Chapter 217: The Battle of Martial Arts 8

The regular drum beat changes, a long point followed by a rapid combo of three times, another long point, three quick hits, three times in a row.

The shouting and killing sound of the battlefield could not hide the sound of drums, the Xiliang army heard the sound of trumpets and drums, and immediately changed their formation, the crossbowmen opened their bows and arrows and watched every move on the earthen wall, and the close soldiers behind them carried countless ladders through the crossbowmen and ran towards the earthen wall at high speed.

"Stabilize the formation, don't panic......" Gao Shun's voice came from afar.

In the blink of an eye, the enemy's melee soldiers advanced to a hundred paces, and the arrow rain in the rear column suddenly became fierce at this time, and the dense arrow rain shot towards the earthen wall without interruption, obviously trying to use the arrow rain to suppress the Yizhou army and create opportunities for their own troops.

Suddenly three drumbeats rang out in the walled city, which was the signal for a predetermined attack, and almost at the same moment, the trebuchets in the camp, the bed crossbows on the earthen walls, and the crossbowmen threw their deadly bullets at each other at the same time.

Behind each fence there are twenty soldiers, including five with swords and shields, when the drum beats, these swords and shields flash out at the first time, five thick shields are lined up in turn, just forming a strong shield wall, and the crossbowmen are under the cover of the swordsmen and crossbowmen to launch a fierce attack on the enemy, the sword and shield men and crossbowmen are also surrounded by several soldiers with spears and ge, they are dedicated to attacking the enemy troops who are attacking the city.

Huge stones flying in the sky would kill several enemy soldiers every time they fell, and once hit by a trebuchet, the corpse was often unable to be pieced together, and the blood and flesh were splashed all over the clothes. Soldiers like to shout when they charge, one is to cheer themselves up, to make a strong voice, one is to deter, shake the enemy's fighting spirit, because of this, splashed blood, and even pieces of flesh fly directly into the mouths of some soldiers, if it is just blood, it is nothing to the soldiers, but when someone finds himself swallowing the ...... of the robes and brothers At this time, no one can face it calmly, and almost every soldier who realizes what he has swallowed will feel a trace of guilt in nausea and vomiting, even though they have done nothing wrong!

Whether it is a trebuchet or a bed crossbow, the power is great, but it also means that the operation is troublesome, the second attack takes a long time, and when they take the lives of three or four hundred enemy soldiers, the confrontation between the two armies* is transferred to the competition between the crossbowmen. The rain of arrows kept harvesting the lives of soldiers on both sides.

Ordinary crossbowmen are generally not required to have extremely high accuracy, often only require them to increase the speed of shooting, with countless people composed of arrows to the enemy for a comprehensive strike, suppression, so the crossbowmen on both sides will almost not aim, they take a general look at the enemy's position, and then hold the bow in one hand, take the arrow in the other hand, mechanically repeat the arrow, firing this action, the speed is even comparable to the bolt-action rifle of later generations, but this is a serious test of the archer's arm strength, Ordinary soldiers can only fire their bows dozens of times in a day's battle, and it is difficult to draw a hard bow now.

Arrow rain is not rain, rain makes people cold at most, but arrows kill people! Every round of arrows fell, accompanied by screams and wails, countless soldiers fell, and many of them could no longer stand up.

Due to the condescending position of the Yizhou army and the protection of the fence and the sword and shield hand, the casualties were much lower than those of the Xiliang army, but despite this, from the counterattack of the Yizhou army to the present, the Yizhou army has suffered nearly 500 casualties at a distance of only 50 steps.

