334 breaks through the turtle formation
The power of the explosion far exceeded the expectations of Xun Yu, Cao Hong and others, and two hundred thunderbolts exploded one after another, and the entire city gate was blown apart, and the soldiers in the city gate were even more blurred by the explosion, and even the earth was shaken by the thunderbolt bomb.
The smoke was thick near the city gate, and the soldiers above the tower were also overturned by the shock wave from the explosion, and there was a buzzing in their ears, and they could only see everyone open their mouths, but they could not hear any sound.
The city gate was in shambles, the limbs of the soldiers were even more fragmented, blood was splattered everywhere, and stone chips and wood chips could be seen everywhere.
Xun Yu was completely shocked, he never thought that the enemy's weapon was so powerful, if the enemy kept attacking with this weapon, even if there were millions of heroes, he might not be able to resist it!
At this moment, Zhang Yan's army began to act, Gan Ning took advantage of the smoke on the city tower, and jumped into the moat with a hundred water-based relatively haode soldiers, swam to the opposite bank as fast as possible, and then cut the cable on the suspension bridge with a knife, and the suspension bridge fell directly, with a loud bang, it was erected on the moat, fortunately, the suspension bridge was intact and could be used by the army to pass.
"Meritorious achievements are today, everyone is rushing with me!" When Zhang Yan saw the drawbridge falling, he immediately pulled out the saber in his waist, rode on the dark cloud snowhorse, and waved the saber forward, and shouted loudly.
As soon as the words fell, Zhang Yan took the lead, taking the lead, riding a dark cloud and stepping on a snow horse and rushed towards the suspension bridge, and the three generals Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, and Zhang Liao behind him also rode their horses and galloped wildly, and the rest of the cavalry let out a completely earth-shattering shout.
After Ganning cut the drawbridge. So he took the hundred and rushed directly into the door of the Suzaku Gate. But I saw that there were corpses all over the ground in the doorway of the Suzaku Gate. The flesh and blood were blurred, and it was already a mess, but there was not a single enemy in sight.
As soon as he rushed out of the door hole of the Vermilion Bird Gate, hundreds of arrows suddenly shot down like a raging storm, and Gan Ning, who was rushing to the front, was caught off guard for a while, and an arrow was shot in his left arm, and blood flowed. And the soldiers around him died a large part, and of the hundred soldiers who came with him, only a few were left at this time, and each of them suffered arrow wounds of varying severity.
The enemy's arrows were fired very violently, one cluster just fell, and the other flew over, and Gan Ning had to order a retreat and retreat to the door of the Suzaku Gate.
At this time, Zhang Yan rode his horse and galloped. Seeing that Gan Ning was injured, most of the rest were killed by arrows. The ground was full of arrows, and it was already known that the enemy was already on guard.
Seeing Zhang Yan's arrival, Gan Ning hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects, and said with a guilty face: "Regent, the enemy army doesn't know when they have retreated into the urn city, the city wall is full of archers, and the last general is incompetent and failed to successfully attack the city......
Zhang Yan reined in his horse and said to Gan Ning: "I don't blame you, I can only say that the enemy's reaction is very fast......"
As soon as the words fell, Zhang Yan turned his horse's head and stopped the army that followed him.
Since the enemy army is hiding in the urn city, then blow up the urn city, no matter how many city gates you have, they will all be blown open, under the fierce attack of the thunderbolt, no one will want to stop Zhang Yan's footsteps!
Soon, under the command of Zhang Yan, Gao Shun sent people to send a hundred thunderbolts from the military array outside the city, and Zhang Yan selected a hundred people who dared to die and gave them this glorious and arduous task.
Zhang Yan said solemnly to the hundred brave soldiers: "The city wall is full of enemy archers, so to speak, the enemy is attacking from three sides, so this time, you should pay more attention to the attack on both flanks, at all costs, pile these thunderbolts at the gate of the urn city, and then when you retreat, throw the torches over, light those thunderbolts, and the task will be completed." ”
The hundred daring men all nodded heavily, and said in unison: "Regent, please rest assured, we will definitely complete this task." ”
After saying that, everyone prepared one after another, each carrying a shield, one holding a thunderbolt, and then a hundred soldiers all huddled together, and covered their bodies with the shields in their hands, like a turtle shell, airtight.
So, the hundred soldiers began to move forward slowly, and after exiting the opening of the Suzaku Gate, clusters of arrows shot at them, clanging sounds, and all of them were blocked out of the shield.
The 100 soldiers relied on their shields to form a turtle formation, slowly moving forward, looking through the gap between the shields to see the situation ahead.
Arrows rained down on the walls of the urn city, but they were all blocked by this turtle array, and the turtle array approached the gate of the urn city little by little.
On the tower of the city of Wengcheng, after Cao Hong saw such a situation, he turned his head to Xun Yu and said, "Don't drive your lord, what should I do now?" ”
Xun Yu frowned tightly, there was no way to defend this turtle formation, the weapons used to defend against the enemy army were all stacked on the tower of the Vermilion Bird Gate, since the Vermilion Bird Gate was blown open, Xun Yu immediately made a decision, and let people retreat into the urn city, wanting to use this to snipe the enemy and hold the city.
