Cao Xing was immediately shocked when he heard this, and the military marquis Ma Ming was the bravest general under his account. Now that he has been killed in battle, it can be seen that the tragedy of the battle must be extraordinary.

"Hurry up and report to Lord Han and Liu Sima, everyone follow me to reinforce the brothers on the stone steps", Cao Xuan shouted, and hundreds of sons and daughters responded one after another.

The Han army of more than 400 people followed closely behind Cao Xing and came to the stone steps battlefield. I saw more than 300 soldiers of the Han army in red armor surrounded by more than 1,000 Xiongnu infantry and attacked fiercely, and the steps of dozens of steps were full of stumps and broken arms, which was tragic and abnormal.

The formation of more than 300 Han soldiers and soldiers had gradually dispersed in this fierce attack, relying on nothing more than a desperate spirit to resist desperately.

Seeing this situation, Cao Xuan shouted: "The pikemen stab, and the shield soldiers reorganize the formation, and He Qing is in charge of commanding." The crossbowmen gave me all my strength to snipe the Huns in the rear." As he spoke, Cao Xing kept stretching his bow and arrows with both hands, and each time he wound it, he buckled three arrows at the same time.

Cao Xing's bow alone is like a machine gun that constantly shoots bullets, with fast movements and accurate arrows. Every time Cao Xing attacked, three Huns must have fallen to the ground, gurgling blood splattering out.

In just one sentence, Cao Xing shot more than 20 feather arrows, which can definitely be called a machine gun in the era of cold weapons.

Under Cao Xing's brave performance, the morale of the Han army, which had fallen to a low point, began to rise. With a volley of 200 Han archers, more than 100 Huns who lacked armor to protect fell to the ground.

Although this archer unit trained by Cao Xing himself was only a curved formation, each of them was excellent in archery. If it were another archer army, a salvo of two hundred men might be able to kill forty or fifty people at most.

However, this unit is different, they have inherited Cao Xing's ability to shoot sharply, and the hit rate of up to 50 percent per salvo is almost impossible to achieve in the era of cold weapons.

With the cover of such a sharpshooter force, He Qing quickly reorganized a new defensive formation. Twenty shield-bearers formed the first line of defense, followed by a second-line defensive line consisting of thirty pikemen on the second, third, and fourth steps, and thirty shield-bearers guarding the pikemen.

Behind them, hundreds of soldiers and soldiers were lined up in several defensive lines in this order, which allowed the Han army's already scarce forces to maximize their combat effectiveness. It can be seen that He Qing is also an officer with considerable experience in leading the army.

Sen Ran's guns made the Hun infantry who had changed drastically begin to cringe, and no one dared to rush into this dense gun forest without the protection of armor, not even the Huns, who were known for their fierceness and good fighting.

At this moment, a majestic figure appeared. The man was holding a big axe, and he roared loudly in Xiongnu and scolded angrily: "You weak sheep, you can't even beat the Han people of a few hundred people, what face do you have to claim to be the descendants of the wolf god, the fearless warriors of the grassland?" You sheep and pigs!! ”。

Hearing this, the Hun infantry seemed to be greatly stimulated, and looked angrily at the Han army formation. What's more, there is a roar similar to that of a wild beast, which is terrifying.

When that majestic figure saw this, his heart was overjoyed. Then he shouted: "The archers will shoot the archers of the Han army for me, and the infantry will charge me." Kill".

After delivering the order, the man kept lining up and squeezed to the front of the attacking force. Raising the big axe in his hand is a move to sweep away thousands of troops, and its strength is terrifying.

Under this axe, several shields were immediately cut in two, and the powerful attack force caused the Han soldiers guarding the shields behind them to be knocked out of the air. Before the pikemen in the back could react, the spears in their hands pierced the bodies of these Han shieldmen.

Just as the attack ended, more than 20 Hun infantry armed with scimitars swarmed up. The sound of scimitars slashing at shields, the popping of spears piercing into human bodies.

Due to the narrow place of the stone steps, the attacking and defending sides could only meet each other at a distance of more than 20 paces, which was definitely a good thing for the Han army, which was in a weak position.

"Who is the one who came to report the name", Cao Xing couldn't help but ask when he saw that the strong man in the costume of the Hun leader was extremely brave.

Although this person was wrapped in the gap between the hand-to-hand combat between the two armies, this person's bravery was different from ordinary people.

Because the big axe is a long weapon, it is not suitable for this kind of close melee, so this person simply crossed the big axe sideways and slammed into the shield array of the Han army with brute force.

Fortunately, this person was somewhat afraid of the spears that stabbed from time to time behind the shield soldiers and did not dare to go all out, so the shield array of the Han army could hold on for the time being, but it was already in danger.

Hearing that someone in the Han army was asking himself, the Hun leader roared: "I am Muyang Xiong, the left general under the command of King Zuogu Li, Han General, what is your name?" ”

Hearing this, Cao Xing knew it in his heart. The heart said, "This man is a burly man, and he is really a man as his name suggests."

But he shouted loudly: "I am the sharp-shooting general Cao Xing, look at the arrow." As he spoke, Cao Xuan suddenly pulled out one of the feather arrows engraved with his name on his back, put it on the bow and shot it.

In ancient times, generals who were generally famous for their bows and arrows usually prepared two pots of feather arrows, and one pot of feather arrows was an ordinary feather arrow. The other pot is a feathered arrow engraved with his name, which is usually used only when shooting an important enemy target.

