Chapter 363: Flooding and Falling Pi
In the era of cold weapons, stratagems often had a surprising effect on the battlefield, but then again, the so-called use of stratagems to kill people is nothing more than taking advantage of the right time, place and people, so the most common strategy to murder the enemy is to attack the enemy and flood and other strategies. With the help of the right time and place, unexpected results are often achieved, especially the kind of war that has reached a stalemate or is unfavorable, such as the Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms.
Cao Cao's subordinates are like clouds, and naturally some people think of the strategy of flooding, but they soon deny themselves, for no other reason, others Lu Bu stands on top of Xiapi City, will you watch you dig the ditch under Xiapi City and flood Xiapi? That's really a joke.
But Guo Jia showed great confidence in the strategy of flooding, and let others keep rapping there, but Guo Jia was indomitable, and finally Guo Jia looked directly at Cao Cao with his blazing eyes.
"King Wei, please allocate another 5,000 soldiers and horses, I, Guo Fengxiao, am willing to make a military order here, and I will definitely dig a canal within a month, and the water will flood Pi, and it will be a great success at that time!"
Since Guo Jia is so confident, Cao Cao only pondered for a moment before agreeing with Guo Jia's opinion, and the other strategists all stopped talking, whether it is a laughing stock or a miracle depends on Guo Jia's efforts this month.
Guo Jia immediately sent 10,000 soldiers under his command to dig ditches overnight, and Zhang Liao, Chen Gong and others, who were standing on the city tower, naturally discovered this.
Chen Gong was extremely anxious when he saw this, and now Xiapi has fallen into a situation of being surrounded on all sides. The ditch to the west is also being excavated. Chen Gong looked at it, and the outside world seemed to be cut off from him.
Chen Gong urgently relayed the news to Lu Bu, but Lu Bu's expression was a little wrong, after listening to Chen Gong's report, he thought for a moment, and finally waved his hand, and even asked Chen Gong to ignore this matter anymore.
Chen Gong's heart was a little surprised, he even doubted that this Lu Bu in front of him was still the rumored brave and unrivaled general? Why has he become so cowardly now, everyone else has already hit the door, and he is indifferent.
However, since Lu Bu was unwilling to give an order, then Chen Gong had no way, and under all kinds of persuasion, in the end, Chen Gong only sighed, flicked his sleeve robe and walked out of the hall.
At this moment, among the troops of the Wei army, there are also many people who have the mentality of watching a good show, watching Guo Jia keep digging ditches.
In a blink of an eye, half a month has passed, and many people are watching Guo Jia there with the mentality of watching a good show, and half a month has passed, Guo Jia finally dug the river canal 300 steps away from Xiapi City.
But when he arrived here, Lu Bu in the city seemed to be alert, he no longer decadent in his mansion every day, he began to go to the top of the city, and organize soldiers to carry out a powerful counterattack.
There are also a small number of catapults and bed crossbows in Xiapi City, and Lu Bu relies on these things to constantly attack the Wei army outside the city, and Cao Xing has also sponsored Lu Bu a lot in private, so many of Lu Bu's soldiers can shoot arrows in their hands three hundred steps away, so Guo Jia and others immediately became a piston.
Every day, countless Wei troops were repairing ditches when an arrow suddenly came. Straight to the headshot.
Guo Jia is like this, like a madman, tirelessly continue to urge his soldiers to dig forward, the soldiers are very complaining in their hearts, they can only hold their shields, while defending, while digging carefully, but this kind of high-intensity work is to make Guo Jia's soldiers complain, most of the strategists in the Wei State are not very optimistic about Guo Jia, what is Guo Jia playing? In vain, Cao Cao is still so optimistic about Guo Jia.
However, just a few days later, on a dark and windy night, many of the strategists were still asleep, but an exciting news reached the barracks with lightning speed.
"Xiapi is in the water, Xiapi is in the water!"
When the spies brought this news to the military camp of the Wei State, it can be said that all the military camps of the country were in chaos, and those who were still sleeping quickly got dressed and consciously ran to Cao Cao's military tent, if this news is true, then it will definitely be a big deal.
