Liu Xiu ran to the bottom of the city and took off the rope he was carrying. While twisting the iron claws on the rope, he shouted to Fu Jun: "Ziwei, cover me!"
Fu Jun responded, and at the same time shot another arrow, shooting down an officer and soldier who had just jumped onto the arrow stack. Liu Xiu took a deep breath, shouted, and threw out the iron claw.
Click!
The iron claw landed between the two arrow stacks and just hooked the city wall. Liu Xiu tugged hard and felt that the hook was strong enough. He pressed the tip of his tongue against the upper tooth hall, secretly accumulated strength, and then jumped up.
His jump reached a height of two to three meters. When he reached the limit, he grabbed the rope and pressed firmly on the city wall with both feet.
The officers and soldiers on the top of the city were also aware of it. Two people lifted a piece of rolling wood and came directly above Liu Xiu. They were about to smash the rolling wood down. Fu Jun shot an arrow and hit an officer and soldier in the arm. The officer and the soldier suffered terribly.
With a cry, the rolling log that was thrown down also deviated from the direction and passed by Liu Xiu's side with a swipe.
The officers and soldiers hid behind the arrow stacks and shouted to the surrounding archers: "Kill the rebel archers first! Kill the rebel archers first!"
Following his order, more than a dozen officers and soldiers, archers, stood up behind the arrow stack, pointed at Fu Jun outside the city, drew their bows and fired.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! More than a dozen arrows were shot at Fu Junfei. The latter also reacted quickly and ran sideways outside the city.
As he was running, he heard a series of snapping sounds coming from behind, which was the sound of arrows nailing the ground.
Fu Jun, who was running, grabbed three arrows from the quiver and clamped them between his fingers. Then he twisted his bow and shot three arrows in succession.
It was so fast that there was almost no gap between the three arrows. Looking at it coldly, it seemed as if he shot three arrows at once.
Even while running, even if he shot three arrows in a row, he was still accurate. Three consecutive muffled pops were heard in his ears. The three archers were all hit by arrows in the chest and fell on their backs screaming.
The remaining less than ten archers were so frightened that they hurriedly crouched down and hid behind the arrow stacks again.
However, during this period, an officer and soldier lifted a stone the size of a basin, aimed it at Liu Xiu, who was climbing up the rope, and smashed it down hard.
Hearing that there was an evil wind above him, Liu Xiu glanced up and saw a falling rock heading straight for his head.
He grabbed the rope with one hand and quickly twisted it around so that the rope was tightly wrapped around his palm. Then, he grabbed the rope with one hand and stepped on the city wall with both feet, moving his whole body horizontally for two or three times.
Meters away, looking from afar, Liu Xiu seemed to be running on the wall of the city wall.
In just a moment, Feng Yi, Zhu You, Gai Yan and 300 elite Chung Ling troops had already rushed to the city wall. Like Liu Xiu, people took off the ropes they were carrying and then raised their iron claws.
Throw it towards the top of the city.
This situation made the officers and soldiers anxious. He shouted: "Cut the rope, we can't let the rebels enter the city! Quick, cut the rope!"
Under the command of the military commander, the officers and soldiers drew their swords one after another and tried to cut off the rope hanging from the city head.
But it was not that easy. Not all of the three hundred elites climbed up the rope to the top of the city. There were still fifty or sixty people left below, and each of them held a crossbow for the cavalry.
Seeing someone sticking his head out from behind the arrow stack and trying to cut off the rope, the soldiers below immediately fired crossbow arrows.
Compared with bows and arrows, the biggest advantage of crossbows is that they are quick to learn. It takes a year or two to train a mature archer, but it only takes a while to train a crossbowman.
At close range, the lethality of crossbow arrows is not only no less than that of bows and arrows, but is even more powerful.
Several officers and soldiers who stuck their heads out, holding their swords high, trying to cut off the ropes, were all hit by arrows in the head, and fell from the city wall headfirst.
The officers and soldiers were anxious and angry. He picked up a round shield, held up his sword, and rushed towards the iron claw thrown by Liu Xiu.
As soon as he approached, an arrow flew down from the city. The officers and soldiers hurriedly blocked it with their round shields.
Huh! The power of this arrow was so great that the arrow penetrated the shield surface of the round shield. The arrow body got stuck on the shield surface and almost passed through the shield directly.
The officers and soldiers gasped, and he couldn't care so much anymore. He picked up his sword, aimed at the iron claws hooked on the city wall, and slashed hard.
Click!
Another arrow flew towards him, but it was still blocked by the round shield. The military commander's sword also happened to hit the rope connecting the iron claws.
With a click, the rope broke. Liu Xiu, who was climbing up the rope, felt his hands go soft and the severed end of the rope flew down from above his head.
The Huyang city wall is three feet three, which is the standard city wall height. At this time, Liu Xiu was only one foot away from the city head and two feet three from the ground, which is about seven meters. If he fell from such a height, even if he fell,
Even if you don't die, it's enough to break bones and muscles.
Seeing Liu Xiu's rope disconnected, Fu Jun and others standing under the city couldn't help but scream. Liu Xiu was calm in the face of danger. As his body fell from the air, he quickly drew out the Chixiao Sword from under his ribs.
, stabbed the city wall with all his strength, and heard a click. The Chixiao Sword penetrated the city wall for more than a foot, and Liu Xiu's falling figure also stopped, and his whole body hung on the city wall.
