"The Jizhou army surrendered."

Qian Zhao hurriedly came to report the battle situation. It can be said that the Qingzhou Army achieved a complete victory in this battle.

Chen Mu asked: "How's it going at the front camp?"

"Yuan Shao has already launched an offensive. Zhongda's side can still resist it, but they cannot break through the trapped army."

"That is not bad."

"Let's go take a look at the front too, Zi Jing. I'll leave this place to you to deal with the aftermath."

Liu Bei gave an order.

"only."

Qianzhao responded and left behind to deal with the aftermath.

Liu Bei and Chen Mu went down the hill, and Lu and Ziying, who each rode on, went to the front camp.

At this moment, the battle in the front camp had just begun. Yuan Shao launched an offensive from the front, so he had to fight from the bottom of the slope to the top of the slope. He was attacking from his back and was at a natural disadvantage.

Therefore, he had to move step by step, with wooden curtains hanging from the outside rushing to the front to resist the bows and arrows shot from the top of the slope.

The outer camp is nearly two miles away from the bottom of the west slope. Excessive distance means that the defense line is very long.

When Zhang Liao climbed up the slope from the east, it was fortunate that Gao Lan came to the front. Otherwise, it would not have been so easy to defeat the Jizhou army at that time.

Everyone knows that the longer the defense line, the better. This is the so-called depth. If your defense line is only 100 meters and people push forward, you will be in trouble. But if your defense line is two kilometers, the pushing distance is

Line of life and death.

Although ancient wars were not hot weapon wars, a long defense line meant that it could cause greater damage to the enemy. However, it was not completely without benefits. A large number of ditches were dug around the slope bank, making it impossible for vehicles to enter.

When the distance between the two sides was about one and a half miles, Yuan Shao only relied on the wooden curtain to advance for half a mile. The large number of ditches in front of him made him lose his equipment and he could not push forward any further.

"Abandon the cart and move forward with the shield hand!"

As a sharp shout came from the rear, the messengers began to move forward to convey Yuan Shao's orders. After receiving the order, the generals who were advancing at the front immediately acted according to his instructions.

By this time, the war had just begun. The Jizhou troops abandoned their wooden chariots one after another, jumped over the ditch, and continued to move forward.

There was no way. It was not that Yuan Jun had never thought of building wooden planks to allow the wooden curtain car to pass, but the generals on the front line had observed it and believed that it was too difficult to implement this plan and almost impossible to implement.

First, there are too many ditches, and there are a large number of pits on the ground. The amount of work required to build wooden planks is too large. Even if the planks are built, there are still dangers of sinking into the pits.

Second, they don't have that many boards.

So after reporting it to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao weighed the pros and cons and had no choice but to abandon the vehicle and move forward.

"The enemy reaches hundreds of feet!"

Gao Shun led the trapped troops to guard the mountainside, with the distance between the two sides only a hundred feet away.

The messenger shouted loudly: "Get the crossbow ready!"

"Crunch, crunch, crunch!"

The soldiers pushed and pulled the winch with all their strength. Under the pulling force of the winch, the huge bowstring made of cowhide showed an exaggerated curve and was buckled on the crossbow frame.

The thick arrows on the child's arms were draped, and the sharp arrows shone with a terrifying cold light. There were hundreds of crossbows, giving people enough threats.

"shoot!"

"Buzz buzz buzz!~~~"

Following the order, the cowhide tendons buzzed, and the crossbow arrows pierced the void with a scream, shooting towards Yuan Jun down the slope like lightning.

Since Yuan Jun was attacking from the rear, if you look at the field of view, you can actually see the bed crossbow ready to go.

Moreover, the terrain on the slope below is relatively open, causing their formation to be relatively scattered.

Therefore, almost at the moment when the crossbow arrows were fired, a large number of Jizhou troops instinctively fell to the ground. They could feel the strong wind roaring above their heads, and the god of death flying past their heads.

"Dong dong dong dong!"

Most of the arrows did not hurt anyone. They were either shot far away or inserted into the ground. Only a few unlucky ones were hit.

"Load arrows!"

With another order, the trapped troops quickly began to take action.

On the Jizhou Army side, under the urging of officers at all levels, the soldiers in front got up from the ground and began to march forward again.

"The enemy is nearly ninety feet away!"

the lookout shouted.

"shoot!"

"Buzz buzz buzz buzz!~~~"

It was another round of crossbow arrows. This time with experience, many people even jumped into ditches and tunnels to avoid the arrows, resulting in very few people being killed.

Under the slope at the rear, Yuan Shao saw that the crossbows of the Qingzhou Army had lost their effectiveness because of too many trenches dug on his side. He immediately laughed and said to his left and right: "Does Liu Bei think this is a siege? They dug so many trenches.

The ditch eventually turned into a trench for my soldiers to hide from arrows."

