Vol 2 Chapter 490: Battle of Chen Cang

Beyond Chencang City, the flames had risen, and the Han army was rushing towards Chencang like a tide. The screaming rain continued to fall on the head of Chencang City. The entire city was like a flat boat in the storm, as if it would be extinguished by the Han army at any time. .
However, it has been three days since Huang Zhong received the news from Chen Dao. Huang Zhong, Yan Yan, and Yang Ren took turns to attack the city. They clearly felt that they were about to capture, but Chen Cang seemed to have some indefinite toughness. Although it is precarious, it is always a little bit different, which makes people feel like cats.
The general defender knew that his bow and arrow range was not as good as that of the Han army, so he rarely fought against the Han army with arrow formations. He often saw the Han army arrows rain shot, and let the soldiers hide under the female wall, waiting for the siege troops to attack. When the rain stopped, it immediately rushed out, rolling wood, stone, and burnt kerosene together, plus a bow and arrow volley, when the arrow of the Han army was over again, it immediately fell back under the female wall to hide .
The opponent ’s routines are not complicated, basically those, but both Huang Zhong and Yan Yan have discovered that the other party is familiar with these fortification routines and uses skillfulness. In fact, many generals can use them, but the most important The point is that this person is not greedy, even if there is some chaos in the Han army, they will never pursue it. As soon as they see their archery, they will immediately hide behind the female wall, and they are very keen on the fighter.
It does n’t seem to be very strong in itself, but it is very stable, and it cares more about the life of the soldiers, and will not fight arbitrarily. The three of Huang Zhong attacked for three days, but Chen Cang showed no signs of being broken, and the wells made by the engineers were burned by the other party. Light, the Chongcheng car was not spared, all kinds of burned equipment can be seen outside Chen Cangcheng, the stone bombs of the stone throwing car never stopped, the enemy ’s enemy buildings were smashed, and even the city walls were potholes. One piece, with cracks all over, but Huang Zhong has the feeling of a dog biting a turtle ...
"Who is the defender in this city !?" The sky was completely dimmed. Huang Zhong reluctantly gave the Mingjin command and looked at the Han army that had returned like a tide, and asked with his teeth.
Yang Ren shook his head, and the banner of Haozi was hung on the other side of the city, but there were many generals of this surname in the Guanzhong area of ​​Wei State, and there were no famous ones. Who knows which one?
When Yan Yan returned from the army, his brows were a little tight, and Chen went there for the first time, but he defeated the famous general Xu Huang in three days, but the three of them failed to break through Chen Cang, who was guarded by an unknown person. anxiety.
Not only him, Huang Zhong and Yang Ren are equally anxious, not only for the difficulty of breaking through the city, but also for their own reputation. There are examples of Chen coming here. They naturally don't want to be blocked by an unknown person.
"I'm not going to attack the army at night now?" Yan Yan asked Huang Zhong while looking at him.
Huang Zhong shook his head: "That Wei will be quite defensive, there may not be a chance at night!"
When siege, you are not afraid of encountering any famous generals, the most feared is encountering such defensive generals. After all, there are so many routines for defending the city. The difference between famous generals and ordinary generals is actually not obvious. Sometimes the famous generals are in the defending city. There may not be an ordinary general who is cautious and careful, because most of the famous generals like to win surprisingly. Huang Zhong sees this clearly. Although he is also uncomfortable in his heart, he is not anxious.
Liu Yi had dealt with Nanman in Nanzhong at that time. That was called a stable, and all the way was paved. No matter how anxious he was, he could be smoothed out.
"I will be trapped here by an unknown person? Look at Chen Shuzhi for merit!" Yan Yan said dissatisfiedly.
"Uncle Zhineng broke the city on the 3rd, because of his work as a flying army. This man is quite elite, but Mohou and Shuzhi trained, equipped with the military equipment that Mohou personally built for them, and these flying The military is good at climbing, and the fragility is so great that each can be used as one. They can climb up the city wall with a pair of steel claws. Can we have this kind of person in our army? "Huang Zhong asked back.
"This ..." Yan Yan was speechless. For the first time, he knew that the barbarian under Chen's men had such a skill, shook his head, and Yan Yan frowned: "But was it just consumed with an unknown soldier?"
"You and I don't have much reputation!" Huang Zhong gave Yan Yan a glance. In this army, he can say Yan Yan. After all, he is older and people are older. It is not intentional to rely on the old and sell the old, just let one The juniors came to command themselves, there must be something awkward in their hearts, and it would be different to change to an older one. After all, a manager who completely let go like Liu Yi, it is rare to see in ancient and modern times, and Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were also the same thought, so they put together Come together.
Yan Yan heard the words and had nothing to say. He was still famous in Bashu. Is he a famous general in Shu, but he really came out of Shu ... nobody really knows his character.
"What should I do?" Yan Yan asked, looking at Huang Zhong.
"Actually, our army has been fighting against that Cao Jun so far. There is no need to break this Chen Cang as soon as the Xi County breaks through. Now it ’s not that we ca n’t afford it, but Cao Jun ca n’t afford it. When he was killed, Chen Cang was a lone city. The enemy would be able to block me for three days. Do you think he can block me for thirty days? "Huang Zhong laughed.
