The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

There are only a thousand soldiers around him who are like him, and these people are the first to rush forward.

The rest, either fell to the ground and died, or were hit by several arrows. Although they are not dead yet, they still have more breath than breath.

Guan Ping huddled under the city tower, and now he was in a dilemma.

It is not enough to continue to attack the city, nor is it possible to retreat and escape.

Fortunately, when they attacked just now, there were quite a few sword and shield fighters. Seeing that the siege battle was over.

Guan Ping could only pick up the large shield of the Sword and Shield Hand that fell on the ground, put it on his head, and began to retreat.

Those who are still alive can only imitate the appearance of their vanguard general, pick up the shield on the ground, use it as a cover and start to retreat.

But on the tower, the shooters under Gan Ning have not dispersed yet.

Zhuge Liannu's soldiers and horses only shot 6000 people, and there are still 4000 people who have not played.

As soon as he saw that there were still these remnants and they were not killed, Gan Ning immediately waved his hands and let those who had finished shooting go down the tower, and those who did not shoot stood up and continued to shoot.

Just as Guan Ping rushed out from under the tower with his big shield in hand, a bunch of new troops came to the battlements above the tower.

The fourth round of shooting has begun.

"not good!"

Guan Ping had completely seen the shooting of these soldiers on the battlements just now, so he knew where the arrows of these archers came from, and this made him terrified.

The soldiers on the battlements took out a machine that looked like a crossbow, and shot at Guan Ping and the others.

With quick eyes and quick hands, Guan Ping immediately swung the big shield behind him.

Just heard the sound of thump, thump, thump.

The large shield behind him was immediately hit by several arrows.

If Guan Ping hadn't reacted quickly enough, the arrows just now would have landed on Guan Ping's body.

But even if it can block some arrows, the dense arrows shooting at it still makes the shield in Guan Ping's hand unable to hold up.

Several arrows hit at the same time, and cracks appeared on the large shield, and some even shot directly through the shield, and the arrow penetrated into the shield.

Almost hit Guan Ping.

Guan Ping was shocked. After seeing that the number of arrows rained down a lot, he didn't even need a shield.

He spread his legs and ran back.

Chapter 1000 Two hundred 69 The Power of Liannu

In this way, Guan Ping seized the time when the shooters on the top of the tower changed positions and successfully escaped from under the tower.

Back to Guan Yu's side.

Originally, Guan Yu was still worried about his son Guan Ping, but at this moment he suddenly saw Guan Ping rushing back from the tower, and he was a little surprised.

"Ping'er, are you okay?"

At this moment, Guan Ping was covered in cold sweat.

Fortunately, he was not injured.

This can be regarded as luck among misfortunes.

Hearing Guan Yu's question, Guan Ping restrained his expression and spoke slowly.

"Father, I'm fine!"

"It's good that it's okay, damn it, this time I really miscalculated, I didn't expect that Liu Zheng was still ambushing so many shooters on the tower."

Until now, Guan Yu thought that the arrows shot by the rain of arrows were shot by tens of thousands of archers.

After all, he was far away and couldn't see carefully enough.

Guan Ping, who I just escaped from under the tower, can see clearly.

After hearing Guan Yu's answer, he frowned, and quickly refuted his father.

"Father is wrong, these arrows were not shot by the archers."

"It wasn't the shooters who shot it, was it?"

Guan Yu frowned, not understanding what Guan Ping meant.

Guan Ping didn't explain, but touched his back lightly, and pulled out an arrow.

This is an arrow that he pulled out from the wooden shield just now.

Not for anything else, but because he saw the arrows shot out at a glance, which were different from the arrows shot out by ordinary bows and arrows.

If you explain directly to Guan Yu, Guan Yu may not be able to understand.

But after getting these shot arrows, explaining to Guan Yu is different.

"Father, please look!"

Guan Ping presented the arrow, which immediately attracted the attention of many generals around him.

Guan Yu, Pang De, Zhang Xiu and others all looked at Guan Ping's hand.

He stared at the arrow in Guan Ping's hand.

Guan Yu immediately noticed the difference between the arrow in Guan Ping's hand and the arrows shot by ordinary bows and arrows.

The arrows shot by ordinary bows and arrows are about three feet long.

But at this moment, the length of the arrow held by Guan Ping was only one and a half feet.

It is obviously half shorter than ordinary arrows.

Moreover, there is no feather behind this arrow.

"This is an arrow shot from the tower, which is obviously different from ordinary arrows!"

"The distance between the generals and my lord father is quite far, so I couldn't see clearly what shot this thing from."

"But I can see it clearly from the bottom of the city. Although the people who shoot these arrows are soldiers on the tower, their hands are not bows and arrows, but a device similar to a crossbow."

"Crossbow arrows!"

"Impossible, how could the crossbow shoot so many arrows at the same time, is it possible that there are so many crossbow shooters in this city?"

Just after Guan Ping finished speaking, Pang De on the side had an unbelievable tone and questioned Guan Ping.

