In the Taishou Mansion, Feng Yi successfully persuaded Wang Xun that he could recruit strong men in the city at will.

Next, what Liu Xuan and Feng Yi did was to mobilize the whole city.

Call on the strong men in the city to participate in the volunteers, devote themselves to the city defense, call on the women, help the city defense army sew clothes and cook, and transport the city defense baggage.

In addition, Feng Yi also organized the people in the city to dismantle the door panels at home and transport them all to the city. It doesn't matter if you don't have weapons and equipment, you can make your own, these door panels can be used as shields to resist the arrows of the barbarians.

That night, the whole county town was mobilized, and the next morning, more people joined the city defense, including both common people and domestic slaves, both men and women, both old and young, and the people were busy and sweating.

In fact, to organize the people of the whole city, it does not need Liu Xuan, Feng Yi and others to work hard to mobilize, the behavior of the barbarians, the people of Hanzhong are clear, the city is there, they still have a glimmer of life, the city is dead, the people in the city, whether they are men, women and children, no matter how high or low the status, no one can live.

It can be said that in the matter of the barbarian invasion, the military and people of the whole city are the same enemy.

At noon, the barbarian army led by Shetu finally arrived in the county seat.

As the so-called 10,000 people, boundless, standing on the head of Hanzhong City, looking outward, the outside of the city is full of barbarian soldiers, a piece of black oppression.

The barbarians did not stay outside the city for long, and soon the barbarians launched a tentative attack on Hanzhong City.

The defenders of the city were severely short of archers. Again, archers are not something that can be quickly cultivated in a day or two or a month or two, and for ordinary people, picking up a hard bow can't even pull it open, let alone shoot an arrow to kill the enemy. A qualified archer has to go through at least two or three years of hard training.

Liu Xuan is one of the few people in the city who can use bows and arrows and has good archery skills, and he is also directly led by the archery team in the city.

The so-called archery team has only about 100 people in total, and most of them are newcomers who have the arm strength to draw a hard bow, but the accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

Looking at the vanguard of the hundreds of barbarian troops rushing straight to the county town, Liu Xuan clenched his fists, he looked to his left and right, there were archers and arrows around, there were righteous troops, and ordinary people involved in the city defense, people's expressions were basically the same, that is, nervous, and their eyes flashed with horror.

It can't go on like this, and before the battle starts, your morale will be suppressed by the barbarians.

He took a deep breath and said in a loud voice: "In this battle, there are many barbarian soldiers and few of our troops, but our side has a geographical advantage, which is enough to make up for the lack of our troops!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at the barbarians outside the city, less than two hundred paces away from the county seat, he picked up his hard bow, twisted the bow and arrows, aimed the arrows at the air, and said loudly: "The barbarians are not terrible, they are all flesh and blood like us, and a spear and a sword are enough to kill them!" ”

At this time, there were fast barbarians who were only one hundred and fifty paces away from the county town.

Liu Xuan squinted his eyes, and the finger that pinched the arrow suddenly loosened, and he heard a snap, the arrow string flicked, and the arrow first rose into the air, drawing an arc in mid-air, and then fell at great speed.

Chirp--

The arrow, with a piercing sound of breaking wind, was pinned precisely to the chest of a brute, and a pop was heard in the ear chakra, and the brute screamed, and the running figure fell to the ground suddenly, and rolled forward for a long distance before stopping, lying on the ground, unable to stand up again.

You must know that the archers at that time could only shoot an effective range of 100 paces, but Liu Jiu's arrow shot a full 150 steps, and he also successfully shot a brute.

Liu Xuan's archery technique made the defenders at the head of the city all surprised and delighted, and rejoiced.

People involuntarily shouted Liu Xuan's name: "Bosheng! Bosheng! Bosheng--"

Liu Xuan is also a very expressive person, and the more people call him, the more excited his spirit becomes.

Feng Yi's eyes lit up, striking while the iron was hot, and shouted loudly: "In this battle, our side has no way to retreat, but a battle against the water!" If you can't stop the enemy outside the city, the people in the city, will not be spared, this battle, we are not only fighting for ourselves, but also for the 100,000 people of Hanzhong City, we can only win, not lose! ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill—"

Liu Xuan's encouragement, as well as Feng Yi's call, aroused the morale of the defenders. Liu Xuan never stopped, he shot arrow after arrow outside the city, and the barbarians who rushed forward fell to the ground one after another.

When the barbarians were less than 100 paces away from the city wall, the members of the archery team divided into two teams, and the archers of the first team drew their arrows, put on the strings of arrows, and then opened their bows and fired a volley at the barbarians outside the city.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Dozens of arrows were shot into the barbarian crowd, and more than a dozen people fell to the ground with arrows. As soon as the first team of archers finished shooting, they immediately retreated, and the second team of archers stepped forward and continued to release their arrows outward.

The two teams of archers alternately released arrows, and the barbarians outside the city also fell one after another.

The barbarians of 500 men were less than 400 when they rushed to the bottom of the city, and they lost more than 100 men on the way to the charge.

