Jiang Sheng was about to speak, but Zuo Feng said again: "Jiang Sima, right?" We know that you have a strategy, but have you thought of a strategy to break the enemy? We'd like to hear about it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Lord Overseer has won the award, so I'll talk about my thoughts for everyone's reference." Jiang Sheng arched his hand.

"Why does Zicheng claim to be below? It should be the last general, right? ”

"Lord of the Imperial Prison Army, he is only a Sima of another department, not a general."

"Oh, it's all because our family didn't tell the emperor in time, how can you be conservient to the position of Sima with such a great contribution? It's okay to be a mid-term general in the future. ”

The generals didn't know what was going on, they didn't know what medicine was sold in this Zuofeng gourd, and Huangfu Song also felt inexplicable.

"The Lord of the Prison Army doesn't know, if it weren't for the command of General Huangfu, what could he do below? I only hope that the adults will say a few kind words in front of the emperor for the officers and soldiers who have been fighting for a year, and I will be grateful. ”

"Ahem, that's, that's nature." Zuo Feng was a little embarrassed, what was Jiang Sheng thinking.

Both of them knew that if there was no generous gift from Jiang Sheng, let alone good words, if Jiang Sheng was not killed, even if he burned high incense, but this kind of thing could not be said.

Jiang Sheng stated his strategy, although the generals couldn't bear it, but if they couldn't break the city, their heads would have to be weighed.

Guo Dian is the giant deer Taishou, he raised an objection, and Huangfu Song said: "Then according to Guo Taishou's opinion, is there a good plan to break the city within 20 days?" ”

Guo Dian was speechless for a moment, it was impossible for him to lose the lives of dozens or even hundreds of generals for the sake of the people of a city, after all, he was also an official, not a common man. At this time in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the status of the common people was by no means the masters of the country as in later generations.

November 26th, morning, sunny.

In order to prevent the people in the city from making trouble behind their backs, Zhang Bao strictly ordered the troops not to harass and infringe on the people.

There is already a layer of ice on the surface of the river, and although it is not thick, pedestrians can walk back and forth on the ice. Zhang Bao was worried that the officers and troops would come on the ice, so he asked the deputy general Yan Zheng to come to the riverbank camp to command.

Sure enough, Julu Taishou Guo Dian commanded an army of 5,000 and set up camp on the opposite bank, apparently waiting for the ice to be thicker before attacking.

Yan Zheng ordered a small number of soldiers to patrol on the ice and monitor the movements of the officers and soldiers, and Guo Dian on the opposite side was also observing the movement of the yellow turban on the opposite side, and the two troops were facing each other across the big ice.

Hutuo HN is a tributary of the Zhanghe River, and the two rivers are only separated by more than ten miles at the nearest point, and Jiang Sheng's strategy is to use the two rivers to make a fuss.

According to the original method, Jiang Sheng planned to dig up the upper reaches of the Hutuo River and flood Quyang, but later gave up this idea considering that it might cause a large number of deaths for the people, but Yu Ban found out that the water source of Quyang was this river, and Jiang Sheng still set his eyes on this river.

"Report-" A scout stormed Zhang Bao's tent.

"What?"

"General Yurengong, there is a lot less water in the pond."

"Oh? It's cold, it may be that the entrance is frozen, just go and see how to dredge it. ”

Ponds throughout the city have frozen, but the water level under the ice has dropped so much that the ice is almost overhanging. Not only the Yellow Turbans, but also the common people have discovered this problem.

A small number of Yellow Turban soldiers went to the sluice gate in the north of the city to check and found that it was not blocked at all, but that the water flowing in was getting less and less.

An anomaly was also found on the side of the camp on the riverbank, two soldiers stepped on a piece of ice while patrolling, and then one of them fell in, and the group was about to salvage it, and found that the ice was almost empty underneath, and the soldiers who fell were killed by falling, not drowned or frozen.

The news was reported to Yan Zheng, Yan Zheng was shocked, the Hutuo River has never been broken, but this time it was cut off in a short period of time, Yan Zheng ordered the Yellow Turban Army to strictly guard the riverbank, and then returned to the city to report to Zhang Bao to know.

"What?" Zhang Bao was shocked, and there was a lot of news about the water cut in the past few days.

"This must have been done by the officers and soldiers, who wanted to cut off the water in the city and force our army out of the city."

"How many wells are there in the city?"

"There are about a hundred wells in the city."

"The water of the Hutuo River is cut off, we can eat well water, what's the fuss."

"General, these **** and so on are used by well water, but the amount of water used in the city is very large, and the well water gushing is limited, far from enough for the use of the city, and there are disputes between soldiers and people for water in some places."

Zhang Bao ordered the ministries not to compete with the people for water, but to persuade the people to tide over the difficulties together. That being said, it didn't work at all, the 50,000 army plus the tens of thousands of people in the city had a quarrel every day for survival, and the conflict in the city of Xiaquyang began to occur.

The originally docile people were now turned into warriors for the sake of water, and there were sporadic armed struggles in the city.

Zhang Bao had to send a team to suppress the rebellion of the people, and as a result, bloodshed began to break out in the city.

Zhang Bao, who had nothing to do, sent troops to control the wells, and the people and the Yellow Turban Army were rationed daily, and the resentment of the people and the dissatisfaction of the soldiers began to spread.

The strategy of cutting off the water was Jiang Sheng's handiwork, and Huangfu Song sent nearly 10,000 soldiers to dig ditches under the leadership of Jiang Sheng, but the soil was frozen, and the effect was not great.

Huangfu Song ordered Guo Dian to contain the main force of the Yellow Turban on the riverbank, and ordered the officers and troops in the rest of the directions to bluff and transfer more soldiers to the work of digging trenches.

After nearly 20,000 people worked day and night in turn, a ditch was dug between the Hutuo River and the tributaries of the Zhanghe River, which was 12 miles long, 2 zhang deep and 13 zhang wide. In terms of topography, the Hutuo River is higher than the tributaries of the Zhanghe River, which is suitable for interception and diversion, but it is difficult for the flow of this ditch to divert all the river water.

Five days later, Jiang Sheng gave an order, and tens of thousands of soldiers at the northern end of the ditch brandished shovels and pickaxes and began to dig the embankment of the Hutuo River. For the sake of insurance, Jiang Sheng tied ropes to the soldiers under the river embankment, and once the breach was broken, the soldiers were immediately pulled up with ropes, but there were still more than ten soldiers who were killed by water impact or ice impact, but their death was worth it for the entire battle situation!

At noon, the embankment collapsed, and the river poured down with ice and rushed south along the dug ditch, but the ditch was so small that only a small part of the water in the Hutuo River was diverted.

Jiang Sheng asked Huangfu Song to transfer the people on both sides of the ditch, but fortunately, there were many floods here, and there were not many people living there. The official and military battalions were also moved to 20 miles east of Xiaquyang City overnight to avoid being flooded.

The decrease in the amount of water in the city was due to the diversion of some of the river, and later the complete water was cut off because Jiang Sheng had the Hutuo River blocked. The project was very difficult, and it would have been impossible to block the Hutuo River if it had not been for the ditch diverting the river.

After the Hutuo River was blocked, the river water swelled, broke through the embankment and flowed southward, this time it was out of control, the Hutuo River was successfully diverted, and the lower Quyang was really cut off this time.