In late September 266, the rainy season in the Han River basin came to an end, and mosquitoes decreased significantly. Luoyang's 5,000 reinforcements have also arrived in Xinye. The Jingzhou Legion of the Jin State finally began to move south to rescue Xiling.

At this time, three months had passed since the Jingzhou army of Eastern Wu besieged Xiling City.

For three months, for the Bu family in Xiling City, there is no pressure at all about food or anything. But the problem is that the morale of the defenders actually drops very quickly when they sit in the city.

Morale is such a mysterious thing. Many strategy games in later generations have a morale value setting: if you go out to march and fight, the morale value will be low, the action will be slow, not to mention, and the attack will be reduced. If morale drops to zero, the army will collapse.

It must be said that this setting makes perfect sense. At least the current Second Master Bu obviously feels that the current state of his soldiers is far worse than when the incident just started three months ago.

If this continues, these former subservient and extremely obedient generals may not have other ideas.

However, by the third day of October, more than 10,000 private soldiers of the Bu family in the entire Xiling City, more than 20,000 Bu tenant farmers who were forced to defend the city by Bu Xian, and more than 30,000 old and weak women and children trapped in Xiling City, were all collectively beaten for a while!

"Family master, now the sound of killing is shaking the sky fifteen miles north of my Xiling City, and I think it is the reinforcements of the Great Jin Dynasty who have arrived. The subordinates mean that while the morale of the private soldiers in the family is greatly boosted, it is better to open the city gate and go out to kill! ”

"Huh? Pedometer, do you know what you're talking about? At this time, Kaejo attacked? Let's not talk about the bastards of the Jin Kingdom, who deliberately let us sit in this lonely city for three months in order to consume the strength of the Wu army. Now they've just arrived, and we're rushing out? I also want the Wu army to consume the strength of the Jin army. In this way, they can understand how valuable it is for us to be able to withstand Wu Jun here for three months! ”

"I see, my subordinates understand."

When Bu Xian was still fighting Xiao Jiujiu in his heart, the Jin army, which had just arrived outside Xiling City, had already started an attack on the humble city wall that had not been completed long after Dongwu.

Proposed by Lu Kang and supervised by Lu Shu, the city wall was completed in just three months. Because of the need to completely surround Xiling City, which is already very large, the height of this wall is very limited, only more than one zhang (two meters and a half). And the strength is even more pitiful: the wall was built during the rainy season, and it was impossible to build the wall with the traditional rammed earth method. Therefore, this wall is more of a skeleton made of wattle stakes, and mud is poured directly on it. From a distance, the wall is shabby.

But for the defenders, who have more soldiers than the attackers, with this wall, it is enough.

Because, in July, August and September of this year, there is really a lot of rain in the Xiling area.

Prince Sima Liang, the king of Runan, of course, will not play in person, so he is just sitting in Xiangyang from afar. The commander of this Jin army is the Yanglie general Wang Hun and Wang Xuanchong.

"General, beyond the wooden wall, there is a three-mile-long tidal flat, and our army's trebuchets, arrow towers, etc., will be stuck in the mud when you go in, and you can't move forward at all!"

"Stupid! This wooden wall is at least twenty miles long, and there are tidal flats here, so wouldn't it be nice to change to a dry place? ”

"Well, the general forgives the sins. The subordinates walked around this tidal flat, except for the previous official road. I didn't find any place suitable for the advance of heavy siege equipment. The section of the city wall built by Wu Gou near the official road is the highest and strongest. ”

"Hmph, without trebuchets and arrow towers, wouldn't you have attacked the city? Pass the order, choose the lowest section of the city wall, set up a formation, and storm! ”

"No!"

With Wang Hun's strict order, the Jin army quickly completed the formation outside the tidal flats. Then the archers in front and the spear and shield soldiers in the back, slowly but neatly stepped into the muddy and soft mudflats outside Xiling City.

"Bang~~" The first Jin archers to step into this tidal flat knew it was bad after stepping their front feet into it. Sure enough, when he stepped on his hind foot as well, and then tried to lift his front foot out of the mud so that he could continue to move forward, his foot did not obey the call, and he did not pull it out for a long time.

It's okay that he didn't advance there, but the problem is that it's an army. The officer ordered, and the soldiers behind also had to move forward. Then the next soldier knocked him down, and then the next soldier knocked the second soldier down.

"Stop! Stop it! "The Jingzhou Army of the Jin Army, although its elite degree is a little worse than that of the Longxi Army back then, there is still this basic common sense. The mid- and lower-ranking officers on the front line quickly discovered the problem.

"The whole army stops advancing!" "The whole army is suspended! Rest in place! "I will make a camp, cut down the big trees, and cut the planks to pave the way!"

