Li Su stared at a feathered arrow inserted in the field, watching the advancing coalition army approach the arrow step by step, Li Su couldn't help but hold his breath. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Twenty Steps......

Ten Steps......

Five-step ......

"Shoot the arrows!"

Seeing that the allied army had crossed the arrow, Li Su immediately ordered the archers on the city wall to release the arrows, because the feather arrow was shot from the city tower by an ordinary sergeant in the army with eighty percent of his strength, which could basically represent the shooting distance of the archers on the city tower, so Li Su used the arrow as a mark, and once the enemy crossed the feather arrow, he immediately began to shoot.

Bishui Pass is more than 200 meters long, 12 meters high, 5 meters wide, except for the first two rows of infantry standing on the female wall, the rest of the empty space is just able to stand down a thousand archers, the thousand archers stand in three columns, the first column shoots the arrows on the bow when attacking, and then draws another arrow from the quiver to shoot on the bow, the interval between the middle just allows the two columns of archers behind to shoot the feather arrows in their hands, so as to achieve the effect of shooting the bow and arrows endlessly.

A column of more than 300 feathered arrows shot out in the air continuously, and the rain of arrows formed was shocking enough, as if a black waterfall poured down from the water pass and rushed into the siege phalanx of the alliance army.

Although the soldiers at the forefront of the alliance army had already raised their shields in their hands, there were still soldiers falling under the rain of arrows.

The soldiers of the Union Army were constantly being shot by arrows from high in the air, and the arrows were shot from a high place, and the force was so great that two or three arrows could make people fall to the ground, and if they were unfortunately shot to the vital point, there was no chance of survival.

The soldier who fell to the ground had almost no way to die, because instead of lifting him up and sending him to the back to heal, the rest of the people behind him would step on him because they had to maintain a dense formation, and soon the fallen man would be turned into a corpse.

Dong Zhuojun on the city wall pulled the bowstring hard, and the nervous attack rhythm was too late to let them aim firmly before shooting, and the time was very short every time it was their turn to shoot, they only filled the bow and arrow in their hands in just a few breaths and shot out, and then quickly pulled out the arrow from the quiver on the waist for the second shot that was coming, but fortunately, the alliance army under the city was too dense, The 200-meter rectangle was packed with soldiers charging towards the walls, and the archers on the walls did not need much aiming to achieve high hits.

And at this time, the rest of the soldiers in the Bishui Pass are also busy with the shooting of the archers, there are a thousand archers on the city wall, each carrying two pots of bows and arrows, fifty arrows in a pot of bows and arrows, all of them are 100,000 arrows, of course, the soldiers in the pass are responsible for transporting another 100,000 arrows to replenish, and there are only two stairs that can go up the city wall in the pass, if the soldiers want to replenish the bows and arrows before the archers shoot the arrows, they can only line up in a long line on the transportation path, and send the arrows to the city wall one by one.

Pitch-black arrows swooped down from the walls like a black flood, mercilessly reaping the lives of the Union soldiers below.

The alliance army, which had paid thousands of lives, finally came to the distance where it could shoot bows and arrows on the city wall at this moment, and Yuan Shao, who was commanding the army in the middle army array, was about to wave his hand, and immediately a sergeant on the side waved the order flag.

Seeing the flag flying in the middle of the Chinese army's formation, Fu Ling immediately ordered the sergeant to beat the drum.

"Knock-knock-"

The war drums thundered, and one after another shocking drums were stirring, passing from the large array of the Chinese army to all directions.

"Rush!"

The lieutenant in the pre-siege army heard the earth-shattering drums behind him, and immediately shouted a charge, and the speed of the vanguard increased sharply, and the charge generally quickly approached the city wall, while all the archers stopped at the same time, quickly formed a formation in place, and opened fire on the defenders on the wall.

Although the alliance army under the city did not have the supplementary guarantee of bows and arrows like the archers in the city, it was victorious in numbers, nearly 10,000 of the 30,000 siege troops were archers, and a round of arrow rain shot out really seemed to be a dark cloud moving extremely fast, coming by the wind to cover the wall of Bishui Pass.

