Chapter 1356 Fight!

Fight!

In the face of Xiangyang, which is as solid as gold soup, Cao Sun's allied forces, which had been advancing all the way without even a decent temptation, directly tore off all the coats outside the war, and even the additional attributes of the war such as assassination, destruction, separation and internal response, which they did not intend to use at all.

In this way, they put on the posture of decisive battle unscrupulously. Although Gan Ning and Wenpin finally vented their anger, at the same time, they couldn't help but be more suspicious of the crazy Cao Sun coalition.

"Military division, is it expected that Cao Sun's allied army will be like this when it comes up?" Gan Ning fiddled with the installed and debugged crossbows around him. Looking at Cao Cao, who was dressed in a bright robe, was not afraid of Xiangyang crossbows at all and rode the shadow horse in front of the battle like a heavenly man, he couldn't help but feel more indescribable to the fierce Cao army.

"Naturally expected," Guo Jia smiled, and the feeling of seeing his old master was also very uncomfortable, but then he patted Gan Ning on the shoulder and asked with a smile, "Why, are you afraid of Cao Sun's 300,000 troops because you know that there will be no reinforcements?"

"How is that possible?" Gan Ning's face turned pale, and he couldn't help but be a little arrogant: "If they dare to come, I will let them know how profitable the ma family's bow and crossbow is!"

The crossbow is powerful, accurate in positioning, long range and strong penetration. There are only two disadvantages, one is that it is expensive and easy to damage. Second, the launch speed is slow and seriously affected by the weather.

This is also the reason why crossbow machines are not widely used in many times.

Generally, it is difficult for princes in troubled times to bear the high cost of crossbow machines. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when many soldiers went to the battlefield with a wooden stick, when a knife became a golden weapon, the high-end product of crossbow machines was simply unbearable for most people to think of.

But they don't know that although crossbow machines are expensive, most of the components are the same, if standardized management is adopted. If the size of each part of the crossbow machine is unified, its cost will be greatly reduced. The versatility of wearing parts will make it easy to damage. And Jingzhou has the smelting city of Wancheng and the foundation of Jingzhou, the hometown of bows and arrows, and a strong crossbow army has become possible.

As for the disadvantage of the slow launch speed of the crossbow machine, in fact, it is just that users can't use it themselves. They don't know that the crossbow machine is a powerful weapon. It is better not to use it alone. Instead, it is necessary to form a formation and launch in turn. It can be loaded in turns, and even realize the division of labor mechanism of loading, arching and launching if necessary, so as to give full play to its real strength. In the battle of the crossbow army, there is a kind of array of ten thousand crossbows. Once this array is formed, it will be unprecedented, supreme, extremely powerful, and unrivaled against the enemy.

During Ma Chao's stay in Xiangyang, in addition to secretly investigating Cao's alliance conspiracy, the remaining work was to fill several fixed armories in Xiangyang, and even built several temporary ordnance warehouses. During this period, the defense of battle equipment, grain and grass reserves are simply beyond the largest scale of any city in this era. These have become the confidence of Gan Ning and others to be fearless in the face of the famous Cao Cao and Sun Ce.

"General, all crossbow machines have been debugged, and all parts are normal and unimpeded!" A small school guarding the city came forward and reported to Gan Ning with awe.

"That's right," Gan Ning licked his lips and leisurely looked at the enemy troops under the city, showing a fierce look like a wolf: "Since they don't even want to test, let me start the prelude to this decisive battle!" After saying that, Gan Ning personally manipulated and filled the three-foot-four-long Xiangyang bamboo crossbow to the crossbow beside him, aimed at Cao Cao by looking at the mountain, and then pulled the trigger fiercely!

With a 'bang' sound, the crossbow seemed to draw a flash of lightning in the clear sun and flew towards Cao Cao! The fierce generals around Cao Cao had no time to react at all, so he saw that Cao Cao's helmet was shot down by the crossbow!

"Damn it!" Gan Ning punched: "It's only two inches tall. I didn't expect Lao Cao to be so short!"

However, this sudden crossbow still shocked the whole Cao army. All Cao's soldiers saw that Cao Cao was 150 steps away from the city and was almost killed by crossbows in the city. The morale could not help but fall, and an unnatural movement came from the strict formation**.

