When Zhao Yan supervised the arrival of the Seventh Army one after another, and heard that Cao Chun had lost nearly 1,000 elite cavalry again, he could only say good words and persuade him, and ordered the Seventh Army to surround the four gates of Jiangling, count the siege equipment, and prepare to launch an attack tonight. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After some discussion, the generals decided to launch a feint attack at the north gate at night, while Zhang He and Zhu Ling led the army from the east gate, Zhang Liao and Lu Zhao led the army from the west gate to secretly climb the city wall at night to attack the city, and the south gate was besieged by the forbidden army, and Cao Xiu led the tiger and leopard to ride four ways to respond.

In the middle of the night, Liu Bei was still patrolling everywhere, although during the day, Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry played another trick and killed more than a thousand prisoners, but Cao Chun's army was overwhelming, and this loss was insignificant. Now there are more than 60,000 enemy troops outside the city, which is more than four times their own, although relying on Gangneung Fortified City, they can still hold on to one against four, but if they are accidentally opened by the enemy to open a gap and rush in, they will not be able to resist no matter what.

Xu Shu wanted to persuade Liu Bei to go to sleep first, this battle may be a long time, and it is not a good thing that he can't sleep on the first night.

Looking at the temporary sentry tower six or seven zhang high, the brazier on it had already been lit, Xu Shu said to Liu Bei: "Don't be anxious, my lord, now that we have rapid news transmission, even if the Cao army attacks from all sides at night, we can dispatch reinforcements according to the enemy's situation in time, and everything is under control." ”

Liu Bei also looked up at the guard tower and asked, "Those sergeants in charge of communications have been sent to all directions, right?" ”

Xu Shu replied: "They are all sent out, and two people are arranged on each city gate, and there are also Pang Shiyuan and Zhuge Junshi's wife, younger brother and their maidservant girls are also sent to the four directions, in case those sergeants are too tired or have any accidents, they can also be responsible for conveying military information." ”

Liu Bei sighed: "This Zhuge military division can be said to be a family that has all gone into battle, even the maidservants are counted." Remember that there is a little scholar in their family, and have they arranged for someone to take care of him? ”

"It's been arranged to stay in my house." Xu Shu remembered that Mrs. Zhuge sent Xiaobao to his house and was still a little puzzled, but a child who was sold as a house slave was told as if he was their own brother or son, so that our family could only wait for him as a little master.

"The military advisor and Sun Quan have reached an alliance and are now with Guan Yu. Cao Cao came to Jiangling by water, where has he reached now? Liu Bei asked about the battle situation on the waterway.

Xu Shu replied: "The waterway Cao army encountered the resistance of General Guan, and it should not have reached the Baqiu area now, and it is still far from Jiangling, and Cao Cao's plan to advance by land and water to reach Jiangling has been temporarily frustrated. ”

"Yuan Zhi, I'll go here too." Liu Bei raised his feet to go up to the guard tower.

Xu Shu dissuaded: "There are sergeants guarding above, and as soon as there is news, it will be conveyed." It's windy up there, and now that the weather is cold, the lord doesn't need to go up. ”

"I just heard from you about the purpose of this thing, but I haven't seen how to use it." Liu Bei had already stepped up the stairs.

It is an all-wood elevated frame, with a circumference of about 10 zhang, and gradually closes upward. Liu Bei went to the top of the tower and saw that it was a fire pit surrounded by wooden planks on all sides, and opened a small gate in the direction of the city gatehouses on all sides. The doors were now shielded from the fire by thin planks, and a thick hemp rope was tied to the top of the planks, which was wrapped around the log above.

The four sergeants were constantly looking in all directions, and when they saw Liu Bei coming up, they hurriedly clasped their fists and saluted.

Liu Bei hugged his collar, it was indeed a bit windy, and the wind was very cold in this season, so he turned to Xu Shu and said, "Prepare more clothes for them, don't freeze all night long." ”

The fourth sergeant hurriedly replied: "It's not cold, it's not cold, isn't this still burning on fire." ”

Xu Shu checked it, the firewood was relatively well prepared, and even several buckets of water were prepared to prevent fires, and after confirming that nothing went wrong, he said to the four sergeants: "Start your spirits at night, don't fall asleep, if you are really sleepy, remember to pass the word, I will come up for you for a while." "Of the four sergeants, only two were able to decipher the code, and the other two were responsible for going up and down the guard tower to transmit information to the general's palace below.

Liu Bei took Xu Shu's hand again: "I still have to bother Mr. to suffer, I should have sent a few more people to learn this Morse code." ”

Xu Shu hurriedly said: "Serving the lord is all my duty." This is all what the military advisor meant, it is what he said to let a few people know as much as possible, this kind of skill is still a secret, in case it is revealed that the enemy also knows about it, it will leak our military information. ”

"Lord, you see, these four doors are used to send signals. If there was any military information to be conveyed, they would add firewood to the fire pit and burn it, and then pull up the gate and put it down, so that the sergeant on the gate tower in the distance could copy it into different numbers according to the length of time it took for the fire to come from the tower, and then they could know the content of our message. Xu Shu explained to Liu Bei the use of the signal tower.

Liu Bei asked the two sergeants: "Everything is still normal now, right?" ”

The sergeant replied: "Everything is normal, and they send us messages every once in a while to confirm that we are safe. ”

Liu Bei was relieved, cared for a few sergeants, and took Xu Shu down the tower to go to rest for a while, but as soon as he got off the tower, he heard the news from above: "Cao Jun was found outside the north city gate preparing to attack the city." ”

Liu Bei was completely tired all of a sudden, and immediately ordered the reserve troops stationed around to prepare for battle.

Outside the north city gate, Li Dian and Feng Kai's troops held torches high, carried long ladders and shouted loudly like a tide, and a dense rain of arrows shot above the city gate, and a group of sergeants carried a thick log as thick as a waist and began to hit the city gate.

Zhang Fei personally threw two big stones and smashed them down, causing the sergeant to throw down the log and turn around and run.

Pang Tong asked on the side, "What are you doing throwing such a big stone down so early?" If you throw a few more pieces, it will be equivalent to stacking a stone mountain for the enemy, and then people will step on this stone mountain and jump directly onto the city wall. ”

Zhang Fei smiled "hehe", shot down a Cao soldier who was climbing the stairs with a bow and arrow, and said to Pang Tong: "Look, one arrow can only knock down one, and I smashed those dozen or twenty people away with a few big stones." ”

Pang Tong took a look, and was almost hit by an arrow flying from the city, and quickly retracted his head: "Fortunately, the Jiangling city wall is high, otherwise I would be worried about fighting for a few days, if Cao Jun doesn't come to collect the corpse, the corpse can be piled up into a mountain." ”

Zhang Fei didn't think so: "If the corpses are piled up here, then the Cao soldiers behind will have the courage to rush up?" "He often stepped on the corpses of his enemies to scare them away.