Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 819 Difficult Siege Progress

Originally, Cao Jun thought that Zhu Weijun would not be able to gain a firm foothold on the city wall, so a large number of Cao Jun also formed a dense array under the city wall waiting for the order to attack, but now these Cao Jun naturally became the best target for Zhu Weijun's archers.

The continuous rain of arrows fell from the city wall, which quickly confused the Cao army below.

And Zhu Weijun on the city wall had follow-up troops rushing to help, and the sharp army formation of Tai Shici and Zang Ba in front inevitably forced Cao Jun to retreat step by step.

The area of ​​the city wall controlled by Zhu Weijun is also getting bigger and bigger.

Among them, the direction Tai Shici is attacking is the direction leading to the wall of the urn city in the city, and if he continues to rush forward along the wall of the urn city, he will be able to reach the gate of the urn city under the city wall and the internal main road of Puyang city. .

Once Tai Shici rushed to the bottom of the city, he could destroy those catapults, or help Zhu Weijun open the inner and outer city gates, so that more Zhu Weijun from outside could rush in.

At this time, Cao Cao was standing on the newly built command platform about a hundred steps away from the east city of Puyang, watching the development of the battle ahead, and felt a kind of helplessness in his heart again.

He and his military advisers racked their brains to come up with such a clever defensive tactic, but Zhu Weijun came up with a countermeasure in a blink of an eye. Lost the threat.

Without the rocks thrown by the catapults to suppress Zhu Weijun's follow-up troops, then Zhu Weijun's troops rushing up the city wall really made it difficult for Cao Jun's soldiers to resist. Now Cao Cao saw that the soldiers in front of him were being beaten back by Zhu Weijun. I'm afraid the outer city wall has lost its defensive significance.

It can be seen that the change made by Zhu Weijun made Cao Cao's original defensive tactics unable to change at once. Just as Jia Xu, the military adviser next to Zhu Wei, expected, Cao Jun could not resist Zhu Weijun's forced charge, and was in danger of being broken by Zhu Weijun. .

Cao Cao hurriedly ordered some brave generals under his command to lead troops up to stop Zhu Weijun from continuing to advance, thus delaying the time for Zhu Weijun to capture the city wall.

Afterwards, Cao Cao also asked the counselors standing beside him, "What should we do with the current situation? But I didn't expect that Zhu Wei would be able to defuse our army's defensive tactics like this! Now if Zhu Wei takes advantage of the situation to attack, I'm afraid The East City is lost!"

"My lord, I see that the net looks like cloth, so our army can pour oil on it, and then burn it with rockets. It only takes a while to dissolve the net, and then bombard it with flying stones, and Zhu Weijun will be able to let it go." If the successor is weak, our army will be able to take advantage of the momentum to retake the city wall!"

A scribe behind Cao Cao also observed the net that Zhu Weijun had placed on the city wall in front of him, and then he spoke to Cao Cao. Obviously, his idea was feasible, and the other people here also nodded in agreement.

Cao Cao was overjoyed when he heard the words, "Okay, Xiao Xian's words are justified, come here and burn them with fire!"

It turned out that the literati who made the suggestion was Mao Jie, an inconspicuous military adviser around Cao Cao, but he was originally better at government affairs, so he was not Cao Cao's usual military adviser.

It's just that Cao Cao is now facing the threat of extinction, and Guo Jia has been captured by Zhu Weijun again, so government talents like him can only consider issues on the battlefield together.

But at this moment, Mao Jie seemed to have really given a way to crack the nets constructed by Zhu Weijun, so on the frontal battlefield, a catapult truck quickly threw oil tanks at those nets, intending to splash the kerosene inside on the nets.

It's just that the net is extremely elastic, and the oil tank hasn't broken, which doesn't allow the net to be soaked in oil. However, someone in Cao Jun thought of a way, so some cloth soaked in kerosene wrapped the rock and threw it with a catapult.

These oilcloths fell on the nets with the rocks, and some were directly hung on the nets. Although some slipped off the nets with the rocks, the kerosene soaked in the oilcloths was still contaminated a lot on the nets.

Then Cao Jun's archers shot rockets at the net, causing the cloth net to ignite a lot of sparks.

With the help of kerosene, these nets were quickly burnt out with big holes one by one. Naturally, they could no longer stop the falling rocks thrown by the catapults. Shao Zhu's guards were again hit by falling rocks and suffered heavy casualties.

But soon another net appeared on the top of the wall, and then Zhu Weijun's offensive on the city wall also intensified.

Zhu Weijun just needs to rob time now. Only before the nets prepared by Zhu Weijun are destroyed, he can rush to the city wall in time, and then he can kill those catapults, destroy them, and completely eliminate the follow-up troops who continue to encounter catapults The threat of throwing rocks.

At this time, Zhu Weijun had already rushed from the city wall to the top of the urn wall inside the outer city gate, but he had to fight from the urn wall to the inner gate of the urn city before he could reach the bottom of the city and the area framed by the catapults.

However, Cao Jun's resistance became stronger and stronger. Although Zhu Weijun had some fierce generals who were leading the charge and charged into Cao Jun's formation, Cao Jun also sent generals to resist.

For a time, the forefront of the military formations of both sides is often the place where the generals of both sides fight.

On the not-so-spacious city wall, under the situation where the surrounding soldiers may help in a sneak attack at any time, the generals under Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's tent are also fighting hard. For these generals at this moment, it is also a life-and-death challenge. They must have full energy before they can survive.

However, usually Zhu Weijun can only continue to advance or retreat temporarily after the generals on both sides have almost determined the winner.

Of course, Zhu Weijun's soldiers were followed by thunderbolt throwers and crossbowmen. On this narrow city wall, thunderbolts and crossbow arrows were definitely deadly weapons.

Even the most skilled generals in Cao's army would often be defeated by Zhu Wei's ordinary soldiers when faced with sneak attacks with palm thunders and crossbow arrows.

In addition, Taishi Ci, who fought on Zhu Weijun's side, can be regarded as one of the top ten warriors in the history of the Three Kingdoms. Now, except for Xiahou Dun, Cao Cao's side has few warriors with a military force value of more than [-], so it is almost No one can resist Tai Shi Ci's charge.

So under Tai Shici's courageous leadership, on the whole, Zhu Weijun is still advancing steadily, while Cao Jun is still retreating step by step.

Even though Cao Cao kept sending soldiers and generals to stop him, he still couldn't stop Zhu Weijun from rushing towards the inner gate of the Weng City. From here, he could already find the stairway from the city wall to the inside of the city.

It's just that at this step walk from the city wall to the bottom of the city, the battle between the two sides has fallen into a tangle again...

(End of this chapter)