Chapter 196: An Awkward Siege Battle

Taking advantage of the morale of the moment when the flag of Longxi County was shot down, the troops of the ugly brother launched the first round of attacks, more than 2,000 sturdy men wearing heavy armor and carrying large shields similar to door panels, slowly moving in the direction of the city wall in a horizontal formation, dozens of mule-pulled carts loaded with sandbags, following the army and slowly advancing.

Ma Chao rode an elephant dragon and stood on a high place, coldly watching the officers and soldiers under his command move slowly, the ballista firing became more and more intense, the sound of piercing the air seemed to suppress everything in heaven and earth, and the whole battlefield spread with a disgusting smell of blood, which made Ma Chao frown slightly: although he was very accustomed to this kind of scene and taste, his keen sense always made him feel a little uncomfortable in his heart. After all, these are all human lives......

At this time, the ugly brother's infantry had approached the moat, and they took sandbags from those carts, and began to throw them into the moat under the cover of large shields.

'Plop...... Plop ......'

Bags of sand and dirt were thrown in, but there was not even a shadow to be seen, and the ugly brother relied on the efforts of the county soldiers on the city wall before he could react, and set up his horse to the moat to take a look: this water is really fucking deep!

At this moment, suddenly, and expectedly, a dense burst of bangs and gongs and drums sounded on the head of the city, and the magic head of the city that originally looked empty was surging, and a huge arrow as thick as an arm was ejected by the heavy crossbow arrows of the city head, instantly penetrating the bodies of the two shield-holding soldiers, nailing them to the ground, and the two soldiers wearing the big arrows were not dead for a while, and their hands and feet were moving around on the shaft of the arrow, and they couldn't stop struggling and shouting.

A deafening shout suddenly erupted on the head of the city, the sound shook for miles, and for a while it actually overshadowed the ballista and drum beat of Ma Jiajun, Ma Chao was startled, and the elephant dragon horse under the crotch was also very uneasy, and the front hooves were raised, almost throwing Ma Chao off the horse, fortunately, Ma Chao reacted quickly, grabbed the reins, and shouted softly: "I heard that Lu Bu's red rabbit is a mare......

With this sentence, the elephant dragon under Ma Chao's crotch immediately quieted down, and seemed to straighten his back, making Ma Chao sit more comfortably. And the other war horses all took the elephant dragon as the boss, and they all calmed down under the long neighing of the elephant dragon.

"Not bad...... After capturing Longxi County and taking a year or two, Dong Zhuo was almost killed by Lu Bu. At that time, Young Master Ben would definitely go to Chang'an to fish in troubled waters. As for whether you can hook the Chitu BMW, it depends on your charm......" Ma Chao said shyly in Xianglongma's ear, and Xianglongma seemed to be very annoyed that Ma Chao questioned its charm, shook his head, and the horsemane slapped Ma Chao's face.

"Ma Dai, let our ballista shoot at their mountain-destroying crossbows, and we must suppress their firepower!" Just kidding, if the high-tech weapon he worked so hard to develop was robbed of the limelight by this old-fashioned mountain-destroying crossbow, Ma Chao decided to simply hit his head and die!

And Ma Dai's little face turned red, and he shouted angrily: "Shoot, shoot for the master!" Shoot at their crossbow and show them how good our arsenal is! ”

The entire artillery crossbow team was also stimulated by the county soldiers in Longxi County, and all the soldiers who filled the crossbow arrows were obviously twice as fast as before, and the crossbowmen who were responsible for firing were also constantly adjusting their positions during the shooting, until they aimed at the crossbow platform in Longxi County.

"Whoosh... Sou... Whoosh..."

Another round of arrow rain shot over, and the sky seemed to rain arrows, fiercely suppressing the mountain-destroying crossbow on the county town of Longxi. Many crossbowmen were shot by Ma Jiajun's ballistas, and with a rain of blood, they fell from the city.

