Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 815 Siege of Puyang City

Facing the current situation in Puyang City, Cao Cao was really worried. He felt that he might be in a desperate situation.

Maybe Cao Cao still has another way, which is to surrender, but Cao Cao is naturally not reconciled. Besides, many relatives of the Cao family and Xiahou family have died in the battle with Zhu Weijun. Bow down.

In desperation, Cao Cao could only choose to continue to defend Puyang City.

For this reason, in the area of ​​the city wall where Zhu Weijun piled up soil, Cao Cao initially had people build a defensive wall on the city wall, so that after Zhu Weijun rushed up the city wall, he could not directly kill all parts of the city wall, while Cao Jun could stay behind the wall. Resist Zhu Weijun's offensive.

But this kind of wall built on the city wall was quickly smashed down by the rocks thrown up by Zhu Weijun's Thunderbolt catapult.

Then Cao Cao asked people to build layers of defense lines in the city. Even if Zhu Weijun broke through the city wall, he was ready to continue street fighting with Zhu Weijun in the city, continue to resist and delay Zhu Weijun's time, and consume Zhu Weijun's food and grass.

Now for Cao Cao, the only way to delay Zhu Wei's life is to delay Zhu Wei's food and grass, so that there is a possibility of forcing Zhu Wei to retreat, so that he can survive in Puyang City.

As time passed day by day, and nearly half a month passed, the slope of the mound piled outside the east wall of Puyang City by Zhu Weijun was almost as high as the city wall of Puyang City.

So on a clear autumn day at the end of September, Zhu Weijun's general attack on Puyang City was also launched.

Zhu Weijun gave up the harassing attack on the other three urban areas of Puyang City, but left some troops still guarding the encircled camp to prevent Cao Cao from breaking out and fleeing.

Then Zhu Wei placed all the siege equipment outside the east city of Puyang City. At least twenty thunderbolt catapults were built to continuously throw stones on the city wall.

Then at least forty or fifty mobile arrow towers were also erected outside the city, and nearly a thousand archers shot feather arrows at the city wall from the high platform of the arrow tower to suppress the defensive actions of Cao Jun's guards on the city wall.

It can be said that under the pressure of Zhu Weijun's throwing stones and feather arrows, there was almost no area on the front wall where Cao Jun's soldiers could stand safely.

In this way, under the urging of the thunderous battle drums in Zhu Weijun's main formation, Huang Zhong's Huainan Battalion won the first task of attacking the city, so Huang Zhong personally led [-] Huainan Battalion elites along the slope of the mound to Puyang. Charge to the city.

After nearly half a month of hard work by Zhu Weijun, the mound slope leading directly to the wall of Puyang City is about 120 degrees from the ground, and the slope from the top of the mound to the ground at the bottom is about [-] degrees. step size.

And the entire ramp is at least a hundred steps wide, which means that seventy or eighty soldiers can charge towards the city wall side by side at the same time, and within a few breaths, they can charge up the city wall.

At the same time, it was enough for four or five thousand soldiers to attack the city wall, so Huang Zhong's Huainan Battalion's eight thousand siege troops were divided into two batches, each forming a dense shield formation, steadily moving along the slope of the mound. Dao charged towards the east wall of Puyang City.

Huang Zhong and his general Chen Ji from the Huainan camp also hid in the first batch of shield formations.

They will follow the first batch of soldiers to rush up the city wall, and use their martial arts to break through Cao Jun's defense line, thus opening up the situation for the follow-up soldiers to come immediately.

And Lu Su, the commander of the Huainan Battalion, is now wearing armor and hiding in the second batch of shield formations. He will be responsible for commanding the follow-up soldiers of the Huainan Battalion to go up to support Huang Zhong in time.

While they were charging, the thunderbolt catapults and the archers on the mobile arrow tower were still throwing stones and shooting feathered arrows, suppressing the movements of Cao Jun's soldiers on the city wall, especially at the point where the earth slope connected them. The area of ​​the city wall made Cao Jun's soldiers dare not approach at all.

With the rumble of Zhu Weijun's battle drums, although Cao Jun knew that Zhu Weijun was attacking the city, they had nothing to do.

At this time, a large number of Cao Jun gathered inside the east city of Puyang. In the area where the thunderbolt catapults could not attack, they were also ready to go up to the upper city wall of Zhu Weijun at any time. Stop throwing stones, and then the war will really begin.

Facing the stones thrown from the air, it is really not manpower to contend with. Even if they go up now, they will die as many as they want.

At this moment, Cao Cao and a group of civil and military generals were standing on a high platform built in the city, watching the battle on the city wall in front. Under the city wall, there were also soldiers and generals of Cao's army standing, who would obey at any time. Order to go up and start a bloody battle with Zhu Weijun on the city wall.

"Boom...boom..., boom...boom!"

The battle drum orders in Zhu Weijun's army soon changed again, so the thunderbolt catapult that had been throwing rocks and rocks stopped at last, and the battlefield seemed to have suddenly calmed down a bit.

But soon in front of the city wall of Puyang City, Zhu Weijun, who had already reached the edge of the city wall, suddenly let out a burst of shouts, and then the first wave of 4000 Zhu Weijun soldiers bravely went up to the city wall to kill.

Although at this time the city wall here is full of rocks thrown up by catapults, and the ground is mostly full of potholes made by rocks, but no one will care about this at this time.

The soldiers of Zhu Weijun who killed the city wall quickly divided into two army formations, and rushed along the city wall to both sides, as if they were going to take down the outer city defenses of Puyang City along the city wall first.

Of course, Cao Jun, who had already made preparations for the attack, rushed towards Zhu Weijun's place one after another. On the city wall about fifty steps wide, the soldiers of both sides finally fought together.

The battlefield on the city wall is not very wide, and only dozens of soldiers at the forefront can fight at the same time. It can be said that it is a competition between the two armies at the forefront.

At this time, Cao Jun's soldiers were naturally the elite soldiers. Therefore, at the first moment, the two sides seemed to be evenly matched.

Even if a soldier stabs the sword from behind the shield, it will often be blocked by the shield set up by the opponent, or it will be chopped at the opponent's soldier and blocked by the thick iron-lined armor, unable to cause any damage.

However, Zhu Weijun seemed to have anticipated this possibility, so when the front was in a stalemate, two soldiers behind suddenly pulled out a black iron ball the size of a fist from the cloth pouch on their backs.

The surface of the iron ball seemed to be full of cracks, more like a lot of broken iron pieces were inserted into the loess inside, and then they took out a small bamboo tube and inserted it into a place, as if they had penetrated into the iron ball. in the kernel.

Soon they lit the fuse in the small bamboo tube with a torch, and seeing the spark quickly enter the small bamboo tube along the fuse, and then burn into the core of the iron ball, the two soldiers threw the iron ball In front of Cao Jun's formation...

(End of this chapter)