Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Chapter 114 The Battle of Chang'an

Cai Yan's mood has experienced "bumps" during the past few days.

Of course she was happy that she finally saw her father who had been separated for almost two years.What is worrying is that her husband is about to go to war in person again, and the target of this battle is no small matter, the remnants of Dong Zhuo who once dominated the world.

Beside the Mianshui Wharf in Zhuyang, a large number of warships newly built in the past two years have assembled, as well as civilian ships temporarily recruited from Xiangyang, Shangyong, and Xicheng.

The soldiers on the expedition are boarding the ship in an orderly manner.Feng Yu also said goodbye to his monogamous wife and concubine, and promised Li'er that he would return to Zhuyang before the child was born.

Then, surrounded by his personal guards, Feng Yu boarded a flagship.For this expedition, Feng Yu mobilized the entire Zhao Yun army.In addition, there were [-] soldiers drawn from each of the [-] cities, making a total of nearly [-] elite reclamation soldiers.Apart from Zhao Yun, the generals accompanying Feng Yu also included Dian Qing, Liao Hua and Wei Feng.

The huge fleet will also fill up the not narrow shui channel.When the fleet fish passed through the Dankou Dam lock, the water surface in the eyes of the crew suddenly opened up, and the soldiers and sailors ran to the deck to watch this magnificent artificial landscape.

Feng Yu in bright armor was also standing on the deck, but he was already familiar with the scene.Instead of being immersed in the beauty like others, he admired the bed crossbow placed on the deck.

These bed crossbows are enlarged versions of strong crossbows. Although the performance is not as good as the three-bow bed crossbows that appeared in the Song Dynasty in the original world, they can still project crossbow guns weighing more than ten catties two hundred steps away.They are installed on all the warships newly built in Zhuyang City.

The appearance of the ship-borne bed crossbow also marked the beginning of the water battle mode from the boarding battle, the close-range collision battle to the long-range mutual shooting.

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Like Luoyang, Chang'an at this time did not have the outer city walls of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the original world.Therefore, Lu Bu did not hide in the narrow inner city, but sniped the invading rebels in the streets and fields of the outer city.

His reason for doing this is also very simple. If the inner city is shrunk, the tens of thousands of troops of Li Jue and Guo Si will completely surround the inner city with a circumference of only a dozen miles.

At that time, everyone in the city will no longer have any retreat, and can only hand over their life and death to the foreign reinforcements.

Although Chen Tiao has notified Feng Yu to come to help, it is unknown whether Feng Yu's reinforcements will be intercepted by the rebels and when they will arrive.

In addition, if tens of thousands of rebels were to besiege the inner city, build two circular lines of defense inside and outside.It is not known whether Feng Yujun can break the encirclement even if he comes.

At this time, in the outer city of Chang'an, burning houses, corpses, and broken banners can be seen everywhere.From time to time, small groups of scouts from both sides can be seen encountering each other and fighting fiercely.The civilians who originally lived here either fled long ago, or were killed or taken away by the rebels to become laborers and prostitutes.

In the outer city of Chang'an, Li Jue and Guo Si's rebels launched another fierce attack.Divide the troops into four groups and march towards the inner city along the streets and alleys in the ruins.

There were about 500 people on one of the roads, commanded by Li Jue's subordinate Yang Feng, when they were still dozens of battles away from the inner city wall.Among the ruins and dilapidated houses on both sides of the street, cold arrows suddenly shot out.

Yang Feng saw with his own eyes that a soldier in front of him staggered and fell to the ground after being shot in the head.Yang Feng roared wildly: "Didn't the scouts say that both sides of the street were cleaned up? Why are they still hiding the opponent's crossbowmen! These scouts should be beheaded!"

Without his order, the general commanded some soldiers to search the ruined buildings on both sides. Soon, there were sounds of fighting and killing behind the ruined houses.

Yang Feng drew out his saber, pointed forward, and shouted: "The rest of the troops don't stop, keep moving forward. Get under the city gate and block the city gate!"

Under his command, the Xiliang rebels continued to surge like a torrent.When they passed an intersection, three or four hundred Bingzhou Army soldiers suddenly appeared on their flanks, and they did not know where they came from.

This is the trapping camp with a high rate of obedience.At this time, Gao Shun took the lead, holding his gun and running wildly.Among the rebels, a school lieutenant had just turned his head to see enemy soldiers coming, when Gao Shun's spear pierced his right rib.Behind Gao Shun, the soldiers of the trapped camp also held their swords and guns, slashing and stabbing at the same time while galloping.

