Jingzhou became a pot of porridge, Liu Bei held the four counties south of Xiangyang in his hands, but he was unable to initiate the action of unifying Jingzhou, and instead carried out internal rectification.

Taking advantage of Liu Bei's unguarded opportunity, Sun Ce took Jiangxia and Changsha in the west of Jingzhou in one fell swoop, stretched his tentacles into Jingzhou, and occupied the two counties with the most abundant money and grain in Jingzhou, after all, Sun Ce did not continue to encroach on Jingzhou counties, after all, the soldiers and horses and generals available to him now are not the best configuration, and he relied on surprise attacks to win the two counties, if it is a frontal battle, Sun Ce knows that he is not necessarily the opponent of Liu Bei, Pang Tong and others, so, before Zhou Yu and others helped Ao Lie stabilize the situation in the north and return to Jiangdong, Sun Ce adopted a defensive strategy, stationed troops and horses in Jiangxia and Changsha, and could not hold out.

Cao Cao, who had just taken Qingzhou and returned to Guandu, couldn't help but be a little worried after learning the news that Sun Ce had cheated his death, and immediately called Guo Jia and asked him about the details of arranging for the assassins to assassinate Sun Ce. After analyzing with Guo Jia, Cao Cao felt that Sun Ce did not find out that the killer was sent by himself. Although the assassination failed, it caused unrest in Jingzhou, and in order to turn a bad thing into a good thing, Cao Cao made an active remedy, and he asked Cao Ren to lead a group of troops and horses south, to join Xiahou Yuan, who was stationed on the border of Yuzhou, and attack on his own according to the specific situation.

Cao Ren led his troops to Jingzhou, and found that the whole Jingzhou was in chaos, after Liu Biao's death, no one could maintain the situation of Jingzhou's unity, and the titular Jingzhou Mu Liu Bei was busy rectifying internal affairs because he had just entered Xiangyang, and he was temporarily unable to use troops to Jingbei, and Sun Ce, who was entrenched in Jiangxia, was limited by his troops, even if he had the heart, he was powerless. Cao Ren is worthy of being the chief general of the Chinese army that Cao Cao values the most, and after accurately judging the situation. Cao Ren immediately made a decision, and united with Xiahou Yuan to attack the two counties of Nanjun and Nanxiang respectively, and then joined forces in one place, and quickly took the northwestern part of Jingzhou, leading to Yongliang in the north and Shangyong County in Hanzhong in the west.

At this point, the huge Jingzhou began to be divided as in history, the three counties in the north fell into the hands of Cao Cao, and the four counties in the central and southern parts were controlled by Liu Bei. The two counties to the west were occupied by Sun Ce. The three families of Cao, Liu, and Sun divided the entire Jingxiang Nine Counties equally.

The Central Plains War had not officially begun, and Jingzhou in the south had already carried out the war in full swing. Correspondingly, the war in Luoyang is also burning vigorously.

Li Dao, Guo Yan and others were trapped in Luoyang with 160,000 rebel soldiers. clamoring to attack Luoyang, and implement the three-light policy of killing, robbing, and burning all in Luoyang City. The anger of the rebels in Liangzhou. originated from Zhang Ji's act of burning Chang'an. Originally. Li Wei told the rebels that after breaking through Chang'an, they could indulge in plundering in Chang'an City for three days, but who expected that a fire before Zhang Ji's death almost burned Chang'an to the ground, not to mention money, food and women. Even the walls of Chang'an were burned down for the most part. The rebels who invaded Chang'an were shocked to find that the Chang'an they had obtained was just a ruined city with empty buildings and no value. The residents, money, food, and ordnance materials in the city have long been transferred to Luoyang by Zhang Ji.

For this reason, Li Dao and others were angry, regardless of the rectification of the people, they came to Luoyang in a double way, trying to make up for what was lost in Chang'an from Luoyang City.

Looking at Li Dao who was shouting in the city, Zhang Xiu shouted angrily: "The thief is arrogant, and the general will come to meet you!" With that, Zhang Xiu was about to go out of the city to face the battle, but was stopped by Ao Lie.

Stretching out his hand and patting Zhang Xiu on the shoulder, Ao Lie said earnestly: "Youwei, uncle did not hesitate to burn Chang'an, in order to clear the wilderness and make it impossible for the rebels to get supplies. The rebels gathered in a crowd, and naturally their morale could not last long, so we should focus on holding on and waiting for the rebels to become chaotic before we can send troops to attack them. Youwei, we can't, and we won't let my uncle die in vain, but it's not time to take revenge. and Meng Qi, when the time comes, we will settle the hatred of my uncle together. ”

Zhang Xiu and Ma Chao were comforted by Ao Lie, and quieted down with tears, but their fists were already clenched tightly in secret, this blood feud must be recovered at the price of blood.

