Jingzhou became a pot of porridge, Taishan held the four counties south of Xiangyang, but he was unable to launch the action of unifying Jingzhou, and instead carried out internal rectification. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Mount Tai's defense, Sun Ce took Jiangxia and Changsha in the west of Jingzhou in one fell swoop, stretched his tentacles into Jingzhou, and occupied the two counties with the most abundant money and grain in Jingzhou, after that, Sun Ce did not continue to encroach on Jingzhou counties, after all, the soldiers and horses and generals available to him now are not the best configuration, and he relied on surprise attacks to take the two counties. Pang Tong and others' opponents, so before Zhou Yu and others helped Yuan Qi stabilize the situation in the north and return to Jiangdong, Sun Ce adopted a defensive strategy, stationed troops and horses in Jiangxia and Changsha, and held out.

Ugong Zhaolie, who had just taken Qingzhou and returned to Guandu, couldn't help but be a little worried after learning the news that Sun Ce had cheated his death, and immediately called Guo Jia to ask him about the specific matters of arranging for the assassins to assassinate Sun Ce. After analyzing with Guo Jia, Ugong Terulie felt that Sun Ce did not find out that the killer was sent by himself. Although the assassination failed, it caused unrest in Jingzhou, and in order to turn the bad thing into a good thing, Ugong Terulie carried out an active remedy, and he asked Ugong Ren to lead a group of troops and horses south, to join Xiahou Yuan, who was stationed on the border of Yuzhou, and attack on his own according to the specific situation.

Yu Gongren rushed to Jingzhou with his troops, and found that the entire Jingzhou was in chaos, and after the death of Yuan Biao, no one could maintain the situation of Jingzhou's unity. Unomiya Ren is worthy of being the chief general of the Chinese army that Ugong Terulie values the most, and after accurately judging the situation. Yugong Ren immediately made a decision, and united with Xiahou Yuan to attack the two counties of Nanjun and Nanxiang respectively, and then joined forces together, and quickly took the northwestern side of Jingzhou, leading to Yongliang in the north and Shangyong County in Hanzhong in the west.

At this point, the huge Jingzhou became fragmented, the three counties in the north fell into the hands of Ugong Zhaolie, and the four counties in the central and southern parts were controlled by Mount Tai. The two counties to the west were occupied by Sun Ce. The three families of Yugong, Tai, and Sun divided the entire Jingxiang Nine Counties equally.

The Central Plains War had not officially begun, and Jingzhou in the south had already carried out the war in full swing. Correspondingly, the war in the capital is also burning vigorously.

Li Dao, Guo Yan and others were trapped in the capital with 160,000 rebel soldiers. clamoring to break through the capital, and implement the three-light policy of killing, robbing, and burning all in the capital. The anger of the rebels in Liangzhou. originated from Zhang Ji's act of burning Chang'an. Originally. Li Wei told the rebels that after breaking through Chang'an, they could indulge in plundering in Chang'an City for three days, but who expected that a fire before Zhang Ji's death almost burned Chang'an to the ground, not to mention money, food and women. Even the walls of Chang'an were burned down for the most part. The rebels who invaded Chang'an were shocked to find that the Chang'an they had obtained was just a ruined city with no value. The residents, money, food, and ordnance materials in the city have long been transferred to the capital by Zhang Ji.

For this reason, Li Dao and others were angry, regardless of the rectification of the people, and came to the capital in a double way, trying to make up for what was lost in Chang'an from the capital.

Looking at Li Dao who was shouting under the city, Zhang Long shouted angrily: "The thief is arrogant, he will come to meet you!"

Stretching out his hand and patting Zhang Long on the shoulder, Yuan Qi said earnestly: "Zhang Long, my uncle did not hesitate to burn Chang'an, in order to clear the wilderness and make it impossible for the rebels to get supplies. The rebels gathered in a crowd, and naturally their morale could not last long, so we should focus on holding on and waiting for the rebels to become chaotic before we can send troops to attack them. Zhang Long, we can't, and we won't let my uncle die in vain, but it's not time to take revenge. And Ma Yue, when the time comes, we will settle the hatred of my uncle together. ”

Zhang Long and Ma Yue were comforted by Yuan Qi, and quieted down with tears, but their fists were already clenched tightly in secret, this blood feud must be recovered at the price of blood.

