Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 388 Attacking Guanyin Pavilion

At this time, there were [-] regular soldiers and [-] young men guarding Fenglin Pass on the south side of Xiangyang City.

Before Liu Biao fled back to Xiangyang, he rectified his troops in Xiangyang, sent scouts to investigate the movement of Zhu Wei's army, and at the same time looked for the whereabouts of Liu Qi, Kuai Yue, Deng Yi and others.

It's a pity that the scouts brought back bad news. Although Liu Biao didn't know the exact information that Liu Qi and Kuai Yue were dead and Deng Yi had surrendered, the soldiers sent out from Yicheng could not find it. The news that Zhu Wei had been wiped out was basically confirmed.

In this way, Liu Biao could only rely on the defenders and recruits who stayed in Xiangyang, so Liu Biao once again sent messengers to Wenpin and Zhang Xiu in Nanyang County for help, asking them to bring troops back to Xiangyang.

Then he began to deploy Xiangyang's defense line. Liu Biao also attached great importance to the peripheral passes of Xiangyang City like Fenglin Pass.

So this time he sent [-] troops to Fenglin Pass, [-] soldiers and [-] young and strong soldiers were stationed in Fenglin Pass, and each of the other [-] soldiers and [-] young and strong soldiers were stationed at Xianshou Mountain. and Guanyin Pavilion.

However, Xianshou Mountain and Guanyin Pavilion are both steep cliffs, the trees on them have been cut down a lot, and the defensive Shi Lei positions have been built, so it is not easy to go up.

Generally speaking, to attack Fenglin Pass, it is best to take these two hills first, so that you can use these two hills to condescend to pose a threat to a military town like Fenglin Pass.

Otherwise, the defenders of Fenglin Pass can use the hills on both sides to pose a great threat to the attacker when they attack Fenglin Pass.

Although there are only [-] regular soldiers at Fenglin Pass, and the other [-] are young and strong, with the help of the defense line formed by the hills on both sides and the pass in the middle, even young and strong can exert some threat.

So after Tai Shici led the soldiers of the Shenjian Battalion to set up a posture here, he didn't launch a fierce attack at the beginning, but just made a tentative fight first.

Anyway, Tai Shici's task was to feign an attack, and he was not in a hurry, so Tai Shici asked people to set up a chariot in front of Fenglin Pass, let the archers and crossbowmen go up to the high platform, and confront Liu Biao's guards at Fenglin Pass. Attack and contain.

The Xianshou Mountain and Guanyin Pavilion on both sides can only be regarded as small hills, the highest is about 150 meters. Liu Biao's defenders built defense lines on some steep hillsides, guarding the two sides like terraced fields. at the hills.

However, unlike the city walls of military towns like Fenglin Pass, Xianshou Mountain and Guanyin Pavilion can naturally be climbed.

So Tai Shici suppressed Liu Biao's defenders in Fenglin Pass with his chariot, and at the same time sent two thousand sword shieldmen and one thousand crossbowmen to try to attack Guanyin Pavilion.

Compared with Xianshou Mountain, the terrain of Guanyin Pavilion is gentler. At the same time, Guanyin Pavilion is an independent small hill, unlike Xianshou Mountain, which is connected to Xianshan Mountain. In this way, there is no need to worry about Liu Biao's soldiers when they capture Guanyin Pavilion. The mountain strikes, the trouble of tossing and scrambling for this hill,

This time Taishici sent Bao Long, who was originally a hunter in the mountains, to take charge of the battle to capture Guanyin Pavilion.

Two thousand saber shields guarded a thousand crossbow archers, and charged up the mountain when they searched for the mountain. In many places on the slope of Guanyin Pavilion, there were also a group of Liu Biao's regular soldiers, commanding hundreds or even hundreds of young and strong soldiers. , defending on the cliffs and rock defense lines formed by the mountains.

