chapter three hundred and thirty seventh.
"War! War!"
Amid the rumbling snare drums, Cao's army took the lead in tearing the dead silence in the first month of the cold winter. The mechanical soldiers were all special organizations among the reserve soldiers. Under the loud scolding of the masters, some of the dozen apprentices nailed the body of the car, some gritted their teeth and twisted the torque turntable. Amid the creaking sounds of composite materials such as fish glue, beef tendons, and heavy stone-casting spoons were lowered.
On the side, under the hot temperature, the coal that had been burning for half an hour had already burned red. The mechanical apprentice used fire tongs to clamp these high-quality large coal blocks transported by the army and placed them heavily on the stone-casting spoon. Ensuring the heat that was so lit up, the cast iron colander was faintly burned red. The craftsman in charge finally nodded.
"put!"
Buzz ~
The heavy hammer hit the wide trigger, snapping and falling off, and the composite material that had been strangled so hard that it was already strangled, letting out a harsh roar. A spoonful of dozens of kilograms of coal dragged the black smoke tail and smashed it hard to the opposite side.
Although it is not a uniform launch, every time, the catapult array like a meteor shower makes Wang Hou feel gorgeous and pleasing to the eye.
But for Yuan Jun opposite, he might not be able to notice such romance. He suddenly woke up from a half-sleeping state. The snow-white Yuan Jun camp was like an ant nest poured into a boiling iron liquid. It exploded in an instant. On the trenches, Yuan Jun ran in a mess, and was smashed one by one under the attack of coal blocks like a meteor shower. On a watchtower, a Yuan Jun was still pointing at the Cao army's trencher positions and shouting something. But with a buzzing sound, a sharp coal block pierced into the wooden support column. In less than a minute, the flames suddenly flew. In the sound of the sour wood breaking, the heavy watchtower fell down.
And the Central Army!
The military strategy says: those who gather and disperse are the most common ones! Yuan Tan is not an idiot. In order to keep the passage of advance unobstructed, he only dug three circles and two unconnected trenches around the left and right of the west gate. The spacious roads of the central army were constructed with barbed horses and fences, but this wooden fence could protect people, but could not prevent them from being thrown out, and the heavy coals burned red. Under the roar of raindrops, these things were like plastic building blocks, and were knocked to the ground.
However, the main direction of the Cao army's attack was to establish the towers in the military camp. In the war, the importance of intelligence was self-evident. The camp was surrounded by towering trenches. Yuan Tan's army could observe the peripheral intelligence and all they could expect were these arrow towers. The cross torsional catapults were specially mobilized to bombard these towers. While Wang Hou's telescope was watching, one wooden arrow tower after another three or four meters high collapsed under the attack of fire coal.
War is a game that requires patience. From the collapse of the first arrow tower to the collapse of the last arrow tower in Zuoying, Cao's army spent a full morning. In more than four hours, the road from Heshan to the position at the foot of the mountain was covered with black and gray. In Yuan Tan's military camp, streams of blue smoke also rose. In his eyes, he watched the last tower actually ignited and burned into a big torch. Yuan Jun, who was covered in fire, flared and screamed from above and fell down. Wang Hou couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Saint-Governor! Wolf smoke! Wolf smoke rose from the east of the city!"
Suddenly, the voice of the general Zhuge Huai suddenly rang behind him. He raised his telescope and was completely different from the messy smoke in the village. An extra thick black smoke rose into the sky.
"Oh? Zhang Yan finally took action too!"
Looking at the black smoke, Wang Hou nodded with satisfaction, but the tone was mostly teasing. The war in the west of the city had been fiercely started for more than four hours, and the shouts of killing were clamoring, but Zhang Yan realized that he really didn't know if he had consumed too much energy on the belly of a lady of aristocratic family. Now, the king has not been on the morning court, and now he has just gotten up.
But I just sighed that in this battle of Nanpi, Zhang Yan's role was not placed on Wang Hou's strategic map. He just killed the chicken to warn the monkey. He saw how Wang Hou slaughtered Yuan Tan and fooled him, so that Qingzhou would be disobedient.
It would be even better if he was sieging the city and suffered heavy losses!
