didn't give Liu Xiu time to check carefully, and suddenly heard Luo You's shout from behind: "Be careful-" Liu Xiu immediately raised his shield, ding, ding, and several crossbow arrows hit the shield.

Liu Xiu gritted his teeth, raised his sword and rushed towards several Long soldiers not far away.

These Longjun were all armed with crossbows and kept moving the trigger.

Bang, bang, bang - the sound of the catapult of the crossbow machine is connected into a piece, Liu Xiu holds the shield, blocks up and down, and the sound of dinging is endless.

In just a few moments, several Long soldiers shot all the crossbow arrows in the crossbow, but they failed to hurt Liu Xiu in the slightest.

The latter rushed to the front of several people, and the Chixiao Sword stabbed forward.

Several Long soldiers were forced to retreat again and again.

Two people drew their ring-headed knives, roared, and pounced on Liu Xiu, and several other Long soldiers bent down one after another, pulling the rope around their waists, and the fan-shaped crossbow machine behind them shot crossbow arrows at Liu Xiu continuously.

Liu Xiu's body moved sideways, turned to the side, and came to the front of a sword-wielding Long Jun, and then rushed forward.

Bang, his shoulder hit the opponent's chest, and the body of the Long Jun flew out upside down, colliding with several other Long Jun, and fell into a ball.

Without waiting for them to get up, Liu Xiu stepped forward with an arrow, stabbed all these Long soldiers to the ground with a sword.

Another knife-wielding Long Jun slashed at the top of Liu Xiu's head with all his might.

Liu Xiu raised his shield to parry, and while blocking the edge of the ring head knife, a sword stabbed out, penetrating the opponent's chest.

Liu Xiu held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, and rushed forward to kill.

Rushing to the top of the city, the oncoming Long army was either directly stabbed to the ground by Liu Xiu, or forced to retreat again and again by Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu's participation in the war greatly stimulated the morale of the Han army in Dongcheng.

Originally, under the crossbow arrows of the Long army, the Han army had been suppressed to the death, and now under the leadership of Liu Xiu, the morale of the Han army rose greatly, forming a shield array, and launching a counterattack on the Long army that climbed to the head of the city.

Liu Xiu took the lead, and the Chixiao Sword emitted red light, and wherever it passed, blood mist erupted.

Just when Liu Xiu was killing, a general of the Long Army came to the top of the city, and saw Liu Xiu nearby slashing and killing his own soldiers, the general didn't say a word, drew his sword, and took the initiative to meet it.

Before the man moved, the crossbow bolts came first.

Liu Xiu swung the Chixiao Sword outward, and when it was long, the crossbow arrows that had been flying over were bounced away.

Immediately afterwards, the opponent's saber had already attacked the front, and Liu Xiu held a shield to block.

When! The blade of the sword stabbed against the shield, and the powerful impact made Liu Xiu's body lean back and take two steps back.

The figure of the Longjun general flickered, flashed to Liu Xiu's side, and stabbed his sword fiercely under his ribs.

Liu Xiu moved the shield in front of him to the side, blocking the side of the ribs, and when he was long, the opponent's sword blade stabbed the shield again, and Liu Xiu's body staggered out again.

The general of the Long army lowered his body, and the fan-shaped crossbow machine behind him suddenly shot an arrow, straight to Liu Xiu's temple.

Liu Xiu lowered his body to dodge, and just after avoiding the arrow, the other party's foot kicked over and kicked him in the cheek.

Liu Xiu lifted the shield upward, and bang, the other party kicked on the shield surface, kicking Liu Xiu's body backwards and rolling.

Just as he was rolling, the other party waved his arm, and a crossbow arrow flew out of his cuff.

When! Liu Xiu stabilized his body, squatted on the ground, stood up the Chixiao Sword, and blocked the arrow with the sword surface of the Chixiao Sword.

This general, like the soldiers below, constantly used the hidden crossbow machine in the battle with the enemy.

It's just that compared with the soldiers of the Long army below, he is more handy in the application of crossbow machines, and it has reached the point of integrating human crossbows, which is unguardable.

