669 Huainan War 7
When Zhang Liao's soldiers saw Yuan Shu and his officers and soldiers in chaos on the Shouchun city wall, their embarrassing appearance made the soldiers laugh. The soldiers' strategists and generals under Yuan Shu did not expect that the strength of Zhang Liao's army would be so great. It just fleetingly caused 30% of the soldiers guarding the city wall to suffer casualties. Although they were unprepared and were attacked by Zhang Liao's soldiers once, the power of the crossbow arrow was too powerful.
Yuan Shu, who came to his senses, got up and shouted: "Defend the city quickly, the enemy is going to attack!"
Yan Xiang next to him shook his head after hearing this, and said with a wry smile: "Lord, there are only cavalry under the city wall, how can you attack the city? This is Zhang Liao's army coming to demonstrate, and it takes infantry to attack the city."
No matter how stupid Zhang Liao was, he would not use the Feixiong Iron Cavalry to attack the city. I guess any general would do this; and Yuan Shu was probably shocked, so he would be so yellow-tongued.
After Ding Feng asked his subordinates to shoot a box of crossbow arrows, he did not continue to entangle and immediately brought 5,000 iron cavalry back to Zhang Liao's army. Zhang Liao knew in his heart that although his soldiers had war horses to travel for transportation during the march, they could fight continuously, which still caused the soldiers to have a lot of physical overdrawn physically.
Zhang Liao didn't want to attack Shouchun City in a hasty way, as it would cause serious casualties to the soldiers under his command, which would not work; Lu Ning's soldiers under him were all rigorously trained and basically needed more than one year to form an army. It was not easy to train a soldier well, and he paid a lot of money. Every time he lost a soldier, the general led the army would feel very heartbroken.
Zhang Liao laughed and said, "The army camped for rest, and I will deal with Yuan Shu's stupidity tomorrow."
Yuan Shu and his civil and military officials saw that Zhang Liao's army was like a wind and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Yuan Shu had no choice but to order Zhang Xun to guard the city and take the civil servant back to the residence to study countermeasures.
After seeing the terrifying strength of Zhang Liao's army, Yang Hong said: "Lord, the city of Shouchun must not be able to be defended. The lord must be prepared; you must think about where to think of it."
Yuan Shu wanted to scold Yang Hong after the middle school, but what he said made sense. He had to make plans to escape, but where would he escape? Jiangdong could not go, and even if he went to Sun Ce's life, he would not take him in. Yuan Shu knew this in his heart. There was no friendship in Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and the distance was relatively far, so he might not be able to escape from the pursuit of Zhang Liao's army. Now the only place that can escape to is really Cao Cao. Yuan Shu knew in his heart that even if he escaped to Cao Cao, Cao Cao would not give him a good face.
Yuan Shu thought for a while, and finally smiled bitterly: "Everyone is ready, it seems that we can only take refuge in Cao Cao."
After breakfast the next day, Zhang Liao led his army to attack the city. Today, Zhang Liao was well prepared. Ten thousand flying bear cavalry were laid on both sides of the central army and stared at them. Ten thousand thunderbolt soldiers were laid in the middle. Dozens of catapults installed last night were pushed to the front of the formation, about 200 steps away from the Pioneer City Wall. Behind the catapults were 10,000 soldiers of the thunderbolt soldiers were ready to attack at any time.
As Zhang Liao asked the orders to issue orders, several war drums resounded in unison; dozens of catapults fired at the same time after hearing the drum sounds, and stones of different sizes hit the city walls one after another, with large stones dozens of kilograms and small ones falling down.
Yuan Shu's city guards had seen such a terrifying blow, and they were completely confused. They did not react and avoid it when the stone hits a person and their brains splashed. Although the catapult cart has little lethality, it has a great deterrence and can cause great panic in the hearts of Yuan Shu soldiers.
