Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

After re-choosing the plan of crossing the river, they mobilized the peasants to come back carrying cloth bags, wooden boards and other objects.

This time, they were still building the pontoon, but this time the cloth bags contained a lot of explosives.

When the defenders of Xiangyang City tried to use the same tricks to destroy the pontoon bridge, unexpectedly, the navy soldiers ignited the explosives one after another, and then threw them across the river with their bare hands.

"boom!"

"boom!!"

"boom!!!"

Countless explosions sounded!

The huge impact force when the explosive package exploded made the large shield completely useless, and directly knocked the defenders out of the city with the large shield in a dizzy state.

Many people's eardrums have been shattered, and some have lost arms and legs, or simply went to see their ancestors.

The navy under Lu Yan's command allowed Cao Jun's other troops to see a completely different fighting style from the past.

This advantage of absolute fire suppression makes people wonder if they are bullying primitive people

Cannonballs weighing more than ten or twenty kilograms whizzed and hit the city wall fiercely, making each cannon cause a miniature earthquake, and then large pieces of city bricks were shattered and flew away, exposing the Rammed earth walls.

Compared with stone bricks, rammed earth is more resistant to earthquakes. Many shells can crush bluestone bricks as hard as iron, but they can only make a big hole in the rammed earth.

After six rounds of repeated bombardment by [-] cannons, the city wall on the southwest side of the city quickly seemed to be stripped naked, revealing a large area of ​​rammed earth city wall.

And after more than ten rounds of bombardment again, the rammed earth city wall finally couldn't bear it anymore, and began to fall off in large areas!But even so, it is still far from the level of collapse.

Lu Yan was also furious, and the cannon fired for nearly four hours.

From morning to evening, apart from the fact that the gun barrels were overheated and had to rest, Lu Yan damaged more than [-] cannons, among which the blasting of the barrels killed and injured many sailor gunners.

This is also the first time that the Navy has used so many artillery to attack the city, and Xiangyang City is also strong enough.

But no matter how strong its city wall is, it can't withstand so many artillery shelling an area repeatedly!

Finally, when the sun was about to set, the city wall, which had long been overwhelmed, could no longer hold up.

A large number of cracks first appeared in other areas of the wall,

The section that has been beaten all the time began to fall off in large pieces, collapsed, and even collapsed

Seeing this kind of situation, even the civilian husbands who hid behind Cao Jun to watch the excitement knew that this section of the city wall might not be able to hold on anymore.

Chapter 518 A two-pronged approach to take down Xiangyang City

Seeing that the city wall would collapse soon, the defenders of Xiangyang still did not give up.

When Wenpin saw that this section of the city wall was about to fail, he ordered the peasants and soldiers to clean up a number of houses in the city and demolish the bricks and tiles of the houses.Finally, the people and soldiers in the city were ordered to brave the artillery fire behind the precarious section of the city wall, and built sections of low walls at intervals.

Although these low walls are very rough in construction, they can still play a very good defensive role.

Their existence can not only delay the actions of Cao Jun's soldiers after entering the city, but also buy time for the defenders on the inner wall of the urn, giving them more opportunities to attack the enemy's vital forces.

A large number of defenders were transferred to the urn city in the southwest of the city by Wenpin, and many ballistas, arrows, and even kerosene were brought from other places.

Wenpin also planned to sit in the town to supervise the battle in person, ready to give the most brutal blow to Cao Jun who entered the Wengcheng after the city wall collapsed!

Half an hour after Wenpin got ready,

Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of people, the 10-meter-long city wall to the southwest lived up to expectations and fell down.

The city wall let out a desperate groan and fell rumbling down.The spectacular scene when the city wall collapsed made many soldiers and civilians couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

The city wall collapsed, and dozens of hundreds of pontoon bridges were built on the moat outside the city.

Originally, both the Cao army and the Xiangyang defenders thought that Lu Yan's navy would start to attack the city across the river.

But it took a long time after the sound of the guns stopped, but there was still no movement from the navy soldiers.

Wenpin still personally sat on the wall of Wengcheng, intending to give Cao Jun's arrogance a hard blow.

But I waited and waited until it was almost dark, but I still didn't see even half of Cao Jun rushing into the city.

When Wenpin was puzzled, a soldier suddenly came to report: "Report! General! Cao's army has retreated!"

"???"

When Wenpin heard it for the first time, he thought it was because he was too nervous and had auditory hallucinations. After repeated confirmation, he finally confirmed: "Cao Jun really retreated!"

