Chapter 322 Escape from Death

"So soo soo..."

Another rain of arrows poured down from the arrow tower. More than a dozen Cao soldiers who had just thrown away the sacks were caught in arrows before they could turn around. This time, no other soldier could return to the city alive. At this point, Zhang Liao's eight thousand elite soldiers had suffered all casualties. Except for the more than 3,000 wounded soldiers who were unable to move in the city, all the rest had been killed in battle!

Even in the chaotic times, not everyone has the courage to die calmly, but the Cao army in Xuchang City has been forced into a desperate situation by the Liang army, and they have no way to escape! As Zhang He said, whether to break through is death, whether to break through or die, the left and right are dead, and it is not enough to fight to the death or to fight a bloody road.

It was driven by this idea that Cao's army continued to die, and even though they died, they went until the eight thousand elite soldiers were injured and killed!

Zhang Liao's eight thousand soldiers told the subsequent Cao army with their blood and lives that people can lose their lives, but cannot lose hope!

"Bang!"

Jiang Qi's two swords attacked each other and made a thunderous thunderous sound, which instantly attracted the attention of the five thousand heavily armored infantry under his command. He met the sad eyes of the five thousand soldiers. Jiang Qi pointed his hands forward, pointing to the body of Cao's army lying all over the ground, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I saw it all, General Zhang Liao's eight thousand elite soldiers have been killed or killed! Although they failed to fill the trench of the Liang army, they are worthy of men. They are real soldiers! Now... it's our turn to fight!"

The north wind was howling, and there was silence outside the south gate of Xuchang, and only the heavy breathing of five thousand soldiers could be clearly heard.

Jiang Qi's eyes flashed over the faces of the soldiers with a burning look, and he shouted sternly: "Are you scared, are you in Qinghe County?"

"Not afraid!"

"Not afraid!"

"Not afraid!"

Five thousand heavy armor responded with a loud bang.

At the end of Xuchang city, Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief, and his originally clenched fists relaxed, and the morale of the surrendered army in Jizhou was finally miraculously condensed by him.

Under the city tower, Jiang Qiyangdao shouted: "Yes, we are not afraid! There is no coward in our Qinghe County! The Liang army outside the city surrounded Xuchang City so hard that even a mouse could not escape. We had no choice but to fight the Liangzhou army to death!"

"Fight!"

"Fight for the fuck!"

"Yes, fight with them!"

"The damn Liangzhou soldiers have cut off my life. Even if I die, I will have to put on some cushions!"

The originally silent Five Thousand Armor Formation suddenly became like boiling boiling water. Jiang Qi took the opportunity to pull the two swords in his hand forward and shouted loudly: "Kill!"

"Kill and kill!"

Five thousand Jizhou Chongjia shouted frantically, following Jiang Qi and swept out of the city.

Outside Xuchang City, Liang Army Camp.

Seeing Huang Cancan's heavy armor in Jizhou (the previous explanation was that the soldiers in Hebei were all wearing bronze armor) rolling forward like huge waves in the long river, a faint sense of murderous aura gradually rose on Gao Shun's face. Is the breakthrough battle finally about to begin? It's time for Cao's army to experience the real military front of the Liangzhou army.

"Arrowman, go to the village wall."

"The spearheads start forming a formation."

"White grass bales, chariot array, and chariot array are prepared."

At Gao Shun's order, the Liangzhou army began to prepare nervously.

Outside Xuchang City.

The heavy armor of Jizhou, which was rolling forward, had already rushed to the front of the trench. With Jiang Qi's order, thousands of oars and shields were on the ground, and in an instant, more than a dozen solid shield walls were built in front and behind. The drum sound of Cao's army became more and more exciting. The light armored infantry of Cao's army, who had been waiting for a long time, carried hundreds of short ladders prepared in advance and rushed over.

The light soldiers of Cao's army carried a short ladder over the shield formation of heavy troops and rushed to the inner edge of the trench, extended one ladder to the bottom of the ditch, and then began to go down the ditch to clean the antlers at the bottom of the ditch.

