The catapult kept throwing boulders, and Xu Shu kept paying close attention to the situation on the city wall. Suddenly, several boulders smashed on the gate tower together, and with a burst of smoke, the gate tower collapsed.

Xu Shu narrowed his eyes, and then said to Lu Bu: "General, you can order the forward battalion to attack immediately!"

Lu Bu was stunned for a moment and said, "But the artillery attack is not over yet!" "

General, there's nothing wrong with listening to me!"

Lu Bu nodded, and then ordered the herald, "Order the forward battalion to attack immediately!" At the same time order the artillery to stop the attack! "

Wait." Xu Shu suddenly interrupted Lu Bu. "It is not necessary to order the artillery to stop the attack, but only to order the artillery to stop the attack when the forward battalion is close to the wall."

Lu Bu was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask a question, but said to the herald: "Do it!" The sound of

the war drums immediately changed, and the commander of the forward battalion was slightly surprised, but he did not delay, and immediately drew his horizontal knife and shouted: "The forward battalion will attack the city with me!" "

The 10,000-strong forward battalion began to advance under the rumbling attack of catapults, with ladders, throwers, and storming carts being pushed to the front.

The rain of boulders roared and bombarded the city walls, and the whole earth seemed to tremble**. The soldiers of the Cao army who stayed on the city wall were miserable, the boulder fell around, the terrifying loud sound was like knocking on their hearts, and the unlucky ones were directly hit by the boulder, and the blood exploded when they landed, turning into a terrifying mass of flesh and mud, and some were hit by the boulder, and flew out of the city wall when they landed, and they couldn't live when they saw it.

An officer of the Cao Army looked out of the city from the perforation of the battlements with his head in his arms, and found that more than 10,000 troops of the Northern Expedition were pushing various siege equipment to advance rapidly.

The officer was frightened, and hurriedly half-squatted and ran towards the city, but before he could run a few steps, he was hit by a huge boulder, and the blood flew sideways, and the whole person was broken into two, each flying in different directions. The officer did not die immediately, and in mid-air, he saw the lower half of his body flipped and flew in the sky, and his face suddenly showed a look of extreme fear.

Listening to the endless loud noise in his ears, Xu Huang frowned, his heart was very anxious, and suddenly he remembered a loud noise, this sound was different from the previous ones, Xu Huang couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat, this voice came from the city gate.

He was stunned for a moment, then his face changed, and he raised the big axe and said urgently: "The left battalion will follow me to the city wall, the right battalion will be ready to support at any time, and the front battalion will be ready to fight under the city gate!" After

that, Xu Huang rushed to the city wall first, and the soldiers were a little scared when they saw the boulders flying all over the sky, but when they saw Xu Huang, who was the main general, took the lead regardless of his safety, the fear immediately subsided, and the soldiers roared and followed behind Xu Huang and rushed to the city.

At this moment, the rain of boulders flying in the sky suddenly stopped. At this time, in the Northern Army, the officer in charge of the catapult unit was scolding his soldiers, and it turned out that the soldiers were hidden and actually left the order behind, until the forward battalion began to storm the city gate, and they were still shooting. Fortunately, the focus of the catapult attack was on the city wall, and the forward battalion was not injured much by its own catapults, and the accidental collision put the forward battalion in a very favorable attack situation.

One after another, ladders began to be erected along the wall, and the rushing vehicles kept hitting the city gates, and the city gates were in pain. There are also heavy flying hugs behind that slowly push forward. Flying is a kind of special siege equipment developed by the Martial Arts Research Institute, its whole is a triangle, the short side is at the bottom, equipped with large wheels, pushed forward by human standing, there is a wooden box similar to a container at the top, the front of the box is a tall and thick board, the top of the board has an iron anchor hook, when the flying tower is pushed close enough to the city wall, the board will be lowered, hook the city wall, and then the soldiers hiding in the box will immediately rush up the city wall. The advantage of the flying tower is that it can send a considerable number of assault troops to the city wall in a short period of time.

The soldiers of the forward battalion bit their horizontal knives and climbed up the ladder, and at this time, the remaining soldiers of the Cao army who remained on the city wall had already shown their heads. They shouted as they sparsely dropped arrows down the city.

A moment later, a soldier of the Northern Army climbed to the top of the city, several spears poked at the same time, and before the soldier could take the horizontal knife in his mouth, he was pierced through the body, and then he was provoked and thrown off the city wall.

Another soldier of the Northern Army climbed to the top of the city, and the soldier held a horizontal knife in his hand, slashed a Cao soldier who was blocking in front of him to the ground, and then fought with the soldiers who followed him.

More and more soldiers of the Northern Army poured into the city, and the individual combat effectiveness of the Northern Army was significantly stronger than that of the Cao Army, and the battle situation on the city gradually fell to the side of the Northern Army.

The generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who were in the Chinese army, all showed excited expressions, they did not expect to be able to attack the city wall with one drum.

"Feng Xian, you can immediately increase troops to reinforce the forward battalion!" Xu Shu said urgently.

Lu Bu immediately ordered accordingly.

Immediately, three battalions of about 15,000 troops broke away from the main formation and quickly rushed towards the city wall.

The defense of the Cao army was already in jeopardy, could they be attacked by the northern army in one go, and then the entire city was lost?