The generals of the Long Army made a series of attacks, but they failed to hurt the other party in the slightest, and he couldn't help but gasp in his heart.

The general of the Long army put the saber aside, took off the crossbow from his waist, aimed it at Liu Xiu, and moved the trigger again and again.

Liu Xiu's body first curled downward, hiding behind the shield, only to hear the sound of clanging one after another, and five crossbow arrows in a row were blocked by the shield.

Seeing that the other party still didn't mean to stop, Liu Xiu squinted his eyes, stood up, and rushed straight towards the Longjun general.

The general of the Long army secretly said that the opportunity had come, he lowered the crossbow down, and with a whoosh, shot an arrow straight at Liu Xiu's ankle.

Liu Xiu jumped to the side and dodged the arrow, but as soon as his foot landed, the other party came one after another and shot another arrow, and the target was still his ankle.

Liu Xiu lowered his body and stood his shield on the ground.

When the arrow was blocked, the shield was blocked.

Liu Xiu's squatting figure jumped forward, only five steps away from the general of the Long army, who was secretly surprised, and hurriedly raised his crossbow and shot an arrow at Liu Xiu's face.

The latter's head was sideways, and the arrow shot into the air, and at this time, Liu Xiu had already rushed to the front of the other party, and the Chixiao Sword was raised high, making a gesture to slash downward.

The face of the Long army general changed suddenly, and he hurriedly threw away the repeater, picked up the sword on the side, and subconsciously parried upward.

Unexpectedly, the Chixiao Sword held high by Liu Xiu was just a disguise, and he slammed forward with his other hand, and the edge of the shield swept towards the neck of the Long army general.

This move was much beyond the expectations of the generals of the Long Army, and it was too late for him to change his move to block.

As a last resort, he could only lean back and retreat sharply, but his movements were still a little slower.

The edge of the shield crossed in front of his neck, although the edge of the shield was not sharp, it was iron after all, and Liu Xiu's move was extremely fast, and the throat of the Longjun general was rubbed out of a hole.

He snorted, pointed at Liu Xiu with a sword in one hand, and covered his neck with the other, staggering back.

I saw scarlet blood gurgling down the cracks between his fingers.

Liu Xiu would give him a chance to escape, stepped forward, and slashed downward with a sword.

The generals of the Long Army subconsciously raised the sword in their hands and parried upward, dang, click! Chixiao Sword forcibly cut off the opponent's sword, and then castrated unabated, cutting off half of the opponent's head.

The corpse, with only half of its head left, fell straight on its back, fell to the ground with a thud, and its limbs twitched a few times, and then it stopped moving.

The killing of this general of the Long army dealt a big blow to the morale of the Long army that attacked Dongcheng.

On the contrary, the morale of the Han army was very high, and the people formed a shield formation and quickly advanced forward, forcing the Long army that attacked the city to retreat again and again.

Under the city wall, there are still many Long troops ready to go, but seeing that the situation on the head of the city is not right, people no longer blindly climb to the top of the city.

It didn't take long, and the Long army who climbed to the top of the city first couldn't hold on, and many soldiers ran down the ladder, and from time to time there were Long troops who fell directly from the city, and there were screams echoing in the air.

Seeing this, the Long army gave up continuing the siege and retreated backwards.

They did not run backwards in a swarm, but there were two rows of soldiers, and after the crossbows were broken, the people retreated while moving the triggers of the crossbows, and kept firing arrows at the top of the city to suppress the pursuit of the defenders.

The battle on the side of Dongcheng came quickly and ended quickly, the scale of the battle was not large, the Long army lost more than 200 people, and the Han army also suffered more than 200 casualties.

The casualties on the Han army's side were almost all arrow wounds, and some soldiers were hit by more than a dozen crossbow arrows.

Liu Xiu stood in front of the arrow battlement, seeing that the enemy army outside the city had run away, he retracted his gaze, walked to the general of the Long army who was slashed by him just now, and carefully checked the equipment on his body.