The rain of arrows hit, Dong Zhuojun's soldiers only felt that it was suddenly dark in front of them, and the arrows as dense as fish scales really covered the sky and the sun, and the soldiers defending on the city wall hurriedly shrank into the female wall, and when the rain of arrows shot by the alliance army under the city fell on the city wall, the soldiers who hid only felt that the entire city wall was shocked, and when they raised their heads and looked again, they were already covered with arrows.

Dong Zhuojun in front of the battlement can dodge, but the archers behind him who keep shooting are miserable, they have nowhere to hide, they can only resist this terrifying rain of arrows every few seconds and continue to shoot, every round of shooting by the alliance army will cause huge casualties to the archers on the city wall.

"Let the soldiers in the city be replenished."

Li Su watched the archers suffer too many casualties, one soldier after another died in front of his eyes, although he had seen many wars, but his heart was still trembling slightly, but this was war, Li Su could only command the reserve army in the pass to come up and replace the dead archers in the city.

As the archers of both sides fired at each other in their respective positions, the teams that were charging forward suddenly felt the pressure on their bodies suddenly decrease, and they charged forward with more confidence, and the distance between them and the walls was rapidly decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If the archer shooting on the Bishui Pass is a continuous ordinary attack, then the shooting of the alliance army under the city is a powerful skill with a long cooldown time, and the constant long-range suppression of both sides brings a rapid reduction in the strength of both sides.

The archers in the back row were wounded or killed by arrows, and the blood that flowed out had flowed from the back of the city wall to the front, and the soldiers with swords and spears in their hands stared closely at the approaching siege army under the city wall, but did not find themselves standing in a pool of blood.

Not to mention the alliance army under the city wall, they had to pay the price of dozens of corpses for every step they advanced, and at this time, the large area of land in front of Bishui Pass was no longer blank, leaving thousands of corpses to fill the gap, and blood flowed on the land to paint the yellow earth.

"Take the ladder!"

Faced with the arrows above their heads, which threatened to kill them at any moment, the vanguard finally rushed under the city walls in fear, and the captain shouted frantically at the soldiers carrying the ladders behind them.

Li Su, who was on the city tower, suddenly shouted: "All attention! ”

Although the previous confrontation suffered heavy casualties, Li Su knew that this was just the beginning of the cake, and the truly tragic hand-to-hand encounter had just begun.

The ladders under the city wall were quickly erected, and the wide city wall almost every dozen steps there will be a ladder on the city wall, and there were more than 80 ladders on the entire city wall, Li Su looked at the more than 80 ladders on the city wall at this time is a headache, and the moment the ladder was erected, several Union soldiers had already rushed up the ladder quickly, and at the same time, the archers of the Alliance Army not far from the rear had to stop shooting, but the archers on the city wall did not have to stop, Arrows and bows can still be vented, harvesting the lives of the Alliance Army.

The army defending the city is always cheaper than the siege, but the defense of the city is always more passive in terms of strategy, because the defense of the city has only two endings: losing and tied, but the siege has the possibility of winning.

Seeing that the troops in front of him had successfully begun to attack the city, Yuan Shao waved his hand again and shouted, "The follow-up troops have begun to fight." ”

The order flag danced, the herald began to beat the second drum, and the Chinese army began to charge forward according to the phalanx one after another, replenishing the troops consumed in the front siege.

At this time, Yuan Shao can breathe a sigh of relief and start to watch the battle leisurely, when attacking the city, the casualties before approaching the city wall are very large, and after approaching the city wall, although the battle will be much more intense, but the casualties will slowly increase through the accumulation of time, and the pressure at this stage is all piled up on the body of the defending army, any cloud ladder is not taken care of, the siege army will stand on the city wall, and slowly open the siege situation, and for the siege side only need to continue to invest troops.

"Mengde, what do you think of this battle?" Yuan Shao pointed to the battlefield in front of him and said to Cao Cao.

Of course, Cao Cao didn't think that Yuan Shao couldn't see the outcome of this battle, he just wanted to find someone to show off.

