The three-bow bed crossbow has a long range and great power.
The effect of covering the siege troops was very obvious. Wu Yi did not want the Wei army to deal with it calmly, but he also knew that he would continue to shoot indiscriminately.
It is also difficult for the siege troops to attack the city.
In the midst of anxiety, Wu Yi suddenly said loudly: "All the bed crossbows moved forward fifty steps."
"No!"
The crossbowmen finished firing a round of shots,
He quickly pushed the bed crossbow fifty steps forward. This time the Han army attacked Hongnong with the purpose of capturing the city.
However, because Emperor Liu Chan took away 200,000 troops, the Han army could not mobilize many troops at the moment.
Wu Yi only had 35,000 men, but he also knew that Hongnong's garrison also had 30,000 men.
That's because in the last battle of Hefei, the Han army suddenly attacked Hongnong. Cao Wei naturally knew the importance of Hongnong, so he sent more defenders.
How can 35,000 men defeat a city with 30,000 defenders?
"Keep shooting!"
After the bed crossbow extended fifty steps forward, Wu Yi ordered the bed crossbow to continue attacking.
During the pause when the Han army pushed the crossbows forward, the Wei army thought that the Han army knew that their siege troops were approaching the city wall, so they stopped shooting. They had been waiting for this moment.
Feather arrows, rolling logs, and stones soon began to greet the Han army who was about to climb the city.
Suddenly, wailing sounds were heard from all over the city wall, and Han soldiers were constantly hit by arrows, or injured and killed by rolling logs and stones, and the scene fell into chaos.
But not long after the Wei army was happy, the Han army's crossbow arrows came again overwhelmingly. Seeing the black crossbow arrows flying in the sky, the Wei army was so shocked that they hurriedly stomped toward the city wall to avoid it, and at the same time shouted: "The Han army's crossbow arrows are coming again."
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"Hide quickly!"
"Hide quickly!"
"Cum!"
"Smash it quickly!"
"Shoot them to death, crush them to death."
There were various sounds and chaos throughout the city, and the Han army was climbing the city wall.
They were also a little panicked. According to their understanding, when they rushed to the base of the city wall, the crossbows would stop shooting. As for them, they had to find their own way to avoid the various threats such as arrows, rolling wood, rocks, and hot oil on the city.
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But at this moment, they also saw the dark rain of arrows in the sky.
However, before they could panic, they found that the arrows flew over the city and flew straight into the city. Soon, the soldiers at the city heard screams from the inner city.
The Wei army at the top of the city was a little confused, but the Han army was overjoyed. The short pause gave them a rare opportunity to charge.
"Hurry up!"
"Quick, quick, quick!"
Wei Jun is naturally not a puppet, and he panicked briefly.
It may cause them to panic for a short time,
But this is a battlefield after all, so they are panicking.
It was only temporary. In just a few breaths, they came back to their senses.
They also understood the purpose of the Han army.
The crossbows of the Han army had a longer range. Previously, their range was to cover the city head in order to allow the siege troops to quickly approach the city.
But now, the siege troops have begun to climb the city. Naturally, they cannot continue to shoot at the city head, because that will accidentally injure their own soldiers.
So——
They chose to use crossbows to attack the inner city indiscriminately, because the city head was so big that it could not accommodate too many soldiers defending the city. However, there were a large number of Wei troops in the city near the city gate. They were serving as backup, waiting for replenishment at any time.
Go up to the city and defend the city.
Of course, they also wanted to prevent the city gate from being breached, and they could also block the Han army entering the city here.
Crossbow arrows attacked the city, and the soldiers in the city who were close to the city gate hurriedly retreated as far away as possible, trying to get out of the range of the crossbow arrows.
However, the first round of attacks also killed hundreds of Wei soldiers.
On the edge of the city, the Han soldiers continued to risk their lives to climb to the city. Now that they had no cover from crossbows, the Wei army at the city would not let them easily climb the city.
Wang Ling personally directed the battle.
"Smash them all, and don't allow a single Han army to enter the city."
While Wang Ling was shouting, he was also bending his bow and drawing an arrow. As a prefect of a county, he is certainly not an ordinary person.
Whoosh, whoosh!
Wang Ling's archery skills are good, and almost all arrows are missed. Whenever his arrows are shot, a Han soldier will fall from the ladder.
