Hou Dayong followed ten archers for a long time, specifically used to shoot and kill enemy generals. In the Battle of Bagongyuan, the Han army's brave general Zhang Yuanzheng was shot and killed by the Black Eagle Army's archers. The death of the Han army's brave general Zhang Yuanzheng became the turning point in the victory and defeat of the Zhou and Han armies.

At this time, Hou Dayong stood on the wall of the village with ten archers, observing the shape of the Shu army. Hou Dayong said to the ten archers: "You often can't live with me. Today, you can let go of your hands and feet." Hou Dayong said, and the archers became excited, rubbed their fists and palms, ready to have a good time.

Liu Heigou, a soldier in the Lion Camp, was a veteran of the Black Eagle Army. When the Black Eagle Army was newly built, a bow and arrow competition was held. Liu Heigou was the sergeant who usually had excellent archery skills but was off the target during the competition. After the game, Liu Heigou not only ate the team's straight kick, but was also ridiculed by the soldiers of the same team for a long time. Liu Heigou had a stubborn temper and thin-skinned face since he was a child. Since then, he has practiced archery skills hard and became a famous archer in the army. Therefore, he was selected by Hou Dayong and became one of the top ten master archers in the Black Eagle Army.

Because the Shu army had not yet reached the archery journey, Liu Heigou carried the bow and arrow on his back, holding the yellow birch crossbow, and competed with Tong Qilang, the archer next to him. Tong Qilang's archery technique was slightly inferior to Liu Heigou, but he was a master of crossbow. Tong Qilang shot at the head of a Shu army soldier who was climbing up. The crossbow arrow called out, hitting the head of the Shu soldiers. The Shu soldiers were caught in the arrow and leaning back and falling into the trench. The screams mixed in one after another. No one noticed that a living life disappeared in the chaotic trench.

Tong Qilang looked at Liu Heigou proudly and said, "Are you convinced, the third one." Liu Heigou fired three arrows in a row today, and only one arrow shot a Shu soldier's thigh. Two arrows were shot missed. Seeing Tong Qilang hit another one, he said, "No need for crossbows, I will use a bow and arrow to compete with you."

At this time, a small number of Shu soldiers climbed up the trench with round shields, avoided the crossbow arrows, and rushed towards the gate of the village. Liu Heigou used crossbow arrows not as refreshing as bow arrows. Seeing that Shu soldiers entered the arrows, he took down the bow and arrows, picked up three arrows and held them in his hand. As soon as the bow was in his hand, Liu Heigou immediately calmed down and squinted his eyes to find the gaps of Shu soldiers. A Shu soldiers' round shield was not raised high enough, protecting their chest and abdomen, but exposed his face. Liu Heigou saw the opportunity, loosened his fingers, and the carved feather arrows drew a graceful arc like a meteor, staring at the Shu soldiers fiercely.

The cluster of arrows of the eagle-feather arrows is better than the tail of ordinary iron arrows and is extremely accurate. Of course, the cost is much higher than that of ordinary iron arrows. The ten archers used the eagle-feather arrows. Liu Heigou held three arrows in his right hand and shot one. After shooting out one, he did not stop and moved the bow and arrow to find the target. Soon, two more Shu troops fell under Liu Heigou's arrows.

The results of the Black Eagle Army's long-term hard practice of archery skills are so obvious. The Shu army suffered heavy casualties in front of the trenches, and the Shu soldiers who were caught in the arrows have fallen into a whole. Iron arrows shot into the bodies of the Shu soldiers. Looking down from the camp, the clusters of arrows exposed are like the tips of bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest in spring, and like mushrooms that cover the sky and earth in the forest after the rain.

Hou Dayong stood on the wall of the village without taking action. He judged from the number, formation, equipment and tactics of the Shu army that this team of Shu army was not an opponent of the Black Eagle Army, so he was just a bystander to observe the changes in the situation. The Shu army threw away his armor under the dense and accurate rain of arrows, and turned around and ran back.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Hou Dayong ordered: "Open the gate of the village and the cavalry attack!"

After the village gate opened, under the cover of bows and crossbows, dozens of surrendered Shu soldiers carried a thick wooden board that had been nailed in advance and laid it on the trench, quickly forming a convenient wooden bridge. The seven hundred cavalry who had been impatient, stepped across the simple wooden bridge like a whirlwind under the leadership of Guo Yan and rushed into the Shu army formation.

The Shu army was all infantry, without camp protection, and was retreating. In a blink of an eye, the horses were scattered and did not organize effective resistance at all. The defeat was like a mountain of fallen, and the Shu soldiers only regretted that the two legs given by their parents were too short and they fled in all directions. However, the two legs could not run away with four legs. The black eagle army and horses were everywhere, with long swords flying, and the blood spurted out by the Shu soldiers made the ground wet, as if it had just rained.

A rider of the Black Eagle Army followed the brigade and had not yet fought with his opponent, but was actually slipped to the ground. The rider was so sad that he was confused and stared at the ground for a while. The rider woke up and got up cursingly. He looked up and found that except for the dead and the wounded soldiers lying on the ground and groaning, the others were gone in front of the village gate. He could only hear the sound of shouts and killings from afar.

Hou Dayong shook his head on the wall of the village and ordered his guards to say, "I am tired from standing, bring me a chair and make another pot of good tea." He said, "Ming Jin will withdraw his troops, and you can't chase them too far."

Hou Dayong took a sip of the tea he had just brought, and gave another order: "Send a hundred soldiers out of the village to move all the arrows, weapons and food brought by the Shu soldiers into the village. Don't be too happy too early, the bad battle is still behind."

The rash Guzhen Shu army was hit by the Black Eagle Army head-on. The punch was so fierce that the main force of the 4,000 Shu army that followed was stunned. The main force of the Shu army gathered 300 broken Guzhen Shu soldiers, buried 652 corpses, and there were hundreds of wounded soldiers with broken hands and legs. The commander of the Guzhen Shu army infantry army led hundreds of people to escape into the mountains and disappeared.

The Shu army in Guzhen was defeated so miserably. No one could tell how many Zhou troops there were in the village. Some were 3,000 and some were 4,000. Shu general Jiang Hui was frightened by the power of the Black Diao Army in a battle and did not dare to challenge it easily. He set up camp in front of Zhangjiaguan Village and waited for the arrival of Chengzhou Army. The next morning, the Shu army in Chengzhou arrived at Zhangjiaguan Pass and met with the main force of the Shu army. At this time, the Shu army in front of Zhangjiaguan Village had reached more than 7,300 people. In the afternoon, the Shu army, who had learned the lesson, cut down many big trees from the mountain and tied them into wooden rafts to pave the trenches in front of Zhangjiaguan Village. Jiang Hui also ordered people to adjust stone cannons from Guzhen, and when the stone cannons arrived, they would launch an attack. On the morning of the third day, five stone cannons were placed in front of the gate of Zhangjiaguan Village.

Because the wall of Zhangjiaguan Village was narrow, Hou Dayong divided the thousand Black Eagle Army into three groups, each group of about 400 people, and only one group of troops was invested on the wall at a time. Ten sharpshooters followed Hou Dayong and were personally commanded.

Seeing that the preparations were completed, Shu general Jiang Hui issued an order to attack. A Shu army captain stood in front of the stone cannons and conducted unified command. Each stone cannon was operated by more than 30 people. Thirty or forty kilograms of big stones fell from the sky with the roar of death and smashed into the village. Two stones hit the walls of the village and three hit the houses in the village. The dull collision sounds made when the big rocks landed, the sound of the houses collapsed, and the shouts of the Shu army outside the pass became the main theme of the battlefield. The Black Eagle Army quietly did not respond.

At this time, all the Black Eagle Army soldiers looked at the sky, staring at the big stones falling from the sky, and judging the location of the big stones falling. The big stones were not dense, and the Black Eagle Army soldiers were guarding their positions and no one ran around. Therefore, the first round of the big stones did not cause losses to the Black Eagle Army personnel, but caused some damage to the village wall and the houses in the village. When the five big stones fell to the ground, Guo Jiong ordered: "Prepare for battle." The Black Eagle Army soldiers on the village wall picked up the yellow birch crossbow and pointed it at the trench.

The Shu army launched three thousand people for the first time. More than one hundred Shu soldiers carried wooden rafts and laid them on the trenches to completely cover the trenches. Three thousand Shu soldiers held round shields and ignored the dense crossbow arrows, quickly rushed to the bottom of the village wall, and more than twenty ladders were placed on the village wall.

The Black Eagle Army soldiers only shot a crossbow arrow, and the Shu army rushed to the bottom of the village wall. The Black Eagle Army soldiers put the crossbow aside, raised the wood and stone beside them, and smashed it at the rushing Shu army. In addition, the Black Eagle Army hooked the long ladder with a hook rod and pushed the long ladder away from the village wall, so that the Shu army above the long ladder could not be up and down.

The crossbowmen and archers of the Shu army approached the village wall and shot upwards to cover the attack of the Shu army.

Seeing that the attacking Shu army was well-trained, numerous and well prepared, the trench soon became flat ground, and knew that the main force of the Shu army had arrived and the real fierce battle was about to begin.

The Shu army crossbow and bow poses a great threat to the Black Eagle Army on the wall of the village. Hou Dayong ordered a hundred crossbowmen to come to the wall of the village and shoot against the Shu army. Hou Dayong was no longer idle, and took the longbow to find the target of attack. Since ancient times, Hou Dayong has been unable to leave arrows every day. Although the archery skills are not as good as those of the ten magic archers, he is also a first-class expert in the Black Eagle Army. Hou Dayong aims at the face of a crossbowman in the Shu army, and the Shu army crossbowmen falls down. When the ten magic archers see the defensive commander who hits the arrow, they are not willing to be outdone, so they take out the bow and arrow, and also shoot at the Shu army crossbowmen and the archer's position.
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