After Zhu Wei checked the number of troops left by Wei Yan and Gan Ning in the north of Jiangling City, he turned his eyes and carefully checked the number of troops left by Wei Yan in the Jingnan Battalion in Xiaoling County in the map of the Three Kingdoms game system, as well as the number of troops left by Gan Ning on the Yangtze River to block Cai Mao's army.

In this way, comparing the total strength of the Jingnan battalion and the Jiangjiao battalion before, Zhu Wei felt that Wei Yan and Gan Ning had probably lost about 2,000 troops in the attack on Jiangling City this time.

This loss is not too big compared to the siege war, and it is estimated that a lot of losses should be the attrition of the street battle with Cai Mao's army in the city after the attack on Jiangling City.

But in general, after all, they opened a gate of Jiangling City for Zhu Wei, and if Cai Mao refused to surrender in the future, then Zhu Wei's army would no longer need to attack Jiangling City in the past, and could directly send troops into the city.

From this point of view, Wei Yan and Gan Ning's adventure to attack Jiangling City this time can be regarded as having an effect, and they can only be resigned to it for the time being.

So Zhu Wei informed Wang Yuyan of the situation in Jiangling City, Wang Yuyan thought about it in her heart again, and nodded and said, "Well, that's fine, then Wei Yan and Gan Ning must hold on to the existing situation, and at the same time, they must not let Cai Mao's army leave Jiangling easily and continue to delay the battle in Jiangling!" However, husband, we must hurry up when we fight Xiangyang City here! ”

"Okay, then our army will repair today, and we will fight Xiangyang tomorrow! I just don't know, then the Kuai family will still come to contact! ”

Zhu Wei naturally listened to Wang Yuyan in this regard, but looking at the guards on the opposite side of Xiangyang City, Zhu Wei still hoped that the Kuai clan could take the initiative to respond internally, and if he could take the initiative to open the water gate, it would be easier to capture Xiangyang.

Although now Zhu Wei's side has already conquered Fancheng and set a strategy of attacking Xiangyang City from the Water Gate.

But the situation of the water gate of Xiangyang City is indeed wider and deeper than the situation that Zhu Wei considered before, even if Zhu Wei's side can blow up the iron gate fence blocking the water gate, Liu Biao can completely block it with a boat in the water gate, and then start a big battle with Zhu Wei's army at the water gate.

Relatively speaking, Liu Biao, who has the defensive advantage of the Xiangyang City Wall, can naturally control a certain geographical advantage in the battle here.

From now on, it seems that the Kuai clan has controlled the defense of the north water gate of Xiangyang City, and if the Kuai clan takes the initiative to surrender, it is equivalent to completely letting go of the water gate of Xiangyang City.

In this way, Zhu Wei's army could go straight into Xiangyang City, so the battle to capture Xiangyang City would be much simpler.

For the sake of the loss of his own army, Zhu Wei of course still hopes that the Kuai clan can take the initiative to surrender and become Zhu Wei's internal response to attack Xiangyang City.

"Then leave someone here to wait, husband, don't care too much about the Kuai family, when Xiangyang is captured, everything can naturally be decided according to the husband's will!"

Wang Yuyan looked at Zhu Wei's appearance of some gains and losses, but she smiled softly, took Zhu Wei's hand, and comforted Zhu Wei, in Wang Yuyan's opinion, attacking Xiangyang must pay a certain price.

Compared with the original forcible attack on the defense of Xiangyang City, now it is only necessary to break through the water gate of Xiangyang City with all its might, which can be regarded as breaking through Xiangyang City at the lowest cost, so no matter how the Kuai clan decides, it cannot change the overall situation of Zhu Wei's army.

Then the two of them went down from the city gate, and summoned Pang Yan, Ling Cao, Xing Daorong, Chen Qi, and Huang Yueying to discuss the specific matter of attacking Xiangyang City, and then arranged for the army to rest and recuperate early for tomorrow's battle.

