497. The situation in Qiantang County
"Not good, in the middle of the scheme! There was no ambush at all, but Zhu Wei's army in that camp was about to withdraw! Quick, quick, bypass the fire and chase the past! ”
Just when the army that had withdrawn from the front to steal the camp was puzzled, Zhou Yu also noticed something strange, so he sent someone to inquire about the situation, but after hearing such a description, Zhou Yu flashed his eyes, and quickly saw through the reason.
This is not an ambush by Zhu Wei's army at all, but Zhu Wei's army left in Zhu Wei's army to delay time and take the opportunity to escape from Zhou Yu's army.
As for the so-called ambush soldiers who shouted killing and archery, at most a small number of troops in Zhu Wei's army who were on duty at night were bluffing, and the most important thing was that the alarm bell reminded them, and then they would take the initiative to set fire to block the advance of Zhou Yu's army.
Of course, all this must also be a means that the left-behind soldiers in Zhu Wei's army have been prepared for, that is, when Zhou Yu's army comes to attack, they want to use this method to deceive Zhou Yu's army attacking the village, and then give them time to evacuate this Zhu Wei army village.
Under the urging of Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu's army hurriedly turned around the camp that was on fire in front of Zhu Wei's army, wanting to chase down the soldiers and horses in Zhu Wei's army, but naturally a lot of time had been wasted.
When Zhou Yu led the troops around the burning Zhu Wei camp, and then rushed forward to kill, there was no trace of Zhu Wei's army, only some old sheep were tied with ropes and threads after being frightened, and they fought from time to time, and then pulled some roller mallets, beating gongs and drums, etc., and made those drums and gongs move.
There should not be many soldiers left in the Zhu Wei army village, except for the outer camp tents in the Zhu Wei army village, which seems to be dense, in fact, many places inside are empty, so now with the withdrawal of the soldiers in the Zhu Wei army village, there is not much left for Zhou Yu to capture.
Of course, before Zhu Weizhi's army left, he also set fire to this military village, and at this time, the fire was blown by the strong wind, igniting the entire military village.
In this way, at this time, it made Zhou Yu look at the Zhu Wei army village that was engulfed by the flames and the Zhu Wei army that had already retreated, and he was helpless, this time it was obviously a busy work.
Before he could accurately judge the movement of Zhu Wei's army, Zhou Yu did not continue to pursue, after all, such an impulsive rash pursuit might lead to an ambush or something, so Zhou Yu simply collected his troops and returned to the camp.
Subsequently, Zhou Yu sent a large number of scouts to search for the whereabouts of Zhu Wei's army, especially the whereabouts of Zhu Wei's main army led by Pang Yan.
Soon a scout came to report that Zhu Wei's army, which had stayed in Zhu Wei's army village before, was indeed only a few thousand, and now they had retreated to the side of Wu County, and some river boats were found on the side of Wu County connecting Zhenze Lake, so they could retreat to Zhenze Lake at any time.
It's just that the main force of the Xionglu camp led by Pang Yan has obviously lost its trace before, so Zhou Yu's scouts naturally can't find any traces.
Then Zhou Yu seemed to think of something, and at the first time he also ordered the army to pack up and prepare to rush to Qiantang County, he didn't care where Pang Yan led his troops to, for Zhou Yu to capture Qiantang County now, attacking Huiji County is the first priority.
Therefore, Zhou Yu was ready to lead the army to Qiantang County, join the armies of Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, and forcibly attack Qiantang County.
Well, let's not talk about Zhou Yu's actions for the time being, in fact, Pang Yan and the main force of the Xionglu battalion have already come to Yuhang County by water in the nearly two days that they deceived Zhou Yu, and rushed to Qiantang County to kill Zhou Yuzhi.
Of course, at this time, the war on the side of Qiantang County was indeed in a critical situation.
Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin took nearly 30,000 troops to the Qiantang County side, although 20,000 of them were young and strong people from Wu County, but under the threat of the recruits brought by Zhou Yu from Danyang, they were still urged by Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to storm the city wall of Qiantang County like cannon fodder.
After all, these people of Wu County are all strong and strong, and after cutting down trees to make a big shield against arrows or a wooden platoon, they can still rush to the front of the city wall with the feather arrows shot by Qiantang County.
Then fill in the moat of Qiantang County, and you can cling to the city wall and start attacking Qiantang County.
However, it is also thanks to the lack of training of these Wu County youths, and many times they rely on strength and numbers to attack, so under the defense of the Huiji army defending the city, once the siege is hindered, these Wu County youths will involuntarily retreat, so the pressure on Qiantang County is not very great.
After fighting like this for more than two days, Qiantang County is quite stable for the time being.
But under the attraction of these young men of Wu County, now a lot of materials for defending the city in Qiantang County have been consumed, and Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin also sent archers to shoot arrows on the city wall when they drove those young men to attack the city, so the army of Huiji defending the city naturally suffered some losses.
It can be said that Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin are now using those Wu County Qingzhuang to consume the city defense materials of the Huiji garrison in Qiantang County, and they did not think that they could capture Qiantang County with these Wu County Qingzhuang.
At this time, even Zhou Tai, a fierce general who has always liked to rush and kill in front, just stayed in the rear to drive those young men of Wu County to die, and commanded the siege battle with all his energy.
Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were originally one of the twelve tiger ministers of Eastern Wu in history, and now they have followed Sun Ce through the previous battle of Danyang City, so they are naturally familiar with the method of driving cannon fodder to attack the city, and they are waiting for the defenders of Qiantang County to be exhausted.
More than 20,000 young men of Wu County were driven to attack the city continuously, and more than 6,000 people have died so far, but these people are indeed not dead in vain, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin have already seen the fatigue of the guards on the wall of Qiantang County, and they will soon find the opportunity for them to break the city.
For the current situation, Zhou Xin and Kan Ze, who are in charge of command in Qiantang County, are also helpless.
This method of siege is the most primitive life-filling tactic, so for the defenders, they can only rely on manpower to support it.
But Qiantang County is not a big city after all, and the height of the city wall is two or three stories high, so that the ladder is erected on the city wall, and for well-trained soldiers, it only takes a dozen breaths to climb to the city wall.
Therefore, with the help of a hand shield to resist the implementation of the rolling wood thrown from the city wall, as long as it is not splashed by the boiling water and gold juice, there is still a chance to climb to the city wall.
The more than 20,000 young men of Wu County before did not mean that no one could climb to the city wall, but they were killed by the guards of Qiantang County in time, but even ordinary young men could climb up.
And after the fierce general climbs to the city wall, as long as he insists on the follow-up army, he will naturally be able to capture the city wall of Qiantang County, and then break the county seat.
Now Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin can be regarded as fierce generals of Eastern Wu, Zhou Tai can at least be included in the ranks of first-class generals, Jiang Qin also has the strength of the peak of third-rate generals, if the two of them personally lead the troops to attack the city, it will be the time when Qiantang County is broken......