Wails and shouts of killing occurred one after another.
In an instant, the area near the base of the city wall became a purgatory on earth.
War is cruel. Whether it is the Han army who wants to climb the city or the Wei army who wants to stop the Han army from climbing the city, they have long been used to it.
Kill kill kill——
No one retreated, and no one showed mercy.
Wu Yi in the distance looked at the Han troops rolling down the ladder, and he was very anxious.
He didn't bring many people, so if he dies, he will lose one.
"Bed crossbow moves forward fifty steps!"
Wu Yi urged his horse to follow the bed crossbow. This distance was close to the firing range of the Wei army's bed crossbow, but Wu Yi could no longer control so much.
"Get on the rocket!" Wu Yi said loudly.
"No!"
The crossbowmen were well prepared. They immediately put on flammable rockets and continued to fire towards Hongnong City. Only this time, what flew towards Hongnong City were not simple arrows, but rockets with flames.
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Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
What originally looked like a black rain of arrows turned into sparks all over the sky, and the soldiers in the city were immediately startled.
"Quickly retreat!"
"Quickly retreat!"
"The Han army is going to burn the city."
"The Han army is going to burn the city."
This was beyond Wei Jun's expectation. The city was full of houses with brick and wood structures, and Hongnong City was not big, but there were many people living in the city.
At this moment, rockets suddenly shot into the inner city, quickly setting fire to the houses in the city.
When the people and merchants who were hiding in the houses saw the rocket, they didn't care about anything else and hurriedly retreated toward the east gate.
The fire in the city is getting bigger and bigger, and the soldiers guarding the city can naturally see it.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Wang Ling's eyes were bloodshot at this time, and he looked at the Han army in the distance fiercely. He was very upset. He did not expect that the Han army would use this move. This was a rhythm that even the people in the city would not miss.
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But Wu Yi was too far away from him, so he could only vent all his anger on the Han army who was climbing the city.
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"Smash them to death!"
"Smash them to death!"
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
The Han army encountered a tenacious resistance and fought fiercely for nearly an hour, but not a single soldier reached the top of the city. On the contrary, there were already piles of corpses of two to three thousand Han soldiers under the city.
"General!" Yulin Colonel Jiang Bin said with a sad face: "This can't continue like this. Our army will suffer too many losses. If we continue to fight, our army's strength will become smaller and smaller."
"General!"
Wu Yi naturally knew it too.
"Second team, enter!" Wu Yi shouted.
Two or three thousand people have been lost now. If we stop now, the two or three thousand people in front will be lost in vain. Wu Yi is not willing to accept it. He does not want his soldiers to die in vain. He wants them to
A worthy death.
The second group of 5,000 siege troops had just rushed out. Wu Yi once again urged the crossbowmen and shouted: "Keep shooting, don't stop, shoot all the crossbow arrows into Hongnong City."
After this attack, the Han army's crossbow arrow consumption was actually very large.
After all, there are thousands of feather arrows at one time. Although they brought enough crossbow arrows this time, if they continue to shoot like this, it will not take long before they are all used up.
But Wu Yi can't be stingy.
Wang Ling at the top of the city became more and more anxious. Although he had repelled several attacks by the Han army, the Wei army at the top of the city also suffered heavy losses.
What's even worse is that he still has more than 20,000 people in Hongnong City, but these people are blocked by the Han army's crossbows and the streets that are now on fire. The soldiers in the city can't get close to the city wall at all, let alone
Go to the city to replenish troops.
Two thousand people.
That's right, the total number of Wei troops in the city now is less than 2,000.
However, although the Han army's siege troops had been shot and killed, killing and wounding two or three thousand people, they could not stop the steady flow of reinforcements behind them.
"Cum!"
"Cum!"
Wang Ling kept urging. He hoped that they could hold off for longer. It was best to hold on until the Han army's crossbows were exhausted.
After all, the Han army fired so endlessly that their crossbows consumed a lot of arrows.
Persistence——
Persevere and persevere.
However, when the Han army attacked the city, in addition to trying to climb through the ladder, there were also soldiers attacking the city gate. They rushed to the city gate and kept hitting the city gate with rams.
Bang, bang, bang!
There were crisp sounds, making the city gate bang.
