When the first long ladder was erected on the collapsed city wall, Ma Jiajun's reaction was very calm.
Seven or eight of them worked together to carry the huge rejection pole and hid it inside the city wall, waiting for Cao Bing's soldiers to climb up while roaring.
Halfway through, Cai Er San suddenly exerted his force and pushed the ladder violently outside the city.
The Cao soldiers on the ladder howled miserably in mid-air like a rapid funeral song, and stopped abruptly as soon as they fell to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, more gaps in the city wall were blasted out by thunderbolt vehicles.
There are more and more places where coalition forces can set up ladders.
They used archers to suppress Gan Ning's archers without fear of death, and organized infantry to charge towards the destroyed city walls.
Arrows rained down like rain for a while, and Cao Jun rushed directly in front of them.
The two sides fought hand to hand.
Jinfan The naval forces also suffered heavy casualties.
However, bows and arrows could not compete with the mountain-destroying crossbow after all, after spending more than 8,000 people and achieving the victory of the city wall collapse.
The coalition forces finally suspended their offensive.
Gan Ning immediately ordered the city wall to be repaired, but before the reserve troops could bring the repair materials, a soldier shouted in alarm: "General, look quickly!"
When Gan Ning turned around, his eyes were red with anger.
It turned out that Cao Cao had come up with another damaging trick.
They cut down trees and set up fires.
In summer, there was a southerly wind, and the wind blew smoke into Ma Jiajun's eyes.
For a while, his eyes became red with choking.
He could shoot arrows to attack the enemy.
No matter what, it was greatly affected for a while.
What's even more disgusting is that Guo Jia couldn't help but cursed: "Cheng Zhongde, you really added wolf dung and chili pepper to the firewood."
Wolf dung was the main material used for beacon fire communication in this era.
When wolf dung was added to the firewood, the smoke produced was black and lingering wolf smoke, which often shot straight into the sky without scattering.
As for chili peppers, when Guo Jia was enjoying Ma's hot pot with Cheng Yu when they were still in Cao Ying, they accidentally dropped the chili peppers into the fire.
The smoke was so harsh that it made Guo Jia and Cheng Yu miserable.
Unbearable.
At that time, Guo Jia said a joke: "If this is used on the battlefield, it may also be a big killer weapon."
Guo Jia was even thinking about crying now.
He didn't expect that Cheng Yu not only remembered his original joke, but also combined the ancient method of wolf dung with the new thing of chili pepper.
The lethality of attacking enemies has been increased by several levels.
The coalition forces took the opportunity to launch a frantic attack at this moment.
Fortunately, Gan Ning had the advantage of the terrain.
Faced with such shameless siege tactics by the coalition forces, he was really angry.
After adjusting the trebuchet on the city wall, it hit the coalition army fiercely.
Those Pili cars that were too late to withdraw became the key targets.
For a time, the soldiers on top of the city shed tears and shouted and danced for joy.
The soldiers below the city risked their lives to save the Thunderbolt Chariot, but most of them were smashed into pulp by Ma's trebuchets.
At the same time, Gan Ning ordered the entire army to cover their faces with water.
In addition to counterattacking the siege soldiers who also suffered harm, Gan Ning continued to organize emergency repairs of the city wall, prepared various fortifications, demolished dozens of houses, and built bricks and stones.
Build the city wall.
However, Cao Cao and Sun Ce seemed to be planning to fight to the death this time.
They refused to rest, did not care about losses, and organized their troops to attack forward regardless of the cost.
Gan Ning placed a group of troops at the first dilapidated city.
However, within a quarter of an hour, all the soldiers in this group were killed.
The corpses of the coalition soldiers and the Jinfan navy were mixed together, and the severed ring heads were mixed together.
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Knives, broken bows, arrows stuck in the ground and people's bodies were everywhere, and blood flowed along the city wall into a red waterfall.
The water in the moat had already overflowed, and countless broken arms and limbs were floating on it.
Following the endless bloodstains, at night, the coalition soldiers finally rushed to the top of the city.
It seemed that the main city was about to fall into their hands, and the flat ground was right in front of them.
But what greeted them was a dense rain of arrows, which were released by Wenpin's scientific and technological light crossbow army Yuan Rong Crossbow.
The overwhelming metal storm penetrated the human body like a piece of paper, and the advancing coalition forces were beaten.
Flesh and blood flew everywhere, torn to pieces.
Under the cover of crossbows, Taishi Ci's reserve troops rushed to the top of the city, launched a powerful and crazy counterattack, and drove the remaining coalition forces down the city at once.
