Chapter 922: Attack and Defense of the Royal City (2)
Thanks for happiness. What a monthly ticket cast by a distant son!
Thank you for the reward from the False Silent Son!
"Queen, something is wrong!" The herald knelt down, then took out an urgent flying pigeon from his bosom and presented it to Queen Wusun with both hands.
Queen Wusun snatched the book and read it quickly, her face changed suddenly, and she muttered with a wry smile, "Has the north fallen?" It seems that the royal city has truly become an isolated city! ”
At this moment another herald rushed to Queen Wusun. "Queen, the envoy of Great Wei is here!"
Queen Wusun's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and she said coldly, "It's finally here!" ”
In the evening of the same day, just as Cao Cao was discussing with the generals the strategy of attacking the city of Wusun Wangcheng, a herald rushed into the big tent and reported, "Your Majesty, Wusun has sent someone to send a brocade box!" ”
Cao Cao turned around and said with some surprise, "Jin box? What about the person who sent the brocade box? ”
"As soon as the other party arrived at the gate, he left!" The herald replied.
Cao Cao frowned, turned his head and asked Ma Teng on the side, "Shoucheng, has our envoy been sent?" ”
Ma Teng nodded, "It was already sent out at noon!" ”
Cao Cao's gaze fell on the herald holding the Aojin box in both hands, and said in a deep voice, "It seems that Queen Wusun has sent back the head of our envoy!" ”
All the generals present couldn't help but be shocked, Dian Wei immediately stepped forward and opened the brocade box, and a bloody human head was impressively presented in front of everyone.
"How daring! Your Majesty, the Wusun people are shameless and arrogant, and there is no need to read the virtue of a good life in the sky! Tomorrow, let me lead the army to break through the city of King Wusun and capture Queen Wusun, a rebellious barbarian, under Your Majesty's account! Ma Teng angrily asked for battle.
Immediately, the generals asked for battle. The crowd was excited, and Cao Cao said to the herald. "Take the head down, and I'll be tested. After the broken city finds the corpse, it will be cremated together! ”
"No." The herald answered and retreated.
Cao Cao returned to the sand table, looking at the extremely delicate model of Wusun Wangcheng in front of him, he couldn't help but feel angry, what a Wusun queen, since you want 500,000 soldiers and civilians in Wusun Wangcheng to be buried with you, then I will fulfill you.
Cao Cao asked, "Where are Meng Qi's men gone?" ”
Ma Teng replied, "Meng Qi's men and horses should be in Luer City now!" ”
Cao Cao nodded, since the Yaguan and the King of Qule were both captured by the Wei army. The area near Wusun was completely under the control of the Wei army and the servant army, and then Cao Cao ordered Gan Ning to lead the Wei army of 20,000 Fifth Legions to sit in the Three Kingdoms, while Ma Chao led all the remaining Wei army and servant army to the north, and the destination was the city of Wusun Wangcheng.
Cao Cao looked at the model of the Wusun Wangcheng City and said, "Don't wait for Meng Qi to start them!" Tomorrow we will storm the city of Wusun King! ”
The generals' eyes lit up, and they promised together.
Ma Teng remembered something and asked, "Your Majesty, have you notified Jinyiwei to cooperate with the action?" ”
Cao Cao pondered for a moment. Shaking his head, he said, "No! According to the feedback from the secret agents in the city, Queen Wusun strengthened the internal defense of the four gates in view of the previous lessons. 10,000 people are responsible for defending the four gates! If we are in a hurry, not only will we not be able to achieve our goal, but we may put this amazing army in our hands in a desperate situation! ”
"Your Majesty. Then our people will not be searched by them! Xu Chu asked with some concern.
Cao Cao smiled and explained. "Probably not! Our people are lurking in the city of Wusun in the name of the Wusun caravan, and the people in the city of Wusun are currently panicking. If Queen Wusun conducts a large-scale search again, it will only make matters worse, and the gains outweigh the losses! ”
"Oh!" Xu Chu nodded knowingly.
