"Everyone, hold on, hold on, think about what I usually teach you!" Hao Shao cheered up the soldiers guarding the city as he walked. It was built on the city wall of Gwangju.
"Aim well, and try to hit one hit!" Hao Shao knew that these soldiers were very nervous, so be nervous, who wouldn't be nervous, this is just the first wave of enemy attacks, and the first wave will inevitably be contemptuous. Their formation was scattered rather than concentrated. Some of the ladders that were first built on Gwangju had been pushed down by a hundred-man team sent by Hao Shao. Hao Shao had only a thousand people on the city wall, and the remaining thousand As a backup force, Hao Shao divided the 1,000 people into two teams of 500 people and placed them on both sides of the city wall.
Hao Shao dug a moat outside of Gwangju, and it was not long. Two sections of the trench add up to two-thirds of the city wall. There is no excavation and construction, this is to facilitate the entry and exit of the city gate, and there is no suspension bridge above the trench, which can be said to be like walking on flat ground.
"The moat was well dug, but what's the use of an incomplete moat!" Liu Pi looked coldly at the moat outside the city wall. Hao Shao's moat was dug very deep. It didn't come, but Liu Pi criticized the break in the middle for not digging it out.
"The whole army charged forward and took down Gwangju. This Qu commander will give you a lot of rewards!" Liu Pi's anger towards Hao Shao made him forget that he is now the governor of Yuzhou, not the leader of the Yellow Turban Army. He can still pay attention to it. , How can I care so much under this excitement.
Although Liu Pi's Yuzhou Army was organized by the Yellow Turban Army, these Yellow Turban Army are really a handful of elites. If they were a mob, they would have been dealt with by Cao Cao long ago, and they could still be arranged by Yuan Shao. The thorn in my eyes, the 20,000 Yuzhou Army is the main force that Liu Pi is proud of, and it is because of them that Lao Cao didn't clean up himself.
A 20,000-strong army cannot spread out in this small Gwangju City, so there can only be a team of 5,000 people, and there are moats on both sides. If you cross the river on the ladder, you can accidentally fall from the ladder into the moat. The moat seems to be very deep. Anyone who can swim can choke, and it is difficult to climb up after falling. After all, the distance between the two sides of the moat It's also very high, and those who can't swim will die if they fall, so a large number of soldiers are not stupid. If they can't walk on both sides, they will naturally walk in the middle.
A team of 5,000 people scrambled towards the middle section.
"I thought this young general of Lu Bu's army was so capable. It's fine to build a section of the moat, and distribute the archers at both ends. This is to let us open the middle door!" Liu Bei was a little disdainful Looking at this small Gwangju, the small city of Gwangju, if he is taken down, he will let the young generals of the Lu Bu army who guard the city die without a place to bury them. Liu Bei is a person who has been on the battlefield for a long time. In his opinion, the moat should be beautiful and perfect, and there should be a suspension bridge on the moat, so that the defense of a city can be reached to the extreme, so that the enemy cannot attack. Once the enemy attacks, just pull It is enough to lift the suspension bridge. If the enemy wants to attack the city, they must cross the river, so that a protracted battle can be fought.
"Huh?!" Pang Tong didn't follow the general tactical thinking, because in the ordinary tactical thinking, the defense of this Guangzhou city is really a bunch of things that can be criticized, and the flat road in the middle is flat. It will soon reach the bottom of the city, and the moats on both sides lose their meaning because of the flat river in the middle, but Pang Tong is a strategist, and he will not consider the terrain like a general. He thought about his thoughts, he was thinking about this Hao Shao, what was this Lu Bu's young general thinking about!
Why did his moat not be repaired halfway through the construction? Could it be that there was not enough time? Pang Tong was looking at the entire city of Gwangju! No, if there is not enough time, then there should be some places where construction has not started, or the construction is halfway through, but the Gwangju moat in Pang Tong's eyes is intact, which means that it is not that there is not enough time at all. If it is said that there is not enough time, That should also be dug down one by one!
Is it a shortage of manpower? Pang Tong vetoed it again. If there are insufficient manpower, it is better not to dig, because it is useless to expose the moat in the middle, and the moat can be completely bypassed. If this is the case, what is the point of the moat.
Pang Tong watched as Hao Shao divided a thousand archers to the left and right on the city wall. A team of 500 people stood at both ends of the city wall, leaving a flat space in the middle! Pang Tong couldn't figure it out, you arranged for the archers to be in the center as well. No one would go to the moats on both sides of the moat.
Pang Tong didn't understand, but he felt a little uneasy, because this young general of the Lv Bu army didn't seem like the kind of incompetent person, which can be seen from the fact that he was surrounded by enemies ten times his own and did not surrender.
Pang Tong’s uneasiness was realized in a short while. Yes, Hao Shao left the middle part on purpose. Gwangju is a small city, so what if the entire city is surrounded by a moat? There is so much food and grass inside, and the location of Gwangju is not dangerous. I can completely spare you if you surround the moat, and thousands of soldiers in your city can still come out to fight with me!