However, when Xun Yu saw this turtle formation appear, he could immediately understand what these people were here for, they were huddled under the wall composed of shields, and they must have been holding the extremely powerful "fire thunder", trying to blow open the city gate again.
"Don't drive your lord, these people must want to come to break through the city gate, the Suzaku Gate is gone, and the city gate of the urn city must not be lost again!" Cao Hong saw that Xun Yu was indifferent, so he said anxiously.
Xun Yu said: "You're right, you must not let the urn city fall again, you must defend the urn city at all costs!" ”
As soon as the words fell, Xun Yu glanced at the slowly moving turtle formation under the urn city again, turned his head and said to Cao Hong: "General Cao, please lead the cavalry out to break through them, and I will command the archers to shoot them all!" ”
"Whoa!" Cao Hong answered, turned around and went down the city tower, gathered fifty cavalrymen, personally mounted the horse, and ordered someone to open the city gate.
At this time, the archers on the walls of the city also stopped shooting, and under the command of Xun Yu, a thousand archers were all ready to shoot with their bows full, aiming at the turtle formation.
The gate of the urn city suddenly opened, Cao Hong took the lead, took the lead, rushed out of the gate of the urn city directly, and rushed towards the turtle formation with a spear, and behind him, it was followed by fifty cavalry, all of whom were killed mightily.
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, Cao Hong's war horse directly hit the turtle formation, knocking the turtle formation that was moving forward to the ground, and the shield array was suddenly scattered by the impact, and a group of people were on all fours.
Before those who had fallen to the ground could get up, a thousand archers saw the right moment on the walls of the city and shot their arrows one after another.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"
A series of arrows whistled towards the Han soldiers who formed the turtle formation, and seventy or eighty of the hundred soldiers were shot by arrows, and their bodies were full of arrows, and they were immediately killed, and some other Han soldiers were not spared, and they were all killed by Cao Hong and the cavalry led by Cao Hong.
In just a moment, the 100 brave men of the Han army were all wiped out, and a hundred thunderbolts rolled directly to the ground.
At this moment, a Han soldier who was not dead held a torch and wanted to ignite a thunderbolt next to him, but Cao Hong found it, fired a shot, and directly stabbed the soldier to death, a hundred thunderbolts, not a single one was ignited.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Zhang Yan, who was in the door of the Vermilion Bird Gate, was immediately indignant when he saw such a scene, and immediately ordered the archers to release the arrows, but when he heard more than 200 string sounds, the arrows shot out.
Cao Hong saw the enemy's arrows flying, and immediately ordered a retreat, and at the same time, the whole person came to hide in a stirrup, clinging to the side of the horse, and rushed towards the urn city.
The rest of the cavalry also retreated, but a dozen or so cavalrymen were killed by arrows and shot off their horses.
When Cao Hong was fleeing, he happened to see a thunderbolt falling on the ground, and as soon as his long arm stretched out, he picked up a thunderbolt, and then rushed into the city.
When Cao Hong and others fled into the urn city, the city gate was tightly closed, Zhang Yan watched the city gate of the urn city was closed, and the archers on the city wall were still waiting, and he lost a hundred people who dared to die, and his lungs were about to explode.
Zhang Yan was very angry, and the consequences were serious.
Sure enough, Zhang Yan gave up his plan to attack the city with thunderbolts, because because the lead of the thunderbolt was easily blown out by the wind if it was running at high speed after it was ignited, the possibility of throwing thunderbolts towards the city was canceled. So, Zhang Yan thought of the old way, throwing stones!
As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Yan immediately said sharply to the herald beside him: "Command Gao Shun, push the catapult to the edge of the moat, let the soldiers go outside to find the boulder, and give me a fierce attack on the urn city!" ”
However, Zhang Yan's attack was not single, he then ordered Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, and Zhang Liao to push out the Vermilion Bird Gate respectively, and each took their own subordinates to the other gates of Yecheng, preparing to attack Yecheng at the same time, so that as long as one gate was breached, his army could enter Yecheng, thereby reducing the pressure on the rest of the gates.
Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, and Zhang Liao received the order, and immediately left the Vermilion Bird Gate and headed to the Qinglong Gate, the White Tiger Gate, and the Xuanwu Gate respectively.
The army gathered outside the Suzaku Gate was divided into four, Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, and Zhang Liao each took 10,000 people, and Gao Shun commanded the soldiers to push the catapult to the moat, and then asked the soldiers to adjust the position of the catapult, and let the rear army send the required boulder, and at the same time sent two detachments of 1,000 people to the vicinity to find the boulder, and then pulled it over with a carriage.
After Cao Hong returned to the urn city, he immediately jumped off the horse, climbed the city tower with a thunderbolt with a happy face, and said to Xun Yu: "Don't drive your lord, look, fire and thunder!" ”
After Xun Yu saw it, he was taken aback and asked, "Where did you get it?" ”
"Picked it up under the city."
Xun Yu hurriedly took it over and played with it carefully, but he didn't find anything abnormal, he directly threw the thunderbolt to Cao Hong, and said: "Immediately take it to the Weapons Division to find Master Wang, ask Master Wang to disassemble it, and see if it can be imitated!" ”
"Whoa!"
Cao Hong quickly got off the city tower, rode his war horse, and went straight to the Weapons Division...... (To be continued......)