Two city walls were broken, and the morale of the defenders in the city plummeted as if the gate had been released.
At night, there were even more deserters. Some of the defenders took advantage of the night to climb down the Wengcheng wall and escape from the gap in the outer wall. Then they followed the pontoon bridge built by Cao Jun to find Cao Jun and surrender.
At this time, both Cao Jun and the Xiangyang defenders understood why Lu Yan had to "unnecessarily" build the pontoon bridge. It turned out that the special one was actually for these deserters!
The shouting during the day received very good results.
In the first half of the night, Cao Jun received more than 300 deserters.
You know, this is only the first half of the night on the first night. In a few days, the Xiangyang defenders may collapse.
In response to the situation of deserters, Pang Tong ordered his people to implement a strict method of continuous sitting.
"If one person flees, the whole group will be killed; if one group flees, a hundred people will be killed!"
The supervisory army sharpened their swords and killed dozens of captured deserters overnight as a warning. Only then did the defenders in Xiangyang City be frightened and did not continue to flee and surrender to the enemy.
But although he didn't leave, his sense of identification with Pang Tong and Liu Qi became weaker and weaker.
The next morning, Lu Yan began to have people shout outside the city again.
But this time, there were hundreds more surrendered soldiers among those who shouted.
This group of people followed Cao Jun in the city to persuade him to surrender, and also added what they saw, heard, thought and felt in Cao Jun. There were white rice, fragrant pork, etc. The greedy Xiangyang city could only eat half a day.
The satiated soldiers were drooling.
With these people's personal accounts, the morale of the defenders in the city dropped even more.
A few days ago, they would stand on the city wall, point at Cao Jun and curse, but now, their eyes couldn't help but look towards Cao Jun's camp in the distance with a hint of hope.
As soon as noon passed, Cao Jun immediately changed his face again. The friendly and persuasive face in the morning was instantly replaced by a ferocious, black and thick artillery barrel!
This time, it was replaced by the city wall in the northeast direction.
Under the continuous bombardment of hundreds of artillery pieces, the city wall still persisted for most of the day. It trembled violently and then made a creaking sound, and then slowly collapsed.
With a sound of "Boom!", a large cloud of dust rose up from the collapsed city wall, almost covering the entire Wengcheng behind the wall.
The first two times, the defenders of Xiangyang City still let out desperate wails and screams of terror.
But today, the city is surprisingly quiet, even eerily quiet!
Compared to the silence inside the city, there was cheering outside the city.
Three of the four outer city walls were broken. Xiangyang City is finished!
But this time, Lu Yan did not withdraw his troops as before. Instead, he ordered: "The whole army attacks and enters the city!"
Gan Ning, Xu Sheng, and Su Fei each led their soldiers to launch an attack from the northeast.
The defenders, who thought Cao's army would retreat again and were ill-prepared, were caught off guard.
As the order is issued, the flag wavers and the drums thunder!
Groups of troops had already secretly assembled outside the moat. The waiting navymen, under the leadership of the officers, could not wait for the dust and smoke to fall from the sky, so they crossed the moat in groups from pontoons and boats, shouting for kill.
The sky-shattering rush rushed towards the gap in the collapsed city wall.
Not all of Cao's army headed towards Wengcheng.
Su Fei led his men to seize the outer city wall immediately, and then used crossbows, bows and arrows to suppress the defenders on the barbican city with firepower!
The generals in Xiangyang City were also red-eyed when they arrived.
Wenpin, Fu Tong, and others climbed up the Wengcheng wall in disgrace, braving the dust, but were unexpectedly beaten by Cao's army, who fired at them indiscriminately.
Not only is the navy's artillery powerful, but its bows, arrows and crossbows, which are one of the main battle tools, are equally important.
"Cum for me! Cum hard!" Su Fei, carrying his sword, patrolled and supervised back and forth on the tattered city wall.
"If anyone doesn't empty his quiver, I will let all the villains in the camp shoot him in the butt when he gets back!"
"Eh~!"
Su Fei's rude words had an extremely effective effect.
The movements in the hands of the archers and crossbowmen were obviously a level faster. Although they were not sure how accurate they were, at least the fire suppression was completely achieved!
The fire cover of the friendly forces at the top of the city was very good, and there was no low wall built behind the city, so Gan Ning and Xu Sheng's siege troops advanced very quickly.
In the blink of an eye, Cao Jun had arrived at the city.
The engineering ladder was hung up on the city wall, and the soldiers began to climb up desperately!
The Xiangyang defenders and the overseers all rushed to the front line, and they held bows and swords behind them and aimed at the soldiers arrayed in front.
Pang Tong in the city had an order to kill anyone who took even half a step back, forcing these officers and soldiers to fight to the death to stop Cao's army from attacking Wengcheng.
As time went by, Cao's army's firepower coverage weakened somewhat. After all, the archers were made of flesh and blood. After high-intensity bow shooting, the body would definitely feel severe fatigue.
The situation of the crossbowmen was better, but they had to slow down their shooting speed slightly due to the rapid consumption of crossbow arrows.
Before, they could not wait to shoot all the crossbow arrows immediately, but now they see their comrades attacking the city being smashed down the city wall by rolling wood, rocks, or even boiling oil. Their hearts cannot stop bleeding, and the accuracy of the crossbow arrows in their hands has become even better.
Somewhat accurate.
"Go, go, go!"
Although the price may be high, an army that has not experienced the baptism of blood and fire will never be able to transform into a truly powerful army!
This is why Lu Yan could obviously use psychological warfare and use extreme pressure to overwhelm the Xiangyang defenders, but in the end he unexpectedly chose to attack by force.
In the formation of Cao Jun.
Xun You said helplessly to Cao Cao: "Changsheng is always unexpected. When everyone thought he was going to attack, he chose to retreat; when everyone thought he would continue to retreat, he chose to attack forcefully."
Cao Cao put down the telescope in his hand, handed it to Xun You, and said: "Soldiers are deceitful! Mr. Lu always uses his troops like a horse in the sky, and there is no trace to be found. This is the master of the art of war!"
"Lord, why don't we come too!" Xu Chu, who was standing aside, felt itchy all over his body as he looked at the passionate scene on both sides.
Cao Cao turned around and saw that the eyes of the generals behind him were all shining green, and he immediately understood the eagerness of these people to fight.
However, Lao Cao rejected them. He said: "This time, the Han Navy is fighting alone, and it is their battle of transformation. Otherwise, why do you think Mr. Lu does not continue to exert pressure, but instead wants to crush the enemy?"
Launch a siege at the last moment?"
Zhao Yun instantly understood what Cao Cao said, and he nodded and said: "That's right, an army can never become a true elite without going through a great test of life and death!"
"Sir, sir, I want to transfer to the Navy!" Xia Houlan said with a shameless grin.
The other generals of Cao's army suddenly said: "That's it!"
Cao Ren smiled bitterly and said: "With Sir here, can we really only compete for second place forever?"