Chapter 466: Siege on the Water
Zhuge Liang felt a palpitation for no reason, and he always felt that something bad was going to happen.
Maybe it's because I'm too tired during this time.
Zhuge Liang thought so, but the faint sense of uneasiness still lingered in his heart and never dissipated.
"Kong Ming!" was thinking about something, but saw Guan Yu and Zhang Fei walking in quickly.
"But the Ming army is coming!?" Zhuge Liang got up, looked at the two and asked.
"No, but Xu Huang suddenly withdrew his troops overnight!" Zhang Fei shook his head and frowned.
"It can't be so fast, they have brought over a lot of grain and grass these days, it is clearly for the army, if the army is withdrawn, it is impossible for these grains and grass to be withdrawn overnight!" Zhuge Liang hurriedly led everyone to run in the direction of the city wall.
"That Xu Huang left in a hurry, and even the barracks were not demolished!" Guan Yu frowned.
"Did you send someone to explore the barracks?" Zhuge Liang asked.
"I've been sent, and I should be back now." Guan Yu nodded.
A few people were discussing with themselves, but they saw a flying horse come to the city, and said loudly: "General, there is no one in the camp, and there is no food and grass, and the warehouse is full of straw. ”
"Straw!?" Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then Zhuge Liang's face changed greatly, and he shouted: "Quick, blow the trumpet, and order all the soldiers outside the city to withdraw to the city, quickly!" ”
Although he didn't understand why he did this, seeing that Zhuge Liang was so anxious, Guan Yu still ordered someone to blow the horn, and the various departments scattered outside the city gathered in the direction of the city, but what made Zhuge Liang's heart sink was that the soldiers sent to dig the embankment had not returned for a long time.
"Kong Ming, those soldiers who went to dig the embankment have not returned yet, and they will send people to urge them again?" Zhang Fei came to Zhuge Liang's side and asked.
"No, I'm afraid they won't be able to come back." Zhuge Liang shook his head bitterly and said: "Prepare for war, send orders to the soldiers, and block all the city gates!" ”
Those who broke the embankment can't come back, Xu Huang is just a trick, Chen Mo has obviously sensed the real threat in this Jiangling area, and sending Xu Huang over is just to paralyze himself? I still haven't been able to count this person.
"Why is this ......" Zhang Fei frowned when he heard this? The city was not guarded like this, but the words were not finished? The voice had been interrupted by Guan Yu.
"Listen to Kong Ming!" Guan Yu stopped Zhang Fei? Then he looked at Zhuge Liang: "Kong Ming, you mean the dam ......"
Zhuge Liang nodded silently? Feeling powerless to come up again, powerless to return to the sky? This is Zhuge Liang's most real experience at this moment? Chen Mo is too careful, and in this situation where the overall situation is in his hands, he doesn't have the slightest intention of being ambitious? Instead more careful? With such an opponent, Zhuge Liang even had an urge to simply go head-to-head with Chen Mo to determine the outcome of the outcome, if only he could do this.
Guan Yu didn't ask again, and took Zhang Fei and Ji Ling to deploy together to block all the four gates of Jiangling? They even brought in masons to paint the cracks in the gates with mud.
A day has passed? Nothing happened, but the next morning? Guan Yu and the others were woken up by the generals and climbed the city tower, and the scene in front of them stunned Guan Yu and the others.
The walls of Gangneung Fortress have been reinforced several times? Four-foot? But standing on the walls and looking down at the moment? However, as soon as you can see the water, the whole city seems to be an island, and as far as the eye can see, there is an ocean everywhere you look.
"This ......" Zhang Fei's already big eyes widened at this moment, and the scene in front of him was really the only one he had ever seen in his life.
"General, look!" A soldier suddenly pointed into the distance and exclaimed.
Guan Yu hurriedly looked up, and saw that on the water in the distance, boats were rowing towards this side, rowing to attack the city, which was also the only time in his life.
Thanks to Zhuge Liang's early detection yesterday and sealing the city gate, although there are still many places that are still leaking, but it is not enough to flood Jiangling, but the current situation is obviously very beneficial to the besieging party, and the condescending advantage was scrapped by this big water, and as those ships approached, Guan Yu and others found that these ships were very large, and the side baffles were very high, and they didn't know if they were thick or not, but obviously this was to resist the Yuanrong crossbow.
"Prepare for war!" Guan Yu's face sank, and he hurriedly ordered the generals to prepare to defend against the enemy, and at the same time ordered people to debug the direction of the Yuanrong ballista, just waiting for the opponent's ships to approach, and then first give the opponent a thunderous blow with the ballista.
"Second brother, something is wrong, you see that those ships seem to be one piece, connected together." Zhang Fei on the side suddenly frowned.
Guan Yu frowned when he heard this, indeed, these ships were not too clear from a distance, but now that they got closer, they found that these ships were connected to each other, very stable, and it looked as if a city was floating towards this side, and most importantly, the wind was blowing towards this side at this moment.
