In Juyongguan, Yuan Xi, who was once again entrusted with an important task, was not in a good mood at the moment. He knew that this was the last chance his father gave him.
However, Juyongguan is different from Macheng and Guangning, which were guarded before. There is not much population here, and naturally there are no common people. There is not much green energy to protect the city at all in the Guancheng.
If you want to defend yourself against the enemy, you can only rely on military formations and the fortified city of Juyongguan.
As an important pass to resist the barbarians in the past, Juyong Pass is naturally strong. The city has tall pines and behind the foundation, the city wall alone is more than ten battles thick. Horses can race on the top of the city wall. It is much easier to deploy military formations on the city wall here than on the walls in other places.
But this does not bring much sense of security to Yuan Xi.
Ma Chao defeated the city twice in a row with less and more. Although it was a trick by the opponent, a defeat was a defeat. There was a psychological shadow. If possible, he really hoped that his father could find someone else to defend him.
If he loses again, not only will his father look down on him, but the little power he has now will probably disappear. The number of people who defected to him has already been reduced because Zhen Mi was taken away. The departure of the Zhen family makes Yuan Xi unable to do so again.
As there was no need to worry about money and food in the past, naturally there was not enough money to win over talents. What little prestige and hope of inheritance was also consumed in this battle with two clean defeats.
On the way back, many diners had quietly left. Yuan Xi knew that he had completely lost the qualification to inherit. Since he had lost the qualification to inherit, he naturally did not want to work hard anymore.
Even though he knew that this was the last chance his father gave him, he felt that he had no chance and there was no need to fight for it anymore.
However, the order had been issued, and he could only bite the bullet and come to Juyongguan to garrison. The only thing that comforted him was that the army led by his father was ambushing behind him, and he only had to hold on for twenty days.
It doesn't even take twenty days as long as he holds on for twenty days. As long as his father is ready, he can evacuate Juyongguan.
So after entering the city, Yuan Xi's first order was to seal the city gate to the west. No matter what means the other side used this time, he could not open the city gate again. In addition, he ordered his soldiers to seal the city gates.
Crossbows and catapults were installed on the city walls, and craftsmen were ordered to reinforce the city defenses.
Anyway, no matter how Ma Chao fights this time, he can't even get out of the city!
However, in this way, he also gave up the northern spy. He could not understand the opponent's march progress and movements through scouts, but as long as he guarded the Juyong Pass, everything else was trivial.
Therefore, he did not know that Lu Bu had arrived in Juyong, nor did he know whether Lu Bu's number of soldiers and horses, food and grass were lacking.
When Ma Chao arrived at Juyong Pass with his 3,000 troops, what he saw was the enemy soldiers reinforcing the city defense in full swing. It was not until he noticed their arrival that he hurriedly stopped the work. Then, a gas shield was raised on the top of Juyong Pass.
That is the Secret of Mountain Characters. A powerful general can use the Secret of Mountain Characters to completely integrate the military formation and the city. However, the general guarding Juyongguan obviously does not have this ability, but the blessing is there.
What is this for?
Ma Chao wandered around Juyong Pass for two times and frowned slightly. He had not met any scouts before. He thought it was because of his carelessness, and the other scouts were far away and were not noticed. But now it seems that the other side really does not know that his army has arrived.
This is a bit interesting.
"General, do you want to attack the city?" Dong Chao looked at the strong walls of Juyong Pass and hesitated. This pass is not easy to attack.
"Wait, let me test it out." Ma Chao shook his head, rode his horse to the city, and said loudly: "I am Xiliang Ma Chao, who is the guard?"
"Fire the arrow!" The so-called enemy was extremely jealous when they met and was bullied by Ma Chao twice. This time when he saw Ma Chao, Yuan Xi didn't want to say a word to him and directly ordered him to fire the arrow.
Zhang Nan launched the arrow array, and in an instant, arrows rained down, hitting Ma Chao overwhelmingly.
Ma Chao had been prepared for a long time. His energy surged all over his body, and the white tiger's phantom appeared, deflecting most of the sharp arrows aimed at him. However, these sharp arrows were all blessed by the military formation. Personal energy alone was not enough to completely defeat him.
On guard, many arrow clusters penetrated Qi Jin and shot towards Ma Chao. Ma Chao danced the spear in his hand to make it airtight, and the remaining arrow clusters were blocked by his spear.
"Keep shooting, shoot him to death!" Yuan Xi knew that Ma Chao was brave, but he did not expect that such a dense rain of arrows could not harm him. He was shocked and angry, and immediately ordered people to release arrows and continue to kill him.
Ma Chao had no choice but to block and retreat until he was out of the killing range of the sharp arrows and could no longer penetrate his energy. Then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Who is it!?
Ignorant of etiquette and vulgar!
Ma Chao returned to the formation in a depressed manner. Under normal circumstances, shouldn't everyone first know each other's names, say a few friendly greetings, and then say anything else?
The general at Juyong Gate has no martial ethics!
"General, are you okay?" Dong Chao sent his shield men to guard Ma Chao, rescued Ma Chao, and looked at Ma Chao worriedly.
"It's okay, a mere arrow array can't hurt me!" Ma Chao snorted coldly, looked at Juyong Pass and said: "This Juyong Pass guard is too rude and lacks etiquette!"
