Chapter 32 Enemy's Murderer Yuan Shu's Defeat 2
The retreat of the soldiers in the front camp of the Yizhou Army made Wen Chou, Gao Lan, and Ji Ling had no choice. However, in the face of ruthless flames, they can only let the soldiers evacuate the dangerous and deadly fire area and temporarily retreat to the safe area.
In this fierce battle, the two sides suffered casualties. There were nearly 10,000 soldiers in Xiliang and nearly 10,000 soldiers in Yizhou, which was basically a one-to-one casualty ratio.
The siege was not as smooth as expected, which made Yuan Shu, who watched the battle from a distance, feel unhappy and angry. His soldiers fought bravely enough, but the tenacious resistance of the Xiliang soldiers was beyond his imagination: this showed that the morale of the Xiliang soldiers was still high and did not fall apart because of yesterday's fiasco. Yesterday, Cao Jun's stone throwing machine only damaged the number of Xiliang soldiers, and did not destroy the confidence and courage of Xiliang soldiers.
Guo Yan, who watched the battle in the gate tower, was also dissatisfied with the previous battle: Cao Jun's stone-throwing machine was temporarily paralyzed and did not participate in the siege battle. According to common sense, the casualty ratio between the defending side and the attacking side is one to five, while the reality of one to one makes it difficult for Guo Wei to pick up. Accept.
However, when Guo Yan saw Yuan Shu's dim face in the distance, his mind suddenly balanced. The opponent's frustration was, of course, the reason for his happiness, and a little smile squeezed out from the corners of his mouth.Although it was a kilometer apart, Yuan Shu still caught a smile from the corners of his opponent's mouth. Although he knew that Guo Yan had deliberately done it, the arrogant Yuan Shu was still very angry.
Yuan Shu took a look at the raging fire under the root of the wall, and then looked at the shield array, bow and arrow battalion and cloud convoy outside the flames: the arrows of the two sides were intertwined over the fire, as if a black cloud covering the city.
Yuan Shu turned his head and looked at the local high platform near the gate of the camp. His young Cao Cao was still sitting firmly in the same place, with no expression on his face and no waves in the ancient well.
Today, before Yuan Shu led the army to attack the city, Cao Cao took the initiative to ask for long-range attack assistance with a continuous stone thrower, but it took half a day, because Cao Jun had no stones in his hand and needed to be transported from the stone field.
The arrogant Yuan Shu refused Cao Cao's kindness. Yuan Shu wants to break through the city by himself, and his popularity must surpass Cao Cao. He wants Cao Cao to know that no matter what tricks and strategies Cao Cao has, he can't surpass him. He wants to prove to Yuan Shao with his outstanding achievements: the Yuan family of the third princes of the fourth generation is the pillar, and a person born of a concubine is not worth mentioning!
Although Yuan Shao has a higher reputation than Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao was indeed born of theft, and Yuan Shu was born to his father's original match. From childhood to age, Yuan Shao has always performed better than Yuan Shu, which makes Yuan Shu unbearable at any time.
And Yuan Shu, who presided over the siege today, is bound to break the unbreakable record of ancient Chang'an,
This is a good opportunity for him to surpass his brother Yuan Shao, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
As long as you want to capture the east of Chang'an City, this ancient city will belong to Yuan Shu's territory. This is not to say that Yuan Shu is ambitious, but what the current situation determines: in today's world, the most powerful thing is not the emperor, but the imperial relatives and eunuchs. In the pyramid of power, people like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, who are born and have strong power can only be in the middle of the pyramid, and their influence is far less than that of the emperor's relatives and eunuchs. .
Of course, the situation is changing rapidly. Yuan Shu also knows this change: as long as the king of Qin's rebellious war is won and the Xiliang Legion is eliminated, the situation in the world will change fundamentally, especially the full power pyramid will also follow the qualitative changes.
Specifically, as long as Yuan Shu personally breaks through the city in the east of the city, he will settle down with great achievements. In the end, the senior officials of the allied forces will reward him for his achievements in Chang'an City. Give Chang'an City to Cao Cao and Gongsun Zan, and they dare not take it. After all, Chang'an City is far away from their base camp.
Yuan Shao did not dare to ask for it. After all, Yuan Shao's strategic intentions are in the Luoyang City area.
It seemed that Yuan Shu's sincere wish touched the sky. The original northwest wind strangely turned into an east wind. At this time, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and there were strange thunderstorms. Lightning and thunder should not appear in this season.
After a few lightning thunders, it rained cats and dogs from the dark clouds.
Yuan Shu, who has always paid attention to the style of life, felt happy for the first time in the wind, rain, thunder and lightning. For the first time, he felt that God finally favored him once, and God finally appeared.
In the wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the flames under the towering walls were extinguished. The pouring rain can't cover the strong smell of barbecue and blood.
At this time, Tai Shici and his party, who visited the continuous stone thrower in Cao's position, suffered. Originally, the life-threatening fight hundreds of meters away did not affect their actions. For them, the fight close at hand is just a storm thousands of miles away. Wind, rain, thunder and lightning raids, Tai Shici and other martial artists can withstand it, and those two equipment craftsmen can't hold it.
Fortunately, what they want, such as the structure of the continuous stone thrower, the materials used, the secrets of key parts and other data and information, have been fully grasped.
