Chapter 744: The waterway can break the city
Hearing this, Sun Tu's eyebrows suddenly raised, and he realized that he and his subordinates really ignored this key! Song Jiang went on to explain: "General, although the city wall of Hangzhou is strong and towering, it is extremely difficult to break, but its waterway has great flaws. The moat around the four cities is led from the Qiantang River, and the Qiantang River passes through the city, even if the anti-army is well defended, it is impossible to cover everything, as long as we can attack from underwater, it is not difficult to take a gate! ”
Obviously, before proposing this strategy to Sun Tu, Song Jiang had already made a careful deduction and discussion with the brothers below, so this time it was to the point, and it also made Sun Tu's face even more happy, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Brother Gongming has come up with a good strategy this time, which can just solve the current predicament of my army!" Yes, attacking the city by land has proven impossible, so let's try it by water. And all this depends on the original Liangshan brothers! ”
Song Jiang immediately clenched his fists and responded: "Our brothers should do their best to break this city for the general!" ”
Seeing this, Sun Tu smiled with satisfaction again. In fact, he also saw that this should be a strategy devised by Song Jiang and other Liangshan brothers in order to be able to raise their eyebrows in the Shandong army, and after all, they were somewhat hiding some selfishness in it.
It is said that since the fight in Shandong Pingding appeased these Liangshan people, except for a few people, the others really did not have too bright performances in the Shandong army, which also led to their status and reputation in the army are not very good. There is no way to do this, after all, their original identity as thieves is the opposite of the veterans of the Shandong Army, and it is not easy to gain the recognition and even respect of these people.
And the Shandong army has always been full of talents, and the strength of the Liangshan heroes has also been greatly damaged because of Sun Tu's previous behavior, whether they were killed in battle, or they were dug up by Sun Tu to their side, anyway, in the end, there are really not many leaders who are really capable, and most of them are still good at water warfare.
But the subsequent battles were mostly land battles, and water heroes like Liang Zhang Sanruan were almost useless, which made it even more difficult for them to have two eyes and be unnoticed. Fortunately, there are still Song Jiang and Wu Yong to give advice in front of Sun Tu, otherwise Liang Shanbo Qunxiong would not have any sense of existence except for the previous trouble.
Now that he finally has a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions, Song Jiang naturally wants to work hard. As for his careful thinking, Sun Tu did not break it, but had the intention of pushing him, and immediately ordered to gather all the generals to discuss the attack on Hangzhou by water.
The generals were already worried about Hangzhou's defense, and now as soon as they learned that there was this opportunity, they naturally rushed to be the first, and they were gearing up to seize the opportunity to make great contributions in their own hands. In this regard, Sun Tu had already made up his mind, and did not assign the opportunity to the old man of the Shandong Army because of his estrangement, but really handed over this important matter to the leaders of the water war in Liangshanbo.
Of course, others are not without the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, but if they want to break the city from the waterway, they also need the cooperation and cover of the land army, and it is best to attract the enemy's attention to the land, so as to create good conditions for the successful breakthrough of the city by water.
So next, the cadres and others worked out a well-thought-out strategy in the account, and it was not until around midnight that the final conclusion was reached, and this time, the Liangshan Water Battle Zhuxiong became the natural protagonist.
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"Knock knock ......"
"Woo woo woo ——!"
It was another early morning with the sound of drums and trumpets, and when the golden light of the sun shone on the horizon, the Song army once again set up a position and launched a fierce attack on the city of Hangzhou. This time, the Song army had given up the attack on the Wulin Gate, the main gate of Hangzhou, and instead launched a fierce attack on the smaller Wangjiang Gate, which was located in the southeast.
Because some time ago, the Song army always attacked Wulin Gate, which made the defenders around Wangjiangmen much weaker, once they were attacked by tens of thousands of troops in turn, the defenders were really a little unbearable, and they quickly asked for help from the city.
When Pang Wanchun, who was in charge of the defense of the whole city in the center, heard the news, his brows quickly furrowed: "Why did they suddenly change the direction of the siege?" This Wangjiangmen is cramped outside, which is not conducive to the development of the army at all, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are all thrown into the siege will only waste troops, what does Sun Tu think? ”
"Xu is that they feel that it is useless to attack my martial arts main gate again, so they choose another one?" The subordinates beside him explained casually.