The barbarians did not have ladders to attack the city, but prepared many wooden poles of about ten meters (the Han city wall was usually eight meters).

During the siege, one brute held on to one end of the pole, and several other brute soldiers on the other end of the pole lifted the pole and put it on the wall, so that the brute who held the pole could jump over the battlement and jump directly to the top of the city.

This method of siege warfare is simple and crude, but it is also undeniably practical and efficient. As the wooden poles were erected on the city wall, a barbarian soldier jumped to the top of the city and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the defenders at the head of the city.

Seeing that the defenders' defense line was about to be disrupted by the barbarians, and the follow-up barbarians were still jumping up the city along the wooden poles, Liu Xuan put down his bow and arrows and shouted: "Get out of the way!" ”

The defenders in front of him subconsciously retreated to the left and right, and Liu Xuan, holding his double swords, walked through the crowd, ran to the front of several barbarians, and slashed down with one sword. The brute subconsciously parried with his sword. When! This brute soldier blocked Liu Xuan's menacing sword, but the powerful impact made him retreat backwards, and planted headfirst down along the gap in the arrow stack. Liu Xuan's two swords came out together, and slashing and killing the barbarians was really like cutting vegetables.

Liu Xuan's bravery, at this time, was really like a needle in the sea, so that the rioting defenders quickly calmed down, and people lined up in a phalanx on the city wall, and the spears moved forward in unison, pressing the barbarian soldiers.

The barbarians who rushed to kill could not reach the defenders, and they were already pierced through their bodies with spears, screaming and falling into a pool of blood.

Feng Yi, who commanded the overall situation, nodded secretly, Bosheng's courage can be called the brave champion of the three armies, at a critical moment, there can be such a person in the army, and his role can even be better than that of thousands of troops.

Feng Yi also drew the sword under his rib and participated in the battle, fighting with the barbarians who rushed to the city, while shouting: "Kill all the barbarians, don't let anyone go!" Kill! ”

"Kill—"

As the saying goes, there will be a heart of death, and there is no desire to be greedy for life. Liu Xuan and Feng Yi took the lead in killing the enemy, the morale of the defenders was greatly boosted, and the barbarians who climbed to the top of the city fell one after another, and the battle lasted for half an hour, five hundred barbarians, and finally only a few dozen people fled back.

Among them, 200 died at the head of Hanzhong City, and more than 200 others died under the city.

Looking at the dozens of barbarians who were defeated and retreated, Xie Tu's face was gloomy, he slowly drew the saber under his ribs, and swung forward suddenly, as he gave the order to attack, a long horn sounded in the barbarian camp, and then, the army of more than 10,000 people began to march forward in unison.

Liu Xuan and Feng Yi wiped the blood on their faces, and then looked out of the city, the two glanced at each other, and shouted in unison to the left and right: "Prepare to fight!" All ready to fight! ”

This time, the barbarians dispatched the main force, and the siege tactics were still wild, and the barbarians poured towards the county like a tide.

The arrows shot into the crowd, and even if they hit a dozen or twenty brutes at once, they were like throwing a small pebble in the middle of the ocean, and they could only make a small splash.

The barbarians rushed under the walls and immediately launched a strong attack. The defenders at the head of the city were not idle, and the rolling wood and stones fell downwards like snowflakes, and the barbarians under the city were smashed back again and again, and it was difficult to get closer.

Soon, the archers of the barbarians stepped forward, lined up in groups of archers, and fired a volley at the defenders who were throwing rolling logs and stones at the top of the city.

The inexperienced defenders suffered immediately, and many were still throwing rolling stones, and the sudden arrows that came up were shot through the head or through the chest, and the people fell in droves with arrows stuck in their bodies.

Seeing this, Feng Yi immediately shouted loudly: "The door panel!" Erect the door panel to block the arrows! ”

His words immediately made the defenders react, yes, they have prepared so many door panels!

The door panels were placed on the battlements to defend against the arrows of the barbarians outside the city.

It was just such a simple move, but the power of the arrows of the barbarians outside the city was sharply reduced, and the pressure on the defenders was also reduced a lot.

Although the defenders who threw the rolling wood and stones were still hit by arrows from time to time under the protection of the door panels, they were already much stronger than the situation just now.

More than 10,000 barbarians launched a ferocious assault outside the north city of the county town, the battle lasted from noon to evening, during which the barbarians had attacked the city several times, and were forced back by the defenders several times, and the fierce battle in the afternoon was defeated, and the situation on the battlefield was basically still at the original point.

The barbarian army could not attack outside the city, and the defenders did not dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the battle.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, and his own offensive was still making no progress, Xie Tu had no choice but to order his troops to retreat, and set up camp outside the city, preparing to fight again tomorrow.

With the retreat of the barbarian army, the fierce battle that lasted for an afternoon finally came to an end.

The defenders' strength seemed to be drained at once, and the people were so tired that they collapsed on the city.

The ground at the head of the city was covered with dried blood and corpses, but no one felt uncomfortable with it anymore, and the bloody fighting of the whole afternoon had already numbed people's nerves.