"The princes of the Eighteen Roads are all here, is there any reason why this battle is not winnable?"

This time, the alliance elected Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance, and all the military resources, grain and grass were provided by Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao certainly would not refuse to face Yuan Shao in this little matter.

Zhang Yang on the side stepped forward to Yuan Shao at this time and said: "Alliance leader, although you can win by attacking like this, but after all, the casualties are too great, I don't know if there is any way to reduce some losses, after all, there is still a big battle ahead." ”

Since entering the alliance army, Zhang Yang has not said a word, from the heart of his own heart, he is indeed unwilling to lead the troops to come, but since he came, it is impossible not to contribute, the army brought by the princes of the Eighteenth Road has all been disrupted and rearranged, at this time, of course, there are also Zhang Yang's troops in the front army of the siege, these people are the old men in the army who are willing to follow Zhang Yang after Ding Yuan's death, Zhang Yang of course does not want them to die in vain in this battle.

The rest of the princes also echoed Zhang Yang's words, after all, they didn't want their army to lose too much.

"......Forehead" Yuan Shao's face froze slightly, but he recovered in an instant, and no one noticed it, so he hurriedly answered Zhang Yang's words, "What Zhang Taishou said is extremely true, there is a tiger prison after the Bishui Pass, and after the tiger prison pass, we will march to Luoyang, and we really shouldn't waste too much troops here." ”

Hearing Yuan Shao say this, Cao Cao, who understood the real situation in his heart, secretly laughed, but of course it was impossible to say it, but he just said with the meaning of everyone: "This time I waited for 18 people, a total of one million people, and only 100,000 people participated in this siege, but after all, the battle was long and the troops were precious. ”

Hearing Cao Cao say the same, Yuan Shao of course knew that he couldn't go against everyone's wishes, so he immediately agreed, and then asked everyone, "What are your good plans?" ”

Just as many princes were making suggestions on how to reduce casualties, the battle at Bishui Pass had intensified.

Li Su had been paying close attention to the battle on the city wall, and from the first alliance army to climb the ladder, the battle on the Bishui Pass began to become more and more fierce.

The Confederates were constantly attacking the walls, and from time to time someone was able to jump from the ladder, but many more Confederate soldiers were just touching the edge when they were picked off the ladder by spears or knives stabbed from the wall.

There are soldiers in the city wall who use ladders to keep charging with their lives, and there is also a team of soldiers at the city gate carrying the rushing cart, with the arrows that keep shooting, constantly attacking the city gate, Li Su of course also quickly commanded the soldiers to resist the city gate in the pass, otherwise the city gate no matter how thick it is, it will not be able to withstand the enemy's non-stop attack.

There are eighty ladders along the entire line of the city wall of Bishui Pass that can be used as a breakthrough point for the enemy, and the soldiers of the alliance army are constantly rushing up in so many places, and the defenders on the city wall can easily not take care of it.

I saw a cloud ladder on the north wall, an alliance army was particularly brave, rushed to the top of the ladder and dodged several times in a row to dodge the spears and knives that stabbed at him, one jumped into the city wall, holding a head ring knife in the siege of everyone for several seconds, and was finally stabbed to death by four or five people with guns, but in the time he was struggling to support and fight, nearly ten alliance troops also climbed the city wall along the ladder.

Situations like the northern city wall occurred one after another, and gradually a situation has been formed everywhere in which dozens of allied armies formed a barrel formation to defend the entrance to a cloud ladder, and Dong Zhuojun, who could have attacked the enemy army from a high position on the city wall, slowly began to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, and the casualties began to increase.

"Overseer, let the reserves go up, there are too many enemy troops, and the brothers can't stand it!" A bloodied lieutenant rushed to Li Su and asked him for help.

"The reserve quickly ascended the wall and replenished the northern wall."

Li Su hurriedly ran to the edge of the city wall and shouted to the city.

The reserve team that received the order quickly rushed up, and under the command of Li Sudi, rushed to the northern city wall for reinforcements, and with the addition of this new force, one after another the alliance army that finally rushed to the city wall was surrounded by four or five people, and they were killed together and thrown down the city, and gradually pressed the alliance army on the city wall to the mouth of the cloud ladder again, and returned to the original situation.

