Liu Xiu waved his sword outward, and when he was long, the ring head knife cut by the Shu soldier was bounced away, and Liu Xiu immediately stabbed back with a sword and took the opponent's chest.

The Shu soldiers hurriedly dodged to the side, and the sand, the blade of the sword swept past his breastplate, and there was a ball of sparks.

Without waiting for the other party to stabilize his figure, Liu Xiu stepped forward and kicked the opponent's knee.

If he is really kicked by this kick, the leg of the Shu soldiers and generals will have to be abolished.

The Shu soldier general shouted, jumped backwards with all his strength, narrowly dodged Liu Xiu's kick, and as soon as he landed, he saw Liu Xiu's arm on the opposite side wave, and the long sword was taken off his hand, and it flew straight to his chest.

He couldn't help screaming, exerted all his strength, swung the knife outward, and when the long sword that flew over collided with the ring sword, the spark appeared, and the long sword swirled and flew out diagonally.

At the moment when Liu Xiu threw out the long sword, his whole person also jumped forward, and the Shu soldier general opened the long sword he tolerate, but at the same time, he also came to the front of the Shu soldier general.

Sand! The Chixiao sword is unsheathed.

The generals of the Shu soldiers only saw a flash of cold light in front of them, and then there was a whirlwind of the sky.

I don't know how much later, the surroundings finally returned to calm, and the Shu soldier general's eyes widened, and he saw a headless corpse standing not far away, which was his own headless corpse.

Liu Xiu's Chixiao Sword cleanly cut off his neck and cut off his head.

Bladed a Shu soldier general, Liu Xiu did not pause for a moment, carrying the Chixiao sword, and killed into the crowd of Shu soldiers, and everywhere he passed, there were blood lights at first glance.

Captain Shandu came back to his senses, he hurriedly picked up his saber, got up from the ground, roared, followed Liu Xiu, and rushed forward to kill.

On the first day of the outbreak of the Battle of Shandu, the battle was extremely fierce and bloody, and the Shu soldiers attacked the head of the Shandu City from time to time, and then they were constantly beaten back by the defenders.

After a day of fierce fighting, both sides were exhausted, and when it was getting dark, the Shu army finally withdrew.

With the retreat of the Shu army, the defenders led by Liu Xiu all breathed a sigh of relief.

At the head of the city, the defenders who were slumped on the ground could be seen everywhere, some of them were exhausted and collapsed, sitting on the ground motionless, and some were bandaging their wounds.

Even Long Yuan, Xu Ying and the others were also covered with colors, and Jiang Shiyun and Luo You were dealing with their injuries.

Fortunately, their injuries were not serious, and after medicine and bandaging, there was no major problem.

Liu Xiu, accompanied by Li Pan and Captain Shandu, inspected the city.

Seeing Liu Xiu coming, the soldiers who were originally sitting on the ground or bandaging their wounds got up one after another, intervened in the salute, and said in unison: "Your Majesty! ”

"Sit down!"

Liu Xiu waved his hand to everyone again and again, and said, "Everyone has worked hard in today's battle. ”

Now the appearance of the soldiers of the Han army is embarrassed, and Liu Xiu's appearance is not much better, and he is covered in blood, and he can't tell whether it is his own or the enemy's.

"Your Majesty, I can't wait for a hard time!"

A veteran said loudly.

"That's right! I don't have to wait! ”

The rest of the Han soldiers also chimed in.

Liu Xiu nodded to everyone and didn't say anything more.

At this time, a Han soldier looked out of the city and said, "The Shu army has come to collect the corpse!" ”

Everyone subconsciously looked outside the city, and sure enough, a large group of Shu soldiers, with white belts on their arms, drove many carriages to the city wall.

Whether it is in a siege battle or a head-to-head battlefield, after the battle between the two sides, send a corpse collection team to collect the corpses of their own soldiers, which is the consensus of the two armies.

Liu Xiu looked at the corpse collection team of the Shu soldiers, squinted his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Shoot the enemy!" ”

Hearing this, the surrounding Han soldiers looked at Liu Xiu in surprise.

It was the corpse collection team that came to the mountain capital city, and it was too immoral to shoot the corpse collection team.

