Chapter 220 It's okay, don't panic, it's just a small loss...
Yuan Jun stood on the high platform of the earth mountain and fired at Cao Jun on the city wall every day.
Cao's soldiers had been suppressed for the past few days and could not even lift their heads. The worse the enemy was, the more Yuan Jun naturally fired. Suddenly, the morale of the soldiers was about to fall to the bottom.
With this huge advantage, Yuan Shao and his soldiers enjoyed it for four full days, venting all their depression after the vanguard was defeated and the general was killed.
On the eleventh day, Cao Jun's scouts reported back that Yuan Shao's siege equipment finally arrived at Guandu Ferry.
In the main tent of Cao's army,
After reading the news, Cao Cao thought, "I think in two days, Yuan Shao will launch a general offensive!"
At this time, Jia Xu stood up and said to Cao Cao: "Lord, Yuan's military equipment has arrived. We can wait for Yuan Shao's siege equipment to come up, and then let the trebuchets destroy them with volleys!"
Cao Cao nodded and said: "Okay! Tonight, let the soldiers take advantage of the darkness to hide all the trebuchets in the tents behind the city wall. When the Yuan army's siege equipment arrives tomorrow, they will be destroyed in one fell swoop!"
At night, more than two hundred trebuchets were quietly hidden in the camp.
At dawn, Yuan Shao sent the siege equipment that had just arrived onto the battlefield.
It seems that Cao Cao still overestimated Yuan Shao's patience with him. He didn't rest at all and couldn't wait to break through Guandu and defeat Cao Cao.
Yuan Jun on the high platform looked from a distance and saw that there were still endless Cao Jun camps behind the city wall. They thought they were Cao Jun soldiers stationed behind the city wall and did not notice anything unusual among them.
The most commonly used well by Yuan Jun was now being slowly pushed forward by the soldiers.
In front of the infantry, civilians, and the well, there was a oar equipped with a huge shield.
The oar car opened the way in front, providing cover for the Jinglan and the siege soldiers behind. This combination once broke through Gongsun Zan's Yijing Outer City, and almost broke through the Baima Fortress guarded by Yu Jin. Yuan Shao was most proud of it.
method of siege.
The oar car moved forward slowly, passing by the high platform of the earth mountain, and it took about fifty steps to reach the moat.
The oar was followed by countless civilians carrying bags filled with soil. Under the cover of the oar, they tried to fill in the moat with a road that could be passed by the siege army.
Yuan Shao stood in the gorgeous car, looking at the battlefield ahead from a distance, with a complacent smile on his lips, and said to himself: "Cao A'hao, Cao A'hao, after all, you are still no match for me, Yuan Benchu."
However, before Yuan Shao could finish his words, he suddenly saw a small black dot appear in the sky in the distance...
Yuan Shao thought he was dazzled by the sun. He tried to close his eyes to adjust. When he opened them again, he couldn't help shouting in surprise, "Good guy! What are those dense black spots in the sky?"
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Shen Pei, Xu You and others naturally also saw abnormalities in the sky.
Xu You, who had always paid close attention to Cao Cao and had done a lot of research, suddenly thought of the equipment Cao Cao used against Yuan Shu... He couldn't help but open his eyes wide, and shouted in horror: "It's a catapult.
It’s an improved catapult from Lu Yan’s Chenliu Workshop!!!”
"Catapult? Its power..." Yuan Shao was about to ask what power that thing had. As a result, a few stone bullets the size of human heads smashed a high platform to pieces! Use the facts.
Come and tell Yuan Shao, are we powerful?
"Wow!!"
"ah!"
Screams rang out one after another, and one high platform after another was torn into pieces in the dense rain of stone bullets.
Yuan Shao was so stunned that his mouth opened wide before he could close it.
The two hundred and fifty trebuchets neatly arranged behind Cao Jun's second city wall began to roar again!
"Load!"
"put!"
"Drink!"
