Zhou Yu, who returned to the camp station, carefully counted the dead and wounded in Jinyue, and found that nearly 2,000 soldiers had died on his southern side alone, and more than 3,000 had been wounded. Although most of the wounded soldiers were unlucky enough to be cut on the arm by an arrow because they were not close to the city wall, they were unable to participate in the battle for seven or eight days.

Lu Su, who joined the army, had been following Zhou Yu and saw the brutality of the battle today, and comforted: "Governor, Cao Ren is afraid that he has shot one or two thousand arrows, and I think that no matter how many arrows he has in Jiangling City, it will not be enough to consume." ”

"Of course Yu knows," Zhou Yu sighed: "It's just that Bo Fu entrusted the army of Jiangdong to me, but the battle of Chibi has not killed or injured so many soldiers, and I don't want to lose so much when I attack the city today." ”

"Then the governor said that he would still attack the city?" Lu Su asked.

"Attack." Zhou Yu knew that time was running out, and said: "If you don't attack, I'm afraid that Cao Ren will be relieved, Cao Ren has to deal with three sides, and he has few soldiers, so he won't be able to last a few days." By the way, someone is here to invite Joe Protector to come. ”

After Zhou Yu and the other soldiers went to invite Qiao Ren, he said to Lu Su: "Although Ziyan has little experience in battle, he has quite a lot of experience in attacking dangerous places. Instead, listen to what he has to say. ”

In less than half an hour, Qiao Ren got up and hurried over. Before entering the door, Zhou Yu pulled him into the tent and said, "Ziyan can get something today." ”

Qiao Ren also knew that Zhou Yu was a little anxious recently, and finally the big victory in Chibi was the time of the rise of Jiangdong, but in Hefei, Sun Ce was beaten back; And Jiangling has not been able to attack for a long time, and there is Liu Bei in the public security (Liu Bei changed his name to public security at the mouth of the oil river), which is called how Zhou Yu is not in a hurry. Qiao Ren pondered for a moment and said: "Since ancient times, the siege of the city has been nothing more than "Lin (building an attack near the mountain), hook (hook ladder climbing the city), ladder (cloud ladder), Yan (filling the city ditch), water (water attack), hole (digging tunnels), sudden (piercing the secret door), moth Fu (dense climbing the city), Xuanche (attacking the city with a towering Xuanche), Yilunche, hollow (tunnel siege), Chong and so on. Now that the Governor has failed to attack the city head-on, it is better to try other ones such as tunnels. ”

At this time, Lu Su said: "Ziyan, you don't know, Jiangling has a special topography, the soil is soft, and the tunnel cannot be fixed, and the terrain of Jiangling is much higher than that of Hanshui, so it is impossible to use water attack. ”

Qiao Ren was also indifferent when he heard this, there are twelve ways to attack the city, but in fact, except for a few, the others are all strong attacks, and now the method of using the trick is basically not good, and only the flying hook is left.

Sure enough, Qiao Ren said: "The governor of the capital, Jiangling City is big, and Cao Ren has few defenders, and he has been fighting for a long time. It's better to choose people who are good at using flying hooks to climb walls, and not to participate in siege battles. Today, our army has already filled up the moat, and if it is said that it can attack the city wall, it will greatly consume the enemy's energy, and then send the flying hook men before dawn to attack the enemy's weak defenses and attack him unprepared. ”

Qiao Ren's meaning is also very simple, that is, to bully the other party with few people. Zhou Yu also nodded when he heard this, if he attacked the city wall during the day tomorrow, even if he was driven down, the loss would be acceptable. But if this plan is successful, the benefits far outweigh the costs. "Okay, Zijing immediately informed General Zhou Tai and told him that he didn't have to participate in the siege and prepared for a sneak attack."

Zhou Tai's troops said above that there are too many water thieves, and the flying hook is the most slippery, so he is the most suitable for sneak attacks. The next time, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was already out of time, and Zhou Yu's army came to Jiangling City again.

