The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 587 586 The Burning Yangtze River (26)

At the moment when the bell on the tower of Luoxian County was rang, the entire Luoxian County was boiling. Guan Yu's army, who was in an attacking posture, was suddenly attacked by waves from the darkness, and countless arrows were overwhelming. He shot towards the army brought by Guan Yu, which caught Guan Yu's army by surprise.

In addition, on the city wall of Luoxian County, countless figures suddenly appeared, densely packed, all holding bows and arrows, taking advantage of the city wall's condescending advantage, to attack Guan Yu's army attacking the city.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

The arrows struck from the front and back of Guan Yu's army like a violent storm. Guan Yu's army was immediately caught in the front and rear attack of the enemy.

After a cluster of arrows, another cluster of arrows flew in. Guan Yu's army, who hadn't realized what was going on, suffered a heavy blow. Under the attack, more than half of them were killed or injured.

Even Guan Yu himself was stunned. It was obvious that he had come to attack Zhang Yan's army, but why did Zhang Yan's army attack him?

Guan Yu's first thought was that he had been tricked.

"Retreat! Retreat quickly! The whole army retreats!" Guan Yu realized that he had been tricked, and immediately yelled loudly. If he didn't retreat now, he might not be able to leave if he wanted to.

However, Guan Yu's army is too scattered now. Although the order has been issued, it may not be able to spread to all ministries quickly.However, Guan Yu can no longer control so much, what he has to do now is to take people out of here quickly.

Guan Yu rode on the horse, turned the horse's head in a hurry, changed the rear team into the front team, and rushed directly towards everyone's place.

However, it was very dark all around, and countless arrows shot from the darkness, as if there were everywhere in all directions, and the Shanyue warrior at the back immediately encountered a problem, where would there be no one?

Guan Yu rode his horse and galloped wildly. While waving the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in his hand to block the incoming arrows, he shouted to his subordinates: "Quick retreat, quick retreat!"

Guan Yu soon came to the front of the team, there was only darkness in front of him, and countless arrows were shooting towards him.

He pricked up his ears and listened carefully. While waving the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in his hand to block, he listened to the direction of the arrow. This skill of listening to the sound and debating position was not practiced in vain.

After a while, Guan Yu pointed the Qinglong Yanyue Saber in his hand to the southwest, and shouted at his subordinates: "There is no one in this direction, follow me, and break out of the encirclement!"

With an order, those Shanyue soldiers didn't care whether Guan Yu's words were true or not. In order to survive, they had to follow Guan Yu to the southwest.

Guan Yu rushed to the front, waving the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in his hand to continuously block the incoming arrows.

But after a bunch of arrows were shot, no more arrows came from the southwest direction.

Guan Yu was overjoyed, and rushed out of the gap with the remaining 3000 mountain warriors.

In the dense forest, Ma Jun saw Guan Yu fleeing from the southwest with the remaining troops, and his confidants hurriedly said: "My lord, Guan Yu has escaped, do you want to lead the army to pursue?"

Ma Jun shook his head and said: "We have few soldiers, so we can't leave our posts without permission. The King of Yan only let us stand here, and didn't let us attack. Now that our goal has been achieved, there is no need to send people to pursue it. If it’s not easy to draw a snake, it’s not worth the loss. What’s more, Guan Yu is the enemy of ten thousand people, who among us can be his opponent?”

The confidant stopped talking, thinking that what Ma Jun said was very reasonable, and then Ma Jun ordered his subordinates to push the giant crossbow, and began to deal devastating blows to the enemy troops in the encirclement.

In fact, the matter of Zhang Yan's stop in Luo County was a trap, a clever plan presented by Sima Yi.Sima Yi had studied everyone in Jingzhou, and also studied Guan Yu's character, so he knew what Guan Yu's character flaws were, so he was able to prescribe the right medicine and set up this trap.

In addition, Huang Zhong also has some credit, because it was Huang Zhong who told Sima Yi that the terrain here is unique and can be used for ambushes.

Huang Zhong has been in Jingzhou longer than Guan Yu, and Huang Zhong is a living map. He even explained part of the terrain of Jiangdong very clearly.Because of this, Sima Yi was able to set up the game well, waiting for Guan Yu to jump into it himself.

Although Guan Yu escaped by chance, he was not completely out of danger. The people led by Ma Jun were all craftsmen from Tiangong Workshop, as well as some soldiers, and the total number was only 1000.

However, with the help of the continuous crossbow and giant continuous ballista developed in Tiangong Workshop, Ma Jun and others used 1000 people to create an offensive of tens of thousands.This was the first time the Liannu was used on the battlefield after the successful research and development of the Liannu. Unexpectedly, the first battle would yield a lot.

Arrows shot out from all directions, and those Guan Yu soldiers who hadn't escaped died or were wounded. After a while, blood was already flowing under the city wall.

Soon, the original noisy voices gradually dissipated, and there was a strong smell of blood under the city of Luoxian County. Except for Guan Yu who managed to escape with more than 3000 Shanyue soldiers, all the others died tragically under the city walls of Luoxian County.

