Thousands of troops and horses are galloping under Shouchun City, and 10,000 Xiliang iron cavalry are rushing towards Shouchun City like chicken blood. Xu Shu looked at these heavy cavalry, and then looked at his own city wall Those garrison soldiers trembled, but fortunately there was such a sight of the city wall, otherwise his subordinates would have collapsed long ago, and even Sun Wu could not save this battle even if he was alive.
"Huh!" Xu Shu took a deep breath, he needed to boost the morale of the garrison, otherwise not only the moat might be filled up, but also these soldiers would be terrified by the Xiliang cavalry. Then how to defend the city
"Target Xiliang iron cavalry" The Xiliang iron cavalry in Xu Shu's eyes was getting closer and closer, and had already entered the range of the bed crossbow, but Xu Shu forcibly stopped the shot now in order to make the bed crossbow reach a more powerful force.
It wasn't until Xu Shu could see the ferocious expressions on the faces of those Xiliang cavalry that Xu Shu suddenly put down his hand, "Let it go!"
"Swish, swish, swish!" The first wave of bed crossbows finally shot out, and the power of the bed crossbows was revealed at once. The Xiliang iron cavalry rushing in the first row looked like they were wearing heavy armor, but those heavy armor It can withstand arrows, and the giant arrows of these bed crossbows are completely paperless. The giant arrow directly tore through the heavy armor and penetrated the body of the Xiliang cavalry.
"Huh!" Hu Che'er in the army formation was really furious. The penetrating power of these giant arrows was too strong. Not only the heavy armored cavalry in the first row were unlucky, but also the third row in the second row The rows were also strung together into candied haws, and it was not until the seventh row that they fell down weakly.
"Brothers rush over, rush over, and fill up his mother's moat. I want to attack the city myself. Avenge my brothers!" Hu Che'er roared loudly. Such damage may have brought a blow to the morale of ordinary trilogy, but for the Xiliang iron cavalry, it inspired their ferocity.
"Come, come!" Xu Shu was also provoked into anger. The Xiliang iron cavalry didn't take Xu Shu seriously. The wave of bed crossbow and arrow rain didn't make them slow down, but they became more and more hasty to fill the river. "Shoot , Shoot quickly!" Under Xu Shu's order, the bed crossbow on the city wall was released immediately, and stopped shooting again. Instead, he directly pulled the trigger and splashed down the huge arrow in the bed crossbow.
Now the Xiliang iron cavalry below are excited, "What!" A total of twelve bed crossbows were pulled out by Xu Shu above, and each bed crossbow unleashed dozens of huge arrows at once. The result of this was that the Xiliang iron cavalry below was a complete massacre.
No matter how good your horse skills are, no matter how good your war horse is, no matter how heavy your armor is. In this huge rain of arrows, life was harvested like rice. Zhang Xiu also said before that the threat and deterrence of the bed crossbow is greater than the combat effectiveness. But now, not only has the fighting power increased, but the deterrent power has also made the Xiliang cavalry cry for their father and mother, and they no longer throw the sandbags on the horse into the moat so freely and freely.
Some in the front row had no choice but to run along, while those in the back directly threw the sandbags on the horse, pulled up the horse and left the team. No one wanted to die, and no one wanted to die like this. Those who are pierced by giant arrows will not die for a while, that is the most uncomfortable, the whole body is pierced, and I can only watch my internal organs leaking out. Could it be that I just watched my own death come? The kind is the most uncomfortable.
The screams that shook the sky, even the Xiliang iron cavalry who are ruthless to the enemy, can't bear it, and you must know that there are many Qiang people among the Xiliang iron cavalry. Fear, this is the legend of the great Han general I heard from my ancestors.
