The sky gradually became brighter. When the sun shone through the heavy clouds and cast a golden light on the top of Chencang City, the warning bell rang at the top of the city, "Dang! Dang!", and eight thousand Cao soldiers rushed to the top of the city, holding bows and arrows and hard crossbows, waiting for the sternness.

Outside the city, the main forces of the Han army were already surging. They were divided into four large arrays and rushed towards Chencang City from four directions. The horns were blowing, and the drums were sounded like thunder. Spear soldiers, swords and shield soldiers, heavy armored infantry, barbarian soldiers, and the 40,000 troops were like waves. They gradually stopped, about three miles away from the city.

Han soldiers wore croakers on their heads and double-layer leather armor decorated with fish scales and iron sheets. Their weapons were giant shields, swords and spears, and a large number of bows and crossbows. Although they were soldiers from the south, they came from Jingchu and Bashu, which created the brilliant civilization. The Chu-Shu civilization left them to their descendants. Their weapons were advanced and sharp, with complete siege weapons, neat formations and high morale.

The 50,000 army had hundreds of siege ladders. They did not use cloud ladders, but used dozens of giant tres and thirty nest cars, and even five huge siege rams.

The Han army had obviously realized the problem of siege facing the attack of Guanzhong General. The hundred siege ladders during the attack on Xicheng were not enough to capture Chen Cangcheng. After Liu Jing seized Xicheng, he sent tens of thousands of people to transport siege weapons from Bashu. They needed the sharpest siege to break open the gate of Chen Cangcheng.

Xu Huang looked anxiously at the Sanguan in the distance. The army of Sanguan should have arrived long ago, but now there is no news, which makes him worry that something has happened. There is only one explanation. Liu Jing sent troops to intercept Hao Zhao's army. As for the fate of Hao Zhao's army, he had no way to know.

At least one thing he knew in his heart that Hao Zhao's army would not come to support him again, and he could only rely on ten thousand defenders to defend Chen Cang, but in the face of the huge Han army's siege, could Chen Cang defend it?

Xu Huang had no idea. Fortunately, Chen Cangcheng's defense was also well prepared, and perhaps he could reach the large-scale attack of the Han army.

The city was covered with flags and densely packed with Cao army soldiers. Behind them were dozens of huge trenchers standing high above the city wall.

Xu Huang had participated in the Battle of Guandu and knew the power of the catapult. The thunder catapult of the Cao army brought significant losses to Yuan Shao's army. Although the Cao army was not as strong as the Yuan army, it was precisely the emergence of the powerful catapult that Yuan Shao's camp was finally captured.

Unfortunately, he did not expect the Han army to attack Chen Cang in large numbers, nor did he expect the Han army to carry so many siege weapons that Xu Huang did not make too much preparations on strengthening the city walls. Moreover, the opponent also had huge nest carts like monsters. The Han army's siege power made Xu Huang feel worried.

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The horns under the city were sobbing and morale was rising. The main force of the 40,000 Han army had surrounded Chen Cang from four directions and would launch an attack on the city at the same time.

Liu Jing looked at Chen Cang from afar outside the west city. Chen Cang City was obviously not as tall as Ji City. The city was only two feet and five feet tall. It was old and did not seem too solid, but there was an extra moat.

But for the Han army, who was good at siege, this moat was not threatened at all, and it was only three meters wide and could be paved with wooden boards.

"Qi Bingzhou Governor, the catapult and the nest van are ready!" An officer rushed to report.

Liu Jing looked back and saw hundreds of strong cows dragging dozens of huge catapults and nest cars. The catapult was three feet high and the pole was five feet long. It took hundreds of people to pull the giant catapult.

Although Liu Jing was still doubting Cao's thief, he also wanted to see how powerful Cao's thief was.

"Order the troops of North City to launch the attack first!"

The 10,000 troops in Beicheng were prisoners of war who surrendered to the Han army in the Battle of Longxi. Their life and death were not taken seriously by Liu Jing. Now it is the first siege battle to attack Guanzhong. They are obliged to test the task of Cao's defense.

"Dong!Dong!" The drums of attack sounded, and the Han army located outside the northern city launched the first round of offensive. Ten thousand Han troops ran towards the city like a tide. They carried dozens of stairs, waved swords and spears, held shields and crossbows, and shouted and rushed towards the city gate.

The Cao army at the top of the city was extremely nervous. Without waiting for Xu Huang's order, the Han army was still hundreds of steps away and they shot. The arrows were as heavy as rain, but there was no effect.

Behind the tide-like army, five huge nest cars slowly moved forward under the pull of hundreds of strong cows.

On the top of the city, Cao's army's cross treble began to squeak. As it was attacking from top to bottom, Cao's craftsmen adjusted the distance of the arm and set up a clever lever to leverage the force, so that the treble no longer needed 200 people to pull the treble, and only fifty people could start it.

The stones as big as millstones were put into the throwing bag. Xu Huang gave the order and ten trenchers fired at the same time. Ten huge rocks were thrown high, rolling in the air, drawing an arc, and smashing them into the dense crowd.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise from the ground, and screams were everywhere. The Han soldiers could not avoid it and were smashed into meat pie by huge rocks. The huge inertia caused the stones to roll in the crowd, extremely rapid, and rolled out more than twenty steps in a row. The soldiers siege the city desperately dodged to both sides, but more than ten people died under the collision of the huge rocks, and dozens of people were injured, with broken bones and broken tendons, and wailing sounds.

