beat Facing the impregnable Xiangyang, the allied forces of Cao and Sun, which were advancing all the way, did not even have a decent test.
They directly tore off all the clothes other than war, even the additional attributes of war such as assassination, sabotage, alienation, and internal support.
They There is absolutely no intention of using it at all.
This unscrupulous attitude of decisive battle gave Gan Ning and Wenpin a point to vent their anger, but at the same time, they couldn't help but become more suspicious of the crazy Cao-Sun coalition.
"Military advisor, my lord predicted that this would happen when the coalition forces of Cao and Sun came up."
Gan Ning fiddled with the Shanshan-destroying crossbow that had been installed and debugged beside him.
He looked at Cao Cao, who was wearing a bright uniform and was not afraid of the Xiangyang crossbow arrows at all.
He rode the Jueying Divine Horse like a heavenly being.
Looking out in front of the formation, I couldn't help but feel more unspeakable about the menacing Cao Jun.
"Of course it was already decided," Guo Jia smiled.
He felt uncomfortable seeing his old master again, but then he patted Gan Ning on the shoulder and asked with a smile, "Why, is it because he knew there would be no reinforcements?
I am afraid of Cao Sun’s 300,000 troops.”
"How is that possible?"
Gan Ning's face turned green, and he couldn't help but feel a bit more arrogant: "If they dare to come, I will let them know how useful the Ichiban Ma family's crossbows are."
Crossbow, powerful, accurate positioning, long range, strong penetration.
There are only two disadvantages.
One is that it is expensive and easy to damage.
Second, the launch speed is slow and severely affected by weather.
This is also the reason why crossbows were not widely used in many eras.
Generally, princes in troubled times would find it difficult to afford the high cost of a crossbow machine.
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when many soldiers went to the battlefield with a wooden stick, and when a sword with a ring around it became a valuable weapon, the crossbow machine This kind of high-end product is simply beyond the imagination of most powerful people.
But they don't know that although crossbows are expensive, their components are mostly the same.
If standardized management is adopted.
By unifying the dimensions of each part of the crossbow machine, its cost will be significantly reduced.
The versatility of wearing parts will make the shortcoming of easy damage easily solved.
And Jingzhou has Wancheng, a smelting city, and the foundation of Jingzhou, the hometown of bows and arrows, so a powerful city-defending crossbow army becomes possible.
As for the shortcoming of the crossbow machine's slow firing speed, it is actually just that the users themselves do not know how to use it.
They do not know that the crossbow machine is a powerful weapon.
It is best not used alone.
Instead, they need to form a formation and fire in turns.
Only by taking turns to load, and even realizing the division of labor between loading, drawing, and launching when necessary, can it exert its true strength.
In the battle of the crossbow army, there is a formation of ten thousand crossbows.
Once this formation is formed, it can be used unparalleled, its power is unparalleled, its power is unparalleled, and it can resist the enemy.
During the time Ma Chao stayed in Xiangyang, apart from secretly investigating the conspiracy of the Cao Alliance, the remaining time was to transport a large number of crossbows and crossbow arrows from Wancheng to fill up several fixed armories in Xiangyang.
In addition, several temporary armory warehouses were even built.
The city's defensive equipment and food reserves simply exceeded the largest size of any city in this era.
These gave Gan Ning and others the confidence to face the world-famous Cao Cao and Sun Ce without fear.
"General, all crossbow machines have been debugged.
The Wangshan, the teeth, the hook, the crossbow body, and the arrows are all in normal condition."
A small school guarding the city stepped forward and reported to Gan Ninghui with a solemn salute.
"That's right."
Gan Ning licked his lips and looked at the enemy troops under the city, his eyes as ferocious as a wolf: "Since they are not even willing to test, let me start this decisive battle.
After saying that, Gan Ning personally took control, filling the three-foot-four-inch Xiangyang Moso Bamboo crossbow arrows into the mountain-destroying crossbow beside him, aimed at Cao Cao through Wangshan, and then pulled the trigger hard.
There was a bang, and the crossbow arrow seemed to draw a bolt of lightning in the clear sky, flying towards Cao Cao.
The fierce generals and guards around Cao Cao had no time to react, and saw Cao Cao's helmet tassel being shot down by the crossbow arrow.
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"Damn it!"
Gan Ning punched him: "He's only two inches taller.
I didn't expect Lao Cao to be so short."
However, this sudden crossbow shocked the entire Cao army.
All Cao's soldiers saw that Cao Cao was almost killed by a crossbow at a distance of 150 steps outside the city.
Their morale couldn't help but plummet, and a commotion unnaturally spread among the strict formation.
