Li Pan hurriedly bowed to Liu Xiu and said, "Weichen remember Your Majesty's teachings!" ”

The battle that was about to break out in Shandu City was not prepared by the Han army, and similarly, the Shu army was not prepared.

The original target of the Shu army was the camp of the Tuntian army, as long as this Han army was defeated, then there would be no enemy in Nanyang who could pose a threat to them.

Therefore, the Shu army that broke into Nanyang never thought of fighting a siege war, and the army did not carry large siege weapons, and the only auxiliary equipment was a cloud ladder.

On this night, the Shu army set up camp outside the mountain capital, and the Han army led by Liu Xiu kept an eye on every move of the enemy army outside the city, and for the whole night, neither side slept.

The next day, the Shu army sounded the horn of attack.

The first batch of Shu troops into battle had more than 10,000 people, divided into three large phalanxes, and launched a strong attack on the northern city of Shandu City.

Liu Xiu stood in the city gate tower, looked out, and advanced the largest of the three squares, about five or six thousand people, every five hundred people are a song, and a song is a small square.

Seeing that the enemy army had advanced to within 100 steps of the mountain capital city, Li Fan's palms were full of sweat, and he turned his head and said, "Your Majesty, the enemy army has entered the city within 100 steps, you can ...... Shoot the arrows, right? ”

Liu Xiu glanced at Li Pan and asked rhetorically: "General Li thinks that how many archers are there among the soldiers of our army, and how many steps can these archers shoot arrows?" ”

Li Pan was speechless and hung his head silently.

In the ancient army, the status of archers is equivalent to the special forces in the modern army, which is a scarce type of troops.

The age of the archer, even if he is forty years old, will not be eliminated, but any archer who is eliminated is really because he is too old to even have the strength to pull a hard bow.

In the Tuntian army, there are no decent archers at all, and all the officers and soldiers of the army can act as crossbowmen.

Operating a crossbow machine is simple and convenient, and it doesn't take much effort, but in the same way, crossbow arrows also have their disadvantages, and the stability is not enough, and if you want to use crossbow arrows to shoot a target a hundred steps away, the odds are similar to winning a five-million lottery.

Liu Xiu patted Li Fan's shoulder and said, "Calm down!" Wait until the enemy is within fifty paces! ”

Li Pan owed a debt and answered at the same time.

The Shu army has entered within 100 steps, but there is no movement in the mountain capital city, and not a single arrow has been fired, which makes the confidence of the Shu army soldiers double, and the phalanxes one by one have advanced faster.

Eighty steps! Sixty steps! Fifty steps! Seeing that the enemy phalanx had entered within fifty steps, Li Pan couldn't help it again, and said, "Your Majesty, give the order to release the arrows!" ”

"Don't worry, wait a little closer!"

There are not many rolling logs and stones in the mountain capital, and similarly, the number of arrows is not much, and one is less than one when it is used up, I don't know how long this battle will take, Liu Xiu must be careful to calculate.

The Shu army array was only thirty steps away from the mountain capital, and at this time, the Han soldiers at the head of the city could clearly see the faces of the Shu soldiers, and could clearly see the facial features of each of them, as well as the clothes around them.

Li Pan raised his arm, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty! ”

Liu Xiu's tiger eyes stared at the enemy army outside without blinking, and said word by word: "Let the whole army prepare and listen to my orders!" ”

Time passed minute by minute, and the Shu army outside the city was only twenty steps away from the mountain capital, Liu Xiu waved his hand forward and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

Liu Xiu finally gave the order to release the arrows, and Li Pan couldn't wait to yell outside the city gate tower: "Release the arrows!" The whole army released arrows-" "Arrows-" The captains of the various departments conveyed the order one after another, and the shouts and cheers rose one after another on the city.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of crossbow machine ejection was continuous, and dense crossbow arrows were tilted down from the top of the city.

The arrow array smashed into the crowd of the Shu army, and people fell to the ground one after another, so at the same time, the clanging sound of the arrows hitting the shield array was dense and could not tell the number.

Twenty paces away, sprinting up, just a matter of seconds.

