Abnormal Three Kingdoms

Chapter 541

"Major General, Mr. Gongtai has a clever plan to defeat the enemy?" Ma Chao returned to the Juyongguan camp. Dong Chao hurriedly greeted him and smiled at Ma Chao.

Ma Chao glanced at him, sighed, shook his head and said, "No."

"Even Mr. Gongtai can't do anything?" Dong Chao asked in surprise.

Most likely so, what about half a month's appointment.

Ma Chao slandered inwardly, then shook his head and said, "Sir gave me a deadline of half a month. If I can break through the city within this half month, I will count it as my credit. If I can't, then he will break the city."

"Major General, we only have 3000 people and horses, and we have lost more than a hundred people in the past few days. Juyongguan is so strong, and the opponent is so determined to defend the city, I am afraid it will not be easy for us to break the city." Dong Chao smiled wryly. road.

If 3000 people break through the gate guarded by 30,000 people within half a month, the opponents are only defending but not attacking. If this number is reversed, it may not be successful.

"It's just not easy, but it must be impossible!" Ma Chao snorted coldly.

"Does the major general have a good strategy to defeat the enemy?" Dong Chao asked.

"..." Ma Chao was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, but we have to fight. Tomorrow, send some nimble soldiers to climb up the hill and shoot arrows into the pass city from the two hills to cover our army's attack!"

Ma Chao had already climbed this mountain, and the steepness of the mountain was not suitable for a large army to march, otherwise he really wanted to take a team around to the rear of Juyongguan to attack the city.

But the large group of people can't make it through, and some able-bodied people should be able to climb up and shoot arrows in the city.

It is also a way!

Dong Chao looked in the direction of the mountain and nodded silently.

Early the next morning, Ma Chao personally selected [-] strong soldiers, divided them into two teams, climbed to the two hills of Juyongguan, and shot arrows at Juyongguan, while Ma Chao led his troops to attack the pass.

After seeing the sealed city gate, Ma Chao had no intention of breaking the gate, and was only thinking about how to attack the top of the city. As long as he was allowed to occupy the top of the city, he believed that he could break the city in one fell swoop.

But Yuan Xi's side obviously made sufficient preparations for the defense of the city. The siege team rushed to the city under the rain of arrows, greeted by kerosene and falling rocks. The ladder was burned, and Ma Chao had to lead his troops to retreat.

As for the two teams of troops on the top of the mountain, they did play a certain role, but not that much. They could cause a certain amount of harassment. Yuan Jun couldn’t find a place to fight back when he closed the door. He wanted to send people to climb up. Archery, rolling a few stones down may kill one, even if it reaches the top, people are waiting for it, and Yuan Jun is afraid that he will be chopped down before he can stand still.

At the end of the day, Yuan Xi probably also realized that the two cliffs were difficult to attack, and that they had little effect on him, so he simply ignored them.

When Ma Chao returned to the camp, he sat down depressed and said, "Who built this Juyongguan Pass? It's really uncomfortable. Our army's siege equipment can't play a big role at all!"

Generally, at least dozens of catapults, ladders and the like are needed to pose a threat to the defenders.

However, the terrain of Juyongguan obviously does not allow this. Although the catapults have a long range, they are blocked by mountains. The attack cannot threaten Juyongguan at all.

Dong Chao didn't dare to reply. They built this pass city and chose this place to be easy to defend and difficult to attack. Whether it's a city or a pass city, which one is for the convenience of the enemy to attack the city?

"Don't say that we don't have many soldiers now. Even if we have ten times as many soldiers, we can only go to battle with a few hundred. How can we fight?" Ma Chao felt a little annoyed and wanted to hit someone.

Dong Chao silently listened to Ma Chao's complaints for a long time, and seeing that he had stopped talking, Dong Chao couldn't help but whispered: "Young General, why don't you rest for a day and think about countermeasures?"

"No, only fifteen days." Ma Chao flatly refused, "I don't want to be looked down upon by that Chen Gongtai."

"But now this Juyongguan is difficult to conquer, and the morale of the soldiers has begun to drop. If this continues, it will be bad for our army." Dong Chao smiled bitterly. He knew that his young general was stronger, but now, anyone with a discerning eye can see the situation , this Juyongguan is very difficult to break through, it is better to admit defeat and see if Chen Gong has any tricks.

"I saw that the soldiers on the city were effective in attacking Juyongguan today. The defenders are just as helpless as we were on Juyongguan. They can't do anything to the soldiers on the top of the mountain. Why don't we send more people to the city tomorrow and shoot arrows into the city in turn!" Ma Chao thought about it, thinking that the soldiers sent up the mountain today really played a great role.

"Young General, there are only 200 archers in our army." Dong Chao reminded that although their strength was only [-], Chen Gong equipped him with [-] archers, [-] sword shields, and [-] spears each. , In addition, there are [-] cavalry and [-] personal guard battalions. Now that several siege battles have been fought, nearly [-] people have been lost. The archers have not lost much, but the [-] archers can't be sent to the mountains. , The arrows brought are not enough.

Hearing this, Ma Chao thought for a while and said, "Send them all up the mountain. Archers on the frontal battlefield are useless here. In addition, they should be equipped with a hundred sword shields and a hundred spearmen."

