The Han army of Xiangyang was well prepared, and at the third watch, 150,000 elite horsemen left Xiangyang and marched towards Jingzhou.

Coach Cai Yan'er, deputy marshals Xiahou Ling and Lu Qiling, general Guan Yu Ma Chao, military division Pang Tong, deputy military division Huang Yueying, deputy general Pang Dewen and others.

Wen Yin led 150,000 troops to guard Xiangyang, and the general Zhao Yun was supplemented by the military division.

During the march, Liu Qi and Zhuge Liang sent battle reports from time to time.

Zhuge Liang is now in Liu Qi's array, attacking the city many times, with many casualties, and now Liu Qi's army has stopped attacking the city.

After one day, the second master came to Jingzhou City on the morning of the third day and joined Liu Qi and Zhuge Liang. Seeing Yan'er, Liu Qi knelt down and said: "The criminal minister sees Niangniang." ”

Yan Er said: "Get up, I don't blame you." ”

Then the account was raised. Zhuge Liang saw that he must have his fiancée Huang Yueying meet and talk, and then greet Pang Tong.

Yan Er asked: "Kong Ming, Liu Qi Gongzi, why did you stop attacking?" ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Gongzi's army and Jingzhou army are all old systems, and the siege casualties are very large, so I wait for the Han army to attack." ”

Yan Er smiled and said: "My Han army is a new system, and the siege casualties are small, you think about it quite thoughtfully, then you don't want to attack the city at the beginning, wait for the army of the palace." ”

Zhuge Liang said: "The prince attacked the city to show that he finally won the imperial court and swore to be inseparable from the Cai clan in Jingzhou!" ”

Yan Er said: "It's Kong Ming blatantly, and this can also be thought of." ”

Liu Qi suddenly knelt down and cried: "Liu Cong was manipulated by his stepmother Cai, poisoned his father, and asked his mother to make the decision for me and uphold justice!" ”

Yan Er exclaimed: "How did Gongzi know that your father was poisoned by the Cai family?" ”

Liu Qi said: "My father has always been in good health, and half a month ago, I added him noodles. Even if you are seriously ill, you can't die so soon. And it is the middle of winter, and there is no epidemic in Jingxiang. Therefore, the last general thought that his father was killed by his stepmother Cai! ”

Yan Er said: "Childe is reasonable. Cai Liu's murder of his husband, the first crime, tampered with the will, set up the second son Liu Cong as the assassin of Jingzhou without authorization, did not listen to the dispatch of the imperial court, and the second crime was to kill the imperial court envoy and refuse to obey, and the third crime was the third. Stubborn resistance, against the imperial court, the fourth crime, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Cai He, Cai Zhong, make suggestions, rebel together, and be enemies of the court, the same crime. The soldiers and the people were not guilty, and ordered these words to be put on paper, bound to arrows, and shot into the city, and the city was fully attacked at noon. ”

The generals received orders, and some Tanma reported that Gan Ning led an army and went to Jiangdong Sun Ce.

Yan Er sneered and said: "The Jinfan thief is not enough to worry about, when Sun Ce is broken in the future, he will be asked about his guilt." ”

The siege time has been set, Yan Er ordered to go down, increase vigilance, prevent Sun Ce from sending troops to sneak attack, and at the same time ordered someone to send an order to Xiangyang Wenyin to strictly prevent Sun Ce from sneak attack.

And said to everyone: "Where did this Cai get the courage to go against the imperial court?" From what I saw in this palace, there must have been some collusion with Koto, which is why I am so bold. ”

Zhuge Liang said: "There are many discords between Jiangdong and Jingzhou, and I think that Sun Ce will not come to the rescue." ”

Yan Er said: "What Kong Ming said is extremely true, but I have to guard against it."

Kong Ming said: "That's nature. ”

Three hours were given time to consider the city of Jingzhou, and by noon, it was still stubbornly resistant and unwilling to surrender.

