Chapter 491: A Fierce Battle Is Underway!
After Sun Quan's order was conveyed, about 30,000 Wu army infantry soldiers who had been waiting for a long time pushed siege equipment such as storming vehicles, flying towers, and cloud ladders, and slowly approached the city wall in three waves of formation.
At the same time, another round of stone rain fell over their heads and down on the city wall, and from a distance, they saw smoke and dust all over the sky, and one of the boulders actually hit the city gatehouse!
The wooden city gate tower made a loud noise, and the smoke and dust rose into the sky, and when the smoke and dust faded away, I saw that the original city gate tower had collapsed in half, and some broken rafters were swaying lightly in the air.
"Second prince, it's too dangerous here! You'd better hurry down to town! ”
Zhang Liao helped Cao Pi and shouted urgently, he was worried that Cao Pi would have three long and two short in case there was something, but unfortunately, Cao Pi obviously would not understand the worry in Zhang Liao's heart, and he did not retreat when he heard this, but said calmly: "General Zhang, although the last general is the prince, but at this time he is just a general who serves the country, not to mention, now that the soldiers are fighting, what face can the last general withdraw!" ”
When Zhang Liao heard this, although he admired it, he was more worried, but when he saw tens of thousands of Wu army foot soldiers approaching the city wall with siege equipment, he was shocked, and he couldn't take care of Cao Pi, so he hurriedly said: "Order!" The crossbowmen fired, and after three rounds stepped back and let the infantry under the city go up the walls! ”
This time, the Wu army's combat effectiveness is very different from before, since it is alive and stiff against the attack of the Wei army's crossbowmen, and advanced to a distance of fifty steps from the city wall!
When the Wu army advanced to a distance of only fifty paces from the city wall, nearly 50,000 Wei soldiers also obeyed Zhang Liao's order at this time and ran up the city wall ladder one after another. At this time, the third round of stone rain of the Wu army fell on the city wall with a roar, and blood and smoke flew all over the sky. The screams were terrifying.
When the attacking forces of the Wu army advanced to a distance of only twenty paces, the catapults stopped firing. Zhang Liao stood up from the city wall, patted the dust and gravel on his body, looked at the city, looked shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "Crossbowmen come forward to shoot, infantry on alert!" Fast! Fast!! ”
The crossbowmen of the Wei army hurriedly stood by the city wall and shot the arrows in their hands at the Wu soldiers below, and at this time the siege force of the Wu army had accelerated. The soldiers carrying the ladder rushed towards the city wall, and the soldiers pushing the city cart shouted, and the city cart advanced at high speed, making a loud rumbling sound like thunder.
When the Wu siege force approached the city, the rain of arrows pouring down from the city became intensive, and the Wu army began to show obvious casualties.
Sergeant Wu shouted and set up a ladder with arrows falling from the city, and then the siege troops attacked the city wall along the ladder, and at the same time the charging vehicles began to storm the city gate. A loud bang resounded throughout the battlefield.
Zhang Liao shouted at the top of his voice, and groups of Wei soldiers shuttled back and forth on the city wall, barrels of boiling oil were dumped from the city wall by Wei soldiers, and some Wu soldiers were drenched with boiling oil from head to toe. The soldier screamed and rolled down the ladder, then rolled and screamed on the ground until he lost his breath.
Followed by. Torches flew down from the city walls, and fires erupted under the walls. The ladder, which had been soaked in boiling oil, instantly fell into a sea of fire.
Although the soldiers of Wu retreated for a moment, they were all killed by the generals who supervised the battle behind. These low-level generals of the Wu army don't care what the soldiers think in their hearts, they only know that Sun Quan, the second son, is watching from behind!
Under the supervision of the rear generals, the Wu soldiers had to bite the bullet and continue to climb up the ladder against the rain of arrows and the flames.
At the same time, the flying tower of the Wu army siege troops finally arrived at the side of the Shouchun city wall, and the front baffle smashed down, smashing the masonry wall battlements into stone chips, and then the Wu soldiers hiding in the flying tower shouted, rushed to the city wall with the baffle as a bridge, and several city heads fell into a melee.
Zhang Liao hurriedly urged the Wei soldiers to fight back, and then he joined a nearby battle group, and at this time, a flame rose under the city gate, and the original Wu army's rushing car turned into a ball of flames at this time, and several Wu soldiers who had no time to get out fell into the sea of fire and were burned to death by the flames!
Dozens of soldiers on standby in the back immediately rushed forward, dragging the chain behind the city car to drag the burning city car out of the door hole, and then several Wu soldiers shouted and pushed another city car to the city gate and continued to attack!
At this time, the vanguard of the Wu army who attacked along the ladder finally climbed the city wall, and then dozens of Wei soldiers besieged it, and the Wu soldier who climbed to the top of the city was worthy of his name as a pioneer, and he was also brave.
However, he bought precious seconds for the follow-up troops of the Wu army, and several Wu soldiers climbed to the top of the city, back to back, trying their best to resist the attacks coming from all directions, which seemed very difficult!
With the passage of time, although there were more and more Wu soldiers on the city wall, the form did not turn towards them, but gradually fell towards the Wei army!
The ring head knife and barrier knife in the hands of the Wei soldiers kept slashing and slashing, especially the Wei army troops equipped with 5,000 obstacle knives, which can be said to be a wave of blood in the battlefield, and the bridgehead of the Wu army was wiped out one by one in the high-spirited shouts of the Wei soldiers!
Gradually, the Wu army became more and more difficult, but they were still trying their best to resist the attack of the Wei army, and they continued to inflict casualties on the Wei army while paying a considerable price for casualties.
A similar scene continued in other parts of the city, Zhang Liao wiped the blood on his face, withdrew from the battle group, glanced around, and couldn't help but be secretly frightened, the Wu army had thousands of people attacking the city, which was unimaginable in the past, not to mention the persistence of the Wu army!
Do you think this is Sun Quan?!
Zhang Liao's eyes looked at the center of the Wu army outside the city, and at this time, Sun Quan, who was still smiling lightly, was secretly shocked in his heart, he really couldn't understand how Sun Quan made the Wu army burst out with such great power and lethality!
Sun Quan didn't know what Zhang Liao was thinking, after seeing the vanguard of the Wu army fall into a bitter battle, Sun Quan once again sent 20,000 siege troops towards Shouchun!
The 20,000 follow-up troops of the Wu army came to the city wall, and then the cloud ladders and flying towers successively set up the city, and the Wu army launched a more fierce attack on this Shouchun city! (To be continued......)