But if Zhang Xi can beat Zhou Yu, he will definitely lead the troops into battle, and it is a pity that he burns the siege equipment, but he really can't beat it.

To go out of the city to burn the siege equipment, first of all, you must have enough courage to break through the layers of obstacles of the Eastern Wu Army at a critical moment, and at the same time, you also need to have a strong enough ability to respond to the battle, and retreat safely before Zhou Yu commanded the Eastern Wu Army to besiege it.

But now, in the entire Gangneung City, there is really no such person.

Without him, in terms of personal force value, the four people in Gangneung City are all weak chickens.

Zhang Xi and Wang Ji, two standard literati, commanded the soldiers to fight, and both of them could break their wrists with Zhou Yu, but they were not good at charging the enemy.

And Zhong Limu and Zhou Tai, the two of them are still a little deficient in commanding the battle, they are not Zhou Yu's opponents, although they also have some personal martial arts, but they are not the kind of people who can rely on their own strength to rush and kill the enemy.

Anyone who took the initiative to lead his troops out of the city to burn the siege equipment was somewhat insecure.

Therefore, although Zhang Xi really wanted to go out of the city to fight, the reality forced Zhang Xi to continue to stay in the lonely city.

And so it goes. Zhou Yu should have a headache again.

What is fake is fake after all, and it is impossible to become true. There are so many siege bed crossbows, if you can't lure Zhang Xi out of the city in a short time, then after a long time, Zhang Xi will inevitably see the flaws.

Now Zhou Yu is also struggling and hesitating, whether to repeat the old trick and continue to put pressure on Zhang Xi.

Although I think it's probably pointless, it's better to try again.

In this way, after another five-day interval, another batch of "bed crossbows" with a number of more than 20 was transported to the Eastern Wu army.

Now, Zhang Xi finally reacted, it was too fake.

It's not that I see any flaws, but I think it's too fake from a purely reasonable point of view.

But if Zhang Xi had more than forty bed crossbows in his hand, he would have set them all up a long time ago and attacked the head of Jiangling City.

Bed crossbow, crossbow arrows are as thick as an adult's arm, an arrow shoots up, once shot, the masonry of the city wall may directly crack, if it hits the body, it may even directly cause the effect of wearing a sugar gourd.

There is no reason why such a thing with great lethality and strong deterrent power is hidden.

Zhou Yu has such a good heart, he doesn't need to put more than 40 bed crossbows, and he takes a dozen or so racks out every day to pretend to be?!

It can be seen that Zhou Yu is probably just bluffing, he doesn't have so many bed crossbows at all.

If that's the case. Then let's consume it, anyway, in the siege war, the defenders take advantage of the city and continue to drag it on, which is not a bad thing for Zhang Xi.

Not to mention anything else, the logistics supply of the 100,000 people of the Dongwu army outside the city is enough to give Dongwu a headache.

As long as it drags on for three months, it will probably be able to directly eat all the grain stocks in Jiangxia and Jingnan counties.

So. Just stick to it.

Zhang Xi strengthened his belief in stubbornly defending, and Zhou Yu suddenly lost his skills.

Zhou Yu really didn't want to attack hard, 100,000 people attacked a city defended by 30,000 people, if there were no unexpected variables, it would be difficult to conquer the city.

At the beginning, Guan Yu led 90,000 people to attack Wancheng, which was guarded by Sima Yi's 30,000 people, if it weren't for the variables of Wang Ping and Wudang Feijun, Guan Yu would have attacked head-on, and there was no way to take Sima Yi.

And the variables really appeared.

But unfortunately, the emergence of this variable is not in favor of Soochow.

When Zhou Yu was at a loss for the defense of Jiangling City, he received a battle report from Quan Cong.

In this war report, it was mentioned that Zhu Huan disobeyed the commander, did not abide by the strategic arrangement, and at the same time violated military discipline and beat and scolded the soldiers without authorization.

Just when Zhou Yu was about to reply to the letter, asking Quan Cong not to pursue this matter for the time being, allowing Zhu Huan to make meritorious contributions and carry out the strategy he arranged as soon as possible, Quan Cong's second battle report arrived.

The defenders of Fancheng took the initiative to attack, with more than 10,000 troops, and Quan Cong was forced to meet the enemy, and the two sides fought fiercely for less than an hour, and each retreated.

On the surface, this is the case, but the problem is that Zhou Yu is keenly aware of what Quan Cong really wants to say - the suspicious soldiers of Xiangyang have been exposed, and if they continue to stay on the north bank of the Han River, they may be surrounded and suppressed by the defenders of Xiangyang.

This war report is not so much a war report as it is Quan Cong's application for retiring from the army.

Zhou Yu didn't expect that things would turn out like this.

He really didn't expect that Zhu Huan would take the initiative to stir up trouble at this time, have conflicts with Quan Cong, and at the same time violate military law, which made his plan to divide troops and build momentum unable to be implemented.

Similarly, Zhou Yu did not expect that Xiangyang would dare to take the initiative to attack, and send 10,000 troops at a time, causing Quan Cong to have to fight with the main force, resulting in the loss of troops.

And Xiangyang dispatched 10,000 troops at once, and Zhou Yu thought about it for a while, and knew that it was Shangyong's soldiers who had arrived.

Otherwise, with the style of employing soldiers, it would be impossible for him to make such a reckless move.

