Chapter 1357 Spell it out!

When the first long ladder was set up on the collapsed wall, Ma's army's reaction was still very calm. Seven or eight of them worked together to carry a huge rejection pole and hide in the city wall. When Cao soldiers roared and climbed halfway, they suddenly pushed the ladder down outside the city. Cao Bing's howling in mid-air was like a rapid funeral song, and it stopped abruptly as soon as he fell to the ground.

Then, more gaps in the wall were blown out by the Thunderbolt. There are more and more places where the coalition can set up ladders. While they used archers to suppress Gan Ning's archers fearlessly, they organized infantry to charge against the destroyed walls. For a moment, the arrows rushed directly in front of them. The two sides fought, and the Jinfan navy also suffered a lot of casualties.

However, after all, bows and arrows cannot compete with the crossbows, after paying more than 8,000 people and obtaining the record of the collapse of the city wall. The coalition finally suspended the offensive. Gan Ning immediately ordered the repair of the wall, but before the reserve generals carried the repair materials, a soldier shouted fiercely, "General, look!"

Gan Ning turned around and his eyes turned red. It turned out that Cao Cao came up with another bad move. They cut wood and set off a big fire. In summer, there was a lot of south wind, and the wind blew smoke, and blew into Ma Jiajun's eyes. For a moment, his eyes were choked red. Whether it was shooting arrows or attacking the enemy, it was greatly affected for a while. What's more abominable is that Guo Jia couldn't help cursing, "Cheng Zhongde, you really added wolf dung and pepper to the firewood!"

Wolf dung is the main material used for beacon communication in this era. After adding wolf dung to the firewood, the smoke burned is black and unspoiled wolf smoke, which often goes straight to the sky. And pepper was when Guo Jia was enjoying Ma's hot pot with Cheng Yu when he was still in Cao Ying. He didn't mean to drop the pepper into the fire. The smoke was eye-catching, which made Guo Jia and Cheng Yu embarrassed. At that time, Guo Jia said a joke, "If this is used on the battlefield, I'm afraid it's also a great killer!"

Guo Jia even has the mind of crying now. He didn't think that Cheng Yu not only remembered his original jokes, but also combined the ancient method of wolf dung with the new thing of pepper, which raised the lethality of smoke against the enemy by several levels for a while.

At this moment, the coalition army took the opportunity to launch a crazy attack. Fortunately, Gan Ning has the advantage of the terrain. In the face of such a shameless siege of the coalition, he was also really angry. After debugging the catapult on the wall, it hit the coalition army fiercely. Those Thunderbolt vehicles that didn't have time to withdraw have become the focus of the attack. For a while, the soldiers at the head of the city shouted and jumped with tears. The soldiers under the city risked their lives to save the Thunderbolt car, and most of them were smashed into mud by the Ma family's catapult.

At the same time, Gan Ning ordered the whole army to mask the face with water. In addition to fighting against the siege soldiers who also suffered from it, he continued to organize the repair of the wall, prepare various fortifications, demolish dozens of private houses, and repair the wall with bricks.

However, Cao Cao and Sun Ce seem to plan to die here this time. They refuse to rest, don't care about losses, and organize troops to attack forward regardless of cost. Gan Ning put a garrison at the head of the first dilapidated city, but in a quarter of an hour, all the garrison died in battle. The bodies of the allied soldiers and the Jinfan navy were mixed together, with a cut ring of knives, a broken bow, and arrows inserted into the ground and human bodies, and blood flowed through the wall into a red waterfall. . The river in the moat has already overflowed, with countless broken limbs floating on it.

Along the boundless blood stains, at night, the soldiers of the coalition finally rushed to the head of the city, as if the city was about to fall into their hands, and the flat ground was in front of them. But when they came up, there was a dense rain of arrows, which was released by Wenpin's technological light crossbow military Yuanrong. The overwhelming metal storm penetrated the human body like penetrating pieces of paper, and the advancing coalition forces were beaten to pieces of flesh and blood. Under the cover of the crossbow, Taishici's reserve troops rushed to the top of the city and launched a powerful and crazy counterattack, driving the remaining coalition forces down the city at once. Xia Houyuan, the vanguard general, was extremely angry about this. Next, he gathered 300 archers to shoot arrows at this section of the wall, and then half of the Taishici new army that rushed to the top of the city fell under the first wave of arrow rain.