Seeing the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion coming up, the defenders on the defense lines everywhere began to shoot arrows down, throwing stones, rolling logs, etc., because the trees on the southeast side, etc. had been cleared. Therefore, these stones and rolling logs quickly rolled down towards the soldiers of the Shenjian Battalion who had put up their shields.

"Dodge carefully, spread out!"

Faced with such a situation, the soldiers on the side of the Shenjian Battalion can only rush forward, without any tricks, so Bao Long, who is commanding behind, can't help shouting in his mouth, let the military lords who command the troops below , commanding the troops to charge upwards.

"Kill! Go!"

The soldiers of the Shenjian Battalion also hurriedly dodged around on the hillside, using the mountain to dodge the falling stones and rolling logs, and then rushed upwards with all their strength. Many crossbow archers also looked for opportunities to shoot upwards.

For a while, there have been many casualties in the Shenjian Camp. More than a dozen people were hit in the head by stones, and fell to the ground with bloody heads. At least hundreds of people were also injured by falling rocks, rolling logs, or Whether it was seriously injured on the ground, or slightly injured, it continued to charge upwards.

However, many young men on the hill were also shot by the crossbowmen of the Divine Arrow Battalion due to their lack of experience.

It's just that there are still Liu Biao's regular soldiers commanding here, so these young men were quickly suppressed again, so they started to fight back again by throwing stones and rolling wooden stakes.

The battle continued with one side charging and the other defending.

However, it seems that the soldiers of the Shenjian Battalion are well-trained and elite. Even if they are at the disadvantage of climbing a mountain and charging from a low place to attack a high place, they can still rely on the protection of the shield combination to rely on mountain walls and rocks. The slope formed by the shield removes the threat of falling rocks and rolling logs, and then climbs up quickly.

Coupled with the cooperation of the crossbowmen's crossbow and arrows, sword and shield players soon reached the defense line at the bottom of the Guanyin Pavilion hill.

Of course, these sword and shield players were very experienced, and they did not rush in alone, but rushed up together after gathering more than 20 people around them.

After that, more than 20 sword and shield fighters cooperated with each other to form a shield battle formation, and began to attack this line of defense. Soon, they made a mess of the line of defense consisting of seventy or eighty young and strong soldiers. .

There are about seven lines of defense on the slope of Guanyin Pavilion, the top one is the top of Guanyin Pavilion, below are two parallel hillside rocks, and below is a rocky cliff, and then there are three small rocky slopes .

Now this line of defense is a small rocky slope at the bottom of the Guanyin Pavilion, and there were only about a hundred people guarding it, but now after being rushed up by the sword and shield hands of the Divine Arrow Battalion, they quickly killed the guards here. He died with Liu Biao.

At about the same time, the other two small rock slope defense lines were also taken down by the sword and shield fighters of the Shenjian Battalion, and then everyone rushed to the rocky cliff again.

It's just that there is a drop of about two meters on this rocky cliff, and there are more than 300 young and strong men and more than [-] Liu Biao soldiers guarding it, which is a difficult line of defense for Guanyin Pavilion.

The key point is that there is only a three or four meter wide block below this rocky cliff that can be approached, so there are only seven or eight sword and shield fighters of the Shenjian Battalion rushing to the cliff every time, so it is difficult to take advantage of the numbers. Climb up and disrupt the defensive steps of the guards.

Therefore, the nearly [-] sword shieldmen who rushed here first had to stop here, forming a shield formation here to resist the feathered arrows, falling rocks, and rolling logs shot down from the cliff.

But soon, the crossbow archer was escorted by the sword and shield hand and rushed over, so the crossbow archer shot a series of crossbow arrows on the rocky cliff, which was regarded as suppressing the guardian on the rocky cliff.

Then the sword and shield hand in front began to climb this rocky cliff again, using the way of a human ladder, directly lifted his companion up with his hand shield, and began to rush up this rocky cliff...

(End of this chapter)