Just a few days before Zhang Liao led 30,000 cavalry through the Yellow River waterway, bypassing Hangu Pass and entering Hongnong.
Xu Zhu, who besieged Luoyang, launched a fierce attack on Luoyang City again.
This time, he held the concept of sharpening his sword before chopping firewood, and waited patiently for many days.
He spent a long time building a more powerful trebuchet that required a hundred soldiers to operate at the same time.
Those giant trucks have been remodeled.
Thick wooden boards are nailed around the trucks, and two extra pairs of wheels are installed on the base of the trucks.
Hundreds of kilograms of boulders hit the Luoyang city wall.
Every time they hit the city wall, a large piece of brick covering the outer wall was shattered.
The defenders at the head of the city felt that the entire city wall was crumbling.
Fortunately, there are only more than twenty such giant trebuchets, otherwise the city wall could be destroyed in a short time.
Twenty giant trebuchets were gathered together and only threw huge stones at one side of the city wall.
The other three sides still used traditional siege methods.
Just like last time, the Wei army surged in like a black tide, crossing the trenches that had already been filled in, and densely setting up ladders on the other three city walls, one after another, almost completely covering the three walls.
The Wei army began to attack the city with ants.
The giant truck also began to slowly move towards these three city walls.
Part of the Wei army began to board the city, and the Han army at the city immediately launched a counterattack.
Mod knives, javelins, spears, Huanshou knives, and bows and crossbows quickly cleared out the Wei army that had just emerged.
However, many Wei troops successfully climbed onto the city wall and fought with the approaching sword and shield heavy infantry.
Under the stubborn resistance of the Han army, the Wei army could not expand its advantage, and the number of Wei soldiers who successfully boarded the city could never increase.
Xu Zhu did not put his hope in these methods of using simple ladders to attack the city.
This was just a means to contain the strength of the Han army.
The real way to break the city still had to rely on giant trebuchets and carts.
When the carriage was approaching the city wall of Luoyang City, it was only a hundred meters away.
Huge cannonballs suddenly flew out from the city wall, and some hit the carriages, scattering sawdust from the wooden guards on the carriages and punching a big hole.
The crossbowman who had been ambushed in a certain car cabin was unfortunately hit.
In an instant, half of his body was beaten to pulp by the stone cannon and stuck to the inner wall of the car cabin.
As the distance between the carriages and the city wall became closer and closer, more shells hit these carriages.
Some of the key beams and columns of some buildings were damaged, and amidst the screams and screams, the entire building collapsed and became worthless.
In some cases, the protective panels outside the car body were ripped off in pieces.
Most of them were riddled with holes from shells, and of course some of the "injuries" were not serious.
When these carriages were only more than thirty meters away from the city wall, the ballistae on the city wall began to fire explosive bombs again.
At such a close distance, many explosive bombs penetrated into the holes previously opened by the shells, and inside the carriages Gas fire raging.
The protective panels of these building vehicles were treated with fire protection, but there were no fire protection measures inside.
Before they even got close to the city wall, they had already completely burned.
The Wei Army crossbowman who was lying in the cabin at that time screamed and jumped from the several-foot-high building cart, falling half to death.
However, there were still seven or eight chariots that were basically intact.
When they approached the city wall, the crossbowmen on the chariots began to shoot condescendingly at the top of the city.
The Han soldiers at the top of the city also began to counterattack with repeating crossbows and recurve bows.
After a while, these carriages came up against the city wall, and the Wei soldiers who were waiting to board the city lined up and attacked upwards along the stairs in the carriages.
The crossbowmen on the carriages posed a great threat to the Han soldiers guarding the city.
Some of the Han soldiers fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.
What's worse is that this prevents the Han soldiers from dealing with the climbing Wei soldiers as before, because they have to focus on guarding against the cold arrows shot from above.
The Huben archers at the top of the city all fired their arrows at the Wei army's crossbowmen on the building carts, but it was not enough to suppress them.
Moreover, because the Huben archers' target had shifted, the Wei soldiers who were climbing the ladder were relieved of their pressure and became more and more vulnerable.
Many soldiers boarded the city.
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As a horn sounded, the iron guards in black armor who were ready to maneuver rushed to the top of the city.
They first fired their bows and set arrows, and with the accuracy of archery that was not inferior to that of Huben archers, they killed the Wei army's crossbows who were rampaging on the building cart. hand.
Arrows flew into the shooting window and the top platform of the building like long eyes.
There were wails from the Wei army's crossbowmen who were hiding there and firing cold arrows downwards.
Then these iron guards began to hold large shields and wield horizontal swords, quickly killing the Wei soldiers who were fighting with the Han soldiers at the top of the city.
With a few clanging sounds, the suspension bridge of the carriage was lowered, and a large number of Wei troops rushed to the top of the city from the springboard.
But they were blocked by a shield wall of row upon row of heavy infantry with swords and shields.
The ballistas on the city wall were still throwing explosive shells at close range.
A explosive bomb rushed into the interior of the truck through the door of the gangplank at close range.
It hit a soldier in the face and fell to the ground.
After being smashed, a fire broke out in the cabin of the truck and a scream was heard. .
Because the ballista is projected at close range, the kinetic energy is not large, otherwise even the explosive shells can smash the skull into pieces.
Then more and more fireballs rushed into the building carts.
The Wei army that had just rushed up was burned into burning people, and it also blocked the Wei army soldiers in the rear.
The soldiers of the Wei army who had used the carriages to rush up to the tower had been killed by the heavy infantry with swords and shields.
The strong point of heavy infantry is to conduct close-range tactics in such a narrow place at the top of the city.
The fire grew bigger and bigger, and finally the entire carriage was on fire.
The few remaining crossbowmen on the upper floor of the carriage had nowhere to hide and were forced to jump downstairs.
At this time, a series of loud rumbling sounds came from the west wall of Luoyang City.
It turned out that a large section of the west city wall was finally destroyed by Xu Zhu's giant trebuchet.
Seeing this, Xu Zhu, who was originally discouraged, immediately became energetic.
He jumped up, mounted his horse, and led his army towards the gap in the city wall.
When the soldiers of the Wei army saw that their general was taking the lead and that the city of Luoyang was about to be defeated, they all scrambled to follow Xu Zhu and swarmed toward the gap.
Just as Xu Zhu was about to rush into the gap, he was stopped by a Han army warrior on foot, none other than Dian Wei.
He led two hundred of his men to block the gap in the collapsed city wall.
Xu Zhu recognized Dian Wei and knew that he had surrendered to Lu Bu long ago, so without saying a word, he took up the Xuanhua ax and fought with Dian Wei, who was holding a short ax in both hands.
They had just fought two rounds when Cheng Lian, the leader of the Han army, came on horseback and joined the battle group.
Xu Zhu and Dian Wei were barely holding on, but once Cheng Lian joined, he couldn't hold it anymore.
At this time, Xu Zhu just hoped that the follow-up army would arrive quickly and cheer himself up for another four or five rounds.
Inadvertently, Dian Wei threw a flying ax at him, Xu Zhu couldn't dodge it, the ax sliced through his shoulder, cut open his shoulder armor, and cut off a large piece of flesh from his shoulder, which immediately made Xu Zhu's teeth crack in pain.
Mouth.
At this time, fierce clashes of weapons, shouts of killing, and the rumble of horse hooves suddenly came from outside the city.
Xu Zhu was shocked.
Could it be that reinforcements from Lu Bu's army were coming?
How could it be possible?
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