At the head of Gangneung City in the middle of the night, looking at the camp of the coalition army outside the city, Kuai Yue was now very uneasy.

Since the tentative siege of the city a few days ago, the coalition forces have almost completely abandoned the plan to storm the city, and have turned to smashing Gangneung Fortress with trebuchets all night and night. Although this thing looks bluffing, Kuai Yue also knows that with the strong city walls of Gangneung, he will not want to smash it for three or four months.

"Could it be that Guan Yu wants to consume slowly?" Kuai Yue quickly denied his idea, if he used such a stupid idea, then Guan Yu's huge name would be too worthless. According to the defeated soldiers who fled from Xiangyang, Guan Yu was simply a reincarnation of killing gods, and he had nightmares when he thought about it.

"What is Guan Yu's idea of fighting?" Kuai Yue couldn't figure it out. For a wise man like him, once he can't figure things out, the uneasiness in his heart will become stronger and stronger, and Kuai Yue is now in such a state.

The trebuchets under the city have been removed, and Kuai Yue has been frightened by these trebuchets these days. On the second day of the trebuchet, Kuai Yue once sent a captain with 5,000 men to kill the opponent's trebuchet, but the long-awaited coalition forces quickly made dumplings. Five thousand, five came back in the end, and the rest were either captured or killed. Since then, Kuaiyue has completely given up the idea of taking the initiative.

Not to mention that Kuai Yue was uneasy, in Guan Yu's big tent at this time, Zhou Cang was reporting to him on the construction of the embankment. "At present, the water storage has exceeded three zhang, and I don't know when the water can be released?" Zhou Cang asked.

"Wait, the rain is not very abundant this year, wait a few more days." Guan Yu thought for a while. After the discussion was over, Zhao Feng felt that his mood was a little heavy, and he couldn't sleep for a while, so he put on his coat and walked out of the village gate to take a look.

"Kong Ming, you didn't sleep either?" Seeing a figure shaking a feather fan looking at the flowing water by the river, it was Zhuge Liang, and Zhao Feng also stepped forward and asked.

"I can't sleep!" Zhuge Liang sighed. Ever since Guan Yu decided to flood Jiangling, Zhuge Liang had become very silent. These days, everyone is busy building embankments to store water, except for Zhou Cang and others who are building, the rest of the people are relatively idle, and Zhuge Liang is hanging around with his fan all day long.

"Kong Ming, is it wrong for you to say that we sent troops to Jingxiang?" Zhao Feng suddenly asked, Zhuge Liang looked at Zhao Feng with some surprise when he heard this, but saw that the latter frowned, and immediately sighed and said: "This is a last resort, if it weren't for Cai Mao and Kuai Yue to do this rebellious thing, why wouldn't it be like this?" After a pause, Zhuge Liang also sighed: "Cai Mao has been captured now, and when it is said that the people of Xiangyang City were burned to death by him, nearly 100,000 people." There are still 300,000 people in Gangneung today, and when the flood occurs, I am afraid that it will be good to survive half of them. ”

"300,000 people?" Zhao Feng said with some surprise. looked at Jiangling City in the distance, but he didn't expect that there were more people in this city than in the entire Lujiang County under his rule. "Jingbei is a densely populated place, and there are no less than four million people in Jingxiang, of which the counties of Jingbei add up to nearly three million." Zhuge Liang said carefully.

"That's it." Zhao Feng admitted. The day before yesterday, Zhuge Liang told him that after Li Yan pacified Wancheng, the population of the entire Nanyang County had reached 500,000. If it were replaced by Nanyang County in the Yuan Shu era, including the current Xiangyang and Zhangling, the population would definitely be in the millions. The population of a county alone is almost the top of a medium-sized state, and Jingxiang's wealth can be seen. In this battle of Jingbei, except for Zhangling, which was not much damaged because of the surrender of the defenders, the rest of the four counties of Nanyang, Nanjun, Yidu, and Xiangyang were all war-torn places. I don't know how many people will be left after this battle.

"By the way, I reported in detail the previous time, Yuan Benchu gathered troops in Pingqiu, and it seems that he is preparing to fight Cao Mengde again." Zhuge Liang suddenly diverted the topic and said, but Zhao Feng's brows furrowed when he heard this. "Yuan Benchu was anxious to report the revenge of Guandu, and he had to fight again after just over a year, even if Hebei was rich, I was afraid that it would be difficult to win. If he loses this battle again, he is afraid that he will not be able to turn over at all. Zhao Feng thought about it carefully and said, in history, in the battle of Cangting this winter, Yuan Shao lost to the bottom. If nothing else, Yuan Shao will burp next year. His three unsuccessful children were going to fight for the land of Hebei, and Cao Mengde was cheapened in vain. However, what Zhao Feng never expected was that due to his butterfly effect, Yuan Shang, who was supposed to succeed to the throne, was in Qingzhou to resist Zhang Fei at the moment, but Yuan Tan, who should have been in Youzhou at this moment in history, accompanied Yuan Shao to deal with Cao Ying. What the outcome of this battle will be is unpredictable for a while.

"Kong Ming, do you think after this battle, can the lord enter Jingxiang?" Zhao Feng suddenly asked. Zhuge Liang lowered his head and thought for a while before he spoke: "Now that Jingxiang's chaos has calmed down, the Cai clan will be wiped out. The other three wealthy families, the Pang family has Shiyuan under the lord's account, the head of the Huang family is Jiayue, and Ji Chang and others of the Ma family have also admired the lord for a long time. It's just that among Liu Jingsheng's clan, I'm afraid that some people won't agree to the lord to easily enter Jingxiang. However, these people have limited power and are difficult to influence the overall situation. ”

"That's right, people like Liu Pan will definitely not agree." Zhao Feng also nodded and said, these days, Liu Pan has regarded himself as a Jingzhou person in front of them, intentionally or unintentionally keeping a distance from them, which also makes Zhao Feng quite unhappy. It's just that what happened later was not something they could have predicted on paper.

