was scolded by Zhao Yun who sent people to show their banners so vigorously to strengthen the army, and the guards and civil officials in Jiangzhou City were really demoralized, and they were in chaos for a while.

Some people have secretly had the heart of surrender, and they only hated that they were not the supreme commander, and they had no right to directly surrender the city, so they had to hold back and wait for the opportunity for the time being. Maybe in the future, when Liu Beijun officially attacks the city, he will offer a door or something in the chaos, and mix it as a stepping stone to save his life.

Seeing this, Li Su was not disappointed, he knew that Jiangzhou was the heart city of Ba County and the entire eastern front of Shu after all, how could Liu Yan not pay attention to the hardcore generals to guard it?

If you can surrender here as soon as you are persuaded to surrender, then you don't need to fight all the way to Chengdu until Mianzhu, because the will to resist in other cities is definitely worse than Jiangzhou.

"The enemy army is slightly confused, which means that the words of the Holy Decree and Divine Damnation have worked, and the follow-up only needs to create a little chaos and pressure. Since they are unwilling to surrender directly, it is estimated that there are diehards among the main generals such as Yang Huai and Li Yi, so they can only be killed, as long as they die, or are in chaos, other people who want to surrender will definitely sacrifice their doors. ”

Li Su was secretly worried in his heart, so he discussed with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and asked them to lead 10,000 troops each, spread out on both sides of the northwest of the city, and deploy siege weapons to prepare for the siege. (The southeast two sides are the Jialing River and the Yangtze River, and the city is built directly along the river, so it cannot be attacked)

Because the army came by water, and could use ships to transport heavy siege weapon parts, most of the wooden structures of the catapult could be disassembled from the Diaoyu City battlefield and assembled on the spot outside Jiangzhou City, which was much faster than directly cutting and building new trees on the spot - similar to the speed difference between building a new packing trebuchet and deploying an existing packer when playing Age of Empires.

However, during the Battle of Diaoyu Castle, there were no rushing cars, trench carts, and wooden donkey carts (covering the excavation vehicles, which can also cover the moat)? So these devices still have to be made.

Just two days later? About fifteen counterweight catapults were built on a position about two or three hundred paces away from the two city walls northwest of Jiangzhou. There were also dozens of simple wooden donkey carts, as well as hundreds of huge rattan plaques to cover arrows.

Two or three thousand crossbowmen fired arrows at the city under the cover of the rattan array? The wooden donkey cart covered the nurses and soldiers to fill in some gaps in the moat.

The defenders at the head of the city also fired arrows to retaliate in an attempt to delay the Han army's operation? But the density of firepower was obviously inferior to that of the Han army, and it was quickly defeated? Choosing to retract the turtle and only dare to shoot aimlessly behind the female wall battlement? Not even the slightest crossfire angle of the side fire did not dare to leak.

There are some die-hard officers in the city, who have the courage to pull the overseers and whip the archers? Let them aim and fire their arrows, and they were not allowed to shoot indiscriminately, but they soon paid the price - several of the overseers thought that they were standing far away from the wall, not on the direct trajectory of the crossbowmen of the Han army under the city? So you don't have to worry too much about safety? As a result, some rubble was thrown, or scattered powerful crossbow arrows flew by, directly taking the lives of the officers.

It turned out that the catapults of the Han army did not all use single-headed bullets this time, but used gravel bullets wrapped in bamboo cage baskets? It can splash dozens of small stones weighing from half a catty to a catty at a time, and the covering and killing effect is many times stronger than that of a single-headed bullet.

Of course? Because the technology is not yet mature, a dozen catapults alone will not be able to suppress the city. But the point is that the quality of the Han army's bows and crossbows is also far superior to that of the rebels - when Wu Kuang left Luoyang? The official government received 2,000 high-quality crossbows and waist crossbows from the arsenal of the Jingshi in full, which is much stronger than the crossbows commonly used by local troops outside today to be wound with arm strength.

These two thousand individual crossbows are left in the Gao Shun camp outside the Sword Gate Pass? The others have been brought to the frontal battlefield? More than a thousand such strong crossbows? Compared with the defender's locally produced ordinary bows and arrows, the gap came out in an instant.