When many strategists and generals rushed to Cao Cao's military tent, they could see that Cao Cao and Guo Jia had already sat in it talking and laughing, and seeing that people were almost there, Cao Cao nodded, and Guo Jia also got up with a smile, he looked at everyone and said with a smile.
"Hehe, I'm really embarrassed to wake you up on such a big night, but I just want to say to you, please don't worry, the show won't start tomorrow morning!"
After many strategists and generals heard Guo Jia's words, they all looked at me, I looked at you, and they didn't know what to do for a while, but someone still went out to check the news, in the west of Xiapicheng, it was Guo Jia who had dug the ditch a long time ago, and it was still two hundred steps away from Xiapi City at the moment, but the water in it was flowing very slowly, not to mention that the water flooded Xiapi, even if it flooded the crops, it was very difficult.
But if you look at the east side of Xia Pi City, you will find a very terrifying thing, that is, at some point, a water canal has been irrigated under the east side of Xia Pi City, and this discovery makes everyone wake up like a dream.
Everyone felt that it was not feasible to flood the water, because Lu Bu and others did not eat white food, but Guo Jia did the opposite, Guo Jia used the principle of Ming Xiu plank road to darken Chen Cang, in the west of the city gate, the big Zhang Chenggu dug to dig the canal, Lu Bu Chen Gong and others all focused on the west, they were trying their best to prevent Guo Jia from digging the canal every day, but what they didn't know was in the east.
Guo Jia quietly began to dig a canal there, because at this moment Xiapi was already surrounded on all sides, Guo Jia used his ghost pawns to directly surround the other three sides of Xiapi City in a very chaotic way, so that Lu Bu Chen Palace could not observe the situation in the east at all, so the water canal in the east was magically dug through.
Of course, because the canal on the east side was secretly excavated, at ten minutes at night, everyone only dug a small ditch and forcibly led the water flow of that small ditch to the city of Xiapi, so the water potential there was not large, and it could even be said that it was just ordinary flowing water, but even so, the city of Xiapi had begun to be watered by the river, and little by little the water flowed into the city.
In one night, although the speed of the water is very slow, but the accumulation of a lot, the water potential still gradually spread into the Xiapi City, at this moment many people in Xiapi City began to panic, they hurriedly took a broom there to sweep the water. Even Lu Bu had to send people from the army to help.
In the early morning, Guo Jia and Cao Cao walked in front, behind them with the general Wencheng generals, at this moment these people did not speak, just stood in front, quietly watching Cao Cao and Guo Jia talk and laugh.
Guo Jia is full of wisdom, no matter how others won the battle, it only took less than a month to complete the task, and he really deserves to be rewarded, but what everyone can't expect is that as Guo Fengxiao said, the show has just begun.
Strategists like Xun You, Mao Jue, and others all opened their eyes wide at this moment, with a look of disbelief, Guo Jia took them to the west of Xiapi.
In this place, Guo Jia dug a canal early in the morning, but this canal is still a full two hundred steps away from the city of Xiapi. It didn't have any effect, but to everyone's surprise, there were already full sacks piled up above the canal, and the deep water of the sacks could be described as monstrous, quite a smell of a flood beast.
Seeing this, many strategists were embarrassed, and even Xun You began to look up at Guo Jia. Guo Jia is not just a Ming Xiu plank road dark Chen Cang, so simple, Guo Jia This can be described as a chain plan, the water flow in the east has completely flowed into Xiapi, although the water level is not high, but it also makes the people and soldiers in Xiapi City panic to a great extent, in order to distract their attention.
As for the aqueduct to the east, it not only has the effect of attracting the enemy's attention, but it is also a real big killer.
When Cao Cao saw this scene, he couldn't help but laugh, he didn't misunderstand Guo Jia, what Guo Jia did was exactly what he thought in his heart, so Cao Cao didn't hesitate, and nodded directly to Guo Jia, the meaning was very clear, Guo Jia can start his performance now.
After getting Cao Cao's approval, Guo Jia was also excited, he directly waved his hand and ordered his ghost pawn to open the gate and release the water, flooding Xiapi, today he Guo Jia is going to conquer the city of Xiapi.
