"Boom!" While Hao Shao was pondering, another loud noise interrupted his train of thought. However, this time, it wasn't the city wall that was shaking. Instead, it was a battering ram that was smashed by a huge rock thrown by the soldiers on the city wall.
Two wheels were scattered to the side. The large stone also blocked the city gates, giving Hao Shao some time.
"Stone?" Hao Shao muttered to himself as he looked at the stone that smashed the city gates. This was a large stone mill. In ancient times, flour was made by the families themselves. Naturally, a stone mill was needed to grind flour. Guangzhou was originally a bustling city in Yangzhou. Thus, there were many stone mills. However, large stone mills like this could only be owned by nobles. After all, how could the commoners have so much food to grind flour?
"Move it away! Move it away!" The commander of Liu Pi's Army shouted loudly. Two wheels of the chariot were smashed by the stone mill. However, the chariot was made up of more than ten wheels. Breaking two was not a big problem. What they needed to do now was to move the huge stone mill that was blocking the gate.
"Smash it with a large stone?" Hao Shao frowned. The effect would be very good. Didn't they see how a large stone mill smashed two wheels of the city gates? If it was smashed a few more times, three city gates would be smashed.
However, the problem now was that Hao Shao didn't have so many boulders in his hands. The boulders and wooden pillars were too small to be compared to the previous millstone. They were simply useless. They could only injure the soldiers and couldn't even kill them. Didn't you see how those small boulders and boulders would only make the soldiers vomit blood when they hit the heavy armors and shields? It wasn't that Hao Shao didn't have any larger stones that were about the same size as the previous millstone. The Guangzhou Province was small, but there were also many landowning households. Hao Shao had found five millstones, and after throwing away one, there were only four left.
If he threw them one by one, he would only be able to destroy one of the city gates. Didn't they see that only two wheels were destroyed? After throwing these large stones, Hao Shao on top of the city walls would not be able to do anything.
"Can't I throw them a few more times? Or perhaps a few more boulders? "Hao Shao muttered to himself. Suddenly, he had an idea!
"Li Er, don't stop rolling stones for even a second. Stop the chariot from crashing into the city gate. Leave behind those four millstones for me!" Hao Shao roared at one of his thousand-man subordinates.
"Yes, General!" Li Er replied loudly.
"Xuan Jian, get me some thick hemp rope, the thicker the better, the more the better! Also, wooden planks and large planks. The more, the better. It's best if everyone has one. "Hao Shao shouted to the other group of 1,000 soldiers that Hao Shao was treating as a reserve force.
"Understood, General!" Although Xuan Jian didn't know what Hao Shao wanted to do, he still carried it out meticulously. It wasn't easy to find a thick hemp rope on the city wall. After all, sometimes when the city gate was closed at night, if there were any urgent letters, they would need to be lifted up by a hanging basket. The hanging basket was absolutely thick enough.
"Come up and help me tie up those four millstones with ropes. The closer the ropes are, the better!" Hao Shao didn't care about the reserve force. If he didn't help now, when the city wall collapsed, everyone would be finished.
In a short while, the four large millstones were tied up by Hao Shao's sturdy body. Under Hao Shao's command, they were hung up high.
"What is this Guangzhou garrison trying to do?!" Hanging up the millstones, what was he trying to do? Smash people? It took a lot of effort to hang up such a large stone. If the target was people below the city, it would be difficult to smash them. Unless they were too densely packed together, it would be difficult to smash them. Or was he trying to use a rope to hang the boulders up and drop them on top of the city gate to block the passage?! This was also a way, but if the city gate was blocked, what about the city wall? With such a large surface area, what could he use to block it? Thus, Hao Shao's efforts were useless.
Liu Pi didn't care whether the defenders of Guangzhou were stupid or not. In his eyes, Guangzhou was already his. The boulders on the other side had already been cleared. From where Liu Pi stood, he could feel that the walls of Guangzhou would not last long.
"The Lvbu's Army is full of talents!" Pang Tong was different from the others who were disdainful of Hao Shao. To be honest, when they were studying under Master Shui Jing in Jingzhou, how many of them put Lü Bu in their eyes?
Their evaluation of Lü Bu was that he was an obstinate and self-opinionated person. Sooner or later, he would become a skeleton in the grave. The only people that they truly put in their eyes were Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce, and a few others. Even though Lü Bu had taken over half of Yanzhou and almost destroyed Cao Cao's lair, even though he had tens of thousands of elite troops in Xuzhou, no one thought highly of Lü Bu and thought that he would definitely lose Xuzhou. Sure enough, after losing Xuzhou, he was chased out of Xuzhou like a stray dog and became the laughing stock of the academy. However, no one expected that after losing Xuzhou, Lü Bu was like a hidden dragon that had escaped from its cage and swam towards the ocean.
