The sky has not yet brightened, and the sound of the Wu military camp is long, and the two sides of the strait are connected, one after another.

Tian Xin hurriedly washed his face and watched the movements of the Wu army, and saw that the main force of the Wu army stationed at the mouth of the Tunyou River on the south bank finally appeared, and the black pressure covered the river.

As far as the eye can see, there are gray and black sails everywhere, ranging from large ships and building ships to small boats and canopy boats.

"General, the Wu army divided its troops and went downstream by boat, mostly small boats, about a thousand."

The scout came to report, and an old soldier with a broken arm who was familiar with the transportation capacity of the navy was dressed in white and spoke: "General, this thief army is no more than 12,000 people, and as little as 9,000. ”

Surrounded by more than 30 military officials, Tian Xin was down-to-earth and calm, as if he was sure of victory, and had a kind of contagious force: "This partial army, or around the northeast of the old city, or reinforcement Sun Jiao, is not to worry." ”

The old city wall was placed there, Tian Xin didn't even let go of the defenders, Wu Jun wanted to take it, and he divided it into several ways.

When it is not greedy in front of him, he can concentrate his forces to defend the new city in order to squeeze out a commando team to act as a general reserve.

It didn't take long for the group of warships that set sail from the mouth of the Youjiang River to anchor 20 miles upstream, the big ships anchored in the river, and the small boats went back and forth to transport sergeants and supplies.

"The main force of the thief army?"

Tian Xin couldn't help but wonder, Sun Quan didn't have any patience at all?

The heavy rain only stopped yesterday morning, and Wu Jun, who was generally barefoot or wearing straw sandals, trudged through this cold and muddy ground, and still wanted to live?

Under the bright sunshine, Sun Quan stationed on Jiangzhu Island, and there were many spears and halberds.

In the curtain, Sun Quan paced to the main position, and more than 30 people who were close to each other and large and small generals were seated in shifts, and as Sun Quan waved his hand, these talents sat down one after another.

Sun Quan was still standing, his face gloomy: "I regret the talent of Tian Xin, the guard general of Jiangling, and I am willing to treat each other as a marquis of ten thousand households." But this man insulted my father and brother one after another, and he couldn't bear it. This revenge is not avenged, lonely as a fish in the throat, sleepless all night! ”

He glanced at it, and most of the ministers on the left and right showed indignation, faintly excited to ask for war, and most of them restrained.

There are only two people who seem to have nothing to do with themselves, one is the general Gan Ning of Zhichong, and the other is Sun Ben, the Taishou of Yuzhang.

Tian Xin spread rumors that he poisoned Zhou Yu, but the good messenger fell into the water on a rainy day, as if he Sun Quan deliberately killed him.

Who killed the messenger and framed him is impossible to determine in terms of the heavy rain environment at that time.

Sun Quan drew his sword, slashed into the cases in front of him with a sonorous sound, and said to the civil and military who stood up solemnly: "Tell the soldiers of the whole army, and the innocent officials in the city of Xiaoyu." Lone obeyed the edict of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, and conscripted the puppet king Liu Bei to recover Jiangling here, and the person who took Jiangling was crowned the Marquis of Wanhu and worshiped the general; Those who dedicate Tian Xin's children's head will also be sealed as the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households! ”

With Sun Quan sending a battle signal, Lü Meng on the front line could only lead his troops to attack, and now he has laid reed and grass bundles in the south of Jiangling City, and also used bamboo rafts to build fast passages, and other places are muddy and difficult to walk, and it is impossible to march at all.

Large siege equipment can only be placed on the dockside to bask in the sun, one by one Wu army formation of Yuli array, raising shields and carrying simple bamboo ladders to attack, which is mixed with some equipment like oblique dustpans, more Wu army is carrying straw bundles, reeds, grass bundles piled up on the back very high, looking at the distance as if a cluster of white maggots wriggling.

A lame old soldier beside Tian Xin saw the boxcar that appeared in the Wu army's array, and exclaimed angrily: "The thief should die!" General, that's what our army created before! ”

The boxcar is a kind of light siege defense equipment, that is, two cars are parallel, and a beveled guard plate woven with bamboo pieces is fixed on it, which is naturally to cover the crossbowmen.

Some military officials reacted and said hatefully: "It turns out that the equipment burned by the fire in Jiangling fell into the hands of the thief army? ”

Tian Xin saw that the Wu army formed a slender fish-scale formation on the narrow shore and pressed it, and he only felt funny: "Sun Quan does not care about the lives of his soldiers, and the enemy army is really pitiful." Left and right, tell the crossbowmen to fire arrows when the enemy reaches the trenches! ”

There is no need for coordinated tactics such as salvo fire, just let the crossbowmen play freely.

