Zhang Xiu, the Overlord of the Three Kingdoms

At the same time as Cao Jun's foot soldiers roared and charged, Cao Jun's war drums immediately rang out like thunder. The sound of war drums was extremely exciting, and Sergeant Cao couldn't help but feel refreshed.

The Cao army began to storm the city walls, and the overall defense of the shield array was inevitably removed. This is a great time for a Ballista attack.

"Ballista adjusts the angle of fire!!" Tian Feng ordered in a hoarse voice.

The soldier operating the catheta was given the order and immediately turned one of the handles on the back seat of the catera, and the cathea was lifted up at an angled angle to the bottom of the city walls. The crossbow cart made by the Northern Army had long considered the need for shooting under the city walls at close range, so the repeater was equipped with a simple mechanical device, and the angle of fire could be lowered by turning a handle behind the saddle.

After adjusting the angle, the soldiers operating the cathedra slammed a brass ring on the base of the cathetist, and then saw a rain of arrows pouring down into the soldiers below the city like a swarm of bees out of a hole. It was a breathless sight.

Under the cover of the rain of arrows, the blood flowers suddenly bloomed one by one, and it was difficult to estimate how many people Cao Bing had fallen at this moment.

The wooden stones on the city wall have also been thrown off the city wall without interruption. Cao Jun was smashed to the point that his head was broken, and his blood and flesh were flying.

The Ballista cart was immediately pushed to the back and reloaded after firing a ** round.

Cao Jun braved the rain of arrows and trees that fell and set up the cloud ladder on the city wall. Then he rushed up the ladder to the top of the city. In the process, from time to time, Sergeant Cao was hit by an arrow or hit by a stone and fell from the ladder. It was a spectacle and a brutal scene.

In the rear of the storming troops, thousands of crossbowmen were firing arrows at the city walls, and although their attacks were not very effective, they also caused some casualties to the northern army.

Under the attack of the Northern Army, the losses of the Cao army were extremely heavy, but this did not stop the advance of the Cao army, and after the Cao army paid heavy casualties, the soldiers finally landed on the top of the city.

The Northern Army immediately made corresponding adjustments. The crossbowmen retreated to the back, and the swordsmen, shields, and halberds were all in front at the same time.

In the sword and gun fight, Cao Cao's army, whose strength was temporarily in the opposite trend, could not parry it at all. Cao Cao's soldiers who climbed to the top of the city were either killed on the spot or thrown directly from the city.

But that didn't last long. In the brutal hand-to-hand combat, Cao Cao's army opened a gap in the southern city wall, and then Cao Cao's army quickly gathered there along the ladder.

It turned out that Cao Cao's army, who commanded the siege, would take the lead and pretend to focus on attacking the central and northern city walls, but in fact, they were secretly preparing for a strong attack on the southern city wall. When the attention and strength of the northern army were attracted to it, Cao Cao's army suddenly exerted its strength and concentrated its forces to launch a strong attack on the southern city wall, and at the same time, all the archers' firepower was also transferred to the southern city wall. The northern army was caught off guard, first killed and wounded by the archers of the Cao army, and then under the fierce impact of the Cao army, it was suddenly attacked by the Cao army.

The siege troops opened a gap, and Cao Cao's army saw this and involuntarily shouted together. Cao Cao, who was closely following the progress of the battle, was excited, and immediately exclaimed loudly, "Wen Qian is really good!" and immediately ordered; "Order Cao Hong's troops to attack! Support General Le Jin!"

At this time, Cao Cao stopped him again: "Wait! Tell General Cao Hong to spread out as much as possible when the army advances!" The reason why Cao Cao told him so much was also a last resort, Cao Jun's catapult troops had been destroyed, and Cao Jun now had no means to suppress the catapults of the Northern Army, so he could only reduce the lethal effect of the catapults of the Northern Army by spreading out the formation as much as possible.

A moment later, there was movement in the Cao army's large array. I saw 30,000 foot soldiers break away from the big array and quickly rush towards Huguan. The 30,000 foot soldiers were scattered very differently from the situation in peacetime when the army was attacking the city.

On the southern city wall, the strength of the Northern Army was at a disadvantage, and although the soldiers of the Northern Army fought desperately, they could not suppress the Cao army.

As more and more soldiers of the Cao Army ascended to the top of the city, the Northern Army gradually could not suppress the situation, and the situation appeared precarious.

At this moment, Zhang Fei appeared at the head of the city, and he led thousands of horizontal sword warriors to rush to the southern city wall along the troop transport road of the city wall.

The soldiers of the Northern Army guarding the south faced more and more Cao troops and fought hard, but they were outnumbered in the end, and the city walls were lost inch by inch. The corpses on the city walls were like mountains, and the blood gathered into a thin stream flowing between the cracks of the city bricks.

At the most critical moment, Zhang Fei finally led the horizontal sword warriors to join the battle.

I saw Zhang Fei roaring, brandishing the Zhangba Snake Spear and setting off a hurricane in the Cao army's soldiers. Everywhere the spear passed, I saw stumps splashing and blood splashing.

The horizontal knife warrior who followed closely behind Zhang Fei shouted violently, and smashed into the enemy army with a sharp horizontal knife in his hand, and fought with the enemy army. The horizontal sword warriors are the second best in the infantry army after the Mo knife soldiers, and as soon as they come on the field, they will fight Cao Jun retreating.

