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- Chapter 179 "Liu Jia's siege was frustrated"
After the generals of both sides finished cursing, their respective soldiers continued to scold each other for more than an hour. In the end, the Shu soldiers naturally did not attack the city, and the Cao soldiers naturally did not leave the city foolishly.
Seeing that it was getting late, the Shu soldiers concealed their flags and returned to camp.
The next morning, the Shu soldiers braved the heavy snow and storm and came to challenge the West City Wall again. However, the general leading the troops was changed to Huang Zhong, and the number of soldiers was 10,000. The difference between these 10,000 soldiers and the previous two days is that they carried things. At the beginning, Cao Jun on the city wall did not know what the Shu soldiers were carrying on their shoulders. Some of these things were packed in cloth bags, and some were held in willow frames. Some used buckets to carry Of course, most of them were loaded in the "eunuch's cart" used by Shu soldiers to transport grain and grass.
After the Shu soldiers arrived outside the west city gate, most of the soldiers were preparing for battle in accordance with the general's orders. Others ran towards the city gate. The soldiers carrying cloth bags stopped within a stone's throw of the city gate. Instead of moving forward, he threw the cloth bag in his hand far away and threw it in a mess near the city gate, cursing as he threw it:
"Cao Bing is a coward!"
"A coward who only dares to hide in the city!"
Or shout: "You coward in the city, do you dare to come out and fight your grandfather for 300 rounds?". The firmness of his tone was even worse than what Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun and others had shouted on the battlefield before, as if they could really fight for three hundred rounds. After shouting, he laughed and turned around to run, then stood in the formation and let others throw away the bags or frames in their hands.
"Those who carry heavier objects on their shoulders are much more cautious. They hold the objects on their shoulders with one hand. Holding a shield in one hand, he threw the things on his shoulders as close to the city gate as possible. Seeing that there were not many bows and arrows in the city, some soldiers simply picked up the things that some soldiers had thrown not far away and threw them towards the city gate.
The most outrageous thing was the soldiers pushing the "eunuch's cart". They put a large wooden shield on the cart and pushed the cart near the city gate. When they encountered a lot of bows and arrows shooting down the city wall, they put the cart on the ground. Hand carried. Let the contents of the car roll to the ground, then quickly back away. Soon. The west city gate was almost blocked by Shu soldiers and these things.
Cao Jun on the city began to be confused. He didn't know what the Shu soldiers were playing. He was nervous for a while. While reporting to his commander, he fired arrows down crazily. It was only later that I saw the mess. It was garbage, sand, ice, well water, and of course the corpses of soldiers killed in Cao's army before, animal carcasses, dirty blood, feces, urine and so on.
When the patrolling city lord sees these things. He smiled and said to his soldiers: "It doesn't matter, they just want to use these things to anger us if we don't come out. Haha, it's a joke, keep them busy. Maybe they do these things to keep warm. It just so happens that we don't want to go out either. But , you still have to be careful, as soon as you get close to the city wall, shoot hard with arrows to kill these annoying Shu soldiers!"
therefore. The city began to relax and no longer looked like it was facing a formidable enemy - even though the Shu soldiers below the city were originally their mortal enemies. As long as the Shu soldiers didn't get close, Cao soldiers didn't bother to care about them. Moreover, the people on the city began to quarrel with the people below the city:
"Nanmanzi below the city, have you never seen this snow? Isn't it so comfortable?"
"It's useless to just yell. If you have the ability, just attack!"
"You haven't driven away the ghosts in your own home, so why do you look ugly here? Do you think we'll open the door if you throw some messy things? Haha. We happen to be warming up at home, so you can just throw them away. Come here, come here again if you have the guts. ah!"
"Haha, Nanmanzi, your strength is too weak, right? Throw it so far. Do it again!"
Naturally, Cao Jun did not rush out, and the Shu soldiers were also doing their business enthusiastically. The biggest point of intersection between the two sides was the exchange of curses. Seeing that it was past noon, the Shu soldiers seemed to know that it was impossible to lure Cao Jun out, so they retreated back to the camp. What was left behind them, that is, outside the city gate, was a mountain of garbage. The entire passage out of the city only has a foot-wide road on the left and right near the city wall. In other words, a shallow moat has not been filled in. The river is full of snow and ice, so the people in the city can rush out from here - if Cao Bing wants to rush out.
