Chapter 60: Zhao Yun continued to defend the city

As mentioned last time, Sima Yi attacked the city, Zhao Yun defended the city, and on the fifth day, Sima Yi lined up 50 stone throwers outside Jingzhou City, and 20 crashed cars, which seemed to be going to be real.

Zhao Yun was not polite, and lifted the cannon coat that had been installed on the city a long time ago, revealing the yellow, orange, orange or black cannon body, ready to return a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye. There are not many cannons installed at the west gate, originally there were only 10, and later Zhao Yun saw that the Wei army focused on attacking the west gate, so he transferred 5 of the cannons of the other city walls to be lighter, so there were enough 15 cannons here on the west city wall.

The yellow, orange and orange ones are bronze cannons, and the black ones are cast in iron. These guns were of large caliber and had a long range. The largest caliber is 120 mm, the gun is 2.2 meters long, and the artillery company gun carriage weighs 800 kg. This gun has an effective firing range of 900 meters and a charge of 12 kg. This cannon is as big as the matching cannon on the Jingzhou, and it is amazingly powerful.

The second-class caliber is up to 95 mm, the gun is about 1.7 meters long, the gun carriage weighs 1,200 jin (300 kg), and the effective range of this gun is up to 400 meters for live ammunition and 200 meters for shotguns. The shells weigh up to 4 kg (live), and if they are replaced with shotguns, they can reach 8 kg.

The range of these cannons is much higher than that of ordinary trebuchets, which can win the opportunity for the Shu army to strike first, but it is just one or two more opportunities to fire.

The Wei army's stone throwers were equipped with four wheels under them, called thunderbolts, also known as stone carts, which could be assembled from a distance and pushed to the city for use, avoiding being attacked by long-range fire from the city when assembling at the site under the city. It was because of these four wheels that the Wei army's thunderbolts could start throwing stones to return fire after each of the Shu army's artillery firing once or twice.

Suddenly, on the battlefield, stones and iron eggs flew cross-cutting outside the city and over the city. Raindrops of boulders fell on the city walls, and from time to time the defenders of the city were smashed into pulp. Zhao Yun hurriedly asked the soldiers to hide in the hiding hole or sit down against the wall to minimize casualties.

Soon, only artillery and ammunition transporters were left on the city walls, braving the rain of stones. 15 against 50, the artillery is more efficient, the accuracy is better, the two sides fired at each other for a morning, the Wei army's 50 stone throwers were finally completely smashed, and the Shu army also lost 4 or 5 artillery, which made Zhao Yun's heart ache.

During the crash (also called the battering ram), they also went out to crash open the city gate, but after 3 or 4 crashes in a row were blown up by the thunderbolts thrown by the Shu army, a pile of wreckage blocked in front of the city gate, blocking the way forward for the subsequent crash. In order to continue to dispatch and crash, it is necessary to dispatch a large number of people to clean up the wreckage, and doing these things in front of the enemy's city gate is undoubtedly no different from suicide, so Sima Yi had to give up the plan to use the rest of the crash. More than 10 crashed cars became decorations.

On the sixth day, Sima Yi dispatched a large number of bed crossbows and rained long arrows with the thickness of his arm's arms at the city wall. The Shu army hid behind the battlements and the female wall and did not dare to show their heads. By the time the bed crossbow was fired, the city walls were already densely filled with thick crossbow arrows. As long as the enemy uses both hands and feet, these crossbow arrows can quickly climb the city wall, and even the cloud ladder can be saved.

Zhao Yun urgently dispatched a musket team to shoot and kill the swarming Wei army, and the three-stage attack method was not afraid of facing the enemy's charge on the plain, let alone shooting on the high city wall. The Wei army was knocked down in rows, and very few were able to rush to the edge of the city wall and start climbing the crossbow arrows.

Zhao Yun also ordered Minzhuang to soak the strips of cloth in kerosene oil, throw them down the city wall, let them hang on the crossbow arrows, and burn the crossbow arrows. Gradually, these bolts became sparse and no longer suitable for climbing. The day's offensive has finally come to an end. On this day, the Wei army lost 5,000 men, the most since the beginning of the war.

Sima Yi was shocked, he didn't expect the Shu army to have something with such a high killing efficiency as a musket. He had just inspected the camp for the wounded, where the wails were incessant, and blood was running across the ground. The doctor told him that the future of these wounded soldiers was not optimistic, and that what had been shot into their bodies was lead bullets, which would suppurate and fester.

