Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 818 Second Siege
Jia Xu's words immediately changed everyone's minds. Now they only need to consider how to neutralize the power of the rocks thrown by the riprap truck.

After hearing Jia Xu's words, Lu Su, Xu Shu, Liu Ye, Huang Quan, Sun Quan and others couldn't help but think about ways to defuse the catapult, but they couldn't think of any way for a while.

On the contrary, Zhu Wei's eyes flashed, but he thought of a way to alleviate the power of falling rocks.

This seems to have been used in the battle of defending the city in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was also because the Mongols used return cannons to throw rocks, which made the defenders of the Southern Song Dynasty feel uncomfortable, but the defenders of the Southern Song Dynasty still used fishing nets. A net was set up to buffer the threat of falling rocks thrown up.

In fact, when Zhu Wei was just starting out, he had sneaked into Yuzhang City before, and then Ruo Rong led troops to counterattack. So when defending Ruo Rong's attack on the city, Zhu Wei thought of using a net-like method to resist the feathers shooting up from the city. arrow.

Therefore, Zhu Wei quickly said this idea, which inevitably made Jia Xu and others around him look surprised when they heard the words, and then everyone saluted Zhu Wei, "My lord is a gift from heaven. If you think like this, ordinary people Hard to do!"

"Since that's the case, our army doesn't need to change its strategy. It's just that Cao Cao has his own strategy, but he will lose his defenses. At that time, our army will use the net to cover the falling rocks, and the army will suddenly attack, and the defense of Puyang City will be destroyed by itself! "

Even though Jia Xu came to a conclusion for this military agreement, he still needed to go back to the camp to find craftsmen to complete the net Zhu Wei conceived to slow down the damage caused by falling rocks, so he would definitely not be able to attack the city today.

In this way, Zhu Wei's army retreated slowly, leaving only a soldier in front of the formation to monitor Cao's movements.

After all, now that the mound slope leads directly to Puyang City, Zhu Weijun can easily kill the head of Puyang City, but Cao Jun can also use this slope to find an opportunity to counterattack. Cao Jun's counterattack was discovered at the first time, and a warning was sent to Zhu Weijun's rear camp.

However, Cao Cao obviously didn't have the intention of going out of the city to fight back. With the quality of his army, going out of the city to fight back would only send him to the door to seek death.

In this way, there was nothing to say all night. Soon, craftsmen in Zhu Weijun's logistics camp rushed to make several large nets overnight. The craftsmen especially searched for a certain amount of elastic linen, silk and satin, processed them into hemp ropes, wove them into nets, and used wooden frames. Be fixed, and then have a certain angle of inclination.

This kind of net does not really rely on the ropes to withstand the gravity of falling rocks, so even the net cannot withstand the bombardment of several falling rocks, so it is still necessary to use the buffer of the net to dissolve the falling force of falling rocks, and finally let the falling rocks fall under their own gravity. Under the action, it falls down along the inclined surface of the net.

Of course, for Zhu Weijun, as long as he can resolve some of the falling rocks thrown by Cao Cao from the city, he can also look for opportunities to break through Cao Jun's blockade on the city wall.

Once the area of ​​the city wall controlled by Zhu Weijun expanded, Cao Cao would no longer be able to use the catapult to threaten Zhu Weijun who attacked the city wall. At that time, Zhu Weijun would also be able to find an opportunity to kill the city wall and join Cao Jun in the city to destroy those catapults. Then they entered the city and captured Puyang City.

At the same time, as long as Zhu Weijun can occupy the city wall, he will have a condescending advantage. He can also send archers to shoot Cao Jun gathered in the city and assist Zhu Weijun to attack the city. This is equivalent to Zhu Weijun controlling the advantage of the city wall.

In this way, around Chenshi the next morning, Zhu Wei's army approached the east side of Puyang City again.

Thus, another battle against Puyang City began.

But this time it was Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion who took up the task of ascending first. The Divine Arrow Battalion also dispatched nearly 3000 soldiers first, forming a group of [-] siege troops outside the city wall.

Tai Shici and his generals also directly entered the first batch of siege troops, waiting to kill the top of the city as a sharp breakthrough to intercept Cao's army.

Although Huang Zhong objected to this, there were not many generals in Huang Zhong's Huainan camp who could be called famous, and some of them still stayed in Shouchun City. Now that Chen Ji died, Huang Zhong There is really no one else here to fight again.

And Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion has brought almost all the subordinate generals here, and Zang Ba's Taishan Army is temporarily attached to the Divine Arrow Battalion, so Tai Shici's dispatch here can make five or six The generals will go into battle together, which is very meaningful for breaking through Cao Jun's defense line.

In this way, in order to ensure that Zhu Weijun could capture the outer city wall of Puyang City, the first sequence of the siege arranged by Zhu Wei included Tai Shici, Chen Wu, Bao Long, Zang Ba, Sun Guan, and Sun Kang.

This means that the six generals will directly charge forward, and the other generals of the Shenjian Battalion and Taishan Army will follow. Zhu Wei is bound to win today's battle.

As Zhu Weijun's battle drums rumbled, soon Tai Shici, Zang Ba and others hid in the shield formed by the soldiers and rushed up to the city wall.

At the beginning, it was like yesterday's battle. Cao Jun didn't come up to stop them. In fact, there was no way to come up to stop them. Zhu Weijun's thunderbolt catapult and the archers on the mobile arrow tower were also not vegetarian, which was enough to make Cao Jun dare not show up. In the city wall area where the hill slope leads directly.

In this way, Zhu Weijun quickly rushed to the top of the city along the slope of the mound, and then Tai Shici and Zang Ba each led a part of their troops and rushed to the two sides.

At this time, Cao Jun also sent troops to intercept, intending to block Zhu Weijun in a section of the city wall and continue the previous tactics, but soon they found that Zhu Weijun seemed to have come up with a new thing.

With the appearance of generals such as Tai Shici and Zang Ba, they charged forward with soldiers and horses, and expanded the control area of ​​the city wall step by step. Although Zhu Weijun also rushed up, but in the follow-up Zhu Weijun, soldiers formed soon. A net with a height of seven or eight steps and a width of more than 20 steps can basically shield the area of ​​the city wall that the mound slope directly leads to.

In this way, the stones thrown by Cao Jun's catapults in the city can only occasionally jump over the trap and hit the city wall. Although this can still cause some damage to Zhu Weijun, the chances are very small.

Of course, Cao Jun didn't know the meaning of Zhu Weijun's snare at the beginning, and they soon started throwing rocks and arrows.

However, Cao Jun was very surprised to find that the rock they threw up fell on the net. Although the net shook for a while, the gravity brought by the rock was quickly relieved. The slope of the net structure slid down the inner wall of the city again.

At the same time, many of Cao Jun's feathered arrows were blocked by the nets and became decorations hanging on the nets, and did not cause any harm to Zhu Weijun who charged up.

On the contrary, Zhu Weijun's archers quickly appeared on the inside of the city wall, and shot counterattack feather arrows at Cao Jun's dense array under the city wall...

(End of this chapter)