The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 697 Attacking Fancheng to add more to the brother Civet Ai Mao!
Du Gao led the mighty army and set off from several pontoon bridges. At this time, Guan Yu had no time to manage Du Gao's army, because Zhao Yun also began to order the catapult and the eight-ox crossbow to be launched together!
There is no selfishness in the face of war. Although Zhao Yun had a brief friendship with Guan Yu, Liu Bei and others, Guan Yu is the enemy at this moment!

More than hundreds of catapults and more than a hundred eight-ox crossbows fired arrow boxes and small and medium-sized stones. In an instant, dense rain of arrows and stones were hit on the top of the city.

"Not good! Dodge!" Guan Yu, who was on Fancheng, saw the scene of the launch of the siege equipment, his pupils shrunk and he immediately ordered to dodge.

Everyone of Guan Yu's personal guards with a [-]-knife shield mentioned their shields, but the veterans who were unexpectedly rich would look for dead corners on the city wall that could not be attacked, such as under the wall stacks, in the pavilions, and so on.

But don't forget that there are five thousand soldiers who have just been trained for a month or two. These soldiers react differently when they see such a scene for the first time. The clever ones will hide with the veterans, but more But at a loss, he was instantly knocked down by stones and arrows.

Even if it was Guan Yu who was now half-casually avoiding the stones and arrows, he first scanned the surrounding area with his eyes, apparently there were a lot of casualties, there were hundreds of people just by visual inspection, secretly gritted his teeth and looked at the siege equipment under the city.

This scene surprised Guan Yu. Catapults have appeared since the Spring and Autumn Period, but because of many shortcomings, they are not popular at all, and it is even more impossible to use catapults to suppress the formation. Although the Ba Niu Crossbow is still a bed crossbow range, but its function has already broken through the concept of the bed crossbow.

It was the first time that the eight-ox crossbow was launched under Liu Bei's army. In Guan Yu's view, the bed crossbow was powerful, but it was only a giant spear fired by a single shot. It could be avoided with a little attention unless there were enough beds. Otherwise, crossbows can't do large-scale damage, let alone be used to attack cities with walls, let alone worry about them.

But the reality made Guan Yu an "eye-opener". Guan Yu didn't even have the confidence to hold it for three days after fighting with such intensity!
"Ah! Ouch! Ouch!"

The city wall was beaten up and down, and apart from the corpses there were the sounds of injured soldiers falling to the ground and wailing. Most of them were recruits who had been grabbed. With just one wave of attacks, the morale effect of Guan Yu's attack was completely dissipated and even decreased. Not a lot.

The first wave of flying stones attacked for about half a cup of tea, and it took about 3 minutes to completely stop the attack. Guan Yu turned sideways from the wall and looked out from a high position, but what he saw was busy people. The enemy soldiers removed box-like things from the bed crossbow (eight cow crossbow), and then installed the boxes on them.

Looking past these bed crossbows, although the trebuchet behind was blocked by the enemy army and couldn't see the details, you could also see that the dust was flying and it was obviously very busy.

"Quick! The enemy is loading arrows and pulling down the wounded soldiers!" Guan Yu yelled at the crowd. Obviously, the next wave of attacks will come soon, and now the troops are stretched to the limit and can be rescued one by one.

"The trebuchet, the eight-ox crossbow fire!" The gunner captain began to roar again.

The second wave of attacks, which was faster than Guan Yu's imagination, had already flown into the air, and hit the city wall the next moment. Many soldiers who were pulling the wounded soldiers were instantly knocked down to the ground.

In this way, the baptism of siege equipment lasted for five consecutive days. Although the casualties in the last three days were not as great as those in the first two days, the defenders still lost nearly [-]% of their troops. thousand.

Another day, just when Guan Yu, Guan Ping, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao and others thought they were getting used to ordinary weapon attacks, this morning they were still attacking with weapons. After lunch, cars suddenly rushed one by one, and Lu Gong's car was pushed out. Slowly moving forward under the cover of the eight-ox crossbow and the catapult, it was clear that Zhao Yun was no longer going to just attack with weapons today.

But just when Guan Yu wanted the archers to suppress the enemy soldiers who were pushing the equipment, the angry shots of the catapult and the eight-ox crossbow started to fire again, and the city wall was beaten as hard as the previous five days. .

Even if the archers risked their lives to fight back, it was far away from the range of the archers a few miles away, and the enemy's equipment began to suppress the archers at the top of the city, which made a very common word "firepower" in later generations. Suppression' emerged in this era.

This scene, which was impossible in the first place, has indeed appeared now. In the original siege battle, if you want to suppress the defense of the archers on the city wall, only the archers can shoot each other upwards and downwards. It is advantageous to defend the city, not to mention the protection of the city wall.

The archers on the top of the city were beaten so hard that they didn't dare to show their faces, how could they fight?I can only watch helplessly as equipment such as Chongche, Lu Gongche, and teams of soldiers carrying ladders rush to a very dangerous range.

This very dangerous range refers to a distance of only a few dozen steps from the city wall, and you can push it under the city wall with more effort. At this distance, the accuracy of the Song Dynasty trebuchet and the eight-ox crossbow can no longer be achieved without accidentally injuring Colleagues, so they stopped shooting.

Zhao Yun sent the siege equipment forward, of course not only the soldiers advancing forward, but also the sword and shield guards and archers, as well as the infantry carrying the ladders who were about to rush to kill the city.

"The crossbowmen continue to suppress! Everyone, work harder!" The two generals Ding Desun and Gong Wang who led the attack on the city kept yelling.

"One-two-three! Push! One-two-three! Push!" Song soldiers who pushed the siege equipment one by one, heard the commander's roar and began to use their strength.

"Archers release arrows! Rolling logs and rocks are ready! Ping'er, use heavy kerosene to burn the chariot, and everyone else will follow me!" Guan Yu issued orders one by one to prepare for the subsequent battle for the city.

Standing city defense weapons such as rolling logs and rocks finally had their uses. Finally, instead of being hit by stones, the soldiers of Guan Yu's army who were throwing stones at the opponent's morale were boosted, but suddenly found that the opponent was not playing cards with common sense.

I saw the siege soldiers carrying the ladders on the other side, hiding behind the sword and shield soldiers tightly, without any intention of stepping forward. Soldiers don't have to climb up the city wall when they step on the Lu public car, but directly kill the city wall from the Lu public car. There are two fierce arrows on the Lu public car, which are Gao Chong and Zhao Kuangyin.

I saw Gao Chongchi chiseled the golden tiger's head gun and poked it forward. Four or five soldiers of Guan Yu's army were killed when they swept around. Kill the city wall like a tiger into a flock of sheep.

Guan Yu saw two fierce generals whom he had never seen before, but the aura they displayed was abnormal and obviously difficult to deal with, but he had no choice but to choose one to kill.

(End of this chapter)