"Bang, bang, bang" Five huge wall-crashing vehicles alternately advanced and launched a violent impact on the west city wall of Hefei, which was filled with gunsmoke and debris at the foot of the city wall.
The impact was like an arch on Xue Rengui's heart, and Xue Rengui knew that he had to think of a countermeasure immediately, otherwise if Cao Jun's wall-hitting car continued to attack like this, the western city wall of Hefei would collapse sooner or later.
The defenders on the walls shouted and fired arrows, and the rolling stones and logs smashed down the city like a landslide, but the guards of the crashing carts were wide and sturdy to protect the soldiers who were hiding under the carts from harm.
Sometimes the path of the vehicle is blocked by the falling rocks and trees, and immediately a soldier with a shield will step forward to clear the obstacle and ensure that the wall of the convoy that hits the wall will continue to attack.
When Xue Rengui was having a headache, his eyes swept to the women who were carrying materials at the foot of the inner city wall, and he suddenly had an idea, and immediately sent someone to summon Huainan Taishou Huaxin, and ordered: "Quickly gather the women of the city, collect the curtains of every household, fill them with flammable materials such as straw and straw, and quickly send them to the city wall to resist the car that crashes into the wall." ” Hua Xin agreed, and immediately sent messengers to the nearby big families to collect a lot of curtains and beds, summoned more than 2,000 women to come and sew, and within half an hour, he made more than a dozen huge cloth bags three feet high, three feet wide, three feet thick and one zhang thick, and filled them with straw, straw, branches, chicken and duck feathers and other miscellaneous items, and finally sent people to the city wall as quickly as possible.
"Bang, bang", the crashing car at the foot of the city wall was thrown at the continuous attack on the city wall, and it was already full of devastation at a height of about one zhang, full of holes, and cracks of different thicknesses appeared around many holes of different depths.
The Han army standing on the city wall even clearly felt the ups and downs under their feet, and if the Cao army continued to collide, they were afraid that the consequences would be unimaginable.
At this critical juncture, Hua Xin sent someone to send a large tent curtain, and Xue Rengui immediately ordered the soldiers to carry it with a halberd and place it at the foot of the city wall to resist Cao Jun's wall crashing car.
Sure enough, Cao Jun, who was unknown, still pushed the crashing car forward, and the iron vertebrae that had worn out the blade suddenly pierced into the curtain, like a punch hitting cotton, with nowhere to exert force, and the protected city wall finally did not have to be destroyed again.
"Locked with an iron hook" Xue Rengui was overjoyed to see the success of the plan, and personally waved an iron rope and threw it from the city wall.
With a "duh", he impartially grabbed the corner of a car that hit the wall and firmly tied it to the city wall.
Other prepared soldiers followed suit, throwing dozens of iron cables with grappling hooks off the walls and entangled the crashing carts, securing them to the walls so that they could not retreat.
"Ignition" Xue Rengui personally bent his bow and shot a rocket with pine resin.
With Xue Rengui's order, hundreds of crossbowmen shot rockets at the large tent curtain filled with flammable materials at the foot of the city wall, and ignited it immediately.
The fire soon burst into the sky, and the five crashing cars were caught by the iron cables, unable to retreat, and were soon ignited by the fire, which turned into a cloud of ashes in a few moments.
Without the help of the wall-hitting car, Cao's army could only attack the city hard, and the situation soon became a stalemate.
In the face of the Han army's rainstormy crossbow arrows and hail-like rolling stones, Cao's army ambushed the corpses in piles, paid a huge price for casualties, and it was still difficult to climb the Hefei city wall.
Just when Xue Rengui successfully burned Cao Jun's car that hit the wall, Lu Junyi was leading 5,000 elite soldiers to intercept Cao's soldiers who came in from the tunnel at the foot of the inner city wall.
The Han army dug a trench three zhang deep at the foot of the city wall, and as long as they found Cao's tunnel, they burned and threw straw sprinkled with sulfur, fire and other flammable materials into the tunnel, and forced Cao's army back with fire and smoke.
For a while, there were screams in the tunnel, and the smell of burnt skin and flesh permeated from the cave, making people feel sick.
Compared with the offensive methods such as wall cars, mounds, thunderbolts, and well fences, it is really easy to deal with the tunnels, as long as the trenches are dug deep enough and the dry firewood is prepared enough, even the millions of heroes will be blocked by the blazing bonfire.