After incorporating Chen Deng's Guangling Army and supplementing the Formation Breaker and Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, these two peak forces once again appeared on the chaotic stage of the late Han Dynasty.
There were also two new forces, one was the Black Flag Army and the other was the City Guard. Not only did they not become Sun Ce's killing blade, they even took over Wancheng City and Lujiang. Now, using Lujiang as a springboard, they obtained half of Yangzhou.
If things continued to develop like this, perhaps the Lvbu's Army would really become a big warlord. This was because the timing was too good. The four warlords of the Great Han Dynasty were fighting. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao put all their energy into Guandu. Sun Ce and Liu Biao were in full swing. Lü Bu could really stand out. If that was the case, Pang Tong would be powerless. This was because there were too many capable people under Lü Bu's command. The old fox had Chen Gong, the old generals had Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Zang Ba. These were all fierce generals. The new ones were Chen Deng, Ru Jiang, Xu Sheng, Chengyu, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, and Yang Hong. Pang Tong knew about these people. There was also his good friend Xu Shu. For example, in this small city in front of him, there was a small military officer with only two thousand men, but his ability was higher than Liu Bei's general Liu Pi. How could they fight in the future? Not to mention, there was also the existence of the King Of Shu, Liu Mang. Thinking about Liu Mang, Pang Tong's eyes narrowed.
Fortunately, Lü Bu had offended too many people. Jiangdong's Sun Ce, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Zhang Xiu, and even Jing Province's Liu Biao were all thinking about how Lü Bu would die.
This time, with Sun Ce leading the alliance, Lü Bu would not be able to escape.
While Pang Tong was thinking about this, the situation on the walls had reversed. This time, it was not the siege chariots that were threatening Guangzhou, but the siege chariots that were threatening Guangzhou.
Hao Shao hung a few huge stone mills high up in the air so that he could use them to smash the siege chariots. A stone mill could only smash a few wheels of a siege chariot, and a siege chariot had more than a dozen wheels. Now, there were three siege chariots under the city gate.
It did not matter. Hao Shao let Liu Mang throw the four large stone mills down and smash them on the siege chariots. Not only could they destroy the siege chariots, but they could also block the siege chariots. Because there were ropes hanging on the chariots, they were not disposable items. They could be thrown down and then pulled up with ropes. Under the repeated attacks, the three siege chariots were quickly dismantled.
"Hu!" Hao Shao took a deep breath to relieve his nervousness after seeing that the three-seater assault vehicle was no longer a threat to Guangzhou.
"Xuan Jian, do you dare to leave the city with me?" Hao Shao said to Xuan Jian as he looked at Liu Pijun, who was still fighting like a cornered beast and was still trying to break through the city gates.
"Why wouldn't I dare?" Xuan Jian was not a famous person. His martial strength and commanding ability were not good. However, there were two things that Hao Shao liked about him. One was that he was obedient, and the other was that he was courageous. Only by being obedient could Hao Shao use him as his own arms. Only by being courageous could Hao Shao set an example for others, daring to fight and kill.
"Good! Open the city gate. Today, we will counterattack! " Generally, when defending a city, some of the soldiers and horses would be stationed outside the city to form a corner with the city. This was also to prevent the enemy from attacking the city with full force. Because Guangzhou was too small and had too few people, Hao Shao did not have any troops outside the city.
Therefore, in Guangzhou, he could only wait for the enemy to attack him. He could not do any damage to the enemy, but now, Hao Shao wanted to take the initiative to attack.
"General, can we win?" The other thousand-man general on the side was doubtful. Can they win if they go out of the city to fight? How long has it been since they formed the army? How many times have the soldiers on the other side been on the battlefield? They did not even know which general was north or south.
"We can't win!" Hao Shao would not lie. He really could not win. If it was one on one, the other side would beat him. If it was two on one, the other side would have an 80% chance of winning. If it was three on one, the other side would have a 50% chance of winning.
"If you can't win, why go out!?" Li Er did not understand. Can't they just stay in the city?
"It is because we can't win that we have to go out!" Hao Shao replied. The siege chariots below the city walls weren't scary. What was scary was the heavy armoured soldiers. They could completely ignore the damage from the arrow rain. Although they couldn't attack the city, once these people retreated, six or even seven siege chariots would appear after destroying three siege chariots. The siege chariots weren't difficult to make. It was just a bunch of wheels and a huge wooden pillar. All they had to do was wrap the head of the pillar with iron sheets.
If they did not destroy the heavy armors, there might be an endless stream of siege chariots behind. Although Hao Shao tied a rope to the stone mill and could temporarily repel the siege chariots, it was only temporary. This method of using a rope was actually very easy to break. As long as one was not afraid of death, one could pull the rope on the stone mill and cut it with a sword.