Similar battles were staged no more than 100 times in the next five hours and at the collapsed walls. This short and fierce hand-to-hand battle made a large number of soldiers on both sides fall down quickly. In this case, it is difficult for personal courage to show his power. Although Gan Ning and Xia Houyuan are tens of thousands of enemies, they both stand firmly in the command position.

At this moment, they have no way out, let alone a comfortable rest.

The battle of one day and one night passed like this. When the sun rose as usual on the second day, the inside and outside of Xiangyang city exuded a strong sad atmosphere. The next day, when the enemy and I woke up with our hands rubbing our sore eyes, both physically and mentally exhausted, and no one had the strength to fight again. The lost troops on both sides exceeded the limit of the siege of this era. The bodies were piled up and down the walls, and the wounded fell to the ground and moaned, but no one cared. The ownerless horses wandered back and forth on the war horses, and the broken weapons were thrown all over the ground, and blood stained all the positions visible in the field.

Xiahouyuan looked at the tower that was still in Gan Ning's hands, and looked at the soldiers who were half exhausted and unable to fight again. His heart was cut like a knife, while Gan Ning was wrapped his arms, and his face was mud and blood. He could hardly see his true face, and he was also paraly on the tower listless.

Xia Houyuan's fierce generals cried with panic and burst into tears: "Your excellency, it's so miserable. The 300 brothers I brought out with my own hands. There were less than 30% left in the first battle yesterday. It's over, it's all over!"

"My lord, leave some seeds for our Jinfan Water Army. Let's run from the Three Gorges to the Yellow River, and then from Jizhou to Jingzhou. Up to now, is it possible that we all have to die in this Xiangyang City?" The old man in the Jinfan water army looked at fewer and fewer familiar faces and wept at Gan Ning.

How does the vanguard generals on both sides feel good? Seeing that the troops they brought up with one hand was more than one-third less in more than a day, and the wounded soldiers screamed in pain, but there were not enough military doctors to bandage them and not enough medicine to treat them, so they could only sit there and wait for death, which made it difficult for them to breathe.

However, the pleas of his subordinates and their own heartache can only make the devil of the war laugh. After the smoke dissipated, the drums of the siege sounded again. The two sides seemed to have no choice but to decide a winner except to grit their teeth and continue to fight!

"Military division, are Cao Cao and Sun Ce crazy?" Gan Ning listened to the sound of the siege golden drum from the opposite side, as if he had heard the strangest sound in his life. He roared and roared, "I have been guarding the city for several years, and I have never seen such a crazy and unreasonable sound!"

"It's really a little unreasonable." Guo Jia is familiar with military books and has already familiarizes with the routine of attacking the city. The continuous siege of the city is not without, but the continuous general attack, such as Cao Cao and Sun Ce, regardless of the waves and casualties, are completely unreasonable.

This completely strange way makes Guo Jia, who has always been unremanageable, uncertain about what the coalition is planning. However, Guo Jia knew that Gan Ning's one more day on the Xiangyang battlefield would consume the strength of the three armies of Liu, Sun and Cao. Yesterday's battle was very tragic, but the casualties of defending and attacking the city were very different. Nearly 20,000 soldiers were lost in one day and one night. Although they also lost nearly 4,000, it was generally in line with the loss ratio of siege.

"No matter how unreasonable the Cao and Sun families are this time, Xingba, remember that the crazier they are, the more we will stick to it. If we stick to it for one more day, there will be less pressure on the Lord's army in the future!" Listening to the shouts and golden drums of the city, Guo Jia said bluntly, "This time, we are going to fight with Cao Cao and Sun Ce, spend time with them, guard the strong city of Xiangyang, even if we grind them, we will wear out their blood, and break their claws!"

"I know!" With Guo Jia's instructions, Gan Ning seemed to have been beaten into chicken blood, and his face was flushed and roared, "Raise the banner of the Jinfan Army for me. I will fight with them today!"