The soldiers who climbed on the mast baskets to look out were quickly tumbling into the river, and were soon swallowed up by the whirlpool.

However, the Wei Army's naval division is a well-trained army, and it has been at the bottom of the Wu army many times, but it can retreat with its whole body. After the initial panic, they quickly calmed down, and under the hard control of the oarsmen and helmsmen, the remaining dozens of warships turned their bows and began to retreat in an orderly manner.

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred!

The hull of the warship that rushed to the front suddenly stalled!

The Wei army Sima who was guarding the bow of the ship almost fell into the river, and at the same time, a clear sound of wooden planks breaking came to his ears, and the sound ...... It was clearly the sound of the ship's wall cracking.

"What's going on?" Wei Jun Sima immediately got up and asked loudly, "Has the ship hit the rocks?" ”

"No, not the reef!" The sharp-eyed soldier hurriedly shouted, "Oh my God, it's ...... It's a barrage! ”

"What? Barrage! Wei Jun Sima was taken aback and said sharply: "Quick! Immediately notify the state governor and the troops behind with the flag, we have hit the barrage! ”

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On the river not far from the strange rocks

A deep chill passed through Zhou Tai's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Sure enough, there is an ambush!" ”

"It's still the Governor's clever plan!" The captain couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised: "If it weren't for the Governor's insight into the opportunity, our army would be in danger." ”

Zhou Tai bowed slightly, and said in a deep voice: "The trebuchet is powerful, but it can only smash a few big holes in our deck, even if the cabin is penetrated, it is not enough to pose a mortal threat to our warship." What's more, on the vast river, there is also an end to throwing stones. Pass my order: divide the whole army into ten squads, take turns to harass the Wu army, and lure the Wu army's trebuchets to attack. Ben Du wants to see how long the Wu army can hold out with such an intense attack?! ”

"Governor, something is wrong!" Zhou Tai's voice fell, and the herald who was climbing on the mast suddenly turned around and shouted: "Governor, General Zhang Yun has sent back the news that the fleet has encountered a barrage and is no longer able to withdraw its troops!" ”

"What? Barrage! ”

"It's a barricade!"

Behind Zhou Tai, the pro-soldier lieutenant and a group of pro-soldiers suddenly changed color, and Zhou Tai also sighed in his heart, and immediately shouted: "You order General Zhang Yun to abandon the ship immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

The herald on the mast responded with a bang, raised a pennant and waved it vigorously.

"Dudu, this is bad!" The captain of the pro-soldier said to Zhou Tai: "This barrage is the most difficult, and the threat to the naval warships is also the greatest, and there are only two ways to break the barrage of the Wu army." Either the infantry brought in by transport ships and forcibly landed, seized the fortresses on both sides of the strange rocks, destroyed the winches, and caused the barrage to sink to the bottom of the river, or sent ships to come up and raise a fire to burn the iron cable. ”

After the captain finished speaking, he continued: "But in a hurry, where are we going to load the infantry, not to mention that the ships of the sailors are blocked here, how can there be ships to transport the infantry!" As for the furnace fire, of course, it can fuse the iron cable, but in this way, the warship will become a live target for the Wu army's trebuchet! ”

"I see, I see, I see!" Zhou Tai's face changed again and again, he sighed, and finally looked up to the sky and cried out: "Defeated, our army is completely defeated!" ”

The captain of the pro-soldier school was puzzled: "Governor, how do you say this?" ”

Zhou Tai was a little lonely and said: "There is an interception in front, and there are chasing soldiers in the back, there is no way to go to the sky, and there is no door to the ground." Blocked outside this strange rock, our army has been completely defeated! In the face of the superior strength of the Wu army, the governor is still unable to turn the tide after all! Send a team of walkers to pick up Zhang Yun and the soldiers who fell into the water, and then ...... Then leave it to fate! ”

Hearing this, the pro-soldier captain was stunned and said: "Resign yourself to fate, Governor, shall we just sit back and wait for death?" ”

Zhou Tai looked lonely and said gloomily: "We have tried our best......"

The second year of Han Shaohan, the second year of Wei Taihe, the second year of Wu Huanglong, May

The Wu army used the strategy of blocking the river with iron cables, broke the Wei army's river patrol division, and forced the Wei army's naval division to land hundreds of large and small warships in the Weishui Naval Division at the strange rocks in the lower reaches of Xiangshui. Wei Shuijun supervised Taitou River, the general Zhang Yun surrendered, and the rest of the soldiers all bowed down to obey orders.

The general Zhuge Jin took advantage of the situation and personally led the two divisions of water and land to attack 50,000 people to besiege Xiangyang, and sent Zhu Ran and Ding Feng generals to attack Fancheng and Caiyang.

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Xiangyang

It has been more than half a month since the 50,000 Wu army surrounded Xiangyang City, and in the past half a month, the Wu army has been attacking the city every day. The former general, the Marquis of Changyi, and the leader of Yuzhou Mu Manzhong lost a lot of weight for this reason, and the two eye sockets were also deeply sunken, and the eyes were also full of bloodshots. In the past half a month, he has not slept for a day.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the land combat skills of the Wu army outside the city are still the same as ten years ago, and they have not made much progress.

Although there are 50,000 people in the besieging Wu army, the vast majority of them are state and county soldiers, miscellaneous soldiers, and husband soldiers, and the real strong men are only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the siege equipment of the Wu army is not very sufficient, and the siege has been difficult to break through for more than half a month, but there are countless corpses under Xiangyang City.

In desperation, the Wu army had to resort to siege tactics and try to trap the defenders in the city alive.

this day

When Man Zhong was inspecting the city tower, he suddenly heard the sound of drums and horns outside the city, and the Wu army's originally quiet military camp boiled like boiling water in an instant, and in the neighing sound of horses, groups of Wu troops surged out of the camp. began to line up, but what made Man Chong feel strange was that the Wu army did not line up on the inside of Xiangyang City, but placed the military formation on the outside.

"My lord, the situation is a little abnormal." General Pang Hui leaned forward and said softly, "Look at Wu Bingdi's actions, could it be that Wancheng has sent reinforcements?" ”

"Wancheng's reinforcements?" Man Chong shook his head and said disapprerovingly: "It didn't take long for 30,000 elites to be taken to Guanzhong by Zhang He, and it is impossible to send reinforcements." ”

Pang Hui said: "Could it be that Wu Jun is playing tricks?" ”

Man Zhong said: "It's not quite like it, but you still have to be vigilant and immediately gather soldiers to go to the city wall." ”

Pang Hui said: "The last general will go here." ”

Pang Hui had just left, and a sharp-eyed soldier beside Man Chong suddenly shouted: "Ming Gong, look, what is that?" ”

Full of pets looked around blankly, not knowing what to say: "Where? ”

Shishou hurriedly stretched out his hand and pointed to the northeast, and said hurriedly: "Northeast direction!" ”

Man Pet hurriedly turned sideways, put his hand on the awning and looked at the northeast sky, and suddenly found that a large black and oppressive cloud had appeared on the empty wilderness, what was particularly surprising was that this dark cloud was slowly squirming forward, and in less than a moment, it was already close to Xiangyang City.

"Ming Gong, it's a cavalry!" On the city wall, some soldiers shouted excitedly: "What a lot of cavalry!