Chapter 332: Engagement
At night, the Xiongnu arrived outside the city of Linyu.
When he arrived, Bashur did not attack, and although he was in a hurry, he also knew that the soldiers were tired and that they had to be given a good night's rest.
"General Guan, the Huns have not yet gained a firm foothold and are extremely arrogant, why don't we attack at night?" After a day's rest, Gongsun Du recovered a lot.
Guan Yu shook his head and didn't answer, he looked at the Hun army outside the city seriously, observing their every move.
A night attack was a good idea, and it had a high success rate, because at the moment, it seemed that the Huns were really defenseless. But Guan Yu knew the situation in the city, half of them were strong men who had just been recruited, and the rest had not been trained in actual combat.
Night attacks have high requirements for soldiers, if you don't cooperate well in the dark, it's easy to miss, and when the time comes, the situation will be very passive, if Guan Yu is with a guard battalion, then he will not hesitate to do it.
There are too many enemies, and they are all cavalry, and their combat power is not bad, and rash night attacks can easily lead to failure, and Guan Yu feels that he has not yet reached the time when he needs to take risks, so he can't spoil the lord's plan because of greed.
Gongsun Du tried his best to persuade Guan Yu, seeing that Guan Yu did not agree, and even wanted to take someone himself, but in the end he was stopped by Guan Yu.
"General Gongsun, we have few people to dispatch, even if the night attack is successful, it will not be able to kill too many enemies, if it is bitten by the enemy, it is not as good as killing more enemies on the city wall."
Night attack, unless you can let the enemy blow up the camp, the results will be great, if you can't, that is, kill and injure the enemy more, but the enemy is too strong, if entangled, you will definitely be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, if you don't entangle, you can leave with one blow, and you can't kill many enemies.
Seeing that Guan Yu insisted on opposing the night attack, Gongsun Du did not insist anymore.
After the Huns arrived, they were still very arrogant, and a group of people shouted under the city.
"Haha, the people in the city listen to Lao Tzu, hurry up and open the door and surrender, otherwise when they go in, they will want you to look good." A small soldier barked on his horse.
After he finished speaking, a few small soldiers next to him screamed and coaxed.
"Our general said that if we don't open the gates, when we enter, they will slaughter the city." Another soldier shouted.
Seeing that the threat was ineffective, a group of people scolded under the city, what was ugly and scolded, seeing that the city had not responded, I thought that I was afraid of them, and became more and more arrogant, and the Huns dismounted, more and more obscene actions.
"Archers prepare."
"Shoot."
Guan Yu is not angry, in fact, he is very angry, just for the general, he must control his emotions.
Dozens of arrows shot towards the shouting Huns, and those few people saw that the arrows were fast and fast, and the power was very great, the key was that these dozens of arrows formed a small arrow array and shrouded them.
These people are all archery, and they can still see the good and bad, and when they see the arrows flying, they are so frightened that they roll and crawl, and they run out of range, and they no longer dare to be arrogant.
Guan Yu was very relieved to see them embarrassed, but there was still no expression on his face.
Gongsun Du was secretly frightened when he saw it, he was born in Jiangmen, and he knew at a glance that these soldiers were not simple, and he made a judgment compared with his own soldiers.
However, Gongsun Du was also relieved, the Ye family has been deeply cultivated in Liaodong for many years, Ye Chen also started with the Yellow Turban, and many of these soldiers have also undergone several years of training, and it is normal to have such a level.
What Gongsun Du didn't know was that many of these soldiers had indeed undergone several years of training, but they were not the regular army of Liaodong, just a militia, and if Gongsun Du knew this, he would probably be greatly surprised.
The Huns were so frightened that they did not dare to provoke again, and the night passed peacefully.
The next day, the two sides set up a battle.
The Xiongnu surrounded the city, and the soldiers below were gearing up, and the walls of Linyu City were lower than Yangle City, and in their opinion, they could solve them in one day.
And at the head of the city, Guan Yu has already arranged, it turns out that the defenders and strong men in the city, they are under the battlements, ready to attack the enemy with stones and rolling logs at any time.
The militia of Liaodong, in the back, set up shields, and some of them held bows and arrows in their hands, ready to shoot at the Huns.
Liaodong has fought with the grassland peoples more than once, knows their attack methods, and has done a lot to deal with them.
The Huns put on a menacing look, Ba Shuer already knew about last night's incident, and he originally wanted to give others a dismount, but he was slapped in the face.
This made Bashuer very annoyed, he looked down on the Han people at all, and he couldn't tolerate being slapped in the face by the Han people this time, so he put on a full posture as soon as he came up.
The Huns lined up, murderous.
Bashuel pulled out his scimitar, pointed forward, and shouted, "Kill." ”
Suddenly, the sound of killing shook the sky, as if it was about to send out all the anger received last night.
Guan Yu was in the city, and felt a strong murderous aura rushing towards him, but this could not affect him, his face sank like water, and he began to command.
With a wave of his hand, Guan Yu asked the militia in Liaodong to hold up their shields and let the rest of the people hide under the battlements.
After a while, the first wave of arrow rain of the Huns arrived, and the arrows were all over the sky, and the branches were full of murderous energy.
The rain of arrows covered most of the city, and if there was no protection, they would definitely die and not be able to die again, but Guan Yu and they had already prepared, and many shields blocked the arrows, only a few shields were not tightly covered, and they were injured.
After a round of arrow rain, Guan Yu did not fight back, still standing still, and soon the second round of arrow rain arrived.
"Shoot."
After the rain of arrows from the Huns, Guan Yu immediately shouted, and suddenly, a rain of arrows shot out of the city.
This rain of arrows formed an arrow array, but the arrow array seemed a little loose, and it did not achieve the kind of solidity of the guard battalion, which was much worse than the arrow array of the Huns.
Despite this, but their power is not bad, Guan Yu calculated the right time, and attacked the middle of their ranks, the Huns' cavalry was moving at high speed, and they were attacked in the middle, and they couldn't dodge at all, and many people saw the arrow array killing themselves, so they could only shake their bodies, or use the bows and arrows in their hands to block.
But it is not so easy to dodge on horseback, and when the arrow array poured down, Guan Yu saw that hundreds of people had fallen off their horses, and many people had tripped over the horses in front of them.
The momentum of the entire Huns was stunned, and no one thought that the arrow array they were proud of would be, although it was not as good as themselves, but the other party had the advantage of the city wall, and they suffered a lot.
When Bashur saw this scene from behind, he was so angry that he almost jumped up, and he wanted to fly to the city wall and cut down the enemy.
As soon as he engaged, he was overshadowed, although he was only killed and injured more than a hundred people, but he saw that his team had just been beaten, and his momentum was immediately suppressed by the other party.
In a war, momentum is very important, if you lose, you don't lose the battle, the momentum is suppressed, if you don't recover, the battle will get bigger and worse.
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