Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 820

At the narrow stairway from the wall of Wengcheng to the lower part of the city, Zhu Weijun can only have a dozen or twenty soldiers in front of him to charge in formation.

However, Cao Jun was able to form hundreds of people into an formation, surrounded the open space in front of the stairway, and used various weapons and defensive methods to prevent Zhu Weijun from killing the city.

With such a comparison of manpower, Zhu Weijun was naturally unable to break through Cao Jun's obstacles for a while.

Before this ladder walk, Cao Jun's soldiers even pushed up a wall of tiger carts full of blades, which was like a moving wall, forcing Zhu Weijun to retreat step by step, no one dared to fight against the wall of swords The dense blade comes face to face.

Even for a fierce general like Tai Shici, at this moment, it would be difficult for him to break through the wall of swords pushed by dozens of Cao soldiers behind him with his own strength.

Therefore, Tai Shici retreated to the rear army for the time being, and then commanded the thrower who controlled the Thunderbolt Palm Thunder, looking for an opportunity to throw the Palm Thunder behind the saber wall, and blasted Cao Jun's soldiers who were holding the Tiger Carriage Saber Wall loosely.

In this way, let the sword and shield go forward and use the shield to hold the blade on the wall, and work together to push away the blocking surface formed by the tiger car knife wall, thereby pushing out a gap that can pass through people.

Tai Shici was able to find an opportunity to pass through the gap and kill Cao Jun's formation behind the tiger cart knife wall, kill Cao Jun soldiers in the rear, and cut a bloody path for the soldiers behind him, so that Zhu Weijun could rush to the city wall.

It’s just that this method is easy to talk about, but it is still very difficult to actually do it.

There are also many archers on Cao Jun's side, and they are constantly throwing feather arrows at the Zhu Weijun piled on the city wall, forcing Zhu Weijun to form a shield formation to protect each other and resist the sneak attack of the feather arrows.

In this way, Zhu Weijun's thunderbolt throwers also need to guard against the cold arrows of Cao Jun's archers when throwing the palm thunder, so as not to let the palm thunder fall into their dense army formation, so they must be protected by swords and shields around them. Only then can he throw the palm thunder.

At the same time, it was not easy for Zhu Weijun's sword and shield hand to get close to those tiger cart sword walls. Many Cao soldiers would use their spears to pass through the holes deliberately left on the tiger cart sword walls, stabbing at the hearts of Zhu Weijun's soldiers who rushed up.

In addition, some Cao soldiers would climb behind the wall of the tiger cart knife wall, wave their long halberds condescendingly, knock the heads of Zhu Weijun's soldiers from top to bottom, and use the sharp swords to pierce into the ground. The soldiers of Zhu Weijun lacked a throat for defense.

As a result, in the narrow staircase leading to the city wall, soldiers from both sides struggled for no less than half an hour before Zhu Weijun finally opened a passage for Taishi Ci, allowing Taishi Ci to kill Cao's army behind the tiger chariot wall.

Next, Tai Shici rushed to the formation of hundreds of Cao troops regardless of life and death, and bravely killed dozens of Cao troops around him, before forcing back the army surrounded by Cao Jun, so that the soldiers of Zhu Wei in the rear had the opportunity to follow Tai Shici He rushed down the city wall and entered Cao Jun's formation, finally breaking through Cao Jun's blocking formation here.

Then Zhu Weijun's soldiers were finally able to rush down from the city wall and completely defeated Cao Jun under the city wall.

Zhu Weijun rushed to the trebuchet framed in the city wall at the first time, killed Cao Jun here, and overturned the trebuchets, so that the follow-up Zhu Weijun did not have to worry about the threat of falling rocks after rushing up the city wall.

At this time, the nets prepared by Zhu Weijun had already been destroyed.

It can be said that later, Zhu Weijun's subsequent soldiers who rushed up were rushing forward desperately to support their companions in front of the rocks that might fall from their heads at any time.

