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    Chapter 152 "Cat and Mouse Liu Jia Relaxed"

    Before the arrival of Liu Jia's 60,000-strong army, 20,000 defenders followed Cao Cao's orders and began their burning, killing and looting around Guangwei County: all the people's livestock and property were robbed, as well as the houses and furniture inside that could not be moved.  After being burned to ashes, some pretty women were raped and brutally killed, the old and infirm men and women were mercilessly chopped to death, even pregnant women and those breastfeeding babies were not spared, and young and strong men were all tied up with ropes.  Get up and drive into the city to defend it  []

    Although these new recruits of Cao Jun did not know or dare to go to the battlefield to fight, they quickly became experts at burning people and setting fires, and they were even more proactive in robbing things.  For a time, the land of Guangwei County was empty of ten houses. There were broken walls and broken beams everywhere, and swollen corpses everywhere. What used to be a village is now a hell. Only wild wolves and dogs were left active. Occasionally, there were a few alive.  The people were either scared into fools or crawled out of the pile of dead people with missing arms and legs.

    Yizhou's 60,000 soldiers were walking in this ghostly land, and their anger naturally rose. They automatically accelerated their march without any urging from the general. All of them had only one wish: to capture Guangwei County as soon as possible and kill them all.  Cao Jun in the city avenged the people who died unjustly!

    Hearing that Liu Jia personally led 60,000 elite troops, the 20,000 defenders finally resisted their desire to continue looting and ran into the city quickly, closing the surrounding gates and holding on. Countless captured local men were forcibly driven to the city wall.  to help them resist Liu Jia's troops in Yizhou.

    Seeing the sluggish people on the city wall, Xu Shu said angrily: "I really didn't expect that Cao Cao would come to do this. How can they do such a thing to exterminate their descendants?"

    Liu Jia nodded and said sadly: "This is a plan to drain the firepower. He knows that he can't get it, and he wants us to get it too. But in this way, won't it be easier for us to get Xiliang?"  Speaking of this, Liu Jia actually had a slight smile on his face, which made several people around him feel a little chilled.

    "What I'm worried about is that other places will imitate them, and then we will be in trouble. Cao Jun killed people and destroyed villages so unscrupulously, how long will it take for us to restore the vitality of this place? My lord, look at it. The people we are taking in now are either fools or cripples.  , we have to raise a lot of useless people." Xu Shu continued to frown.  He pointed at a group of demented common people being cared for by soldiers in the distance.

    Liu Jia glanced at the common people and said: "So we are constantly expanding Ma Mengqi's cavalry, letting him attack everywhere, pushing Cao's army into every city as much as possible, and preventing them from doing evil. General Huang Zhong and others must do the same.  We did, but now it seems that we still missed a few things.¡±

    "What's the matter?" Xu Shu asked.

    "We should send these sheltered people to various places as soon as possible and let them speak for themselves. Tell everyone about the tragedy that happened to them and around them. Only then can the anger in this northwest land become stronger and stronger."  Liu Jia replied.

    Xu Shu nodded and said: "This is a good idea! Cao Jun treated these people with killing and destruction, so we will treat these people with rescue and assistance. Didn't General Zhao Yun and the others capture four thousand prisoners? Yi Shu suggested  Let them join the grain transport team and transport the grain from the mainland to the homes of the people here. It doesn¡¯t matter even if there is a shortage of grain in the mainland, let Yongzhou and Xiliang become our strongest rear."

    "Yes, the greater the contrast, the more popular support we will win. Even if something happens in the future, the people here will only recognize us and not others." Liu Jia immediately ordered Xu Shu to start this matter, and he was very concerned about the city in front of him.  Not so concerned anymore.

    Three days after the army arrived at the city, Liu Jia's army finally surrounded the southeast and northwest gates of Guangwei County.  During this period, the 20,000 defenders did not dare to go out of the city to attack. The only thing they could do was to send some people to stand on the wall and curse at the people below.

    Liu Jia was not to be outdone. While organizing people to scold each other, he also had people explain the bloody scenes that happened around him loudly to the people in the city.  Accused Cao Jun of atrocities.  Especially the victims of the local people spoke with tears and blood, and made the people in the city very angry. Cao Jun, who had robbed a bunch of treasures, was really frightened at this time, for fear of those who looked at him with stupid eyes.  The angry people suddenly started to tear them apart - Cao Jun's already low morale was obviously low.

