Chapter 142: Hangu Pass is Lost!
Pang Yu carried a horizontal knife on his waist and was patrolling the city with more than ten personal soldiers.
On top of the wall, a bonfire is lit every dozen steps, illuminating the whole pass as bright as day.
The waning moon in the sky has already fallen into the mountains to the west, and the whole world has already sunk into darkness.
"Cheer up General Ben, don't be lazy!" While Pang Yu was patrolling, he loudly reminded the more than 100 night watchmen at the juncture, "All polish their eyes a little ......"
Before the words fell, a sharp sound suddenly came from outside the wall.
Pang Yu tilted his head instinctively, and a strong wind almost brushed against his cheek, and then nailed it into the pillar of the enemy building behind him with a "duke" sound, Pang Yu and more than ten of his accompanying soldiers hurriedly looked at it, but it was a thumb-thick wolf tooth arrow, which penetrated into the pillar for several inches, and the feathers at the end of the arrow were still trembling violently.
The next moment, a sizzling screech resounded from the night sky.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Pang Yuden raised his head to the sky and howled hoarsely, and then hid under the battlement.
The next moment, the dense rain of arrows like locusts had fallen from the sky, and the dozen or so pro-soldiers accompanying him reacted quickly, most of them followed Pang Yu to hide behind the battlements, but the more than 100 sentries guarding the wall could not react, and they were covered by this wave of arrow rain, and in an instant, they were hit by arrows and fell in a pool of blood.
"Blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet to warn!" Pang Yu pulled out his knife and ordered loudly.
Dozens of sentinels who were lucky enough not to be hit by the rain of arrows picked up the short horns and tried to blow them, and in an instant, the distant and desolate sound of the horns rushed into the sky.
In the continuous sound of the horn, the soldiers of the Chu army in their sleep woke up one after another, the soldiers of the Chu army were originally lying in their clothes, so they did not need to wear clothes and armor at all, and at the moment they grabbed the weapons placed around them in the shortest possible time, and then poured out of the barracks in a mess, and rushed towards Dongguan like a swarm of bees under the shouting and reprimanding of the junior colonels at all levels.
Almost at the same time, trumpets sounded outside the gate, and tens of thousands of torches were lit at the same time.
In the bright firelight, thousands of Han soldiers carried hundreds of simple long ladders, like a flood that broke the embankment, swept towards the Hangu East Pass, behind the group of Han army dead, tens of thousands of Han army archers were displayed in a dozen horizontal columns before and after, pouring one arrow to the Hangu Pass.
In the dense rain of arrows like locusts, the Chu army of one after another poured into the city.
After Pang Yu is a famous general after all, several rooms of military books are not read in vain, after two days of tragic confrontation, he has already thought of a way to crack the Han army's arrow rain invasion, that is, to nail a piece of "light oar" with wooden boards, these light oars are of course not as thick as giant oars, but they can be used to resist the fluttering feather arrows but it is still more than enough.
With the cover of hundreds of light oars, the Chu army finally seized the city.
Soon, thousands of Han light soldiers poured under the wall, and the long ladders were quickly erected, and a hundred steps away, the Han archers finally began to retreat, because if they continued to cover the Hangu Pass with arrow rain, it would inevitably accidentally injure the Han light soldiers who were about to seize the city.
The bloody siege began.
Groups of Han soldiers with sharp swords swarmed up the long ladder.
Sections of rolling logs, pieces of boulders fell from the head like rain, and the dead soldiers of the Han army were constantly smashed and planted under the city, but soon, more dead soldiers of the Han army swarmed up with the corpses of the robes, and the fierce battle lasted less than half an hour, and the defenders were forced to sacrifice the killer weapon of fierce fire oil again.
Pang Yu gave an order, and cans of fierce fire oil were thrown down from the city, and they shattered one after another.
Then, a faint burning torch was thrown from the city, and soon, the pass fell into a sea of fire, but this time, the Han army seemed to be ruthless, they did not immediately retreat because of the fierce fire oil, on the contrary, more Han soldiers rushed up with sacks on their backs, and soon filled the fire with the sand in the sacks.
The corners of Pang Yu's mouth couldn't help but bloom with a hint of cold murderous intent, it seems that the Han army was angered by last night's sneak attack, or Liu Bang Lao'er was forced to be helpless, because the military rations were burned, so he could only attack at any cost, right? However, just with a few simple long ladders, it is too arrogant to want to capture Hangu Pass, right?
Is it really impossible to set up more than 4,000 Chu troops on the gate?
"Fierce fire oil ready to ......" Pang Yu raised his horizontal knife again, and was about to give an order, when the captain of the pro-soldier behind him suddenly pointed to the cliff in front of him on the right side, and roared in a low voice, "General, look, there is a beacon fire on the cliff on the right!" ”
"Huh?!" When Pang Yu looked up hurriedly, he saw that a dazzling beacon fire had risen on the cliff on the right.
