The wooden planks on the walled wall suddenly appeared one by one square windows, countless arrow clusters erupted like a torrent of steel, and the Cao army that was about to rush to the wall was ruthlessly attacked, the shield shattered under the dense rain of arrows, and the shield men and archers hiding behind did not have time to react before they became hedgehogs, in the tooth-souring crunching sound, the spear-like giant arrows plowed out a death zone formed by the blood in the Cao army's military array, and the momentum of the Cao army was stunned by the sudden fierce attack, Some people still maintained a charging posture, and were quickly engulfed by the arrows, and more chose to retreat, and the sudden attack of the enemy and the thick and long arrows made the morale of the warriors collapse instantly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Mingjin!" Xiahou Yuan's face was a little ugly, a phalanx of 10,000 people was almost killed by the other party with dense crossbow arrows, and the range of the opponent's crossbow arrows far exceeded the range of normal crossbow arrows, and what was even more hateful was that after Zhang Liao gave the order, he quickly retreated into the fortifications with men and horses, and the arrows shot by the archers of the Cao army were all blocked by the partition above the fortifications, and the plan to concentrate troops to break one point completely failed.

After hearing Mingjin, the Cao army in front was like an amnesty, the blow of that moment was desperate, and he began to retreat frantically, but the attack in the fortifications did not stop, after five years of research and development, the range of the crossbow has now extended from the original fifty steps to one hundred and twenty steps, and even the range of the crossbow is nearly two hundred steps, and the most terrifying God of War crossbow can extend the effective range to five hundred steps, but the poignant attack interval, even after five years of research, has not been able to make much breakthrough, in such a battle, It's hard to use it a second time.

But even if it is a distance of fifty steps to two hundred steps, it also allows Cao Jun to leave a piece of corpses, Xiahou Yuan was really beaten by Zhang Liaoyin, a 10,000-person phalanx was completely disabled, and less than 5,000 people finally came back alive, plus the losses in the other two places, just this battle, made Xiahou Yuan lose 6,000 troops, this result, made Xiahou Yuan hate itchy.

Although he knew that Guanzhong's crossbow arrows were powerful and had made great contributions to Lu Bu five years ago, after a lapse of five years, when he showed his grandeur in the Central Plains again, the combat effectiveness it showed could already reverse the gap in numbers.

In the face of the terrifying arrow rain attack on Zhang Liao's side, Xiahou Yuan did not dare to touch it again, so he could only retreat to the camp, guard the camp, and wait for the arrival of the follow-up baggage.

"General! The end will be incompetent! The general in charge of supervising the battle escaped by luck and came to Xiahou Yuan's side, saying bitterly.

"It's not about you." Xiahou Yuan shook his head, in fact, this time it was caused by his misjudgment, and he couldn't complain about others.

"General." Several staff members entered the tent, looked at Xiahou Yuan, who was pale, hesitated for a moment, bowed down and said: "The crossbow arrows in the Lu thief army are strong, and with the protection of the stockade, we can't see through the reality at all. ”

"I know that." Xiahou Yuan nodded silently, with those strong bows and crossbows, as the defender of the city, Zhang Liao's advantage is too great, especially the circle-shaped camp, which is simply a huge turtle shell, if this turtle shell is not broken, Xiahou Yuan has no chance at all.

"Or you can cut off their food!" A staff member suggested.

"Water attack can also be tried, I see that its camps are all wooden, if you attack with water, it will be able to be destroyed." Another staff member said.

"I have sent Li Zhao upstream to look for it, but Zhang Liao may not give us this opportunity, and we may be able to give it a try." Xiahou Yuan nodded, if Zhang Liao made up his mind to only defend it, if he wanted to force him out, he could only do it by robbing the grain.

"Send many scouts to find their food." Xiahou Yuan said in a deep voice: "Order all departments, no one is allowed to fight without my order." ”

"Yes!" After the generals bowed down and agreed, they each retired, and Xiahou Yuan sat alone in the big tent, studying Zhang Liao's map.

Now Zhang Liao's purpose is very clear, that is, after besieging Yecheng, he deliberately lured him to attack, and then relied on that strange camp and the advantage of strong bows and crossbows to consume the living strength of Cao's army in Jizhou.

This method of warfare is very shameless, but Xiahou Yuan has to admit that Zhang Liao has brought into full play the advantages of Lu Bu's strong bow and crossbow, Cao Cao has been trying all kinds of ways to get the crossbow in Lu Bu's hands over the years, so that the craftsmen under his rule can study and imitate and even improve, and there have been many achievements over the years, but unfortunately it cannot be built in batches like Lu Bu, this has always been a thing that has plagued Cao Cao, I have been puzzled before, why a mere crossbow can give Cao Cao such a headache, until today, Xiahou Yuan completely understands why Cao Cao has such a headache, The opponent's superiority in crossbow arrows, with enough arrows, made any army that wanted to attack Lü Bu City have to spend several times more than before to attack.

Yecheng connects Hedong and Montenegro, once it is taken by Zhang Liao, the entire southern Hebei will be opened by Zhang Liao, whether it is Hedong or Bingzhou, people and horses can quickly assemble here, and then wreak havoc in the southern Hebei region, so Yecheng must be protected.