At this moment, arrows were raining on the wall of Liang Jun Village. Before the Cao army had just reached the bottom of the ditch, they were shot and fell to the ground. However, the Cao army did not give up. The first batch of light soldiers fell down, and the second batch of light soldiers quickly rushed forward and continued, endlessly. In less than a meal, the Cao army's light soldiers killed more than 2,000 people, but the sharp antlers covered at the bottom of the ditch were finally cleared out a distance of twenty feet wide.

Cao's light troops cleared the obstacles for the heavy army's attack with their lives and blood.

Jiang Qi had already been waiting on the edge of the ditch and felt angry. At this time, he saw that the light soldier had finally cleared a bloody path. He could no longer hold back his body and stood up. At the same time, he led the two swords in his hand forward and shouted sternly: "Kill!"

Amid the tide-like shouts, the first row of five hundred heavy soldiers had already slid down the bottom of the ditch along the ladder. With Jiang Qi's order, hundreds of quilts were thrown onto the Liang army's wall at the same time. At this moment, hundreds of Liang sabers and shield soldiers suddenly appeared behind the wall. In the flashing of cold light, hundreds of quilts had been cut off.

The next moment, bundles of white grass had been thrown off the wall of the village. In less than a moment, the bottom of the ditch was filled with the air. Suddenly, a smell of tinder oil filled the air. Jiang Qi sniffed his nose hard, and his face changed ditch and he led his knife to the bottom of the ditch and shouted: "Retreat quickly, retreat!"

However, it's too late.

As Jiang Qi finished speaking, a row of rockets had already fallen on the wall of the village. The white grass that had been poured with tinder oil in advance was immediately burned by the rockets. The fire filled the fire and instantly swallowed the heavy armor of the five hundred Cao troops at the bottom of the ditch. Seeing his troops wailing, running, struggling, and twitching in the fire that was sweeping, Jiang Qi's eyes suddenly turned red, and he wished he could put on his wings and fly up to the wall of the Liang army and kill the Liang soldiers guarding on it so that he could vent his hatred.

Cao's first wave of offensive was easily resolved, and only a few dozen people survived with five hundred Cao's heavy armor.

Although Cao's army suffered heavy casualties, the attack had to continue. With Jiang Qi's order, five hundred heavy armored men in the second row walked down the ladder and continued to attack with the burned corpses of his companions. This time, what fell on the wall of the village was no longer white grass, but rows of sharp guns. No matter how strong the shield was, it was difficult to resist the penetration of the guns. Cao's army was defeated again.

In just less than half an hour, Cao's army had lost more than 3,000 light soldiers and nearly 2,000 heavily armored infantry, but even a wooden fence of the Liang army had not been injured.

Apart from clearing a trench, Cao's army did not even achieve any worthy of mention.

Xuchang city.

Cao Cao raised his hand suddenly and said, "Transfer the order, suspend the attack!"

Cao Xiu turned around and shouted: "Lord has an order, suspend the attack!"

"Woooooooooooooo~~"

Cao Xiu called out the order, and the distant and desolate horn sounded instantly soaring into the sky.

"This kind of attack is not possible." Cao Cao frowned, "The archer must be pressed up!"

"Lord." Xun You said anxiously, "Is it too risky to let the archers press on?"

"Yes, lord." Cheng Yu also advised, "If our archers want to suppress the Liangzhou defenders on the village wall, they must shoot directly within fifty steps near the village wall. But such a close distance is very dangerous for archers. If the horse butcher secretly gathers a large number of archers to shoot in a dense manner, our archers will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and it will not be worth the cost!"

"I can't care about that much!" Cao Cao said coldly, "Tell me the order, all the archers will press on to cover the heavy armored infantry's attack."

Cao Cao really can't take care of that much anymore, and the most urgent task is to break through.

You can only break through the siege, even if all ten thousand archers are killed in battle?

As long as you can break through the siege, everything is easy to say. There will be soldiers, there will be food and supplies, and there will be Cao Cao's place in the world. But if you can't break out, what's the use of leaving behind many archers? In the end, weren't they all become prisoners of the Liangzhou army?

Cao Xiu turned around suddenly, raised the flag in his hand and shouted: "Lord has orders, archer~~ attack!"

