Chapter 154: The Comeback
The rain was pouring down, and the Yellow Turban Thieves slowly approached the city in the mud.
A look of hideousness flashed across Zhang Bao's face.
Their brother is a giant deer man, and he knows the weather very well here, and he also knows that there will be heavy rain today.
Pei Yuanshao said that Guo Jia's crockpot needs to be ignited by an open flame, and it will be greatly discounted once it rains.
God-given opportunity, there was heavy rain in the past two days, and Zhang Bao immediately decided to lead the army to attack the city.
After the last fiasco, the morale of the Yellow Turban Army was very low, and they were not willing to brave the rain to attack the city.
Zhang Bao had to tell them half-coaxing and half-deceiving that this rain was a gift from the Yellow Sky God, and as long as there was this rain, any of Guo Jia's spells would not be good.
The Yellow Turban Army was also half-convinced, and walked forward in fear.
Get ready for battle!
Yu Ban led the soldiers to hurry to the city.
Attacking the city in the rain is a taboo for soldiers.
Although he didn't know which tendon was wrong with the Yellow Turban Army, Yu Ban was still ready quickly.
On rainy days, fire oil and other items to defend the city are useless, and the power of arrows is greatly reduced, and the only thing that can be used is rolling stones and wood.
Fortunately, there was plenty of preparation during this time, and the city was full of rolling stones and trees.
Guo Jia's gun carriage is only suitable for throwing crockcans, not for throwing heavy objects, and under heavy rain, crockpot bombs are not used at all, so they are not useful.
Soon, the army of the Yellow Turbans pushed under the city walls.
Seeing that the golden-armored god general guarding the city did not show up, and there was no thunder or fire, these people felt a little more at ease.
Attack!
Zhou Cang below shouted, and the vanguard rushed up clumsily carrying a ladder on the muddy road.
This time, Zhang Bao only left Pei Yuanshao's 3,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry reserves behind, and the rest were put into siege warfare.
He's going to fight to decide the winner.
Raining down on a city is hard, but it also has benefits, and it can reduce bow damage by at least half.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Yu Ban pulled out his long knife and roared angrily.
In this day and age, bows and arrows are still the most effective ranged weapons.
Whoosh!
The eight hundred archers at the head of the city were divided into two rounds and fired arrows in turn.
Although the heavy rain affected the accuracy of the arrows, many Yellow Turban thieves still fell to the ground with arrows, and blood flowed down the rain into the moat.
"The first one to set foot on the city, a reward of thousands of gold, Feng Qu Shuai!"
Zhang Bao took the opportunity to shout.
There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, hearing these words, the spirit of the yellow turban thieves was shocked, and the momentum became more violent.
Yu Ban's tall body stood on top of the city, he was like a statue, let the wind and rain blow without shaking at all, without even blinking his eyelids.
"Archers scattered left and right, free fire, gunners!"
He waved the flag in his hand.
It was a little difficult to shout in the heavy rain, so Yu Ban commanded with a command flag.
The archers scattered, each looking for a target to scatter.
The team of short guns stepped forward and threw one short snatch after another.
Ahhh
Countless yellow turban thieves were pierced by short spears and fell to the ground.
At the interrupted distance, the lethality of the short gun is still very considerable, and the simple shield of the Yellow Turban Army cannot be blocked at all, and the impact of rainy weather on the throwing gun is not great.
Therefore, Yu Ban immediately adjusted his strategy, focusing on throwing spears and supplemented by archers, killing and injuring the enemy at medium and long ranges.
Short spears flew, constantly nailing the Yellow Turban Thief to the ground.
Six hundred gunners fired a salvo of six hundred short guns. Each person has a pouch on their back, and there are ten short guns with special characteristics in it.
That is, they are capable of throwing up to ten rounds.
It's not that Yu Ban is unwilling to increase the ammunition of the throwing team, but throwing is a hard work, and throwing ten rounds in a row is basically the limit of these people.
Ten rounds of projection, 6,000 short guns were thrown, bringing a large area of damage to the Yellow Turban Thief.
But it still failed to stop the Yellow Turban Thieves from advancing.
The vanguard troops braved the rain of arrows and spears to the edge of the city wall, and the cloud echelon immediately set up the cloud ladder, and many people climbed up one after another.
"Stand down, Rolling Stones!"
The ban flag was displayed again.
The exhausted squad of Lancers withdrew from the battlefield, and they needed to rest for a while before they could fight again.
Countless rolling stones and logs were transported to the city, and were mercilessly thrown down by the soldiers who defended the city.
Rolling stones from top to bottom have always been a nightmare for siege soldiers.
Many people died under this round of attacks.
The rain was pouring down, and the flesh was flying.
There's a kind of excitement called blood madness.
Both anti-reverse forces have played real fire, and the ranged units of the Yellow Turban Thieves have also caused a lot of damage to the soldiers defending the city. However, the defenders still have the advantage by virtue of the advantage of the city.
But the Yellow Turban Thieves' attack methods are not only that.
"Hit the wall!"
Zhou Cang ordered the flag to be displayed, and more than a dozen crashing cars slowly rushed to the front of the city wall.
Knock knock!
It was a crash made of giant wood, and it was designed to hit the enemy's gates and earthen walls.
On rainy days, the earthen walls are very soft after being penetrated by rain, and there is a high chance that they will be destroyed if they are hit by a crash car continuously.
Once the walls are destroyed and the Yellow Turbans rush in, it turns into hand-to-hand combat.
In hand-to-hand combat, the Yellow Turban Thief, who has the advantage in numbers, has an advantage.
If it is a sunny day, the defending side can destroy the enemy's crash car with fire oil rockets and other objects.
But now it's a rainy day, and the defenders are simply at a loss.
Once the walls are destroyed, the entire city will be infiltrated by the Yellow Turban Thieves.
Nangong County was originally a county town in disrepair, and the city walls were already dilapidated, and they couldn't last long in heavy rain.
At this moment, there was a bang, and a corner of the city wall finally collapsed.
The shouts of the Yellow Turban thieves were heard everywhere.
They were already red-eyed, and when they saw a gap in the wall, they immediately rushed in with a shout.
"Break the camp, quickly go and plug the gap!"
Yu Ban at the head of the city immediately issued an order.
The Broken Battalion is the hoplite under Yu Ban, and its combat effectiveness is the strongest in the Zhongshan Legion.
Hearing Yu Ban's shout, the soldiers of the 100-camp rushed over without saying a word.
With the addition of a hundred heavy infantry, the defenders blocked the Yellow Turban thieves who were swarming in.
However, this is not the end, and the city walls have also been loosened in many places.
What to do?
Guo Jia kept walking around, letting the heavy rain fall on him.
This is the first crisis he has encountered since his debut.
It's a real crisis.
He never expected that the Yellow Turban Thieves would have insight into the secret of the crockpot bomb, so they chose to attack the city on a rainy day.
The crockpot bomb has always been Guo Jia's killer weapon, and it is with this sharp weapon that Guo Jia can make hundreds of thousands of yellow turban thieves disappear in Jizhou with a snap of his fingers.
But once he loses this advantage, this time in the face of the attack of seventy or eighty thousand yellow turban thieves, he will not have any advantage.
Not only that, but it will also cost you your life.
No matter how good his soldiers are, it is impossible to defeat the main force of the Yellow Turbans, which is ten times the strength of the troops.