It¡¯s still snowing at this time. These dirty things were soon covered with a layer of white snow, and the ugly things were buried under the snow. Only a trace of stench filled the wind, and the ugly smell became lighter and weaker. Cao Jun in the city slowly forgot the fruits of the labor of the Shu soldiers just now.
In the afternoon, Wei Yan also led 10,000 soldiers to appear at the south gate of Wei Mi City. Like Huang Zhong's troops in the morning, they also piled a pile of smelly things at the south gate and did not retreat back to the camp until it got late.
Seeing this happening at both city gates, I thought it was nothing.The generals patrolling the city also became a little uneasy: "Do they really have any purpose?", "Could it be that gunpowder was buried in these garbage?"
Naturally, the situation was quickly reflected to Cao Cao. Cao Cao and others tried hard to figure out what the Shu soldiers were going to do. After seeing the Shu soldiers retreating at night, Cao Jun also went out of the city to "sabotage" their projects. However, it was really difficult to destroy them because the garbage containing well water, blood, feces, and urine was firmly frozen in the cold. Together, the entire garbage pile is like a huge stone. No matter whether it is slashed or stabbed with a knife, it is of no use. It just leaves a white shadow on the surface of the heavy garbage. There is no way to deal with the ice lumps that were finally pried off. Once they fall on the ground, they freeze with the ground, and it takes a lot of effort to break them open again. Even if they are not frozen, these useless ice lumps will not be thrown away, because the pile of garbage itself is irregular and thrown here in disorder. Whether it is moved or not does not seem to affect the original style of the garbage pile. Finally, after a busy night, Cao's army moved some of the garbage facing the city gate to both sides, leaving a road more than ten feet wide to facilitate the troops in the city to rush out and kill them when necessary. However, in this way, a lot of garbage was thrown into the shallow moat. Let the nominal moat be filled with garbage.
The next day, the Shu soldiers followed suit again, and Cao Jun on the city wall laughed loudly again. If you compare carefully, you will find that the Shu soldiers threw more garbage, while the Cao soldiers were more at ease and scolded them more skillfully.
That night, Cao Jun came out and worked hard all night again, scolding and clearing a road leading outside the city, but this road was only slightly wider than the city gate. The garbage on both sides of the road was piled high, forming two hills.
It¡¯s the morning of the third day. The situation changed. At the south gate, 50,000 soldiers led by Huang Zhong formed a formation to challenge outside the city. At the west gate, Zhao Yun led 50,000 men to challenge outside the city.
Knowing that the Shu soldiers who could not stand the severe cold were going to make a desperate move, the delighted Cao Jun naturally did not follow his own example like a fool and went out to meet the enemy. Instead, he sent more than 100,000 troops to line up along the city wall. The two sides were quarreling and shooting at each other, and neither could do anything to the other. After cursing for nearly two hours, there was no sign of Cao Bing coming out. The Shu soldiers once again played the rogue trick they had done two days ago - throwing rubbish at the city gate. This time there was more rubbish, completely blocking the west and south gates. The most conspicuous thing was that countless bodies had already been frozen. The corpses of Cao Jun who died were Cao Jun who died while defending Xu Huang's camp last time. This act of insulting the corpse of Cao Jun did not have the effect of driving Cao Jun out of the city. On the contrary, it improved the morale of Cao Jun. Finally, Cao Jun withdrew in despair amidst the ridicule and abuse of Cao Jun.
"Haha, if you have the ability to climb up, what is your ability to vent your anger on a dead person?"
"You poor Southern barbarians will die in vain. The snow will melt in a few days and you will freeze to death!"
"You throw away the bodies of our soldiers now, and I will dig out your hearts and drink them!"
"I just won't come out. Let's see how long you can last. God has his eye and will freeze you bastards to death in no time!"
"Look at the arrow!"
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afternoon. Unwilling to give up, the Shu soldiers came again. This time the commander of the South City Gate was Huang Zhong, leading 50,000 troops. The commander of the west gate was replaced by Wei Yan, and 50,000 troops were also deployed outside the gate. Zhao Yun led 30,000 troops at the southwest foot. Obviously, the troops he led were reserve troops, ready to meet the two groups of troops at any time. Different from the morning, the Shu soldiers also brought a steel well rail. More than a dozen oxen were struggling to pull the tall well rail towards the west city. Many soldiers were also carrying ladders - Cao Jun knew that Shu was on the city wall at a glance. The soldiers are about to attack the city by force. Immediately, warning gongs sounded in the city. Groups of soldiers began running up the city. At the same time, some soldiers came up carrying strong wooden frames.
