The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 133

Two days later, envoys galloping from Xudu entered Xiahoudun's camp and conveyed Cao Cao's latest instructions.After discussing with Xun You, Xiahou Dun began to act according to the plan.

Afterwards, Xiahou Dun's soldiers came to Rangcheng and shouted at the city wall: "General Zhennan, please come out and answer."

Zhang Wu came to the city wall and said to Xiahou Dun, "General Xiahou, why are you looking for me? You brought an army here, do you want to be good at starting the battle?"

Xiahou Dun said: "Dun was entrusted by the prime minister to pass on the order of the emperor. Zhang Wu, the general of Zhennan, slandered the court and despised the emperor, and ordered him to go to Xudu to apologize to the emperor, otherwise he would be rebellious!"

"Hahahaha, it's rare for Cao Cao to find such an excuse. No one in this world knows that Cao Cao is holding the emperor hostage and controlling the government. He is the real traitor. I, Jingzhou, was entrusted by Uncle Liu Huang, and I was entrusted by the emperor's "clothes and belt edict" to beg the thief. Xiahou Dun , come and catch me if you have the guts.”

Xiahou Dun was just looking for an excuse to start a war. Now everyone is still a Hanchen in name, so naturally they can't attack each other for no reason, so the archway that should be erected still has to be erected.

So Xiahoudun ordered to attack the city, but he didn't believe it. Zhang Wu could withstand the attack of his [-] elite soldiers with his small Rangcheng and [-] defenders!Which of Xiapi City and Jizhou City back then was not stronger and more difficult to fight than Rang City?In the end, it was not broken by the invincible Cao Jun!

Under the military order, groups of Cao Jun soldiers began to attack the city desperately.First, a group of soldiers rushed up to clear the obstacles and traps that blocked the advance of the siege equipment against the arrows on the city. After paying a lot of casualties, they finally cleared the way for the catapult to attack.

Then Cao Jun's long-prepared catapults lined up and began to push forward. They had to be pushed to a place about [-] steps away from the city wall and fixed before they could be launched.At this time, the range of the bow and arrow is only [-] steps at most, and after shooting so far, there is no lethality, unless a sharpshooter uses a strong bow and crossbow to shoot people to death beyond [-] steps, but that is a minority after all.

Even if Huang Zhong is allowed to keep shooting there, how many arrows can he shoot?Drawing a bow and archery is also very tiring. With Huang Zhong's force, he can shoot more than 20 arrows at most, and he has to rest for a long time.

When Cao Jun's catapult phalanx had just marched [-] steps away from the city, there was a whistling sound from a distance, and then Cao Jun's soldiers felt that the sky suddenly darkened, and then big round stone balls fell on the ground one by one. Cao Jun's catapult phalanx, and then bounced and rolled.Cao Jun's position was in a mess immediately, there were fragments of smashed catapults and smashed limbs of Cao Jun's soldiers.

On the wall of Rangcheng, Huang Zhong, Xu Shu and others were holding bamboo tubes brought by the governor and looking at Cao Jun's catapult phalanx that had just been smashed.There is a piece of transparent crystal installed on one side of this bamboo tube-like thing, which can allow people to see so far away, it is really a good thing!

"Okay, good fight, hahahaha, Cao Jun's catapult was smashed a lot at once, and Xiahou Dun must have been smashed now!!" Huang Zhong laughed.

Zhang Wu also saw very clearly that the counterweight catapults whose range had been calibrated in advance really hit the target far and accurately. It was only a single salvo of a hundred catapults that caused such a huge loss to the opponent.

Zhang Fei asked while fiddling with the bamboo tube, "This thing is amazing. It can see so far. Could it be the legendary clairvoyance?"

Zhang Wu replied: "This is called a telescope. I told you. You don't understand. You can handle it carefully. The crystal lens inside is very rare. It took me so long to make a total of five. This thing is very precious." !"

Xu Shu praised: "My lord is really a wonderful idea. I never thought that the combination of these two lenses would have such an effect. My lord is really a god!"

Zhang Fei laughed and said: "Haha, what is precious or not, this thing belongs to me, Lao Zhang, and I will treat it as a reward for fighting for you! Governor, look at Cao Jun who was smashed into a panic, just leaving the city It's a good opportunity to fight back, let me go out and charge for a while, maybe I can capture that one-eyed dragon alive!"

"No, Cao's army is only a small part of the chaos. The main force is still in full swing. Both wings are guarded by cavalry. Our army has no advantage when going out of the city." Xu Shu said.

"You are too timid. I will not be afraid of Cao Jun even if there are more. When I go out, Cao Jun will definitely run away in fright!"

Zhang Wu said: "Don't worry, General Yide, I will definitely let you have a good fight, but not now. We all agreed when we came here, and we must obey orders. Now Yuanzhi is the commander of the military division, let alone It's you, even I have to follow orders!"

"Okay, okay, I got it, I got it!" Zhang Fei picked up the binoculars and looked at Cao Jun's position again.

In the big tent commanded by Cao Jun, Xiahou Dun and Xun You couldn't believe their eyes when they saw that their catapult phalanx had been severely hit.

"Ah! How did this happen! How could their catapult hit so far!" Xiahou Dun was stunned, wasn't this a dream?There are still more than 500 steps away from the city. What kind of catapult can smash so far and be so accurate.

Although only a small part of the catapults were smashed, and not many soldiers were killed, the fundamental problem was that their catapults were hit by the opponent before they entered the range. How could they fight?
Xun You couldn't figure it out either, but he knew that the other party must have more advanced and advanced catapults. Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered a piece of information he had seen back then, about the scene where Sun Quan led an army of [-] to attack Jiangxia last year. fighting.The intelligence said that the Jiangdong Army had been severely hit by catapults in the city and suffered heavy losses.

Could it be..., Xun You felt that things were a bit troublesome. If the opponent really had a large number of such catapults, then the catapults on his side would be useless, because the range was not as good as the opponent, and they were smashed before they could get close.If you can't use catapults to destroy the opponent's city defenses, you can only rely on human lives to fill them in. How many soldiers will die!

The 5 troops led by Xiahou Dun are all elite soldiers, and most of them are old troops under Cao Cao. The Hebei Army that was incorporated is still being reorganized and trained.There were [-] soldiers in the opponent's city. Even if the battle losses were calculated as one to three, Cao's army would need at least [-] to [-] casualties to consume the defenders.

Not to mention whether the other party will have reinforcements, if there are [-] to [-] casualties on his side, he would have collapsed long ago.No, you have to rely on the catapult.

Xun You said to Xiahou Dun: "Commander Xiahou, you can order the catapults to push forward separately, and they cannot be gathered together. The number of catapults in the city is definitely not as large as ours. As long as they can push the catapults within range, even if only half of the catapults can go Launch, we can also suppress each other."

"Okay, let's be fair."

Xiahou Dun ordered the soldiers to spread out the catapults and push them forward, and launch them as soon as they came within range.

(End of this chapter)