This scream made Mi Zhu panic. Fundamentally speaking, he was just a businessman after all. In his impression, as long as there are sufficient troops to deal with enemies with a small numerical difference, they can at least be invincible.
He forgot that in battle, there are countless tactics and the use of advanced weapons, which will greatly affect the outcome of the battle. After all, the defense setup of the Mi family was just for a wealthy family in the city to prevent theft, and there was no solid city wall to rely on.
Regardless of the increasing fat on her body, Mi Zhu climbed up the narrow and towering archery tower with difficulty. Originally, he would never have thought of climbing such a tall building that was difficult to climb. With the help of several strong soldiers pushing forward and back, he finally climbed up dozens of steep and narrow stairs.
The panting Mi Zhu stood at a high place, and her vision suddenly went dark. He saw Mi family soldiers rushing intermittently on both sides of the street outside the mansion, being shot by several rows of neatly arranged Cao soldiers with crossbows without hesitation.
?????????? When have those domestic soldiers ever fought in tough battles in street battles, let alone the arrows they shot in a hurry during the charge.
It is impossible to shoot the elite Cao army who are protected by a row of shields. This massacre-like shooting has been going on for a moment.
In front of Cao's army formations on both sides, hundreds of domestic soldiers in civilian clothes had fallen. It seems that after Cao Jun broke open the door of the Mi family, he did not immediately launch a strong attack, just to attract more Mi family soldiers to come for reinforcements.
The power of the Mi family in the city has long been controlled by a large number of spies sent by Xiahou. While the attack was being carried out outside the Mi family's house, soldiers were breaking in everywhere in Xiabai City, as long as it was the property of the Mi family.
Half-crazily, he was annihilating the Mi family soldiers who were unable to react in time. As long as they are attacked by Cao's army, those who refuse to surrender will be killed immediately.
Anyone who wants to rely on the terrain to resist will be shot by a rocket immediately, and will be buried in the sea of ????fire along with the hiding house. Xia Hou did not have enough troops, so he could only use the power of thunder to cut through the mess with a sharp knife, hoping to quickly put an end to the chaos in the Mi family.
With a population of tens of thousands, the Mi family still has a very strong influence in Xiabaicheng.
On the arrow tower, Mi Zhu felt that her hands and feet had become cold, and she trembled and said to herself: "How could it be so! Where did these Cao Cao soldiers come from? They are so elite and have a large number of powerful crossbows. They are not ordinary commanders at all. soldiers.
¡°Could it be that Cao Jun really has an elite soldier who can travel five hundred miles a day? My poor brothers! "
Seeing thick smoke and fire igniting everywhere in the city, some people who did not know the specific situation thought that Cao Jun had really begun to massacre the city and collect food and grass. He ignored Cao Jun's call and asked to stay at home. Instead, they were so frightened that they rushed out of their homes, looking for a possible way out.
Except for Cao Jun, who was patrolling the streets, most of these people were killed on the spot. The rest could only cry and flee back to their homes, waiting uneasily for the fate of being turned into human flesh.
Two hours later, when the killings in the city gradually subsided, Xia Hou's main forces in the city began to assemble outside the walls of Mi Mansion after completing their respective counter-insurgency tasks. Unwilling to give up, Mi Zhu also sent hundreds of soldiers to rush out of the house to meet the reinforcements.
But he was shot at by hundreds of powerful crossbows at the gate of the mansion. The crossbow arrows fired by Cao Jun's powerful crossbows could often penetrate two people at the same time. The wooden shield in front of him also had no defensive effect under the powerful crossbow.
After leaving more than 300 dead and wounded in the gate of the mansion, no one among the soldiers dared to rush out. The desperate Mi Zhu screamed wildly and shot a crossbowman of Cao's army with his own bow.
Just when Mi Zhu was still proud of his archery skills that he had never given up, he immediately attracted a counterattack from Cao Jun's dozens of powerful crossbows. The shields of the archery tower that could originally block ordinary arrows had no effect at all under the crossbow arrows fired from the powerful crossbow.
Several domestic soldiers had nowhere to hide in the narrow archery tower. The crossbow arrows that penetrated the baffle immediately turned them into hedgehogs.
Mi Zhu, who had narrowly avoided a crossbow arrow, immediately turned red when he saw his family soldiers dying in front of him. He was about to step forward and fight Cao Jun. But he was hugged tightly by the housekeeper and two guards.
The loyal butler's thin body hung on Mi Zhu's body, and he cried and persuaded: "Master, you can't go. If something happens to the master, and the Mi family does not have you in charge, it will collapse immediately!"
You have to think about your entire family. There are still tens of thousands of people waiting for you to resettle them! Hurry, help the master downstairs! This place is too dangerous, too dangerous! "
The strong smell of blood finally diluted Mi Zhu¡¯s bloody nature. With the persuasion of the housekeeper, I just climbed back down from the arrow tower. There was a fierce drumbeat just outside the door, which scared him so much that he almost sat down on the ground.
"Has Cao's army begun to attack the government?"
Mi Zhu turned around, butSeeing in despair, there was a dull crashing sound. Numerous cracks began to appear on the tall wall of his home. For the regular army with siege vehicles, the thin wall is not an obstacle at all.
With a loud bang, large swathes of walls collapsed one after another. The smoke dispersed, revealing thousands of Cao Jun's leopard knights in strict formation.
Before the astonished Mi family soldiers could react, a thousand powerful crossbows began to fire fiercely in turn.
Originally, the soldiers of the Mi family were relying on the wall to block the open door. Caught off guard, he was immediately pierced by countless flying crossbow arrows. Before their bodies fell to the ground, countless blood splashes stained the ground beneath them red.
Starting from the front yard of Mi's house, follow the footsteps of Sergeant Cao's determined attack. The massacre-like attack gradually penetrated deep into the Mi family. The layer-by-layer defense of the two thousand soldiers quickly collapsed under the powerful attack of more than a thousand powerful crossbows.
Fortunately, the interior of Mi Mansion is spacious enough. The large-scale attack front made Cao Jun's crossbows obviously insufficient in number.
They always had to stop and reinstall their crossbows every few steps forward. There was a moment's interval after each round of volleys, giving the Mi family's soldiers a chance to counterattack and escape.
Under the command of the old housekeeper, Mi Zhu was guarded by dozens of strong confidant guards. Half-carrying and half-dragging, he ran towards the backyard. Everyone else in the Mi family had been abandoned by the old housekeeper.
For him, anyone in the Mi family can die, but only the wise head of the family cannot die. The hope for the future of the Mi family lies in the head of the family. And he kept in mind what General Song Ding of the Jiangnan Army once said to him in private.
"If anything happens and nothing can be done, just take the head of the Mi family and escape to the backyard, and there will naturally be help at that time."
Although I don¡¯t know what support the Jiangnan Army can provide to the Mi family when the Mi family is besieged. But under the command of the old housekeeper, they were still running towards the backyard. Just when he escaped to a servant's residence in the backyard.
Everyone in the Mi family was surprised to see Song Ding, the military commander of the Jiangnan Army, standing there quietly, as if he had been waiting for a long time.