Immediately after the second and third rounds, the fourth round of the catapult was shot. With Cao's crossbow, arrows on the top of the city were like rain, and heavy casualties were killed and injured. Every round of huge rocks hitting them would bring hundreds of casualties. It was simply a machine to massacre people, causing heavy losses to the siege army.

The role of the catapult in defending the city is unparalleled. The most famous is the Taiyuan Defense Battle during the Anshi Rebellion in history. Li Guangbi, who was poor in military force, killed nearly 100,000 rebels with dozens of giant catapults, and achieved a brilliant victory in the Taiyuan Defense Battle.

The same is true in Chen Cang. Cao's army used a catapult that was no less than the Han army, causing huge damage to the attacking Han army. The battlefield was full of corpses, with flattened bodies everywhere, smashed heads, brains, and blood flowed into a river, dyeing all the smashed stones red.

At this time, the attacking Han army was gradually approaching the city wall. Under the cover of bows and arrows, more than a thousand Han soldiers laid wooden boards on the moat, nailing the giants at both ends into the soil, causing the moat to lose its defensive effect.

Thousands of Han soldiers rushed across the moat with siege ladders. The ladders were placed on the top of the city, and the rolling wood and stones on the city fell like hail. Han soldiers raised their shields to protect them and climbed up to attack.

Five nest cars continued to move forward and gradually drove onto the moat. At this time, Xu Huang sneered and ordered: "Change the turmeric oil to shoot!"

Cao Jun quickly transferred dozens of small trenchers, swung out the pole, and threw dozens of barrels filled with tinder oil into the moat under the city.

The situation that the Han army was most worried about finally happened. Cao army used tinder oil when the Han army killed the moat. As dozens of burning fireballs rolled down from the top of the city and smashed into the crowd, a sea of ​​fire suddenly formed inside and outside the moat. Countless people were ignited by tinder oil and became firemen. They opened their arms and ran around wailingly. Without taking a few steps, they fell to the ground and the fire curled up.

Cao's turbulent oil caused a fatal blow to the nest car. As the fire spread, the huge nest car was also ignited. A large number of bullocks pulling the nest car ran away frantically. The five-seat nest car slumped over in the flames and was engulfed by the raging fire.

‘Dang!Dang!Dang!’ The bell of withdrawing troops rang. After nearly 30% of the soldiers were killed and injured, the Han army, which had attacked for the first time, retreated like a tide. The huge nest cart did not play any role and was burned by the fire.

Liu Jing looked at the city wall coldly. Although he knew how powerful Cao Jun's catapult was, he did not expect that it would be so sharp and the terrifying tincture oil weapons, but these were all within his expectations.

At this time, he looked back at the Han army's catapult and slowly ordered: "Tell me my order and attack from all sides. The first person to attack the city is rewarded with a reward of a thousand taels."

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After experiencing the failure of the first tentative attack, the Han army launched another full-scale attack. Eighty giant catapults slowly approached the head of Chencang from four directions, which was twice as many as the catapults on the head of the city. Their range was above 400 steps, and the huge rock weighing 100 kilograms was enough to destroy everything on the head of the city.

On the top of the city, Xu Huang's expression was extremely serious. He knew in his heart that Chen Cang could not save it. He had only 10,000 troops to defend the city. The Han army attacked at the same time from four directions. He could only deploy more than 2,000 people on each city wall. He only took the catapult and removed half of the soldiers. Facing an enemy attack that was four times as good as his own, how could he defend the city?

At this moment, a strange noise came from the sky, and dozens of black dots roared towards the city. The soldiers were panicked and hiding in all directions. With the loud bang, eighty huge rocks hit the city in the first round.

"General flashed!"

The soldiers shouted, and several personal soldiers threw Xu Huang to the ground. A huge rock of 100 kilograms flew up and hit the battlements. The battlements shattered and the gravels flew around. Several soldiers could not dodge and were hit by the gravels. They immediately felt blood flowing and fell to the ground with screams.

The huge rock as big as a millstone bounced up and rolled over Xu Huang's head. With a loud bang, it was hitting the bottom of a scatter. The thick wood broke. With a harsh creaking sound, the huge scatter was leaning back and finally rolling down from the city, landing on the ground, shattering to pieces.

The first round of giant rock attacks caused nearly 200 soldiers of Cao's army to be killed and injured. Five catapults were destroyed. Countless soldiers were smashed to pieces and died tragically on the spot. Then the second round of giant rocks was launched again, and the western city wall was hit continuously, cracking a large crack.

Xu Huang's face was pale. On the one hand, he ordered the catapult on the city to fight back. On the other hand, he found another soldier, gave him an arrow, and whispered: "You go down the city immediately and find Liu Jing, and say I am willing to lead my army to evacuate Chen Cang and ask him to remove the siege of Dongcheng."

When the city is difficult to protect, Xu Huang can only choose to protect the soldiers' safety to the greatest extent.
Chapter completed!