Chapter 33 Salute before Soldiers
Nanzheng, as the county seat of Hanzhong, especially after Hanzhong divided Hanzhong, Nanzheng has been repaired several times, and now Nanzheng is not inferior to many state capitals, the city wall has a height of nearly three zhang, when Zhang Lu came to the city wall with a group of civil and military forces, the five thousand troops of Chang'an outside the city have been assembled. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Five thousand people is not much for a city like Nanzheng, and it even seems a little thin, but when these five thousand people are lined up outside Nanzheng City, a breath of Xiao and killing spreads, and that kind of oppressive momentum is by no means comparable to the Hanzhong soldiers who are cowering in a small place like Hanzhong, lacking training and actual combat.
This time, Wei Yan and Pang Tong brought not ordinary troops, it was the city guards of Chang'an City, with Lu Bu moving to Luoyang, the elite of the five divisions accompanied Lu Bu to the south, the status of the Chang'an City Guards naturally lost its original meaning, but they are still the rare elites under Lu Bu, perhaps not as strong as the five divisions, but far beyond ordinary soldiers, when the evil qi tempered by thousands of tempers in the killing is connected together, although it is only 5,500 people, but it makes people feel like facing the ocean, Zhang Lu could even find that many soldiers' bodies trembled involuntarily under this murderous aura.
It was Yang Ang and Yang Bo, who were generals, who were facing this army at the moment, and their faces were also very ugly.
A flag officer rushed out of the troops, Pegasus came to the city of Nanzheng, looked up at the position of the city wall, ignored the bows and arrows that locked himself, and said coldly: "I am the flag envoy under the command of the general of Poqiang Zhonglang, Hanzhong is too guarded, and Lord Zhang Luzhang can be in the city?" ”
On the city wall, everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at Zhang Lu, Zhang Lu took a deep breath, stepped forward, held the female wall and said loudly: "This official is, what do you have to say?" ”
"My lord Lu Bu, with benevolence and virtue spread the world, but today under the dispute, the princes rose, my lord intends to follow the example of the first emperor, sweep the world, return the world to peace, so that although the king has offended my lord many times, invaded my territory, but God has the virtue of good life, war together, life and souls, my lord hopes that the king can surrender, I would like to invite Mr. into Chang'an Academy, promote Taoism, and carry forward Taoism." The flag bearer took out a scroll from his bosom and unfolded it, reciting it aloud.
"I respect the name of the champion Hou, but Hanzhong has enjoyed peace for many years, since General Lu ......" Zhang Lu snorted coldly and opened his mouth to refuse, but halfway through the words, the flag bearer had already taken back the scroll and interrupted him.
"My lord has an order, salute first and then soldier, now since the king is unwilling to surrender, please make the king do it himself!" After speaking, the flag bearer ignored Zhang Lu's reaction, turned his horse's head, and directly retreated out of the range of the archers at the head of the city, took out a command flag from his horse, and waved it in the direction of the army.
"I ......" Zhang Lu looked at the flag bearer waving the flag in amazement, opened his mouth, but was speechless for a while, he had never seen such a horizontal persuasion.
"I'll just say it's useless." In the middle of the military formation, Wei Yan couldn't help rolling his eyes when he saw the flag envoy in charge of the flag order, and waved his hand to signal the army to attack.
"Salute first and then soldier, the lord said, when the truth can't be explained, hit with your fists, and after the fight, the reason can generally be explained." Pang Tong looked in the direction of the city wall on horseback and smiled.
"Shi Yuan, tell me honestly, are you really a student from Lumen Academy?" Wei Yan looked at Pang Tong in astonishment, he is also from Nanyang, he is naturally no stranger to Lumen Academy, it is a holy place for scholars, no matter how you look at it, no matter how you look or this remark, you don't fight with Lumen Academy, but like a hooligan.
Pang Tong's face turned dark, and he glared at Wei Yan fiercely, Wei Yan's face was solemn, and he slapped his horse forward, and the army marched forward slowly but firmly under his command, every step seemed to be on the enemy's heart, until it was less than two hundred steps away from the city wall.
"What do they want to do?" Zhang Lu's face was a little pale, and without any siege equipment, he didn't know what these people wanted to do.
"Don't worry about the lord, but it's just a bluff!" Yang Bo sneered and looked at the other party, at such a distance, even if they took advantage of the city wall, they couldn't shoot the arrow that far.
"A long snake formation, open!" The flag bearer sat on horseback and waved the command flag, and the 5,500 soldiers quickly pulled apart, gathered into four rows, and under the command of the flag bearer, they distanced themselves from each other.
Wei Yan raised the big sword in his hand, and everyone quickly raised the repeater in their hands, pointing into the air with the movement of the flag bearer.
"Burst shot!" The big knife in Wei Yan's hand swung down fiercely.
"Buzz~"
Under the horrified gaze of Zhang Lu and the others, everyone quickly shot out the three arrow clusters stored in the repeater crossbow, and the arrow clusters quickly converged into three dark clouds in the air, and quickly crossed a distance of two hundred steps and landed at the head of the city.
