Chapter 285: Take the lead

"Quick! Rushed to Yi County before dark, and the offender was immediately beheaded! Zhao Yun shouted vigorously, urging his subordinates to speed up.

Yi County, belonging to Hejian, is the largest county in the north of Jizhou. Zhao Yun wanted to conquer Yi County in the shortest possible time, and taking Yi County was equivalent to taking the gateway of Hejian, and Hejian was the gateway to the north of Jizhou.

Zhao Yun's strategic vision proved to be a success. When the sky was just dark, Zhao Yun led 15,000 vanguard troops to the city of Yi County, because Yuan Shao was not prepared, and there were only more than 2,000 people stationed in Yi County.

The next day, leaving 5,000 men to garrison Yi County, Zhao Yun began a rapid march again, and his purpose this time was Hejian City, the capital of Hejian. Although Zhao Yun is not very good at politics, he also knows that in the process of this crusade against Yuan Shao, because of the alliance with Cao Cao, whoever gets the county first must be owned by whom, which is the iron law of the alliance of the Han Dynasty. From a military point of view, the soldiers are fast, and it is easiest to take the lead when Yuan Shao has not yet reacted and the preparations for war have not yet been in place, so Zhao Yun decided to take advantage of this opportunity to take a county of Yuan Shao first.

Unlike the attack on Yi County, in the river, Zhao Yun unexpectedly encountered an opponent. Since falling out of favor in Yuan Shao's eyes, Ju Yi no longer has the power to enter Yuan Shao's core institutions, but was sent to the river by Yuan Shao. Served as the position of Karuma Taimori. It was Yuan Shao who saw him upset, so he sent him out of Yecheng and to the remote river, so as not to be an eyesore in front of him.

Yuan Shao was originally an unintentional move, but he didn't expect this unintentional move to cause Zhao Yun into a lot of trouble. Ju Yi was originally a famous general, who was good at training troops and arranging troops. The two elite first battalions and euphorbia soldiers under Yuan Shao were all trained by Ju Yi, if it weren't for Xu Rong defeating Ju Yi one after another. made Yuan Shao lose face in front of all the princes. Yuan Shao was reluctant to send Ju Yi to Hejian to serve as the Taishou.

When Zhao Yun led the army to attack the city, Ju Yi came to the head of the city, commanded Ruoding, and resisted Zhao Yun's onslaught with courtesy and courtesy. With a meager force of four thousand troops. Desperately blocked Zhao Yun's 10,000-strong army outside the city. As a result, Zhao Yun's subordinates failed to move forward for a day and a night, but instead left the corpses of nearly a thousand people under the city.

After a day and a night of fighting, Zhao Yun was already a little red-eyed. After being delayed by Ju Yi for so long, presumably Yuan Shao already knew about Ao Lie's march, and he should be dispatching troops at this moment, at most two days, Yuan's reinforcements will come to Hejian City, and at that time, his surprise attack will be a complete failure.

In an unfavorable situation, Zhao Yun, who has always been calm, went crazy for a rare time. Turning over and jumping off the back of the little white dragon's horse, Zhao Yun shouted loudly: "Ballista, set up a red-clothed ballista!" Target, enemy walls, open fire! ”

In Zhao Yun's vanguard troops, Ao Lie equipped them with ten red-clothed ballistas, and the number of ballistae was not much, because Ao Lie did not expect Zhao Yun to launch a strong battle. Because the number of ballistas is not large, even if they are put into the battlefield, the effect that can be obtained is minimal, but it will expose this secret weapon to Yuan Jun, so Zhao Yun has never let the red-clothed ballista enter the battle. But as the attack could not be carried out for a long time for a day and a night, Zhao Yun was a little anxious, and finally moved the red-clothed ballista out.

With the appearance of the red-clothed ballista, the Yuan army on the head of the city, including Ju Yi, looked at the red-clothed ballista with some horror, they had never seen such a huge ballista, according to common sense, the larger the volume of the ballista, the greater the lethality it can produce, according to this logic, the power of the red-clothed ballista is probably beyond the limit that all Yuan Jun can imagine.

