Chapter 423: Bluffing

Dense raindrops of arrows flew down from the walls on both sides and fell into the crowd of the Black Mountain army at the gates.

Countless Montenegrins were shot by arrows, fell to the ground, and then disappeared at the feet of their companions, soon being trampled into corpses stained with mud and blood.

More than 100 Montenegrin troops, holding battering rams, shouted trumpets, and smashed the gates of Handan City with all their might.

The Yulinwei at the head of the city kept pouring boiling oil to the city gate, but as soon as a group of Montenegrin troops were scalded to death by boiling oil, more Montenegrin troops immediately rushed up.

The battering ram covered with oil stains is slippery and greasy and difficult to pick hands, and more than 100 Montenegrin troops holding the battering ram will slip under their feet and fall to the ground every time they smash the battering ram forward.

The Montenegrin army besieged at the gate of the city let out a shout, and the Montenegrin army, which was scalded by the boiling oil, howled miserably. Accompanied by shouts and howls, the roar of battering rams beating against the city gates reached the city.

The battering ram slammed into the city gate, and every time there was a bang, Zhao Yun on the city head would feel the city wall under his feet tremble.

Listening to the loud noise made when the city gate was beaten, Zhao Yun knew that if the Montenegrin army was allowed to concentrate on attacking the city gate, it would only be a matter of time before Handan City was broken.

Holding the battlements in his hands, while directing the Yulin guards on the city wall to pour arrows and splash boiling oil under the city, Zhao Yun's eyes wandered among the Black Mountain army under the city.

Suddenly, he found that there was a general in scaly armor among the Black Mountain Army, who was standing less than fifty steps away from the city gate, constantly waving his hand and urging more Black Mountain troops to rush towards the city gate.

Judging from the behavior of the Montenegrin general and the obedience of the Montenegrin army to him, Zhao Yun could see that he must have a very high prestige in the Montenegrin army, at least the Montenegrin army that is currently besieging the city is under the command of that person.

Standing in the distance and urging the Montenegrin army to charge, it was none other than Du Chang, who was responsible for the siege.

A fire gnawed away the gates of Handan City a lot thinner, and every time the Montenegrin army hit the city gate with a battering ram, the city gate would be in danger of collapsing.

Seeing that he was about to break through the gate of Handan, how could Du Chang be willing to give up this credit easily. In a hurry, he didn't care to consider that crossbow arrows might come at him at any time from the city, and he unknowingly entered the range of crossbow arrows.

While waving the long sword in his hand, Du Chang urged the soldiers of the Black Mountain Army to charge towards the city gate, frowning slightly, nervously looking forward to the collapse of the Handan city gate.

Zhao Yun on the city wall, seeing Du Chang from afar, saw that his identity was extraordinary, stretched out his hand to a Yu Lin Wei beside him, and shouted at that Yu Lin Wei: "Crossbow arrows!" ”

Zhao Yun begged for a crossbow arrow, but that Yu Lin Wei didn't dare to delay in the slightest, and hurriedly took down the crossbow arrow behind him, and hung the arrow on the crossbow for Zhao Yun, and then handed the crossbow to Zhao Yun.

Taking the crossbow, Zhao Yun raised the crossbow flat, squinted one eye, and aimed at Du Chang, who was constantly waving his long sword under the city and directing this siege.

All his attention was focused on the direction of the city gate, and Du Chang didn't expect that there would be a crossbow arrow aimed at his head on the city wall.

The fingers gently pulled the reed, and with a soft sound of "Peng", the feather arrow bounced out of the crossbow and flew straight towards Du Chang.

was commanding the Montenegrin army to launch a strong attack on the city gate, and Du Chang's ears were full of the shouts and howls of the Montenegrin army. The noisy shouts covered up the strong wind brought by the crossbow arrows shot by Zhao Yun, and Du Chang waved his long sword again, just opened his mouth, and was about to shout for the Black Mountain Army to continue to charge, but the powerful crossbow arrow pierced into his mouth impartially.