Yang Fengjun's soldiers were caught off guard.Amidst the splashing of blood and howling, the body was cut open by sharp knives and fell down layer by layer.The entire team was quickly cut in two by the trapped camp.The streets were covered with corpses of rebel soldiers lying in pools of blood.

Yang Feng had no choice but to stop marching towards the inner city, and commanded the team that had been cut in two to meet up again at the intersection and attack Gao Shun.Immediately, the two sides fought fiercely on the street with swords against swords and guns against guns...

Guo Si's general Wu Xi led another rebel army, about a thousand people, to attack the east gate of the inner city.The journey went smoothly, without encountering any snipers along the way. When they were traveling more than fifty battles away from the city gate, the city gate suddenly opened.

Yiqi led more than [-] elite cavalry and rushed out suddenly.Amidst the sound of horseshoes rolling like thunder in summer, they galloped to the front of Wu Xi's team at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour like the wind.The lances have all been raised.

"Array!" Just as Wu Xi yelled this order, Lu Bu's halberd had already lifted a school lieutenant at the front of the team into the air, and then the rear halberd swept across, white light flashed, and several rebel corpses fell to the ground.

Only then did Wu Xi see the coming general, and he couldn't help trembling in his heart.Lu Bu personally led the Bingzhou Wolf Riders out of the city!

Just as he had this thought, rows of lances flew up and down, carrying unparalleled horse speed, knocking rows of rebel soldiers to the ground.

A sword and shield soldier subconsciously held up his shield to block, but the shield was pierced by a lance, and at the same time, his body was brought down to the ground by another wolf horse, and then his bones and flesh were rotten under the trample of iron hooves.

A spearman bravely stabbed his spear at the opposing cavalry, and the spear blade pierced into the chest of the cavalry, but the spearman was also brought down by the huge momentum, and then was trampled into his chest by the screaming horse.The rider on the war horse just rolled off the horse.

Another spearman also stabbed a wolf riding a war horse with his gun.Before the spear could be shot, the tip of a halberd was inserted into his forehead in an instant, and then it was picked up and thrown into the air, and when it fell, it knocked down two people.

Lu Bu waved his halberd and swept Wu Xi's entire team with five hundred wolf riders like a reincarnated overlord.Only a broken body was left behind them.

Wu Xi saw that the situation was not good, so he pulled his horse and left. The wolf rider who was rushing in the front couldn't let him run away.

Wu Xi was killed in battle, and the rebel army along his route was immediately defeated, rushing back in a mess.

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"Pfft", the spear in Gao Shun's hand pierced the chest of a rebel soldier again, and there were still more than two hundred soldiers of the trapped camp beside him, and they continued to slash and kill bravely with their weapons.

Gao Shun had no time to close the gun, but he had already abandoned the gun and drew out the saber at his waist, and swung the knife horizontally to block the opponent's slash.Then he stepped forward with a lunge and sent the blade into the opponent's belly...

Yang Feng, who was watching the battle from the rear, saw that although the opponent suffered heavy casualties, his own casualties were even greater.His own soldiers fought less and less.Besides, Li Jue didn't ask him to fight with all his might.

"Retreat!" Yang Feng finally couldn't stand it anymore and ordered to retreat.This withdrawal naturally turned into a rout, so Xin, Gao Shun's camp did not pursue him.

The other two rebels attacking the west gate and the north gate were also repelled successively.This round of attack by Li Jue and Guo Si was disintegrated, but this was only one of the three or four rounds of daily rebel attacks.

Chapter 115 Siege Equipment

In spring, the sky is clear.But Chang'an City was shrouded in a layer of smog.Burning flames can still be seen in many places in the outer city.

The southeast wind was blowing, bringing with it a sickening smell of burnt and dead bodies.This made Lu Bu, who stood on the top of the city and observed the enemy's situation in person, frowned.

At this time, a soldier came to report in a hurry: "Report! Report to Marquis Wen, the school lieutenant Song Xianbing who was stationed in Shangluo County has returned in defeat! Lantian and Shangluo County have been occupied by Fan Chou's army!"

Hearing this, Lu Bu was obviously moved.Once Lantian is lost, Shangluo County, which is only defended by hundreds of county soldiers, will inevitably surrender.

He knew that this meant that Feng Yu's reinforcements would be blocked south of the Qinling Mountains.If Feng Yujun could not reach Chang'an in time, his resistance in Chang'an would be meaningless.