After feeling emotion, Wang Hou's face suddenly became cold. He rode on a horse and watched the Yuan Jun camp who was howling in the carbon fire smoke and dust. He held a gloomy face and ordered: "Send suicide squads! Capture the trench?"
"Saint Master! Is Zuoying going to attack?"
In Yuan Jun’s left camp, a large flag with the word “Cao” burned two big holes by the carbon fire, but it was still hung above the position. Three days ago, Tao Sheng sent Li Fu to discuss the surrender. Zhao Yun and his senior executives still knew that when they heard Wang Hou’s orders issued an attack, he asked hesitantly.
Who knew that after hearing this, Wang Hou's old face suddenly became grinning and started yelling.
"Fight! Of course you have to fight! And you have to hit him to death!"
"I will obey the order!"
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Once again, Cao's snare drums became as fast as raindrops. The catapult position that had been on fire for a morning could have stopped a little. Bypassing them, the Rizhao Brigade rushed towards the Yuan army camp like black iron blocks.
Yuan Tan was really able to hold back his anger. He was attacked by the catapult for a long time for the whole morning and did not send troops to fight back. However, listening to the sound of the snare drums, Yuan Jun, who had become sparse under the attack of carbon fire, seemed to emerge from the ground all at once. The trenches were full of shaking human heads, and the passage of the central army was also filled with thick Yuan Jun army formation. Then, cold light appeared on the heads of the crowd, and sharp arrows came one by one.
When the charcoal burned for a whole morning, the Yuan army was obviously full of anger. The arrow was shot quickly and fiercely. Cao Jun, who was marching in a silence, suddenly felt itchy in his ears. He raised his head and bursts of arrows were pouring rain on his face.
Fortunately, this attack was not once or twice. The little round shield protected his face and tried to face the arrow-receiving surface with the steel armor on his arms and shoulders. For a moment, the sound of metal irons pinging in the cold wind seemed to have entered Rizhao Iron House.
It’s not that no one was caught in an arrow, and was pierced by arrows and pierced into the flesh from the cracks of the armor and fell one after another. Listening to the sound of the arrows hitting the body, the eyes of these heavy infantrymen were filled with fear. However, after a long period of training, even if they were trembling with fear, no one dared to escape from the position.
This almost perverted emphasis on discipline has been engraved into their bones.
However, the rain of arrows came fiercely and was impatient. After all, Yuan Tan is now ruined. Unlike Cao Cao, who could mobilize millions of arrows in one battle. After ten arrows were shot, Yuan Jun on the trench also showed his breath, but it was Cao's turn to do this kung fu.
Suddenly, the Taishan archer who had just hid behind ran to the front of the formation. The more sophisticated carbon steel bow was pulled up suddenly. With the sound of brushing, the same rain of arrows was thrown into the trench. The armor was obviously not of the same level. The sound of the arrows shooting into the body and the loud screams could be heard even a hundred meters away.
What caught Yuan Jun off guard was that Wang Hou did not assemble heavy troops to break through the central channel and enter the military camp like most attackers of this era. Instead, the two teams of light infantry with about 400 people were wrapped like Kumamoto, and rushed to the towering trenches that seemed even more difficult to conquer on both wings.
Whoosh~swosh~swosh~
Arrows appeared on the trench, aiming at Wang Hou's suicide squad. This time, Yuan Jun's crossbowman was replaced to attack them in a more sophisticated way.
At a sprint distance of 100 meters, these Cao troops were also fairly filled with arrows, but in the panicked and incredible eyes of Yuan Bing Guardians, these people seemed to not die. The arrows on their bodies were like hedgehogs, and they rushed to the trench in a bloated manner.
Hulala~
In the last three meters, the heavy marching quilts that were wet and frozen were suddenly thrown to the ground. I don’t know if it was cold or excited, these Cao’s suicide squads climbed the trench like a trembling monkey...
A Yuan Jun's crossbowman had just taken the arrow and was about to raise his head and shoot it out. A cold and evil smile suddenly came into his eyes. Then, the sharp battle axe slashed and slammed on his forehead. Before he could even hum, the elderly veteran Yuan Jun fell into the cold and narrow tunnel.
Chapter completed!