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Now karma is back.
Although the trial did not have a good impression of Han Fu, but after all, he is also the old protagonist before, so there is still some affection.
"Of course! Let's attack the city. It is impossible for Fengji to surrender, let him be fulfilled." Guo Jia nodded without any hesitation.
Once the troops are ready, they owe a siege signal.
In fact, the total number of people besieging the city was not very large, and the Donglai Army mainly besieged the city on three sides.
Zhao Yun in the north patrolled the north bank of Zhangshui River.
In the south, there are more than 5000 people from Shenpei and Liang Xi, as well as the Ninth Army Xu Rong, Guan, Luo Xi, etc., plus logistics and miscellaneous soldiers.
To the east are Guo Jia and Yu Jin and Zang Ba of the second school; Guan Yu, Guan Hai and others of the fifth school, with a total of more than 2 people.
As for Ximen, there was not a single soldier, and Fengji was not planning to abandon the city anyway.
Moreover, the encirclement and lack of one may not be able to shake the will of Yuan Jun who is defending the city.
The drums of the Donglai army were beaten, and the east gate and the south gate launched an attack at the same time. There was no priority, and the first to enter the city was the first.
Regardless of whether it is the Ninth Colonel, the Fifth or the Second Colonel, they all have experience in siege, so the ministries have made plans to advance without using Guo Jia and the arrangement of trial and assignment.
The trebuchet pushed forward slowly, and the pawns moved slowly behind.
Suddenly the catapult stopped, and the carriage pulled the carriage piled with stone bullets to unload the stone bullets.
Then reload and start bombarding Yecheng.
At the end of the army, the hot air balloon began to wipe the wind direction, and the burner was ignited to start filling the balloon.
Fengji saw that Guo Jia and Shenpei were going to attack the city, so he also dispatched generals, let Tao Sheng guard the north gate, Sui firmly guard the west gate, Jiang Qi guard the south gate, and Han Juzi guard the east gate.
In addition, he and Yuan Xi stayed at the east gate.
The enemy army was the most outside the east gate, and he felt that this was the main attack, so he and Yuan Xi came here to suppress the formation, otherwise Han Juzi would not be able to suppress the generals below.
"Boom!" Huge boulders kept coming from outside the city, bombarding the city wall, causing the whole wall to shake.
Especially when it smashed into the city and hit the wall, the flying sand and stones were even more terrifying.
Yuan Xi held the sword in one hand, but his back began to feel chills, the power of the flying stone was too great.
"Feng Gong, shall we temporarily retreat to the city and come down to command?"
Flying stones outside the chaos greeted the city gate tower, which made Yuan Xi feel like the world was falling apart and waiting to die.
Feng Ji said: "Second Young Master, if you are afraid, you can go down. You don't have to force it. We have no retreat in this battle. If the city is destroyed sooner or later, and we die sooner or later, it makes no difference whether we hide or not."
"This... Fengji's lesson is timely, it's Xi Menglang." Yuan Xi's hand holding the sword was slightly loosened, and he stood beside Fengji, staring quietly outside the city.
As boulders continued to fall outside the city, the entire East City Gate was in a mess, with potholes above and below the city.
Although he felt that every time the boulder could be smashed into the city gate tower, he avoided it skillfully. Looking at the smashed trebuchet under the inner city, Yuan Xi felt distressed, and asked, "Why did we not smash it right in Fengji? If the opponent bombards us, our catapults will lose a lot.”
Feng Ji said: "Second Young Master, I also want to fight back, but you have seen something wrong after watching for so long. Our trebuchet is not as good as the opponent's throwing distance, and the distance is one-third short."
This is the gap in technology. The trebuchets in Jizhou benefited from Cao Cao's exchange of war horses.
The technology is already behind Cao Cao, let alone compared with the Donglai Army, so it is not the same level.
So Fengji is also helpless.
Obviously there is an invincible ordnance such as a trebuchet, but the result is still passively beaten.
Yuan Xi had never had any contact with military affairs, so how could he understand this.
Naturally, he couldn't see why, otherwise he wouldn't ask this kind of question. In order to avoid embarrassment due to ignorance, he pointed to the dozens of balloons floating behind Donglai Army and said:
"What is that, I always feel that they can fly."
Deeper worries flashed in Fengji's eyes, and he explained: "That's called a hot air balloon, and it can fly very high. We were attacked by Guo Jia with it in Pingyuan County at the beginning of the year, and the losses were extremely heavy. Now the wind is against us. Shi, want to use it to attack the city.
So Second Young Master, take your crossbowmen and keep an eye on them. Once you find them coming, organize the strongest people to shoot with bows and arrows. You must shoot them down, otherwise there is no hope of defending the city. "
"Okay! Leave this to me, and I'll keep an eye on it." When Yuan Xi heard the power of the hot air balloon, he immediately cast a new eye, looked at it with some trepidation, and then left the city gate.
Soon the trebuchets outside the city stopped hitting, and then a hot air balloon lifted off and slowly floated over the east city gate.
"Shoot the arrow, shoot it down, there will be rewards!" Yuan Xi hurriedly asked those with the strongest strength to shoot the hot air balloon blindly. The hot air balloon rose above the head, and ordinary people could not be hurt at all.
Soon, three arrows were shot at the top of the floating hot air balloon basket. Fortunately, Donglai had a special thin iron sheet and hemp ginseng under it. These arrows could not penetrate at all, and naturally they could not hurt it. Soldiers on the gondola.
However, in order to prevent the round cloth above their heads from being shot, they threw down a few weight-reducing stones and threw them at the archers in the city.
The hot air balloon was pulled up quickly, making it impossible for Yuan Jun's crossbowmen in Yecheng to pose a threat to it.
Then they began to raise flags in the direction of the army.
Guo Jia received information here, knowing the location of Fengji's trebuchet in the city, and the extent of the damage that the wave of stone bombs did to the city just now.
So he ordered again: "Continue to throw stones, first destroy Fengji's trebuchet for me, and continue to smash the gate tower."
Although the performance of the opponent's trebuchets was greatly reduced compared to his own, they were still a great threat if they charged. Guo Jia, who got the news, naturally would not let go of the opportunity to destroy them.
Feng Ji didn't know the semaphore of the Donglai Army on the hot air balloon, but seeing them keep looking at the position where the stone was thrown, and then pointing at the red flag, he suddenly came to his senses.
This hot air balloon can not only be used to siege the city and shoot arrows from above, but also can ascertain the defense situation in the city and collect intelligence.
It is really a sharp weapon for both offense and defense.
So he said anxiously: "Quick, push the trebuchet back to protect it, quick, quick..."
Chapter 725 Yecheng is broken and Yuan Jie dies (two in one)
It's a pity that it was too late when Fengji ordered Yijing.
The trebuchets outside the city concentrated bombing and threw stone bombs in this direction.
Countless stone bullets flew in, and the trebuchets in the city that were not in a hurry to move in the future were smashed, and those who barely survived were still smashed in the next wave of stone bullets because of the inconvenience of moving.
Be it Cao Cao or Yuan Shao, their catapults do not have pulleys on the base. The design is simple and bulky, and it is very inconvenient to move.
"Damn!"
Seeing that their trebuchet was destroyed, Han Juzi and others were very annoyed.
This was a sharp weapon for counterattack, but it was destroyed before it could be used.