Three Kingdoms: Starting from the Replacement of Shaodi

Yuan Shu’s face was even more ugly, if they were really all wearing iron armor, the pawns under Yuan Shu were really not opponents.

At the same time, Yuan Shu was also surprised in his heart that Guanzhong was rich, and he could actually make twenty or thirty thousand people wear iron armor.

Not to mention Yuan Shubu, when the first emperor reigned, the most elite northern army in Luoyang could be equipped with iron armor, and there were only 50,000 people.

That is still the strength of the world, can be done.

And those Northern Army iron armor, during the period of the Eighth School of the West Garden, was divided by Yuan Shu and these Eighth Schools of the West Garden, and then after several twists and turns, most of them fell into the hands of Dong Zhuo.

Some of them fell into the hands of the Eighth School of the West Garden that year, and Yuan Shu also had more than 2,000 sets, all of which were distributed by him to the guards.

Now it seems that Guanzhong is really not an ordinary rich, otherwise it would not be possible to make so many iron armors.

After a little hesitation, Yuan Shu still ordered Qiao Rui and Lei Bo to lead troops to support the Kingdom of Qiao, and he led the generals and headquarters 60,000 soldiers and horses to go north out of Wanxian County, wanting to fight with Meng Huan in Xi’e County after a round with Ji Ling!

Yuan Shu was very worried in his heart, after all, the absolute gap in equipment let Yuan Shu know that this victory chance was slim, but just give up Nanyang County, and Yuan Shu was not willing.

Yuan Shu drove his troops to the Western Hubei Realm, met with Ji Ling, and made many inquiries, confirming that the Meng Hun Department was fully equipped with iron armor, with high morale and extremely strong combat power, and it was difficult for ordinary elites to resist.

Ji Ling also said that Meng Heng’s siege equipment was sufficient, and the rushing cars, well railings, ladders, ferries, catapults, etc. were complete, and even extravagantly covered the well fence with iron sheets, covered by catapults and crossbows, and then escorted by heavy shield pawns, forcibly rushed to the city wall, and the soldiers lowered the hanging door through the well railing and rushed directly to the city head.

Because of this, Ji Ling even lost the battle to defend the city.

Yuan Shu listened to Ji Ling’s description and was speechless for a long time.

Even frightened, if so, depending on the situation, even defending the city is dangerous.

However, Yuan Shu still held a trace of luck, hoping to drag Meng Jue into a war of attrition by defending the city.

Just as Yuan Shu and Ji Ling and other Wen Wu were discussing countermeasures, they heard from Tan Ma that Meng Hun led his army out of Zhixian County and was heading for Western Hubei.

Yuan Shu immediately asked Ji Ling to arrange the city defense, and then gathered the troops and food and grass, and brought it into the county town of Xi’e as much as possible, intending to rely on the city wall to fight Meng Huan.

Two days later, Meng Huanbu arrived in the north of Western Hubei, because it was not a rapid march, and there were many vehicles and horses, so Meng Hengbu did not plan to camp and rest first, but directly lined up outside the city in the north of Xi’e, intending to lay down the city and then rest.

Yuan Shu received the news of the arrival of the enemy army, so he brought a group of generals to the head of the city to take a look.

Looking at Meng Jue’s military formation, Yuan Shu couldn’t help but sigh secretly, that Meng Huan had the style of a general.

Looking at Meng Huan’s army formation, strict and mighty, morale like a rainbow, plus complete armor, many siege armaments, it makes people’s hearts chill at a glance.

However, Yuan Shu soon discovered that the other party did not besiege the city, perhaps because of the lack of soldiers and horses, but lined up in the north of the city, seemingly to attack only one side.

In this way, Yuan Shu was glad in his heart, after all, he could also concentrate his troops on a city wall for defense.

Even Yuan Shu wanted to let the only thousands of cavalry out of the city to find an opportunity to harass him.

But at this moment, the siege battle began.

Meng Heng’s side did not do anything superfluous, and directly let the pawns holding heavy shields open the way, escorting Duhao close to the moat, and the rear army followed the well fence and the ladder, as well as the armored pawns first.