Seeing that the soldiers were all staring at Liu Xiu with wide eyes, Li Fan's face sank, and he shouted, "Didn't you hear Your Majesty's orders?"

Get ready for battle! ”

With Li Fan's voice, everyone woke up like a dream, picked up the crossbow machine one by one, and aimed at the Shu army corpse collection team that was swaggering over.

The Shu army corpse collection team did not expect that the Han army at the head of the city would kill themselves, and when the battle ended, both sides collected the corpses of their own soldiers, which was an unwritten rule on the battlefield.

They were defenseless, walked under the city wall, and were about to work, when suddenly, arrows rained down on the city, and the Shu army that collected the corpses was shot down a large group of people in an instant.

When the rest of the Shu army saw this, they were so frightened that they screamed and turned around and ran.

Many Shu soldiers were shot to the ground before they could run a few steps.

In a blink of an eye, most of the soldiers who collected the corpses of this mighty corpse collection team were shot and killed by the Han army at the head of the city, and the soldiers who escaped by luck were not even fifty.

After beating away the corpse collection team of the Shu army, Liu Xiu immediately asked Li Pan to arrange manpower to go out of the city to collect arrows.

Liu Xiu did not let the Shu army collect the corpse, because most of his arrows were inserted in the corpse of the Shu army, and the corpse was taken away, which means that his own arrows were taken away.

Hearing Liu Xiu's order, the soldiers of the Han army understood His Majesty's intentions.

Li Pan hurriedly organized a group of 200 Han soldiers, each carrying a bamboo basket, opened the city gate, and after leaving the city, collected crossbow arrows and arrows under the city wall.

The fleeing Shu army corpse collection team returned to the Shu army camp and reported the news to Lü Kun, saying that the defenders in the mountain capital city did not let their own side collect the corpses, and just shot two or three hundred of their own people.

When Lu Kun heard this, he was furious, and immediately afterward, another spy came to report that a Han army had quietly left the city and was now collecting arrows outside the city.

Lu Kun is a general under Gongsun Shu and a veteran of the battlefield.

As soon as he heard the spies' report, and then thought of the defenders not letting him collect the corpses, he immediately realized that the defenders were underarmed.

The purpose of the defenders not to allow them to collect the corpses was not to let the corpses rot and stink under the city, but to leave the arrows stuck in the corpses.

Lu Kun sneered and said, "Send our cavalry to kill all the enemy troops who went out of the city to collect arrows!" ”

The number of cavalry brought by Lü Kun was small, only more than a thousand horsemen, but they were well-equipped, and each of them was equipped with a repeating crossbow.

After the death of Kui Huan, the ordnance and equipment of the Shu army have been qualitatively improved, very simply, Du Ling, who was originally respected by Kui Huan as a guest, after Kui Huan's death, he switched to Gongsun Shu's side.

The repeating crossbow replaced by the Shu army was built by Du Ling with the help of the Shu army.

Gongsun Shu attached great importance to this sneak attack on Nanyang, and used the first batch of crossbows on this Shu army.

The Han army, which was collecting arrows outside the city, did not have time to withdraw to the city, but was encountered by the Shu cavalry who suddenly came out of the night, and the Shu cavalry did not come to them at all, but in the distance, between walking and passing, they shot crossbow arrows continuously, and the Han soldiers were shot into hedgehogs one by one, and they fell to the ground one after another.

After the cavalry of the Shu army ran over, the two hundred Han soldiers who went out of the city to collect arrows only survived less than ten.

Soon, Li Pan organized a second Han army in the city, still two hundred people, but not long after leaving the city, the Shu cavalry came again, still using long-distance arrow shooting, so that the two hundred Han soldiers also paid a heavy price.

Seeing this, Li Fan's eyes were red, and he wanted to organize a third Han army, but was stopped by Liu Xiu.

Obviously, now that the Shu army has realized that its own armament is insufficient, it has specially sent cavalry to obstruct it, and if it continues to send people out of the city to collect arrows, it will only increase casualties.

Li Pan said anxiously: "Your Majesty, there are not many arrows left in the army now, if tomorrow's battle is still the same as today, I am afraid that the arrows of our army will not last until the end of the third day!" ”

Liu Xiu's eyes flashed, and he said, "I know."

Let the soldiers rest first! ”

"Your Majesty!"