Although there were constant arrows and rolling logs and rocks above the city gate to greet them, at this time, they were all red-eyed, and they still had to worry about life and death.
This Han army was also desperate for their lives. Those who hit the door in front were shot or smashed to death, and a group of others who were desperate for their lives would rush in behind them.
As time went by, the decline of the Wei army became more and more obvious.
No way.
Although the losses of the Han army who attacked the city were much greater than those of the Wei army, they could not stop the Han army from replenishing its troops. If one wave died, a new wave would rush over.
After fighting fiercely for half a day, at dusk, the sky became darker and darker, but the Han army's attack showed no intention of stopping. On the contrary, the Hongnong City was ablaze at this moment.
Especially in the neighborhood near the West Gate, countless houses were burned down, and the fire had already begun to spread to the east. Even if the Han army stopped firing their crossbows, the Wei army in the city could not pass through the scorching flames.
In fact, the city was already in chaos. In order to prevent the people from being damaged, the officers and soldiers in the inner city began to evacuate the people from the east gate not long after the fire burned.
Most of the people have left Hongnong City, and naturally some soldiers have also escaped with the people.
Hongnong City was burned down by fire. They didn't need to think about it. They definitely couldn't defend the city.
It’s ten minutes after dark.
A roar exploded in the night sky.
Boom——
Bang, bang!
There was a burst of thunder, and Wang Ling looked up to the sky angrily and shouted: "God, your reaction is so slow, so slow."
Thunder exploded, and soon heavy rain poured down.
But at this time, there were only a few hundred Wei troops left at the top of the city.
At the same time, the Han army continued to climb to the top of the city, and the city gate was also knocked open.
"Kill!"
"Go!"
Wu Yi was immediately overjoyed. As he galloped on his horse, he thanked God: "God has opened his eyes, God has opened his eyes, hahaha, kill me, kill me, fight in."
The city gate was breached, and there was a heavy downpour, but the morale of the Han army soldiers was greatly shaken at this moment. On the other hand, Wang Ling on the top of the city was on the verge of tears and was extremely anxious.
At this moment, he was fighting to the death with the few hundred remaining soldiers and the Han army who had climbed to the top of the city.
After a while, nearly 20,000 Han troops had entered Hongnong City. Wang Ling at the top of the city resisted tenaciously, but in the end he died in the chaos because he was outnumbered.
The Han army entered the inner city, but it did not mean that Hongnong City was occupied by the Han army, and the battle was over.
It’s not over yet——
Because Wu Yi used rockets to burn the city during the day, a large number of Wei troops were blocked in the east of the city.
It was raining heavily at this moment, and the fire in Xicheng was gradually extinguished by the rain.
Some of the Wei troops who were still in the east city saw that the fire was extinguished by the rain. Without thinking, they rushed towards the west city. They thought that the prefect was still insisting.
Just——
As soon as the Wei army in the east city rushed to the west city, they met the Han army who rushed into Hongnong City.
"Kill!"
Wu Yi shouted loudly and commanded the Han army to rush forward.
When the Wei army saw that the Han army had already charged in, they naturally knew that the city had been breached. They didn't think too much and rushed towards the Han army.
In an instant, the two armies were fighting to the death in the rainy night.
Because the West City was burned to a great extent by fire, and there were ruins everywhere, it became a good battlefield at this moment.
In the dark, no one in the two armies could clearly see who was coming. Anyway, they would rush towards anyone they encountered.
Not long after, in the west city of Hongnong City, the sound of clashing weapons, the neighing of war horses, and the wails after being hacked with swords resounded throughout the night sky.
However, because some of the Wei army had already fled Hongnong City with the people.
So at this time, there were actually not many Wei troops in Hongnong City. They totaled less than 10,000 people, but they were extremely powerful in combat.
Perhaps they wanted to avenge the governor who died in battle, or maybe it was because the Han army burned the city with rockets during the day, which inspired their endless bloodshed.
"Don't let a Han army go!"
"Kill me!"
In an alley, a 100-man Wei army squad, led by a small colonel, hid in the alley. When they saw Han soldiers approaching, they swarmed up and immediately waited on them with swords and fists.
The heavy rain did not stop until late at night.
However, the street fighting in Hongnong City is still continuing.
