The sharp long arrow shot directly into Li Xuan's eyes, but Li Xuan was not moved at all.
In an instant, his gaze went beyond the countless arrows and stared directly at Luo Yongjie below the city.
Looking at him was like looking at a dead person.
Four blades of light flashed in front of Li Xuan's eyes, and all the long arrows were chopped off in an instant.
This time, nothing was missed.
When the sword light fell, Li Xuan's figure was nowhere to be seen.
He had already stepped further back, looking beyond the city wall, following the rain of arrows flying from the wall, towards Luo Yongjie.
Arrows fell like rain.
In an instant, countless long arrows with the aura of death all landed on the heads of the Tianyin Sect archers.
More than a dozen round shields suddenly wrapped up from behind, and instantly enveloped the heads of the archers.
Overlapping each other, like a semicircular ball, almost covering all the archers, while constantly rotating.
"Ding ding ding!" Almost all of the dozens of long arrows hit the buckler, but immediately after, many were bounced off.
A straight long arrow shot straight down from the gap in the round shield, directly from the shoulder blade of an archer, and penetrated into the heart of the archer.
The figure fell to the ground silently, and blood flowed directly from the mouth into the soil.
One big foot stepped on the face of the fallen figure, and quickly exited the range of the long arrow.
The long arrows in mid-air all disappeared without a trace in an instant.
But there were already corpses lying on the ground, and the pungent smell of blood filled everyone's noses, and no one could escape.
…
On the city wall, Yan Tao, who saw this scene, suddenly looked at Luo Yongjie coldly and whispered: "This person has been to the Western Regions."
Li Xuan glanced at Yan Tao in surprise. After thinking for a moment, he nodded and agreed: "Indeed, judging from his age, he should have participated in the second war against the Turks, which was the battle to destroy the Western Turks. He returned to the Tianyin Sect and participated in the Tianyin Sect uprising that year."
After a slight pause, Li Xuan looked solemn: "Only those who have fought in the battlefields of the Western Regions can use this kind of round shield formation so skillfully."
The buckler formation looks simple, and is even recorded in every military book, but if you don't have enough battlefield experience and copy a cat, you will end up losing your life.
Luo Yongjie's round shield formation is so tight that only those who have been on the battlefield know how to do it, and only those who have been on the battlefield can train it.
Luo Yongjie could become the leader of the Muzhou Jiande Branch of the Tianyin Sect. He was an absolute confidant of the Tianyin Sect and must have participated in the uprising twenty years ago.
If he participated in the Tianyin Rebellion that year, he would definitely not be involved in the subsequent war against Goguryeo.
Therefore, the only chance for him to participate in the war was in the early years of the Western Turkic War.
This kind of old soldier fighting on the battlefield is not easy to deal with.
"I'm afraid there are many people like this in the Tianyin Sect. If all the soldiers are trained in this way, we will be in trouble!" Zhou Shen looked at the Tianyin Sect members gradually gathering in the distance, and retreated to the Tianyin Sect members in the dense forest two miles away. , his brows wrinkled slightly.
"But there shouldn't be many. If there were, I'm afraid all of them would have died long ago." Li Xuan shook her head and said thoughtfully: "Those people below seem to be skilled in using the round shield formation, but in fact they did not participate in it. How much actual combat is now just a response without much pressure, and once pressure is applied, it will collapse immediately."
Li Xuan placed her right hand on the Eight-sided Han Sword, but her expression was very determined.
He had long seen through the true details of the soldiers of the Tianyin Sect.
That is, they have a lot of training, but a serious lack of real combat experience.
If they were allowed to deal with the soldiers from various states and counties, they would naturally not be at a disadvantage, and could even have the upper hand in some states and counties with lax armaments. However, they were not enough in front of Li Xuan's soldiers who were fighting against the government.
Just like Zhou Shen, many of him and his team of soldiers had participated in the battle to annihilate Goguryeo.
Being stained with blood or not being stained with blood, being on the battlefield and not being on the battlefield are completely different things.
"However, this kind of shield formation technique is very practical in such a narrow terrain... Lieutenant Yan, please bring up a batch of round shields from Lanxi. Maybe we will have to fight them head-on." Li Xuan suddenly changed his tone, and everyone present was shocked.
"I obey the order!" Yan Tao immediately accepted the offer.
Li Xuan looked up at the sky and said calmly: "Wait, they will attack again soon... Feng Canjun, remember to bring the water up in time, the weather is very hot."
The weather was quite hot, and even the people from the Tianyin Sect had retreated two miles away.
Li Xuan looked at everything on the opposite side, and now it was up to Luo Yongjie to see when he would launch an attack.
Because all the trees within these two miles have been cut down by Li Xuan, and even all water sources within ten miles have been destroyed by Li Xuan's men.
Luo Yongjie could either lead his men to retreat, or he could only bite the bullet and attack.
Carrying water from the rear, thousands of people, will only be a drop in the bucket.
"Here!" Everyone present agreed at the same time. They had vaguely seen the outcome of Luo Yongjie and others.
…
Luo Yongjie took out the water bag, took a sip, and then drank up all the remaining water in the bag.
