Volume 6 Respective Calculations] Chapter 320 Arrows rained down in the sky—

As Zhao Yun expected, on the morning of the second day, the southern army that had eaten breakfast finally started. (

Under the personal command of Zhu Jun, 8,000 jīng sharp soldiers holding Han longbows slowly approached Huguan in a neat formation, and when they were about to reach the sh-mile of the defenders of Guanshang, they suddenly stopped, as if waiting for something.

After a while, the siege soldiers who followed from behind approached behind the eight thousand longbowmen with a ladder. At this time, Lu Zhi gave another order, and 8,000 soldiers with archers immediately braved the rain of arrows falling from the head of the city, and rushed to Huguan City, and when they arrived within the effective SH-range of the longbow they held, they immediately fired SH-arrows intensively at the head of the city, and even fought against the soldiers guarding the pass.

The longbow regiment soldiers in the vanguard army, in order to exert their SH-skills, only wore relatively soft leather armor, and only some important parts were padded with steel plates, such as the heart. The number of archers under the city was significantly greater than that of the defenders at the gate, and when both sides could sh- hit the other, it was naturally the side with dense arrows that had the upper hand.

As soon as he saw that his longbowmen were starting to shoot arrows, Zhao Yun immediately ordered his soldiers to stop the sh-fire and hid under the gap in the NV wall with an inclined design. This kind of slope X-ngnv wall with a 60-degree angle to the plane of the juncture can completely resist the arrows thrown from under the city. Only in this way, the siege soldiers who followed behind the 8,000 archers under the city could quickly approach and eventually use the ladder to climb to the top of the city.

When Zhao Yun ordered the Longbow Regiment to stop the sh-attack, he had already decided to put the siege soldiers on the top of the city and start again. At that time, the longbowmen under the city naturally could not ignore the life and death of their own soldiers, and continued to rain sh-arrows at Guan, and a hand-to-hand R-U fight was inevitable.

"Zhou Cang obeys the order! Order you to personally lead all the soldiers of the First Division of Chongbu to take over the battle of the Longbow Regiment, and be sure to drive down all the imperial court soldiers who attacked the city!" Zhao Yun gave Zhou Cang a death order.

"Stop the attack, the siege troops will enter the city!" Almost at the same time, Zhu Jun also gave the order to attack the city.

Now the situation of the attacking and defending sides is as follows: although the longbow regiment above Huguan had killed hundreds of rapidly approaching Southern archers at the beginning, it was now suppressed by the rain of arrows under the city. And once the thousands of siege troops of the Southern Army began to climb the ladder, the Longbow Regiment on the city could take advantage of the terrain advantage of the NV wall and battlements to attack the enemy troops on the ladder. But attacking and harassing sh-hit is not a sh--, once L-headed, it will also face the threat of archers under the city, so it is difficult to prevent the siege south army from finally landing on Huguan.

Sure enough, after a cup of tea, the siege troops came to the base of the Huguan city wall under the cover of the archers under the city, and they carried the Pu sword on their backs, wore a helmet similar to a big straw hat on their heads, and began to climb the ladder at the risk of death. Once they reach the top of the city, the archers hiding behind the NV walls are no match for them. Of course, Zhao Yun would not let the siege troops really gain a foothold on the Huguan so easily. The two thousand heavy infantry divisions of Jīng Rui, but they had fought to the death with the cavalry of the Xianbei people, and they were all high and down, and they had an advantage against the southern army climbing on the ladder.

Seeing that the besieging soldiers were about to climb the city, Lu Zhi ordered the archers to stop their shrews. Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan, Tai Shici and others were fighting in the distance, and when they saw this, they couldn't help but secretly applaud Zhu Jun's command. In the end, he is a veteran of a hundred battles, and he really has a good set of judgments and grasps of the battlefield situation.

Seeing that there was finally a soldier of the Southern Army in L-out, Zhou Cang's gong-like roar broke out instantly: "Heavy step division, start attacking!"