"Retreat, retreat, scatter, scatter!" No matter how stupid Hu Che'er was, he knew that he couldn't rush over. In just a while, at least two hundred giant arrows were shot from the city wall, and these giant arrows The arrow caused more than a thousand damage. He is not a lightly armed infantry like the Qingzhou Army or the Yuzhou Army. The loss does not feel bad at all. These classes are Xiliang elite cavalry. It is okay to die, those heavy armor For those war horses, it can be said that all the possessions of a Xiliang iron cavalry can form a ten-man squad, and even the price of the war horses can now form a fifty-man light infantry.
But he lost a thousand people in such a short while, which made Zhang Xiu feel so distressed. Liu Bei ambushed himself with two thousand soldiers and horses and compensated five thousand gold and ten thousand shi for food and grass. There were also two thousand war horses and two thousand pairs of heavy armor. But for those left here, no one can accompany him, this is his voluntary help.
Compared with Zhang Xiu's expression of shock, distress and remorse, Liu Bei is much calmer. Although he is also shocked that the bed crossbow has such a huge effect, he has already prepared for it. All this is due to his number one military advisor, Jingzhou. Phoenix chick Pang Tong.
Phoenix chick Pang Tong is no longer beside Liu Bei. He is standing on the side of the camp, watching the dense rain of arrows on the city wall and those Xiliang iron cavalry who were shot to death. The bed crossbow on the city wall is also the object of Pang Tong's attention. , Yes, I have suffered a loss once, so I can’t suffer a second time! Pang Tong could remember so vividly what happened outside the Shouchun Water Village that day.
"Sir, what do you see?" Pang Tong suddenly bowed to another young man standing beside him. Pang Tong has always been very confident in his own resourcefulness. Mr. Jing would not be so respectful, but now he half bows to the same young man and calls him Mr. It is really rare in the world.
"Army, army, military division, my lord, I am so impressed! Jun, no, I didn't see it clearly!" The young man was very shy, but when he looked at the bed crossbows on the city wall, there was a kind of aura in his eyes. fiery light.
"Didn't you see anything?!" Pang Tong was a little disappointed, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed. The young man beside him also clearly saw that something was wrong with Pang Tong and smiled again, "Army, military advisor, don't be disappointed. I can't see through, this, the mystery of the bed and crossbow on the city wall, but Jun has already found a way to restrain him!" The young man couldn't bear to look at Pang Tong disappointed and said with a smile.
"There is a way?!" Pang Tong's eyes lit up, and he called out to this person, Mr., because this person's organization has learned from others. He is stronger than his close friend Kong Ming. This is why Pang Tong has such an attitude towards this person. In the past, he dismissed mechanism learning, but after suffering a loss, he naturally remembered the benefits of mechanism learning, but now it was too late for him to learn again, like his best friend Kong Ming, who asked for advice, and Kong Ming would not answer him, after all Fortunately, his uncle Pang Degong recommended this young man to him.
"Junjun, I still remember. The blueprint from a while ago!" The young man asked Pang Tong to recall his memory.
"You mean?!" Pang Tong said with his eyes lit up.
"Yes, just use a trebuchet!" The young man nodded. In fact, this trebuchet was not developed by the young man alone, but he heard it from Guan Yu Pangtong and the ones in the captured Yuzhou cities. Under the surviving soldiers' description of Liu Mang's army ballista, the young man imitated him little by little and improved it. He thought that he might not need it for this trip to Yangzhou, but now it seems that it is a good time to use it. .
"Didn't that thing not be built well?!" Pang Tong was a little confused again, because after drawing the blueprint of this trebuchet, there were some areas that needed improvement, and many areas were not as good as the ballista that Liu Mangjun was currently serving. Originally, Pang Tong planned to let Liu Bei issue an order to snatch a ballista from Liu Mang's army so that the youth could develop it, but it was too late now.
"The shooting range is not enough! But if you get closer, you can still hit the city wall!" The young man gestured, the city wall of Shouchun is more than eight feet high, and the front and rear moats are tens of meters wide. Spring shooting.