However, Cao Jun also behaved very strongly, in the face of Zhang Fei and the strong counterattack of the horizontal knife warriors, Cao Jun roared and fought with the Northern Army, often changing knives for knives. That kind of spirit that is not afraid of death can almost be compared with

the Northern Army! But after all, the Northern Army is the Northern Army, and the more they fight, the more courageous they become, the more they let Cao Jun realize what the real elite of the world is!

The horizontal sword warriors holding horizontal knives roared and sprinkled out one after another sword lights, and used their lives to recapture the lost city wall inch by inch in the life-and-death killing array.

This battle for the head of the city was fought extremely fiercely, and it can really be described as 'an inch of city walls, an inch of blood'. The fierce and strong combat effectiveness of the Northern Expeditionary Army made the Central Plains Army feel for the first time how amazing the world's elite in the world's mouth was, and although Cao Cao's army was slightly inferior in combat effectiveness, it was not inferior to the Northern Expeditionary Army in terms of momentum. If Chen Chu had been here, he would have sighed: No wonder the Cao army in later history was able to sweep the world almost undefeated, and this was really not without reason! Cao Cao

, who was watching the battle from behind, looked at the bloody patch on the city wall, his face had already turned red from excitement and nervousness, and the fist holding the sword was trembling gently involuntarily, and even his knuckles had turned white from excessive force.

The expressions of the other soldiers of Cao Cao's army were similar to Cao Cao's, and they were even more excited, and they couldn't help but shout loudly, obviously the bloody battle on the city wall made their beast blood boil.

At the same time as the bloody battle on the city wall was going on, the 30,000 supporting foot soldiers of Cao's army were rapidly approaching the city wall. When they reached a distance of 300 meters, they began to be continuously bombarded by catapult units of the Northern Expeditionary Army. However, since they were spread out, the catapults did not cause them much damage.

After a period of time passed when Cao Hong's army felt long and the northern army felt short, Cao Hong's 30,000 foot soldiers finally rushed under the city wall after paying the price of thousands of casualties. Immediately into battle. By this time, the total strength of Cao's army in attacking Huguan had reached 55,000, while the total number of defenders at Huguan was only 40,000.

Tian Feng, who was commanding the army to fight on the tower of the city gate, looked at the black Cao Jun under the city wall, and couldn't help frowning. If the situation continues to develop like this, then Huguan is bound to fail.

There is no way! I can only use the thunder of the sky! Tian Feng said with determination in his heart.

At this moment, there was a loud bang at the city gate, and then the soldiers on both sides of the city wall felt their feet shake violently.

Tian Feng couldn't help but change his complexion, and asked urgently, "What's the matter?" As soon as the words fell, a blood-stained soldier ran panting and reported: "My lord, a car from Cao's army has broken through the blockade and started to hit the city gate!" Tian

Feng was shocked in his heart, and immediately ordered: "Send an order to Vice General Li! Dispatch a death squad! Use a thunderbolt

!" Subsequently, a detachment of uniquely dressed soldiers appeared on the city walls. They were not armoured, they were not armoured, and each of them was carrying a small bag. If a modern person sees this bag, he will definitely exclaim: Isn't this an explosives bag! That's right, the bag in the hands of these soldiers is an explosives bag, no, to be precise, it should be a gunpowder bag, and this gunpowder bag is the first gunpowder weapon that Chen Chu asked the craftsmen to try out with great difficulty and can be used in actual combat.

"Immediately use the 'Thunder Boom' to destroy the city gate's rushing car!" Tian Feng immediately ordered.

The two daredevils then lit the powder bag and threw it towards the city gate.

When the soldiers of the Cao army saw two small objects thrown down from the city wall, they originally thought they were stones, but the thing smashed on the head of a soldier, but it did not do anything to the soldier. Then the two things rolled to the ground and smoked, but no one took the scene to heart in the chaos of the battlefield.

A moment later, two fires rose from the gates, accompanied by two loud bangs. Suddenly, the whole earth seemed to tremble, and then thick black smoke rolled out.

Cao Jun was stunned by this sudden scene, and no one could understand what was going on? Then, the smoke and dust dispersed, revealing a scene that surprised Cao Jun even more, only to see that a small piece of the place where the two flames rose had been emptied, and at least dozens of people were blown to pieces, and dozens of people were lying on the ground wailing in pain, many of them were blown to a blur of flesh and blood.

Cao Cao, who was watching the battle, suddenly saw the two flames rising up, and couldn't help but be shocked. What the hell is

going on?!" Ziyang, what's going on?" Cao Cao hurriedly asked Liu Ye, who was the best at the skills of a hundred crafts.

Liu Ye shook his head blankly, but did not answer.

The besieging Cao Jun was stunned for a moment, and then began to continue the siege. The two explosions just now didn't seem to have had much impact on Cao Jun.

At this moment, the loud sound of the city car slamming the door sounded again. Tian Feng couldn't help frowning, and then he figured out what was going on.

It turned out that the city gate of Huguan was a concave hole, and Cao Jun's city car was in this hole to hit the city gate, this position was a dead end for the northern army on the city wall, and the defenders on the city wall had no way to effectively attack the city car in the hole, even if it was 'thunder', there was no way to effectively destroy the city car in the dead corner.