Chapter 304: Battle of Fan City

Xiangyang has been an important military and economic place for generations. It is located between the Qinling Mountains, Daba Mountains and Dabie Mountains, connecting Nanyang in the north and the Jianghan Plain in the south. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
When Liu Bei's Central Plains and Cao Cao were defeated by war, and fled to Liu Biao, Xiangyang was also the governor of Jingzhou as the county governor of Nanjun at that time. How prosperous, but after a few years, now in Xiangyang, the city is still the same, but Shiye is withering away, less Many people are full of deserted fields and manors.
Guan Yu marched on the 6th and arrived in Xiangyang. It was also a lot of emotion to see such a scene. He ordered Master Liao Hua to lead his soldiers to 10,000 and guard Xiangyang. He told Xiangyang to defend his army and dared not to act rashly. Wielding soldiers approached Fan Cheng.
Although he was prepared, when Guan Yu led the army to attack Fan Cheng, he was still sinking in the forbidden heart. Counting the naval forces, Guan Yu had ten times as many horses as his own. Xiangfan's determination came.
If the strength is sufficient, Guan Yu will not be asked to cross the river so easily. However, now that the strength is insufficient, he can only stick to the city, and watch Guan Yu just cross the river from under his eyes.
"That didn't dare to block it, it seems that there were not many soldiers and horses in the city." Guan Yu did not rush to attack the city, but set up the camp first, stood on the Dougong and watched the movement of Fan Cheng, while smiling at Ma Liang: "But my army When the siege equipment is transferred, the well stop does not need to be adjusted. It only needs to mobilize 20 catapults, 50 cloud ladders and red cars. "
Guan Yu deliberately sent soldiers across the river in such a big way, in order to explore the reality of Fan Cheng and lead the soldiers to fight. To find out the reality of the other party, in fact, it is not necessary to see it with your own eyes. Experienced generals only need to make some temptations. Sexual movements, you can roughly understand the bottom of the other party.
Fan Cheng's city wall is not high. If it has enough troops, it will certainly not be so easy to call Guan Yudu River, but Fan Chengshou will choose to be indifferent, and let Guan Yu cross the river. Obviously, the strength of the hand is insufficient, and even the difference between the two sides is not enough to dare to send troops easily.
Ma Liang nodded with a smile, and Guan Yu was really good at leading troops, looking at the wall of Fan City in the distance and laughing: "Bo Yuan's well is too high, it is really not suitable for use in Fan City."
The siege devices designed by Liu Yi are all designed according to Xiangyang City. Catapults, red cars, and cloud ladders are okay. They can be debugged according to the height of the city wall, but the well stops are useless.
"Fancheng Town, why not be so troublesome." Guan Yu nodded and said: "The equipment to be attacked is delivered, and Wen Xian can be called to swim across the river to contain the forces in the city, and our army will attack the South City, or it can be defeated in one battle."
"That Yu Yu is also a famous general of Cao Jun, and princes should not be underestimated." Ma Liang said with a frown.
Even if there are few soldiers and horses, but in the second city of Xiangfan, Cao Ren has been operating for several years and was originally built to fight against Liu Bei. He wanted to go down in a battle. Ma Liang felt that Guan Yu was too small to look at it as a ban.
Guan Yu struck proudly: "Ji Chang will see how I break the enemy!"
Arrogance is a reason. The most important thing is that Guan Yu is quite confident in the siege equipment Liu Yi built for him this time. The power, but he has personally seen it, is that Xiangyang Jiancheng may not be able to stay for long, let alone Fan City?
Ma Liang smiled bitterly and stopped persuading. He worked with Guan Yu for several years and knew that Guan Yu could not persuade at this time.
After Guan Yu set up the camp, he did not immediately dispatch troops, but began to build an orderly structure and dig trenches. At the same time, a large number of siege equipment was transported into the military camp. The fifth day after Guan Yu arrived in Fancheng, the siege began.
Twenty catapults stopped one hundred and twenty steps away from the city wall. It was just a place where Cao Jun ’s crossbow arrows and turrets could not reach. Then he started with a covered car and a weird style ladder. Slowly approaching the city wall, as the siege equipment progressed, the soldiers and horses began to slowly move towards the city wall.
The text was hired by the navy to cruise on the surface of the river. While restraining Cao Jun ’s strength, it was also to prevent the aid of Xiangyang City. At the same time, the catapult and bed crossbow carried on the ship also counterattacked towards the city.
Liu Bei ’s siege ships were all built by Liu Yi. Although the number is not large, each one is like a small fortress, and it has a very strong attack on the water.
The frontal siege troops have not yet started to attack, but the Shuizhai side has already been put on fire. The staff is proficient in water warfare. In recent years, many tactics have been developed based on the siege ship. Twenty siege ships attacked alternately and walked back. , Cockroach is cruising around to attract firepower in the city.
Although a lot of squatters were smashed, the twenty siege ships were intact.
Above the South Gate, Yu Ban looked at the slowly advancing engineering equipment in surprise.