A nearby soldier who was climbing along the rope saw this. Without saying a word, he hooked the rope under him with his toes and threw it towards Liu Xiu. At the same time, he shouted: "General——"
With quick hands and eyes, Liu Xiu caught the rope that had kicked the soldier over. He pushed hard on the wall with both feet, swung towards the soldier, and pulled out the Chixiao Sword inserted into the wall.
After Fu Jun and others looked at it, they let out a long sigh of relief. Then, people fired arrows at the top of the city with all their strength to suppress the officers and soldiers on the top of the city.
The practices of the officers and soldiers were quickly imitated by the officers and soldiers. People held shields one after another, while resisting the arrows shot from outside the city, while struggling to chop the ropes.
As soldiers of the Chongling Army climbed along the rope, from time to time some would pull the cut rope and fall from the air screaming.
The soldier above Liu Xiu was not spared. He was hit in the head by a rolling log that fell from the top of the city, and fell down screaming.
Liu Xiu glanced down, gritted his teeth, exerted all his strength, and climbed up with all his strength.
He didn't know if he was the first one to rush to the top of the city. In short, the moment he stepped onto the top of the city, everything he looked at was filled with officers and soldiers. Sand, sand, sand! In an instant, several spears were aimed at him.
He stabbed him fiercely.
Liu Xiu's body standing among the arrows jumped up and fell sideways. His falling body hit several spears, causing the spears of several officers and soldiers to fall to the ground.
Before the opponent could pick up the spear on the ground again, he rolled forward, stood up from the ground, and swung the sword forward.
sand--
The sword edge swept across the chests of several officers and soldiers, tearing apart their armor, and a long bloody gash was cut into the flesh inside.
Several officers and soldiers screamed and staggered back, and then fell to the ground one after another. Just as they fell, more officers and soldiers rushed up around them.
At this time, Liu Xiu had nothing to say, just one word, kill! He held the sword in both hands, rushed towards the group of officers and soldiers on the left, and slashed with the sword.
Click, click, click! The spears that stabbed him were cut off one by one by the Chixiao Sword. The Chixiao Sword turned from black to red, exuding a strange blood light. Wherever the blood light flashed, there was always a trace of blood.
Blood mist sprayed out.
Liu Xiu broke through the section of the city wall, and the officers and soldiers were thrown into chaos by him. Taking this opportunity, the soldiers of the Chung Ling Army climbed up one after another along this section of the city wall. After reaching the top of the city, people drew their swords one after another.
Fighting with the officers and soldiers.
The Chung Ling Army was at the bottom of the city, and the officers and soldiers could still rely on the geographical advantage to cause great damage to the Chung Ling Army. Now the Chung Ling Army attacked the top of the city and started a face-to-face close fight with the officers and soldiers, leaving the officers and soldiers with no geographical advantage.
The advantage was considerable. The officers and soldiers with less than 300 people really couldn't resist the elite Chung Ling Army in front of them, who looked like wolves and tigers.
The officers and soldiers were killed one by one to the ground. At the same time, more and more Chung Ling soldiers climbed to the top of the city. The remaining more than a hundred officers and soldiers completely lost their will to resist. People hurriedly walked along the steps.
He ran down the city wall and fled into the city.
Zhu You and Gai Yan, who had stormed the city, were not willing to let the defeated officers and soldiers leave. They took dozens of Chung Ling soldiers with them and then covered them up and killed them.
Liu Xiu did not forget about the business. He rushed into the city gate tower, chopped down the few remaining officers and soldiers inside, and then immediately asked people to open the city gate and pull up the inner city gate at the same time.
As the gate of the West City was opened, the spies of the Chung Ling Army immediately rode towards their camp.
When he was approaching the camp, he raised his crossbow and fired three loud arrows in succession. More than a thousand cavalry, led by Ma Wu and Yao Qi, were already in the camp ready to go.
As soon as they heard the sound of arrows announcing the news coming from outside the camp, everyone's spirits were shocked. They all looked at Ma Wu and Yao Qi, waiting for their orders to rush out of the camp.
Even the war horses under people's crotches seemed to feel the tension and excitement of their masters before setting off for the battle. The horses screamed and their hooves kept scratching the ground.
Ma Wu rode his horse and walked sideways in front of the cavalry, shouting loudly: "My lord has conquered the west city, brothers, please take up arms!"
"Roar -" all the cavalry shouted in unison, and people raised their spears one after another.
Ma Wu took off the nine-eared and eight-ringed sword from the victory hook, pointed at Huyang City with the tip of the sword, and said in a loud voice: "The battle curtain has begun, and next, there will be our battlefield! The enemy's head will be there.
On their shoulders, just wait and let me, Ma Wu, go get it!"
"Kill——" All the cavalrymen raised their spears high and shouted loudly.
Ma Wu turned his horse's head, looked at the camp gate, and said word by word: "The thieves have been rampant for a long time. It's time for them to learn what the Han cavalry is!" As he spoke, he clamped his horse with both feet.
Belly, the war horse was in pain, neighing, and raised its two front hooves high, almost standing upright on the ground. Ma Wu held the reins in one hand and the knife in the other. The war horse threw away its four hooves under his crotch, and rushed straight to the camp gate.
passed.
Yao Qi and others followed closely behind, and more than a thousand cavalry, like a whirlwind, flew out of the camp and headed straight for the west city of Huyang City.
When the spy who came to report the news saw the cavalry rushing towards him, he was so frightened that he quickly turned his horse's head and stepped aside.
When the cavalry passed by him, he could not see anything. Everything in front of him was shrouded in dust and yellow sand. He could only hear the deafening sound of horse hooves and the blowing wind.