After the tent was dispersed, Cao Cao left Ma Teng, Yan Yan, and Zhang Ren behind to continue to discuss the details of the siege.
Early the next morning, the earth-shattering sound of war drums woke up all the 500,000 soldiers and civilians in the Wusun King City, and the Wusun Soldiers' Courtyard at the head of the city hurriedly looked outside the city, only to see the murderous military array rolling like a dark cloud, and almost everyone couldn't help but change color!
"It's coming! Here it is," muttered a veteran with trembling lips.
The Wei army lined up on the wasteland outside the city of Wusun Wangcheng, dark and dreary like a dark cloud coming from a sea of mountains, and the thunderous footsteps struck the hearts of the soldiers of the Wusun army like a death knell.
The Wei army suddenly fell silent, but the officers and soldiers of the Wusun army felt more pressure in front of them, and they had a feeling of being out of breath.
"Knock, knock, knock!" The war drums of the Wei army sounded loudly again, and then more than 10,000 Wei soldiers shouted violently, and slowly pressed towards the city wall, they pushed ladders, flying arms and other siege equipment, and at the same time, more than 100 ballistae and hundreds of heavy torsion trebuchets pressed towards the city wall together.
When they reached a distance of about two hundred and fifty paces from the city wall, they stopped, and immediately more than a hundred ballistas and hundreds of heavy torsion trebuchets crossed the besieging force and lined up in front of them.
Thousands of sergeants operating ballistas and trebuchets quickly began to prepare, some skillfully tying "bullets" to the arrows and loading them on top of the ballistas, while others turned the winch to bend the trebuchet's throwing arm down, and then placed the boulder-sized stones into the net pocket of the throwing arm, and then grease them.
The Wusun soldiers on the city wall seemed to feel that danger was coming, they seemed to be unaware, with a look of fear on their faces, and some subconsciously ran towards the city wall, but they were given the law on the spot by the general after not running a few steps.
"Knock, knock, knock!" The earth-shattering roar sounded loudly, and then I saw a cloud of shattered remnants of bricks and stones burst on the wall, accompanied by a huge impact sound, and the wall seemed to be swept by a huge force, many Wusun soldiers were directly knocked down by crossbow arrows or strung into strings, and the city gate tower was also pierced out of several large holes, at the same time, the rain of stones thrown by the enemy's hundreds of heavy catapults roared towards the city wall like a meteor.
The long-range troops of the Wei army constantly bombarded the city wall, and the huge creepy impact sound came and went endlessly, and the Wusun people, who were completely in a passive situation, were helpless to bear such blows, and from time to time there were Wusun soldiers who were bombarded by cannonballs to pieces, or were smashed by stones to the point of misery, and from time to time crossbow arrows and stones crossed the city wall and fell into residential areas, raising pillars of smoke, accompanied by the sound of screams and shouts.
Some Wusun soldiers were unwilling to be beaten so passively, and manipulated Wusun's unique heavy bed crossbow to fight back, but the powerful guns and arrows could only fly a distance of about two hundred paces, and they did not cause any damage to the Wei army's long-range troops at all, and then the cannonballs and stones rained down
The sky overwhelmed the earth, and the Wusun soldiers were wiped out along with the heavy bed crossbows.
Such long-range bombardment continued for almost two quarters of an hour. Immediately, the siege force of 10,000 Wei troops once again pushed all kinds of siege equipment towards the city wall.
The besieging force advanced very smoothly, and did not meet a strong resistance until they were only thirty paces away from the wall, and it seemed that the defenders of Buwusun had been struck by the earth-shattering long-range blow just now.
As ladders were erected, the Wei army began to attack the city. At this time, the Wusun army finally came to their senses, and the rolling stones and trees continued to pour down from the city like a waterfall, and the arrows were like torrential rain. (To be continued.) )