"Okay! Let's do it like this!" Pang Tong nodded and ran towards Liu Bei's camp.
"Damn it, damn it!" Zhang Xiu was extremely annoyed. His 10,000 Xiliang iron cavalry were originally intended to show off their muscles in front of Liu Bei, and also to stop the mouths of Liu Bei's soldiers, but now they are better, and their muscles have not been cultivated. He didn't stop his mouth, but it became a big joke. After such a toss, Zhang Xiu lost no less than a thousand heavy armored cavalry, and it was all white money.
"My lord, let us white-eared heavy armor soldiers try it!" Chen Dao clasped his fists at Liu Bei.
"White-eared heavy armor!?" Liu Bei is also frowning. The moat must be filled, otherwise Shouchun will not be easy to break through. Can the white-eared heavy armor of the Armored Army really be able to withstand the huge arrow of the bed crossbow? It's not that Zhang Xiu has 20,000 troops to squander, and his white-eared heavy armor has only 5,000 people. Liu Bei feels distressed if he loses any of them, but if he doesn't send white-eared heavy armor to try, it may be difficult to fill up the moat. Tens of thousands of people will be killed or injured. Thinking of this, Liu Bei can't help but look at Zhang Fei and Liao Hua. Liao Hua is very straightforward. He just became the general of the Yuzhou Army. You can't just let someone be a bare-bones commander on the first day. So he lowered his head and pretended not to see Liu Bei's eyes, and although Zhang Fei didn't like Qingzhou soldiers, he also knew that only soldiers and horses could go to battle to kill the enemy, so he also laughed.
Just when Liu Bei was in a bit of a dilemma, Pang Tong came over and said to Liu Bei, "My lord, Ming Jin withdraws troops! Tong has a plan in mind!"
Liu Bei's eyes lit up, and then he waved Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.
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Yangzhou and Yuzhou were raging with war, and Guandu, which was also at the border between Yanzhou and Jizhou, was also raging with war.
Cao Cao fought the Battle of Guandu in the past few months, as if he had fought for decades, and suddenly became old. He used to have blue hair, but now he has been infected by white hair.
"Persevere, we must persist!" Cao Cao took a sip of wine and relied on the wine to refresh himself. His eyes began to become red and swollen. In the waters of the Yellow River, he wiped out Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu's 100,000 navy in the first battle. Yuan Shao was holding back Huo wants to take revenge. Without the water, the pressure on Guandu is reduced, but the land is no longer stable. Apart from the Yellow River between Jizhou and Yanzhou, there is also a delta, which was originally called Jibei Kingdom. In the middle section of the Yellow River, in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the mouth of the sea is Jieshi, and the fork is Yanjin Wuchao.
Although Yuan Shao did not have a 100,000 sailors, he still had 150,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of heavy armored cavalry. Among them were Yuan Shao's own 10,000 Jizhou cavalry. Bingzhou men also formed a Bingzhou cavalry with 10,000 people. Coupled with the fact that there are two groups of soldiers and horses who first entered the camp, it can be said that Yuan Shao has 40,000 elite cavalry in his hands. He is the one with the largest number of heavy armors in the whole big man.
It's no wonder that Yuan Shao is now in Bingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou. Three states in hand. There are countless war horses. He is not like the gang of princes in the Central Plains who sell a war horse for hundreds of gold in the black market. In order to beat up five thousand heavy armored cavalry, he has to grit his teeth and sell as much as he can save. The heavy armored cavalry came out, but Yuan Shao didn't need it. He had as many war horses as he wanted. There were seven or eight large horse farms in the three prefectures, and not only these horse farms had good horses. And you can also trade war horses with foreigners. The war horses here may be exchanged for a catty of coarse salt and a piece of coarse cloth.
Yuan Shao's navy was wiped out, and Cao Cao also had no navy, so Yuan Shao's advisers directly gave a plan to go to Jibei to cut wood to make rafts, cross the river directly, enter the land, and go deep into Yanzhou and Cao Cao fight.