Cao Xing prepared two pots of ordinary feather arrows, and the twelve feather arrows engraved with his name were inserted in the arrow plate behind his back.

The feather arrow engraved with Cao Xing's name came with the sound of breaking the wind and shot directly at the Muyang bear in the crowd, and its speed arrived almost at the same time as Cao Xing's words.

Muyang Xiong is the general under Ashina, and when he heard the sound of sharp arrows breaking the wind, he knew that it was not good, and hurriedly turned sideways in the crowd.

But his head was out of the way, but he lifted his shoulders. With the muffled sound of a sharp weapon piercing **, I saw that the feather arrow engraved with the four big characters of 'Yanmen Cao Xing' happened to shoot on the shoulder of Muyang Xiong.

Not only that, but this feather arrow was shot on the collarbone of Muyang Bear. At that time, the collarbone of Muyang Xiong's right shoulder was shot in two, and then the sharp arrow came out through the body, until it hit the head of a Hun behind Muyang Xiong.

Muyang Xiong, who had lost one arm, felt weak in his right hand at that time, and the big axe in his hand immediately fell to the ground.

Muyang Xiong, who knew badly, hurriedly wanted to retreat down, but the Hun infantry who rushed up behind didn't know that Muyang Xiong wanted to retreat, and they were still pushing up.

After such a delay, Muyang Xiong was stabbed in the body by four or five spears that came one after another. A large amount of blood spurted out as the spear was drawn, staining the corpses all over the ground.

was hit by the Huns who rushed from behind, and the Muyang bear immediately plunged headlong into the shield of the hard-topped Han army's shield soldiers. Immediately, he was stabbed by the two shield soldiers from the gap in the shield, and fell to the ground softly, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

The Hun infantry who had lost Muyang Xiong were still desperately attacking the defensive line formed by the Han army's soldiers, and the two sides fought desperately to the death in this narrow range.

"Newspaper" With the rapid arrival of a scout from the former army, Ashina, who commanded the Chinese army, was a spirit. Before Ashina could inquire about the battle, he heard the scout hurriedly say: "Your lord, the Han people have formed an urn city with bricks and stones and sundries connecting houses in the city. Not only that, but most of the alleys were also lit by the Han people with dozens of paces of fire, and the army could not rush in."

Hearing this, Ashina couldn't help but be shocked. Interrupting the scout's words, he asked, "Why don't you attack the stone steps and a few alleys in the city?" ”。 It is said that the more urgent it is, the more chaotic it is, and Ashina at this time has obviously reached this point.

The scout heard the eagerness in the king's tone, and hurriedly replied, "The left general is personally supervising the army to attack the stone staircase passage in the south, and the right general is commanding the headquarters to attack the stone staircase passage at the north gate. A large number of black-armored sergeants suddenly poured out of several alleys in front of them, and our army was outnumbered and retreating."

Hearing this, Ashina was almost mad. Yan Ling had already said when he sent him a letter before, the defenders in Yanmen Pass were only a thousand people, and his 15,000 iron horsemen couldn't take the city guarded by a mere 1,000 people, how could Ashina not be angry?

Ashina, who was already so angry that his face turned red, roared angrily on the horse: "Order Mu Yang Xiong and Bai Huwen to attack me with all my might, and if I can't take Yanmen Pass tonight, I will be beheaded." Go for it". As he spoke, Ashina waved his hand, and the scout took the order and left.

The battle in the north was more intense than in the south. Only 300 Han soldiers led by Liu Jin were guarded here, but they faced thousands of brave and warlike Huns.

From the very beginning of the battle, Liu Jin handed over the command to Yang Ye, the only remaining military marquis of the second department. In the last night raid, Yang Ye did not participate because he was injured, and he thought that he would lose the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, but he didn't expect to pick up a small life.

And Liu Jin himself carried the eighty-pound painted dragon and the heavenly halberd like a whirlwind into the dense Hun army, a painted dragon halberd flew up and down to kill the unhappy, and the Hun infantry who attacked the stone steps in the north was in chaos.

Looking down from the city, I saw Liu Jin standing proudly in the dense Xiongnu army with a halberd. Draw the dragon halberd piercing, picking, splitting, smashing, sweeping, and killing the Huns who complained bitterly. This simple halberd style seems to be chaotic, but in fact it implies the essence of the Burning Sun Halberd Method.

The reason why the Burning Sun Halberd Method is called Burning Sun is that it is famous for its fierceness. Taking sweeping as an example, a simple move to sweep thousands of troops may not show its power when the general fights alone, but how many people can retreat under this fierce sweep in the melee?

You must know that the chaotic army is mixed with people, and the dense military formation makes the soldiers charging in array lose the space to flicker and move. At this time, a sweep of thousands of troops down, to say the least, can kill and cripple more than a dozen people.

Bai Huwen, who was commanding the Xiongnu army in the distance, couldn't help but be furious when he saw Liu Jin with no one in his eyes. Xin said: "Okay, you Liu Jin, I want to see if it's your halberd or my people."

Thinking of this, Bai Huwen gave an order: "Besiege and kill this person for me."

More than 1,000 Huns who got the order surrounded them layer by layer, and a large number of Huns surrounded Liu Jin alone. A small number of Xiongnu foot soldiers lined up at the end of the stone staircase passage, preparing to block the passage for the Han army to rescue Liu Jin.

At this time, Liu Jin had already fallen into the frenzied killing and forging of the halberd method, and he didn't realize that a fatal crisis was befalling him. (To be continued)