Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 173 Hongnong City is Dangerous, Baibo Thief's Last Card
On the day when Liu Yu attacked Yiyang City at night, Guo Bang's army also built siege equipment, four Linchong and two ladders.

Linchong and ladders are large siege weapons with wheels on the base, which soldiers can hide behind and push them all the way under the city wall.

There were several trenches outside Hongnong City, but there were too few archers in the city to form long-range strikes, so Guo Si's army easily filled the roads.

Early this morning, Guo Si ordered the attack on the city, and the six teams pushed four Linchong and two ladders and rushed towards the city wall.

The Baibo thief in charge of commanding the defense of the city will be Han Xian. When he saw that the opponent started to attack the city, he immediately ordered a counterattack.

Five hundred archers tried their best to shoot several rounds of bows and arrows, but they were all blocked by huge siege equipment.

Seeing that Han Siam was about to finish shooting the bow and arrow, he could only ask his bandits to prepare more rolling logs and stones to see if they could destroy the siege vehicles.

Guo Bang's subordinates were all experienced elites. When they saw bandit soldiers holding large stones and logs standing on the city wall, they chose to stop at a distance of twenty steps from the city wall.

Seeing this situation, the bandit soldiers on the city wall thought that the opponent was afraid, but they didn't expect that the cover on the top of the Linchong chariot suddenly opened after a while.

Then there were hundreds of archers shooting at the city wall, and there were more than [-] archers in total on the four fronts. After a few rounds of arrow rain, there were corpses lying on the city wall.

The top of the Linchong chariot was almost half a meter higher than the city wall, and the distance of twenty steps was able to exert the maximum lethality of the bow and arrow.

But the thieves who were far away from the city wall were unable to throw back the boulders and logs in their hands. The only ones who could fight back were the archers of the five hundred thieves.

It's a pity that their bows and arrows have been wasted long ago, and they can only fight back by picking up the opponent's arrows.

It's just that many archers have become living targets when picking up arrows.

Seeing that the only five hundred archers in her hand were dead or injured on the tower, Mrs. Guo was heartbroken, so she hurriedly ordered Han Siam to ask the shield soldiers to replace the archers on the city wall.

Without the threat of bows and arrows, the bandit soldiers carrying the big stones were shot to death, so the six siege vehicles quickly leaned against the city wall.

The archers suppressed them from a distance, and the Xiliang soldiers hidden in the middle and lower part of the Linchong chariot quickly climbed to the top from the inside of the chariot.

I said before that the top of the Linchong chariot was almost higher than the city wall, which made Xiliang soldiers climb the wall as if they were walking on the ground.

And once the ladder is erected, the soldiers hiding in the auxiliary ladder can climb the city wall in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, thousands of Xiliang soldiers rushed to the city wall.

The brutal hand-to-hand combat began.

The bandit soldiers were weak in combat and poor in weapons, but the [-] bandit soldiers on the city wall were beaten and scattered by [-] Xiliang soldiers.

Guo Tai, the leader of the thieves standing in the city tower, saw that the situation was not good, and quickly transferred another five thousand thieves from the city.In this way, relying on the advantage of numbers, the Xiliang soldiers were finally driven back into the siege vehicles.

The Xiliang soldiers lost 500 people when they went to the city for the first time, but shot and hacked nearly 4000 people to death.

The siege engine retreated to a safe distance again, and the follow-up troops of the Xiliang Army quickly made up for the battle damage, and not only that, but also brought more arrows.

So at a distance of [-] steps, the Xiliang army once again shot indiscriminately, and the bandit soldiers on the city wall were overcrowded, and countless arrows were shot, and many bandit soldiers fell to death on the city wall in order to avoid the crowd of arrows. under.

The city wall was in chaos, the chariot leaned over again, and then thousands of Xiliang soldiers began to climb the wall to kill the enemy.

Seeing that there was another chaos on the city wall, the leader of the bandits, Mrs. Guo, had to dispatch troops to rescue them again. This time, Han Xian, commander of Baiboqu, held the formation himself, and managed to block the Xiliang soldiers back again.

The second wall-climbing battle was even more tragic than the previous one. More than 5000 Baibo thieves died, and almost all Xiliang soldiers who climbed the wall were also killed.

Fortunately, Guo Bang's general, Han Li, led more than 1000 people in time to control the Linchong chariot, but the two ladders were smashed by the bandits with a big stone, and the auxiliary ladder could not be used anymore.

