Great Han Arrow God

Chapter 361 The Gap (Please recommend, ask for a monthly pass!)
Thirty Langguans with brand-new crossbows rushed to the city wall in groups of three, put the crossbows on the battlements, and aimed at the centurions and centurions of the Huns who were charging below the city.

These are entry-level breaking crossbows, with a bow strength of three stones, a range of 120 steps, and a lookout for aiming.The biggest feature of the crossbow is that it is easy to learn and use, because when it is fully held, it is easy to aim without any force, and its shooting accuracy is no worse than that of the mercenary archers around Liang Xiao, or even better.

"Whoosh!" A crossbow arrow flew out of the city wall.

"Pfft!" Sixty steps away, a Hun centurion who was brandishing a saber and ordering his subordinates to charge was shot in the chest by an arrow.The powerful crossbow not only pierced his armor, but also pierced his body. Yu Jin led him back two steps and fell on his back.

His messenger held up his horn and was waiting for his order. Hearing the sound suddenly interrupted, he turned his head and saw that the centurion had fallen to the ground with an arrow feather in his chest. He screamed out in fright.Before he finished speaking, another crossbow arrow flew to him and pierced his neck.

The messenger clutched his neck and staggered to the ground.The centurion's guards panicked and raised their shields one after another, dragging the centurion away from the battlefield.

There was another muffled groan, the flag bearer was shot, and the battle flag fell to the ground with a bang.

With the shooting of the crossbow arrows, one by one the Huns' centurions, tens of commanders, warriors with high combat effectiveness, and archers were eliminated. The Huns lost their command and the backbone of the battle, and the offensive stalled suddenly.

The biggest drawback of the crossbow is its slow rate of fire.In order to make up for this shortcoming, Li Danghu used three crossbowmen to shoot in turn.When winding and waiting, you can also find the target.However, in order to pretend to be the mercenary archer next to Liang Xiao, he strictly forbids the two crossbowmen in the same group to shoot at the same time, and they must be spaced apart, just like shooting with a bow.

Although this affected the shooting speed to a certain extent, it perfectly imitated ten archers with thirty crossbowmen.The Huns probably remembered the one-on-one duel a few months ago, and the archers headed by Liang Xiao, and they were in a panic.Someone shouted: "Beware of the sharp archer!"

This cry made the Huns even more uneasy, and they raised their shields to protect themselves, regardless of attacking the city.

It's a pity that they all use cavalry shields. Compared with the shields used by pawns, cavalry shields are lighter and smaller, less than half of infantry shields, and their protection is limited.Facing the archers who had rested in the city and stepped forward to shoot again, the weaknesses of the shields were fully exposed, and the Huns were shot one after another.

The sound of strings was urgent, the arrows fell like rain, and the Huns suffered heavy losses.Those on the ladder were shot by arrows and fell down the city, and those under the ladder were shot tottering and screaming.They turned around and wanted to escape, but they were blocked by their companions, stumbling and bumping into each other.

At this moment, the gate of the fort opened suddenly, Xie Guanglong, Alexander and other [-] armored knights held their spears, rode their horses out of the fort, and rushed towards the chaotic Huns.

Without ordering, the crossbowmen and archers immediately extended their shots, not only avoiding accidentally hurting their own cavalry, but also clearing the way for the cavalry.

The Huns have been shot dumbfounded, where are the opponents of these lively cavalry.They grew up on horseback, and they are most aware of the impact of war horses. When they saw these tall war horses rushing in front of them, they turned around and fled without any fighting spirit.

For a while, ghosts and wolves howled in front of the city.

The cavalry clashed back and forth, stabbing the Huns to the ground and trampling them wantonly.Seeing that the Huns had no resistance at all, they simply put away their spears, drew out their swords, and hacked with all their strength.

The Huns attacking the city collapsed completely. They no longer cared about attacking the city, and ran wildly without any thought, just wanting to stay away from the fortress.

The Youxian King and others watching the formation were astonished.They were too far away to see the details of the battlefield. They didn't know why they were completely defeated when they had the upper hand. Some cavalry even rushed out of the fortress to countercharge.

King Youxian ordered the cavalry to come forward to meet him.

Three hundred cavalry rushed out of the formation and rushed to the city wall.

The first thing they encountered were the rout soldiers who were fleeing desperately.The rout soldiers were already in disarray. Seeing their own cavalry coming to meet them, they wanted to open the way. The space in front of the fortress was limited, and they had nowhere to escape, which inevitably affected the speed of the cavalry.When they passed through the cavalry, Xie Guanglong and others had already rushed in front of the Huns cavalry.

The speed of the Huns cavalry hadn't increased yet. Facing Xie Guanglong and others who were rushing towards them, they had no strength to fight back and fell to the ground one after another.

Xie Guanglong brandished his spear and swept past the Huns like a gust of wind, bringing murderous aura to their faces.In order to prevent the spear from being bitten by the enemy's body, he specifically attacked the enemy's face and throat. The spearhead made by Uzi Iron easily pierced the Huns' face, cut off their necks, and left broken corpses one by one.

Alexander and the others followed closely behind, swinging their sabers like windmills, mercilessly killing the Huns.

They easily penetrated the formation of the Huns and saw the formation of the Huns.

Xie Guanglong reined in his horse, pointed his bloody spear at Youxian King, and laughed.