This is also a local soldier who was unexpected by Zhou Yu, and it was inevitable that he would come too quickly.

But the matter has come to this point, no matter how much Zhou Yu complains, it will not change the situation, it is better to think about it quickly, how to deal with it now.

The suspicious plan was revealed, and Quan Cong definitely couldn't continue to stay on the north bank of the Han River, and he had to withdraw immediately, otherwise it would be too dangerous.

And the Shangyong soldiers rushed to Xiangyang, Xiangyang had enough troops, and it was determined that it was the suspicious soldiers who attacked Xiangyang, so they would inevitably choose to transfer troops and go south to support Jiangling.

This support army cannot be allowed to arrive in Gangneung smoothly, otherwise Gangneung will be even more difficult to fight.

For this reason, Zhou Yu immediately ordered Quan Cong to lead his soldiers to retreat from Hanshui, and after retreating to the Hanjin ferry, he went ashore again and led his troops to move in the direction of Dangyang County, intercepting the Shu army that might go south to support Jiangling halfway.

Be sure to give yourself time to conquer Gangneung.

As for the main battlefield of Gangneung. Zhou Yu was ruthless.

If you don't be ruthless, you really don't have a chance.

He ordered the whole army to intensify the offensive regardless of casualties, and to capture Gangneung as soon as possible.

And as Zhou Yu became ruthless, Zhang Xi's side saw a sharp increase in pressure.

If it is said that the previous attack of the Eastern Wu Army was quite relaxed, and if an attack failed, it would be withdrawn to rest and reorganize the siege.

So now, the attack of the Eastern Wu army is like a wave, again and again, never stopping.

The first attack failed, the front army has not retreated, the second wave of attacking teams in the rear has already launched a second attack with hook ladders and pushing cloud ladders, and in the rear army formation, the third batch of attacking teams are already preparing for the attack.

Zhou Yu gave full play to the strength advantage of the Eastern Wu Army, and also brought his overall command ability to the extreme.

Among them, the most under attack pressure was the east gate of Gangneung Fortress.

Yes, it was not Zhou Yu and Lu Xun who attacked the south gate of Jiangling City, but the east gate of Jiangling City was under the most pressure.

That is, Zhuge Ke is responsible for the side of the main attack.

The reason for this is actually very simple. Zhou Yu is now commanding at the East Gate.

On the south gate side, it is indeed the focus of the attack of the Eastern Wu army, but again, the person who is responsible for actually directing the attack here is Lu Xun. Zhou Yu stayed at the south gate, in fact, it was not very helpful to Lu Xun, and it was even possible that Lu Xun could not fully exert his command talent under the influence of Zhou Yu.

After all, there is still a big gap between Zhou Yu's combat style and Lu Xun, if Zhou Yu is in charge of command at the south gate, Lu Xun can only be an ordinary general who executes military orders, and he is completely wasting Lu Xun's talent.

Therefore, Zhou Yu directly ceded the command of the South Gate to Lu Xun and let him play freely, while he personally led an army of 30,000 and made a detour to the East Gate instead of Zhuge Ke to command.

The reason why he chose this place is that Zhuge Ke's qualifications are too shallow, and he has no experience in taking charge of himself before, so Zhou Yu is a little uneasy.

On the other hand, Zhou Yu also wanted to try, if he changed the direction of the main attack, would it cause Zhang Xi's response to be too late and cause a breakthrough from the east gate.

This hand really almost let Zhou Yu play it.

Zhang Xi also thought that Zhou Yu was at the South Gate, after all, among the three gates, the attack at the South Gate was the most violent, and it was also the place with the most rigorous offensive routines and the most diverse offensive methods.

Zhang Xi subconsciously thought that outside the south gate now, Zhou Yu was still directing the battle, so he even guarded the south gate with Wang Ji to guard against Zhou Yu.

And Zhou Tai, who was guarding the east gate, was also accustomed to Zhuge Ke's offensive rhythm, and suddenly encountered Zhou Yu's personal command, and he was a little unable to deal with it for a while, so Zhou Yu seized the gap and commanded the Eastern Wu soldiers to climb the city tower.

Fortunately, although the state was in a panic, the basic quality of the general was still there, so he hurriedly asked for help from the south gate.

And Zhang Xi did not hesitate to take over the east gate after the emergency, personally led a part of the reserve team to the east gate to support, after a battle of soldiers, finally stabilized the front and drove the Eastern Wu army off the city wall again.

Then, Zhang Xi found out that Zhou Yu, the goods, didn't stay at the south gate and ran to the east gate.

In this way, Zhang Xi suddenly did not dare to be careless, and immediately decided to stay at the east gate for defense, and did not dare to leave lightly.

But. This seems to have triggered Zhou Yu's inspiration.

Five days later, Zhong Limu of Ximen suddenly sent someone to report that in Sun Sheng's army outside the city, Zhou Yu's Daxu Zhou Yu had been diverted to Sun Sheng's army, and he might be attacking Ximen.

But when Zhang Xi heard the news, he ran to the west gate with a large reserve team to prepare for the defense. The state of the East Gate was in a hurry again, saying that the Eastern Wu Army, under the command of Zhou Yu, had once again launched a strong attack on the East Gate.

Zhang Xi was angry, so he had to lead the team back to the east gate to command the defensive operation.

And Zhou Yu, who tortured Zhang Xi so much and ran around the city, the price he paid was just to make two more big shots

(End of chapter)