"Hehehe, the reaction was very timely, but unfortunately, I won't give you the opportunity to lay the planks so calmly."

On the other side of the battlefield, Lu Mu, who had just retreated from the front line, hid behind a simple wooden wall and saw the movements of the Jin army. Gently tugging at his beard: "Trebuchet, launch!" ”

"Ho~~~!!"

With Lu Mu's order, more than ten trebuchets behind this battle line of Eastern Wu were launched in unison, and the huge rolling stones rose into the air under the strong inertia, and then drew a beautiful arc in mid-air, and then fell heavily in the ranks of the Jin army.

Bursts of terrible screams rang out over the battlefield. The originally neat team was all in chaos in an instant.

"Hahaha~~~ Jin thief, it's just like that." As Lu Meng's youngest son, Lu Mu is also forty-eight years old this year. However, although he is middle-aged, Lu Mu's battlefield experience is actually not rich - the good thing of fighting mountains and increasing the population of their respective manors has always been the patent of the Jiangdong clan. When is it your turn to be Huaisi dogs? And most of the main generals in the middle and late stages of Eastern Wu were brushed out of the novice village in Shanyue.

In fact, although the scene of the salvo of stone projectiles just now looks spectacular, the actual effect is minimal: it was not until the Yuan Dynasty attacked the Southern Song Dynasty in the 13th century that the counterweight trebuchet (the physical principle of lever and pulley was used together) appeared in ancient China. Prior to this, they were all manpower trebuchets (without counterweight bars, using a lot of manpower to achieve the function of counterweight bars) and lever trebuchets (reducing manpower, but with poor accuracy). And now the Wu army is almost three miles away from the Jin army, and the lever trebuchet can be thrown on the head of the Jin army, which is simply bursting with character! Most of the stone bullets actually landed in the tidal flats.

Therefore, Lu Mu, who thought he had performed well, was soon reprimanded by Shi Ji from the rear: What kind of stone bomb to throw? Is it because he is afraid that the Jin thieves will not hide from the shelter of their bows and arrows when they will lay the planks? Stop for me, and let them lay the planks. After entering the range of the bow and arrow, he shot me desperately - the bow and arrow are so small, even if they don't shoot and fall into the mud, they will not become a refuge for the other party.

So, Lu Mu, who was reprimanded, then stopped.

His side has stopped, and the Jin army's movements are not slow. The camp was quickly cut down to a large area of trees. It was then quickly cut into countless wide planks. Then the Jin soldiers quickly began to lay planks on the tidal flats close to their side.

"Hiss~~~" Although the battlefield experience is not rich, how can he be almost fifty years old. Lu Mu couldn't help but have a toothache when he saw the way the Jin army laid the planks.

"Shouldn't they have laid a route from their positions that they could march on? How can it all be tiled on such a long front? Oh? Zuo Da Sima, how did you get to the front line? Doesn't it matter where Xiling City is? ”

"Humph! Bu Zhongsi was a waste, and he didn't have the courage to rush out at all. The old man didn't bother to care about him. But you, a young fifty, why are you still so naïve? The Jin army is not stupid, how could it lay such a narrow passage? Will you line up and let you shoot to death one by one? The old man came here to remind you: Look at the Jin Army's project, there will be no attack today. The old man came here to tell you: don't think about going to a night attack at night, tearing down the enemy's planks or something. At first glance, the other party is a well-trained elite, and it is impossible to be unprepared for a night attack. ”

"Well, that's exactly what the Admiral had planned. Thank you Da Sima for the reminder. The last will obey! ”

"Well, but your men should also be on duty at night. If the Jin generals on the opposite side were smart, they should not send people to steal the camp when the planks on their side were not fully paved and the back road was not smooth. But the planks will definitely be laid overnight. Pay attention to its progress, and once you are within range of the arrows, whether you see it or not, just shoot it wherever there is a sound! ”

"No! The last general commanded. ”

Nothing was said all night. It was two o'clock on the fourth day of the tenth month.

By the morning light, after Lu Mu, who woke up, saw the situation on the battlefield clearly through the thin mist, he couldn't help but take a breath of cool air again.

On the other side, the Jin army camp. Uncle Huyang, a new generation of beautiful bearded rams like Guan Yu in his prime, has been dressed neatly and majestically sitting on a tall horse.

"Report to General Annan, according to the general's method of throwing wooden planks with trebuchets, our army worked overnight last night, and has completed the laying of planks one mile wide and three miles long. Now, the passage of our army to the enemy's wooden wall has been completely opened! ”

"Good, gentlemen, on the orders of General Yanglie, today's battle is under the command of this general. Now give the order, the whole army assault! ”

"Ho~~~!!"