The sound of string strikes continued to sound on the embankment. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 With Pang Tong's order, the soldiers of Li Shengjun on the embankment can be described as ten thousand arrows. The bed crossbows, the size of a baby's arm, continued to be fired from the bed crossbows. This time, Pang Tong arranged 600 bed crossbows on the embankment and fired them in two batches to produce a relatively fast attack frequency. The projection of each wave of 300 bed crossbow guns made Cao Bing in the Han River miserable. Originally, the bed crossbow gun was a weapon with extremely powerful attack power, and the bed ballista gun equipped by Li Sheng was produced in the same batch as the navy and had the same power, which was originally used as a weapon for river defense to defend against the attack of the Jiangdong navy. They are so powerful that they can easily tear through the armor of the Jiangdong Navy Ship and Warship, let alone just use it against this basically powerless raft.

The spear was heavily attached to the raft's logs. That huge force can penetrate even the city wall, let alone the raft at the moment. Although the power of the raft was greatly buffered by the buoyancy of the river, the rope used to strengthen the raft was greatly broken. The raft will scatter. The soldiers on the raft also fell into the water one after another. They struggled and cried out, as northerners, most of them did not know water, they were writhing in the water, some of them were lucky, of course, they caught the scattered logs, and some of them were unlucky but they fell to the bottom of the river. The scene was chaotic for a while, but it wasn't the worst for Cao Bing. Just when all this was still chaotic, the bed crossbow guns suddenly burst out, and the tung oil and iron sand contained in them spread out like a raging storm, but they devoured a radius of several feet in an instant, and beat Cao Bingyou, who was already embarrassed, to slash his head and cover his face. Suddenly, all kinds of miserable howls like killing pigs sounded on the surface of the river. Countless people who had the same experience as this raft couldn't help but howl miserably. They struggled in the river, tumbling under the cold moonlight, and the whole Han water became boiling because of what they did.

The blood quickly diluted in the running water. While they fade their color, they also stain the river red. The clean water turned red, and under the cold moonlight, it produced an eerie feeling. Everything is as Pang Tong said to Zhang Bao, this is a massacre, a massacre of Li Shengjun against Cao Jun. At least not until Cao Ren's troops had crossed the river and landed.

"Wind! Floating three points high, the string stretching one foot five, and the left deviation six points" The loud slogan continued to sound on the ground. Standing between the bed crossbows were rows of archers who had long been ready. They work in teams, and each team adjusts the angle of their bows and arrows, the length of the strings, and the offset under the orders of their respective captains. "Let it ......!" When they had prepared everything, they shouted with such a command, but the bowstring in their hands loosened, and the bow and arrow on the bowstring were easily projected. There were a total of 15,000 archers on the embankment, and they divided them into three waves in a group of less than 5,000 people, and they continued to draw their bows and shoot, so that the arrows in the sky flew endlessly towards the enemy and fell between the enemy groups. These are the most common arrows, but even if they are so common, they still have strong attack power after a certain distance of projection. The arrow feathers kept falling, constantly piercing into the bodies of those Cao soldiers. Although they all used one hand to prop up their shields, trying to protect their bodies with this, under Li Shengjun's attack, such protection was still useless. Arrows shot from the embankment not only have a longer range, but also have much more penetration. They were a terrible nightmare for Cao Jun, who was trying to cross the river.

For a time, the front army and the rear flank all suffered a powerful blow from Li Shengjun. Li Shengjun attacked Cao's rear flank with bed crossbows to prevent them from connecting with the front army; At the same time, he attacked the front army with archers, and wiped out their living forces with a rain of arrows, causing them to bleed - this is one of Pang Tong's killer weapons, and it is also a battle that he has planned for a long time. Pang Tong just wanted to give full play to the advantages of close cooperation on his side, and use the embankment that could be compared to the city wall to resist the attack of Cao's army. All this was just an idea, an idea in advance, but at the moment, it seems that the actual implementation of this idea has not caused the ordinary good. Cao Jun suffered heavy losses under the blow of Pang Tong's move.

