Before dawn, it is often the darkest hour, and before a crisis erupts, it often gives people the illusion of calm.

Liu Xie, under the escort of a group of cultural relics generals, walked into Liu Bei's carefully designed ambush circle step by step, but did not notice it at all.

Liu Xie didn't notice it, but Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu relied on their intuition to fight on the battlefield, and they had a premonition of the coming crisis, and followed Liu Xie with their weapons, protecting him every step of the way.

When the army continued to move forward dozens of steps, countless Shu soldiers suddenly appeared on the mountains on both sides of the road, all of them held strong bows and sharp arrows in their hands, and they had already been put on the strings, and in a tooth-souring sound of strings, tens of thousands of arrows were aimed at Liu Xie's troops who were marching at the same time.

Shu revealed Meng Da's figure, and shouted to Liu Xie and the others: "Where did the mountain bandits come from?" I don't know if this is the place where the king of Hanzhong guards? How dare you invade the city of my great man! The soldiers listened to the order, shot arrows and killed, and no one was left! Meng Da followed Liu Bei's instructions and deliberately said that Liu Xie, a dignified man of heaven, was a mountain bandit. Because no one could have imagined that Liu Xie would quietly enter Hanzhong, Liu Xie did not issue an edict before this, saying that he would come to Hanzhong, so he gave Liu Bei such an opportunity to come to a fish-eyed and treat Liu Xie as a mountain bandit. More than 50,000 Shu soldiers have never seen Liu Xie, how can they know that he is the current Son of Heaven? Even if they know the Tao, these Shu soldiers, who have always had a strong sense of xenophobia, will obey Liu Bei's orders nine times out of ten, and don't care about the Son of Heaven or not, after all, Liu Bei is now the king of Hanzhong, their lord, and the direct controller of the east and west rivers of Yizhou.

Under the orders of Munda . More than 50,000 Shu soldiers did not hesitate at all, and immediately loosened the bowstring in their hands, and the rain of arrows fell towards the heads of Liu Xie and others.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu had already arrived that something was wrong, seeing this scene, why didn't they understand that this was a trap that Liu Bei had prepared for a long time? The two hurriedly danced their weapons and blocked in front of Liu Xie, blocking the arrows that fell towards Liu Xie. The five thousand bloody slaughterers all drew their swords and instantly built a great wall of steel with their flesh and blood to protect Liu Xie. The first swordsman, Wang Yue, also reacted, and hurriedly beckoned the Imperial Forest Army who was following him to gather around Liu Xie. Wang Yue drew his sword early, and the sword stopped in front of Liu Xie's body first, and slashed the arrows to the ground one by one.

However, not everyone has Wang Yue's swordsmanship, not everyone has the marksmanship of Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu, and not everyone has the willpower to sacrifice life and forget death like the bloody army and the Imperial Forest Army. He never got up again.

Some of the civil officials who followed Liu Xie on the expedition were even more frightened, and while hiding behind the soldiers, they shouted hoarsely: "Stop firing arrows." We are not mountain bandits, we are the army of the imperial court......"

Hearing the shouts of these officials, although Meng Da knew it, he put on a look of righteous indignation on the surface. He shouted angrily: "Bold bandits! Dare to pretend to be the imperial army, a capital crime! Soldiers, don't stay behind. Shoot them all! These bandits are so hateful! ”

Under Meng Da's shout, the scattering of 50,000 Shu soldiers became more dense, and wave after wave of arrow rain, as if they did not need a cost, shot down at the Han army in pieces.

"Withdraw, withdraw! Protect the Holy One, and retreat! The veteran Huangfu Song was anxious, and hurriedly beckoned Wang Yue, Zhao Yun and others, and evacuated to safety with Liu Xie. However, under such a dense rain of arrows, how can it be said that it can be withdrawn? The rain of arrows that covered the sky and the sun completely entangled the Han army, in this case, not to mention retreating, it was quite difficult to stand in place to protect themselves, from time to time there were screams from the Han army after being hit by arrows, ringing in everyone's ears, and the pain was transmitted to more people through the sound.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu glanced at each other, they now understood in their hearts, Liu Bei is in the name of the king of Hanzhong, using the exercise of power in his hands, to put Liu Xie to death in a high-sounding manner, Meng Da has just clearly expressed this meaning through shouting, in the eyes of the Shu soldiers, Liu Xie is now an out-and-out mountain bandit leader, for the peace of the Han Dynasty, in order to prevent the east and west rivers of Yizhou from being attacked by mountain bandits, they have a sufficient reason to shoot Liu Xie on the spot! Otherwise, where would Meng Da be interested in saying so much to the so-called mountain bandits?