"I, Cao Mengde, am the one who is destined to return, and the generals under his command are even the righteous soldiers who walk the way for heaven. How can you hurt me?" After Cao Cao was shocked, his quick courage immediately responded to the situation, and the heroic rush in the loud laughter was full of arrogance and arrogance. After one word, the guards around him immediately reacted and roared loudly, "The king of Wei is invincible and will break through Xiangyang!!"

The morale shot down by an arrow was immediately transformed into arrogance by Cao Cao. Sun Ce on the other side saw this and couldn't help admitting that Cao Cao was indeed a hero. After all, if the arrow shoots at you, I'm afraid that if you are angry, you will directly order the siege, right?

But Cao Cao was so adaptable that after reversing the morale of the whole battlefield, he waved the flag fiercely: "Kill me!"

"Kill!" Sun Ce also waved the flag at the same time, but this time he was not in the lead. With Cao Cao, an excellent teacher, he learns everything quickly.

"Kill!"

The shouts all over the mountains seem to shake the whole sun down. After that, the pioneers carrying the ladder, the manipulators pushing the Thunderbolt car and more fearless siege first climbed up and slowly submerged the whole Xiangyang City like a surge of tide. At the same time, the crossbows on the city also burst out with a neat stringing sound. The array of ten thousand crossbows that have not appeared in a hundred years finally reappeared at this moment!

Thanks to the protection of Xiangshui River, Xiangyang City has a wide enough moat. In this way, those siege vanguards can only look at the city and sigh, and can only attack by the river. The long ladder can't build the towering wall of Xiangyang City at all. Although the morale of the siege soldiers who came at this time was fierce, they also suffered the greatest loss.

The shouting of killing in the city became more and more dense. Gan Ning immediately got up and went to the watchtower. There, his first guard captain was shouting angrily with his height, waving a big knife in his hand and commanding his men to shoot arrows. Looking down, Cao Sun's allied forces were dense, charging this way like ants. Because of the proximity, the faces of the coalition forces were twisted, shouting with their mouths open, looking up against the arrows and attacking this side. Many water pioneers swam directly across the moat and climbed the city wall of Xiangyang with a ring knife.

And on the front line outside the moat, it has already been shot all over by the crossbows that fell like a rainstorm, killing countless casualties. However, it has to be admitted that the coming army is really brave. Although the formation has been broken and the flag bearers have been changed several rounds, the rear army still rushed forward quickly, diving directly diving and crossing with water, climbing the city on the ladder without water, and the morale is very high.

When Gan Ning sighed, an army almost climbed in front of Gan Ning. If it hadn't been for the rapid arrival of the reserve army support organized by Tai Shici, it might have really let the coalition force break through such a lifeless attack.

At this time, any conspiracy and trick is useless. In the siege war, what is more tested is the command and response ability of the general defending the city. Gan Ning, Taishici and Wenpin have no official positions, but Guo Jia adjusts the deployment from among them. The three of them perform their respective duties, and there is no improper command and different military orders. Gan Ning was in the observation tower, looking at the six roads, and looking at the overall situation. One by one, orders quickly spit out from his mouth. After passing through the whole army, the whole Xiangyang city was like a whole, with more adjustment and less compensation, and the mobile defense was seamless.

However, Ma Jiajun's good luck was finally exhausted at sunset. The Thunderbolt car invented by Liu Ye is no less than the Ma family's new catapult. The huge roaring stones have been repeatedly made, like an unple but tough blunt knife, cutting the walls of Xiangyang City layer by layer, and earth flying stones splashing. Xiangyang City is slowly breaking quickly visible to the naked eye.

"We must burn those Thunderbolt cars!" Gan Ning roared with red eyes, but before he finished speaking, he heard the loud noise under his feet. The city wall suddenly collapsed. It turned out that this wall was the place where Cai Mao's family hid to assassinate Ma Chao. Although it was repaired, it was very unstable. Cao Cao naturally would not let go of this little advantage. The boulder bombarded for more than a day and finally smashed a few pieces. Big stone, this wall collapsed again.

Then, Cao Bing's ladder finally had a place to set up. The white-edged hand-to-hand fight that all the defenders of the city do not want to see is inevitable!