The crossbow of the Han army was thrown at a distance of 200 paces, and the arrows that hit the head of the city could still pierce the leather armor, and if they were wearing the armor, the gap between the iron pieces could be squeezed into it instantly.

This state of firing lasted only a quarter of an hour, and the die-hard overseers suffered heavy casualties, so they could only let the archers defending the city shoot blindly and shoot soy sauce, and there was no threat at all.

The Han army attacked for two days, and then collapsed more than half of the height of several city walls, and the Jiangzhou city wall was three and a half zhang high, and the largest gap was only one and a half zhang left, that is, three meters and a half, and the ladder could rush up a few steps. There are several large gaps in the moat that can be easily passed through.

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Late at night the day after the siege began, Zhang Su, an important civil official in the city, worriedly inspected the castle tower.

In the face of such pressure, he already had to consider the issue of surrender.

Zhang Su is also from a famous family in Shu, but he is not the four sects of Shu Confucianism such as Dong, Ren, Yang, and Chen, and can only be regarded as the second echelon - the so-called second echelon is the non-tax-paying strong men and field slaves hidden by his clan and his subordinate side branches and protégés, which should not exceed 10,000 people, and counting the old and weak women and children, it will be at most 20,000 or 30,000.

The four families of Dong, Ren, Yang, and Chen mentioned above all started with tens of thousands of hidden strong men, and the population controlled by the four surnames can add up to 500,000, accounting for one or two percent of the three million population of the entire Chengdu Plain. Therefore, in Liu Yan's previous life, Xuan Jian was said to be greedy and looting, and provoked civil uprising. There must be greed, but it provokes chaos, and it is estimated that there are also four sects of Shu Confucianism who do not want to be found out and make people resist.

Because it is the second echelon, Zhang Su did not suffer direct losses in Liu Yan's action to kill large households, so Zhang Su is still relatively loyal to Liu Yan. Later in history, Liu Zhang ascended the throne, and he sealed Zhang Su as a county guard early, so that later his younger brother Zhang Song betrayed the owner to seek glory, and Zhang Su also exposed Zhang Song and caused Zhang Song to be killed.

Of course, none of this has happened yet, Zhang Su himself is only a middle-level official who is just thirty years old, and his younger brother Zhang Song is more than ten years younger than him, and he has not yet entered the official career. At the same time, even if Zhang Su was loyal to Liu Yan, he also knew that Liu Bei came to take over with a holy decree, and he didn't have to say anything about righteousness, so he would not oppose Liu Bei.

"But...... Ziqiao and other relatives in the clan are all in Chengdu, Mianzhu and other places, controlled by Liu Yan, if I offer my door here, what should I do if the clansmen are harmed? I'm afraid that some other civil and military people in the city who came from a prominent family are also afraid that some people will be detained in Chengdu by Liu Yan, so they don't dare to surrender lightly and harm their families......

We have to find a way to contact Liu Bei to see what conditions they can give, for the time being, we have surrendered, pretend to hold us as prisoners, and when we take Chengdu in the future, we will correct our dedication to the city and restore our official position......"

Zhang Su thought about it again and again, and decided to write a secret letter and shoot out of the city.

However, the archery book goes out of the city, and there are also problems with the operability.

Because those reckless generals who were loyal to Liu Yan, Yang Huai, Li Yi and others, all personally guarded the city gates on the west and north sides, and only handed over the east gate facing the Yangtze River, which was not important for defense, to Zhang Su and them. If you shoot arrows outside the city, there are not many Han warships on the river, and the Han army does not expect to block the waterway traffic of Jiangzhou City, how can the Han army pick it up?

"Forget it! Take a risk, engrave a few simple words on the wooden board, carve a few more pieces, and drift out, hoping that there will be those caught by the Han army, just agree on the code in advance. ”

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The next morning, Guan Yujun, who was in charge of the north side of Jiangzhou, in the early morning, was fished out by the soldiers patrolling the riverside to catch a wooden plank that rushed to the shore, and then searched carefully and saw that there might still be on the river. But because the patrol ships couldn't catch up, they had to give up—

Don't think it's a big deal to think that something like a drifting bottle can be discovered, because as long as the number of troops is large, the probability stacking is still considerable.

