Shouchun City Head.

Zhou Yu waved the feather fan in his hand forward and said loudly: "Start fighting back!" ”

The herald standing behind Zhou Yu quickly raised a command flag and waved it vigorously twice, and on the corner forts on the left and right sides of the enemy tower, the leading Wu general Qiang drew his sword and held it high above the top, looking up to the sky and shouting: "Shoot!" ”

"Suddenly!"

Two huge crossbow arrows shot out of the crossbow bed like lightning, and the cold light hit the side wall of the Liang army's siege engine, and the cluster of arrows with barbs pierced the wooden wall several inches thick. The leader of the army Wu gave an order, and the Wu soldiers on the corner fort quickly twisted the winch, and the rope tied to the crossbow arrow was quickly tightened, and in the squeak of the winch turning, the towering siege vehicle soon began to tilt.

The two Liang Army infantrymen who had just stepped on the drawbridge slipped under their feet, fell from the bridge deck, tumbled and tumbled into the moat, and never floated again, only two balls of red blood stained the water.

The rear of the Liang army.

"What's going on? Siege engines seem to be toppling? ”

Ma Yue stood up from his seat and looked ahead in disbelief.

Shouchun City.

"Quack quack...... Rumble! ”

When the towering siege vehicle tilted to a certain angle, it finally lost its center of gravity and fell down, and the infantry of the Liang Army crowded under the siege vehicle hurriedly ran to dodge, however, many people were still crushed by the heavily fallen siege vehicle, with broken tendons and bones, and died! In less than a meal, the twenty siege vehicles had been pulled down by the Wu army, and the remaining three siege vehicles had also been seriously tilted and could tip at any time.

Liang Jun was behind, Ma Yue's facial muscles twitched violently twice, and he shouted from between his teeth: "Order...... Collect the troops! ”

"Woo woo woo ......"

Ma Yue gave an order, the rear of the Liang army suddenly sounded the desolate and distant horn horn, hearing the horn sound, the Liang army infantry crowded under Shouchun City quickly turned around and retreated, less than a moment to withdraw from Shouchun City cleanly, the original noisy battlefield has been in disarray at this time, only the wreckage of twenty siege engines and hundreds of corpses of fallen soldiers remained.

"Roaring ......"

"Roaring ......"

"Roaring ......"

Seeing the retreat of the Liang army, the soldiers of the Wu army at the head of Shouchun City were overjoyed and raised their weapons to celebrate.

On the enemy floor, Lu Meng and Lu Xun said to Zhou Yu: "Governor Dadu, the Liang army has withdrawn, hehe!" ”

"Hmm." Zhou Yu nodded happily and said loudly, "Bendu has long said that when the horse butcher comes to attack Shouchun, he is simply sent to death. ”

……

It's night.

In the north of Shouchun City, the camp of the Liang army.

"I wanted to kill Wu Jun by surprise, but I didn't want to succeed." Ma Yue looked up to the sky and sighed, "It's worthy of Zhou Yu, he broke the lonely's siege vehicle trick so easily, alas." ”

"yes." Jia Xu nodded and muttered, "It's especially unbelievable that Zhou Yu was able to find the weakness of the siege vehicle in such a short period of time, this person's ability to perceive subtleties and adapt to changes is indeed first-class!" I thought that in the whole world, only the lord and Cao Ying, the thief, could be compared with Zhou Yu! ”

"Wenhe is overrated." Ma Yue muttered, "Zhou Yu is ashamed of himself with soldiers, but I'm afraid that Cao Ying should be slightly inferior." ”

"Zijing." Ma Yue suddenly turned his gaze to Lu Su and asked, "You and Zhou Yu used to be close friends, do you think Zhou Yu has weaknesses?" ”

Lu Su replied without hesitation: "There are no shortcomings. ”

"No drawbacks?" Ma Yue frowned and said, "Then it's troublesome!" ”

Kuai Yue suddenly stepped out and said to Ma Yue: "Since the strong attack is difficult to work, why doesn't the prime minister take a surprise attack?" ”

"Surprise strategy?" Ma Yue asked, "Will the plan be released?" ”

Kuai Yue said: "Yue has carefully observed the nearby terrain, found that the terrain of Shouchun is low, the surrounding two hundred miles are depressions, even if it is the Huai River that passes through the city, its level is slightly higher than the ground, the prime minister only needs to send an army to build an embankment in the upper reaches of the Huai River to store water, and then break the embankment to release water after the water level rises, so that the soldiers can flood Shouchun without blood. ”

"Good plan!" Li Su said, "Flooded Shouchun? A good plan on the end. ”

"Nope." Ma Yue shook his head and said, "If the city is broken by flooding, hundreds of miles within a radius of Shouchun or even the entire Huainan will become a Ze country, and hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land will be harvested. Don't forget that in the current Huainan County, there are more than 3 million Xuzhou people forcibly moved by Sun Quan and Zhou Yu in Tuntian! ”

Kuai Yue said: "Prime Minister ......"

