Although it is now the late autumn season, the water volume of the Xiaowen River is still very full, Zhou Cang stood by the river and looked at it, only to see the vast soup on the river, and the endless waves were rolling towards the east, and his heart involuntarily gave birth to an indescribable sense of desolation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sima Ke, who was standing behind him, didn't bother with this state of mind, and asked puzzledly: "General, Yuan General Sun Jian led 60,000 coalition troops to invade the territory, and the third prince was determined to defend the mountain city, why did the general take us away from the cottage and run to this Xiaowen River to drink the northwest wind?" ”

"You know what?" Zhou Cang put away his emotion and said coldly, "We didn't come here to see the scenery, we have a heavy responsibility on our shoulders that is related to our life and death!" ”

Sima changed color slightly: "What is the important task?" ”

"Dig the embankment!" Zhou Cang said senran, "Flooded mountain city!" ”

"Huh!?" Sima was shocked when he heard this, "Flooded mountains and mountain cities? Didn't even the third son drown? ”

"Don't worry, the flood won't flood our own people." Zhou Cang said, "Otherwise, what do you think the use of so many trees that were moved into the cottage last night?" ”

"I see, it's not in vain that we moved the trees overnight." Sima paused, and then said, "But since we are going to dig a levee, why should we go so far?" Less than fifty miles northwest of the mountain city is the Dawen River, from where it is more trouble-free, why bother to run more than eighty miles? Moreover, do you want to dig the Xiaowen River from here and drown Yuan Jun? ”

"You know what? The third son said that if he said yes, he would definitely be able to do it! Zhou Cang said this, and said, "Besides, Sun Jian is not Yang Wu, he wants to dig an embankment near Culai Mountain, that's a dream!" ”

In the north of the mountain city, Sun Jian's camp.

Today, the army has just arrived, and the soldiers are tired, so Sun Jian does not plan to attack the city, and even Sun Jian has already decided, if the remnants of the Xuzhou army are still fighting and resisting fiercely, he will give up the strong attack, and change to a long-term siege strategy, wait for their food to run out, and then lure them to break through from the west gate, when the Xuzhou army is exhausted and lacks fighting spirit, they can turn over and destroy them.

The only thing Sun Jian is worried about now is whether Yuan Shu will give him this opportunity.

You must know that Yang Wu's little sister is Yuan Shu's favorite woman, hearing that Yang Wu was beheaded, Yuan Shu will definitely be so angry that he will be like thunder, in order to avenge Yang Shu, it is also entirely possible for Yuan Shu to personally lead the army to attack Culai Mountain City.

Sun Jian was thinking about what was on his mind, and the general Sun Wu suddenly strode in.

"General!" Sun Wu shook his head and said in a deep voice, "When General Mo observed the terrain outside the city just now, he found that the terrain of the mountain city was far lower than the water surface of the Dawen River in the north, and the whole was a big depression. ”

"Don't worry." Sun Jian smiled and waved his hand, "This general has already noticed it. ”

After saying this, Sun Jian said again: "This general has sent patrol cavalry to patrol day and night in the northwest of the mountain city, and once they find that the Xuzhou army is digging the embankment, they will report it immediately, so they don't want to dig the embankment!" Besides, if the Xuzhou army really dug up the embankment of the Dawen River, wouldn't they even be flooded? Is it difficult for Xu Jun to really dare to burn jade? ”

Sun Wu breathed a sigh of relief and said curtly: "It's that the last general is too worried." ”

In the mountain city, the Xuzhou military camp.

Thick trees filled almost the entire school yard, and hundreds of Xuzhou soldiers were busy tying up rafts.

Zhuge didn't bother to pay attention to all this, he was busy supervising the manufacture of weapons.

In the blacksmith's shop, the eight blacksmiths were already tired and sweaty, but the weapons that Zhuge Jun needed were finally formed, in the eyes of the blacksmiths, this is a "strange" weapon, it is obviously not a sword, because the sword is double-edged, and it only has a one-sided blade, but it is not a knife, because the knife is curved, and it is straight.

Zhuge Jun checked the weapon in his hand, the weight is about eighteen catties, and the length is about seven feet, this is actually a Tang knife without a ring head, or a strengthened version of the horizontal knife, the blade is narrow and straight, thick back and single-edged, and the air is cold.

