"This is that team" On the city wall, Liu Xie put down the clairvoyant mirror and turned his head to look at Ma Chaodao.
Whether it is combat strength, coordination, or the cooperation of the soldiers, they are all good, and it can be seen that the training has worked hard, and in this era, it is already commendable to be able to carry out orders and prohibitions in such large-scale operations.
"Back to Your Majesty, it's Cao Cao's soldiers and horses," Ma Chao bowed.
As he spoke, more than a dozen wells were pushed out by people shouting trumpets in the rear of the opponent's formation, and began to attack the city wall.
Ma Chao frowned when he saw this, and said sharply: "Archer, give me arrows, don't let them get close" The catapult is a covering blow, there is no way to achieve a precise strike, and the well is constantly moving, it is difficult to knock the well down with the catapult, this is a probability problem, and generally there is not much hope.
"Hum" a row of arrows rose into the air and shrouded down towards the well, but the sharp arrow clusters could not penetrate the baffle of the well at all, and could only make a muffled sound in vain.
"Meng Qi" Liu Xie frowned and said to Ma Chao.
"Yes."
Ma Chao turned his head and looked at Liu Xie suspiciously.
"Shoot at the wrestlers who are pushing the well."
Liu Xie pointed to Jing Huan, such a big thing has to be lifted by the strength of a hundred people, to avoid Jing Huan from approaching, it is enough to shoot these people, why compete with Jing Huan "The last general understands" Ma Chao's eyes lit up, nodded, and was about to give an order.
"Remember, shoot at half of it, and leave the other half alone, maybe you can overturn that well," Liu Xie rubbed his temples and said.
"Huh" Ma Chao thought about it and understood, half of it fell, the other half was still holding on, the well must be tilted, and it depends on luck whether it can fall down.
At that moment, Ma Chao summoned a group of archers, pointed to the nearest well and said: "Give me to shoot at those wrestlers on the right."
The archer agreed, and began to shoot at the wrestlers below the well.
"Puff puff" in a series of muffled sounds, a large number of unprotected wrestlers were shot, and according to Ma Chao's abundance, these archers are pointing at the right side of the wrestlers to shoot hard, the casualties on the left side are not large, as more and more wrestlers fall, the living people on the right can not support the weight of the well, only to see the right side of the well sink down, the whole well tilted down.
"Quick, let go" A lieutenant rushed to the battlefield, shouted loudly when he saw this, and ordered the wrestlers on the other side to let go of the well, so as to avoid the collapse of the well.
"Sword and shield man, protect the wrestler, continue to push the well" A partial general saw that the other party had set the target on the wrestler who was pushing the well, so he had no choice but to order the sword and shield man to temporarily give up the attack and start to protect the well to advance.
With the protection of the sword and shield hand, the well began to move forward again, Ma Chao organized several attacks, but with little effect, more than a dozen wells stopped at the side of the moat, separated by five zhang distance, began to fire arrows at the defenders on the city wall, although the height is still not reached, but only three zhang away is left, it can already pose a huge threat to the defenders of the city, the defenders of the city head no longer dare to poke their heads out to shoot the soldiers on the ladder, and have begun to continue to climb up the Cao army, but when they see the twenty zhang wide city wall, When the dense defenders were densely packed, their expressions were a little confused.
Gao Shun quickly commanded a group of people to come immediately and fixed the tripods like giant slingshots on the ground, called plus.
"What is this," Ma Chao said in amazement.
"Small stone machine, but only twenty paces away."
Gao Shun said in a deep voice: "The Ministry of Industry has specially researched for Jing Xuan. ” "Twenty steps" Ma Chao was stunned, except for the well, this thing is useless, those people in the Ministry of Industry are really idle enough, what power does this thing have, even if it hits the well, it is unlikely to destroy it "Although this thing is not very powerful, it is better than accuracy" Gao Shun didn't explain too much, with a wave of his hand, a group of soldiers came up holding a jar, in Ma Chao's puzzled gaze, with Gao Shun's order, this group of soldiers quickly pulled the tripod and aimed at the direction of the well.
"Launch" "Bang Bang Bang" one by one jars smashed on top of the well, and a large amount of liquid with a pungent smell smashed on the well.
"Tung oil" Ma Chao sniffed, frowned slightly, and then suddenly, surprised: "Archer, change me to a rocket, shoot the well."
Without Gao Shun's order, rows of archers quickly clustered arrows in a pot of oil, lit them with torches, and then rows of burning arrows quickly landed on the well.
"Bang" The well stained with tung oil met the sparks, quickly burned, more than a dozen huge fire balls shrouded all the wells in an instant, the scorching heat wave made the surrounding Cao army unable to approach, the soldiers at the head of the city under the command of Gao Shun, Ma Chao, Zhang Liao, Pang De, quickly trapped in the middle of the sea of fire and the city wall Cao army ruthlessly harvested, the archers on the well screamed wildly, some people couldn't stand the scorching flames, jumped directly from the well, the rest of the people were not burned alive, It was to fall from above and fall to his death.
