Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 142 Hangu Pass has fallen!

Pang Yu, with a horizontal knife on his waist, was patrolling the top of the city with more than a dozen soldiers.

On the wall of the pass, a pile of bonfires rose every ten steps, illuminating the whole pass as bright as day.

The waning moon in the sky had already fallen behind the mountains in the west, and the whole world had already sunk into darkness. Looking up and down beyond the pass city, the surrounding fields were pitch black, no sound could be heard, much less anything could be seen.

"Cheer up, General, don't be lazy!" Pang Yu loudly reminded the more than a hundred guards at the critical moment while patrolling, "Keep your eyes open..."

Before the words were finished, there was a sudden piercing sound from outside the closed wall.

Pang Yu tilted his head instinctively, a gust of wind almost passed by his cheek, and then it was nailed into the pillar of the enemy building behind him with a "dumb" sound. Pang Yu and the accompanying dozen or so relatives When the soldiers looked at it anxiously, it was a spiked arrow as thick as a thumb, which had penetrated several inches into the pillar, and the feathers at the end of the arrow were still trembling violently.

The next moment, hissing screams sounded continuously from the night sky.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Pang Yu immediately raised his head to the sky and howled hoarsely, then ducked down and hid under the battlements.

The next moment, a rain of arrows as dense as locusts had already fallen from the sky, and the dozen or so soldiers who followed Pang Yu reacted fairly quickly. Most of them followed Pang Yu and hid behind the battlements, but the more than a hundred guards guarding the wall did not. Before he could react in time, he was immediately covered by this wave of arrow rain, and in an instant, he was shot by arrows one after another and fell into a pool of blood.

"Blow the horn, blow the horn as a warning!" Pang Yu drew his sword and gave a loud order.

Dozens of sentinels who were lucky enough not to be hit by the rain of arrows picked up the short horns one after another and blew them vigorously. In an instant, the distant and desolate sound of the horns rose from the critical moment.

Amidst the endless sound of horns, the sleeping soldiers of the Chu army woke up one after another. The soldiers of the Chu army were already lying down with their clothes on, so they didn’t need to wear clothes and armor at all. Weapons, then rushed out of the barracks in a panic, and rushed towards Dongguan like a swarm under the scolding of small schools at all levels.

Almost at the same time, horns sounded outside the pass, and tens of thousands of torches were lit at the same time.

In the bright daylight of the fire, thousands of dead soldiers of the Han army carried hundreds of simple long ladders, like a flood that broke the embankment, and swept towards Hangu East Pass. Behind him, tens of thousands of archers of the Han army were lined up in more than a dozen rows, pouring waves of arrows to Hangu Pass.

In the dense rain of arrows like locusts, waves of Chu troops rushed to the top of the city.

After all, Pang Yu was a famous general, and the military books in several rooms were not read for nothing. After two days of fierce confrontation, he had already thought of a way to break the Han army's arrow rain attack, that is, "light sculls" nailed into pieces with wooden boards Of course, these light sculls are not as thick as the giant sculls, but they are still more than enough to withstand the light feather arrows.

With the cover of hundreds of light oars, the Chu army finally grabbed the top of the city.

Soon, thousands of light soldiers of the Han army rushed under the wall, and a long ladder was quickly erected. A hundred steps away, the archers of the Han army finally began to retreat, because they continued to attack the letter. If the valley pass is covered by arrow rain, it is inevitable that the light soldiers of the Han army who are preparing to snatch the pass will be accidentally injured.

The tragic siege battle immediately opened the bloody curtain.

Teams of dead soldiers of the Han army swarmed up the long ladder with sharp knives in their mouths.

Sections of rolling logs, pieces of boulders fell like rain from the head, and Han soldiers were constantly being smashed and fell to the ground, but soon, more Han soldiers stepped on the corpses of Paoze and swarmed up. , the fierce battle lasted for less than half an hour, and the defenders were forced to resort to the killer weapon of fierce fire oil once again.

With Pang Yu's order, jars of fire oil were thrown down from the top of the city, and then shattered one after another.

Then, one after another, faintly burning torches were thrown down from the top of the city, and soon, they fell into a sea of ​​flames, but this time, the Han army seemed to be ruthless. Retreating, on the contrary, more dead soldiers of the Han army swarmed up with sacks on their backs, and quickly filled the fire with the sand in the sacks.

The corner of Pang Yu's mouth couldn't help showing a cold murderous intent. It seems that the Han army was angered by the sneak attack last night, or Liu Bang was forced to attack at all costs because the army rations were burned.However, it is too arrogant to want to capture Hangu Pass with only a hundred simple long ladders?
Is it true that the more than 4000 Chu troops who have been closed can't be arranged?

"Fire fire oil ready..." Pang Yu raised his horizontal knife again, and when he was about to give an order, the captain of the guard behind him suddenly pointed to the cliff in front of the right, and roared in a low voice, "Look, general, there is a beacon fire on the cliff on the right!" !"

"Huh?!" When Pang Yu looked up anxiously, he saw the dazzling beacon fire rising from the cliff on the right.

