Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 58 Fierce Street Fighting

When Han Sui's troops gathered outside the east gate of Chencang City again, a big fire ignited in Chencang City, and all the food that could not be taken away was reduced to ashes in the fire, and most of the city The people also followed Sun Jian and headed towards Dasan Pass. Only Xiang Yu's elite cavalry were left in the city, and even the guards on the city wall had left.

Han Sui himself was in the rear to prevent Zhang Wenwen and Dong Zhuo from chasing him, so he has not arrived in person yet, but a large army of at least seven to eight thousand people has assembled outside the city, and the momentum is very magnificent at a glance. , The morale of the lieutenant generals was high, and they all looked valiant and high-spirited, as if they had already regarded Chen Cangcheng in front of them as their own.

However, when billowing black smoke billowed in Chencang city, Han Sui's generals outside the city faintly felt that something was wrong, so he ordered an early attack. With this order, the drums sounded, and the shouts of killing came from far to near. However, when they came to the city gate, they did not encounter any resistance. The soldiers put the ladders they had prepared on the city wall and quickly occupied the city gate.

With the opening of the east gate of Chencang City, large troops from outside the city rushed in one after another. At this time, Xiang Yu led his army to light fires along the way in the city, and the entire Chencang City was already engulfed in a sea of ​​flames. There were many fires in the interior, and I was quite anxious, trying to draw water from the Wei River to fight the fire.

Xiang Yu also deliberately waited until Han Sui's army came to attack the city before gradually igniting several fires in the city. In other words, this situation is exactly the time when he can have the opportunity to show his talents.

On the one hand, Xiang Yu let Han Sui's troops who invaded the city see where he was, and on the other hand, he lit a fire, so that the opponent would be caught in a dilemma, whether to give priority to chasing Xiang Yu or putting out the fire.

Because many fires broke out in the city, some roads that were originally not so wide were even more difficult to advance at this time, or they could only provide small-scale troops to pass through. Although these rebels under Han Sui had an absolute advantage in numbers , but when they entered the city, they were completely unable to give full play to their superiority in numbers.

It seems that they chose to catch both. They want to chase Xiang Yu and save the fire in the city. Anyway, they are indeed a large number of people. It didn't take long for them to lead their troops to attack the east, south and north of Chencang City. The city gate was controlled, and soldiers lined up in many rows, one after another, transporting water from the Wei River into the city in containers to put out the fire.

However, according to the current situation, the fire in the entire city is spreading rapidly, and it is impossible to extinguish them all. The fires in some important areas can only be extinguished first, such as the grain storage area in the city, the arsenal, and the mansions in the city.

Of course, Xiang Yu saw through the opponent's mind at a glance, and he also knew that Han Sui's army could only try to find ways to keep these important places first, so he led the elite cavalry of 200 people in this area to play hide-and-seek with Han Sui's pursuers in the city , While under the leadership of Xiang Yu, he searched for its weaknesses and launched an attack.

I saw that Xiang Yu led his army straight to the rebel soldiers who wanted to put out the fire in the granary. Many of them were holding containers filled with water to put out the fire, and they had no time to guard against them, so Xiang Yu's soldiers and horses directly jumped out of them. Passing through, cut off the firefighting team.

Seeing this, the other Han Sui rebels around took up their bows and crossbows and prepared to encircle them. Regardless of where the friendly troops were aiming, they fired a round of crossbows, and many cavalry around Xiang Yu were hit by arrows. On the contrary, the surrounding fire is on fire, and the way to move forward is narrow. The crossbowman occupies a key position in the distance, and his power is still very strong in this street battle.

Xiang Yu frowned slightly, whipped his horse and raised his spear, and rushed straight towards the crossbow array. Facing the many crossbow arrows that were coming at him, Xiang Yu waved the thunder gun in his hand, blocking most of the arrows, but Still two arrows passed through, one hit Xiang Yu's left shoulder, and the other pierced Xiang Yu's back.

Fortunately, the thin scale armor on Xiang Yu's body absorbed most of the kinetic energy of the arrow, and the arrow just shot into the skin. Xiang Yu ignored this small injury, jumped off his horse, and rushed into the alley alone, all the way Go ahead and kill.

Seeing that although Xiang Yu was brave, the surrounding enemy troops were alone after all, so they soon planned to mobilize and besiege Xiang Yu. Hold the tail end of the thunder gun with one hand, and launch a fierce attack around with the maximum attack distance and attack angle.

Those Han Sui soldiers rushing forward were accidentally stabbed by Xiang Yu, and before they could even scream out, their chests were pulled out of a big hole, and they fell to the ground and died miserably.

Facing the soldiers who rushed up together, Xiang Yu swung his gun and swept out, sweeping down a large area. The soldiers behind were hesitant when they saw this, but the other soldiers behind them pushed them forward, so they had no choice but to close their eyes and look at Xiang Yu. Come rushing.

There was another sweep, and the row of Han Sui soldiers rushing to the front were all swept to the ground, rolling all over the ground, grinning, in pain, and the armor on their bodies could only make up for it under Xiang Yu's fierce swing. They managed to save a small life, but they had no power to fight anymore.

Seeing Xiang Yu's roar, the steed Ben Lei, who was as dark as the night, rushed out from nowhere. The offensive was broken and parried by Xiang Yu one by one. It seemed that there were a lot of people, but they couldn't stop Xiang Yu at all.

Xiang Yu whipped his whip again and became angry, the galloping horse unexpectedly jumped more than ten feet high, and crossed a section of burning beams that had just collapsed from the surrounding area. On the opposite side of the fire.

Xiang Yu charged all the way, joined the rest of the cavalry, and specifically picked out several areas where Han Sui's rebels wanted to put out the fire. After a few rounds, there were already many corpses of Han Sui's army in the city.

In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the fire in the city grew bigger and bigger and gradually lost control. No matter whether it was the granary, the arsenal, or the mansion, they were all engulfed by waves of flames that were higher than the waves. The mere water sent was unable to extinguish the fire, or even control it.

However, Xiang Yu's killing was very enjoyable. Although Xiang Yu's elite cavalry had lost nearly half of his elite cavalry on this chaotic battlefield, at least he had killed five times as many enemies as himself. Xiang Yu saw that the fire in the city had already As it became more and more violent, he led the remaining cavalry towards the west gate of Chencang City.

(End of this chapter)