40,000 heavy armored cavalry, if this really invades the hinterland of Yanzhou, Cao Cao will really feel better. Cao Cao's head hurts a lot, and he wants to intercept it. However, the heavy armored cavalry under his command are just tiger and leopard cavalry. The tiger and leopard cavalry were killed by the Bingzhou wolf cavalry in the first battle in Xuzhou. Only 5,000 people, 5,000 heavy armored cavalry fighting 40,000 horses, even Bingzhou wolf cavalry would not dare to play like this, and there are long-famous Euphorbia warriors and Xiandeng camp among them. If the tiger and leopard riders passed by, they would be beaten to death.
Cao Cao really has a big head, and his advisers don't have any plans. Even Guo Jia is thinking about it. There are only two ways to go now, or to chase and block Yuan Shao's army from crossing the Yellow River. It is so long, how many soldiers and horses are needed to block it. I didn't see that Lu Bu on the Lujiang River was because of Sun Ce's eyes on the east of the Yangtze River, so the tens of thousands of troops dared not move an inch! Once it is neglected and a group of heavy cavalry rushes to Yanzhou, it will really become a disaster.
Another option is that they also cross the river and rush to the other side, and enter Yuan Shao's Jizhou, but this will not work, at least not now, even if Yuan Shao gets rid of 40,000 elite cavalry, there will still be 90,000 troops. Cao Cao now Only 40,000 troops are not enough, and he still has to stay at Guandu. That is to say, the real number of troops that can be used is 30,000 at most, and 30,000 can beat 90,000. It is really Yuan Shao who is facing him. He is fighting! The world depends on the first battle, but going now is a dead end, and not going is also a dead end, Cao Cao is really helpless.
Gritting his teeth, he decided to fight, Cao Cao was about to play the decisive battle across the river, and suddenly Guo Jia stood up, "Slow! My lord, I don't know if you still remember that time?!"
"That time? Which time was that time?!" Cao Cao was almost confused, how could he still be willing to betray Guo Jia
"My lord, it's not that I have a plan! It's that Jia isn't sure if it's true!" Guo Jia shook his head with a wry smile. He didn't want to give it away, but he didn't know if the information was correct. "My lord, do you still remember the news sent by Liu Mang, King of Shu in Lujiang!?"
"Huh?!" Cao Cao also remembered. "You mean?" Cao Cao couldn't help turning his eyes to the map on the coffee table.
"Yes, it's Wuchao!" Guo Jia nodded and said, this news was sent by Lujiang Shu King Liu Mang when he failed to send people to Lujiang to buy bed crossbows, that is Wuchao is the key to victory. source.
"This may just be Liu Mang's joke!" Cao Cao said, rubbing his head.
"Child's play is sometimes taken seriously!" Guo Jia smiled wryly, "And my lord, do you think we have other ways to go?"
"This?!" Cao Cao is a suspicious person, not to mention that this is just an ambiguous information sent to him by Lujiang Liu Mang, even if it is the real information obtained by scouts, Cao Cao will consider gains and losses.
"My lord, think about what kind of benefits they will get if this Lu Bu army deceives us?!" Guo Jia will try to persuade Cao Cao to attack Wuchao, because Cao Jun has no chance of winning whether it is a decisive battle across the river or passive defense. of. Only the sword goes slanted to open the situation.
"Lv Bu and our army are enemies!" Cao Cao sighed. Lv Bu almost wiped out Lao Cao when he entered the Central Plains. If there was no Lu Bu, Lao Cao might have taken Xuzhou long ago. It is a rich Xuzhou, not like it is now. A naked Xuzhou, a disabled Xuzhou.
Afterwards, Lao Cao drove Lu Bu out of Yanzhou, and Lu Bu established a foothold in Xuzhou. Lao Cao and Liu Bei jointly drove Lu Bu out of Xuzhou again. He has Lu Bu's head! Now there is Lu Bu's Fang Tian painting halberd in Lao Cao's Xudu!
