"Crunch squeak~"

As Chen Mo withdrew from the military formation, a creaking sound began to sound in the rear formation, but it was a catapult that was sent at the moment when Chen Mo and Zhuge Liang were talking, not the kind of catapult used to break through Fancheng, even smaller than ordinary catapults, a bracket and a long bar, simple workmanship, and a range of less than sixty steps, Chen Mo called this a stone machine, the biggest advantage is that it is easy to transport and can be put into the battlefield as soon as possible.

But now it's not a siege, that's enough.

"The king wants to use this [3Q Chinese] to break the formation?" Xun You looked at the stone tools in amazement.

"It's all here, I don't want to continue the war, give me attack, fire oil, artillery, give me a hard beating!" Chen Mo nodded, since Zhuge Liang was not dead, then break the last bit of thought in his heart.

"Whoa!" When the generals heard this, they received orders one after another, and began to direct the soldiers to push the stone tools forward.

Zhuge Liang, who had just returned to the city, looked at this scene, his face changed, no matter how exquisite the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array was, it was also composed of people, not to mention that Chen Mo attacked with fire bombs, even if it was a catapult, it could also make the shield array he was hiding in the army be shattered.

"Yuan Rong Ballista!" Zhuge Liang hurriedly waved the order flag, fortunately, just now he wanted to Yin Chen Mo, before meeting with Chen Mo, let people quietly push the five Yuanrong crossbows out of the city and hide them in the army.

Chen Mo sat on horseback, looked at this scene, and snorted coldly, this Zhuge Liang has learned badly, and he is not an honest person!

"Keep going!" Seeing that the army began to slow down, Chen Mo shouted vigorously, it was only five crossbows, and Chen Mo could afford the loss.

As the stone launcher moves forward, the ballista is powerful, but it takes a lot of time to load the arrow clusters, and in this case, after a round of misses, the catapult's position is basically enough to bring all these people into range.

Chen Mo didn't care about this, turned his head to look at Ma Jun beside him and said, "Deheng!" ”

"The minister is here!" Ma Jun hurriedly stepped forward? Bow down.

"Calculate the distance now? Prepare to attack Xiangyang! Chen Mo looked at Ma Jun and said in a deep voice.

The so-called attack, naturally, is the same as the previous attack on Fancheng? Set up a turbulence? Fire attacks the city, although Xiangyang is stronger than Fancheng? But under the attack of this kind of fire bomb, in fact, there is no difference.

"Command!" Ma Jun will understand? Pull off immediately? Organize craftsmen to start preparing materials, dismantle the catapults on the opposite bank and transport them over, without Fancheng, the fortifications outside the city on the Xiangyang side were also destroyed by Chen Mo? Even if Jiang Xin's bronze pillar Chen Mo can't be demolished? However, the Jingzhou army was no longer able to compete with Chen Mo for control of the river, and the Ming army's ships could come and go smoothly, which really saved a lot of things.

On the other side, after Zhuge Liang saw Chen Mo desperately pushing forward his position, he knew that the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array was already difficult to stop Chen Mo? In order to reduce casualties, the order to withdraw troops began? The army responsible for arranging the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array quickly retreated into the city, but looking at Chen Mo's side, he had already started to build a cannon platform? For the first time in his life, Zhuge Liang felt a sense of powerlessness to return to heaven, and he knew what Chen Mo was going to do? But powerless to stop it? Although these artillery platforms and catapults will take more than a month to build? But when it was built, it meant that the walls they relied on would no longer work.

"I'll take someone out and destroy those batteries!" Zhang Fei also saw what the Ming army wanted to do, and gritted his teeth.

"Not necessarily!" Zhuge Liang shook his head, even if it was really destroyed, Chen Mo could rebuild it, but for the Jingzhou army, it was a large loss of troops, and it was not worth it.

"What should I do? Seeing that Xiangyang City can't be broken!? Zhang Fei said angrily.

"Xiangyang City can no longer be defended." Zhuge Liang watched the enemy formation, hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, he couldn't think of a way to break Chen Mo's fire bomb, not only Xiangyang, but any city, it was impossible to rely on the benefits of the strong city to defend the city in front of Chen Mo, unless he could make a device with a longer range than Chen Mo's giant catapult, but at the moment, Zhuge Liang couldn't do it.

"If Xiangyang is lost, how can our army resist!?" Zhang Fei said angrily.

There is Chen Mo in front, and Zhang Liao blocking the road in the back, even if he wants to leave at this time, it is not an easy task.

"Relying on Jiangling, backed by the river, if it doesn't work again, retreat to Wuling!" Zhuge Liang looked at the Ming army outside the city and began to approach the city wall, and thought while commanding the soldiers to resist the enemy.

Xiangyang is now defended for a month at most, and after Chen Mo's side has built a fort, the city is inevitable, although the loss of Xiangfan is a fatal blow to Jingzhou, which means that half of the southern county and even the entire southern county will fall into the hands of Chen Mo, but at this time, Zhuge Liang can only consider withdrawing the army first and continue to deal with Chen Mo.

Although he knew that he couldn't fight, if he just let go of Jingzhou, after Chen Mo captured Jingzhou, he would take the opportunity to move west into Shu, and Liu Bei would not even have the last foothold.

"Alas~" Zhang Fei also sighed heavily and began to command the defense.

