Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 28
"How is the situation?" Zhang Liao heard footsteps behind him on the top of Guangling City, and knew that the captain he had just sent to check the military situation had returned. While asking, his eyes were fixed on Yuan Shujun's camp below the city. The big tents were brightly lit, and there were faintly singing and laughing voices.

"At present, there are about 1000 soldiers killed in our army, plus more than 1 wounded and unable to fight, and a little more than [-] soldiers who can fight." After the visitor answered, he handed Zhang Liao a cowhide filled with water. bag.

"Gudong!" After taking it, Zhang Liao gulped it down several times, and said after taking a deep breath, "The casualties are not too great. I estimate that Yuan Shu's side should have suffered [-] injuries in the past few days. They are so lively today, I guess Lei Bo is rewarding the soldiers, preparing to work hard tomorrow."

"Then general, why don't we make a surprise attack tonight to show them some color?" Lieutenant Li has been with Zhang Liao for several years, and he knows that his general always likes to make surprise attacks in addition to defense. "It's not yet time. The morale of Yuan Shu's army is still relatively high today. I guess as long as we survive tomorrow, their morale will drop sharply. Then the effect of surprise attack will be much better." Zhang Liao also patiently told his old subordinate Explained, and then sighed: "Xuzhou's soldiers are really the best in the world, not to mention Danyang's elite soldiers, even the soldiers trained by General Zhao and General Guan and Zhang are rare in the world. Compared with them, Yuan Shu's soldiers are a group of mobs .”

Turning around while sighing, Zhang Liao patted a ballista next to him, and couldn't help but praise: "I didn't expect this ballista to be so amazing, it can shoot dozens of huge arrows at a time, sometimes a single arrow can Shoot through several people. With this magic weapon, he Leibo wants to capture Guangling with this little man, that is wishful thinking, but I don't know who made it." After the ballista was designed, Zhao Feng and Lu Hao After many improvements, it is now really mass-produced and manufactured, and there are only more than [-] units in Xuzhou.Guangling is an important town, so Liu Bei is equipped with fifty units here.Of course, this design drawing is still strictly confidential.

"My subordinates heard that Zhao Feng was developed by Zhonglang." Li Xiaowei remembered what they said when he was chatting with his colleagues yesterday, but then Li Xiaowei suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said: "But General Zhang, these giant arrows are not If there are too many, it can last for three or four days at most.”

"You stupid boy can't use your brain? You look at the arrow slot, it's so wide, even if we don't have this huge arrow, we can get a bamboo to sharpen it and shoot it out, it can still kill the enemy, but the power will be less. .” Zhang Liao scolded with a smile.Captain Li's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he hurriedly said: "General, that subordinate will immediately send someone to chop bamboo."

"Wait until you think about it? I have sent [-] soldiers to chop bamboo and cut arrows this afternoon, and I will shoot them with bamboo arrows tomorrow." Zhang Liao said angrily.In fact, just as Zhang Liao expected, Lei Bu had sent troops to attack the city these days. Although he suffered heavy losses, he failed to climb even a gate tower.Not only that, Yuan Shujun was also deeply shocked by the fighting power shown by his opponent.Especially that kind of ballista, with dozens of thick and long giant arrows in one shot, it can pin people to the ground in many cases, which makes them tremble with fear, and their morale will inevitably become lower and lower.

Facing such a situation, Lei Bu had no choice but to try his best to reward the soldiers to stimulate their fighting spirit.While they were reveling all night, a team quietly left Xiapi City, boarded a boat arranged by Xu Sheng, walked silently along Surabaya to the Huaihe River, and then disembarked and stationed after reaching the west of Guangling City more than [-] miles away. , everything is done close to noon.

"Send the order, the whole army should take the time to rest. Send out scouts, pay attention to the four directions, and inquire about the news of Guangling County. Tonight, take advantage of the darkness to raid Leibo's rear army." After Zhao Feng got off the ship, the two generals of Song and Wei hurriedly agreed. Order to arrange staff not to mention.

But at this time, the sound of suicides in Guangling City was loud.Driven by Lei Bu, group after group of soldiers set up ladders and rushed towards the head of Guangling City, and then several vehicles and Jing Lan also slowly approached.Of course, the defenders would not let them be so relaxed. Arrows and rolling logs and stones rained down on the soldiers on the ladder, and at the same time jars full of vegetable oil were also thrown at the car and the well.

"Huh!" Dozens of rockets were shot out, and Jing Lan and Chongche were instantly burned into one piece.It’s okay to rush the car and fall back. Once the soldiers pushing the cart were ignited, they retreated one after another, and then extinguished the flames on each other. There were no casualties except that the frame was burned; but the soldiers on the well were miserable. The wooden well The lower end was ignited by oil tanks and rockets, and the infantry who pushed the well could still run away, but the crossbowmen standing on it and shooting arrows had nowhere to escape, either they were burned to death, or they jumped to their death.

"Keep going!" Not long after the fire was extinguished, Lei Book drove another wave of soldiers to rush forward, "Damn, these guys are really crazy!" Of course, the shirt on his body was already stained red, and there were even a few wounds on his left arm. "Come on, aim at their wells and throw stones at them!" After Zhang Liao ordered, he looked up at the sun. The sun was already a little westward, and he could get through the day with a maximum of two more hours.

