Chapter 177 - Killing Device (1) (1/2)
Chapter 177 – Killing Device (1)
Translated by Gamer
“Choose?” Liu Mang sneered. “Sun Ce! You think too highly of yourself!”
Liu Mang realizes that he is no match for Sun Ce. In martial arts, Sun Ce can defeat Liu Mang with just 1 hand. In tactics, Liu Mang is so far behind that it is not even funny. Even if you gave Liu Mang 3 times more soldiers than Sun Ce, there is still a high chance of losing. If it was Liu Mang sieging the city, he would not have even reached the walls of the city.
Comparing ranks and achievements, Sun Ce is a duke of Jiang Province and is in control of the south of China and hundreds and thousands of people. Under the leaders.h.i.+p of Liu Mang, three thousand soldiers were strained and they still need help to form an elite squad like Urban Management Army.
Now the two generals are facing each other with their actual strength.
Sun Ce wants to take revenge. He wants to capture Wan Cheng City to make Lu Bu pay the price of blood. Wan Cheng city also originally belongs to Sun Ce. He is just taking back the things that belonged to him.
Liu Mang on the other hand needs to defend this city. This is because it is not merely a city to him. It is the source of food for the Lu Bu Army. They have travelled this far in order to find food and shelter. Not to mention Liu Mang’s relatives are also staying here. They must not let Wan Cheng city fall.
“BOOM!” The two siege weapons rammed into the gate again. The cloth wrapping the copper of the rams slip open with every hit.
“Hehe! I want to see how long you can act tough!” Sun Ce looked at his siege rams. Behind the siege rams are several hundred private soldiers. Each strike from the ram is followed by the whining sound of Wan Cheng’s city gates.
Look at your walls. The moment they break in your city is your time of death. The 3 thousand Black Flag Army and the remains of the Urban Management Army has not made any new moves and stood with Liu Mang at the walls. He is at a loss. His elite soldiers are able to take on two enemies at the same time but 3 or 4 enemies a time would be risking it. With the amount of enemies attacking the walls, Liu Mang is unable to detach his soldiers to destroy the rams. To open the gate and destroy the rams he would need at least two thousand horseman. Any less would just be giving free food. Where would he find two hundred horseman?
“It is about to break!” The gates could not withstand the power of the rams and a cras.h.i.+ng sound is heard. The gates were broken and created huge dust above the ground.
“Haha!” Lu Su was also happily laughing. With those powerful siege equipment the gate barely lasted 2 hours of impact.
In that two hours, fighting at the walls was also difficult. They were constantly rus.h.i.+ng in to prevent Lu Bu’s Army from interfering with the siege weapons and the Lu Bu’s Army have killed a lot in that time. Since the morning, they never had the time to clean up the bodies that have been piling up.
For Sun Ce, this is about a great loss but it was worth it. This is because the gates were finally open.
Sun Ce is grinning and is eager to bring the head of the Western Chu Prince. Bring up his hands he shouted. “Wan Cheng City is breached!” Leading his soldiers, he charged towards to the city only to stop abruptly.
This is because when the dust settled, they found that the gates were indeed open. However, they are still unable to enter because the entire pa.s.sageway is blocked.
“How is this possible!” Wan Cheng City is part of the Lujiang government. It is also one of the bases Sun Ce has prepared in order to attack Xu Province. This is why Sun Ce personally supervised the construction of the gate to make it as strong as possible. This would mean he also knows it’s weak spots due to the difficulty of constructing the gate. The gate basically used iron-copper alloy creating a small gap between the two sides of the gate.
If you were to attack the gate directly, the gate will not open and will only be sealed up. Therefore, Sun Ce’s army have been targeting the middle where the gap is. This still ended up taking too hours as the gate was extremely difficult to break.
Now that the gate is open, Sun Ce found himself dumbfounded. What is the difference between having a city gate or not? In front of him were all kinds of things stacked up together to form a blockade.
“When did this happen?” Huang Zhong also noticed the gate being blown open but he realized that no soldiers are entering the city. He remembers it was not there yesterday as he used it together with the Urban Army management to fight. However, the blockade is clearly there today.
Does he really intend to defend this place to the death? Sun Ce looked down. He had intended for Liu Mang to choose his options. Either way Wan Cheng City would be broken. However, now his only choice was to climb the city walls as the gate was blocked.
Did he not even think of running? Liu Mang knows that few people will be defending the gates so he blocked it entirely. Not only that, he also sealed off the escape routes. If the Sun Ce’s Army entered the city, there is no way to escape death.
“Last night!” Liu Mang replied indifferently as he explained that he sacrificed some soldiers from the Urban Management army to find things to block the gates. Fallen trees and boulders were also used to block the gates. The pa.s.sageway was initially big enough to fit in 3 carriages but it is now blocked.
When Liu Mang visited the prison, he did not have the ability to really convince the Black Flag Army to surrender. A few days ago, they have been enemies and Liu Mang even killed their leader. Therefore, he resolved to bury all 3 thousand Black Flag troops without sparing anyone. Blocking the walls is also something Liu Mang persuaded the Black Flag Army to do. Blocking the gates can delay Sun Ce’s Army from settling into the city by at least 2 days. Hopefully in that amount of time Lu Bu would be able to provide reinforcements.
If it was any other way, Liu Mang’s stratagem would not be able to be implemented. This is because even his own escape path is blocked. Other soldiers will still remember to save themselves but the Urban Army is different. They follow military regulations. If you have any ideas or opinions you can only say it after the master raise the question. Otherwise, you would be punished as a rebel.
“d.a.m.n!” Sun Ce stared at Liu Mang on the walls. He got played once again. In Sun Ce’s eyes, Liu Mang’s indifferent expression is as if Liu Mang is laughing and mocking him.
He put in so much effort and took out big siege weapons. Initially he wanted to see Liu Mang rush around. In the end he felt like a monkey jumping around while being watched with an indifferent expression.