Chapter 1339 Fight!

When the first long ladder was erected on the collapsed city wall, Ma's army reacted calmly. Seven or eight of them worked together to lift a huge pole and hide it inside the city wall, waiting for Cao soldiers to roar and climb up. Halfway through, only one, two, three suddenly exerted force, and pushed the ladder to the outside of the city. Cao Bing on the ladder howled in mid-air like a quick funeral song, and stopped abruptly as soon as it fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, more gaps in the city wall were blasted out by Thunderbolt vehicles.There are more and more places where the coalition forces can set up ladders.They bravely suppressed Gan Ning's archers with their bows and arrows, and at the same time organized infantry to charge towards the ruined city walls. Arrows rained down, and Cao Jun rushed directly in front of them. The two sides fought hand to hand, and Jin Fan The navy army also suffered a lot of casualties.

However, after all, bows and arrows cannot compete with the mountain-destroying crossbow. After paying more than 8000 people and achieving the record of collapsing the city wall.The coalition forces finally suspended their offensive.Gan Ning immediately ordered the city wall to be repaired, but before the reserve army could bring the repair materials, a soldier shouted in shock, "General, look!"

When Gan Ning turned around, his eyes were red with anger.It turned out that Cao Cao came up with a bad move again. They felled trees and set fires. In summer, there is a lot of south wind, and the wind blows smoke, which blows into the eyes of Ma Jiajun, and his eyes are red with choking. Anyway, it was greatly affected for a while.Even worse, Guo Jia couldn't help cursing: "Cheng Zhongde, you really added wolf dung and peppers to the firewood!"

Wolf dung is the main material used for beacon fire communication in this era. After adding wolf dung to firewood, the smoke that is burned is black but not scattered, and often goes straight to the sky and does not disperse.As for the pepper, when Guo Jia was enjoying the Majia hot pot with Cheng Yu when he was still in Cao Ying, he accidentally dropped the seasoning pepper into the fire. The smoke made Guo Jia and Cheng Yu embarrassed. Unbearable.And at that time, Guo Jia said a joke: "If this is used in the battlefield, it may also be a big killer!"

Guo Jia was even in the mood to cry now. He didn't expect that guy Cheng Yu not only remembered his original jokes, but also combined the ancient method of wolf dung with the new thing of pepper, which made the smoky The lethality of attacking enemies has been increased by several levels.

At this moment, the coalition forces took the opportunity to attack wildly. Fortunately, Gan Ning had the advantage of the terrain, and faced with such shameless siege methods of the coalition forces, he was really angry.After adjusting the trebuchet on the city wall, it slammed it hard at the coalition army.Those thunderbolt cars that were too late to withdraw became the key targets.For a while, the soldiers on the top of the city shouted and jumped for joy with tears in their eyes, and the soldiers below the city risked their lives to save the Perak Chariot, but most of them were smashed into a pulp by the Majia catapult.

At the same time, Gan Ning ordered the entire army to cover their faces with water. In addition to fighting back against the siege soldiers who also suffered from it, they continued to organize rush repairs on the city wall, prepared various fortifications, demolished dozens of houses, and used bricks and stones Repair the city wall.

However, Cao Cao and Sun Ce seemed to be planning to die here this time. They refused to rest, didn't care about losses, and organized troops to charge forward regardless of the cost.Gan Ning placed a garrison at the head of the first dilapidated city, but within a quarter of an hour, all the garrison died in battle. Knives, broken bows, arrows stuck in the ground and people's bodies were all over the ground, and blood flowed along the city wall into a red waterfall.The water in the moat had already overflowed, and there were countless broken arms and limbs floating on it.

Along the boundless bloodstains, at night, the soldiers of the coalition army finally rushed to the top of the city. It seemed that the main city was about to fall into their hands, and the flat ground was in front of them.But what greeted them was a dense rain of arrows, which were released by Wenpin's technological light crossbow army with Yuanrong crossbows. The overwhelming metal storm penetrated the human body like a piece of paper, and the advancing coalition forces were beaten to pieces. Flesh and blood fly, fragmented.Under the cover of crossbow arrows, Tai Shici's reserve troops rushed to the top of the city, launched a powerful and crazy counterattack, and drove the remaining coalition forces down the city at once.The vanguard general Xia Houyuan was extremely angry about this, and then he gathered 300 archers to shoot arrows at this section of the city wall. Half of the new army of Taishici who rushed to the top of the city fell under the first wave of arrows.