At the last moment, Xu Huang led the main force of the left battalion to rush to the city wall and join the battlefield. Xu Huang took the lead, the big axe in his hand flew up and down, where was his opponent for the ordinary soldiers of the Northern Expedition, they were killed on the spot, despite this, but the brave soldiers of the Northern Expedition still rushed towards Xu Huang one after another, they learned the previous lesson, and no longer fought with Xu Huang in a scattered manner, but two or three or three or five people cooperated with each other to attack Xu Huang, but Xu Huang would not be stopped because of this, Xu Huang shouted and danced the giant axe in a hurry, and in a thrilling sonorous sound, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition fell weakly.

Xu Huang was very frightened, although he had heard of the bravery of the Northern Expeditionary Army for a long time, but he did not expect that the real Northern Expeditionary Army would be even more fierce and fearless of death than the rumors.

Cao's left battalion joined the melee at the head of the city in time, and the balance of the war was gradually reversed. The Northern Expeditionary Army was squeezed by the superior strength of the Cao Army, and was gradually squeezed to the side of the city wall, although there were constantly soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army who joined the battlefield through the ladder, but this was obviously unable to make ends meet.

The soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army fought hard in the Cao army's soldiers, and in the blood flowers, the soldiers on both sides fell one after another.

Moments later, the few remaining soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army on a section of the wall were squeezed onto the battlements, unable to cope with the attacks from all directions, and they were either forced to jump off the wall or were picked off by the other side.

The soldiers of the Cao army couldn't help cheering, but the cheers stopped abruptly as soon as they sounded, and it turned out that the flying tower of the Northern Army had been pushed to the side of the city wall, and the soldiers of the Cao army had never seen such a thing.

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned.

At this moment, the front board of the flying tower opened, and the heavy board smashed the wall, and several Cao soldiers who could not dodge were smashed to the ground on the spot, and blood was splashed everywhere.

Just before the soldiers of the Cao army could react, the sound of killing suddenly started, and the soldiers of the Northern Army rushed to the city wall from the flying tower. The sword light sprinkled, and a large piece of Sergeant Cao, who had not yet reacted, was overturned.

At the same time as the soldiers in the flying tower attacked, the soldiers under the city began to climb up the stairs of the flying tower, and at the same time, the arrow tower that arrived at the position also began to suppress the Cao army on the city wall.

The battle situation on the city wall suddenly began to tilt towards the side of the Northern Army.

Xu Huang was shocked, he didn't expect that the Northern Expeditionary Army had so many strange siege equipment, and he couldn't help but feel anxious.

Xu Huang retreated to the side, observed the situation on the entire city wall, and then observed the situation outside the city, and found that three battalions of the Northern Expeditionary Army were coming quickly.

Not daring to delay, he immediately ordered the catapult troops, who had been hiding, to immediately block the attack, and at the same time ordered the right battalion, which was waiting under the city, to immediately reinforce the city wall.

A moment later, a rain of stones flew out from within the city walls, and although its scale and momentum could not be compared to the previous attack of the Northern Army, it was no less terrifying.

Seeing this, the battalion commander who was leading the army to advance changed his complexion, and immediately shouted loudly: "Spread it all out for me!" "。 In fact, there was no need for his order, and the sergeants of the Northern Expedition had already done so.

The stones rained down, and some of the unlucky soldiers of the Northern Expedition were swallowed up by the rain of stones and never got up again.

The three battalions of the soldiers of the expedition to the north immediately increased the pace of their advance.

Before advancing to the city, he experienced another baptism of stone rain.

Since the catapults of the Cao army were far less sharp than those of the Northern Army, the losses of the Northern Army were not large.

As soon as the three reinforced battalions came under the walls, they threw themselves into the siege. At the same time, the right battalion of Cao's army had been reinforced to the city wall. Here, we see the pros and cons of both the attacking and defending sides, the defenders can quickly put the defending troops into battle, and the besiegers first have to go through a painful process of ascending the city.

The armies of both sides fought to the death for the city wall, and there were more and more corpses on and off the city, and the blood was gradually changing the color of the city wall.

Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering noise at the city gate, and the city gate finally collapsed under the continuous impact. However, the northern army failed to rush into the city, and it turned out that Li Dian, the defender of the Cao army, had already blocked the city gate hole with stones and various debris.

Although the Northern Army failed to rush into the city through the city gate, the loud sound of the city gate collapsing still greatly affected the morale of the Cao soldiers on the city wall.

The Northern Army took the opportunity to storm on, and the Cao army, which had the advantage in numbers, was defeated and retreated for a while. Fortunately, Xu Huang stabilized the morale of the army in time, and Cao Jun was able to withstand the impact of the Northern Army.

The bloody battle lasted until the evening, and although the Zhengbei army successively invested 30,000 troops to attack the city and broke the city gate, it still failed to attack Yecheng in the end.

Xu Shu said to Lu Bu with some regret: "Order the retreat!" The soldiers are already tired, and nothing will come of fighting any longer!

Lu Bu flicked his horsewhip in annoyance, and then ordered the herald: "Mingjin retreats!" The

golden bell rang, and the Northern Army immediately retreated.

At this time, Lu Bu, who was unwilling, rolled his eyes, and suddenly ordered again: "Order the artillery to beat me hard!" The

herald was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly went down to give the order.

Xu Huang and the soldiers of the Cao Army couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that the Northern Army had finally retreated, and many of them collapsed on the bloody city wall on the spot.

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