Dong Chao was a little speechless when he heard the words. As a result, there were only one thousand more than 800 soldiers left in charge of the siege. The number of soldiers was already insufficient, so there were even fewer people.

"Tomorrow, the soldiers on the mountain will shoot arrows into the city. I will wait and watch from the sidelines, and attack the city if I have the opportunity!" Ma Chao said, "If there are not enough arrows, I will send someone to call in Juyong City."

Dong Chao sighed and said, "Young General, when I came here this time, I was going deep alone, and the logistics and supplies were lacking. Even Marquis Wen and the others probably didn't have many arrows, so I will use arrows for the soldiers. It is the arrow brought back from the battlefield."

"Bring it back from the battlefield?" Ma Chao looked at Dong Chao puzzled.

"It's the arrows nailed to the shield. Some clusters of arrows are blunt, but some are still usable. The general will pick some out, but there are not too many. If all the archers are sent to the top of the mountain tomorrow, these arrows will I'm afraid it's not enough for half a day." Dong Chao smiled wryly.

Ma Chao's eyes lit up when he heard the words, he looked at Dong Chao and said, "I have a plan, maybe I can get some arrows."

Upon hearing this, Dong Chao looked at Ma Chao and said, "What's the master general's plan?"

"You go to the people and collect more straw. The bandits dare not leave the pass, but only dare to attack with arrows. Tonight, taking advantage of the darkness, let the soldiers push the cart full of straw to go to the pass. You should be able to get a lot of arrows!" Ma Chao groped his chin and said, "But we need to guard against thieves using rockets. If you use rockets to shoot, you can't do it. I don't know who the guard is. Why are there so many arrows? arrow?"

Dong Chao said with a smile: "This fire arrow is poor in accuracy and short in range. Not to mention it consumes kerosene, and it is troublesome. Most of them will not use it. The major general's plan is good. I will try it tonight."

"Go, go!" Ma Chao waved his hand immediately, feeling irritable after being blocked by a Juyongguan Pass for several days.

Dong Chao resigned and left.

That night, the Juyongguan defenders experienced a supernatural event.

At night, there was a faint sound coming from outside the pass. Someone shot a fire arrow, and there seemed to be someone behind the pass, so he hurriedly reported it to Yuan Xi.

Fearing that it was a trick, Yuan Xi ordered people to shoot out of the pass with arrows. Anyway, outside the pass, it is such a big place, if the enemy attacked, he might shoot the enemy with his eyes closed.

At that time, there were arrows raining down on the gate, and there were screams from time to time, which lasted until midnight before disappearing, but the guards did not dare to neglect it for one night.

At dawn, a strange scene happened. I thought that there must be corpses everywhere under Guancheng, but when Yuan Xi took Zhang Nan to the city to check, all he saw were arrows all over the ground. Not to mention corpses on the ground, even No blood stains.

Hell?
Looking at this scene, Yuan Xi couldn't understand what happened. It's a mess, even if the other party wanted to move the corpse, it shouldn't be so clean, right?
"My lord, most of the arrows in the city have been used up. If this continues, our army's arrows will be used up within five days!" Zhang Nan looked at the arrows on the ground outside the city, feeling distressed. Xi, this arrow is not conjured out of thin air. With Yuan Xi's usage, even if all the arrows under Yuan Shao's rule are taken, it may not be enough for a year.

Yuan Xi nodded silently, expressing that he knew, pointed to the city and said, "What happened last night? Why is it so clean?"

Zhang Nan ordered people to go down to the city to collect usable arrows. Hearing the words, he explained to Yuan Xi: "Maybe it's just some enemy soldiers who wanted to sneak into the city at night, but they were mistaken for a large army attacking, but The lord's approach is also correct, in such a situation, it is not good to fight rashly, and it is best to retreat the enemy with arrows."

Yuan Xi nodded and heaved a sigh of relief. How many days has it been?Anyway, isn't Ma Chao so invincible? Now the fear of Ma Chao in his heart has dissipated a lot with Ma Chao's incompetence and rage these days.

Just as he was thinking, sharp arrows suddenly fell from the sky.

Zhang Nan was the first to react, took a shield from one of the generals, put it on Yuan Xi's head, and shouted at the same time: "Form the formation, don't move like a mountain!"

One after another, the air shields rose to block the incoming arrows. Zhang Nan frowned and looked up to the mountain. Yuan Xi who was beside him took a step forward and said, "How do you feel that there are more people on the other side's mountain than yesterday?"

There are indeed many!
Zhang Nan looked around, and could clearly feel that the arrows shot down from the sky were much denser than yesterday, and said in his heart, "My lord, as far as I know, there are not many people around Ma Chao, only three thousand. Since there are many enemy troops on the top of the mountain, isn’t it true that Ma Chao’s troops are weak? If our army leaves the city at this time..."

"No!" Yuan Xi rebuffed directly after hearing the words: "Father just asked me to guard this city, don't do unnecessary things, there is no room for loss in this Juyong Pass!"

As for defending the city, Yuan Xi was no longer afraid of Ma Chao, and even felt that Ma Chao was nothing more than that, but if he went out to fight in the city, the encounter between Ma Cheng and Guangning would involuntarily pop into his mind, and the fear of being dominated by Ma Chao reappeared.

Hearing this, Zhang Nan could only nod with a wry smile, dispelling the idea...

(End of this chapter)