"General, the enemy army is attacking the city again." Chen Jiao said to Cao Ren.

Cao Ren glanced at the city, only one moat had been filled, if Zhou Yu attacked the city at any cost, within three days, Cao Ren would have no arrows to use. Moreover, there are only 4,000 men and horses that can be used to defend the south gate, and there are 10,000 horses of the Wu army at each of the two northwest gates. Although there was no one at the east gate, they could not be unguarded, so they left 800 soldiers at the northwest second gate, 300 at the east gate, and 1,000 soldiers as the general reserve. And yesterday in the first battle, although it was a defense, Cao Ren's men had lost nearly 1,000 people for a long time, so now Cao Ren will use 3,000 people to guard against more than 40,000 Wu troops outside the city.

Seeing that Cao Ren was silent, Chen Jiao continued: "General, yesterday we used up 13,000 arrows, and our army can't recover them, and now our army has less than 50,000 arrows left, and our army will have no arrows to shoot for a long time. Looking at Cao Ren, who was unresponsive, Chen Jiao continued to shout: "General? ”

"Alright." Cao Ren waved his hand and said, "If you keep these arrows and don't use them, you won't have a chance to use them again." The main book, you can go down to prepare gold water and fire oil, and now I am afraid that the Wu people will attack the city wall. ”

Chen Jiao let out a long sigh when she heard the words and said, "General, has the matter come to this?" After speaking, he didn't wait for Cao Ren to answer, and went down to the city by himself.

Outside the city, as yesterday, the Wu army set up a formation, but the difference was that the Wu army was not carrying sandbags. More ladders were put up, and a few giant crossbows were brought with them.

"The army is besieging the city!" Zhou Yu gave an order, but the first thing to start was not the rushing car and the ladder, but a few giant crossbows erected on a high place, and the position where the crossbow arrows were aimed was not Cao Jun on the female wall, but the city wall. Looking at the increasing huge crossbow arrows on the city wall, Cao Ren couldn't stop falling in a cold sweat, "Quick! Fire oil! The Wu people wanted to use the crossbow arrows as a fulcrum to climb up. Cao Ren shouted loudly, watching the enemy get closer and closer, Cao Ren also calmed down, "The archer waits for the enemy to get close and throw within fifty steps." The crossbowman is fully responsible for the crossbowmen on the chariot. ”

Today, the generals who are besieging the city have been replaced by Dong Xi and the veteran Huang Gai, between which Huang Gai has two whips on his fingers, and he has to command the soldiers to advance. "It's on the shelf." There was an exclamation from the rushing car, it turned out that Zhou Yu did not only place crossbowmen on the rushing car, but replaced them with foot soldiers holding shields, originally Cao Jun was still waiting for the wooden board to open and shoot at Wu Jun but found that Wu Jun's rushing car ignored them at all, and directly put the wooden plank closer to the city wall.

Huang Gai was also overjoyed when he saw this, and shouted, "The soldiers come with me." After speaking, he snatched a shield, handed over the double whip to the guard, put the ring head knife in his mouth, and climbed up the escalator with a shield in one hand, and Dong Xi on the side saw that Huang Gai was so desperate that the veteran was not to be outdone.

After half an hour of fighting, although all the soldiers on the rushing car were killed, they caused a lot of damage to Cao Renjun and attracted great firepower. And Huang Gai and Dong Xi also rushed to the city tower almost at the same time, and their personal guards also protected the two generals with shields.

At this time, the position of the original Zhou Yu battle flag, which was a mile away, was empty.

"Governor, here." "The Metropolitan Governor, personally supervise the formation." It turned out that in order to cause greater oppression on the city wall, Zhou Yu personally rode to a place less than sixty meters away from the city wall, and his Chinese army banner naturally came with him.

"The Governor is here." When Huang Gai heard this, he looked down and saw Zhou Yu's huge battle flag of the Chinese army, "Brothers, most of the governors are watching, follow me." ”

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