The crossbow bolt pierced, and a stream of blood shot out of Du Chang's mouth, and the sharp arrow pierced through his skull, opening a hole in the back of his head.

Standing stiffly on the battlefield, Du Chang's eyes were wide open, blood gushed out from his wide open mouth, and he fell straight backwards.

At the moment when Du Chang fell to the ground, the Handan city gate made a loud "boom", and finally failed to withstand the hammer blow of the battering ram and was knocked out of a huge hole.

The city gate was broken, and the Black Mountain Army, who did not know that Du Chang had been killed in battle, shouted, held his blade, and rushed towards the city from the broken city gate.

Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, who were already waiting in the city gate, saw that the city gate was hit with a big hole that could accommodate several people to pass through, and they shouted "kill" in unison, and took the lead in facing the Black Mountain Army and pounced on the hole.

Thousands of Jizhou troops followed closely behind Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, holding shields and short spears, shouting and pounced on the Montenegrin army that rushed up through the hole.

The two sides collided in one place, short spears stabbed at each other, and at every moment someone fell under each other's spears.

Among the Montenegrin army, the number of people equipped with shields is not very large, but the Jizhou army is everyone holding a wooden shield, it is precisely because of the big shield as a barrier, in the stabbing of the soldiers on both sides, the Montenegrin army fell more than a dozen people, and the Jizhou army will have one person fall.

But after all, the Montenegrin army was outnumbered, the front had just fallen, and the back pounced on it, and the Jizhou army blocking the city gate gradually showed some powerlessness.

The two armies fought at the gate of the city, and the cave in the city gate, which was not wide, was soon full of corpses.

The thick smell of blood echoed in the city gate cave, and the shouts of killing were deafening, and the soldiers on both sides shouted, stabbing their blades fiercely into the enemy.

The Jizhou army knew that once the city gate was lost, Handan City would be completely exposed to the eyes of the Montenegrin army. When the Montenegrin army entered the city, they started street battles with each other, and with more than 10,000 defenders in the city, it was absolutely impossible to stop the Montenegrin army. At that time, they will all die, it is better to block the Montenegrin army at the gate of the city, and maybe there is still a way to live.

And the Montenegrin army also knows that if they can't break through Handan, once the Luoyang army led by Liu Wei launches an attack, they will be just a group of targets to be chopped in front of the elite Luoyang army. Both horizontally and vertically are dead, but it is better to take a hand before dying.

It is precisely because of this that the battle at the gate of Handan City is even more bloody and cruel!

At the head of the city, Luoyang Jun Yu Linwei kept shooting arrows at the city, and a pot of boiling oil kept pouring down the city.

But even so, it still failed to stop the charge of the Montenegrin army. The Black Mountain Army was like a group of crazy beasts, and they swooped towards the city gate without their lives.

"General Du is dead!" At the city gate, the Jizhou army saw that it was about to be unable to stop the attack of the Montenegrin army, but a shout suddenly came from the Montenegrin army.

When the charging Montenegrin Army heard this shout, they stopped one by one, turned their heads in amazement, and looked at the place where the shout came from.

A soldier of the Black Mountain Army, standing next to Du Chang's corpse, pointed to Du Chang's corpse on the ground, because he was so frightened, his voice was a little out of tune: "General Du is dead!" ”

The battlefield that was shouting and killing just now was quiet for a moment, and all the Montenegrin troops stopped moving, and their eyes looked at the soldier's feet.

The Jizhou Army, which was fighting against the Montenegrin Army, saw that the Montenegrin Army had stopped the attack, and they also stopped, and set up a tight defensive formation in the city gate, looking nervously at the Black Black Army.

Yu Linwei at the head of the city also stopped his movements, the Montenegrin army was still in shock, if someone shot a crossbow arrow at this time, alarming the Montenegrin army that had stopped attacking under the city, no one knew whether the road would lead to a more crazy onslaught or the rout of the Montenegrin army. No one dared to take this responsibility, and all the Yu Lin guards could only temporarily stop attacking the Black Mountain Army until the generals gave an order.

