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Chapter 390: Huang Zhong is suspicious, fighting in various places
Wei Yan's tough talk resulted in a massive attack from the enemy. The heavily armored soldiers had already advanced to the bottom of the city wall and began to ram the city gate with logs, trying to drive straight in and fight in close combat. Even the cavalry could hardly stop these heavily armored soldiers. It could be said that they were invincible in infantry combat.

Similarly, their shortcomings are also extremely obvious. Their marching speed is too slow. If it were cavalry, they would have run to the city gate long ago. The infantry are not slow either. Only the heavy armored soldiers are really moving forward step by step. Their advantages are obvious, but their disadvantages are also obvious.

But it is undeniable that they are the best choice for siege.

The soldiers in the city had used several logs to prop up the city gate to prevent it from being knocked open by the enemy. At the same time, there were soldiers on the city wall holding logs and dropping them from great heights. Although they could block sharp arrows and the splash of gunpowder, they could not block the fall of such large objects.

The logs fell among the crowd, knocking them unconscious. They were not killed, but the huge impact force made their heads dizzy, and they could not stand up for a long time. In addition to the logs, there were also boulders falling one after another. A large number of defensive objects were thrown out, knocking the people closest to the city wall unconscious.

If one hit doesn't kill them, then hit them a few more times. The heavily armored soldiers finally suffered casualties. Huang Zhong took out his Eight Treasures Kirin Bow, pulled the bow to its full pull, and shot three arrows at the same time. The arrows even made sonic booms in the air and pierced through the heavy armor like a piece of paper.

The soldiers brought by Huang Zhong were no longer hiding. They stood out from the city wall and drew their bows to shoot arrows. Since Huang Zhong recognized Gu Rubing, Huang was under Gu Rubing's command and could enjoy the characteristic enhancements from Gu Rubing and other generals and military advisors, as well as the enhancements from artifacts such as the Heirloom Seal of the Realm, which could all be applied to them.

Now, all of Huang Zhong's subordinates can claim to be sharpshooters. The arrows they shoot can also penetrate heavy armor, but they cannot go through the body like Huang Zhong. They can only barely pierce heavy armor. However, it is enough. Two or three arrows, or three or four arrows can kill a heavily armored soldier. As Huang Zhong and his men no longer hid and began to attack, those heavily armored soldiers finally began to fall down in large numbers.

"Who is that? What's going on? How can they shoot through heavy armor?"

Shi Xie looked at everything in front of him with horror. Among these ten thousand heavily armored soldiers, casualties had reached thousands in a blink of an eye. Since the heavy armored soldiers came into being, he had never had such heavy casualties. The number of people who died from the establishment of the heavy armored soldiers to now was probably not as many as today in one day.

"Where are the catapults? Use the catapults to attack the city! Don't let them keep killing us!"

Shi Xie roared at Shi Yi who was standing beside him.

"Brother, the roads in Changxin County are rugged, and large equipment like catapults cannot be transported in at all."

"Then what are you still standing there for? Why don't you let them withdraw!"

Shi Xie felt terrible when he saw that the king's army he had carefully built was being slaughtered by the enemy. As the horn was blown in Jiaozhou, signaling a retreat, the bustling heavy armored army began to retreat. However, the fatal flaw of the heavy armored army was revealed at this time. Their speed was too slow, and they could only retreat slowly. In the process of retreat, huge casualties occurred again.

After the heavy armored army retreated 300 meters, only Huang Zhong's attack could cause damage. The arrows shot by other soldiers had their power and speed greatly reduced after flying 200 meters, and were no longer enough to penetrate the heavy armor.

At the end of the heavy armored soldiers, there was a tall and burly man holding a huge shield, constantly blocking the flying arrows. He was a deputy general of the heavy armored soldiers under Shi Xie of Jiaozhou. He was naturally tall and his strength far exceeded that of ordinary people. Most of the arrows shot by Huang Zhong were blocked by him, otherwise the casualties of the heavy armored soldiers would have been much more than these.

Looking at the man waving his shield and slowly retreating, Huang Zhong closed his eyes tightly and pulled out an arrow from behind. When he opened his eyes, a flash of light shot out. It was Huang Zhong's skill, Meteor Arrow. The deputy general standing at the end of the heavy armored soldiers suddenly felt a chill all over his body. He felt as if he was being stared at by some prehistoric beast.

Looking up, he saw Huang Zhong on the city wall bending his bow and aiming at him. At this moment, his instinct suddenly told him to run, he could not withstand the arrow at all. The strong instinct made him turn around and start running wildly. He pushed a line through the slowly retreating Chinese Army in the middle, and soldiers were constantly pushed down by him.

