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Chapter 277 Crossfire

"Everyone, keep calm, think about how I teach you in normal times!" Hao Shao walked while pissing the soldiers guarding the city. The enemies under the city were getting closer and closer, and the faster ladders had already been laid on the walls of Guangzhou.

"Aim right, fight for one blow!" Hao Shao knew that these soldiers were very nervous. Just be nervous. Who wouldn't be nervous? Now it's just the first wave of enemy attacks. The first wave must be contemptuous of the enemy. Their formation is scattered, not concentrated. Some of the ladders that were first ladders on Guangzhou have been pushed down by a hundred-man team sent by Hao Shao. Hao Shao had only a thousand people on the city wall. The remaining thousand people were used as support troops. One thousand people were divided into two 500 teams and placed on both sides of the city wall.

Hao Shao dug a trench outside Guangzhou. The two-section trench was not long. Together, it was two-thirds of the city wall. Hao Shao led the water source of the Huai River in the middle, which made him form a moat. Only the middle section of the city gate was not dug. This was to facilitate the entry and exit of the city gate. There was no suspension bridge on the trench, which was like walking on flat ground.

"The moat is well dug, but what's the use of not fully dug!" Liu Pi looked at the moat outside the city wall coldly. Hao Shao's moat was very deep. People could not get through without tools, but the break in the middle was criticized by Liu Pi.

"The whole army charges and takes Guangzhou. I will be rewarded with great rewards!" Liu Pi's anger at Hao Shao made him forget that he is now the governor of Yuzhou, not the commander of the Yellow Turban Army. He can still pay more attention to it, but he is so excited that he can care about so much.

Although Liu Pi's Yuzhou Army was organized by the Yellow Turban Army, these Yellow Turban Army were really a small number of elite troops. If they were mobs, they would have been solved by Cao Cao and could have been arranged by Yuan Shao as a thorn in front of him. These 20,000 Yuzhou Army were the main force that Liu Pi was proud of. It was thanks to them that Cao did not deal with him.

The 20,000 army cannot be spread out in this small Guangzhou City. So there is only a team of 5,000 people. Both sides are moats. If you want to go there, you have to lay the ladder on one side and put it on the river. After that, you can step on the ladder and cross the river. If you accidentally fall from the ladder, you can fall into the moat. This moat looks very deep. Those who can swim can choke, and it is difficult to climb up. After all, both sides of the moat are also very high from the water surface. If you can't swim, you will be completely dead end. So a large number of soldiers are not stupid. If you can't walk on both sides, you will naturally walk in the middle.

A team of five thousand people rushed towards the middle area.

"I thought I had such a great ability to build a moat for a while, and I would like to spread the archers at both ends. I want to open the middle gate to us!" Liu Bei looked at this small Guangzhou, Guangzhou small town. After taking him, he would let those Lu Bu army guarding the city die without a burial place. Liu Bei is a person who has been on the battlefield for a long time. In his opinion, the moat should be perfect, and there should be a suspension bridge on the moat, so that the defense of a city can reach the extreme and make the enemy unable to get off. Once the enemy attacks, just pull up the suspension bridge. If the enemy wants to attack the city, you must cross the river, so that it can fight a protracted battle.

"Hmm?!" Pang Tong did not follow the general tactical thinking, because in ordinary tactical thinking, the defense of this Guangzhou City is really a lot to be criticized. The flat road in the middle is flat. If you rush fast, you can quickly reach the city. The moat on both sides has lost its meaning because of the flat horse in the middle. However, Pang Tong is a strategist, and he will not consider it from the terrain like a general. The strategist attacks the city and the strategist attacks the heart. He thinks from the heart of a person and his thoughts. He is thinking about what Hao Shao and Lu Bu's young general are thinking!

Why didn't his moat be built halfway? Is it because there was not enough time? Pang Tong was looking at the entire city of Guangzhou! No, if there was not enough time, there should be still places that had not started, or halfway through the construction. However, the Guangzhou moat in Pang Tong's eyes was intact, which means that it was not that there was not enough time. If there was not enough time, it should be dug one by one!

Is it because of insufficient manpower? Pang Tong rejected it again. If there is insufficient manpower, it is better not to dig, because such a moat that exposes the middle section has no effect and can completely bypass the moat. If so, what is the meaning of the moat?

Pang Tong watched Hao Shao split a thousand archers on the city wall, and a team of five hundred people were empty at both ends of the city wall, and the flat land in the middle was empty! Pang Tong couldn't figure out that the arrangement of archers should be in the center. If you put the moats on both sides, no one went there.

Pang Tong didn't understand, but he felt a little uneasy, because this young general of Lu Bu army was not like the kind of incompetent person. This can be seen from the fact that he was surrounded by enemies ten times more than his own and did not surrender.

Pang Tong's uneasiness was realized in a short while. Yes, the middle section was specially left by Hao Shao himself. Gwangzhou is a small city. What if the entire city is surrounded by a moat? There are only so many defenders, and there is no amount of food and grass inside. Moreover, the location of Gwangzhou is not a big deal. If you surround the moat, I can spare you. Thousands of soldiers in your city can still run out to fight with me!