Ju Yi looked at the red-clothed ballista under the city with some dumbfoundedness, and muttered, "This is, ballista?" Such a big ballista? Soon, Ju Yi's question was answered. What answered him was a powerful crossbow that pierced the space one by one! After the further transformation of Wang Hun and Ma Jun, the current red-clothed ballista has reached the terrifying two-gun three-sword crossbow, that is to say, each red-clothed ballista can fire two javelin-sized crossbows and three long sword-sized crossbows at the same time. When fifty powerful crossbows of different sizes shot out, the Yuan army at the head of the city all gasped, in the face of a battlefield killer weapon like a red-clothed ballista, who could not be surprised or despair?

A large number of Yuan soldiers were frightened, and they all squatted down with their heads in their hands, and hid behind the battlements of the city wall. "Panic what! Those crossbows, they didn't aim at all! Ju Yi's quiet voice sounded. Those Yuan Jun, who were hiding with their heads in their hands, pretended to stand up with courage after hearing Ju Yi's words, and found that those crossbows that seemed to be very powerful had all missed, and the fifty crossbow arrows were all shot at the bottom of the city wall in one-third without exception.

A burst of laughter erupted in Yuan Jun: "I'll go, the silver-like wax gun head, it's really useless." ”

"Ha Luha, with this technique, no matter how good the ballista is, it can't exert its power."

"This is the rumored invincible Youzhou Army? It's so substandard......"

Facing the ridicule of the enemy troops at the head of the city, Zhao Yun was unmoved, and continued to give orders: "Target, in the middle of the city wall, open fire!" ”

In an instant, another fifty crossbows shot out, and with the sound of "grabbing", fifty crossbows hit the center of the city wall between the rivers, and each crossbow was deeply inserted into the middle of the city wall, bringing up a burst of rubble and sliding from the city wall to the ground.

This shot was different from just now, because it was the bottom of the city wall, which was the strongest part of the city wall, so the Yuan army on the head of the city didn't feel anything unusual, but when the target of the red-clothed ballista became the middle of the city wall, the huge force on the crossbow began to show, and the city wall was hit by fifty strong crossbows and produced a slight vibration, although it was slight, but it was still perceived by the Yuan army, feeling the vibration from under the feet, the Yuan army who was originally laughing loudly at the red-clothed ballista, the smile on his face instantly froze. From such a distance and such a thick wall, you can feel the impact of the crossbow. If this is shot directly at people, will there be any life? Whoever is stronger than the human body and the city wall is probably a fool can tell the difference.

"Target, top of the wall, fire!" Zhao Yun continued to give orders. Fifty more powerful crossbows roared out, and in a sonorous and powerful penetration, they were accurately nailed to the top of the city wall. This shooting brought an even greater shock to Yuan Jun because of the proximity of the distance. Let them feel the penetrating power of the crossbow more clearly. There was even a javelin-shaped crossbow that shot through the battlements and pierced a Yuan soldier hiding behind! Under the impact of fifty powerful crossbows, the city seemed to let out an overwhelmed groan. A large number of stones were crushed. Turned into debris and dropped under the city. There were many Yuan Jun who failed to gain a firm foothold in the violent tremors. fell to the ground, because of fright, Yuan Jun, who fell, was stunned and kept the posture of falling to the ground, and even forgot to get up again.

After the three rounds of crossbow shooting, Zhao Yun lifted his robe, put the Haolong Broken Courage with the gun on his back, and then pulled out the steel sword at his waist, and roared angrily: "The ballista gunner continues to keep shooting, kill the army with blood, and rush to the city with a certain person!" The five thousand blood killing troops roared in unison, raised their heavy swords, and rushed out of the city on foot with Zhao Yun.

In order to protect Zhao Yun and others from being shot by Yuan Jun's bows and arrows, the ballista gunners who were responsible for operating the red-clothed ballistas hurriedly added crossbow arrows to maintain the suppression of the city.

Ju Yi, who was forced by the crossbow to hide behind the city wall, heard the roar of the bloody army in unison, and immediately realized that something was wrong. With Ju Yi's ability, he instantly judged that the previous three rounds of shooting were not Zhao Yun adjusting the shooting angle at all, but intentionally, the purpose was to set up a climbing path on the city wall between the rivers with a crossbow!