After waiting under the city for a while, and not seeing Zhang Xiu out of the city, Li Dao's shouting became even more unscrupulous: "What? Not going out of town again? Scared? Ha Luha, the big man's gas is exhausted. Sons and daughters, siege the city! ”

Under Li Wei's order, 160,000 rebels took action, and 40,000 rebels, mainly Qiang and Han Sui, took the lead in launching a siege battle.

Ao Lie glanced coldly at the rebels under the city, slowly raised his right hand, and said in a cold voice: "The red-clothed ballista is ready, first get back a little interest." Zhang Xiu strode to the red-clothed ballista behind the battlement, pushed away a ballista, and then ripped off the red cloth on the red-clothed ballista, with endless hatred in his eyes, he looked at the rebels who were preparing to attack the city, but said to the ballista who was pushed away by himself just now: "Reload!" Reload without stopping! ”

"Kill—"

Forty thousand rebels shouted hysterically and rushed within five hundred paces of Luoyang City. Seeing that the rebels had entered the best range of the red-coated ballista, Ao Lie's right hand, which had been held high, suddenly fell down and shouted, "Fire!" ”

Zhang Xiu was the first to carry out Ao Lie's order, and the red-clothed ballista he controlled in his hand shot out the five powerful crossbows on the tip of the cannon at the same time in the blink of an eye. Because the Liangzhou mutiny happened too suddenly, in order not to affect the speed of the march, Ao Lie only brought twenty red-clothed ballistas this time, which was still the elite of the tiger ben relying on the advantage of physical fitness, dismantling the red-clothed ballistas, each carrying the parts of the red-clothed ballista, running all the way, and reassembling the red-clothed ballista after arriving in Luoyang. If it were other troops, it would not have been possible to carry red-coated ballistas on a rapid march.

A hundred crossbows flew into the air with a breathtaking roar, and in the blink of an eye, they came to the eyes of the rebel vanguard, and in a pant of cold air and a wail of fear and pain, hundreds of rebels were pierced through the body by the crossbows, and turned into a new batch of dead souls under the red-clothed ballistas.

On the battlefield, the deterrent power of the red-clothed ballista is always much higher than its own lethality. After seeing the first round of firing of the red-clothed ballista, Han Sui said to Li Dao in horror: "General, this ballista is too powerful, this battle can't be fought, and it will continue to be fought." A certain subordinate is about to die...... "When he attacked Chang'an before, it was Han Sui's troops who fought in the vanguard, Zhang Ji's stubborn resistance made Han Sui's subordinates suffer heavy losses, and now they were hit head-on by the red-clothed ballista, and Han Sui began to worry about his subordinates. His worries were not unreasonable, among the rebels, Han Sui's strength was the weakest, so he had to obey Li Dao and Guo Yan, but Han Sui also knew it. If your troops are exhausted and you have no soldiers and horses in your hands, the first ones to kill yourself are Li Dao and Guo Yan, which is an unsolvable cycle.

Han Sui's thoughts. Of course, Li Dao understood that Li Dao was going to take advantage of this rebellion. Take the opportunity to wear down Han Sui's strength. Isn't it a good thing that there can be one less person to share the profits in the future? However, Li Dao didn't want to make things too obvious, which would make the Qiang leaders feel chilled. After hearing Han Sui's request, Li Wei pondered for a moment, turned back to Guo Yan and said, "Let's each send 5,000 infantry troops to replace General Han Sui's 10,000 troops." How is it? ”

With Li Dao as a partner for a long time, Guo Yan naturally knows Li Dao's mind well. He knew that although Li Dao was talking to himself, he was actually telling Han Sui that he could only let Han Sui withdraw 10,000 soldiers. This is the maximum concession. Immediately, Guo Yan had no objection and agreed.

Han Sui was obviously not satisfied with this concession between the two, but the situation was stronger than others, Han Sui's strength was not as strong as Li and Guo, and this rebellion was headed by these two people, even if Han Sui was unwilling, he just had to accept it helplessly.

After Han Sui withdrew 10,000 pioneers, and Li Dao and Guo Yan each added 5,000 soldiers, the rebel offensive was launched again.

On the city wall of Luoyang, Zhang Xiu has completed three rounds of salvos, and he now has only one thought in his heart, which is to shoot the crossbow on the red-clothed ballista as soon as possible to avenge his uncle Zhang Ji! Driven by Zhang Xiu, the speed at which the tiger elites operated the red-clothed ballista was also faster than usual, and the gap between reloading was also greatly shortened.

Under the non-stop fire of the red-coated ballistas, the rebels under the city had to pay a huge price for every step they took. In just a hundred paces away, they had already paid more than 2,000 lives, but still under Li Wei's shout, they had to bite the ball and continue to charge Luoyang City.