"Damn it!" Regarding this situation, Cao Ren had already expected this, and he was ready to bear large-scale casualties, but even if he was so prepared, he never thought that the situation in reality was much more tragic than expected. He saw that in the moonlit Han water, his soldiers were still struggling to row south, but there were almost no exceptions in the rain of arrows on the embankment. Despite being equipped with improvised sails, the raft was too slow to cross south, which was one of the biggest reasons for the massacre of Cao's army.

"Let Zilian carry out our contingency plan. Hopefully, we can keep our soldiers alive a little longer. Cao Ren saw that his family's situation was in crisis at the moment, so he explained to Cheng Yu, who was standing beside him. The so-called "contingency plan" refers to the plan that the military adopts when it encounters danger. Originally, with Cao Ren's personality, even if his own army suffered too many losses, he would definitely not think about such a plan. However, due to the existence of such an old military advisor Cheng Yu by his side, he was forced to think like this. This was originally just in case, but judging from the current situation, such an action is just used to deal with the current crisis - from the start of the war to now, it is only less than half an hour, and his own troops have actually lost more than 10,000, such a situation is definitely a danger for Cao Ren, he did not see his own men and horses reach the river beach of Xiangyang after enduring such a blow.

"Contingency plan? It's too late to tell. In such a chaotic situation, even I have no way to get the situation over there. Cheng Yu frowned and said helplessly. This is also a fact, after all, with the current chaotic situation, unless you use Li Sheng's unique gunpowder to make a big move to wake up your side, everything will be in vain.

"What then?" Cao Ren asked with a headache, and at this moment he became a little alert, "Maybe what Zhongde said at the beginning was correct." The hidden strength of Pang Tong's side is indeed something that we can't detect here, and it may pose a threat to us. But...... It seems too late. Alas......" he sighed, now that the battle had begun, it was impossible for him to change even if he wanted to. "How's that good?" He could only set his eyes on Cheng Yu's side.

"Please rest assured and prepare for the second wave of sorties. As for the current situation, we can only pray that General Zilian himself perceives the strength of the enemy and changes it. There's no way around it. Look at this battle situation......" Cheng Yu shook his head helplessly, and waved his finger at the chaotic river. There, the slaughter continued, and Cao's blood continued to burst out with the almost numb machine-like actions of Li Shengjun's soldiers. The wails of death, the unwilling roar and the explosion of the bed crossbow gun, and the whistling of the arrow feathers falling are intertwined, becoming the main theme of this river.

"Bastard!" Cao Ren was annoyed, but this chagrin was not directed at Cheng Yu, but at himself. He felt that if he hadn't gone his own way, the situation might not have been so bad. Of course, these are irreparable things. Although he regretted it, he couldn't change the fact that it had happened. "I can only look at Zilian. I hope he can calm down in the current situation and stop his mind from getting dizzy. Helplessly, Cao Ren can only make such expectations. Unlike being called a wise general by outsiders, Cao Hong is an existence called a fierce general by outsiders. Although he Cao Hong's force was not the highest among the generals of Cao's army.

"What's the use of being angry? Why don't you just watch it quietly. Cheng Yu said lightly, he completely understood Cao Ren's thoughts. However, unlike Cao Renna, who always worries a little needlessly, Cheng Yu trusts Cao Hong more, in his opinion, although Cao Hong's personality is a little reckless, his wit is not bad, but in the eyes of ordinary people, his wit is covered by his personality, "Don't worry." General Zilian will see all this. ”

"I hope so." General Cheng Yu had such confidence in his brother, Cao Ren naturally didn't want to say anything, and could only continue to look at the battlefield on the river according to his words. In fact, in the absence of a crystal cylinder similar to Pang Tong's hand, no matter how you look at it in such a dim environment, you still can't see the situation clearly. But Cao Ren and Cheng Yu still looked at it as if they didn't realize it at all. Maybe they're just trying to find peace in their hearts.

However, the battle situation did change a little as Cheng Yu thought - the brave but still some brains Cao Hong, after seeing the situation at the moment, quickly realized the danger of the situation: Li Sheng's soldiers and horses in this area of the embankment were already very dense, and they used their bows and crossbows to block this area into a dead field, no matter how many Cao troops came up, it seemed that they could easily kill and injure them. This is undoubtedly something that makes Cao Hong crazy, but Cao Hong knows that now is not the time to go crazy, he should calm down as much as possible and think about the battle situation of this faction.