Outside Xuchang City, Liang Jun camp.

Li Su is estimating the number of Cao's army's archers.

"Two thousand, three thousand...eight thousand, ten thousand! God, there are ten thousand archers!" Li Su shouted in dismay, "What is Cao Cao trying to do? Do you want the archers to suppress the defenders on the walls of our army?"

A trace of inexplicable solemnity flashed through Gao Shun's eyes and said, "A total of ten thousand archers lined up to shoot straight, which can indeed suppress the defenders on the wall of our army. In front of such a number of archers, the defenders on the wall of the front wall were afraid that they would be shot into hedgehogs as soon as they showed up. How can they resist the heavy armor attack of Cao's army from the bottom of the ditch?"

Li Su said: "But Cao Cao wasn't afraid that his 10,000 archers would be destroyed? The entire 10,000 archers were arranged in such a dense shooting formation, and the distance was so close that it was simply a target for our archers! Our army only needed to mobilize two thousand archers and carry out ten rounds of volleys, which would cause most of the 10,000 archers in Cao's army to suffer casualties!"

Gao Shun said: "Is Ziyan thinking about it? Even if our archers can shoot all 10,000 Cao's archers? At this time, the heavy armor of Cao's army at the bottom of the ditch has already pulled down the wall of the village and entered our army's big camp! Once the complete camp defense system is torn a gap, the subsequent infantry of Cao's army will continue to rush in along the gap. At that time, even Cao's cavalry may take advantage of the situation to kill in. At this time, the advantage of Cao's army's military strength will be reflected, and our army will be defeated unbeaten."

Li Su said sternly: "So that's it."

Gao Shun said calmly: "But all this was long as the lord and military advisor expected. Our army had already made corresponding arrangements, and this arrangement would definitely be beyond Cao Cao's expectations. If Cao Cao really planned to do this, he would have to destroy himself!"

While the two were talking, the general Ju suddenly ran up and said, "General, Cao's archers are about to enter the range."

Gao Shundao: "General Jutu asked most of the archers and infantrymen on the village wall to retreat, leaving only a small number of soldiers to attract the attention of Cao's army, and then gather all the archers behind the village wall."

Ju Tu said: "The last general takes the order."

Soon, Cao's archers approached within fifty steps from the village wall.

At the command of the leader Lu Qian, the archers lined up dense shooting formations at the fastest speed. Nearly 10,000 archers began to shoot arrows at the Liang army's village wall. The arrow tower was used to shoot arrows, and sharp wolf-toothed arrows whizzed across the village wall and arrow tower in a straight line. Gao Shun ordered the arrow tower and the Liang army archers on the village wall to retreat. Although the Liang army soldiers bent down to avoid it, they were still injured by unlucky strokes and then fell from the village wall with screams.

This scene looked like he was afraid of the killing and injury of Cao's archery formation. Cao's heavy armor, who was guarding the edge of the ditch, suddenly burst out with cheers like a landslide and cracks, and his morale rose sharply.

"Hahaha, these damn Liangzhou coyotes also have this time." Jiang Qi laughed at the sky three times, then raised his arms and shouted, "Attack!"

This time, Jiang Qi did not stay in the ditch anymore, but directly led a thousand armors to rush down the trench. Hundreds of quilts were thrown upwards, firmly sieging the sharp wooden stakes at the top of the Liangjun village wall. With the neat and loud sound of horns, thousands of armors began to pull back like a ox-trolling cart. The combined force of thousands of soldiers formed a terrifying force in an instant. The wall that penetrated deeply into the underground began to make a crunching and struggle, and then slowly tilted towards the outside.

Cao's army's arrows were like rain, and the Liang army guards on the Liang army wall were suppressed so that they could not raise their heads at all.

Xuchang city.

Seeing the progress was going smoothly, the generals standing behind Cao Cao could not help but cheer. Only Cao Cao and Xun You and other confidant advisers looked solemn. The facts proved that Cao Cao and others were not superfluous. The Cao army archers only shot out two arrows and suddenly rushed out of the Liang army camp into the air, a dense rainy arrow passed by like locusts, and then accurately landed towards the dense array of archers of Cao army. The tragic howlings instantly soared into the sky. A large area of ​​Cao army archers who were pulling their bows and shooting arrows had fallen down.

