The 160,000 Han army swept in, the four fierce generals were like wolves and tigers, and Yecheng was already in danger, and it seemed that the city gate would be breached at any time.
The defenders in Yecheng were only 10,000 people, and there were only 2,500 people on average on each side after they were scattered on the four city walls, and the professional crossbowmen were only 1,500 people.
On the contrary, there were as many as 40,000 Han troops at the foot of each city wall, densely wriggling like an ant colony, under the command of Li Cunxiao, Ma Chao, Gao Gao, Tai Shici, Guan Sheng, Luo Yi and other six generals, they crossed the moat in an orderly manner and launched wave after wave of attacks towards Yecheng.
The Han army was charged by archers, and as many as seven or eight thousand professional archers at the foot of each city wall stood firm, pulling the bowstring like a full moon one by one, and shooting upwards at the top of the city wall.
The Wei army on the city wall, which was suppressed by the dense crossbow arrows in an instant, couldn't raise their heads, and they all hid behind the female wall to avoid the rain of arrows, so they could only take the time to snipe at the city.
As soon as a few unlucky Wei soldiers stretched out their heads, they were shot in the head by the oncoming crossbows, and before they could even scream, they fell headlong into the city wall, and their brains burst apart.
Under the suppression of the powerful firepower of the Han archers, the Wei army on the city wall almost collapsed, and the army had no fighting spirit and no will to fight.
I could only watch as the Han army cut down drawbridges and slammed the city gates with siege trucks.
Watching one after another ladders on the city wall, the wolf-like dead soldiers of the Han army climbed bravely with shields on their heads and bright broadswords in their hands.
Cao Ang was fully clothed, picked up a huge rolling stone and smashed it down at Ma Chao, who was climbing up the ladder, and roared hysterically: "Soldiers, give me a bloody battle to the end."
It's just that although Cao Ang shouted hard, the surrounding Cao Bing had a wooden face, his eyes were full of confusion, and there were few responders.
The archers mechanically fired a few arrows at the bottom of the city wall, and the soldiers lifted the rolling stones and threw them off the city wall as if they were not full, regardless of whether they could hit the Han army or not, as if it was only to throw the wall down, not to hit the enemy.
Seeing Cao Ang smashing down a rolling stone, waving the tip of the dragon rider in his hand and struggling to pick it up, he forcibly picked up a hundred and ten catties of boulders more than a zhang high, flew up to the city wall, and knocked down two Wei soldiers.
Li Jing, who was beating drums from a high place to help, smiled when he saw this: "Haha, I haven't finished beating this drum yet, Yecheng is about to be taken, it seems that the first person to climb the city wall is none other than Ma Mengqi."
Hua Mulan pursed her lips and smiled: "Not necessarily, you see that Cunxiao over there is about to crash open the city gate."
Li Jing looked around, only to see that under the north city gate, Li Cunxiao turned over and got off his horse, and was personally pushing the siege vehicle with his soldiers to rush across the drawbridge and slam into the city gate.
With one loud bang after another, the north gate of Yecheng has been twisted and deformed and revealed a gap, and it seems that the door will be wide open after a few more hits, and it is really too early to say who can win the first credit of breaking Yecheng.
"Haha, the soldiers are doing a good job" Li Jing smiled, and the frequency of the drumsticks in his hands involuntarily accelerated a lot.
Cao Ang saw that Ma Chao was about to climb the city wall, so he grabbed a spear in a hurry and went to support Ma Chao's ladder, trying to overturn the ladder and tear Ma Chao off the city wall, and yelled at the same time: "Sons, come and help" Ma Chao snorted coldly, and the dragoon in his hand swept over sharply, easily shaking Cao Ang's spear away, and at the same time roared: "Cao Ang is not quick to open the door and surrender, and then it is meaningless to fight the trapped beasts."
Cao Ang drew his sword in his hand and was about to slash down towards the cloud ladder, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice behind him: "Prince, open the door and surrender" If someone else said this, Cao Ang would not hesitate to swing his sword and cut off her head, but the person who said this was the woman who was called the "queen mother" by Cao Ang, the queen of the Great Wei Kingdom, Madame Bian.
"Queen Mother, why did you run to the city wall and go back to the palace to hide," Cao Ang looked anxious and went to pull Queen Bian.
Queen Bian sighed: "Prince, give up resistance, don't let the soldiers sacrifice in vain Look at the Han army all over the mountains, where is there still a glimmer of hope in Yecheng Listen to the queen mother's words, open the door and surrender" Taking advantage of the dialogue between Cao Ang's mother and son, Ma Chao jumped and was the first to climb the city wall, the tip of the dragon rider in his hand flew up and down, rolled up a ball of golden light, picked up several Cao soldiers in a row, and rushed away from an open area.
The soldiers who followed behind Ma Chao rushed up, slashing forward one by one like tigers descending from the mountain, forcing Cao's army to retreat step by step, while the Han army climbed the city wall became more and more.
Empress Bian pushed Cao Ang away, stretched out her arms to block Ma Chao's charge, and begged bitterly: "This general, please stop, I am the queen of Wei, we have surrendered, please let go of the soldiers of Yecheng."
Queen Bian stopped Ma Chao, turned around and shouted to the defenders on the city wall: "Soldiers, don't fight anymore, Yecheng can't hold it, don't make any more senseless sacrifices, everyone disarm and surrender."
The Wei army had long lost its fighting spirit, and after listening to Mrs.
