There were constant rumbling drums and shouts from the dark river surface. I don’t know how many soldiers and horses were hiding in the darkness.

The torch on the north bank of Panhe River reflects the sky, and the soldiers of Gongsun Zan's army arrived hurriedly and formed a formation on the shore to wait for the enemy. They were beating the drum in their hearts and wondering if this time would be true? Or would they still have a waste of work!

The south bank of Panhe River was brightly lit. Yuan Shao raised his glass in the big tent, looked at the fire on the north bank and said, "Brother Zijin, this time I saw that I borrowed arrows for my brother. When Gongsun Zan's arrows were exhausted, it was the time for him to lose!"

Qin Feng took a sip. He was not worried about Yuan Shao's borrowing arrows. Instead, he was thinking, if Gongsun Zan was defeated, how could he keep his strength?

On the south bank of Panhe River, a thousand archers from Gongsun Zan's army arrived again, and lined up a mile on the shore, with ten arrows and rockets per person.

"Prepare, bend your bow and put on an arrow..." More than a dozen officers issued orders on the front line.

So, a thousand archers bent their bows and took arrows.

When Yan Liang and Zhang He saw this, they immediately showed joy and thought that this time was successful again. They would wait for the reward after returning. They immediately ordered a hundred small boats to line up in parallel with the archers on the shore to collect arrows to the maximum extent.

At this time, Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei and his three brothers also came to the front line. Seeing that the archers were in place, he was impatient to find out the river bank. After all, he wanted to shoot rockets. If a large bulge flew out, it would have the effect of a flare in later generations.

Gongsun Zan took over the command and ordered: "Immediately!"

"ignition!"

"Ignite!" The officers passed orders on the long front.

"Ignite?" Yan Liang, Gao Ling, looked at each other!

Gao Lan was the first to wake up and shouted: "The big thing is not good, it's the Rocket!"

When Yan Liang heard this, he looked at the ship of scarecrows again, and his face turned green.

Huh, a thousand rockets on the shore were immediately ignited.

"Shoot the arrow!"

"Shoot the arrow!"

Huh, the rocket flew towards the river with a whistle.

The first time was a tentative shooting. One thousand rockets only shot seven or eight small boats, but immediately ignited the scarecrow above. So it became a fireboat, and the other small boats immediately showed their figures in the flames.

"Retreat, retreat!" Even the powerful general Yan Liang was panicked when facing the rockets on this straw boat.

Gao Lan made a decision and said, "It's too late, jump into the ship and run away!"

With a plop, he jumped into the water.

Yan Liang hesitated for a moment...

"Shoot the arrow!"

Huhu, the second round of the rocket immediately ignited 90% of the boats.

Originally, there would not be such a high hit rate, but because of Yan Liang and Gao Lan had previously set the ship in parallel with the archers of Gongsun Zan's army in order to facilitate the collection of arrows. This made the Rockets' offensive very good!

The raging fire on the boat made Yan Liang's face hurt. He no longer hesitated and plunged into the water.

"Wow!"

"Help!"

Plop, plop.

Many Yuan Shaojun on the boat were ignited and immediately jumped into the water to take refuge, and others also jumped into the river to escape.

More than a hundred ships full of scarecrows caught fire. The scene was extremely spectacular.

The Gongsun Zan soldiers who were waiting for the enemy on the shore immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It was obvious that this time the enemy was bluffing and cheating on the arrow.

"Shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows, burn them hard, burn them all!" Gongsun Zan was furious and shouted in anger when he saw that he was almost fooled again.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, rockets were cumbersome, and long-term storage was difficult and very dangerous. Therefore, the inventory was very small, and most of them were made immediately. Moreover, because the arrows covered heavy objects, the lethality was sharply reduced, and the range was much shorter. They were only used in specific situations. For example, when attacking camps, burning enemy tents and other supplies could also cause chaos.

In surface combat, rockets are extremely powerful. Gongsun Zan used rockets as soon as he got up, obviously there were no conventional bows and arrows.

Yuan Shao was so frustrated, thinking that I was so unlucky. Qin Zi had 100,000 arrows when he entered, and once I went, there were only rockets! He wrapped his cloak on his body, swallowed his breath and said, "What Brother Zi Jin said is very good. Have a good rest tonight, and we will cross the river to fight in the next day."

Tomorrow, I will see if I don’t shoot you Gongsun Zan into a hedgehog. Yuan Shao muttered and returned depressedly.

The day to come.

Yuan Shao didn't go to Qin Feng to fight together. Because he knew that it would be useless to find it. Qin Zijin had many reasons, and he sent a horse to the point where it was inconvenient to transport quickly.

So, he just asked Ju Su to inform Qin Feng that when he seized the beachhead, he would cross the river as soon as possible to fight together.

And he himself found a high ground on the shore and commanded his troops to cross the river.

Hundreds of boats competed in the current, hundreds of rafts and boats carried thousands of soldiers across the river, and two thousand of them were archers.

After seeing Gongsun Zan, because there were no bows and arrows, he had to send ships to intercept them.

The power of the bow and arrow was immediately revealed, and the dense rain of arrows caused almost the entire Gongsun Zan army to be destroyed.

"Brother Bo Gui, this is not a solution. You should put the shield player first, be listed on the shore, and the spearmen are behind to resist the enemy's landing!" said Liu Bei, who was commanding the battle on the shore with Gongsun Zan.

According to his words, Gongsun Zan sent five thousand shield-panelers to form an array, and five thousand spearmen were behind. The rest of the troops were arranged on the shore and ready to support them at any time.

However, Yuan Shao was not a fool. After discussing with his advisers, he ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows on the water without going ashore first. Aren't you arranging the shore? I'll shoot you one less.

Swallow ~ Swallow ~

Endless rain of arrows hit Gongsun Zan's head. Although there were shields to block them, casualties were inevitable under such dense rain of arrows, and thousands of people were killed and injured soon.

Gongsun Zan can bear such casualties for the time being. He originally said that he would clean up the bows and arrows shot by Yuan Jun on the spot, but if he wanted to do so, he would inevitably mess up the situation, so he could only bite the bullet and carry Yuan Jun's rain of arrows to death. At the same time, he prayed to heaven and let Yuan Jun use up the arrows quickly.

Yuan Shao's army kept firing arrows, so the river surface became lively, and more than a hundred rafts came and went on the water, constantly sending bundles of bows and arrows to the archers.

Without any power to fight back, there is no danger on our side. Yuan Shao issued a new order to accurately strike and not to shoot arrows blindly.

As a result, Gongsun Zan's losses increased a lot, and two thousand casualties were soon injured and killed.

After a while, the number of casualties rose to 3,000.

Just when Gongsun Zan's army was about to stand it, the situation changed and Yuan Shao's army's arrows were about to run out.

Yuan Shao was so anxious that he made a fuss.

Guo Tu said, "Lord, Gongsun Zan's soldiers have no morale, and the defense line has also become loose. If there are a large number of arrows to supplement our army, it will definitely be able to scatter his defense line!"

How could Yuan Shao not know about this? But the arrow is gone, what should I do!

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