"You should go and rest first!"

Liu Xiu waved his hand at Li Fan, signaling that he didn't need to say more.

Li Pan was helpless and lowered his head.

Liu Xiu returned to the city gate tower, walked to the window, and looked out of the city.

Now the sky is dark, and the outside of the city is dark and rumbling, and others can't see it clearly, but Liu Xiuneng, in the night, the cavalry patrol of the Shu army is constantly patrolling around the city.

Lu Kun is not simple, he is worthy of being a general under the command of Gongsun Shu, he is fierce in battle and has a quick mind.

Long Yuan, Xu Ying and the others walked up to Liu Xiu and said, "Your Majesty is tired for a day, so let's rest early!" ”

Liu Xiu suddenly thought of something, and said: "Long Yuan, Xuying, you two go to Nancheng tonight, Long Zhun and Xuting, you two go to Dongcheng, Long Xiao, Xufei, you two go to Xicheng!" I'm worried that Lu Kun may send troops to steal the city tonight! ”

After a day of fierce fighting during the day, it is also a common tactic to send people to steal the city at night.

Long Yuan and the others had no objections, and they all intervened to give a salute and said, "Oh! ”

After a pause, Long Yuan asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, here in Beicheng?" ”

"This side of the North City will be guarded by me personally."

Liu Xiu waved his hand to Long Yuan and the others and said, "Go ahead!" ”

"Subordinates retire!"

Long Yuan and the others took the order one after another.

Liu Xiu said to Shandu Ling and Shandu Wei: "When you two go back to the city, if there are idle houses and houses, organize people, demolish them, take the available things, and carry them to the city to defend against the enemy!" ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! ”

Shandu Ling and Shandu Wei both bowed and saluted.

Liu Xiu saw that Li Pan was still there, and said, "Didn't you let you rest?"

Why are you still here? ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen is not at ease, ......" "There will be a fierce battle tomorrow!" If you don't rest now, do you still have the strength to fight again tomorrow? ”

Liu Xiu asked in a deep voice.

Li Fan shrunk his neck, bowed to Liu Xiu, and then walked out.

After assigning everyone to the task, Liu Xiu looked at the night outside the city again, and he was secretly planning in his heart whether he could withstand this battle.

If the Shu army only has 25,000 people, relying on the city defense, it can fight, I am afraid that the Shu army will have backup, Gongsun Shu will increase the army of Lu Kun, if so, they will really not be able to fight.

While he was pondering, Jiang Shiyun walked up to Liu Xiu's side and whispered, "The courtiers help Your Majesty take care of your wounds." ”

Liu Xiu waved his hand and said, "I'm not injured. ”

Jiang Shiyun pointed to Liu Xiu's arm and said, "Your Majesty! ”

Liu Xiu turned his head to take a look, and it turned out that there was a cut on the outside of his arm, and there were still blood stains sticking to the tears in his clothes.

Liu Xiu looked at it carefully and said, "It's not a big deal. ”

"Your Majesty, let's deal with it first!"

Seeing Jiang Shiyun's insistence, Liu Xiu smiled helplessly, took off his coat, and pulled the sleeves of his inner shirt up.

A cut was made on his arm at some point, the wound was not large, but it was a little red and swollen around it.

Jiang Shiyun took a closer look and said, "Most of the weapons of the Shu army are coated with pickled things, even if it is just skin trauma, it can't be left untreated. ”

The so-called pickled things are feces and the like.

Smearing the weapon with feces and other stolen things can cause wounds that are easily inflamed and invitable.

It's not that hard to deal with, but it's a lot of medication.

Jiang Shiyun helped Liu Xiu treat his wounds and said: "In today's battle alone, more than half of the medicine in the army has been consumed, and early tomorrow morning, Your Majesty needs to send someone to the city to collect the medicine." ”

Liu Xiu glanced at her, nodded, and said, "I know." ”

"There are also military rations, and there doesn't seem to be much in the army."

The tuntian army's food was all in Deng County, and when they arrived in the mountain capital, they did not carry much military food.

Liu Xiu smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that we won't be able to last long in Shandu County." ”

Jiang Shiyun said: "According to the opinion of the courtiers, His Majesty led his troops to withdraw to Deng County, which is the best policy!" ”