"Be careful, lord!" Seeing more than 100 boulders flying towards them like this, most of the people were dumbfounded, but as Sun Quan's personal guard, the Xie Fu Army still reacted immediately, and hurriedly rushed forward to block him with the big shield in his hand.

"Bang bang!" Two boulders hit the shield, and the two soldiers who raised the shield shook their bodies, and finally couldn't help but sit on the ground, spitting out blood with "wow" in their mouths. Although Sun Quan was safe and sound, he was also shocked to see this situation.

"Lord, avoid it!" The rest of the guards hurriedly took advantage of the gap after the first wave of stone rain to protect Sun Quan to go down to the city. As soon as I reached the staircase, the second wave of stone rain came. Sun Quan heard the whistling sound of the boulder flying in his ears, and he still looked back at the situation on the city head at this moment in his busy schedule. Compared to the surprise when the first wave of stone rain hit, the defenders were finally a little defensive this time. Some use shield weapons to block, while others begin to dodge. But how much space can there be at the head of the city? Several people dodged and collided together, but they didn't have time to dodge and were hit by stones. As for the parry, the situation is not too good. Even if you block the flying boulder, you often can't withstand the huge force, and you are shocked to vomit blood.

"Let's go!" Sun Quan only glanced back at it, which was already shocking, and he didn't dare to stay longer at the moment, so he hurriedly went down to the city and went back to his mansion. At the same time, after about seven or eight rounds of stone rain, the defenders of the city finally understood that whether they were moving and dodging or blocking, they could not resist the stone by their individual ability, and they were now hiding behind the female wall in groups of turtles and turtles. But what kind of city are you still guarding this time? At the moment when the military marquis supervising the battle, Du Bo began to urge them to get up and prepare for battle, but unfortunately there were few responders. And after the soldiers were somewhat frightened and began to evade, consciously or unconsciously, these junior officers who supervised the war began to become the main bearers of the stone rain.

In fact, these seven or eight rounds of stone rain really threw hundreds of stones on the head of Wu County, and it was impossible to hit every shot, so the actual casualties caused were quite limited, with a total of only more than 300 people. But because this "dead appearance" is really shocking enough, they are all smashed by stones and are insincere, even if they are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, they can't help but be terrified when they see it, let alone those county soldiers.

"Fill the river, release the arrows!" Zhao Feng was a little frightened when he saw that the soldiers in the city had been suppressed, and then issued two more orders. Two other groups of people were divided into the phalanx of the Xuzhou army, and the first group rushed to the moat under the city of Wu County with bags full of sand and soil, and threw the bags into the river. Another group of men rushed up the dirt slope that had been built up the night before, pushing ballistas, and fired arrows at the defenders at the head of the city.

"Why are their crossbows so long?" Quan Zong, who was in charge of commanding the guards at the head of the city, saw that the opponent's ballista could shoot to his side from a long distance across the moat, and his eyes almost didn't pop out. According to Zhao Feng's suggestion, the attack on Wu Jun this time was not the large crossbow that was used when guarding Shouchun before, but a smaller model. There is no other reason, one is that there is no condescending advantage, and only by changing small arrows can the range be increased; Besides, wouldn't it be an enemy to shoot those giant arrows at Sun Quan, that thing could be used as a spear.

"Hey!" Quan Zong set aside a long arrow that was shooting head-on, and wanted to ask people to fight back, but he knew that the range of his bow and crossbow was not as good as that of the Xuzhou army, so he could only retreat and let them attack the soldiers who filled the river under the city. For a while, the city and the city were all fired, although there was no short-handed encounter, but the screams were already earth-shattering.

This kind of siege battle with high casualties Zhao Feng has not been useless before, but he has relied on the high danger of the city wall before, and he has bullied others with sharp bows and arrows, so it is unprecedented. Seeing that a ** soldier carried sandbags to fill the river in a unit, often 200 people would lose at least dozens of people when they returned, and this could only be done under the effective fire suppression of trebuchets and ballistas. If you rely on the well lanthanum to suppress the defenders as before, I am afraid that if this song passes, at least half of them will die.

Looking at Liu Bei and the others around him, their expressions were relatively indifferent. Accustomed to killing, they naturally didn't care about this small casualty. Zhao Feng asked himself, it has been almost nine years since he came to this world, but he still retains a surname characteristic of being a descendant, and such tragic casualties are what he does not want to see, but he also knows that there will be many such things in the future. The only thing we can do is to end this troubled world as soon as possible.

The siege battle on the first day was basically consumed in this river filling, after all, you can't even fill the moat, how can you take the ladder for the next step? When it came to the west, the moat was finally basically filled, at least to ensure that the next day we could build a ladder more calmly.

"Shi Yuan, do you think you can use this moat water to pour out Wu County?" Before filling the river, Zhao Feng consulted Pang Tong.

Pang Tong thought about it carefully, and finally shook his head and said: "General, this matter is a little difficult, it has just started spring, and the river has not risen. Moreover, the city of Wu County was built on a high place, and the city wall was dangerous, so even if the embankment was burst to release water, it was difficult to be irrigated. ”

"That's it!" Zhao Feng didn't have much hope, and when he saw Pang Tong say this, he could only do it. Throughout the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", only Cao Ying once diverted water to irrigate the city when he attacked Pi and Yecheng, and this method is unavoidable. And once this is implemented, it will inevitably cause all the soldiers and civilians in the city to suffer heavy casualties, and it will be difficult to appease the people at that time.

As for smashing the walls with trebuchets, this method is theoretically not impossible. However, looking at the solid city wall of Wu County, Zhao Feng estimated that it would take at least two or three months to take effect.