"It's a big mistake to say that." Ma Yue Huoran raised his hand and said categorically, "Lone is the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, how can he sacrifice more than 4 million innocent people for just a Shouchun City." ”

Kuai Yue said: "Lord, the eldest husband has something to do and something not to do, and he should constantly suffer from it." ”

Ma Yue said: "The decision has been made, and there is no need to say much about the different degrees!" ”

"Ugh."

Kuai Yue sighed lightly and turned around to join the ranks, but there was not much disappointment on his face, although Ma Yue was notorious and murderous, but at least he was still sympathetic to the people, and the Han Dynasty could have such a prime minister, which can be described as a blessing for all the people in the world.

"The prime minister is wise." Lu Su suddenly flashed out of the ranks, bowed respectfully to Ma Yue three times, and said loudly, "On behalf of the millions of people in Huainan, I have thanked the prime minister for not killing him. ”

"That's it." Ma Yue shook his hand and said, "Zijing doesn't have to be like this. ”

Lu Su said: "Prime Minister, Su has a stupid way, or he can break Shouchun." ”

"Oh?" Ma Yue said happily, "Zi Jing come quickly." ”

Lu Su said: "The prime minister can order the soldiers to build a platform outside Shouchun City, the height should be several zhang higher than the Shouchun city wall, and then gather the archers on the high platform to release arrows condescending in Shouchun City, and then order the soldiers to continue to fill the soil forward, and so that the high platform continues to extend forward until the head of Shouchun City is filled, which is also the time when our army breaks through Shouchun!" ”

"Good plan." Kuai Yue praised, "Although Zhou Yu is powerful in using soldiers, he can't crack this soil filling technique." ”

"Oh?" Ma Yue exchanged glances with Jia Xu and said happily, "This is a good way." ”

Li Su said: "Filling the city with negative soil is really a way, but is there enough time?" ”

Lu Su said: "You can make a rough estimate, if the top width of this high platform is thirty zhang, and the base width is fifty zhang, the average width is forty zhang (about 92 meters), and the height is six zhang, and the high platform needs to be filled from outside the range of Wu army archers to the head of Shouchun City, and the depth before and after must be at least 100 zhang (about 231 meters), so it can be concluded that a total of 24,000 cubic meters of soil is needed!" The soil of one cubic abbot is about 150,000 catties, so it takes about 360,000 catties of soil to build this high platform. ”

"Three hundred and sixty thousand catties?" Kuai Yue continued, "If 100,000 soldiers are asked to carry soil to build a platform, an average of 36,000 catties of soil will be carried per soldier!" ”

Lu Su said: "If the soil is taken nearby, each soldier can go back and forth at least ten times a day, and each trip can carry a hundred catties of soil, and a thousand catties of soil a day, so it can be roughly concluded that it will take about thirty-six days!" Considering the harassment of the Wu army and the influence of various factors, the actual time required may be longer, but our army has as many as 200,000 troops, and there is still a large amount of animal power and horse-drawn carriages available, and the time should not exceed forty days. ”

Jia Xu couldn't help but praise: "Zijing has a lot of research on the art of taking soil and filling the city?" ”

"Don't dare to hide from the military division." Lu Su said, "When I was young, I often studied the art of attacking and defending the city with my friends, and I was reckless and dull, so I only thought of this clumsy technique of breaking the city, so I studied it slightly." ”

"The friend in Zijing's mouth must be Zhou Yu, right?" Ma Yue laughed loudly, "It's a big coincidence, this time, Zhou Yu is afraid that he will be defeated by Zijing!" Hahaha, I want to see if Zhou Yu can come up with any way to crack Zijing's soil filling technique, hum! ”

Ma Yue said this and shouted: "Kuai Yue, Lu Su listen to the order!" ”

Kuai Yue and Lu Su hurriedly stepped out and arched their hands: "But it depends on the punishment." ”

Ma Yue said: "Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, you will order the three armies to take the soil and fill the city!" ”

"Command."

