Legend of Summoning of the Three Kingdoms

After that, a loud horn sounded suddenly in the Karasuma coalition camp, and amidst the sound of the horn, countless Karasuma people began to rush towards the city of Xuwu County.

When Gongsun Xu saw Karasuma's actions, he understood.

War.

it has started.

Chapter 176 Guard Xu Wu

Numerous Karasuma soldiers waved their weapons and rushed towards Xuwu County, and among these Karasuma soldiers, many Karasuma soldiers rushed towards Xu Wucheng with dozens of crude ladders.

Among the Karasuma tribe, there are many Han people who fled northward, and the Karasuma people also obtained a lot of Central Plains equipment technology through these Han people, but this time the southward movement was extremely sudden, so the preparations for the Karasuma people were not very complete. , all they can use now are these simple ladders made of local materials.

As the soldiers of Karasuma got closer and closer to the city wall of Xuwu County, Gongsun Xu slowly raised his hand.

Looking at the Karasuma soldiers who were constantly charging, Gongsun Xu slowly estimated the distance between them and Xuwu County in his heart, and seeing those charging Karasuma soldiers crossing a boundary, Gongsun Xu sneered.Immediately, the raised right hand swung down, making a false slash, and at the same time shouted: "Fire the arrow!"

As soon as Gongsun Xu finished speaking, a rain of arrows suddenly broke out in Xu Wucheng, and the arrows rained all over the sky, shooting towards the Karasuma soldiers who were charging.

Now most of the Karasuma soldiers have rushed into the attack range of the arrow rain.When these Karasuma soldiers heard the screams of the arrows piercing the air, all they looked up was the almost endless rain of arrows that covered the entire sky.

When seeing the countless arrows falling, the Karasuma soldiers raised their weapons and shields to block these arrows, and then relied on their experience and skill to avoid these arrows.

Karasuma is a nomad, and it is a nomad in northern Xinjiang. Almost all the people are soldiers, and every Karasuma soldier is good at archery, so they are quite capable of avoiding arrow attacks .Therefore, although the rain of arrows shot from Xu Wucheng was powerful, it failed to cause serious damage to the Karasuma soldiers. After such a rain of arrows, the Karasuma soldiers only suffered hundreds of casualties.

However, when Gongsun Xu saw that the Karasuma soldiers who had escaped from the first wave of arrows charged towards Xuwu County again, a cold smile appeared on the corner of Gongsun Xu's mouth again.

Then Gongsun Xu raised his right hand again.Another command was issued: "Shoot the arrow!"

After that, the second and third waves of arrows shot at those Karasuma soldiers.However, Karasuma is a nation that is good at archery after all. The three waves of arrow rain combined caused less than a thousand casualties to Karasuma soldiers, and most of them were injured but survived. The number of Karasuma soldiers who lost their combat effectiveness was only a few hundred.

After three waves of arrow rain, Gongsun Xu stopped shooting arrows, because at this time some Karasuma soldiers had already run to the foot of the city wall of Xuwu County. These archers can't be regarded as elites, and their archery skills can only cause a surprise attack effect on the Karasuma soldiers. Once the Karasuma soldiers are prepared, it will be difficult for the bows and arrows to effectively kill the Karasuma soldiers.

At this time, several ladders have been erected on the city wall of Xu Wu City. Seeing that these ladders have been built on the city wall of Xu Wu, Tian Yu beside Gongsun Xu had a flash of anger in his eyes, and grabbed a Gongsun next to him. The wooden fork in the soldier's hand was forked on the ladder when he went up, and then he exerted force with his arms. Amidst Tian Yu's roar, the ladder was pushed down by the joint efforts of Tian Yu and several Gongsun soldiers. go out.

And as the ladder was pushed out of the city wall of Xu Wu, the three or four Karasuma soldiers who had already climbed on the ladder also fell from the ladder and hit the foot of the city wall.

This is just a small microcosm of this war. This kind of situation has been unfolding on the city wall of Xuwu County, and it has never stopped.Every time a ladder from Karasuma reached the city wall, the soldiers of Gongsun Army in Xu Wu City would work together to push the ladder away. The rolling wood and lightning stones smashed towards the Karasuma soldiers who were struggling to climb up the ladder and under the city wall.

As long as every thunder stone or every rolling log hits, one or several Karasuma soldiers will be thrown down from the ladder, but the Karasuma soldiers can survive in the environment of Beijiang, and It is still one of the few large-scale alien forces in the north of the Han Dynasty, and its bones are naturally full of blood.