It only took a day to fill the moat, which is still going relatively well. At one point in the evening, the number of casualties was probably nearly 2,000 men, and most of them were killed by the defenders of the city. "It's not easy to fill the moat with only 2,000 casualties!" Liu Bei was also quite fortunate after learning the number of casualties, and so did Huang Zhong and the others who were discussing the matter together, usually if you want to fill a moat of this scale, it is unrealistic not to put nearly 10,000 people on hold, and now it is not easy to only suffer 2,000 casualties. As for the reason, they also knew that the defenders were relatively passive by the fire of ballistas and trebuchets, and could not fire arrows at the soldiers who filled the river.

That night, the Xuzhou army still set up camp in an orderly manner, patrolling the guards, and at the same time sent people out to collect the stones needed for the next day's trebuchet. Zhao Feng actually hoped that Sun Quan would have some courage and send someone out to sneak attack, so that he could also take the opportunity to bite him, but unfortunately this guy never let him get his wish.

Contrary to Liu Bei's happiness, at this time, in the city of Wu County, Sun Quan and the others were in a bit heavy. "The Xuzhou army, has the moat been filled?" Sun Quan asked with a frown.

'Exactly! Lu Meng, who was at the head of the bottom, bowed his head and replied. Last time, the three of them returned to Wu County after defeat, Tai Shici and Jiang Qin were transferred by Zhou Yu to guard Poyang and Chaisang, Lu Meng's official rank was not high, and Sun Quansuo's surname left him to guard Wu County, and he didn't want to encounter such a thing today.

"What about the casualties of the defenders today?" Sun Quan asked another crucial question.

"Our army suffered no more than a few hundred casualties." Lu Meng replied honestly. Although the stone rain at the beginning was more terrifying, the defenders saw that the Xuzhou army was just filling the river, so they were more or less grinders, dodging more, and fighting back less, and the casualties were not large.

"Ming said that Liu Bei was about to wave his army to attack the city, and all the princes should work together to defend the city." Sun Quan thought about it and didn't have anything else to say, so he could only explain the scene. At this time, Zhang Zhao came out to ease the atmosphere and said: "Don't be surprised, Liu Bei's army is only 70,000 or 80,000 people, and my Wu County garrison has 30,000 elite soldiers. Even if the Xuzhou army is so good, it is also delusional to rely on 70,000 people to break through the city defended by more than 30,000 people. ”

"That's right, what Zhang Gong said is true!" Pan Zhang nodded again and again when he heard this, and the rest of the civilian officials who were not very familiar with military strategy suddenly felt a little relieved when they heard this. It's just that when it's time to recruit his own soldiers, it's basically almost exhausted. After listening to Zhang Zhao's words, several people inadvertently exchanged their eyes with each other, and they knew what it meant, but Sun Quan and the others didn't notice this small abnormality for a while.

In the early morning of the second day, the Xuzhou army began to attack the city on a large scale. A group of soldiers carried the ladder to the bottom of the city, and after setting up the city, they began to climb up the ladder. It's a pity that the defenders won't let them climb up so easily, shoot arrows, throw stones, and even if they can't wait for him to climb to the top of the city, they will stab them with spears. At the same time, canisters filled with fire oil were also smashed down one after another, and then ignited, and many besieging soldiers were suddenly caught in a sea of fire.

However, the Xuzhou army was not only beaten and did not fight back, the ballistas and trebuchets on the dirt slope were still faithfully performing their duties, smashing a ** arrow and stone to the head of Wujun City, and each wave of arrows covered would harvest at least dozens of lives.

"It's so tragic!" Zhao Feng looked at the head of Wu County, which was already like purgatory in the world, and his heart was also shocked. A ** Xuzhou army rushed forward one after another, and then turned into corpses and was thrown down, these are all soldiers that he and Gao Shun worked hard to train, and they are gone. However, shock is shock, Zhao Feng still reminds himself at any time to concentrate and command the siege.

"General Zhao, the Jiangdong Army will not retreat from the battle, and our army has suffered great casualties!" At this time, Huang Zhong ran out of breath. Early this morning, Huang Zhong took the initiative to ask for battle to call for battle, wanting to lure the other party out of the city to fight. I didn't want Sun Quan to be determined to hold on, and he was indifferent in the face of this half-hundred-year-old man's battle, so he had to attack.

"Don't be anxious, the old general, Wu Jun can not be broken!" Zhao Feng said in a deep voice, seeing that the Jiangdong Army on the left side of this city wall was a little weak, he hurriedly asked the trebuchet to turn around and smash it there for two rounds, and then an assault team took the opportunity to kill it.

"It's a pity!" The assault team only killed about 100 people, and the Jiangdong Army, which had always been obviously in reserve, suddenly surrounded and hanged, and the number was at least three or four times that of the assault team. The assault team was outnumbered, and in the end, except for more than 30 people who withdrew with wounds, the rest remained in the city.

On this day, the siege of Jiangdong defenders lost nearly 2,000 people, but the Xuzhou army also suffered nearly 4,000 casualties. If this battle continues like this, both sides will die in a month's time. That night, Liu Bei convened everyone to discuss the matter, and Pang Tong and Lu Su both said that it was not appropriate to attack again, and it was better to besiege it. Wait until the defenders are relaxed, and then make a calculation. Liu Bei heard everyone say this, and the casualties of such a hard fight were indeed too great, so he had to nod and agree at the moment.

At the same time, in the Jiangdong military tent on the west bank of the Ganjiang River, Zhou Yu also suddenly convened the generals to discuss the matter. "Ladies and gentlemen, I intend to bring troops back to Wu County!" Zhou Yu suddenly said, as soon as this statement was outstanding, he would be in an uproar.

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