If it is a heavy loss to capture Huguan, it is not a situation that the princes want to see, after breaking through Huguan, they will have to face Jinyang's Bingzhou army, and then it will definitely be another vicious battle.

Lu Bu raised his hand slightly and put it down abruptly.

Hao Meng had a hideous smile on his face and shouted, "Thunderbolt riders, let's go!" ”

Behind the Huguan, there were fifty thunderbolts, which were three times larger than ordinary ones, and there were hundreds of soldiers next to each of them.

Accompanied by Hao Meng's order, the thunderbolt rider let out a burst of shouting sounds, which seemed a little noisy to outsiders, but the soldiers who controlled the thunderbolt were able to accurately distinguish their own orders from it.

The boulder rose into the air as expected by the princes, and the princes' thunderbolts could reach a range of three hundred paces, and they believed that the Hezhou army, which had always been leading in this regard, was only strong and not weak, and the reason why their own thunderbolts were closer to Huguan was also to be able to inflict maximum casualties on the besieging princes' army.

However, the reality was beyond expectations, but dozens of even larger stones were seen coming towards the center of the thunderbolt procession that was slowly moving forward.

The boulder fell to the ground, splashing puffs of dust and smoke, mixed with the screams and exclamations of the soldiers.

A wave of boulders poured vigorously towards the princes' army outside Huguan, and the thunderbolt at the front of the princes' army just threw a round of boulders to the city wall, and then withstood the attack of the two-wheeled thunderbolt, which is also the advantage of having the terrain of Huguan, which can attack when the thunderbolt of the princes' army is in a state of preparation, which can not only make the soldiers of the princes' coalition army panic, but also greatly weaken the attack of the enemy's thunderbolt.

The continuous boulder attacks made the coalition soldiers panic, especially the ones in the middle, who did not expect that they could be attacked at a distance of four hundred paces from Huguan

Seeing the scene in front of them, Cao Cao and the other three looked at each other, and among the thunderbolts of the state army, there were thunderbolts with a range of 400 paces, and judging from the news from the battlefield, these stones were even more huge and caused more damage.

Zhuge Liang muttered: "It turns out that this line is actually used like this. ”

Zhuge Liang was keenly aware of the longer range of the thunderbolt, and the range happened to be near that somewhat special line.

Without receiving orders from above, the generals at the front of the battlefield constantly urged the soldiers under their command to advance, and the military orders were like a mountain, and on such a battlefield, if the orders and prohibitions could not be achieved, it would be difficult to form an effective attack.

After many years of war between the princes, the importance attached to the army made them not tolerate such a situation on the battlefield.

Under the absolute suppression of the Huguan Thunderbolt, the former army of the princes was in chaos, under the fierce attack of the Huguan defenders, in the face of the threat of life and death, they selectively forgot about military discipline, and what they wanted to do was how to save their lives on the chaotic battlefield.

"Order the army to continue to advance, and not to retreat, but those who retreat will be killed!" Cao Cao said coldly.

Human life is so fragile on such a battlefield, the princes' armies are completely using human lives to pile up a road to Huguan, and the boulders on both sides are still coming and going.

More often than not, however, the boulders from the Huguan were thrown into the camp of the princes, and the Thunderbolt riders of the Princes' coalition could only throw the boulders against the walls of the Huguan at most.

In the attack of the Thunderbolts, the two sides were not equal, and the combined state army, which had the advantage of terrain and range, did not let the Thunderbolts of the coalition forces throw the boulder to the gate.

When it comes to the Thunderbolt battle, the Thunderbolt riders of the Buck State Army show great skill, especially in terms of accuracy.

Although the princes' thunderbolt has reached three hundred paces in range, but in terms of accuracy compared to the state army, Hao Meng studied the thunderbolt car, and was very familiar with the characteristics of the thunderbolt car, and Hao Meng's favorite thing to do in ordinary times is to study the range and accuracy of the thunderbolt car.

The ordinary thunderbolt riders of the state army are definitely elite in the army of the princes.

After a day's siege, traces of boulders can be seen everywhere on the closing, and the boulders under the gate are even denser.

At night, the princes' thunderbolts did not stop, and the darkness gave them good cover, and the thunderbolt riders on the pot could only roughly aim at the thunderbolts outside the gate through the faint light of fire, and could not strike as accurately as the day.

The princes' tent was brightly lit, Cao Cao, who was at the top, frowned, and after a day's siege, the coalition army lost more than 60 planes just in the loss of the thunderbolt car, and the craftsmen who came with the army were building the thunderbolt car day and night.

The cost of attacking Huguan was so huge that the princes did not expect that in order to attack Huguan, the princes prepared 300 thunderbolt chariots, and it is said that so many thunderbolt chariots were enough to cover the army approaching Huguan and then attacking.

Although the power of the thunderbolt was great, the actual casualties caused to the siege soldiers were not very large.

"I don't want Lu Bu to have a thunderbolt with such a long range, judging from the news from the front of the battlefield, the thunderbolt with a range of 400 paces actually came from the rear of Huguan." Cao Cao said.

Sun Ce's face changed slightly, the range of the thunderbolt he had paid a huge price for was only two hundred steps at most, and the same was true for the bed crossbow, who would have thought that Lu Bu would have such a siege weapon, with such a city-defending weapon, it would be a little difficult for the soldiers to climb the Huguan.

"Either way, the pot must be broken." Yuan Shaodao, he understood that if the princes' attack on Huguan ended without a problem this time, the first unlucky person must be Jizhou.

In order to attack and merge the state, Jizhou did not hesitate to mobilize 60,000 troops, although Jizhou at this time was heavily guarded against Youzhou, once the princes retreated, they would face retaliation from Youzhou and Merge State.

Zhuge Liang, who had been silent behind Liu Bei, suddenly said: "Everyone, our side has gathered more than 100,000 people to attack Huguan, and the Bingzhou army is also mobilizing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to defend, Jinyang must be empty, if a cavalry is sent from Jizhou to enter Bingzhou, it will inevitably plunge Bingzhou into turmoil, so that the Bingzhou army will definitely not be able to care about each other."

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, and they were just thinking about how to break the pot pass from the front, so as to enter Jinyang, but they ignored this problem.

Cao Cao said with a smile: "This is very true, I can know where I can enter Jizhou from Jizhou?" ”

Yuan Shao was silent for a moment and said: "It is not impossible to enter Bingzhou from Jizhou, but the road from Jizhou to Bingzhou is narrow, and most of the people and horses cannot be allowed to pass. ”

Jizhou has always had a defensive attitude towards the state, and it is also guarding against the soldiers and horses from the state.

(End of chapter)