I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 252 General Che Ji Dies

With such a firm belief, Li Shao ordered the entire army to attack the city. He personally supervised the battle and set up one thousand cavalrymen under his command as a supervisory team. Anyone who dared to retreat would be killed on the spot without mercy!
Twenty thousand rebels surrounded the city and attacked from all directions, which looked really impressive.

The war drums sounded, the horns blew, and in an instant the whole battlefield was filled with the sounds of killing, giving a sense of a fight to the death.

But as the saying goes, a barking dog never bites, and the actions of Li Shao and the rebels very aptly demonstrated this truth.

The rebels had no heavy siege equipment, only hastily made ladders and battering rams for hitting the city gates. Relying on these two simple siege equipment, the rebels began a siege from all sides, but what greeted them was the Han army's careful deployment and preparation.

Li Shao's entire army had only 500 archers. In order to increase the firepower to suppress the city walls, he forced more than 2,000 people to take bows and arrows, and then let them shoot arrows after sending them to the battlefield.

As for the selection criteria for these "archers"...

It's to see who can stretch the bow to the size of a half moon.

They do have a little bit of strength, but using a bow and arrow is by no means enough with just a little bit of strength. The result of not having careful training is that these so-called archers have no idea where they will shoot the arrow. Once an arrow leaves the string, its direction and final landing point are uncertain.

This is like a probability game, or like Schrödinger's cat. On this battlefield, no one knows who the arrow will finally hit.

Li Shao hoped that they could shoot arrows at the city wall to suppress the defensive firepower of the Han army on the city wall. As a result, most of the arrows they shot drew a not-so-beautiful parabolic curve in the air and rushed towards their own people.

There were also some arrows that landed in very clever locations, hitting directly on the back of their own people's heads, causing those babies who rushed forward to be hit by arrows in front and behind. They could not defend against the back if they defended the front, and they could not defend against the front if they defended the back. They were like mice in a bellows, being bullied from both sides.

Under the fierce attack of the enemy and the severe beating of teammates, this group of line-filling babies suffered more than a thousand casualties just to complete the first stage of the task of filling the pits. The corpses were enough to fill up several pits.

When they finally advanced to the edge of the moat and began to throw sandbags into the moat, they were met with an even fiercer rain of arrows from the Han army, making it impossible to move forward.

Of course, the Han army prepared more than just these city defense equipment. Rolling logs and stones were basic exercises. In a corner that the rebels couldn't see, the Han army was also preparing a super killer weapon - gold juice.

Yuan Shu's original plan was to give the rebels a blow once they successfully crossed the moat, to let them feel what it felt like to be drenched in shit and to consume as much of their military strength as possible.

However, what Yuan Shu did not expect was that he seemed to have slightly overestimated the capabilities of these rebels.

He thought that these rebels could at least cross the moat and come to the bottom of the city wall to set up ladders and climb up the city walls like ants. At that time, using gold juice would certainly be more effective, but these rebels couldn't even cross the moat.

Because the archers on the rebel side were really weak and unable to suppress the Han army on the city wall, they would even attack their teammates, forcing the shield soldiers to take care of the front and pay attention to the back, for fear of being killed by their own people. As a result, when the line-filling babies rushed to the moat and threw sandbags into the moat, they became complete living targets for the Han army.

The Han army shot arrows at the edge of the moat, and the hit rate of the arrows was surprisingly high. Some Han soldiers with good archery skills had even begun to use the rebel soldiers as living targets to practice archery, and there were even archery competitions. It was really extraordinary.

Looking at the miserable appearance of the rebels, Yuan Shu felt a little bit sorry and continued to shoot arrows. He estimated that the bodies of these rebel soldiers could fill up the moat. There was really no need for this.

So Yuan Shu decided to personally lead two thousand cavalry out of the city to defeat the enemy.

Fan Li and others still expressed their opposition to this, thinking that Yuan Shu was too important and too delicate, so it would be better for him not to take risks lightly. They could just leave the tasks of charging into the battle line and killing the enemy to them.

But Yuan Shu felt that this should not be a big challenge.

"In their current state, can they really pose any threat to me? Besides, if I go out of the city to fight, the guards will naturally protect me, Chong, don't you agree?"

Yuan Shu looked at Xu Chong beside him, and Xu Chong immediately patted his chest.

"Before I die, the boss will never be hurt at all!"

"See?"

Yuan Shu pointed at Xu Chong, who raised his head and chest, showing off his strong body.

