Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2276 Ren Gui's Divine Arrow Shots Zhao Wu, Liang Pass Falls into Han Hands

General Hu Sheng was easily killed by Yang Jian, as if he were cutting melons and vegetables.

In an instant, the morale of the soldiers guarding the gate fell even lower.

General Zhao Bao, terrified, instinctively tried to retreat, but he ran right into Xue Rengui, who had just climbed the city wall, and was immediately shot and killed by Xue Rengui.

Chaos reigned within the pass, and the situation at the city walls deteriorated further. Zhao Yong personally led a group of Zhao clan members, including Zhao Yu, Zhao Zhang, Zhao He, and Zhao Dan, to resist the enemy.

Even though he understood that the situation in Liangguan was not optimistic at this time, he had no choice.

Liangguan Pass was too important to them; without it, their 150,000-strong army would have poured into the Hexi Corridor in an instant.

At that time, the hundreds of thousands of troops in Hexi Circuit will also be in a precarious situation.

At that time, unless these hundreds of thousands of troops directly abandon the entire Hexi Corridor and retreat to the Guandong and Guanxi regions, they will fall into a pincer attack by Chang Yuchun and Xue Rengui, with no chance of survival.

However, Hexi Circuit was too important to the Song Dynasty. Among the four circuits of the Song Dynasty, only Hexi Circuit was a rich and garrisoned area.

If the Hexi Corridor were lost, the Song Dynasty's war potential would be halved.

Therefore, for them, the question of Liang Pass was not whether to defend it or not, but that they had to defend it.

Even if all of them were to die, they would only have the choice to fight to the very last moment.

"Ding, Zhao Yong's spiritual martial skill has been activated."
Lingwu is a unique skill of King Wuling of Zhao.

Effect 1: Upon being crowned a king, four random attributes will be permanently increased by 1 (already activated).

Effect 3: When personally leading troops into battle, your own leadership and martial prowess increase by 3.

Effect 3: When the user personally participates in battle, the entire army's attack power increases by 1, and the attack power of the cavalry units under the user's command also increases by 1.

Fourthly, when organizing military reforms, it can significantly enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of the army.

Zhao Yong's Lingwu skill effect two activated: Command +3, Strength +3, base Command 98 (+1), current Command increases to 101, base Strength 98, current Strength increases to 101.

"Ding! Zhao Yong's Lingwu skill effect three is activated. When he personally participates in the battle, the martial strength of the entire army increases by 1, and the martial strength of his cavalry units also increases by 1."

Zhao Yong's martial prowess +1..."

Although Zhao Yong's monarch skill can provide a maximum of two points of increased martial prowess to the entire army, one of these points can only be applied to cavalry.

Unfortunately, there were no cavalry within Liang Pass at that time.

After all, troop strength was critically low on all battlefields, and cavalry units were needed on every battlefield.

As for the Liangguan direction, Zhao Song had no intention of launching an attack. For them, as long as they could firmly block Xue Rengui's 150,000 troops east of Liangguan and prevent Xue Rengui's troops from interfering in the Hexi Road battlefield, it would already be a victory for them.

Under such circumstances, it would be natural not to deploy the precious and limited cavalry force here.

This increase in overall military strength, while timely, is far from sufficient to change the current situation at Liangguan.

Even with Zhao Yong personally leading a group of members of the Zhao Song imperial family into battle, the Song army continued to suffer repeated defeats as more and more Han soldiers advanced towards the pass. "Ding, Xue Rengui's Divine Arrow Skill (First Enhancement) activated."

Divine Arrow, the top-tier skill for archers, is an advancement from Flying Arrow and Sky Arrow skills. The effects of this skill vary depending on the user.

Effect 1: Increases attack power by 6 when fighting with a bow.

Effect 2: When going all out, it will increase your own combat power by an additional 1 to 5 points.

Effect 3: When fighting with a bow and arrow, the opponent's strength can be reduced by 1 to 5 points depending on the opponent's strength.

Once Xue Rengui's Divine Arrow skill is activated, his martial prowess increases by 6, and his current martial prowess rises to...

With the Han army now having occupied a large section of the city wall, Xue Rengui stood directly by the wall, holding a bow and arrow, and fired at the soldiers and horses that were constantly surging towards the wall from inside the pass.

Zhao Dan, a general of the Song Dynasty, was shot and killed by Xue Rengui with an arrow before he could react.

Zhao Dan's death also served as a wake-up call for other generals.

One by one, they hid in the crowd, not daring to show themselves easily. Or, they had soldiers shield them with shields, layer upon layer, to prevent themselves from being exposed to Xue Rengui's gaze.

However, while this meant the generals were relatively safe, the morale of their soldiers remained low without their leadership in the charge.

As for generals like Yang Jian, Deng Qiang, and Wang Shengzhi, they led their troops, who had already climbed the city walls, in a counter-charge towards the area below.

With a click, the Liangguan city gate, which had been tightly closed, was finally opened from the inside. The Han soldiers, who had always climbed up the ladder, now had a new breakthrough and swarmed in like an endless stream of ants.

From then on, the situation in Liangguan was at its most critical.

The two top-tier generals of the original Zhenxi Army, Ma Shih-hu and Lei Gong-quan, led their troops in a desperate attempt to recapture the city gate, but Yang Jian single-handedly killed them both in less than ten rounds.

As the main force of the Han army poured into Liangguan, Zhao Yong's will to resist, no matter how strong, inevitably collapsed after three hours of bloody fighting, with his soldiers suffering increasingly heavy casualties.

Even he himself was shot and killed by Xue Rengui from a high place with a bow and arrow.

"Ding! Xue Rengui has killed Zhao Yong and has been rewarded with three random attribute points. Xue Rengui's current strength, intelligence, and politics have increased by 1. His attributes will be permanently increased to Xue Rengui's command 100, strength 106, intelligence 89, politics 87, and charm 99."

In the Battle of Liangguan, of the 60,000 troops of the Zhao Song dynasty, 20,000 were killed in battle and 40,000 were captured.

All the generals, including the commander Zhao Yong, Zhao Yu, Zhao Zhang, Zhao He, and Zhong Shiheng, were killed in battle.

In addition, Fei Yi, as a strategist, had little martial prowess, but when Liang Pass was in its most dangerous moment, he followed the example of the generals and personally went into battle, ultimately dying at the hands of Wang Shengzhi.

The civil and military officials of the Song Dynasty were completely polarized.

People like Tong Guan, Guo Kai, and Qin Hui are easy to find.

Even though Chen Pingping deliberately exposed Liang Shicheng, Qin Hui, Gao Qiu, and others, he could still easily find someone like Guo Kai.

However, besides these spineless cowards, there were also those like Zhao Yong and Fei Yi who would rather die than give up and fight to the last moment.