This kind of thinking about centering is actually very fast. In fact, it is impossible for Cao Hong to spend too much time and energy thinking about this. Because time is so precious, every moment of the past a large number of soldiers fell under the attack of Li Shengjun's arrow rain. It seemed like a real rain of arrows, and there was not a moment of stopping.

"Spread out the ......" Cao Hong roared loudly, his face flushed, but he called this voice to everyone to understand a little. Cao Jun's raft began to work hard to change direction. As for the meaning of this roar, there is no one in Cao Jun who does not know. At the beginning, they had been instructed by their respective commanders that if the loss of a frontal breakthrough was too great, they would shift the direction of the breakthrough to both sides and swim along the direction of the embankment in order to seek a new breakthrough point.

"Although Li Shengjun's troops may have much more troops than us, no matter how many they are, it is impossible for them to guard the entire line of this embankment with heavy troops, they will definitely have weak points, and this place is what we need to look for." It was with this idea that Cheng Yu worked hard to promote such a plan.

Cao Jun dispersed, albeit slowly, but it was a real dispersion. 'They're looking for our weaknesses, looking for our defensive weaknesses.' For Cao Jun's move, Pang Tong thought about it slightly, but he quickly understood the other party's intentions. He knew that with the other side changing his combat objectives in this way, the massacre he had inflicted on them seemed to be coming to an end. Everything is as Cheng Yu estimated, he Pang Tong does not have so many troops to defend every corner of the Xiangyang embankment, he only defends this section facing Fancheng, as for the places outside this section, he does not have any strength to take care of: first, he does not have enough troops; Second, there was no way for him to leave the frontal battlefield in front of him. Because he knew that there were still tens of thousands of enemy troops on the other side of the river.

However, it is so simple for them to find their weak spots, and then easily attack them, which is also what Pang Tong does not want to see. So he asked Liu Feng and Guan Ping to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses as a special force to the south of Fancheng. The task assigned to them by Pang Tong was also very simple, that is, to delay the landing of Cao's army in that weakly defended place as much as possible, and weaken their strength as much as possible. Pang Tong did not ask for how many troops they used to fight the other side with the 10,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, what he needed was time, a relatively long effort, so that he could see that the enemy's army all began to cross the river.

"Once the enemy starts to cross the river, it means that they have started to do their best. And once they do their best, then our followers can calmly implement it. This is what I ask you to do, which is to keep delaying their advance until their army is fully operational. Pang Tong had a plan for this, and before Liu Feng and Guan Ping left, he silently ordered them: "You don't have to fight them head-on, but you can use bows and arrows, traps, harassment and other ways to constantly attack them." They have just landed on the beach, and their foothold is bound to be unstable, and as long as we shake them a few more times, they will be helpless. ”

"Is it just procrastination? I understand. Liu Feng and Guan Ping are very confident in this.

They took the order and rushed with a large group of men and horses. When they arrived at the tidal flat in the south of the forest, they had just arranged the defense of the men and horses in their hands, and they heard the sound of boiling people by the river, but it was Cao Hong and they had already arrived.

"They're pretty fast." Liu Feng glanced at Cao Jun, who was busy on the tidal flats in front of him, and whispered to Guan Ping beside him.

"It's fast, but they're also embarrassed." Guan Ping looked at the tidal flat under the moonlight through the woods, looked at everything on the tidal flat, and expressed his opinion.

"Of course, the attack of the Shiyuan Army, where can they break through casually? Had they not endured a wave of tribulation, would they have been able to get here? Liu Feng said very naturally. After seeing this series of methods of Pang Tong, he admired Pang Tong very much.

"That's too." Guan Ping carefully looked at the situation of Cao Jun on the tidal flat, but gently stabbed Liu Feng: "Do you think we should attack them on this?" The people they came ashore at the moment were chaotic and tight. Well, that's a good opportunity. ”

"Give them a heavy hand?" Liu Feng looked at Guan Ping, and his eyes flashed with an inexplicable light.

