The 60th Battle of Eastern Wu and Southern Han Dynasty Drove Cao Wei to the Central Plains Unification (5)

Rows of thunderbolts ejected boulders, and the head of Jianye City was littered with rocks. Since the Battle of Xuchang, Sun Quan got the blueprints of a generation of thunderbolts, and he also began to build a large number of thunderbolts for defending the city, but his thunderbolts are far worse than the thunderbolts newly developed by Nanye, and they are inferior to the thunderbolts made in Jiaozhou in terms of power, range and accuracy. At this time, Nan Ye opened fire under the city, and the thunderbolt cars in the city were scrapped before they could be used.

Nan Ye has always been more restrained in using thunderbolts, only bombarding the city walls and gates, and not throwing stone bombs into the city just because of the long range, after all, there are not only Wu troops in the city, but also ordinary people. After so many years of conquest, Nan Ye has long lost the kindness of a woman, but Nan Ye doesn't bother to do things that kill innocents indiscriminately. Because of this, Nanye's benevolent name spread all over the world.

The people of Dongwu were struggling to make a living by the financial turmoil, not only did they not worry about Nanye's attack on the city, but they looked forward to Nanye's capture of the city to restore the dart bureau, money village and economic order. However, Sun Quan and a group of civil and military personnel were not optimistic, and when they learned that the thunderbolt car that was vigorously built to defend the city was smashed without firing a stone, Sun Quan's heart was like dripping blood. Now Sun Quan has no better way than to shrink in the city, and Sun Quan doesn't even have anyone to ask if Zhou Yu is sick.

Zhou Yu's illness was not serious, but it became a disease after overwork, and it is said that he will recover after resting for a while. However, Zhou Yu's nature is heavy-hearted, and he always wants to turn the tide and restore the economic order of Soochow, but he has not rested well, but has worked all night. Zhou Yu is definitely a master at leading troops to fight, but he is not good at finance and economics, and he has not improved with many methods, so his condition is even more serious. However, Nan Ye raised troops at this time and killed more than ten Eastern Wu generals such as Jiang Qin and Ling Tong, which made Zhou Yu's condition worse and he couldn't afford to get sick.

Lying on the sickbed, listening to the rumbling sound of the city's bombardment, Zhou Yu felt as if the boulders had smashed into his heart, making him breathless. Although Sun Quan instructed not to inform Zhou Yu of the battle situation, he was only allowed to recuperate with peace of mind. But how could Zhou Yu not get the news?

Zhou Yu has his own channels, and what happens inside and outside the city can't be hidden from him. Although he was sick in bed, Zhou Yu was always worried about the war in his heart. However, what made Zhou Yu feel helpless was that he didn't have anything to do with Nan Ye. Storming the Wu army was no match for the Han army. The ambush soldiers were always seen through by Nan Ye. Fire attack, flooding, Nanye camped, and not in dense forests, low-lying places. Beauty tricks, anti-scheming Nan Ye has the skill to know people can be broken. Zhou Yu thought about it, and there was only one left, which made Zhou Yu even more depressed.

Zhou Yu, who had no plan in his heart, can only pin his hopes on Lu Su and Lu Meng. Jianye can still support for a period of time, if the battlefields of Yuzhou and Bingzhou can be won, maybe the two armies can relieve the siege of Yangzhou.

However, it was said that Ma Chao and Pang Tongyi marched into the state, and they were as powerful as Nanye, and they were unstoppable, and small cities and counties fell one after another. Lu Su led the troops to defend and annex the state, although he got Sun Quan's order to send troops to fight, but Lu Su has always marched steadily and is not in a hurry to fight, but ordered the generals to strictly guard the pass.

There are six counties of Taiyuan, Shangdang, Leping, Xihe, Yanmen and Xinxing, of which the three northern counties are owned by Cao Pi, the three southern counties are owned by Sun Quan, and among the three southern counties, the two counties of Xihe and Shangdang are adjacent to Sili. Lu Su divided 100,000 troops to Cheng Pu and Han Dang to guard the party, and led Huang Gai and Zu Mao to guard the West River, not seeking merit but no fault.

Lu Su's plan was to defend and counterattack, the first stage was to closely guard and frustrate Ma Chao's sharpness, and then counterattack Ma Chao in the second stage. For Lu Su's plan, Huang Gai and Zu Mao were very much in favor, especially when Zu Mao had received Nan Ye's favor and didn't want to fight with Nan Ye, so he looked forward to defending for a while, and Nan Ye's soldiers and horses could retreat without food. Although they also remembered that Nan Ye and Sun Jian had a good personal relationship back then, but the public returned to the public, and the private returned to the private, Nan Ye sent troops to attack Wu, in their opinion, Nan Ye turned against him first, and as the generals of Wu State, they naturally wanted to protect their families and defend the country.

Wu Bing was divided into two ways to defend, and he had already made a detailed effort to report to Ma Chao. Ma Chao asked Yu Pang Tongdao: "Military Division, Lu Su divides his troops and defends, where should we attack first?" ”

Pang Tong said with a smile: "The four generals under Lu Su are all old ministers of Eastern Wu, and they think very highly of themselves. Huang Gai and Zu Mao can still listen to Lu Su's dispatch, and Cheng Pu and Han Dang will inevitably make their own decisions. We can break Cheng Pu and Han Dang first, and then break Lu Su. ”

Ma Chao smiled when he heard this: "Then according to what the military advisor said, first break the two old horsemen." "Let's lead the troops in the direction of the party.

Cheng Pu and Han Dang, two veterans of Eastern Wu, learned that Ma Chaobing had gathered together to discuss. Cheng Pu said: "When Ma Chao comes to attack us, he must be bullying us." Although Shangdang City is small, there are many mountain dangers, why should I ambush him unexpectedly? ”

Han Dang agreed: "What Cheng Gong said is true! I have a plan to break Ma Chao, and Cheng Gong can be like this. ”

After the two discussed the plan and divided the troops, they laid a net of heaven and earth, and waited for Ma Chao's soldiers to arrive. On this day, Ma Chao was moving forward, and he saw a group of people blocking the road in front of him. The first general was holding an iron-spine snake spear, his hair was white, and he shouted loudly: "Ma Chaoxiaoer, do you dare to fight with me Cheng Pu?" ”

Ma Chao laughed when he saw Cheng Pu, and pointed his gun at Cheng Pu and said, "The old puppet also dares to call the battle?" "Then we will go to war.

Pang Tong saw that there were only thousands of Wu Jun behind Cheng Pu, and he was suspicious, and said to Ma Chao: "People don't use their muscles and bones as their ability, but Cheng Pu has few veterans and dares to call for battle here, there must be fraud." ”

Ma Chao smiled: "What's the matter if there is fraud?" Wait for me to step forward and lead out the ambush soldiers, and pack up Han Dang's old horseman together. ”

Pang Tong said: "Meng Qi can't be careless. Why don't you let Tiefutu come forward to lure the enemy? ”

Ma Chao nodded and said to Pang De: "Ling Ming, let's try this old thief." ”

Pang De led the order to slap the horse and dance the knife out, and slashed Cheng Pu directly. Pang De's knife is not ordinary, it is the phoenix mouth knife that Ma Chao seized after killing Cao Cao. Pang De's super-first-class martial arts, coupled with this sword, are not far from Guan Yu and Huang Zhong.

Cheng Pu is ten years younger and is not Pound's opponent, not to mention that he is already dying of old age at this time. He came here to lure the enemy, and did not fight hard with Pound. Seeing Pound's knife coming, he struck the head of the knife with the iron spine snake spear as he returned to the horse. Even though Cheng Pu didn't fight hard, but the moment the knives and spears intersected, Cheng Pu still felt numb in his arms, and almost got out of his hands with the snake spear, although he barely missed Pang Debao's knife, but the blade still scraped off Cheng Pu's arm armor, almost scraping Cheng Pu's arm.

After only one round of fighting, Cheng Pu knew that he was no match for Pound, so he pulled his horse and retreated to the middle of the formation. Seeing this, Pound raised his sword and led the Iron Floating Slaughter to crush it.

Cheng Pu is here to lure the enemy, and winning or losing is the key to luring the enemy. Don't look at Cheng Pu's defeat as soon as he joins, but he is not slow, and most of the soldiers and horses under his command are cavalry, and they are defeated and retreated with him.

The Tiefutu led by Pang De was extremely strong at both ends of attack and defense, but the speed was not superior, plus Pang De guessed that there was an ambush in front of him, and deliberately suppressed the speed to maintain the formation, and he really couldn't catch up with Cheng Pu's cavalry for a while. However, those Wu army foot soldiers were miserable, and they were all drowned under the iron hooves of the Iron Floating Tu.

Cheng Pu didn't feel sorry for those foot soldiers, because their mission was to lure the enemy, and they deserved to die if they didn't run fast. What Cheng Pu really cares about is the Tiefutu chasing behind him. He had been fighting for many years, and this was the first time he had seen cavalry in armor, and even the elite tiger and leopard cavalry of Cao Ying did not seem to be as well-equipped as this cavalry. However, Cheng Pu was just curious, and he was not afraid, after all, there were only 10,000 in Tiefutu, and there were 100,000 ambush soldiers in front of Han Dang.

Han Dang led the troops to ambush halfway up the hillside, and saw Cheng Pu leading a group of soldiers and horses over from a distance. What made Han Dang feel strange was that the cavalry chasing behind Cheng Pu was covered in armor, and from a distance, it looked like a group of iron men and iron horses rushing towards him, and Han Dang had never seen this kind of cavalry.

Han Dang had never seen Tiefutu, but he recognized the banner of the Southern Han Dynasty. Seeing Pang Debing arrive, Han Dang shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

The soldiers of Eastern Wu on the hillside got the military order, and they all stood up, bent their bows and arrows, and shot down the mountain. Pang De did not panic when he saw that there were ambushes on the road, and ordered Tiefutu to say: "Be careful and keep moving!" ”

The Tiefu Tu soldiers were heavily armored and not afraid of arrows, as if they didn't see the Wu army on the mountain, and continued to chase Cheng Pu forward. The arrows of the Eastern Wu soldiers fell in the Tiefu Tu team, and there was only a sound of "clanging~" and there was no follow-up, and not a single soldier was killed, only a few arrows shot into the gap in the armor, causing the soldier to suffer some minor injuries.

Cheng Pu and Han Dang were already speechless in shock at this time. Originally, Cheng Pu wanted to turn around and fight when the ambush appeared in Handang, but now that Tiefutu was unscathed and ignored the ambush at all, Cheng Pu naturally couldn't return to the army, so he could only continue to lead the troops to escape. Han Dang was also stunned when he saw Cheng Pu and Pang De leading the troops past, he couldn't understand where Nan Ye got such an invulnerable cavalry.

Ten thousand arrows failed to stop Tiefutu, and Wu Jun was dumbfounded. Although the Wu army did not expect a rain of arrows to wipe out the Southern Han pursuers, it was still certain that the Southern Han army would give up the pursuit by causing chaos to the enemy. Now the formation of Tiefutu is not chaotic, which makes Wu Jun a little overwhelmed. It seems that it has no effect to continue to fire arrows, but you can't catch up with the Iron Floating Cavalry if you rush down the mountain.

A strange scene appeared on the battlefield, and the Wu army all over the mountains watched Tiefutu chase Cheng Pu through the ambush circle. Cheng Pu ran in front and suddenly reined in his horse, secretly complaining in his heart. It turned out that the road ahead was blocked by boulders and trees. It was not others who set up the roadblocks, but Cheng Pu and Han Dang themselves. These barricades were originally intended to prevent the Southern Han soldiers and horses from breaking through, but they did not expect to block themselves.

Cheng Pu knew that he was not Pang De's opponent, and seeing that the Tiefu Tu knife was invulnerable, he simply ordered the soldiers to lead the horses to climb up the hillside. Cheng Pu also saw that the weakness of Tiefutu was that it lacked flexibility and mobility, and it was definitely impossible to climb the mountain.

Han Dang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Cheng Pu going up the mountain, and only then did he remember that there were still rolling logs and stones available. Due to the long range of bows and arrows, and the short range of rolling logs and stones, it is common to use the bow and crossbow first and then the rolling logs. Just now, the bow and arrow had no effect on the Tiefutu, and the shocked Han Dang and Wu Jun forgot that there were still rolling wood stones, and at this time, seeing that the wood and stones blocked the way of the Iron Futu, they thought that they could kill and injure these iron lumps with rolling wood and stones, but unfortunately Pang De had already led the troops out of the encirclement, and Han Dang also missed the opportunity.