Rebirth of the Three Kingdoms: The New Biography of Guan Ping

Chapter 34 Siege

As Cao Cao's messengers came to convey the command of the general attack, Zhang Liao personally supervised the army and began to move to Xiapi City.Passionate picture feast
The Thunderbolt Chariot was the first to act. After arriving at the reserved position, it was filled with stones. Just waiting for Zhang Liao's order, it could throw more than ten kilograms of stones on the city wall, or kill people, or destroy the battlements.

Then, the rushing car and the ladder troops began to move at the same time.

The ladder Cao Cao allocated was obviously not of good quality; in front of the ladder, there should have been several layers of wooden boards to block arrows to the greatest extent, but the wooden boards on these ladders were obviously not good enough in terms of quality or quantity. [

And because the ladder is most afraid of the defenders in the city using rockets to attack, because once the ladder catches fire, the people on the ladder will be burned to death or fall from it, and the losses will be heavy.

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

As for the car, the trees used as the main axis are also unqualified, with small diameters and distortions, and there are many other problems.

When the soldiers shouted and pushed the ladder two hundred steps away from the tower, the tower began to attack. Lu Bing pulled out the bed crossbow with a range of more than two hundred steps, and the huge arrow roared and pierced the ladder. The flimsy planks couldn't stop them. After being shot by arrows, some soldiers were not completely dead, but they were carried by inertia and fell down the five or six-high ladder. The result can be imagined.

I don't know if there were no rockets in the city, or Hou Cheng didn't fire them on purpose. Despite the fierce arrow rain in the city, the ladder still approached the tower unsteadily.

Within a hundred steps, all the bows and crossbows in the city, no matter how powerful they were, all greeted the ladder.

Fortunately, although the wooden planks were unqualified, they still blocked most of the arrows. More than [-] arrows had been attached to the tower. Ready to rush up the tower.

Just then, dozens of long spears were stabbed fiercely from the tower, and the guns were heavily guarded, and they couldn't enter at all. Zhang Liao's soldiers were either assassinated or stabbed off the tower and fell to their deaths. The losses were quite serious.

At this time, the charging troop also came to the city gate, and only hit a few times, 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 was attracted by the two places of ladders and rushing cars; 200 people from Guanping Shilling Shield Tun rushed to the front to resist the arrow rain for the rear, and then took long guns and crossbows Tun, about There were more than [-] people, leaning on the carts, bending over to transport the clods and stones to the predetermined location, and some soldiers dug pits to collect soil on the spot, and began to pile up the mountain.

Although Guan Ping's protective measures were very strict, he not only ordered the soldiers to wear armor even when digging, but also arranged the shield soldiers in layers to achieve all-round coverage.But it can't resist a few powerful arrows occasionally shot from the tower, passing through layers of defenses and taking away the lives of soldiers trapped in the camp.

Enduring the pain in his heart, Guan Ping moved the corpse away, and carried the shield himself to protect the soldiers from the rain of arrows.

Although the place where the mound was piled up was not far from the city wall, most bows and crossbows could reach the range, but the soldiers in the trapped camp were well equipped, and ordinary arrows really couldn't do anything about it.

Therefore, the loss of being trapped in the camp is very small compared to those troops fighting hard on the tower.From the very beginning, when Tushan made a small success, only five or six people were carried out. Moreover, two of them could still hear a low cry of pain, and some were rescued.