Chapter 275: The Siege Begins

With the cover of the catapult, the attacking soldiers of Dong Zhuo's camp were getting closer and closer to the town wall, and the front soldiers had already entered the attack range of the crossbowmen at the top of the city, but Dian Wei did not order the crossbow arrows to attack. Dian Wei has already seen that the archers attacking under the city are elite longbowmen of level 35, which are ten steps farther than the 60 paces of the junior rookie archers in Taohuadao Town. The attack distance is the same as that of the one-stone rhubarb crossbow on one's own side, and the advantage of the primary well fence and the town wall on one's own side, if equipped with primary archers, is exactly the same as that of the enemy. The opponent has six wells, and I only have four. Although there are still a few trebuchets and a few bed crossbows, don't you see that there are more of them? Therefore, Dian Wei was waiting until he reached the most suitable distance before launching a thunderous blow to the opponent. Dian Wei placed the town's junior archers on the four well fences, while his 300 crossbowmen were only placed on the town walls. He prepared to use the well fences to attract the enemy's firepower, while his own Three hundred crossbowmen can calmly attack the enemy's equipment and soldiers with crossbow arrows.

Sure enough, at a distance of eighty steps, Dong Zhuojun's Jinglan stopped advancing and began to attack the Jinglan above the town wall, while the other siege soldiers accelerated and rushed towards the town wall. At the same time, Dian Wei also ordered his own archers to attack the opponent's Jinglan. For a while, there was only the sound of bows and arrows "buzzing" from the top and bottom of the town wall. It's a pity that Dong Zhuojun's archers are indeed two levels stronger. In addition, there are two more in number than the town wall. Come. Seeing that Jing Lan of the opponent had already focused his attention on his own Jing Lan, Dian Wei yelled on the town wall: "Big Yellow Crossbow, prepare for three sets of shooting! Launch!!!"

Hearing his order, the three hundred crossbowmen who had already prepared stood up at once, divided into three rows, and pulled the wrench in their hands eighty steps ahead, and one hundred crossbow arrows pointed towards the outside of the town wall. Straight forward, after the first team of crossbowmen fired, they didn't even observe the firing effect, but retreated directly behind the third row of crossbowmen, and then concentrated on loading the crossbow arrows. Although the crossbowman's attack is stronger than that of the archers of the same level, he has a shortcoming, that is, the shooting speed is slow. Almost an elite archer shoots three arrows, while the crossbowman only shoots one arrow, but Huang Zhong has already considered this problem during training. , he divided the crossbowmen into three rows. After the first row finished shooting, they immediately retreated behind the third row. The second row immediately stepped forward and continued to shoot, and then immediately retreated behind the first row to prepare. Then after the second column of crossbowmen finished shooting, they quickly added to the front to shoot. After the third column finished shooting, the crossbowmen in the first column were ready again. Only when the third column retreated to the end, the first column could start the next round of shooting. Going back and forth like this, the three rows of crossbowmen can maintain up to 20 rounds of shooting and still have sufficient physical strength, and they can immediately engage in melee combat. However, ordinary archers must rest for half an hour to an hour before they can continue to fight after ten rounds of shooting, while the most elite guard longbowmen can only maintain twenty rounds of bow and arrow shooting, and then they must rest for half an hour Only the above can participate in the battle. The reason why Dian Wei wanted to use the opponent's archer to attack when the attention of the opponent's archer was on the side of the well was also because of the low number of times the archer shot. As expected, facing the side of the well, Dong Zhuo The archers on the fence of the military well shot with almost all their strength. As a result, they shot four or five arrows in a short period of time. When they found a large number of crossbow arrows shooting at their side on the opposite town wall, they had no time to react. A total of 120 archers in Jinglan were completely lost under two rounds of shooting from a total of 600 crossbow arrows covering the town wall. Not only the archers, but two of Jinglan also crashed under the blow of crossbow arrows like a storm. He fell to the ground, and even the dozens of soldiers who were guarding the well were killed and injured more than half of them by the fallen well.

The changes on the town wall appeared too fast, leaving no time for Li Guang to react. After he reacted,

He had already lost two of his wells, and the remaining four were also on the verge of collapse. However, as expected of a general who has followed Li Meng for a long time in battle, Li Guang reacted as quickly as possible. Regardless of the fact that the catapult soldiers had already fired several rounds of stone bombs, they were already a little tired. Attack with all your strength, and order Jing Lan to withdraw quickly, quickly, quickly..."

Following his order, the launching speed of Dong Zhuojun's catapult was significantly accelerated, while the soldiers guarding Jinglan hurriedly pushed Jinglan back quickly, preparing to retreat to a safe distance and regroup the army before attacking. . It's a pity that Dian Wei, who already had the advantage, would let him get what he wanted. Seeing that the opponent was about to retreat, he immediately ordered the catapult and bed crossbow that had been prepared to launch to attack the opponent's catapult. For a moment, the crossbow gun on the battlefield flew towards the catapult on the wall.

Seeing these situations, Li Guang was very depressed to find that the opponent was not much different from his own in all aspects except that their military strength was inferior to his own. Moreover, they also had the advantage of defending the city and their crossbow arrows were strong. Realizing that something was wrong, Li Guang immediately ordered the siege soldiers to withdraw, because he found that although there were several kinds of equipment on the town wall, they were not many, so he began to worry about it. It seemed that the other side had more craftsmen than himself. It should be less, otherwise, after a few days, the number should not be less than yourself, but should be more. That being the case, then I will retreat first, and after I have collected a large number of equipment, I can use my majestic force to overwhelm the defenders. Soon, the sound of Ming Jin withdrawing troops sounded on the battlefield. At this time, the battle at the south gate had just started, and the east gate hadn't even started. When they heard Mingjin, the four players immediately ordered their soldiers to withdraw and stop attacking the town wall. Originally thought that today's battle was over in an anticlimactic manner, but the four lord players who were about to lead the troops back to the camp received an order from the Chinese army, asking the two troops to continue to attack the town wall. As a last resort, the four reorganized their troops and continued to attack the town wall. At the same time, the lord players at the west town wall also launched another attack on the town wall. Although the people on the wall were puzzled, they had to cheer up to deal with the battle on the three walls. However, what they didn't realize was that a messenger from Li Guang's central army went to the camp. Soon, the camp The left-behind soldiers and civilian craftsmen in the city are busy again, stepping up felling trees to make equipment.