"How can no one push the ladder !?" Several generals Cao Jun were ready to shoot the soldier who pushed the ladder after the ladder approached. They only found him for a long time, but the ladder was moving by himself. Although the movement was slow, but this This is the first time they have seen a ladder that does not require human or animal power to push them.
"Fire oil!" Yu Ban's face was heavy, although Guan Yu's army was not fast, but it gave him the feeling that it was like a mountain moving towards Fan City. Not only was the appearance of the cloud ladder amazing, but it was the red car with a roof. There are baffles on all sides, and bows and arrows are shot on it. Many of them are directly flew. Even if they can be shot into it, they can't hurt their soldiers. This kind of thing can only be burned with fire.
"Boom ~"
Just after the forbidden voice fell, he heard a shrill roar from the opposite team. A large number of stone bombs descended from the sky, constantly bombarding the city walls and smashing the holes. The whole city wall seemed to be shaking, just like a meteorite The general prestige of the sky has not yet officially started, and the momentum has been weakened by three points.
The opponent's catapult has such a long range!
Yu Ban looked at the opponent at a distance of about 120 steps from the city wall, and his heart was a bit cold. His range of thunderbolt was much farther than the normal catapult, but even with the advantage of the city wall, he could not throw the stone bomb. Out so far.
"Thunderbolt, attack!" After biting his teeth, Yu Jin knew that it was impossible to hit the bomb. He could only let the thunderbolt be launched at the place where the other party was crowded. The stone bomb that broke through the sky fell from the sky, and Guan Yu's casualties began. Intensified, a large number of arrow clusters continued to shoot down here, some were blocked by shields, and many hit the Jingzhou Army.
The archers in the back row also started to counterattack, but the range was also far away. Standing outside the arrow, they could attack the defenders at the head of the city. After determining the range of the opponent, Guan Yu sent four The shooters of the Thousands team just stood outside the opponent's range and released arrows to the city's head, not long after they pressed down the archer of the city's head.
Just after the war began, the defenders were already at a disadvantage. The three-foot-high city wall did not give the defenders too many advantages.
Damn it!
Under the protection of two shieldmen, Yu Ban looked at the ladder that had been built on the city wall, and the whole person was a bit bad. Fortunately, the opponent ’s shooter saw the enemy in front of him. In order to avoid accidental injuries, he gradually stopped shooting arrows and let the defenders The generals had some breathing opportunities.
Yu Ban quickly ordered people to fight back, throwing away the firewood and throwing away the money without throwing money. The fierce fighting began at this moment. The war seemed to have entered a white-hot state in a short time. On the burning ladder, there were still Jingzhou soldiers who were struggling Rushing up, being assassinated or pushed down by several Cao Jun's spears, the rushing car continually hit the city gate, and the soldier who was in charge of the city gate continued to suffer repeated slamming.
Fifty cloud ladders were always lit. A well-known armored Jingzhou army stopped Cao Jun's attack arbitrarily, rushed up the city wall, and was slashed against Cao Jun who came up from the encirclement. Although he was quickly hanged , But also constantly attacking Cao Jun's defense, tearing a hole in the city wall.
After killing the Jingzhou soldiers, Cao Jun, who had a red eye, rushed down the cloud ladder directly, but just shot his head and was shot by the crossbowmen under the city.
Yu Ban walked around with his sword, and beheaded the Jingzhou Army that he rushed to. He was fighting for half his life. This was the first time that the enemy had won the upper hand at the beginning of the city defense battle. Cao Jun, who was originally about to rotate in the city At this moment, Yu Ban was also recruited to the city wall. Guan Yu's offensive was too fierce. If this continues, if he still retains the spare power, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold it all day.
At the same time, the forbidden man put all the kerosene in the house into the city wall, and burned those cloud ladders first.
Guan Yu saw that the defenders were constantly using fire oil to burn the ladder. Www.EbookFREE.me ~ frowned slightly, but there was no way to do this. At this time, the ladder could not be taken down, and the city could only be broken before the other party burned the ladder.
Not only the ladder, but also the red car was not spared, dozens of pots of hot flaming oil were thrown down at the gate of the city, and then a torch was thrown down. In an instant, the city gate became a sea of ​​fire, many Jingzhou The soldier screamed and kept rolling in the sea of ​​fire. The unpleasant scorched smell began to permeate the battlefield. The city gate could not be approached for a while. Yu Jin even killed the Jingzhou army who rushed to the wall with his guard.
From the morning until the evening, Guan Yu reluctantly withdrew his troops and returned to the camp. Fifty cloud ladders were burned, and the soldiers lost three thousand. This Fan City, after all, failed to fight down, but Guan Yu felt it. Perhaps with more force, Fan City can break through, but without the cloud ladder, Guan Yu can only order people to adjust another 50 cloud ladders to cross the river, and at the same time order the craftsmen to build more cloud ladders overnight. Fan Cheng is like this. The remaining two hundred ladders are not enough.
Watching the Jingzhou Army recede like a tide, Yu Ban stood at the head of the city for a long time. It took a long time before he collapsed and generally sat on the ground along the enemy building. The blood on the ground had dried up and it was uncomfortable to sit on, but he didn't want to move at the moment , Just one day, the defending army will lose more than half, then ... how to defend?
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