A solemn man's voice suddenly echoed in all the watchtowers and fortresses at the same time.
For a moment, the roar of the catapults was loud, and the next second, dense red and gray light spots emerged over Jicheng, and combined with the force of wind speed, these stone projectiles fired by Cao Jun's catapults,
The sound of the fire bombs increased several times, making the air nearby seem to shake.
The fire bombs and stone bombs ejected from the catapults in Cao's army soon turned into red and gray rays of light and directly hit the city defense of Jicheng, and made another loud rumbling sound, as if the sky was falling apart.
With such an astonishing momentum, even if those city walls were blessed and reinforced, they would never be able to survive such an attack. Many soldiers on the city defense changed their faces when they saw this situation.
"Defend, defend, whoever dares to take a step back will die!"
Ma Dai's tall figure, and the bright sword of the leader of the supervising team, stood on top of the city defense when the soldiers who defended the city showed a little fear.
"General, why don't we go out of the city and attack Cao's army from both inside and outside with the army outside the city?" Liang Kuan was still repeating the argument he had mentioned repeatedly for the past three days.
"Don't say more, the time has not come yet. As soon as the time is ripe, Meng Qi will issue an order for us to leave the city. Now you just need to do your own defense and prevent the enemy from breaking through the city defense!" The same answer came from Ma Dai again.
Say it with your mouth.
After Ma Dai finished speaking, he led a group of sergeants to go elsewhere, leaving behind Liang Kuan and Zhao Qu who were grinding their teeth secretly.
Ma Chao left half of his direct soldiers and horses in the city, under the command of Ma Dai, and took half of the newly surrendered soldiers such as Liang Kuan and others outside. In this way, there were his direct soldiers and generals both inside and outside the city of Hebei, so he would not be afraid of these newly conquered soldiers.
The soldiers will defect again.
Cao's wisdom is obvious. Although Ma Chao is young, he is not a fool. He naturally knows how to guard against his subordinates. So now Liang Kuan and others are trying every possible means to either leave the city by themselves or lure Ma Chao's direct soldiers who stay in the city.
will leave the city so that they can carry out the rebellion plan. But Ma Dai's uprightness and determination to carry out Ma Chao's orders made them unable to do anything.
In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of Cao Cao's troops and siege equipment were pushed to a place less than a hundred meters away from Jicheng.
The next moment, when Cao Jun's siege troops were no more than a hundred meters away from the city wall, Cao Jun's rear formation suddenly made a loud "Woo-Woo" sound, and dense fireballs and stone bullets surged out from inside again, overwhelmingly shooting forward.
As he left, numerous explosions struck the city defenses of Jicheng.
The sound of "rumbling" was continuous for a while, and the fire and gravel intertwined together, and then scattered in all directions.
Even though the defenders on the city darted to dodge, they still suffered heavy casualties under such a dense attack. Many soldiers and defensive equipment were directly hit by Cao Jun's stone-throwing attack. Whether they were people, steel blades, or equipment.
, the moment they were hit by these crazy stone bullets, they turned into waste products that could no longer function or walk.
The injuries of the city defenders who were injured by the explosion of stone bullets multiplied in many ways. Many soldiers lay with their bodies broken in the smoke, one after another, one after another, and they kept wailing. Jicheng
The city's defenses had been bombarded by Cao's troops from afar and attacked from near and far in recent days, and were in a state of disrepair beyond recognition.
But soon after Cao Jun stopped the stone attack and the siege troops began to formally come up, the Jicheng defenders once again experienced that Cao Jun's siege efforts were still crazy. But even in the face of the wave after wave of attacks launched by Cao Jun,
In a short period of time, Cao's army was still unable to do anything about the city defense of Jicheng, which still had 20,000 remaining soldiers defending it.
On the contrary, the defenders on the city defense, after receiving crazy attacks one after another, counterattacked with more and more ferocity.
The two sides went back and forth, attacking and defending the city. In the blink of an eye, both sides lost nearly half of the troops they invested.
"Boom" was an earth-shattering noise!
The whole city of Hebei trembled, and then looking to the left from the direction of the front city wall, Ma Dai only saw a mushroom-shaped red fire cloud rising up, dozens of feet high.
Even though Ma Chao was more than ten miles away, he could still clearly see the ferocious appearance of the rolling fire clouds. He was shocked in his heart. "Cao Zhi finally used his firearm. I heard its name is dynamite!"
Ma Chao is no stranger to the fact that Cao Zhi possesses explosives, and he even has an in-depth understanding of the origin of Cao Zhi's sharp weapon.
However, according to the intelligence obtained by Ma Chao, the inventory of this weapon in Cao's army has been almost exhausted. Unexpectedly, in this battle, Ma Chao and his men, who had always been taking chances, still tasted the power of this weapon.
The red flames were shrouded in mushroom clouds and stretched almost as far as miles. Ma Chao was even imagining his subordinates wrapped in flames. Almost at the moment of the explosion, they were completely reduced to ashes in the fire. Their flesh and blood bodies were
There is no way to withstand an attack of this magnitude.