Last night, after the Chu army used the mountainous vines to transform the cliffs into a sneak attack on the Han army's main camp, Pang Yu kept an eye on it, and in order to prevent the Han army from adopting the same strategy, he also sent elite soldiers along the cliffs to enter the pass. Then sentries were set up on the left and right cliffs, and once they found that the Han army was coming, they would immediately raise fire to warn!
Pang Yu had tasted the sweetness of the sneak attack on the cliff, how could he give the Han army such a chance again?

At that moment, Pang Yu ordered his lieutenant to guard the top of the city, while he led five hundred archers towards the cliff on the right, and at the same time ordered his own soldiers to push out the only 40 bed crossbows in Guanzhong.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, more than 500 archers and more than 40 bed crossbows were already waiting under the cliff on the right. If there were really elite Han soldiers following the mountain vines down the cliff, there would only be two results, or they would be killed by Chu. Army archers and bed crossbows were nailed to the cliff to death, or let go in advance, fell down and fell to death!
After a while, Pang Yu ordered five hundred archers to shoot a wave of rockets.

With the glimmer of the rocket, Pang Yu and more than 500 archers of the Chu army could clearly see that hundreds of sharp soldiers of the Han army were climbing down from the cliff along the mountain vines. The Chu army had been prepared for a long time, and at that moment, a dozen elite soldiers of the Han army were shot by rockets, screaming and falling from a cliff more than ten feet high.

"Looking for death!" Pang Yu sneered, drew his knife and raised it in the air.

More than 500 archers raised their horn bows again, and more than 40 soldiers also raised their wooden hammers.

Suddenly, the horizontal knife in Pang Yu's hand fell violently, and more than 500 archers loosened their right hands holding the bowstring tightly. Almost at the same time, more than 40 soldiers also indifferently smashed down the wooden hammer in their hands. The forty bed crossbows that were set up immediately roared, and the next moment, more than 500 arrows and more than 200 giant arrows roared towards the cliff.

Immediately, there was continuous screaming and wailing on the cliff, and then dozens of Han soldiers fell off the cliff one after another. At such a high height, even if they missed the arrow, they fell directly to the ground. The meat is pureed.

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On the cliff on the left.

Zhou Guanfu took two steps forward and pulled out a heavy spiked arrow engraved with his name from the throat of a Chu soldier.

The Chu soldier was still breathing, struggling to use the torch in his hand to light the beacon tower not far in front, how could Zhou Guanfu let him do so?At that moment, he stomped hard on that Chu Bing's neck, and with a click, Chu Bing's neck bone was completely smashed to pieces. Even the genius doctor Bian Que would never be able to save him.

Not far behind Zhou Guan, there were two other Chu soldiers lying down, who were also shot in the throat!
Obviously, Pang Yu also set up a warning beacon tower on the left cliff, but it was a pity that Zhou Guanfu shot and killed three Chu soldiers before they lit the beacon to warn.

Zhou Guanfu took two more steps forward and stepped on the edge of the cliff.

Standing on a cliff more than ten feet high and looking down, I saw that Hangu Pass was boiling against the sky, and teams of light soldiers of the Han army were swarming in like a tide, and they broke apart like waves hitting a rock. Then, another new wave swarmed up, hitting the hard rock of Hangu Pass once again...

Under the opposite cliff, there was already a melee at this moment.

Seeing that the Chu army had been prepared for a long time, and under the shooting of the archers and bed crossbows, groups of sharp soldiers of the Han army fell down the cliff one after another. With a ruthless thrust, he suddenly waved at the hundreds of elite soldiers behind him, and shouted sharply, "Get down!"

In an instant, strips of mountain vines were already hanging down from the cliff.

Zhou Guanfu tugged hard on one of the mountain vines tied to a boulder, but it didn't move at all. Without hesitation, he turned around suddenly and slid down along the extremely tough century-old mountain vines.

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"Let the arrow, let the arrow!" Pang Yu raised the horizontal knife again and again, and dropped it again and again.

More than 500 archers of the Chu army drew their bows, released their arrows, drew their bows again, and released their arrows again. Although the sharp soldiers of the Han army hanging on the cliff tried their best to block, some people were still being shot by the arrows, and then screamed Falling from a height of several feet or even tens of feet, there are no less than two hundred corpses lying under the cliff in less than a meal!

Pang Yu took the time to look back at the cliff on the left, and found that there was no beacon fire on it.

At that moment, Pang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to command the archers to continue to block the cliff on the right, but suddenly there was a violent sound of gold and iron under the cliff on the left, and Pang Yu's heart suddenly jumped. Being attacked, and the beacon tower on the cliff did not warn? !

The next moment, a huge fire burst into the sky from under the cliff on the left!

Immediately afterwards, there was a tide-like killing sound from under the cliff on the left, and immediately groups of Han soldiers rushed out from the flames. They closed the door and left, and then quickly divided into two teams, one team snatched to close the door, and the other team followed the horse path to the critical moment!

Pang Yu's heart felt cold all of a sudden, Hangu Pass...doesn't want to be lost!

(End of this chapter)