Due to the urgency of the matter, after Taishi Ci shouted hello to Cao Ren, who accompanied him, he stayed alone in Cao's camp and sent Yan Yun four riders to escort two equipment craftsmen back to the Allied camp in the north of the city.
And Yuan Shu, who presided over the war, did not mean to leave.
"Cock" all over, and a flash of lightning flashed in Yuan Shu's eyes. In the face of the good opportunity, Yuan Shu swept away his decadent mood and raised the red triangle flag in his hand again with a resolute expression.
When the main drummer of the war drum camp at the gate of the camp saw the red triangle flag held high by Yuan Shu, he accelerated the rhythm of beating the war drums again. Hundreds of war drums sounded together, and the sound of the drums became more and more magnificent, which was extremely spectacular.
In the front position, the three fierce generals, Wen Chou, Gao Lan and Ji Ling, heard the sound of the drums urging the battle. They fiercely glanced at the root of the wall that was smoking, and then raised the red triangle flag indicating the attack.
"Brothers, give it to me! Break through the city and slaughter the city for three days..." Wen Chou roared at all the Yizhou soldiers.
"Fight! Go!" Tens of thousands of Yizhou soldiers shouted in unison and ran quickly to the towering wall. It seems that the root of the city wall is no longer a Shura field, no longer a place for life and death, but a happy nest, a land of gentleness and wealth.
The magnificent mountains and rivers of the siege are like huge waves beating the wall, and the soldiers defending the west of the city give full play to their tough nature and stubbornly resist the enemy's attack. They are also fierce and fierce.
Arrows all over the sky roaring in the air; Yizhou soldiers climbed the city wall like ants with the help of ladders and stones, and the soldiers in Xiliang poured down all kinds of city defense equipment...
In the earth-shocking fighting, he bled, injured, died, and became the protagonist of the battlefield. The strange wind, rain, thunder and lightning also have no choice but to become a supporting role.
The plagiarism shown by the inferior Xiliang generals and soldiers, which makes Yuan Shu feel puzzled. As the same commander, Cao Cao understands the reason: Xiliang generals and soldiers have been in the desert Gobi for many years. They have been trained hard and loyal to the country, but they often suffer from fraud and deductions. Later, under the leadership of the leader Dong Zhuo, they entered Beijing. The Xiliang generals of the division of tigers and wolves in the prosperous city were psychologically unbalanced, so they fiercely targeted the civil and military officials and treated the people of Kyoto cruelly, so as to vent their anger.
A few years later, their former resentment still remains their psychology: they would rather die in battle than return to the desolate and barren desert Gobi...
A group of Xiliang soldiers fell under the enemy's arrow rain, and a group of Xiliang soldiers clenched their teeth from the Tibetan soldiers' cave, rushed from the camp in the city to the city wall, and cooperated with the city's defense equipment to resist the enemy's crazy attack.
Time passes irreversably in battle. Time will not stop because of bloodshed and death. Just as no matter how beautiful things end, near the evening, the shocking siege is over.
Under the resistance of the fierce Xiliang soldiers, the Yizhou army's siege failed. At this time, the heavy rain stopped at the same time.
Yuan Shu's face was blue, and his lips were bitten. But he had to accept the reality of the failure of the siege: although it was helpful, the final victory still belonged to the defenders. He had no reason to blame his soldiers for their incombatability. Under the wall, the bodies of Yizhou soldiers were everywhere, overlapping. There are also hundreds of corpses of winged state soldiers lying in the middle of the arrow piles of the city wall...
In the anger and humiliation, Yuan Shu unwillingly raised the black flag to stop the attack.
At the end of a day's fierce battle, the original camp in Yizhou has become sparse and bright. The beating drums suddenly stopped. Wen Chou, Gao Lan and Ji Ling, like gamblers who failed to gamble, leading thousands of depressed soldiers back to the camp.
Cao Cao, who had been watching in the rain, flashed with a smile in his eyes. Then, he left the local high platform with a sad expression. On the way back to the barracks, Dian Wei couldn't help muttering, "Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu, you also have today... Stealing chickens can't eat rice. The flower monk didn't attract her, so she put on the flower watch sister-in-law for nothing... hey hey."
Cao Cao did not blame Dian Wei's gloating this time. As he walked, he buried his head and continued to smile. On the surface, it seems that Cao Cao is hiding from the rain.
As an attacker, Yuan Shu lost more than 30,000 troops, and as a defense of the city, Guo Yan also injured 30,000 enemies and injured himself 30,000. As the defenders of the city, although they have successfully repelled the enemy's attack, the one-to-one casualty ratio, even if it is a victory, can only be a tragic victory.
Even if it was a tragic victory, when Guo Yan saw the enemy camp staggering back in the mud, they showed a ferocious smile on their faces. As the main general, Guo Yan suddenly felt the heaviness and depression in his heart swept away, and his body became light in an instant. He led his entourage to leave the gate tower and return to the mansion.
The battle is in their expectation. As long as they can resist the enemy's tomorrow's attack, the balance of victory will tilt towards them.
Tomorrow, we will definitely face the siege of the Cao army. Tomorrow, can the Xiliang soldiers resist the attack of the Cao army's powerful and domineering continuous stone throwers? What does the Xiliang soldiers take to resist? Use JJ?!