Instead of building such a big moat, it is better to build a section of the moat. This section of the moat can naturally protect Gwangju, and it makes sense not to build the remaining section, because this section faces the city wall. There is no moat in the place, and there is no danger in Gwangju. No matter which general sees it, he will only regard Gwangju as a fat meat. Putting up the ladder, this Guangzhou city can be pulled down, after all, how many soldiers can there be in a small city.
Liu Bei thought so, and Liu Pi thought so too, and Hao Shao really wanted them to think this way. It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. No one would go to the moat to get to the city of Gwangju with no effort, but they would all be crowded on that section of flat ground.
Five thousand people is not much, compared to the large-scale battle in Guandu, I am afraid that even a bubble will not come out when thrown into the battlefield, but the five thousand people here are more than double that of Hao Shao's men. This surge came under the city of Guangzhou, directly blocking that section of flat land. Although Liu Pi's Yellow Turban Army entered the section of the moat in an orderly manner and did not cause riots, what does it matter
A sneer appeared on the corner of Hao Shao's mouth, his hands were raised high, and more and more soldiers poured into that section of flat ground.
"Shoot!" Hao Shao spit out the word, and with his order, a thousand arrows rained down on the flat ground in the hands of a thousand archers.
"Raise the shield!" Liu Pi roared loudly as he watched the rain of arrows fall. He was a little disdainful. Before the siege, he had a huge shield in the front row. It's just drizzle, as long as he waits for his troops to rush under the city wall and rush up continuously, this small city of Gwangju will be destroyed! He, Liu Pi, can also avenge his idol for being humiliated and angry.
What Liu Pi disdains the most is that this young general of the Lu Bu Army distributed the archers on both sides. If he put a thousand people in the middle, he might bring harm to his subordinates. What effect can arrows have in front of them.
The corner of Liu Pi's mouth just turned ferocious, and he was about to watch his Yuzhou army rush to the city and then charge with his own guards. He had already raised his hand, but he couldn't put it down because he was in front of him. The scene made him stunned.
The bows and arrows falling from the Gwangju city tower seemed to have opened their eyes, crossed the giant shield and shot towards his subordinates, and the scattered thousand archers not only did not become the useless people that Liu Pi said they despise, On the contrary, it is even more terrifying than the concentrated arrow rain of thousands of people.
The soldiers rushing to the front are like leeks, while Hao Shaojun above is a sickle. Under a wave of arrow rain, his arrows basically cover the entire flat ground. It can be said that the entire flat ground has no dead ends at 360 degrees. Arrow Rain took care of her.
Some people were hit by more than one arrow, and some arrows directly penetrated the first person and hit the person behind. Before Liu Pi could react, the second wave of arrows rained down again! This time the casualties were more serious.
"How could it be?!" It was not only Liu Pi who was watching the siege battle under the city tower of Guangzhou, but also Liu Bei, Pang Tong, and Zhang Xiujun. It is even higher than the concentration, Zhang Xiu thought in his heart, if a thousand archers are placed in the middle, it will be a big deal to cause hundreds of people at most. After all, on the battlefield, the damage of bows and arrows to people is almost ten. It is possible to compare one or even twenty to one. After all, no one is a natural archer, and you have to know the garrison. The garrison must be an archer and a defender. It can be said that it is impossible to be proficient in bows and arrows. , but now that this record has been shot, at least thousands of people will be shot to death.
Why not! Hao Shao was also taken aback by his own achievements. He did not expect to cause such damage after separating a thousand archers. His idea of dispersing came from his young master Liu Mang.
It was said by Liu Mang in a joke. Instead of putting the archers together, it is better to spread them out. Put half of the two sides on one side and leave half in the middle, so that crossfire can be formed, and the output damage can be maximized. Liu Mang When I talked about it at the time, I thought of using the power of trench crossfire in the hot weapon war, but he didn't expect that Hao Shao would use it on cold weapons.
If a thousand archers are placed in the front, under Liu Pi's giant shield, at most they will be thrown over the giant shield and hurt some soldiers behind, but many arrows will become redundant, or there will be more than a dozen of them per person. For twenty arrows, there is no difference between planting ten arrows and twenty arrows, because it is a dead end anyway, but now it is different, scattered and intersected, not only avoiding the giant shield in the first row, Moreover, the coverage of bows and arrows is also gone. It can be said that the two flanks of Liu Pi's attack on the city were completely exposed to the attacks of Hao Shao's archers.
Wave after wave of arrow rain made Liu Pi's eye sockets almost pop out.
Strike while the iron is hot, it’s not that Hao Shao doesn’t know, it’s because he believed in Liu Mang that Hao Shao made such a deployment, but he didn’t expect such a good effect, if Hao Shao didn’t know how to use it, he would be a fool.
"Rush over, rush over!" Liu Pi was also angry. His Yuzhou army was his capital. In addition to Liu Bei, it is because of the 20,000 elite Yellow Turban Army under Liu Pi's command. Liu Bei was embarrassed to seize military power from Liu Pi's command, so in order to appease Liu Pi, he also made Liu Pi the third general of Liu Bei's army. .
The first two are Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. He did it before Chen arrived. He also leads an army alone.
If the 20,000 Yellow Turbans were lost, then Liu Bei would really consider making Liu Pi a lieutenant general.
"Rush over! Rush over!" (To be continued.)