"Shoot the arrows!"

On the wall, Guan Yu saw the enemy charging so recklessly, so he directly gave the order to release the arrows.

At the sound of an order, a rain of arrows covered half of the sky like a sun.

Immediately after that, the sound of "Xiu Xiu" continued, and it fell downwards and fell into the crowd of Jingzhou soldiers who were charging.

Suddenly, the Jingzhou soldiers outside the camp screamed again and again.

"Ahhhh

"I've been shot."

"Help!"

"Hurt me!"

The crowd continued to have people hit arrows and fell to the ground, and the original black torrent seemed to have a gap, and many places were overturned on their backs, and one person fell to the ground and overturned a group.

The soldiers in the front row directly collapsed, abandoned their weapons and equipment and fled.

The first wave of tentative attacks took the first step, and hundreds of corpses were hurriedly thrown back from the rain of arrows.

Throughout history, there are only a handful of armies that can withstand the rain of arrows and not change their faces, and this kind of army that runs away immediately after being missed by an arrow is the norm in the era of cold weapons.

Cai Mao was not angry, and after resting for about half an hour, he changed his way of thinking and gave the order to attack again.

This time, the soldiers in the front row no longer raised their shields, but instead propped up large planks.

Beneath the plank formation, soldiers carried large quantities of dirt in flat poles and bamboo baskets, or carried sacks of burlap on their backs.

This is a way of siege, the name is to build an earthen fortress, use wooden planks to cover the soldiers to the city, and then use bamboo baskets to carry the soil to pile up under the city, and wait until the soil under the city is as high as the city wall, forming a slope, you can directly rush to the city tower.

According to the "Historical Records", when Xiang Yu attacked Qi, he personally carried the planks on his back, took the lead, protected the soldiers to fill the earth under the city, and finally conquered the city and eliminated Tian Rong's self-reliant Qi State.

It's just that building an earthen plug is time-consuming and laborious, and after the invention of things like cloud ladders in the Han Dynasty, few people have used this method anymore.

However, it is still very suitable for attacking a camp that is not as high as the city wall.

"Set fire!"

When Guan Yu saw this situation, he smiled coldly, not afraid at all.

Soon, a large number of plank phalanxes gathered outside the camp.

Densely gathered under the camp.

When the soldiers in the camp saw them coming, they immediately poured fish paste and grease outside, threw out firewood, and finally threw hundreds of torches down.

Immediately the planks burst into flames.

When the Jingzhou soldiers saw the wooden plank on fire, they threw down the wooden plank and fled, and many people were shot and killed.

In the end, Cai Maoqian's donkey skills were poor, so he chose to use wooden planks to cover the soldiers in front of the camp, and then use a wooden ladder to forcibly attack the camp.

Although the wooden plank can be broken by the fire attack, the fire attack distance is very close, as long as the wooden plank is used to protect the soldiers to the outside of the camp, and then hold the shield and carry the wooden ladder to kill them, they can get close to the wall.

Although this still has a bow and arrow shooting range of more than 20 meters, it is much safer than the previous death zone of more than 100 meters.

Sure enough, it worked.

It's just that Cai Mao underestimated the strength of the camp defense army, and on the wooden fence of the camp of more than 100 zhang, Guan Yujun stepped on the cloud platform behind them to fight to the death, and finally repelled wave after wave of attacks.

From three o'clock in the middle of the day until dark in the evening, there were scattered corpses of Jingzhou soldiers everywhere outside the camp, and there were more than 1,000 corpses, which can be said to have caused Cai Mao heavy losses.

After several waves of attacks were repulsed, Cai Mao also realized that the defenders in this camp were ruthless and should not be taken lightly.

He immediately said to the guards on the left and right: "Who is stationed in this battalion?" ”

"I didn't have a flag, but I didn't know."

"Mingjin collected his troops and sent someone to ask, when did Jingzhou have such a powerful guard."

"Yui!"

Soon, Cai Mao's own soldiers rang the golden cymbal.

Thousands of former soldiers who were attacking the camp suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and retreated like a tide.