On this night, Kuai Liang in Xiangyang City really sent someone to contact Zhu Wei's side, saying that now the Kuai clan has controlled the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, and he is willing to open the water gate at the appointed time and let Zhu Wei's army enter the city.

It's just that now Zhu Wei is a little worried that Kuai Liang will use a trick to open the water gate, but he made an ambush inside, so Zhu Wei made a proud gesture and said that he didn't need Kuai's help to open the door, and only let Kuai's help answer after the opening of the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, and it was okay not to resist Zhu Wei's army to attack the city.

Of course, Zhu Wei also gave the Kuai clan the task of helping to appease the people of Xiangyang City, as long as the Kuai clan can help Zhu Wei gather the people's hearts as soon as possible after the end of the war, it will be regarded as a great contribution by the Kuai clan.

And Kuai Liang heard the message from the messenger back, so he agreed to Zhu Wei's arrangement with the agreed code, so it seems that Xiangyang City has really opened the door to Zhu Weidong, which is within easy reach.

The night passed quickly, and the next morning, Zhu Wei's army was ready to attack Xiangyang in Fancheng.

On the river in Fancheng, a large number of river boats used as pontoon bridges have been connected with iron cables, and then wooden planks have been laid on them, and only the water gate of Xiangyang City needs to be opened in front, and these river boats can sail to Xiangyang City, forming a pontoon bridge on the water, so that the Xionglu battalion soldiers on Zhu Wei's side can follow the wooden planks on the river boats and rush directly to the river bank in Xiangyang City.

However, it also depends on the effect of blowing up the north water gate of Xiangyang City in the front.

In addition, Zhu Wei also had to guard against Kuai Liang's possible ambush with false surrender, so he insisted on blowing up the iron gate fence inside the water gate, so he didn't worry about Liu Biao's ambush forces blocking the water gate again.

At the same time, before the attacking army, Zhu Wei also sent some river boats to act as vanguards, but on these river boats, bamboo and wood were used to construct cabins, so that the soldiers could hide in them to defend against the threat of bows and arrows of ambushes.

After these vanguard troops enter Xiangyang City, they must be responsible for controlling the North Water Gate of Xiangyang City at the first time, only in this way can the follow-up troops rush in, and no longer worry about ambushes and other changes.

In this way, almost at the hour of this day, that is, at about 9:15 in the morning, Zhu Wei's army officially launched an attack on the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City.

Of course, according to the agreement, on the city wall of the Water Gate controlled by the Kuai clan, all the Liu Biao defenders would not make any defensive measures against the attack launched by Zhu Wei's side, let alone notify Liu Biao to send reinforcements.

Therefore, before the official attack, Zhu Wei also saw the security flag on the water gate of Xiangyang City on the opposite bank above the south gate of Fancheng, which showed that Liu Biao was not on the side of the water gate, and the water gate of Xiangyang City was still under the control of the Kuai family.

Therefore, although Zhu Wei's side launched a formal siege battle against Xiangyang City, he did not make much noise at the beginning, but quietly opened the south gate of Fancheng, sent a ship prepared with black powder to blast the bamboo tube, and slowly drove towards the water gate of Xiangyang City.

And Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan also stood on the south gate of Fancheng to watch the changes in the north of Xiangyang City, and commanded the army to respond at any time.

Zhu Wei is paying attention to the situation in Xiangyang City at any time with the help of the Three Kingdoms game map, although Kuai Liang has secretly contacted Zhu Wei now, but he is only an ambush general, and before the official posture, Zhu Wei cannot see the existence of the army controlled by Kuai Liang in the Three Kingdoms game map.

In addition, Zhu Wei can't see the military deployment in Xiangyang City now, just like the besieging side in the Three Kingdoms game can't know the distribution of troops in the city before opening the city gate.

At this moment, Zhu Wei could only see the south gate of Xiangyang City, where Tai Shici's army shone with a pale green luster, marking their location.

So at this moment, Zhu Wei still couldn't determine whether Kuai Liang really surrendered, or made a conspiracy to ambush in the water gate north of Xiangyang City......

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