Cao's army's three hundred bed crossbows were fired at the same time, with arrows three feet long and a range of more than 500 steps. The arrows were strong. Dozens of fortification soldiers were caught off guard and were shot down one after another, causing chaos in the fortification soldiers who built the platform.

They retreated one after another.

A tooth general ran to Liu Jing to report: "Qi Bingzhou Governor, Cao's army used a bed crossbow to attack, and more than 50 brothers were killed or injured."

Liu Jing frowned and turned around and asked Fa Zheng, "How to crack this?"

Fa Zheng stroked his beard and said with a smile: "This is very easy. Just nail a row of wooden board brackets to defend against it. It is 350 steps apart. At the end of the strong crossbow, the crossbow arrows cannot penetrate the wooden board."

Liu Jing nodded, "It's feasible!"

He immediately ordered it. Soon, the carpenters in the army made ten simple wooden brackets, four zhang long, two zhang high, and two inches thick. They transported them to the platform to defend, and only the long crossbows were heard crackling with arrows on the crackling surface.

Shooting on the thick wooden boards, it could no longer penetrate the wooden boards. Thousands of Han military fortification soldiers behind the wooden boards began to continue to work in a busy and busy manner.

On the top of the city, Cao Ren had already realized the intention of the Han army to build a platform, and was extremely nervous. He kept ordering the firing of the bed crossbow, but the bed crossbow soon lost its effect. At this time, Cao Ren shouted: "Attack with a catapult.

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Twenty large trenchers began to squeak and slam the stones suddenly shot out. In order to increase the range, they did not use a hundred kilograms of huge rocks, but used more than twenty kilograms of small and medium stones. Despite this, they still had any lethality.

Large rocks rolled in the air and landed on the ground dozens of steps away from the wooden board. Several huge rocks rolled and smashed towards the defensive wooden board, making a dull loud noise, but they could not break the wooden board.

Zang Ba rushed to Cao Ren and bowed and said, "General, you can burn the enemy's wooden baffle with tinder oil. There are thousands of barrels of tinder oil in our city, which is enough to burn the enemy!"

Cao Ren nodded. This suggestion was good. He immediately ordered: "Prepare to attack with tinea oil!"

Twenty large trenchers were replaced with turbulent pots, each of which contained 20 kilograms of turbulent oil. With a command, twenty trench pokers were launched at the same time. The turbulent cans flew into the air, still at the distance of the wooden boards.

Ten steps away, the pottery jar was broken and tinder oil was splashed all over the ground. At this time, several huge fireballs flew from the air and hit the ground. Suddenly, a raging fire ignited on the ground. Several fireballs bounced and collided into the baffle.

A fireball even flew over the baffle and landed among the fortification soldiers, causing a burst of exclamation.

Cao's army continued to fire tinder oil, hundreds of steps away was already a sea of ​​fire, and four baffles were already ignited by flowing and burning tinder oil. At this moment, hundreds of soldiers rushed into the sea of ​​fire with mud and sandbags on the wooden boards

A wall of earth was piled up in front of it, preventing the tinder from flowing downwards.

More than a thousand other people dug several ditches on both sides of the wooden board, and introduced the flowing tincture oil into the ditch and kept filling the soil to extinguish it. The Han army had a very complete and effective fire extinguishing plan. Although the fire on the hillside was soaring into the sky and the smoke was rolling, it was still impossible.

Influences the construction of wooden tables.

The sky was getting darker, and the fire was still rising on the hillside, and the fire was burning, burning the land hot, and the trees and shrubs within a few miles were burned out. Ten baffles burned six, but the Han army had already

The burned baffle was replaced with a one-meter-high earth wall, and the blocked turbulent oil continued to flow towards the wooden platform.

At this time, ten wooden tables had been built, each with a length and width of five meters, enough to accommodate giant trenchers. At the same time, ten giant trenchers had also been assembled.

