Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 834 Living is not easy (3)

  Dark clouds billowed in the sky, and heavy rain fell majesticly, but in Jinxiang County, human flesh boiled in the world, and blood spewed out.

  Liu Dai sent Wang Yu to contact the governor Bao Xin, and after making the decision to attack Qingzhou Yellow Turban from north to south, he rushed to Jinxiang with the county soldiers from Changyi to defend with the original garrison.

  Ancient cities have always been a nightmare for attackers.

As long as the defender is determined to fight to the death and has considerable defensive equipment, then the siege battle will become quite tragic. In order to fight for every inch of the city, even blood and human flesh will be used to infiltrate it bit by bit. to get.

  It was raining heavily.

   Qingzhou Yellow Turban took advantage of the rain to attack the city, which can not but be said to be a good move.

Heavy rain will cause a decline in the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and it will also cause difficulties in attacking and defending. However, there is a gap between the soldiers of the Yellow Turbans and the regular county soldiers. The gap in combat power between soldiers has shortened...

To make a simple analogy, if heavy rain will cause 30% of the combat power to decay, then before it rains, the Yanzhou County soldiers have a combat power of 100, while the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans only have a combat power of 70, the gap is 30, and the next After the rain, the county soldiers were left with 70, while the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were 49, and the gap between the two sides became 21.

   And most importantly, although Liu Dai's county soldiers still have the advantage, their biggest weapon for defending the city has been deprived by the heavy rain!

   bow, can not be used.

Different from movies and televisions of later generations, the bow strings of the Han Dynasty were made of tendons, cotton, hemp and other materials, and the back of the bow was mostly made of wood glue. , so that the rain continuously invades the bow string along the small cracks between the bows, and eventually causes the entire bow to be scrapped ahead of time...

Hundreds of Qingzhou yellow turbans, covering the carts made of recently felled trees carried by dozens of people in the middle, rushed as far as possible to the door opening under the city wall. The ground was soaked with rain and blood. Every step It was all extremely difficult, with blood mixed with mud splashed on everyone's face, and then washed back to the ground by the rain.

There are not many rolling logs and rocks in Jinxiang City, and the houses that can be demolished near the city walls have been demolished, let alone arrows, there are not many arrows left. The distorted human body, which is almost like coke, shows that it has achieved extremely good results, but it has been used up.

  Now the only relatively powerful weapon for defending the city is left—boiling water.

  The heavy rain is still pouring.

More than a dozen cauldrons were set up in the thatched hut that was hastily built above the city wall. The water mixed with mud and flesh was heated to boiling in the cauldron, and then quickly scooped up by dozens of wooden buckets to hit the city gate. The yellow scarf soldiers splashed down their heads with pockets on their heads.

  Although there was rain to reduce the temperature of the boiling water, when the buckets of boiling water that had just boiled were poured down, the Yellow Turban soldiers below the city were immediately scalded and howled in pain!

The water in the ditch outside the city of Jinxiang County has been dug a gap by the Yellow Turban soldiers, and all the water has been taken away. Now the ditch is piled up with corpses one after another. There are county soldiers, and of course there are more. Yellow Turban soldiers, or the corpses of ordinary people.

Most of these people were from Yanzhou, who were brought here by the yellow scarves of Qingzhou, and died under the city as cannon fodder to consume the defense equipment. In the long trench, there were also a few people who were injured by luck The man, however, was tightly suppressed by other corpses, and could only stretch out an arm in vain under the corpse, scratching scratches one after another on the edge of the trench, trying to overturn or use his strength to get out. , but no one succeeded, only the thin and pale arms were left, grasping in vain toward the sky, and finally fell, only stirring up a few drops of muddy water.

Guan Hai has already stood very close to the city. Without the bows and arrows to defend the city, he can launch an attack very close to the city. He is wearing an unknown armor with a huge cut mark on it , but Guan Hai didn't care, but directed the Yellow Turban soldiers to attack continuously. In addition to erecting ladders and attacking the city gate, he also sent many people to stick under the city wall to dig the foundation of the city wall!

Under the heavy rain, although the city wall of the city is made of blue bricks and stones on the outside, it is still compacted with soil inside. Therefore, even if the city gate is blocked and cannot be knocked open, as long as a section of the city wall is dug down, it can still be attacked. In the city!

Liu Dai can lead his soldiers to push and block the ladders coming up from the yellow turban rack, and he can also deal with the simple rushing carts under the city gate, but he doesn't have much to do with such completely stupid methods, especially those who have already dug through the city wall The green bricks were dug into the hollows in the soil layer inside the city wall, and even boiling water could not pour them.

Even so, Guan Hai continued to force the Yellow Turban soldiers to drive the civilians who were carrying them up to attack the city. He didn't care how many people died, as long as he exhausted the physical strength of the soldiers in the city, the weapons and equipment would be exhausted. Just run out.

There is no specific estimate of the casualties of the Yellow Turbans these days, but there must have been more than 5,000 people. Surrounding Jinxiang, under the heavy rain, it has already become like a ghost. Under the washing of the rain, it looked pale, and the flesh and blood of those miserable wounds also lost most of their redness, as if all the blood of these corpses had been sucked away by this terrifying battlefield, leaving only some scum scum.

This year, when the Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou swept across Yanzhou, those people who were carried away had basically lost their popularity and sense of life and death under the destruction of their homes. The zombies, numb and stiff, attacked the city under the orders of the Yellow Turban soldiers, climbed up the ladder, and dug the city wall...

  In such troubled times, it is a blessing to die early!

Anyway, if you retreat, you will die in the hands of the yellow turban warriors who supervised the formation. If you go forward to attack the city, you can at least get a piece of black pancake less than half the size of a palm from the soldiers, mixed with rainwater and blood, and filled it up. It's an extremely withered stomach!

   "Kill them down, beat them down!"

   Liu Dai on the top of the city was already drenched and his face was pale. He didn't expect that after arriving in Jinxiang, it would start to rain continuously, and he didn't expect that the Yellow Turban of Qingzhou would take advantage of the heavy rain to attack the city desperately!

   But there is hope!

  As long as the reinforcements arrive, the Yellow Turban soldiers who are exhausted in the rain will never be able to withstand the attack from the rear. At that time, even if there are a large number of Yellow Turban soldiers, it will be useless!

  But, Wang Yu, where is this reinforcement?

  (end of this chapter)