Chapter 371: Jingling Battle 1
Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! ”
"Knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! ”
"Knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! ”
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Liu Bei's army formation was relatively close to Liu Qi's army formation, Liu Bei hit his horse and hurried, and soon returned to the front of his own army formation, Guan Yu and others saw Liu Bei returning, and bowed to him: "I'll wait to meet the lord (big brother)!" ”
After everyone worshipped, Zhang Fei took the lead and said, "Big brother, but it's time to start attacking the city?" Zhang Dingbian's thief dared to tease me like that yesterday, it's really hateful and killable! I am willing to personally lead the troops and horses to attack the city, and ask the eldest brother to give me a chance to take revenge! ”
Now that the army has just begun to attack the city, and the defense of the city has not yet been tried, Liu Bei naturally will not let Zhang Fei go to the adventure easily, and refused with a smile: "Yide, don't worry, Lingcheng is a fortified city, Cai Mao and others have led an army of 100,000 to attack this city twice, but they have not taken it, and at that time, only Zhang Dingbian's army of 20,000 troops guarded Jingling City!" Now that Yuan Yao has sent 20,000 soldiers and horses from Zhou Yu's department as reinforcements, Jingling City will definitely be more difficult to break, and it will not be a matter of one or two days to capture Jingling City, and there will definitely be an opportunity for you to lead the army to attack the city! ”
Although Zhang Fei was brave and belligerent, he had always respected Liu Bei, and seeing that Liu Bei did not agree with him to fight at this time, Zhang Fei did not force it, and replied with a smile: "Then the eldest brother has decided, and when the time is right, he will definitely let me lead the army to attack the city!" ”
"Good! Everything is according to what the third brother said, and when the time is right, I will definitely give you the opportunity to lead the army to attack the city and take revenge! ”
Liu Bei still has to rely on the courage of Zhang Fei and others to attack the city for him, he naturally will not refuse Zhang Fei's request, so he also smiled and agreed, then looked at Zhuge Liang, and said: "Kong Ming, Gongzi has given an order to order all troops and horses to start attacking the city, according to your opinion, how should our army attack the city?" ”
Zhuge Liang had already thought about this problem, and replied directly: "Lord, you see, the city of Lingcheng is three zhang high, the moat outside the city is several zhang wide, and the moat is turbulent, if it is to be filled with sand, it will definitely take a long time." I see that the narrow place of the moat can still be crossed by a ladder, the lord can first send troops to test a little, if the enemy is well prepared, our army will send troops to fill the moat, if the enemy is not prepared, our army can sweep the step of filling the moat, continue to attack the city with a ladder. ”
Liu Bei also knew that this battle was very important, no matter what, he had to break through Jingling City first to have the possibility of annexing Jingzhou, otherwise if Yuan Yao won, when Yuan Yao's army swept over, he would no longer have a foothold in Jingzhou, and now the army attacking the city is also an opportunity for him to show his martial arts, if he can play a major role in the siege battle, the Jingzhou army will definitely look up to him a few points.
Liu Bei thought of this, so he also made a decision, and shouted loudly: "Chen Dao, you lead two thousand former troops to attack the city first!" ”
Chen to the word Shuzhi, is a person from Runan, Yuzhou, defected to Liu Bei in his early years, his person is brave and good at war, proficient in military strategy, is a member of Liu Bei's generals, and now Chen Zhi has become a partial general under Liu Bei, and his status is all under Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, Liu Bei sent Chen Zhi to lead the army to attack the city, and it can also be seen that Liu Bei attaches great importance to this battle.
When Chen Zhi heard Liu Bei's military order, he promised loudly: "No, the last general will take the order, and he will live up to the trust of the lord!" ”
"Well, go ahead, you have to be careful, I will personally cheer for you, and this battle will be commanded by Kong Ming!"
"No, I'll take the order!"
Liu Bei dismounted and walked onto the drum cart, raised the drumsticks with both hands and beat the war drums vigorously, and the rest of the sergeants saw Liu Bei beating the drums in person, and they also used their strength to cheer for their own army.
"Knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! ”
"Knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! ”
"Knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock!! ”
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Chen Zhi came to the front of the army to the sound of the earth-shattering war drums, and shouted: "Sons, the lord personally cheers for us, and we will swear to serve the lord!" Recently, all the troops listened to the order and rushed to kill with me! ”
"Kill, !!"
"Kill, kill, kill!! Kill, kill, kill!! Kill, kill, kill!! ”
"Swear to Serve the Lord !!" ……
Liu Beijun's former soldiers saw Liu Bei personally cheering for himself and others, and their hearts were also shocked, all the soldiers were enthusiastic, after Chen Zhi finished shouting, he took the lead with the weapons in his hands and went straight to Jingling City to kill, two thousand Liu Beijun soldiers saw Chen Zhi so brave, and they also followed behind Chen Zhi with siege equipment, rolled up all the way to smoke and dust, and went straight to Jingling City.
"Trebuchets, bed crossbows, at the head of Jingling City, start shooting!!"
Zhuge Liang saw that his soldiers and horses began to rush and kill, and hurriedly ordered the bed crossbow and trebuchet to start shooting, wanting to suppress the defenders at the head of the city, after giving the order, Zhuge Liang glanced at the generals, and finally locked his eyes on Guan Yu, and said: "Yun Chang, you lead two thousand crossbowmen to step forward to cover the siege of the siege soldiers and horses!! ”
The most familiar general Zhuge Liang used was Zhao Yun, but now Zhao Yun is still leading the army to defend Xinye and Wancheng, and did not follow Liu Bei's army to attack Jingling City, Zhuge Liang can only use Guan Yu, who has a more calm personality, fortunately, Guan Yu also knows that military law is ruthless, and he did not save Zhuge Liang's face, and bowed down and responded: "No, Guan Yu takes the order!" ”
Guan Yu bowed and agreed, lit up two thousand crossbowmen, and followed behind the front army of the siege and went straight to Jingling City.
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Xu Shu had just pacified the soldiers of the army, and saw that Liu Bei's army had sent a team of soldiers and horses to Jingling City to kill, Xu Shu saw that this army of soldiers and horses were all carrying siege equipment and did not carry sandbags, he snorted coldly in his heart, and said: "Okay, you Kong Ming, you want to attack my city directly without filling in the moat, and dare to look down on my Jingling defenders so much, see that I don't let you hold a big loss!" ”
Just when Xu Shu was thinking about how to make Zhuge Liang hold a big loss, he saw Liu Bei's army suddenly fly out of the army array of many boulders and crossbow arrows, Xu Shu saw this, and hurriedly shouted: "Quickly lower your body and hide behind the city wall!" ”
Although Liu Bei's army's long-range attack came a little quickly, Zhang Dingbian and Xu Shu also knew that the enemy's first attack on the city was often very fierce, so at this time, the defenders on the city wall were all sharp soldiers in the army and not the newly recruited Xiang Yong, these soldiers had experienced two continuous battles to defend the city, and they were already very familiar with the enemy's long-range attacks.
When all the soldiers saw the boulders and crossbow arrows flying, they immediately lowered their bodies and hid behind the female wall of the city wall, and the movements of all the soldiers were extremely skillful!