Chapter 49 begins the siege

As mentioned in the last chapter, Liu Hou learned that Wei and Wu were besieging Shu, and decided to end the war in Lingnan as much as possible, and then waved his army north to rescue Guan Gong in Jingzhou.

Because Liu Hou and Fei Yi discussed things until late and didn't go to bed, they didn't bother to go to see Zhou Xue, and Zhou Xue spent a long night waiting.

Early the next morning, Liu Hou got up to prepare for today's battle. The gang leaders got up to cook when they were young, and Liu Hou, an ordinary soldier, allowed them to sleep until the hour of the morning, because it was estimated that they would have to fight for a day today, and they needed to maintain sufficient physical fitness.

When they got up, they were able to eat the breakfast prepared by the leaders in advance, and after they had eaten a full meal, they lined up under the city and prepared for the siege.

Zhou Xue came to find Liu Hou with a pair of panda eyes, she lay on the bed all night without sleeping, and got up in the morning when she heard the loud military horn, and went out to inquire, knowing that the Shu army was going to attack the city today, she was taken aback and hurriedly ran to find Liu Hou.

"Why the siege now?" The soldiers knew that the prince had a good impression of this woman, and they did not stop her, as soon as she saw Liu Hou's face, she even saved the salutation and salute, and directly asked this sentence angrily.

"Why siege the city? Why can't I take the city? Liu Hou looked at her strangely and asked.

"I'm talking about why we are attacking the city now, aren't our two countries negotiating now?" Zhou Xue emphasized the word "now".

"Negotiations? Wasn't the negotiation done yesterday? Didn't the negotiating envoys of the Soochow people go back? Liu Hou pretended to be stupid.

"This, this, what about me? I'm staying here, you didn't promise, promised......"

"I didn't promise anything, what did I promise yesterday?"

"You, you, you ......" Zhou Xue pointed to Liu Hou's face, but her face was red with anger.

"I really didn't say anything yesterday?" Liu Hou spread his hands and said.

"Why can't you wait a few more days, Master Bu will definitely send an envoy to negotiate again, why are you in such a hurry to attack the city?"

"Humph! Waiting for him to send someone else to negotiate? How many days have to wait? Liu Hou put away his hippie smile and said with a look of resentment, "Do you think I don't know Bu Qi's tricks?" Of course, he can drag on as long as he wants, maybe he just wants to continue to negotiate like this, for a year and a half, for ten years and eight years.

I'll tell you honestly, I already know that Sun Quan colluded with Cao Pi, and now hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides are besieging my Han. Jingzhou has been attacked by the combined forces of your two countries for more than two months, and now it may have fallen.

You're still making me wait? Do you want to drag me down in Lingnan and can't go to rescue my second uncle? Bu Qi, this dog thief, is so insidious and cunning, I must catch him this time and crush him to ashes. ”

When Zhou Xue heard this, her heart was half cold, how could this be? She also didn't know about the all-out attack on Shu by the combined forces of Wei and Wu, nor did she know that Eastern Wu was attacking Jingzhou with all its might.

After the failure of the last assassination of Liu Hou, she was inexplicably irritable, so she left Wu County to travel everywhere, because Bu Qi and her father Zhou Yu have an old relationship, so when she traveled to Lingnan, by the way, she lived in Bu Hou's house for a period of time, I didn't expect it to be so coincidental, just met Liu Hou led the troops to invade Lingnan, surrounded Panyu City, she wanted to return to Wu County is impossible.

She always thought that this prince was a demon who invaded their territory in Eastern Wu, so when Bu Qiu took out Zhou Yu's loyalty to Eastern Wu and asked her to kill Liu Hou, although she hesitated, she finally agreed.

At this time, she knew from Liu Hou that not only was the prince invading Lingnan in front of her, but her own lord was also invading other people's territory. She suddenly felt that the things and characters that used to distinguish between justice and evil in her heart seemed to be blurred now. She could no longer tell who represented good and who represented evil.

Seeing Zhou Xue's stunned expression, Liu Hou ignored him anymore, raised his feet and prepared to go out of the tent to prepare to command the battle. Zhou Xue moved at this time, she stepped forward quickly, grabbed Liu Hou's hand, and said:

"Okay, since you are going to attack the city, please let me go back, I will stand on the head of the city, fight together with my country's soldiers, live and die with my country's land, and I will be loyal to the king!"

"Humph! What a loyal man, but don't you think it's funny? Coexistence with the land, whose land is this, what kind of country's land, have you figured it out? And should you be loyal to that king?

Okay, let me tell you, this is the land of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty has been established for more than 400 years, and our ancestors of the Liu family have ruled this land for more than 400 years.

Your so-called great king Sun Quan is just a traitor, he and Cao Cao Cao Pi father and son, occupied most of the land of my Han Dynasty alive, and proclaimed himself king and emperor. In the final analysis, they are the anti-thieves, and my Liu children are the orthodox.

You should be loyal to my Han Dynasty, my father Liu Bei, not the anti-thief Sun Quan. Be loyal to the traitor, what's the matter with you? You open your eyes and see clearly, as a descendant of the Liu family, I will go and take back the land that should belong to us now, the dynasty that should belong to us. ”

After speaking, Liu Hou no longer looked at Zhou Xue, who was already stunned, and strode out of the camp tent, preparing to attack the city. At the same time, he was also secretly refreshed in his heart, the name of the Liu royal family really gave him a lot of convenience, and every time he refuted those people, he was justified, but he didn't expect that it would be invincible to use it on this chick today.