There were dead bodies everywhere, and there were at least dozens of corpses at the foot of the Black Mountain Army that shouted. In the sea of corpses in the mountain of corpses, the soldiers of the Montenegrin army could not see Du Chang's body at all, but they searched all over the battlefield, and no one saw Du Chang's figure, and all the Montenegrin troops present had already understood what had happened.

"Whoosh!" An arrow pierced the air and flew towards the Black Mountain Army, shouting that Du Chang was dead.

This arrow was not shot by the Black Mountain Army, but by Zhao Yun at the head of the city.

The sound of arrows breaking through the wind is especially harsh in the quiet battlefield. The Montenegrin army under the city all heard the sound clearly, and they had not yet recovered from the shock of Du Chang's death, and the arrow had already pierced the head of the Montenegrin army who shouted to everyone that Du Chang was dead.

Sharp arrows pierced through the Black Mountainegrin skull, stabbing out from the back of his head. With an arrow stuck in his forehead, the Black Mountain Army fell to his knees first and then fell heavily with a weak leg.

"Our army's strategy has been seen through by them, and the soldiers will kill the enemy as soon as possible, don't let the Montenegrin army escape!" As soon as the Black Mountain Army fell, Zhao Yun at the head of the city shouted.

This shout was like a heavy hammer hitting the hearts of all the Montenegrin troops on the battlefield.

They rushed hard to kill and wanted to enter Handan City, but they didn't expect that this siege was actually a trap set by the defenders in the city.

With this thought in his heart, where does the Montenegrin Army still have the slightest fighting spirit? The Montenegrin army behind was already slowly retreating, while the Montenegrin army in front, some of whom were timid, had already turned around and rushed in the direction of the Chinese army.

The rout was like a rapidly spreading plague, and as some people retreated, more of the Montenegrin army immediately came to their senses and retreated to the other side of the moat.

The Jizhou army in the city did not pursue, their number was too small, and they chased and killed, in case the Montenegrin army counterattacked again, the city gate would be completely exposed to the vision of the Montenegrin army.

Yu Linwei, who was standing on the head of the city, was holding a crossbow arrow and constantly firing arrows at the city. One by one, crossbow arrows flew towards the fleeing Montenegrin army, and one by one the Montenegrin army, which was running towards the other side of the moat, was shot by the crossbow arrows and fell to the open space outside the city.

Repelled the Black Mountain Army, Zhao Yun held the city wall with his hand and let out a long breath, because the city gate was breached, and the heart hanging in his throat finally fell back into his stomach.

"General Zhao!" The Montenegrin army retreated to the other side of the moat, Yu Poison walked quickly to Zhao Yun's side, arched at him with his fists, and asked him: "Dare to ask General Zhao, what is the strategy of our army to break the enemy for the Montenegrin army to see through?" How did the last general not know? ”

"General Yu!" Turning around and giving Yu Yu a salute back, Zhao Yun pulled a smile at the corner of his mouth, and said to him: "The Montenegrin army is strong, we will defend the city wall to prevent the Montenegrin army from climbing the wall, and we must not go down to the city to help the Jizhou army guard the city gate, if it is not for such a bluff to scare them back, Handan City may not be able to hold it!" ”

"Uh......" Zhao Yun said something, and Yu Poison was stunned, and after a while, he hugged his fists and bowed, and said to Zhao Yun very respectfully: "The general is brave and strategic, and Yu Poison admires it very much!" ”

"General, to the west of the Montenegrin Army, there is our army infested!" Zhao Yun and Yu Poison were talking, and a Yulin guard quickly ran in front of them, first clasped his fists and saluted them, then raised his hand and pointed to the west, and said to Zhao Yun: "The sky is full of smoke and dust, it looks like there are a lot of soldiers and horses!" ”

Hearing that there was a large army in the west, Zhao Yun and Yu Poison glanced at each other and quickly ran towards the west city wall.

On the way, they happened to meet Guan Hai, who had also just received the news, and they ran to the west side of the city wall together, holding on to the battlements, and looking at the woods that were churning up in the distance.