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Chapter 280

MY FATHER-IN-LAW IS LU BU – CHAPTER 280





Guangzhou In Peril

 

“Shoot! Shoot!” Hao Shao does not even really need to give orders . The soldiers also knew enough to shoot the soldiers pushing the ram . At that moment, Liu Pi’s soldiers that were pushing the ram only totaled up to about a few hundred and were standing in a dispersed manner . That was why Hao Shao’s army was barely able to shoot them with arrows . At most the arrows would hit the shadows and at worst, the arrows would fall before it could even reach the shadows . This was the Liu Pi’s army giving Hao Shao’s soldiers to practice archer . If Hao Shao’s subordinate could survive, they would become elites .

 

A rain of arrows fell and almost all of the soldiers that ran to the sides were killed . The enemy’s second wave was stopped . Although the second wave was stopped, only a few hundred were killed . Hao Shao felt uneasy .  Could it be so easy?  When the rams first came out, Hao Shao could barely speak . The middle road that was used to bring harm to the enemy has now been used by the enemy to bring harm to them . But these things had two natures . The road simply made it good for the rams to move . As long as the three rams do not take too much time, the owner of Guangzhou would change .

 

Hao Shao could not understand what the retreating Liu Bei’s army was thinking .

 

While Hao Shao was confused, his uneasiness became a reality . Two lines of soldiers appeared amongst Liu Pi’s army . One line wore heavy armor while the other line carried shields . Both lines in total had no less than one thousand men . Two rows of shield soldiers formed the front line with those wearing heavy armors at the backlines pushing the three rams .

 

Without Hao Shao’s command, the more skilled archers fired their arrows . A rain of arrows fell onto the soldiers . They originally thought that they would obtain kills but never expected the enemy to come out uninjured even after the arrows fell on them .

 

The enemy soldiers all continued to push the three rams without a single one missing . Only two unfortunate ones were shot in the leg and limped towards the rams .

 

“Heavily armored soldiers!” Hao Shao shouted . He finally knew what the enemy used to counter his arrows . The battle at Guangzhong was now like two people playing mahjong .

 

“Haha . Today is the day you die!” Liu Pi watched his soldiers from atop his horse . He had two groups of soldiers . One group wore heavy armor while the other were his bodyguards . Liu Pi was also clever . He split the White Eared heavy armor into two . The outer armor was given to the sturdy soldiers while the inner one was given to his bodyguards . His bodyguards were then given shields so that the shields can be used to defend the soldiers from the arrows coming from above .

 





Hao Shao’s first move was to split the archer groups to both ends of the walls and rain down arrows in a cross-fire . This caused Liu Pi to become careless .

 

Thousands of soldiers perished . Now, Liu Pi found had found a weak point in the cards played by Hao Shao .

 

As the moat was difficult to cross, I will just use the rams to smash right through the gates . The arrows can be dealt with by the heavy armor and shields . Although there are injuries, it is just like drizzle for the army . But once we break through Guangzhou, you, Hao Shao, will die!

 

“Shoot! Shoot!” At the side, there were still commanders ordering the archers to shoot . However, the result remained the same . The enemy did not show any response and there were no casualties .

 

Although the arrows went over the shields, the soldiers were heavily armored and the arrows did not have enough power .

 

“Stop!” Hao Shao took a deep breath and raised his hand to stop the arrows . This is because Guangzhou does not have many arrows and he did not want to waste it .

 

With a loud smash, the rams hit the city gates . Guangzhou was originally small . After Yuan Shu had proclaimed himself Emperor, the gate was smashed and became battered thanks to Cao Cao . The common people had ran . The ones that remained were those that were motionless or were not able to run away . The city wall was also in disrepair . Hao Shao had dispatched people for repairs but it was difficult as the land was very muddy .

 

Hao Shao staggered and almost fell to the ground . The entire city wall seemed to move . Hao Shao smiled wryly .  This is caused by the ram . The walls would probably break before the door breaks .

 

Hao Shao quickly stood up and gritted his teeth . “Come! Throw down rocks and wood! Prepare boiling water!” Right now, he needed to stop the three rams . Hao Shao could no longer think of a good method .

 





“Drop the stones!” The soldiers dropped their bows and started to pick up stones and logs . These all came from the demolished and dismantled things in the city . The current Guangzhou was no longer the same . The place was spacious and devoid of people . Many homes were also empty . So, Hao Shao could make use of the pillars and other things that were taken .

 

Liu Pi’s soldiers did not fear the arrows as they wore heavy armors . The arrows only felt itchy . Heavy armors were meant to ward off sharp weapons .

 

However, the current situation was different . The things that fell were rocks and wood . They were all blunt weapons . They could deal with one or two hits but could no longer endure it by the third hit . On the surface, they looked unharmed but they were unable to continue taking it internally .

 

And so, the falling rocks and wood caused casualties . However, these were the lucky ones . The unfortunate ones were the ones who had boiling water poured over them . These soldiers from the Liu Pi’s Army were truly tragic . There were no waterproof helmets .

 

Those with heavy armor and shields could still somewhat protect themselves . However, those that got splashed at were soaked from top to bottom with hot water . The scalded soldiers mourned painfully as they climbed up from the ground . The smell of meat rose to the city walls .


 

“Hmph!” Liu Pi’s eyes turned murderously sharp . The wounded soldiers, were his elites . In fact, the ones holding shields were his bodyguards . He trained them personally . It could be said that he had deep feelings with them . Now that there were a dozen casualties, Liu Pi would naturally be angry .

 

“Struggle to your last! In a short time, your small Guangzhou would be mine! At that time, I want you, the bandit to become unable to seek survival or death . ”

 

“This cannot go on!” Hao Shao was also feeling anxious on the wall . Although he could resist by dropping rocks, wood and boiling water, he would really be doomed after some time . This was the second time the ram attacked the gates . Very soon there would be no walls to defend . Hao Shao would be helpless even if he was a superhuman as it was impossible for him to fight against an army of twenty thousand with his garrison of two thousand .

 

Although the Yuzhou Army were once Yellow Turbans, that turmoil had lasted for over ten years . Zhang Jiao and his brothers had been executed . The other rebel leaders had also died from their injuries . There were also those that received meritorious rewards . It could be said that the Yellow Turban’s purpose was to strike fear in the Han . That was because the Yellow Turbans were full of elite soldiers at that time . The Yellow Turban’s strength were not much different from the elites of the Han . They could also suppress the government troops as they had numbers . Just like Dong Zhuo who has the Xiliang Cavalry . When he took Lu Zhi’s government position, he took the Xiliang Heavy Cavalry . It was just like Zhang Xiu’s heavy cavalry that was on standby . In fact, they were more of an elite compared to Zhang Xiu’s cavalry . It was because there was the Xiliang Cavalry that the heavy cavalry has a role to play . It was because of this he had the origin of Han and Qiang . At Xiliang, Dong Zhuo was a tyrant . All the people of Qiang felt bitter but there were also those that were beaten into submission . All of those that were beaten into submission were the elites . They formed the Xiliang Cavalry along with the Hans that were good at horse riding and shooting . The Xiliang Cavalry has the bloodthirstiness of a foreigner . It also has the tactical skills of the Han . This was why the Xiliang Cavalry was terrifying . Zhang Xiu’s Xiliang Cavalry still had a few veterans from that time . They could have worked in concert with the Wolf Cavalry . This was why Dong Zhuo and Dingyuan waged wars excessively . The current Xiliang Cavalry was maintained by Zhang Ji after the death of Dong Zhuo and the riot of Li Jue and Guo Si . Right now, it only have half its original strength .

 





However, Dong Zhuo’s Xiliang Cavalry had originally lost to the Yellow Turbans . It could be said that the Yellow Turbans should not be underestimated .

 

When Zhang Jiao and his brothers died, the Yellow Turbans scrambled away to their last . This were because of the meritorious people in stopping the Yellow Turbans . Many talented people like Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, Tao Qian and more appeared .

 

Only three heroes could find a way to escape . The first was Zhang Yan who was originally known as Zhu Feiyan . He changed his name because of his talent . All the rebels like Chang Shan, Zhao Jun, Zhong Shan was brought by small commanders such as Sun Jing and Wang Dang to join up as Zhang Yan’s subordinates . Zhang Yan’s troops grew and approached a million people . They became known as the Black Mountain Army . Even after the three Yellow Turban leaders were dead, they were free . The government did not dispatch people to suppress them . He had fought against Yuan Shao for many years in Jizhou and has been a pain Yuan Shao could not get rid off .

 

The second one was the Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou . However, they were comparably even more miserable . They had surrounded Beihai under the leadership of the rebel leader Guan Hai . The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans had a million troops . However, Guan Hai was impulsive and got beheaded in a duel . Otherwise, they would have won . This was how Cao Cao obtained the thousands of elite Qingzhou Army . Their strength was obvious to all including Lu Bu, Liu Bei, Yuan Shao, Tao Qian and Zhang Xiu that have encountered it before .

 

When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, he used this army .

 

When Yuan Shu was driven out of Yangzhou, it was also because of this army .

 

Right now, Cao Cao was using this army to fight against Yuan Shao .

 

Liu Bei also currently have the Qingzhou’s Yellow Turban elites in his army, under Guan Yu and Zhang Fei .

 

If Zhang Xiu had not launched a surprise attack, Cao Cao would not have been defeated so badly .

 

These Yellow Turbans were the most elite troops in the world .

 

It has fought against various troops like Lu Bu’s Wolf Cavalry and Formation Breaker, Liu Bei’s White Eared Heavy Infantry, Yuzhou’s armored cavalry, Yuan Shao’s First Camp and more .

 

Zhang Xiu’s Xiliang cavalry, the Yellow Turbans from Qingzhou, was truly dominant in the Three Kingdoms .

 

A similar one would be the third group of the Yellow Turbans, which was Liu Pi . He was not strong and only second rate . He has no advisors and the leaders in the group were simply the better ones among all the others without quality . Such a person was able to occupy Runan for so long because of the Yellow Turban Army .

 

On the other hand, half of Hao Shao’s army are recruits . One thousand were recruited locally at Guangzhou by Hao Shao . The other one thousand were given by Liu Mang . It was impossible for Liu Mang to disassemble the other armies to give soldiers to him . He could only give those that went to Hebei to look for a future, those that have not seen blood before, to Hao Shao . Hao Shao was from the Wolf Cavalry and has once been trained by Zhang Liao . He has seen both Zhang Liao and Gao Shun train soldiers . Because of Zhang Liao’s recommendation, Gao Shun could not take over . They knew about Hao Shao’s talent . Hao Shao also has knowledge of himself . He trained his soldiers for more than a month . He knows that if the soldiers were to go out and fight, they would collapse . Right now, the opponent had ten times more troops than him .

 

If the walls collapse, it would no longer be field battles . He would really need to face an army that was ten times larger . That was why he needed to find a way to destroy the ram .

 

Liu Mang has did this before at Wancheng . Sun Ce had opened the gates with the rams but was not able to enter Wancheng . This was because Liu Mang had filled up the entrance with debris . Piles of rocks and wood blocked the entrance, making it impossible for Sun Ce to enter the city unless they took the offensive .

 

Hao Shao was currently unable to do it as the walls of Wancheng were made of piled up bricks covered with layers of clay and lime . It was originally an ancient city and was reinforced by Lu Kang as a precaution against the Yellow Turbans .

 

Lu Kang was defeated by Sun Ce . Yuan Shu then received Wancheng . Liu Xun became the prefect . Liu Xun was not an idiot . He also reinforced the city to defend it against Sun Ce . Sun Ce also repaired the city as he wanted to use the place . It could be said that the walls of Wancheng was very strong .

 

However, only a few places at the small Guangzhou was made with bricks . The rest was mostly clay . If the ram destroys the gates, the wall would collapse as well . If the gate collapsed, it could still be blocked . However, if the walls collapsed, it could not be blocked .

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