"Puff~"
The defenders at the head of the city did not have any preparation at all, and they were shot down by the relentless rain of arrows, and the soldiers who had not been hit by the arrows did not have time to rejoice, the second and third waves of arrow rain followed, and the screams instantly filled the entire city wall, and when Zhang Lu, who was knocked down by Yang Bo and others in time, looked up, he only felt that his scalp was numb, but when he saw that on the city wall, except for a few soldiers who hid under the female wall like them, survived, the entire section of the city wall was almost emptied by the other party at this moment, and the other party's crossbow arrows were so terrifying.
The rain of arrows did not continue to attack, Zhang Lu and others cautiously poked their heads out of the city wall, but saw that the other party re-contracted the formation, the flag envoy came to the city wall again, and said to Zhang Lu: "My lord has a word first, first salute and then soldier, this time as a courtesy, to show the envoy that our army is strong, if the envoy is stubborn, our army will directly attack the city, my general will give the envoy three hours of time, within three hours, the envoy can do anything, but if three hours later, the envoy has not decided, our army will forcibly attack the city!" ”
After speaking, the flag envoy did not wait for Zhang Lu's reply, turned the horse's head and returned to the formation.
"This ...... How can this be? Zhang Lu said in a panic, the first time he saw such a terrifying crossbow arrow, after two hundred steps, he could still shoot through the armor, and at this moment he was lying on the female wall, looking at the dense arrow shafts on the battlements of the city wall, and his scalp was numb like an electric shock.
"The lord can be false with him and delay time, there are still 60,000 troops around my Hanzhong, you can send people for help, and our army only needs to delay for three days to encircle and suppress it." Yan Pu stepped forward and bowed.
"Three days?" Yang Bo sneered: "People have already said that if they don't descend after three hours, they will attack, dare to ask Yan Changshi, why did you come to us for three days?" ”
Yang Ang took a step forward, bowed down and said: "Lord, although the enemy's bow and crossbow are powerful, our army is invincible, there are still 10,000 troops in my city, and the last general is willing to lead 8,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to meet the battle and destroy it!" ”
"General Yang can be sure, the thief army's bow and crossbow are strong, and they are invincible!" Zhang Lu said worriedly.
"Don't worry, my lord, although their bows and crossbows are sharp, the last general only needs to attack from both wings with a fish scale array, and they will be able to break it!" Yang Ang said proudly.
"The end will go together!" Yang Bo took a step forward, bowed down and said, "We can rush out of the city gates on both sides, and each lead an army to attack the enemy formation." ”
Zhang Lu looked at Yan Pu, but saw Yan Pu nodding slightly, and nodded immediately: "Okay, just follow the two generals!" ”
In Wei Yan's array, Wei Yan looked at the sky, frowned at Pang Tong and said, "Shiyuan, will they really send troops?" We didn't have many arrows with us! ”
Although the power of the crossbow is powerful, the consumption of arrow clusters is also three times that of ordinary crossbow bows, an arrow bag, 5,500 people, lack of siege weapons, and it may not be able to capture the city.
"Don't worry, Zhang Lu doesn't know the depth of our army, their crossbow arrows are not as far as our army's crossbow arrows, is it possible that they still want to be beaten all the time?" Pang Tong said proudly.
"And what if the enemy forces are determined to keep their doors closed?" Wei Yan glared at Pang Tong.
"What else?" Pang Tong rolled his eyes: "The general doesn't really think that we can break through Nanzheng without arrows and siege weapons?" If after three hours, the enemy army is closed, we will withdraw the army, if we can induce Zhang Lu to send troops, if not, we will retreat to Yangping Pass, and wait for the follow-up baggage to come, and then attack. ”
This time, the two decided to attack Nan Zheng directly without stopping, just to gamble, betting that Zhang Lu would not dare to be the enemy after seeing the power of their crossbow arrows when they were caught off guard and defenseless.
Of course, it's not all right to bet, Pang Tong has studied Zhang Lu, he is not a too ambitious person, and although his personality is not cowardly, it has absolutely nothing to do with being strong, he belongs to the kind that goes with the flow, and he can divide Hanzhong, but he was also forced by Liu Zhang's idiot, such a person, in this case, the possibility of falling is very high.
However, except for Pang Tong, none of the strategists under Lu Bu would probably agree to this extremely gambling method, but at this moment, Pang Tong and Wei Yan are here, and the two almost hit it off.
"Isn't that a waste of all your work?" Wei Yan said with a dark face.
"How so?" Pang Tong said with a smile: "That Yang Ren is still in the hands of our army, his brother Yang Song is a big family in Hanzhong, good at accumulating wealth and very good at demagoguery, quite trusted by Zhang Lu, but he can buy it to him, secretly induce Zhang Lu to surrender, if he does not surrender, let him encourage the central Han generals to surrender, there are many ways." ”
"Hey, if Pang Degong knows that you are so insidious, I don't know how to feel." Wei Yan sneered.
"Don't you know that soldiers are not tired of cheating? The soldier is treacherous, false and real, how can it be considered insidious, you probably haven't worked with Jia Wen and the old fox, otherwise you wouldn't call me insidious. Pang Tong glanced at Wei Yan with pity, shook his head and said.
Wei Yan shook his head, Jia Xu naturally knew that the two of them voted for Lu Bu at the same time, but there was no chance to work together.
Zhang Lu did not disappoint Pang Tong, and while the two were talking, two armies and horses came out from both sides of Nanzheng and came from both wings to Wei Yanhe. (To be continued.) )