I am Li Shimin of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 242
"咻咻咻......" The huge crossbow also roared and showed its power. The crossbow bolts with thick wrists were pushed by the huge stirring force of the bed crossbow, like missiles, and smashed into the city with a sharp whistling sound. The huge crossbow arrows could pierce through countless People, some were even directly nailed to the top of the city, wailing and dying miserably.

The crossbowmen of the defenders who fought on a gurney suffered heavy losses. The defenders hid in fear in front of the low wall, praying not to shoot themselves.

Taking advantage of the gap between the enemy's defenses, a dozen huge ladder trucks were quickly pushed to the bottom of the city, and immediately the soldiers rushed to the city with their shields against the enemy's rain of arrows and thunderstones.

When the soldiers rushed to the top of the city, the catapults and huge bed crossbows in the distance stopped the thunder and anger, and finally gave the defenders a little breathing time,
"Go to the city to meet the enemy, go to the city to meet the enemy, hurry up..." Qiao Rui shouted, and all the generals under his command also rushed to the top of the city quickly. Under the city, he threw the rolling wood and thunder stone without looking at it, for fear of being hit by the enemy's crossbow arrows.

The long-range firepower of the entrapment army did cast a huge psychological shadow on Yuan Shu's defenders.

When the enemy was still relatively chaotic, the entrapment army had already rushed to the top of the city and started the battle to snatch the top of the city.

Seeing the enemy's rapid attack, Qiao Rui immediately ordered the reserve team under the city who had not yet entered the battle to go up to defend the city, and he himself led a thousand soldiers to kill them.

"Kill, charge..." More and more soldiers of the trapped army climbed to the top of the city, formed small battle formations, and continued to advance.

However, as Qiao Rui mobilized [-] reserve teams to play, and he himself fought hard on the front line, he finally suppressed the offensive of the soldiers who fell into the formation.

However, the narrow city wall allowed the attacking forces of the trapped army to display their offensive power, and several solid "landing fields" appeared on the top of the city, allowing the soldiers of the trapped army to rush up continuously.

Gao Lan saw that the forward [-] soldiers had opened up the situation at the top of the city, and after thinking for a moment, he decided to use his tactics to take advantage of the victory and pursue Xi County in one fell swoop.

Immediately he raised his sword and shouted: "The Chinese army strikes, the Chinese army strikes, take down Xixian..."

"Rumble..." The dense and majestic drumbeats suddenly sounded, and the soldiers were agitated with enthusiasm, and the elite of the [-] trapped soldiers rushed towards Xixian County shouting excitedly.

When the Chinese army attacked, a large crash car rushed towards the city gate without hesitation.The crash car is like a huge hedgehog, the top is tightly protected by hard boards, and a dozen wrestlers inside, shouting neat and rhythmic chant, are pushing the crash car hard.

More than 1 soldiers flocked to the top of the city continuously along the ladder cars set up, constantly squeezing the defenders. The soldiers of the trapped army relied on their excellent armor to re-enter the enemy group without fear of death. Wielding a bloody horizontal knife, bloody hand-to-hand combat was launched. Often, one soldier in the formation could replace four or five enemy troops. The sturdy momentum made the enemy's scalp numb.

The aura of sacrificing one's life and forgetting to die also completely suppressed the defenders, who were killed to death. The soldiers of the defenders gradually shook their morale and began to retreat involuntarily. A timid soldier fled to the city crying.

Seeing this, Qiao Rui chopped down a deserter with a knife, and killed another soldier who was trying to escape with his backhand, and roared: "Fleeing, kill without mercy, follow me to kill back."

Qiao Rui personally fought on the front line. Although he was skilled in martial arts and killed more than a dozen soldiers in the formation, the soldiers in the formation were good at forming formations, and soon formed an iron-clad formation composed of ten shield soldiers as shields. , like sticking a hedgehog, making Qiao Rui unable to do anything.

"Ho Ho Ho..." The armored formations kept pressing forward, accompanied by the roar of the soldiers of the trapped army, forcing the enemy to retreat.

And when everyone's attention was on the top of the city, under the continuous and violent impact of the crash, the city gate finally couldn't hold on, and collapsed, killing ten enemy soldiers at once.

Seeing that the city gate had been breached, Gao Shun immediately shouted excitedly: "The whole army is attacking, charge..." After speaking, he drew out his long sword and led the [-] Shence Army cavalry behind him to charge into the city.

Originally, Li Shimin also considered that Gao Shun was all infantry, so he specially deployed five thousand Shence Army cavalry for him.

Qiao Xuan, Qiao Rui's deputy, shouted in horror, "General, the city gate is broken, retreat quickly."

It seemed that the enemy army that was pouring in, Qiao Rui's heart was ashamed. He knew that Xi County would not be able to hold on, and he had tried his best, but the enemy's offensive was too sharp, the engineering equipment was terrifying, and the enemy army was too brave.

Seeing that there was no result in the fight, Qiao Rui sneaked down to the city, took the remaining thousands of soldiers, and fled towards the south gate in a hurry, not caring about the others anymore.

As Gao Lan led the main army into the city, the main general Qiao Rui abandoned the city and fled. The remaining defenders no longer had the desire to fight and surrendered one after another.

In this battle, Gao Shun led the army in the first battle to analyze the county, and wiped out nearly [-] enemies. Among them, [-] enemies died from long-range strikes from projectile vehicles and bed crossbows, and captured [-] to [-] people. up.

In fact, since tens of thousands of people were lost in the last attack on Wuguan, although it has now recovered to [-] troops, which has reached the limit that Nanyang County can bear, most of them are newly recruited recruits with less training and It has not yet undergone actual combat, and its combat power is low.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Gao Shun was able to win Xi County so quickly.

The casualties of the trapped army were less than [-], which can be called a great victory. Originally, Gao Shun's idea was to lure the enemy to send troops to defend Xixian County. Send troops to fight for it. In this way, Wancheng will be empty.

At this time, the messenger sent by Qiao Rui to Wancheng had just arrived, and Yuan Shu and his confidants were discussing countermeasures.

"Everyone, the Bingzhou army is approaching menacingly. How should our army deal with it? Do you have any good strategies to defeat the enemy?" Yuan Shu asked anxiously.

"My lord, our army should fully support Xixian County, hold Xixian County, and hinder the Bingzhou army. I think Gao Shun's encircled army is just the vanguard, and there may be the main force behind. I am worried that the enemy may adopt a strategy of attacking the west. The army must be careful of the enemy on the front line called by the enemy from the south, and my subordinates suggest that we should divide our troops to occupy the enemy." Yan Xiang, the chief adviser under Yuan Shu's command, stood up and said.

"My lord, our army has limited strength. Dividing troops is a big taboo for military strategists. Moreover, Xixian County is the front line to guard Wuguan soldiers. Once Xixian County is lost, Nanyang will have no danger to defend. We should decisively increase troops to defend Xixian County. Besides, Nanzhao There are Funiu Mountain and Xiong'er Mountain on the front line, the mountain roads are rugged, the movement of the army is inconvenient, it is difficult to mobilize on a large scale, and it is only necessary to send [-] elite troops to garrison Nanzhao for surveillance." Yuan Shu's general Ji Ling put forward a different view.

(End of this chapter)