Instead of building such a large moat, it is better to build a section of moat. This section of moat can naturally protect Gwangju, and it makes sense not to build the remaining section, because there is no moat in this section facing the city wall, which is flat, and there is no danger to guard. No matter which general sees it, he will only regard Gwangju as a fat meat at the mouth, which is a credit. As long as the army bypasses the moat from the middle and builds a ladder on Gwangju, the city of Gwangju can be pulled out. After all, how many soldiers can there be in the small city?

Liu Bei thought so, Liu Pi thought so, Hao Shao really wanted them to think so. It is natural for human beings to seek profit and avoid harm. No one would go to the moat and go to the city of Guangzhou, but would squeeze on that section of flat ground.

Five thousand people said that there were not many more. Compared with the large-scale battles in Guandu, I am afraid that even a bubble would not appear. However, the five thousand people here were more than twice as many as Hao Shao's subordinates. They rushed under the city of Guangzhou and blocked that section of the flat ground. Although Liu Pi's Yellow Turban Army entered in sequence and did not cause riots during the section of the moat, what does it matter?

A sneer appeared on the corner of Hao Shao's mouth. His hands rose high, and more and more soldiers rushed into the flat area.

"Shoot!" Hao Shao spitted out this word. With his order, a thousand archers poured the rain of arrows in their hands towards the flat ground.

"Rise the shield!" Liu Pi shouted loudly as he watched the arrow rain fall. He was a little disdainful. Before siege, he had a huge shield in the front row. This kind of arrow rain was simply a drizzle for his troops with giant shields in front. As long as his troops rushed under the city wall and rushed up, the small Guangzhou city would be broken! Liu Pi could also avenge his idol's shame and anger.

What Liu Pi disdained most was that this young general of Lu Bu army distributed archers on both sides. If one thousand people were placed in the middle, it might cause harm to his command. Now, what role could these scattered archers do in front of the giant arrows?

As soon as Liu Pi's mouth was covered with ferociousness, he was about to watch his Yuzhou army rushing to the city and then charge with his personal guards. His hands were already raised, but he couldn't put them down when he lifted them up, because the scene in front of him stunned him.

The bows and arrows falling from the Guangzhou city tower seemed to have opened their eyes and shot towards his subordinates. Moreover, the thousand archers scattered not only did not become useless people that Liu Pi disdained. Instead, they were even more terrifying than the concentrated rain of arrows.

The soldiers rushing in front were like leeks, while Hao Shaojun above was a sickle. Under the rain of arrows, he basically covered the entire plain with no false arrows. It can be said that the entire plain was taken care of by the rain of arrows at 360 degrees without dead corners.

Some people were hit by more than one arrow, and some people directly penetrated the first person and shot it at the person behind. Before Liu Pi could react, the second wave of arrow rain fell again! This time the casualties were even more injured.

"How could it be?!" There were not only Liu Pi who was paying attention to this siege battle under the Guangzhou city tower, but also Liu Bei, Pang Tong and Zhang Xiujun. They did not expect that the damage caused by the scattered bows and arrows could be higher than the concentration. Zhang Xiu thought in his mind that if one thousand archers were placed in the middle, it would be extremely important to cause hundreds of people. After all, on the battlefield, the damage caused by bows and arrows to people is almost 10 to 10 or even 20 to 1. After all, no one is a natural archer. And you have to know that the garrison troops, the garrison troops have to be archers and infantry guarding the city. It can be said that it is impossible for them to be proficient in bows and arrows, but now they have shot this record, and at least thousands of people will be killed by the shooting.

Why can't it be! Hao Shao was also shocked by his achievements. He didn't expect that the damage could be caused by splitting a thousand archers. His idea of ​​dispersing was still derived from his young lord Liu Mang.

It was said in a joke that instead of putting the archers together, it is better to disperse them and put half of them in the middle, so that cross fire can be formed, and such output damage can be maximized. When Liu Mang was talking, he thought of the power of cross fire in the hot weapon war and utilizing the power of cross fire in the trench, but he did not expect that he was used by Hao Shao on the cold weapon.

If a thousand archers are placed on the front, under Liu Pi's giant shield, they will at most shoot over the giant shield and damage some soldiers behind them. However, many arrows will become redundant. Either one person has more than a dozen or twenty arrows. There is no difference between ten arrows and twenty arrows, because they are all dead ends anyway, but now they are different. They are scattered and crossed, not only avoiding the giant shields in the first row, but also covering the archers. It can be said that the two flanks of Liu Pi's siege were completely exposed to the attack of Hao Shao's archers.

Waves of arrow rain after waves made Liu Pi's eyes almost come out.

It wasn't unaware that Hao Shao had just believed in Liu Mang so much that Hao Shao made such a deployment. He didn't expect that it would have such a good effect. If Hao Shao didn't know how to use it, he would be a fool.

"Roar over, rush over!" Liu Pi was also angry. His Yuzhou army was his capital. The reason why Liu Bei wrote to the court to grant Liu Pi a title of governor of Yuzhou was not only because Liu Pi gave his Runan to Liu Bei, but also because of the 20,000 elite Yellow Turban Army under Liu Pi, Liu Bei was embarrassed to seize military power from Liu Pi, so in order to appease Liu Pi, he also asked Liu Pi to become the third position of military generals under Liu Bei's army.

The first two are Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. He was before Chen Dao and he also led the army alone.

If the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army were lost, then Liu Bei would really consider letting Liu Pi be a deputy general.

"Run over! Rush over!"
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