After all, Pound knew about the crossbows that Guan Ping mentioned. Crossbows in this era are not rare, but the crossbows that Pound has seen are all single-shot.

Even if it is a volley, it will shoot two or three arrows at most, and no more lethality.

"I've seen a volley of crossbow arrows. It is true that three arrows can be fired at once. Could it be that the arrows on the tower are the same type of crossbow arrows?"

Zhang Xiu immediately added a sentence after Pound's words.

Let Guan Ping's words have a little more credibility.

But Guan Ping immediately refuted.

"No, it's not a volley, it's a continuous crossbow, and more than ten arrows are fired at once!"

"what!"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"A crossbow bolt that shoots ten arrows at once?"

This time, Guan Ping's words stunned Guan Yu, Pang De, and Zhang Xiu.

Just now they felt that what Guan Ping said should be very credible, but now that they said it like this, Guan Yu, Zhang Xiu and others shook their heads.

I couldn't believe it.

But Guan Ping, seeing what these people said, seemed not to believe what he said, and became anxious.

"It's true, I really saw it, father, if you don't believe it, you can ask those soldiers who fled back from the city together, and they must have seen it clearly too."

Guan Ping didn't want to give up, so he immediately said something to Guan Yu again.

Guan Ping just wanted to make Guan Yu, Zhang Xiu and others believe what he said.

For this reason, after he saw a few soldiers who escaped from the city, he immediately called those people.

At this moment, Guan Yu was indeed somewhat skeptical, so after Guan Ping called those soldiers, he immediately questioned those soldiers.

Ask them if they can see clearly whether the arrows shot from the tower are shot from the hands of the crossbow or from the bow.

However, the answers were all the same.

That is to shoot out from the crossbow.

Moreover, these soldiers also saw clearly that the crossbow arrows were fired continuously, firing more than ten arrows at one time.

Arrows rained all over the sky, but the real number of archers was only 2000.

This answer immediately stunned Guan Yu, Pang De, Zhang Xiu and others.

It was only at this time that they suddenly realized.

On the aisles in the city, only a few people can stand at a time. Even if there are tens of thousands of defenders in the city, it is impossible for all of them to be armed with crossbows.

No matter how strong Liu Zheng's financial resources are, he can't make tens of thousands of crossbow arrows.

"This... is a continuous crossbow capable of shooting crossbow bolts!"

"How did Liu Zheng come up with this kind of thing? If there is such a thing, wouldn't our soldiers become living targets?"

"It's no wonder that Liu Zheng dared to deploy soldiers and horses in Fancheng to defend against our army. It turns out that he still has such a trump card in his hand."

"With these things, wouldn't we dare not attack the city at all?"

Zhang Xiu's face was ugly, and he couldn't help but express his inner thoughts.

Guan Yu also had a dark face, but Guan Yu was not afraid. After seeing the uneasy expressions of the people, Guan Yu immediately began to express his thoughts.

"Why panic, isn't it just some crossbow arrows, his crossbow arrows can still shoot through our catapults?"

"The general doesn't believe it anymore. As long as we besiege the city and keep throwing stones at Fancheng, I'm still worried that Fancheng won't be defeated?"

"Immediately retreat a mile, set up camp, and start throwing stones into Fancheng, and blow down Fancheng!"

Although the Zhuge Liannu is powerful, such a Liannu must have its weaknesses, that is, it is not easy to carry, it is huge in size, and it is difficult for a single soldier to use it. As long as Guan Yu does not attack the city and only uses long-range catapults to project it, he will be invincible land.

Chapter 1000 Two hundred and seventy

After hearing Guan Yu's words, all the generals immediately understood.

Now they also began to prepare.

On the one hand, with his own soldiers and horses, he retreated from the tower for a mile again, and withdrew from the shooting range of the enemy's continuous crossbow.

On the other hand, they began to re-manufacture the catapults, and erected the catapults arranged on the battlefield.

The number of catapults transported before was not too large.

There are only a few catapults in the area, thinking that Xinye is just a small town, such a small county town, and there are more than [-] troops, it doesn't take much effort to take it down.

It should not be needed, so Guan Yu didn't bring too many catapults.

Now, after the catapult is needed again, it can only be remanufactured.

Others were busy with these things, but Ma Teng was somewhat puzzled. The soldiers under his command also lost some troops in this attack on Xinye.

Although the loss was not much, the injury was very aggrieved.

Ma Teng withdrew to Guan Yu's side, and immediately asked Guan Yu about this time.

"Brother Yun, what's going on?"

"General Ma, this time was really an accident. We didn't expect Liu Zheng to hide such a sharp weapon!"

"Have you figured out the source of these arrows?"

"I figured it out, it was shot by a crossbow archer under Liu Zheng."

"Crossbow arrows?"

Hearing Guan Yu's words, Ma Teng frowned, just like Guan Yu just now, he couldn't believe it.