Liu Hui advised: "Ming Gong, it is better not to be careless. Liu Bei dug the ditch just to block our attacking equipment such as rams, nests, wooden curtains, and stone lorries. Although it was impossible to divert the water from the Qinghe River into it, the irrigation

The river is full of water, but our weapons cannot get close to it, and Liu Bei has established a stronghold, so it is difficult for us to attack it."

Yuan Shao clasped his hands and looked to the east, and muttered: "There should be progress on Guo Tu's side. All the trapped troops are here, Liu Bei's camp is empty, and there are not many people guarding the rear. I am here to hold off Liu Bei's elite for Guo Tu. He

If we can no longer break through Liu Bei's rear camp, then we are too incompetent."

"It's better to wait for the news."

Liu Hui put her hands in her sleeves and said softly.

While the two were talking, the Jizhou Army had dodged several waves of arrows, and the distance between the two sides had been reduced to about sixty feet.

The distance of sixty feet is almost a hundred steps, which is about 140 meters. Gao Shun was condescending, which allowed the crossbow to have a longer range, so he gave up the heavy and difficult-to-eject bed crossbow and gave the order for the crossbow.

"Archers, prepare, shoot!"

After Gao Shun gave the order, two thousand crossbowmen lined up and fired together. Countless arrows flew high, as if covering the entire sky, and pressed towards the Jizhou army like a dark cloud.

Generally speaking, when archers line up to shoot arrows, the accuracy of the first round of arrows will not be very good, because there are many factors that will cause the bow and arrow to fail to achieve the desired effect, such as angle, wind speed, terrain of both the enemy and ourselves, etc., which will affect the position of the arrow.

Deviation occurs.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the archer needs to adjust the angle in the second and third rounds to ensure accuracy.

However, Gao Shun had already rehearsed and marked where and at what angle he could shoot down the slope. Therefore, only the first round of arrows rained down very accurately into the crowd in front of Yuan Jun.

"Dong dong dong dong!"

The arrows hit the wooden shields, making a dull sound. However, in the rain of arrows that covered the sky, hundreds of people were still hit by arrows, most of them were injured. They kept screaming and wailing, and the remaining people hid in the trenches again.

The arrow rain came one after another. In addition to the existing crossbowmen in the trapped army, Liu Bei transferred most of the archers to him, so Gao Shun had more than two thousand archers.

The people in the front row finished shooting the arrows in their quivers and moved back holding their sore arms. Another two thousand archers were mobilized from the rear to continue suppressing the attack.

In this round of arrow rain, there were tens of thousands of arrows shot out. The ground was densely covered with arrows. Some corpses were even shot into hedgehogs. When the second group of archers took out the quivers,

After all the arrows were shot, there was dead silence down the slope.

Yuan Shao sent a school of 5,000 men as the front army to launch a tentative attack on the mountain. After the rain of arrows, the men of this school were either shot to death, fled back and were killed by the supervising team, or hid in the trenches, resulting in countless casualties.

.

When the rain of arrows finally ended, more than a thousand people crawled out of the trenches and slowly retreated to the rear. The momentum of Yuan's army, which had been charging upwards, suddenly stalled and turned into a retreat.

"Liu Bei has so many arrows prepared."

Yuan Shao frowned. This batch was originally a tentative attack, but he did not expect that Liu Bei would directly mobilize so many archers and throw fifty or sixty thousand arrows down as if they were free. He still did not expect such a generous move.

"Ming Gong, look over there!"

At this moment, a general looked to the east and behind Liu Bei's front camp, with a happy face, pointed over there and said, "There are fireworks rising over there."

Yuan Shao quickly looked around and saw that several kilometers away, billowing dust and smoke continued to rise upwards. Black smoke covered half of the sky. He could vaguely see the occasional flames rising above the camp in the distance. It was obvious that the fire had reached a very high level.

To a large extent.

"That is."

"It seems to be Liu Bei's army's rear camp."

"Guo Tu succeeded?"

All the soldiers opened their eyes wide and stretched their necks to see more clearly.

It's a pity that they didn't have telescopes, because they were too far away, and they could only see the smoke and dust that covered half of the sky, and nothing else could be seen.

"Ming Gong, it seems that Guo Tu has invaded Liu Bei's rear camp and is burning Liu Bei's supplies as planned."

Liu Hui raised his head and looked at the hillside and said: "The trapped army did not hesitate to use so many arrows to repel our front army. I am afraid they just want to repel us quickly and buy time for the rear. It is a pity that they do not have enough troops to resist.

Guo Tu led to the loss of the rear camp."

"oh?"

After hearing Liu Hui's judgment, Yuan Shao asked: "Zi Hui, what do you think I should do now? Should I wait here and besiege slowly, or attack immediately?"
To be continued...