The rain is still falling, but the rain here in Xiaqiu City is a little lighter than the previous two days. Although the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info still decorate the world with a piece of confusion, at least the rain falls on the body, and I won't feel any pain. This is very different from the news from Xu County. It seems that even the official road there has been smashed into potholes by the rain, and the rain is so heavy that it is no different from the summer hill a few days ago.

"The water of Surabaya has penetrated into the city of Xuxian County, and now the water is half a ......foot deep" In the county hall where the ground of Xiaqiu was still wet, and there was still some water, Liao Hua read this information from Guan Yu's side to this Zhou Cang. Zhou Cang is completely illiterate, and Liao Hua is somewhat proficient, so whenever Zhou Cang and Liao Hua cooperate and encounter more important information, Zhou Cang asks Liao Hua to read these things. After all, some are crucial, and it is not safe to hand them over to others.

"Half-foot......? Isn't that the same as the other day we had here? That's pretty serious. Yuan Jian, you said that if we launch it now, will the turtle kings in Xuxian County be able to withstand it? When Zhou Cang heard this, he became happy, in his very simple thoughts, the enemy's embarrassment was beneficial to his side. Seeing that the rain was falling so heavily and that the plan set by the general was very likely to succeed, Zhou Cang couldn't help but get excited and anxious. At this moment, he couldn't wait for his general to give the order to launch the plan.

"Don't be in a hurry. The general still has his own considerations. Seeing that this rain will still fall for a few more days, the water level in Xu County will rise a lot at that time. The longer the rainy day, the better it will be for us. Liao Hua smiled and persuaded Zhou Cang, he was afraid that he would continue to think nonsense, so he gave an idea: Once the water attack is launched, we will have to take a boat to Xu County here, instead of rushing at that time, why not prepare all these things now?

"That's ......" Zhou Cang nodded, stood up, and raised his feet to walk outside.

"What are you going to do?" Looking at Zhou Cang's reckless appearance, Liao Hua asked him puzzled.

"What else? Of course, this goes to collect the boat pull. Zhou Cang replied loudly.

"Then you have to put on a coat and leave, this autumn rain is very cold, but it is easy to water people out of illness." Liao Hua pointed to the still sparse heavy rain outside and told Zhou Cang: "I'll go with you." He said so, reaching out and taking two robes from the wall, one was draped by himself, and the other was handed to Zhou Cang, and then the two of them disappeared into the rain curtain outside the hall together.

And at this moment, on the hills outside Xuxian County, Guan Yu was wearing armor all over his body, wearing a heavy robe, holding one hand in front of his forehead, and looking at the city three miles away. The rain was still crackling, and some of it fell on Guan Yu's exposed armor, making a clanging sound. The rain was so heavy that even the ground was smashed like pockmarks.

It is said that under such heavy rain, the visibility is extremely low, no matter how good Guan Yu's eyes are, he can't look at the situation of the enemy city three miles away under such circumstances. But, even so, Guan Yu didn't seem to care, he had maintained such a posture of looking at him for a long time, although there was some rotation during the period, but the general situation remained unchanged. Obviously, he wasn't looking at anything, he was thinking.

The rain was falling, and in the face of such heavy rain, most of the people hid in the relatively dry military tent to rest, and there was no one else standing outside except Guan Yu and some soldiers on duty. Of course, Guan Yu, who was standing outside, was not the busiest person in the entire barracks, and someone was busier than them - that was the reprimand in the army.

Guan Yu had the intention of using this heavy rain to complete this battle, so he was very concerned about this heavy rain. How long will this rain last, how much will it raise the water level of the Surabaya River, and when will it stop...... These are all things for Guan Yu to understand. However, because there were too many things to know, and Guan Yu needed to be responsible for the whole army, it was naturally impossible to go out in person to understand these situations, so Guan Yu handed over these things to Hou Xuan. He mobilized the whole army of reprimands, divided them into several groups, and took turns to reconnoiter all kinds of conditions concerning hydrology.

"Up one centimeter, six inches and three ...... deep"

"Up three percent, six inches and seven ...... deep"

“……”

Every half an hour, someone constantly reported the hydrological situation under the mountain, and it was like a roaring thunder that came to Guan Yu's ears.

Guan Yu, who had been standing for a long time, finally moved, he pressed the hand in front of his forehead and gently put it down, and then stretched it out, as if he was holding something out of thin air, and just like that, he palmed up to accept the rain in the sky. The raindrops fell with a clatter, hitting his hands with a sound like soybeans.