Although the morale of Yuan Shu's army has soared, Guangling City still stands firm.Lei Bu was not in a hurry, he believed that Guangling City was short of arrows, as long as he fought again tomorrow, he would be able to break through.So the remaining two hours were spent in monotonous offensive and defensive battles, and it was not until dusk fell that Leibo ordered the troops to withdraw.

"Damn it, attack harder tomorrow, I don't believe that 5 people still can't take down a Guangling!" Lei Bu said bitterly, feeling a little bit pained by the huge expense yesterday to reward the soldiers.After a day of high-intensity siege, the troops were already exhausted. After withdrawing the troops, they returned to their respective barracks and fell asleep one after another.Lei Bu was also depressed, and even the singer didn't want to watch it, so he went back to his camp for a drink.

"General, I found out. Now that Yuan Shu's army has withdrawn and returned to the camp, the whole army is resting. If you dare to take a few steps forward, you can hear someone snoring in the camp." In Zhao Feng's camp, a scout sent out in the afternoon When I came back to report, after the last sentence, there was a burst of laughter.

"Well, you go down!" Zhao Feng waited for him to retreat, then turned to Song and Wei and said, "Tonight our army prepares food at the second watch and sets off at the third watch. I will lead the cavalry first, and the two generals will lead the infantry to enter later. Set the fire first, then kill people, I guess General Zhang Liao will go out of the city to meet me when he sees the fire."

"That's right!" Song and Wei also agreed repeatedly, and each went down to not mention it.By the middle of the night, all the 4000 men and horses had eaten their fill, and they all quietly left the camp and rushed to Yuan Shujun's camp twenty miles away.The horse's hooves were wrapped in cotton bags, and the sound was greatly reduced. It was not until they rushed to Yuan Shu's camp less than two miles away that Zhao Feng and the others were discovered one after another.

"Enemy attack, ah!" The sentinel at the gate of the village only had time to yell, and was shot in the throat by Zhao Feng, who rushed forward with a horse, and fell to the side of the road before he uttered a scream. "Crack!" The gate of the village that was not closed was opened by Zhao Feng, and then rushed into the village.Several infantrymen heard the news and tried to stop them, but they were all stabbed to death by Zhao Feng, or their throats were bleed to death.

"Set fire first, then kill!" Zhao Feng greeted the sergeant behind him, galloped his horse, and at the same time set the brazier on the roadside to ignite the tent.Sergeant Yuan Shu rushed over after hearing the news, he was in a hurry to put out the fire and stop him.And Song Xian and Wei Xu who followed saw that Yuan Shu's army camp was not tightly set up, and no trenches were even dug around, so they simply didn't squeeze through the gates together, and directly cut open multiple fences to enter separately. The rear army is really blooming everywhere.

"Who dares to break into my great stronghold?" Zhao Feng led his troops to the middle army, suddenly he saw a group of people surrounded by a general to stop him.Zhao Feng didn't answer, and directly drove his horse forward to kill him.The man was furious, he slapped his horse and wielded his knife and looked at Zhao Feng with a knife.

"There's more than enough strength, but not enough skill!" Zhao Feng's mind turned quickly, and his movements were not slow. He stepped forward with a spear and put it on the opponent's knife shaft to push aside the blow, and then stabbed into the opponent's chest.

"Huh?" The man had an unbelievable expression on his face, as if he couldn't believe that he was killed so easily.Zhao Feng didn't care about him, and was about to drive his horse away, but he saw the soldiers behind the man scurrying one by one with their heads in their hands, shouting: "General Lei has been killed! General Lei has been killed!"

"Dizzy, he is Leibo?" Zhao Feng was a little unbelievable about his good luck, and then he ordered someone to cut off his head and hang it on a long pole to show the public, and ordered the soldiers to shout loudly: "Leibo is dead, the descendant Don't kill!" By messing up the enemy's morale, this time the opponent is even more chaotic.

"I don't know which general rescued me?" Not long after, another group of people came from the former army, and the leader was Zhang Liao.Just now, he was preparing to sneak attack in the city tower, but found the enemy's barracks suddenly caught fire, and quickly led his troops out.As soon as he reached the Chinese army, Zhang Liao realized that the opponent was in a complete mess. It was obvious that someone had come to rob the camp, so he asked loudly.

"General Wen Yuan, it's me, Zhao Feng!" Zhao Feng replied immediately.Zhang Liao was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hastily drove his horse forward to greet him. "I wanted to surprise the enemy's camp at night, but instead, the general took the lead, and even ordered the general to kill Leibo." Zhang Liao said enviously.

"Wen Yuan is still afraid that there will be no chance to make meritorious deeds in the future?" Zhao Feng asked with a smile, and Zhang Liao laughed when he was a little surprised. "Quickly send an order to hunt down the enemy!" The general was killed and the camp was burned. At this time, Yuan Shu's army was in a panic, and everyone fled in all directions.Zhao Feng and Zhang Liao joined Song Xian and Wei Xu, and the four of them led the army to chase and kill for tens of miles, and they didn't retreat back to the camp until the sky was light.

During the battle, Lei Bo led an army of 2 soldiers. In addition to attacking the city and robbing the camp, more than 3000 people were killed. Less than 2 people fled back to the Huainan base camp. The remaining [-] people were all captured.Yuan Shu was shocked and vomited blood after hearing the news, and he recovered after recuperating for more than a month. Since then, Yuan Shu never dared to invade Guangling again.

(End of this chapter)