Chapter 749: Fighting in Puyang (Part 1)

At this time, the order for archers to fire had already sounded on the top of the city. Nearly a thousand archers, with bows drawn and arrows drawn, launched several rounds of volleys at a distance of eighty steps below the city.

Hearing the noise on the top of the city, the generals in charge of leading the troops to attack the city shouted loudly: "Watch out for arrows on the top of the city!"

For a moment, the sword and shield soldiers raised their shields one after another, and tried to cover themselves and the bodies of the Zepao beside them with shields.

"Bang bang..."

The arrows fell from the sky like a gust of wind and rain, and seemed to penetrate everywhere, instantly covering the attacking soldiers in the rain of arrows.

Screams one after another sounded among the soldiers, and hundreds of soldiers were injured by arrows on the top of the city. Seeing this, Huang Zhong of the central army immediately ordered the central army to beat the drums and ordered the soldiers to speed up.

For the army that was attacking the city, these casualties were inevitable for the soldiers who attacked the city. The only thing they could do was to capture the city as soon as possible, otherwise, the longer the time, the greater the casualties of the army.

"Quick, quick, speed up, move forward, attack Puyang..."

"Kill, kill, kill..."

As the soldiers roared, the siege soldiers quickened their pace, ran towards the city wall along the filled siege passage, and the army quickly approached the city wall.

At this time, the well-shaped vehicles following closely behind also began to shoot arrows at the head of the city to cover the attack of the siege soldiers. With the cover of the archers on the well-shaped vehicles, the soldiers guarding the city head could not shoot arrows at the city without restraint.

Following the siege soldiers were several large siege vehicles. Hundreds of soldiers hid under the vehicles and pushed the huge siege vehicles slowly towards the city gate. The siege vehicle was composed of a huge battering ram and a roof like a house. The huge battering ram, pushed by the soldiers, hit the city gate and knocked it open. This was the simplest way to attack the city.

The soldiers defending the city could not just watch the siege vehicles run into the city gate and hit the city gate, so various siege methods needed to be coordinated.

Soon, the siege soldiers arrived at the bottom of the city wall, quickly set up the siege ladder, and then put it on the battlement of the city wall, using the iron hook at the tip of the ladder to firmly fix the ladder on the battlement. Then the soldiers under the city bit the ring-headed sword in their mouths, held the shield in one hand, and held the ladder with the other hand, and climbed towards the top of the city with their hands and feet.

At the same time, the soldiers on the top of the city also changed their camps. The archers had retreated from the battlement and retreated behind the wall. They raised their bows and shot at the soldiers under the city. As for whether they could shoot people, it depended on luck.

The sword and shield soldiers and spearmen took their places. For those battlements where the siege ladders had not been fixed, several or even dozens of soldiers immediately carried huge long forks, forked the siege ladders, and then pushed them away from the battlement and the city wall with all their strength, and then overturned them directly.

For those siege ladders that have been fixed, sword and shield soldiers will immediately surround the position of the battlement, and the spearmen will extend their spears from the gaps between the shields behind the sword and shield soldiers, waiting for the soldiers below the city to control the battlement with a few rounds of shooting.

At the same time, the rolling stones and battering rams that have been prepared long ago, under the command of the generals of each section of the city wall, smashed down towards the Sizhou army below the city, and there were bursts of screams from below the city. There were even more unlucky soldiers who were smashed down directly from the siege ladders, falling directly from several feet high in the air to below the city.

Even so, there were still continuous Sizhou soldiers climbing up the city wall, and then the soldiers guarding the city began to suffer casualties.

The Sizhou army below the city continued to kill towards the city wall. Under the command of the generals, the defenders on the city wall desperately surrounded and killed the Sizhou soldiers who climbed up the city wall. The soldiers of the two armies fought a desperate battle on the Puyang city wall.

At the same time, the battles on the east and north walls also began.

After two quarters of an hour, a siege vehicle finally broke into the city gate, and the Sizhou army cheered loudly. However, before long, a large amount of kerosene was suddenly poured on the top of the city, and then several torches fell from the sky. The soldiers in the siege vehicle were burned by the raging fire before they could react.

A shrill scream came from inside, and soon several soldiers rushed out of the siege vehicle like a huge fireball, screaming and shouting, while rolling back and forth on the ground, hoping to put out the fire on their bodies. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to put out the kerosene, and soon, the few firemen stopped moving.

Although the other two siege vehicles following them did not light up, they had to stop because the siege vehicles in front had blocked the city gate.

Soon, there was no sound in the burning siege vehicle, and then a large amount of water suddenly poured from the top of the city gate, extinguishing the burning siege vehicle in the city gate. It's not that the defenders don't want to, but if the fire burns too far inside the gate, it will also cause great damage to the city wall.

So the purpose of kerosene is only to burn the siege vehicle, not to burn a huge bonfire in the gate.

Hundreds of steps away, in the central army position, Huangfu Chaobo looked at the Sizhou Army soldiers on the top of the city like dumplings falling from the top of the city, and couldn't help frowning. He has always been unwilling to fight this kind of siege war with human lives. The loss is too great. If it can be captured, it's fine. If it can't be captured, the loss will be even greater.

Unfortunately, the war is not transferred by his will. For example, the two battles in Hedong lost tens of thousands of people. This time, it is estimated that tens of thousands will be lost under Puyang City again.

After more than an hour, the battle on the top of the city was still in a state of scorching. Soldiers of the Sizhou Army kept climbing up the top of the city, but they were quickly killed and dispersed by the soldiers of the Cao Army, and then driven down the top of the city. Seeing this, Huang Zhong looked up at the sky again, and waved his hand to order the retreat.

As the central army sounded the gong, the soldiers of the Sizhou Army, relieved by the burden, quickly withdrew from the city wall, carrying the siege equipment, and supporting the Zepao who could move, quickly evacuated under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers under the city. Fortunately, with the cover of the well-lane car, the soldiers of the Sizhou Army were able to successfully evacuate most of the injured soldiers and intact siege equipment.

It was noon, and seeing that the battle was not going well, Huang Zhong ordered the soldiers to withdraw, but Huang Zhong also saw some clues of the defenders. Although the defenders seemed to have quickly driven the attacking soldiers off the city wall, Huang Zhong saw from the coordination between the defenders that the soldiers on the city were only ordinary county soldiers, not even as good as the defenders of the Sizhou Army.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be dozens of soldiers climbing the city wall in the first round of attack. However, it didn't matter. Xiahou Dun was also a veteran, and he certainly wouldn't send out his elite troops at the beginning.