"Compared to yesterday, this rain is even heavier......" Guan Yu said with a smile, he turned his head and asked the staff member next to him: "Uncle Ji, do you think this rain will continue to be heavy?" ”

"I'm afraid not, right? It's been raining for so many days, and I think it's going to be weaker this time. Yi thought for a moment and replied calmly.

"That's not necessarily......" Guan Yu smiled, but said something like this: "I heard the old farmer here say that this kind of rain is not the biggest here, and sometimes this kind of rain will fall for ten days and a half months." ”

"Isn't that all going to be moldy? These days the water is heavy, which is not a good thing for the soldiers. Yi Yuan shook his head and said helplessly.

"Hehe, I've already instructed the guy to boil more hot water and let them drink more ginger soup, I think it should be no problem to rely on these things to deal with the past few days." Guan Yu said with a smile.

"This is also ......" Yi Yuan nodded, and then reported a message to Guan Yu: "Huailing has sent a large number of cold clothes over there, and these are sent to the soldiers, and this matter is more stable." ”

"It's up to you to take care of everything, but I don't want to worry about that much." Guan Yu said this, and stretched out his hand to compare the direction of Naxu County under the mountain: "We are better on this mountain." If you want to say that you are sad, you must be more sad than Zhang Liao there than us. The water has entered the city, and I see how Zhang Liao and them can bear it in the past ten days. Maybe those of them who are generals can be patient, but what about their soldiers? It's not that easy. ”

"Then it's none of my business!" Yi said it very unconscionable.

The rain is still falling, and the water level is naturally still rising. After another three days, the flood that had originally played the calf had now reached the waist. The people in Xuxian County can no longer walk normally, because with the rise of the water level, the huge buoyancy brought by them makes it easy for them to shake their bodies, and it seems that they don't need to walk, and they can swim more easily.

"When will this rain stop?" Zhang Liao, Le Jin, and Li Dian stayed in the attic of the backyard of the county government, helpless to make a sad face at the pouring rain outside: "If this rain continues to fall, I'm afraid that if we don't wait for Guan Yu and them to attack, we will be drowned." ”

"yes." In this regard, Lejin also nodded.

But Li Dian among the three was still dull and silent. He raised the glass, but put it to his lips again, and stopped, but there was no movement, but he was staring at what he was thinking.

"Mancheng, what are you thinking?" Zhang Liao noticed Li Dian's abnormality and asked.

"I wonder why Guan Yu used such an obvious plan to send him to death in the first place? Could it be that with his Guan Yu's intelligence, he wouldn't be able to see that our Xu County City could not be captured by him with a few thousand soldiers at a time? This is obviously impossible, but Guan Yu knows that it is impossible and still does it, what is he planning? Li Dian held his chin with his hand and slowly said his doubts at the moment.

"Huh? Why did you suddenly remember this? Listening to Li Dian's attention, it was not the current truth, but Guan Yu's abnormal behavior more than ten days ago, Zhang Liao was stunned, but he was puzzled.

"I was thinking, Guan Yu knew that it was sending him to death, and he let his soldiers do that. This move is obviously inconsistent with Guan Yu's usual reputation of being good and arrogant. If it weren't for Guan Yu's change of heart in the past few years, it would be very likely that he would have had to make a sacrifice for some more important purpose. Li Dian explained, "But do you think that a person's heart is so easy to change? Saying that, he didn't wait for Zhang Liao and them to answer, but he gave the answer to the question he asked: "That's naturally impossible, so Guan Yu must have done that for some purpose." So what is Guan Yu for? His army is inferior to ours, but why is he delaying time with us so much? These are all things I've always wondered. Until the flood became like this, until it suddenly came to pass...... From the very beginning, we encountered changes and fell into Guan Yu's scheme. ”

"Ah...... What does this say? Zhang Liao and Le Jin suddenly heard this, and couldn't help but look at Li Dian in a daze.

"I think Guan Yu knew early on that there would be flooding. He knew that there would be such a heavy rain in Xuzhou at this time, so he wanted to use this heavy rain to defeat us, so he suddenly sent people to attack Xiaqiu. You know, Xiaqiu is the upper mile of the Surabaya River next to us. Under this heavy rain, Guan Yu only needs to build a dam on Surabaya, throttle the water there, and then let go, and the surging water can easily submerge us. ”

"Water attack?" Hearing Li Dian make such a guess, Zhang Liao and Le Jin's faces suddenly turned white. If Guan Yu really used such tactics, they all knew very well - if Guan Yu really did this, the 50,000 troops in this small city of Xu County would be completely submerged in this surging flood.