Shi Xie also frowned, staring at the person on the city wall who was aiming at Huang Zhong. Then he saw a flash of light, and an arrow powerful enough to split mountains and rocks burst out from the bowstring.

The sturdy man who had already run into the crowd turned around and saw the streak of light breaking through the ground, rushing through the crowd, and flying straight towards him. He only felt a flash of light before his eyes, and the next moment, he lost consciousness forever.

The heavily armored soldiers did not feel how terrifying the arrow was, but Shi Xie saw it clearly. It took about a breath of time for the light to go from Huang Zhong's bowstring to kill the strong man. Even Shi Xie's eyes could not catch up with the speed of the arrow, and its power was so great that it was astonishing.

A single arrow was able to penetrate so many heavily armored soldiers and finally kill the deputy general. After killing the deputy general, it even flew dozens of meters away, disrupting the formation of the soldiers in front.

The power of a single arrow caused the loss of hundreds of heavily armored soldiers and killed a second-rate general. This terrifying power made Shi Xie feel a chill on his back. Only now did he realize how stupid it was for him to sit on the mountain just now. If Huang Zhong had shot him with an arrow at that time, he probably wouldn't even know that he was dead.

The death of the second-rate general brought Huang Zhong some experience value bonus, and his famous general points also increased. However, he didn't know about this and had to wait for Gu Rubing to come to see it.

Wei Yan looked at the arrow shot by Huang Zhong in amazement and couldn't help but open his mouth wide. This Huang Zhong was much more powerful than the Huang Zhong he remembered.

"Han Sheng, how long has it been since we last met? Where did you go for training? Why are the results so good?"

Huang Zhong ignored Wei Yan's jokes and looked at his hands and the Eight Treasures Kirin Bow in his hands as if in a dream. Wei Yan asked the question he wanted to ask, how could his strength suddenly improve so much, his meteor arrows were not so powerful before.

What's even more strange is that he didn't seem to be exhausted today. He shot with all his strength repeatedly without any burden. Even now, he didn't feel the slightest consumption. Just now, after shooting the meteor arrow, he actually felt as if a warm current flowed through his body, making him full of energy, as if he had just woken up instead of having been through a battle.

"If I say I don't know, do you believe me?"

Huang Zhong said quietly.

"But I have some guesses. This situation only occurred after I started following Uncle Liu. Could it be because of Uncle Liu?"

"Uncle Liu? Is that true? How about I go and pay my respects to the mountain leader as well? Last time in Xiangyang, I wanted to switch sides with Uncle Liu, but I didn't say anything because I was worried that the young lady's father had just died and she had also experienced betrayal from her brother."

Wei Yan was eager to try. He knew Huang Zhong's strength best. The strength he showed today was much higher than before. Moreover, when did his soldiers become so strong? They were even stronger than his personal soldiers. One by one, they could shoot through such thick heavy armor. Even his most elite soldiers could not do it.

"Really, I'm serious, how about you introduce me to someone?"

Wei Yan looked at Huang Zhong seriously, and Huang Zhong rolled his eyes at Wei Yan. "My young master is Liu Huangshu's man. If we are under your command, isn't that the same as being under Liu Huangshu's command?"

After Huang Zhong finished speaking, he turned around and looked at the soldiers under his command. He also discovered the abnormality of these soldiers. The terrifying improvement they obtained was even greater than his. He was very clear about the level of his subordinates. Let alone shooting through the heavy armor, they were not much different from those under Wei Yan. At most, they could leave a mark on the heavy armor. As a result, they could shoot through one with two or three arrows. It was really not normal.

If there was any special action on his part recently, it was what he said to Liu Bei. After all, this situation has only occurred since then.

Thinking of this, Huang Zhong suddenly said to Wei Yan beside him.

"Maybe it's really because of Uncle Liu. You can try."

After saying this, Huang Zhong ignored Wei Yan's chattering and went down the city wall. Wei Yan followed him and continued to mutter.

In the Jiaozhou camp, Shi Xie pounded the table and yelled loudly.

"Can someone explain to me what's going on today? When did Huang Zhong come? And where did those archers who look like the reincarnation of Hercules come from?"

In today's battle, he lost nearly three thousand of his most valuable heavy armored soldiers. This was a cost he could not afford. For three thousand heavy armored soldiers, he had to spend money just to buy equipment and heavy armor, which was an astronomical figure. The entire heavy armored corps lost nearly one third of its soldiers. This was his greatest reliance in the future, but now it seemed vulnerable.

"We have found out that seven days ago, Huang Zhong led 50,000 men from Nanchang through Guiyang and entered Cangwu County."

