Chapter 5 is still a poisonous scheme

It is said that Lu Meng was overjoyed when he heard Lu Xun's poisonous plan, and immediately wrote to Sun Quan and pretended to be sick to resign. Of course, Sun Quan had to cooperate with this scene, and he appointed Lu Xun, who was not very famous, as the guard of Lukou.

After Lu Xun took office, he immediately collected a batch of gifts, such as famous horses, unusually gorgeous silk, wine, etc., and wrote a letter to Guan Yu together.

The tone of the letter was extremely humble, and he greatly praised Guan Gong, saying that he was a hero, brave and invincible, and powerful in China. He also expressed the hope that the two countries would be friendly and mutually helpful and non-aggression in the future.

Guan Gong really fell into the plan, and looked down on Sun Quan more and more in his heart, thinking that he was short-sighted, and it was extremely stupid to send a little person like Lu Xun who didn't have any hair to garrison Lukou.

What he doesn't know is that he is actually stupid, and he doesn't know if he plays tricks on others. As a result, Guan Gong was always open, and his vigilance against Soochow was gone. Most of the troops that had been tightly defended in Eastern Wu were transferred to Fancheng to wait for orders. This is the reason why when Liu Hou arrived in Nanjun, he found that such an important city was only garrisoned by 2,000 people, and it was also led by a straw bag like Pan Jun.

Getting back to the point, and said that Sun Quantan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that Guan Gong had really taken the plan to withdraw most of the soldiers and horses left behind in Jingzhou. So, he immediately worshiped Lü Meng as the governor of the capital, and commanded the military horses of the Jiangdong Zhulu Army; He also ordered Sun Jiao to receive the grain and grass behind.

After Lü Meng's thanksgiving, he ordered 30,000 elite soldiers as the vanguard troops, more than 80 clippers, and selected the clever people among them, disguised as merchants, wearing white clothes (referring to those who do not wear armor, civilian clothes, not necessarily white clothes), rocking the oars on the ship, but ambushing the elite soldiers in the cabin.

At the same time, seven generals, including Han Dang, Jiang Qin, Zhu Ran, Pan Zhang, Zhou Tai, Xu Sheng, and Ding Feng, quietly followed the army. The rest of the people followed Sun Quan and supervised the army to meet behind.

At the same time, Sun Quan sent an envoy with a letter to Cao Cao, asking him to send troops to attack Guan Gong's rear.

On the second day after Liu Hou arrived in Jingzhou City, a man in white dressed as a merchant drove a fast boat all the way to Xunyang River. They went around the clock until they reached the north shore. When the soldiers guarding the platform on the beacon tower by the river interrogated, the Wu people replied: "We are all merchants, because there is a strong wind in the river, so we take refuge here." At the same time, he took out a generous amount of money and gave it to the sergeant guarding the platform.

Since Jingzhou is the junction of the three countries, trade is very active. Especially in the past two years, Liu Hou's "Ministry of Industry" produced a lot of novel items, and through Mi Zhu's special management, many commodities were resold through here, and then bought grain, salt and other materials that Yizhou lacked.

Therefore, the sergeant guarding Taiwan has seen a lot of merchants coming and going, and it can be said that Cheng Dù is familiar with it. Therefore, these soldiers defending Taiwan believed the words of these Wu soldiers and let them anchor by the river. At about the second watch, the elite soldiers hiding in the cabin set out together, sneaked over, tied up the officers and soldiers on the beacon tower, and then issued a secret signal, and all the elite soldiers on the more than 80 fast boats that followed followed up, and arrested all the soldiers on the pier platform into the ship, and no one escaped.

So Wu Jun thought that he was unaware of the ghosts and drove straight into Jingzhou. They didn't know that there was actually an eye that was secretly observing the whole process. and reported back to Liu Hou in Jingzhou City in time.

It is said that when the Wu army was about to arrive in Jingzhou, Lü Meng called the Shu officials and soldiers captured along the pier platform of the river, comforted them with good words, and promised that everyone would be rewarded after the deed, and then let them deceive and open the city gate.

Lü Meng assigned the tasks of each army according to the pre-made plan, and the troops were ordered to leave. In the middle of the night, the troops of those beacon towers went to the east gate of Jingzhou City to call the door. The gatekeeper recognized these people as Jingzhou soldiers, so he opened the city gate. When these traitors entered the city gate, they shouted and set fire to the city gate.

Wu Bing saw the signal and entered the city together. Curiously, the resistance in the city was weak, and the defenders were largely crushed at the touch of a button. Han Dang, Jiang Qin, Zhu Ran, Pan Zhang, Zhou Tai, Xu Sheng, Ding Feng and other seven generals led their headquarters into the city.

When entering the city gate, many Wu soldiers and generals felt strange, why this city gate hole is particularly long, enough to be twice as long as the general city gate hole, is it that the gate tower of Jingzhou City is twice as wide as the general city? That seems unlikely, right?

Killed out of the city gate hole, everyone looked back and suddenly realized, it turned out that the city wall of this city gate tower is about the same width as the general city, and the natural city gate hole is about the same length. The problem is that a house that does not look like a house and a corridor does not resemble a corridor was built close to the hole in the city gate.

It may be too much to say that it is a building, because it is so ugly and unkempt, and many places are irregular shapes. It seems to have been built with earth and stone in a hurry, it is a rough passage, the only special thing is that there is a lot of earth and stone piled up above this passage, and the height is enough to reach the city gatehouse.

This is a very strange building, if in normal times, experienced Dongwu generals will definitely study whether this building has any special purpose, but at this time, they have already broken into the city, and the defenders have already been defeated. At this time, where can I take care of so much, as soon as the city gate is broken, it is a foregone conclusion to take Jingzhou, as long as they wave their troops and attack, there will be no suspense in this battle, so everyone is rushing forward.

After entering the city gate, there is an open space in front of the Eastern Wu generals, not at all like other cities, there will be a main street running through the east and west of the city, and the streets are lined with shops or houses on both sides. It is not entirely correct to say that this place is an open space, this open space is covered with all kinds of firewood and grass, and there are many wooden barrels, clay pots, wine and other sundries. However, the red-eyed generals of Eastern Wu naturally turned a blind eye to this sundries.

Rushing to the forefront is Zhou Tai. Zhou Tai, whose name is Youping, is one of Sun Ce's old ministers, his people fight bravely, and they must take the lead in every battle, and he is injured in dozens of places, and his skin is as if it has been carved. At this time, I saw him leaning on his right shoulder, revealing a few hideous and terrifying scars, holding a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, chasing and killing the fleeing Jingzhou soldiers all the way.

However, these Jingzhou soldiers ran faster than rabbits, and Zhou Tai was so angry that he yelled again and again: "Jingzhou dogs that are not planted, if there is a seed, I will stop and let grandpa cut off your head." ”

Liu Hou, who was standing in the distance, could hear Zhou Tai's roar from afar, which showed that his loud voice was comparable to Zhang Fei. Regarding Zhou Tai's roar, Liu Hou naturally treated it with his habitual eye-rolling action. I thought, are you stupid or are our Jingzhou soldiers stupid? Stand there and chop off your head?

Running about 200 steps away from the city gate, Zhou Tai soon realized that something was wrong, there were no Jingzhou soldiers in front of him, and instead of an earthen wall. It can be seen that this earthen wall was temporarily constructed by a row of houses as the main body, and filled in the gaps between the houses. Some brick walls and sloping tiled roofs are also visible, while some places that were originally thatched roofs have been replaced with earth and stone to make solid platforms on which people can walk.

Zhou Tai estimated that this earthen wall was also improvised, very rough and rudimentary, and it was completely unqualified as a fortification: it was too low, and there were no battlements, arrow holes, etc., which were conducive to the auxiliary structure of the imperial guard.

But at this time, Zhou Tai had to stop. Because behind this earthen wall, a ragtag army appeared. Why does Zhou Tai think they are a ragtag army?

The reason is also very simple, because their clothes are not uniform, their weapons are not uniform, and they look messy and nondescript in Zhou Tai's eyes.

Some of them were wearing red Jingzhou military uniforms that Zhou Tai was familiar with, and about a third of them were dressed in green from head to toe, and they thought it was a plant from a distance. Needless to say, this is Liu Hou's Hong Army, and the so-called Hong Army Green Suit is also.

In terms of weapons, there are also a variety of people, some people hold bows and arrows, and some people hold crossbow machines, which Zhou Tai can understand, but those who wear green are all holding a black iron rod, what is the purpose of this? If you want to say it's a long spear, it's too short, besides, it's better to install a gun head for someone, what can a burning stick do?

However, Zhou Tai, who has old combat experience, is not a simple-minded rookie or reckless general. After countless battles and countless wanderings between life and death, Zhou Tai was keenly aware of the coming danger. In his eyes, those Jingzhou soldiers were just old, weak, sick and disabled, not worth mentioning.

But although the number of those guys in green clothes, green pants, and green turbans was small, they gave him a solemn, clean, and cold feeling, as if he was being targeted by a poisonous snake. He could feel a faint murderous aura lingering in the air, although he didn't know where this small army that came out of the sky came from and what kind of reputation it had, but he knew that this was definitely not a rookie army that had never seen blood, this kind of murderous aura, this kind of momentum, only a hundred battle lions could have.

The consciousness cultivated by years of conquest told him that he could not rush forward rashly, otherwise there would be more luck and less luck. Soon, other generals of Dongwu also arrived one after another, and they saw Zhou Tai stop and look at a place in front of them, so they all stopped to see what was going on. And their subordinates also opened the city gate cave one after another and entered the city.

Everyone stopped to take a closer look, only to find that about 200 steps away from the city gate hole, there was an earthen wall around it, forming a structure similar to that of the urn city. In other words, although they broke through the first wall, in fact there was still one wall to break through. In fact, many cities are divided into inner and outer cities, and even if you break through the walls of the outer city, you still need to break through the walls of the inner city to be considered victorious. It is also not new that there is also a wall in the middle of the city.

However, according to the previous information, there is no Urn City or Jingzhou City, the inner city. So when did this kind of urn city structure appear in Jingzhou City? All of you present are not novices on the battlefield, they are all generals with many years of experience in leading troops and conscripting battles, and they all have bad expectations when they see this situation.

"Did the enemy expect us to come? Is this a trap? Have we fallen for it? Many of them had this thought in their minds.

"Even if it's a trap, I'm afraid it won't help us, right? We have the advantage of 10 times the enemy, and we control the city gates, so there is really nothing to fear. It's a big deal, if you find out that it's a trap, you can immediately withdraw from the city, and everything will be fine. Many people thought about it and felt that there was no need to be afraid of these useless Jingzhou old, weak, sick and disabled.

According to the original plan, they had a clear division of labor, each with its own tasks, some of them were responsible for controlling the four gates, some were responsible for taking the county guard, some were responsible for controlling the treasury, some were responsible for clearing the remnants of the army in the city, and some were responsible for maintaining law and order in the city, pacifying the people, and so on.

However, they should not be taken lightly when this situation arises, and it is obvious that they will not be able to proceed with the original plan until they have broken through this strange and rudimentary earthen wall. The seven generals of Soochow got together and planned to have a brief military meeting to discuss what to do next.