If you want to take it out, you have to dig up a large wound, firstly, they do not have the exquisite surgical skills of Hua Tuo, and secondly, there are no anti-infection measures, and these enlarged wounds will also suppurate and fester. In general, the probability of survival of these wounded soldiers is not very high, and most of them will die in pain.

Sima Yi, who was worried, returned to the tent and reported to the soldiers that the tunnel had been dug almost and could be used at any time. It turned out that when Sima Yi first arrived in Jingzhou City, he sent people to start secretly digging tunnels, intending to attack Jingzhou City from underground. Now that the tunnels have been dug up, they can enter the city in one fell swoop when the time is right.

Sima Yi's spirit was greatly shaken, and he began to dispatch troops, preparing to sneak into the city through the tunnel in the early morning of tomorrow, when the sky was the darkest, snatch the city gate, and break the city in one fell swoop.

On the seventh day, at three o'clock in the morning, when it was dark before dawn and when everyone slept the deadliest and was at the least vigilant, Sima Yi ordered an attack.

The forward soldiers chiseled through the last thin layer of earth, and a large hole appeared in Jingzhou City not far from the city gate. When the Wei soldiers were about to jump out of this hole to occupy the city gate, they were filled with fire oil.

It turned out that the Shu army was already waiting here, and as soon as the cave appeared, they poured fire oil into the hole, and the Wei soldiers were flooded with fire oil in an instant. When the oil was almost filled, a torch was thrown into the hole, and suddenly, the fire in the cave was blazing, and all the Wei troops inside were burned to charcoal.

It turned out that Zhao Yun had already buried a lot of empty urns under the city wall, sent people to listen to the movement of the underground every day, and had already determined the location of the Wei army digging tunnels, and arranged to deal with the enemies who would attack from the tunnels.

Seeing that the sneak attack plan had failed, Sima Yi had no choice but to withdraw the troops that were lying in ambush outside the city and preparing to attack the city.

During the day of this day, Sima Yi did not arrange any more sieges, and the two sides spent a day in peace. In the evening, still in the early hours of the morning, Sima Yi ambushed a large army outside the city, and when he was about to be charged with the city gate, a large army rushed in and seized the city.

In the early morning of the eighth day, the west gate was on fire, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and the city gate was wide open. Sima Yi ordered the troops to storm into the city. As a result, after entering the city, the Wei army found themselves in an urn city, and this urn city was full of firewood and grass. The 3,000 Wei troops who entered the city were burned by Zhao Yun.

It turned out that the Wei State had already sent a caravan to infiltrate Jingzhou City, with a total number of five hundred. Sima Yi had a special way to contact them, and they made an appointment to launch a surprise attack by these fine works at the end of the day, and seize the city gate, so that Sima Yi could ambush a large army and rush into the city from this city gate.

However, after the last incident of the Eastern Wu rebellion, Zhao Yun learned a lesson, and at the beginning of the war, a strict curfew was imposed, and additional manpower was sent to patrol the city. There are even more people patrolling at night than during the day.

In addition to the open sentry and the dark sentry of the Shu army, some of the sentry posts overlook the entire city from a high place. The team of five hundred men in black was huge, and as soon as they appeared, they were discovered by the sentry in the high place and notified Zhao Yun, who sent a musket team to capture them.

After asking them about their origins, purposes, and contact signals, Zhao Yun made a plan, pretending that the city gate was opened, and introduced the Wei army into the urn city, and burned it down.

On the ninth day, the scouts came to report that Dongwu dispatched 500 warships to kill Jingzhou. It turned out that Sima Yibing sent a letter to Sun Quan before besieging Jingzhou City, inviting him to send troops to a certain Jingzhou, and after he succeeded, the two sides divided Liu Bei's territory in Jingzhou equally.

Sun Quan has already torn his face with the Liu Group anyway, and now he has the opportunity to take the opportunity to fall into the well, and he can't grasp it. So he ordered Lu Sun to lead the naval army to go on an expedition and prepare to get a piece of the pie in Jingzhou.

