Chapter 253: The Great Breach of the City Gate
Sun Jian's eyes froze, and he roared angrily, and then he took the lead, picked up an iron tire bow next to him, and directly put the bow on the arrow, his eyes narrowed slightly, the bowstring instantly became like a full moon, and a sharp arrow was pinched in Sun Jian's hand.
The arrow didn't shoot out for a long time, but the expression on Sun Jian's face kept tense.
After a long time, the look on Sun Jian's face suddenly tightened, and then the hand holding the arrow feather in his hand instantly relaxed.
The sharp arrow came out of Sun Jian's hand and shot towards the city.
Liu Zheng rode on a war horse and witnessed the siege battle in front of him, but his eyes never left Sun Jian on the city tower. All of Sun Jian's actions were under his attention.
Naturally, Sun Jian took the bow and arrows, and this series of actions was also collected by Liu Zheng.
After the arrow was fired, the target was none other than Liu Zheng.
Liu Zheng watched the arrows in the distance shoot towards him, and the expression on his face became extremely gloomy. He grabbed the reins in his hand to drive the seated horse and move left and right to avoid the arrows.
But after all, the speed of the war horse's movement was still a little slow, and seeing that the arrow was about to fall on his body, Liu Zheng raised his hand and blocked it in front of him.
With a clang, the long knife blocked the arrow that was shooting at him.
Sun Jian's sharp arrows were swift and powerful, but they were still cut down by Liu Zheng.
When Sun Jian watched the arrow he shot being dodged by Liu Zheng and did not cause any damage to Liu Zheng's body, the expression on his face was a little unnatural.
"Hmph, count yourself in luck!"
didn't kill Liu Zheng with one arrow, Sun Jian was obviously a little unwilling and couldn't kill Liu Zheng, so the next step was to compete with the strength of the soldiers and horses on both sides.
In the soldiers, Sun Jian's confidence is not very strong.
It was precisely because Sun Jian took the lead in attacking Liu Zheng with cold arrows that Liu Zheng had nothing to take care of, and at that moment Liu Zheng looked at the shooters beside him.
Immediately rushed to these people and gave an order.
"That Sun Jian is really hateful, brothers, give that Sun Jian a little color and take a look, everyone, shoot the arrows at me at the city tower, hit the position above the city gate, you must shoot Sun Jian, even if you can't kill Sun Jian, you can't let Sun Jian have a chance to rise!"
Among the 20,000 people, according to Liu Zheng's initial army system, 4,000 men and horses were archers.
Although those people under Gan Ning were recruited later, and their archery skills were not very good, the two thousand archers under Xu Huang's command, but Huang Zhong personally **, were the first batch of archers trained by Huang Zhong, although archery skills are not as good as some generals who have been in contact with archery all year round.
But after more than a year of training, these people's archery skills are much more powerful than some ordinary people.
After all, after Liu Zheng's army was restructured, those archers did not need to participate in other training, they only needed to focus on practicing archery.
Over the past year, most of their time has been spent training their archery, and their natural archery skills have improved by leaps and bounds.
Now, after Liu Zheng's order, two or three thousand arrows rose into the sky and shot at the tower of Shaoyang City.
The arrows were deliberately raised a few points by these archers, the purpose was to shoot at the city tower, even if they couldn't shoot Sun Jian, they couldn't land the arrows in their own team, so as not to accidentally injure their own people.
And when more than 2,000 arrows gradually shot towards the city tower, they immediately clanged and landed near the city tower, and Sun Jian naturally had already noticed these shooters.
Duck back as soon as possible, hiding behind the battlements to avoid the shot of these arrows.
However, this means that he will not be able to stand up and observe the attack of the enemy troops under the city.
Moreover, the continuous shooting of the shooters also caused those who were responsible for defending the city to suffer a lot of losses.
Although there were some men and horses who were not afraid of death, they still kept throwing arrows under the city tower, and throwing some boulders and rolling logs, and even defensive things such as fire oil, but they still could not avoid Liu Zhengjun's wanton attack.
A huge sledgehammer slammed into the gates. The loud banging sound kept coming out.
This small gate of Shaoyang City couldn't help but hit the sledgehammer at all, and after three or five strokes, the gate shook more and more.
"The general is not good, the city gate is shaking more and more, it seems that it can't be supported!"
The defenders of the city hurriedly shouted at the city tower.
"Block the city gate, block it for me with stones, even if the city gate is broken, you can't let these thieves enter the city!"
Sun Jian immediately shouted at the soldiers under the city, be sure to let the people under the city block the city gate, even if the city gate is not protected, use stone piles, and block the city to prevent Liu Zheng's men and horses from entering the city.
With the support of the city wall, Sun Jian's manpower can also do a simple confrontation with Liu Zheng, once the city gate is forced, Liu Zheng's army of 30,000 or 40,000 will enter the city, Sun Jian only has 10,000 people, and it is impossible to confront Liu Zheng's men and horses.
Failure is only a matter of time.
But the reason why he hasn't left all this time is that he is looking forward to Han Dang calling Cai Mao's reinforcements, according to the time estimate, calculate the time, Han Dang went to Cai Mao's side to ask for help, it should be about the same.
One day was enough time for Han Dang to call Cai Mao's reinforcements, but there was no shadow of reinforcements until now, which also made Sun Jian a little anxious.
However, Sun Jian has not given up yet, he is still waiting, as long as Cai Mao's reinforcements arrive, he will be able to turn the tables, and when the arrogant Liu Zheng will retreat, if Liu Zheng does not retreat, it is not impossible to kill Liu Zheng in Shaoyang City.
But as time passed, the gate of Shaoyang City collapsed with a huge boom, and the gate of Shaoyang City was broken open by Liu Zheng's army.
Although Sun Jiang had already let his people stuff a lot of stones at the city gate in advance, in a short period of time, it was still impossible for Liu Zheng's people to pass through the city gate and enter the city, but the city gate was lost, and the morale of Sun Jian's soldiers guarding the city was greatly reduced at this time.
Fighting a war is actually the morale of the fight, and whoever has a high morale can move forward.
The men and horses of Sun Jian's headquarters were already less than Liu Zheng's side because of their troops, and they had suffered a defeat before, their morale was already poor, and now the city gate was also lost, which made the defenders on the city tower begin to panic.
"Lord, Han Dang went to Cai Mao for help, why haven't you come yet, if you don't come again, our people may not be able to hold it!"
Huang Gai shot out the arrows in his hand, the arrows in his quiver were empty, and the props for the city defense were almost consumed. Although some losses were caused to Liu Zheng's men and horses, as far as the eye can see, Liu Zheng's army still has a large number of soldiers and horses surviving.