On the huge boat, Chen Mo stood on the top of the boat, which was sent here by the ships captured by Xiangyang and Fancheng through the river, Chen Mo asked the craftsmen to connect them with iron cables and wooden planks, in order to eliminate the weakness of the Ming army soldiers who were not accustomed to water warfare, in order to avoid the other party from attacking with fire, Chen Mo also wrapped cowhide, pigskin, and sheepskin lamps on the peripheral ships to prevent fire, and now it is the north wind blowing, even if the other party wants to attack with fire, it is impossible to burn it all at once.
"All the soldiers listen to the order, there is only one chance, this battle must be won in one battle, after today, it will be difficult to break the city again!" Chen Mo looked at Jiangling City, which was getting closer and closer, and shouted loudly: "Those who climb the city first, upgrade to three levels, reward a thousand gold, kill the first level of the enemy, and then upgrade to three levels, reward ten thousand gold, kill!" ”
"Kill, kill, kill~" The elite of the 30,000 Ming Army stood on the ship's board, listening to Chen Mo's promise, one by one, murderous, roaring and raising the sword in his hand.
"Bow and arrow ready!" Seeing that Jiangling was approaching, the opponent's ballista had begun to exert its might, and one by one the iron arrows fell on the baffle wrapped in cowhide, making a muffled sound, and some even directly pierced the heavy baffle and cowhide, dozens of ballista carts exerted force at the same time, but failed to stop the approach of the fleet.
Zhuge Liang ordered people to prepare fire oil, and when they got closer, they threw it into the ship, and the cabin finally caught fire, but the fleet had already leaned against the city wall, and the special ladders that had been prepared were set up on the edge of the ship, and a soldier of the Ming Army crossed the burning sea of fire and rushed towards the city, while the ships in the rear continued to suppress the enemy with arrows under the command of the general.
The Jingzhou army defending the city are all newly recruited soldiers and horses, how have they seen such a formation, if there is a city wall, it is better, and now the other party through this means, infinitely reduced the difficulty of landing the city, when a famous Ming army soldiers pounced, one by one Jingzhou soldiers panicked, and many people were killed.
"Kill me!" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei shot at the same time, wandering around the city, constantly killing the Ming soldiers who rushed to the city wall, but the Ming soldiers rushed up one by one without fear of death, Rao is Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also had a sense of being invincible.
Fortunately, Zhuge Liang let the soldiers holding crossbows come up and stabilized their positions, but the city wall was captured by the Ming army.
"Your Majesty, the fire is getting bigger and bigger! Let's go! Dian Wei hurriedly rushed to Chen Mo's side, he was not afraid of death on the ground, but when he arrived at the boat, Dian Wei always felt a little unsteady.
"What are you going to do?" Chen Mo looked at the city wall that had already been captured for most of and said: "Now the wind direction is in the direction of Jiangling, and it can't be burned, so let the soldiers continue to attack the city!" ”
This battlefield, especially the water battle, the wind direction is very important, if the wind is blowing in this direction at this moment, then Chen Mo's large group of ships may have been burned out, but now it is towards the Jiangling side, although it is not friendly to the soldiers who are besieging the city, but it is not enough to make them retreat, Chen Mo said while directing the soldiers to disassemble the ships and disperse to the city.
Now that the city wall is full of Ming troops, there is no need to rely on stability to climb the city, as long as you are close to the city wall, you can basically climb up, and the iron lock boat is no longer needed.
I don't know when the sky was overcast, the light rain gradually became heavier, and the fire was gradually extinguished in the place that was originally ignited by Zhuge Liang.
Chen Mo looked up at the sky and suddenly burst out laughing, on the other side, Zhuge Liang saw this scene, but he was helplessly leaning against the female wall, helping Chen Mo even the sky?
The defenders on the city wall were defeated and retreated, even if Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ji Ling and other generals took the lead, there was no way to make this group of rabble have the strength to resist the Ming army.
"Commander, retreat to the city!" Seeing several Ming soldiers holding swords and shields towards Zhuge **, Ji Ling killed a Ming soldier with a knife, stopped beside Zhuge Liang, and roared angrily.
The guards around him hurriedly helped Zhuge Liang to walk down the city, Ji Ling was distracted, and was stabbed into the waist and abdomen by a Ming soldier, Ji Ling's body trembled, and he wanted to kill the other party when he raised his knife, but he was cut off by another Ming soldier who held the knife.
"Roar~" Ji Ling roared like crazy, and the remaining hand held the Ming army and rushed towards the female wall, wanting to take them outside the city, but saw the two Ming army's tacit short bodies slashing the blade through Ji Ling's legs, followed by two more knives down, one knife stabbed in from behind, and the other knife was directly inserted into Ji Ling's neck.
"Ji Ling!" Guan Yu saw that Ji Ling was killed, roared angrily, rolled the big knife in his hand, cut off the three Ming soldiers, pulled out the waist knife and killed several people in a row, and rushed to Ji Ling's side, when he looked down, Ji Ling was dead and couldn't die anymore, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he looked at Zhang Fei who was besieged over there, Guan Yu re-danced the knife and pounced into the crowd, killed Zhang Fei's side, pulled Zhang Fei and fought and retreated, retreated to the city, and the city wall was completely lost......