Soon, Song Xian was brought before Lu Bu.Song Xian knocked down at Lu Bu's feet and said: "Fan Chou led five or six thousand soldiers and horses, and raided Lantian. The last general tried his best but failed to resist the rebel attack. More than a thousand soldiers and horses under his command were all lost! Only the last general fought to the death. Get out of the encirclement and report to Marquis Wen."

Lu Bu heard Fan Chou's number of soldiers and horses, his heart skipped a beat, and he sank immediately, knowing that something was wrong.He made up his mind and ordered his soldiers to summon Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian and others to discuss the matter.

After a while, everyone gathered in the lobby of the tower.Lu Bu first asked everyone to count the remaining troops on hand, and there were more than [-] troops in total.

Lu Bu was silent for a while, and Fang slowly said: "To tell you the truth, we are now in a difficult situation. Once Lantian Shangluo is lost, Feng Yu's reinforcements are unlikely to arrive in Chang'an on time. Even if they can quickly conquer Shangluo, Lantian. By the time we cross the Qinling Mountains and reach Chang'an, the city of Chang'an may have already been captured by the rebels."

All the generals turned their eyes to Lu Bu, waiting for him to make a final decision.Lu Bu continued with a sullen face: "So I'm going to stick to it for a few more days to see if there is a miracle. If Feng Yu doesn't come after five days or when our army's strength drops to 3000, we can only withdraw from Chang'an and go to another place. .”

"Then where are we going to retreat?" Gao Shun asked.

"At that time, we will go east and go to Yuan Shao. Suo Xin, Li Jue and Guo Si rebels swarmed in, and they didn't capture Champa along the way, so we will not encounter any resistance when we retreat eastward. .”

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Shang County, a small and remote county located in the Danshui River Valley, is now full of troops.

The boats on the water outside the Danshui Wharf are coming in and out, and it is extremely busy.The entire pier has been designated as a military restricted area, and various grain and grass materials are piled up on the pier.The area around the wharf is lined with guard posts, and there are many antlers to reject horses.The patrolling soldiers kept cruising back and forth.

In the county government office of Shang County, Feng Yu was having a military meeting with his generals.Two days before Feng Yu's army arrived in Shang County, Fan Chou's brigade captured Shangluo County.It is impossible for Feng Yu to arrive in Chang'an as originally planned.

Zhao Yun looked at the map laid out on the table, tapped his fingers and said, "The two major difficulties facing our army today are that we don't know the actual strength of Fan Chou's rebel army on the opposite side, and the second is that we don't have heavy siege equipment. Originally, there were no cities occupied by the enemy along the way, so there was no plan to attack the city."

Liao Hua said: "Then let's start preparing the siege equipment now. I remember that the Zhuyang Workshop produced many ready-made trebuchets, siege vehicles, crash vehicles, and ladders that can take off and land with pulleys. All of them are fine." Bring it by boat."

Feng Yu shook his head and said, "It's too late. The boats will take these things to Shang County, assemble them, and then send them to the front line of Shangluo. It will take four or five days. If you delay these four or five days, Chang'an City will definitely not be able to defend."

"What is the master planning to do?"

Feng Yu replied: "The scouts have investigated, and Fan Chou has a strong force, and he did not seal up the gate of Shangluo City with sand and hemp. Moreover, there is no moat in Shangluo County, so a heavy battering ram should be able to break through the gate."

Zhao Yun looked at Feng Yu with doubts, and reminded: "My lord, we don't have a special heavy battering ram now. If soldiers carry big logs to act as battering rams, I'm afraid it's not powerful enough."

Feng Yu smiled and said: "No, we have them. They have arrived with the second fleet and should arrive tomorrow." Looking at Feng Yu's smile, Zhao Yun suddenly realized.

A mission panel appeared again in Feng Yu's sight: 【Mission: Conquer Shangluo Mission content: Conquer Shangluo County and cross the Qinling Mountains.Task rewards: ten thousand people containment card x2, generals surrender purple card x2, counterweight trebuchet production workshop construction card x1]

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Another sunny spring day.After Fan Chou got the military report, he hurriedly boarded the city of Shangluo County.Seeing the place beyond the hundred battles outside the city, there are already a lot of soldiers, banners surging, and it looks endless.The strength of this army is not [-], at least [-].He couldn't help but gasp.

He was not surprised by Feng Yujun's arrival.Tan Ma had reported to him a long time ago, and Feng Yu's army gathered information in Shang County.

