Chapter Seventy-Four: The Rhubarb Crossbow
But he said that Huang Shao had just come down from the city and closed his eyes to rest, and not long ago, he suddenly heard a shout of killing, which seemed to be from far and near. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Huang Shao thought it was the sound of fierce battle coming from other defense lines at first, but after listening for a while, he found that the shouting and killing sound seemed to come from the north gate!
Huang Shao immediately turned over with a carp, and just as he opened the door and was about to call the guards to ask what was going on, several panicked yellow turban soldiers suddenly rushed in outside: "Handsome! Handsome! Oh no!! The officers and soldiers are calling!! ”
"The officers and soldiers are calling? How many people are there? What is the state of battle in the city at this moment? Huang Shao grabbed his armor and hurriedly put it on, and asked for information about the city by the way.
"The small ones only know that the officers and soldiers outside are pressing, and it is really unclear how many people there are, and what the battle situation is." Those Yellow Turban soldiers were originally just exiles, and they had already panicked when they were attacked by Sun Jian's troops before, and they just obeyed the orders of those Yellow Turban Colonels to call Huang Shao up, where could they answer how many Huang Shao's questions.
"What are you panicking about? Since Ben Shuai is here, he will definitely not let the officers and soldiers take this place easily! You hurry up to the West Gate now, oh no, you don't have to go to the West Gate, you go directly to the East Gate to find Zhang Dashuai, just say that the official army is clearly laying out the three Queyi this time, but in fact, the main direction of attack is the North Gate guarded by this marshal. You tell Zhang Dashuai that the army is weak and Zhao Hong has sent half of his men to the West Gate to help defend, and ask Zhang Dashuai to send reinforcements to support the North Gate defense line!! After instructing these Yellow Turban soldiers, Huang Shao lifted two horizontal knives from the weapon rack in the house, and led more than 100 Yellow Turban wrestlers to rush to the city.
The Yellow Turban soldiers rode their horses and galloped to Zhang Mancheng at the east gate and informed Zhang Mancheng of Huang Shao's request for help. Zhang Mancheng was taken aback when he heard the news, Zhu Jun outside the city repeatedly attacked and caused heavy losses, how could it be a strategy to lure the enemy? But it is true that the north gate was attacked, if the city of Wancheng was breached because of the emptiness of the north gate, it would be too late to regret it.
"Li Jie, you take 10,000 soldiers and 1,000 yellow turban wrestlers to the north gate. If the north gate has not been lost when you arrive, you will help Huang Shao to defend the north gate. If the North Gate has been lost by the time you arrive, you should immediately send someone to inform the commander and do your best to retake the North Gate! Zhang Mancheng recruited a confidant colonel and asked him to take the original reserve army under the city to support Huang Shao.
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When Huang Shao led his people to the north gate of Wancheng, Sun Jian had already led people to retreat from the Yellow Turban army at the head of the city. In the face of Sun Jian's overwhelming martial bravery, where did the few Yellow Turban Colonels left by Huang Shao dare to go to the front to die? He could only call the ordinary soldiers behind him to delay time.
"A bunch of idiots! The enemy army has reached the top of the city with less than a thousand people, and since they can't be defeated by force, why not shoot them down with crossbow arrows! Huang Shao slapped the Yellow Turban Colonel who commanded the battle in the face, and took over the command of the battle.
Although the strong bows and crossbows in the hands of the Yellow Turban Army are not as many as Zhu Jun, Wancheng was the forging center of the Han Dynasty before all, and there are not only a large number of armor and swords in the treasury of Wancheng, but also hundreds of newly created large yellow crossbows. After Zhang Mancheng used Neiying to capture Wancheng, he regarded the rhubarb crossbow as a treasure, and in order to buy Huang Shao, the person who served him, he took a hundred rhubarb crossbows from the treasury and gave them to Huang Shao for use.
"Lined up on the spot, and the crossbowmen concentrated on the generals of the officer and army for the commander. Just kill them, and the rest is not to worry about at all! Huang Shao still had some ability in the end, and he saw the role of Sun Jian and the four strong generals behind him at a glance, and ordered the first wave of arrows to be concentrated on them.
