Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 294 Shouchun Offensive and Defensive Battle

The defense of Shouchun City is very complete.

There is a moat several meters wide outside Shouchun City, and the city wall is also ten meters high.

Moreover, there are not only turrets and police auxiliary buildings built on the city wall, but also watch holes and perforations on the battlements of the city wall.

The city wall, which is more than 6 or 7 meters wide, is equipped with sufficient ballistas, rocks, rolling logs, bows and arrows, boiling oil, boiling water, gold juice, etc., almost defensive items that can be thought of, are already available here.

After the coalition forces launched the siege, some reactions finally appeared on the silent walls of Shouchun City.

General Yuan Jun and his soldiers began to shout, and the archers on the city wall also raised their bows and set up arrows, waiting for orders.

When the soldiers of the coalition army entered the range of the bow and arrow, Yuan Jun Xiaoxiao gave the order to shoot.

"Fire the arrows!" Following the Xiaoxiao's order, Yuan Jun's archers threw the arrows into the coalition formation.

Most of the soldiers of Liu Bei and Sun Ce's army wore leather armor, and even some low-ranking soldiers wore cloth armor.In addition, the lineup during the siege was inevitably a bit dense. Yuan Jun's cluster of arrows rained down, and the two armies were hit again and again, and they fell down like wheat being cut in an instant.

However, for the large number of Sun Cejun, the death of hundreds of people is not a big deal; but for Liu Bei, every time a group of soldiers fell, his heart would throb.

It's just such a small fortune, Liu Bei clenched his distressed hands.

Look at Cao Jun again, because they are all well-equipped regular troops.

At least everyone is wearing iron armor covering the chest and back, and most of them are equipped with at least one wooden shield.This caused Yuan Jun's bows and arrows to have limited damage to Cao Jun. After a rain of arrows, only a few dozen unlucky ghosts were shot to the end, and most of them were only injured but not fatal.

Yuan Jun didn't pay attention to the casualties of the coalition forces. Their archers followed the rules and fired arrows at the coalition forces, killing as many as they could.

However, the archers of the coalition army also fought back. Although the effect was not great, it could serve as a little cover.

However, there was one thing that made the generals of Yuan Jun feel terrified, that is, the stone bullets that flew from Cao Jun's position, which could not be stopped by manpower!
Countless stone bullets streaked across the air, with beautiful arcs, or landed in the city, or hit the city wall, or simply hit some soldiers
In short, those soldiers in Yuan Shu's army who had never experienced the baptism of trebuchets finally understood Ji Ling's feelings before.

Anyway, their current psychological shadow is huge, and some of them even have to look up at the sky all the time, afraid that a stone bomb will suddenly roar and hit the top of their heads in the midair.
Ji Ling personally sat on the north wall and commanded the soldiers to resist Cao's attack.

However, he has already seen that the first round of the coalition's attack was just a trial, and it felt like there was too much thunder and little rain.

Sure enough, in the first round of attack, the coalition forces just threw a lot of bags of soil into the moat.

They didn't even have the idea of ​​touching the city wall, and finally left two or three thousand corpses and retreated.

After returning to the formation, the generals began to make targeted adjustments, and the next step may be the real attack.

On Cao Jun's side, although the people withdrew, the trebuchets still kept throwing stone bullets into Shouchun City.

In the intensive bombing of more than 100 trebuchets, the turrets on the north city wall collapsed, and many battlements were smashed in half.

The city suffered heavy losses, countless houses were destroyed, and many soldiers who were resting in the city or waiting to go to the battlefield also suffered innocent disasters.

In this state of panic dominated by the catapult, Yuan Jun's low morale began to gradually decline again.

Ji Ling, Qiao Rui, and Han Siam commanded the battle on the north, south, and east walls respectively.

Only Lei Bo stayed behind in the city, and was responsible for dispatching troops to the three places to support them.

Lei Bo had been a little dissatisfied with Yuan Shu's violent expropriation earlier. Seeing that the soldiers were in a state of panic, but Yuan Shu and the important officials of the court ran away with the wealthy wives and concubines first, his dissatisfaction gradually turned into resentment, "Yuan Shu. Is he really worth our lives for him?"

About half an hour after the first attack, the drums of the coalition forces sounded again, and their second wave of attack came again!
With the first experience, the coalition soldiers moved much faster this time, and their goal was also very clear, which was to fill in some passages in the moat first.

When filling the moat, many civilians and soldiers died in battle. Some people who were more ruthless simply pushed their bodies down to serve as fillers.
The moat of Shouchun is both wide and deep.

Going back and forth several times, the coalition forces spent almost half a day throwing tens of thousands of bags and corpses into the moat, and the moat was finally filled with a few roads for soldiers to pass through.

Before even touching the city wall, the coalition forces had already suffered nearly [-] casualties.

In Liu Bei's army formation, seeing that a passage had finally been barely formed, but it cost the lives of nearly [-] soldiers, Zhang Fei finally couldn't help shouting, "Brother! We only have this few people, do we want to build them all here?" Under Bird City?"

Zhang Fei has an impatient temper, and he dares to say anything when he gets angry, "That damn Cao Cao, it is clear that he wants to consume our strength, big brother."

Before Zhang Fei could finish speaking, Liu Bei suddenly stopped talking: "Shut up! Stop talking nonsense!!"

Seeing that his kindness was not only regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs, but also stopped by Liu Bei, Zhang Fei turned his head away a little unhappy, and sulked.

Seeing this, Guan Yu hurriedly intervened and said, "Brother, the third brother has always been irritable, and he said something from his heart. Please don't take offense."

After Guan Yu finished speaking, he turned to a reproachful tone and said, "Third Brother, you really need to correct your impatience. Hurry up and apologize to Big Brother."

Where did Liu Bei not know that Zhang Fei was telling the truth?
But everyone is attacking, so you can't just muddle along in order to preserve your strength, can you?

"It's time for the allied forces to attack Yuan Shu. Don't you see that the troops of Cao Cao and Sun Ce are also attacking the city regardless of the cost?" Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei with a bit of hatred, and explained: "If At the critical moment, I did not do my best because of selfishness, and was asked afterwards, how should I deal with myself? What will the world think of me, Liu Bei?"

Zhang Fei's face was a little hot after Liu Bei's words. Fortunately, his face was dark, but nothing unusual could be seen.

Guan Yu also took advantage of the situation at this time and said: "Yes, third brother, the eldest brother is a descendant of the royal family. If you don't even work hard to crusade against the false emperor, how can the eldest brother establish his own image and establish his prestige?"

Zhang Fei knew he was wrong, so Na Na bowed his fists and apologized, "Brother, Brother, it's my selfishness that caused it, I'm here to apologize to you."

"Third Brother, Big Brother didn't mean to blame you."

Liu Bei helped Zhang Fei up, and said earnestly:

"Brother just hopes that you can use your brain more and open up the pattern at the same time. Only in this way can you become a generation of famous generals in the future, not just a warrior who charges into battle."

"Yes, thank you for your teaching, brother, I've made a note of it."

(End of this chapter)