What surprised him was that the opponent would bring so many soldiers.Because Jia Xu told him that Feng Yu was unlikely to mobilize more than 5000 troops due to geographical constraints.

The second is that after the other party came to the city, it seemed that they had no intention of setting up camp.Although Shang County is very close to Shangluo County, it is still fifty miles away.At this distance, a round trip cannot be made in a day.This shows that Feng Yu wants to fight him quickly.

Fan Chou said suspiciously:

He was thinking wildly, Tan Ma, who was lurking outside the city, had reported military intelligence.After reading the military intelligence reports of these scouts, Fan Chou sneered and said to himself: "Feng Yu, Feng Yu, you don't have any large siege equipment, and you still want to finish the battle in one day? I want to see how you fight this battle today. !"

Immediately, Fan Chou ordered: "Pass down our military order, the whole army should strengthen its vigilance, and don't give the enemy an opportunity. Those who neglect their duties, follow the military law, and be decisive!"

At noon, Feng Yujun's formation outside the city suddenly roared with drums and horns.The huge army array began to move forward slowly.Fan Chou stood at the top of the city and personally supervised the battle.

The city walls of Shangluo County were filled with Xiliang rebel soldiers, and rolling wood and beating stones could be seen everywhere.They also set up a cauldron and boiled poisonous soup and boiling water, which was actually boiled feces and sewage.As long as this thing scalds the human skin, it will inevitably lead to wound ulcers that are difficult to heal.

As Feng Yujun got closer and closer, Fan Chou became more and more puzzled.The other party doesn't even have a simple ladder for climbing the city, so what the hell are they doing here?

At this time, the spear-throwing and shield soldiers in the front row of Feng Yujun had already set up a shield wall, and when they were eighty steps away from the city wall, the arrows of the archers had already rushed towards the top of the city wall.

Fan Chou ordered decisively: "Bowmen, shoot again!"

Chapter 116 The Eagle Strikes the Sky

Outside Shangluo County.The dense arrows of the offensive and defensive sides shuttled up and down the city like a storm.

Feng Yu's archers were all crouching in the projectile blind spot behind the shield wall, and just stood up when shooting, so there were not many casualties from the arrows.

On the contrary, although Fan Chou's crossbowmen were condescending, they lacked shield cover, and the projectile blind spot behind the wall was occupied by defenders.Therefore, they were injured a lot by the arrows thrown in the air.These crossbowmen were miserable, so they could only continue to shoot down the city despite the casualties.

Fan Chou braved the arrow and continued to observe the battle from the top of the city.However, several personal soldiers held round shields and guarded him tightly, leaving only a gap for him to look out.

"Ouch!" Fan Chou heard a scream from beside him, and found that a soldier guarding him with a shield fell to the ground with an arrow in the front left.To be more prepared, it was the middle spear who fell to the ground, and a "spear gun" about four feet long pierced the man's shield and penetrated his shoulder.

Fan Chou retreated a few steps in shock, thinking, how could the enemy throw such a large spear at the top of the city?And the power is not small.In fact, this is a crossbow gun fired by Feng Yujun with a bed crossbow.

Under the strong persuasion of the left and right guards and trusted generals, Fan Chou took the donkey down the slope and retreated to the city.Hand over the defense of the city head to a lieutenant general who is fully responsible.

Feng Yujun's shield wall was so close that it was only thirty battles away from the city wall, and the arrows under the city became more dense, and there were many powerful crossbow spears in it.

More and more arrows were injured in the crossbowmen at the head of the city.The generals of Fan Chou's army had also seen something strange, but because there were not so many swordsmen and shields in the army to provide cover for the crossbowmen, he couldn't do anything for a while.

In fact, the Fan Chou tribe should have prepared for this before the battle, but they were obviously inexperienced in defending the city and fighting with bows and arrows, which caused this cramped situation.

The deputy general in charge of the defense at the top of the city was quick to think, and came up with an idea.He shouted: "Send some people quickly to the city to dismantle some door panels and use them as shields for the crossbowmen!"

Under the suppression of Feng Yujun's bow and arrows, the arrows from the top of the city to the bottom of the city immediately became thinner.

Below the city, Feng Yujun's army shield wall suddenly opened a gap.A stream of people poured out from here, and they put the giant scull shields on top of their heads, and dozens of such scull shields were put together to form a roof like a turtle shell.

The whole "turtle shell" ran towards the city gate like flying.Lieutenant General Fan Chou was startled, knowing that the opponent was about to hit the city gate.