Historically, Fu Youde, a general in the early Ming Dynasty who had a similar route to Deng Ai to destroy Shu, threw a lot of wooden boards with the words "The Ming army broke through the Jiange Road" into the Fujiang River after smuggling through Yinping and taking Jiangyou. After drifting for 1,500 miles, these planks were picked up by Tang He, the commander of the Ming Army's East Route Army, who was still blocked outside Qutang Gorge. Only then did Tang He know that the northern line had been broken, so he decided to storm the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and take the White Emperor City.

Tang He can even pick up drifting bottles upstream for 1,500 miles, and it is too normal for Guan Yu to pick up drifting bottles ten miles away - Chongqing, which is in the future, is just such a little distance, and even Longtou Temple has not come out.

After the sentry showed Guan Yu the plank, Guan Yu immediately handed it over to Li Su, who was the overseer.

"Boya, look at this secretary, what is the authenticity of it? Could it be that Shi Zhangsu, the pseudo-county magistrate of Ba, is willing to dedicate his door? ”

"Oh? Wait for me to take a closer look. Li Su became interested when he heard this, and immediately began to take a closer look.

On Zhang Su's wooden board, it was written, "If the city is broken, please pretend that it is to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders and succeed in a sneak attack, which has nothing to do with the defenders." However, it should be ensured that after the capture of Chengdu and the rescue of the surrendered people will be detained in Chengdu, Zhao Xuena will surrender the generals and reinstate the officials."

Moreover, Zhang Su also emphasized that "after surrendering, he will provide a list of other colleagues who are interested in the Han family, hoping that the treatment of these people can be retained." This is obviously trying to make a bargaining chip in his hand and become a "middleman who keeps his official position". In the future, those colleagues who have kept their positions through his way must not thank him.

This official fan also has enough wisdom to protect himself!

At the end, the difficulty of replying to the letter was also emphasized, so if you are willing to agree, do not reply, but send a warship to the east gate on the night after agreeing to the conditions, and shoot three waves of rockets at the head of the city. The day after receiving the rocket signal, the defenders would secretly open the door and offer the ships to enter the city.

"The retreat is agreed in such detail, and the retreat concerns are so thoughtful, it should be a sincere surrender. Moreover, the east city gate is facing the Yangtze River, and there is no urn city, if the water gate is opened to let the warships enter directly, it really can't play any tricks. ”

Li Suru was secretly worried, and then told Guan Yu the result.

Guan Yu asked very simply: "Then follow the internal response?" ”

Li Su: "Let Youping and Xingba be the vanguards, and bring more warships and men when the time comes." In addition, starting tonight, a night offensive will also be launched against the West Gate and the North Gate, so that Yang Huai and Li Yi will be distracted and not suspect the direction of the Water Gate. ”

Everything went according to plan, and for the next three days, the Han army began to attack the city even at night, leaving the defenders exhausted.

On the first night, relying on the sentinel boat and rockets, he replied to Zhang Su at the east gate.

The next night, Guan Yu took thousands of elite men and horses, set off for three watches, and took hundreds of large and small warships to return to the east gate of Linjiang. Then, at the fourth watch in the middle of the night, shortly after the arrival of the fleet, the water gate was opened at the head of the city, and the ships swarmed in.

Zhou Tai rushed up to the castle tower as instructed, took control of the situation, and politely captured Zhang Su, who had "already resisted heroically".

At the same time, the battle at the north gate of the West Gate was not over yet, and the shouts of killing disturbed Yang Huai and Li Yi's attention for a while. By the time they came back to defend themselves, two or three thousand Han troops had already entered the east gate, controlling the entire section of the city wall.

The die-hard rebels still wanted to resist, and they had already fought in the streets, and were quickly extinguished by the brave Danyang soldiers and Banyu barbarians.

At dawn, the city of Jiangzhou, the county of Ba County, was completely taken, and only a few hundred people died on both sides in the street fighting overnight, and then the rebels collapsed and surrendered.