156 No concessions

Don't panic if you're prepared, how to fight or how to fight, it's impossible to hit hard, the opposite side is a battle-hardened division of a hundred battles, and your own side is just a newcomer to the battlefield. But Xinding has the benefits of Xinding, and those who don't know are fearless.

Moreover, Xu Shu's strategic goal for Gan Ning was only to delay time and spread the war on the Yangtze River, so that the people in Chaisang City would not dare to flee to the Yangtze River. It's not that he wants to win a big battle, at most it's just an attack.

Therefore, Gan Ning played very positively. Taking advantage of the small size of the ship, the fact that many soldiers are born as bandits, and their brains are flexible and good at disrupting wars, they successfully made a miasma on the water. Zhou Yu was so angry that he gritted his teeth but couldn't do anything about them, this group of people didn't look like regular soldiers at all, they were completely water bandits wearing the clothes of regular army! If it weren't for the obvious banner of Ganzi, he would have already decided that these people were water bandits.

Fortunately, under his subordinates, before Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai's second generals joined the army, they also had some understanding of the ideas of their peers, so they were not recklessly overturned all of a sudden. However, the water bandits are also advancing with the times, after all, Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai have been formally trained for a long time, unlike these soldiers under Gan Ning, who have been trained for less than a year, and now they are ordered to make trouble, and their nature is exposed to no psychological burden at all.

Zhou Yu's heart was faintly uneasy, these people were too close to Chaisang. So, he sent spies to explore the clues from the land, but it was too late, Huang Zhong and Kou Feng took their strongest armies like two sharp arrows and stabbed Chaisang.

When Zhou Yu got the exact news that it was Huang Zhong and Kou Feng who came, his heart completely sank to the bottom. He couldn't do anything except hurry up to report to Wu County and rush to the front line to ask for reinforcements.

At this time, Zhou Yu did not have an army by his side, and Zhou Yu, who was originally the first military commander of Eastern Wu, was now just a commander of the naval army, and was still confined to Poyang.

When he fought Shanyue, or earlier than Shanyue, when he fought Jiangxia, Zhou Yu was majestic, and he had two systems of water and land under his hands, and he was as fierce as a cloud. Pan Zhang, Quan Cong, Zhu Ran, Zhu Zhi, Lv Meng...... But now, none of these people are with him.

He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and Pang Tong on the side was also frowning. He never expected that Zhou Yu, the governor of Jiangdong, would be beaten back to his original form so quickly after fighting Shanyue. It is said that the officials of Eastern Wu are very deep in governing the water, but they didn't expect it to be like this, and the ministers who face Sun Ce will fall out of favor.

Now that it's okay, Xu Yuanzhi sent the strongest soldiers in his hands to attack Chaisang, and he must be determined to win. And he didn't have a single card in his hand that worked. Do you want to persuade Zhou Yu to give up Chaisang? Leaving Qingshan can say that he is not worried about running out of firewood, but it also depends on the object, how can Zhou Yu give up his small family and the old nest that he has been operating for many years, and slip away?

What's more, Chai Sang still has his wife and children, and he is young and vigorous, so he must have tried hard knowing that he couldn't do it. When the time comes, it must be after the chickens and eggs have damaged the soldiers, and they still have to swallow the bitter fruit of failure. Pang Tong's face was not good-looking, and Zhou Yu's face was even more ugly, he rejected Pang Tong's proposal, and sent a capable meticulous worker to enter the city to pick up Mrs. Qiao and the child, and he couldn't accept the loss of Chasang.

Now, there is no other way but to wait, and in his hands, there are no generals who can compete with Huang Zhong and Kou Feng, and there is no army. The navy army was dragged by Gan Ning again, and there was no other way than to wait for Sun Quan to send reinforcements.

Even if Sun Quan ordered the retreat of the Chaisang garrisons attacking Jianchang, how much combat strength would be left after a long battle? With such fanfare, the enemy must have a high momentum, and the first wave of attacks must be fierce. All the calculations were against Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu was in a hurry in the study, and the letter asking for help was sent, but when Sun Quan replied to him, it was at least three days later, and there were three days, and maybe the battle was over, so what should he do?

Just as concern is chaos, just when Zhou Yu was hesitant and in a dilemma, Huang Zhong's vanguard troops arrived at the city of Chaisang before Sun Quan's reply. Huang Zhong was qualified, and the first thing he did when he arrived at the place was to "help Zhou Yu ask for help", and he proclaimed with great fanfare that he was an archer who came to attack the city, and sent the cloth strips with the words of persuasion into the city.

In addition, Huang Zhong also let people beat gongs and drums everywhere to propagandize, the Changsha army is approaching the city, the Changsha army began to attack the city, Huang Zhong's troops are responsible for attacking the east gate and the north gate, cutting off the back road of the Chaisang defenders on the Jianchang side, and building a barrier between Changsha and Shanglu. completely cut off Zhou Yu's hope.

After capturing the two gates, Huang Zhong ordered that all the troops, except for some guards, should be stationed outside the city, and they should not enter the city or disturb the people.

Similarly, Kou Feng, who was on the front and rear feet of Huang Zhong, led the army to attack the south and west gates, cutting off the possibility of the residents of Chaisang fleeing to the Yangtze River. After completing the strategic objectives, they were also only responsible for guarding the gates, and the army set up camp outside the city. Because the first wave of the offensive was too fierce, the battle was over in more than an hour.

It's just that the head of the city of Chaisang did not erect the banner of Changsha, but only pulled out the banner of Soochow. This time, because of the large number of people brought with him, he was surrounded on all sides, and after the war began, not a single citizen escaped, and not a single material flowed out of the city. In addition, Huang Zhong ordered the siege of the city and did not enter, which made Chaisang City a dead city in an instant, and not a single fly could fly in, and not a single mosquito could fly in.

By the time Sun Quan ordered the transfer of troops to rescue Chaisang, the Chaisang soldiers who attacked Jianchang had been desperate for a long time. The most terrible thing is that after holding on for so long, in Jianchang City, Wei Yan's defenders still have the power to counterattack, and when their army is in turmoil and uncertain, they dare to organize the dead soldiers to go out of the city to fight back, which is simply crazy!

As a result, the Chaisang front retreated like a tide, but the siege of Jianchang was not immediately relieved. Cheng Pu didn't come for nothing, of course he knew that Xu Shu's purpose was to encircle Wei and save Zhao. Now, Jianchang City is in dilapidation, and it only takes a little offensive to take it down. They have spent so much manpower and material resources, there is no reason to be frightened by others and give up their efforts, in the old general's heart, the enemy ostensibly makes a gesture of changing a city for a city, but in fact it is just a gesture, Jianchang has such a good general who can defend and fight, how can they be willing to cannon fodder him?

As long as you can stay unmoved, continue to strengthen the attack. The balance of this trade-off will be handed over to the other side, and the initiative will return to one's own hands. Changsha has just been established, the soldiers are weak and the generals are outnumbered, their capital is expensive, and they can't afford to lose.