"No......" Zhang Liao stood up suddenly, "we can't just sit still, we have to come up with a good way......" Zhang Liao said, the face full of Zhang Huang and his hurried words have already revealed the deep anxiety in his heart. He didn't want to make a mistake over and over again.

"But what can we do? Now that the rain is so heavy and the flood has started, it seems too late for us. Li Dian shook his head and said with a slight headache.

"This ......" Zhang Liao was stunned, but he had to admit that Li Dian was not wrong at all: "Then can we only wait for death like this?" Zhang Liao gritted his teeth and seemed to be very unwilling.

"Is there anything better you can do? If not, we'll have to just deal with it in the usual way. Li Dian asked again.

"I can't help it." Zhang Liao could only do this in the end. He instructed his men to make further preparations so that they could hold the county town of Xu before the flood waters completely receded.

However, is it really urgent to make these preparations? Neither Zhang Liao, nor Li Dian, nor Lejin have full confidence in this. "Do your best and leave it to the fate of heaven." That's all they can think about.

The rain is still falling, and the water level is naturally rising. However, Guan Yu, who has more information about the local hydrology, understands that the rain really can't go on anymore.

"Well, maybe the rain will stop in a few days." Guan Yu thought so, but quickly sent someone to summon Zhou Cang and Liao Hua to Xia Qiu: "You can start acting." ”

As soon as this order reached Xia Qiu, when he learned that the battle had begun, Zhou Cang jumped up excitedly: "It's finally time to do it." I'm just thinking about slaughtering these dogs sooner. ”

In the face of Zhou Cang's excitement, Liao Hua was a little low: "It's not wrong to slaughter Cao Gou, but it's not just Cao Gou in this Xu County." There are still tens of thousands of people in Xuxian County. Once our side launches, they will be drowned. ”

"That can only say that their lives are not good. In this troubled world, the people can only do this. Zhou Cang was stunned when he heard Liao Hua say this, and then he comforted: "As soldiers, we just need to think about winning." As for accidental injuries and the like, it's not something we can care about. But Yuan Jianye don't worry too much about this, as long as we let the lord control the world, with the lord's benevolent personality, do you think he will make the people of Xuzhou suffer? He will definitely compensate those who have been hurt. Since ancient times, I have never seen a man who is willing to defeat with the people like the lord. ”

"That's true." When Liao Hua heard it, he was a little touched. He shook his head, shook off the troubles that bothered him, and strode forward to take Zhou Cang's arm with one hand and walked out of Xiaqiu's county office.

"Brothers, it's time for us to get to work." With Liao Hua's shout, Liu Beijun in the entire Xiaqiu City began to assemble. For them, the battle is about to begin.

The dam was torn open with the violent explosion of gunpowder in the two tin barrels placed in the middle of it. The dike, which had restrained the roaring water, now rolled like a raging wyvern with teeth and claws, and its muscular body slammed into the dike, which was crumbling from the explosion, and the levee cracked. The surging flood mixed with large chunks of mud and rocks roared downstream, and as the embankment here was blown open, Zhou Cang over there also jumped on a fishing boat with a few steps, and then rushed frantically to the downstream of Surabaya by the churning flood peak-Guan Yu's plan finally officially began.

A fleet of more than 1,000 small fishing boats rushed down Surabaya towards Xu County, but in just two or three hours, Zhou Cang had already seen Guan Yu lead an army carried by rafts to attack the city of Xu County. At this moment, the river water poured into Xu County has been more than one zhang deep, although there is still a certain distance from the city wall that is two zhang high, but the heavy rain for several days has destroyed the defense devices on the head of the city, and many defensive weapons that used oil and fire as a means of attack in the past can not be used in such a humid situation, making the defense of the entire Xu County town out of a very low level. Guan Yujun only used flying capture as a means to get to the city, and in just a few quarters of an hour, thousands of soldiers were sent to the city, and the battle immediately began at the city.