Yan Er said: "The whole army is ready to attack the city!" ”

Jingzhou has a moat, after data conversion, it can be known that the river is six meters wide and two to five meters deep, so without engineering troops, it is difficult for cavalry to cross the past, but the Han army has a way.

Before departure, each cavalryman would carry a bag that could hold fifty catties of sand and gravel, and when they arrived at the place, they could fill it with sand and stones on the spot. The total of 150,000 troops is 7.5 million catties, or 75,000 stones, which is 3,750 tons when converted into modern data, and 75 cars if it is loaded by a heavy truck with a load of 50 tons.

The 75 carts of stones were quite capable of filling in a certain section of the moat for the passage of the cavalry brigade, and this section would be very long.

And after half a day, all the soldiers had already packed the bags of sand and stones.

Yan Er encouraged the whole army and said: "This palace knows that the soldiers are very hard, everyone is working hard, after capturing Jingzhou, take a good rest!" Let's start throwing stones! ”

The 150,000 cavalry began to take turns throwing sandbags into the moat, and in order to ensure that they could cross the river, the sandbags were dropped within a length of 300 meters.

When throwing, the rear cavalry shot arrows at the city wall to protect the stone-throwing soldiers.

Sandbags were thrown in one go, blocking this section of the moat to a depth of most of the time, and the water in the moat was blocked and began to flow outward, and there was water everywhere.

After all the launches were completed, the Chinese army could already step on the river.

Yan Er said again: "This trip is in a hurry, and there are no engineers, so we can only rely on cavalry to attack the city." 150,000 fine horsemen, including 100,000 crossbow riders and 50,000 bow riders. The archers are divided into five groups, each group of 10,000, first shoot a group of individual fire arrows, select the city wall and the city gate to shoot, break the city wall and the whole army will attack, and if you can't break it, the second group of individual fire arrows, and so on, until the city wall slope! From now on, the first group of 10,000 individual fiery arrows will be fired! ”

Since the Sunset Crossbow is a large engineering equipment, only the engineers have it, and this time the assault march, only the cavalry, the Sunset Crossbow did not bring over, so the individual fire arrows carried by the archers can only be used to attack the city wall.

As mentioned earlier, every cavalry archer will carry a single fire arrow when they go out to battle.

Although the individual flame arrow is shorter and less powerful than the fire arrow in the Sunset Crossbow, it still has flames and iron pellets.

At the sound of an order, the first group of archers moved forward into range, and the other four groups of archers fired ordinary arrows at the city wall to cover the firing of fiery arrows.

The drums of war thundered, the shouts of killing shook the sky, the first wave of 10,000 fiery arrows shot over, and the explosions came and went! Screams continued on the walls.

The first wave of flaming arrows did not cause effective damage to the walls.

Yan Er ordered: "The first group retreats, change to the second group, the target is concentrated three hundred meters on the right side of the city gate, and release the arrow!" ”

Because there is an urn city inside the city gate, although the city gate is easier to break than the city wall, it is easy to encounter ambushes when rushing into the city gate, so Yan'er will choose a stronger city wall to attack.

On and off the city, ten thousand arrows were fired, anyway, the Han army had many arrows, and they were not afraid of arrows, and each soldier's base number of arrows was one hundred arrows.

The second wave of fire arrow attacks blew up a hole in the city wall, but Yan Er was not enough, and said: "The second group retreats, the third group is on, and the other four groups of feather arrows are covered!" The goal remains the same, release the arrows! ”

The third wave of individual flame arrows was released, and 10,000 individual flame arrows with gunpowder and iron pellets had already blown out a hole in the city wall, expanding even more.

Yan Er glanced at it, this opening was about twenty meters wide, and ordered: "Go in along the ruins, the road is narrow, when you go in, pay attention to safety, after entering the city, if you encounter Jingzhou soldiers, shoot them." Come on! ”

(End of chapter)