1004 Siege failed

With such a powerful weapon as the fire bead car, Wang Baoyu was relieved, and the next morning, the army came to the east gate of Xiangyang City.

Wang Baoyu came to attack Xiangyang City, and Cao Ren was quite surprised and deeply worried. Xiahoudun's 100,000-strong army was defeated lightly, and Xiahoudun himself was even more blind, where did he dare to act rashly.

Cao Ren made up his mind and resolutely did not go out of the city to fight, just waiting for Xu Chu's army to arrive, and then the two armies would unite and launch a deadly counterattack against Wang Baoyu.

For Cao Ren's approach, the strategist Manzhong did not agree, and he said: "General, the strength of our army is still above Wang Baoyu, if we divide our troops into two ways and attack the enemy from the flank, we may have a chance of winning." ”

"Wang Baoyu is scheming, and he must be guarded against, and the best policy is to use static braking." Cao Ren disagreed.

"If the city is lost, we will be at a disadvantage."

"Guan Yu's army of more than 100,000 can't break through the city, forgive Wang Baoyu's 30,000 soldiers and horses, it is difficult to step into the city half a step. It only takes less than a month for General Xu Chu to arrive, and Xiangyang will have no worries. ”

"As the general said, if before General Xu Chu arrived, Wang Baoyu used a plan to break through the city, what should he do?"

"......" Cao Ren pondered for a moment, and said affirmatively: "Then come to him to catch turtles in an urn, and protect Wang Baoyu if he comes back!" ”

Although Cao Ren made up his mind to adopt a conservative strategy, he still did not have the bottom line in his heart, and counted the hours with his fingers, hoping that Xu Chu's reinforcements would arrive when he opened his eyes the next day.

Wang Baoyu took a loudspeaker and shouted under the city for a long time, but there was no trace of Cao Ren, and he was expected to dare not go out of the city to fight, so he ordered: "All the soldiers listen to the order and attack the gate of Xiangyang!" ”

Booming, more than a dozen newly-built fire bead cars appeared gorgeously, slowly heading towards the city gate, and at the same time, the sturdy unicorn beast also followed closely.

At this time, Cao Ren hid behind a battlement, and when he saw Wang Baoyu launch this strange thing, he was inexplicably panicked, and the unknown thing was the most terrifying.

"Stick to the city and never let Wang Baoyu approach with a single soldier!"

Rows of Cao soldiers and archers immediately appeared on the city walls, full of bowstrings.

At the same time, a large number of stones were also prepared, and he learned from Man Pet that this was the method that Xiahoudun summed up with his life to deal with the unicorn beast.

Cao Jun didn't dare to blink his eyes, and watched his every move closely.

About the distance, Mo Qianxun waved the small flag in his hand, and the soldiers immediately loaded the iron ball and lit it, while struggling to pull the drive behind him.

Whew! With the strong wind howling, more than a dozen large iron balls on fire were launched towards the city gate, and then there was a loud rumbling sound, and the big iron balls hit the city gate, and the huge force made the entire city wall seem to tremble.

Cao Ren was extremely shocked, and broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately understood the purpose of this strange thing, and hurriedly ordered to stop the attack of the Fire Bead Car.

It's a pity that the location of the fireball cart is just outside the range, and the arrows have landed one after another, almost spreading a carpet in front, but they can't hurt the loaded soldiers at all.

"Mr. Man, how is it good?" Cao Ren was sweating profusely.

"In this way, the city gate will not be protected!" Man Chong's face was also solemn, and he thought about it a little: "For today's plan, the only way to do this is to pile up boulders behind the city gate for defense, and you can't let them rush in!" ”

Cao Ren hurriedly complied, but the city gate had already been knocked out of several large holes, and at the same time, the grease stuck to the city gate and quickly burned, and the city gate became a sea of fire.

A group of soldiers guarding the drawbridge were suddenly stunned, and they didn't know what to do. According to past experience, they shouldn't have played so quickly, in the end, the times have changed, and the efficiency of fighting has increased so much, and the blink of an eye has entered the main topic.

Fan Jinqiang stepped forward on his horse, took a bow and shot arrows, and the arrows did not miss, and these soldiers fell to the ground one after another and died on the spot.

A group of soldiers carrying ladders rushed forward without fear of death, built a pontoon bridge over the moat, and almost all of the soldiers in this group were killed by arrows raining down on the city walls.

Fortunately, the pontoon bridge has been successfully erected, Fan Jinqiang waved the iron rod to sweep away the flying arrows, while riding a horse to rush over, with two loud roars, the iron chain supporting the suspension bridge was broken, and the suspension bridge fell with a bang, opening the way to the city gate.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen large iron balls were launched with firelight, and the city gate, which was already on fire, was already crumbling, but under the impact of this time, it collapsed with a bang, killing a piece of Cao Bing who was guarding behind the gate and was struggling to move the boulder.

It was too late to move stones to block the city gate, Cao Ren was shocked, knowing in his heart that Wang Baoyu had no intention of climbing the wall, he just wanted to kill through the city gate, and hurriedly gave an order: "Give me a desperate guard of the city gate!" ”

Countless Cao soldiers immediately rushed to the city gate, and at this moment, Wang Baoyu's army did not rush over with all their strength, but those unicorn beasts that shook their heads and tails rushed towards the city gate in a neat and orderly manner.

Cao Bing frantically released arrows, but could not stop the advance of the unicorn beast, and soon, a large number of unicorn beasts passed through the suspension bridge and rushed towards the city gate, the scene was terrifying.

"General, why don't you throw stones!" Full of pets urging in a hurry.

Cao Ren woke up like a dream, and hurriedly ordered to throw stones, and a large number of stones poured down, falling from the sky, doubling in weight, and knocking down a unicorn in an instant.

Seeing this situation, Wang Baoyu's face became extremely solemn, if this continues, most of the unicorn beasts will be destroyed under the stones, you must know that in the original plan, one unicorn beast would act as the power of at least ten soldiers.

Wang Baoyu hurriedly ordered: "Go and call the unicorn beast back!" ”

The soldiers bravely rushed forward at the risk of death, turning the mechanism of the unicorns, and the unicorns immediately turned their heads and ran back.

Cao Ren breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally a smile appeared on his face, as long as he could restrain these monsters, he was not afraid that Wang Baoyu would dare to forcibly attack the city.

"Strategist, this attack looks like a failure!" Wang Baoyu said.

Mo Qianxun's face was even more ugly, but he swore that he had made a military order, and said with regret: "It's just that I didn't think it through, I never thought that Cao Ren would intercept the unicorn in this way." ”

Although the city gate is broken, if there is no unicorn beast to open the way, even if it is forced to rush in, the loss must be very heavy, and it is difficult to be surrounded and annihilated in the city by Cao Ren.

Wang Baoyu ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and when they went back, they thought about a good strategy, and the army retreated like a tide.

Cao Ren wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood arrogantly on the city tower, and let out a burst of laughter, Wang Baoyu, Wang Baoyu, even if you have a thousand clever plans, it is difficult to step into the iron-clad Xiangyang City.