It can only be said that in terms of city defense, Yihan City is indeed not as good as Yongan.
Huang Quan was currently resisting bitterly at the east gate, and the number of troops attacking them was no less than ten thousand.
Huang Quan also wondered which of Liu Bei's troops this was. Not only was the opponent well-trained, but its combat effectiveness was even more fierce.
Originally, the defenders stationed in Yihan were just ordinary county soldiers. The enemy appeared so quickly that they had no time to prepare.
Relying on Huang Quan's command, he barely managed to withstand the first wave of attacks, but what happened next?
Yihan is a small town, and its reserves and equipment cannot support them in a fierce battle with the opponent, and the most important thing is...
Huang Quan picked up the sword that was in his hand and struck with all his strength, knocking down an enemy who was about to climb up the city wall.
At this time, because he was relatively close to the wall, Huang Quan suddenly noticed that behind the enemy's siege army, there was a cavalry army no less large than the army in front of him, which was outflanking them in a roundabout direction towards the south of the city.
Huang Quan was shocked. How could there be an army of ten thousand in front of him?
Including the cavalry, there were almost 30,000 people on the scene.
He is a very rational person. When he saw that army, he already understood that the city would definitely not be able to be defended today.
He was very sorry for the colleagues who were fighting bloody battles in front of him. These guys should not be on the front line, but at this time they had to overcome their own fears and fight against enemies ten times their size.
And they are destined... they are destined to die here.
If it were his own army, Huang Quan would definitely issue an order to shrink and retreat. His army was well-trained, trusted him very much, and was extremely cohesive. Only such an army would not panic when hearing about the retreat.
Not today.
He knew that if he called for retreat...not only would these guys not be able to save their lives, but even the possibility of causing delay to the enemy would disappear.
Now he was wasting his time with his life. He had just sent someone to report the news, but this problem made the imperial power worry about Qin Mi, Yi Xiaotian and the others.
However, he had no time to calm down and think.
because…
"Brothers, hold on a little longer and follow me to guard this city wall. As long as this wave of offensive is repelled, it will be difficult for the enemy to scale the city wall again..."
Huang Quan shouted loudly to the soldiers around him. Even if it was a lie at this time, he had to tell it. Otherwise, when their morale fell to the bottom, they would collapse at the drop of a hat.
But he hadn't even finished speaking.
But among the arrows flying all over the sky, there was a rather ordinary but extraordinary featherless arrow that penetrated the entire battlefield and shot straight towards Huang Quan's vital part.
A featherless arrow, as it literally means, a bare shaft arrow without fletching - this kind of arrow may sound like that, but in fact, in war, almost no archers will use this kind of arrow.
Just because it has a fatal flaw - without arrow feathers, the arrow cannot control the wake. As long as it is shot out, the arrow will not be far away before it can be seen.
The emphasis of bows and arrows on the battlefield is to defeat the enemy from a distance and kill the enemy with one hit, and accuracy is clearly the most important indicator.
But how could the person who shot this arrow not know this?
unless…
Unless he is completely sure, even if he shoots a featherless arrow, he can still hit the target with incomparable accuracy.
At this time, the so-called poor stability can be ignored, and the greatest advantages of featherless arrows, which are fast speed and low sound, will become extremely terrifying and deadly in the hands of an expert.
So as expected... Huang Quan was hit by an arrow.
Simply at the moment before he was hit by the arrow, Huang Quan could faintly feel the sharpness of the arrow behind him, and subconsciously turned his body aside, only for the arrow to sink into his shoulder.
But even if this is the case, if the general is hit by an arrow, it will be a big trouble.
Huang Quan's encouragement suddenly stopped mid-sentence, and everyone noticed that he had been hit by an arrow.
As a result, the situation on the field changed extremely quickly.
The soldiers of Liu Bei's army became more and more courageous as they fought. They successively attacked several base areas of the city wall and raised their shields to open up a fairly spacious area for those who came from behind to climb the city.
As for the soldiers on our side who saw Huang Quan hit by the arrow, they were being killed one by one as if they had lost their souls. Not to mention, some even began to escape from the battle.
Of course, their results were not much better - those who escaped before the battle did not even need Huang Quan to punish them, Liu Beijun's soldiers came forward and killed those personalities on the spot - heads were military merits, and of course these weak county soldiers
I don’t understand the importance of human heads to these dead men first.
How could they let the runaway go in vain?
Seeing that the situation was over, Huang Quan covered the wound on his shoulder and retreated slowly under the cover of the guards.
The man who shot the arrow without feathers was standing under the city wall and snorted contemptuously.
"Hmph, that's all. All the officers and men will follow me to climb the city and destroy it!"
The person who spoke had a gray beard, but his voice was full of energy.
But standing in the middle of the battlefield, he raised his arms and shouted, and the surrounding soldiers rushed forward with howls.
Wearing heavy armor with golden mail, and carrying a double-drawn iron bow, his courage shocked Hebei, and he became famous in Shuzhong.
What I admire most is the great reputation of General Huang Zhong and Huang.
As a vanguard general, Huang Zhong not only lived up to the expectations of Liu Bei and others, during the period of crossing Yong'an, even the army suffered almost no major casualties in Keshu City, which really makes people admire him.
Likewise...he is not the only one contributing to this battle.
The group of cavalry that Huang Quan saw earlier was certainly not an illusion. It was another group of vanguard cavalry traveling with Huang Zhong - and the person leading them was none other than Chen Dao.
——
Chen Dao may not have thought that his temporary cooperation with Huang Zhong would actually lead to him meeting his old enemy.
——The so-called old enemy is naturally Zhao Yun.
Of course, Zhao Yun himself didn't know that Chen Dao had regarded him as his old enemy.
But for Chen Dao, who has taken over all the previous positions of Zhao Yun, if he cannot do better than Zhao Yun in this position, he will feel that he is useless.
Come to think of it...the two of them obviously debuted very close to each other.
Unlike Zhao Yun who was Gongsun Zan's subordinate at first, Chen Dao has been following Liu Bei all the time, but the development of the two of them later went up and down.
It's not that Zhao Yun's military exploits are much more than his - because the two men's military exploits by Liu Bei's side are basically the same. If we really want to count those defeats, Zhao Yun's tribute may be even more.
More.
However, even so, Zhao Yun's reputation is getting bigger and bigger.
When people think of Liu Bei, they think of Guan Zhang and the crouching dragon and phoenix beside him, as well as Zhao Yun, the savior riding alone on a white horse with a silver spear.