Chapter 620 Crossbowmen Stop the Enemy

Because the attack power of the crossbow soldiers was relatively strong, Wang Li sent his personal guard battalion to engage in close combat with the Chu army, while Gao Shun's trap camp was still throwing crossbow arrows at the Chu army behind the battle.

After fifty moves, Huangfu Chaobo could see that Dian Wei was slowly falling behind. Huangfu Chaobo knew how terrifying Dian Wei was. Judging from the situation, Xiang Yu's strength was only one tenth stronger than him, and Xiang Yu was a two-handed heavy weapon, so he had an advantage in weapons.

After eighty moves, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly heard Xiang Yu roar: "The King's Art - Sweeping the Thousands of Armies!"

Then, he saw the halberd head of Xiang Yu's King's Halberd like a red fire dragon, sweeping towards Dian Wei.

"Not good!" Huangfu Chaobo shouted: "General She!"

Wang Li and Shejian also reacted. Shejian had been paying close attention to the battle in the field. Seeing this situation, he shouted, raised his spear and rushed forward.

At this time, Dian Wei, who was in the middle of the battle, also discovered Xiang Yu's aggressive move, but he had already used up his moves and was just within the attack range of Xiang Yu's long halberd. If he was swept by Xiang Yu's halberd, Dian Wei would be seriously injured if not dead. Although Shejian had already made a move, he was still a certain distance away. It was not known whether he could make it in time.

Just when Huangfu Chaobo was anxious, he found that Dian Wei twisted his body, holding the halberd in his left hand to block the Overlord Halberd, but the halberd in his right hand quickly stabbed towards Xiang Yu's chest.

If it was really as Dian Wei intended, then although his left-hand halberd could block part of the force of the Overlord Halberd, his chest would still be hit hard, and his right halberd would directly pierce into Xiang Yu's body, so that both sides would be injured.

Seeing this, Xiang Yu knew what Dian Wei was thinking, but as a general, he was not willing to fight with an unknown Qin general. So, Xiang Yu slightly turned his body to avoid Dian Wei's stab. It was because of this sideways movement that the attack power of the Overlord Halberd was greatly reduced.

So although Xiang Yu successfully avoided Dian Wei's stab, the Overlord Halberd's "sweeping thousands of troops" did not finally give Dian Wei a fatal blow. He only pushed him back a few steps. However, Dian Wei's mouth still bleed a lot, which shows the power of this halberd.

Just as Xiang Yu was about to take a few steps forward and hit Dian Wei again, Shejian had already attacked with a gun, and several Qin generals behind him also stepped forward to besiege Xiang Yu.

Seeing that Dian Wei finally avoided the attack, Huangfu Chaobo couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief. At the same time, he also knew that with the power of Shejian and several Qin generals, they would definitely not be able to stop Xiang Yu for long.

But now Zhao Cen's Yuanrong crossbow soldiers have not yet arrived to support. After thinking about it, Huangfu Chaobo decided to send the Xianzhen Camp to the field, using the power of the formation to stop Xiang Yu, while Wang Li and his guards tried their best to stop the Chu army.

Gao Shun, who received the order from the general, immediately ordered the Xianzhen Camp to assemble. With his order, the Xianzhen Camp quickly formed a fish scale formation and killed towards Xiang Yu.

It took only a few breaths from Huangfu Chaobo's order to the Xianzhen Camp approaching Xiang Yu, but three Qin generals had already died under Xiang Yu's halberd, which shows Xiang Yu's terrifying combat power.

At this time, Dian Wei had also quickly adjusted himself. Seeing that Shejian and the generals were struggling under Xiang Yu's attack, he shouted and attacked Xiang Yu.

Hearing Dian Wei's voice, Xiang Yu decisively gave up Shejian and others and turned to attack Dian Wei. In his opinion, only this big black guy was worth fighting.

Seeing this, Shejian and other Qin generals knew the gap between themselves and Xiang Yu and Dian Wei. Seeing that Xiang Yu had shifted his target, they felt disappointed but also secretly glad, and immediately shifted their attention to other Chu army arms.

After nearly a hundred rounds of fighting, Dian Wei also understood Xiang Yu's strength, which was several times stronger than Lu Bu. He could fight Lu Bu for two hundred rounds without losing, but he could only last a hundred rounds before being seriously injured in Xiang Yu's hands.

So when facing Xiang Yu again, Dian Wei obviously attacked more than defended, and only attacked once or twice occasionally. Finally, after Gao Shun's Xianzhen Camp came up, Dian Wei also retreated decisively.

As for using Xianzhen Camp to stop Xiang Yu, it would definitely bring considerable losses to Xianzhen Camp. Huangfu Chaobo was well prepared, but he was really heartbroken to see that Xianzhen Camp had more than a dozen casualties in just a few breaths.

You have to know that these soldiers were selected from more than 200,000 ordinary soldiers. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were selected from a thousand miles away. Now they have lost more than a dozen in just a few minutes. How can it not make people feel distressed?

However, there is no other way now. We can only hope that the Xianzhen Camp can hold out for a while and wait for Zhao Cen's Yuanrong Crossbowmen to arrive. With more than a thousand crossbowmen, the Chu army should be able to "force" back.

Huangfu Chaobo watched the soldiers of the Xianzhen Camp in front of him fall down continuously. Although he was anxious, he could only worry and look back at the Sujiao camp behind him from time to time.

According to the original plan, after the Yuanrong Crossbowmen assisted the Sujiao troops to attack the western camp of the coalition forces, Zhao Cen immediately led them to help the rear guards to block the Chu army.

But who knew that the Chu army came so quickly, so they had to fight hand-to-hand. Otherwise, relying on the barrier of the camp and nearly two thousand crossbowmen, it was enough for the Chu army to drink a pot. I believe that after a large number of troops were lost, Xiang Yu would also weigh the consequences of continuing to pursue. Without the Chu army, the other princes' coalition forces were a group of soft persimmons.

Finally, after losing nearly a hundred people in the trap camp, Huangfu Chaobo finally saw a thousand cavalrymen running breathlessly in the camp. The leader was Zhao Cen, the deputy general of the Yuanrong Crossbowmen. He led the crossbowmen to Huangfu Chaobo, dismounted, and walked quickly to him and said, "General, I am here with the Yuanrong Crossbowmen!"

Seeing that Zhao Cen and other soldiers and their horses were all panting, Huangfu Chaobo didn't care to let them rest, and immediately arranged: "Okay, arrange it immediately. The Yuanrong Crossbowmen will be divided into two columns, and take turns to continuously shoot at the Chu army twenty steps behind the enemy general to separate them from the soldiers and horses behind. Remember, the two columns of crossbowmen will take turns to shoot, and there should not be too long a pause in between."

When Zhao Cen heard it, he immediately ordered the Yuanrong Crossbowmen to quickly prepare as required. After a moment, the thousand crossbowmen were all ready. Following Zhao Cen's order, the crossbowmen in the front row quickly moved 20 steps behind Xiang Yu and started firing. Considering the continuity of the firing, the interval between the ten crossbow arrows fired by the crossbowmen was relatively longer than usual, almost the same as the archers' usual firing frequency. Even so, the firing of five thousand crossbow arrows within a few breaths also caused the Chu army, which was advancing vigorously, to stagnate.