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Chapter 264: The First Offensive of the Jibei Army (1)

Xu Shiji was stunned when he heard Xiong Kuohai's greeting like thunder, and he couldn't help laughing. His previous impression of Li Xian was that he was a calm and thoughtful person, although he was not very old, he had such a confidence that he knew everything well. But after listening to Xiong Kuohai's loud shout, he realized that Li Xian was a wonderful person. Very wonderful and wonderful person, even a person who takes advantage of this kind of small advantage, Xu Shiji really can't say what kind of surname Li Xian is.

He can indifferently face the pressure of the 150,000-strong army, and he deserves the eight-word comment that he will not be shocked when he is in danger. Xu Shiji even thought that if Wagangzhai faced the danger of being oppressed by Wang Bo's 150,000 army, he was afraid that he would not be able to be as calm as Li Xian, and the entire Wagangzhai would be nervous.

When he was in Yuncheng, he speculated that since Li Xian detained himself, he couldn't think of the pressure from Wagangzhai, and he had estimated the strength of Yanyunzhai before, so when he talked to Cheng Zhijie, he firmly believed that Li Xian would not be able to mobilize more than 20,000 troops to deal with Wang Bo, because Xu Shiji guessed that Li Xian must have deployed most of his troops on the western front of Dongping County to defend against the attack of Wagangzhai.

Xu Shiji didn't say anything, didn't ask and didn't pay attention to it, because he had some arrangements.

When he sent a few people back to Wagangzhai first, he asked them to tell Zhai Rang that he might be taken hostage by Li Xian. It was not that Xu Shiji's unpredictable prophet guessed that Wang Bo would lead his army to attack Yanyunzhai in Dongping County, but because he happened to see Pei Xingyan. Since Pei Xingyan took refuge in Li Xian, then Li Xian must have agreed to Pei Xingyan to rescue his father from Wagangzhai, and he happened to come, which was simply a great help to Li Xian to win people's hearts.

Unexpectedly, he caught up with Wang Bo and led the army to attack, and Xu Shiji felt that his luck was really bad.

Originally, Li Xian only needed to detain himself and Cheng Zhijie in order to exchange for Pei Renji, and it was impossible for Wagangzhai to ignore himself because of a Pei Renji. From this point of view, Li Xian's luck is undoubtedly jealous, but when Wang Bo came, Li Xian's good luck turned into bad luck. He went from taking the initiative to detain himself to having to detain himself, although the result was this result, but the taste in it has completely changed.

From Li Xian having bargaining chips to coerce Wagangzhai to release people, it has become Li Xian having to suffer from the enemy on his back.

So whenever Xu Shiji thinks of this, he feels ridiculous, God's will makes people, but he didn't expect to get it on his own head.

That's right, it's him alone, not him and Li Xian.

Because he sent back those people before to bring back a handwritten letter written by him, the letter not only mentioned that the refugees in Dongping County were instigated, but also mentioned that he might be taken hostage by Li Xian, and the decision he made was to tell Zhai Rang not to send troops to Dongping County, and not to hand over Pei Xingyan's father in exchange for himself.

Li Xian once said that the people of Yanyunzhai do not need to bow their heads to anyone. Yanyunzhai has the pride of Yanyunzhai, and because of this pride, Li Xian did not consider sending someone to Wagangzhai as a hostage at all. Xu Shiji is also proud, even no less than Li Xian's pride. In the letter, he told Zhai Rang that Pei Xingyan's father was never allowed to be released. Because he had calculated, Li Xian didn't dare to kill himself. Since he didn't dare to kill himself, what could he do if he detained himself? In the end, Li Xian still had to let himself go back, and he would be as disgusting as eating a dead fly. He couldn't get Pei Xingyan's father, so he lost his trust in his subordinates. Li Xian is determined to lose this loss.

However, in his opinion, Li Xian's luck is still very good.