There are more crossbow vehicles at the head of Xiangyang City, and the conventional siege of the city, Chen Mo's side naturally can't take advantage, and those stone machines have also become the key targets of the defenders at the head of the city, and after nearly half of the damage was made, Chen Mo issued an order to withdraw the army and prepare to besiege the city.

That night, Zhuge Liang sent people to Jiangling to inform Guan Yu to come to respond, ready to attack back and forth, break through the defense line of Zhang Liao, Guan Yu was sent by Zhuge Liang to recruit new soldiers some time ago, and now the time has passed for two months, and a group of recruits should have been raised, but now Jingzhou's grain and grass have been lost through this battle, but it is no longer enough to support the army, so Guan Yu in addition to Zhuge Liang, but also through the water army to transport Xiangyang grain and grass.

Although the Jingzhou Navy has always been inferior to the Jiangdong Navy Army, its ability to fight on the water is also good, at least if the factor of equipment is excluded, if it is about water combat, the generals of the Ming Army cannot be compared with the generals of the Jingzhou Navy Army.

A few days later, Guan Yu personally led the navy to Xiangyang, although Zhang Liao found out, but there was no way to stop it, he could only shoot at each other along the river, and finally watched the Jingzhou navy march away.

After Zhang Liao informed Chen Mo of the incident, Chen Mo immediately reacted that Zhuge Liang was preparing to withdraw his troops.

"If our army wants to pursue on the water, don't talk about the Jingzhou navy, I'm afraid the Jiangdong navy will also come to get involved." Xun You frowned and said, he didn't understand water warfare, and the Ming army's navy didn't know if it could compete with Jiangdong and Jingzhou sailors now?

Chen Mo nodded, the destruction of Xiangyang City is a foregone conclusion, and it is understandable that Zhuge Liang chose this time to prepare the back road, but Liu Bei's elites who stayed in Jingzhou should all be here, if these soldiers and horses cannot be left, it will also be a problem to fight Jiangling next.

"Pass on my military order, three armed forces for war, attack Xiangyang tonight!" Chen Mo got up and said.

"Your Majesty, the night battle is also quite unfavorable to our army, I am afraid that the losses will be heavy!" Hearing this, Xun You hurriedly said, many people can't see the night battle.

"Bring those stone tools, attack them with fire, and then storm the gates!" Chen Mo nodded and said, a normal night attack, even if it is calculated that the Jingzhou army is negligent now, it will be difficult to get too many results, but if you think about it differently, at this time, the Jingzhou army is not very guarded, wouldn't it be possible to push the stone tool to a position very close to the city wall? You don't need a large catapult to throw a firebomb on the city walls?

Chen Mo fights, what he is best at is speculating on the hearts of the enemy, and now the Jingzhou army probably thinks that Chen Mo will attack the city after waiting for the artillery platform to be built, and it will have a surprise effect at this time, and more importantly, Chen Mo replaced the catapult with a stone tool, I am afraid that everyone did not expect it, since this is the case, why not?

Xun You's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately nodded and said, "I'll go and prepare here." ”

At the moment, the Ming army camp began to be busy, until late at night, a stone tool was pushed out of the camp by the soldiers, in order to avoid the sound too heavy, so that the enemy was vigilant, after the camp, these stone tools were lifted by the soldiers, commanded by one or two soldiers who could see clearly at night, Shengsheng carried hundreds of stone tools to the distance of less than 50 steps outside Xiangyang City, forming a stone tool position, and the fire was also replaced by fire bombs.

"Ignition!" When he arrived here, he no longer had to worry about being discovered by the defenders of the city, and Wei Yan, who was in charge of the command, gave an order with an excited look, and one torch after another was lit, and a jar of fire oil was also loaded on the net pocket of the stone machine.

The defenders at the head of Xiangyang City also noticed the abnormality here, the torches gathered together like a fire dragon in the night, and immediately someone ran to report the news, and at the same time, the soldiers responsible for controlling the crossbow were woken up, and quickly adjusted the position of the crossbows, ready to shoot these stone weapons.

"Put!" The order flag in Xu Huang's hand waved down fiercely.

"Hum~"

With a muffled sound, hundreds of fire bombs rose into the air, like a meteor shower falling, towards the head of Xiangyang City and the city.

"Papapa~"

The sound of the oil tank shattering was accompanied by the flames that instantly covered the entire head of Xiangyang City, at this moment, at least hundreds of defenders were swallowed by the sea of fire, and the entire head of Xiangyang City was like a purgatory on earth, and a large number of Jingzhou troops began to flee.

Xu Huang ordered the soldiers to continue shooting with an expressionless face, and when the second round of firebombs fell on the city again, the entire Xiangyang city was illuminated by flames as bright as day, and at the same time, there were many places in Xiangyang City on fire, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were awakened by this sudden attack, and countless people were scurrying around like headless flies in Xiangyang City.

"Attack!"

Wei Yan glanced at the head of the city, which had been almost completely enveloped in a sea of fire, and with an order, dozens of soldiers pushed a siege vehicle and began to rush towards the gate of Xiangyang City, and at the same time, hundreds of sword and axe men crossed the moat in the dark, climbed the drawbridge, and cut off the ropes and chains connecting the drawbridge.

When Zhuge Liang was awakened, he was faced with such a scene, looking at the city wall that had fallen into the sea of fire, Zhuge Liang closed his eyes in pain......