Lu Su and Kuai Yue shook their hands again, and their expressions were solemn.

Ma Yue said to Jia Xu again: "Wenhe, immediately send an order to all armies, obey the orders of Zijing and Xenodu, and there must be no mistakes." ”

Jia Xu arched his hand and said, "Obey." ”

……

Shouchun City, Wu Gongfu.

"Okay, great!" Sun Quan took the case and said loudly, "The Liang army stormed Shouchun for half a month, and now the siege ladder plan is also broken by the public, the horse butcher technique stops here, but there is no need to worry, only Gao Shunzhi's left side is biased, but I don't know if the old general Huang Gai can block it in the south of Hefei?" ”

Zhou Yu's shirt fluttered, the feather fan shook gently, Shi Shiran said: "The lord doesn't have to worry, for Gao Shun's partial division, Yu has already arranged, and Veteran Huang only needs to act according to the plan, and he can be invincible, even if he can't break Gao Shun's army, but it is more than enough to hold on to Xiaoyaojin for a few months." ”

Sun Quan said happily: "In this way, you can sit back and relax." ”

"Wu Gong." While the two were talking, a small official suddenly stepped forward and said, "The wine feast has been prepared." ”

"Hehe, okay." Sun Quan solemnized his hand to Zhou Yu and said, "Gongjin, please." ”

Zhou Yu also smiled and said, "My lord, please." ”

……

Hefei North Effect, Xiaoyaojin.

A team of small boats, rafts along the river like a shuttle, the timber, stone to the river in a steady stream, the river on the island fluttering, murderous sky, a magnificent naval army village in the mist and rain looming.

Huang Gai, Huang Shan, father and son stood on the bank of the Weishui River surrounded by dozens of personal soldiers.

Huang Shan asked Huang Gai puzzled: "The city of Hefei is strong enough to resist the enemy, why did my father only leave light troops to defend the city, and gather heavy troops in Xiaoyaojin?" ”

Huang Gai said: "I don't know about it, this is the plan of the governor." ”

Huang Shandao said: "The plan of the Grand Governor? ”

"Not bad." Huang Gai nodded, pointing to the vast river facing Huang Shan, "You see, this water originates from the General Ridge, and it is divided into two to Xiaoyaojin, two hundred miles to the north out of Shouchun and into the Huai River, and more than 100 miles to the south into Chaohu, almost separating the Lujiang River from Huainan Shengsheng, our army to hold Xiaoyaojin is equivalent to choking the throat of Gao Shun's army to go north to Shouchun!" ”

Huang Shandao said: "I see. ”

Huang Gai said: "And Xiaoyaojin and Hefei are not more than a few miles apart, if the Liang army attacks Hefei, the defenders of Xiaoyaojin Water Army Dazhai can support from the waterway at any time, if the Liang army attacks Xiaoyaojin, hehe......"

Huang Shant nodded and said: "The Liang army does not have a water army, and attacking Xiaoyaojin across the river is tantamount to looking for death by yourself." ”

……

The next morning, Zhou Yu made a big tent.

Zhou Yu was dancing his sword in the open space in front of the tent, and suddenly saw Lu Meng, Lu Xun, Xu Shu, Tai Shici and others coming together, Xu Shu beckoned: "Governor, it's not good." ”

Zhou Yu put away his sword and breathed, and asked indifferently: "Yuan Zhi, what's the matter?" ”

Xu Shu said: "The Liang army is moving again!" ”

"Oh?" Zhou Yu said, "What's the movement?" ”

Xu Shu said: "I can't say it in the next hour and a half, so the governor should go to the city to have a look by himself." ”

"Hmm." Zhou Yu's eyes flashed, and he said loudly, "Okay, you can go up to the city with the governor to have a look, and the governor wants to see what tricks the horse butcher has come up with?" ”

After saying that, Zhou Yu handed the sword to his own soldiers, and with the help of the attendants, he put it up neatly, and then hurriedly climbed to the north gate with Xu Shu, Lu Meng, Lu Xun and others, stood on the enemy tower and looked out, only to see that the originally empty open space of the city had been dug out by the Liang army Dozens of large and small soil pits.

Tai Shi Ci said in confusion: "I really don't understand what the horse butcher is going to do, is it digging a tunnel?" ”

"Authentically?" Lu Meng shook his head and said, "How can such a big pit be dug in the tunnel?" And if the Liang army really wants to dig tunnels to attack the city, it should act in secret, how can there be any fanfare? Once the strategy of attacking the city through the tunnel is discovered, our army only needs to dig through the tunnel first, and then introduce the backfilling, and the Liang army that drilled into the tunnel should feed the fish and shrimp in the water. ”

Tai Shi Ci shook his head and asked rhetorically, "Then Yi Ziming, what is the horse butcher doing?" ”

Lu Meng pondered for a moment and then replied: "According to the general, the Liang army may be going to build a high platform outside the city, and then deploy archers on the high platform to counter our army. ”

"Build a high platform, cloth archers?" Tai Shi Ci said disapprovingly, "It's unlikely, the small dirt mountain where the Liang army dumped the soil is more than a hundred zhang away from Shouchun City, and the bow and arrow can't shoot so far." ”

Lu Meng scratched his head and said, "This is also where the last general is confused. ”

Everyone was speechless, and Zhou Yu, who was frowning and contemplating, suddenly changed his face and shouted loudly: "Ah, it's not good! ”

The crowd hurriedly asked, "Why is the Metropolitan Governor like this?" ”

"Liang Jun is going to take the soil and fill the city!" Zhou Yu's face became unprecedentedly solemn, and he said in a deep voice, "Zijing, this plan must have been set up by Zijing, alas, I didn't expect Zijing to still take refuge in the horse butcher!" ”

"Fill the city?" Xu Shu, Lu Meng, and Lu Xun looked at each other in shock, "Take the soil and fill the city!" ”

Tai Shi Ci asked, "Governor Dadu, who is Zijing?" ”

Zhou Yu sighed and said: "Zijing's surname is Lu Mingsu, he is a close friend of the young man of this governor, he was taken captive by the horse butcher to Guanzhong eight years ago, and he doesn't want to serve in front of the horse butcher's tent. ”

Tai Shi Ci said: "Is this person very powerful? ”

Zhou Yu sighed: "This person is wise and foolish, and he is clumsy, so he can not be under this governor." ”

"Huh? This person's ability is comparable to that of the Grand Duke!? Tai Shi Ci lost his voice and said, "In this way, this technique of taking soil and filling the city must be extremely powerful, and this earth harvesting will be seen, but I really don't understand how to fill the city?" Could it be that the soil dug up by the Liang army will grow wings and fly over to fill the moat? ”

"Ugh." Xu Shu sighed and said, "Hasn't General Taishi seen it yet?" The Liangzhou army not only has to fill in the moat, but also fills in a smooth road in front of Shouchun City that is enough for the Mobei cavalry to directly kill the city! ”

"What? How is this possible! Tai Shi Ci didn't believe it, "How long will it take to fill in such a smooth road?" ”

Lu Meng said: "There are so many soldiers in Liangzhou, as long as one person carries a few baskets of soil, it is enough!" ”

Tai Shi Ci said: "No matter how many soldiers there are in Liangzhou, can they really fill in the smooth road within three months?" ”

Zhou Yu said in a deep voice: "I remember when I was young, Ben Du had a dispute with Zijing, that is, how long does it take to break the city by using the technique of taking soil and filling the city, and the final estimate is that it will not take too long at all, at most it will only take thirty or fifty days to build a smooth road between the ground and the five-zhang high city wall!" ”

"Huh? As long as thirty or fifty? Tai Shi Ci lost his voice and said, "Metropolitan Governor, it is better to let the last general lead the cavalry out of the city to sneak attack, at least it can delay the progress of the Liang army." ”

"Didn't General Taishi see the cavalry on both flanks?" Zhou Yu said coldly, "I'm afraid that your cavalry has just left the city, and before you have time to line up your formation, you have already been surrounded and annihilated by these two teams of cavalry!" ”

"What then?" Tai Shi Ci said, "You can't sit still." ”

"Back to camp." Zhou Yu frowned and said, "Let's talk about it later." ”

After saying that, Zhou Yu turned around and walked away, leaving only Tai Shici and Lu Mengzhong to look at each other, and they dispersed after a while.

(To be continued)