But he immediately felt relieved, these people obviously didn't carry battering rams, they just wanted to hit the city gate with a big tree.And Shangluo County's city gate is extremely strong, it is impossible to break through the city gate with only a big log.Moreover, there are a large number of defenders behind the city gate for protection.

"Roll the wood and beat the stone and get ready!" The guard roared when the turtle shell approached the city gate.With his "let go".On the city gate, the soldiers who had crouched and hid behind the wall got up and threw down the rolling wood and stone that had been prepared long ago.

The gravel and the log segments embedded with nails fell like hail on the turtle shell made of oar shields, making a dull sound of plopping.

At the top of the city, a soldier picked up another boulder weighing thirty to forty catties and prepared to throw it down.The stone had just crossed the stacking wall, and before he let go, a crossbow pierced his forehead with a bang, and a large part of the blade protruded from the back of his head.The stone slid down the wall feebly.

The boulder weighing several tens of catties fell, and there was only a click, and a certain scull shield had cracked into several pieces. One of the shield-bearing soldiers seemed to have a cracked arm, grinning in pain.He was pulled over by the soldiers next to him and hid under another scull shield.

There was a sound of gongs, and the group of soldiers who hit the door suddenly receded like a tide.But then another wave of the same soldiers rushed up.

In a short period of two quarters of an hour, such repeated attacks quickly exhausted the rolling wood and rocks prepared near the city gate and the top of the city.The city guards had to move these heavy wood and stones from a farther place.At the same time, this also caused the guards of the Ministry to be injured by arrows.

There was another clamor of drums and horns, and a similar team surged out of Feng Yujun's formation again.But this time seems to be different from the previous few times.Even if you look down from the top of the city, you can find that the people hiding under the "turtle shell" this time seem to be unusually tall, and their moving speed is much faster than before!

What's even more strange is that when they approached the city gate, Feng Yujun's arrow rain stopped shooting at a section of the city wall above the city gate.Fan Chou's lieutenant general didn't know what the other party was going to do, but he loudly urged the soldiers to hurry up and move the rolling wood and stones to the top of the city gate.

Under the rain of arrows just now, the iron pot where the poisonous soup was boiled at the top of the city gate was pierced by a spear long ago.The dung and water extinguished the firewood, flowing all over the city, and the stench was suffocating.

Now that the other side stopped shooting arrows at the city gate, two soldiers, wearing masks and carrying a pot of boiling poisonous soup, moved cautiously and quickly towards the city gate at the city gate.Prepare to use this to scald Feng Yu's soldiers attacking the city.

At this time, a black shadow rushed down from the air, making a loud noise.The face of the soldier carrying the poisonous soup suddenly disappeared and turned into a bloody mass.

The pot of poisonous soup was poured all over the city.The legs and feet of another soldier were immediately torn apart by the hot poisonous soup.He screamed like a ghost and howled like a wolf.

Immediately afterwards, such screams and wailings followed one after another.Under the pounce of foreign objects in the air, the faces, necks or shoulders of many soldiers at the top of the city became drenched with blood.At the same time, there was a loud and dull crashing sound inside the city gate.

Just before that, when the offensive and defensive sides were fighting fiercely.No matter the generals or soldiers defending the city, no one noticed the sudden appearance of a large number of falcons in the sky.

Lieutenant General Fan Chou stared into the air in astonishment, only to find a big eagle flying towards him.The lieutenant retreated quickly.This retreat is beyond the cover of the sword and shield soldiers.

With the sound of metal rubbing against his teeth, three brand new scratches appeared on his iron helmet, reflecting a shiny metallic luster.The big eagle missed a single blow, and it had already soared into the sky.

"Pfft", with the muffled sound of flesh and blood being pierced, one side of the lieutenant's helmet was pierced by a super heavy arrow.His eyes protruded immediately, and only the whites of the eyes remained, and he collapsed to the ground like a puppet with its strings broken.This is Dian Qing's arrow.

In the city gate hole, [-] giant ape heavy armored infantrymen with scull shields were hitting the city gate with a giant log with a diameter of more than two feet, which no one could hold.

"Dang...dang...dang" The heavy city gate of Shangluo City was under the violent impact, and cracks had begun to appear on the door panel.Dozens of hundreds of Fan Chou's soldiers behind the gate fought desperately.

With a loud bang, a door panel was shattered into two or three pieces, and the soldiers behind the door also flew out.Then there was another loud bang, and the city gate was completely smashed open.The soldiers behind were swept away.