A few days later, Zhou Cang came to report that the stagnant water was enough, and the rafts of the water war had been cleaned up. Guan Yu ordered to dig the embankment in the middle of the night and release water to collapse Jiangling City. At the same time, he ordered Gan Ning and Zhou Tai, who had just arrived, to lead 5,000 soldiers each and take a raft to prepare to enter the city to engage in battle.

That night, Zhou Cang led people to dig a hole in the embankment. The water, which had been pent up for a long time, suddenly began to flow into the river behind the embankment. At first, it was relatively gentle, but the water became stronger and stronger, gradually breaking down the entire embankment, and then rushing towards Gangneung Fortress.

The roar of thunder woke up many sleeping soldiers and civilians in Gangneung, and just as they wondered why there was still thunder in October, the flood had already rushed up the city wall. The western city wall, which had been taken care of by the trebuchets before, suddenly couldn't bear this huge force, and was knocked open a big gap, and the river immediately poured into Gangneung City.

In their sleep, a sudden catastrophe struck, and the soldiers and civilians of Gangneung suddenly panicked, and many people had been killed in their sleep. In just half an hour, the water in the city had reached a zhang.

"My lord, Guan Yu sent someone to kill him by boat!" Cai He, who didn't have time to put on his armor, took a small raft and rowed to the front of Kuai Yue, who had just ascended a high ground. The latter didn't seem to hear Cai He talking, just looked at the ocean in front of him, and suddenly laughed wildly.

"Liu Pan, Guan Yu, you are ruthless enough! Gangneung City is ruined, don't think about having a good time! You are ruthless enough, ruthless enough! Kuai Yue laughed wildly as if he had lost his mind. Cai Hezheng didn't deal with it, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart and had been hit by an arrow. turned around to look, but saw a general on a small boat who had just put down the longbow in his hand, and Cai He, who was about to lose consciousness, remembered that he was Gan Ning, the general of Xuzhou who had cooperated with his own side to conquer Yuzhang.

"Take it away!" After escorting the dejected Kuai Yue onto the boat and tying him up, Gan Ning ordered someone to send him to Guan Yu, and he continued to eliminate the remnants of the enemy. On the other side, Huang Yan led hundreds of his own soldiers to fight to the death, and was finally killed by Zhou Tai, and the rest fled in a rout.

"Marquis of the Emperor, the stagnant water in the city has begun to retreat, and General Zhou Tai is leading the people and the remnants of the enemy to fight fiercely."

"Yujun Hou, Kuai Yue was captured by General Gan Ning, and Captain Zhou Cang is escorting him here."

"Your Majesty, the upstream dam has been rebuilt, and the water level has returned to normal."

A series of information was reported to the coalition camp outside Jiangling City like a flowing price, Guan Yu, who was sitting in the main seat of the handsome tent, listened silently, but his expression was silent, it seemed that the rapid capture of Jiangling was not too happy for him.

Guan Yu bowed his head, except for the generals who were still fighting fiercely, almost all the rest were there, but they were not too excited. Zhuge Liang and Liu Pan, as Jingxiang people, naturally did not want to see the situation of their hometown full of water. Zhao Feng doesn't like to kill innocent people indiscriminately, and he can't use this kind of strategy. Even though the rest of the generals had the heart to celebrate, when they saw these bigwigs, they all looked indifferent, and they wisely chose to shut up.

Not long after Zhou Cang took Kuai Yue, who was tied up by five flowers, although the latter was embarrassed, but his expression was extremely stubborn, and as soon as he entered the tent, he scolded: "Guan Yu, if you do such a poisonous plan, you will be punished by God, and you will die in three years!" Liu Pan, as a Jingxiang person, you actually helped the abuse, and he said that he couldn't die well! Kuai Yue didn't have the consciousness of a captive at all, and as soon as he came in, he scolded him.

Guan Yu has always despised scholars, that is, Zhuge Liang can smooth his temper and let him give some face. Now Kuai Yue is so arrogant, and Guan Yu is not in a good mood, and his face is even more unsightly. Just as he was about to attack, he saw Zhuge Liang actually jumped up, stepped forward and kicked Kuai Yue, and then pulled out his fist and hit.

"Kuaiyue dog thief, if you hadn't made a rebellion, how could the people of Jingxiang suffer this catastrophe!" Zhuge Liang scolded while beating, punching and kicking without the usual state of Risven. Guan Yu and Zhao Feng looked at each other, but they didn't bother to pull it, this Kuai Yue was the culprit, and he deserved to be beaten.

Zhuge Liang is finally a person who has planted the field, and he still has a few strengths, and this time the pampered Kuai Yue's nose and face are swollen and covered with blood, so he stopped hatefully and sat down to breathe. Guan Yu ordered people to drag down Kuai Yue, who was beaten half to death by Zhuge Liang, and then sent an envoy to tell Liu Bei and Liu Biao on the one hand, and on the other hand, he stepped up to remove the stagnant water in Jiangling City, and arrested the Cai family and the related people of the Kuai family.

After a few days, the water in Jiangling City receded, and the Cai family and the Kuai clan totaled more than 800 people, except for more than 10 people who were lucky enough to escape, all of them were captured, and Guan Yu was temporarily detained in the camp, waiting for Liu Bei and Liu Biao to deal with it. The number of casualties was also counted, and less than half of the nearly 300,000 civilians and 50,000 defenders in Gangneung City were left after the flood receded. Of these, the defenders could not capture more than 20,000 prisoners, the rest died in the flood and chaos, and more than 100,000 of the 300,000 inhabitants remained.

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