Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 149 Battle of Hefei
In the early morning of the next day, outside the city of Hefei, the army quickly completed its formation, with [-] infantry in the middle and [-] cavalry on each side.

The sound of war drums resounded through the sky, and under the urging of the sound of war drums, the soldiers marched in neat steps, shouting the same slogan, and slowly advancing towards Hefei City!

The deafening sound of war drums awakened the defenders on the city!The defenders hurriedly sounded the alarm, and the bell that represented the invasion of the enemy rang throughout Hefei City, and groups of soldiers in armor and armed with weapons ran towards the top of the city.

Yuan Shu, who had a hangover all night last night, woke up from his sleep. He woke up three minutes from the alcohol, pressed his painful head, and staggered up from the bed. He accidentally fell off the bed, which scared all the eunuchs, The maid turned pale with shock, exclaimed "Your Majesty!" and rushed forward...

In the main hall, a group of civil and military ministers were waiting for Yuan Shu to preside over the overall situation. Just as everyone was anxiously waiting, an eunuch rushed over, and the ministers rushed to meet him. Prime Minister Yan Xiang asked: "Your Majesty? Why haven't you come yet?" ?”

"Back to the Prime Minister! Your Majesty! Your Majesty! When I got up, I accidentally fell down, and now I have passed out!" the eunuch said timidly.

As soon as these words came out, there was no doubt that there was a thunderbolt from the blue sky, and everyone was shocked!In addition to being surprised, there was a lot of discussion!

"Now, His Majesty is in a coma, and the enemy army has already approached the city. I don't know when they will launch an attack on Hefei City. What should we do now?"

"The top priority is to send more people to defend the city. If that doesn't work, I think it's better to just surrender!"

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"Prime Minister, look, what should we do now?"

Everyone was discussing in full swing, but no one thought of Yuan Shu who was still in a coma, who made him do all kinds of bad things in his daily life, everyone couldn't make up his mind!Then ask Yan Xiang for advice!

"General Zhang! General Ji Ling! You two generals, go to the top of the city and lead the soldiers to defend the city. You must... try to defend Hefei City." Yan Xiang bowed to Zhang Xun and Ji Ling. They were asked to stick to Hefei City, but after a second thought, they gave up such an idea and changed their words to try their best to hold on.

"Also, the matter of His Majesty's coma must not be spread outside! Strictly seal the news!" Yan Xiang said with a serious face.

"No!" Everyone responded, and everyone knew the seriousness of this matter. Zhang Xun and Ji Ling left in a hurry and went to the top of the city to deal with the war, and everyone left one after another.

Zhang Xun and Ji Ling climbed to the top of the city, looked up, it was dark outside the city, and the banners were fluttering in the wind!After entering the effective shooting range, the shieldman hurriedly erected his shield to defend, while the archer behind him opened his bow and set up an arrow, aiming at the defenders in Hefei City.

"Let go!" The commander let go, and the archers let go of the bowstrings in their hands. The trembling bowstrings threw the feather arrows into the sky, drawing an arc in the air, and shot fiercely at the guards on the top of the city like a rainstorm. The defenders hurriedly used the bunker to avoid the rain of arrows.

A group of people rushed out from Li Song's army, holding the shield in one hand and the floating ladder in the other, taking advantage of the long-range firepower of the archers to suppress the city, they took the opportunity to go towards the moat, preparing to build a floating bridge to pass through the moat in front of them!

"Quick! Archers!" Ji Ling shouted when he saw this group of people, "Let them cross the moat! Shoot arrows!"

The archers on the city hurriedly drew their bows and set up arrows, and shot at these people. Under the pressure of the enemy's arrow rain below the city, they suffered heavy casualties, and people kept falling down!Even so, when one person fell, another person would make up for it, and the city continued to shoot at the group of people who were running towards the moat, blocking them in front of the moat.

Seeing the soldiers being shot and killed on the moat, Li Song said: "I am ordered to stop shooting arrows! On the siege arrow tower and the trebuchet."

"No!" The orderly waiting at the side led the order, and the archer who received the order stopped shooting, turned around and walked back.

Seeing the enemy's archers retreating, the defenders on the city took this opportunity to carry the corpses and wounded off the ground to make room for other soldiers. A fierce battle awaited them.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!" The long horn sounded!From the formation of Li Song's army, huge monsters were pushed to the front of the formation, and the crossbowmen on the arrow tower moved and shot a crossbow arrow towards the head of Hefei city.

The trebuchet hiding behind the mobile arrow tower, after the trebuchet operator hastily pulled the winch, pulled the lever, and hugged the stone into the spoon behind the lever, the trebuchet operator quickly let go of his hand and quickly put the spoon The stones in it were thrown onto the city of Hefei.

The two sides fought hard, and under the care of the alternate firepower output of the arrow tower and the catapult machine, the casualties of the defenders on the city continued to increase. Although the defenders fought back bravely, they had little effect.

"No! If this continues, our army will die here sooner or later. We must find a way!" Ji Ling looked at the increasing casualties and said to Zhang Xun.

"What can we do! This siege tower will not be afraid at that time, the most powerful thing is the enemy's catapult. Now, this catapult is hiding behind the siege tower. We have nothing to do with it!" Zhang Xun Reluctantly said.

"These mobile arrow towers are made of wood! We can use fire to attack! Let the soldiers shoot the arrow towers with rockets! As long as the arrow towers are solved, those trebuchets will not be a problem." Ji Lingdao.

"Ah! That's the only way! If it wasn't for His Majesty's wrong decision! It wouldn't cause the few remaining trebuchets in our army to be destroyed by the enemy. You only need to use the trebuchet to throw stones, and the arrows will be destroyed." The tower is destroyed, why is this happening!" Zhang Xun said a little dissatisfied.

"Don't talk about that! I'm going to organize people and set these siege towers on fire!" Ji Ling left the tower, braved the arrow rain, organized people, prepared rockets, and launched a fire attack!
The flames on the mobile arrow tower were soaring into the sky, and the fire was burning more and more fiercely. Li Song, who was behind the army formation, looked at the burning arrow tower and thought to himself, someone in Hefei city thought of using fire, and dared to use it under the cover of arrow rain and stones. Don't they all seem to be idiots to carry out fire attacks?

"Send the order! Take down all the trebuchets immediately!" Li Song ordered. Since the siege tower was burned, the trebuchets must not make any mistakes. Otherwise, the trebuchets will be exposed after the arrow tower is burned. Under the nose of the enemy.

"Promise!" The messenger led the order to go, galloped to the front of the formation, and shouted: "The prime minister has an order! The catapult team retreats immediately!"

"Retreat!" The commander immediately ordered to retreat, and immediately rushed out of the army formation with a large number of soldiers, and when the arrow tower was still able to cover, they pushed the trebuchet and retreated towards the back of the army formation.

"My lord! Our arrow tower was burned down by the enemy's fire attack!" said Luo Cheng, who was beside Li Song.

"If it burns, it burns, it's no big deal!" Li Song said nonchalantly.

(End of this chapter)