Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 251 General Xing Daorong
"Fire arrows!"

On the wall of the stronghold, Guan Yu watched the enemy charge so recklessly, so he directly gave the order to shoot arrows.

With one order, the rain of arrows covered half of the sky like covering the sun.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of "咻咻" continued, and it fell downwards, falling into the crowd of Jingzhou soldiers who were charging.

Immediately, the Jingzhou soldiers outside the camp screamed again and again.

"Ahhhh!"

"I was shot."

"Help!"

"It hurts me too!"

People in the crowd kept falling to the ground with arrows, and there seemed to be a gap in the original black torrent. In many places, people fell on their backs, and one person fell and turned over a group.

The soldiers in the front row collapsed immediately, dropping their weapons and equipment and fleeing one after another.

The first wave of tentative attacks took the first step, and because of the rain of arrows, they hurriedly dropped hundreds of corpses and fled back in defeat.

Throughout history, there are only a handful of armies that can withstand the rain of arrows without changing their expressions. This kind of army that flees immediately after being shot by an arrow is the norm in the era of cold weapons.

Cai Hao was not angry either. After resting for about half an hour, he changed his mind and gave the order to attack again.

This time, the soldiers in the front row no longer raised their shields, but supported a large piece of wood.

Below the wooden array, there are soldiers carrying a large amount of soil with poles and bamboo baskets, or carrying sacks on their backs to move forward with difficulty.

This is a way of attacking a city, called building a fortress of soil, using wooden planks to cover the soldiers to the city, and then using bamboo baskets to carry the soil to pile up under the city, until the soil under the city is as high as the city wall and forms a slope, you can rush directly to the city. Go up the tower.

According to the records of "Historical Records", when Xiang Yu attacked Qi, he personally carried the planks on his back, took the lead, protected the soldiers and filled up the soil under the city, and finally conquered the city and destroyed Tian Rong's self-supporting state of Qi.

It's just that it takes time and effort to build soil fortresses. After the invention of the ladder in the Han Dynasty, few people used this method anymore.

However, it is still very suitable for attacking camps that are not as high as the city walls.

"set fire!"

Seeing this situation, Guan Yu smiled coldly, showing no fear at all.

Soon, a large number of wooden phalanxes gathered outside the camp.

They gathered densely under the camp.

When the soldiers in the camp saw them coming, they immediately splashed fish oil and fat, threw out firewood, and finally threw down hundreds of torches.

Immediately, those wooden planks burst into raging flames.

When Jingzhou soldiers saw the wooden boards on fire, they threw down the wooden boards and fled, and many people were shot and killed.

In the end, Cai Haoqian's donkey skills were poor, so he chose to use wooden boards to cover the soldiers to the camp, and then used wooden ladders to forcibly attack the camp.

Although the fire attack can break the wooden planks, the distance of the fire attack is very short. As long as the soldiers are protected outside the camp with wooden planks, and then they hold the shield and carry the wooden ladder to kill them, they can get close to the wall of the village.

Although this still has a bow and arrow shooting range of more than 20 meters, it is much safer than the previous death zone of hundreds of meters.

This trick worked as expected.

It's just that Cai Hao underestimated the strength of the camp's defensive army. On the wooden fence of the hundreds of feet of the camp, Guan Yu's army stepped on the platform behind them and fought desperately with them, and finally repelled wave after wave of attacks.

From the three quarters of the day until the evening, there were more than 1000 corpses of Jingzhou soldiers scattered everywhere outside the camp, which can be said to have caused heavy losses to Cai Mao.

After several waves of attacks were repelled, Cai Mao realized that the guard in this camp is a ruthless character and should not be underestimated.

He immediately said to the left and right guards: "Who is guarding this battalion?"

"I didn't fly the flag, but I don't know."

"Mingjin withdraws troops, send someone to ask, when did Jingzhou produce such a powerful guard."

"only!"

Soon Cai Mao's soldiers rang the golden bell.

Thousands of former soldiers who were attacking the camp breathed a sigh of relief and retreated like a tide.