Last night, after the Chu army used the mountain vine to turn the cliff into a smooth road to attack the Han army's harsh camp, Pang Yu kept an eye on it, and used the same strategy to prevent the Han army, and also sent elite soldiers to touch into the pass along the cliff, and set up sentry posts on the left and right cliffs.
Pang Yu has tasted the sweetness of the sneak attack on the cliff, how can he give the Han army such a chance again?
At that moment, Pang Yu ordered the deputy general to guard the head of the city, and he led 500 archers to the right cliff, and at the same time ordered his own soldiers to push out the only more than 40 bed crossbows in the pass.
In less than half an hour, more than 500 archers and more than 40 bed crossbows were already waiting under the cliff on the right, if there was really an elite of the Han army down the cliff along the mountain vines, there would be only two results, or be nailed to death on the cliff by the Chu army archers and bed crossbows, or let go in advance, fall down and fall to death!
After another moment, Pang Yu ordered five hundred archers to shoot a wave of rockets.
Through the faint light of the rocket, Pang Yu and more than 500 Chu army archers clearly saw that hundreds of Han army soldiers were climbing down the cliff along the mountain vines, and the Han army obviously did not expect that the Chu army under the cliff had already prepared, and more than a dozen Han army soldiers were shot by the rocket, screaming and falling from the cliff more than ten zhang high.
"Look for death!" Pang Yu sneered, and immediately drew his knife and raised it in the air.
More than 500 archers raised their horned bows again, and more than 40 of their own soldiers also raised their wooden hammers.
Suddenly, the horizontal knife in Pang Yu's hand fell fiercely, and more than 500 archers released their right hands that tightened the bowstring, and almost at the same time, more than 40 personal soldiers also indifferently smashed the wooden hammer in their hands, and the forty bed crossbows erected at the front end roared loudly when they landed, and the next moment, more than 500 arrows and more than 200 giant arrows had roared towards the cliff.
When the cliff was climbed, there was a continuous scream and wail, and then dozens of Han soldiers fell down from the cliff one after another.
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On the left side of the cliff.
Zhou Guanfu took two steps forward and pulled out a heavy arrow with a wolf's tooth engraved with his name from the throat of a Chu soldier.
The Chu soldiers were still out of breath, struggling to use the torch in their hands to light the beacon tower not far ahead, how could Zhou Guanfu let him get his wish? At the next moment, he stepped on the neck of the Chu soldier fiercely, only to hear a click, the neck bone of the Chu soldier had been completely trampled to pieces, even if the divine doctor Bian Que was reincarnated, he would definitely not be able to save him.
Not far behind Zhou Guan, there were two other Chu soldiers lying down, also with arrows in their throats!
Obviously, Pang Yu also set up a beacon tower on the cliff on the left side to warn, but unfortunately, before the three Chu soldiers lit the beacon fire to warn, they were shot and killed by Zhou Guanfu.
Zhou Guanfu took two more steps forward and stepped on the edge of the cliff.
Standing on the cliff more than ten zhang high and looking down, I saw that the sky was boiling outside Hangu Pass, and a group of Han army light soldiers were swarming like a tide, and they were broken like waves hitting the reef, and then there were new waves swarming up, and they hit the hard reef of Hangu Pass again......
Under the cliff opposite, there was already a scuffle at this moment.
Seeing that the Chu army had already prepared, under the shooting of archers and bed crossbows, a team of Han army soldiers fell off the cliff one after another, the corners of Zhou Guanfu's mouth couldn't help twitching violently twice, and then he thrust the double iron halberd into his back fiercely, and then waved at the hundreds of elite soldiers behind him, and shouted: "Down!" ”
In an instant, vines were hanging down from the cliffs.
Zhou Guanfu pulled one of the mountain vines tied to a boulder hard, but he didn't move at all, and without hesitation at the moment, he suddenly turned around and slid down the very tough hundred-year-old mountain vine.
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"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" Pang Yu raised the horizontal knife again and again, and fell again and again.
More than 500 Chu army archers have drawn their bows, released arrows, and then pulled their bows, and then released arrows, although the Han army soldiers hanging on the cliff tried their best to block, but still people were constantly shot by arrows, and then screamed and fell from a height of a few zhang to more than ten zhang, before and after a meal, there were no less than 200 corpses lying under the cliff!
Pang Yu took the time to look back at the cliff on the left and found that there was no beacon fire on it.
At that moment, Pang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to command the archers to continue to block the right cliff, but there was a violent sound of gold and iron under the left cliff, Pang Yudeng's heart suddenly sounded, not good, it seems that the left cliff has been attacked, and the beacon tower on the cliff has not been warned? !
The next moment, a sky-high fire suddenly rose under the cliff on the left!
Immediately afterwards, there was a tidal wave of killing sound under the cliff on the left, and then a team of Han army soldiers had rushed out of the fire, as soon as these Han army soldiers appeared, they went straight to the gate from behind, and then quickly divided into two teams, one team snatched the gate, and the other team followed the horse road to kill the pass!
Pang Yudeng's heart was cold, and Hangu Guan ...... I don't want to lose it!