Liu Hou concentrated all his soldiers at the west gate, ready to descend from the west gate in one fell swoop. Liu Hou did not arrange for soldiers and horses to surround the other three city gates, and only placed some scouts to follow the people who fled from these directions.

Liu Hou was not afraid that Buqi would abandon the city and flee, but he was afraid that he would not escape, as long as the Eastern Wu army did not defend the city, they would not have any chance of survival at all. They can't fight in the field, and they can't even run away from the Shu army, and the Shu army has undergone strict long-distance training, and the speed of the march is at least twice that of the old-style army, and the longer the distance, the greater the gap.

Therefore, if Buqi abandoned the city and fled, he would raise his hands and feet in favor. However, Bu Qi obviously had no intention of escaping, and it is estimated that he also knew that if he abandoned the city, the Eastern Wu army would no longer have anything to rely on, and would die faster. Therefore, Buqi is Wang Ba ate the scales and was determined to drag the Shu army under Panyu City.

There was still a quarter of an hour before the hour, and ten hot air balloons rose into the sky and slowly floated towards Panyu City. By the time, the hot air balloon was all in place, and the Shu army under the city was also lined up, ready to attack.

Liu Hou pulled out a banner with two big words written on it: "Down? ”

Because he was worried that sending people up to shout would be attacked by the archers in the city, Liu Hou used this method of pulling the banner to talk to Buqi. In fact, it was not a dialogue, because only Liu Hou asked questions, and there was no response in the city at all, neither one shouted in response, nor did the banner pull out to answer.

Or maybe Liu Hou didn't give them time to respond at all, because Liu Hou knew Bu Qi very well and knew that he would not surrender, and pulling this banner was more of a routine pre-war procedure than a persuasion to surrender.

Therefore, less than five minutes after the banner was pulled out, Liu Hou asked people to put it away, and without waiting for a response from the city, he ordered a general attack.

That's right, it was a general offensive from the beginning, and there was no careful tentative phase, and the battle went straight to a white-hot state.

The first was an air raid by the balloon force, and ten hot air balloons rained down the city and walls like thunderbolts, blowing the defenders above to pieces.

Buqi didn't care about the situation of nine deaths on the city wall, and forced the soldiers to go to the city wall to defend with knives and guns, and for a while, the number of casualties of the Eastern Wu army skyrocketed. The hellish scene on the city wall made Liu Hou, who was observing with a telescope, feel a tightness in his chest.

Fortunately, he has experienced many battles, and he has seen a lot of these bloody scenes, and in the end, he couldn't help but not vomit.

The bombardment of the hot air balloons lasted about a quarter of an hour, and there were hardly any people left standing on the walls. However, the vicious Buqi still drove the soldiers regardless of casualties, and continued to rush up the city wall, Liu Hou ordered the musket team to be 50 steps close to the city wall, and took the baton of the hot air balloon to continue to suppress the Eastern Wu soldiers on the city wall.

At the same time, Liu Hou ordered the ground forces to start the charge. The first to charge was Zhu Bao's fish belly troops. His 20,000 belly troops were divided into four echelons, each with 5,000 men. Carrying a siege ladder in one hand and a saber in the other, the men shouted and passed through the gap between the musketeers and came under the walls.

Due to the suppression of the musketeers, bows and arrows from the city walls were sparse, and there were few rolling stones. Soon, these fish belly troops set up ladders and climbed the city walls. At this time, in order to avoid accidental injury, the musket team had to stop firing.

The Eastern Wu army suddenly felt that the pressure was light, and the troops in the city rushed to the city wall desperately, fighting with the Shu army who had climbed to the top of the city.

This formed a spectacle, the Shu army from outside the city along the ladder to the city wall in a steady stream, the Eastern Wu army from the city along the stairs to the city wall, the two teams of people collided like two waves, and then quickly dissolved like waves at the meeting place.

This situation quickly reached an equilibrium, and I saw the two human dragons surging forward and disappearing in the middle. The city wall became more and more crowded, and soon reached the crowded Cheng dù, and the people in the back pushed the people in front to move forward, and the people in front knew that if they went any further, they would melt like ice and snow, but they could not stop their own progress.

And the corpses on the ground where the two human dragons met were quickly piled up, higher and higher, higher and higher, and soon blocked the way of both sides. Both sides had no choice but to throw the corpses off the city wall, and after the corpse pile was lowered a little so that the long knives could reach each other, they began to fight together again.

When the men fell to the ground again, the people behind had no choice but to throw them off the wall and then move forward to fight.

Of course, the fish belly troops of the Shu army are not so brave, they are just forced, the people in front are pushed forward by the people behind, and they can't even fight if they don't want to come forward. There are also people who can't stand such a brutal battle and turn around and want to leave, waiting for them is the saber of the gendarmerie.

There were more deserters from the Eastern Wu people, and they were mainly frightened by the thunderbolts that fell from the sky, but these deserters were also killed by the overseers sent out by Buqi without exception.

Therefore, at this time, the two human dragons, both heads and two tails, are killing people, but one is killing their own people, and the other is killing the enemy. Soon, many bamboo poles with human heads were erected outside the city and inside the city.

Liu Houming knew that these fish belly troops were very poor, but he had to send them to death. Now he has insufficient troops at hand, and there are not many musketeers, but the Tengjia army has divided half of the three ancient roads stationed in Nanling, and only 15,000 are left.

Of course, there were 10,000 captives, but now not only could they not be used, but troops had to be sent to guard them.

Liu Hou knew that in the siege battle, even the invulnerable vine armor army would definitely be damaged, and he was reluctant to consume more of the vine armor army's troops, so he could only let these fish belly troops go first.

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