A large number of Shu troops withstood the arrow array of the Han army, came to the bottom of the city wall, set up cloud ladders, and began to climb to the top of the city.

The Han army at the head of the city either shot arrows or threw rolling wooden stones, smashing down batch after batch of Shu soldiers on the cloud ladder.

But in the same way, the arrows that flew up from under the city were also killing and wounding the defenders, and many Han soldiers were shot by arrows or throwing rolling stones, and fell to the top of the city, never to get up again.

In the face of the wolf-like onslaught of the Shu army, the defenders at the head of the city gradually began to fall into passivity and were difficult to resist.

Older veterans, after all, their strength is not as good as that of young people, and young people can move the rolling wood and gravel alone, and they can't move it alone, and it takes two or three people to work together to complete it.

In this way, not only is it a waste of manpower, but also the speed is slow, and often they are not able to throw the rolling logs and stones together, and they are first shot by arrows outside the city, and they are killed.

Only half an hour after the siege began, a Shu army rushed up to the city along the ladder, and the nearby Han troops were shocked, shouted one after another, picked up their spears, and swarmed up.

Puff, puff, the spear stabbed the Shu soldier into a hornet's nest in an instant.

Before the people could take their spears back, the second Shu soldier climbed up the ladder again.

He flew into the crowd of Han soldiers from the arrow stack, knocked down a piece of the Han soldiers, and then, with his ring knife, slashed wildly at the Han soldiers around him.

After chopping down several people, he himself was impaled through the chest and lower abdomen by numerous spears.

But after such a delay by him, several Shu soldiers climbed up to the top of the city and fought with the Han soldiers.

The city defenses were torn apart like a flood bursting its banks.

At first, there were only cracks in the embankment, but soon the cracks spread and became more and more numerous, and in the end, the entire dam collapsed and burst.

The same is true of siege warfare, where at first only one or two enemies rushed up, but as long as these two enemies held off the defenders for a moment, three or four more would come up, and after these three or four enemies dragged on for a while, a dozen or twenty more would come up.

This is exactly the case now.

The Shu soldiers continued to climb up to the top of the city, and the Han army on the head of the city was mixed up, one side was the young and strong elite soldiers, and the other side was the old, weak, sick and disabled semi-veterans, and the combat strength of the two sides was very different.

Liu Xiu, who was on the tower of the city gate, could see clearly, he raised his hand to the side of the city defense that was torn open, and said, "Long Yuan! ”

"Yes!"

Without Liu Xiu having to say it clearly, Long Yuan had already understood, bowed in response, and walked out quickly, while drawing the saber under his ribs.

Don't look at Long Yuan as just one person who went over to reinforce, but as soon as he came up, he picked several Shu soldiers in a row.

Under the command of Long Yuan, people worked together to besiege the Shu army that broke through to the city, and suppressed the expansion of this city defense breach in time.

As soon as Long Yuan blocked this breach, not far away, two more city defense breaches appeared, and Liu Xiu said in a deep voice: "Long Zhun, Long Xiao!" ”

Long Zhun and Long Xiao both agreed, drew their swords, rushed out of the city gate, and led the Han army to block the breach of the city.

As soon as their side stabilized, the other side of the city gate tower began to panic again, not only Xuying, Xuting, and Xufei all went to the battlefield, but even Li Pan also used a long knife and went into battle to block the breach in the city defense.

The generals and captains in the city gate tower left one after another, and they were overcrowded just now, but only Liu Xiu, Luo You, Jiang Shiyun, and Shandu Ling and Shandu Lieutenant were left in this meeting.

Looking at the scuffle above and below the city, Shandu Ling's face turned pale, sweat was like rain, and he said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the enemy ...... There are many enemy troops, and ...... And he is good at fighting, so it's not a way to go on like this! ”

Captain Shandu looked at Shandu Ling, intervened in Liu Xiu's salute, and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen is willing to lead the Shandu County soldiers out of the city to fight to the death with the enemy!" Even if the bones are broken, Weichen will not give up! ”

Liu Xiu looked at the mountain commander, then looked at the mountain commander, nodded to him, and said with relief: "Liu County Lieutenant is good, he is worthy of being the minister of the Han family, the son of the Liu family!" ”

Nanyang County is the base camp of the Liu clan, from the Taishou Liu Shun to the county officials, many of whom are Liu clansmen.

