The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 158
Xun You said: "Prime Minister, our army has come from a long distance, and the transportation of food and grass is difficult. It is better to fight quickly. No matter how the opponent's catapults are improved, the power is not much improved. Moreover, the catapults are launched slowly and the losses of soldiers are limited. Put all the catapults on top and exchange damage with the opponent."

Cao Cao had no other choice. Siege warfare was nothing more than two ways of fighting. One was to fight and consume regardless of casualties, and see who could not sustain it first. Therefore, in this way of fighting, the strength of the attacking side was greater than that of the defending side. The other way to fight is to besiege for a long time. The army surrounds the city on all sides, and they have to defend the opponent's reinforcements until the food in the opponent's city is exhausted. Either starve to death or break out of the siege. and go.

However, the Fancheng they are attacking now is backed by the Han River, and Cao's army cannot encircle it, so they can only attack from the front.Moreover, the opponent has made it clear that they want to use the advantage of defending the city to consume your soldiers. If you are willing to change, we will change. If you are not willing, then leave.No matter what siege equipment is used, no matter how far the catapult hits, no matter how accurate the hit is, it cannot knock down the walls of Fancheng. In the end, soldiers have to rush up, but the casualty ratio will be higher or lower.

Cao Cao decided to do what Xun You said. It was not that he had not carried out difficult siege battles before. The city of Ye was much larger than Fancheng, and he finally won it.

Under Cao Cao's order, Xiahou Dun directed all the catapults to advance in three directions, spread out as much as possible, brave the blows of the opponent's catapults, get within the range, and start reloading to counterattack.After several test firings, Cao Jun's catapults also began to cause damage to the Fancheng defenders.

This time Zhang Wu doesn't intend to give up Fancheng easily. You Cao Cao wants to waste our troops with me, so I will spend it with you. I don't believe that you are willing to spend all the 30 troops in Jingzhou.He wanted to use the defense of Fancheng to wipe out a large number of Cao soldiers, and then angered Cao Cao, so that he would not be willing to withdraw when the army could not cross the river, so as to implement his plan.

Cao Jun's catapults began to fire at the catapults in Fancheng regardless of the cost. Stones were seen flying in the sky north of Fancheng, and there was a "rumbling" sound from time to time, and screams also came one after another.Cao Jun could not see the situation inside the city wall, so their catapults mainly targeted the city wall to clear away the large defensive equipment on the city wall. It was best to smash the city wall to facilitate Cao Jun's infantry to attack the city.

The catapults in Fan City targeted Cao Jun's catapult phalanx, and took advantage of the telescope to direct the catapults in the city to clean up at fixed points.Although there will be stones crossing the city wall and hitting soldiers or catapults in the city, compared with Cao Jun, the losses are much less after all, and the long range still has a certain advantage.

After three days of shooting, half of Cao Jun's catapults were lost. Although the catapults in Fancheng also lost a lot, they were quickly repaired and replenished due to early preparations.But Cao's army was not without results. At least the city wall of Fancheng was indeed smashed to pieces. If it hadn't been reinforced in advance, it might really have been smashed into a big gap.

Although the catapult is powerful, its lethality is actually limited. Its main function is to destroy the city defense or the attacking party's siege equipment.After three days, the casualties of the defenders in Fancheng were only a few hundred, while the Cao army also suffered more than two thousand casualties, far less than those killed by bows and crossbows.

Xun You went to the front of the formation to observe, and said to Cao Cao: "Prime Minister, you can organize soldiers to attack the city. Although the city wall of Fancheng was not knocked down, the shelter buildings on the wall were almost destroyed, and the defense equipment was destroyed. Moreover, a large number of stones have been piled up under the city wall, and the highest part has been piled up to half the height of the city wall, which is convenient for our army to attack the city."

Cheng Yu said: "You can push the remaining catapults forward another hundred steps and throw stones into the city, regardless of the opposing soldiers defending the city, just to suppress the opponent's catapults and create conditions for our soldiers."

"Okay, pass on the order, the army begins to attack the city, everyone must advance bravely, and those who retreat, beheaded!"

"Yes, Prime Minister!"

Cao Jun began to send troops to attack the city, which also means that a large number of casualties will begin to occur in this war.Cao Jun's catapult advanced a hundred steps forward, and if it moved forward, it might be shot by the opponent's crossbow. Regardless of whether it was accurate or not, it began to shoot stones at the city.Anyway, the general direction is there, so many stones can always be smashed in.

I have to say that Cheng Yu's move did put a lot of pressure on the defenders of Fancheng. Although there was a city wall blocking the soldiers on the opposite side from rushing in, the stones could be smashed over the city wall, so there were a lot of maneuvers The Jingzhou soldiers on the catapult began to panic, and even made operating errors.

Seeing this, Wenpin immediately led his troops to behead a few soldiers who did not obey the order, and then stood beside a catapult to operate it, ignoring the stones falling beside him, and finally the general's heart was stabilized.Then under the command of Huo Jun, the catapults in the city were divided into two parts. One part removed the rope to improve the accuracy, and it was specially cleaned up the opponent's catapults, and the other part violently bombarded the opponent's siege soldiers.

Under the cover of the catapult, the soldiers of Cao Jun began to attack the city with ladders. They have experienced this kind of scene too many times, but no one can guarantee whether they can survive this battle.In this kind of siege battle where human lives are used to fill the city, the siege soldiers can only hope that they can earn some pensions for their families after their death. Their role on the battlefield may only be to consume an arrow of the enemy. If you can get an enemy soldier to be buried with you before you die, you will make a lot of money.

"Get ready, shoot the arrow!"

Following an order from a general, the phalanx of archers in the city shot their arrows obliquely into the sky, crossed the city wall, and landed on the soldiers of Cao Jun who rushed towards the city wall of Fancheng like a tide.

Compared with catapults, bows and arrows still kill more enemies, and they shoot more accurately and faster.After the archers finished shooting, they quickly put on their arrows and shot the second and third arrows. The Cao soldiers outside the city held their shields and continued to advance, but many were still shot down by the arrows and smashed into flesh by the big stones falling from the sky. mud.

The defenders of Fancheng also had to fight back on the city wall under the threat of the opponent's catapults and archers. Golden Juice.

Cao Jun seemed to be putting all his strength into this first official attack on the city. The soldiers rushed forward one after another, not caring about casualties at all. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even grassroots officers and even high-ranking officers such as school lieutenants and captains also led troops in person. Climb up the ladder.

(End of this chapter)