"No, we're just harassing. It's good to harass it. Guan Ping shook his head and laughed sinisterly: "I'm going to use three thousand step archers." ”

"Three thousand? You're tougher than I thought. Liu Feng gritted his teeth and said: "In this case, I will also send three thousand step archers." ”

"Then ......" Guan Ping looked at Liu Feng.

"You're on your left, I'm on my right, that's it." Liu Feng suggested.

"Good ......," Guan Ping stroked his palm and smiled, and he accepted it.

The team was thus divided under the command of the two men:

Liu Feng's arrangement was very formal, so he asked his soldiers to stand in ten phalanxes supported by three rows, each group of 300 people, neatly raising bows and appearing outside the woods. "Attack!" With his order, waves of arrows swept towards the Cao army on the tidal flats, splashing strings of blood flowers.

Compared with Liu Feng's formal arrangement, which was dignified and different from Cao Jun's salvo, Guan Ping's arrangement was a little gloomy. His enemy was on the left, but he could get closer to the enemy along the remaining veins of the woods. He immediately arranged his men in groups of three, and when the enemy approached, he released them to the island one by one. Although the momentum was not as great as Liu Feng's, the result caused by this still made Cao Jun tremble. After all, Liu Feng's arrangement on his side could still make them clearly see the existence of their enemies, while Guan Ping's arrangement on his side made them suffer one and two, two and three blows when they couldn't see everything at all. The silent cold arrow made them always suspicious that they were completely surrounded by enemies, and it seemed that there was only one way to die.

"Damn, why are there still Li Shengjun's soldiers here." It was not easy to find a weak spot, but in the end, it turned out that the situation was like this, there were so many archers here, which ...... It's incredible. Cao Hong scolded in annoyance because of this.

"What should I do?" Cao Hong asked himself: "Do you want to retreat?" Cao Hong thought about this question, but shook his head very resolutely: "Retreat? What are you kidding, when will I retreat in front of the enemy without a fight? Cao Hong's eyes narrowed, "In the current battle situation, I can only charge, and keep charging." ”

"Kill! The front ones rushed for me, and the archers behind pressed me down. Cao Hong launched a ruthless attack at this time, roaring, but he was the first to rush to the front of everyone, "Kill, kill." There aren't many of them. He roared angrily, the long knife in his hand swinging wildly, and the remaining trace of realization in his heart made him make such a judgment.

Cao Hong's judgment was not believed by his sergeants. After all, the rain of arrows was so dense that it was hard for them to believe that it was caused only by a "few" of enemies. But they weren't intimidated. The power of example is endless, and under the leadership of Cao Hong, a desperate general, and under his clear orders, the counterattack will naturally begin.

Cao's archers remove their warbows from their backs. They quickly bent down and fired arrows, but they shot fierce arrows with resentment into Liu Feng's military array. They couldn't see the enemy on the left, because it was just a cold arrow, and although it seemed a little too much and frightening, it still didn't need to be taken seriously. They put all their experiences on the battlefield on the right, and Liu Feng's neatly lined up archers in three rows were undoubtedly a huge target, so they invariably chose it.

Salvo, salvo again. In a long and sharp roar, Cao Jun's archers neatly lowered their bows and arrows and shot them out. They learned this hand from the Huns. Although no one had alerted them at the moment, they were all aware of it, and the Huns' arrows were the best way to direct a salvo in such a melee.

Speaking of bows and arrows, in fact, the bows and arrows on Li Sheng's side and Cao Cao's bows and arrows are at a similar level. Without the help of terrain to increase the range of bows and arrows, Li Sheng's side can attack Cao Cao's side, which also means that Cao Jun's bow and arrows can shoot to Li Sheng's side. Thus, Liu Fengjun's casualties occurred for the first time. Under the volley of Cao's arrows, the three hundred archers of a small phalanx under Liu Feng suddenly suffered heavy losses. Cao Hong's archers are scattered, their number is not too many, and there are only a few hundred people who can gather together, but it is such a few hundred, but from all directions shot deadly arrows, this arrow under the guidance of the arrows shrouded the front and back of the phalanx, and suddenly shot Liu Fengjun's side of the formation of people and horses, and there were more than 100 deaths and more than 100 people seriously injured.

