Sure enough, Lu Bu crushed the wind paper in his hand, and said coldly to Xu Rong: "General Xu, prepare to attack the city!" ”

Lu Bu only had 10,000 foot soldiers under his command, and the remaining 30,000 were all wolf riders from Bingzhou. And Xu Rong's men, among the 7,000 soldiers and horses, there were also 2,000 cavalry. Both of them knew that it was a bit whimsical to use cavalry to break through the dock.

This is not to say that cavalry cannot attack cities, in fact, most of the siege battles are often the indomitable charge of cavalry. But this requires the premise that the gates have been breached or are about to be breached. Otherwise, the knight on his horse looked at the enemy on the wall of the city several feet high, and had no other purpose than to be a swimming target...... Unless, these cavalrymen have excellent running skills and can shoot at the enemy troops on the city walls.

But in fact, all the generals knew that the Han people were indeed inferior to the nomads who grew on horseback in terms of riding and archery. Not to mention that it is difficult to aim at the target in mounted archery, it is also difficult for soldiers to balance on horseback with unilateral stirrups in the Han Dynasty. Because of this, whether the Han people were dealing with the nomadic tribes such as the Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Karasuma, they always used a mixed military formation of infantry and cavalry to learn from each other's strengths.

Therefore, Lu Bu immediately ordered his private soldiers under Wang Yun to form a siege force to test the defense of the dock. Under the front finger of the long whip, the siege vanguard shouted in unison, the snare drum thundered, and a team of 1,000 people began to shout and advance, each holding a shield and a ring-headed sword, protecting the multi-driving ladder and rushing towards the city wall.

In ancient times, it was very convenient to manufacture ladders, and they were generally made of local materials and cut down trees to tie them. Although the quality is difficult to guarantee and the safety is very low, when did you take these trivial matters into account in the war?

Dodging the dense rain of arrows from the city, the thousand men, after paying two hundred dead and wounded, finally leaned the ladders against the city wall and began to climb upward, while another twenty or thirty men pushed the chariots to the city gate, and the sound of the great impact overpowered the sound of war drums and trumpets. But before it could hit a few times, the war drums in the city sounded, the rolling logs and rocks fell like rain, those cloud ladders were also pushed down by the rejection poles, and the body of Sergeant Lu Bu fell from mid-air, the flesh and blood were blurred, and the rushing car was also smashed by the boulders.

Seeing these scenes, Lu Bu and Xu Rong both looked indifferent, without the slightest nervous expression. Then the sound of gold sounded, and the sergeants gradually retreated: most of them had not yet climbed upward, and there were not as many wounded as they had imagined.

This is just a little appetizer at the beginning, Lu Bu, Xu Rong, and Ma Chao, Li Ru, Gao Shun, Man Chong, Han Feng and others who are standing on the wall of the dock at this time all know this.

Sure enough, in less than a moment, the second wave of the siege of Lu Bu's army began again, and just like the first siege, the city also began to fight back.

This temptation has gone back and forth more than 20 times, all of which have been superficial, and Ma Chao in the city is also very cautious and has not abused wood and stone. And when it was almost dawn, Lu Bu's army launched a fierce attack, the offensive was in full swing, and the soldiers sacrificed their lives to climb upward, and even climbed the city wall and launched a bloody battle in the city, but in the end, under the protection of Gao Shun's trapped camp, Lu Bu's army was still defeated and retreated.

However, then, Gao Shun's face changed when he was always staring at the battlefield, he was the most calm among the generals under Ma Chao, but at this time, he couldn't help but say with a hint of trembling: "Lord, look, they actually have catapults!" ”

Ma Chao's face turned pale, and then he became indifferent again, and said: "Liu Xie, Liu Xie, I really underestimated you......."

Gao Shun saw that Ma Chao didn't have the heart to answer his question, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Li Ru. And Li Ru pulled his beard and said: "There is Beiyuan in the palace, where the forbidden army is stationed, and there are only ordinary equipment in it, and it is impossible to have such siege things." But two miles away from the palace, there is also the royal Shanglin Garden, where it is the ordnance manufacturing office. From this point of view, Lu Bu is just delaying time and waiting for the arrival of these trebuchets! Lu Bu and Xu Rong, the two of them really have some means! ”

But after hearing this, Ma Chao's expression remained unchanged. Staring at the west in the distance: Fa Zheng, Lu Bu has wasted more than an hour, if I find that you have not arrived at the dock in the next hour, then you will completely break away from the core of the Ma family!

At first glance, the dozen or so catapults were not made in a hurry, and listening to the rumbling sound, you could also guess that they were the fine products made by the craftsmen of Shanglin Yuan who had studied for a long time. After almost three hundred paces away from the dock, the catapults stopped, and with an order from Lu Bu, huge boulders rose into the air and smashed heavily on the city wall.

Although Dong Fatzi built the city high and deep in the dock, it is comparable to the first fortress of the Han Dynasty. But under the sudden blow of such siege weapons, it seemed to shake slightly: although the city wall was not shaken at all, the scene of rubble splashing on the city tower and everyone running and howling always made people think that the city wall was indeed trembling in the whistling.

At this time, Ma Chao's eyes shrank slightly, and he saw the flesh and blood flying from the boulder's smash, and then the defenders on the city wall braved the arrows and began to use their crossbows to fire rockets that ignited pine oil at the enemy. Ma Chao knows that in fact, this is also his luck. Because although his ancestral home is Fufeng Maoling County, in the eyes of these surrendered Xiliang soldiers, he is actually a Xiliang person, and emotionally, it is easier to accept himself.

In addition, earlier, under Li Ru's strategy and Dong Zhuo's connivance, these Xiliang soldiers had a forbearance of hatred with Lu Bu's Bingzhou army. If other people had come to attack the dock, they wouldn't have been so desperate. But it was precisely in the direction of the other party's main general that a big 'Lu' flag fluttered, and from this, they learned that in the case of no way to survive, they did not need Ma Chao to deliberately encourage, so they forgot their lives and forgot to fight with the enemy army besieging the city.

But it's a pity that although the powerful crossbow on the wall of the dock is violent, it is not the mountain-destroying crossbow improved by the Ma family. In addition, because it was difficult to aim, it only destroyed less than half of the trebuchets of Lu Bu's army. However, the flames were raging, and the fierce Xiliang soldiers still shot the forward positions of Lu Bu's army to pieces, with black blood and bones.

Under the cover of the catapult, Lu Bujun pushed the arrow tower again, carrying the ladder to attack the city again, although the height of the arrow tower is not as high as the city wall, but it can barely resist the counterattack of the strong crossbow, the sharp arrows of both sides cut through the beautiful arc in the air, through the sturdy flesh, splashing dazzling blood. Blood, just like that, spilled in front of the city walls.

And when Lu Bujun climbed the city wall again, Ma Chao said in a tone without the slightest emotion: "Let Zhang Liao and Xu Huang prepare to attack.......

Gao Shun wanted to warn him again, but he saw that there were not many soldiers on the city wall who could stand at this time, and Lu Bu's side no longer left any room for attack. He had to grit his teeth and flee the city wall with the trapped camp, preparing to set up a simple battle formation at the city gate after Zhang Liao and Xu Huang sent out their troops.

Although, he also knew, that battle array would not have much effect on the tens of thousands of cavalry that suddenly came in. But he resolutely chose to do so: because he is a soldier who is truly loyal to his duty and honor! And the trapped camp under his command is still being recited by people thousands of years later because of this!