Chapter 65: The Bitter Battle (Part II)

"How is it possible..."Chen Youliang couldn't believe his ears at all, and protected his body with a shield with one hand, looking at it carefully. I saw that under the twilight wall, I don't know when it was already full of Mengyuan officers and soldiers, tens of thousands of horned bows were full, and gunpowder arrows with red stars and armor-piercing cones shining with cold light were shot up to the city in waves.

"Third brother be careful..."Zhang Dingbian made a tiger pounce and pressed Chen Youliang behind the arrow stack. The shield in his hand was raised diagonally upward, barely obscuring a small bunker between the body and the battlements of the arrows.

"Ding Dong Ding Dong Ding Dong..."The sound of the armor-piercing cone smashing on the shield was like a large bead and a small bead falling on a jade plate. Then, not far from the feet of the two, a dense explosion jumped. Not as loud as an artillery shell explosion, but on a large scale. The shock made the bones of the two tremble, and all the internal organs drilled into their throats and eyes.

"Let's go..."Taking advantage of the gap just after the end of a round of explosions, Zhang Dingbian picked up Chen Youliang, whose face was pale, and stumbled towards the road. If you don't leave, it's too late... We brothers, it's not worth dying here..."

Chen Youliang's strength was far less than his, and he was dragged and staggered for more than a dozen steps one after another, and one foot had already stepped on the edge of the road in a blink of an eye. However, he twisted his waist sharply and stuck the city wall with the shield in his hand, "Don't go!" You go by yourself, Lao Tzu doesn't go... I can't leave all my brothers here..."

Before the words fell, a thin wind sounded in the sky, followed by a black and oppressive cloud falling sharply. Thousands of steel arrow clusters shone with a strange cold light in the clouds.

"Let's go..."Zhang Dingbian shouted anxiously, pulled Chen Youliang suddenly, and rolled down the road with him towards the city.

The black feathered arrows followed his movements and landed at the top of the city, jumping up and bursting into dark blue sparks. One after another, the soldiers defending the city fell under the rain of arrows, and the blood pooled into a stream in the blink of an eye along the cracks in the masonry of the city wall.

"Boom... Rumble... Boom...""Boom... Rumble... Boom..."The gunpowder arrows caught in the feather arrows exploded one after another, spreading the shadow of death on the city.

The Mengyuan soldiers, like their ancestors, never refused to kill with sharp weapons. Back then, he was able to introduce the return cannon from the Western Regions, but now he can accept gunpowder without hesitation, and make full use of his own strengths, because of his simplicity, and give full play to its power.

Iron sand hits stainless steel armor with almost zero effect.

When the iron sand hits the cowhide armor, the effect will also be canceled by half.

However, whether it was the expensive steel armor or the relatively ordinary cowhide armor, it was far from the standard of one manpower among the defenders of the city.

Most of the soldiers only have cloth armor to protect themselves, and as long as they are affected by iron sand and projectiles, they are riddled with holes. And in the formula of Mengyuan gunpowder arrow, it is obviously mixed with some highly poisonous things. All the soldiers with slightly larger wounds, whether they were injured in the torso or limbs, quickly developed convulsions and coma, and in the blink of an eye, they completely lost their ability to resist.

"Ahh Uh, uh, uh" A centurion staggered over Chen Youliang's head as if he was drunk. His feet slid violently, and he fell on his back, black blood spurting out from his mouth, nostrils, and ears.

"Poison on the arrow, poison on the arrow...", the other two wounded soldiers, who were supporting each other to retreat, screamed and stopped, drew their knives, and slashed at their respective arms that had been shot by the armor-piercing cone. However, it was too late. Before the steel knife could make contact with their upper arms, the strength of their whole bodies had been drained by the poison. looked at each other, both of them fell limp, and their round eyes were full of unwillingness.

"Yes, see the blood seal the throat, see the blood seal the throat..."Suddenly a terrible name came to mind, Chen Youliang shouted and pushed Zhang Dingbian away, raised his shield and continued to go against the flow of people, "The people with armor come with me, and the people without armor all retreat down, and the tartar smeared the blood on the arrow to seal the throat..."

Without his warning, the defenders on the walls were also retreating. Whether it's a general wearing plate armor or an ordinary soldier wearing cloth armor. Living along the Yangtze River, they are no strangers to the four words "seeing blood and sealing their throats". Legend has it that this poison was produced in the sap of an ancient tree in Sichuan Province, and the soldiers and horses under the command of Badulu came from Sichuan. (Note 1)

"If you don't wear iron armor, you will go down, and there will be iron armor left..." Chen Youliang continued to rush up against the flow of people like a madman. Ironclad guards, ironclad guards, hurry up to the city. It's time for you to use your lives..."

In the crowd of people who were retreating along the horse road, several generals in iron armor were stunned and hesitated to slow down. The full-body armor purchased from Huaiyang at a high price has extremely strong protection against both iron sand and armor-piercing cones, which has been proven in the chaos just now. However, how could just a few people wearing iron armor stop the tens of thousands of troops outside the city? Even if you don't die from gunpowder arrows and armor-piercing cones, when the enemy army climbs up to the top of the city, you will be chopped into meat sauce.

"Lao Tzu is Chen Youliang, holding Jinwu Chen Youliang..."Chen Youliang didn't dare to look back at how many people followed him behind him, but his footsteps refused to stop for a moment, "Lao Tzu has farmed, fished, and worked as a jailer." But Lao Tzu finally lived like a person after voting for Xu Dashuai......"

