When tens of thousands of arrows and crossbows flew into the sky, Li Dao and Guo Yan immediately realized that something was wrong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOriginally, in their minds, the capital was almost an undefended city, and there would not be a large number of soldiers and horses at all, at most, it was just those royal forest armies that Yuan Qi helped Yuan Xie make to defend the town, but at this moment, they suddenly found that they were wrong, and they were outrageously wrong, too outrageous.

Tens of thousands of arrows and crossbows flew down from the sky, densely covering the sky and the sun, and even the light of the sun was temporarily blocked, how many archers would be required to fire a salvo at the same time to do this? And the archers are just one of the regular troops, according to this ratio, there are tens of thousands of crossbowmen in the capital alone, and the entire army, I am afraid that there are not enough 100,000 people?

Li Dao and Guo Yan were confused by Yuan Qi. This is also a strategy that Yuan Qi discussed with Jia Yuan and Xu Shu in advance. The rebels were completely unaware of the news of Yuan Qi's arrival in the capital, and it was precisely on this point that they would first give the rebels a dismount! Taking advantage of the Xizi hand crossbows, which could fire three crossbows at the same time, the rebels misled the number of the rebels, so that the rebels thought that there were a large number of crossbowmen in the city, and regarded the 15,000 elites of the two armies who fired arrows and crossbows as 45,000.

The screams resounded endlessly under the capital. Tens of thousands of rebels were caught off guard by all the shots that could be used as crossbowmen in the capital, and their corpses were strewn all over the field. More than 50,000 arrows and crossbows is not a small number, even if the archery skills are not good, when 50,000 arrows and crossbows are shot down from the high city and scattered tens of thousands of people under the city, the lethality will never be too small, not to mention that there are elites such as the Heavenly Return Army and the Earth Return Army controlling the hand crossbow.

When the rain of arrows completely stopped, most of the tens of thousands of rebels had been cut off by the crossbows, and less than 10,000 people got up from the pile of corpses in terror, shouting in despair. Running frantically to the rear, they no longer had the courage to continue to stay in this dangerous area, and the tens of thousands of arrows and crossbows had destroyed their courage.

Li Dao and Guo Yan also looked ahead in amazement, and the area in front of them, within a radius of two hundred steps, was densely packed with countless arrows and crossbows, which were either diagonally, straight, or upside down on the corpses of the rebels. The tail of the arrow with the carved feather still trembled slightly, as if to tell Li Dao and Guo Yan that this is the fate of the rebels!

"Yuan Qi! must be Yuan Qi! except for him. No one has such a powerful crossbow army!" Li Wei roared angrily. According to the agreement he reached with Guo Tu, Yuan Qi should still be in Hejian now. How could he have come to the capital without knowing it? Could it be that Yuan Qi has the ability to predict the future? Foreseeing that you and others will start a rebellion?

As if to confirm Li Dao's roar, a splendid banner suddenly rose on the head of the capital. There is a line of big characters embroidered on it with golden silk thread: Han Hussar General, Champion Hou, leading the governor of the five northern states.

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Qi, who was wearing the Golden Armor of the Dragon Roaring Heaven, appeared below the banner. He shouted to the rebels under the city: "Yuan Qi is here!

Guo Yan looked at it carefully with some horror, and made sure that the person shouting at the head of the city was Yuan Qi. Yuan Ding didn't pay attention to faith, Yuan got up, but he didn't even tell us, causing us to lose our troops. ”

Li Wei shook his head slightly, and said with a gloomy face: "I'm afraid that even Yuan Ding doesn't know that Yuan Qi has arrived in the capital, and we are all in Yuan Qi's place." ”

Han Sui on the side said with some doubts: "But is this Yuan Qi crazy? Judging from the arrows and crossbows shot down from the city just now, Yuan Qi has brought at least 50,000 elite soldiers! Is he not afraid that his lair will be taken by Yuan Ding?"

Yan Xing, the general standing beside Han Sui, had been bowing his head and pondering, until this moment, he suddenly raised his head and said, "No! This is Yuan Qi's plan. It is impossible for Yuan Qi to leave his lair alone and bring a large number of elite soldiers to the capital, besides, Yuan Ding should not have noticed it at all when the brigade of men and horses left the river, there must be some deception in this!"

Yan Xing's words attracted everyone's attention, and Li Wei asked suspiciously: "But you also saw the arrows and crossbows that were shot down just now, how can this be explained? Could it be that all of the Yuan Qi army are sharpshooters who can kill two birds with one stone?"

Shaking his head, Yan Xing said: "It's not one arrow and two eagles, but one crossbow and three arrows! A certain long time heard that Yuan Qi is equipped with a mysterious hand crossbow, this kind of hand crossbow can be fired three times in an instant, and three crossbow arrows can be shot at the same time in the shortest possible time, perhaps, Yuan Qi is using this kind of hand crossbow to confuse us, in fact, the people he really brought are no more than 20,000 at most!" is worthy of being a famous general in Xiliang, Yan Xing's judgment is basically close to the truth.