Facing the rolling wood and thunder stone falling from the city wall and the ladder that was finally built on the city wall but was pushed away by Gongsun soldiers in the next moment, these Karasuma people did not back down, but continued to move forward bravely, brandishing their weapons Roaring, he climbed up to the wall of Xu Wu City.

I saw that the soldiers of Karasuma climbing on the ladder were all holding wooden shields to resist the rolling wood and thunder stones falling from the city wall. It fell down from the ladder, and let out a muffled groan when it fell to the ground, life or death was unknown.

Gongsun Xu looked at the Karasuma soldiers who kept climbing on the ladder from the city wall, but there was no wave in the ancient well. Even though arrows flew by from time to time, Gongsun Xu remained motionless.

With such strength alone, it is natural that Xuwu County cannot be conquered. If these Karasuma people only have such strength, then they can only climb the city wall of Xuwu County at most, and they will be shot down once they climb up. kind of.

However, Gongsun Xu naturally did not think that these were the full strength of the Karasuma people. Even Karasuma, a soldier who was not good at siege, would not use all his strength on the first day of the siege. An act of recklessness.

In the first siege, either the defender is an idiot, or the attacking side has extremely elite soldiers or peerless generals with unparalleled force.

It's a pity that Gongsun Xu who defends the city is not an idiot, and Karasuma who is attacking the city has no strong generals, and Karasuma has no internal support for attacking the city.Therefore, no matter whether it was Gongsun Xu, Qiu Liju, or Wu Yan, they all knew that the siege on the first day would be fruitless.

And the fact is exactly like this, when the night fell on the land, the soldiers of Karasuma still didn't attack the city wall of Xuwu County, only a few of them reached the city wall but were quickly beaten down.

However, Qiu Liju and Wu Yan withdrew their troops in the evening. With the sound of the horn, the soldiers of Karasuma lifted up the corpses of the clansmen who had died in battle under Xu Wucheng and retreated slowly to the rear.

The officers and soldiers of Gongsun Army on Xuwu City watched the retreating Karasuma army and cheered one after another. They repelled the attack of Karasuma people and defended the city of Xuwu County.

"Karasuma is back!"

Gongsun Xu looked at the Karasuma army that had already retreated, but he did not fall into the carnival like Gongsun's soldiers. This time, he just defended the first wave of the Karasuma attack. Let it go.

Gongsun Xu still had a calm gaze, and called Tian Yu and said, "Tian Yamen, count the casualties immediately, and at the same time arrange for the soldiers to go down to rest, and let some other soldiers come up to the city wall to guard, although it is unlikely that the Karasuma people will launch a night attack." Attack, but also have to guard against."

Tian Yu bowed and said, "The general will understand."

After today's battle, Tian Yu also admired Gongsun Xu very much. Originally, Tian Yu thought that Gongsun Xu had nothing outstanding, and only being the son of Gongsun Zan would allow Gongsun Zan's old troops to continue to serve Gongsun Xu, but today During the First World War, Gongsun Xu never stepped back on the city wall, which made Tian Yu change his view of Gongsun Xu.

After Tian Yu went down, Gongsun Xu continued to turn his gaze to the retreating Karasuma army.For some reason, Gongsun Xu always had a feeling that the purpose of Karasuma going south this time was not pure, and that Wu Yan and Qiu Liju actually joined forces to deal with him this time, which is really a bit abnormal.

It's as if these two people knew that they were in Xu Wucheng, and then they brought soldiers and horses to deal with them.

This feeling was very weird, but it stayed in Gongsun Xu's mind for a long time.

Recalling that Yuan Shao's envoy had contact with these leaders of the Karasuma tribe, Gongsun Xu couldn't help but have some guesses in his heart.

Chapter 177 Xu's Bloodless Battle

In the next few days, Qiu Liju and Wu Yan continued to command the Karasuma soldiers under their command to continue to attack Xu Wu.Under Qiu Liju and Wu Yan's onslaught regardless of cost, although Xuwu County was not captured, it suffered heavy casualties. The total number of Gongsun Army guarding the city and the newly recruited young men was less than 1000. people.

However, the Karasuma army also lost a lot of soldiers and horses. After several days of attacking the city, the Karasuma people left at least nearly 5000 corpses under the city of Xu Wu. Now the Karasuma army has only [-] people, with casualties It is several times that of Gongsun Jun.But even so, Gongsun Xu who is in Xu Wucheng at the moment is not optimistic at all.