At this moment, the morale of the ugly brother's subordinates recovered, and he hurriedly carried sandbags and continued to throw them into the moat. But the ugly brother shouted and galloped, urging his rabbits to be faster.

But the scene after that made Ma Chao a little dumbfounded. The soldiers in Longxi County seemed to have received orders from their superiors, braving the rain of crossbow arrows, carrying pieces of door panels from nowhere and erecting them on the crossbow platform. As a result, the county soldiers who destroyed the mountain were protected and began to shoot back at the city with impunity!

'What a morale, what a good soldier, what a brilliant idea!' Ma Chao was shocked in his heart: he used all the ballistas this time, and if it was replaced by ordinary counties, it would have been broken a long time ago. But the county soldiers of Longxi County, after being shot and killed a lot of robes, still did not have any of them. In addition, they can resolutely carry out the orders of their superiors. Such a county soldier, in terms of his military quality, is no worse than the Ma family's army.

What worries Ma Chao even more is the commander of the city head of Longxi County. This person must have great prestige and extremely excellent combat adaptability, and he didn't panic in a desperate situation, and immediately thought of a way to dismantle the door panel as a protective shield. Although this approach may seem humiliating, it is undoubtedly the most effective.

Who is this man? Ma Chao scratched his head, he really couldn't think of anyone in Yongliang Erzhou, except for Jia Xu and Yang Fu, who had such ability!

But just when Ma Chao was thinking, the momentum of the defenders on the city wall of Longxi County to fight back increased again: with the protection of the door panel, the crossbowmen on the city wall no longer had to worry about it, and shot fiercely at the city. Although the door panel blocked the view, they were all excellent and experienced crossbowmen, and with their previous impressions, they began to shoot indiscriminately after slightly adjusting the angle of the mountain-destroying crossbow.

There were about 1,500 infantry under the ugly brother, and they were spread out in a circle of moats, which seemed to be very dense. The crossbowmen in the city could barely take aim and catch a few people. It caused heavy pressure on the Ma family sword and shield soldiers under the city, and in just a few breaths, many gaps immediately appeared in the originally neat queue, and countless Ma family soldiers lay in a pool of blood moaning and crawling.

And the ugly brother immediately discovered this problem, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to spread out in formation. In this way, these veterans, with their years of combat experience, skillfully ran back and forth along the route where they had already shot crossbow arrows, and still threw sandbags into the moat like old scalpers.

At this time, there was a very embarrassing scene on the battlefield: the crossbow arrows of the Ma family army under the city were like raindrops, so that the county soldiers in the city could not raise their heads, but they failed to shoot a few county soldiers; And although the county soldiers in the city are all clever and can fight back, they are not accurate, and they just shoot blindly by feeling......

For a while, the crossbow arrows flew back and forth, so it was not lively. But Ma Chao's face turned purple with anger: These crossbow arrows are all money! This is really a fucking war of attrition, whoever has more fucking money will have the last laugh?

Hurriedly asked his own soldiers to send a message to Ma Dai: "Don't shoot so hard, as long as you can suppress those soldiers in Longxi County and dare not show their heads...... Let's come out this time, we don't have many crossbow arrows, and we can't afford such a waste. ”

Ma Chao was like this, and the unknown enemy general on the city wall seemed to have thought of this, and seemed to have given an order for the crossbowman to shoot in moderation.

After a stick of incense, there was a short funny scene on the battlefield: the two groups of people seemed to be fooling each other, shooting a few rounds of fierce arrows, and then relaxing for a while. Anyway, it was probably because Ma Jiajun's shooting was slow, and the soldiers of Longxi County on the city wall moved the door panel to take a look at it, and after aiming at the target, they shot hard. And once the shooting on the city wall is enjoyable, Ma Jiajun will hurry up here to shoot a round of fierce shots and suppress it......

This battle made the besieging side uncomfortable, and the defender was also uncomfortable. Ma Chao looked at the sun as if it was about to set, and planned to ask his subordinates to withdraw his troops: Damn, I'm too breathless, I won't play with you!