Of course, there are actually different opinions on Zhao Pusheng's death. Many historians do not agree with this statement, especially Zhao Pusheng's descendants.
They believe that their ancestor Zhao Pusheng was not killed, but lived until after the Battle of Poyang Lake. The Battle of Poyang Lake ended with Chen Youliang's defeat. Chen Youliang was killed on the spot, and Zhao Pusheng fled with his family and lived in seclusion.
But in any case, it is a fact that Zhao Pusheng did not participate in the Poyang Lake War. If he really participated in it, with his excellent water warfare ability, combined with Zhang Dingbian’s unparalleled strength, the Poyang Lake War might really be possible.
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But a hypothesis is just a hypothesis after all. History has become history, and in this era, Zhao Pusheng will face the first powerful opponent in his life, Yun Kuang.
Yun Kuang, who has a basic command level of 96, is no ordinary person. Especially considering the particularity of the latter's skills, one can imagine the pressure Zhao Pusheng will face.
[Ding dong, Zhao Pusheng’s skill ‘Bronze Wall’ effect 1 is activated. When leading the army in a defensive battle, his own command level 3, force level 4, the morale, combat power, speed and other comprehensive qualities of the entire army are partially improved;
Zhao Pusheng, commander: 94, force: 102 (2);
Equipment: Sun and Moon Dual Swords 1;
The current commander has increased to 97, and the force has increased to 107;]
Now that he had taken over the command of the entire army, Zhao Pusheng had to give full play to his role, so he ordered Guan Hai, Xiang Yun, and Zhu Can to guard the east gate, south gate, and north gate respectively, while he, Chu Xuan, and others guarded the west gate.
Yun Kuang is still very talented in military affairs. He directly adopted the strategy of surrounding three and missing one, concentrating his forces to attack the east gate, north gate, and west gate. There is not much fighting at the south gate now.
However, Zhao Pusheng will not relax here. What if Yun Kuang suddenly leads an attack on the south gate? This is something that the commander of the army must consider.
At the same time, under the walls of Yuancheng.
Yun Kuang was holding Tianlong Kuang's war halberd, standing in the tens of thousands of yellow scarf battle formations, looking at Yuan Cheng in the distance, his eyes filled with murderous intent.
He was just a little bit close to taking over Nanyang County completely, but in the end he fell short. All this happened because of the arrival of the man named Chu Xuan.
Therefore, in this battle, he was determined to capture Yuancheng and twist off the head of the Han general named Chu Xuan.
When he thought of this, the murderous intention in Yun Kuang's heart boiled, and he immediately commanded the army to launch a fierce attack on Yuancheng.
"Brothers, attack the city for me."
[Ding dong, Yun Kuang’s skill ‘Breaking the Army’ effect 1 is activated, his own command level is 2, force level is 5, and the morale, combat power, speed, fighting spirit, reaction ability and other comprehensive qualities of the entire army have been greatly increased;
Yun Kuang's current basic command is 96, basic force is 105, Tianlong Kuangzhanji 1, Snow-Stepping Black Horse 1, the current command has increased to 98, and the force has increased to 112;]
"Brothers, kill."
Following Yun Kuang's order, Zhao Hong, Han Zhong, He Renlong, Yun Xiaohu, Yun Fan, Yan Hao and other Yellow Turban generals led their troops to attack the city wall.
This time, there were 50,000 Yellow Turban troops attacking the city. Under the leadership of Yun Xiaohu, they crossed the moat on a flying bridge.
Flybridge, to put it bluntly, is an ancient bridge-building vehicle. It appeared in the Han Dynasty. This kind of flybridge is simple to make. It uses two long logs with wooden boards nailed on top. For convenience of transportation, two wooden wheels are installed below.
"Six Tao" records: "The gate of the flying bridge across the ditch is one foot and five feet wide and more than two feet long."
If the trench dug by the enemy is wide, the two flybridges can be connected with a rotating shaft to form a foldable flybridge. When transporting, fold one section on the bridge bed at the back. When using it, put down the front section and set it up.
On the other side of the river ditch is a simple trench bridge.
The emergence of the flying bridge can help the troops attacking the city to quickly reach the city.
The best way to deal with these things is to destroy them with trebuchets or send people to destroy them, but the current situation is that the defenders of Yuancheng do not have this weapon at all.
Furthermore, there are not many defenders on the city wall. It would be really uneconomical to go out to fight just to destroy the flying bridge.
After all, as long as the Han army comes out, it will fight the Yellow Turban Army. Although the Han army is not afraid of the Yellow Turban Army in field battles, and may even be defeated, the number of its own troops makes Zhao Pusheng dare not take risks.