"It's strange, why did Cao Jun give up the great opportunity and choose to retreat just like that?"

Not only Wenpin didn't understand, even Pang Tong, Zhuge Jin and others couldn't figure out what Lu Yan was up to.

In fact, not only the people in Xiangyang City, but even the generals of Cao Jun didn't understand.

But what they didn't understand, as the night fell, and after another batch of artillery and a truckload of shells were delivered by the large navy ship, Cao Jun's soldiers couldn't help but suddenly became enlightened, and then couldn't help but began to mourn for the Xiangyang defenders for a few seconds

In the end, looking at the orderly cannons in the barracks, even Jia Xu couldn't help sighing in Cao Cao's ear: "My God, Changsheng is planning to carry the bullying to the end!"

"Yeah, it's really inhumane." Cao Cao replied with a smile, but he said after a while: "According to me, Changsheng should go all out to take down the Urn City today, which can also reduce their torture time, yes Bar."

"." Jia Xu didn't want to answer, and threw a blank stare at Lao Cao.

As for Lu Yan himself, of course he knew that it was a good opportunity; but he also knew that that opportunity would sacrifice many people.

Lu Yan didn't want to use the lives of his soldiers to fill the big hole in Urn City, so he chose to use money. Oh no, it was to use shells to smash the tortoise shells of Xiangyang, and to crush their hearts with heart attacks.

In the tenth year of Jian'an, on the fifteenth day of the fifth lunar month,

Countless sailors and soldiers began to shout collectively outside the city: "Listen up, defenders in the city! Your defense system is about to be completely disintegrated, and resistance is meaningless!

Surrender quickly, our army has always treated prisoners preferentially!

After you surrender, you will not only be able to live, but those who are willing to stay will be able to share houses and fields.”

Tens of thousands of people shouted in unison, the voice was so loud that all the soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang City heard it clearly.

After the sound of persuasion spread to Xiangyang City, the morale of the defenders in Xiangyang City began to change quietly.

After all, if you can survive and live a better life, who is willing to sacrifice in vain?

"Listen to the guards in the city! In the past, Liu Qi and Sun Quan raised their troops to rebel, for disobedience, for traitors! We are the orthodox army of the imperial court, and we are here to suppress rebellion under the order of the emperor!"

"Those who don't know are not guilty! We only punish the culprits, and don't implicate others! You really don't need to sacrifice your own lives for a group of traitors who betrayed the big man and the emperor!"

After yelling these words, the defenders suddenly became different thoughts, and even the morale of the soldiers might be shaken.

At this time, the remaining prestige of the Han Dynasty was still there,

Hearing that this was the imperial court raising troops to fight against the rebels, many people and defenders were shaken in their hearts.

Pang Tong knew something was wrong, and he could no longer allow Cao Jun to indoctrinate "fallacies and heresies" so brazenly. He quickly sent his generals and literati to cheer up the soldiers, prohibiting discussion of these topics with each other, in an attempt to strengthen and imprison the soldiers' thoughts and opinions. will.

But the signboards of the Han Dynasty and the Son of Heaven are too loud. Although the soldiers and common people have been "blocked" on the surface, there are still many people secretly talking about it in private.

The whole morning's shouting, although not too obvious effect can be seen, but Lu Yan knows that he has already planted this seed in the hearts of all Xiangyang soldiers and civilians.

When the army dispatched to the south, Lu Yan had already bought [-] new artillery pieces from the steel factory, and nearly [-] shells.

These are all silver taels!

But because it was a siege battle, many shells could be recycled and reused, so Lu Yan didn't feel too much heartache.

then,

after lunch,

The well-loved "Firing Cannons at Xiangyang City" activity has started again!

Just after noon, this time the northwestern city wall of Xiangyang was changed, and Cao Jun's shelling activities began again.

Gan Ning, Su Fei, and Xu Sheng took turns to lead the battle. After gaining experience from last time, this time it only took half a day in the afternoon to blow down the 80-meter city wall in the northwest!

Originally, the soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang City had already been shaken in their hearts.

After another city wall was blown down today, many defenders were immediately discouraged.

They have seen Cao Jun's bombardment for the past two days, and they are very clear that if Cao Jun continues to bombard, even if this Xiangyang City is made of iron, it will be completely flattened sooner or later.

