A dry west wind blows, the wet and hot summer day is blown away, the mountains on both sides of the Yangtze River are covered with red wedding clothes, the red maple leaves and plane leaves are flying like snowflakes, the water flow of the Yangtze River after the rainy season gradually becomes relaxed, nearly 100 merchant ships and sightseeing boats that stop in the rainy season are neck and neck with each other on the river. A few young men swam in the middle of the Yangtze River, and the splashing waves curbed the flying boats down the river.

The Jiangling City Lord's Mansion was full of sycamore leaves, Liu Pan sat in front of the window and ate breakfast, looking at the plane leaves all over the ground and fluttering, the cool autumn wind hit his clothes and eyebrows with frost, and his eyes suddenly had a low feeling. In his thirties, how can he be old?

A hurried trail broke into the courtyard and trampled the sycamore leaves all over the ground, and the intelligence soldier reported in a panting:

"Report! A battalion of cavalry was heading for Gangneung. ”

Liu Pan quickly stood up, looked out the window, and his pupils were not panicked but excited, and muttered, "Are you here?" Then he said loudly to the intelligence soldiers and guards: "Order a battalion of strong soldiers, and follow me to meet the enemy." ”

"Yes."

Under the city of Jiangling, when Liu Pan set up a position and saw the cavalry rushing over in the billowing smoke and dust, he already knew that this battle would be lost, but he dismounted without hesitation, pointed his spear at the cavalry and rushed in front of the formation, "Kill, brothers!" The roaring tone was like the last battle. I've already lost once, and I don't want to lose again, or I don't want to endure the feeling of losing again.

The Jiangling soldiers under the city also rushed towards the cavalry with spears without hesitation, and the shouts echoed in the earth and sky, down the Yangtze River, and Zhou Yu, who was supervising the army in Jiangxia, seemed to hear the shouts in the distance.

Killing, absolute killing. After Zhao Yun's cavalry rushed into Liu Pan's army at the cost of hundreds of horsemen, the Jiangling army had no formation, and the cavalry just galloped on horseback, and the Jiangling army was hit by the horse and kicked away by the horse's hooves.

There was no blood, only corpses full of bodies, only the wails between the corpses, only the resolute eyes that still struggled to get up and continue to kill the enemy after falling to the ground.

After Liu Pan easily pierced a horse with a spear, the cavalry galloped past him, he paced on the trembling ground, pulled out the broadsword he was carrying, and slashed a Wuling soldier and horse from top to bottom with a single sword, and then danced wildly with a mad roar, and the responders fell to the ground one after another. Zhao Yun, who was galloping back and forth, slapped Liu Pan on the back with the full moon with the blade of his gun, Liu Pan flew forward and fell to the ground, blood flowed from between his lips that were cut by teeth, and he fainted.

When Liu Pan woke up, he was being carried through the city gate by the Jiangling soldiers, he uttered words that he couldn't hear clearly, got up and saw the soldiers carrying him, and saw the messy battlefield in front of him, and he already knew that he had been rescued, and he had to endure another defeat. Bitterness, it seems to have flowed down.

Zhao Yunjun only besieged but did not attack, and left the north gate empty. Liu Pan took his hand in the eyes of more than 10,000 soldiers in the barracks, and sighed several times and continued to pace as he turned to speak to the soldiers and couldn't bear to look directly at the soldiers' gaze. A few pro-soldiers ran into the barracks door, and Liu Pan stepped forward and asked:

"Did you send out a distress call to the state shepherd?"

"The enemy army not only left the north city gate empty, but also directly did not set up troops to prevent us from transmitting information, and the communication troops have already arrived at the border of Xiangyang."

"Well, that's good." Liu Pan breathed a sigh of relief, then sighed again, turned to the soldiers and said:

"The soldiers who are in the city should go home and rest tonight, and those who are not in the city and do not guard the city walls can also wander around the city."

During the holiday, the soldiers let out a sigh of disappointment. As a soldier, you can't fight, so you should sigh and be disappointed.

The moonlight is quietly approaching, the miserable white moonlight shines on the land inside and outside the city at the same time, the tents under the city of Jiangling are fighting one after another, Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun lit a bonfire in front of the camp and cooked the barbecued meat and chatted with the soldiers, and the lights in the tent were lit one after another, like a peaceful lamp of ten thousand homes.

The soldiers patrolling the city wall were not sleepy at all, and they all hoped that the enemy army would come to attack the city and fight happily, some hit the city wall with guns and halberds, and some tried their best to shoot rockets at the Jiangnan army.

The night suddenly deepened, and the bright moon hid in the clouds, and when it came out, the white moonlight became even colder, and it was scattered to the ground like bones.

"The enemy is attacking the city, besieging the city."

The captain of the East City Gate, who was shooting arrows at the Jiangnan military camp, heard the shouts coming from the south, and shouted to the deputy captain while packing his bags: "You lead your subordinates to strictly guard this city gate, and I will take some of my brothers to support, and the enemy will immediately inform General Liu Pan of the siege." ”

"Yes." The vice-captain also wants to go to support the South Gate.

The south gate of Jiangling, close to the Yangtze River, Zhou Cangjia Xu's naval army is stacked outside the south wall of Jiangling in the middle of the river. Jia Xu looked at the huge city wall of Wuling, Changsha, which was much larger, and the dark bluestone slabs told the vicissitudes of the city, and the soldiers on the city wall were not only not panicked by the surprise attack, but looked at the enemy in the river with hot and belligerent eyes.

Jia Xu said hello to Zhou Cang. Zhou Cang climbed to the mast in a few steps and whistled a few times, and the loud whistle was transmitted to all directions, and the Jiangnan troops on the ships who heard it took out the prepared rockets and shot them at Jiangling City.

Thousands of rockets hit the Gangneung city wall like a dense meteor, and the grain and grass piled up on the city wall were ignited, and the Gangneung soldiers went to extinguish the fire, but they were only ignited by the rockets that continued to shoot, and then rolled on the ground to extinguish the fire. The rockets became more dense, and the rolling wood oil on the city wall to prevent the siege was ignited, and the Jiangnan army close to the city wall threw torches, and the torches hit the wooden barrel filled with the fire oil, and the burning oil was poured to the ground, and then it was ignited everywhere by the dense rockets, and the city of Gangneung became a sea of fire.

When Liu Pan arrived with a large army, he saw the soldiers on the city wall scurrying in the sea of fire, dodging rockets, and some soldiers were lying on the city wall to shoot arrows at the Jiangnan ships regardless of their own safety. Liu Pan shouted tragically:

"Brothers, retreat behind the gates of the city. As long as they don't break the door. ”

Liu Pan and his soldiers were strictly guarding the city, and the city wall became an oversized umbrella to help them shield them from the rain of rockets. But suddenly, I found that many rockets shot over the city wall and into the city, and the rockets did not shoot the soldiers under the city, but hit the wooden houses one by one, splashing crackling sparks. Some rockets were shot at the straw huts of poor people, and the straw huts were ignited suddenly, and the panicked people inside cursed and ran out, and the wooden houses that were close to the straw huts were also set on fire, and black smoke came out of the damp beams in the burning.

Liu Pan watched the black smoke swirling over Jiangling City, like a dark cloud covering the sky, and looked at the fiery red in front of him, and the hot blood flowing all over his body gradually became cold under the gradually warming firelight.

He hoarsely said to his soldiers:

"Kaesong surrenders."