"Damn. ”

"It's not that easy to get close to the city gates. Seeing Liu Xie's 10,000 soldiers advancing at a lightning speed, they were already less than 100 meters away from the city wall.

Li Dao's eyes flashed with an unquenchable anger, and he roared angrily: "Prepare the rolling stone and wood for Ben General, the gold juice ash bottle, and the crossbowman!"

Just when Li Wei had prepared all the equipment to defend the city, he was about to give a head-on blow to Liu Xie's vanguard troops.

"Stop, stop!"

Cao Xing (?-198), a general of Lu Bu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, was excellent in archery and one of Lu Bu's "Eight Warriors". In the battle between Lu Bu and Cao Cao, the ambush soldiers shot Xiahou Dun blindly, and later died under Xiahou Chun's gun.

"Crossbowmen ready!"

Cao Xuan shouted, then took out his longbow, took an arrow from the quiver behind him, pressed it to the string, bent the bow and pulled the arrow, adjusted the angle, and aimed it in the direction of the city tower.

"No!"

The six thousand crossbowmen shouted in unison, bent their bows and drew arrows, adjusted the angle, and aimed them in the direction of the tower.

"Withdraw the shield!"

"Shoot!"

Hou Cheng and Cao Xing's voices sounded almost at the same time.

At the sound of an order, thousands of arrows flew from outside the city, and countless arrows rained down densely, covering the sky and the sun.

The arrow flew high into the air, crossed the city wall, drew a graceful arc in the air, and began to fall, landing right in the camp of the Yuan soldiers who rushed over.

"Ahh

A cluster of arrows fell, and Yuan Bing screamed again and again, knocking down hundreds of people by the arrows.

"Shoot the arrows!" Li Dao's eyes were red, and he waved the sword in his hand and shouted.

Woooo

But just as countless arrows rained down.

"Royal!"

With an order, the shield array that had just been open quickly closed again, forming an indestructible iron wall of Xuanjia, blocking the attacks of countless arrows.

The arrows were like locusts, constantly flying in the air, and even if they were hiding behind the shield array, many crossbowmen would be injured by arrows, but in comparison, the casualties of the defenders in the city were even heavier.

Wait until the offensive of the Xiliang army eases up a little.

Cao Xuan immediately seized the opportunity and ordered again: "Release the arrow!"

Boom!

Unified bow hyun shocked!

Woooo

Thousands of bows and arrows formed a roaring rain of arrows, which were thrown towards Hangu Pass.

This time to defend the enemy with bows and arrows is not just as simple as relying on the power of bows and arrows to hit the defenders of the city, the real purpose is to tie the surrender letter on the arrows.

Over time.

All the arrows of the 6,000 crossbowmen had been fired and projected into the Hangu Pass, making a total of 46,000 arrows.

"Royal!"

"Withdraw!"

Hou Cheng immediately ordered to use his shield to resist the enemy's arrows and retreat backwards.

After returning to the main formation, because under the strict defense, none of the 10,000 Han soldiers died except for a few who were slightly injured, and this mission was a complete success.

"Your Majesty, all the surrenders have been shot into the gate. ”

After Hou Cheng and Cao Xing returned to their own formation, they immediately returned to Liu Xie.

"Aiqing works hard. ”

"Counting the great achievements of the two Aiqing, after the emperor returns to Beijing, there will be a heavy reward. Liu Xie looked at the two of them with satisfaction and praised.

"The letter of persuasion has been put in, and then we will wait until Guanzhong is in chaos and the morale of Guanzhong is broken, and when it falls, we can capture Hangu Pass in one fell swoop and kill the rebels. Liu Xie stared at this Hanguguan and said faintly.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Lu Bu, Huangfu Song and the others said in unison.

"Withdraw the troops!" Liu Xie waved his hand and ordered.

"Your Majesty has an order, the whole army retreats!" Lu Bu, Huangfu Song and others ordered one after another.

"No!"

The 170,000-strong army retreated backwards in an orderly manner, and the army moved like the wind, coming and going as fast as it came. However, it was only a stick of incense, and the army had disappeared in front of Hangu Pass and returned to the camp tent.

After a day of skimming, the casualties of both sides are a surprising number to say.

That's 0 to 200!

What is this concept?

This means that the army led by Liu Xie from the imperial court has zero loss, and more than 200 soldiers died on Li Wei's side.

Although it is a drop in the bucket compared to the number of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the city, for the soldiers in Hangu Pass, it is extremely poor, and the crossbowmen on the city tower also suffered heavy casualties.

In this battle, where the two armies have not yet met each other, the ratio of battle losses between the two armies will be so high.

What's more, the imperial army on Liu Xie's side is still the besieging party, and theoretically speaking, the damage is more serious than that of the Xiliang army defending the city, but the facts are always jaw-dropping.

What people never expected was that when the defenders in the city were ready to meet the psychological preparation of 170,000 soldiers to chase and fight, it can be said that their morale was high and they were well prepared.

But at this time, Liu Xie suddenly withdrew his troops.

"General, the enemy army has retreated, are we going out of the city to pursue?" a partial general looked at Li Dao and asked.

"By no means, the enemy retreated in an orderly manner, and riskily pursued and ambushed the enemy. What's more, the enemy army is large, our army is weak, and going out of the city to pursue is a dead end. ”

Li Dao looked at the retreating imperial army and said with a serious face.

"Clean up the city tower, the wounded were immediately treated by the military doctor, and the bodies were buried on the spot. Li Dao ordered loudly.

"No!"

On the tower of the city, the Xiliang soldiers who swarmed up began to clean up the scene.

And at this time.

When they cleaned up the arrows fired into the city by the court crossbowmen, they were surprised to discover the secret hidden in the arrows.

"Why is there a note tied to this arrow?"