The strongman raised the heavy hammer high and hit it hard on the amplifier. Suddenly, a roar that almost pierced the eardrums sounded at the same time!
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"Woo~~!!!"
Just a dozen breaths after the first wave of stone bullets, the second wave of stone bullets struck again!
"Boom!"
The second wave of stone bullets was aimed at the wells and siege infantry behind the oars. As for the civilians... they had already turned around and fled when the first wave of stone bullets fell.
The fragile well wall doesn't even need a second stone bullet to hit it. It only needs one to hit its tall and thin body, and it will fall apart immediately.
Countless archers screamed and fell to the ground from the well railing. If they were lucky, they would be injured when they landed, but if they were unlucky, they would fall directly into a puddle of mud...
Too scary, too terrible, too cruel!!!
Only the huge shields wrapped in rawhide of the oars could barely block the stone bullets, but they were still unable to withstand the heavy fire.
It was like it was raining stones as big as a human head...
When one of the oars was smashed into pieces by a series of stone bullets, Yuan Shaojun's infantry finally began to collapse.
The stone bullets carry huge kinetic energy. Not only if they are hit, but even if they are even scratched, they will either die or be injured.
A Yuan family archer was talking to his companions just now.
As a result, a gust of wind roared past his ears. When he turned around to look back, he saw that although his companion was still standing, his head was gone!
Looking at the broken neck of his companion and the hot blood still pouring out, the archer immediately collapsed mentally, "Hehehehe...hahaha...you are playing hide and seek with me."
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"Bang!!" Another stone bullet flew and took the poor, mentally disturbed child away.
Yuan Shao and others stared blankly at their siege team. In just a quarter of an hour, their morale went from high to complete collapse.
After a while, Yuan Shao covered his chest and shouted: "Cao Ah Ma! I will cut off your dog's head with my own hands!!!"
"Cao Cao deliberately hid his catapult, just waiting for our siege equipment?" Xu You stared blankly at the cheering Cao Jun on the city wall, and murmured: "In terms of acting skills and patience, you, Cao A, are better at hiding things!"
"My lord, please calm down. Victory or defeat is a matter of military strategism. If we don't have siege equipment, we will just rebuild it." Shen Pei was very afraid that Yuan Shao would faint from anger. The collapse of the coach would be a much heavier blow than a small defeat.
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Guo Tu, Feng Ji and others also followed suit and consoled them: "Lord, what does it mean to lose thousands of soldiers and horses and dozens of siege equipment? We have hundreds of thousands of troops, some of whom are brave enough to fight; we have countless civilians, we have to
How many siege engines cannot be built?
But if you are so angry, then we will really suffer a huge loss, and we will really fall into Cao Cao's treacherous plan!"
After everyone's hard persuasion, Yuan Shao's chest became a little smoother.
After taking two deep breaths, Yuan Shao finally calmed down and sighed: "You are right. Then Cao Cao deliberately hid the trebuchet until I had the siege equipment, just to make me angry...
Humph! I almost fell into Cao Cao’s trick!"
Xu You glanced at Guo Tu and Feng Ji calmly, and thought to himself: "It turns out that even trash has some shining points..."
At this moment, Cao Jun's city gate opened wide, and a group of cavalry roared out of the city gate!
When Sergeant Yuan's soldiers collapsed and retreated, all the siege equipment was left behind.
Zhao Yun and other generals led the cavalry and rushed towards the siege equipment left by Yuan Jun with torches in hand, and then lit them one by one. In an instant, the fires burst into flames!
Seeing this scene in front of him, Yuan Shao felt a pain in his heart again, but he tightly covered his chest and murmured to himself: "It's okay, it's okay, we can rebuild after it's been destroyed..."
However, this tone is not so easy to straighten out after all.
Yuan Shao finally couldn't help but rushed to the front of the car, leaned on the railing and roared at the top of his lungs: "Cao Ahao! I'll make you an immortal!!!"