"I, Cao Mengde, have been destined by destiny, and the officers and men under my command are also righteous soldiers who are doing justice for heaven.
How can a mere crossbow and arrows hurt me?"
After Cao Cao was startled, he immediately judged the situation with agility and courage and responded.
He laughed loudly and was full of heroism.
Arrogant and arrogant.
After saying this, the guards around him immediately reacted and shouted loudly: "The King of Wei is invincible, and Xiangyang will be defeated."
The morale of an arrow shot down was immediately transformed into a sky-high arrogance by Cao Cao's adaptability.
Seeing this, Sun Ce on the other side couldn't help but admit that Cao Cao was indeed a hero.
After all, if that arrow were to hit me, I might be so angry that I would directly order an attack on the city.
But Cao Cao was so adaptable that after turning the morale of the entire battlefield around, he waved his flag fiercely: "Kill me."
"Kill!"
Sun Ce also waved the flag down at the same time.
This time he did not take the lead.
With an excellent teacher like Cao Cao, he learned everything quickly.
"Kill" The shouts of killing spread all over the mountains and plains, as if they were going to shake down the entire sun.
After that, the vanguard carrying ladders, the operators pushing thunderbolt carts, and more fearless siege vanguards quickly and slowly flooded the entire front of Xiangyang City like a surging tide.
At the same time, the mountain-destroying crossbows on the city also made a neat sound of strings.
The formation of thousands of crossbows that had not been seen in a century finally reappeared at this moment.
Thanks to the protection of the Xiangshui River, Xiangyang City has a sufficiently wide moat.
As a result, the siege vanguards could only sigh while looking at the city, and they could only attack by the river.
The long ladder could not reach the towering walls of Xiangyang City.
Although the siege soldiers who arrived at this time had fierce morale, they also suffered the greatest losses.
The shouts of death from the city were getting louder and louder.
Gan Ning immediately got up and went to more watchtowers, where he saw the captain of his first personal guard, shirtless and shouting angrily, waving a sword in his hand and commanding his men to fire arrows.
Looking down further, I saw the Cao and Sun coalition forces densely packed, charging towards this side like ants.
Because they were so close, they could see the faces of the coalition forces being distorted, their mouths wide open, shouting, and arrows raining down on them as they charged in this direction.
Many pioneers who knew how to swim directly swam across the moat and climbed the Xiangyang city wall with their swords in their teeth.
On the front outside the moat, the crossbow arrows that fell like a heavy rain had already been filled with corpses, causing countless casualties.
But I have to admit that the incoming army is really brave.
Although the formation is broken and the flag bearer has been changed several times, the army at the rear still rushes forward quickly.
Those who can swim can directly jump into the water and swim, and those who can't swim can climb up on ladders.
City, morale is very high.
Just when Gan Ning was sighing, an army almost climbed up to Gan Ning's eyes.
If the reserve army organized by Taishi Ci hadn't come up quickly to support them, they might have been able to break through such a life-threatening attack by the coalition forces.
At this time, no conspiracy or trick will work.
In the siege battle, what was more tested was the command and adaptability of the generals who defended the city.
Gan Ning, Taishi Ci, and Wenpin were all equally ranked in official positions, but Guo Jia balanced the deployment and each of them performed their duties. , there was absolutely no improper command or inconsistent military orders.
Gan Ning was in the watchtower, watching six directions and focusing on the overall situation.
Orders came out of his mouth quickly.
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After being passed on to the whole army by the ordering soldiers, the entire Xiangyang city was like a whole, with more adjustments and less reinforcements, and the flow and defense were seamless.
However, Ma Jiajun's luck finally ran out at sunset.
The thunderbolt chariot invented by Liu Ye was no less than the Ma family's new trebuchet.
The huge whistling stones made great achievements repeatedly, like an unpleasant but tough blunt knife, chipping away at the walls of Xiangyang City layer by layer, causing earth and rocks to fly.
Xiangyang City is slowly being destroyed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"We must burn those Thunderbolt Chariots," Gan Ning shouted with red eyes, but before he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang under his feet, and a large part of the city wall suddenly collapsed.
It turned out that this wall was where Cai Hao's servants were hiding to assassinate Ma Chao.
Although the place was rebuilt, it was still very unstable.
Naturally, Cao Cao would not let go of this slight advantage.
The huge rocks were blasted for most of the day, and finally a few big rocks were smashed, and the city wall collapsed again.
Immediately afterwards, Cao Bing's ladder finally found a place to set up.
Hand-to-hand combat, which all the generals who defended the city did not want to see, inevitably occurred: