145 The dilemma of advancing and retreating is flustered, and the bow and arrows show their power.
Lu Bu, who came down from the city tower, saw the actions of the hundreds of Chu soldiers. Although these people risked the cost of casualties to clear the road in the sea of fire, Lu Bu was not really worried that the behavior of the Chu army would affect the overall situation.
"Prepare the bow and crossbow, aim at the Chu soldiers in front of the sea of fire, and shoot quickly!!" Lu Bu took off the iron-tied bow from behind, pulled out the arrows collected from the South Gate of Shouchun. After making a little aim, he let go of the bowstring.[]
"call out!!"
"puff!"
The arrow shot by Lu Bu passed through the sea of fire at an extremely fast speed and shot into the face of a Chu army court soldier. The Chu army court soldier who was venturing the scorching temperature emitted by the sea of fire and cleared a burnt corpse with a long halberd. He didn't even scream. He covered the arrow that penetrated the bones of his face and fell straight into the sea of fire, becoming another "high-quality fuel" that fueled the fire.
More than thirty Qin soldiers who received the order followed Lu Bu and gave the arrows collected from the Chu army without hesitation to the Chu army's court soldiers who were "working hard". Originally, these Qin soldiers were not far from the Chu army's court soldiers, and the sea of fire blocked the sight of the Chu army's court soldiers. They could not predict the trajectory of the arrows roaring ahead. Apart from being able to rely on the whistling sound of arrows breaking through the air, they could not effectively avoid the arrows fired by the Qin army soldiers.
At this time, these Chu army palace soldiers encountered a dilemma: to continue moving forward and clear the road, they would be subjected to cold arrows shot by Qin soldiers opposite the sea of fire. (These arrows may not become cold arrows after the sea of fire.) Although the number of Qin army was only dozens, it was nothing to the hundreds of Chu army palace soldiers, don’t forget that there was a ‘human-shaped crossbow’ named Lu Bu in the Qin army!
Every arrow shot by Lu Bu was very powerful. Although it was protected by armor, no matter where it was shot, the arrows shot by Lu Bu had to penetrate their bones before stopping. The most serious thing was Lu Bu's terrifying 100% hit rate. Although it was also blocked by the sea of fire, Lu Bu could accurately hit a Chu army court armorer every time he seemed to be casually shooting arrows, and no shot was lost. So it didn't take long for Lu Bu to shoot more than ten well-equipped Chu army court armorers alone.
When these soldiers attacked by arrows of the Chu army found their shields to concentrate on defense, the soldiers who were not very enthusiastic about cleaning the road could basically be called the speed of cleaning the road. This made the anxious King Fu Chu, the King of Chu, who was anxious behind him, and the sound of killing behind him was getting closer and closer to him, but the sea of fire in front of him was still blocking the path they had to pass to the south gate. King of Chu could not help but get out of the carriage he was riding in and was about to scold the "wastes" in front of him.
The Chu army's palace soldiers who were forced to clear the road were already in a dilemma. When entering and clearing the road, they would encounter the Qin army's cold arrow. As long as they were caught with a cold arrow, they would basically be either dead or injured. They retreated, waited for the fire to subside, and were killed by King Fu Chu behind them and the commander-in-chief of the palace soldiers Ye Lin on the grounds of disobeying the order.
If you retreat, you will die. If you advance, you will be unable to escape the word "death". These "elite" palace guards who had never experienced such a formation were already really panicked at this time. A palace armor soldier accidentally tripped by the charred corpse cleaned from his feet in panic, and then stumbled and fell into the burning sea of fire in front of him. A shrill howl suddenly came from his mouth, which further aggravated the panic of other palace armor trainers.
"You fools! Haven't you always boasted that elites are invincible all the years? Why can't you even fight back now? Is it possible that only the Qin army can shoot arrows, and you, the elites who are invincible all the time? Do you want me to come here and teach you step by step how to shoot arrows? Split a group of people to shoot, and the rest will continue to clear the road for me!!!"
King Fu Chu was about to be angry to death by his "elite" palace guards. Even the king of a country who had never experienced a battle formation knew that he had to use arrows to fight back when he encountered a small number of enemy troops. However, the "elite" men who had swallowed his military pay and food over the years began to panic when they encountered dozens of arrows attacked by Qin soldiers!
This is a huge comparison of the number of people! It is so unbearable in this situation where the absolute number of Qin soldiers is occupied. If we encounter more than one Qin army soldiers, will these so-called "elite" soldiers surrender directly? At this point, King Fu Chu of Chu no longer cares about the casualties that these well-equipped palace soldiers were cleaning the road. Now the only result that King Fu Chu of Chu wants is to quickly clear out the passage to the south gate. For this purpose, even if he sacrifices many "elite" soldiers, he will do whatever he wants!!