Yiqi rushed out from the crowd, came outside the camp and shouted: "The Taiwei wants to ask, who is the guard in this camp!"

Guan Yu stood on the wall of the village, looked down, stood awe-inspiring, and then said coldly: "People in the village, listen, tell Cai Mao, that someone is Guan Yu from Hedong, and Guan Yunchang is also!"

Guan. Guan Yunchang?
Cai Mao's personal guards under the village were only shocked, not because they were afraid of Guan Yu's name, but because they were shocked by why Guan Yu was here.

But at this moment, he didn't have time to think too much, and quickly turned his horse's head back to report.

"what?"

Soon after Cai Hao learned the news, he was equally astonished, and his eyes widened: "Guan Yu is actually here?"

"Could it be that Liu Bei tricked us into going to Xichuan on purpose?"

Hu Zheng was shocked.

Cai Du hurriedly said: "It's impossible. The scouts saw them leave with their own eyes. Besides, isn't Zigui already occupied by us?"

"Then how could Guan Yu appear here?"

Hu Zheng was astonished.

Cai Du pondered: "There are only 1 horses here. Could it be that before Liu Bei entered Xichuan, he was worried that his uncle would immediately attack Jingnan as soon as he left? Liu Bei and Liu Qi have a good relationship. Maybe it was because he was worried about this, so he sent Guan Yu to lead the army. 1 people stayed."

"It's possible."

Cai Mao nodded repeatedly and said, "No wonder there are so many people coming out of Jingnan all of a sudden, it's really tricky. But as long as it's not Liu Bei's army, he doesn't have a fleet, and it will take at least a month to go back to Jingzhou by land. Jingnan cannot be pacified."

Hu Zheng rolled his eyes and said, "Taiwei, it is rumored that Guan Yu has always been arrogant and often despises the heroes of the world. Everyone he sees calls him a moron. Everyone seems to be selling their heads. Such a lunatic must fall into the trap."

"what do you mean?"

"You can send someone to make an appointment before the battle. If he comes out to fight, we will ambush the archer and shoot him!"

"This"

Cai Mao hesitated and said: "This method is shady, if it is spread, people in the world may laugh at you."

Hu Zheng persuaded: ""Han Feizi" once said: "A gentleman who is full of etiquette; never tires of loyalty and trustworthiness; in battle, never tires of deception. "If the two armies are fighting, if you only care about reputation, don't you hear about Song Xianggong? What's more, people will only laugh at the losers when they become kings and losers. Who will laugh at the victors?"

"Ah."

Cai Mao nodded in agreement: "Yu Heng's words are very reasonable, so let's do it this way."

"only."

Hu Zheng went to convey the order.

Cai Du moved his lips, but he didn't say anything after all.

It's not his job to sabotage from within.

What's more, Guan Yu is famous.

If such a simple method of aggressiveness is successful, it is just a false name, so what is the use of helping him?
After a short while, there was a rider out of the crowd. He was wearing black armor, a burly man with big arms and a round waist, holding a big axe.

Cai Mao looked at it and laughed loudly: "Isn't this Xing Daorong, the hero under my account?"

"Yes, Lieutenant."

Hu Zheng had already returned, and he said quickly: "Just now I ordered the generals to ask who would dare to fight, and Xing Daorong took the lead. This man is good at wielding a pear blossom mountain axe. into an ambush."

"good!"

Cai Mao smiled slightly, stroked his beard and nodded.

This Xing Daorong is a powerful general under Liu Du, the prefect of Lingling. Before Liu Pan used Zhuge Liang's plan to conquer Changsha County, but other counties wanted to attack by force, so Liu Du fought Liu Pan's army.

It's just that Liu Du was defeated and Lingling was breached, so he had to flee into Wuling County with his men, and fled back to Nanjun along the Yuanshui River. Hundreds of remnants in his hands also returned to Cai Mao.

And this Xing Daorong is quite brave and deeply loved by Cai Mao, but unfortunately because he didn't make any contribution, he is only a general in the army for the time being.