Almost at the same time, the front line of Jicheng shrouded in fire clouds, with red light as the dividing line, one mile and one away, completely separated the attacking and defending sides of Jicheng into two worlds.
One world was the same as before, without any abnormalities, while the other world was completely transformed into a sea of flames.
At this time, Cao Jun also had to postpone the attack and temporarily avoid the explosive offensive he launched. It may be because Cao Jun has now switched to saltpeter explosives. Even Xu Chu, who was already very experienced in handling explosives, was dropping this new explosive.
When it comes to explosives, it is difficult to grasp its power and radiation surface.
As for the defenders of the Hebei City, even though they had shields and city walls to protect them, they could support themselves a little, but the defenders on the Wengcheng that were mainly blasted had no time to escape such a large-scale attack, and they all screamed and turned into pieces.
The fireball fell off the city defenses and fell to his death.
At this time, the catapult troops in the rear did not hesitate to suddenly pull the ropes of the catapults that had stopped attacking, and launched another stoning attack on the Wengcheng area that was under heavy attack. Stone bullets like meteors jumped towards it one after another.
There, these powerful stone bullets turned into hurricanes and swept away wildly in the air. Wherever they passed, they split the rising flames.
The sound of "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." rang out wildly again. After some high-end weapon operations, Cao Jun finally launched a real attack.
Although the soldiers stationed in Wengcheng had received the order to evacuate this area and their opinion, they were also running desperately out of the fire. But they only had time to walk a few steps away, and they could no longer avoid the round of rocks.
The bullet's attack caused several shrill screams to be drowned out by the rolling flames.
And just when countless soldiers fell off the city defense with wailing screams, two figures rushed out of the fire, and then ran all the way without any intention of stopping, shooting away, and ran to a place more than a mile away in one breath.
In a safe zone, the figure stopped panting like a dog.
They were Ma Dai and Liang Kuan, the two highest-ranking generals in Hebei City at this time. They were conscientious in their duties. As soon as they received a key attack here, they rushed to take command personally.
But under the attack of such weapons that did not belong to this era, they thought that there was no way to save the day. These two were worthy of being high-level generals, and they were the first to escape with their lives under such a terrifying attack.
However, looking at the shabby clothes of the two of them and the smell of burnt food emanating from them, it was obvious that they were in a critical situation just now and almost lost their lives.
"Boom, clatter!"
Just when Ma Dai and the two escaped with their lives, the Wengcheng behind them collapsed with a loud crash, and most of the city wall collapsed.
The commotion caused by this collapse was no less than that of an earthquake. When Ma Dai and Liang Kuan looked back at the Wengcheng, their faces were indeed ashen, and they looked extremely ugly.
"I can't believe that Cao Zhi would actually use this kind of attack on us. He really looks up to us!" Ma Dai said through gritted teeth, with a look of reluctance on his face.
"It's really unexpected. Logically speaking, General Ma is outside the city, so Cao Zhi shouldn't use this weapon against us. I heard that the cost of such an attack is extremely terrifying. Could it be that Cao Jun has such weapons?
Is there more? This guy Cao Zhi is not an unreasonable guy at all." Liang Kuan also murmured with a pale face, not paying attention to his wording. Fortunately, Ma Dai was also frightened by Cao Jun.
The attack made me confused, so I didn't hear clearly what Liang Kuan said.
But more than ten miles outside the city, Ma Chao, who Liang Kuan thought should accept such an attack, saw this scene, his face turned pale, and he struck with one hand without saying a word.
The drums beat loudly as the army formation behind them came to a standstill, and hundreds of shiny black chariots jumped out of it. There were several soldiers in armor standing on each of the chariots, each of them ferocious and ferocious, holding long swords and halberds.
The face is so angry. It turns out that Ma Chao also has a trump card that he has yet to reveal, and he actually plans to restart the ancient chariot formation strategy.
The shrill war horses neighed loudly, and after more than a hundred chariots, all Ma Chao's cavalry also rushed out menacingly from their stationary state.
After this, thousands of infantry soldiers stood tall and began to prepare for the charge.
In the center stood a cold-looking Ma Chao. At this moment, a messenger suddenly brought Yang Fu and Jiang Xu, who had raised troops from Lucheng, and arrived a mile behind Ma Chao.
Ma Chao was overjoyed. Although Jicheng was about to be captured by Cao's army, his reinforcements finally arrived.
"Call Yang Fu and Jiang Xu to quickly move closer to us. No need to ask for orders anymore, just join the battle. Order Ma Dai to lead his troops out of the city to fight. We will attack Cao's army from both sides. The victory or defeat is decided at this moment. Brothers, follow me and charge.
..." Ma Chao issued several orders in one breath, ready to make a desperate move.
"General, be careful of Cao's army's deception!" a kind-hearted general suggested to Ma Chao.
"I can't control so much anymore, just pass the order quickly..." Indeed, Ma Chao could only make a last-ditch effort now.