    On the fourth day, Liu Jia's army began to assemble the steel shaft rails at the South City Gate without any hurry. After the two steel shaft rails were installed, they were pushed directly to the suspension bridge. Then the soldiers went up the steel shaft rails and smashed "hands" on the suspension bridge.  Oil bombs".

    Soon the suspension bridge burst into flames and billowing smoke. Although the defenders continued to shoot arrows at the steel shaft, several catapults also continued to throw stones at the steel shaft.  But it was still unable to stop the Yizhou Army from burning the suspension bridge.  Not an hour.  The thick wooden suspension bridge was destroyed in Cao Jun's stunned eyes.It was burned until only four bare iron chains were left.  A large section of each of these four iron chains was burned off, and now they were hung helplessly on the city wall.

    After the suspension bridge burned down.  Xu Shu ordered 10,000 soldiers to throw stones into the moat, which was not deep, under the cover of the steel well gate.  Not long after the ten thousand soldiers took turns to work, the moat facing the steel well was filled with these stones. The South City Gate, which had lost the protection of the suspension bridge and moat, was directly exposed to the eyes of the attacking soldiers, and the door opening was connected with the ground outside.  .  Pushed by more than a dozen cattle, the steel well moved forward a certain distance, so that the soldiers on the platform of the steel well could almost see clearly the defenders' eyebrows before stopping.  Guangwei County City is basically similar to other cities in the northwest. The city walls are neither high nor wide.  I don¡¯t know whether it¡¯s because Xibei Ran is good at fighting immediately and disdains the defense of the city, or because the city building materials here are scarce and unable to build a tall and solid city like the mainland of the Central Plains. Anyway, the height and width of the city walls of Guangwei County are similar to those of counties in the mainland.  , the ten-meter-high steel well platform is nearly two meters higher than the city wall, almost as high as the attic on the city tower.

    When the defenders saw the Yizhou soldiers standing in the iron box in front of their heads and glaring at themselves, they knew that the days ahead would be difficult: facing the defenders standing on the city wall or hiding behind the female wall.  The shooter on the Gangjinglan platform was completely looking down at them.  Through the four square holes on the platform, the shooters could clearly see every move of the defenders below. However, when the defenders looked up, they could only see a cold pile of black steel. Occasionally, someone could be seen shooting through the small square holes.  Li stuck his head out and glared at himself.  The defenders were almost left to be beaten.

    But at the beginning, the defenders still showed their power for a while.  After the steel well railing was pushed to a place not far from the city gate, the defenders frantically poured countless arrows into the steel well railing. One after another, the bows and arrows shot from the small holes into the platform, and even some arrows were fired into the platform.  Shot several hapless soldiers.  However, less than half of the total number of arrows shot by all the archers can penetrate the square holes of the steel well.  However, less than one percent of the half of the arrows shot in can hit the soldiers hiding behind the steel plates. Even if they hit, they may not necessarily kill them.  Most of them are just scratches on the legs or arms.  In other words, out of the 200 arrows fired by the defenders, less than 100 were shot into the platform. After these 100 arrows flew in, it was difficult for the defenders to even hear an ouch from inside.

    The effect of such a violent outburst was that the soldiers inside the steel well lantern picked up a lot of free arrows in vain.

    So when the defenders rotate or pause, the soldiers inside the steel well platform will shout to the defenders:

    "Don't be stingy, give me some more."

    ¡°What we received is not nearly enough!¡±

    ¡°That¡¯s not how you scratch an itch. Come on, it¡¯s so itchy! Haha¡±

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    Later, the defenders also thought of a way.  Just shoot with a rocket sticky with tung oil.  However, the devil is as high as a foot and the road is as high as a foot. The people inside the steel well were well prepared. After a few rockets were fired, the people inside made the square opening smaller.  As soon as the square mouth becomes smaller, the number of arrows shot into the platform immediately decreases.  From nearly one-half at the beginning, it has become at most one-tenth.  The rocket that happened to fly in was quickly crushed by the people inside.

    The defenders worked hard from the afternoon until the evening, and did not stop until they could no longer see the square hole on the platform.  Facing the initial madness of the defenders, it was really difficult for the archers on the platform to fight back. They just hid there while accepting some free arrows.