"My lord, there are only eternal interests in this world but no eternal enemies. My lord, you can join forces with Liu Bei for planning Xuzhou, and you can even give up your hatred with Wancheng and Zhangxiu for the great cause of Yanzhou. How can you compare with them? , do you hate Lu Bu less than you hate them?! But you let go of all these, you can't let go of the hatred you have for Lu Bu!" Guo Jia was inducing.
"But he is Lu Bu, a reckless man who is headstrong!" Cao Cao retorted.
"My lord, the current Lu Bu is not the original Lu Bu!" Guo Jia shook his head and said, if Guo Jia knew that he would look at him with admiration for three days, this word would definitely be used here. The original Lu Bu was not only greedy for small profits, but also a good man Very selfish, Chen Gong's words are basically half-heard and half-forgotten, or even just not listening to Chen Gong's words. If Lu Bu had listened to Chen Gong, he would not have been alienated by Chen Gui and his son, and would not have been calculated by Liu Bei. But the current Lu Bu is different. The current Lu Bu is more adapted to the process of being the protagonist than before. Although he is still very impulsive, Chen Gong has begun to listen to what he said.
"My lord, this news was not given to us by Lu Bu, but by King Liu Mang of Shu!"
"It's him?!"
"My lord, there are experts in Lu Bu's army. They are not stupid. If we lose, then Yuan Shao of Hebei will occupy the land of the six states. Jizhou and Xuzhou will provide food and grass, and Youzhou will provide horses and soldiers. Yanzhou will serve Skirmish, so who else in this world will be Yuan Shao's opponent? Jiangdong Sun Ce, Jingzhou Liu Bei, Lujiang Lu Bu, Yuzhou Liu Bei, they add up to less than the land of the three states, what do they use to fight Yuan Shao?! So they won't Seeing that Yuan Shao won, it would be different if the lord won. Even if Yuan Shao was defeated, the lean camel was bigger than a horse. With Yuan Shao in his hands of Jizhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou and Qingzhou, as long as he goes back to recuperate, he can still fight in the future. We want to clean up It would be impossible to lose Yuan Shao and take the land in Hebei within a few years. These few years are enough for the Central Plains to decide the outcome, and if we win Yuan Shao, our army will be a loser. They can still take advantage of the fire! So they I won’t look at our army’s defeat! So Jia thinks this information may be correct!” Guo Jia no longer analyzes it from the strategic level, but from the perspective of people’s hearts.
"But after all, this is information from several months ago. Even if he has an expert in Lu Bu's army, he will not guess the battle situation in a few months!" Cao Cao still didn't believe it. Fortunately, Guo Jia didn't know how to persuade Cao Cao. At that time, the soldiers outside the camp suddenly sent news that there was a middle-aged scribe outside the camp who claimed to be the best friend of the prime minister and came to visit.
"Best friends?!" Cao Cao was puzzled. How can he have any old friends? He is the prime minister of the Han Dynasty. How many dare to call him Cao Cao's best friends? Even if there are, they will hide this relationship. There is no difference, Cao Cao is upset and naturally does not want to see this person.
But Guo Jia opened his mind and asked the guard, "Where did this person come from?!"
"This person?" The messenger thought for a while and said, "This person should have come from the other side of the Yellow River!" Because the middle-aged scribe's body was covered with mud on his horse and the sound of his shoes running was water. will be so.
"The other side of the Yellow River?!" Cao Cao's eyes suddenly lit up. The other side of the Yellow River is Yuan Benchu's camp, and you don't even say that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are really close friends. Of course this person is not Yuan Shao, not just with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao There is another person under his command who is Cao Cao's best friend and old friend.
"My lord, breaking Yuan Zhice is coming!" Guo Jia and Cao Cao suddenly looked at each other and laughed. (to be continued..)