As a traverser, Zhuge Jun had certainly heard of Tang Dao's famous murderous name.

In a sense, the Tang Empire defeated the Turks by virtue of the horizontal knife inherited from the Han Dynasty, and two thousand years later, the Japanese derived the Taidao on the basis of the horizontal knife, which carried forward the ferocity of the knife to the extreme!

Zhuge Jun turned his head and made a look, and Jiang Xu suddenly drew his sword and slashed at Zhuge Jun.

Zhuge Jun raised his sword to greet him, only to hear the explosion of "Qiang", the big sword in Jiang Xu's hand had already been broken into two, and the broken half fell to the ground with a bang, but the "Tang Knife" in Zhuge Jun's hand was unscathed, and there was not even a trace of a gap left on the blade, and the soldiers and blacksmiths who were watching around immediately cheered loudly.

"That's it!" Zhuge Jun said happily, "But as long as it weighs fifteen catties and is four feet long, it will cost two thousand!" ”

"Third son, I'm afraid this won't work." Leading iron. The craftsman smiled bitterly and shook his head, to create two thousand such knives, the raw materials are not a problem, after two battles, the weapons captured by the Xuzhou army can be described as piled up, enough to use, the key is to create such a knife, extremely time-consuming and energy-consuming, first to melt the original weapon, and then cast the blank, and then repeatedly fold and forge the blank, but also quenching, one process after another, two blacksmiths can only build one a day at most!

Even if you gather hundreds of blacksmiths, you can only make fifty knives a day!

It would take at least fifty days to build 2,000 knives, not to mention that there were not enough 100 blacksmiths in the army, and there were not so many stoves and tools, so even if it took three months, it might not be able to complete the task.

"Then try your best." Zhuge Jun also knew that the processing technology of Tang knives was complex and the cost was high, so he said to the leading blacksmith at the moment, "Master Fu, you don't have to worry about anything else these days, the matter of ration distribution will be handed over to Liang Xi, you just need to build weapons, and all the blacksmiths in the generals will gather together and go all out to build weapons!" ”

"No!" The leading blacksmith shook his hand and hurriedly summoned the blacksmith.

The blacksmiths who had originally gathered together also dispersed, blowing the wind, casting, and striking iron, and the whole blacksmith shop was soon filled with the sound of Ding Ding Dangdang.

Zhuge Jun slowly walked out of the blacksmith shop, looked at the Tang knife in his hand, and couldn't help but sigh.

Now there are not enough horses, so it is really not necessary to build stirrups on a large scale, but it is really urgent to replace the double-edged sword with the Tang knife to become the melee weapon of the Xuzhou army infantry, once a large number of Tang knives are equipped, the combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou army infantry is bound to go to a higher level!

But unfortunately, the conditions do not allow it.

The reality is cruel, the Xuzhou army is now a source of water, a tree without roots, just say that this mountain city, in a few days will be abandoned, after giving up the cottage, the Xuzhou army will enter the Taishan Mountains to hide the mystery with the coalition army, where is the time, where is the condition to build a large-scale Tang knife?

The next day, after a night's rest, Yuan's army launched a tentative attack on the north gate of the mountain city.

In the continuous sound of horns, groups of Yuan soldiers swarmed out of the camp and entered the wasteland outside the north gate of the mountain city to set up a formation.

The last one to appear was Sun Jian's 2,000 personal soldiers.

Surrounded by a banner that covered the sky and the sun, a horse slowly drove into the Yuan army's array, and Sun Jian was like a vigorous century-old pine, standing proudly on the war horse.

Suddenly, Sun Jian raised his right hand and pressed it forward gently, and at the same time said lightly: "Attack." ”

Suddenly, the continuous sound of the horn stopped abruptly, and after a momentary pause, the dense war drums rushed into the sky, and its momentum was enough to pierce the golden cracked stone, which made people's blood boil, and tens of thousands of Yuan soldiers followed with a roar, while roaring, they also rhythmically hit the shield with their swords, or with halberds: "Roar!" Roar! Roar ......"

