Chapter 62: Battle Gangneung V
By noon, southwest of Jiangling, the main landing point of the Wu army.
Jianzhong Zhonglang lined up Luo Tong's troops behind Sun Heng's array, Sun Heng was the commander of the military guard, and there were 5,000 armored soldiers under his command, which were divided into five phalanxes and trampled on the mud and arranged as a diagonal array to prevent possible raids.
Under Luo Tong's command, there were 3,000 military archers, and together with Sun Heng's 5,000 military guards, they constituted nearly half of Sun Quan's direct pro-army.
Luo Tong and Sun Heng watched the battlefield, as the army that had already disembarked and lined up, with the current muddy terrain, it was impossible for them to rush to Jiangling City to support.
Even if the nearest section of the Jiangling city wall was only ten miles away, it was still the city wall that Tian Xin had given up garrisoning to defend, and they could only stare dryly at this moment.
The two people who watched the battle were all surprised, just like seeing that the Wu soldiers under Jiangling City were crazy, cheering everywhere and everyone was excited, rushing towards the Jiangling City Gate and assembling, there was no offensive order at all, and there was no military discipline constraint at all, the array was confused, and everyone was vying for the first.
Lu Meng, who supervised the battle after the battle, even took a few steps to the higher watchtower, nervously watching the changes in the battle situation, staring at the cracks that were slowly exposed at the Jiangling City Gate, like a black hole.
It is like a light in the night, which has a fatal attraction to the Wu army under the city.
The gate of Jiangling City was opened like this, and several bloodied armor soldiers pushed the thick gate to break a gap desperately, and one armor soldier shouted at Wu Jun with his arms outstretched, and then raised his knife and turned back to kill the city gate, as if he was desperately resisting the defenders' counterattack.
From the military officers to the sergeants, everyone rushed to collide together, and the Wu troops who lost their footing and fell into the bloody water of the moat one after another.
Everyone cheered, no one could hear what they were cheering for, and no one cared about the Wu soldiers who were struggling in the trenches.
The black-pressed people crowded under the city gates, like a flood, threatening to tear down the walls at any moment.
Tian Xin silently counted the number of Wu soldiers pouring into the city, raised his right arm into a fist, and when about three thousand people poured in, he waved it fiercely: "Ignite the fire!" β
Bundles of hay and reeds stood at the mouth of the battlements of the city wall, and then they were set on fire, and a dozen or so bundles were thrown down the city, and the smoke covered the head and gates of the city in the blink of an eye, and spread in all directions.
Inside the city gate, Wu Jun, who rushed in under the black pressure, crashed headlong into the triple antlers.
The former did not move forward, the latter did not know, and even if they knew, they shouted and squeezed forward, row after row of Wu soldiers squeezed on the sharp branches of the antlers, allowing them to scream, scold or wail, but could not awaken the conscience and sympathy of the Wu army behind them.
"Break through the wooden fence! Can break Gangneung! β
"Break the Gangneung! Wan Hu Hou! β
"Kill Tian Shin! Wan Hu Hou! β
"Wanhu Hou!"
The Wu soldiers in the city shouted with all their might, all of them were excited, turned over the corpses that were not yet cold in their robes, and repeatedly attacked the battle line of the defenders.
Across the fence, the defenders have the Jiangling defenders, Mi Fang's troops, as well as the armored women in the city, the children of the soldiers, spears and bamboo guns are set on the fence, they retreat, rush forward to accumulate thorns, then retreat, then rush forward, repeatedly fold and rush.
The spears and halberds were like forests and bushes, and the Wu army, which was mostly armed with short soldiers wielding swords and shields, could not break through the fence fortifications.
Luo Qiong also wore basin collar armor, pacing back and forth with a sword in his hand, and behind him were two hundred Yi soldiers, to supervise the battle.
Now Lin Luozhu is leading another 300 soldiers to sit in the barracks to prevent mutiny.
In addition, the 800 heroes selected by Tian Xin served as the general reserve, standing in the rear, all with eyes like torches, extremely anxious.
At the top of the city, raging flames rose at the gates of Gangneung, and scorching waves of air swept battle flags or set fire to several battle flags.
"Keep casting, don't stop!"
"Hurry! Don't stop! β
There were only the shouts of Tian Xin, the sound of the military officials conveying and urging, the whistling of the flames, and the sound of the dense bows and crossbows, and the Wu army under the city was killed and wounded.
