Cao Xing saw the scattered stone bullets appearing above the heads of his soldiers, and directly ordered the soldiers to take out the prepared straw shields, hold them on their heads and continue to move forward.
Although Lu Bu's army would still suffer casualties in the face of shotguns, compared with the siege the day before yesterday, it was nothing compared to the siege, and the losses were directly reduced by 70%.
"Um?"
Seeing that after Lu Bujun passed through the shotgun, there were no casualties as expected, Zhang He couldn't help but was stunned. What is this situation?
Why it came out like this?
"It's okay, hold still, archer, shoot the arrow."
Although I don't know what method Lu Bu used to resist the shotguns, but what if he didn't have a trebuchet? He could still beat them to pieces.
"Fire the arrow."
A continuous stream of arrows fell from the sky, directly nailing the fastest Lu Bujun to the ground.
"Change your shield, you're a bunch of idiots."
Cao Xing saw that the soldier at the front was shot through the grass shield and nailed to the ground. He screamed loudly at the front.
"The general has an order, change your shield, change your shield quickly."
After hearing Cao Ming's order, these soldiers woke up from a dream. Yes, their hands were just straw shields to withstand shotguns. They were just like paper when faced with sharp bows and arrows.
One by one, they dropped their straw shields, replaced them with the shields behind their backs, and shouted again to attack the city wall.
After putting on a serious iron shield, facing the arrows on the city wall, although the loss was still not small, it was much better than before.
"General, what is going on?"
Li Mao looked at Lu Bujun, who behaved very differently before and after, and their grass shields on the ground, and couldn't help but ask Zhang He.
"Now I finally understand why Lu Bu's army was mowing the grass like crazy yesterday. It turns out that their shields are made of grass. Grass is tough. Although the shield cannot withstand sharp crossbows, it can withstand blunt weapons such as stones.
It has an excellent defensive effect, which is why they can pass through the trebuchet barrage and have to change their shields in front of the formation."
Zhang He finally understood the reason why Lu Bu did what he did yesterday, weaving a straw shield to render his trebuchet useless, and then attacked the city wall.
"Then what should we do now?
Rocket launch?"
When Li Mao heard Zhang He's words, he suddenly realized that the most logical thing to do now was to switch to rockets and burn these enemies to death before they could switch to iron shields.
"It's useless. They can just throw away the grass shield to avoid the fire, and then order the trebuchet to make kerosene eggs for me to burn."
Zhang He shook his head slightly. He could use the fire to burn the grass shield and throw it away from the enemy. He had to do it with extreme caution.
"The general is wise, I will go right away."
After hearing Zhang He's words, Li Mao suddenly realized that if they used rockets to burn their shields, they could throw away the shields, but if they were faced with flint bullets, how should they resist them? If they used grass shields to resist, they would be burned.
Will be beaten to death.
"The general has given orders to reload the trebuchets with kerosene bombs and continue attacking the enemy."
Facing the order from Li Mao, Captain Trebuchet was also stunned.
There are not many kerosene bombs in stock. It is estimated that they only have enough for ten rounds at most. Now, if you want to use kerosene bombs to suppress the enemy, it may not be enough.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing the expression on the trebuchet captain's face, Li Mao couldn't help but frown.
"The reserve of kerosene bombs is insufficient, so we can only fire ten consecutive shots at most."
The captain of the trebuchet did not hide anything and directly revealed the inventory of kerosene bombs.
"You're stupid, you won't mix it up. Generally, even one third will use kerosene bombs, and the rest will continue to attack with stone bombs. When the enemy sees the kerosene bombs coming, they will definitely not dare to use grass shields to resist them.
, when the time comes, I guarantee that they will have a life of doubt."
Regarding the shortage of kerosene bomb reserves, Li Mao also smiled slightly and already had a way to deal with it.
"Fuck, you're still smart. Someone came and ordered ten trebuchets to be replaced with kerosene bombs according to Colonel Li's words, and the rest continued to shoot."
Hearing Li Mao's words, Captain Trebuchet was also stunned, and immediately became excited, but what he said was a good plan.
"promise."
After hearing the captain's words, a group of people immediately left to where the kerosene bombs were stored and pulled out all the dangerous things. Then one-third of the trebuchets were replaced with kerosene bombs.
"Light the fire and set it off."
A torch directly ignited the kerosene bombs, and then with a blast, ten trebuchets loaded with kerosene bombs were fired instantly. The originally black shotguns instantly added a touch of beautiful red.
"what is that?"
A soldier carrying a straw shield raised his head slightly, looked at the scattered bullets falling from the sky, and the bright red color, and was immediately stunned.
"Fire bombs, fire bombs."
"Run quickly, rush quickly."
"Throw away the shield and replace it with an iron shield."
For a moment, the sky collapsed, and the kerosene bombs hit the grass shield and ignited it directly. The soldiers covered in flames quickly threw away the grass shield, but they were knocked down by the stone bullets that followed and fell into a pool of blood.
The soldiers of Lu Bu's army were howling like ghosts and wolves after being smashed. After a short time, the entire army was defeated and fled backwards.
The soldiers behind them were beaten to the point of collapse, but the soldiers who reached the city wall were immediately stunned. Without follow-up soldiers, even if they fought on the city wall themselves, they would be killed.