After waiting under the city for a while, and not seeing Zhang Long out of the city, Li Dao's shouting became even more unscrupulous: "What? Don't plan to go out of the city again? Scared? Haha, sons, attack the city!"

Under Li Wei's order, 160,000 rebels took action, and 40,000 rebels, mainly Qiang and Han Sui, took the lead in launching a siege battle.

Yuan Qi glanced coldly at the rebels under the city, slowly raised his right hand, and said in a cold voice: "The red-clothed ballista is ready." Zhang Long strode to the red-clothed ballista behind the wall, pushed away a ballistamen, and then ripped off the red cloth on the red-clothed ballista, with endless hatred in his eyes, he looked at the rebels who were preparing to attack the city, but said to the ballista who had just been pushed away by himself: "Reload!

"Kill—"

Forty thousand rebels shouted hysterically and rushed within five hundred paces of the capital. Seeing that the rebels had entered the best range of the red-coated ballista, Yuan Qi's right hand, which had been held high, suddenly fell and shouted, "Open the cannon!"

Zhang Long was the first to carry out Yuan Qi's order, and the red-clothed ballista he controlled in his hand shot out the five crossbows on the tip of the cannon at the same time in the blink of an eye. Because the Liangzhou rebellion happened too suddenly, Yuan Qi, in order not to affect the speed of the march, only brought twenty red-clothed ballistae this time, which was still the elite of the land to rely on the advantage of physical fitness, the red-clothed ballista was disassembled, each carrying the parts of the red-clothed ballista, running all the way, and then reassembling the red-clothed ballista after arriving in the capital. If it were other troops, it would not have been possible to carry red-coated ballistas on a rapid march.

A hundred crossbows flew into the air with a breathtaking roar, and in the blink of an eye, they came to the eyes of the rebel vanguard, and in a pant of cold air and a wail of fear and pain, hundreds of rebels were pierced through the body by the crossbows, and turned into a new batch of dead souls under the red-clothed ballistas.

On the battlefield, the deterrent power of the red-clothed ballista is always much higher than its own lethality. After seeing the first round of firing of the red-clothed ballista, Han Sui said to Li Dao in horror: "General, this ballista is too powerful, this battle can't be fought, and it will continue to be fought." A certain subordinate is about to die...... "When he attacked Chang'an before, it was Han Sui's troops who fought in the vanguard, Zhang Ji's stubborn resistance made Han Sui's subordinates suffer heavy losses, and now they were hit head-on by the red-clothed ballista, and Han Sui began to worry about his subordinates. His worries were not unreasonable, among the rebels, Han Sui's strength was the weakest, so he had to obey Li Dao and Guo Yan, but Han Sui also knew it. If your troops are exhausted and you have no soldiers and horses in your hands, the first ones to kill yourself are Li Dao and Guo Yan, which is an unsolvable cycle.

Han Sui's thoughts. Of course, Li Dao understood that Li Dao was going to take advantage of this rebellion. Take the opportunity to wear down Han Sui's strength. Wouldn't it be a good thing that there would be one less person to share the profits in the future? But Li Dao didn't want to make things too obvious, which would make the Qiang leaders feel cold. After hearing Han Sui's request, Li Wei pondered for a moment, turned back to Guo Yan and said, "Let's each send 5,000 infantry troops to replace General Han Sui's 10,000 troops." How?"

With Li Dao as a partner for a long time, Guo Yan naturally knows Li Dao's mind well. He knew that although Li Wei was talking to himself, he was actually telling Han Sui that he could only let Han Sui withdraw 10,000 sergeants. This is the maximum concession. Immediately, Guo Yan had no objection and agreed.

Han Sui was obviously not satisfied with this concession between the two, but the situation was stronger than others, Han Sui's strength was not as strong as Li and Guo, and this rebellion was headed by these two people, even if Han Sui was unwilling, he just had to accept it helplessly.

After Han Sui withdrew 10,000 pioneers, and Li Dao and Guo Yan each added 5,000 soldiers, the rebel offensive was launched again.

On the city wall of the capital, Zhang Long had already completed three rounds of salvo fire, and he now had only one thought in his heart, that is, to shoot the crossbow on the red-clothed ballista as soon as possible to avenge his uncle Zhang Ji! Driven by Zhang Long, the speed at which the red-clothed ballistas were operated by the elites of the land was also faster than usual, and the gap between loading was also greatly shortened.

