In the end, Guo Jia could only be helpless like a gecko with a broken tail, abandoning the three or four thousand Wei infantry and cavalry after the break.

In the end, Guo Jia's mobile army escaped from the encirclement at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties.

Only Zhang He's cavalry division of the Central Army had a lot of casualties, about three or four thousand, after all, when it was hand-to-hand combat, the gap in equipment was not obvious.

However, now is not the time to hold him accountable, since he has repelled Guo Jia's reinforcements, Zhang Liao can devote all his attention to besieging Jiangling City.

Lu Bu also set off from Wanxian County and came to the front line of Jiangling, at such an important moment, he could not be absent.

Jiangling City was originally only the county seat of Jingzhou South County, and later, Liu Qi became the lord of Jingzhou and made Jiangling the capital of Jingzhou.

After Liu Bei succeeded to the throne, including his self-proclaimed King of Chu, he has always regarded Jiangling as the national capital, and under the painstaking management, today's Jiangling City is also regarded as a high wall and a rock solid.

There are four city walls, of which the southern wall is adjacent to the Yangtze River, and the other three walls are plains.

This section of the Yangtze River is often flooded, so the embankments have been continuously strengthened and built to raise the water level above the plain outside Gangneung.

Nowadays, the plains outside the northern, eastern, and western walls are all camps of the Central Army, surrounded by water.

Liu Bei stood at the head of the city, looking at the enemy camp outside the city, which was getting bigger and bigger, indicating that there were more and more central troops participating in the siege.

Two days ago, I saw a lot of cavalry of the Central Army leaving the camp to the north, and at that time, Pang Tong thought that Cao Cao had sent troops, so he mobilized the cavalry of the Central Army.

He suggested that Liu Bei take the opportunity to break through and flee for his life to the south, so that there would be a glimmer of life.

But Liu Bei hesitated, he was afraid that this was the suspicion of Lu Bu and Zhuge Liang.

Will the Wei army's reinforcements come so quickly? The Central Army is the best at ambushing people.

Within two days, not only did the cavalry return, but many new troops had joined.

Pang Tong said to Liu Bei, "I'm afraid that Cao Cao's reinforcements made Lü Bu defeated, and the commander of the Wei army was Guo Jia." As long as he suffers a little loss, he will shrink back and never show his head again, and we will probably not have any more reinforcements. ”

Liu Bei also stomped his feet with regret, "I heard that the naval army of Eastern Wu is coming, or let's flee to Jiangxia by water!" ”

Pang Tong shook his head, "My lord, I'm afraid that the naval army of Eastern Wu is not the opponent of Lu Bu's naval army, besides, we escaped from the waterway, what about the 60,000 Jingzhou soldiers?" Don't want it all? ”

Liu Bei gave up completely at this time, and he said in despair: "It seems that I, Liu Bei, are destined to be unable to continue to support the Han family and revive the great cause of the Liu family." ”

Pang Tong hurriedly persuaded: "Lord, I haven't reached the last step yet, I'm thinking of a way, you can't give up, you have to hold on for a few days no matter what, if the central army is just besieging the city like this, it will be better, my method takes time the most!" ”

The siege of the city needs infantry, Xu Shu has already crossed the river with the third and fifth divisions to help the siege, leaving only the fifteenth division to guard the south bank of the Yangtze River, he feels that Liu Bei is already difficult to fly.

The Central Army had not yet begun to attack the city, but the battle began outside the city first.

The naval army of Eastern Wu really arrived as scheduled, and this time it was Zhou Yu himself who led the army.

After Zhou Yu received the detailed battle report sent by Lu Meng, he began to ponder this artillery of the Central Navy.

After Dantu Dazhai was also destroyed by the artillery of the Central Army, he had a deeper understanding of artillery.

He basically mastered the performance parameters of the Central Army's artillery, such as range, power, etc.

Zhou Yu deeply knew the gap in strength between the two sides, but he still wanted to narrow the gap within his ability.

So after receiving Liu Bei's letter asking for help, Zhou Yu proposed to Sun Quan and personally led the reinforcements to the expedition.

Zhou Yu is very good at using his brain, he knows that he does not have a weapon in his hand that can fight artillery, so he starts to use his brain from other aspects.

First of all, he did not mobilize the Lou ship to accompany him on the expedition, the Lou ship was too cumbersome, and it was an excellent target for artillery attacks, and the trebuchet could not hit the artillery as far.

Secondly, he attached great importance to reconnoitring the enemy's situation, and he sent scouts disguised as fishermen to find out the distribution of the forces of the Central Army's naval forces.

In order to cooperate with the siege, all the buildings and ships of the Central Army were moored on the river outside the south gate of Gangneung City.

The artillery ships of the Yangtze River Fleet were close to the river bank in order to cooperate with the artillery siege of the city, and the old building ships of the Jingzhou Navy were parked far away from the river bank, just to increase the pressure on the Jingzhou army and cheer for it.

Zhou Yu, who had this information, after coming to the vicinity of Jiangling, hid the Dongwu naval army in the river east of Gong'an during the day, and did not begin to move closer to Jiangling City until dark.

The Soochow naval army dispatched by the whole army did not have building ships, only 40 fighting ships and hundreds of Mengchong and walking boats.

After all, the Dongwu naval army was well-trained, even if it was a night boat, it was no big problem, with the help of the faint moonlight and lights, Zhou Yu took them to quietly approach Jiangling.

The officers and men of the Central Army's navy did not relax their vigilance, the building ship was in the center, the periphery was moored at the fighting ship and Meng Chong, and the outer part was shuttled back and forth by the small boat and Meng Chong, and the night patrol was routine.

Zhou Yu nodded, it seems that the commander of this naval army of the Central Army can be regarded as cautious.

There are patrolling boats on the periphery, but it is not possible to let the fleet approach directly, Zhou Yu ordered Ding Feng to take a hundred experienced water ghosts to launch from a distance and quietly approach the core of the Central Army's naval army from underwater.

When the fleet of the Central Army caught fire, they took advantage of the chaos to scuttle their building ships.

When Ding Feng and the others disappeared from the water, Zhou Yu began to estimate the time, and Ding Feng and the others should have swam into the fleet of the Central Army, and there was no movement on the other side, indicating that they were not discovered by patrols.

Zhou Yu ordered the whole army to attack, and all the small and medium-sized warships of the Wu army accelerated to rush towards the warships of the Central Army's naval division.

Meng Chong, who was patrolling the periphery, immediately spotted the night attackers, and immediately sounded the trumpet to warn him while firing a red signal flare into the sky.

There was even the brave Meng Chong who rushed directly towards the enemy's warship, hoping to solve the enemy with his own ramming horns.

Zhou Yu calculated the weather, and in this summer night sky, a northeast wind blew.

He equipped some of the dinghy with fire-starters, then set them on fire, and rushed to the anchorage of the Yangtze River Fleet under the control of the brave men who had already selected for a long time.

The rest of the fighting ships and Meng Chong also rushed closer and began to launch rockets in an attempt to attack the Yangtze River Fleet.

Ding Feng and a hundred water ghosts saw the start of his attack, and immediately began to scuttle through the bottom of the large building ship nearby.

Soon the ship was flooded with too much water and began to sink.

However, the sailors of the Central Army also quickly spotted someone under the water and shot or stabbed them with spears.

Soon, the water ghosts suffered heavy casualties, and most of them were wiped out, but four or five ships began to sink after they had been scuttled through them.

Seeing that he had been exposed, Ding Feng immediately led the people and fled back to his own fleet.