Chapter 50 Typhoons

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou asked the fish belly troops to attack the city first, and under the suppression of the hot air balloon, the fish belly troops also successfully climbed the city wall, but after boarding the city wall, the thunderbolt of the hot air balloon had been used up, and it was impossible to continue to suppress the enemy army, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate.

As soon as Liu Hou saw this situation, he immediately ordered the hot air balloon troops to return home, urgently replenish fuel and thunderbolts, and then take to the air again to bomb the enemy troops.

At the same time, he sent a company of musketeers to the top of the city, hiding behind other troops, and sniping the enemy troops in the city from a distance.

Not only did Liu Hou not attack the other three city gates, but he didn't even have Chen soldiers, and the Eastern Wu army was puzzled by the Shu army's unconventional style of play. However, the Shu army could not leave people outside the other city gates, but the Eastern Wu army did not dare, they still left a small number of men and horses at other city gates to prevent the Shu army from sneaking up.

But it was only a small number of men, and as the battle situation at the West Gate became more and more critical, Bu Qi had to continuously transfer the defenders of the other gates.

Soon, 70,000 or 80,000 horses had gathered inside the West Gate, and these people were densely packed under the city walls and in the nearby streets.

This is a target that is too good for hot air balloons and musketeers. As long as the musketeers put a random shot into the city, they will be able to hit people, and they don't need to aim at all.

What's even cooler is the hot air balloon, as long as you throw down a thunderbolt, a blast is a large piece, in such an environment, the thunderbolt plays its maximum killing efficiency.

Buqi urgently ordered the troops to disperse, but nearly 100,000 people were huddled together one after another, and for a moment they could disperse wherever they could. The soldiers, who had already been in a mess under the blow of the thunderbolt, were even more chaotic at the scene under the orders of the Bu Qi, and even a stampede occurred.

The Eastern Wu army was about to collapse, and the Shu army was about to win, when a strong wind blew in the sky, and layers of dark clouds floated in the sky. Liu Hou looked up at the sky, it was broken! It's a prelude to a storm.

Sure enough, before Liu Hou could order the hot air balloons to return, the 10 behemoth-like hot air balloons were blown away from the city one by one, even if the pilots above stepped on the propellers hard, they could not fight against these strong winds.

The hot air balloon was still carried to the outskirts of the city by the strong wind, Liu Hou ordered the special transport carriage and ground crew of the hot air balloon to set off immediately, chasing the hot air balloon, hoping that they could catch the hot air balloon in time, hoping that the storm would not cause too much damage to the hot air balloon.

Liu Hou ordered the musketeers to immediately withdraw from the city wall, and before they could return to the barracks, a heavy rainstorm poured down, and the ** bags on the musketeers were drenched. All the firearms units completely lost their combat effectiveness, and Liu Hou had to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Looking at the Shu army that receded like a tide, the steps were unclear So, it stands to reason that now the Shu army has taken full advantage, as long as it holds on for a while, its own troops will collapse, and then it will be a one-sided situation.

If you want to say that the impact of wind and rain should be equally unfavorable to both sides, the storm will bring inconvenience to the Shu army to attack the city, and it will also bring inconvenience to the defense of the Eastern Wu army.

Why did the Shu army withdraw in this situation? Is there any particular reason? Buqi looked at the hot air balloon that twisted and staggered and flew quickly outside the city, as well as the rain pouring from the sky, thoughtfully.

Ordinary Eastern Wu soldiers didn't care what the superior was thinking, they all cheered loudly when they saw the Shu army retreating, and those terrible monsters in the sky also flew away. Regardless of the storm and the hardship, they danced on the muddy ground to celebrate their escape.

Liu Hou was very depressed, he was ready to take Panyu City in one day today, but he didn't expect this storm to come suddenly. Liu Hou knew that it had little to do with the weather, and that the storm was obviously brought by a typhoon or a tropical storm. There are a lot of typhoons in the Lingnan area this season, and I was unlucky and happened to catch a typhoon, which is something I can't do.

Regardless of whether Liu Hou wants it or not, he can only collect his troops and return to the camp, under such extreme weather conditions, the firearms troops will not be able to fight, and their combat effectiveness will drop to the same level as ordinary cold weapons troops, and Liu Hou does not want them to suffer any losses.

Therefore, Liu Hou vacated the territory in the middle of the camp and let the firearms troops be stationed inside, and the outer layer was the cold weapons troops and prisoners. In this way, if the enemy steals the battalion, the first to suffer losses are the various cold-weapon units.

However, Liu Hou also knew that the chances of the Dongwu people stealing the camp were not great, if they knew that the firearms unit was afraid of the weakness of rain, it was estimated that Buqi would 100% come to steal the camp, and they must have done their best to steal the camp in a desperate gamble. Because this is their only chance to turn the tables around.

But it's a pity that Liu Hou blocked firearms very tightly, and the monarchs and ministers of Eastern Wu were speculating about what weaknesses the Shu army had in this kind of murderous weapon and how to deal with it, but unfortunately nothing was found.

Therefore, Liu Hou is confident that Buqi will not know this fatal shortcoming of **, so he will not dare to leave the city easily and take advantage of the rain to sneak attack the Shu army.

This heavy rain actually fell for three days at once, and Liu Hou spent every day in anxiety, and he didn't even have the heart to chat with Zhou Xue. Jingzhou and Guan Gong are still waiting to save themselves, but the army is blocked by this damn storm and can't do anything, can he not be in a hurry?

Moreover, he also had a faint feeling of extreme danger, indicating that something very bad might happen, and Liu Hou couldn't think of where the danger came from.

