Just when Dian Wei and Cao Hong were stubbornly blocked by Ma Dai, and the flesh and blood killed by both the offensive and defensive sides were flying, Cao Wenzhao and Wen Ping also led 30,000 horses to attack the southern city wall of Hefei.
"Shoot me hard" Compared with other Cao Future, Wen Ping's archery skills were exquisite, so he personally climbed a mound, held an iron-tired strong bow, and commanded five or six hundred crossbowmen to shoot at the Han army's mansion on the opposite city wall, which was more than 100 zhang apart.
Under the command of Sima Cuo, 20,000 Cao troops gathered their armpits into furs, worked day and night, and spent ten days to build 20 mounds more than four zhang high under the south city wall of Hefei, which was half a zhang higher than the opposite Hefei city wall.
And there are bunkers on each mound, which can accommodate about thirty crossbowmen to shoot at the opposite side of the house to cover the besieging companions at their feet.
Wen Ping shot an arrow, and the arrow from the string hit the chest of a Han soldier with a whistling wind, and he fell from the city with a scream.
The other Cao army crossbowmen followed Wen Ping's random arrows in unison, sprinkled like raindrops on the Hefei city wall, and shot on the armor of the Han army to make a sound of breaking armor into the flesh, one after another.
Due to the condescending position of Cao's soldiers, the battlements lost their cover function, leaving the defenders completely exposed to Cao's bows and arrows, causing considerable casualties.
Hurriedly under the command of Zhu Sheng, the shield soldiers covered the crossbowmen, and they raised their heads and shot back.
In an instant, the arrows were like flying locusts, and countless feathered arrows came and went in the air with the sound of the whistling wind, colliding together from time to time, making a breaking sound, and falling to the ground rapidly.
The broken and twisted feathered arrows under the soles of the feet fell all over the ground, like thorns on the ground.
"The whole army charged, and those who climbed the city wall first were sealed as pavilion marquis, rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, and gave a thousand hectares of good land" Taking advantage of the suppression of the Han army's crossbowmen on the city wall, Cao Wenzhao carried a seven-star knife in his hand, and led nearly 10,000 soldiers to carry ladders and shields, braving the rolling wood and rolling stones on the city wall, and charged forward desperately.
Some people were knocked down by rolling stones, some people were hit by a piece of wood, and Cao Jun behind was fearless, trampling on the corpses of his companions, shouting and charging forward, as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.
Because the Cao army crossbowmen on the mound attracted some of the firepower, this greatly reduced the number of crossbow arrows fired to the ground, and the lethality of the rolling stones and woods, although strong enough, was not dense enough, so that the threat of the Cao army on the ground during the siege of the city was greatly reduced, and countless Cao soldiers carried cloud ladders to attack the city.
"Xue Rengui is here" With a roar, Xue Rengui rode his horse along the east city wall, bent his bow and arrows on the horse from two hundred zhang away, pulled the bowstring like a full moon, and shot three arrows at Cao Bing on the opposite mound.
"Du, du, du" three piercing armor sounds sounded in mid-air, and at the same time, three Cao army archers screamed and fell down the mound more than four zhang high, falling into a blur, not human.
Xue Rengui's face was as pale as frost, and he opened his bow and released arrows continuously, and every time the bowstring sounded, it was three arrows fired in a row, and none of them missed.
After shooting a pot of feather arrows, nearly twenty crossbowmen were shot down, and the rest of them were shocked, and they involuntarily bowed down, not daring to shoot at the city wall as unscrupulously as before.
"This is really Xue Rengui, give me a shot" Wen Ping pulled the horn bow in his hand to the maximum extent, and ran towards Xue Rengui is an arrow, but unfortunately it was too far away, and when Xue Rengui was still forty or fifty zhang away, it became the end of a strong crossbow, and finally fell on the city wall.
Even the feather arrows shot by Wen Ping could not threaten Xue Rengui, and the range of other soldiers was far inferior, so Bai did a lot of useless work, and the locust-like feathered arrows fell slowly like dandelions in the middle of the way, but instead provided the Han army with feather arrows.
"One more pot" Xue Rengui shot up, stretched out his hand to take the quiver handed by the soldier, and there was another wave of angry shooting, this time with a string of four arrows, and it was still the case.
After firing five waves in a row, twenty more Cao Jun crossbowmen fell in response.
Two pots of feather arrows shot and killed about forty Cao army archers, which greatly boosted the morale of the Han army on the city wall, and one by one they shook their spirits, or shot at the mound, or burst under the city wall, which immediately blocked the Cao army's offensive and gradually slowed down the pace of the attack.
Successfully suppressed the Cao army's attack on the southern city wall, Xue Rengui instructed Zhu Sheng: "Please Zhu Yunsheng continue to hold his position, I will go to the west city wall to see" Without waiting for Zhu Sheng to speak, Xue Rengui had already whipped away and gradually went away, leaving Zhu Sheng to lead seven or eight thousand soldiers to continue to defend the city and block the onslaught of Cao's army.
At the foot of the west city wall of Hefei, five huge wall-crashing vehicles rolled forward under the impetus of Cao Jun, crossed the moat, and approached the city wall as high as three and a half zhang, and launched a fierce impact on the city wall.
The crashing car was one and a half feet high, with more than 20 wheels made at the bottom, and the shape was somewhat similar to that of a tank.
The iron vertebrae protruding from the front are more than a foot long, like the horn of a rhinoceros, emitting a dazzling cold light in the sunlight.
Each wall-hitting car weighs more than 3,000 catties, and it needs more than a dozen people to push it behind to make it move forward at high speed, burst out with a huge impact and slam into the city wall, using the iron spine protruding in front to destroy the city wall.
Sima Coo rode on the horse, waved the command flag in his hand, and commanded the crashing car to charge forward: "Hit me, hit hard" "One-two-hey-yo, one-two-three-hey-hey" Cao Jun hid under the protective plate around the crashing car to avoid being injured by the crossbow arrows and rolling stones, and used all his strength to push the collision vehicle forward at high speed, shouting uniform slogans in his mouth, and the dust under his feet was flying.
I only heard a loud "bang", and a car that crashed into the wall slammed into the city wall violently, and the iron vertebrae pierced the city wall at least a foot or so, and the stone chips flew and the dust was filled.
"Bang, bang, bang", there were huge noises one after another, and five wall-crashing cars lined up at the foot of the city wall, and you retreated and launched a violent impact on the city wall.
For a while, the city wall trembled, the earth roared, and under the continuous impact of the iron vertebrae, many slight cracks gradually appeared at the bottom of the city wall.
If Cao Jun continues to slam into it like this, the result can only be a huge crack in the city wall, which will be crumbling at best, making the defenders above unstable, and collapsing and toppling at worst, and being opened by Cao Jun to enter the city.
The sound of horses' hooves on the city wall came from far and near, but it was Xue Rengui who rode his horse from the south city gate, and saw from a distance that Cao Jun's car hitting the wall was powerful, and hurriedly bent his bow and arrows on the horse, and fired several arrows in succession.
However, because the crashing car was designed by a craftsman named Ma Jun for Cao Cao, it was exquisitely conceived, and there were guards around it to protect the soldiers of the cart, and Xue Rengui's feathered arrows were all shot on the guards, which could not hurt the soldiers of the cart at all.
"Tut, this weapon is powerful, if he is allowed to crash like this, I am afraid that this city wall will be knocked down sooner or later, what kind of way should I think of to stop the car that crashed into the wall and destroy the city wall" Xue Rengui frowned on the horse, thinking hard about how to deal with it. t1706231537: