"Draw the bow." A team of Dong Zhuojun archers pulled out the horn bows, diagonally up forty-five degrees to the sky, Kang Peng silently calculated the distance between the enemy and the city wall and the direction of the wind, when the enemy approached the city wall at a distance of four hundred steps, Kang Peng decisively shouted: "Shoot the arrow!" ”

The rain of arrows like flying locusts rose from the city wall, drawing a wonderful arc in the air, with the elasticity of the bow and its own gravity, accurately diagonally into the front team of the Liu Meng coalition army, blood splashed, and the front team of the Liu Meng coalition army shot down in an instant, this order seems ordinary, in fact, it contains the understanding of the combat strength of the own army, the grasp of the wind direction and wind speed, as well as the calculation of the enemy's charging speed and terrain, not a commander who has been tested on the battlefield for a long time, there is no such accurate command.

In the previous war, Kang Peng has always only strategized in the tent or under the banner, handing over the command of the battle to his subordinates, not that Kang Peng does not want to go into battle to command and kill the enemy majestically, but Kang Peng has self-knowledge, an inexperienced commander rashly commands the battle, which is undoubtedly a fatal danger to the soldiers and himself, if Kang Peng according to the experience he learned from watching TV before, shouting "Archer charge!" It's no wonder that people don't laugh off their big teeth. After countless battles, Kang Peng, who has been secretly learning military command from scratch, finally has confidence in himself, this battle, Kang Peng deliberately sent the experienced Lu Bu and Zhao Yun out to perform another task, that is, he decided to personally command the battle, only the commander who has passed the test of blood and fire can have an invincible iron army in the world!

The arrows falling from the sky have the greatest lethality to the human body, which is the reason of the cold weapon era, Dong Zhuojun's archers released arrows in front of the team, immediately stepped back to load the arrows, and the rear team stepped forward to pull the bow and release the arrows, and after the rear team released the bow and arrows, the front team made up for it again, and methodically inflicted annihilation on the charging enemy. And the attacking enemy is most afraid of this kind of mature and steady defenders, if they charge forward with all their might, the self-army will definitely suffer heavy casualties, if the shield is raised, the speed will be affected, give the defenders more time to release arrows, rushing into Dong Zhuo's army with a range of less than 100 steps, Liu Meng's coalition army has paid the price of hundreds of lives, the road they passed, all bloodstained, corpses all over the field.

Meng Shu originally rushed to the front of the team, but the arrows on the city wall of Xincheng were like rain, although Meng Shu brandished a big knife up and down the grid to come to the arrows, but his Dong Zhuojun archer's number one target, several times almost hit by the arrow, fortunately the vulture bone arrived in time with the rattan armor soldiers, set up dozens of rattan cards, and finally blocked Dong Zhuojun's locust-like arrows.

"You guys, rush to the front!" Meng Shu yelled at the rattan armor soldiers, no matter how crazy he was, he had to think about the lives of the soldiers, the vulture bones didn't say a word, and rushed to the front with the vine armor soldiers of the headquarters, their shields and helmets were made of old vines that had been repeatedly soaked in tung oil, and the knives and arrows were not injured, and Dong Zhuojun's arrows fell on them, and they all bounced off, leaving them unharmed, and the charging speed of Liu Meng's coalition army increased sharply.

Kang Peng quickly put down the monoculars, this monoculars was made of an incomparably pure crystal given to him by Xiao Qiao's father this time, Kang Peng asked the craftsman to make three pairs, and rewarded Lu Bu and Zhao Yun with a pair, and Kang Peng used a pair for himself. Kang Peng said in a deep voice: "Change the rocket, and pick those who are not afraid of arrows!" ”

The feather arrows soaked in fire oil were sent to the hands of the archers in barrels, and thousands of braziers had already moved to the side of the archers, the dark red flames jumped happily in the brazier, and the flames rose, flew into the air, and accurately fell into the ranks of the rattan armor soldiers, the rattan armor soldiers were so frightened that their souls were scattered, and they did not wait for the orders of Meng Shu and the vultures, they turned their heads and ran away, the rattan armor on their bodies was extremely flammable, once they were shot by rockets, then they could only become roast pigs. But when they fled, they immediately rushed their own team and trampled on each other, the front team and the rear team crowded each other, Dong Zhuojun's archers took the opportunity to send out a rain of arrows one after another, and the Liu and Meng coalition troops fell in pieces, and Meng was helpless, so he had to lead the army to temporarily withdraw from the firing range and reorganize the formation. Kang Peng and Meng Huo's first tactical confrontation also ended in a complete victory.

Kang Peng observed through the telescope and found that Meng Shu was organizing the cloud echelon, and saw that Liu Yan was shouting something to his elite Qingqiang soldiers, Kang Peng smiled secretly in his heart, and said that this time the two families would jointly form a death squad. It happened that the wind direction turned north, and the Liu Meng coalition army was about to attack against the wind, Kang Peng had a plan and ordered: "The catapult prepares the tear gas bag, the target is adjusted to one hundred and fifty steps in front of the city wall, the archers and feet are ready to let the enemy rush into two hundred steps away from the city wall, and then release the arrows." ”

Liu Meng's coalition army each sent 10,000 people, and the 20,000 death squad carried 400 ladders to slowly approach the city wall, followed by tens of thousands of archers, when the death squad cautiously approached Dong Zhuojun's bow and arrow range, there was a sudden shout, and the dead carried the ladder and rushed forward, and the archers of the Liu Meng coalition army also began to charge, they wanted to shoot against the wind to suppress Dong Zhuojun's archers, they had to rush into the city wall within 300 steps. The death squad of the Liu Meng coalition army sprinted more than a hundred steps in their lives, but Dong Zhuojun's archers only pulled their bows and arrows, and did not see an arrow fall, the old oil soldiers all secretly shouted that it was not good, the enemy must have a trick, but the recruits were glad of their good luck, and rushed forward happily, when they rushed into the city wall two hundred steps away, the archers of the Liu Meng coalition army covering the rear team also began to release arrows on the city wall, although they rarely shot on the city wall because of the headwind, but it was also terrifying.

The sparse bows and arrows fell in front of Kang Peng, and Kang Peng stood straight - his own loyal soldiers raised their shields to cover him, but Dong Zhuojun's soldiers couldn't help but boost their morale when they saw the commander so brave. Seeing that the enemy had stepped into the trap, Kang Peng ordered: "Throw tear gas!" ”

Hundreds of burning sacks were thrown into the city wall, almost all of them were thrown in front of the Liu Meng coalition death squad, and the irritating white smoke emitted when the chili pepper burned quickly surrounded them along the wind, and the Liu Meng coalition death squad members sneezed into the sky, tears gushed like springs, unable to see, like headless flies scurrying around. At this time, Dong Zhuojun's feet and bows also began to exert their might, and the special long arrows whistled to penetrate the soldiers of the Liu Meng coalition army, nailed to the blood-stained ground alive, and the huge penetrating power of the Liu Meng coalition army had not been seen in their lives, and it was conceivable how powerful the shock force was to them, and the ordinary archers on the city wall were not to be outdone, and wave after wave of dense arrow rain kept harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Liu Meng coalition army, and the blood flowed like a river, dyeing the gray and yellow earth in front of the city into a dark red. I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and the Liu Meng coalition army ran away from the death slaughterhouse.

"Coward! Rubbish! Meng Shu was angry and kept reprimanding the soldiers, but the soldiers complained to him one after another, "King, it's not that we are afraid of death, but those white smoke are so weird, they cry when they are smoked, and they can't open their eyes, and we can't rush if we want to." ”

"My lord, let my elephants go up this time." King Mulu admonished: "The elephant should not be afraid of the strange smoke, and the enemy's bow and arrow cannot shoot through the elephant skin, I will cover the infantry to attack the city." ”

Meng was overjoyed, "Okay, you rush to the front to cover, and we will attack the city." Meng Shu turned to Liu Yan again and shouted: "Liu Yan, send more people this time, this time you must break through the city wall." Liu Yan didn't say a word, and immediately asked the deputy general to bring 30,000 cannon fodder soldiers to attack, preparing for them to consume Dong Zhuojun's troops.

In a short time, King Mulu organized the remaining more than 160 elephants, took his headquarters and went straight to the city wall, followed by nearly 50,000 infantry. Kang Peng saw the elephant soldiers attacking through the telescope, and couldn't help but gasp, knowing that a vicious battle was inevitable, he hurriedly arranged for the soldiers to prepare the oil pot, and the flying bear saber and sword were unsheathed, ready for hand-to-hand combat.

Sure enough, Dong Zhuojun's archery and arrows were extremely ineffective against the soldiers, even the long arrows shot by the foot bow did not penetrate the elephant's skin, only the boulders thrown by the catapult smashed on the elephant's body, which could barely hinder the elephant's attack, but there was no way to effectively kill and injure the elephants. The infantry of the Liu-Meng coalition army also took the opportunity to approach the city wall. And Dong Zhuojun's soldiers had almost never seen such a big monster, and their legs were weak with fright.

The enemy was approaching step by step, and although Kang Peng began to panic in his heart, his face was still impassive, because he knew very well that as long as he took the lead in being nervous, then it would cause a chain reaction, and the morale of the army would fall to the bottom. Suddenly, a stray arrow passed through the shield of Kang Peng's own soldiers, and fell into the city with Kang Peng's fat face, and Kang Peng's face was also marked with a large wound, and blood immediately oozed out.

"Taishi, Taishi, are you okay?" Dong Zhuojun panicked up and down, wanting to rush to Kang Peng's side to check.

"To each his own." Kang Peng shouted, gently wiped the blood from his face, and smiled: "This appearance is ugly enough, I don't care about being ugly again." Kang Peng's words caused Dong Zhuojun and everyone to laugh, and after a nervous pause, Kang Peng took the opportunity to say: "Just elephant soldiers, don't be afraid, the prime minister has prepared a way to deal with them, you can see it." ”

Kang Peng silently calculated the distance of the elephant soldiers close to the city wall, and when the elephant stepped fifty steps in front of the city wall, Kang Peng shouted: "Throw the fire oil pot!" Throw torches! Almost at the same time, the elephant soldiers who were rushing suddenly felt a light in front of them, the elephant creaked under the feet of the elephant, the elephant soldiers and the elephants fell into the deep pit, and the elephant soldiers behind were not in a hurry, and rolled into the deep pit dug by Dong Zhuo's military first one after another, and the people shouted and hissed. It turned out that Kang Peng had expected that the Southern Barbarian Army would attack the city with elephant soldiers, and sent sappers to organize the people to dig a long pit ten zhang wide and four zhang deep in front of the city wall of Xincheng, with thick wooden planks on it and sprinkled with mud to cover it.

At the same time, Dong Zhuojun's fire oil pot and torches rained down, the fire oil contained in the clay pot shattered when it touched the ground, and the fire in front of the city wall suddenly burst into flames, the poor elephants were not afraid of knives, guns, sticks and arrows, but there was nothing they could do about the fire, the screams were earth-shattering, and the elephants on fire on their bodies were scurrying around, trampling to death countless Liu Meng's allied troops. Dong Zhuojun took the opportunity to throw down the rolling stones and trees, and the Liu Meng coalition army, which had rushed to the city wall, suffered heavy casualties.

Meng Shu suffered repeated setbacks, and even the invincible elephant array was broken by Dong Zhuojun, and he was so angry that he jumped like thunder, ignoring the chaos in front of him, and personally led an army to supervise the battle, forcing the soldiers to attack the city. The Liu and Meng coalition forces had no choice but to pick up the cloud ladder that had been dropped, and at the risk of being trampled to death by a mad elephant at any time, they attacked the city again.

The rolling stones on the city are like rain, the heads of the people under the city are like ants, the flesh and blood are splashed, the ladder is knocked down and erected, and then it is pushed down, and then the city wall is erected, the human body and the feather arrows and stones fly in the sky together, and the siege vehicles keep hitting the city gate and the city wall, making a deafening and dull sound, but it is quickly covered by the shouts of killing and screaming.

"Two teams support one team, and no enemy is allowed to go up the city wall!" Kang Peng shouted, a group of Dong Zhuojun quickly climbed the city wall, and helped the tired team to overturn the ladder on the city wall in time, and within the city wall, countless Yizhou people were carrying the big stones and wood needed to defend the city, and the crowd was crowded, and they couldn't see the end at a glance.

Pang De and Wei Yan were the highest-ranking generals left in the city by Dong Zhuojun, they each brought five hundred personal soldiers to rush back and forth on the city wall, where there was an enemy on the wall, they rushed there in time, cut down the enemy on the city wall, and Dong Zhuojun's soldiers also played out the results of their long-term training, each formed a small battle group to confront the enemy, often two or three combat groups stared at a cloud ladder, as long as the cloud ladder was on the city wall, they would rush up, or push or lift, the stone and the big wood greeted, forced them down the city wall......

Unconsciously, the sun has set in the West Mountain, Liu Meng's coalition army paid a huge price, but was not able to kill the city wall, although Meng Shu was unwilling, but the fatigue of the soldiers was not something he could control, under Liu Yan's repeated persuasion, Meng Shu finally Mingjin retreated. Liu Meng's allied army paid the price of more than 30,000 people, and the attack on Xincheng on the first day was still a failure, and the situation on Dong Zhuojun's side was not very optimistic, although the condescending battle made Dong Zhuojun far inferior to the enemy, but also sacrificed the lives of more than 8,000 soldiers, which can only be regarded as a tragic victory.

Kang Peng was not in a hurry to grieve for the sacrificed soldiers, but coldly watched Liu Meng's coalition army cover the flag and retreat, and said fiercely in his heart: "Meng Shu, I think you dare to fight with me tomorrow?" Fight a war of attrition and you're doomed! ”