The scolding of King Fu Chu of Chu had a strange effect. The originally panicked palace soldiers suddenly remembered that they were actually able to fight back with bows and arrows. After another casualties were paid by the Qin army's cold arrows, the palace soldiers of the Chu army also organized their own "arrow rain" to attack the Qin army soldiers on the opposite side.
"Stand up the shield!" Seeing that the silly Chu soldiers on the opposite side finally began to fight back with arrows, Lu Bu made a quick decision to ask the Qin soldiers to raise shields for defense. He didn't want his only dozens of remaining subordinates to die under the arrows of those people on the other side. As for the task of shooting and blocking the enemy, Lu Bu would do it alone.
"call out."
"Be careful, General!" Several Qin soldiers used several large shields to form an airtight shield wall in front of Lu Bu, and helped Lu Bu stop several soft and sporadic arrows shot by the Chu army.
"General Lu, please concentrate on your enemy. Just be safe with us. As long as we have a breath, we will never let General Lu suffer any harm!" A Qin soldier held a large shield and said firmly to Lu Bu.
In fact, Lu Bu didn't care about the few sporadic arrows just now. Without mentioning how much power the Chu army could have left through the arrows shot from such a long distance, even if an archery master specifically shoots a sneak attack arrow at Lu Bu within fifty steps, archery experts like Lu Bu will never be shot by the cold arrows of sneak attacks. However, being able to get the sincere protection of his soldiers at least means that in the eyes of these Qin soldiers, he is already an existence that is considered worthy of life to protect, which makes Lu Bu's heart still very warm.
Although the rest of the Qin soldiers were unable to continue shooting due to the suppression of the Chu army's bows and arrows, Lu Bu's "human-shaped crossbow machine" still shot the deadly "cross arrows" at the opposite Chu army's palace soldiers. Although Lu Bu was in absolute disadvantage in terms of number, it was obvious that the Qin army was not injured in the Chu army's arrow rain, while the Chu army was killed and injured in the "cross arrow rain" by Lu Bu. Both sides were immediately sentenced!
Sometimes the morale of a team began to fluctuate in some small details. The arrows displayed by Lu Bu made the morale of dozens of soldiers on the Qin army greatly boosted the morale of dozens of soldiers on the Qin army. For the Chu army opposite the sea of fire, the sharp arrows that Lu Bu roared made them feel unprecedented pressure. Even if some people took their own initiative to pick up their shields and guarded them in front of them, the arrows shot by Lu Bu with an iron-tied bow could still penetrate the wooden shield, making the Chu soldiers hiding behind the shield die on the spot. Later, these Chu army's palace soldiers seemed to have given up their defense. Whenever they heard the roar of an arrow breaking through the air, they knew that another person would die under the arrow, and the morale of these Chu soldiers had gradually fallen to the bottom.
Until Lu Bu shot all the three pots of arrows behind him in the air, the Chu army's court soldiers had already paid more than 90 casualties in total! The surviving palace soldiers were tortured by the deadly "demon sound" emitted by the arrows when they broke through the air. Although some people were still gritting their teeth to clear the road, their bodies began to tremble, fearing that when a fatally "demon sound" suddenly came, and then they would be taken by the powerful arrow to accompany the people who had died before on the road to the Yellow Springs.
Although most of the road has been cleared out by the court soldiers of the Chu army, the morale of these well-equipped court soldiers is really worrying.
"Haha! Finally cleaned up, the entire army attacked! rushed over and slaughtered all the Qin dogs!!!" King Fu Chu, regardless of the morale of these palace soldiers, all he cared about was that the sea of fire was finally cleared out a road that could charge. The thirty-dove Qin soldiers lined up with a vertical shield on the opposite side seemed to be able to break it in just one round of charge, and hope of escape came again.
But with Lu Bu here, how could King Fu Chu easily escape from his nose? Looking at the well-equipped but obviously lacking training in the palace soldiers lined up in loose queues, stepping on the flames that had not yet been completely extinguished, and slowly approached him. Standing behind the shield wall, Lu Bu smiled, picked up the iron-tied bow and pulled the bowstring without placing the arrow, and then let go of his fingers.
"Bang!!"
The crisp sound of plucking bow strings reached the ears of the Chu army's court soldiers. The first reaction of more than dozens of palace soldiers was to throw their fingers down and hug them on the ground and trembled. After the torture of the deathly "Demon Sound", these Chu soldiers had become "scared birds". Lu Bu just shot with an iron-fetal bow, which scared these people very much.
King Fu Chu wanted to rely on these people to escape from the south gate? If you want to know what happened next, you can see that you can't tear it down again~
Chapter completed!