In fact, it is difficult to defeat a city with heavy soldiers in three days during the siege battle, not to mention one month, three months and six months are the norm. Chen Zhineng can break Xu Huang on the third day, and some luck is in it, Huang Zhong Clear this, so he is not in a hurry.
"If you want to break the city, I will break Yongxian from your three thousand soldiers!" Huang Zhong looked at Yan Yandao.
Now that Xi County is under attack and Chen Cang is under siege, Yong County has become a lone city, and there are not many troops stationed. It is not difficult to attack. Three thousand people are enough.
"Then Chen Cang ..." Yan Yan looked at Huang Zhong and frowned.
"I will let Yuanliang build a high platform outside the city and shoot it with a bow and arrow every day." Huang Zhong laughed, the engineers in the army were very useful at this time. They could build the building they wanted as quickly as possible.
Yan Yan nodded and did not say anything about going to Yongxian County. Once Chencang was broken, Yongxian County was incidental. That place was not a strategic place, and it was useless to win. Chencang broke through, then Yongxian County. It can be won by the way. Why should he let his soldiers attack?
That night, Huang Zhong called Cen Yuanliang and organized engineers to build a high platform outside Chen Cang. The Han army had a range advantage. This high platform did not have to be too high above the opponent, even flush, the bow and arrow could also hit Chen Cangcheng head, and then high One foot, also to be able to see that Chen Cang is true and false.
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"General!" Early the next morning, Hao Zhao just got up and saw a captain hurried in. When he saw Hao Zhao, he bowed down and said: "General Nahan has built a high platform outside the city, and is now shooting arrows into the city! "
"High platform?" Hao Zhao frowned, nodded, put on his armor, and quickly took people to the city to watch.
Before he climbed to the head of the city, he heard a sound of breaking air in his ear, and the school captain who had already prepared quickly hurriedly blocked a shield in front of Hao Zhaohe himself.
"Tuk Tuk ~"
With three muffled noises, Hao Zhao looked at the arrow less than his nose tip, his forehead had a cold sweat, and the Han army had the advantage of crossbows. In the past three days, he had a profound experience, but did not expect it to be so rampant today!
"General, get down, those Han soldiers see us!" The captain took Hao Zhao a hand and lay prone on the ground.
Hao Zhao didn't care about the image, he also got down, like a silkworm chrysalis, slowly moved under the female wall. Through the gap between the wall stacks, Hao Zhao finally saw the situation on the opposite side, but saw a lot more than Chen Cang The wall of the city is more than one foot tall, or the arrow tower stands outside the city. The arrow tower is very wide, and the distance between the two arrow towers is only about one or two feet. If you do n’t look closely, you think there is another one outside Chen Cang. On the city wall and above the arrow tower, archers were constantly shooting arrows into the city. Hao Zhao estimated the height of the other party. That height, the situation in Chen Cang, may be unobstructed.
"Thunderbolt!" Hao Zhao waved his hand to the generals. This strategy was used by Yuan Shao during the battle of Guandu, but it was broken by Cao Cao with a thunderbolt.
"It's useless." The part will shake his head with a wry smile: "The thunderbolt in our army ~ EbookFREE.me ~ can't touch the opponent at range, I'm afraid only the trebuchet seized from Jiangdong."
In recent years, there has been little fighting between Cao and Liu since the Nanyang battle. Instead, he fought with Sun Quan twice. Although he did not make any achievements, he also seized several catapults. The catapult had a very long range and a high hit rate.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to transport such a catapult from Runan to here, and it is generally used to deal with Sun Quan on the spot.
Hao Zhaowen said that he was distressed and his range was not enough. How to fight this? If you let the arrow tower remain, some military operations on your side can't escape the other party's eyes, these arrow towers must be destroyed, otherwise you can only be beaten.
These arrow towers must be destroyed!
Hao Zhao led people under the women's wall and thought hard about the countermeasures. It is not easy to think hard now.
That night, Hao Zhao took the initiative to attack for the first time after the war. He personally led 800 elite quietly out of the city. He wanted to burn these arrow towers, but Huang Zhong had already prepared here. The engineers set up a lot of traps in front of the arrow tower. Several bronze mirrors were condensing, and Hao Zhao had just left the city. Someone caught a trap and screamed, followed by several rays of light. As soon as the rain fell, Hao Zhao took out eight hundred elites out of the city, just For a while, only four hundred people were left when I returned, and nearly half of them were damaged.
Since the attack could not be done, Hao Zhao ordered people to dig tunnels in the city, preparing to reach under the arrow towers through the tunnel and destroy the arrow towers.
This time it did have some effects. Over 30 arrow towers were burned by Hao Zhao overnight, but his own damage was also quite serious. Hao Zhao could only give up burning more arrow towers and return to the city.
It's just desperate that just after a day, the opponent's arrow tower was erected again. Looking at the newly built arrow tower, Hao Zhao suddenly felt that the soldiers who died in the battle Very wrong!