"General, Huang Zhong has arrived outside the city and is now destroying the green energy of our army protecting the city!" Guan Yu was resting in the city while Xiahou Bo, who had gone out to arrest the scouts, limped back.
"Have you captured any enemy scouts?" Shi Tao asked quickly.
"The last general is incompetent..." Xiahou Bo said bitterly: "The rebel scouts are quite powerful. The last general personally led thirty good soldiers to arrest him, but was defeated by the scouts. Seventeen of the thirty good soldiers were killed.
The general wounded him...but failed to capture him. The fellow scouts came quickly, and the general had no choice but to retreat. When he was retreating, he was shot in the leg by a scout!"
Although the scout was an elite member of the army, he personally went into battle and joined forces with thirty soldiers. As a result, more than half of the soldiers were destroyed. He could only manage to injure him, but he was defeated by his companions who came from the other side... This is outrageous.
Guan Yu was silent when he heard this. Although Xiahou Bo was not well-known, he had followed Liu Bei in the north and south since he started his career. Speaking of which, he was also a veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time. He was quite good in both martial arts and military leadership. The enemy army
No matter how elite the scouts are, they are only small soldiers. Xiahou Bo couldn't even capture a small soldier alive, and even if the opponent had two more soldiers, he could only run away.
Thinking again about Huang Zhong's fighting power today, Guan Yu asked the gods to possess him, and it was just a draw. With such an army and such generals, how could this battle be fought?
Guan Yu and Shi Tao looked at each other, feeling a sense of powerlessness rising in their hearts.
"General, can we fight again?" Shi Tao looked at Guan Yu and asked.
Guan Yu shook his head: "Someone's invitation to the gods is different from others. It can only be used after one month."
Guan Yu's method of inviting gods and Lu Bu's method of slaying gods actually lead to the same goal by different paths. In other words, most people with their talents will eventually merge into humans and gods. However, in comparison, Lu Bu is more domineering, directly beheading and then Wei Li.
Attributing it to himself also allowed him to increase his strength by leaps and bounds after killing the gods, directly crossing the realm and reaching the level of refining the gods.
Guan Yu's method of borrowing from the gods is relatively gentle, integrating the gods into himself bit by bit. By inviting the gods, Guan Yu is one step ahead of Huang Zhong, but Huang Zhong practiced the art of Qi training first, and his progress is also very fast, without using it.
In the state of praying to God, Guan Yu is obviously defeated.
When Shi Tao heard this, his heart became heavier. In other words, within this month, Guan Yu would not be able to fight Huang Zhong again, and the opponent was not only a powerful general, but also the ordinary soldiers' combat power was a bit exaggerated, even with the green energy protecting the city.
, I'm afraid this new field won't be able to defend it for a few days.
Shi Tao and Guan Yu looked at each other, a little worried in their hearts. Their original plan was to spend a month in Xinye to give Liu Bei enough time to prepare in Xiangfan, but now it seems that not to mention a month, even three days may not be possible.
Look, once the green energy that protects the city is broken, judging from the performance of the other party's soldiers, even ordinary soldiers can jump directly to the top of Xinye City without any external force. Once the green energy of each other is broken, I am afraid that is when Xinye City is broken.
!
This was the first card Chu Nan threw out, and they almost couldn't catch it. How would they play next!?
"Boom~"
Just as the two of them were looking at each other in silence, Huang Zhong had already led his army to the outside of the city. Although they had just experienced a battle, Huang Zhong and his army were not tired at all, nor did they rest. Instead, they directly attacked Xinye City.
Launched an attack.
Shi Tao's expression changed. At this time, Guan Ping came in and said to Guan Yu: "Father, the enemy is attacking the city!"
In fact, there was no need for him to say it. As the controller of the green energy protecting the city, Shi Tao could clearly feel it. There was no time to think about it anymore. The two of them stood up at the same time and walked towards the city wall.
Xinye City is not big. The group of people quickly reached the city wall. Outside the city wall, which was less than two feet, they saw that Huang Zhong's army was arranged in an orderly manner. There were no siege equipment. Huang Zhong only used arrow arrays to consume the city defense.
Green air.
"Why is it so much less?" Xiahou Bo exclaimed. The green energy protecting the city was still very thick before, but in just a short time, the green energy protecting the city felt much weaker.
"The enemy's attack is too fierce, and the green energy protecting the city may not be able to stop it for too long." Shi Tao's heart sank. He had made sufficient preparations before, which was why he was confident of defending for a month.
However, facts have proven that in the face of absolute strength, the moral role of tactics is not too big. According to Huang Zhong's offensive, the Qingqi protecting the city may not be able to last even three days.
After Guan Yu watched the military formation for a moment, he said in a deep voice: "The three armies are forming a formation, military advisor, please release some of the green energy to protect the city."
There are two forms of city-protecting green energy. One is absolute defense. Before the city-protecting green energy is consumed, any force carrying a military formation will have difficulty penetrating the defense of the city-protecting green energy.
Although this method is powerful, its consumption also changes with the enemy's offensive. With Huang Zhong's attack power, the city-protecting green energy cannot be sustained for long.
The other is not to block, but to consume, which can offset the power of the military formation attached to the opponent's attack. After the siege equipment penetrates the green energy of the city defense, its power will be greatly reduced, and the defending army can easily become lazy. This kind of
This method consumes less green energy to protect the city, but it will put more pressure on the soldiers defending the city.
Now, in order to reduce the consumption of green energy for protecting the city, it is a good choice to turn on the energy-saving mode.
