The shield-bearers marched in order, not very fast, but like a wall, they slowly advanced down the city, and the archers at the head of the city were ready to bend their bows and arrows.

Hu Zongmao's Xunzi battalion has 5,000 officers and soldiers, plus the forcibly recruited people, there are nearly 10,000 people, but there are not many archers, archers are technical troops, not just individuals can shoot arrows.

Although I know that when defending the city, the power of the archers is the most important, and I need to rely on the archers to assist in defending the city, so I once urgently trained the archers, but it is not easy to train an excellent archer, but the city has prepared a large number of strong bows and arrows, but the archers who can defend the entire Hezhou city are less than a thousand.

In fact, the real archers of the Xunzi battalion are only about 500 people, and nearly 1,000 archers can be put together, and it is also because of the forced conscription of men, many of whom used to hunt for a living, there are many mountains in the northwest, and many people who live in difficulty have no choice but to go into the mountains to hunt and obtain food, and because of this, there are a group of hunters with good archery skills among the people in the northwest, and these hunters were forcibly recruited to Hezhou City, Hu Zongmao naturally selected those who are good at she arrows and incorporated them into the archers.

The main gate is the main defense point, so here, Hu Zongmao had arranged nearly five hundred archers, before Chu Huan's soldiers and horses arrived, Hu Zongmao learned that Chu Huan's main attack direction was as he guessed, so he reluctantly transferred some archers from other buddies, and the other three doors each kept a hundred archers in case of accidents, and on the side of the main gate, about seven hundred archers were arranged.

Seven hundred is not a big number, but it is enough to deal with the current situation, the archers at the head of the city, organized into two columns, more than three hundred people in a group, one group in front, one group in the back, forming two lines on the head of the city, the front column is close to the edge of the battlements, just waiting for an order, immediately she's the arrows, and the back row has also been bowed, and when the first row is finished, they will immediately come forward to fill, and so on, maintaining the high speed of the bow and arrows.

Chu Huan was riding on top of the Thunder Fire Qilin at this time, looking ahead, watching the shield soldiers move forward, his face expressionless, but his eyes were unusually solemn.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can survive a hundred battles, Chu Huan attacked Hezhou City, and naturally had an understanding of Hu Zongmao, the general who defended the city, and knew the characteristics of this person's character and tactical methods.

Hu Zongmao not only strengthened and heightened the city wall, but also dug a trench outside the city, the original intention was to prevent the enemy army from rushing to the city smoothly, which Chu Huan had naturally sent someone to investigate in advance.

Before the soldiers came to the city, Chu Huan had already sent people to investigate outside Hezhou City in the dark, and had already determined the specific location of the trench outside the city and the width.

The trench is covered with a layer of dust and sand, once you step on it, you will inevitably sink into it, and the loss of troops caused by this, of course Chu Huan does not want to see it, so for the trench outside the city, before arriving in Hezhou City, he discussed the countermeasures with Pei Ji early, since Hu Zongmao can dig a ditch, there is naturally a way to deal with the trench here, and if you dig the soil and fill the ditch, this is of course unrealistic.

In order to dig the defensive trench outside the city, Hu Zongmao used a large number of manpower, the ditch is very deep, even if there is no threat, Chu Huan's side to fill the ditch, it is not a day or two to complete, not to mention that at this time at the head of Hezhou City, the archers are eyeing the tiger, it is impossible to give this side the opportunity to fill the ditch with peace of mind, but I am afraid that if the trench is not filled, the people who fill the ditch will have been wiped out.

The best way, of course, is to build a road above the trench, fortunately, it is not difficult to find wood, Chu Huan ordered the soldiers to cut the wooden planks, and arrived with a large number of thick planks, and on the edge of the trench under the city, inconspicuous marks have been made, Chu Huan is a little lucky, the depth of the trench that Hu Zongmao ordered to dig is indeed not weak, but it is not a lot, long and thick planks, enough to be built on it.

Seeing the Chu army slowly advancing over, approaching the trench, and already within the range of the she, Hu Zongmao finally slowly raised the hand holding the knife, raised it high, and suddenly waved his arm forward, the blade pointed forward, and the archers did not hesitate, the bow was like the moon, the fingers were loose, and the arrows on the city head suddenly rained like raindrops, and they rushed towards the Chu army that was approaching.

The arrows were like rain, and the front column of stickers took out arrows and immediately retreated, and the back row quickly stepped forward, already full of bows like the moon, and went out without hesitation.

The arrows are like flying locusts, the shield soldiers of the Chu army will raise the shield, forming an iron wall, but after all, it is impossible to be impermeable, in the chaos of arrows, muffled screams sounded, whether someone in the military formation fell to the ground with arrows, that is, those shield hands holding shields, although they protected most of their bodies, but sometimes there were random arrows to the legs that were difficult to cover, and the arrows knelt down, and the vacated gap immediately had arrows into them.