Without any hesitation, the soldiers who reached the city wall immediately collapsed and retreated wailing.
They were protected by grass shields when they came, but who would care about those things when they returned. Only when they broke into the barrage of trebuchets again did they realize that they had made a big mistake.
The iron shields were cracked by the smashing, and the soldiers under the shields were knocked down one by one in a pool of blood.
"Cao is incompetent, and I hope the general will punish him."
Cao Xing came to Lu Bu and knelt down on one knee to apologize to Lu Bu.
As the saying goes, you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder. Although they have grass shields to protect themselves from the trebuchets, they also have countermeasures on the other side. As soon as the kerosene bombs come out, the soldiers collapse immediately, and no one
Can continue to charge under the double blow of fire and stone bullets.
"I don't blame you, I just blame Yuan Shu's people for being too thieves. He ordered the soldiers to rest temporarily and wait for their morale to recover before attacking the city again."
Lu Bu glanced at Cao Xing. He was not responsible for this battle, but Yuan Shu's men were not only sharp in defending the city, but also knew the subtleties and used the best way to deal with his attack. It seemed that what he had to face this time was definitely not
The unknown person might be the general of Jizhou Army.
"promise."
Cao Xing clasped his fists and went down to calm the morale of the soldiers. Although the attack just now was not long, three thousand soldiers fell under the city wall.
"General, I see that the guard is definitely not an unknown person. He acts so steadily. Do you have any sense of the identity of the enemy?"
After Cao Xing left, Song Xian came to his side and looked at the city wall in the distance. Without the flag, he couldn't guess the identity of the other party.
"I don't know either. This man is extremely steady in his military use, and he is both steady and brave. This man is different from the generals we have fought with before. I don't know who this man is."
Lu Bu also shook his head. Song Xian didn't know who the other party was, and he didn't know either. According to this person's rules, he was definitely not an unknown person, but why didn't he know.
"Yuan Shu's army went north. The Wuxi barbarians rebelled some time ago. Zhang He, the general of the Jianzhong Army who was guarding Jingzhou, led his army to put down the rebellion. Will he be the vanguard this time?"
Cao Xing glanced at the two of them, and a name flashed in his mind, Zhang He and Zhang Junyi.
"Although Zhang He is not famous, he was the first general to follow Yuan Shu. When we went north to attack Jizhou, we fought with this man once in Changshan. According to you, he is quite similar."
Lu Bu was stunned when he heard Cao Xing's analysis, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that the person opposite was indeed a bit like the one from Changshan County in Jizhou. He was stable, courageous and had extraordinary strength.
"Since it is Zhang He, why should he conceal his name? Wouldn't it be more frightening to us to hang up a flag?
After all, he is the general of Jingzhou, there is no need to wrong himself."
Song Xian frowned silently on the side. If it was Zhang He, why didn't he hang out the flag? This made him a little confused.
"There must be something fishy here."
Lu Bu was also deep in thought. Why didn't Zhang He reveal his identity? What was he afraid of?
What is he hiding?
Is there anything you haven't seen?
Questions flashed directly in his mind, and they were hovering above his head.
"So what do we do now?"
Lu Bu told him that there was something fishy inside, but he didn't tell him how to do it. Cao Xing couldn't help but ask.
"Something's wrong. Yuan Shu's people are very crazy. If you can't figure it out, you can't attack and go back to camp temporarily."
Now this question made Lu Bu a little restless, and his damn instinct appeared again. He now only felt that the Yingdao City in front of him was no longer a city, but a beast that chose people to devour, and could swallow up his army at any time.
"Back to camp?
do not fight?"
Song Xian glanced at Lu Bu, wondering if it was a bit too hasty to withdraw his troops back to the camp just after the siege began.
"No more fighting, retreat."
After speaking, Lu Bu turned his horse's head and the red rabbit horse led him towards the camp.
"what should we do?"
Cao Xing looked at Lu Bu leaving with a confused face and didn't know why.
"The master is gone, what else can we do?
Withdraw troops and return to camp."
Song Xian could only shake his head, then rode his horse and left with Lu Bu.
"General?"
Song Xian and Lu Bu both rode away, but a captain stared at Cao Xing.
"withdraw."
Cao Xing looked at the captain and could only order the withdrawal of troops.
"The general has ordered the entire army to withdraw and return to camp."
The captain glanced at Cao Xing and went directly to pass the order to the soldiers below.
Although the soldiers didn't know what was going on, they were happy to avoid fighting and formed formations directly to return to the camp.
"General, it seems the enemy has withdrawn?"
Watching Lu Bujun leave, Li Mao frowned and spoke to Zhang He.
"I saw it, but why did Lu Bu withdraw?
Could it be said that it was destroyed by kerosene bombs?
It shouldn’t be, those things shouldn’t scare him,”
Zhang He looked at Lu Bujun who was walking away, and a gleam flashed in his eyes. This time Lu Bu made him feel very different from before. If he hadn't seen the red rabbit horse and Fang Tianji opposite him, he really wouldn't have believed in himself.
Opposite is Lu Bu.
"It is said that things that go against the norm must be monsters. There must be something we don't know about it."