A commander of the Yizhou army clenched the crossbow in his hand, he was looking for a target, that target had just shot one of his soldiers (in fact, he was not sure that it was the man who killed his brother, and wanted to find the owner of an arrow in the rain of arrows, no doubt looking for a needle in a haystack, the reason why he locked on that person was only because that person was the most official person he had seen so far and within his attack distance, and he wanted to avenge his soldiers, of course, he had to pick the big one), but that man was very clever, Just now he had been dodging an arrow that he had been planning to dodge by the man, who swam like a fish in the midst of the enemy, and in an instant he lost his target, but he was not discouraged, he loaded a crossbow arrow, and searched for the figure carefully. The hard work paid off, thanks to the condescending and broad vision of the Yizhou army and his unremitting efforts, it was not long before that person finally appeared in front of him again, looking at his clothes, it turned out to be a Xiliang military captain.

"Brother, I avenged you......" The commander of the Yizhou military tun said silently, calmly fired, when he pulled the trigger, "bang", the arrow came out of the string, with his anger, his expectation went straight to the Xiliang military captain.

The Xiliang military captain didn't expect that he had been tightly pressed by someone at all, and seeing his army rushing to the front of the trench, he was about to command the headquarters to take a cloud ladder and rush through the trench to Yizhou Dazhai directly, when an arrow quietly drilled into his breastplate. He only felt as if he had been slashed with a stick, and a breath of turbidity in his chest was forced out, and when he looked down, he found that an arrow was deeply inserted into his breastplate, and there was a pain in his chest like a knife, and in an instant he even felt that his blood was draining......

"Ho...... Ho ......" The lieutenant screamed in pain a few times, and fell to the ground with a mouthful of blood.

"Brother, I've avenged you, it's easy to go all the way!" The commander of the Yizhou army opened his eyes wide and stared at the enemy who was shot by him, until he saw him fall to the ground after spurting blood from his mouth, he secretly sighed, and turned the crossbow of the captain who was still aimed at the captain who was shot by him in a direction, this time he didn't think about anything more accurately, and aimed at the Xiliang army that was gathering together and preparing to cross the trench.

The Xiliang army set up hundreds of ladder bridges, and immediately some soldiers stepped up the rickety ladders with shields on their heads......

In a short time, about 2,000 enemy troops crossed the bridge, and under the cover of the other crossbowman, they held their shields in one hand and brandished their swords in the other hand to destroy the deer that the Yizhou army had placed deep in the earth.

The roar of the bed crossbow sounded again, and the long arrow seemed to have the power to destroy the world and destroy the world, and it was often two or three people, three or four people, or even five or six people who were shot in a string.

Immediately after that, the trebuchet made a deafening sound and threw countless boulders into the sky again, and in a moment, there was another bloody storm in the enemy formation......

Liu Zhang held a repeater in his hand, leaned out half of his body and aimed at a Xiliang soldier who was wielding a knife to destroy the deer, with a "bang" sound, the arrow left the string, Liu Zhang felt the crossbow in his hand jumping upwards violently, he hurriedly stabilized the repeater, his eyes looked at the enemy who had just been aimed, if he didn't shoot, he didn't mind making up for an arrow, but there was no need anymore, the Xiliang army had already died under Liu Zhang's arrow, Liu Zhang moved the repeater slightly to the left, and another arrow was fired......

Facts have proved that Liu Zhang does not have the ability to penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, he shot a box full of arrows, but only gained three records, when he also reloaded, to prove his skills, Wu Ming, Zhou Cang did not dare to agree, after pulling him back to the fence, with the body of the two of them to cover him tightly.

Liu Zhang is no longer reckless, because the enemy crossbowmen have noticed him (in the words of Xing Ye, Liu Zhang, who is in a waiting, is like a firefly in the dark...... Before he shot the arrows in the empty arrow box, there were already no less than thirty arrows shooting at him, if it wasn't for the thick shield in Wu Ming's hand, maybe he would have been killed.

Li Dao, Guo Yan, Yang Feng, Li Le and others who were watching the battle not far away were all pale, just because although the Xiliang army was strong in battle, everyone was vying for the first place, and they were going forward one after another, but the Yizhou army was not grassy, they were well prepared, their morale was high, and with a huge number of trebuchets and bed crossbows, they were on a par with the Xiliang elite who they thought were invincible.