Of course, with the expansion of Zhu Weijun's attack range on the city wall, the area covered by the catapults in the city is also limited. Therefore, as long as Zhu Weijun's soldiers rushing up have passed those death areas, they don't have to worry about the problem of falling rocks. , You can rush up and kill Cao Jun with peace of mind.

And when Zhu Weijun completely killed the Puyang city wall and destroyed those catapults, everything would be no problem.

In terms of combat effectiveness, Zhu Weijun's soldiers are obviously stronger than Cao Jun's soldiers, not to mention that as the first troops, they are also veterans who have experienced many wars in the Taishi Ci Shenjian Battalion. The soldiers were unable to resist.

As a result, Cao Jun soldiers who had gathered in the Dongchengmen area quickly retreated into the city along the main street of Puyang Dongcheng under Cao Cao's military order.

At this time, Cao Cao also led his people to withdraw into the second line of defense in Puyang City long after Zhu Weijun killed the city wall, which can also be regarded as the inner city of Puyang City, where there is still a city wall to protect.

Now that Zhu Weijun broke through the outer city wall of Puyang City, he could reach several other city wall areas of Puyang City through the city wall. Therefore, Cao Jun's control over the outer city wall of Puyang City has completely collapsed.

However, Cao Cao had expected this for a long time, so he led his troops to retreat directly to the old city or the inner city of Puyang City, and he could still use his previous arrangements to continue to resist one or two in the city.

In various blocks of Puyang City, Cao Cao transformed many war fortresses, which could station his troops and block Zhu Weijun's offensive step by step in the city. Cao Cao was still unwilling to fail, and continued to command his troops, preparing to fight with Zhu Weijun in Puyang. Street battles are fought for every inch of land in the city.

It can be said that there are no ordinary households living in Puyang City today, and the entire city has been transformed into a war fortress by Cao Cao. Therefore, even if Zhu Weijun broke through the outer city wall, he still had to attack every inch of Puyang City. neighborhood.

The location of Puyang City was called Diqiu in ancient times. It is said that Zhuanxu, one of the five emperors, used this as his capital. The economic and cultural center has experienced at least 400 years.

Since then, Puyang has been the county seat of Yanzhou East County, so the population and city size of Puyang City can be regarded as one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

Now that Cao Cao used Puyang City as his last position to resist Zhu Weijun, he naturally had preliminary preparations. The ordinary population of Puyang City was basically moved away by Cao Cao, leaving only the young and strong and soldiers.

The size of Puyang City also allowed Cao Cao to carefully construct the defense line inside the city. As for the area where the original Weiguo Palace was located in Puyang City, it became the inner city of Puyang City. This is why Cao Cao could retreat into the inner city after thinking that the outer city was breached The last bastion of resistance.

Of course, the inner city of Puyang City naturally cannot have the scale of the outer city wall, that is, the height of two or three floors, and the thickness of seven or eight steps wide, but Cao Cao can still occupy some defensive advantages.

It's just that Cao Cao is more interested in playing street fighting with Zhu Weijun in Puyang City. After all, even the outer city wall can be breached by Zhu Weijun, how long can the inner city last.

Therefore, Cao Cao looked for the original buildings and courtyards in various blocks in the city and transformed them into military fortresses, but it could also resolve many of the advantages of Zhu Weijun's siege equipment, and allow Cao's soldiers to gain some defensive advantages, thereby narrowing the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides. .

Cao Cao was never reconciled to Zhu Wei's easy attack on Puyang, he must let Zhu Wei bleed heavily here, even if Cao Cao was defeated in the end, Zhu Wei would have to pay a heavy price.

Of course, if Zhu Wei felt a bit of a headache and was able to take the initiative to retreat instead of forcefully gnawing at the Puyang City that Cao Cao had constructed, Cao Cao would be able to survive.

Although the time it took for Zhu Wei to attack the outer city of Puyang was beyond Cao Cao's expectations, Cao Cao still felt that he could continue to delay time with the defense inside the city.

But what will Zhu Wei do in the face of such a Puyang City...

(End of this chapter)