A horse poured out of the crowd and came to the outside of the camp and shouted: "The captain wants to ask, who are the guards in this camp!" ”

Guan Yu stood on the wall of the wall, overlooking the bottom, standing awe-inspiringly, and then said coldly: "The people under the village listen, tell Cai Mao that a certain Guan Yu is in the east of the river, and Guan Yunchang is also!" ”

Close..... Guan Yunchang?

Cai Mao's guards under the village only felt shocked, not afraid of Guan Yu's name, but shocked by why Guan Yu was here.

But at this time, he didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly turned his horse's head and went back to report.

"What?"

Soon Cai Mao learned the news, and he was also shocked, and his eyes widened: "Guan Yu is actually here?" ”

"Could it be that Liu Bei deceived us and deliberately deceived us into going to Xichuan?"

Hu Zheng was shocked.

Cai Du hurriedly said: "This is impossible, the scouts have seen them leave with their own eyes, not to mention that Zigui has been occupied by us?" ”

"Then how could Guan Yu appear here?"

Hu Zheng was stunned.

Cai Du pondered: "There are only 10,000 horses here, could it be that before Liu Bei entered Xichuan, he was worried that as soon as he left, his uncle would immediately attack Jingnan?" Liu Bei was friendly with Liu Qi, but he was worried about this, so he sent Guan Yu to lead 10,000 people to stay. ”

"It's possible."

Cai Mao nodded again and again: "No wonder Jingnan will suddenly have so many more people coming out, it is indeed tricky." However, as long as it is not Liu Bei's army, he does not have a fleet, and it will take at least more than a month to return to Jingzhou by land, and he is afraid that within this month, he will not be able to pacify Jingnan. ”

Hu Zheng rolled his eyes and said: "Taiwei, it is rumored that Guan Yu has always been arrogant, often despises the heroes of the world, and everyone calls him a rat. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Send someone to the front of the battle to make an appointment, and if he comes out to fight, we will ambush the archers and shoot them!"

"This ......"

Cai Mao hesitated and said: "This method is bad, if it is spread, I am afraid that the world will laugh at it." ”

Hu Zhengquan said: ""Han Feizi" once said: "A gentleman with great courtesy; not weary of faithfulness; between battle formations; Don't get tired of deceit. "When the two armies fight, if they only care about their reputation, don't they hear about Song Xianggong? Moreover, if the king becomes a king and loses a villain, people will only laugh at those who have lost the battle, but who will laugh at the one who has won the battle? ”

"Hmm."

Cai Mao nodded approvingly: "Yuheng's words are very reasonable, so act according to this law." ”

"Yui."

Hu Zheng went to convey the order.

Cai Du moved his lips on the side, but he didn't say anything after all.

His job is not to wreak havoc from within.

What's more, Guan Yu is famous.

If such a simple method of agitation is hit, then it is just a false name, what is the use of helping him?

Soon after, a man in black armor, burly with a large waist and a large axe, came out of the crowd.

Cai Mao looked at it and laughed and said, "Isn't this my subordinate Xing Daorong?" ”

"Yes, Captain."

Hu Zheng had already returned, and hurriedly said: "Just now, I ordered the generals to ask who dared to fight, Xing Daorong took the lead, this person is good at making a pear blossom mountain axe, and has the courage of ten thousand people, even if he can't win Guan Yu, he will definitely be able to lead him into an ambush." ”

"Good!"

Cai Mao smiled slightly, stroked his beard and nodded.

This Xing Daorong is a fierce general under Liu Du, who was too guarded by Lingling, before Liu Pan subdued Changsha County with Zhuge Liang's plan, but other counties were going to attack it, so Liu Du fought with Liu Pan's army.

It's just that Liu Du was defeated, and Lingling was broken, so he could only flee into Wuling County with his subordinates, and fled back to Nanjun along Yuanshui, and hundreds of remnants of the army in his hands also returned to Cai Mao.

And this Xing Daorong is quite brave and martial arts, and he is deeply loved by Cai Mao, but unfortunately because he has not made any contributions, he is just a Sima in the army for the time being.