The sky was twilight, the darkness gradually dissipated, and the situation on the battlefield became clearer, but in the dense forest and grass around the county seat of Luo County, a thousand soldiers were holding a huge crossbow three times larger than ordinary The crossbow machine, and the crossbow machine is equipped with ten crossbow bolts side by side. As long as the mechanism of the crossbow machine is pulled, the ten crossbow bolts will be shot out in an instant, and the steps of loading the crossbow bolts are also very simple. In this way, one A person is basically equivalent to twenty archers, and its power can be imagined.

In the dark night, it was these thousand soldiers holding giant crossbows outside the city. Every time they shot an arrow, they changed places, interweaving into a dense arrow rain.On the city wall of Luo County, there are huge continuous crossbows. This kind of continuous crossbow needs to be operated by three people, and can shoot twenty crossbow arrows at a time. The division of labor between the three is very clear, and one person is responsible for controlling the crossbow The shooting direction of the crossbow machine, and the other two people are responsible for loading the special crossbow arrows for this kind of crossbow machine.

In addition, the soldiers on the city wall are also holding a repeating crossbow the size of an ordinary crossbow machine. You can only shoot one arrow at a time, but you can shoot continuously, as long as you pull the trigger continuously.This kind of continuous crossbow is about the same size as an ordinary crossbow machine. The only difference is that there is a rectangular slot above the crossbow machine, which contains ten crossbow bolts. There is a very clever mechanism built in it, which can realize the automatic loading of crossbow bolts. One, the arrows in the crossbow groove will automatically fall on the crossbow machine, and the bow string on the crossbow machine will also be automatically pulled apart, so as to quickly complete a series of loading and stretching actions, and can carry out continuous and uninterrupted shooting.

The most ingenious thing is that there is a small square hole on the top of this kind of crossbow. The soldier holding the crossbow can close one eye, and then use the other eye to aim out from the square hole, greatly improving the accuracy of the crossbow. Improved shooting accuracy.

However, this kind of crossbow has not been mass-produced and is still in the experimental stage. There are only one hundred pieces. It is a new type of weapon newly developed by Tiangongfang.This battle just came in handy. Although its power is not as powerful as a large crossbow with ten arrows or twenty arrows, it is small, easy to carry, and can adapt to battles on any terrain.However, those two large crossbows need to be set up in advance, and they are not easy to carry, so they are only suitable for defending cities and passes.

This time, it was also Ma Jun's first time on the battlefield, and it was also the first time for Tian Gongfang's people to go on the battlefield. They defeated more with less and successfully killed more than 2 enemy troops. Looking back now, I still feel it is too incredible up.

But no matter what, the result of the war is here. Ma Jun ordered to clean up the battlefield and sent someone to report to Zhang Yan.

Guan Yu quickly left with more than 3000 remnants, but no matter where he went, he would encounter Zhang Yan's army attacking him. Almost every three or five miles, he would encounter a small group of enemy ambushes. Yes, like a fly that can't be chased away no matter how hard you try.

The number of Guan Yu's army has been decreasing, from the initial 3000 remnants to more than 2000. Moreover, they have been physically and mentally exhausted after being attacked many times. It makes many people's bodies overwhelmed.

But no matter what, you can't stay here. Staying here is death.

Guan Yu took the remnants of the army and walked southward for about [-] miles. On the way, they encountered seven or eight attacks. Each attack was very sudden, but when Guan Yu was about to lead the army to fight back, they retreated again.So many times, Guan Yu's head got dizzy.

After another three miles, Guan Yu and the others were already used to being attacked, so everyone raised their vigilance and looked around for fear of being attacked again.

However, this time, Guan Yu and the others did not encounter an attack. Instead, they saw a group of soldiers fleeing back in embarrassment from a fork in the road.

Guan Yu took a closer look, those soldiers were not the ones he sent to ambush from the riverside to the county town of Luoxian County. He didn't expect that even they were attacked.

Guan Yu was very annoyed. He didn't expect that he thought he was very clever in a surprise attack, but he got into someone else's trap and was attacked everywhere instead.

Two armies that were also in a state of distress converged here at the fork in the road. The group of people were all wearing ordinary soldier clothes, and none of them was wearing armor. When this group of people came to Guan Yu, they all cried to Guan Yu , Said that the generals who led them were all killed in battle, and they were the only ones who escaped by chance, but they didn't want to meet Guan Yu here, it was really lucky.

"Ah! It's all about Guan's fault. He made a bad move and hurt you. Now everyone will come back to Linxiang City with me to regroup and fight them again." Guan Yu said loudly.

As soon as the words fell, Guan Yu returned to Linxiang City in a very embarrassing situation with the remnant soldiers and defeated generals.This time, the journey was very smooth, and there was no enemy attack again.However, Guan Yu's heart was full of ups and downs, and he always felt an ominous premonition, as if his life was about to come to an end...

(End of this chapter)