Although Yan Xing's judgment was accurate, in the name of Yuan Qi's little overlord, Guo Yan still asked with some concern: "But what if this is not the case you deduced? What if Yuan Qi really brought 50,000 elite soldiers here?"

"Yes or no, just try it. Yan Xing said in the demeanor of a general: "I also ask the two generals to give an order to put all the forces of our army into the battlefield and attack the three gates of the capital from three directions. ”

Guo Yan yelled angrily: "What nonsense! Are you joking with the lives of all the officers and men of our army?!" In stark contrast to Guo Yan's anger and corruption, it was his eldest brother and old partner Li Dao. Li Wei stretched out his hand and patted Guo Yan on the shoulder, and said slowly: "Seeking wealth and danger, we have no way out. ”

Hearing Li Wei's words, Guo Yan and the others thought about it, too, there is still a way to survive to take the capital, if they are defeated and retreat, and when Yuan Qi solves Yuan Ding, these people will die sooner or later, judging from Yuan Qi's previous style of doing things, he will never allow anyone to stand up and rebel, since everyone has embarked on the road of rebellion now, then go this road to the end, maybe you can get away with fighting a way to live.

After unifying the opinions, Li Wei immediately gave the order, and he led the men and horses of his headquarters to attack Jinguangmen, Guo Yan led the troops and horses of his headquarters to attack the far gate, and Han Sui and the leaders of the Qiang people joined forces to attack Yanping Gate. The three city gates selected by Li Dao are all in the west of the capital, which is also determined by geographical constraints, Li Dao does not have so many troops, and goes around to the east of the capital to implement a roundabout outflanking, after all, the capital city is too big, so he can only choose the three gates of the west city wall to attack.

However, Li Dao's decision, there are still some benefits, these three city gates, Jinguang Gate in the center, is the main gate to the west of the capital, Kaiyuan Gate and Yanping Gate are ten miles away from Jinguang Gate respectively, ten miles, this distance is not far or close, it is not only conducive to echoing with the rebels, but also allows Li Dao to see the back and forth dispatch of the defenders on the city wall, how many men and horses Yuan Qi brought, through the battle, it can be seen at a glance.

After resting for half an hour, the three men and horses immediately entered the pre-planned battle area after Li Wei's order, and launched a fierce attack on the three gates of the west wall of the capital at the same time.

After seeing the adjustment of the rebels, Jia Yuan immediately guessed Li Dao's intentions, and said in surprise: "This is not a method that Li Dao can come up with, it seems that there are still capable people in the rebels." The rebels are obviously testing the deployment of our troops, and they want to find out how many soldiers and horses our army has!"

Yuan Qi nodded, quickly sketched out the operational deployment in his mind, and then gave an order loudly: "Zhao Hu, lead the 7,000 Heavenly Returning Army and 3,000 Imperial Forest Army to defend Guo Yan, who opened the far gate; Zuo Ci, lead the 5,000 Heavenly Return Army and 5,000 Imperial Forest Army, to defend Han Sui, who is attacking Yanping Gate; Ma Yue, lead the 1,000 Imperial Army, come and go to rescue, and go to help wherever there is a crisis! Zhang Long, with 2,000 returning troops, use red-clothed ballistas to maintain the shooting of Li Dao's department under the Jinguang Gate, and first destroy Li Dao's department. ”

Looking back at the generals around him, Yuan Qi thought for a moment and continued: "Dian Wei, take the five hundred days to return to the army to protect Your Majesty, so that no one will take advantage of the chaos to riot." The rest of the people followed Ben Hou to stay in Jinguangmen and cooperate with Zhang Long to fight Li Dao. ”

After Yuan Qi's order was finished, everyone was just about to take the order and leave, when Yuan Xie's voice suddenly sounded on the city wall: "Brother Huang, you don't need to send someone to protect me, I'm already here." The imperial brother led the soldiers to fight bloodily, as the Son of Heaven, how could I sit in the Dragon Court?"

The next moment, Yuan Xie turned to the soldiers on the city wall and said loudly: "Soldiers! The wind knows the strength of the grass, the country is in turmoil, and today, I will fight with you in a bloody battle!"

Yuan Qi did not dissuade Yuan Xie, "Come on, give Sergeant Yuan Xie a steel knife!" From now on, Sergeant Yuan Xie will be temporarily promoted to the captain of the city gate, and lead the junior sergeant of Huangfu to guard the Jinguang Gate with Ben Hou!" Yuan Qi said loudly.

When Yuan Xie received the steel knife handed by the elite of the Tiangui Army, Yuan Qi and Yuan Xie stood side by side and shouted vigorously: "Defend the capital to the death! Never let the rebels step into the capital even half a step!"

From Yuan Xie down, everyone had a resolute look on their faces, and shouted after Yuan Qi: "Swear to defend the capital to the death!