Compared with the situation a few days ago when Li Diancheng thought that all this was Guan Yu's "conspiracy" and let all the defenses of Xu County go, and only thought about fighting the flood, the current Xu County is still somewhat guarded. In order to deal with the attack that Guan Yu would definitely launch, Zhang Liao, Le Jin, and Li Dian used all the materials they had at hand to defend. They issued their stockpiles of ordnance to their soldiers, and they were to be armed with spears and short knives, except for crossbowmen; At the same time, the only few hundred crossbows and bed crossbows on the head of the city were gathered together and arranged on the four newly erected platforms in the city, which were used as four points of fire, so as to support their own soldiers--these made sense: soldiers armed with spears and short knives used their spears to assassinate the enemy before they entered the city, and when they were close to their bodies, they could use their short knives to engage the enemy, which could really be regarded as far and near; As for the bed crossbows and hand crossbows that were arranged together, although they did not shoot quickly, they were the best weapons for long-range attacks against the enemy in such a stormy situation, and because of the interference of wind and rain, the average craftsman had little range and accuracy here, and unless you gathered a large number of archers together and fired at one place for a covering shot, it would be of no use at all. It was when Zhang Liao saw this that he sent those archers into pikemen and crossbowmen. After all, spears and crossbows are definitely more useful than bows and arrows and anything else in such a moment.

Because Zhang Liao and the others urgently made such arrangements at the head of the city, Guan Yu's attack was obviously hindered. After hearing that it was Guan Yu and them who flooded this Xu County, the soldiers under Zhang Liao were all annoyed, and they were holding their breath enough in such an environment these days. At this moment, they suddenly heard that the culprit was not God but the enemy on the other side, and they quickly turned their anger into their own fighting spirit. In the current battle with Guan Yujun, they all showed their demeanor of not being afraid of death one after another.

"Kill ......" a soldier of Guan Yujun let out an angry roar, and a bright arc of light crossed the curve in his hand and quickly rolled towards the neck of a Cao soldier, at this moment, the spear of that Cao soldier was pierced in the chest of another Guan Yujun soldier, and he couldn't pull it out in a hurry. Seeing that the soldier was about to be erased and put into it, he saw a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, and he greeted him without advancing or retreating. "Brush ......" a head has to be high, but the soldier of Guan Yujun who wielded a knife was hit by this Cao soldier and fell off the city. Under the city was a surging flood, and this Guan Yujun's private soldier struggled hard, trying to get rid of the Cao soldier's restraints on him, but the other party was too tight, but he couldn't break free, and finally disappeared miserably in the surging flood. Although he knows water, he can't stretch his body, and he has such a heavy corpse on his body, but there is nothing he can do.

As happened to this soldier, there was more than one incident in this narrow city. In Zhang Liao's view, this is the result of his own agitation and defense. But in Guan Yu's view, such a situation is an unfavorable situation for his own side to attack.

"Although the enemy is outnumbered, he is already like a scarred beast, you can't even take such a beast, what kind of heroes do you call it." Guan Yu's already red face became more distinct now, and he saw that he ordered the raft under him to step forward, pulled a flying claw in his hand, spun it a few times, and threw it upwards with all his might, but it was suddenly set up at the head of the city. "Drink ......" With Guan Yu's loud shout, he actually walked up the city with the Qinglong Knife, and instantly came to the top of the city. At this time, the rain in the sky was still drifting, and the climate was still very cold, but this Guan Yu ripped off his clothes, and fought in the city in armor.

Guan Yu didn't ride a horse, and the green dragon in his hand was not suitable for this kind of foot combat scene, but his force was not comparable to those small soldiers who tried to come up and pick up cheap. At the head of the city, which was about two zhang wide, the green dragon knife in his hand was rounded, and with each blow, several stumps flew into the sky. The scattered blood came in with the drizzle and wind, shrouding Guan Yu's body like mist, and he saw that his parrot green robe was dotted.

At the moment, Guan Yu was already as furious as killing a god, the Qinglong Sword in his hand was waving, and he was striding under his feet, between rushing left and right, but no one could stop him for a moment. Under his leadership, the soldiers, who were originally a little stunned and a little tired by Cao Jun's madness, also rose bravely, and the whole person became violent. In terms of dealing with Cao Bing's life-for-life play, they may not have a good way to deal with it, but at least they are encouraged by Guan Yu, and in their hearts, they also feel that those crazy Cao Bing are no big deal.