After Liu Hou learned the news, he ordered the Jingzhou to attack immediately to meet the Eastern Wu naval army. This time, Lu Xun came prepared, he loaded a lot of bed crossbows on the big ship, and wrapped strips of cloth soaked in fire oil on the arrows of the crossbow arrows. The firing range of these bed crossbows reached more than a thousand meters, and the range was not inferior to that of the guns on the Jingzhou.

When the Jingzhou and the Soochow navy had fired at each other, Liu Hou found that his ship was nailed with burning bed crossbow arrows, and the javelin-sized bed crossbow arrows carried strips of oil cloth burned the ship's planks, which made Liu Hou feel very frightened. He immediately ordered to turn around and flee, and put out the fire with all his might.

Fortunately, the Jingzhou had enough material reserves and training for this kind of fire attack. The crew covered the place of fire with a thick cloth damp with water, and the rocket was quickly extinguished.

The Jingzhou is going to escape, and there is no ship in this world that can catch up. Soon, the Jingzhou escaped the range of the bed crossbow of the Eastern Wu naval army. In this way, Liu Hou could not prevent the Eastern Wu army from landing in Jingzhou.

In the end, the Eastern Wu army surrounded the south gate of Jingzhou City, and for the first time, Cao Wei and Sun Wu really joined forces to deal with a single force. This battle marked the complete failure of the Shu alliance and Wu's anti-Cao policy, and the collapse of the Sun-Liu alliance. Shu will face the mighty Wei and Wu states alone, and the melee of the three kingdoms will enter a new era.

Liu Hou didn't have time to care if the Sun-Liu alliance collapsed or not, in his opinion, except for the role that this alliance played during the Chibi War, the rest of the time was constantly fighting, and it had long existed in name only. He was now worried that his artillery was not working as well as he had hoped.

The reason why the Soochow fleet was able to defeat last time was mainly because it suddenly caught Soochow by surprise. The new weapon of artillery is too shocking, loud and destructive. At that time, the Soochow fleet was not equipped with many bed crossbows, and they were suddenly stunned and did not organize a counterattack in time. was picked up cheaply by Liu Hou in vain.

This time, people targeted a lot of long-range bed crossbows, and they couldn't hold it themselves. With the same strength, the bed crossbow is far from being an opponent of artillery. After all, the lethality of the bed crossbow is limited, and if it is burned by a little fire oil from the arrow, the damage to the hull will not be great if there is enough damage to the fire management, unlike the artillery that can blow up and sink the ship as long as it hits a few shots.

Even if he only has one-third or even one-fifth of the opponent's troops, Liu Hou is not afraid of the Eastern Wu naval army. But now it's five hundred to one, and the number of crossbow arrows fired by the Eastern Wu Army in a salvo is extremely terrifying, even if the hit rate is worse, a salvo will insert dozens or hundreds of rockets on the Jingzhou, so how can Liu Hou fight? It can only run as far as it goes.

Liu Hou, who gritted his teeth with hatred, was very angry, and they ordered Guan Xing to lead a thousand musketeers to attack the unstable camp of Eastern Wu at night. Although Lu Xun had already sent additional sentry posts and taken sufficient precautions, he still caused at least 5,000 casualties to the Eastern Wu Army when the Thunderbolt Mine, a major killing weapon, bombarded all the way.

This time it was Lu Xun's turn to jump to his feet with hatred, and after venting his anger, Liu Hou felt a lot more comfortable. But the battle for Jingzhou City inevitably entered a new phase. The Wei and Wu armies had a tacit understanding, and they took turns to attack day and night. The shape shì gradually became unfavorable to the Shu army.

After all, the troops in Jingzhou City were too small, and under this kind of uninterrupted siege day and night, the casualties in the city were also increasing, and the soldiers could not get enough rest time. Zhao Yun was the first soldier, and many times he personally led the team to defeat the enemy who ascended to the top of the city.

The war lasted for a month, and Sima Yi and Lu Xun were full of wisdom and changed their tricks to attack the city. And Zhao Yun did not move, conformed to the rules, and guarded the city tightly. Each of his responses is as beautiful as described in the textbook, and every example can be used as a lesson plan to educate students.

In the past few years, he has not followed Liu Bei to the east and west, but has been lying dormant beside Liu Hou, teaching students, and studying the art of war by the way, which seems to have a very good effect. Although he has the help of various firearms, it is not easy to hold on for so long under the siege of Sima Yi and Lu Xun, the two great masters in the world, which shows that he has reached the level of a super-first-class master in the art of war.