hand-to-hand!" "。 The reason why Zhang Fei decided not to use the repeater for the time being was because the number of enemy troops besieging the city was not large, and it was difficult to achieve a good attack effect by using the repeater, but it would also expose his own powerful weapons.

"Yes!" The adjutant general agreed, and then immediately gave the order.

As the order was handed down, the northern army on the city wall made corresponding adjustments. I saw that the crossbow cart that was originally on the side of the wall was pushed to the back, and then thousands of foot soldiers with steel crossbows lined up to the side of the wall, and at the same time, thousands of soldiers with swords, shields and Han horizontal knives lined up behind the crossbowmen.

Thousands of crossbowmen are divided into three columns, the first column shoots, the second column prepares, and the last column pulls the string to shoot the arrows, so as to achieve the best shooting effect.

In just a few moments, the crossbowmen were ready.

"Shoot the arrows!" With the order of the commander of the bow and crossbow battalion, thousands of arrows were fired on the city wall, and Cao Cao's army, which was charging, was suddenly shot down by hundreds of people. Immediately, the first row of crossbowmen stepped back, and the second row of crossbowmen stepped forward, and a steel crossbow with a handle ready to fire aimed at Cao Cao's army, which was still charging. Then the rain of arrows poured down again.

Repeatedly, the rain of arrows on the city wall continued to pour downward, and Cao Cao's army kept falling to the ground like harvested wheat.

However, Cao Cao's army was not slaughtered, and the crossbowmen in Cao Cao's army also fired arrows at the city wall as soon as they entered the firing range to suppress the long-range fire on the city wall. Under the counterattack of Cao Cao's army, the crossbowmen of the Northern Army were shot and fell from time to time. However, due to the terrain of Cao Cao's army, the strike effect of the archers was minimal, and there was no way to compare the strike effect of the crossbowmen of the Northern Army.

Cao Cao's army advanced with continuous casualties, and finally, after paying a considerable price, Cao Cao's army rushed under the city walls. However, Cao Cao's army had already lost all four of their city-rushing vehicles, and they could now only attack Huguan through the remaining seven ladders.

Cao Cao's army desperately erected the ladders, and in the process, two more ladders were smashed into several sections by the sassalwood thrown from the city wall.

After setting up the ladder, Cao Caojun shouted violently, looking a little excited, and he didn't know why they were excited.

At this time, Cao Cao's army was already concentrated under the city wall, and in addition to the crossbowmen who continued to shoot non-stop, there were also soldiers who desperately threw stones and trees down.

Under the current situation, Cao's soldiers could not dodge at all, and under the blow of dense stones and sasswoods like a torrential rain, Cao's army suffered extremely heavy losses.

However, at this time, Cao Jun was already red-eyed, and he didn't care about his own casualties at all. They roared and bit their blades and climbed upwards, looking unusually fierce.

The stones and logs on the city wall kept pouring downward, and the fierce blow soon smashed the two ladders of Cao Jun, and with two loud bangs, the ladders broke into two sections, and the soldiers of Cao who were climbing suddenly flew into the air like a kite on a short line.

However, the fierce blows of the Northern Army did not stop the Cao army's advance, and a few moments later, Cao soldiers climbed the city wall from three other ladders.

The crossbowmen in these three places immediately retreated, and the sword and shield men and the crosssword warriors immediately met them.

With a flash of sword light, the soldiers of Cao who had climbed the city wall were cut into several pieces before they had time to be happy.

After fighting for a while, Cao's soldiers suffered a lot of losses, but they couldn't rush to the city wall at all. If Cao's army could rush to the conservative city wall of the Northern Army with only three ladders, then the Northern Army would not be called the Northern Army.

Guo Jia, who was beside Cao Cao, suggested to Cao Cao at this time: "Lord, our goal has been achieved, we can withdraw our troops!" If you continue to fight, you will just sacrifice soldiers in vain, and it is not worth it!

Cao Cao nodded, and then ordered the deputy general next to him to give an order, and Ming Jin withdrew his troops.

As the piercing golden bell rang, Cao Cao's army, which was besieging the city, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then retreated like the sea at a low tide.

The besieging Cao army retreated, and a moment later, the entire Cao Cao army also retreated back to the camp. The battlefield was left with only corpses and a mess.

In this siege battle, Cao Cao only sent 10,000 men to attack the city, in order to test the defense of Huguan. Under normal circumstances, after this round of attacks, it is time to officially attack the city. However, due to unexpected circumstances, Cao Cao temporarily decided to temporarily suspend the war.

Although this siege battle was not large, it was fought very tragically, well, it should not be said to be tragic, it should be tragic. In the battle, which lasted less than an hour, Cao's army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, while the northern army suffered basically no losses. Such a result can be said to be very rare, mainly because the 'artillery' of the Northern Army is so powerful.