Li Su couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the situation on the northern city wall stabilize, he looked up at the dense alliance army under the Bishui Pass, and couldn't help but feel a little sad.

At this time, soldiers in military uniforms continued to fall from the city wall, including the alliance army and Dong Zhuo's army, but the attacking army under the city wall was still dense like ants crowded the entire open space in front of the pass, and it did not decrease at all.

The large array of the Allied Army in the distance had also thrown all the front armies into battle at this time, leaving only the Chinese army to send troops to supplement it one after another, and the rear army was responsible for the security behind and the cavalry troops on the flanks.

"How long is this going to be?" Li Su looked at the alliance army under the city, and suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

"No matter, even if you kill one is enough, kill two to make money!" Li Su suddenly drew his sword, rushed into the closest battle group to him, and stabbed to death an alliance army who had just climbed the tower.

Li Su had already participated in many wars with Dong Zhuojun before, but at that time he participated as a scribe and as a staff member, and he did not have any opportunity to enter the battlefield in person and use his own weapons to cut down the enemy who rushed in front of him.

Feel the touch of the blade tearing through the skin of your enemies, and watch the blood spill from their throats, and there is an indescribable sensation.

This feeling made Li Su a little panicked, and this panic urged him to continue to cut down another enemy and fall off the city wall, and only by watching a new enemy die could he fill the panic caused by the death of the previous enemy, but a new enemy would bring new panic, so he could only continue this kind of killing, perhaps, this panic was simply a kind of excitement.

Li Su was intoxicated by the excitement of killing and couldn't extricate himself, and kept swinging his sword and slashing, stabbing or chopping, as if he had formed a mechanical habit and couldn't stop at all.

Without Li Su's command on the city wall, it has not become chaotic, because the battle situation at this time has long been without any command, all the places on the city wall are in a frantic fight, and the current battlefield only needs to invest flesh and blood to kill, and does not need any wisdom to dispatch.

"Ding Ding"

Before I knew it, it was already dark, and I was caught in the thrill of slashing and slashing, and I didn't realize the passage of time at all, only when there was a rapid sound of gold outside the Bishui Pass, everyone woke up, and the battle was over.

The Confederate army under the city receded like a tidal wave, and the defenders of Bishui Pass broke out in earth-shattering cheers after eliminating the Confederate army that had been left on the city wall.

"It's finally over......"

This is only the first day, Li Su looked at his soaked clothes, sweat and blood were mixed together and could not be distinguished, and his nerves were tense all day, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Suqiang endured the prostration and dizziness caused by the sudden relaxation, and arranged the next shift on the city wall for his lieutenant general, and then came to Huaxiong to tell him about today's battle.

"Wei Gong, you're here, I'm looking for you!" Hua Xiong was lying on the bed, and as soon as he saw Li Su, he sat up and shouted to him.

"Huh?" Li Su said strangely, "What's the matter?" ”

Hua Xiong explained to Li Su: "Taishi's order has arrived, saying that we will decide when to withdraw the army, and let General Lu Bu lead the troops to meet us, and when the order came, you were organizing to resist the siege, so I didn't tell you." ”

When Li Su heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It can be regarded as waiting for the order to retreat......

Seeing Li Su like this, Hua Xiong said to him with a smile: "This battle is not easy, right?" ”

Li Su nodded and smiled lightly.

Hua Xiong patted Li Su on the shoulder, he knew that it was not easy for civilian officials to go to the battlefield, let alone command the battle.

"Have a good rest tonight, tomorrow morning let people secretly sort out the baggage, survive for half a day, and when the enemy offensive eases, we will begin to retreat, and then my body will be half better, and the army will be cut off for you."

Li Su shook his head and said, "I'll break it." ”

Hua Xiong said helplessly to Li Su: "What are you fighting for, do you think I will bury my life here?" I still have to return the war horse that General Lu Bu lent me! ”

Li Su stared at Hua Xiong for a long time, then finally turned around and left quietly without saying anything.