Because of his letter, he may have relieved Li Xian of the crisis from behind. But he didn't plan to tell Li Xian about this, because he knew that even if he told Li Xian that the men and horses of Wagangzhai would not come to attack Dongping County, Li Xian would also arrange for men and horses to deploy defenses. Moreover, he wanted to see how Li Xian could respond to Wang Bo's offensive with the limited number of troops he could mobilize. He calculated that Li Xian could mobilize 20,000 horses, but he really didn't expect that Li Xian would dare to come to meet Wang Bo with only more than 6,000 cavalry from the Ruijin Battalion. Even if the defenders of Sucheng Yanyun Village are added, it is estimated that there will be no more than 15,000 men at most.

In fact, the total number of people in Sucheng was less than 13,000.

Xu Shiji was analyzing Li Xian, who was a little stunned, when he suddenly heard Li Xian ask himself with a smile: "I heard that Brother Mao Gong is excellent in archery, do you want to use the person who called the formation outside the city as a live target?" ”

Xu Shiji smiled and said: "That person is at least 100 meters away from here, I'm a literati, where can I have such archery skills?" If Uncle Wang of my Wagang Village arrives, it won't be a problem. ”

"Oh?"

Li Xian raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Then I will be ugly today, Brother Mao Gong will see if Li's archery technique is too different from that of Wagangzhai Wang Bodang?" ”

Without waiting for Xu Shiji to answer, Li Xian stretched his hand forward. The soldiers behind him immediately handed the iron tire bow specially made for him by Ye Huaisleeve to Li Xian, Li Xian took out a special armor-piercing cone from the quiver and put it on the bowstring and said with a smile: "If you can kill the noisy person outside the city with one arrow, the grievances between us will be written off?" ”

Xu Shiji narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in his heart, it turned out that you were playing this abacus.

"Well, if the general can kill that person with one arrow, I will not care about being detained by the general, it should have never happened."

Li Xian laughed and said: "Brother Mao Gong is so stingy, you only say that you don't care about it yourself, but you don't want to say that Wagangzhai doesn't care anymore, no matter what, it is worth it to let Brother Mao Gong forgive me for my rudeness." ”

As he spoke, the arrow came out.

Like a meteor, it flew down straight from the city like a lightning bolt in an instant, and everyone only felt in a trance, and when they looked at it again, Wang Bo's general named Sun Gan suddenly had an extra feather arrow on his neck, and the arrow shot from the throat into the back of the neck, and the front and back were transparent.

Xu Shiji and Cheng Zhijie's eyes widened instantly, and their faces changed at the same time.

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Wang Bo watched his right-hand man Sun Gan being shot to death by an arrow flying from the city wall, and his eyes immediately widened. He was stunned for a moment and then roared: "Attack the city for me, take the city of Sucheng, and slaughter everyone!" ”

His subordinate general Peng Zhen shouted loudly and took the lead in rushing forward with his men. More than 10,000 men and horses under his command were separated from the 150,000-strong army, like a great river gushing out of the ocean.

This time, Wang Bo's army arrived in Sucheng later than Li Xian, and the lack of cavalry was one reason, and another reason was that he ordered the soldiers to build siege equipment. Along the way, a few towering trees were cut down to make a ram for the city, and hundreds of ladders were built. Some of the ladders had not been shoveled, and there were wilted green leaves.

Hundreds of people pushed a huge ram to start slowly, and gradually accelerated straight towards the east gate of Sucheng. As the commanding generals shouted slogans, the heavy ram became faster and faster.

However, before the speed was raised, the person pushing the cart suddenly felt that the ram tilted to the side and never moved again. Only then did the crowd discover that one of the wheels of the ram had sunk into a pit of dirt and could not be pulled out.

The ram was trapped, but it did not affect the offensive of Wang Bo's army, and the first wave of more than 3,000 soldiers who attacked the city rushed in the direction of Sucheng like crazy carrying dozens of ladders.