Zhong Xuan was in the midst of the chaotic arrows, thinking more than Zhao Yun and the others, the reason why Liu Bei dared to use this extreme means of concealing the sky and crossing the sea, was because he saw the powerlessness of the imperial court to control the situation, through this Liu Xie's quiet march, he wanted to remove the last obstacle to his march to the peak of power in one fell swoop, with the current loyalty of the princes to the Han Dynasty, I am afraid that except for Ao Lie, the king of Yan, no one will stand up for Liu Xieqiang, even if it is Ao Lie, it is only because he values the people of the world more and out of brotherhood for Liu Xie, It's not for the sake of the Han regime, for Liu Bei, anyway, he has already formed a mortal enmity with Ao Lie, so he doesn't have to worry about anything. After Liu Xie's death, Liu Bei could regain his identity as a relative of the Han family, and naturally take over the Han Dynasty and become the new emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Looking at the Han army that was shot by random arrows, Meng Da's face brought a smile, what Zhong Miao thought of, Meng Da naturally understood better, as long as Liu Xie is killed today, the position of the emperor of the Han Dynasty will definitely fall on Liu Bei, after all, today, most of the people surnamed Liu and the relatives of the Han family have died, and there are only a few people who are famous now, among which Liu Yu is very old, and he has long been out of the world; Liu Tao's age does not have to be young Liu Yu, and it is unknown whether he can escape alive under the random arrows; and Liu Ye, although he is also a relative of the Han family, and he is an upright young man, but unfortunately, he has already served Cao Cao, so he is no longer among the candidates to inherit the position of the Son of Heaven; And Ao Lie's biological eldest brother Liu He, all the conditions are met, but there is no military power in his hands, and what can a person without military power use to compete for the throne? In this way, only Liu Bei can take over the imperial power of the Han Dynasty, although Liu Bei has been removed from the status of a clan member of the Han family by Liu Xie. But that's not a problem, when Liu Xie dies, who will hold on to Liu Xie's decision? When Liu Bei becomes the Son of Heaven, Meng Da will be regarded as the founding father of the country, and it will not be too high a luxury to be a marquis or something, so at this moment, Meng Da's heart is already full of longing for the future.

At the moment when the Han army was in great danger, something even worse happened. Yan Yan, a veteran of Yizhou, was sent out by Liu Bei, and he led 10,000 light cavalry to cut off the retreat of the Han army in the sound of horses' hooves. Yan Yan didn't know who the opponent he was about to face was, but before leaving, Liu Bei gave him an order to kill him completely, and Yan Yan naturally had to obey the order.

When he came to the rear of the Han army less than a hundred paces away, Yan Yan suddenly grabbed the reins of the war horse and raised his right hand high. Motioned for the 10,000 hussars behind him to stop. In a slightly chaotic kicking sound, the 10,000 Shu soldiers and light horsemen all stopped, waiting for Yan Yan's next order.

Yan Yan saw that the people and horses in front of him were in chaos, and his soldiers were attacking indiscriminately with bows and arrows. At this time, if he rushed forward, he might be injured by his own people's arrows, so Yan Yan stopped his march and took out the treasure carving bow instead. At the same time, an order was given to the light horsemen behind him: "Take the bow and prepare to shoot!" ”

Yan Yan, a veteran of the battlefield, judged the situation very accurately and made the most accurate judgment based on the battlefield situation. At the same time, what he didn't know was that his decision completely cut off the way for the Han army to retreat.

Under Yan Yan's order, 10,000 light cavalry laid down their weapons one after another, picked up the cavalry's special riding bow, and launched a round of lore flat fire from the back of the Han army. The sergeants in the rear of the Han army, because they only cared about resisting the rain of arrows scattered in the sky before, did not notice that there was another group of light cavalry behind them, so they were caught off guard by the flat shooting of Yan Yan and others, and immediately thousands of Han soldiers were shot unguarded, and fell to the ground screaming.