"Luoshan." Luo Yongjie glanced sideways, and his adopted son Luoshan immediately handed over the water bag in his hand. Luo Yongjie took another big sip and asked: "How are you, everyone?" How much water is left!”
"There are not many." Luoshan said a few words simply, and then said with a worried face: "Father, why don't we lead the people to retreat first? Meiling Pass is heavily guarded. If we attack by force, brothers The casualties are serious."
"You don't understand. There is a saying in the art of war. If you can't take Meiling Pass today, we will have no chance in the future. Don't forget that we set off this time without any siege equipment. There are not even a few craftsmen." At this point, Luo Yongjie gritted his teeth and said: "The trick of strengthening the wall and clearing the field was actually used on me."
The cottages for resting on the road, the surrounding water sources, and the nearby villages were all cleaned up.
Isn't this a way to clear the field with a strong wall?
At this time, Luo Yongjie had already felt Li Xuan's difficulty.
He originally thought that the other party was just a fledgling kid who won the Meiling Pass with some conspiracy and trickery, but he didn't expect that he would be so difficult to deal with.
He used these methods that only shameless bastards on the battlefield could use without any scruples.
"Luoshan, you personally take people back to the camp and transport the collected water bags. I want to see who can outlast whom." Although Luo Yongjie is not the kind of famous general, but with several years of battlefield experience, He also has his own set of things, and it is not easy to get rid of him easily.
Although the camp behind was several miles away, it happened to be right next to the water source, so it was not difficult to transport the water there.
…
With a "pop" sound, a water bag was thrown to the ground.
Luo Yongjie waved his hands vigorously and cursed: "What's going on? I've drank so much water, why is it getting hotter and hotter?"
Luoshan's face on the side was also a little ugly. It was not just Luo Yongjie who felt very thirsty.
Almost all the soldiers here are like this.
Obviously everyone had drank a lot of water, but it seemed as if they hadn't drank much. After a while, they became more and more thirsty.
"Maybe it's because the weather is too hot." Luoshan explained forcefully.
Luo Yongjie immediately waved his hand and said: "Hurry up and send water up from behind. In addition, hurry up and build more shields."
Without sufficiently skilled craftsmen, building a trebuchet was simply impractical.
Even if it is forcibly built, the range and power are not much higher.
But it's easy to make a shield out of wood. Even if it's not that strong, it's not difficult to attack a city.
"There is also a battering ram!" Luo Yongjie gritted his teeth and said, "You can kill him just as well by breaking down the city gate with a battering ram."
For some reason, Luo Yongjie became increasingly angry and hated Li Xuan more and more deeply.
Turning his head, Luo Yongjie saw Luo Chuan's body on the mountain road at a glance.
Unexpectedly, until now, he has not snatched Luo Chuan's body back.
In an instant, the hatred in Luo Yongjie's heart became even greater.
…
The sun is gradually heading west.
On the city wall, Li Xuan looked calmly at the dense forest in the distance, where there was a faint sound of restlessness.
Compared to the Shen Su on the city wall, the opposite side looks like a vegetable market.
"They can't keep their composure!" Li Xuan couldn't help but said, with a trace of disdain on her lips.
"What the prince said is true. Although Luo Yongjie has fought on the battlefield, he doesn't understand the way of commanding at all." Zhou Shen, who was behind him, couldn't help but shake his head.
"What do you mean by this?" Feng Hua was a little confused.
"When the weather is too hot, the more you drink water, the thirstier you will become, especially when you are upset." Zhou Shen turned sideways, looked at the countless soldiers beside him, and said softly: "Those people outside, Their water source is far away, and they know that the water supply is insufficient, but they have to drink water in hot weather and are irritable, so they will only become thirstier and thirstier. The most important thing is that in this case, their endurance will be reduced.”
Reduced endurance naturally reduces combat effectiveness.
"We are different. We know that we will have countless drinking water available at any time, so we are not in a hurry and replenish water in a controlled manner."
Li Xuan turned around and looked at the increasingly noisy enemies in the dense forest, and said softly: "If it had been dusk before, he would have taken the initiative to withdraw and find a place to rest and come back tomorrow. But it was noon before, so there was no day for the soldiers to rest." Yes, so we can only hold on until now. At dusk and sunset, they will launch the last wave of offensive. After that, it will be a night battle, so..."
Li Xuan turned sideways and looked at Qiu Zhenmu, Li Zhu, Zhou Shen, Yan Tao, Wang Qin and Feng Hua, and said in a deep voice: "Tell everyone, I don't want to drag the war into the night, so next, I will We must fight at dusk and completely maim them to death!"
"I obey the order!" Everyone present agreed in a loud voice.
Li Xuan slowly turned around and suddenly saw a wooden cart with a sharp giant tree tied tightly to it, and it was slowly pushed out towards the city wall.
More than 20 soldiers protected the wooden cart from both sides, pushing the wooden cart slowly from the city gate.
Li Xuan's eyes crossed the wooden cart and fell directly into the dense forest behind.
One after another, ladders were pushed out.
A pair of murderous eyes suddenly caught Li Xuan's sight.
Luo Yongjie.
Upstairs at the city gate, Li Xuan looked at him coldly.
One battle will determine the outcome.
A battle determines life and death.
(End of chapter)