The crowd of people who were retreating in a panic paused again, and several centurions spat at the ground hard, gritting their teeth and turning. Xu Shouhui, the Emperor of Tianwan, is indeed very unqualified, but he is really good to his brothers. In particular, it is not an exaggeration to describe these brothers who have come back from afar to protect him.

"Lao Tzu is Chen Youliang, and Chen Youliang is the ruling Jinwu Chen Youliang... Lao Tzu finally got a personal appearance, and Lao Tzu is going to die a personal appearance today. And you "turned around and pointed casually with the tip of your knife, you ran away today, and in this life you are only worthy of being a slave to others." Your sons and grandsons, like you, will always be slaves, and will never be born..."

More ironclad generals paused, gritted their teeth and turned. The petty bosses and ordinary soldiers who only had leather armor and cloth armor automatically made way for a narrow passage for the former to quickly join General Chen. General Chen is a bastard, but at least he was right just now, everyone has been a slave for half their lives, and everyone can't let their sons and grandsons be as useless as themselves.

"Crazy, what a fucking madman..."Zhang Dingbian, who had already retreated to the base of the city wall, scolded angrily. However, he couldn't watch his good brother die by himself, and after scolding, he picked up the shield that was thrown at his feet again, and shouted at the top of his throat, "Ironclad guards, ironclad guards, where are they all dead... It's time to fight hard..."

"Iron Guard, Iron Guard..."Zhang Bixian, Wu Hong, Wang Pu and others, who were trying to rush over to meet Chen Youliang, also shouted at the position where the reserve was hidden in the city, "Third Brother Chen is waiting for you, everyone is waiting for you on the city wall..."

"Third brother, don't worry, I'm here..."Not far from the city gate, someone responded loudly. Immediately after, a strong man nine feet tall appeared in the firelight. In his left hand he carried a wide and long steel knife, and in his right hand he carried a large iron shield. Every step forward, the ground trembled under my feet.

"General Chen, here we are..."Behind the strong man, more than three hundred sturdy men wrapped in iron armor slowly walked out. With a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, he slowly rushed towards the road.

"Good brother, come here..."Chen Youliang's face finally bloomed with a smile. Holding his shield, he rushed to the battlements on the city wall again, "There are only three arrows in the battle, and Lao Tzu doesn't believe that they can shoot endlessly." Whoever brought the thunder and came to give them a fresh taste..."

"Bring a handle, follow me..." Zhang Bi took an arrow step first, jumped over the layers of corpses, held his shield high in his left hand, stood side by side with Chen Youliang, and with the other hand, he quickly untied a projectile from his waist.

Wu Hong, Wang Pu and other generals each took their own soldiers and followed closely. With the shield he had just picked up, he formed a small phalanx and firmly protected Chen Youliang at the core.

The archers outside the city soon spotted them and adjusted their aims. The black arrows were like a tide, and the dozen shields were still standing, like a reef in the stormy waves.

"Boom..."A gunpowder arrow exploded on the shield, splitting the shield into four petals. Behind the shield, the soldier staggered and sat down, and the other soldier picked up the shield and stepped forward to fill in the position, once again sealing the gap that had been blown out.

"Good brother, it's enough..."Chen Youliang gritted his teeth and praised, lit the grenade handed over by Zhang Bixian, and quickly threw it out of the city.

"Boom...", the sudden explosion overturned four or five archers close to the city walls. The approaching enemy troops, like stabbed hornets, began to fight back frantically.

Shields are constantly being shattered by gunpowder arrows, but new warriors are constantly holding shields to fill their positions. Zhang Dingbian, Ou Puxiang, Yu Guang, generals in iron armor, and their own soldiers. An ironclad guard with a shield in his hand, and a man who only had leather armor and cloth armor on his body, but would rather stand up straight and die, gathered more and more on the head of Qizhou City, where the corpses were pillowed, more and more.

The random arrows shot from under the city became more and more crazy.

The men who walked towards the city became more and more determined.

Shields were erected one after another on the city walls. At first, it started as sporadic walls, but in the blink of an eye, it became one solid wall after another.

Shields were blown away by gunpowder arrows, and shield-bearers were killed by poisoned arrows. But with every gap, a new shield was put on top of it. The generals of Tianwan, who have no way out, are one after another.

"There are only three arrows in the battle, Lao Tzu see how many rounds you can shoot? Chen Youliang raised his hand and threw out the second thunderbolt outside the city, and continued to scream frantically in his mouth. "Lao Tzu is standing here today, waiting for you to come up. The more you attack, the happier Lao Tzu will be. Let's see who will admit it first? ……”

"Lao Tzu is Chen Youliang, and Chen Youliang is the ruling Jinwu. Lao Tzu has been the most face-saving official and the most beautiful woman he has ever slept with. Lao Tzu has already lived enough. Lao Tzu has to die like a man... Hahaha"

Note 1: See blood to seal the throat, collected from poison arrow wood. The tree used to be widely distributed in Yunnan and Guangxi. The sap contained in the tree was smeared on the cluster of arrows, and contact with the blood of the wounded person caused poisoning. Mild cases of hyperactivity and rapid death within two to twenty minutes when the dose is exceeded.

Note: There is only one change today, don't wait. Tomorrow will continue with two shifts.

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