Under the non-stop fire of the red-coated ballistas, the rebels under the city had to pay a huge price for every step they took. In a short distance of 100 paces, they had already paid more than 2,000 lives, but still under Li Dao's shout, they had to harden their heads and continue to charge towards the capital city.

Enraged by the crossbow that had been shot down, one of the Qiang leaders ripped off his armor, revealing his hardcover upper body, and shouted, "It's not a good man to be afraid of death!" The tribesmen who followed him roared loudly and quickened their pace to follow behind their leader.

The leader of the Qiang people, who was still forging ahead just now, was smashed to pieces by Zhang Long's crossbow shot by Zhang Long in the next moment, and the javelin-shaped crossbow stabbed his body to pieces and turned into a pile of minced meat. The death of this Qiang leader made several other charging Qiang leaders feel afraid, the Qiang people are not afraid of death, but this kind of death, which cannot be resisted, greatly hit their determination not to be afraid of death.

Rushing from 500 steps away to a place 100 steps away from the capital city, in just 400 steps, the rebels left nearly 10,000 corpses, only half of them were directly shot by the red-clothed ballista, and the rest were either injured and fell to the ground and trampled to death by the people behind them, or died because of panic and collision, in short, under the deterrence of the red-clothed ballista, the rebels' formation has begun to appear chaotic.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the rebels, Yuan Qi reached out and raised the carved bow. This treasure bow was given to Yuan Qi by the dead Yuan Hong, who had not used it on the battlefield for a long time. Drawing out two carved arrows and placing them on the bowstring at the same time, Yuan Qi calmly gave an order: "All crossbowmen are ready, and the enemy will attack immediately if they are ten steps closer." ”

The 10,000 elites of the Heavenly Return Army immediately raised their arms in unison and quickly adjusted the angle of their shots. At the same time as the Heavenly Return Army, there were another 5,000 Earth Return Army who did not control the red-clothed ballista, and their movements were exactly the same as those of the Heavenly Return Army. Slightly slower than these two elites, are four thousand bearded veterans, judging from their clothing, they should be Xiliang's sergeants, and the Xiliang soldiers who can appear in the capital city, their identities are about to come out, they must be the four thousand bearded soldiers left by Ma Teng. After the bearded soldiers, there were the crossbowmen among the thousands of royal forest troops guarding the capital, and they raised their bows and arrows in a slightly chaotic manner under the leadership of Bu Qu.

It is true that Wang Mi and Buqu master and apprentice are masters, but they are not real generals, and the degree of training soldiers is far less than that of Gao Shun and Xu Rong, and the Imperial Forest Army stationed in the capital is, to a certain extent, the private army of the Yuan Association, and there is no chance to really set foot on the battlefield at ordinary times, and experience the feeling of life and death on the battlefield, and the psychological quality and reaction in the hands are poor, which is also common sense.

The distance of ten paces was quickly crossed by the rebels, and Yuan Qi took the lead in shooting the two eagle arrows from the carved bow, and his target was two middle-ranking officers in the rebel army. Although he hadn't shot an arrow on the battlefield for a long time, Yuan Qi usually spent a lot of time training in archery, so his archery skills did not fall behind, but improved slightly. The two rebel officers who were targeted by him fell off their horses and were neat.

With Yuan Qi's shooting, more than 20,000 crossbowmen on the head of the capital city looked for targets and began to scatter. These arrows and crossbows are roughly divided into two kinds, one is a relatively short crossbow arrow, which is shot out in a flat way, which is a unique shooting method belonging to the Tiangui Army and the Earth Returning Army, under the action of the Xizi crossbow, the crossbow itself has a strong penetrating power, they only need to aim at the target, so their efficiency is obviously very high, the middle and lower level of the rebel officers, suffered their collective attack, a large number of rebel officers and the personal soldiers around them, they shot off the horse.

Another type of shooting is to use the technique of projectile, in which an arm-length arrow is thrown into the air, and after reaching the apex, it then falls from a high altitude in a whistling manner. The bow does not have the mechanical power of a crossbow, so most of the archers will choose to shoot, using inertia to enhance the penetration of the arrow, but this shooting method has extremely high requirements for archery, and it is not a very easy thing to calculate the landing point of the arrow through a parabola. Therefore, their lethality to the rebels is much inferior to that of the Heavenly Return Army and the Earth Return Army. It's not a good thing that the rebels are densely crowded, and even if you don't have to aim, you have a great chance of hitting the enemy, so you still have a certain amount of damage to the rebels.