These heavy wooden frames were lifted onto the city wall. Under the command of a general, a long ventilation corridor was erected facing the Shu Army's steel well. On the top of the corridor were iron plates, and below were iron plates. rough wooden supports. Obviously this is designed for the steel shaft railing, to block the bows and arrows shot from the high-ground steel shaft railing.
As soon as Cao Jun took a good position, the Shu soldiers began to charge. They launched attacks from the west and south at the same time. The ones who rushed to the front were the archers and shield soldiers, followed by the soldiers carrying the ladders, and behind them were the sword soldiers and spear soldiers, among which there were many soldiers carrying the slaves. The catapult was also moving slowly behind the team.
"Kill!" Wei Yan shouted, brandishing his knife.
The war drums were immediately beating loudly, and the shouts soared into the sky.
Seeing the Shu soldiers rushing over, Cao Jun's war drums also beat at the same time, and bows and arrows shot out like raindrops. The sky, which was originally filled with heavy snow, was filled with arrows that blinded the sky for a while. When the Shu soldiers began to set up ladders and went upWhile climbing, Cao Jun, who had been suffocating for a long time, immediately put down the heavy logs, dropped the cold stones, sprinkled the boiling oil, and the catapult threw out round stones
Blood mist immediately appeared, limbs flew, and countless screams before death sounded under the city wall
"Damn Nanmanzi, I'm calling you here!"
"go to hell!"
"There is also today!"
"bring it on!"
Of course, Cao's soldiers on the city wall were also receiving the touch of death. As soon as a soldier raised his head, his throat was pierced by an arrow shot from down. He screamed strangely, then raised his hands and shook a few times before falling to the city wall. . The stone thrown up by the catapult hit a thick log in the ventilation corridor. A section of the corridor fell down, crushing a soldier who was about to pour boiling oil. The heavy corridor crushed his leg. and waist. Blood flowed from his mouth, nostrils, ears, and body. The boiling oil that was supposed to be spilled by the gourd poured onto the head of the soldier who was making a fire next to him, and the soldier screamed. He covered his face, which had turned into a mess, with both hands and bumped around, with red blood, black oil, and lumps of flesh streaming down his face. Suddenly he stepped on a dead man's body, staggering and falling onto another person next to him. In a large oil pan. His screams stopped suddenly, but the oil splashed when his body fell into the pot made several soldiers scream almost at the same time
Soon, a layer of corpses, minced meat, weapons and broken ladders were laid out under the city roots. The first charge of the Shu soldiers was ruthlessly contained, although the general commanding the siege had not yet issued an order to retreat. But no one could see that the offensive momentum had weakened, whether it was Cao soldiers or Shu soldiers.
"Give me a hard beating, general. The Shu soldiers can't stand it anymore!"
"Okay! Cum again!"
Today, Xu Huang looks very calm. The confidence he has not seen for a long time appears on his black and red face. He is walking back and forth on the city wall with a big ax in hand. While urging the soldiers to attack the enemies climbing the city, he also looks outside the city from time to time. Shouted: "Little Liu Jia, come and die!"
The function of the steel well barrier is greatly inhibited by the iron roof corridor, and it is basically unable to clear the enemies on the city wall it faces. Of course it's not useless. After all, shooting from a high position and perfect protection give archers in the archery a lot of advantages. As long as the enemy reveals his body from the corridor, several arrows will be shot at the same time, and the person being shot will either die or be injured. Moreover, they threw "hand oil bombs" one after another into the crowd on the city wall and onto the houses in the city. They also killed and injured many soldiers and burned many houses. Of course, some civilians were also burned to death. . Therefore, Cao's soldiers facing Jinglan still changed one after another. It just couldn't be completely killed. There were still an unknown number of Cao soldiers relying on the protection of the iron-roofed corridor to stand on the city wall to attack the attacking Shu soldiers. The burned houses were only a few nearby, and nothing could be done if they were a little further away.