Therefore, Zhao Pusheng could only let it stay on the moat.
"Archers, fire arrows." Although the enemy's flying bridge cannot be destroyed, it can be suppressed by the firepower of the arrows, making it difficult for the Yellow Turban Army to cross the moat.
Under the volley of thousands of arrows fired by the Yuancheng defenders, many Yellow Turban soldiers were hit by arrows and then fell into the moat.
However, due to the large number of Yellow Turbans outside the city, bows and arrows alone could only suppress their speed to a certain extent. After paying some casualties, they finally crossed the moat and arrived not far below the Yuancheng wall.
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"Get on the ladder truck." Yun Xiaohu immediately issued an order.
A ladder truck, as the name suggests, is a tool with wheels that can be pushed and used to climb over city walls and attack the city. It is an upgraded version of the ladder, so it is also called a "ladder truck".
It is equipped with defense shields, winches, grappling hooks and other equipment. When the ladder truck reaches the enemy's city wall, the ladder body is manually raised to the city wall, and then the soldiers climb the ladder to attack the city.
However, as a force-attack tool, the risk of soldier casualties is also extremely high. During combat, the action must be fast, and the number of tanks should be as large as possible so that they can bloom on all sides.
Of course, before forcibly attacking a city, you must first use long-range shooting weapons, bows, etc. to repel the enemy defenders to reduce the casualties of the siege party.
The cost of building ladder trucks is still very high. The entire Yellow Turban Army only has a few of them, and the rest are ordinary ladder trucks.
After paying some price to set up the ladder truck and the ordinary ladder, the Yellow Turban soldiers were like ants, sullenly climbing up the ladder.
"Everyone is here, and I have prepared rolling logs and rocks. As soon as the Yellow Turban Army approaches, I will smash them down hard. No one is allowed to come up!" Zhao Pusheng said sternly.
"promise."
After receiving Zhao Pusheng's order, the soldiers guarding the city immediately agreed and placed the rolled wooden stones in front of them. When the Yellow Turban Army began to climb, they began to smash towards the bottom of the city wall.
There are many mountains in Nanyang County, and the most indispensable thing is stones. The stones and rolling logs are like rain, and they are smashing down on the Yellow Turban Army who are climbing the ladder, taking away the lives of many people.
The equipment of the Yellow Turban Army was originally extremely crude, and the armor coverage rate was not high. Only elites like the Yellow Turban Warriors had armor for protection.
After all, there are only a small number of soldiers who, like ordinary soldiers, only wear a piece of yellow cloth on their heads and can wear leather armor to go into battle. The vast majority of them are ordinary farmers who are born as farmers, and there is no difference between them.
It can be said that they are just ordinary people, without any inner strength. Facing these stones thrown from the high wall, they have no ability to resist. They were smashed to pieces one after another, and then fell to the ground.
This was not the first time that Zhao Pusheng saw such a miserable scene, but he had no sympathy for it, because it was a battlefield full of killings, and there was absolutely no sympathy for the enemy.
If the Yellow Turban Army came up and captured Yuancheng, the fate of these people would not be much better. Most of these Yellow Turban Army were refugees and had been oppressed by officers, soldiers and powerful families.
As long as they have the opportunity to vent this resentment, the effect will definitely be quite astonishing.
Although Zhao Pusheng's command was very good and his counterattack was extremely strong, the Yellow Turban soldiers, under the baptism of religion, seemed to be desperate for their lives and climbed up against the stones and logs on the city wall.
In this way, after the two armies pulled each other for half an hour, a Yellow Turban Army general was finally allowed to climb up among the dead people. I saw that he did not relax, but reached out to the top of the city with his other hand.
Gritting his teeth and exerting force, he pushed his upper body up to the top of the city.
However, before he had time to jump onto the city wall, two luminous sun and moon swords suddenly appeared in front of him, becoming bigger and bigger in his sight.
Soon, the yellow scarf general felt a chill in his throat. Then, a burst of hot blood suddenly spurted out and sprinkled on the wall of Yuancheng. He suddenly felt as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down at this moment.
, and it seems to be rolling continuously.
However, his death was not useless. At least it allowed Yun Xiaohu to seize a rare opportunity and use the power of the ladder to climb up.
[Ding dong, Yun Xiaohu’s skill ‘Tiger Roar’ is activated with effect 1. After this skill is activated, its own force is 3.
Yun Xiaohu’s basic strength is 101, Hunyuan Xiaotian Halberd is 1, and the current strength has increased to 105;]
"Han general, suffer death." Yun Xiaohu flew straight towards Zhao Pusheng.
"I, Old Zhao, are afraid of you." Zhao Pusheng shouted coldly, then picked up the sun and moon swords in his hands and killed him.