Hao Shao had a total of four stone mills. Once they were cut, there was really no way to deal with the siege chariots.
In order to cure a disease, one had to get rid of the root. Now, the root of the disease in Guangzhou was the hundreds of heavily armored soldiers outside. As long as they were taken down and removed their heavy armor, then all the problems would be solved. Without the protection of the heavy armor, Liu Pijun would be exposed to Hao Shaojun's rain of arrows.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz!" Liu Pi saw that his siege chariots were destroyed by Hao Shao's stone mill. He was angry and wanted to call the eight hundred soldiers back to rebuild the siege chariots and attack the gate again. Liu Pi would order the soldiers to cut the rope on the stone mill. Without the stone mill, he wanted to see what Hao Shao would use to smash the siege chariots. Just as Liu Pi was about to call for a retreat, the gate of Guangzhou opened.
"Haha, the heavens are helping me. The heavens are helping me!" Liu Pi was really happy. Liu Pi did not know what the soldiers of Guangzhou were like at the beginning. However, after fighting a few battles, he could see that they were a group of second-line troops. Their archery and horse skills were a mess. Liu Pi would not be afraid of such an army even if there were fifty to sixty thousand of them. However, he had Guangzhou's city walls and some clever moats. This made Liu Pi unable to do anything. Now that Guangzhou's gate was open, Liu Pi could see that there were troops gathering at the gate. What did they want to do? Go out of the city to fight? That was exactly what Liu Pi wanted.
"Haha, since you want to court death, I, Liu Pi, will naturally help you!" Liu Pi waved his finger and a group of three thousand soldiers came out. Liu Pi was not stupid. Five thousand soldiers were not enough in Guangzhou. Three thousand was just right. In fact, Liu Pi felt that three thousand soldiers was too much. This was because there were eight hundred soldiers at the gate. Of these eight hundred soldiers, four hundred were his personal guards.
"Brothers, the opportunity to make a name for yourself is right in front of you. In order to survive, in order to get promoted and get rich, kill!" Hao Shao roared. Countless soldiers came out of the gate one after another. There were a total of a thousand soldiers.
It was a total of a thousand people. Hao Shao had brought out all of the reserves.
"Hmph, if you stay in the city like a turtle, I might not be able to do anything to you. However, now that you have come out, have a taste of my blade!" The one leading the four hundred soldiers was the leader of Liu Pi's personal guards. His name was Zhou Bao. He had followed Liu Pi for a long time.
"Brothers, let these cowards of the Lvbu's Army who only know how to hide behind the city walls see the power of our Yuzhou Yellow Turbans!" Bandits were bandits. After a long time, even if they became officials, they would still subconsciously think of themselves as bandits. Eight hundred soldiers of the first line of the field army against one thousand second line garrison soldiers. Just thinking about it, one could imagine what kind of ending this would be.
"Kill!" The three hundred Flower Guards also pulled out their swords and charged towards the thousand soldiers who came out. Many of the four hundred soldiers were killed by the rolling stones and falling trees on the city walls.
"Haha! You still dare to charge! I was afraid that you would not dare to come! " Hao Shao bore the brunt of the charge. He sneered as he looked at the four hundred Liu Pi's personal guards charging towards him.
"Kill them all!" Zhou Bao roared and rushed forward. Once he rushed into the Lvbu's Army, he had a headache.
Because what he had to face was not Lu Bu's army's swords and spears, nor bows and arrows, but door planks. Yes, door planks. Hao Shao asked Xuan Jian to prepare wooden planks. A lot of planks were removed from the door frame. These huge planks were erected. These Lu Bu's army did not fight with Zhou Bao's personal guards. Instead, they surrounded Zhou Bao's personal guards with four of them, blocking the front, back, left, and right. They simply did not fight with Zhou Bao's personal guards. Although the swords in their hands were sharp, they could not cut these planks in a short time.
None of them were able to withstand the impact. Although they were wearing chainmail armor that could withstand the damage from the sharpness, they were helpless against this kind of impact. Although they were wearing chainmail armor that could withstand the damage from the sharpness, they were helpless against this kind of impact.
Most importantly, the people who followed Zhou Bao's charge didn't have much strength left. After all, there was a limit to a person's strength. When they pushed the chariot to the city gate, they had already used up more than half of their strength. Now that they were blocked by people, they simply didn't have the strength to struggle.
"Pfff! Pfff!" One by one, the personal guards spat out mouthfuls of blood. They had suffered internal injuries. Exhausted, they could not hold on any longer and collapsed to the ground.
"Drag them back, drag them back!" Every time one of them fell down, the sword in their hands would be removed and they would be dragged into Guangzhou City.