    The next morning, the defenders continued the same method as yesterday for nearly two hours.  More than 10,000 arrows were poured out.  But it can no longer maintain the previous shooting density.  Not only were the archers who continued to shoot arrows tired, but the main reason was that the defenders' bows did not allow them to waste them on such a large scale for such a long time.

    Once the power of the defenders was reduced, the lethality of the scattered arrows to the soldiers hiding in the steel wells was almost negligible.  It was the turn of the archers in Gangjinglan to show off their power.

    At this time, an officer hiding on the platform shouted loudly: "Get ready for the first round of shooting!"

    The soldiers in the second steel well tower immediately moved nervously and quickly. Twenty soldiers in each steel well stand stood up, leaning against the square holes in the steel plates, and looking diagonally downward through the square holes.  Other soldiers were still squatting inside and waiting.

    The general ordered again loudly: "Aim¡ª¡ª! Shoot!"

    Twenty archers on each platform skillfully shot four hundred sharp arrows from various square holes in an instant.

    What everyone heard was a dense and indistinguishable sound of "Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!".  The defenders, who didn't take a few breaths to rest, fell in large numbers: nearly fifty people were killed immediately, and more than a hundred others were screaming and rolling on the ground.  The worst thing is those who were shot in the eyes, face, etc. by multiple arrows but did not die immediately. They are calledIf it is fierce, it will roll the most.

    There were only forty archers shooting from two platforms at the same time. How could it be possible to shoot four hundred arrows at once?  It turned out that they were using the serial crossbow invented by Zhuge Liang.  While the defenders were firing.  They had already held the prepared crossbow in their hands to rest and wait. After hearing the order, they just extended the front end of the crossbow a little bit out of the square mouth.  With a little aim, he pulled the trigger, and naturally what he shot was a shower of arrows.

    Facing Gangjinglan, Cao Jun was stunned. Although just one round of shooting opened a gap of more than ten steps in the city wall, they all watched in despair and did not take any action to fill the gap.

    At this time, the officer in command of the shooting in Gangjinglan began to issue orders again: "Prepare for the second round of shooting!"

    The soldier who had been squatting immediately stood up, and the soldier who had been shooting immediately gave up his position. They squatted down and began to quickly load the crossbow.

    The order sounded again on the platform: "Aim¡ª! Shoot!"

    Another four hundred arrows were shot out instantly.  Because forty crossbows fired arrows at the same time, and there was almost no blind spot facing the city wall of the steel well, the defenders had no way to hide even if they were flexible and quick - there was an overwhelming rain of arrows everywhere, and they could  Where to hide?  ¡ª¡ªNot to mention that most people were shocked.

    Another group of defenders fell down, and most of those who were injured in the first round died this time. They were finally relieved of their painful suffering.

    The defenders in the distance began to wake up, and the officers ordered the soldiers to rush here from both ends, risking their lives. Some officers even asked the soldiers to drive some civilians over.  In normal times, ordinary people are rarely arranged to fight at the general city towers, because the city gates are most of the time the key areas for enemy attacks. The defenders are really worried about letting ordinary people guard there. Even if there are ordinary people there, they will just move and defend the city.  supplies and carry the wounded and corpses.

    Seeing that the archers of the garrison below were almost dead and wounded, the officers in Gangjinglan did not let the archers on the platform continue to use serial crossbows, but asked them to take turns shooting with ordinary bows and arrows indiscriminately.  In this way, although the number of casualties among the defenders was much smaller, the shooting distance was longer and the probability of death or injury after being shot was greater. Moreover, these carefully selected archers were in groups of three and attacked the defenders one by one.  During roll call, three arrows are aimed at one person and fired at the same time. The person being shot is often killed or injured, and as long as the officer barely shows his head, he will be killed.

    The south gate has almost become a place where Yizhou soldiers do whatever they want.

    The morale of the defenders, who had no power to fight back, was getting lower and lower. The soldiers who were driven over by the officers of the supervising team all held up heavy shields and stepped forward tremblingly. However, the common people who carried the corpses held their heads high, because  So far, no common people have been shot to death by Yizhou soldiers. Bows and arrows are deliberately avoiding them.

    The one-sided massacre lasted for two days. The number of corpses carried down from the city wall by the people had reached 500, and there were also twice as many wounded as this number.  There are pitiful cries here every twelve hours of the day, especially late at night, and the cries can be heard throughout the city.

    Chapter 152

    "Cat and Mouse Liu Jia Relaxed"
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