At first, the Wei army fought on a large scale, but because the Han army was numerically superior, they defeated several large attacks. The remaining small groups of Wei troops hid in alleys and street houses, waiting for those who were alone.
Han Army.
It was not until dawn that the street fighting in Hongnong gradually subsided.
Prefect's Mansion.
Wu Yi paced back and forth in the room nervously. He had fought many battles, but this battle was the most difficult one he fought.
"Report!"
"General!" A junior high school officer quickly ran into the hall of the prefect's mansion and said hurriedly: "A large number of Wei troops appeared in the west of the city."
Wu Yi was suddenly startled and asked: "Who will lead the army?"
"I don't know!" said the small school principal: "It's so dark and full of people, it's less than five miles away from the city."
Hongnong City has just been breached, did Cao Wei react so quickly?
Wu Yi was a little panicked, and hurriedly rushed out of the prefect's mansion, riding his horse to the west gate.
Standing at the head of the West City Gate, Wu Yi looked at the dark crowd outside the city and was a little nervous. However, since it was not bright yet, he could not see clearly how many people there were. Anyway, he could vaguely see a lot of people.
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"Close the city gates tightly and don't let anyone in."
Although the street fighting in the city has gradually subsided, Wu Yi knows very well that there are still many Wei troops hiding in the city. They are just hiding because they are watching the daybreak.
Wu Yi is waiting for dawn now.
He doesn't know how many people there are in the Han army now.
When they entered the city, there were close to 20,000 people, but it's hard to say how many are left now, because the Han army suffered a lot of losses in this night's street fighting.
But one thing is certain, that is, there are no common people in Hongnong City now.
There are currently about 3,000 Han troops on duty at the east city gate. Wu Yi is sitting quietly at the top of the city. He does not know how many Wei troops are coming outside, let alone who is leading the army from Cao Wei.
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An hour later.
It's dawn.
"General!" A guard raised his finger and pointed into the distance and said, "It seems to be common people!"
"Common people?" Wu Yi was stunned for a moment, then ran towards the city wall and stamped on it, looking at the crowd coming towards Hongnong City with confusion.
They were still some distance away from Hongnong City, as if they had been standing still for an hour. It was only at this time that they slowly approached the city.
After a while, the leading troops of the crowd had arrived at the city gate.
"Who are you?" Wu Yi asked loudly.
"General! We are the people of Hongnong."
A middle-aged man raised his head and shouted: "The fire burned the city yesterday, so we had to temporarily withdraw from Hongnong. After the rain stopped this morning, we returned and asked the general to let us enter the city."
"General!" a small colonel next to him reminded: "The battle has just ended, their identities are difficult to identify, general..."
"Yeah!" Wu Yi nodded. He was not a fool. He could become a great Han chariot general. If he couldn't understand this, his position as a general would be in vain.
"General, let us enter the city quickly."
"General!"
"General!"
There was a lot of noise outside the city. There were men and women, old and young. This put Wu Yi in a dilemma. He believed that there must be common people among them.
However, he felt that there were also many Wei troops hidden here.
What the man just said is probably true. The city was on fire yesterday, so the people took advantage of the chaos to leave the city. Similarly, many Wei troops must also have sneaked out of the city.
Now, they are back.
"Everyone!" Wu Yi bowed his hands to the outside of the city and said: "Although the battle is over, the city is not safe now. If you are Hongnong people, you can rest nearby first, and wait for our army to reorganize the city before welcoming us.
Everyone, come into the city."
The Han ruled the world with benevolence and righteousness. Facing the common people of the world, the Han naturally could not extrapolate. However, Wu Yi understood better that if these people were all common people, it would be too late for them to hide at this time. How could they come back en masse right after the battle.<
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It's just that Wu Yi didn't want to say it clearly.
"General!"
"Our home is in Hongnong. If you don't let us enter the city, where do you want us to go?"
"Yes, General!"
"We are just Hongnong people, let us enter the city."
"General!"
The crowd continued to shout loudly, but the more they behaved like this, the more Wu Yi would not let them into the city. It would be very dangerous to let these people into the city now, because there seemed to be at least 10,000 to 20,000 people outside the city.
If there are a large number of Wei troops mixed in, then a brutal massacre will surely take place, not to mention that there should indeed be civilians among them.
And there should be a large number of people.
No——
They must not be allowed into the city.
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