Clearly, Ju Yi was powerless to stop the impact of Zhao Yun and the others, and under the deterrence of the red-clothed ballista, the Yuan army did not dare to show their heads at all! But Ju Yi is a famous general after all, and after thinking about it for a while, he immediately made a decision: "Everyone bends down to advance, reduces the force area, gathers behind the battlements, and waits for knives and guns!" Don't let go of an enemy who has landed in the city! Ju Yi's idea was to defend the city wall, use the thick city wall to resist the crossbows of the red-clothed ballistas, and at the same time concentrate his forces, wait for Zhao Yun and the others to climb up, and then cut them down with knives and guns.

After two more rounds of bombardment, more than 100 crossbows roared, and some of the javelin-shaped crossbows pierced through the city wall, piercing the Yuan soldiers hiding behind. However, after all, there were only a few crossbows that could penetrate the city wall, and after Yuan Jun let out dozens of screams and dropped dozens of corpses, there were no other losses. However, the terrifying shock that the crossbow could penetrate through the city wall still caused confusion among the Yuan soldiers, and most of the Yuan army's hands holding weapons had already begun to tremble.

Yuan Shao's method of governing the army is very strange, not in wartime, he will never let the regular army spread to various counties, lest someone encroach on his troops and disperse his military power. It is precisely because of Yuan Shao's idea that the soldiers in various counties and counties in Jizhou now have very limited combat effectiveness, and it is not bad to be able to hold the city, let alone go out of the city to meet the enemy.

Ju Yi looked at the frightened faces and trembling hands of his subordinate soldiers, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart. The county soldiers are the county soldiers, if these 4,000 county soldiers are replaced by the first battalion or euphorbia soldiers trained by him, not to mention 4,000, it is 2,000 people, Ju Yi is also capable of protecting the city, but now, he can only resign himself to fate.

Soon, the red-clothed ballistas under the city stopped firing, and Ju Yi knew that Zhao Yun and the others were already approaching the city. The Youzhou army was afraid that Zhao Yun would be injured by mistake, so they stopped shooting. Standing up suddenly, Ju Yi drew his sword in his hand, and shouted: "Soldiers, fight back!" Ju Yi's judgment of the timing was very accurate, but unfortunately, his subordinate county soldiers could not react in time, and one by one they still trembled their hands and cowered behind the city wall.

Ju Yi was furious, swung his sword and slashed a trembling soldier, shouting angrily: "Stand up! Meet the enemy! Under Ju Yi's shock, the Yuan soldiers got up one after another and aimed their weapons at the battlements. It's a pity that their reaction has been a step slower, and when they stood up, the figure of the Blood Killer had already appeared outside the battlements!

Zhao Yun stepped on the crossbow body of the crossbow with a flick, jumped onto the city wall with a flick, slashed down the long sword in his left hand like lightning, chopped the head of a Yuan army to the ground, copied his right hand behind his back, and held the Haolong Broken Gall Gun in his hand again, and then danced with both hands with a gun and a sword, and smashed into the middle of the Yuan army like a tiger.

Zhao Yun's first arrival in the city immediately caused a lot of damage to Yuan Jun and attracted the attention of most of Yuan Jun. The bloody killing army after Zhao Yun took the opportunity to jump on the city, wielding the horse chopping knife to kill the Yuan army, the elite of the blood killing army, at this moment was fully revealed, it was not at all what these Yuan army's county soldiers could resist, between every breath, at least two Yuan soldiers were ruthlessly cut off their necks by the blood killing army's horse killing saber, and after their heads fell to the ground, they were still terrified with despair.

Relying on Zhao Yun's bravery and the elite of the bloody army, soon, the Yuan army at the head of the city was opened a big opening, allowing more bloody troops to calmly enter the city and join the ranks of the slaughter.

In less than half an hour, most of the 4,000 Yuan troops were killed and wounded, and the remaining more than 1,000 people were completely frightened, and threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender. Ju Yi stood alone at the head of the city covered in blood, and under his sword, three elites of the Blood Killing Army had already died. Deeply aware of the misery of being alone, Ju Yi said to Zhao Yun: "If you lead the same elite soldiers as you, you have no chance of winning!" ”

Zhao Yun slowly shook his head and said, "There is no such possibility, the Blood Killing Army is unique. There is no army of the same nature that can be compared to the Blood Killing Army! As if in response to Zhao Yun's praise, the elites of the Blood Killing Army roared in unison: "The soul of blood killing, there is no battle!" ”

The next moment, Zhao Yun shook the long sword in his hand and stabbed it into Ju Yi's throat. A generation of famous generals will return to Huangquan. (To be continued......)