There were originally a few bed crossbows on the walls of Sucheng, but they had long been in disrepair and could not be used. Lacking long-range weapons, the men and horses of Yanyunzhai defending the city could only wait for Wang Bo's men and horses to be within the range of bows and arrows. As Peng Zhen's soldiers ran over with a roar, after entering a distance of two hundred paces, the majestic sea shouted: "Projectile!" Put! ”

The archers on the walls released their bowstrings almost simultaneously, and more than a thousand feathered arrows flew into the air before raining down from the sky. The feathered arrows that are thrown have a positive coverage and are extremely lethal when they hit a dense crowd. After hearing the sound of a bowstring on the city wall, Peng Zhen immediately shouted, "Raise your shield!" Keep on rushing forward! ”

With Peng Zhen's order, all kinds of shields were raised. There are infantry shields that captured the soldiers of Jibei County, there are also cavalry shields that are round and cannot block half of the body, and more are simple shields made of wooden planks. The shield made of planks was so rudimentary that it was not even covered with leather, and the feathered arrows crackled on it, and the terrifying sound made the man who raised the shield staggered in his steps.

The feathered arrows were thrown like hail into the fields, and in an instant they were dropped on hundreds of soldiers. After all, the rudimentary shield could not cover the whole body, and many people fell to the ground after being hit by an arrow in the leg, and before they could struggle to stand up, they were trampled under the feet of their comrades who rushed from behind. When facing feathered arrows, only rushing forward can reduce the probability of being hit by arrows, so the soldiers who are desperately running forward with rudimentary shields don't care whether they are stepping on a person or a stone in front of them.

A boy who was only thirteen or fourteen years old had his knee pierced by a feather arrow, and he struggled to stand up when he was hit by a shield. The huge impact force directly made him squirt out a mouthful of blood, and when the blood was still swaying in the air, a feather arrow shot at the back of his heart with a pop, and the young man's eyes were dark, and before he passed out, he saw the veteran who took good care of him. It's just that today, the veteran, who would divide the only piece of bun into two pieces and one and a half, stepped on the young man's back without hesitation and continued to charge forward. It was followed by countless pairs of feet, and soon, this thin body was trampled and disshaped.

The clothes on the boy's back were trampled off, and the flesh was crushed and scattered in all directions, revealing Bai Sensen's bloody vertebrae. Then the vertebrae were trampled on, and a stream of bloody and slimy internal organs was squeezed out of the gap in the vertebrae, and after being stepped on continuously, the internal organs turned into a puddle of flesh, and the soles of the feet stepped on it to make a chirping sound, just like the sound of stepping on the mud.

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After paying seven or eight hundred casualties, Peng Zhen's soldiers finally approached the city wall. They roared and removed the antlers from under the walls, and then braved the rain of arrows to erect the ladder. They were like a pack of hungry beasts, and the city seemed to them to be a huge piece of fresh flesh, and they seemed to be completely unafraid of death in order to bite into it.

Xiong Kuohai looked at the Jibei army that fell layer by layer and poured up layer by layer, frowned and sighed: "I didn't expect that the soldiers under Wang Bo were so brave. ”

After hearing his words, Li Xian shook his head and said: "This is the first offensive, because the soldiers under Wang Bo thought that they had no suspense about taking the city with an army of 150,000, and Wang Bo allowed them to burn and loot after the city was broken, so they were so fierce." As long as they can block this first attack, the cowardice in their bones will come out. ”

Li Xian looked at Xiong Kuohai and said solemnly: "The first time they attacked hard, we will fight even harder, the first attack hurts them, and the next time, no one dares to rush forward without dying." ”

"The walls are too low!"

Xiong Kuohai frowned and said, "The archers can't stop Wang Bo's soldiers from erecting a cloud ladder at all. ”

Li Xian smiled: "If you can't even take the first offensive, I will remove you as the captain of the Houtu battalion." ”

Xiong Kuohai smiled: "I'm afraid that the general won't have this chance!" ”

The archers of Yanyunzhai on the city wall kept shooting down the feather arrows, and there was no need to aim to shoot the soldiers of the Jibei Army who gathered under the city wall. At a distance of about two feet, the people under the city walls were huddled together, and they would only need to send feathered arrows out to hit an enemy.

The wails and shouts are intertwined, and this is the main theme on the battlefield.

The smell of blood, the smell of scratching, that's all there is to the battlefield.

Finally, when the corpses under the city wall had been covered with a full floor, the first cloud ladder leaned against the wall of Sucheng, Wang Bo's general Peng Zhen shouted, and after hundreds of archers shot at the city wall, the soldiers of the Jibei Army with knives in their mouths began to climb up the cloud ladder like crazy.