Shi Tao nodded, and immediately held the official seal of Xinye County, dispatching the green energy to protect the city to turn into reality. He no longer blocked the enemy's arrow array, but used consumption to block it.
"Boom boom boom~"
Arrow clusters penetrated the green air of the city defense and fell towards the city head, making violent collision sounds. The green air of the city defense was unable to completely offset the power of the enemy's military formation attached to the arrows!?
Shi Tao's face looked a little ugly. The enemy's force was stronger than he expected.
"General, it seems that the enemy's military formation is different from the ordinary military formation!" Shi Tao pointed to the opposite military formation and said in a deep voice.
In the past, military formations, like the arrow formation that Huang Zhong was deploying at this moment, were usually motionless. However, at this moment, the soldiers in the arrow formation were constantly running, gathering and dispersing. They seemed to be unorganized, but there was a faint hint of something.
The inexplicable rhythm makes people feel dizzy after looking at it for a long time.
The opponent's military formation and practice methods have undergone amazing changes!
Guan Yu nodded solemnly, inexplicably thinking of the book "The Controversy between Heaven and Man" that was passed down from the Central Plains. In "The Controversy between Heaven and Man", it talked about the method of practicing Qi in the Zhou Dynasty, but it was not as imagined back then.
The technique is generally spread throughout the world through this book.
In addition, there are also the lost pre-Qin battle formations. If these are true, the things mentioned in the Tianren Zhizhi...
Guan Yu shook his head and drove away this thought. The most important thing now was to retreat from the enemy!
He quickly changed his military formation, focusing on defense, but he saw waves of arrows raining non-stop towards the city. Even if the opponent's arrows were enough, the manpower would eventually be exhausted. What happened to the opponent's arrows?
But it seems endless. Can the opponent's archers bear such consumption?
Guan Ping organized several counterattacks, but his own arrows were shot at the opponent's arrow array. There was no defense on the opponent's arrow array, but the strange thing was that the arrows that were shot seemed to be triggered by an invisible force.
Scattered everywhere, in short, no one can be reached.
What is going on!? How to fight like this!?
Several times in succession, Guan Ping gave up.
The battle between the two sides lasted for a day, with Huang Zhong basically fighting and Guan Yu resisting hard. By the time Huang Zhong withdrew his troops and returned to camp in the evening, most of the original strong green Qi of Xinye to protect the city had dissipated.
In just one day, the green energy to protect the city was almost exhausted. If the battle continues, Shi Tao's speed of condensing the green energy to protect the city may not be able to keep up with the consumption, and the city will almost have to be destroyed tomorrow.
Guan Yu fought against his opponent. Once the city was defeated, his own soldiers could not stop the opponent at all.
And the other side didn't seem to have any intention of besieging the city, they just gathered their troops to fight fiercely!
Not long after Huang Zhong retreated, several soldiers came from outside the city covered with travel. After revealing their identities, they were roped up to the city wall by the city defenders.
"General, there is an emergency in Deng County. General, please send troops to help as soon as possible!"
"General, a large enemy army bypassed Xinye and invaded Jiangxia. Jiangxia is in urgent need. General, please send troops to assist as soon as possible!"
The two soldiers spoke at the same time.
The expressions of Shi Tao and Guan Yu changed slightly. Shi Tao frowned and said, "This move by Chu Nan is not in accordance with the law of war!"
Why is Xinye the gateway to Jingxiang?
Because no matter where Chu Nan attacks, just like the current besiege of Jiangxia, Deng County, and Xinye, it must pass through. If the opponent's troops pass by and Guan Yu sends troops to cut off its food routes, then the army that invades Jiangxia will completely lose its support.
Directly become a lone army.
This is a taboo in the art of war!
Guan Yu glanced at him and did not answer. In fact, it was extremely difficult for Xinye to deal with Huang Zhong now, let alone send reinforcements to support these two places.
The opponent used this seemingly irrational method to mobilize troops because they were sure that Xinye could move quickly. Otherwise, with Chu Nan's troop deployment style, Chu Nan would not do this if there were some risks.
Xinye, I can't hold on any longer!
Guan Yu sighed, looked at the crowd and said, "We will break out tonight, and we will return to Xiangyang!"
Shi Tao, Guan Ping, and Xiahou Bo were silent after hearing this, not because they didn't want to fight, but even if everyone died in this battle, the outcome would not change much, and they could last for one more day at most.
However, this day has no significance in the overall situation, but it will destroy all Liu Bei's elite.
Chu Nan really can't move at all, his movements are astonishing!
Shi Tao said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid Huang Zhong won't let us evacuate easily!"
As long as Huang Zhong is not stupid, he will not give them a chance to withdraw his troops. Shi Tao is sure that even though Huang Zhong is not taking any action now, as long as they show signs of withdrawing their troops, Huang Zhong's fierce attack will follow.
Think about the arrow array that could barely block even the green energy that protected the city, and then think about Guan Yu's strength after asking the gods, and he could only barely fight to a draw.
"You must leave even if you can't. If necessary... give up the army!" Guan Yu said solemnly.
It is impossible to take the soldiers and horses back, but the news here must be known to Liu Bei as soon as possible. Otherwise, if the two sides fight, if they are not prepared, Liu Bei will definitely suffer a loss, and a big loss.
In fact, Guan Yu and Shi Tao now don't have much hope for whether they can defend Hanshui and Xiangfan. Qingqi is not omnipotent in protecting the city, but Huang Zhong has not used siege equipment yet!
When Shi Tao heard this, his heart moved. Give up the army? Why not use the army as a cover?