Even Gao Pei, who was covered in armor, was killed by arrows, and the other soldiers who had no armor at all or only simple light armor could not escape.

They were shot indiscriminately by a dense rain of arrows, and they died one by one.

The officers were at a loss, the soldiers were panicked, and when the rain of arrows came, they couldn't react at all, and they died in large numbers.

When he was still fighting with the Wei army in front, he was stuck in the back by an arrow shot from behind and died.

More than 1,000 Shu troops died a lot in a blink of an eye, and the number is still increasing, because the rain of arrows has never stopped.

Naturally, the Wei army was also attacked by a dense range of arrows.

However, the Wei army was covered in armor and protected by shield soldiers, and only at the beginning of the attack under the blow of the rain of arrows was that many soldiers were shot because they were too forward to break away from the protection of the big shield, and those who were unlucky were shot in the face or forehead and died, and the lucky ones were only injured.

They reacted quickly and tired their shields to fend off the arrows.

Zhang He and Cao Xiu were all protected by their own soldiers at the first time.

They were very surprised.

"Their own people are still here to fight us, so they are going to let off the arrows? Aren't they afraid of hurting their own people? ”

"How so? The Shu people in the city don't want these soldiers? ”

Cao Xiu and Zhang He said this to their own soldiers.

Since its establishment, the Wei army group has paid attention to not abandoning and not giving up, so naturally it is not very easy to accept this fact.

The battle here is not won or lost, and your own people are still fighting with us, so you start to kill your own people and shoot indiscriminately, what is this?

This is also a war?

Too sinful, right?

To put it another way, people are fighting bloodily, and you, the general, are doing it behind your back, which is indeed killing and injuring the enemy and keeping the city, but you also make all the soldiers feel sad that the rabbit is dead and no longer trust you.

Who else will fight for you after that?

Can you still carry out your orders?

Who else will obey your commands?

It is precisely because of this that before the war, when Fa Zheng raised the only issue of this action, Guan Yu and Xun You did not think that Wu Yi could actually do such a decisive thing, thinking that this kind of thing was unlikely to happen.

But he did.

The Shu army was still fighting with the Wei army, and was still gritting its teeth and persevering, but you shot indiscriminately from behind, shooting and killing many Wei soldiers and blocking the Wei army's soldiers, but more of them were Shu soldiers with a very low armor rate.

They rarely wore armor, and their armor was not as good as that of the Wei army, and they were shot into a sieve from behind, and almost all of them died on the spot, which can be said to kill a hundred enemies and lose a thousand themselves!

The entire Shu army did not dodge, and Lei Tong certainly did not dodge, and died with his personal guards.

Cao Xiu and Zhang He were lucky and were protected at the first time, but the Wei army was soon unable to raise their heads by the fierce rain of arrows and was fiercely suppressed, and they lost a lot of men and horses, and had to retreat in groups to avoid the rain of arrows.

The main force brought by Guan Yu was obviously useless, and before he arrived at the battlefield, he was very helpless to look at the closed Guan City and the arrows like raindrops.

Guan Yu failed to give the order for a general attack, swallowed this evil breath, and ordered a retreat with a gloomy face.

Counting later, the Wei army lost 133 people killed and more than 300 wounded, Cao Xiu and Zhang He could not continue to advance, and were repelled by a rain of arrows together, basically this military operation was a failure.

Of course, the losses of the Shu army were greater.

From the beginning of the night raid, more than 1,500 corpses of the Shu army were scattered all over the field, none of them survived, and a considerable part of them died at their own hands.

The generals Gao Pei and Lei Tong died outside the city, and no one even collected the corpses, which was quite miserable.

But it was precisely because of this that the Sword Pavilion was saved by Wu Yi, and the Wei army's original plan of action that they thought would be victorious failed.

This operation was designed by Xun You and the entire staff team, the purpose was to push the Shu army to counterattack into the Guancheng, seize the city gate, and then enter the Guancheng, capture the Sword Pavilion, eliminate the Shu defenders, and break into the Chengdu Plain in one fell swoop, laying the foundation for victory.

As a result, the strategy of victory failed under Wu Yi's decision, and the Wei army also paid a great price for it, and had to retreat, giving up the gains it had achieved.

This made Guan Yu very angry, and Xun Yu blamed himself very much.

"It's my fault, obviously Xiaozhi has raised this possibility, but I didn't pay attention to it, it's my fault, I will go to the table to ask Your Majesty for my guilt, please Your Majesty punish my sins."

Xun You planned to take responsibility for the failure of this assault battle, but was stopped by Guan Yu.

"I am the commander of the army, I gave the order to march into the army, and I can't escape the blame for the failure of the operation, and Gongda doesn't have to bear it alone."

Guan Yu sighed and said: "There is no problem with the plan itself, but we underestimated Wu Yi's determination, and this point, only Fa Zheng pointed it out, but we didn't care, this is the problem I am waiting for, Fa Zheng." ”

Guan Yu named Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng marched out of the parade.

"General."

"You have meritorious advice, and we are all guilty this time, but you have merit, and it will be written in the seal to Your Majesty, so you don't have to worry about being implicated."

"The subordinates don't dare, this is a matter of the subordinates, and the subordinates don't dare to take credit."

Fa Zheng goodbye.

"Merit is merit, and passing is passing, what you did was right, so if you have merit, you should be rewarded, you don't have to be humble."

Guan Yu stroked his beard and said slowly: "But the most important thing at the moment is that Wu Yi is so decisive, it is estimated that I will not have the next chance, he will never open the city again, even if he plays, I will not get the opportunity as before, so don't mention this plan again, what to do after that, you all talk about it." ”

Guan Yu let everyone speak freely.

Everyone looked at Fazheng.

Obviously, before, only Fa Zheng reminded Wu Yi of what he might do from the perspective of people's hearts, but everyone didn't care, and as a result, he suffered, and now everyone wants to know what other high opinions Fa Zheng has, even Xun You.

Fa Zheng was a little excited, feeling that this was a good opportunity to show his ability, so he stepped forward and spoke slowly.

"Wu Ziyuan unexpectedly closed the city gate and abandoned all the Shu people who were fighting to the death, although he kept the Sword Pavilion and repelled our army, but he also lost the heart of the army for this, it is certain that the soldiers of the Shu army no longer trust Wu Ziyuan.

His military orders will no longer be so good, and no one will be willing to go out of the city to fight anymore, if he wants to put it away, it will be difficult, his troubles have just begun, our army can continue to attack the city with trebuchets, waiting for him to make a mistake himself. ”

Fa Zheng looked at the war from another angle, believing that Wu Yi was facing greater internal pressure than facing external pressure such as the Wei army, and that the Wei army only needed to maintain a regular siege, and Wu Yi's troubles would be uninterrupted, and he would make mistakes.

That's when the Wei army had an opportunity.

Xun You nodded in agreement with Fa Zheng's opinion.

Guan Yu stroked his beard and thought for a while, and nodded slowly, and the generals had no other opinions, so the matter was decided.

Guan Yu realized that he had to be cautious and not rush forward again, otherwise the army's losses would become greater, and he would not only be useless, but also guilty.

The next battle situation is to continuously use fierce fire oil canisters, earth-shaking thunder and boulders to strike, and constantly bombard the Sword Pavilion Guancheng, without giving them any respite.

On the ninth day of the third month of the second year of Yande, the battle of the Sword Pavilion is about to enter the next link.

At this moment, the war in Patong County is also raging.

The battle was fought on both sides of the waterway, and the attacker of the first battle was the Shu army, which took the initiative to attack and kicked off the battle.