The generals were speechless and could only agree.

So Yuan Shu put on his helmet and armor, fully armed, assembled his troops, and personally led them out of the city to charge.

In order to protect his safety, Xu Chong of course followed him closely. The three hundred royal cavalrymen from the Yi Xin Society swore to guard him to the death, protecting Yuan Shu in the middle and accompanying him in charging into the battle.

Fan Li was also worried, so he chose to follow, and followed closely behind Yuan Shu with his personal guards, fearing that something might happen to Yuan Shu. But it turned out that their worries were indeed a bit unnecessary.

The rebels were already on the verge of collapse because they were attacked from both sides. The Han army beat drums and blew horns, opened the city gates, and sent out cavalry, which frightened the rebels and made them collapse.

Before the cavalrymen rushed across the suspension bridge over the moat, the rebel soldiers threw away sandbags and ran back. When the cavalrymen charged out, it was like entering a slaughterhouse, wielding swords and holding spears and killing indiscriminately.

Yuan Shu learned from his last lesson this time. He did not care about those ordinary soldiers, but instead aimed at the place where the flag of [General Li] was located. Together with Xu Chong, he led the most elite 300 cavalry guards to launch a group charge.

That guy was fighting and charging all the way, invincible. Wherever he went, blood splattered and broken limbs flew everywhere. Even though Yuan Shu was protected in the middle, some blood could not avoid exploding on his face. The strong smell of blood kept stimulating his olfactory nerves.

But he is no longer so sensitive to this smell.

Of course, Li Shao did not notice this situation at first, because the entire battlefield was too chaotic. Li Shao was preparing to arrange his 1,000 cavalry to rush onto the battlefield to fight against the Han cavalry in order to reverse the situation. However, because there were fleeing defeated soldiers everywhere, they even dispersed Li Shao's central army. No matter how Li Shao tried to stop them, he could not save the situation.

Then, when the guards around Li Shao discovered that a group of Han cavalry were rushing towards them, it was too late.

The personal guards around Li Shao rushed forward to try to do something to stop them, but they were simply unable to stop the Han cavalry's crazy charge and were instantly killed by them.

Li Shao was completely frightened, his mind went blank, looking at the oncoming Han cavalry, he even forgot what he should do. His warhorse was already getting restless due to its impatience, but he did not turn around and run away.

So much so that when a young Han general thrust a spear at him, he did not have time to dodge, and was stabbed fiercely in the chest by the spear...

Then, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and Li Shao's whole body was carried backwards by the Han general's momentum. He fell off his horse and fell to the ground, rolled twice, and died.

General Che Ji indeed has his own destiny.

And this guy probably won't be able to use the coffin anymore.

The young Han general was Yuan Shu.

When charging into the battle line, Xu Chong and the cavalry guards beside him cleared a bloody path for him, opening up a glorious road for him to rush towards Li Shao and complete the assassination. Of course, he would not refuse everyone's kindness, and he charged forward with his spear held high, roared, and stabbed fiercely at the guy who was dressed the most gorgeously and conspicuously.

He was stabbed to death with a spear.

Then he turned his horse around, drew the ring-handled sword from his waist, roared, and cut off the rebel army's central army flag with one blow.

The flag of "General Li" fell down with a loud bang and was trampled under the hooves of Yuan Shu's horse.

In any case, Li Shao could never have imagined that he, a dignified General of Chariots and Cavalry, would so quickly become a General of Chariots and Cavalry and die.

However, this assault was so fast that even Yuan Shu felt it was a little unbelievable. From the time he led his troops to charge out of the city gate until he killed Li Shao, he estimated that it took no more than an incense stick of time. It was that fast!

In just a stick of incense's time, he rushed directly to the commander-in-chief of an army and stabbed him to death with a spear. The success was so smooth that he felt a little unbelievable.

Because he was too excited, he turned into an adrenaline-fueled killing machine, so much so that he could not remember when the battlefield was filled with the cheers of the Han army.

In a trance, he suddenly thought of Guan Yu, this peerless macho man.

On the battlefield between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, he charged forward so bravely and stabbed Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang to death, laying the foundation for Cao Cao's victory. He became the only man recorded in official history who took the head of a general in the midst of thousands of troops.

Would Guan Yu at that time have had the same moment of trance as I do now?

Would you find it hard to believe that you could kill the commander of an army with just one move?

Yuan Shu felt that he might never get the answer to this question.

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