The vanguard general Xia Houyuan was extremely angry about this.
Then he gathered 300 archers and fired arrows at this section of the city wall.
Half of Taishi Ci's new army who rushed to the top of the city fell under the first wave of arrows.
Similar battles took place no less than a hundred times in the next five hours, at various places where the city walls collapsed.
This short but fierce hand-to-hand combat caused a large number of soldiers on both sides to fall quickly.
In this case, it is difficult for an individual's martial arts to show his power.
Although Gan Ning and Xia Houyuan were both enemies of thousands of people, they both stood firmly in the commanding position.
At this moment, they had no way out, let alone a comfortable rest.
The day and night of battle passed like this.
When the sun rose as usual on the second day, a strong feeling of sadness could not be suppressed in and outside Xiangyang city.
When the enemy and I woke up the next day with their hands rubbing their sore eyes, they were both physically and mentally exhausted and no one had the strength to fight anymore.
The amount of troops lost by both sides exceeded the limit of city sieges in this era.
Corpses were piled up and down the city walls.
Wounded soldiers fell to the ground groaning and howling in pain, but no one took care of them.
Ownerless horses wandered back and forth, broken weapons.
It was thrown all over the ground, and blood stained all the positions visible in the field of vision.
Xia Houyuan looked at the city tower still in Gan Ning's hands, and saw that more than half of his soldiers were dead and exhausted and unable to fight anymore, and his heart felt like a knife.
Gan Ning, on the other hand, had his arms bandaged, and his face was covered with mud and blood, almost looking like a knife.
Not showing his true colors, he was slumped on the tower listlessly.
Xia Houyuan's generals were crying in panic, with tears streaming down their faces: "Sir, it's so tragic.
Of the three hundred brothers I brought out with my own hands, less than 30% of them were left after yesterday's battle.
It's over, it's all over."
"Sir, leave some seeds for our Jinfan Navy.
We have fought from the Three Gorges to the Yellow River, and from Jizhou to Jingzhou.
We have been fighting until now.
Is it possible that we all have to fight to the death in Xiangyang City?"
In the Jinfan Navy The old man looked at the fewer and fewer familiar faces and burst into tears towards Gan Ning.
The vanguard generals on both sides felt uncomfortable.
They saw that the troops they had led by themselves had been reduced by more than one-third in just over a day.
They saw the wounded soldiers howling in pain but there were not enough military doctors to bandage them.
There was not enough medicine to treat the wounds, but they could only sit there and wait for death, which made it difficult for them to breathe.
However, the subordinates' pleading and his own heartache only made the devil Zhan laugh.
After the smoke cleared, the siege drums sounded again.
The two sides seemed to have no other choice except gritting their teeth and continuing to fight to determine a winner.
"Military advisor, are Cao Cao and Sun Ce crazy?"
Gan Ning listened to the sound of the siege drums coming from the opposite side, as if he heard the weirdest sound in his life, and roared: "I, Gan Ning, have a lot of skills in defending the city."
I have never seen anything so crazy and unreasonable before.”
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"It's indeed a bit unreasonable."
Guo Jia was familiar with military books and was already familiar with the tactics of siege.
It is not that there are no incidents of continuous sieges, but such as Cao Cao and Sun Ce's continuous general attack regardless of the number of waves and casualties is completely unreasonable.
This completely weird method made Guo Jia, who always had no plans left, not sure what the coalition was planning.
However, Guo Jia knew that if Gan Ning stayed on the Xiangyang battlefield for one more day, it would consume one point of the strength of Liu, Sun, and Cao's coalition forces.
Yesterday's battle was extremely brutal, but the casualties in defending and attacking the city were vastly different.
The coalition forces lost nearly 20,000 troops in one day and night.
Although our own side also lost nearly 4,000 troops, overall it was in line with the siege loss ratio.
"No matter how unreasonable this is for the Cao and Sun families, Xingba, please remember that the crazier they are, the more we must hold on.
If we hold on for one more day, there will be less pressure on the lord's army in the future."
Listen Guo Jia said bluntly to the shouts and golden drums from the city: "This time, we are going to fight with Cao Cao and Sun Ce, fight with them, guard Xiangyang City, even if we grind, we will wear out their energy and blood, and they will collapse." their minions" "I know."
With Guo Jia's instructions, Gan Ning felt as if he had been beaten to death.
His face turned red and he shouted, "Raise the Jinfan Army flag for me.
I will fight with them today."