"Fuck, the passage of Fu Luo Dao, how could they have brought so many trebuchets, bed crossbows?" Li Wei looked at the Xiliang soldiers who fell one after another, and scolded angrily.

Li Le was shocked, his head was lowered tightly, and he didn't even dare to gasp, why? Most of the trebuchets and bed crossbows of the Yizhou army were captured at the Luoyu Pass and the Weishui defense line, and it was inseparable from him.

Even so, some people were reluctant to let Li Le go, only to see Yang Feng stepped forward and said: "General Hui, according to the report of the last general, the Yizhou army has very little heavy equipment, and almost all the trebuchets and bed crossbows used to kill and injure my Xiliang elite soldiers at this time are the trophies of World War II from Luoyu Pass and Weishui!" ”

Li Le's head was lower, but there was an angry heart under his low profile, if someone was lying on him, he could see his face so angry that it was almost distorted, secretly, he had greeted Yang Feng's eight ancestors countless times. He didn't think about why Yang Feng fell into the ground, since Yang Feng was the governor of Qinling's defense line, he relied on himself to be Li Dao's cronies, and he disobeyed Yang Fengyang, but he was not less offended, and now he has the opportunity to disgust him, others naturally can't let it go easily, although Yang Feng knows that Li Dao will not kill Li Le because of this!

Sure enough, Li Wei just glared at Li Le fiercely, in fact, he was already very disappointed in Li Le, and he didn't mind killing Li Le, but Yang Feng said that the timing of this was wrong, how to say that Li Le was his person, if he killed Li Le just because of Yang Feng's words, then where would he put his face? What will the people under him think? If Guo Yan said this to him in private, then Li Le's future may not be wonderful!

More than two hours later, the Xiliang army paid thousands of dead and wounded, but not a single one climbed the low earthen wall.

"General, let's withdraw for the time being, the enemy army is well prepared, and if you continue to fight like this, the casualties will be too great!" Looking at the whole army, only Guo Yan dared to advise Li Dao at this time.

Looking at the Yizhou Dazhai that was as stable as Mount Tai not far away, Li Dao smashed his fist on the saddle, and said quite unwillingly: "Withdraw the troops like this, where will the invincible and invincible prestige of my Xiliang army be placed?" ”

"General, our army is dominated by cavalry, and it is not the strength of our army to attack the fortifications, and now the enemy is building walls and fortifications, and it is not wise to take my shortcomings and attack the enemy's strengths, so it is better to retreat temporarily, and then find a battle after careful consideration!"

"Okay, herald......" Li Wei turned his horse and rode his horse in the direction of the camp to the north, and the word "retreat" floated from afar.

Guo Yan knew that Li Wei was in a bad mood, and shouted to the surrounding soldiers: "Look at what, don't you go and protect the general quickly, if the general is injured in the slightest, the general will let your whole family accompany the general...... Phew, go! ”

A large group of soldiers hurriedly chased after Li Dao.

Guo Yan looked at the still fierce battlefield and said, "Mingjin...... The cavalry attacked and covered the withdrawal of the army! ”

"The last will be ordered!" The sitter said in unison.

Soon, the Xiliang army rang the bronze duo. The Xiliang Army is worthy of being a hundred battle heroes, and after hearing the sound of Jin Ming, the formation is not chaotic, and the rear team changes to the front team, and begins to retreat in an orderly manner.

Liu Zhang watched the enemy withdraw from the battlefield, and did not order the pursuit of victory, firstly, he did not win, but the enemy took the initiative to retreat and the formation was tight, and secondly, the tens of thousands of Xiliang cavalry galloping on the battlefield completely dispelled his idea of pursuit, in the face of the powerful Xiliang cavalry, the pursuit was obviously a meat bun and a dog!

Half an hour later, the Xiliang army left behind more than 5,000 corpses and a large number of weapons and safely evacuated the battlefield.