The hundred yellow turban crossbowmen who wielded the big yellow crossbow took time and effort to load the crossbow arrows with the help of their companions on the side, but they saw that Sun Jian's Han army generals were fighting with their own soldiers, and couldn't help but hesitate again: "Qu Shuai, there are us on the side of the Han army generals." ”
"The moment these people joined the Yellow Turban Army, they already had the belief of dedicating everything to the great sages and mentors, and now Ben Shuai orders you to shoot at them!!" As the so-called Ci is not in charge of the soldiers, Huang Shao, as one of the thirty-six commanders of the Yellow Turban, does not care about the life and death of the low-level Yellow Turban soldiers. At present, the Yellow Turban soldiers who are entangled with Sun Jian's Han army generals are only a few dozen, and compared to the safety of the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers in the city, Huang Shao naturally decided to sacrifice these people.
"Archery!" Now that Qu Shuai has issued a military order, although the hundred Yellow Turban crossbowmen are unbearable, they dare not disobey. Under the command of the team leader, after all, after aiming at the crowd in the chaotic battle through the "Wangshan", he pulled the "hanging knife" to decouple the crossbow string under the "machine teeth", and used the extreme kinetic energy formed by the rapid rebound of the open bowstring to shoot the crossbow arrow out quickly.
For the most important skill that generals need to have on the battlefield is to see and listen to all directions, the sound of hundreds of big yellow crossbows alarmed Sun Jian and the four strong generals beside him, so in the first time, these five people shrank their bodies behind the shield as much as possible, or simply used the yellow turban sergeant in front of them as a shield. But I can't remember Sun Jian and the others who reacted quickly, and the rest of the Han soldiers or Yellow Turban soldiers who were fighting in the melee all realized that they had been hit by arrows when their crossbow arrows pierced their bodies!
"Lord, are you alright?" Han Dang lay under the corpse of a Yellow Turban soldier, his calf was pierced by a crossbow arrow, Suo fortunately did not hurt his muscles and bones, except for leaving two gurgling and bleeding holes, there would not be much sequelae.
A powerful crossbow arrow pierced through Sun Jian's shield, and the arrow continued to drill into Sun Jian's arm armor and pierced Sun Jian's arm an inch deep. But Sun Jian just frowned, and directly picked out the arrow from the flesh with the tip of the ancient ingot knife: "It's okay, it's just some skin trauma, but Yigong, your leg is okay, right?" ”
Han Dang gritted his teeth and endured the sharp pain in his legs: "Although it didn't hurt the muscles and bones, but for the time being, I couldn't exert my strength." ”
Sun Jian took out a small bottle of pill from his arms and threw it to Han Dang: "This is a hemostatic pill, you apply one pill to the wound and then take one pill orally, it can stop bleeding and build muscles." ”
"Thank you, Lord."
On the side, Cheng Pu glanced at the arrow that Sun Jian took off, and gasped: "This arrow is the fine iron arrow of the big yellow crossbow, these damn yellow turban moth thieves actually have a big yellow crossbow in their hands!" ”
Huang Gai, Zu Mao, and Cheng Pu dodged in time, but they were not injured because of this, but the wave of crossbow arrows just now really scared these fierce generals. Hearing that the Yellow Turban Army was using the murder weapon in the army, the big yellow crossbow, and everyone including Sun Jian couldn't help but feel furious in their hearts, it was really because the power of the big yellow crossbow was amazing, but all the Han soldiers who had seen the power of the big yellow crossbow did not want to face the arrows shot by the big yellow crossbow one day.
"How can they have such a thing as a rhubarb crossbow?"
Sun Jian bandaged the wound briefly, and set his eyes on Huang Shao, who was commanding the Yellow Turban crossbow arrows: "Wancheng is famous for forging, and it is normal for the Yellow Turban Thief to get some big yellow crossbows after occupying Wancheng." Now the focus is not on the issue of the Yellow Crossbow, but on finding a way to kill these Yellow Turban Crossbowmen so that they can no longer continue to shoot. ”