"It's tough." Liu Feng secretly ate it, and felt a little bad at the moment, because he saw Cao Hong's crazy appearance. At this moment, there were more and more Cao soldiers who got off the boat, and Liu Feng made a rough estimate and found that there were nearly 10,000 of them. So many people rushed up, and the chaos was too loud.

Faced with such a momentum, Liu Feng decided to retreat. Of course, the reason why he decided to retreat was definitely not because he was afraid of them, but because he felt that he didn't seem to have to have a head-to-head with the other party in such a situation. After all, the best way for a hunter to deal with wild beasts is not to fight them, but to use traps, bows and arrows.

"Perhaps, according to the method of Ah Ping's side, it is enlightenment. Alas, what a depressing...... Why did they come to me so much? You must know that there are 3,000 centaurs there in Ah Ping. Liu Feng thought so in his heart, but he let his men quickly retreat after shooting a new wave of arrows. He thought it was necessary for him to let the traps he had made work.

Quickly hid in the woods, and the dignified battle that Liu Feng led with these 3,000 men and horses was a complete failure. He knew what the reason for his failure was, and he quickly corrected it. He learned from Guan Ping's arrangement, scattered the archers in his hands, and also launched a cold arrow attack on Cao Hongjun, who was chasing into the forest, in a group of three. For a moment, the huge riverside woods turned into a life-devouring ghost domain, and from time to time there was a terrible howl in the darkness accompanied by the flying feathers breaking through the sky.

"Bastard boy, do you dare to face off against your master and me?" Cao Hong roared in annoyance. At this moment, Liu Fengjun has already dispersed, and he is undoubtedly like a boxer who punches in the void when he chases into the woods, with all his strength but nowhere to spend, which is uncomfortable.

"Head to head with you? I don't do this unless I'm crazy in my head. Liu Feng muttered this in a low voice when he found that such a cold arrow attack was indeed effective, but he was very satisfied and ignored Cao Hong. He felt that Cao Hong was a little stupid, after all, it was no longer the era of the Spring and Autumn Period, although there were still some examples of battles such as frontal battles at some special times, but after all, it could only be regarded as a very small number of things. "Fight, do anything!" This truth is already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and under such circumstances, Liu Feng naturally looks down on Cao Hong's roar. He knew that he only had 10,000 troops on his side, while Cao Hong's side had 30,000 troops, and if he fought head-on, with the difference in numbers between the two, even if he used the level of combat power to smooth it out, he would also face a crushing victory, which was not what he wanted to see.

"Fight and retreat! I think we should use this forest to consume a certain amount of their strength, and then teach them a positive lesson later. Liu Feng thought so, so he used the qi death wind lantern held by the guards behind him to convey the order: "Retreat while fighting, and exchange space for time." ”

"Understood!" Although everyone was a little puzzled by Liu Feng's order, they quickly complied with it. With the experience just now, they all seem to understand what the so-called retreat while fighting means is.

Cold sneak arrows shot out of the darkness one after another, pinning one Cao soldier after another to the ground, causing them to cry out in agony. The direction of the arrows was uncertain, sometimes they were shooting from the front, sometimes they were shooting from the rear, sometimes they seemed to be killing their comrades less than ten feet away from them, and sometimes they used a salvo from far away to cause heavy losses to the people on their side, and a whole dark forest seemed to have completely become their game hunting ground, killing their own people who called hunters were actually prey. As bad as it feels to be preyed, for now, they don't seem to have anything to do to change it.

Of course, Cao Hong also wanted to rush over quickly and catch those guys who dared to hurt people with secret arrows. But after one or two attempts, he was surprised and painfully to find that this was simply impossible. In this vast forest, it is not only the enemy who wants to take his life. Danger to them came not only from their surroundings, but also from their feet - Liu Feng and Guan Ping had teamed up to lay a terrifying trap here, a terrible setting that would kill their own soldiers if they took the wrong step. For these settings, Cao Hong, who is not proficient in this way, has no solution at all.

"What should I do?" This is something that Cao Hong has been considering, he has a headache about it, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally determined three points: "First of all, gather your own people together; Second, be ruthless and ignore the damage caused by those harassers to your side; Again, pass through the forest quickly. ”