Chapter 260: Piercing
"The marshal is dispatching some crossbowmen to suppress the archers on the city wall, so that they will not be able to do it with all their strength, and it can reduce the casualties of our soldiers."
"But the county lord only has a few hundred crossbowmen, and he can only shoot thirty paces, I'm afraid it won't play much role," Guo Da said with some hesitation. It is difficult for archers to train into an army, and there are only a few hundred Yellow Turban soldiers, who are reluctantly sent to suppress the city wall by Guo Da like a baby pimple.
"It's okay, each crossbowman has a sword and shield soldier in charge of covering, and it will be safe," Wei said disapprovingly.
"Wonderful," Guo shouted.
There was smoke outside the city, obviously the Yellow Turban soldiers were burying the pot and cooking, Wang Gang hesitated for a moment, let Guan Yu and Zhao Yun send cavalry to kill, or shook his head and gave up. Although the Yellow Turban soldiers were also seriously injured now, it was still a little reluctant to rely on 1,500 cavalry to completely annihilate the more than 4,000 Yellow Turban soldiers outside the city.
The drums of war sounded again, and Guo Da directly sent two thousand soldiers to attack the city, and in addition, five hundred archers and five hundred sword and shield men had also been assembled, as long as Guo Da gave an order, he could rush over and suppress the archers on the city wall.
However, Guo Da kept an eye on it, and did not send archers forward at the first time, but waited for the opportunity, and when the archers on the city wall were not physically strong, they could be taken by surprise when they were dispatched.
Wang Gang still ordered the archers to wait for the Yellow Turban soldiers to reach the city wall, and then shoot them with arrows. If it rains arrows from the beginning, I'm really afraid that these Yellow Turban soldiers won't be able to withstand the pressure and run away again.
In the face of the siege of 2,000 people, the pressure of the 500 archers suddenly increased a lot, and slowly some Yellow Turban soldiers climbed the city wall and fought with the sword and shield soldiers on the city wall, and the battle became fierce. Arrows flew wildly, swords faced each other, and from time to time people fell from the city walls, including the Yellow Turbans and the defenders.
The battle became stalemate, and hundreds of people had already climbed the city wall, Dong Chong was about to step forward with his knife, but Wang Gang grabbed him and said.
"There is a big credit for the day in front of me, I don't know if my brother is interested"
When Dong Chong heard that he had merit, he immediately became interested.
"Brother Xian, say it quickly, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, I will not let it go for my brother"
This is also difficult for Dong Zheng, since he came to Hedong, he has not had a decent achievement. If he can take this opportunity to make great contributions, his reputation and prestige as a hussar general can also be established, and when He Jin wants to move him again, he also has some scruples, but when he arrives in Hedong, he knows that the battlefield is so simple, seeing that the whole county in Hedong is lost, there is a credit in front of him, how can he not fight for it.
"The elder brother led his troops to ambush at the gate of the city, and when the melee outside the city came, he led his troops to rush out. If Guo Dahe and Wei Qian can be captured alive, it will be a great achievement," Wang Gang said with a smile.
"What should I do on the city wall" Dong Zhong watched as more and more Yellow Turban troops climbed the city wall. Said with some concern.
"It's okay, I'll take care of it, brother, and lead the troops"
Dong Zhong glanced at the battle above the city, but still chose to believe Wang Gang and gather his soldiers.
Wang Gang looked under the city wall, but saw a group of more than 1,000 soldiers, slowly coming towards the city wall, moving very slowly, obviously different from other Yellow Turban soldiers who came running.
"Aim at the enemy's bow and crossbow, release arrows" The appearance of the enemy crossbowmen naturally attracted Chu Yu's attention, and when he was fifty paces away, he ordered the archers to shoot a round of arrow rain, but there was a clanging sound, and the arrows were all resisted by the sword and shield soldiers around the crossbowmen, and only a few scattered feather arrows shot through the gaps in the shield and hit the soldiers behind.
The Yellow Turban Soldier continued to move forward slowly, and was about to enter within thirty paces.
Chu Yu couldn't help frowning when he saw this, took the Sun-Chasing Bow from behind his back, and slowly pulled it away.
But I heard Li Fu say loudly.
"Piercing"
I saw the archers on the city wall, shooting hundreds of feather arrows together, the speed of the arrows flying was not very fast, and the arrows were faintly wrapped in a layer of white light. The Yellow Turban soldiers under the city hurriedly raised their shields to resist, but the next scene plunged the entire battlefield into a deathly silence.
I saw that the originally fluttering arrows easily broke through the defense of the wooden shield, and suddenly set off a blood mist. The sword and shield soldiers originally wanted to rely on the shield to resist the bow and arrow, and stood relatively densely, this round of arrow rain went down, and directly shot hundreds of sword and shield soldiers, without the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, the remaining hundreds of crossbowmen did not have time to run out of the bow and arrow range on the city wall, and were shot on the spot one by one.
Piercing: A beginner's skill for archers, the current level ignores the defense of wooden shields and below, and can only be used once in a campaign.
Wang Gang looked at this skill and was speechless for a long time, he knew that Wu Zhao led the spearmen to use the stab, and he had always wondered why the archers led by Chu Yu had no skills, and he didn't know until today that only the archers could use the exclusive skills of the archers, but this was still a beginner, so what should the advanced skills become.
The destruction of more than 1,000 Yellow Turban Army caused a lot of turmoil, and even the Yellow Turban Army on the city wall was also a little embarrassed.
When Guo Da was still grieving for the destruction of the thousand soldiers, he heard Wei Qi say loudly.
"Not good, there are ambushes outside the city"
Although Wei Ji has no experience in leading troops to fight, he is familiar with the art of war, and the wolf smoke lit on the city wall must be used to transmit signals, and now the Yellow Turban soldiers are obviously unable to capture Dongyuan County, so there is only one possibility, which is to counterattack the Yellow Turban Army outside the city.
Just when Guo Da wanted to ask something, the city gate that had been closed for a long time suddenly opened. A team of soldiers came out of the cover and killed the Yellow Turban soldiers who were still in a daze, and immediately cut down dozens of Yellow Turban soldiers to the ground, the ground shook slightly, and there were bursts of roars in the distance.
"Cavalry, it's cavalry," shouted a yellow turban marshal.
I saw that in the dense forest in the northwest, a cavalry was rapidly killing.
Guo Da looked at the cavalry in the distance, his heart was like ashes, he originally brought 5,000 soldiers, but he had already sent 4,000 to attack the city, and there were only more than 1,000 people left around, and he couldn't stop the cavalry from charging at all.
"General, flee south" Wei Yi finished speaking, and did not wait for Guo Da to reply, hurriedly urged the war horse, and took more than 100 family soldiers to flee in the direction of Yangyi County.
And Guo Da quickly calmed down, he was able to escape repeatedly in the defeat of the Yellow Turbans, naturally he had a lot of experience in escaping, and now he fled to the south in this situation, not to mention whether there was an ambush in front, even the cavalry behind it was easy to catch up, so if he fled south, he would definitely die.
"Withdraw all to Anyi County" After Guo Da gave the order, he turned over and dismounted, took off his armor, and broke away from the large army.
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