At this moment, Fei Yi hurriedly came over to find Liu Hou, and Liu Hou asked, "What is Mr. Fei in a hurry?" ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the water level of the Yuejiang River has skyrocketed, please prepare early." Fei Yi arched his hand.

The Yuejiang River is the Pearl River in later generations, of course, there are many tributaries of the Pearl River, and Liu Hou does not know which tributary of this big river near them is, even in later generations, he does not know the location and name of the various tributaries of the Pearl River, let alone now.

But it's definitely right to call it Yuejiang, what is the name of the river in Yuedi if it's not called Yuejiang?

"What?" Liu Hou was also shocked when he heard the keywords "the river is soaring".

He had personally experienced part of the Battle of Jingzhou, and although he had not witnessed Guan Yu's flooding of the Seventh Army, he had also heard detailed reports from people in Guan Yu's army.

He knows how small human beings are in the face of natural disasters such as flash floods and lack of embankments in rivers. An army of hundreds of thousands is a joke in the face of the forces of nature, and no matter how powerful an army is, nature can wipe it out in a very short time when it is angry.

When the time comes, one sentence in the history books: "Suddenly become a fish and turtle" will be brushed aside. If his troops encounter this kind of unfortunate thing and are written like this in the history books, Liu Hou can really hit the wall.

"It rained heavily for three consecutive days, the river was full, and there was a possibility of a shortage of embankments at any time, so we had to take precautions." Fei Yi said.

"Then what else do you say, quickly pull out the camp and move to the high ground." Liu Houdao.

"It's just that in this way, we can no longer besiege Panyu City." Fei Yi said, "The terrain around Panyu City is flat and low-lying, there is no place with high terrain, if we need to go to the high slope, we have to leave Panyu City." ”

"What are you still besieging for, your own life is more important than besieging the city, not to mention, we don't besiege the city at all, we are just Chen soldiers outside one city gate, and we have not sent troops to surround the other three city gates, and the people in the city can enter and exit at any time."

Of course, Liu Hou didn't say a word, he also sent a large number of scouts to cruise outside the three city gates, as long as there are big fish who want to take advantage of the chaos to escape out of the city, they will be caught by the scouts.

"No, Yi will arrange it now." Fei Yi was about to go down after agreeing, but Liu Hou stopped him again: "In addition, send more scouts to reconnoiter the nearby terrain from a distance to see where there is a possibility that the river embankment is lacking, and also, pay attention to the mountains to see if there is a possibility of flash floods."

There are no high mountains in Lingnan, so the mountains in Liu Hou's mouth are just low hills.

"The prince is thoughtful, Yi will do it now."

After Fei Yi retired to do things, Liu Hou's sense of anxiety became even stronger.

At this time, in Panyu City, Bu Qi was talking to two young people: "Xie'er, Xi'er, you two leave Panyu City quickly and run for your lives." I will send 500 elite soldiers to each of you to protect you from breaking through, and now that the rain is pouring down, the defense of the Shu army will inevitably be lax, and maybe you can escape alive. ”

These two young men are Buqi's two sons, Bu Xiehe and Bu Xian.

"Father, if you want to go together, how can the child leave his father alone in the city to die?" After hearing his father's words, Bu Xie knelt down and said to Bu Qi. When Bu Xian saw the eldest brother kneeling, he also knelt down and persuaded Bu Qi to escape together.

"I can't leave for my father, and my father is deeply favored by the king, how can I run away lightly. Besides, as the assassin of Jiaozhou, I have the responsibility to defend the land, how can I leave the city and escape alone. For the father's will has been decided, vow to live and die with Panyu City. "The steps are sonorous and powerful.

"A child is willing to defend the city with his father, but if his father dies, the child will never live alone." Bu Xie said again.

Bu Shen also said: "How can a child be so unfilial and leave his father alone in danger." ”

"Confused!" Bu Qi saw that his two sons were so filial and loyal, and he couldn't help but cry and be relieved, but what came out of his mouth was something else:

"If there are three long and two short for my father in this Panyu city, then who will continue the incense of my step family, and who will avenge my father in the future?"

Hearing his father's reprimand, Bu Xie did not back down, he said: "It is enough to inherit the incense lamp with my younger brother, please ask my younger brother to avenge my father and brother in the future." After speaking, he also arched his hand to the step.

Bu Shen couldn't cry when he heard this. Bu Qiu choked up and said, "Good boy, you are all good boys." It's a pity that my father's ability is not good, and I can't keep you well. Go away, for the Father does not need your company.

Here are two letters with the same content, one of you will take one, this letter is very important, it contains the weakness of those terrible weapons of the Shu army, which my father guessed. You must send the letter back to Wu County and present it to the king.

Whether or not I, Dongwu, can resist this prince of Shu in the future, may fall into these two letters. ”

With that, Bu Qi took out two letters and handed them to the two brothers.

"Father, I'm not leaving, you just let your brother deliver the letter, please let your son stay with your father." Step Path. Although there were many treacherous people in the Three Kingdoms era, there was no shortage of loyal people, obviously, the two sons of this Buqi, especially the eldest son Buxie, was an extremely filial person.

"No, now that the Shu army is eyeing the city, even if there is the cover of the storm, you may not be able to escape with complete certainty. Therefore, both of you brothers must go, and you must flee by two different gates, and one of you will be able to escape.

In addition, I will send a few more troops, under my banner, disguised as myself to flee, and escape from several city gates to disturb the hearing and hearing of the Shu army and increase your chances of escaping. "Bu Qi Dao.