Many of Cao's soldiers could not retreat in the tunnel, and they could not get up again after being smoked by the thick smoke.
The Cao soldiers in the back were choked and couldn't breathe, couldn't open their eyes, and retreated in the dark instead trampling on each other, causing a large number of casualties.
"Alas, retreat the troops, give up the tunnel" Cao saw that the Han army had already prepared, so he could only sigh and ordered to give up the plan to sneak into the city from the tunnel.
If you don't look back after touching the south wall and continue to try, you can only pay a senseless sacrifice in vain.
The fierce battle lasted from early morning to noon, Cao Jun almost used eighteen kinds of martial arts, thunderbolts, well railings, wall cars, ladders, mounds, tunnels and so on almost all the methods that could be thought of were tried, but in the face of the iron wall of Hefei, it was still difficult to take a step beyond the thunder pool.
The sound of horses' hooves clattered, and the scouts kept reporting the movements of the Eastern Han reinforcements to Cao Cao: "Your Majesty, Zhuge Liang's reinforcements have passed forty miles from Lu'an County, and it is expected to arrive at Hefei at the latest in the middle of the night."
Wei Chigong's retirement has already passed Qin Gao, and it is estimated that the army will be in Xiaoyaojin tomorrow evening."
"Is it coming so fast?"
Hearing this, Cao Cao stopped waving his arms with drumsticks, and the continuous tapping in the morning had already made his arms swollen and sore, which was not the slightest easier than the soldiers besieging the city.
Although the cold wind was biting, Cao Cao's underwear was soaked with sweat, but Cao Cao ignored the dissuasion of his advisers, and still gritted his teeth and beat drums to cheer, inspiring the soldiers of the three armies to fight to the death.
In just half a day, the soldiers and civilians in Hefei City worked together, and under the leadership of Xue Rengui, they smashed all kinds of siege methods of the Cao army, so that the corpses of Hefei City were all over the place, and the blood flowed like a river.
Even if Cao Jun paid the price of more than 10,000 casualties, it was still difficult to set foot on the city wall of Hefei for half a step.
The bubbling river water dyed the Xiaoyaojin not far away, making the frozen river surface turn red, like a bewitching peony, which is shocking.
The cold wind blew, and the air was filled with the smell of blood, which made people can't help but subconsciously cover their noses and mouths.
Cao Cao shouted, turned over on his horse, and slammed his legs on the claw Huang Feidian under his crotch, and shot out like an arrow from the string, holding the Longyuan sword in his hand.
Among the thousands of troops, Cao Cao, who was fully clothed, was dressed in bronze armor and a vermilion cloak, and was hunted by the cold wind.
The vigorous gallop and jump of the war horse under the crotch, quickly passed through the thousands of horses, and went forward to the foot of the Hefei city wall.
"The lord is slow, let me Xu Chu protect you" Seeing Cao Cao suddenly whip his horse and join the siege army, Xu Chu was taken aback, hurriedly raised the tiger tooth broadsword, and urged the war horse under his crotch to follow Cao Cao's left and right.
But Xu Chu's mount under the crotch is just an ordinary war horse, even if Xu Chu chases with all his might, it is beyond reach, and he can only be attached far behind, paying close attention to Cao Cao's safety.
"Whoosh" Arrows rained down on the city wall, Cao manipulated the horse to dance the sword, dialed the carving, and prevented the dripping water from being revealed.
While galloping, he loudly encouraged morale: "The crossbow arrows of the Han army in the city are about to run out, and the sons and daughters will work harder, and those who will definitely be able to break through the city wall of Hefei before dark, and reward a thousand taels of gold, give the marquis of the township, a thousand hectares of fertile land, and a hundred maidservants."
"Kill, rush, take Hefei City, and capture Xue Rengui alive" Seeing the Emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty carrying his sword on his horse, he personally braved the rain of arrows and hail to charge, and his majesty was undiminished when he exterminated the Yellow Turban.
The morale of the Cao army, which was all over the mountains, was greatly boosted, and the crowd was excited, and suddenly a burst of mountain and tsunami screams broke out, and a wave of more ferocious offensive was launched against the Hefei city wall.
For a time, arrows rained on the city wall, stones and trees rolled, and the footsteps under the city wall shook the sky; Ladders were erected on the city walls, and countless Cao soldiers carried shields and stormed the city under the cover of thunderbolts and well railings.
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