For a long time, Luoyang was unfavorable to the governance of Nanyang, and the imperial court decrees could not be implemented once they arrived in Nanyang, and the reason was this.

Hearing Liu Xiu's appreciation, Captain Shandu was even more enthusiastic, and he said loudly: "Your Majesty, let Weichen go to war, even if Weichen can resist the enemy army for an hour, he will also serve the Han family and repay His Majesty's imperial kindness!" ”

Liu Xiu smiled at Captain Shandu and said, "Now is not the time to fight to the death with the enemy!" ”

After speaking, he nodded to Captain Shandu again, and continued to look at the enemy troops outside the city.

Shandu Lieutenant was about to speak, at this time, on the city wall near the city gate tower, suddenly killed the Shu soldiers, seeing this, Shandu Ling was so frightened that his eyes turned white, and his body was shaky, and Shandu Lieutenant roared angrily, drew his sword, and rushed out.

Outside the city gate tower, there were still some county soldiers on standby, and Captain Shandu shouted: "The county soldiers will go with me to fight!" ”

This Shandu lieutenant was also stunned, and with more than 100 county soldiers, he rushed straight to the Shu soldiers who broke through the city wall.

These Shu soldiers used repeating crossbows, went up to the city wall, and launched a series of shots at the Han soldiers around them.

Bang bang, the sound of the crossbow machine ejecting was endless, and the surrounding Han soldiers fell to the ground one after another.

Captain Shandu, who rushed over, felt a numbness in his shoulder, and when he turned his head, he saw that he had been hit by an arrow in the shoulder.

He roared, took three steps into two, rushed to the front of the Shu soldiers, and slashed out with a sword.

A Shu soldier parried with a horizontal knife, and when he was long, the ring-headed knife in the hand of the Shu soldier was violently shaken and fell to the ground, and he returned a sword and pierced the chest of the Shu soldier.

The surrounding Shu soldiers swarmed up, and the martial arts of Captain Shandu were not very strong, but his brute strength should not be underestimated.

He swung his sword continuously, and the crunch sound of clanging was endless, and around him, from time to time, the ring-headed swords and shields of Shu soldiers were knocked off the ground.

Shandu Wei led a group of county soldiers, and killed more than a dozen Shu soldiers in a row, and at this moment, a Shu soldier came to Shandu Wei in an arrow and slashed at the top of his head.

Captain Shandu did not refuse to come, and parried upwards with his horizontal sword.

When! With a loud bang, Captain Shandu leaned back and involuntarily took two steps back.

The Shu soldier stepped forward quickly, and with another knife, he continued to slash the top of the head of the mountain captain.

Captain Shandu roared angrily, still parrying with his sword.

While! Poof! Captain Shandu couldn't stand this time, and was struck to the ground by the opponent's stab, and his sword fell to the ground.

"Rats, take your life!"

The Shu soldier general held his ring-headed knife high, aimed it at the neck of the Shandu Lieutenant, and swept it over.

Just in an instant, Captain Shan Du was covered in white sweat, he thought he was dead, but he didn't expect that at the last moment, a flash of lightning suddenly flew out from his back, flashing straight to the chest of the Shu general.

The general of the Shu soldiers realized that it was not good, and hurriedly withdrew the ring head knife, and swung it outward, and with a loud sound, the electric light that came from it was bounced out and fell to the ground with a whirl.

When I looked closely, it turned out to be a spear that had been thrown by someone.

The Shu soldier general's face was angry, and he roared: "Who is hurting people with secret arrows? ”

I saw a young man in civilian clothes walking from behind Captain Shandu, this was not someone else, it was Liu Xiu.

As he approached, he hooked his toes on the ground, picked up a saber, and grasped it in his hand.

The general of the Shu soldiers didn't know Liu Xiu, thinking that he was just a nobody, he snorted coldly, rushed at Liu Xiu with a knife, and the blade went straight to Liu Xiu's neck.