Similar fights were staged no less than a hundred times at the collapsed city walls in the next five hours. This short and fierce hand-to-hand combat caused a large number of soldiers on both sides to quickly fall down.In this case, it is difficult for personal bravery to show his power.Although both Gan Ning and Xia Houyuan were enemies of ten thousand people, they both stood firmly in the command position.

At this moment, they have no retreat, let alone a comfortable rest.

The battle of the day and night passed like this, and when the sun rose as usual on the second day, there was an uncontrollable sadness in Xiangyang city and outside the city.The next day, when the enemy and I woke up with sore eyes rubbing our hands, we were exhausted both physically and mentally, and no one had the energy to fight anymore.The loss of troops on both sides has exceeded the limit of the siege of this era. Corpses are piled up and down the city wall. It was thrown all over the ground, and the blood stained all the positions visible in the field of vision.

Xia Houyuan looked at the tower that was still in Gan Ning's hands, and at the soldiers who were half dead and exhausted and unable to fight anymore, his heart was pierced; while Gan Ning was bandaging his arms, his face was covered with mud and blood, and he almost looked at him. Without showing his true colors, he was also listlessly slumped on the tower.

Xia Houyuan's fierce generals were all crying in panic, tears streaming down his face: "Sir, it's too miserable. Of the three hundred brothers I brought out with my own hands, less than [-]% of them are left after the battle yesterday. It's over, it's over!"

"My lord, let us leave some seeds for the Jinfan Navy. We ran from the Three Gorges to the Yellow River, and then from Jizhou to Jingzhou. Now, is it possible that we will all fight to the death on this Xiangyang City?" Jinfan Navy The old man here looked at the fewer and fewer familiar faces, and wept at Gan Ning.

Why do the vanguard generals on both sides feel better?Seeing that the troops they brought up by themselves have decreased by more than one-third in just over a day, and seeing the howling of the wounded soldiers in pain, there are not enough military doctors to bandage them, and there is not enough wound medicine to treat them. Just sitting there waiting to die makes it hard for them to breathe.

However, the entreaties of his subordinates and his own heartache can only make the devil of Zhan laugh at him.After the smoke cleared, the siege drums sounded again. The two sides seemed to have no other choice but to continue to fight through gritted teeth and decide a winner!

"Military Master, are Cao Cao and Sun Ce crazy?" Gan Ning heard the sound of the siege drum coming from the opposite side, as if he had heard the strangest sound in his life, and roared, "I, Gan Ning, also defended the city. In a few years, I have never seen such a crazy and unreasonable thing!"

"It's really unreasonable." Guo Jia is familiar with military books, and has already mastered the routines of siege.It is not uncommon to have continuous attacks on cities, but it is completely unreasonable for Cao Cao and Sun Ce to continue their general attacks regardless of whether they care about it, regardless of waves, and regardless of casualties.

This completely weird method made Guo Jia, who had always been calculating, not sure what the coalition forces were planning.However, Guo Jia knew that if Gan Ning defended the Xiangyang battlefield for one more day, it would consume a little bit of the strength of the Liu, Sun, and Cao coalition forces.Yesterday's battle was very tragic, but the casualties of defending the city and attacking the city were very different.The coalition forces lost nearly 4000 soldiers and horses in one day and one night. Although our own side also lost nearly [-] people, it still meets the siege loss ratio overall.

"No matter how unreasonable the Cao and Sun family's actions are, Xingba, just remember, the crazier they are, the more we have to persevere. If we persevere one more day, the Lord's army will have less pressure in the future!" Listen Hearing the shouts and the sound of golden drums in the city, Guo Jia said bluntly: "This time, we will fight Cao Cao and Sun Ce, fight with them, guard the strong city of Xiangyang, even if we grind, we will also polish their blood and blood. Drop their minions!"

"Understood!" With Guo Jia's instructions, Gan Ning seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, his face flushed and he shouted: "Raise the banner of Jinfan Army for me, I will fight with them today!!"

(End of this chapter)

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