Enraged by the crossbow that came down, one of the Qiang leaders ripped off his armor, revealing his hardcover upper body, and shouted, "Afraid of death is not a good man!" Sons, rush with me! The tribesmen who followed him roared and quickened their pace to follow their leader.

Courage is commendable, but under the tremendous power of the red-coated ballista, there is really no difference between going shirtless and looking for death. Zhang Xiu's keen eyes saw the Qiang leader, the crossbow in his hand adjusted the direction slightly, and the five crossbows shot towards the Qiang leader at the same time.

The leader of the Qiang people, who was still forging ahead just now, was smashed to pieces by Zhang Xiu's crossbow shot in the next moment, and the javelin-shaped crossbow pierced his body to pieces and turned into a pile of minced meat. The death of this Qiang leader made several other charging Qiang leaders feel afraid, the Qiang people are not afraid of death, but this kind of death, which cannot be resisted, greatly hit their determination not to be afraid of death.

Rushing from 500 steps away to a place 100 steps away from Luoyang City, in a short distance of 400 steps, the rebels left nearly 10,000 corpses, of which only half of them were directly shot by the red-clothed ballistas, and the rest were either injured and fell to the ground and trampled to death by the people behind them, or died because of panic and collision, in short, under the deterrence of the red-clothed ballistas, the rebels' formation has begun to appear chaotic.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the rebels, Ao Lie stretched out his hand and raised his Qiankun bow. This treasure bow was given to Ao Lie by the dead Liu Hong, who had not used it on the battlefield for a long time. Drawing out two carved arrows and placing them on the bowstring at the same time, Ao Lie calmly gave the order: "All the crossbowmen are ready, and the enemy will attack immediately if the enemy is ten steps closer." ”

The 10,000 elites of the Blood Killing Army immediately raised their arms in unison, and quickly adjusted the angle of their shots. At the same time as the Blood Killing Army, there were the other 5,000 Tiger Ben Army who did not control the red-clothed ballista, and their movements were exactly the same as those of the Blood Killing Army. A little slower than these two elites, are four thousand bearded veterans, judging from their clothing, they should be Xiliang's sergeants, and the Xiliang soldiers who can appear in Luoyang City, their identities are about to come out, they must be the four thousand bearded soldiers left by Ma Teng. After the bearded soldiers, it was the crossbowmen of the thousands of royal forest troops guarding Luoyang, who, under the leadership of Qu A, raised their bows and arrows in their hands in a slightly chaotic manner.

It is true that Wang Yue and Qu A are masters, but they are not real generals, and the degree of training soldiers is far inferior to that of Gao Shun and Xu Rong, and the Imperial Forest Army stationed in Luoyang, to a certain extent, is Liu Xie's private army.

The distance of ten paces was quickly crossed by the rebels, and Ao Lie took the lead in shooting the two eagle arrows on the Qiankun bow, and his target was the two middle-level officers in the rebel army. Although he hadn't shot an arrow on the battlefield for a long time, Ao Lie usually spent a lot of time training in archery, so his archery skills did not fall behind, but improved slightly. The two rebel officers who were targeted by him fell off their horses and were neat.

With Ao Lie's shot, more than 20,000 crossbowmen on the head of Luoyang City looked for targets and began to scatter. These arrows and crossbows are roughly divided into two kinds, one is a relatively short crossbow arrow, which is shot out in a flat way, which is a unique shooting method belonging to the blood killing army and the tiger army, under the force of the Xizi crossbow, the crossbow itself has a strong penetrating power, they only need to aim at the target, so their efficiency is obviously very high, the middle and lower officers of the rebel army, suffered their collective attack, a large number of rebel officers and the personal soldiers around them, were shot off their horses.

Another type of shooting is to use the technique of projectile, in which an arm-length arrow is thrown into the air, and after reaching the apex, it then falls from a high altitude in a whistling manner. This kind of archery is the shooting method of conventional sergeants such as bearded soldiers and royal forest soldiers, and the bow does not have the mechanical force of a crossbow, so most archers will choose to throw, using inertia to enhance the penetration of the arrow, but this shooting method has extremely high requirements for archery, and it is not a very easy thing to accurately calculate the landing point of the arrow through a parabola. Therefore, their lethality to the rebels is much inferior to that of the Blood Slaughter Army and the Tiger Ben Army. It's not a good thing that the rebels are densely crowded, and even if you don't have to aim, you have a great chance of hitting the enemy, so you still have a certain amount of damage to the rebels. (To be continued......)

PS:PS:Today's third chapter is here.,It's still a big chapter.,It's a little compensation for yesterday's network outage and not being updated in time.,There's another chapter later.。