At the head of Wuchang City, the sentries looked at the warships on the river that were approaching the riverside outside the city, and sounded the gong expressionlessly.

You have to toss it a few times a day, don't you bother!

Since the official army regained Wuchang, which was captured by the Zhou army a month ago, they sent troops to garrison the city, and it was from then on that the warships of the Zhou army in Jiangbei often docked, causing the sentries at the head of the city to sound gongs and warn.

At most, five or six times a day, at least two or three times, and every time the gong sounded, the soldiers in the city rushed to the city with their weapons in a hurry, and then looked at the Zhou warships rowing north, and cursed.

This is not bad, the most terrible thing is that at night, the sentry meow saw dozens of warships quickly docking, he was so anxious that he was about to break the gong, but in the end, when everyone rushed to the front wall with sleepy eyes, the Zhou warships turned around and returned to Jiangbei, sometimes they could toss several times in one night.

One night or two nights is just enough, but such a toss is more than a month, which makes the Chen army soldiers angry, because their own naval army retreated downstream after the defeat of Zhengrongzhou, so the unscrupulous comings and goings of the Zhou army warships on the Wuchang and Xiyang rivers made the Chen army in Wuchang helpless.

The other party tossed himself like this, not for fun, but as Shangguan said, he used the 'strategy of exhausting the soldiers', that is, to toss the officers and soldiers like this, and over time, they would relax their vigilance, and then the Zhou army would really come to sneak attack, so the sentries were also strictly ordered, no matter what, as long as a large number of Zhou army warships came to the shore, they must be warned.

The same is true of the other soldiers, who must take up arms and go up to the city whenever they hear the sentinel's warning, and the attacking team must assemble at the city gate without delay.

This time it was the same, everyone ran up to the city expressionlessly, and sure enough, those Zhou warships stopped not far from the shore. Seeing them gathered behind the city, they quickly retreated northward.

"The son of the bastard turtle has a kind of come ashore to fight!"

"Lao Tzu is your mother!"

The shouting and scolding continued. The soldiers of the Chen army were tossed for a long time, and their scolding skills were also practiced. If it had been a month ago, they would have been really worried that the Zhou army would attack Wuchang again, but now they are not afraid.

Before the Zhou army withdrew from Wuchang, the city was demolished into white ground, and the north side of the city wall disappeared without a trace, if the other party then attacked again, Chen Jun was afraid that it would be difficult to hold the north side of Wuchang, but now after some deployment, he waited for the other party to crash in.

Wuchang and the surrounding people were all moved away by the Zhou army, and it was too late to build a kiln and burn bricks, so the Chen army set up a wooden fence at the original city wall north of Wuchang as a means of defense, and then dug several deep ditches behind the wooden fence, waiting for the Zhou army to storm and then fall into the trap.

Because the opposite side of the river is the Xiyang City of Bazhou of the Zhou State, so the army of Chen Guo, who went west to recover Yingzhou, left more than 20,000 people stationed in Wuchang, one is to prevent Jiangbei, and the other is because Wuchang is the hub between Xiakou in the northwest and Jiangzhou in the southeast, so the location is important.

Zhou Jun's last time he took Wuchang was a pure fluke, and it is impossible for them to succeed this time!

The soldiers saw that there was another false alarm, so they scolded and walked down the city, just as they each returned to the barracks, suddenly the city gong sounded loudly, and it was a warning, and everyone turned pale and walked out of the barracks helplessly.

"Yo, you've worked hard today!" A colleague joked that the official had an order that as long as the sentry gave a warning, he must do a good job of defense, but after such a toss, everyone couldn't bear it, so he was 'out of the police' in shifts. Looking at the situation today, Zhou Jun's enthusiasm is very high, so the people on the shift are unlucky.

A large group of soldiers ran up to the city again with expressionless faces, and as expected, there was a false alarm, looking at the dozens of Zhou army warships on the river that returned north again, some people angrily smashed on the arrow stacks: "Is there a mistake, these dozens of boats are not too tired to panic!" ”

In addition to the Benzhou naval army, Jiangbei Bazhou also stationed many warships of the Zhou army, some of them were on duty in the upper reaches of Zhengrongzhou to stare at Fankou in Wuchang, and some were anchored in Wuzhou downstream to stare at the main naval force of the Chen army downstream, which is why the warships of the Zhou army dared to tease the defenders of Wuchang so recklessly.

The plagued Zhou Jun, the plagued one-legged bronze man Yuwenwen!

The soldiers of the Chen army are familiar with the famous Bazhou Thorn History in Xiyang City on the other side of the Jiangbei River, and the story of the decisive battle at the top of Xiyang is not to be said, and now there are various stories of the 'one-legged bronze man' everywhere in the army.

Some say that this 'Yuwen Evil Lang' is actually a wild species, and some say that 'this fang' is absurd and unreasonable, every night there is no woman, no woman is unhappy, as long as it is a woman who likes in Bazhou, whether married or not, it will be forcibly abducted into the house to rape \ lewd Yunyun, and more sensational saying is that Yuwen Wen likes to eat human flesh, especially children, what is made of 'Dongpo meat', and he has to eat dozens of catties every day.

The stories are told in vivid detail, as if the narrator had seen them with his own eyes, and although there were many errors and omissions, the soldiers sounded relished. Everyone is stationed in this empty Wuchang City, and the rumors are all due to Yu Wenwen, so it is already a pleasure to entertain each other.

After cursing Yuwenwen's family to death due to the plague, the soldiers walked down the city with a scolding, while the soldiers of the Chen army on the outskirts of the eastern part of the city looked back gloatingly and watched their comrades running back and forth. These people are on duty by the river, and they can't go back until they get to dinner, so they are not afraid of Zhou Jun tossing back and forth.