The smoke and fire sparked Tannobu's face, and bundles of firewood and grass brought from both sides were thrown directly down, fueling the fire.
The flames spread to both sides along the constantly dropped bundles of grass, and the Wu army, who tried to extinguish the fire and storm into the city, finally calmed down, and was driven away by the scorching flames, arrows, and smoke, and retreated like a tide, while the auxiliaries at the head of the city were still throwing straw bundles to help the combustion.
Seeing the smoke and flames at the gate of Jiangling, the fire became more and more intense, their own formations were scattered, and the officials fled from the battlefield in confusion.
"Governor!"
"Governor!"
Lu Meng was shaken awake, opened his eyes and looked at the dense faces around him, but he barely opened his mouth and closed his eyes in a dejected manner.
On Jiang Zhu, Sun Quan led his ministers to watch the battle situation, and they all looked at the smoke that floated, spread, and gradually faded, and they were all speechless for a long time.
The barracks of the old city, looking at the fireworks that are rising and gradually fading and diffusing, are profound.
At this time, one battalion under his command was armored and ready for battle, and the other two battalions were digging up the mud inside and outside the barracks and reinforcing the barracks with the mud.
In the barracks in the city, more than 9,000 troops were also watching the thick fireworks, their eyes were complicated, and they had a lot of longing.
Outside the city, the Wu army receded like a tide, and the Wu army that poured into the city could not rush the fence several times, and still formed a circle to defend itself.
Tian Xin saw that there were more than a dozen military officials discussing and arguing in the circle formed by this group of Wu troops: "Send an envoy to make a forced landing." β
Before his envoy walked down the tower, the general of the Wu army discussed the results, and at this time the drums outside the city could not be heard, and a captain of the Wu army took out an apricot silk silk from his arms and tied it on the spear, and walked out of the circle with it held high.
Storming into the city had been fighting for less than three moments, and now the back road was cut off.
As the apricot yellow flag was raised, the Wu soldiers in the circle instantly fell in mood, and their heads hung down.
Captain Wu came to the city tower with a flag, holding an apricot yellow flag in his right arm: "General Tian, if I surrender, what will the general do?" β
"There are more than 10,000 troops from the north in my city, and we can't tolerate you."
Seeing that the middle-aged captain's face turned pale, Tian Xin waved his hand casually and showed the palm of his right hand: "Don't be surprised, what's the use of my head?" After abandoning my weapons and surrendering, I will collect my weapons and armor, and then drive everyone to clean up the battlefields inside and outside the city, and contain the dead and wounded soldiers, and if they are slightly injured, I will also send people to bandage them. β
"When the battlefield is cleaned, I will scratch the palm of your right hand, and then make you carry the dead and wounded robes back to the camp."
Scratched the palm of the right hand, with the current wet and cold climate of Gangneung, the wound heals slowly, and these people can't continue to fight when they go back.
With Liu Bei and Guan Yu as endorsements, Tian Xin's conditions were quickly agreed by General Wu Jun, and he began to take off his armor up and down.
The Wu army had a lot of leather armor and wooden armor, and in a short time, only the armor was piled up like a hill.
The auxiliary soldiers in the city drove the Wu army prisoners to clean up the battlefield and contain the dead and wounded, and the dead and wounded of the Wu army were also stripped of their armor.
During this process, the soldiers in the city never participated, and they were armed and vigilant.
When Sun Quan personally took the boat to lead the car down and the Hushi entered the wharf barracks, he saw that the flames in front of the Jiangling City Gate had been extinguished, and the defenders were beating the eaves of the city tower that had been smoked and ignited.
And the trench under Gangneung City looked like a dark red pool of blood from a distance at this moment, and the corpses were overlapped, which was shocking.
The Wu prisoners of the brigade walked out of the city gate in despair, collected arrows, weapons, and armor and transported them to the city, and used spears and halberds to provoke and pull the corpses in the moats.
The blood stained the Jiangling moat, and with the salvage and trampling on the mud, the front of the city gate was dyed red and black.
also dyed Sun Quan's blue eyes red, and he only felt that the world was spinning.
When he came back to his senses, he saw Zuo Xian, the main bookkeeper, looking left and right, and asked, "What's the matter?" β
"Supreme, Governor LΓΌdu...... Sick. β