The catapult kept releasing stone bullets at the opponent's rear formation, and the morale of Cao's army began to crumble, and people began to flee from the battlefield and were then killed by the warlords.
Xiahou Yuan looked at this scene with an ugly face, the morale of Cao's army had already dissipated, even if the fire stopped, it would be difficult to do anything if he wanted to attack the city, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look in Cao Cao's direction.
"Mingjin" Cao Cao shook his head and sighed, now it is pointless to continue to attack the city, it is just to increase casualties.
The rest of the princes, except for Yuan Shu, were a little unhappy, the others were all heavy-faced, the defense of the Tiger Prison Pass far exceeded their expectations, whether it was the city defense equipment or various defensive measures, it could almost be said that there were no dead ends, and the price to pay for such a pass city was very high.
In the crisp sound of gold, the Cao army began to retreat rapidly, leaving only a corpse, in this battle, the losses of the defenders of the Tiger Prison Pass were only hundreds, and the losses of the Cao army before and after the total were ten times that of the other party, even Yuan Shu could not blame Cao Cao for not doing his best, how strong Cao Cao's combat effectiveness was, everyone could see it, it was not that Cao Cao did not try his best, but there were too many means for the imperial court soldiers and horses to emerge one after another, and many changes looked inconspicuous, but the effect was terrifying.
"What did they use to burn the well," Yuan Shao frowned and said, the well played a huge role in the siege war, and it was an important weapon to level the strength of both sides "It should be a small trebuchet, but it seems that the range is unwilling, so it can be used to shoot at the enemy from a distance of seventy paces without approaching," said Feng Ji, a strategist under Yuan Shao's command.
"Reasonable" Yuan Shao heard this, nodded, and immediately asked people to prepare a new well, this first day of the battle, only started for half a day, although the Cao army was defeated, but after all, it also found out a lot of tiger prison for the coalition army, and then fight, the princes will be more sure.
Cao Cao saw that the morale of the army was low, so he asked the princes to resign: "The morale of the army is low, and if you retire, you must also boost morale." ” The princes naturally agreed, Cao Cao left with his people, and it was not until he returned to the camp that Cao Hong couldn't help but say: "Since our army is not ready to be an enemy of the imperial court, why should we help them take the lead and disciple the army" When Cao Cao heard this, he glanced at Xi Zhicai beside him.
"General Zilian doesn't know."
Xi Zhicai smiled and said: "This is a strategy of advancing and retreating, although our army has suffered a lot of losses this time, but the princes also owe us a favor, and if there is a war in the future, it is not good to call our army to take the lead, and even the next time we fight, it is completely possible to excuse our army's heavy losses and the difficulty of restoring morale." ” When Cao Hong heard this, he still nodded a little unhappily, today's loss made him feel distressed to death.
Cao Cao didn't continue to say anything on this issue, looked at Xi Zhicai and said, "According to Mr.
Cao's opinion, what is the strength of Tiger Prison Pass?"
Xi Zhicai touched his goatee, shook his head and sighed after thinking for a moment: "Even if it is finally captured, the coalition army will probably cost 100,000 soldiers and horses."
"So many" Even Cao Cao couldn't help but be surprised, how many defenders were there in the Tiger Prison Pass According to the information obtained by Yuan Shao, I am afraid that it is only 30,000 people, even if there is the advantage of the city wall, it can fight out the 100,000 people of the coalition army "The lord must not underestimate this tiger prison pass" Xi Zhicai sighed and said: "In the early years, when the Son of Heaven was prosperous in industry, he actually looked down on it a little, but now it seems that this so-called miraculous skill is not as simple as imagined, the lord can find it, not to mention the design of the city, just the catapults used by the imperial court soldiers and horses today and the bows and arrows of the imperial court soldiers and horses, the range is farther than that of our army."
Xiahou Yuan on the side nodded and said: "I'll just say, the range of the bow and arrow of the imperial army seems to be as far as thirty steps, even with the help of the city wall, condescending, but this distance is too far, now that Mr. said this, I remembered that the archers of the imperial court soldiers and horses have a much farther range than our archers."
As for the catapults, this can't be counted, because the catapults on the city wall, they can't see them at all, but there are quite a few of them, Xiahou Yuan carefully calculated, to say the least, there are more than a hundred.
"The soldiers are superior to our army, and the soldiers of the court can also be called elite, if they are fought like this, even if they are hard to wear, the 100,000 army is considered to be less, but if it really reaches that point, no matter whether the tiger prison is broken or not, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the princes to continue to spend in the tiger prison."
Xi Zhicai sighed.
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Food is not the most important thing, the important thing is that if you really fight for 100,000 troops, it will definitely be a major blow to the morale of the coalition army, and at that time, the demoralized coalition army, if it can't break through the tiger prison before the loss of 100,000 troops, I am afraid that its own morale will be destroyed first.
Cao Cao's heart was a little heavy, although he didn't think about fighting the court to the death, but the strength of the court still made him feel numb. t1706231537: