Another day's battle is over, the sun is setting, the remnant sun is like blood, the corpses under the Shangyong city are like mountains, and the blood stains on the Shangyong city are mottled. The weary defenders struggled to throw the corpses of the enemy off the walls, while carrying their own corpses and wounded soldiers off the walls. Zhuge Liang of the lupine scarf climbed the city wall surrounded by Wu Yi and other generals, looking at the scene in front of him, Zhuge Liang, who had always been calm and composed, couldn't help but be moved.

Zhuge Liang stood by the female wall, looking at the endless enemy camps outside the city, and thought. Suddenly turned to the sky and asked, "How many arrows do our army have?" ”

Wu Yi immediately replied: "Return to the military division, our army's arrows are only enough for ten days!" ”

Zhuge Liang was surprised, "Didn't you still prepare a forty-day supply?" It's only been four days! ”

Wu Yi said: "Sun Jianjun's attacks are too powerful these days, and the consumption of arrows far exceeds the previous estimate!" In fact, not only arrows, but also kerosene, wood, etc., are also consumed very hugely! Strategist, we need to hurry up and replenish our arrows! ”

Zhuge Liang nodded thoughtfully. He asked, "How many more soldiers are there to fight?" What about the casualties? ”

"The original garrison was 50,000 horses. After these days of fighting, more than 11,000 people were killed and more than 9,000 were seriously wounded, and there are still about 30,000 people who can fight! The city walls are basically intact! Chao Zhuge Liang hugged his fist, "Military division, do you want to transfer all the other officers and soldiers of the Pingnan Army?" The last general is really worried about the unpredictable! In that case, the last general will die in a dead end! ”

Zhuge Liang thought for a moment and shook his head, "No! It's not time yet! Looking at Wu Yi, "You must use your current strength to hold on for another ten days!" Ten days later, I will have a strategy to deal with Zhou Yu! ”

Wu Yi was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Military advisor, is it a strategy?" ”

Zhuge Liang smiled mysteriously and said, "I can't break the heavens yet!" "The ghost knows if he has a plan or not, maybe it's just his words to appease Wu Yi. Now in the entire Hanzhong and Xichuan, there are only two armies in total, the Leopard Tao Army and the Pingnan Army, plus the 120,000 barbarian coalition army led by Zhu Rong, with a total strength of 320,000, and the Leopard Tao Army in the south can only send half of its troops to participate in the war in order to stabilize the rear, that is to say, the total number of troops that Lu Bu can use is only 270,000, but the opponent is an army of 500,000. It's really hard to see what Lu Bu has to do to turn defeat into victory. The only strategic reserve force that Lu Bu could use was Ma Chao's Blue Wolf Army, which had returned to Luoyang from the Western Regions not long ago, and after replenishment and reorganization, the total strength of the Blue Wolf Army had recovered to 80,000 war cavalry, and this force could move south from Luoyang at a critical time. However, Zhou Yu had already guarded against this move, and had already ordered Huang Gai to defend it strictly in Nanyang, and at the same time ordered Jiang Qin to lead an elite naval army across the Xiangjiang River, even if Ma Chao's 80,000 cavalry went south, it was probably difficult to pose a big threat to Sun Jian's army.

Look at Kuiguan.

Sun Jian's 250,000-strong army bluffed on land with an infantry army, but attacked from the waterway with an absolutely superior sailor. The two sides fought fiercely for several days, and the dozens of barrage cables that Lu Bu's army had arranged on the river before the war were now only six! Once they gained the upper hand, the clippers immediately carried elite sailors and warriors ashore to storm and attack, and this tactic had successively pulled out seven camps on both sides of the strait, with the Leopard Tao army losing four or five thousand and the barbarian army losing six or seven thousand, and the whole battle situation was very unfavorable to Lu Bu's army.

That night, Huang Zhong, Zhu Rong and others were discussing countermeasures in the council hall in Kuiguan, and the dim lights reflected the figures of several people, stretching the shadows of several people into a long one. Huang Zhong was once appointed as the commander of the corps, but recently he was appointed by Zhang Lang as the commander-in-chief of Kuiguan, with full responsibility for the battle in the Kuimen area. Zhu Rong served as his deputy.

Huang Zhong propped his hands on the table, looked at the map on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Sun Jianjun's offensive is very fierce! Sooner or later, Kuiguan will not be able to hold! ”

Zhu Rong asked, "Does the old general have a strategy?" ”

Huang Zhong nodded at the Yangtze River, "I looked at the water potential today, due to the rainfall in the upper reaches, the water potential of the Yangtze River is several times larger than before, we can take advantage of this water potential!" Prepare dozens of clippers, load them with miscanthus and sulfur and other fire-igniting objects, and take advantage of the water to rush into the enemy ship formation! The Yangtze River is no bigger than the sea, so many warships are crowded together, once the fire starts, it will become a prairie fire in an instant! As long as their water army is solved, the army will not have anything to worry about at all! ”

Zhu Rong nodded, and asked with some concern: "Sun Jian has always been good at water warfare, could he be defenseless?" ”

Huang Zhong frowned and said, "There is no better way to give it a try now." In the early hours of the morning, I would like to ask the Queen to lead her army across the river from the pontoon bridge upstream, and attack the camp on the opposite bank to attract her attention, while I will at the same time send all the ships to cover the fire boats and raid the waterhouse! What does the Queen think? ”

Zhu Rong looked at the map and thought, "I personally command 30,000 wolf poison soldiers to attack!" ”

Huang Zhong said: "Since the queen also agrees, then let's prepare separately." Zhu Rong hugged his fist at Huang Zhong and left in a hurry.

The river was busy, Huang Zhong transferred all the boats in his hand, and at the same time, there were sergeants busy loading sulfur saltpeter on more than a dozen of the fast boats!

Before dawn, a qiē is ready. Huang Zhong's subordinates boarded Deng Quanshuai's 3,000 temporarily trained sailors. These sailors were originally the infantry of the Leopard Tao Army.

Three thousand soldiers and horses were divided into hundreds of large and small ships, led by a dozen fireboats loaded with sulfur and saltpeter, set out, and quickly moved eastward under the impetus of the raging river. At the same time, Zhu Rong's 30,000 wolf poison soldiers had crossed the Yangtze River from the upstream pontoon bridge and launched an attack on the camp occupied by Sun Jian's army.

30,000 wolf poison soldiers waved all kinds of strange weapons and screamed towards the thousands of Sun Jianjun who were defending the camp! A rain of arrows suddenly shot out of the camp, and the wolf poison soldiers who were charging immediately fell in large pieces! However, more wolf poison soldiers rushed forward! ……

Sun Jian, who was resting in the ship, was suddenly woken up by his own soldiers and quickly got up. The soldiers clasped their fists and said: "The front fortress on the south bank has just lit up wolf smoke!" ”

Sun Jian frowned, and rushed out of the bedroom without worrying about getting dressed. Standing on the attic of the building ship and looking out from the railing, I saw that in the southwest direction, thick smoke was billowing behind a mountain beam. Sun Jian said in a deep voice: "Look at the scale of this wolf smoke, I'm afraid that there will be tens of thousands of enemy troops attacking!" Immediately said to Zhou Tai: "Zhou Tai, you, immediately lead 10,000 elite soldiers to rush to reinforcements!" Zhou Tai clenched his fists and ran down the stairs.

A short time later, a clipper boat sailed out of the water gate and headed for the water village opposite.