Shi Yi replied from the side, and Shi Xie became even angrier when he heard this.

"Send a letter to Sun Jian! Urgently send it 800 miles! Ask him for me? Where did all the people he sent to attack Nanchang County die? How could Huang Zhong, a living person, with so many soldiers, sneak out of his encirclement without making any noise!"

Shi Xie was on the verge of going berserk at this moment, shaking with anger. In his first battle after leaving the mountain, he originally thought that he would be able to take Cangwu smoothly, and then attack Lingling. Everything would go smoothly, but now, he was stuck at the first step.

And all this was because of Sun Jian. He promised to capture Huang Zhong, but not only did he fail to do so, he also allowed Huang Zhong to come with 50,000 people to support Wei Yan in a brazen manner.

"Yes, I will do it right away."

Shi Yi saw how angry Shi Xie was, so he did it immediately without saying anything.

"So, when will we attack again?"

An adviser asked softly, but what greeted him was a slap in the face from Shi Xie.

"Attack? Attack what the hell! How to attack? Should I tie you to a catapult and throw you in?"

Shi Xie overturned the table and walked out of the tent, but his angry voice still echoed in the tent.

"Before Sun Jian writes to you, keep an eye on them and don't let them leave Changxin County."

Jiangxia County, where the real battlefield was located, Huang Zu led an army of 8 and stationed outside the city. He had no intention of defending the city. He was waiting, waiting for Liu Bei's support. Liu Bei said in the letter to him that Cao Cao would set up defenses in the north of Jingzhou and the north of Yangzhou to block reinforcements. He just needed to wait patiently. As for Sun Jian, he was short of manpower and would not dare to rashly attack the city of Jiangxia County.

So Huang Zu followed Gu Rubing's advice and stationed his camp outside the city, facing Sun Jian's camp from afar.

At this moment, in the Sun army camp, Sun Jian was not panicking at all. He was waiting for Gan Ning, Lu Meng and others to join him. Zhou Yu was in command, and the indomitable characteristic buff was provided to all the troops. In addition, Sun Jian's exclusive task was to survive. The longer they survived, the more buffs they would get from the troops. Now, Sun Jian felt that his troops were enough to compete with Liu Bei, so he dared to make a boast that he would attack the four counties together and compete with Cao Cao for food.

Huang Zu was waiting, and he was waiting too. The 200,000-man army was divided into 50,000 for Lu Meng, 30,000 for Zu Mao, and 50,000 for Gan Ning. Now he only had 80,000 troops in total, of which 30,000 were naval. Even if he could take down Jiangxia, there would be heavy casualties. Sun Jian certainly didn't want such a result of both sides suffering losses, so he allowed Huang Zu to challenge him in front of the formation and did not let the generals go to fight, just to buy time?
Compared to the calmness in Jiangxia, Cao Cao's defense army, which was originally considered the calmest and the last to start fighting, was now fighting with Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei. Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei were very close, one in Yanzhou and the other in Xuzhou, and both of them were cavalry, so they came faster.

Zhang Liao led 10,000 cavalrymen and began to attack from the north of Yangzhou. The 20,000 infantrymen from Xuzhou retreated and had not yet reached the battle line.

Zhang Fei led 20,000 cavalrymen plus 2,000 Eighteen Riders of Yanyun from Yanzhou through Yuzhou and arrived at the defense point in the north of Jingzhou, where they had already started fighting with the garrison there.

Zhang Fei encountered the two brothers Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan. The two brothers led 100,000 soldiers and stationed them here. Although it was called 100,000, they were actually scattered along the entire front line. Only about 30,000 of them could join the battle immediately.

At this moment, Zhang Fei was fighting fiercely with Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun. When they were in Xudu, they had experienced how powerful Zhang Fei was, so they did not dare to be arrogant. Even when they attacked together, they were unable to counter Zhang Fei and were instead suppressed by Zhang Fei everywhere.

"You bastard! Die!"

Zhang Fei roared angrily, roaring like a tiger or bear. With himself as the center, a wave of air flew outward, shocking Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan to retreat several steps. Xiahou Yuan even felt dizzy and almost vomited.

Zhang Fei seized the opportunity when Xiahou Yuan was dizzy, squeezed his legs together, and flew out like an arrow from a bow, rushing towards Xiahou Yuan. But how could Xiahou Dun sit idly by? He swept his sword across, forcing Zhang Fei to change the direction of the charge, turn his horse's head, and fight with Xiahou Dun.

Xiahou Yuan quickly recovered from the dizziness. He shook his head, which had just cleared up, and joined the battle. With a loud shout, he and Xiahou Dun both raised their swords and slashed at Zhang Fei.

(End of this chapter)