Rebirth of the Three Kingdoms: Guan Ping's new biography

Chapter 34 Siege (Part 1)

As Cao Cao's messengers came to convey the general attack order, Zhang Liao personally supervised and led the army and began to move towards Xiapi City. A feast of passionate pictures

The first to take action was the thunderbolt chariot. After arriving at the predetermined position, it was filled with stones. Just waiting for Zhang Liao's order, it could smash more than ten kilograms of stones against the city wall, killing people or destroying the battlements.

Then, the rush vehicle and ladder troops began to march simultaneously.

The ladders allocated by Cao Cao were obviously of poor quality; in front of the ladders, there were supposed to be several layers of wooden boards to block arrows to the greatest extent, but the wooden boards on these ladders were clearly not up to par in terms of quality or quantity.[

And because the ladder is most afraid of being attacked by rockets from the city defenders, because once the ladder catches fire, the people on the ladder will either be burned alive or fall from the top, and the losses will be heavy.

Therefore, qualified ladders are covered with a piece of cowhide for fire protection, but these ladders do not.

As for the car, the tree that serves as the main axis is also not up to standard. It is small in diameter, distorted, and has many other defects.

When the soldiers shouted and pushed the ladder 200 steps away from the tower, the attack began on the tower. Lu Bing opened the crossbow with a range of more than 200 steps, and the huge arrows whizzed towards the ladder.

The weak wooden planks could not stop them. After being shot by arrows, some soldiers were not completely dead, but they were carried by inertia and fell down the ladder five to six meters high. The result can be imagined.

I don't know whether there were no rockets in the city, or Hou Cheng deliberately didn't fire them, but despite the fierce rain of arrows in the city, the ladder still approached the tower staggeringly.

Within a hundred steps, all the crossbows on the city, no matter how powerful they were, came to greet the ladder.

Fortunately, although the wooden planks were not up to standard, they were able to withstand most of the arrows. More than twenty arrows had been attached to the tower. The soldiers held up their hand shields to block the rain of arrows, while waving their swords.

Get ready to rush to the tower.

Just as he emerged, dozens of spears were fired from the tower. The forest of spears was so tight that no one could get in. Zhang Liao's soldiers were either assassinated or stabbed off the tower and fell to their death. The losses were quite serious.

At this time, the charging troops also came to the city gate. They only bumped a few times, but the city gate was not damaged. The charging car was about to fall apart, and there was no progress.

Zhang Liao, who was supervising the battle at the rear, walked back and forth with a pained expression on his face, restless.

At this time, the attention of the soldiers on the tower were attracted by the ladders and the charging carts. Guan Ping ordered the 200 people from the shield camp to rush to the front to protect the rear from the rain of arrows, and then brought the spears and the bow and crossbows.

About four hundred people supported the carts and bent over to transport the soil and stones to the predetermined location. Some soldiers also dug holes to collect soil and began to pile up mountains of soil.

Although Guanping's protective measures are very strict, not only the soldiers are ordered to wear armor even if they are digging soil, but also the shield soldiers are arranged in layers to achieve all-round coverage. But they can't withstand the occasional shots from the tower.

The extremely powerful arrows penetrated layers of defenses and took away the lives of soldiers trapped in the camp.

Guan Ping endured the physical pain and asked others to move the body away. He also carried a shield himself to protect the soldiers from the rain of arrows.

Although the place where the earth is piled up is not far from the city wall, most bows and crossbows can reach the shooting range, but if the soldiers trapped in the camp are well equipped, ordinary arrows can really do nothing.

Therefore, the losses suffered by the trapped camp were very small compared to those troops who fought hard on the city tower. From the beginning, when Tushan achieved some success, only five or six people were carried out, and two of them

One could still hear a low cry of pain, and some were rescued.