At this moment, Xing Daorong galloped out brazenly, naturally he wanted to make contributions, and was valued by Cai Mao as the general of Jingzhou.

However, the confrontation between the two sides is not close to each other. Because the camp has tall sculls, shooting arrows on high towers has a range of more than a hundred steps, so Cai Mao's troops lined up at two hundred steps, almost 280 meters away.

Xing Daorong rode alone and galloped to the middle of the two armies, about a hundred steps away. The archers on the high oar in Guan Yu's camp were already able to shoot him into a hedgehog.

It's just that Guan Yu saw him go out alone, so he didn't give the order to shoot.

After all, even though long-distance shooting with bows and arrows could reach up to 200 meters away, it was often easy to miss the mark, so even for well-trained archers, the effective range was generally within a hundred steps.

There are many people who can shoot an arrow a hundred steps away, but it can be said that there are only a handful of people who can shoot the arrow through a hundred steps without missing a shot.

Xing Daorong is a hundred steps away, and there are no archery masters like Huang Zhong and Tai Shici in the camp. If you want to shoot him, you have to cover a large area, and he may even run away. Hundreds of thousands of arrows are wasted for one person. , is really worthless.

And Guan Yu also wanted to see what the man wanted to do when he ran to the front of the two armies alone.

I saw that Xing Daorong came to the front of the formation, holding a big ax in one hand, showing off his might outside the camp, and shouted to the camp: "Guan Yu, do you dare to come out and fight me?"

"Oh? Someone wants to fight me in front of the battle? It's really rare, Zhou Cang, take my sword."

Seeing this situation, Guan Yu suddenly felt fresh.

Ever since he beheaded Yan Liang in the Wanjun, almost no one in the world dared to challenge him anymore. He didn't expect that there would be someone who was going to die today.

"Father."

Guan Ping on the side quickly said: "This lunatic is only a child overnight, if the father fights in person, wouldn't he lose his father's name? The child is willing to go."

"Ha ha."

Guan Yu stroked his beard and smiled and said, "After killing Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang himself, how can anyone in the world be so bold? I think this is just a trick of the enemy, trying to lure me out and set an ambush to kill me."

Guan Ping was puzzled: "Then why did father go out of the village to fight with them?"

Guan Yu explained: "Now I don't know where your uncle is now. We are in Yiyang to hold Cai Mao and let your uncle attack the rear. If we can't defend, Cai Mao will not be able to attack for a long time. In case he retreats Or it is not good to go to other places, if you pretend to be in the trap and delay the time, Uncle Ni can successfully capture Jiangling and other places."

"Can"

Guan Ping was still worried.

Guan Yu said, "It's okay, I know what to do."

After finishing speaking, let people take his green dragon sword, lead the red rabbit horse, quickly open the east gate of the camp, and gallop out alone.

When he came to the outside of the stronghold, he looked at Xing Daorong ten feet away.

When Xing Daorong saw that Guan Yu really came out, seeing his huge body more than two meters tall, and the red rabbit horse that was two laps bigger than his war horse, he couldn't help swallowing.

I used to hear that Guan Yu was brave and there were countless people in the world who were dissatisfied, but after meeting the real person, I realized that he seemed to be so powerful.

After all, Guan Yu is 200 meters tall, weighs more than [-] kilograms, and has a big shoulder and round waist. He is a fierce general who can be defeated by thousands of people.

Just looking at this appearance and momentum is enough to overwhelm too many people.

According to the archaeological knowledge of later generations, the average height of men in the Han Dynasty was generally around 1.6 meters.

That Xing Daorong is only more than 1.8 meters tall. Although he is quite majestic, he is a head and a half shorter than Guan Yu. Facing a giant who is more than two meters tall, he naturally feels a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, before leaving, Hu Zheng also ordered him to insult and ridicule Guan Yu with words first, which made Guan Yu furious to fight him. Guan Yu is within the range of the archer.

So Xing Daorong doesn't need to really fight Guan Yu.