Now the two walls in the southwest and northwest of the city wall have been bombarded by Cao Jun's cannons for a section. They may attack the Wengcheng and rush into the city at any time. This Xiangyang City is already in jeopardy.

However, Cao Jun retreated again this time!

Cao Jun came to fight against the rebels according to the edict of the emperor, and they not only did not involve ordinary soldiers and common people, but even distributed them fields and houses. This greatly weakened the will of the defenders to resist.

After all, the opponent is orthodox, surrendering is not only not shameful, but also has a sense of justice of abandoning the dark and turning to the bright.

Ah Xi, how about a hammer?Is it still necessary to use my own life to protect those elders in the city?

After another section of the city wall in the northwest collapsed, Cao Jun still did not choose to attack the city, but returned to the camp to rest and recuperate as before.

Moreover, after the retreat, they launched a psychological offensive again, repeating what they said in the morning.

After returning to the camp, no one in Cao Ying was gossiping anymore.

Because basically everyone can see that,

Under the two-pronged attack of siege and heart attack,

It is only a matter of time before this group of sailors want to take Xiangyang City.

Chapter 519 The tempering of blood and fire!

The two walls of the city were broken, and the morale of the defenders in the city plummeted as if the brakes had been released.

At night, deserters actually appeared.Some guards formed a team to climb down the wall of the urn city during the night and escaped from the gap in the outer wall.Then follow the pontoon bridge built by Cao Jun to find Cao Jun and surrender.

Now, both Cao Jun and Xiangyang garrison understood why Lu Yan wanted to build a pontoon bridge "overwhelmingly", it turned out that the special one was for these deserters!

The shoutouts during the day have had very good results.

Only in the first half of the night, Cao Jun took over more than 300 deserters.

You know, this is only the first half of the first night, and in a few days, the Xiangyang defenders might collapse in blood.

Regarding the situation of deserters, Pang Tong ordered people to implement a strict method of consecutive sitting.

"If one person flees, the entire army will be killed; if one army flees, a hundred people will be killed!"

After the Army Supervising Brigade sharpened their knives and beheaded dozens of captured deserters overnight as an example to others, the defenders in Xiangyang City were deterred and did not continue to flee and join the enemy.

But although he didn't leave, his sense of identification with Pang Tong and Liu Qi became weaker and weaker.

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Yan started asking people to shout outside the city again.

But this time, there were hundreds of surrendered soldiers among those who shouted.

This group of people followed Cao Jun to persuade Cao Jun to surrender, and also added what they saw, heard, thought and felt in Cao Jun. What white rice, fragrant pork, etc., the gluttonous Xiangyang city can only eat half a day. The stuffed soldiers salivated.

With the testimony of these people, the morale of the defenders in the city dropped even more.

A few days ago, they would stand on the city wall and point at Cao Jun and curse, but now, they could not help but look forward to Cao Jun's barracks in the distance.

As soon as noon passed, Cao Jun immediately changed his face again. In the morning, his pleasant and seductive face was replaced by a hideous, black and thick artillery barrel in an instant!

This time, it was replaced by the city wall in the northeast direction.

Under the continuous bombardment of hundreds of artillery pieces, after the city wall still persisted for a long time, it trembled violently, then creaked, and then slowly collapsed.

With a sound of "Boom!", a large cloud of dust rose from the collapsed city wall, almost covering the entire urn city behind the city wall.

The first two times, the defenders of Xiangyang City would still let out desperate wailing and screams of terror.

But today, the city is surprisingly quiet, even a little weirdly quiet!

Compared to the silence inside the city, there was cheers outside the city.

The outer city walls on all four sides were broken on three sides, and Xiangyang City is over!

But this time, Lu Yan did not withdraw his troops as before. Instead, he ordered: "The whole army assaults and enters the city!"

Gan Ning, Xu Sheng, and Su Fei each led their soldiers to attack from the northeast.

The defenders, who thought that Cao Jun would retreat again and were underprepared, were caught off guard immediately.

As the order is issued, the flag is shaken, and the drums are thunderous!

Teams have already secretly assembled outside the moat. The sailors who are ready to fight, even under the leadership of the officers, can't wait for the dust and smoke from the sky to fall, so they cross the moat from the pontoon bridge and boats, shouting to kill The sky-shattering rush rushed towards the gap in the collapsed city wall.

Not all of Cao's troops were heading towards the Wengcheng.

Su Fei led his subordinates to seize the outer city wall immediately, and then used crossbows, bows and arrows to suppress the defenders on the urn city!