Generally speaking, the attacking side only has an advantage if it accounts for more than five times the defending side. Now, the number of Cao's soldiers is slightly more than that of Shu's soldiers, although the combat effectiveness of a single Shu soldier is stronger than that of Cao's soldiers. But the numbers are not enough to gain the upper hand.
The first round of fighting ended less than an hour after it started. After this round of fighting, the "garbage" outside the South City Gate and West City Gate naturally increased. What made the Shu soldiers depressed and made Cao Bing happy was that the garbage thrown by the Shu soldiers a few days ago actually blocked the Shu soldiers' attack. Many Shu soldiers could not crawl or run fast on the rugged garbage heap. The clumsy and funny look made Cao Bing laugh endlessly.
"Haha, go ahead and throw it! Throw more!"
"Southern barbarians are just stupid, so it's up to you, haha!"
"Crawl, your excrement is there, eat it back!"
Even the Shu soldiers themselves complained privately: "**, why are these generals so stupid? There is so much garbage piled here. We can't rush in, and Cao soldiers can't get out."
The rest didn¡¯t last long. The Shu soldiers began to attack again, and the attack method was still the same as before.
Cao Bing, who won the first round, returned to the fighting position. At this time, Cao Cao led officials such as Xun Yu, Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, Sima Yi, and Yang Xiu to also appear on the southern city wall. Cao Cao smiled when he saw that the other side's steel well railing was helpless in front of his own iron-roofed corridor. Cao Cao is now in a good mood, which can be described as comfortable. This good mood came after the Shu soldiers forcibly attacked the city. As long as the siege was carried out under normal conditions, it would be effortless for more than 200,000 soldiers to rely on the power of Wei Mi City to deal with the 200,000 siege troops. I am afraid that they will not attack, but I am afraid that they will play some tricks. The past two days were filled with rubbish thrown by Shu soldiers, and I kept thinking that the scheming Liu Jia and Pang Tong had some new ideas. Judging from today's attack, Liu Jia, Pang Tong and others are just like this. They have no special abilities. I value them too much.
"As long as you stay here for ten days or at most a month, wait for the colder weather to come."? Not only were Ma Chao's more than 10,000 cavalry wiped out, but Liu Jia also had to go from ten to three or four. When his own team rushes, you, Liu Jia, can only escape and you will be considered worthy. Ha ha¡¡"
Thinking of this, Cao Cao couldn't help but laugh. He turned around and said to Cao Zhang, who was a little confused next to him: "Liu Jia's child is so aggressive. Is there a problem if we insist on it for a year and a half?"
Cao Zhang smiled and said: "Haha, I didn't say one year, even ten years. I can guarantee that they will never come back."
Cheng Yu also smiled beside him and said: "It seems that Liu Jia'er can't hold on any longer. If we don't fight hard, there will be no chance. Haha It's a pity that they came up with a way to throw corpses and filth to provoke us out of the city. They also You underestimate us."
After hearing Cheng Yu's words, Yang Xiu immediately said: "King Wei, is it possible that Liu Jia's child wants to run away? He can't bear it in this kind of weather, so he has to fight to the death? According to Xiu, they threw corpses and The purpose of the filth is to block our way out of the city to pursue them. They are playing a little trick of advancing before retreating."
When Cao Cao heard this, he turned to look at Xun Yu, Sima Yi and others, but these people just looked at the surging Shu soldiers below and pondered, and did not answer immediately. After a while, Jia Xu behind him said softly: "I don't think Liu Jia wants to escape now. I will give you a detailed report. Liu Jia's son has recently transported a lot of grain, grass, firewood, winter clothes, etc. from Chengdu and Hanzhong." There are also 30,000 soldiers who have just been transferred from the south under the leadership of Li Yan. It is not too strenuous for them to hold on for half a month or a month. If you want to escape now, there is no need to transfer troops and transport them again. It¡¯s from the stuff. Besides, it¡¯s just a joke to block my city gate with these garbage. We can also send troops from the east and north. A small Hemi City is not far away no matter which gate it comes from, and even the south gate, The west gate is not completely blocked. The cavalry cannot get out for a while, but other soldiers can climb out. As long as the other two gates are not blocked, they will delay us for half a stick of incense at most. Compared to the distance of several hundred miles from Hanzhong, The lag time for half a stick of incense is simply not enough.¡±
After hearing what Jia Xu said, Cao Cao, Xun Yu, and Sima Yi nodded at the same time, and even Yang Xiu had no objection.
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