In order to prevent the Zhou army from landing on the riverside in the eastern suburbs of Wuchang, the Chen army set up a camp three miles away from the city, stationed hundreds of soldiers, and its role was to block the defenders in the city when the Zhou army landed near the camp, and send soldiers to guard between the camp and Wuchang City.

It was not easy for these soldiers to stay in the wasteland by the river, the sun was hot at noon, and there were no trees around, so they could not hide from the shade, so they could only rely on the shabby grass huts that had been erected improvised to shade them, and just when they were bored, someone suddenly caught a glimpse of the Zhou warships on the river, and turned around and leaned towards the south bank, that is, on their side.

"Again? When is this going to be when don't you go back to eat and toss something! Some soldiers laughed and scolded, at this moment they began to sympathize with the sailors of the Zhou army, and they must have been tired and panicked from tossing and rowing back and forth on the river.

The gong sounded again at the head of Wuchang City on the west side, it was the sentry warning again, and the soldiers of the Chen Army by the river laughed when they heard it, they knew that the comrades in the city were going to be tossed and run to the city wall again, and they were smiling and looking at the approaching Zhou army warships, waiting for the other party to turn around and leave, but they found that these guys were leaning towards themselves.

"Bastards are going to run over and shoot arrows again! Pick up a bow and shoot them! The leader of the team shouted, after more than a month of harassment and counter-harassment, they had gained experience, and the Zhou warships would sometimes approach the shore and fire arrows at their own soldiers on duty, and in view of this, they also prepared bows and arrows and large shields in order to come and meet head-on.

The large shield was erected to allow the three archers to hide behind and shoot arrows calmly, for the archers of the Chen army, they were on land, and the Zhou soldiers were on rocking boats, so those on land must have taken advantage when the two sides were firing at each other.

"Steady, steady! There are still a hundred or so steps! ”

"Let them go fifty or sixty paces before they shoot arrows!"

The effective killing range of the infantry bow is only sixty or seventy steps, if it is far away, it is not that it can't hurt people, but the opponent is wearing armor, then it is no different from tickling, just as the soldiers of the Chen army were waiting for the Zhou army warship to get closer, a big crossbow suddenly appeared on the opponent's ship and began to shoot at them.

There was a thud, and under the impact of the roaring black shadows, some of the large shields were torn apart, and the soldiers who were hiding behind were embarrassed by the flying wood chips, and more shields were fine, but the strong impact made the soldiers feel uneasy.

Some of the black shadows that shot the shields rolled to the ground, and everyone looked at them fist-sized, sharpened stone bullets, and they were wondering what kind of powerful crossbow Zhou Jun was using to fire these things, when the second round of shooting began.

Some soldiers were shot by stone bullets without a big shield to cover them, and their heads were shattered on the spot, some were hit in a pit in their chests and vomited blood and died, and worse, some shields were broken.

Bastard, next time you have to stay away from the riverside!

In order to prevent the Zhou army's warships from rushing to the beach, so Chen Jun drove a row of wooden stakes on the riverside outside Wuchang City, unless the Yangtze River flooded and the water level rose sharply, otherwise the Zhou army had to honestly pull out the wooden stakes to let the big ship dock, these soldiers on duty on the riverside now want to stay away from the river to avoid being shot by the opponent's crossbow.

However, the Zhou warship was sprinting to the shore with all its might, and it seemed that it was about to land, and the Chen army, who commanded the counterattack, saw that the situation was not good, and ordered the trumpeter to blow the horn to warn, but when he then looked at the river, he was stunned.

Dense clippers appeared on the river near Zhengrongzhou in the upper reaches of the river and were rushing towards the direction of Wuchang, and at the same time, a large number of warships and ships also appeared near Bakou in the northeast.

"They're going to land! They're really going to land this time! The team leader shouted hoarsely, and there were more than 100 soldiers under his command, who were originally to prevent the Zhou army from harassing him, but he never thought that the other party was really about to attack.

The Zhou army's warships approached, and he could already see clearly that the black pressure on these ships in front of him was pressing a group of soldiers, and it was impossible to run now, not to mention that running in the wilderness was easy to be shot by the opponent's bow and crossbow, and even if he ran back, he couldn't escape the knife of military law.

The distance was shortened to fifty paces, and the archers of the Chen army, who were hiding behind the large shields, began to counterattack, but a new round of stone bullets rained again, mixed with arrows, enveloping them, and one large shield was knocked over or shot to pieces, and the archers behind were splashed with blood.

The first round of firing between the two sides ended in heavy casualties of the Chen army, and more than half of the team of nearly 100 people was now killed, and the survivors, who had no way out, saw that the Zhou warship had hit the wooden stake on the riverside and lowered the gangplank, so their blood surged.

The horns on the east and west sides sounded again and again, which was the prelude to the mobilization of troops and horses by their own garrison, and when they looked back, there were already cavalry figures in the direction of the camp on the east side and Wuchang City, and without the slightest hesitation, they howled and raised their knives to rush towards the Zhou soldiers who had jumped off the boat and waded ashore.

The only way to do this is to fight to the death, and let my comrades avenge me!

Arrows rained down, and the soldiers of the Chen Army, who had not been shot down, saw clearly the appearance of the soldiers who had waded into the water and landed on the shore: all of them were sturdy and dressed in armor, the long knives in their hands were shining in the scorching sun, and the faces of those soldiers were terrifying skeletal faces.

"Kill!" The soldiers of Chen's army rushed towards the enemy army several times their size like moths to a flame, and the momentum of the opponent's subsequent outbreak was also several times that of them:

"Kill! There is no advance or retreat! (To be continued.) )