Chapter 145 Start Siege
"Mr. Tian Feng, when do you think the Cao army will attack?" Zhang Fei asked, looking at the Cao army camp in the distance.
Tian Feng replied with a brief thought: "The morale of Cao's army was frustrated, and I'm afraid it will take some time to repair it. Otherwise, if the army with morale was frustrated, Cao's army would be futile and suffer heavy losses!"
Tian Feng’s prediction was correct, but his wisdom was still slightly inferior to Guo Jia.
Zhang Fei nodded, thinking that Tian Feng was right.
However, early the next morning, Cao Cao's army took action.
As soon as he learned of this situation, Tian Feng was shocked. He didn't understand why Cao Cao was so anxious to attack the city. Under the current situation, it would be very unfavorable for Cao Cao!
Tian Feng ran up the city wall without having breakfast. At this time, Zhang Fei was already standing on the city gate with a snake spear in his hand.
Tian Feng came to the wall and looked out of the city. He saw camps opening their mouths like monsters, and teams of soldiers emerged from the camps like a torrent of opening the gates.
The soldiers flowing out of the camp gathered into a strict square array and then advanced towards Huguan.
Cao's army formed a formation only four hundred steps away from the Huguan city wall. Looking down from the city tower, the flags were rolling like clouds and the cold light shining like snow.
Seeing this scene, Tian Feng couldn't help frowning. The enemy was so powerful that the outcome of this battle was unpredictable!
"General, are you ready for defense?" Tian Feng turned his head and asked Zhang Fei, who looked as usual.
Zhang Fei glanced at Tian Feng and replied: "Don't worry, our army has never relaxed!"
"How does the general plan to defend?" Tian Feng asked again.
Zhang Fei pointed to the busy catapults in the open space inside the city wall and replied: "Brother has given us so many catapults, which is not a good-looking one! As soon as Cao's army launches an attack, I will let them taste it! They will definitely make half of it before they reach the city wall!"
Tian Feng nodded and did not raise any objections. After thinking for a while, Tian Feng suggested: "You can push all crossbows onto the city wall. When Cao's army attacks, they will kill and injure Cao's army in large quantities together with the catapult!"
Zhang Fei had this plan, but now when he heard Tian Feng say so, he nodded immediately, "Okay! I'll send an order immediately!" and then ordered a deputy general around him to do this.
After the deputy general left, Zhang Fei smiled at Tian Feng and said, "I thought that the only one of us, Old Zhang, likes to play big, but I didn't expect that Mr. Tian Feng, you actually have this hobby too!"
When Tian Feng heard Zhang Fei say this, he immediately showed a laughing and crying expression.
On this issue, although Zhang Fei and Tian Feng both decided to push out all the heavy equipment, the two people had completely different ideas. Zhang Fei wanted to take out all the good things Chen Chu gave him, which was entirely out of the idea of killing chickens and using a ox knife; and the reason why Tian Feng decided this was carefully considered. Tian Feng believed that giving Cao's army a head-on attack with a thunderous force would definitely hit Cao's army's spirit, and would make Cao Cao suspicious, which would help future defense.
Although Tian Feng’s idea was different from Zhang Fei, Tian Feng did not say anything. After all, now is not the time to gossip.
Cao Cao's army outside the city started preparing in the early morning. After an hour and a half, nearly 300,000 troops were arranged in a vast open space outside Huguan.
The 300,000 army was so dark that it seemed like there was no end, which made people feel scared.
The attack formations arranged by Cao Cao's army are traditional attack formations. The entire army is divided into infantry and military phalanxes and cavalry on both wings. The infantry marching formations are composed of dozens of square formations of similar size, divided into two parts. The square formations in front are siege marching formations, and the front of each phalanx are sword and shield soldiers, followed by assault soldiers carrying cloud ladders or pushing chariots to rush into the city; while the square formations behind generally do not participate in the siege. Their task is to suppress the formation. This type of formation-pressing unit is generally called the central army, and the generals responsible for command are generally in the central army. In addition to these infantry marching formations, there are nearly 20,000 cavalry on the two wings of the infantry marching formations. Their task is to deal with possible enemy raids and protect the safety of the entire army's wings.
Cao Cao...