The thing Xun You and others were most worried about was still happening. The Liang army indeed concentrated archers to shoot and kill Cao's archers first.

If Cao Cao ordered the archers to retreat at this time, at least he could retain the main force of the archers, but Cao Cao never blinked, as if the archers in front of the two armies who were struggling and wailing in a pool of blood were not his soldiers of Cao Cao. Cao Cao just turned around indifferently and shouted to Cao Xiu: "Wen Lie, I'll order Lu Qian, the entire army is not allowed to retreat. Those who violate the order~~ behead and decisive!"

"Get orders!"

Cao Xiu agreed and quickly ordered his personal soldiers to raise the flag to signal Lu Qian in front of the formation. Lu Qian saw him from afar, and a trace of sadness flashed through his eyes. Suddenly, he turned around and pulled out the three-stone strong bow, pressed a wolf-tooth arrow tightly on the string, and shot towards the Liang Army Arrow Tower where soldiers were still stationed on the right.

A moment later, Lu Qian heard a scream from afar. Two Liang army archers fell from the arrow tower and were pierced by the sharp antlers covering the bottom of the trench and died on the spot.

Lu Qian could vent his anger and hatred on the Liang soldiers who were outside the range of ordinary bows and arrows, but the Cao army archers behind him were no longer capable of this. They could only shoot arrows mechanically at the empty village wall and arrow tower in front of them, and then were shot to the ground by waves of arrows that were shot from the Liang army camp.

This was a completely massacre. The Liang army archers could unscrupulously pour the rain of arrows onto the head of the Cao army's archery formation, but the Cao army archers could not fight back in the same way! Because the military order they received was to suppress the Liang army on the front wall and arrows to cover the attack of the heavily armored infantry, rather than shooting against the Liang army archers!

However, the suicide suppression of Cao's archers was not at all cost. When nearly 10,000 archers were killed or killed, the Cao army general on the front of Xuchang City in the distance was about to suffocate. A loud noise was heard. The integrated Liang army wall had collapsed from the middle. A piece of the village wall, nearly twenty feet wide, was pulled down and fell heavily into the trench under his feet.

The sharpened wooden stakes at the top of the village wall instantly stabbed dozens of Cao's heavy armor to death on the spot, but dozens of Liang soldiers who fell down with the village wall were instantly dismembered by the angry Cao's infantrymen!

As soon as the village wall fell, the Liang army archers hiding behind the back were exposed. Lu Qian finally waited for this opportunity to revenge. When he was about to order the arrow to fight back, the Liang army archers on the opposite side quickly retreated to their wings. In less than a moment, they disappeared from Cao's vision! Lu Qian looked around and found that there was a large area of ​​flat ground behind the village wall, empty and there was nothing, only the dense Liang army camp tents stood on both sides of the gap and hundreds of steps away!

Dozens of short ladders quickly reached the gap. Jiang Qi inserted his hands and feet into the back and used the first one to climb up the gap.

Looking around, thousands of Liang army archers retreated in panic to the Liang army camp on both sides of the gap like the tide. Jiang Qi pulled out his swords from behind with his back, slashed hard in front of his chest, and smiled grimly: "The Liangzhou coyotes who should kill thousands of swords, you will run fast this time, hum!"

After saying that, Jiang Qi turned around and pointed his sword, shouted to the sky: "Children from Qinghe County, come on!"

"Kill and kill ~~"

Thousands of Cao's heavy armor responded with a loud bang and rushed up the gap along the short ladder.

Outside the south gate of Xuchang, seeing that Jiang Qi had successfully tore a gap in the wall of Liang's village, Han Meng also led another 5,000 heavily armored infantry to cover it out!

Jiang Qi and Han Meng each have their own division of labor. Jiang Qi's troops' mission is to tear a gap on the Liang army's wall, while Han Meng's troops' mission is to expand this gap and then nail it to the gap like a nail, so as to win the time to fill the trench and space to break through the array for the subsequent Cao army.
To be continued...