Chapter 235: The Battle of Xingyang (I)

The coalition forces arrived at the city of Xingyang and did not make any temptations, but launched an attack directly.

Logically speaking, the two sides should have had some short-term contact, such as greetings, yelling, fighting generals, etc.

But Cao Cao did not do this, but attacked directly.

Cao Cao wrote a letter and wanted Dong Qi to return the bodies of Sun Jian and others. This was originally a very normal thing, but it was rejected by Dong Qi.

In Dong Qi's words: Do you want Sun Jian's body? After breaking Xingyang, I can give you my body together with Sun Jian's body. If you don't have the ability to break Xingyang, don't talk so much nonsense, go back to your hometown to have breastfeeding. Losers must have the awareness of losers. What qualifications do you have to ask me what you want?

This is very vicious and does not leave any sympathy.

Who are the princes of Kanto? They are either famous scholars or descendants from aristocratic families, and they are talking about this face.

Dong Qi said so frightened that the princes of Guandong were angry and yelled one by one, and they were determined to break through Xingyang City.

The city at Xingyang was silent.

The flags fluttering in the wind are particularly eye-catching in the sun.

Xingyang has a very long history. After being renovated by dynasties, it still uses the defense methods of the Warring States Period.

To be precise, the entire urban defense is divided into three parts: the barren circle, the warning circle and the urban defense circle.

Within thirty miles from Xingyang is a barren circle, and strict tactics of solid walls and clearing the fields are implemented, and even the well water is poured with poison.

Within ten miles of Xingyang, there is a warning circle.

At this time, the troops of the Kanto Alliance were concentrated in the warning circle.

Giant city guarding equipment such as bed crossbows were installed on the city, and all obstacles outside the city within the range of bows and arrows were shoveled.

This is to clear the blind spots of shooting angle and line of sight.

The distance between fifteen steps under the city is a moat moat. It is about three people deep, and the water is covered with bamboo thorns. After the moat, there is a low wall called Feng Yuan, which accumulates countless flammable materials to block the sight of the coalition forces. Behind Feng Yuan, there is also a horse-rejecting belt about five steps wide to prevent the enemy from approaching the city wall. Then there are about five steps closer to the city wall, and there are wooden stakes with intertwined teeth, which are also used to prevent the enemy from climbing the city and assassinating the land of falling.

The defenses of the entire Xingyang can be said to be clearly hierarchical.

Especially since Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Xingyang, as one of the granaries in the Luoyang area, its defense has been strengthened.

Guangling Prefect Zhang Chao led his troops to launch the first round of attacks on Xingyang.

Strangely, the head of Xingyang City was silent. Until the Guangling Army was about to enter the trench, a strange sound of trumpets suddenly came from the city. Then there were countless strange sounds, and strange black dots were fired from the city, falling towards the city. The black dots were all caltrops. After falling to the ground, they were immediately nailed to the ground.

The Guangling Army, caught off guard, stepped on the iron caltrops everywhere, and the sharp pierced through the face of the feet, dripping blood.

The neat formation became scattered.

The caltrops are different from sharp arrows, and the shield player cannot resist them. The most annoying thing is that if there are caltrops on the ground early, it will be easy to deal with, but suddenly thrown from the city will make the attacking side advance or retreat.

At the same time, the sound of gongs came from the top of the city.

With a buzzing sound, it seemed as if a locust was passing through the air, and a black cloud pounced down from the top of the city.

"Be careful, be careful..."

With a burst of shouts, the shield player habitually set up a shield to defend against arrows.

However, the arrow was powerful and heavy. Unlike ordinary bows and arrows, they were all three feet and six inches long and the thickness of a little finger.

With unparalleled penetration, he hit the shield and kept penetrating the wooden shield and smashing the shield. Before the shield player in the first row could react, he was nailed to the ground. The screams echoed in the air.

Snatching crossbow...

Zhang Chao couldn't help but exclaim, wanting to stop the army by crying out the gold medal.

This crossbow has appeared since the Warring States Period, and the Qin Dynasty relied on its crossbow sharp blade to sweep across the six countries. But it is strange that since the Han Dynasty, especially since Emperor Wu, the use of crossbows has gradually become rare and even declined.

The reason is related to the situation against the enemy at that time.

The enemies of the Han Dynasty mainly came from the grassland. Whether it is a crossbow or a bed crossbow, this kind of weapon used for siege is relatively reduced. Instead, it is lighter crossbow arrows, which are used for more flexible combat methods.

No one expected that there would be so many crossbows and bed crossbows in Xingyang.

Only one round of arrows left the Guangling Army completely exposed to the bow and arrow. Following the heavy rain of arrows, the Guangling Army, which had lost its protection, almost disappeared from the city of Xingyang. Even if the lucky person escaped, he was covered in blood and covered in wounds.

To be precise, thousands of soldiers are nothing to the princes of Kanto.

However, the shock caused by it made the princes silent for a long time.

Cao Cao bit his lip and said with a wry smile: "Dong Xiping is such a good method. A few words angered everyone and cut off our retreat. It seems that he is fully prepared. I believe that even if we conquer Xingyang, we will not be able to advance again."

Xi Zhicai nodded but said nothing.