The next moment, the front row of armor soldiers have shrunk their formations, giving way to one passage after another, and the archers who have been waiting for a long time immediately held their bows and arrows, and walked through the passage made by the armor soldiers at random steps to the front of the formation, accompanied by a terrible long howl, all the archers brushed their bows and arrows, and Leng Sensen's arrows were already aimed at the city in front.

"Whew...... Ha! There was another terrible howl, and the three thousand archers released their bowstrings almost simultaneously.

In an instant, three thousand feathered arrows had already swept into the air, and swept through the sky with a sharp breaking sound, and finally turned into an endless rain of arrows, and fell towards the head of the walled city.

At the head of the walled city, the veterans who had experienced a hundred battles had already hidden behind the battlements, or under the shields, but the recruits who had just joined the army did not know the strength of the archers at all, and they were all still pestle on the head of the city to look down at the excitement, and one of the recruits even spat outside the city in order to show their contempt for the archers of the Yuan army.

The veterans watched coldly, no one stopped or reminded them, the ability to save their lives, others can't teach them, you have to go to the battlefield yourself to learn, you have to exchange your life! These recruits, if they don't see blood, will never know the cruelty of war, and they will never grow into real soldiers.

The rain of arrows finally fell from the sky, and the recruits fell one by one.

When the recruit who was spitting outside the city was proud, a heart-piercing pain suddenly hit his crotch, and when he looked down urgently, he saw that his words had already been pierced by a feather arrow, and the blood suddenly gushed out of the wound like a fountain, and the recruit immediately screamed like a pig: "Ahhh......h

"Oh damn it, my eyes, help, help me......"

The other recruit covered his eyes tightly, and a feathered arrow was stuck between his fingers, and red blood gushed from it, and after only two screams, the recruit fell to the ground in a pool of blood.

Not far away, another recruit was even more unlucky, he was directly shot through the head by the volley of feather arrows, sharp arrows from the door of the head, and straight through the back of the head, red blood and white brains were gushing out of the wound cut by the three-edged arrow cluster, the recruit didn't even say a word, and fell headlong on the city.

The other two recruits standing next to them were startled when they saw this, and turned to run, but before they could run a few steps, another wave of arrows fell from the sky and nailed them to the top of the city.

Soon, a continuous wail sounded over the head of the cottage city.

The recruits, who had neither iron armor and shields to protect themselves, but also lacked experience in self-protection, were severely damaged under the first two waves of arrows of the Yuan army's archers, and at least 500 of the more than 3,000 recruits guarding the city fell in pools of blood, and at least 300 of them were shot on the spot, forever losing the opportunity to grow into a veteran.

However, under the threat of death, the recruits also quickly learned how to protect themselves.

When the third wave of arrows of the archers of the Yuan army fell, in addition to the stunned muscles in their heads, most of the recruits found a place to hide, and those who really couldn't find a place to hide did not stand and wait for death, but dragged the recruits who had been shot prematurely and covered their bodies, among them, one of the recruits was dragged away as a meat shield before he even lost his breath.

Seeing this cold and cruel scene, the veterans laughed silently.

There has never been iron and blood on the battlefield, there has never been mercy and mercy, only if the heart is ruthless enough and the hands are black enough, it is possible to survive the cruel war!

After firing five rounds of arrows, the archers of the Yuan army began to retreat.

The veterans of the Xuzhou Army, who had been counting in their hearts, suddenly stood up from behind the battlements and from under the shields, and opened their mouths one by one with their heads held high, while slapping their chests with a bang, while roaring wildly at the archers of the Yuan Army under the city, demonstrating loudly, and a small number of Xuzhou Army archers took the opportunity to hold their bows and arrows to pay tribute to the Yuan Army.

The archers of the Yuan army quickly withdrew to the rear, almost unscathed.

The next moment, the Yuan soldiers in front of the formation scattered to both sides, and immediately thousands of light soldiers swarmed out of the formation, each carrying a sack, each sack was filled with dirt, and after leaving the formation, they rushed towards the city wall.

Although the archers of the Xuzhou army desperately suppressed, but could not stop the Yuan army at all, in less than half an hour, the Yuan army light soldiers piled up four small hill piles outside the city, and then the horn sound in the Yuan army formation rose again, in the desolate and distant horn sound, thousands of mountain dead soldiers wearing animal clothes and oblique hair buns surged out.