The Greek teenagers raised their sabers and screamed loudly.

The Huns were frustrated and their morale was low.

King Youxian was startled and angry, and scolded the guard camp to attack.Before the personal guard battalion was activated, Xie Guanglong and the others had already killed back, killed the Huns again, and rushed back to the fortress.The gate of the fortress was closed again, shutting the terrified Huns and countless corpses and blood outside the city.

"Rush up to me!" King Youxian roared manically, furiously.

The Huns looked at each other, feeling that King Youxian was a little irrational.The last attack had just failed, and the three hundred knights were beaten up by a counter charge without even touching the city wall, causing heavy casualties. What's the use of rushing up at this time?There is not even a road.

"Okay, don't rush, you will die if you rush up." Dongfang Shuo, who had been staying out of the matter, finally said a word: "I said a long time ago, you will definitely not be able to break through this fortress, Liang Xiao is just waiting for you to hit your head. flow."

"I must break through the fortress." King Youxian roared.

"That's up to you. I'm going back to rest. It's so boring. This one-sided battle is really boring to watch." Dongfang Shuo said, yawning exaggeratedly, and walked away.The sturdy steed carried him on his back, a little staggering, and Dongfang Shuo swayed on the horse, looking very leisurely.

King Youxian turned purple with anger.He looked at the unmoving fortress, then at Dongfang Shuo, who was calm and breezy, and finally at his begging subordinates, and sighed, "Retreat!"

Suffered a heavy loss, but also not nothing.After questioning the surviving soldiers, King Youxian confirmed that Liang Xiao and the archers beside him were still in the city.It was their sudden attack. In a short period of time, the centurion and ten commander who commanded the battle on the front line were shot and killed, the warriors and sharp archers were eliminated, and the fighting power of the Huns was destroyed.

King Youxian finally recognized a problem. As a long-range cover force for siege, archers are far behind compared to crossbowmen.In terms of the offense and defense of the city, the Huns are not at the same level as the Han people.To capture the Daban Fortress, there is no better way than to besiege it.

The oasis countries can't do it, and neither can the Huns.

Although reason told him that this was the only way to go, King Youxian was still very depressed.He drank in the tent every day, thinking about how to take down the fort as soon as possible.Is it really necessary to guard Daban Fortress for a year until Liang Xiao runs out of food?It stands to reason that he could leave his general to carry out this task, but he really wanted to break through the fortress himself and capture Liang Xiao.

Because of Liang Xiao, the Huns on the right had already suffered too many losses.He had to solve this trouble with his own hands and restore the dignity of the Huns on the right.

Just when he was at a loss and could only drink heavily in the tent, Che Shi Wang Mohe stumbled in, threw himself in front of Youxian King, and cried, "Youxian King, something is not right."

King You Xian was in a bad mood and gave Mo Yu a look. "what happened again?"

"Liang Xiao attacked Wutu Valley and is now heading towards Jiaohe City." Mo Yu threw himself beside Youxian King, hugged Youxian King's leg, panicked and wept uncontrollably. "Youxian King, the Wutu Valley is over, and there must be no more accidents in Jiaohe City. You Xianwang, please save Jiaohe City."

Seeing that Mo Yu's words were serious and did not seem to be fake, King Youxian also felt a little uneasy.His previous suspicions resurfaced.Liang Xiao is really not in Daban, but went to Wutu Valley?But, how could this be possible? How did he walk the rugged mountain road of nearly two hundred miles in a world of ice and snow, covered with heavy snow?

King Youxian questioned Mo Yu carefully, and he reluctantly believed it when he learned that the news was from Mo Yu's younger sister Mo Ya.However, when he heard that there were less than a hundred people around Liang Xiao, he turned his anger into joy and laughed out loud.

"You're in the city, I can't help it. Now that you're out, can I not catch you?"

King Youxian immediately ordered to leave a few young kings, including King Ligou and King Julin, and 1 horses to monitor Dabancheng, and he himself led the army back to aid Jiaohecheng.

He ordered not to. "Lure Liang Xiao into Jiaohe City, and we can't let him run away again."

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Liang Xiao lay down on the snow, raised his clairvoyance, and looked at Jiaohe City in the distance.

Jiaohe City is like a huge spearhead, pointing to the great marsh and desert in the south, with deep ravines on both sides, and white snow and ice at the bottom of the ravines.In summer, these two ditches should be full of water, which not only provided daily water for Jiaohe City, but also became a natural moat, and also watered the land on the east and west sides.

This is a unique terrain, with both offensive and defensive capabilities. No wonder, thousands of years later, when the Tang Dynasty established the Anxi Protectorate, Jiaohe City was still an important city.If you want to gain a firm foothold in the Western Regions, Jiaohe City must be in your own hands.

It's a pity that he is not strong enough at the moment, so he can only look at Jiaohecheng and drool.Jiaohe City is about four miles long from north to south, and nearly one mile wide at its widest point from east to west, which is several times larger than Daban Fortress.In the case of sufficient food, grass and ordnance, 1000 people are enough to defend the fortress, but 1000 people are not enough to hand over the river city.

What's more, he doesn't even have 100 people now.

"We were careless." Looking at the patrolling soldiers at the top of the city, Liang Xiao said softly, "We were deceived by Moya, and Jiaohe City is already prepared."
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