Riding on his beloved BMW and standing under the flag of the Central Army, surrounded by generals such as Guo Jia, Xiahou Dun, Xu Chu, and Xiahou Yuan.
Seeing his hundreds of thousands of troops as powerful as a rainbow, Cao Cao couldn't help but feel passionate. He raised his whip and laughed: "What's the difficulty for my 300,000 tiger and wolf army to capture the Bubble Huguan!"
The generals around him couldn't help but look proud when they heard this.
At this moment, Cao Cao looked at the city walls of Huguan from afar, and many square boxes were pushed onto the city walls. Cao Cao couldn't help but feel strange in secret.
"Fengxiao, what is that square box?" Cao Cao pointed to the city wall and turned his head to ask Guo Jia.
Guo Jia did not answer Cao Cao immediately, but looked carefully for a while before saying with shame: "Report to the lord, I am really ashamed! I don't know this thing!"
Cao Cao was shocked. He did not expect that even Guo Jia, who was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, did not recognize the object.
So what exactly is it? What is the purpose of the Northern Army pushing this object onto the city wall? Cao Cao couldn't help but think in his heart.
At this moment, a general came to report: "Report to the lord, our army is ready, will we attack the city immediately?"
Cao Cao put aside his doubts and ordered the general: "Tell the army to attack the city immediately!"
"Yes!" The general responded loudly and then retreated immediately.
A moment later, hundreds of war drums located in the central army of Cao's army suddenly rang together. They immediately rumbling like the thunder before the storm.
As the sound of war drums sounded, hundreds of thousands of Cao soldiers seemed to have been injected with a dose of stimulant, and shouted suddenly, like a thunderclap.
Tian Feng, who was standing on the city tower at this time, could not help but be surprised. The Cao army's performance just now clearly showed that they were very morale. What Tian Feng didn't understand was how could Cao army recover so quickly.
After all, Tian Feng is just Tian Feng, and there is still a certain gap compared to Guo Jia in terms of wisdom.
Cao Cao's army began to act amid the sound of war drums. The two attacking arrays broke away from the main array and lined up in neat formations and slowly pressed towards Huguan.
The force of a square formation is five thousand people, that is, a battalion. When two square formations attack together, then the force of Cao Cao's army invested in the first wave of attacks was ten thousand.
This first wave of attacks is actually a test-like nature to a large extent.
Ten thousand attack troops slowly approached Huguan, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, and one hundred fifty meters. At a distance of 150 meters, the soldiers of the two square formations made a move at the same time. The sword and shield soldiers lined up at the front raised their shields at the same time, and the soldiers carrying ladders and pushing chariots behind them were also protected by other sword and shield soldiers with shields. Cao Cao's army was well-trained, and their actions were to defend against arrows shot from the city wall. However, what was greeted was not the expected arrows, but...
Because Cao Cao's army had to use shields to protect the top of his head, the formations of these two square formations were even tighter intentionally or unintentionally.
Zhang Fei, who was standing on the city gate, couldn't help but burst his mouth when he saw this scene and said with a smile: "What a good target! There was no such a good target to beat me during training!"
Then he turned around and ordered the messenger beside him, "Order the artillery and let them fight me hard at these two targets!" The artillery that Zhang Fei mentioned refers to the catapult chariot troops. Chen Chu organized the catapult chariot troops separately and named them artillery. Of course, Chen Chu's name was completely influenced by later generations.
The commander received the order, so he immediately handed the order to attack the artillery inside the city.
At the same time, the observer who was responsible for indicating the target position for the catapult chariot troops and other shootings had already conveyed the target Zhuyuan to the catapult chariot troops through flag language.
"Dimension..., distance,..." As a result of a busy schedule, five hundred catapults were ready to go.
"Start!!" As the officer roared, stones larger than the basin flew into the air together. The scene was really shocking!
It was the first time that Tian Feng, who was standing on the city gate, saw such a scene, and he suddenly felt dizzy. It was also difficult...
It’s a big mistake for him to feel this way. Not to mention him, even a powerful general like Zhang Fei was shocked when he saw such a scene for the first time.
The huge rock flew into the air and the next moment it hit the two Cao troops slowly advancing with their shields.
Chapter completed!