The heavy infantry, who had been waiting under the NV wall for a long time, immediately appeared on the battlement and began to launch a deadly attack on the southern soldiers who dared to enter the city. I saw that the soldiers of the heavy infantry division were all burly and tall, wearing pitch-black armor, with steel helmets to cover their faces and throats, and a small round shield was fixed on the forearm of their left hand, while the weapons held in their right hands were divided into three categories, namely heavy axes, extremely sharp short spears and cold and compelling long knives, in short, they were all standard equipment from the Crouching Tiger Military Factory.

The soldiers of the Zhenbei Legion, who had been repeatedly trained by Gao Shun, finally broke out with amazing combat effectiveness at this moment. These soldiers did not have the slightest fear or retreat in their eyes, and they were all full of fighting spirit, and they ruthlessly killed the soldiers of the Southern Army who had finally climbed to the top of the city, either splitting their brains with an axe, or stabbing them in the heart with a shot, or cutting off their heads with a knife, in short, like a killing machine, killing the enemy in the most direct and effective way, without the slightest drag.

Zhu Jun under the city and the generals who were watching the battle from a distance saw a group of soldiers covered in darkness suddenly appear in the battlements, and they killed all the soldiers who climbed up to the top of the city very quickly, and the shock in their hearts can be imagined. Only then did everyone understand that this was the combat effectiveness of the Zhenbei Army!

When the archers under the city saw that their besieging troops had been slaughtered, they immediately sent a rain of arrows upwards, but they were a little sad to find that the group of soldiers dressed in strange clothes at the head of the city were not afraid of the attack of arrows at all, and their well-guarded armor throughout the province ensured their absolute safety.

The only way to deal with these heavily armored soldiers is to keep sending people to the city, so that they can kill people and die of exhaustion after their hands and feet are weak. If you really want to do this, the more than 10,000 people in the city seem to be a little less, after all, a well-trained old soldier can kill one person within two or three strokes, and if he doesn't kill dozens of people in one breath, how can he die of exhaustion?

Seeing this, Zhu Jun did not hesitate to order all the soldiers under the Huguan to evacuate quickly. The longbowmen in the city, who had not been able to play a role, naturally did not sit idle, and immediately sent a shower of arrows and killed hundreds of people.

Zhu Jun, who had withdrawn to the camp, ordered people to count the casualties of the soldiers, and the result made him very sad. In just one hour, the 8,000 longbowmen lost nearly 1,000 people, and the more than 1,000 siege soldiers who climbed the Huguan Pass were all killed, and none of them were spared.

The loss of more than 2,000 people in the First World War seems to be far from the figure of the 130,000-strong army, but this is only the beginning! A fortress as strong as Huguan may not be able to be breached in half a year, with more than 2,000 casualties in a day, and within a month, the morale of the army will be weakened to the point that it is impossible to fight again.

Zhao Yun also ordered his subordinates to count the casualties, and the result did not make him very satisfied. The Longbow Regiment was wounded by the counterattack of the Southern Army, and the situation of the Heavy Infantry Division was slightly better, with only more than 100 casualties, and mainly minor injuries, and only a few dozen people died.

It stands to reason that such a record can be regarded as a big victory, but Zhao Yun is not happy at all, and even a little worried. Zhao Xing only gave him six thousand men, as well as four thousand reserve troops transferred from various places. On the battlefield, the vanguard sergeants will have one less casualties, these old soldiers are the most valuable wealth of the Zhenbei Army, and only by minimizing casualties can they hold the pot pass for a long time.

Immediately after a fierce confrontation between attack and defense, both sides convened their generals to discuss their future countermeasures. The difference between the vanguard army and the southern army was that before the deliberations, a review of the battle was first conducted, and the generals of each regiment and above laid out all the mistakes and problems in the battle, and criticized and corrected them one by one, which was also the practice that the Zhenbei Army had adhered to for many years. Instead of reminding the problem with the blood of comrades on the battlefield, it is better to review and reflect frequently.

The result of Zhu Jun's deliberations was that all walks of life took turns to attack the city, and even if there was a war of attrition, the first to be unable to withstand it was the side of the annexed states.

The result of Zhao Yun's discussion was to strengthen the cooperation between the heavy infantry and the longbowmen, and to form a battle group in the future, with one heavy infantry behind an archer and a strong crossbowman, and one of them to be responsible for how to attack.

The offensive and defensive battle of Huguan will continue, and at this time, the offensive and defensive battle of Keiguan has also begun.