At this moment, Xing Daorong brazenly stepped out, naturally wanting to make meritorious contributions, and was valued by Cai Mao as a general in Jingzhou.

However, now the confrontation between the two sides is not close to each other, because the camp has a high oar, and the range of shooting arrows on the high tower is far away from 100 steps, so Cai Mao's troops are arrayed at 200 paces, almost 280 meters.

Xing Daorong galloped on his own and ran to the middle of the two army formations, about a hundred paces, and the archers on the high turret of Guan Yu's camp were already able to shoot him into a hedgehog.

It's just that Guan Yu saw that he was out of battle alone, so he didn't order to shoot him.

After all, at that time, although bows and arrows could shoot at a distance of up to 200 meters, they were often prone to lose accuracy, so even well-trained archers generally had an effective range of less than 100 paces.

And there are many people who can shoot arrows out of a hundred paces, but there are only a handful of people who can do it in a hundred steps and have no arrows.

Xing Daorong is a hundred steps away, and there are no archery masters like Huang Zhong and Tai Shici in the camp, if you want to shoot him, you have to cover a large area, and even people may escape, for one person, wasting hundreds of thousands of arrows, it is really not worth it.

And Guan Yu also wanted to see what the man wanted to do when he ran to the front of the two armies alone.

I saw that Xing Daorong came to the front of the battle, holding a big axe in one hand, showing off his might outside the camp, and shouted to the camp: "Guan Yu Pifu, dare to come out and fight with me?" ”

"Oh? Someone wants to fight me in front of the battle? It's really rare, Zhou Cang, take my knife. ”

When Guan Yu saw this, he immediately felt fresh.

Since he beheaded Yan Liang in the army, almost no one in the world dared to provoke him in front of the battle, but he didn't expect that there would be people who were sent to death today, and he couldn't help but itch and wanted to go out and kill this generation.

"Father."

On the side, Guan Ping hurriedly said: "This madman is just a little overnight, if my father fights in person, won't I fall into my father's name?" The child wants to go. ”

"Huh."

Guan Yu stroked his beard and smiled: "After killing Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang, how can anyone in the world be so bold and reckless?" I thought it was just a trick by the enemy to lure me out and set up an ambush to kill me. ”

Guan Ping was puzzled: "Then why did my father go out of the village to fight them?" ”

Guan Yu explained: "Now I don't know where your uncle is now, we are in Yiyang to drag that Cai Mao, let your uncle attack the rear, if you can't defend it, Cai Mao can't attack for a long time, in case he retreats or goes to another place, it's not good, if you are a sheep in the middle of the plan, delay time, and let your uncle successfully capture Jiangling and other places." ”

"....."

Guan Ping was still worried.

Guan Yu said: "It's okay, I know it in my heart." ”

After that, let people take his green dragon knife, lead the red rabbit horse, and soon open the east gate of the camp, and gallop out alone.

When he came to the outside of the village, he looked at Xing Daorong ten feet away.

Xing Daorong saw that Guan Yu really came out, and when he saw his huge body more than two meters tall, and the red rabbit horse that was two laps bigger than his own war horse, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

I have heard that Guan Yu is brave, and there are countless people in the world who are not convinced, but after meeting the real person, I found that the other party seems to be so powerful.

After all, Guan Yu is two meters and seven meters tall, weighs more than 200 pounds, has big shoulders and a round waist, and is a general who is a thousand enemies.

Just looking at this appearance and momentum, it is enough to overwhelm too many people.

According to later archaeological knowledge, the average height of men in the Han Dynasty was generally about 1.68 meters.

That Xing Daorong is only more than one meter eight, although he looks quite majestic, but he is a head and a half shorter than Guan Yu, and in the face of the giant who is more than two meters tall, he naturally feels a lot of pressure.

But fortunately, before leaving, Hu Zheng also ordered that he should first verbally insult and ridicule Guan Yu, causing Guan Yu to be angry and fight him, as long as he can take two or three moves from Guan Yu, and then pretend to be invincible, retreat immediately, and lead Guan Yu to the range of archers.

So Xing Daorong doesn't need to really fight Guan Yu.