Boom, boom, countless streams of water let out a thunderous roar, directly like a flood rushed to the city wall of Xiapi, and the military standing at the head of Xiapi City to defend saw this scene, all of them were dumbfounded, this time flooding Xiapi, it was not a small flow of water, but a piece of water, these currents have reached the height of the city wall. If we wait for all this smoke to come, who will survive?
Many soldiers were terrified when they saw this, and even some officers had already run away, but just on the city wall of Xiapi, when they were about to become a mess, suddenly a tall figure appeared on it, and Lu Bu glared at his soldiers angrily and let out an earth-shattering roar.
"What kind of panic you guys are there, get out of here for me!"
Seeing Lu Bu coming, all the soldiers were startled at first, it seemed that they had some confusion, their boss hadn't shown up for a long time, why did he suddenly run out today, could it be that he also realized that the situation in Xiapi was not good, so he came up to take a look?
But anyway, since Lu Bu came, the soldiers under his command continued to stay at their posts one by one, and they just watched as the water flowed, like a flood, crashed into Xiapi City.
Many soldiers closed their eyes and were ready to die, but what these soldiers didn't expect was that even if this monstrous water hit the city wall of Xiapi, Xiapi was not directly washed away by the turbulent water as everyone imagined, but like steel, standing down in this turbulent water, a wave hit, and the city wall of Xiapi rarely defended this water flow.
This time, not to mention the soldiers defending at the head of the city, even Cao Cao and Guo Jia, who were standing below, were a little stunned.
What's going on? The people here are all familiar with the art of war, people who have experienced a hundred battles, everyone knows that water usually looks weak, but the turbulent water, suddenly gathered together, is enough to destroy everything, let alone the city wall, but why Guo Jia has accumulated such a turbulent water flow, but has not reached this point?
Guo Jia seemed to be a little unwilling, and as soon as he gritted his teeth and directly let his ghost pawns open all the sacks, he didn't believe that the water could not break down the city wall of Xiapi.
It didn't take long for another monstrous wave to sweep towards the city wall of Xiapi, and the city wall of Xiapi was hit by this turbulent current, and from the outside it seemed to tremble twice, but it was only two, and it did not collapse because of this.
Seeing this, Guo Jia and Cao Cao's eyes began to become solemn, and Lu Bu, who was standing on the tower of Xiapi City, his figure was still standing there, although Lu Bu's expression at the moment still looked calm, still as serious as before, but a trace of cold sweat had already appeared on his forehead, and Lu Bu couldn't help but look down at the city tower in Xiapi, where countless sacks had already been piled up.
These sacks, which were filled with sediment and sediment, were piled up under the walls to strengthen the walls of the city, which was a basic measure of flood control. I didn't expect that these sacks, which usually look inconspicuous, have played such a big role today.
Therefore, it can be said that don't look at Lu Bu calmly, but his whole person is also the kind of person who is scared half to death, but, no matter what, Lu Bu finally defended himself, and Lu Bu couldn't help but take a deep breath when he saw this.
"Cao Xing, Cao Xing, it seems that I, Lu Bu, owe you a favor again!"
Thinking of this, Lu Bu couldn't help but touch his arms, took out a letter from it, opened it, and saw that it was Cao Xing's note, Cao Xing, in this letter, just gave Lu Bu a wake-up call, and the water flooded.
When the ghost pawn sent the information to Guo Jia's hands, Guo Jia seemed to finally understand, what was going on? Guo Jia sent the information to Cao Cao, and after Cao Cao read it, his face was also gloomy, there was no doubt that they were played by Cao Xing again this time.
Guo Jia's flooding was originally perfect, and this plan also established Guo Jia's status in Cao Cao, the reason why this time was unfavorable, it can only be said that Guo Jia was calculated by others.
Cao Cao was indeed very angry at first, and carried out several strong attacks for no reason, but Lu Bu still leaned against the Xiapi city wall, where he survived.
A few days later, Cao Cao and Guo Jia stood on the top of the mountain, looking up at the realm below the mountain, and Cao Cao couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion.
"Time has passed, things are people, and what should come is always coming!"