A stone bullet fell from the sky and hit the city wall of Xiapi. The fifty kilogram stone bullet was not too heavy, but it made this small section of the wall vibrate. The broken masonry flew and hit the people around.
It caused secondary damage. The stone bullets continued to fall, making holes in the city wall, but in the end they were not powerful enough to destroy the solid city wall.
After a long time, the vibration of the wall stopped. There was a sound of fighting and shouting not far outside the city. Gao Shun looked out and saw another wave of Cao Jun soldiers rushing up like before. He
He covered his head and face with a shield and shouted: "Get ready to engage the enemy!"
The strong men who were conscripted onto the city wall were so heartbroken that they hid behind the battlements and refused to get up. The veterans kept beating these timid guys with the handles of their guns and knives, and cursed: "Get up, you idiots! If Cao Jun
If we charge to the top of the city, none of you will survive!"
The strong men were beaten until they screamed, and blood came out from the places where they were hit. The veterans showed no mercy. They changed the target and continued to beat them, "Get up!"
Guan Yu has always been "arrogant and unable to bear to subordinate". At this time, he saw the atrocities of the soldiers and said nothing. Cao's army was extremely cruel and slaughtered villages and cities at every turn. If the enemy had killed them, tens of thousands of people in the city would not have survived.
several.
"boom!"
The suspension bridge at the top of the siege tower was lowered and hit the city head, splattering a lot of dust. The ferocious-looking soldiers of Cao Jun appeared in the defenders' sight. The soldiers who were driven crazy by military law and the desire to kill immediately howled.
He shouted and rushed over.
"Fire arrows and shoot them to death!"
The officers on the city wall shouted loudly. In the past ten days, Cao's army had rushed to the city wall twice. Each time, many people were killed and injured before driving down the ferocious enemies.
Arrows and javelins fell like raindrops on the siege tower. Many Cao soldiers were shot through and fell from a height of seven to eight meters in the air screaming. But more soldiers jumped up howling.
At the top of the city, there was a fierce fight with the defenders.
Cao's army had been besieging the city for more than forty days and built dozens of siege towers and hundreds of catapults. All the larger trees within a radius of ten miles were cut down, and they were all dragged to the bottom of the city and turned into siege machinery.
.The houses and houses of the nearby people were completely demolished, and the wood, adobe bricks, stones and other items were turned into cannonballs and thrown into the city wall by catapults.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
Suspension bridges kept falling on the city, and more and more soldiers of Cao's army swarmed onto the city. Although Gao Shun fought hard with his soldiers, his old troops had already lost a lot in the wars last year and this year.
Since Xiapi was besieged again, every time he led his men to the front, he suffered many casualties. Now he only has more than a thousand men in his hand. While many Cao soldiers were killed and injured, the battle line has already collapsed.
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"Crack!"
The Hengdao cut off the enemy's weapon, and without stopping, it cut into the enemy's left shoulder. But this time, the blade failed to cut off the enemy. After the Hengdao cut off the collarbone and shoulder armor, it got stuck.
Inside the enemy's chest, the seriously injured Cao Jun soldier screamed, his eyes became more and more fierce, and he thrust the short spear in his hand towards Gao Shun's body with a ferocious expression.
Gao Shunchu became calm and kicked the opponent out. A general ran over and shouted: "General, we can't hold on any longer, ask for reinforcements from behind!"
"General Guan has made his own decision, we just have to guard this section of the city wall!"
"But......."
Gao Shun said angrily: "Nothing! Either be killed by the enemy here, or die under military law!"
".........promise!"
As more and more soldiers of Cao's army rushed to the city, the fighting became more and more intense. Arrows and javelins flew across the sky, and soldiers kept screaming and falling from the city wall. Cao's soldiers were like wolves and tigers, and they jumped at every sight.
Kill. The veterans under Gao Shun were able to form a battle formation to resist, but the young men who were temporarily recruited did not have much combat experience. They were quickly scattered and then chopped down piece by piece.
Gao Shun fought hard to kill, but there were fewer and fewer people around him. Cao Jun's soldiers who had established a firm foothold on the top of the city carried long spears and stabbed them constantly, forcing them to retreat backwards. They fought each other again.
After a while, Gao Shun retreated into the tower with dozens of soldiers around him.
He led more than ten people with the best armor to block the door, while the remaining people went above and used arrows, javelins, and everything available to carry out long-range attacks on the enemies crowded outside the tower.
"Bang", a soldier on the tower released his finger, and the arrow flew out and pierced the enemy's back. The enemy who was shot was shocked, but he was not shot to death, but pulled it out with his backhand.
The arrow on the back. The man held the broken arrow, raised his head and looked towards the tower.
The Cao Jun soldier who was shot had a long scar on his face, and his skin was open, like a big red centipede coiled on his face. He roared towards the tower: "What a bastard, wait for me
Come up here and cut you into pieces!"
As soon as he finished speaking, another arrow flew towards him and hit him in the left eye. This arrow shot out his eyeball and pierced deeply into his head. The soldier of Cao's army who had been speaking harshly just now was hit hard by this.
Suddenly he lost his breath, and his body fell to the side, rolling down to the bottom of the city wall.