During the siege of the city in the past few days, Karasuma soldiers have attacked the city many times. If it weren't for Gongsun Xu and Dian Wei, a peerless general like Dianwei, maybe this Xuwu County would have been captured by the Karasuma people long ago. up.But even so, the current situation in Xuwu County is not optimistic. Since Wu Yan and Qiu Liju led the Karasuma army outside Xuwu City to surround them, it is difficult for news of Xuwu County to spread.

And even if the news spread, judging from the current situation in Youzhou, unless Liu Yu sent troops, there would be no extra troops to rescue Xu Wu.According to Gongsun Xu's estimation, according to the current situation, Xu Wucheng would not be able to last long under the attack of Karasuma's army.

Moreover, Gongsun Xu turned his attention to the Karasuma army slowly approaching outside Xu Wucheng. Today, it seems that Wu Yan and Qiu Liju are preparing to launch a general attack.

But Gongsun Xu still has a glimmer of hope in his heart, and that is Zhao Yun and Luo Cheng who were sent out by him. These two have a total of [-] soldiers and horses under their command, and before they set off from Youbeiping, he gave these two orders. It was to look for opportunities in the north of Youzhou, but before Qiu Liju and Wu Yan led troops to surround Xuwu County, Gongsun Xu sent people to ask for help from these two people. If one of them returns, with the strength of either of Luo Cheng and Zhao Yun, the five thousand Karasuma army outside Xu Wucheng will not be able to pose any threat to Gongsun Xu.

But now the most important thing for Gongsun Xu is to survive Karasuma's attack.If they couldn't even hold on to this wave of Karasuma people's offensive, then even if Zhao Yun and Luo Cheng came there together, it would be useless.

Because even if Zhao Yun and Luo Cheng arrived, even with Dian Wei's protection, Gongsun Xu would only die in the hands of the Karasuma man.

At this moment, Gongsun Xu's face was covered with blood because he was directing the battle in Xuwu City for several days, and Gongsun Xu was extremely tired both physically and mentally, but now Gongsun Xu couldn't go down to rest.Because the reason why Gongsun Jun was able to defend Xuwu County for so many days under the strong attack of eight thousand Karasuma people was that Gongsun Xu had been on the city wall.

Just because Gongsun Xu didn't retreat as the lord, how could the soldiers of the Gongsun army retreat? Therefore, when Gongsun Xu stayed at the top of the city, the soldiers of the Gongsun army would always explode more violently than usual. Strong combat power.

And if Gongsun Xu disappeared at this time, then I don't know if these Gongsun soldiers can still hold Xuwu County, so even though Dian Wei and Tian Yu persuaded Gongsun Xu many times, Gongsun Xu still didn't go down to rest.Not long ago, it was Tian Yu who forcibly knocked Gongsun Xu unconscious and carried him down to rest.For this reason, Tian Yu was almost beaten up by Dian Wei.

When Gongsun Xu woke up, he understood that Tian Yu was doing it for his own good, so he didn't blame Tian Yu much, but Tian Yu was very grateful for Gongsun Xu's behavior.In any case, behavior like Tian Yu's is a big or small crime at any time.

If you meet a good protagonist, such as Xiang Gongsunxu, you may just smile and let it go, but if you meet some protagonists with some personality problems, then Tian Yu's behavior may be the way to death.

Fortunately, although Gongsun Xu's character is not perfect, he will not kill a talent like Tian Yu for such a reason.

At this time, the sound of horns sounded loud and clear from the Karasuma army formation outside the city. Amid the sound of the horns, Karasuma soldiers waved their weapons one after another and rushed towards Xuwu County with shouts.

But the soldiers of Gongsun Army on Xu Wucheng and a group of young and strong saw these Karasuma soldiers rushing over, but they clenched their weapons tightly, and then found wooden boards, shields and other things to block in front of them, and no one went At the edge of the city wall, no one stood up and fired arrows.

Then a rain of arrows suddenly burst out from the Karasuma army, and the number of arrows enough to cover the sky and the earth roared towards Xu Wucheng.

But despite the great momentum of these arrows, the soldiers of Gongsun Army on Xu Wucheng had already prepared themselves, so the casualties caused were almost zero.

The Karasuma people belong to the nomadic people, and archery is the basic skill of every Karasuma people. After a few days after the Karasuma people attacked the city, the generals of Gongsun Army tasted the power of the Karasuma people's arrows. It is not as big as flat shooting and downward shooting, but Gongsun Army still has many soldiers who died in such bow and arrow attacks.