Han Li brought his troops here just to protect and control the four siege engines, but seeing that the bandits on the city wall hardly had any protective equipment, he ordered the archers to shoot all the arrows before retreating.

After several rounds of arrow rain, thousands of rebels were killed and wounded.

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In this battle, Guo Si's army killed 500 bandit soldiers with a loss of less than 7000 people. Based on this ratio, even if there are [-] people in the city, they will definitely not be able to defend for a few days.

There are also several leaders of the Baibo thief who have the same idea.

As soon as the war stopped, Mrs. Guo called Han Xian, Meng Xin, and Li Le, who was recovering from injuries, to discuss countermeasures.

"The Xiliang army is well-equipped, and it's no way to stick to it blindly. Do the three have a good plan to defeat the enemy?" Mrs. Guo hesitated, and her two thick eyebrows squeezed together again.

"I think we have to find a way to destroy the opponent's siege vehicles first. Once they get close to us, we will only be shot." Han Siam was on the scene commanding the two wall-climbing battles, so he was really attacked by those siege vehicles. The city car is scared.

"How to destroy? Send troops out of the city to attack?" Mrs. Guo didn't want to take the initiative to go out of the city to attack unless it was an emergency.

Because the city gate is huge, it takes more than a dozen people to open it, and if it cannot be closed in time, it will be breached by the Xiliang army. At that time, they will have no advantage to defend.

At this time, Meng Xin thought for a moment and suggested, "The Xiliang army has shot a lot of arrows into the city today, but we can send people to collect them, and tomorrow we can make them into fire arrows and shoot them at the siege vehicles."

"The idea of ​​burning the siege vehicles with fire is feasible!" Mrs. Guo finally heard a feasible solution, and ordered people to collect arrows on the spot.

Before, the white wave thieves gathered in the countryside and the mountains, and never occupied a big city, so neither Mrs. Guo nor Han Xian knew anything about how to defend.

It wasn't until Meng Xin's reminder that he thought of using fire to destroy the siege equipment.

It's just that Qu Shuai Han Xian also proposed that even if the siege engine can be destroyed, the other party can still build more siege equipment, and the city will still be difficult to protect in the long run.

Just when Mrs. Guo was depressed again, Han Xian said: "Why don't you ask Chief Yang for help!"

Mrs. Guo nodded slowly after hearing this, thinking in her heart that it was time for him to show his loyalty.

In Mrs. Guo's heart, he is the last trump card of the Baibo thief.

This person was Yang Feng, who was originally Mrs. Guo's most reliable subordinate. Later, because of disagreement between the two, Yang Feng took some soldiers and surrendered to Li Jue.

After turning from the Baibo thief to the Xiliang Army, Yang Feng was quickly reused. This time, he was sent to Chang'an City to monitor and share the military power of Zhang Ji, the guard of Chang'an, with Dong Zhuo's general Li Su.

But the discord between Yang Feng and Mrs. Guo was an illusion, it was a plan discussed by the two of them, the purpose was to be able to know the movements of the Xiliang Army in advance and to steal some sophisticated weapons and equipment.

Later, I didn't expect that Yang Feng performed well in the battle with the coalition forces of the princes, and was promoted by Dong Zhuo as a deputy general in Chang'an City.

After hearing the news, Mrs. Guo was worried that Yang Feng would not be in touch with them anymore, but she didn't expect Yang Feng to provide information about the emptiness of Hongnong County a few months ago, allowing Baibo soldiers to easily occupy Dacheng.

Later, Zhang Ji wanted to open the grain road and send troops to attack Hongnong, but it was Yang Feng who secretly sabotaged the matter.

So far Mrs. Guo finally believed that Yang Feng had not changed his mind, and was still the general he relied on the most, but all the Baibo thieves underestimated Yang Feng.

You must know that in history, Emperor Xian Liu Xie and court officials escaped from the danger on the way from Chang'an City to Luoyang with Yang Feng's rescue on the way back to Luoyang in order to avoid disaster.

Yang Feng was also awarded the title of General Cheqi because of his meritorious service in rescuing the driver.

A Baibo thief has become a chariot general of the imperial court in just a few years. How can such a person be a simple person, and how can he be loyal to a Guo Tai!

(End of this chapter)