Early the next morning, the news from Li Zhao upstream made Xiahou Yuan's face darken, Zhang Liao had already built a camp in the upstream area, and once he got close, he would be ruthlessly shot by the other party.

Although there was not much hope for retribution, but when he knew the facts, Xiahou Yuan's face still turned dark, which meant that if Zhang Liao wanted to use water to deal with him, he could build a dam upstream, and he asked Li Zhao to monitor upstream, once the other party wanted to build a dam and release water, Xiahou Yuan could have enough time to prepare.

The scouts sent out have not been able to find out the exact direction of the opponent's grain route, according to the intelligence, Zhang Liao had transported a large number of supplies from Handan, Zhao and other places into the circle camp before, and in a short period of time, there was no need to worry about military rations at all.

Zhang Liao is obviously preparing to fight a protracted war, which makes Xiahou Yuan very puzzling, isn't this equivalent to giving him time to continuously mobilize more forces to exterminate him?

"Did the general find out, how did the other party deliver the message?" A staff member raised his doubts: "In the past two days, I have not found that the other side has scouts, once the military rations here are exhausted, but the grain and grass in the rear have not been delivered in time, is it not a way out?" ”

This is also Xiahou Yuan's doubts, Zhang Liao is a famous general under Lu Bu, and he has had more than one confrontation in the past, knowing that this person has a good art of war, and it is impossible to make such a stupid mistake, not only the problem of grain and grass, but also how he is responsible for contacting the military camp upstream.

That military camp happened to be stuck in the Taihang Mountains, and grain and grass could be transported down from the Taihang Mountains, but in the circle-shaped barracks here, even if there was more grain and grass in reserve, it would always run out one day.

Too many doubts made Xiahou Yuan puzzled, and in a depressed mood, Xiahou Yuan took people out to inspect the barracks, and the morale was generally not high, and 6,000 soldiers and horses were lost in the morning yesterday, which was too big a blow to the morale of Cao Jun.

"Yo~"

In the sky, a war eagle hovered in the air, Xiahou Yuan raised his head, a little irritable in his heart, he knew that this was from the ability of the Hu people, domesticating the war eagle to monitor the enemy's situation, any large-scale military action of his own, he could not hide from the eyes of this beast, Lu Bu was very proficient in the use of beasts!

As if thinking of something, Xiahou Yuan suddenly turned his head and looked at Zhang Liao's military camp, and the pigeons that kept flying around made Xiahou Yuan flash a flash of inspiration in his mind.

"Someone, go get me some of those white birds!" Xiahou Yuan pointed to the carrier pigeons shuttling back and forth in the barracks, the war eagles could understand, but those pigeons really didn't know what to do.

Soon, someone followed the direction where the pigeon was most densely traveling, secretly shot down a few pigeons, and sent them to Xiahou Yuan.

"Sure enough!" Looking at the bamboo tube tied to the pigeon's leg, Xiahou Yuan took out a note from it, sneered, and unfolded the note.

"What is this?" After seeing the content on the note, Xiahou Yuan was a little dumbfounded, only to see that there was no information on the note, only a large number of strange symbols such as '1'''2''3'''4', and looked blankly at the staff around him: "You are all well-educated people, can you recognize what these are?" ”

Most of the staff around Xiahou Yuan are some Jizhou celebrities, not to mention their ability, but most of them have good knowledge, and they took the note from Xiahou Yuan's hand at this moment, and they all showed a blank look in their eyes.

"In order to prevent secrets from being stolen, some families will record their account books through codes, which may be codes." One of the staff members hesitated.

"Cipher?" Xiahou Yuan was stunned: "Maybe crack?" ”

A group of staff members shook their heads with a wry smile when they heard this, the code generally has a corresponding sample, such as a book such as the Analects and the Spring and Autumn Period, mark the location in the code, and then look for the corresponding words in the book to recombine, now there is not even a sample, not to mention that they don't know what these ghost-like things represent, even if they know, there is no sample, they can only use a book to test, and now they don't even know the basic meaning of the symbol, if they want to crack it, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and a group of staff suggested that Xiahou Yuan give up this plan.

However, this is an important piece of information, and Lu Bu's army transmits information to each other through these white birds, which not only saves a lot of manpower, but more importantly, the intelligence can be transmitted quickly, which is more convenient than the eight-hundred-mile rush.

Obviously, although he didn't know the specific meaning of these codes, Zhang Liao kept in touch with all parties in this way, and the grain and grass would be sent in at the most critical time, making Xiahou Yuan more passive, and it was more difficult to force Zhang Liao out.

"Our army's thunderbolt may be a try!" A staff member suggested, Xiahou Yuan's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this, and he hurriedly sent someone to push out the thunderbolt car, but before the thunderbolt got close, it was shot into a pile of rotten wood by dozens of crossbow arrows that came out of the camp, and several lives were taken, and the plan to break through the camp with the thunderbolt car was declared a failure before it officially began. (To be continued.) )