More than twenty huge siege tower cars were first dragged a little far from the city wall to avoid the attack of the crossbows, and then a large number of Wei soldiers began to transport sand and soil to put out the fire. Fortunately, these tower cars had already taken simple fire prevention measures, and the "fire bomb" in the flames in the car warehouse could not ignite the tower cars themselves for a while.

After retreating from the stairs, Xu Zhu saw that it was meaningless to give in to the infantry to continue to attack the city, so he issued a military order to completely stop the attack. With the sound of the gongs, the Wei army retreated again like a black sea tide.

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Just as Xu Zhu attacked Luoyang, the 50,000 Wei troops commanded by Cao Ren tried to annihilate the Han army occupied in Shan County, and tried to open up the connection with Xiahou Dun of Hangu Pass. Gao Shun had divided the more than 10,000 troops stationed in Shan County into three divisions, deployed in two camps and Shan County County.

Among them, the most troops were stationed in the camps built along the Yellow River, with 5,000 soldiers. The north side of this camp was the rolling Yellow River water, and the south side of the Qinling Mountains, the branch of the Qinling Mountains. If Cao Ren's 50,000 troops tried to bypass this camp, they could only pass through the hilly areas on the edge of the Gushan Mountains.

Although such hilly areas are not as steep as Shu Road, Qinling Mountains, and Taihang Xing Road. An army of tens of thousands of people can still overcome difficulties. However, after all, it is a mountain road, which is not conducive to the mobility of the tiger and leopard cavalry. Secondly, the subsequent supplies of supplies must also be transported through these hilly areas, which is too difficult for the Wei army to do. Therefore, if Cao Ren wants to restore Shan County and open up the connection with Xiahou Dun, he must conquer this camp built by the Han army on the edge of the Yellow River.

For seven or eight days, Cao Ren asked the soldiers and generals to keep insulting and yelling at the Han camp, but Gao Shun resolutely avoided the battle. During these seven or eight days, Cao Ren was also preparing to launch a comprehensive general attack.

At dawn of this day, the Wei army's general attack began. The catapult cart operated by fifty people threw out huge stones. The stones hit the camp fence built by logs, and immediately made a huge gap in the village wall. When hitting the rammed earth base under the wooden fence, a burst of dust will rise up. If it falls into the trench that has accumulated water for a few feet, it will stir up turbid waves.

But what surprised Cao Ren was that there seemed to be no movement in the camp. Cao Ren didn't care so much and directly issued a military order to attack. The Wei army's primary task was to fill the trenches outside the camp. To this end, Cao Ren also specially asked craftsmen to build a cart with slals and shields, which were filled with firewood, and in front of the car was a shield with 2 meters wide and more than 2 meters wide.

Countless such carts rushed towards the Han army camp. At this time, the rain of arrows was shot out from the camp, and there were also fire bombs fired by the crossbows. Under the cover of the tall oar shield in front of the cart, almost none of the Wei soldiers who were caught in the shooting blind spot were caught, but more than a dozen other fire bombs accidentally landed on the fire pile on the cart. The truck of firewood burned in an instant. The soldiers around quickly dodged, but were injured by the traps falling from the air.

After all, the carts hit by the fire bomb were a few. Most of them arrived safely near the trench and dumped a truckload of firewood. In just two or three hours, the front of the camp was filled with a section of trench that was several hundred meters long and covered with wooden boards.

The dense sound of drums and trumpets came from the Wei army's barracks, and the Wei army's swords and shields were arranged into dense shield walls, and they advanced forward with the attack of the opponent's arrows and fire bombs. When they approached less than a hundred meters in front of the camp, the crossbowman behind the shield wall poured the rain of arrows all over the sky at the Han army's barracks.

However, the camp did not fight back immediately, which made Cao Ren think that the opponent's crossbowman was suppressed. He ordered the infantry to continue to advance. Cao's army finally crossed the trench, and the infantry began to climb rammed earth barriers with a height of less than two meters.

However, at this time, the Wei army's offensive was suddenly suppressed. Cao's army, who had climbed the barrier, found a strange trench just three feet deep behind the barrier. The reason why this trench was strange was that it was not used to block the enemy, but to hide soldiers. When flying stones and arrows hit, the soldiers squatted in the ditch. The flying stones and arrows that crossed the barrier in front were impossible to hit them, even if the fence of the camp was completely destroyed.

Now, these Han soldiers who were hiding in the ditch have jumped out. The three-meter-long mob, crossbow arrows, javelins, and spears used by ordinary county soldiers have greeted the Wei army that had just climbed up the barrier. With a sound of howling, a large number of Wei soldiers collapsed on the barrier or rolled down from it.

A Wei army captain relied on some skill to hold a large shield, blocking up and down, dodging left and right, dodging from the attacks of the modao and spears, and jumping into the barrier. A javelin flying in the air penetrated his armor, and the Wei army captain fell heavily on the ground in the camp like a stone.

But there were more Wei soldiers behind them, and they lined up their formations, each holding up their weapons and shields, and they came like a tide. Although they suffered heavy casualties on the barriers, the black tide still penetrated the Han army's camp. With a few rapid sounds of horns, the Han army soldiers retreated into the trenches.

When the Wei army saw the Han army retreat, their morale was even higher. They all fought bravely and rushed into the camp. The Modao Hand, Spearman, Tiger Shooter, and Crossbowmen standing in the trench tried their best to stop them from advancing. However, these Wei army were too dense and had just eliminated a layer, and the latter layer attacked again, like a wave of waves. The Han army was about to be unable to hold on.

At this critical moment, with a loud call from the generals, the soldiers squatted in the trench together. Nearly two hundred fireballs flew towards the open space where the Wei soldiers were already crowded in front of them.

With a series of loud noises, a ball of flames soared into the sky, and soon a fire wall was lit between the trenches and the barriers. Almost all the Wei soldiers were lit. Firemen ran around one by one, some climbed out of the barriers, some rushed forward into the trenches. If most of the people who rushed into the trenches were blocked by Modao spears, a small number of firemen who rushed into the trenches were avoided by the Han soldiers. They rolled all over the ground to try to put out the fires on their bodies. The Han soldiers beside them took the opportunity to go up and give them a knife, ending their pain.

Cao Ren had no choice but to order the attack to temporarily stop. After hearing the sound of the gong, the Wei army quickly retreated with relief and left countless bodies and wounded. At this time, a sound that he was very familiar to Cao Ren heard in his ears, which was the sound of the horse team galloping on the plain, and there were at least thousands of horses.
Chapter completed!