After the heavy shield pawn entered the crossbowman’s range, Yuan Shu at the head of the city ordered the arrows to be released.

However, soon Yuan Shu’s face fused, because the crossbowman’s arrows were almost ineffective against heavy shield pawns.

And just as the city head began to release arrows, the crossbowmen in Meng Jue’s formation also began to step forward in unison, using more sophisticated crossbows to suppress Yuan Shu’s crossbowmen, and at the same time, Meng Heng’s trebuchet also began to exert force, and for a while, the arrows and stones arrived, and the city wall wailed everywhere.

Yuan Shu hurriedly let people use the trebuchet to fight back, but before his own trebuchet could start to exert its strength, it was targeted by Meng Juejun’s trebuchet and destroyed.

Yuan Shu was shocked by this, and he couldn’t believe that the trebuchet could be so accurate.

However, this is not the time to think about this, because Meng Heng’s heavy shield pawns have already erected the crossing, and escorted the well fence and ladder across the moat, and are preparing to erect the city.

In this regard, Ji Ling, who was beside Yuan Shu, immediately asked people to escort Yuan Shu out of the city tower, and then personally led his troops to prepare for battle at the head of the city.

Meng Heng’s well fence soon approached the city wall, although there were many casualties during the period due to the thunder stone rolling wood and boiling water at the head of the city, but because Guanzhong began to equip the army with military doctors a few months ago, those soldiers who were wounded and not dead were sent down from the battlefield and received timely treatment, thus greatly reducing Meng Hengbu’s casualties.

After the shaft was close to the city wall, the heavy metal hanging door hammered the head of the city, becoming a long bridge, and the soldiers in the well bar formed a small formation, with five strong pawns holding heavy shields in front, bowing forward, five soldiers with halberds and spears in the middle, five sword and shield soldiers behind, and ten crossbowmen covering the well railing tower.

In this way, the first batch of thirty well railings sent more than 400 elites to the city head of Xi’e, and the second and third batches also continued to be delivered to the city head one after another from the foot of the city along the internal stairs of the well railing.

The pawns on the well bar were all the most elite pawns, extremely brave and fearless of death, and as soon as they landed at the head of the city, they immediately chaotic the formation of the defenders at the head of the city.

When the well fence approached and began to storm the city head, there were well rail troops as cover, and the cloud ladder was also successfully assumed, and the hoplites went up the cloud ladder to encircle and kill the defenders together with the well rail troops who had already fought with the defenders of the city head.

In this battle, it only took more than an hour for Meng Huan to take down the northern city wall of Xi’e County.

Yuan Shu, on the other hand, was frightened by the ferocity of Meng Juebu, and when the northern city wall was about to lose, he ordered Ji Ling to fight and retreat, and he led his troops to retreat from the southern city gate first.

By the time Meng Heng completely took the county seat of Xi’e, it was already evening.

As soon as Meng Hun and others made post-war statistics, they found that the actual number of people killed in the siege battle was only more than 100 people, all of whom were killed by the head-on hit by thunder stones and rolling logs, and the wounded soldiers were nearly a thousand, but the vast majority of these wounded soldiers could recover in a short time and go to the battlefield again.

Yuan Shubu, on the other hand, was killed 15,000 people, and more than 20,000 surrendered to Meng Huan after the city was broken.

For this siege battle, which was still a big victory, Meng Hun and the others did not have any sense of joy, after all, it was achieved under the absolute superiority of equipment, and it was a matter of course….

After Yuan Shu withdrew to Wanxian with tens of thousands of troops, not long after, Ji Ling returned with more than 10,000 remnants, and the two joined forces together, which was temporarily at ease.

Just looking at the city wall of Wanxian City, the faces of Yuan Shu and the others were extremely ugly.

Because the wall of Wancheng is not much taller than the county town of Xi’e, that is to say, once Meng Huan forces attack, Wancheng will also end up like the county town of Xi’e.

In this regard, Yuan Shu was very annoyed, but he had to admit that he really couldn’t hold Nanyang at this time.

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