When the archers at the head of the city began to shoot arrows, the war drums of the Chu army became more urgent, and the army formation of the Chu army, which was slowly advancing, gradually became faster with the rumbling drums.

The shield bearer was in front, the infantry carrying the planks followed behind, and behind the infantry, there were already archers in the Chu army array, and within the she-mileage, the Chu army archers were already bending their bows and arrows, facing the city head, compared to the archers at the city head, the threat brought by the Chu army archers was naturally much weaker.

The rebels are condescending, and the Chu army wants to go from the bottom up, the speed and strength of the arrows are completely different, but the Chu army archers are out of battle, of course, they don't really want to cause much damage to the soldiers at the head of the city, just to be able to suppress the momentum of the other party and create an opportunity for the companions in front to take the road, everyone knows that if you delay a little more in this city, you will have an extra chance of death, so the pace is getting faster and faster. But as every now and then someone in the formation fell, and the shield bearer was hit by an arrow, creating a vacancy, the whole formation began to be somewhat scattered.

The archers of the Chu army saw that the military formation in front of them began to be a little scattered, and they even ran arrows one after another, wanting to suppress the arrows that rained down on the city's head and cover their companions in front as much as possible.

Hu Zongmao looked at the originally neat and uniform Chu army formation under the attack of the rain of arrows, and there was already chaos, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, and sneered: "Chu Huan thought he was bringing a fierce general, but now it seems that it is just a group of rabble, and the fancy shelf is good-looking, if you really want to fight, it is nothing more than that." ”

The generals next to him were all in agreement, Hu Zongmao was already very confident in defending the city, and at this time, seeing that the Chu army was so easy to disarray the formation, he was even more confident.

Chu Huan saw that the military formation had been loosened, and frowned slightly, beside him was Han Ying, the general of the Zhenzi Battalion, and he naturally saw the situation on the battlefield clearly, seeing Chu Huan frowning, he could only say: "Chu Du, the Pingxi Army was formed by Old General Yu, although the old general has the intention to train the Pingxi Army into the most powerful army to deter the northwest, but ...... Before his wish was fulfilled, he had already driven the crane west, the Pingxi Army itself was mixed, if General Yu was alive, he could fuse these people together to form a powerful fist ......! ”

Chu Huan bowed slightly, his expression was solemn, and he said, "Old General Yu does have this ability!" ”

"General Yu Lao has not put the Pingxi Army in order, he passed away, although the soldiers of the Pingxi Army also have combat experience, but they are still scattered and have not formed a real combat effectiveness." Han Ying sighed: "When Dongfang Xin took over the old general as the general of Pingxi, he did not put his mind on training the army, but thought of various methods to eliminate dissidents, and only thought about turning the Pingxi army into his Dongfang Xin's army. Raising his hand and pointing at the attacking Chu army in front, "Pull any of them out, they can be regarded as qualified soldiers, but when combined, they are far from being able to exert their due combat effectiveness, the training time is too short, and the cooperation between them is far from reaching the level of tacit understanding." ”

Chu Huan nodded and said, "What General Han said is extremely true. Looking ahead, he said slowly: "The legion left by General Yu, as a junior, we can't let them insult the old general's statement, since the old general wants to build the Pingxi Army into the most powerful army in the entire northwest, we should inherit the old general's will and fulfill his old man's wish." "Raise your hand, the whip pointed forward," many of them have fought with the Xiliang people, by heart, many people are the defeated army under the Xiliang people, both morale and self-confidence have been hit hard, as a soldier, if you want to regain your self-confidence, you must have glory, the glory of soldiers can restore their self-confidence, and glory can only come from victory! ”

Han Ying bowed slightly, and Chu Huan continued: "Since the withdrawal of the Western Liang people, the Pingxi Army has not been well trained in the hands of Dongfang Xin, and they have not even really fought a hard battle, they need to be trained, and the best way to train is to be tempered on the battlefield, and the training of blood and fire will make them grow faster." ”

At this time, the shield bearer had stopped, in front of them, there was a trench, the shieldman had already reached out his knife, braving the threat of a rain of arrows, the knife was slashed on the ground in front, the sand and dust covered on the ditch was not very thick, and soon the trench was revealed, and when he saw the edge of the trench, the soldiers behind the shield man were already quickly carrying the plank, and rushed to the trench in front of him, and put on a thick plank, and at this time the arrows at the head of the city were even sharper, and the archers at the head of the city did not care who the arrows were directed at. You only need to send the arrows towards the dense military formation of the Chu army, and under the random arrows, you can always bring damage to the enemy.

Hu Zongmao watched the soldiers in the Chu army fall down from time to time, full of spirit, only felt that his whole body was full of strength, and his ears could hear the drums in the opponent's army formation becoming more dull and loud, looking up, his brows tightened, as if he was talking to the people around him, and seemed to be saying to himself: "They are going to attack the city......!" ”

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