This giant catapult has a range of between 350 and 400 steps and can be adjusted accurately. It can be regarded as the largest catapult in the world, up to two feet high and eight feet long, and the casting rod is about four feet long.

, To use a chain winch, you need to use ten cows to pull the hinge.

During the last northern expedition, the Han army did not carry such a giant catapult, which caused the siege to be weak. This time, the Han army learned a lesson and transported more than ten giant catapults from Xiakou two months ago.

The aircraft carried out countless practical trainings, including night battle training, and the Han army was determined to win this battle to capture the West City.

At this time, the soldiers pushed the ten giant trenchers onto the slope and installed on the newly built platform. The soldiers drove the ox to pull the hinge. With the rattle of the iron chain, the trencher rod was bent and installed.

The tincture oil pot weighing 50 kilograms was returned to the person by his own way, and the Han army also used tincture oil to attack the city head.

At this time, an officer asked Liu Jing for instructions, "Qi Bizhou Governor, the catapult is ready. Can you attack?"

Liu Jing nodded slowly, "Attack!" He issued an order to attack.

With the sound of the bang, ten giant catapults threw stones and threw out the turbulent oil tank. The huge turbulent oil tank rolled in the air and smashed towards the city. The soldiers on the city shouted in horror and fled in all directions,'

With a loud bang, a tiny oil tank hit the city, and debris were shot everywhere, and the tiny oil was splashed away. The tiny oil tank hit the city one after another, or flew into the city, causing the city to spread quickly

A pungent smell of tinea oil.

Cao Ren shouted in shock: "Cover it with soil!"

At this moment, ten fire points appeared in the sky and quickly hit the city. This is the tincture sludge used for water wars. Its biggest feature is that it has excellent stickiness, unlike the cloth fireball that will bounce off after it lands.

The tincture sludge was also ignited. When they hit the city, hundreds of sparks suddenly burst out, instantly igniting the tincture slurry on the city top, and several pieces of fire appeared on the city top two miles long.

Cao's soldiers tried hard to cover the burning tincture oil with soil, but the tincture oil tanks shot from the city hit the city three times in a row, causing Cao's army to lose sight of each other, and the fire area became larger and larger. Several catapults on the city were also burned.

It is lit, burning, and it is particularly dazzling in the night sky.

At this time, Liu Jing saw that the time for siege was ripe, so he issued a second order, "Siege!"

The sound of drums that shook the sky and the earth sounded again, "Dong! Damn! Damn!" The drums were earth-shaking. Dozens of nest cars had been assembled and were pushed and dragged by soldiers, and began to rumble to attack Xicheng on the slope.

The soldiers of the Wanhan Army rushed up like a tide. They splashed water to destroy the hot soil under their feet, and carried the siege ladder to run forward.

Although the Han army already has the most advanced and sharp offensive weapons, the people who fight, the Han army needs to hone themselves with blood and fire. They need to grow up in death and become the most powerful in the world in the baptism of war.

army.

The catapult on the city was launched again. This time it was no longer tincture oil, but a hundred kilograms of huge rocks. The huge rocks rolled into the crowd, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere. Groups of soldiers were smashed down. The powerful crossbow shot out long arrows.

Arrows flew across the Han soldiers' shields, and the soldiers running in front were shot through their bodies and fell down.

The fire was burning in the night sky, and ten giant catapults were still shooting tinder oil at the city wall. After several rounds of projectiles, they have gradually adjusted their shooting distance and can accurately hit the city wall. The fire continued to spread on the city wall.

The enemy troops under the city were in full swing, and the defensive formation of Cao's army began to appear.

At this time, the giant shield archers of the six thousand Han army had already rushed into the city within a hundred steps. They were carrying a giant shield that was five feet tall, with two spikes about a foot long under the shield that could be inserted into the soil.

There is a bracket behind the shield. When the bracket is unfolded, a temporary defensive shield was formed. This was also Ma Jun's invention of craftsmanship. It was just a small improvement that solved the defense weakness of the crossbowman.