At this time, Xing Daorong saw that Guan Yu had really left the village gate, gritted his teeth, and shouted according to the original plan: "Guan Yu is a man, there is no hero in this era, who made Lizi famous. You are just a jujube seller in the east of the river, how dare you come to Jingzhou to fight against me? "

"You nameless junior, you are really arrogant, you dare to provoke me?"

Guan Yu shouted coldly: "Where is the mouse, report your name!"

"Say my name to scare you!"

Xing Daorong held a big ax and said loudly: "I am General Xing Daorong of Lingling!"

"Oh?"

Guan Yu laughed loudly and said, "I heard that Liu Pan sent people to attack Lingling, and Lingling prefect Liu Du took his general Xing Daorong and fled in embarrassment. Could it be you?"

Xing Daorong quibbled and said: "It means that there is an internal response in the city, and the city gate is broken open, otherwise Liu Pan, Huang Zhong and his like will come and I will kill each other."

At that time, Liu Pan sent people to attack Lingling County, because there were aristocratic families in Lingling County, just like Liu Mi Koufeng, they defected to Liu Bei.

So when Liu Du was guarding the city, he let the aristocratic family in the city open the city gate at night, and Liu Du fled in embarrassment.

Now that Guan Yu told Xing Daorong's glorious history of defeat, he naturally wanted to put gold on his face.

"It's a joke, you were killed and fled, but you dared to run in front of my formation and utter nonsense, you are really arrogant! It's a pity that my green dragon sword wants to decapitate you, a nameless rat!"

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes. He knew that Cai Mao might be plotting to kill him, but this was beyond the range of the bow and arrow, so he used his plan to delay the time, so as to prevent Cai Mao from being unable to attack for a long time and retreating from the ambush circle.

Xing Daorong shouted: "Don't be too long-winded, don't think that you are really powerful because you are famous. If you meet Xing Daorong today, it will be your death date?"

"Ha ha ha ha."

Guan Yu seemed to be amused, and said, "It's up to you?"

"good."

Xing Daorong said loudly: "Who in Lingling doesn't know that I, Xing Daorong, are so brave?"

"Oh?"

Guan Yu said cheerfully, "How brave is it?"

"You'll find out later."

Xing Daorongqiang shouted: "But I heard that you are nearly fifty years old, I don't want to bully the old, I just let you make the first move."

He made up his mind that once Guan Yu urged his horse to come over, he would immediately rein in his horse and turn around and run away.

Anyway, as long as Guan Yu is lured there, the task is considered completed.

Unexpectedly, Guan Yu was procrastinating on purpose, squinting his eyes and chatting with him: "You idiot, are you worthy of letting me strike first?"

"Joke, if I stand you under the horse with one axe, the world won't say that I'm bullying you to be old and weak?"

"Although I am nearly fifty years old, killing you is like picking something out of a pocket."

"Bragging! Come here if you have the ability!"

Xing Daorong was quick to talk while riding on horseback, but he was slow to do anything.

Seeing the two chattering incessantly at the back, Cai Mao raised his head to look at the sky, frowned and said, "Why is this Xing Daorong still entangled with Guan Yu?"

Hu Zheng and the others were far away and didn't know they were talking, so they said: "Maybe they are provoking Guan Yu with words, just wait."

"We're still waiting, it's getting dark."

Cai Mao was dissatisfied.

They have attacked the camp several times since the afternoon, and have been fighting for two hours. Now it is the end of the feeding time in the afternoon and the beginning of the day, which is more than four o'clock in the afternoon and close to five o'clock.

If they dragged on, it would be dark and they would have to withdraw their troops and return to the camp.

But over there, Xing Daorong was still shaking his lips and dancing his tongue, and dawdled with Guan Yu for seven or eight minutes, but he didn't see the two fighting, which made Cai Mao behind him very dissatisfied.

"Urge Xing Daorong!"

Seeing this, Hu Zheng gave an order and asked people to beat drums to cheer.

Soon the drums were beating loudly.

When Xing Daorong heard the urging from behind, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "In that case, look at the axe."

After speaking, he urged the horse to come, raised the big ax in his hand high, and used the horsepower to chop down with the axe.

(End of this chapter)