He and Yiji looked at the tragic situation on the battlefield under the umbrella of the central army.

The dead bodies everywhere were everywhere outside Xingyang City. The bright red blood seemed to be telling the princes that if they wanted to take Xingyang, they had to show some skills. Unconsciously, Dong Qi's ugly face appeared in front of Xi Zhicai's eyes.

"Who can tell me what Dong Xiping used to throw out the caltrops?"

Kong Rong couldn't help asking the princes.

Tao Qian smiled bitterly and said, "The stone throwing car should be a stone throwing car... I didn't expect that Dong Xiping took out these antique-like things and had such an effect. Fortunately, the stone throwing car can only reach seventy steps at most, and it can be covered by the well railing, and then fill the moat first. This time, when our Xuzhou army goes to fight, how about?"

When the princes heard this, they nodded in unison.

Xi Zhicai frowned and felt vaguely that he was afraid that Tao Qian might not be able to succeed.

The height of the well rail is about half the height. If converted into height, it is about ten meters, slightly more than ordinary city walls.

However, Xingyang City has high walls and thick walls, and the well railings can only be kept flat.

With the bullocks leading, the well railings slowly drove out of the coalition formation. On the well railings, there were archers, who could all pull up the string control soldiers with two stone bows. They stopped when they were still dozens of steps away from the moat and suppressed the archers on the city with their bows.

Immediately afterwards, the ray car was dispatched, and the Xuzhou army followed the shark and attacked Xingyang again.

The strange trumpet sounded again, and Dong Qi stood on the city tower, looking at the approaching Kanto Alliance, and showed a strange smile.

Sure enough, the Kanto Alliance underestimated his stone throwing cart.

Behind the city wall, there were rows of stone throwing cars, with hundreds of them.

These stone throwing carts were studied by Pu Yuan based on the records in the book "Kaogong Lu", and after improvement by him and Ma Jun, the distance can cover a range of 280 steps. Pili chart, this is the name Dong Qi gave to the stone throwing cart.

I remember that Cao Cao used the Thunder Carriage flexibly for the first time in the Battle of Guandu.

But I can't remember who contributed the Pili Car, but today, Dong Qi decided to use the Pili Car to make Cao Cao look good.

With the roar of Wu'anguo under the city, the roar of the collapse, and after countless strange sounds, the huge rock flew out of the city from the thunderbolt cart.

The rainy rocks slammed on the well railing.

The well railings collapsed on the ground, and the bulls wailed and were hit by the rocks, which was so bloody that they were covered in blood.

The soldiers following the storm were smashed to the ground with chariots. The stones were like rain, and wailing sounds one after another.

The crossbow was another round of shooting, completely destroying the siege tools on the battlefield.

Xi Zhicai whispered: "My lord, don't fight again today. The morale of the army is low. If you fight again, you will die. It's better to repair it on the spot. After we discuss the specific plan, we will attack Xingyang. How about it?"

The princes lost consecutive battles, so how could they be in the mood to continue fighting?

Tao Qian and Zhang Chao were defeated by the generals. Although they were unwilling to accept it, they also understood that what Xi Zhicai said was right.

If you continue fighting, you will only die!

Cao Cao ordered the gold to withdraw his troops and ended the first day of the battle in a hurry. The battlefield was full of corpses, and the bloody corpses smashed by stones, spreading the strong bloody smell in the sky with the wind, making people feel cold.

According to the rules, someone will clean up the battlefield after the war.

Dong Qi did not stop this time, but just ordered the soldiers in the city to be alert.

When bloody and incomplete corpses piled up together, crying sounds kept coming from the coalition forces.

In the central army's tent, the princes shirked responsibility and blamed each other.

Cao Cao really couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply walked out of the camp with Xi Zhicai and Yi Ji, accompanied by Xu Chu and Hu Cheer.

Naturally, there were personal troops behind him, led by Cao Hong.

Cao Cao looked at Xingyang City in the night and felt a burst of pain in his mouth.

Xi Zhicai's eyes were bright. After Cao Cao surrounded Xingyang for a week, his heart suddenly moved and he felt a little conspiracy.

When he returned to the camp, Xi Zhicai pulled Yi Ji and muttered.

Cao Cao forced himself to take the initiative, inspected the camp and comforted the soldiers. It was not until after midnight that he returned to his tent.

Unexpectedly, Xi Zhicai and others were in the account.

Not only Xi Zhicai and Yiji, but also military generals such as Xiahou Dun, Le Jin, and Li Dian were also waiting in the tent.

"Sir, it's so late, is there anything wrong?"

Cao Cao couldn't help asking strangely.

Xi Zhicai smiled and said, "Just just now, I visited Xingyang with my lord, but I found something interesting. Therefore, Ji Bo and others made a sand table pattern in Xingyang overnight, and I came to relieve my lord's worries... Ji Bo, let me explain it."

Yiji nodded and lifted the sand table on the Eight Immortals Table in the center of the big tent.

"Lord, look... this is the general figure of Xingyang, have you ever seen something?"

Xingyang City on the sand table was made very rough, but the basic outline was already revealed. Cao Cao frowned, walked to the Eight Immortals table, looked for a while, shook his head gently and said, "It seems nothing special. Sir, you should explain it."
To be continued...