372. Soldiers and horses came out of the city again

The sword and shield men of the Divine Arrow Battalion under the command of Bao Long almost did not retreat and blocked the rush of Liu Biao's soldiers.

However, the number of soldiers on Liu Biao's side is rapidly decreasing with the fighting on the battlefield, mainly because of the crossbow arrows that the crossbow archers on the side of the Divine Arrow Battalion keep shooting, which has caused a lot of damage to them.

It's like an egg hitting a stone, the eggs shatter in front of the stone, and the egg shells are crushed on the ground.

For a while, on the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, there were also corpses all over the field, blood flowing all over the ground, not to mention the corpses that fell to the ground, even if some people who were still alive fell in the area where the two sides were fighting, they would be trampled into flesh.

After fighting like this for a while, the soldiers on Liu Biao's side finally couldn't support it, and the 3,000 soldiers who originally rushed out were now only more than 1,500 people left.

Many of Liu Biao's soldiers who were responsible for charging into battle, and the low-level officers at the commander level also fell in front of the sword and shield army formation of the Shenjian Battalion, but they still failed to tear a hole in the military formation composed of sword and shield hands.

Even the two Liu Biao generals, who were in charge of leading the troops, rushed to the front, trying to tear through the sword and shield army formation of the Divine Arrow Battalion with their own force, but they also failed to succeed.

One of these Liu Biao was shot in the forehead by Bao Long, who was in charge of commanding the battle of the Divine Arrow Battalion, and fell directly in front of the military formation, and the body was quickly trampled into flesh and mud.

Although the other Liu Biao general cut down several sword and shield hands of the Divine Arrow Battalion, it seemed that he had torn a hole in the neat shield array, and it could be seen that the other department would be killed by dark arrows, but he did not dare to continue to be exposed, and he rushed to the front, so he could only retreat again, hide under the shield behind, and continue to command the other soldiers to rush and kill.

This is a battle on the battlefield, no matter how high your martial arts are, it is impossible to guard against sudden cold arrows on the chaotic battlefield.

If all the commanding generals are dead, the foot soldiers who have no one to command will soon collapse, so this Liu Biao general will not dare to risk his life, once he is dead, then the remaining soldiers will have nothing to fight.

As one of the five brave generals of Jingnan who was born as a hunter in the mountains, Bao Long was also good at archery, so while commanding his sword and shield men and crossbow archers to resist the strong attack of Liu Biao's soldiers, he would naturally pay attention to some prominent figures in the enemy army and seek opportunities to shoot them to reduce the threat to his own military formation.

Therefore, under his command, the soldiers of Liu Biao who had rushed to kill could not find a chance to break through at all, and gradually the soldiers of Liu Biao were a little confused.

The Liu Biao soldiers in front couldn't rush over, just like being blocked in front of the solid Daoshan shield wall, and the Liu Biao soldiers in the back could only be densely piled together, waiting for the people in front to die or be injured, so that they could rush up, and then kill and re-wound to make way for the people behind to attack the space.

But Liu Biao's soldiers behind him are not safe, crossbow arrows are constantly falling in the air, even if they protect their heads and other vital parts with hand shields, they will still be shot by crossbow arrows in other positions on their bodies.

How can such a battle be fought?

Therefore, as there were fewer and fewer soldiers rushing out of Liu Biao's side, many of the soldiers who had lost the courage to rush into the formation, one by one, just dodged the crossbow arrows falling in the air, and began to have the meaning of retreating.

And there is only one of the two generals who commanded Liu Biao's soldiers, and the other military marquis and commander-level grassroots officers who commanded the soldiers have also died a lot, and the control of the remaining soldiers on Liu Biao's side is no longer enough.

Without the restraint of the junior officers, some of the soldiers who had died of low-level officers such as military marquis and tun commanders began to look for opportunities to retreat, but their actions also led other soldiers to flee together.

It can be said that the 3,000 soldiers sent by Liu Biao to try to destroy Zhu Wei's improvised siege and rush to move the arrow tower gradually began to collapse after most of them were killed and wounded.

At this moment, even the remnant Liu Biao general who was in charge of commanding couldn't control the situation, and when he rushed into battle, he was stabbed and slashed a few times, and there were already a few wounds left on his body, in fact, he didn't have any intention of continuing to fight.

So seeing his soldiers fleeing in the direction of the city gate like a collapse, he could only reluctantly retreat with the army.

However, he was still trying to keep the retreat intact of the army's formation, so that he would not completely abandon his troops and armor, so that he could only leave his back to the sword and shield men of the Divine Arrow Battalion to chop.

But at this time, the retreat of these remnants of Liu Biao has also been blocked, and Chen Ying, who was originally climbing the city in front of him to attack the city, heard the order from Tai Shici behind, so he took the soldiers back to surround these remnants of Liu Biao who went out of the city.

Chen Ying rushed to the front with a double-edged fork in his hand, and nearly 5,000 siege sword and shield men followed behind him and rushed over to kill.

Compared with Pancheng, it is naturally easier to rob and kill Liu Biao's soldiers, who no longer have much fighting spirit.

So in the hundred-step area near the gate of Yicheng, another scuffle appeared.

This time, the two sides had no military formation or anything, they were completely infiltrated into each other, fighting chaotically on the battlefield, but the sword and shield hands on the side of the Divine Arrow Battalion were obviously several times that of Liu Biao's soldiers who fled back, and the situation was also one-sided slaughtering Liu Biao's defeated soldiers.

Seeing that the Liu Biao soldiers who rushed out of the killing were decreasing little by little, the remaining less than 1,000 Liu Biao soldiers gradually retreated and gathered together, and were surrounded and slashed by the sword and shield men of the Divine Arrow Battalion commanded by Chen Ying in all directions.

Their end was not to be completely annihilated by the sword and shield men of the Divine Arrow Battalion commanded by Chen Ying, so they could only surrender before the battle.

But at this time, the gate of Yicheng opened again, and I saw Liu Qi with a few Liu Biao generals and six or seven thousand soldiers, rushing out of the city again, and soon rushed away from the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion who surrounded and killed the remnants of Liu Biao before.

It turned out that Liu Biao, who was in command in the Sword Pavilion of the City Gate Tower, saw that the soldiers who went out of the city were about to be surrounded and annihilated, but there was no effect on the destruction of Zhu Wei's side of the siege and rushing car, so he could only let his son Liu Qi go out of the city with more troops to fight.

If you can't destroy the siege and rush arrow platform on Zhu Wei's side, Yicheng will be difficult to defend, at least before Liu Biao's side can't find a way to defend, he can only send troops to fight with Zhu Wei's army outside the city.

Because Liu Qi rushed out with the fresh army in the city, Chen Ying, who was originally going to encircle and annihilate the remnants of Liu Biao's army, could only use the banner to order the soldiers of the Shenjian Battalion to get out of the way, retreat a few steps back to find a place to reform the military formation.

Otherwise, they will be attacked from both sides, but they will also suffer a lot of losses.

In this way, Liu Qi quickly rescued the remnants of the soldiers who were surrounded in front of the city gate, and then took this remnant of the soldiers to rush in the direction of the more than a dozen siege vehicles again, obviously with the intention of not destroying these arrow towers and never giving up.

After Liu Qi led his troops out of the city gate, it was obvious that there were nearly 10,000 Liu Biao's soldiers who seemed to be gathering inside the city gate, waiting to rush out and kill them.

If this Liu Qi can't succeed in taking the advantage, Liu Biao will send more soldiers to help Liu Qi destroy these siege vehicles, and will never let these siege vehicles suppress the guards on the city wall......