In the eastern border, Xunzhou City, the war is in full swing.

Three armies with different banners rushed up like a tide when facing the rain of arrows at the city of Xunyang.

"put!"

Above the city, hundreds of archers of physical cultivation pulled the hard bows in their hands, and under the command of the flag commander, hundreds of arrow branches suddenly emerged from the string.

The nearly five stone hard bow was in Mo Zizai's previous life, and only some legendary generals could pull apart, showing their power in the hands of these physical cultivators.

The moment he shot the soldiers at the city, the power of the bow and arrow was almost no less than that of some large-caliber rifles. Even soldiers with armor on their bodies would be shot directly through their bodies.

As for those soldiers without armor, several were shot in a row.

Just this wave of arrows took away the lives of hundreds of soldiers.

"put!"

The archer on the city wall did not stop at all. One arrow shot out and another arrow was followed. The soldiers who attacked this side were harvested soon after nearly a thousand lives.

However, this number is nothing to the tens of thousands of siege soldiers under the city. The fallen soldiers were soon replaced by the soldiers behind them and continued to rush up the city.

"Marty, the enemy is about to rush up."

An observer in Xunyang City looked at the enemy troops that were approaching the security line and quickly turned around to report to an old man sitting in the middle of the city.

"Yeah, I saw it."

The old man was Zhangyuan, the Hou of Zhenyuan. His hair and beard were white and strong. He looked at the soldiers attacking from the city and nodded slightly and said, "Don't be too anxious. This is just their temptation. Just use artillery to repel their attack."

"Yes, Marquis."

Hearing Zhang Yuan's order, the flag officer immediately issued an order to the gunner, and soon the deafening sound of cannons sounded on the city wall.

There were originally only three Wuyi cannons at the head of Xunyang City, but when Zhang Yuan retreated from several previous cities, he would bring back the cannons from that city every time he retreated.

This directly led to the current Xunyang city where there were seventeen cannons with sufficient firepower. After several volleys, several long flesh-and-blooded passages were immediately shot out from the dense enemy troops under the city.

The enemy tried to rush to kill several times, but could not break through the defense line on the city. In the end, he could only withdraw his troops helplessly.

"It's still a powerful artillery."

A young deputy general beside Zhang Yuan looked at the retreating enemy troops under the city and couldn't help but sigh, "If there were more gunpowder, we would be fearless even if there were more enemy troops."

"What do you think of?"

Looking at the optimistic deputy general, Zhang Yuan shook his head and said, "This is just their tentative attack. The ones dispatched are all messy soldiers, so the artillery can exert such great power."

"If they wait for their elites to come up, you will know that the artillery is useless."

"Why is it useless?" the deputy general asked with some dissatisfaction: "Aren't the elite afraid of shells?"

"Of course I'm not afraid."

Hearing the vice general's rebellious question, before Zhang Yuan could speak, the commander Zhao Chuan on the side couldn't help laughing, "Zhang Hu, you are still too young, do you think I'm afraid of shells?"

"Of course I'm not afraid."

After hearing Zhao Chuan’s question, Zhang Hu gave his own answer without thinking.

The Wuyi cannon fired a physical shell. Although it was very powerful under the action of gunpowder, Zhao Chuan was a physical cultivation in the bone forging realm. Not to mention whether such a heavy shell could hit Zhao Chuan, even if it could hit it, the shell could not hurt Zhao Chuan in the bone forging realm.

After hearing Zhang Hu's answer, Zhao Chuan spread his hands and said, "Yes, I'm not afraid. Why do you think the enemy's elite troops are afraid?"

"For ordinary people, the power of the shell is to be killed and injured, but if a warrior is guarded, the eighth-grade essence-refining physical cultivation can stop it."

"So unless you can have hundreds or thousands of Wuyi cannons, you will deal with those elites and have little effect."

Zhang Hu was just shocked by the power of the Wuyi cannon. At this moment, when Zhao Chuan said this, he immediately realized that when facing warriors, the role that the bulky Wuyi cannon could play is indeed limited.

As for hundreds or thousands of Wuyi cannons, just think about it, the total number of Wuyi cannons in the entire Zhou Dynasty is less than 200.

"Uncle, since that's the case, why don't they send elite troops to come up?"

Hearing that his nephew had some straightforward questions, Zhang Yuan, who was observing the enemy situation below, couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment, "Zhang Hu, this is the coalition of Wei, Lu, and Zheng, who do you think is better to put it on?"

"Of course we should press it up together."

Zhang Hu didn't think much and replied without hesitation: "Now we only have two thousand elites brought by me from Zhang County. If the Three Kingdoms coalition forces spread the elites and put them in a cap, we may not be able to defend them for even three days."

Looking at Zhang Hu who looked for granted, Zhang Yuan sighed helplessly, and at the same time made a secret decision in his heart that his nephew would be a tiger general and he would never be able to command troops for him in the future, otherwise many people would have to give him clean.

"It's not impossible to press it together."

Although I was a little disappointed, I still told him what I should do to solve his doubts. I just hope that he can be more flexible after experiencing more. "But I ask you, if we press forward together, which country will take the lead and attack the front?"

After Zhang Yuan asked this question, Zhang Hu had already vaguely realized something was wrong, but he had not figured it out yet, so he answered tentatively: "The Three Kingdoms take turns to be the main force, one substitute for one day?"

"What if I only focus on one country to fight? For example, the weakest Zheng State, I will transfer the main force to which side he fights. What do you think?"

"this……"

Zhang Hu was immediately a little silenced, but then he suddenly realized that the Three Kingdoms coalition was not one mind at all. If he really pushed the elite, Zhang Yuan would stare at the forces of a country, and the other party would not be able to stand it.

I am afraid that after the battle, Xunyang City will not be destroyed, and the country that was beaten will suffer heavy losses. At that time, it is unknown whether the other two countries will swallow him up after the battle.

So they will definitely not do such things. After all, the three countries join forces just to take advantage of it, but they didn't think about getting themselves in.

Just as the three of them were chatting, the soldiers who counted the battle losses ran over.

"Marty, the losses have been counted. This time the enemy attacked, our army killed 700 soldiers. As for the injured, the injured have not yet been counted."

Hearing the number of seven hundred dead, except for Zhang Hu's expression, Zhang Yuan and Zhao Chuan's faces were not at all turbulent.

Although they all knew that seven hundred was not just a cold number, but seven hundred living lives, their years of fighting career had long been a little numb to these things.

"This time the enemy left at least 5,000 lives, and the battle loss ratio is pretty good. If we continue to fight like this, we can hold on for at least three months."

After saying this, Zhang Yuan felt a little bitter. According to the convention, he should mention the issue of pension and boost his morale. However, he had no money in his hand and had already made too many short checks, and he had almost never cashed them out.

If the soldiers had not been able to suppress the morale in the army with their prestige, they would have had a mutiny long ago.

This battle is really hard to fight...
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