Sun Quan insisted on fighting, what can Lu Meng do?

As he gave the order, his own military officials ran towards the east and west ends of the city wall with flags, repeatedly giving orders.

The few Wu troops pushing the boxcart were okay, walking on the bamboo raft that was laid out, and more Wu troops could only step on the mud and the grass bundles to advance, so that the small fish scale formations of two or three hundred people were all uneven, and the small fish scale formations were pulled and deformed in the process, and there was a faint tendency to mix together.

In the rear, Lu Meng supervised the battle, and his face was scorched like a clay sculpture.

In the city, Tian Xin felt that he was invincible, and said to the people around him: "One general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies, so it is also." ”

At this time, the auxiliaries from all over the city erected the door panels that had been prepared long ago, and these auxiliaries were the first to start firing, and the slings made of leather cords, coarse silks, and old clothes began to exert their might, and stones the size of eggs flew over the door panels and flew through the air with a roar.

The wounded of the Wu army appeared one after another, the wounded were prostrate on the ground, or curled up in the mud with shields, or hid under the fluffy grass bundles, and there were also wounded whose heads were broken and bleeding did not affect their movements, and crawled backwards with their hands and feet in the mud, and then they were immediately beheaded on the spot by the military chief officer behind the formation, or were beheaded by the vanguard of other fish scale formations.

This is the army that Lu Meng has trained all year round, and the concept of maintaining military discipline and combat rhythm is deeply rooted in the hearts of the army, and it is not the Shanyue soldiers that Lu Xun has recruited in the past two years.

Wu Jun's bamboo raft was only a hundred steps away from the city wall, and the rest of the road was full of mud, and the boxcar could hardly move forward, not one car, but two cars forming a boxcar, and there was no mobility at the moment.

The crossbowmen on the city fired arrows in twos and threes, and the Wu army reluctantly set up the boxcar to the edge of the moat, and at this time the road behind was also paved with reeds and straw bundles one after another, and the second batch of Wu army arrays stepped on the straw bundles to advance, and their steps were much easier, and their shoulders were resistant to sacks, or bags temporarily sewn with coarse silk, which were now filled with dirt.

Tian Xin observed the offensive rhythm of the Wu army from the cracks in the door panels, studied the skills between the cooperation and connection of each team, and searched for flaws.

The soldiers of the Wu army were really brave, and they threw bags of earth and stones and bundles of straw into the moats under the rain of arrows and stones.

The most anxious small formations were separated from the whole, and bamboo ladders were erected in advance, and the bamboo ladders were laid horizontally on the moat, and bamboo planks were laid, and the moat was quickly penetrated.

Of course, these salients were taken extra care of by the crossbowmen, and the sergeants who were constantly working fell from the trenches with arrows, and the blood stained the sewage in the trenches.

These sergeants who fell into the trenches have been sentenced to death.

The south and east moats are connected to the Gangneung sewage canal, and the heavy rain washed away for two days, and most of the filth in the city was poured into the moat from the culvert.

"Dodge the arrows! Dodge arrows! ”

The military officials around Tian Xin shouted urgently, and at this time, the third batch of Wu army arrays arrived at the edge of the trench and began to fire a volley.

There were only a few rounds of flashy salvos, and then the various formations went their own way in the noisy battlefield, and it was difficult to link the salvo again.

Arrows were nailed to the door panels around Tian Xin, and some arrows flew high and nailed over the door panels to the guardrail on the second floor of the castle tower.

There are still military officers stationed on the second floor of the most dangerous castle tower, overlooking the changes in the situation of the enemy and us in various parts of the battlefield, and periodically reporting to Tian Xin.

Most of them were military officers who grew up after the Battle of Chibi, with rich combat experience, enthusiasm, and a sense of war.

A military official squatted down to Tian Xin's side before he dared to stand up, holding an arrow tied with a slender silk scarf in both hands: "General, the thief army has shot a lot of arrows. ”

Tian Xin took off the silk scarf, and saw six words written 'Tian Xinshou, worth ten thousand households', and soon other military officials handed over arrow books, and some were eight words 'those who offer the city, worship the marquis of ten thousand households'.

Looking back at the Wu army officials who were strictly supervising the battle under the city, Tian Xin slowly smiled: "No wonder the Wu army is so brave...... Order the Protectors to do what they do! ”