Along the way, he attacked the city. Yuan Xi assembled heavy troops to defend the city but could not stop him. However, this was the first time he was blocked at Juyong Pass, and the way he was blocked was quite embarrassing.
Dong Chao looked towards the direction of Juyong Pass and said with some worry: "Juyong Pass is sandwiched between two mountains. The five hundred steps in front of the city are all narrow roads. Not to mention that our army only has three thousand troops. Even if there are more soldiers and horses, this kind of
The terrain is also difficult to deploy, so how can we break the city?"
Ma Chao turned around and looked at the terrain of Juyong Pass. Just now, he was sent away by the enemy's bows and arrows. Thinking of this, Ma Chao felt very depressed.
However, the terrain in front of us is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. Not to mention that we don't have a large army, even if we attack with all the troops in front of us, we will still be a target.
After observing for a long time, Ma Chao suddenly asked: "This Juyong Gate seems to have no green energy to protect the city!"
"This is Guancheng." Hearing this, Dong Chao smiled bitterly and said: "There is not much land suitable for farming around. Naturally, there are few people. Even if there are, it will be difficult to gather the green energy to protect the city."
If the number of common people is too small, even if there are Confucian scholars who can condense the green energy to protect the city, they will not be able to gather much. A small amount of green energy to protect the city is not enough to form a defense at all, and it is almost as good as none.
"In other words, the opponent only has military formations to protect the city?" Ma Chao sat on his horse and looked at the towering city wall opposite, his eyes shining.
"Yes." Dong Chao nodded, then looked at Ma Chao and said, "Young general, don't act recklessly!"
"What is nonsense?" Ma Chao glared at him dissatisfied and said, "You can lead the army here and wait. I will lead five hundred soldiers to form a formation to meet him. If it is just a military formation, our army will not tolerate him!"
Dong Chao still wanted to stop him, but Ma Chao had already ordered five hundred soldiers. However, this time Ma Chao led soldiers holding shields and formed a military formation and went straight to Juyong Pass.
Yuan Xi was relieved to see Ma Chao leave, but not long after, Ma Chao came again with 500 troops. Yuan Xi frowned, and then sneered: "A mere few hundred people are fighting in formation, but they also want to break through my city defense!?
Zhang Nan!”
"The general is here!" Zhang Nan quickly took a step forward and said.
"Set arrows for me. Don't pay attention to Ma Chao, but shoot all these five hundred thieves!" Yuan Xi pointed at the enemy formation and said.
Ma Chao's defensive energy is so strong that it is difficult to shoot him. However, once the soldiers behind him use an offensive battle formation, their defense will be weak. But not everyone is as capable as Ma Chao.
"Here!" Zhang Nan agreed, and the military formation at the top of the city began to change. Half formed a mountain formation to protect the city wall, and the other half formed an arrow formation to prepare for the attack.
During the change of military formations, Ma Chao had already arrived with 500 men and horses, but he did not launch an attack on the city. He only brought sword and shield men. Without archers, it was impossible to attack the soldiers on the city.
Zhang Nan also noticed this. The opponent's military formation was a secret weapon, but they brought sword and shield wielders who focused on defense. What was they trying to do?
Without any time to think about it, he directly ordered the arrow to be fired.
In an instant, arrows rained down like a rain. Po Zi Mi's defense was not high. The arrow array fell. The soldiers below quickly raised their shields and gathered together. Many of the sharp arrows blessed by the arrow array directly penetrated the shield, and some penetrated the shield.
Halfway through, they were all exhausted, but some of them were shot directly through them, killing the soldiers under their shields as well.
Ma Chao ignored all this and ran straight to the city with five hundred shields and a secret code. A white tiger phantom appeared above the entire military formation, which was much more spectacular than before when Ma Chao was alone.
But when he saw Ma Chao coming to the city and slashing at the defenders, a white tiger beast rushed towards the city wall, he couldn't help but be frightened in his heart.
"Roar~" The white tiger phantom roared. Below the phantom, all the power of the army gathered together, and Ma Chao tried his best to stab the city gate with a spear.
"Boom~"
The entire Juyong Pass trembled for a few times. The spears collided with the military formations protecting the city. The military formations were torn apart. The city gate was pierced with a huge hole by the spears. However...
Ma Chao stared blankly at the broken city gate, the broken boulders, and the broken stones falling from the pits. Ma Chao swallowed. He finally knew why he didn't see any enemy scouts along the way. Is this him?
The city gate was sealed directly from the inside!
Even if it was a city defense battle, this was the first time he had seen such a fight.
"Falling rocks!" Ma Chao heard a familiar voice on the top of the city, and then saw countless rocks falling from the top of the city.
"Secretary of the Shanzi, retreat!" Although Ma Chao was unwilling to give in, looking at the sealed city gate, trying to break through it by force would probably not be as easy as breaking through the city wall.
Many soldiers were directly beaten to death with their shields and men. If we didn't retreat, our five hundred soldiers might not be able to hold out for long and the entire army would be annihilated.
Ma Chao helplessly formed a mountain-shaped secret and slowly retreated.
Every strong man on the city wall can throw stones as far as two or three feet. Even if they form a mountain, the stones can fall from the sky and kill people. After exiting the range of the stones, the arrow array follows up. Ma Chao throws a few stones.
After ten corpses, he withdrew from the pass under the rain of arrows from the opponent with a depressed look on his face, and returned to the formation with a depressed look on his face...