"Arrowmen, prepare! Divide into echelons and listen to orders!" Lao Jiang watched the enemy defend themselves while clearing the ruins. This way, shooting arrows would not cause much damage, so he had to wait for the enemy to get closer before firing arrows.

"Defend the entire army! Try to open up the road as much as possible!" Yan Liang commanded loudly from behind. The three thousand men and horses in the front lined up in a large square formation. The soldiers in the front row held up huge shields as high as one person for defense.

The soldiers held tools that could clean up the ruins and quickly cleaned up the ruins of most of the outer walls that had been burned to ashes.

"The enemy is a hundred steps closer to the inner wall! Fire arrows!" Seeing that the time was almost up, Lao Jiang ordered the arrows to be fired.

The crossbowmen on the city wall hurriedly moved to the crenel, picked up their crossbows and fired arrows, each of them using their crossbows. When one row finished shooting, the second row quickly came up to replace them, so that a total of four rows could take turns to shoot without interruption.

Running out of stamina or arrow feathers.

"The enemy has started firing arrows! Be careful!" Yan Liang did not advance to the shooting range, but directed from behind.

The soldiers in the front row quickly raised their large shields to provide cover for their comrades behind them. The soldiers in the back row quickly ran behind them to find cover, or picked up the small bucklers carried behind them.

"Bang bang bang" arrows rained down. Among the three thousand soldiers, there were still some sergeants who could not be covered by shields. Although few people were directly shot to death, many were injured.

The arrow rain came one after another, making it impossible for Yuan Shao's sergeants to leave the protective circle to clean the battlefield, so they had to huddle.

When the crossbowmen no longer had the strength to shoot arrows, Lao Jiang ordered them to rest.

The top of the Hulao Pass city repeats this process of cleaning, defense, archery, and rest.

On the third day of Hulao Pass defense, Zhang Chen woke up from his room in the early morning. Zhou Qian, who was guarding the door, immediately discovered that someone had gone out to report.

"Rong Chang? How long have I been asleep?" Zhang Chen woke up and found that he had a splitting headache. Yesterday, he fell asleep without even taking off his black armor.

"General, it seems that you fell asleep after you came back yesterday. I thought you would wake up at night, but you kept sleeping. General Zimo and other generals were very worried." Zhou Qian replied.

"Oh, I don't know what's wrong. Ever since I came back from the battlefield yesterday, I've been in a daze and have a splitting headache." Zhang Chen said, rubbing his head.

"General! Are you okay?" At this time, three generals, Zimo, Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu, came in. Lao Jiang Zimeng went to the city to set up defenses early in the morning. Although they repelled Yan Liang's troops yesterday, they cleared the battlefield.

Starting today, the Allied forces' large siege weapons can officially attack the inner wall, and not many enemies were killed yesterday.

Zhang Heng was on the last few lines of defense at Hulao Pass, leading his two thousand infantrymen and the defenders of Hulao Pass to step up defense.

"It's nothing serious, but my head hurts. It seems I can't command today." Zhang Chen didn't expect that he would also get headaches due to his physical condition, but if he knew the truth, he might be surprised.

"It doesn't matter! General Jiang and Zimeng are commanding at the top of the city. All the agencies are in good condition. General Xu and General Zhang's troops are also ready to attack at any time. Leave it to us!" Zimo said, Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu did not

Speak but also nod.

"Then I'm sorry to bother you. I'll come as soon as possible when I recover! Rong Chang! Bring your brothers from the Fourth Battalion and go up to help!" Zhang Chen said.

"General ... then you ..." Zhou Qian wanted to say, but Zhang Chen's eyes made him know that he didn't need to say anything anymore
Chapter completed!