The archers on the tower shot and killed many Cao Jun soldiers, and were also attacked by many Cao Jun archers. The tiles and window lattice were filled with dense arrows, and from time to time, arrows penetrated into the narrow shooting openings, and then inside
There will be a scream.
After another fierce battle, Gao Shun below had been injured in five places, but he kept gritting his teeth and holding on to the front. Just when he felt that every breath took an extremely long time, a cry suddenly came from above, "I don't have it."
Arrow!"
"I don't have any anymore!"
"Why hasn't General Guan sent reinforcements? Does he want us all to die here?"
Gao Shun's heart tightened, but then he relaxed. He had fought countless battles, from Bingzhou to Guanzhong, from Hedong to Xuzhou. He could no longer remember how many enemies he had killed and how many times he had been injured. In
After Lu Bu was placed under house arrest, the thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands became the last remnants of the Bingzhou Army.
If he hadn't worked hard to maintain it, this alliance would have been completely absorbed long ago. Even so, nearly half of the original veterans were lost. Gao Shun didn't know how long he could continue to hold on. Even so.
If they don't die here, as new recruits continue to be added, this army will no longer be what it used to be.
Then, just die here.
He waved the sword vigorously, and the chipped sharp weapon kept colliding with the steel, making a crisp sound. Sparks kept flashing in front of him, and some even spattered onto his cheeks. The skin and flesh were burned out one by one.
There are scorched black spots, but no one cares.
At the last moment, Gao Shun's heart calmed down. He thought to himself: Mr. Feng, I have tried my best, and I can no longer control the future!
"rub!"
A ring-headed knife was stabbed in the chest, but it failed to pierce the steel armor on his body. Gao Shun raised the horizontal knife and hit the enemy's helmet with the handle. However, he had been fighting on the top of the city for a long time, and now he had no strength.
It was no longer as good as before. Although he hit the enemy, he failed to kill him this time. Instead, a mace fell from the side and collided with the helmet on his head, making a dull sound.
"Buzz!"
He received a heavy blow on the head, Gao Shun's vision went dark, he let go of the knife, and his strong body fell down weakly.
"General!"
"General!"
The faint sound seemed to come from the horizon. In Gao Shun's field of vision, the light quickly disappeared. The boundless darkness turned and rolled him into the abyss.
Seeing Gao Shun fall to the ground, the soldiers on the side became angry, roared and rushed out, crashing into the enemy's formation. With anger, they killed many Cao Jun soldiers, but they were still very angry.
Soon they were surrounded by superior enemies, and then suffered all casualties. The cheering Cao army rushed forward, and after a sound of weapons slashing each other, several corpses of the defenders were thrown out from above and hit the wall behind the city wall.
On the open ground.
In the courtyard not far away, Guan Yu's expression became increasingly gloomy. He watched the city to the west being occupied by more and more Cao troops, and finally ordered, "Chen is here!"
Chen Dao, who was seven feet tall and five feet tall, stood up and responded loudly: "The general is here!"
"Take the white-eared soldiers and prepare to follow me out of the city!"
"promise!"
The Bai'er soldiers were adapted by Liu Bei after he entered Xuzhou by combining the original Danyang soldiers under Tao Qian and the Danyang soldiers he recruited himself. This army is the strongest force in Liu Bei's hands, with more than 4,000 people.
, led by Chen to Chen Shuzhi. After Xiapi was besieged again, Liu Bei took advantage of the night to escape, went outside to gather troops and horses, leaving a thousand white-eared soldiers in the city.
Liu Bei summoned soldiers and horses from other counties in Xuzhou, totaling more than 40,000 people, and went directly to Xiapi to kill them. However, they were discovered dozens of miles away by the cavalry led by Xia Houyuan and Cao Chun. Then Cao Jun and Liu Bei
The armies fought several times in the wilderness, causing injuries to each other.
Just as Liu Bei continued to dispatch more soldiers from all over Xuzhou, Xia Houyuan suddenly got rid of the enemy in front of him. Relying on the strong mobility of the cavalry, he broke through several counties behind Liu Bei and burned all the grain and grass stored inside. He was
The soldiers of Xuzhou who had taken the retreat route were so distraught and lacked food and grass that they collapsed in large numbers.
In desperation, Liu Bei could only turn around and divide his troops to guard various places, while sending troops to attack Xiahou Yuan's cavalry. But just when the Xuzhou soldiers began to retreat, Cao Cao pounced on with the main force. After a melee, Xuzhou
The army was defeated, with tens of thousands of casualties and seven generals dead. Zhang Fei was also stabbed in the arm during this battle.
Liu Bei led the remaining defeated soldiers all the way back to Xiaqiu, and then stabilized their position. Cao Jun tentatively attacked, and seeing that Xiaqiu City was heavily guarded, they immediately withdrew to the vicinity of Xiapi. Xiapi was stuck in the Surabaya River and several other rivers.
At this point, if he couldn't capture Xiapi, Cao Cao didn't dare to go too deep into Xuzhou and just scanned the surrounding area.
Although Xia Houyuan's cavalry was superb, it could only create an atmosphere of panic in front of the prepared Xuzhou soldiers, and could not be said to be reckless enough to ride a horse into the city wall.
