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Chapter 1,407 Siege

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    Xiahou Dun took the remaining 4,000 troops and fled in a hurry towards Linjing City.

    At the same time, Ma Chao had also led an army to attack Linjing City.

    Not long after General Xiahou Dun led his troops and set out, Zhang Ji, who was watching at the top of the city, discovered a shocking scene in the distance.

    I saw a large army coming from afar, with a large number of people and a menacing momentum.

    "Hasn't the other party already left more than half of it? Why are there still so many troops? Could it be

    not good!  General Xiahou is in danger!  "

    By the time Zhang Ji reacted, it was already too late, and Xiahou Dun was already trapped in a tight siege.

    The commanders of the siege army this time were Ma Chao and Pang Tong.

    The two didn't give each other time to react, and immediately launched an attack after arriving.

    Fortunately, in order to prepare for the enemy's attack, Zhang Ji made potholes and mud outside the city, which slowed down the enemy's siege.

    In the past few days, Ma Chao and Pang Tong were also thinking about ways to crack it.

    It wasn¡¯t until today that I finally got to use it.

    Because Cao Jun was restricted in the city, he could not reach the Jingshui River outside the city to continue diverting water.

    So the stagnant water outside the city has been drained away at this moment, but this place is originally made of mud, and it has become very muddy and difficult to walk after being soaked for so many days.

    In order to solve this problem, Ma Chao ordered the soldiers to fill the ground with hay, branches, wooden boards and other materials.

    Not only will the muddy ground be relieved, but also potholes will be filled to reduce the impact.

    In fact, Zhang Ji has long understood that this is not a long-term solution. It is expected that the enemy will find a way.

    But what he was worried about was the safety of Xiahou Dun who was leaving the city.

    Since Ma Chao deceived Xiahou Dun out by using the strategy of suspicious soldiers, I am afraid there must be a dragon's pool and a tiger's den waiting for him.

    Zhang Ji understood that if the general made a mistake, it would cause a huge blow to the morale of the entire Linjing City defenders.

    But now that the army is besieging the city, there is no chance to go out of the city to investigate and respond. They can only defend the offensive before they can take action.

    Ma Chao¡¯s army marched steadily, striving to advance one meter and then repair the entire meter they passed.

    If he is allowed to continue, he may soon reach the city.

    Thinking of his previous plan, Zhang Ji immediately arranged for some cavalry archers to go out of the city to harass and kill the advancing soldiers.

    But there were only three thousand cavalry in the city, and Xiahou Dun took away two thousand.

    There are only a thousand people now.

    These people couldn't cope with the opponent's troops, so Zhang Ji sent another two thousand archers.  Let's go out of town together.

    The thousand-horse archers rely on their mounts and are very maneuverable.

    He rushed forward boldly and kept wandering around to shoot the sergeants at the head of Ma Chao's army.

    In just a short while, many people were lost here.

    Ma Chao was furious when he saw this.

    He immediately took out his carved bow and killed one of the most arrogant horse archers of Cao Jun with one arrow without even aiming.

    Ma Chao was already behind him, at least a hundred steps away from the enemy.

    ??????????????????? But he still killed with one blow, this skill of piercing the enemy with a hundred steps, especially when shooting at a moving target, immediately mobilized the morale.

    Then, he loudly ordered: "Prepare the divine arm crossbow!"

    Immediately, someone pushed it out from the back and came to the front along the repaired road.

    The opponent's horse archer has not yet seen the power of the divine arm crossbow, so he doesn't take him seriously at all, and still goes his own way.

    The crossbowman reloaded immediately, and in a moment, all the God Arm crossbows were fully loaded, just waiting to be fired.

    "Let go!" Ma Chao waved his hand and gave the order to attack.

    I saw dozens of divine arm crossbows in front of me being fired together, making a sudden loud noise.

    Those riders had no time to react, and the arrows had already arrived in front of them.

    It was too late to dodge anymore, the thick arrows directly knocked them off their horses and hit the ground heavily.

    Others shot directly into the crotch of the war horse. The horse weighing thousands of kilograms could not withstand the power of the arrow.

    With a bang, he fell to the ground and died under the impact of the arrows, pressing the rider on his back heavily under him.

    While the Divine Arm Crossbow was taking effect, Ma Chao's archers also came to the front of the formation and began to counterattack.

    The bows and arrows of Ma Chao's army are different from those of Cao's army.

    He was improved by Liu Ke, whether it is power, range or accuracy, it is far from ordinary bows and arrows.

    Therefore, after the bow and arrow were shot, a group of Cao's archers were immediately harvested.

    After several volleys of fire, Cao Jun suffered heavy losses and a large number of archers were killed.

    After Cao Jun¡¯s archers saw the opponent¡¯s strength, they were so frightened that they quickly retreated.

    Unexpectedly, the range of the opponent's bow and arrow was far greater than that of his own. Cao's army retreated a large distance and was still hit by arrows, but he could not attack the opponent.

    When Zhang on the top of the city saw this, he quickly ordered the gold to withdraw his troops and summoned the archers back to the city.

    The value of archers is not comparable to that of ordinary soldiers, and they cannot be sacrificed in vain.

    After leaving behind hundreds of corpses, Cao Jun¡¯s archers could only return to the city in embarrassment.

    Without their influence, Ma Chaojun's road construction actions accelerated again.

    However, when they reached a position two miles away from the city wall, a trench three feet wide appeared in front of everyone.

    There is also a lot of water accumulated here, forming a moat.

    ¡°And the water is turbid, and we don¡¯t know how deep it is.

    Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to completely fill it. We can only choose a few relatively flat places to build temporary bridges.

    Ma Chaojun has not been idle these days, he has been building huge rocks to return artillery.

    Some of the remaining timber was transformed into a bridge deck and temporarily laid on the trench.

    The temporary bridge deck has limited carrying capacity, so ordinary soldiers can pass through without any problem.

    But heavy siege equipment was severely restricted.

    As soon as the huge boulder was pushed onto the bridge, the wooden board instantly creaked, as if it might collapse at any time.

    In this case, we can only give up and find another way.

    I saw the sergeants each carrying sacks of sackcloth and throwing them into the trench in turn, trying to fill them in to make a way.

    Zhang Ji was always watching from the top of the city. He was very anxious when he saw that the other party had found a countermeasure so quickly.

    But this distance is beyond his reach.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The archers were sent to harass, but also suffered heavy losses, now I can only watch helplessly as the opponent is cracked.

    Zhang Ji thought to himself that if the general Xiahou Dun was here, he would definitely come up with countermeasures to prevent the opponent from moving forward.

    He would even personally lead his soldiers out of the city to attack, but he did not have this ability, let alone the power.

    For the current plan, we can only do our best to hold on to the city, and we must wait for Xiahou Dun to return before making any decisions.

    Zhang Ji even thought that if Xiahou Dun came back and attacked him from both inside and outside, he would be able to force the enemy back immediately.

    But he didn¡¯t know that Xiahou Dun, who had stepped into the trap, also suffered heavy losses, and how could he still have the ability to attack him from a flank.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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