"Damn it!" Zhou Bao was really helpless now. He was a good man and he was proud of his strength. He even had chainmail on his body. But now, he was powerless. He was trapped by the wooden planks on all sides. If it was just ordinary soldiers, he could still break free. But now, there was not only Xuan Jian, but also Hao Shao. Hao Shao himself was from the Bing Province Wolf Cavalry. How could his martial arts be bad? Zhou Bao's eyes were filled with shock. He was a man of the Bing Province Wolf Cavalry.
Zhou Bao was like a cornered beast, he could only be knocked unconscious. The sword in his hand was removed and he was dragged into the city of Guangzhou. More than three hundred personal guards were dealt with just like that.
As for the remaining four hundred people, they were easier to deal with because they were mainly responsible for pushing the chariots. They were the ones with bigger weapons in Liu Pi's army. They were also wearing heavy armor. However, one must not forget that these people did not bring any weapons. In order to push the chariots back, they did not bring any spears or swords. Thus, under the watchful eyes of more than a hundred people, they could only surrender.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" At this time, Liu Pi's army of three thousand arrived. They were all angry and filled with killing intent. The one leading the charge was Liu Pi himself.
Liu Pi's eyes were filled with blood. Although Hao Shao had dealt with the four hundred guards, Liu Pi was not worried. This was because the charge of the four hundred guards gave Liu Pi time. His three thousand troops had already crossed the moat. Hao Shao's troops from Guangzhou had not had time to withdraw. As long as they rushed over, Liu Pi believed that with his Yellow Turban Army's strength, they would be able to swallow this second-rate garrison. Most importantly, Liu Pi saw a person wearing a general's armor among the second-rate garrison. He looked carefully and saw that it was the young general that Liu Pi had talked to. As long as they could take him down, Guangzhou City would be broken.
"Raise your shields!" Hao Shao shouted loudly. It was too late to retreat back to Guangzhou City. They could only meet the enemy head-on. Large wooden boards were raised. "Line Formation!" Hao Shao ordered again. This time, the speed of the soldiers was very fast. This was because Hao Shao had taught them before. After fighting several battles, they had turned from rookies to veterans. Seeing the three thousand enemies rushing over, they were afraid but they were still able to control themselves.
The piece of flat land outside of Guangzhou could fit three hundred people side by side. One by one, the soldiers of Guangzhou erected wooden planks and stood there. A thousand people formed three rows.
"Boom!" The three thousand men of Liu Pi's army surged forward like a wave, crashing into the wooden wall.
The huge impact caused the wooden board formation to almost collapse. Fortunately, the soldiers at the back quickly filled the gap and did not break through.
"Is there any use in using these broken wooden boards to block in front of us? Hmph! Guangzhou City is mine! "Liu Pi shouted in disdain.
"You are Guangzhou City's Garrison General?" The two armies began to wrestle. Liu Pi's subordinates were already fighting with Hao Shao's Garrison Army. Liu Pi could also see Hao Shao's face. The two of them had never been so close.
"Don't struggle on your deathbed! Guangzhou City will definitely be broken! I, Liu Pi, will pull out your tendons and peel off your skin! "Liu Pi said to Hao Shao with a sinister smile.
"Pull out my tendons and peel off my skin? If you have the ability, then come! "Hao Shao also saw Liu Pi and laughed coldly.
"Ka Ka Ka!" Some wooden boards could not withstand the impact and broke. Liu Pi's army would not let go of such an opportunity. He immediately raised his sword. Hao Shao's subordinates could wear heavy armor. They were all light infantry. Once they were cut, it would be difficult for them to survive. Screams were heard.
"Do you see? Your broken wooden boards cannot block me! If you know what is good for you, then kill yourself here. Liu Pi daren, I will leave you a complete corpse! " The wooden boards were not shields. Shields were made of leather and iron sheets. The wooden boards were only wood. They were very easy to break.
"Kill myself? Haha. I am afraid that the one who will kill himself is you! " Hao Shao raised his head and looked at the top of the walls of Guangzhou. The silhouettes that had disappeared on the walls appeared once again. Hao Shao only had 2000 men, and after pulling out 1000 men, there were only 1000 men left in the city. Just now, there were still 800 prisoners, and they needed to be properly arranged. Otherwise, there would be chaos. Under the lead of Li Er, the 1000 men on the walls finally tied up the 800 prisoners.
Now, Li Er once again appeared on top of the city wall. "Raise your bows!" Strong bows were once again displayed in front of everyone.
"What?" Liu Pi was surprised. The voice that he did not want to hear appeared on the walls.
"Release!" Li Er gave the order, and countless arrows once again covered the sky and covered the earth.
This time, Liu Pi really managed to cross the moat. However, he was stopped by the broken wooden planks that blocked the charge of three thousand people. The three thousand men were all exposed to the rain of arrows.
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