But Pang Wanchun disagreed: "Sun Tu will never mess around with such a major event, he must have a hidden reason for doing so." In this way, the 10,000 soldiers and horses prepared in the city went to Wangjiang Gate to support, and let the other gates also be careful, so as not to fall for the Song army's treacherous scheme! After a pause, he still felt a little uneasy, after all, he had suffered several losses under Sun Tu before, and he was really afraid that the other party would make some conspiracy, so he said again: "I'd better go to Wangjiangmen to take a look in person, but I can't let him cheat again!" ”
The idea was set, Pang Wanchun did not delay any longer, and immediately set off and went straight to Wangjiangmen. When he came under the city wall under the escort of some personal guards, fierce battles were in full swing up and down the city gates, and there was even a roaring crash of cars bombarding the city gates.
Of course, at this time, all the gates of Hangzhou City were blocked by big stones, whether it was a car or a wood, it could not destroy the city gate at all, but it looked a little terrifying in terms of momentum. And just from this arrangement, Pang Wanchun could see that this time the Song army really spent a lot of effort on attacking Wangjiangmen.
After climbing to the top of the city and looking down, Pang Wanchun confirmed his judgment even more. I saw that outside the city wall, tens of thousands of people were rushing forward and killing this side one after another, and many cloud ladders were pushed by the soldiers to pounce on the city, and then countless people directly climbed the city, and the attack was like a storm crashing on the shore, wave after wave.
Even during this period, the arrows at the head of the city rained, boiling oil and water, and splashing down as if they didn't want money, making countless Song soldiers who were moving forward to the city scream and fall to the ground, and the footsteps of others did not stop, still shouting, beating and rushing, just like an iron determination to knock down this Wangjiang Gate today, even if it was a big price.
However, their reckless killing method was really effective, because the garrison of the city head was still lacking, and many people were able to climb to the top of the city. But that's all, because the Wu army had already made corresponding preparations, these Song troops had just arrived in the city, and they didn't stand firm on their feet, and there were already countless arrows coming at them, directly knocking them over on the spot.
Soon after, the tens of thousands of reinforcements who were ordered to come finally rushed to the city and quickly went to the city to support. After having enough men to garrison, the defense of Wangjiangmen was more stable, so that every attack of the Song army was like water hitting the cliff, except for its own broken bones, but it could not cause any threat damage to the city.
But even so, the Song army's offensive is still unabated, a whole day, they invested nearly 40,000 troops to storm a section of the city wall where Wangjiangmen is located, and the continuous siege charge is no less than seven times, which is equivalent to the Song army put more than half of the troops into this siege battle, and there is a desperate momentum.
It wasn't until the head of the city used a newly transported bed crossbow to shoot off the Daxu who commanded the army to attack the city three miles away, causing a great chaos in the rear of the Song army, and this tragic siege battle finally stopped temporarily, but the Song army did not withdraw as usual with the cessation of the war, and actually set up camp only three miles away from the city, apparently planning to attack Wangjiangmen again tomorrow.
Seeing this, the defenders at the head of the city were all worried, and Yu Dahai, the guard of this gate, came to Pang Wanchun and said: "Pang Shuai, today's battle and our soldiers are exhausted, if the Song army storms Wangjiangmen again tomorrow, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the soldiers to defend it again, why don't you transfer soldiers and horses from other places to come to help?" ”
As soon as these words came out, many soldiers around looked at them expectantly, everyone fought too hard in today's battle, and they were really afraid that the city gate would be lost, and they urgently needed the help of a new army.
Pang Wanchun was silent for a while at this time, staring thoughtfully at the Song army camp outside the city that had settled down. Today's performance of the Song army really made him incomprehensible, how could he suddenly storm Hangzhou City again desperately, is there any secret hidden in this?
After a long while, he nodded and said, "Don't worry, tomorrow the Japanese marshal will transfer soldiers and horses near the city gate elsewhere to come to support." However, you should also know that more than a dozen city gates in Hangzhou are all important places, and there is no shortage of people everywhere, so it is impossible for me to transfer too many troops. This is his current difficulty, although the strength of the city is still above the Song army outside the city, but to separate the garrison of each gate but the more than 100,000 troops and horses are thin, plus to leave a part of the palace and mobile support, so calculated, the city guards are indeed stretched......
Thinking of this, Pang Wanchun's heart suddenly moved, and a strange thought was born: "The Song army's unreasonable onslaught on Wangjiangmen is really to break through this gate, even if it costs a lot?" If it is said that the Song court suddenly sent them to force them to break the city as soon as possible, it is reasonable, but judging from the situation in the last few days, it seems that there are no such characters entering the Song camp. Then why did he Sun Tu make such a ridiculous decision, and what evil intentions were hidden?
"What is so special about me looking at Jiangmen that can make him so desperate? The only difference here is that it is next to the Qiantang River...... Qiantang River ...... ......Suddenly, Pang Wanchun's eyes flashed, he had already grasped the key, and his eyes fell heavily on the water of the moat that was still flowing slowly, and he felt that he had grasped Sun Tu's sinister intentions!