Six thousand crossbowmen squatted behind the giant shield and kept shooting arrows at the city wall, suppressing the dense arrows of Cao's army on the city wall.

The Han army was very motivated, and attack ladders were striking up to the city. Tang soldiers climbed up to the city. Although the arrows on the city were weakened, the rolling wood and stones fell like hail.

A Han soldier was smashed to pieces and fell down from the city screaming. Another soldier bravely rushed forward and fought with Cao's soldiers on the top of the city with a spear. They had rich experience in night battles and attacked Cialis.

There are dangers on the top of the city.

Under the city, six thousand Han soldiers fought back with strong bows and crossbows. The overwhelming rain of powerful arrows made the Cao soldiers on the top of the city unable to look up. The Cao army suffered heavy casualties and soldiers were constantly hit by arrows and fell into the city.

At this time, more than 20 trenchers of Cao's army had been burned to pieces, and the city was full of raging fires. Cao's soldiers fought to the death. The city was filled with dead and injured pillows, and the bodies of the dead were piled up. Cao Ren saw Cao's ability to fight at night.

He was obviously weaker than the other party and was gradually at a disadvantage. Knowing that something was wrong, he rushed to Zang Badao: "Go and move the big stone from the north city gate away and prepare to retreat!"

Zang Ba was stunned and said for a while: "But I lost the West City, how can I explain to the Prime Minister?"

Cao Ren was so angry that he cursed: "Bastard! Do you want me to be captured again?"

Zang Ba had no choice but to turn around and run towards the city. At this time, the giant catapult had stopped projecting, and the twenty Han army's nest cars finally arrived by the city wall. There were rollers installed under the nest cars, and hundreds of soldiers pushed them.

It moves forward.

Although the city walls of Xicheng are tall, the Chain Car is just the same as the city top. Each Chain Car has fifty heavily armored infantry inside. The iron bridge on the city top is pulled up by iron chains to resist Cao's army's bows and arrows.

'Boom!' With a loud noise from the ground, the iron plate hit the top of the city, smashing gravels and flying. Fifty heavily armored infantry shouted and rushed out of the nest cart, waved the war horse sword, and rushed into Cao Junzhi

and fight with them.

As twenty nesting cars arrived at the city head one after another, a thousand heavily armored infantry took the lead in killing the city heading. They became the sharpest blow to Cao's defeat. Then the Han soldiers rushed to the city heading one after another, and twenty units were

The Chain Car became a passage to the city, and countless soldiers climbed up to the city from the Chain Car. They were full of fighting spirit and high momentum, and shouted and shouted for killing. The morale of the Cao army quickly disintegrated, and their morale was sluggish, and they were killed by the Han army step by step.

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At this time, the Han army was storming into the city. There were countless Cao soldiers who surrendered, but Zang Ba led his army to open. More than 2,000 Cao troops broke out of the North City and fled in all directions.

Huang Zhong from the north also led 5,000 soldiers to cover up and cut off the retreat of Cao's soldiers.

When Liu Jing saw that the southern gate of Xicheng was also open, the Han army waved the flags on the top of the city. He immediately pointed at the gate with a sword and ordered the ten thousand soldiers to prepare for war: "Get into Xicheng!"

Ten thousand soldiers ran hard, shouting and killing sounds shook the sky. The two thousand cavalry that led the way were like the highest wave, rushing towards the west city.

With the full preparation of the Han army, it took only three hours to conquer Xicheng County, the most critical strategic location on Qishan Road. At this point, the Han army's Northern Expedition took the initiative, and Tianshui County and Guangwei County faced the Han army at the same time.

threat.

But for the Han army, the important thing is not to attack cities and villages, but to establish an effective and rapid food transportation system. Moreover, winter is approaching, which is not conducive to the Northern Expedition, so the Han army stopped continuing to attack.
Chapter completed!