Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms Chapter 517 Beat the primitive man? (Thanks to [Mercury's Masked Superman] for asking for a monthly ticket by the way)
Chapter 517 Beat the primitive man? (Thanks to [Mercury's Masked Superman] for asking for a monthly ticket by the way)
The defenders on the top of the city saw that Cao's army was stopped at a distance of five hundred steps, and some Zhang Er monks were really confused.
When Pang Tong, Zhuge Jin and others, accompanied by Wenpin and other generals, went up to the west city wall in person, they also looked at Cao Jun outside the city in confusion.
Standing so far away, what kind of trouble do you want to make?
Just when everyone was speculating on what Cao Cao and others were doing, Zhuge Jin suddenly frowned and said: "I heard that the navy led by Lu Yan used an unknown weapon to destroy the walls of Chaisang City. It collapsed. Are they trying to repeat their old tricks to break through the wall of our Xiangyang City?"
Pang Tong also felt that this possibility was very high, so he nodded and replied: "It is indeed possible. However, our city wall is not comparable to that of Chaisang City. We can temporarily observe the power of their weapons, and then It’s never too late to make plans.”
Lu Yan finally got what Pang Tong wanted. Before Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin could finish speaking, he showed them the power of artillery.
War drums suddenly sounded outside the city, followed by roars.
"ignition!"
"Set off the gun!!"
As the order to fire was issued, nearly 300 artillery pieces focused on a designated city wall area.
The sound of "rumbling" shelling roared like the earth was shaking, and the shells immediately hit the Xiangyang City wall like hail!
The loud noise made by the artillery is very shocking.
In order to achieve the best effect and to defeat the resistance of the defenders in Xiangyang City in the shortest time, these heavy artillery were all aimed at a fixed section of the city wall and fired.
Not all of the hundreds of cannonballs have such good accuracy, and from time to time some will fall towards the city.
Most of the dozen or so artillery shells that flew into the city fell into the barbican, but there were still a few "anti-aircraft guns" that flew into the city and landed in areas where people lived.
Immediately, where the shells fell, many houses in the city collapsed. Even the Zhou Mufu in Xiangyang City was lucky enough to receive a shell, causing a corner of the roof of the lobby to collapse.
As the key target of the bombardment, the section of city wall in the middle was instantly bombarded to pieces.
Although the city wall still stood tenaciously, Pang Tong, Zhuge Jin and many of the defenders on the wall were frightened and fled off the city wall immediately. The soldiers were even more panicked and ran around in despair to save their lives.
The more than two hundred powerful cannonballs almost shattered the bluestone bricks outside the city wall and flew away. The cannonballs were either bounced away or deeply embedded in the city wall. They seemed to be struggling unwillingly, wanting more. further!
Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin had recovered from the initial shock, and they quickly ordered their soldiers to fight back.
After suffering a wave of shelling, the Xiangyang defenders naturally wanted to fight back.
But after trying a counterattack, they found that neither the trebuchet nor the ballistae could reach the artillery position more than 500 steps away.
When the counterattack was ineffective, the Navy's second wave of bombardment came again!
"Fire the gun!"
This time, it was bombarded by another 300 artillery pieces.
Lu Yan deliberately divided the artillery into two batches, hoping to use the shortest time to carry out high-frequency attacks, and strive to collapse a section of the city wall in the shortest time to achieve the purpose of shocking the enemy's will and exerting extreme pressure. .
Cao's army's artillery bombardment outside the defensive distance of the Xiangyang defenders was undoubtedly a nightmare for the defenders.
Wave after wave of artillery rain made Wenpin dare not send anyone to climb the city wall.
But the defenders did not dare to return to the city wall. However, the navy outside the city started with the shelling and transported all kinds of iron ropes, wooden planks, and even boats for crossing the river to the river outside Xiangyang City, and also built structures on the river.
A fortification used to defend a place from arrows.
As long as the bombardment stops, the navy can use these wooden boats, planks and other objects to start building pontoons on the city river, and can also use boats to transport soldiers across the river. However, these actions look more like a drill
, or attitude.
The defenders in other areas on the city wall saw the actions of Cao Jun's navy, so they sent soldiers to rush out of the city gate and vowed to burn the pontoon bridges.
Due to the moat barrier, Cao Jun at the other two gates could only use bows and arrows to attack the Xiangyang defenders who were leaving the city.
But these defenders were specially protected by large shield soldiers. They could only watch helplessly as they fired rockets and then smashed them with kerosene cans, burning down dozens of pontoon bridges that the navy had worked hard to build.
Seeing that the first attempt failed, the navy had to retreat temporarily.
After re-choosing the plan to cross the river, they mobilized the peasants and returned carrying bags, wooden boards and other items.
This time, they were still building a pontoon bridge, but this time the bags contained many explosive bags.
When the defenders of Xiangyang City tried to repeat their old tricks to destroy the pontoon bridge, unexpectedly, the navy soldiers lit the explosive packets and threw them to the other side of the river with their bare hands.
"boom!"
"boom!!"
"boom!!!"
Countless explosions sounded!
The huge impact when the explosive package exploded completely rendered the large shield useless, directly blowing up the defenders who were carrying the large shield out of the city, making them dizzy and flipping over.
Many people's eardrums have been shattered, and some have lost arms and legs, or have simply lost their ancestors.
The navy under Lu Yan allowed the rest of Cao's army to see a completely different way of fighting than before.
This kind of absolute firepower suppression advantage makes people wonder if they are bullying primitive people.
Cannonballs weighing more than ten kilograms and twenty kilograms roared and hit the city wall hard, making each shot seem to trigger a micro-earthquake. Then large areas of city bricks were shattered and flew away, revealing the contents inside.
Rammed earth city wall.
Compared with stone bricks, rammed earth has stronger earthquake resistance. Many artillery shells can break bluestone bricks as hard as iron, but they can only make a big hole in the rammed earth.
After six rounds of repeated bombardment by six hundred cannons, the southwest wall of the city soon seemed to have been stripped of its clothes, revealing large areas of rammed earth walls.
After more than ten rounds of further bombardment, the rammed earth city wall finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to fall off in large areas! But despite this, it was still far from collapse.
Lu Yan was also furious, and the artillery bombardment continued for nearly four hours.
From morning to evening, in addition to the overheated gun barrels and the need to rest, Lu Yan damaged more than thirty artillery pieces, among which the barrel explosions killed and injured many naval gunners.
This was also the first time that the Navy used so many artillery to attack a city, and Xiangyang City was strong enough.
But no matter how strong its city walls are, they can't withstand so many artillery pieces that repeatedly bombard an area!
Finally, when the sun was about to set, the city wall, which had been overwhelmed for a long time, finally could no longer stand.
A large number of cracks first appeared in other areas of the wall.
The section that had been being beaten began to fall off, collapse, and even collapse in large areas.
Seeing this kind of situation, even the civilians who were hiding behind Cao Jun and watching the excitement knew that this section of the city wall might not be able to hold on anymore.