A round of stones hit the city wall. Although only dozens of soldiers guarding Yuan Shu died and dozens of people were injured, the deterrent power was too terrifying. When it was hit on the head, the brain immediately splashed everywhere. When it hits the human body, when it hits the big stone, it will turn into minced meat.
After several rounds of catapults, the soldiers guarding Yuan Shu on the Shouchun City Wall hid one after another, and some soldiers simply fled directly. Many soldiers ran to safe places to hide. Even the generals Zhang Xun and Yang on the city wall were not effective no matter how they shouted.
When Zhang Liao saw that the soldiers guarding the city on Shoufeng's city wall were hiding, he immediately asked the city-killing car to go forward and hit the city gate. This city-killing car was also the latest siege equipment developed by Ma Jun. The city-killing car has wheels and slide bars, which is easy to operate and convenient, and can be disassembled and transported.
General Yang saw a large group coming towards the city gate and immediately asked his archers to greet him; but as soon as the heads of the soldiers guarding the city showed up, countless crossbow arrows rushed over, and their heads would be shot into a hornet's nest.
When Zhang Liao hit the city car, he had already asked 5,000 crossbowmen to cover it. As long as he saw enemy soldiers exposed on the city wall, he would immediately attack with the crossbow in his hand.
When Zhang Liao saw a general on the city wall, it was actually General Yang who was shouting. Zhang Liao immediately asked his sniper to snipe. After receiving the order, the sniper immediately picked up the sniper crossbow arrow in his hand. General Yang's head appeared in the scope. With a snare, he knocked on the move and the crossbow arrow shot out like lightning.
When General Yang felt something was coming, he knew that the danger was coming, but he was still a little slower. General Yang did not dodge, and the crossbow arrow hit his head and penetrated directly. General Yang's eyes were open like a bull's eyeball, and he didn't know how he died until he died.
When Zhang Xun saw General Yang dead, he knew that the city would be broken soon. If it was delayed, he would probably be captured or died. Zhang Xun told the soldiers guarding the city to guard the city walls and quickly ran to Yuan Shu's official residence.
Zhang Xun said: "Lord, the Fangliao army is attacking the city, and it will be broken soon. Run away quickly!"
When Yuan Shu heard that, he dared to stay for a long time, he immediately took his subordinates and ran to Ximen. Yuan Shu knew in his heart that it would be miserable after being captured by Lu Ning; Lu Ning was inhumane at all, and no matter how big the official was captured, he would have to be a coolie; Lu Ning came to care whether you have status or not, he was a Confucian scholar. For Lu Ning, prisoners were the same. If you want to survive, you had to be a coolie. Only after being a coolie for a few years would you have freedom.
Yuan Shu heard a lot of these and knew the treatment of his brother Yuan Shao. Although Lu Ning did not let Yuan Shao be a hardworking worker, Yuan Shao wrote a letter to surrender after being captured. From a certain perspective, Yuan Shao also made some contributions. But Lu Ning only gave Yuan Shao freedom and ignored his life. All the property in Yuan Shao's original family was confiscated by Lu Ning. Yuan Shao had no choice but to rely on labor to support his life and died in less than many years.
Shouchun's East City Gate was broken in a few strokes after a collision with the city car; Ding Feng immediately led the Feixiong Iron Cavalry into the city when he saw the city gate being broken; Zhang Liao also led the army to the city and completely eliminated the enemy who dared to resist.
After Zhang Liao's army entered Shouchun City, Yuan Shu's soldiers basically knelt down and surrendered without any major resistance. After occupying Yuan Shu's official residence, he found that Yuan Shu had escaped from the west gate.
Zhang Liao asked Ding Feng to lead 10,000 Feixiong Iron Cavalry to chase Yuan Shu, while Zhang Liao appeased the people in the city, asked his soldiers to maintain order, calm the war, and stabilize the people as soon as possible. These tasks were temporarily responsible by the military when the internal officials did not take their seats.
Chapter completed!