It wasn't until Yan Yan led the crowd to complete three rounds of flat shooting that the Han army turned around with difficulty in the ubiquitous rain of arrows and used their shields to resist Yan Yan's arrows. Seeing that the Han army erected the shield, Yan Yan twitched the corners of his mouth, slightly raised the treasure carving bow in his hand to the dragon by half a foot, and at the same time ordered the light horse behind him: "Raise the cavalry bow by half a foot, throw!" ”

The light cavalry of the Shu soldiers immediately raised the riding bow in their hands by half a foot in accordance with Yan Yan's order, and then continued to draw arrows from the quiver on the horseback, put them on the bowstring, and shot them towards the Han army in a throwing technique. Don't look at Yan Yan only raised the angle of half a foot, this is the experience that Yan Yan has learned in countless mounted shooting, at a distance of nearly 100 paces, slightly raising the angle of shooting, it will change the trajectory, so that the arrows thrown out can just bypass the shield of the Han army, and then accurately kill the shield holder behind the shield.

When Yan Yan's light cavalry threw the sharp arrows out of the Han army in accordance with Yan Yan's orders, it immediately caused a lot of damage to the shield bearers of the Han army, and nearly forty percent of the shield bearers were shot by the Shu soldiers' light cavalry The sharp arrows pierced the top of their heads, making the shield array in the back row of the Han army appear a lot of loopholes.

In the loophole of the Han army's shield array, Yan Yan saw Liu Xie, who was dressed in gold armor, retreating to his side under the escort of one old man, two young men, and three masters. Yan Yan didn't know Wang Yue, Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu, when Ao Lie led the army to attack Hanzhong for the first time, he didn't even step into Xichuan, but only fought with Liu Bei in the Dongchuan area, so Yan Yan was not familiar with the soldiers of Ao Lie's department, not to mention that Zhao Yun was also ordered to pacify Goryeo at that time, and did not follow in the army. Although he didn't know these three people, Yan Yan could see that the three of them had extraordinary martial arts and were all first-class masters.

"There are such masters among the mountain bandits now? It seems that this gang of bandits is not simple. Yan Yan whispered to himself, then took out a wolf tooth arrow, put it on the treasure carving bow, aimed at Liu Xie, who was guarded by Wang Yue and the three of them, and slowly but forcefully pulled the bowstring away, until it reached the full string, Yan Yan shouted: "Medium!" ”

The wolf's tooth arrow was shot out by Yan Yanguan's strength, like a meteor catching half of the moon, and shot straight towards Liu Xie's heart! Seeing six ways and listening to all directions, it is the instinct of the top master, although Yan Yan's archery skills are extremely good, and even the sound of the bowstring vibrating is overwhelming the lowest, but it still can't escape the ears of Wang Yue and the others, Wang Yue dodged and came five steps behind Liu Xie, raised his sword and slashed down at the sharp arrow shot by Yan Yan.

With a click, the sharp arrow shot by Yan Yan was cut off by Wang Yue's sword, but to Wang Yue's surprise, even if he had cut off this sharp arrow, the section of the arrow still trembled and flew towards Liu Xie's body, but after being hit by the long sword in Wang Yue's hand, this section of the arrow had lost its original trajectory, and it was no longer shot at Liu Xie's heart, but towards his waist.

Wang Yue was shocked, and he wanted to rush over to stop the half of the arrow, but it was too late. Although Wang Yue is the number one swordsman in the world, but the technique of fighting and the method of battlefield fighting are not the same thing at all.

Fortunately, Wang Yue was not the only one by Liu Xie's side, seeing that the broken arrow was about to pierce Liu Xie's body, Zhao Yun stabbed out obliquely, shook the Haolong Broken Courage Gun in his hand, and knocked the arrow to the ground when there was no room for fire, avoiding the certainty that Liu Xie would be shot.

Seeing that Wang Yue and Zhao Yun blocked their wolf tooth arrows with a sword and a shot before and after, Yan Yan snorted coldly, pulled out a wolf tooth arrow again, and put it on the bowstring. Yan Yan, a veteran, is quite similar to Huang Zhong, one of the five tiger generals under Ao Lie's command, both of them were unknown when they were young, and they did not become famous until they were old, and then they were powerful in the world, so their morale is extremely high, the older they are, the more they refuse to admit defeat, and these two people are both swords and horses, good at riding and shooting, and one-handed archery, which is not inferior to their own knife skills.

Closing his left eye slightly, Yan Yan used his wide right eye to lock the direction of the wolf's tooth arrow arrow on Liu Xie's body again, and at the same time pulled the bowstring's right hand fingers around the bowstring, so that the arrow feathers of the wolf's tooth arrow were entangled in a twisted bowstring, and then exhaled and shouted: "Medium!" (To be continued......)

PS: PS: Because I gave my brother a birthday yesterday, I owe everyone a chapter, and today's first is a big chapter of 4000 words to compensate for yesterday's change.