The generals of the Long Army had a crossbow machine hidden in each of their hands and wrists, both of which were made of iron, although they were a little heavy, but they were very small.

What is commendable is that the body of the crossbow machine is also slightly curved, which is very ergonomic, and it will not feel awkward when worn on a person's wrist, but it is very fitting.

This kind of design and manufacturing process is much more sophisticated and convenient than the crossbow machine that Liu Xiu is currently wearing.

In addition to these two small crossbow machines, there is a fan-shaped crossbow machine behind the general, which, like the others, can also be loaded with three crossbow arrows.

In addition, at the trouser leg of the general, there is also a crossbow machine, which is in the shape of a thin strip and tied to the leg, like a splint.

On this general, in addition to the repeating crossbow he used, five crossbow machines of different shapes were turned out.

On the wrists, legs, and even on the back, there are mechanisms to dispel the letter, if it weren't for Liu Xiuxian to prepare a shield, I'm afraid it would really be his way.

Long Yuan looked down at these crossbow machines, and asked with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, could these Long troops be the crossbow battalion mentioned by Wang Zun in his letter?" ”

Liu Xiu nodded and said very firmly: "Nine times out of ten." ”

Long Yuan frowned, and said, "The body of the crossbow camp is actually equipped with so many crossbow machines!" Fortunately, there are not many crossbow battalions now, if the Long army is fully equipped with these crossbow machines, on the battlefield, our soldiers are really not the opponents of the Long army! ”

Liu Xiu picked up a crossbow machine, looked at it over and over, and said: "These crossbow machines are different from ordinary crossbow machines, with different forms and difficult manufacturing, requiring the manufacturer to have superb craftsmanship, how easy is it to equip the whole army on a large scale?" ”

Moreover, it is impossible for Du Ling to take out the structural drawings of these crossbow machines and let the craftsmen make them.

But if he only relied on his own manufacturing, no matter how many disciples he had, the speed of manufacturing could not be too fast, which can be seen through the corpses left by Long Jun.

Some soldiers are only equipped with fan-shaped crossbow machines, and some soldiers only have crossbow machines hidden at their wrists.

However, the crossbow was used on a large scale by the Long army, almost one per person.

Liu Xiu picked up a repeater, looked at it carefully, and moved the trigger back and forth, he somewhat understood the construction principle of the repeater.

He couldn't help nodding his head again and again, and praised: "Du Ling is really not simple, this kind of repeater, although the power is smaller, but it is easy to use, and each repeater can store ten crossbow arrows in the crossbow box." ”

A repeater can fire ten arrows in a row, what is this concept, a repeater can be used as ten crossbow machines, and it is really done with one top ten.

Liu Xiu said to the surrounding Han soldiers: "Carefully search the corpses, collect all the crossbow machines on the enemy's body, and don't miss one!" ”

"Whoa!"

All the soldiers responded in unison.

The crossbow machines on the corpses were dismantled one by one, collected, and as for the corpses, they were all thrown outside the city.

Dealing with the side of Waidongcheng, Liu Xiu returned to Xicheng, at this time, the battle in Xicheng had come to an end, the Long army and the Shu army, both sides used all their strength, but still failed to tear through the city defense of Luoyang.

Seeing that the soldiers besieging the city were exhausted and demoralized, the generals of the Long army suggested to Kui Huan that it was not appropriate to fight again today, and that the troops should be withdrawn for the time being.

In the end, Kui Huan was reluctant to give the order, Mingjin withdrew his troops, and fought again on a later day.

This day of fighting came to an end.

The brigades of the Long army and the Shu army withdrew to the camp and were replaced by corpse collection teams.

Soldiers with white strips of cloth tied around their arms went up to the battlefield and carried the bodies of the fallen soldiers one by one onto the wagon.

At the head of the city, the Han army was also dealing with its own casualties.

The corpses were carried down the city, and the wounded soldiers, sitting on the ground, drugged and bandaged, shouted and killed, and now became strangely silent.

The people in the city and under the city are silently doing their own thing.