"How did Fancheng fall, and what happened to the soldiers of Fancheng?"

Kuai Liang heard the words of the soldier who reported the news, and he didn't care about anything else, and eagerly opened his mouth to ask the soldier who came to report the news, and he also wanted to know how Zhu Wei captured Fancheng.

Originally, according to the defense strategy of Xiangyang City, even if Fancheng is not easy to defend, at least it can use the city to consume some of Zhu Wei's troops, but now there is no warning, just now it was said that Zhu Wei may divide his troops to fight Fancheng, and this Fancheng will be lost, which is also incredible.

"Returning to the lord, according to what the defeated soldiers of Fancheng said, I don't know if the enemy army pretended to be the reinforcements of Wancheng Zhang Xiu, entered Wancheng and deceived the city gate, or Wancheng Zhang Xiu has already thrown himself to Zhu Wei, and led the troops to deceive the north gate of Fancheng, anyway, it is said that after Wancheng Zhang Xiu's department led Hu Che'er into the city, he suddenly repeated and controlled the north gate of Wancheng, and then the enemy attacked the city in a big way, and the soldiers of Fancheng could not resist, so they could only retreat to Xiangyang from the south gate! Now the enemy army is chasing Fancheng defeated troops to Xiangyang, the north of the city has blocked the water gate, how to decide after that, please publicize! ”

The soldiers who reported the news also knew some of the failures on Fancheng's side, so they opened their mouths to roughly describe the reasons for the fall of Fancheng.

Liu Biao couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard this, and he clenched his fists and shouted angrily, "Zhang Xiu's soldiers deceived the city gate? This ......, how is this possible, hum, it must be the trick of the vertical son again, this vertical deceive people too much, the order, for the time being, guard the south gate here, come here, go to Fanmen with me to see, lest this vertical man sneak attack my north gate again! ”

Liu Biao did not dare to slack off at this time, and hurriedly led people to lead the troops to the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, no matter what means Zhu Wei had in the past to attack the water gate of the city, if he didn't go to see the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, he was afraid that Zhu Wei's army would be able to chase the defeated troops of Fancheng and directly enter Xiangyang City.

Of course, what Liu Biao was more worried about was whether Wancheng Zhang Xiu had really thrown himself into Zhu Wei.

If Zhang Xiu really threw himself into Zhu Wei, would the Xinye Cultural Recruitment Office also be wiped out by Zhu Wei's army, which would mean that Nanyang was completely lost, and he could no longer wait for any reinforcements on Nanyang's side.

On Cai Mao's side of Jiangling, the reinforcements sent before were also nowhere to be found, and Zhu Wei's army threatened Jiangling City, Cai Mao was afraid that he would no longer be able to support the soldiers in Xiangyang City.

Although Liu Biao still expects that the local people in Jingzhou can spontaneously form troops and horses to rescue him, this possibility is really unlikely, he has sent the Yi nationality out to lobby the various ethnic groups, but the news that the Yi nationality came back to report is not very accurate.

Now the big clans in Jingzhou are obviously also watching the situation, if Zhu Wei obviously has the upper hand, of course they will not be able to come to the rescue of Liu Biao, maybe they will take the initiative to throw themselves to Zhu Wei.

Therefore, now that Liu Biao knows that he has no way out, he can only use Xiangyang City to make the last insistence, and only with the help of the war in Xiangyang City to show some advantages, can he send someone to mobilize the local clans in Jingzhou to support him.

Therefore, Xiangyang City must not be easily lost.

In this way, at this moment, Liu Biao was naturally very concerned about the situation on the side of the water gate in the north of the city, so he took 5,000 regular soldiers and 10,000 new soldiers selected from the young and strong people, and hurried to the side of the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City.

What made Liu Biao a little relieved was that the six thick iron gates of the water gate in the north of the city had fallen, and the defeated soldiers who escaped from Fancheng climbed into the city through the soft ladder put down on the city wall, so it was impossible for Zhu Wei's army to take the opportunity to attack Xiangyang.

Then Liu Biao also took a few steps to the gate tower of the Water Gate and looked at Fancheng opposite.

Below the gate tower of the north water gate of Xiangyang City is the Fanshui River that connects the Han River to the inner river of Xiangyang City, and Xiangyang City is the form of high north and low south in terms of topography, so you can see the river water below at this time, and it is also bubbling through the iron gate fence to flow into Xiangyang City.

Many of the defeated soldiers of Liu Biao who escaped from Fancheng took a boat directly from the south gate of Fancheng, and escaped to the Xiangyang city wall through the Han River.

However, after Liu Biao saw this scene, he immediately sent people to screen these soldiers who fled back from Fancheng, so as not to mix them with the secret agents in Zhu Wei's army.

Then Liu Biao arranged manpower to strengthen the defense on the side of the Water Gate, since the main force of Zhu Wei's army was in Fancheng opposite, then Liu Biao naturally wanted to use the North Water Gate as a defensive center of gravity.

Liu Biao could see that Zhu Wei's banner had been erected on Fancheng across the Han River opposite, and many of Zhu Wei's soldiers went directly to the wall of Fancheng, shooting feather arrows and crossbow arrows at Liu Biao's soldiers who had fled, making the escape of these defeated soldiers even more chaotic.

Fortunately, the North Water Gate of Xiangyang City directly uses the Han River as the outer moat, and Zhu Wei naturally cannot easily fill in a channel on the Han River.

In this way, if Zhu Wei wanted to attack the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, he could only use river boats to transport his soldiers to the city wall before he could continue to attack the city.

At the same time, Zhu Wei's siege equipment could not directly hit the Xiangyang Water Gate through the Han River, unless he crossed the Han River by boat, and the siege equipment could be erected on the tidal flat between the Xiangyang City Wall and the Han River.

But in this case, Liu Biao's side can naturally send troops from the Water Gate to destroy these siege equipment.

Although there is a waterway directly connecting the inland river of Xiangyang City between the Hanshui River and the north wall of Xiangyang, the real Hanshui River bank is about 50 steps away from the city wall of Xiangyang City.

It's just that if Zhu Wei's army crosses the Han River with the help of river boats, and then attacks Xiangyang City, the distance between the Han River bank and the Xiangyang City Wall is about fifty paces, but it is exactly within the range of the bows and arrows of the defenders at the head of the Xiangyang City Wall.

In this way, Zhu Wei's army will definitely suffer a large number of casualties in the process of disembarking and attacking the city.

And Liu Biao could also suddenly send troops from the Water Gate, with the help of the cover of the archers on the city wall, to launch a half-crossing attack on the Zhu Wei army crossing the river, so that Zhu Wei's army could not land on the south bank of the Han River at all, and could easily destroy the siege equipment transported by Zhu Wei's army.

But if Zhu Wei wanted to take a boat directly to the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, it would not be easy to launch an attack on the water.

As mentioned above, not to mention the flow of water waves on the side of the Water Gate, it is difficult for the ship to stand on the boat to climb the ladder steadily, but it is already difficult to ensure that the ship is stable in one place.

In addition, the attack on the water gate can easily sink the ships attacking the water gate, so it is indeed more difficult to attack the water gate than to attack the land gate.

Therefore, only Zhu Wei can have the idea of attacking the water gate if he controls the means of blowing up the water gate, otherwise the normal siege party will rarely choose the water gate to attack...... 210210[.]