At this time, Xing Daorong saw that Guan Yu was really out of the village, gritted his teeth, and shouted according to the original plan: "Guan Yu's husband, there is no hero at the time, so that the shaft will become famous." You are just a jujube seller in Hedong, how dare you come to my Jingzhou to commit murder? ”

"You nameless junior, you are really arrogant, you dare to provoke me?"

Guan Yu snorted coldly: "Where are the rats, report the name!" ”

"Say my name and scare you!"

Xing Daorong held a big axe and said loudly: "I am Xing Daorong, the general of Lingling!" ”

"Oh?"

Guan Yu laughed and said: "I heard that Liu Pan sent people to attack Lingling, and Lingling Taishou Liu Du fled with his general Xing Daorong in embarrassment, could it be you?" ”

Xing Daorong quibbled: "That's because there is an internal response in the city, and the city gate is broken, otherwise Liu Pan and Huang Zhong and others will kill one and I will kill one." ”

At that time, Liu Pan sent people to capture Lingling County, because there were families in Lingling County, just like Liu Mikou Feng, who defected to Liu Bei.

Therefore, when Liu Du was guarding the city, he asked the clans in the city to open the city gate at night, and Liu Du fled in embarrassment.

At this moment, Guan Yu told Xing Daorong's glorious history of defeat, and he naturally wanted to put gold on his face.

"Joke, being killed and running away, but daring to run in front of me and make nonsense, is really arrogant! It's a pity that my green dragon treasure knife wants to cut off the head of this nameless rat! ”

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes, he knew that Cai Mao might want to kill him, but this was outside the range of the bow and arrow, so he would plan it and delay time, so as not to prevent Cai Mao from being able to attack for a long time and retreat from the ambush circle.

Xing Daorong shouted: "Hugh is verbose, don't think that you are really powerful if you are famous, when you meet me Xing Daorong today, it is your death?" ”

"Hahahaha."

Guan Yu seemed to be amused, and said, "It's up to you?" ”

"Not bad."

Xing Daorong said loudly: "Who doesn't know that I, Xing Daorong, am brave? ”

"Oh?"

Guan Yule said happily: "How brave is it? ”

"You'll find out later."

Xing Daorong shouted: "But I heard that you are nearly fifty years old, and I will not bully the elderly, just let you make a move first." ”

He made up his mind that once Guan Yu urged the horse to come, he would immediately rein in the horse and turn around and run away.

Anyway, as long as Guan Yu is lured over, the task will be completed.

Unexpectedly, Guan Yu was deliberately delaying time, squinting his eyes and chatting with him: "You, a rat generation, deserve to let me go out first?" ”

"Joke, if I stand under the horse with an axe, the world will not say that I deceive you into being old and powerless?"

"Although I am nearly fifty years old, killing you is like digging for something."

"Bragging! You have the ability to come! ”

Xing Daorong rode on horseback and spoke so fast that he didn't do anything.

Cai Mao saw that the two of them were chattering endlessly, chattering non-stop, raised his head and looked at the sky, frowned and said, "Why is this Xing Daorong still entangled with Guan Yu?" ”

Hu Zheng and the others were far away, and they didn't know the conversation between the two, so they said: "Maybe it's provoking Guan Yu verbally, just wait." ”

"Wait, it's getting dark."

Cai Mao said dissatisfied.

They had attacked the camp several times in the afternoon, and had been fighting for two hours, and now it was the end of the afternoon, and the beginning of the day, that is, it was close to five o'clock at four o'clock in the afternoon.

If they continued to grind, it would be dark, and they would have to withdraw their troops back to the camp.

But over there, Xing Daorong was still shaking his lips and dancing, and he rubbed with Guan Yu for seven or eight minutes, but he didn't see the two of them fighting, which made Cai Mao in the back very dissatisfied.

"Urge Xing Daorong!"

When Hu Zheng saw this, he gave an order and let people cheer for him.

Soon the drums beat loudly.

Xing Daorong heard the urging behind him, and he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "That is the case, look at the axe." ”

After that, he urged the horse to come, raised the big axe in his hand high, and cracked down with the power of the horse.