[Ding dong, Zhao Pusheng's skill 'Double Swords' is activated with effect 1. When fighting the enemy, his own force is 5, basic force is 102 (2), sun and moon double swords are 1, copper wall effect is 1 4, and the current force is increased to 112;
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There was a seven-point difference in force, which could not be compensated by some martial arts. After only a dozen rounds of fighting, Yun Xiaohu began to fall into a disadvantage.
However, precisely because of this, the evil intention in his heart was suddenly aroused, and his second skill was activated accordingly.
[Ding dong, Yun Xiaohu’s skill ‘Xiaotian’ is activated;
Xiaotian: The roar of tigers stirs up the dust of war, ambition supports the Lord, loyalty to ghosts and gods, lifts the sky and opens up the earth. Different people have different effects;
Effect 1. After this skill is activated, one's own force is 5. After that, one's own fighting spirit can be continuously improved to enhance one's own strength. Each time the skill is activated, the force is 2, and it can be activated up to three times;
Effect 2, shouting, can shock the opponent's mind through roaring, thus causing a decrease in force value. Each time it is activated, the opponent's force is -1, and it can be activated up to three times;
Effect 3: When commanding cavalry in battle, your own command level is 2, your force level is 1 extra, and the movement speed, attack power, and reaction power of the units you belong to are greatly improved;
Effect 4: Ambition supports God. Only when you have ambition can you be fearless. As long as your ambition still exists, when you encounter negative effects from the enemy, your own force 2 can be activated once at most;
Effect 5: Loyalty versus ghosts and gods. When the force is in dire straits, as long as the loyalty to the lord remains unchanged, it can increase the strength of the entire army by 1. In addition, Effect 3 can be activated twice as much, and Effect 4 can be activated once more;]
Several years have passed since the Luoyang Nanyang Incident, and Yun Xiaohu is worthy of being the second-ranked genius of the Yun family. Not only has his basic force gained a permanent increase, but he has also awakened his second skill.
To be honest, this skill should not be underestimated at all. Not to mention its terrifying eleven-point force increase, even three-point force suppression is enough to make people fearful.
Don't forget, Yun Xiaohu's Tiger Roar still has three points of force increase, and four points of suppression in single combat. In other words, Yun Xiaohu currently has fourteen points of force increase, seven points of force suppression in single combat, and five points of suppression in group battles.
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If he reaches his peak, even if he faces some junior gods of war, he will not be at a disadvantage. After all, in addition to these, the fourth level effect of Yunxiao Hu Xiaotian's skill is an alternative half-million method.
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Although there is only one increase, it is very advantageous to face some average opponents with negative suppression effects. Just imagine, when the opponent causes three points of negative suppression to him, and he adds two extra points due to the skill effect, wouldn't it?
Are you saying there is only a little suppression?
Moreover, Yun Xiaohu is also a general who is good at commanding cavalry. If he cooperates with Hu Xiao's skill suppression, the power generated by the one and the other will be really incredible.
As for Effect 5, it is powerful, but due to the strictness of its activation, Yun Xiaohu may only be able to activate it once in his life.
After all, we are already in a desperate situation, and we can't run away even if we want to.
[Ding dong, Yun Xiaohu’s skill ‘Xiao Tian’ effect 1 is activated for the first time, his own strength is 5, and the current strength has increased to 110;]
With the activation of Yun Xiaohu's skills, the gap in force between Yun Xiaohu and Zhao Pusheng was instantly narrowed, but Yun Xiaohu has not yet shown his true strength.
After more than ten rounds, no one of the two took advantage, and Zhao Pusheng became increasingly aware of Yun Xiaohu's difficulty.
In order to repel Yun Xiaohu as soon as possible, Zhao Pusheng decisively applied his true energy on the two swords and started a fast attack.
[Ding dong, Zhao Pusheng’s skill ‘Double Swords’ is activated with Effect 2, which can defeat a single weapon. When facing an opponent using a single weapon, his force value will be reduced by two points;
Currently, Yun Xiaohu’s force is reduced by 2 points, Yun Xiaohu’s force is -2, and his force is reduced to 108;]
To be honest, Zhao Pusheng's strength is quite good. He can easily deal with single-weapon suppression. However, throughout Chinese history, almost 90% of the generals use single-weapons.
Only the remaining 10% of the fierce generals use weapons such as double swords, double spears, double hammers, or double swords.
However, although his double swords are useful to Yun Xiaohu, it does not mean that Yun Xiaohu has nothing to do.
[Ding dong, Yun Xiaohu’s skill ‘Xiaotian’ effect 4 is activated...]