It was at this time that Zhou Cang rushed to the battlefield in Xu County, and when he saw Guan Yu's struggling figure, his heart became hot. Now with the development of the war situation, Guan Yu has firmly controlled the city wall of the section of the city gate, and when he opens the city gate, Zhou Cang will naturally not be desperately going to the city with things like flying claws. I saw him lead the fleet to stop at the stairs of the city gate, followed by "Zeng...... Zeng "had to go to the city, leading a group of people to follow closely behind this Guan Yu."

With the addition of more than 10,000 soldiers in Zhou Cang, the soldiers arranged by Zhang Liao at the head of the city gradually couldn't hold their own positions. After staying in the water for so many days and suffering a lot of cold, they were already much worse than Guan Yu's department, which had already done a lot of preparations. At first, he could still rely on a breath of blood to block the attack of Guan Yujun's army, but now? They encountered Guan Yu's army, whose blood was no less than their own, and they encountered Zhou Cang, an absolutely fierce new force all the way, and the resistance soon weakened. In just one day, Guan Yu's army occupied the city.

The sky gradually darkened, and the day's fighting came to an end temporarily with the gloom of the day. Despite some interference, Guan Yu's army still completed the pre-formulated plan and occupied the head of Xu County. This is a very good result. Because when the flood has not receded, as long as he occupies the city and has so many ships, then Zhang Liao in the city can only be besieged.

"By then, how many days can this Zhang Liao last?" Guan Yu thought, but the smile on his face deepened. The reason why the troops who were besieged in the city were able to hold on was nothing more than because they had sufficient food and grass and their momentum was like a rainbow. But at the moment, Guan Yu is using a water attack strategy that Zhang Liao couldn't think of at all, under such a strategy, can Zhang Liao imagine that this big water will come suddenly, and transfer the grain and grass in the city to a higher place in time? This is obviously not possible.

"I didn't expect it, so I didn't prepare. As early as three days ago, our military rations had been reduced to the level of two meals of porridge a day. It's not that we don't have food, it's that it's hoarded, and when we can't search for it, we're all drowned by the flood. "The battle of one day was won, and Guan Yu's side naturally had to capture some prisoners of Zhang Liaojun, some of whom were soft-hearted, so they directly told Guan Yu about the situation.

"Does that mean they've been fighting us hungry for the past few days?" Guan Yu said this inference, the smile on the corner of his mouth rose again, and he instructed his subordinates: "Bring these people down to give me a good reception." We want to break Xu County, and it's really on them. ”

"Hey, why did the general say that?" Those captives were taken down, and Zhou Cang, who was on the side, heard Guan Yu actually say that his hope of taking down Xu County here was here, and he couldn't help jumping up in surprise and looked at Guan Yu with a puzzled expression.

"Now is not the time to explain to you, so let's take the time to see how the situation develops below." Guan Yu smiled at Zhou Cang's confused expression: "I won't explain it to you now, I can only rely on your own eyes to observe." ”

"Observe with your own eyes? …… I still don't understand. Zhou Cang shook his head, looking at Guan Yu's appearance that he didn't want to say at the moment, he didn't want to ask any more.

The next day, the rain was still falling, and it didn't have to be as heavy as yesterday, nor less than yesterday, but it was so irritating. From the beginning of dawn, Zhang Liaojun, who was cold and hungry in the midst of the enemy's encirclement, heard the clanging sound from the rain shelters that had been built one by one on the city.

"What's the noise?" The voice made by Guan Yujun made the soldiers of Zhang Liaojun, who had shrunk into a group, very unhappy. They were exhausted from yesterday's fighting, and today's noise is even more unbearable. One by one, they stood up with sleepy eyes, scolding but not caring whether the sky was open or not.

However, their scolding stopped after the smell of incense on the other side. They sniffed the air and understood that it was the smell of meat. The thought of meat makes them feel sad. The people on the other side had meat to eat, but it was the fourth day that the people here had drunk the soup where they could count the grains of rice. How can there be such a big difference between this man and man? All of a sudden, although they had no intention of surrendering to the enemy, they still felt sad when they were hungry.

"Forget it. Let's drink our own soup to see out of sight. Most of the loyal soldiers turned their heads away and drank the hot soup from their bowls. In their eyes, the temptation on the other side, while attractive, is not to the point where it can lead to betrayal. After all, at this moment, when everyone is hungry, Zhang Liao, Le Jin, and Li Dian, who are the main generals, drink exactly the same soup as themselves. The Lord will treat Himself like this, how can he have no conscience? So, they all endured the feeling of hunger in their stomachs and ignored the call of the opposite party.