Bian's words at this moment, the last trace of faith in resistance also disappeared, and they threw the weapons in their hands off the city wall, raised their hands and shouted: "I am willing to surrender, and I ask for the grace of not killing" "My Great Wei only has the prince who died in battle, and there are no greedy people who bend their knees and beg for mercy" Seeing that the soldiers behind him disarmed and surrendered one after another, Cao Ang was overwhelmed with grief and indignation, brandishing his sword and rushing towards Ma Chao.
"Look at the gun" Ma Chao shouted, the spear shook, and the golden light of the dragoon in his hand flashed, and it instantly hit Cao Ang's throat, "It's useless to resist stubbornly, someone has tied me up."
"If you want to kill or chop, listen to it" Cao Ang struggled, and was already pressed to the ground by several fierce soldiers, and tied up with ropes.
Seeing this, Mrs.
Bian hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged bitterly: "The general's men are merciful, please spare Ang'er's life."
Ma Chao ordered Cao Ang to be escorted left and right: "Cao Ang is the prince of Wei, he is guilty of rebellion, and he has his own law to deal with it, so he will not have to make much effort."
He Zai quickly led people to the Wei Palace and arrested all Cao Mengde's family."
Mrs.
Bian wept and begged: "This general, there are only orphans and widows left in the palace of King Wei, can you raise your noble hand and restrain the soldiers not to harass the female relatives in the palace?"
Ma Chao put away the spear, and his face was arrogant and upright: "Look at what Madame said, we are the kings of the imperial court, how can we burn and loot the bandit army, let alone make a brutal act of slaughtering the city like Cao Zhang."
Listening to Ma Chao's words, Mrs.
Bian looked ashamed: "Zhang'er's slaughter of the city is indeed too much, it is a woman who has no way to teach her son, and she is willing to take the blame for Wu'er." ” "The crimes committed by Cao Zhang will be borne by him, and sooner or later the king of my Han will bring him to justice, and Mrs. does not need or reason to take the blame for her son.
But then again, Cao Mengde's arrogance of the title of emperor is a great crime to exterminate the nine clans, and there is an egg under the nest, and your children will wait for the verdict of the law, but Ma Chao can guarantee that no soldier dares to violate you privately."
Ma Chao had a straight face, and ordered the soldiers to step forward to temporarily detain Mrs.
Bian, and at the same time ordered the soldiers who climbed the city wall to gather the Cao army who had surrendered, and ordered him to squat on the ground with his head in his hands, waiting for Li Jing's fall.
The kung fu battle of a stick of incense was over, and all the nearly 10,000 Wei troops on the city wall surrendered, and Li Cunxiao broke through the city gate and captured all the ministers of Wei.
Ma Chao led his troops to surround the palace, and arrested Cao Cao's 27 concubines and more than 30 children, including more than 800 palace e's eunuchs and 1,000 eunuchs, all of whom were blocked in the palace, and never escaped from a single one.
Li Jing ordered Guan Sheng to be responsible for the collection of prisoners, and Luo Yi and Zhuge Dan led their troops to search for Cao Wei and the rest of the party from house to house; ordered Chen Deng and Qin Liangyu to go out to calm the people and appease the people of Yecheng; Ordered Hua Mulan to be responsible for placing Cao Cao's family under house arrest, and no one was allowed to take advantage of the chaos to invade.
At the same time, he repaired a letter and sent it to Tongguan with a flying pigeon, and reported the news of the capture of Yecheng to Liu Wei.
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Liu Wei and Cao Cao received the news of the attack on Yecheng almost at the same time, but their moods were different, like the difference between the abyss, one seemed to ascend to heaven, and the other seemed to fall into hell.
"Haha, Pharmacist Li really lived up to my expectations, and easily took the capital of Wei, hurry, hurry" Liu Wei smiled after reading the letter, and danced excitedly.
Although the fall of Xiapi was somewhat unexpected, at his own suggestion, Li Jing used Xu You's success to lure Cao Bin and break through the capital of Wei in one fell swoop, so that Cao Cao could experience what it was like to be hanged and beaten.
Now there are more than a dozen states in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are at least a dozen cities of the same level as Xiapi, while there is only one capital of Wei.
From the point of view of value, the Eastern Han Dynasty's loss of Xiapi is insignificant, and Cao Wei's loss of the capital is simply hurtful, and the impact of the two cannot be compared at all.
"Your Majesty, you can send an envoy to Qian County to discuss with Cao Cao about the exchange of prisoners, after all, Wei Yan, Chen Qun, Chen Jiao and others are all meritorious to the country, and the Yang family is full of loyalty, and Yang Yuhuan's beauties have also fallen into the hands of Cao Jun."
After learning that Yecheng was conquered, Huo Qubing was the first to make a suggestion to Liu Wei.
Liu Wei smiled slightly: "Don't worry, Cao Cao just arrested the officials of one of my states, while Li Jing arrested Cao Wei's Manchu civil and military forces, although most of them were some wine bags and rice bags."
As for women, Cao Cao arrested a Yang family, but Li Jing arrested all Cao Cao's women, plus more than thirty children, I don't need to beg Cao Cao to see who can't hold their breath first."
Liu Wei decided to go to Yecheng in person to have a good look at Cao Cao's family, Cao Apu once said, "Your wife and I support myself", but I ever thought that there would be this day After making up his mind, Liu Wei ordered Huo Qubing to continue to lead the army to besiege Tongguan, and he took Yuwen Chengdu, Wenyang, and Zhang Liang to lead more than 100 guards to leave Tongguan and gallop towards Yecheng, but it was only 800 miles away, and it could be reached in about three days. t1706231537: