In the late autumn of August and September, the north wind howled continuously, and in the wind, the heavy rain blew diagonally towards the Cao soldiers on Fancheng.

But the heavy raindrops could no longer give them a heavy oppressive force.

Because in the distant flood plane, those undulating ships are the things that kill people.

Some of the Cao soldiers on the city wall had indifferent faces, just glanced at Yuan, and silently squatted down to wipe their blades. Some of them looked frightened and trembled slightly. Others simply took a few steps back behind their comrades.

The heavy rain had knocked their morale into the dust, and many of them were Cao Hong's soldiers and horses stationed in Yingchuan, and even most of them had experienced the battle.

Maybe Yu Ban is the next Cao Hong, maybe Cao Hong is the last Yu Ban, who knows? The rain in Jingzhou has been so heavy that it is enough to drown everyone here.

Soon in the wind and rain, the fleet of the Jingzhou army was getting closer and closer to the east gate, and they lined up about a mile away from the east gate, which used to be the ground, but now it was the river on the ground, and the boats walked in the sky.

The two sides confronted each other one mile apart, and the Jingzhou army did nothing. But it was precisely because he did nothing that he gave Cao Jun, who was already at a huge disadvantage in morale, psychology, and numbers, a great sense of oppression.

Silence and uneasiness quickly spread among the army, and many people looked at each other, standing behind the female wall, looking at the fleet outside the city wall with anxiety and fear, and their emotions were depressed.

"They...... They don't seem to move. ”

"I don't know....... Let's take a look. ”

"Could it be a raid?"

"Look over there, everybody."

The soldiers of the Cao army whispered, and suddenly someone pointed to the north.

Many people saw another fleet of boats appear on the big river in the north, and then slowly headed towards the north gate.

Immediately afterwards a convoy of ships appeared on the south side, swaggering past the city and sailing towards the south gate.

"Circumference three que one!"

Yu Ban almost squeezed out these words from between his teeth.

Adjutant General He Mao said: "General, the enemy is overwhelming, and we may not be able to resist it." ”

"Tell Niu Gai and Hao Zhou, let them block it desperately."

Yu Ban has followed Cao Cao to fight in the south and north for many years, so he naturally knows the situation and says: "The enemy will inevitably set up an ambush at the West Gate, be careful." General Zhengxi is now collecting ships and will be coming to help soon. ”

"Yes."

He Mao hurriedly went to convey the military order.

By noon, the three fleets were already in place, and then with the melodious sound of the desolate horn spreading in all directions, Huang Zhong's troops took the lead in attacking.

Countless ships set sail, and the sailors who paddled in their cabins shouted rhythmic trumpets, paddling in their hands and boarding the ships under their feet, bare and bare muscles to provide a steady stream of power to the ships.

The oars on either side of the ships spun wildly, splashing in the already tumbling floodwater. The scattered fleet slowly approached the walls, then lined up in three rows and rushed towards the city.

The front of their ship was covered with planks, and when they approached the walls of Fancheng, they began to slow down, and then slowly approached the city, less than ten zhang away, and then moved forward.

This is a technical job, whether in ancient times or in later generations, normal dock docking because of the inertia of the water surface, often the ship does not stop in time is likely to hit the dock headlong.

However, in later generations, many tires were installed at the docks to prevent ships from colliding, so this rarely happened.

In ancient times, although there were no rubber tires to cushion them, they generally spread a lot of hay on the docks, either letting the ships dock and stop on the hay, or dragging them by manpower to tow the ships to the docks and tie them up.

It's just that now Yu Ban in Fancheng is of course impossible to help Jingzhou sailors lay hay or drag it with manpower, he can't wait for all the enemy's ships to crash over and crash into pieces.

Unfortunately, Huang Zhong's fleet was obviously not so technically rough, and the ships were gradually fixed with hook anchors, and then began to move forward.

Yu Ban gave the order to release the arrows.

The planks of the ship stood upright, and the clanging arrows came at them, turning the planks into hedgehogs, but they did no damage to the enemy troops behind.

When they were less than two zhang away from the city, that is, four meters away, on the deck of the second floor of the Jingzhou Navy fleet, an unknown number of crossbowmen appeared and began to shoot arrows into the city wall below.

Because of the rising water level, the first deck of the ship was almost flush with the city wall, and the second deck was even higher than the city wall, and Huang Zhong's crossbowmen condescended to shoot arrows, taking advantage of the location.

In the past, siege warfare was fought by them shooting arrows from the city walls, and they were in high places, bullying others in low places. As a result, the two levels are now reversed, and the offense and defense are reversed.

The Cao army on the city wall was shot to the ground, and the crossbowmen could barely return fire, so they could only curl up behind the shield with their shields, listening to the clanging sound outside, shivering.

On the eastern section of the city wall that is three or four miles long, it is densely packed with Cao army, and outside the city wall is an endless fleet of ships, Huang Zhongbu's ships not only crowd the entire section of the city wall, but also arrange three rows in the rear, the bow is connected to the stern, and is built with wooden planks to form a mobile castle.

Now it's like two cities colliding together, arrows flying, from the beginning Cao Jun still has a little ability to resist, to the end through the condescending advantage, Huang Zhong's troops have occupied a long-range offensive, and even Huang Zhong himself stood on the bow of the ship and shot several people.

The city wall of Cao's army was already in chaos, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the planks of the ship fell down one after another, and were erected on the ship and the city wall, and at the same time, a large number of ladders and hooks were also thrown up, and the hook claws climbed the female wall and began to climb the city.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The Jingzhou army shouted the slogan of rushing and killing, and the sound shook the sky, and rushed directly to the city wall along the planks and ladders, and began to fight fiercely with the Cao army on the city wall.

The roars, echoes, weapons blocking, and muffled snorts on the walls barely stopped.

I don't know how many Jingzhou troops rushed to the city wall to fight with the Cao army, not only here, but also the southern and northern cities, Huang Zhong personally went into battle, beheaded Yu Ban's deputy general He Mao, and then continued to march.

Cao's army was defeated and retreated, from the end of noon to the beginning of the afternoon sun, a whole noon, the two sides were fighting around the three sections of the city wall, and there was no end in sight to the tragic battle.

In the center of the east gate, the section of the city wall that was less than 180 paces away from the tower was the concentrated flashpoint of the battle between the two sides, and the blood of soldiers on both sides was splattered everywhere, and in many places the yellow-brown rammed earth was completely soaked in blood, turning a blackened crimson.

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Cast iron helmets and leather hats were visible on the walls, and bald tails and feathered arrows and broken weapons were thrown to the ground. In the corners on both sides of the wall, the corpses of soldiers killed on both sides were piled up indiscriminately, and some of the corpses had no time to be carried, so they were kicked and trampled under the feet of the people, and the battle was too tight to be fought so tightly that no one could spare the manpower to clean up the battlefield.

Yu Ban has withdrawn to the section of the city wall in the northeast corner, the dense Jingzhou army surged up like a tide, and the Cao army, which was already demoralized, was almost unstoppable, and in less than an hour, a large section of the city wall in the east city had been seized by the enemy, arrows and halberds were flying, and corpses were piled up.

Even in the end, Cao Jun could no longer stand on the city wall, and was forced to retreat step by step, many people jumped directly into the water in the rear city, those who could not water were drowned, and those who knew water barely climbed to the nearby roofs to take refuge, and the roofs in the city were full of fleeing Cao Jun.

Niu Gai was killed in the rebellion, and Yu Ban retreated to the area of the North City Gate, and evacuated to the West City Gate with his subordinate general Hao Zhou. At present, the defenders of the West City Gate are safe and sound, the problem is that after the defeat of the East City Gate, the two city gates and the city wall in the north and south cannot withstand it for long, and the war will burn towards the West City Gate sooner or later, making Hu Xiu, the guard of the West City Gate, frightened.

The rain was still falling, and the blood on the walls gradually soaked into the rammed earth of the walls. There were corpses floating everywhere in the flood inside and outside the city, most of them were soldiers of the Cao army, and a few of them died in battle, and more of them did not escape in time and fell into the water and drowned.

But the ban could not be resisted, and after retreating to Xicheng, the remaining Cao troops who resisted at the east gate had basically surrendered, and this trend also infected the entire Fancheng, and the Cao army that surrendered from officers to low-level non-commissioned officers fell to a large area.

In the storm, the situation in Fancheng was basically decided, and Huang Zhong, Lu Chang and Wen Ping ordered the soldiers to escort the prisoners back to the ship, and led a part of the soldiers to go to the west gate from two directions at the same time.

Yu Ban hurriedly ran to the city wall of the west city gate, and saw that the soldiers were already in chaos, many people grabbed the small boats used to transport supplies, dragged the boats from the city to the city wall, and then pushed the boats from the city wall to the west city gate - the city was flooded, and there was really no way to open the city gate and escape.

Seeing this scene, Yu Ban said angrily: "What's going on, Hu Xiu? ”

"General Hu has already run away, so General Zuo should also run. There were so many enemies that the soldiers couldn't resist them. ”

A lieutenant shouted at the boat as he dragged the boat.

There are no big boats in Yu Ban, only small boats, or Fancheng itself is the ferry port of the Han River wharf, and when the wind and rain come, they snatched it from the wharf, and they can't escape more than 30,000 people at all.

Now that the army is on the verge of defeat, the soldiers will either flee by boat, surrender, or die in battle or drown, and there is no other way to choose.

Although Liu Beijun has no records or rumors of abusing or killing prisoners of war, the problem is that they are soldiers in the north, and who wants to leave their families and stay in the south as prisoners?

Therefore, in order to escape for their lives, many soldiers chose to use those small boats in the city to escape.

Even because of the lack of small boats, the soldiers fought for their lives, and the former comrades now became enemies, fighting each other in small teams, regardless of the camaraderie in arms.

Seeing such a scene, Yu Ban only felt sad.

As the head of the generals surnamed Cao Wei, he has followed Cao Cao to fight in the south and the north for many years, and he has always been known for his strict military discipline, and the soldiers he trained are also the elite of the north.

But a defeat actually caused the comrades to fight among themselves, and the reputation of a lifetime was ruined, how could it not make Yu Ban despair?

But this was no longer the time for him to grieve and be angry.

There were only two paths in front of him, one was to follow the captain to escape, and the other was to scold and stop the soldiers.

Look at the chaos around you.

The defeat was like a mountain, and his army consisted of only 30,000 people who were discouraged and demoralized.

And the enemy's army is more than 40,000 people, and the morale is high, just shooting arrows outside the city can make no one dare to stand on the city wall, which is not the opponent of Huang Zhong and Lu Changwen hired them at all.

Who would listen to the orders of the approaching enemy in order to grab a ship from the crowded soldiers inside and outside the walls?

Thinking of this, Yu Ban could only sigh and said painfully: "Get on the boat and go." ”

At that moment, Yu Ban's personal guards also immediately joined the queue to snatch the boat, helping Yu Ban and Hao Zhou to seize the two boats, pushing them into the flood outside with difficulty, jumping onto the boat and escaping.

There was also chaos outside the city, and there were dozens of small boats on hand in the entire Yu Ban, the small ones could only carry four or five people, and the large ones could only carry more than ten people.

But now these boats are basically overloaded, small boats can seat more than ten or nearly twenty, and some of the big ones even carry thirty or forty people, and the boats are shaking in the wind and rain, capsizing, capsizing, and even killing colleagues and throwing corpses in order to reduce the burden.

In the chaotic scene, Yu Ban and Hao Zhou's ships were also loaded, and their guards couldn't sit still at all, and Yu Ban couldn't bear to let the guards who had followed him for many years die in Fancheng.

In this way, the two lonely boats drifted in the flood with difficulty, and only rowed a hundred feet, and were overturned by a big wave of the rolling flood wave.

Fortunately, there was a small hill in that place, and it happened that the boat was floating under the small hill, and after the boat capsized, Yu Ban was fished up to the small hill by the guards, and almost climbed with a roll, covered in mud, and climbed to the slope in great embarrassment.

Looking at Fancheng in the distance, the Jingzhou army had already killed on the wall of Xicheng, and a large number of Cao troops who had time to escape in the future either fell into the flood and were drowned by the waves, or were killed by the enemy, or knelt down and chose to surrender.

Only a handful of lucky people escaped by boat, and the entire city of Fancheng fell into the hands of the Jingzhou army.

Yu Ban's hair was scattered, and his eyes were dull to watch all this.

He knows.

Even if he goes back alive, he is finished.

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"Report!"

Just when Huang Zhongwen hired Lu Chang to capture Fancheng, Yu Ban was trapped on the hillside outside the city.

About ten miles away from the northwest corner of Fancheng, in the area of Lingyangpo, Shen Chen was standing on the boat and only looked into the distance.

The flood flooded for dozens of miles on both sides of the river, but the further north the water became, the shallower it became, and after reaching the Lingyang slope, the water level dropped to less than three feet.

Therefore, Shen Chen's fleet had to be two miles away from Lingyang Slope and cruise in the water.

To the north of Lingyang Slope is Yancheng, and at this moment, Xiahou Yuan and Xu Huang's army dragged a large number of boats, hesitated on the slope, and did not dare to enter the water at all.

Their ships are all small boats collected nearby, which belong to the sequence of fishing boats, while Shen Chen's are small and medium-sized ships that are specially used for battle, such as warships, fighting ships, rash boats, dewy trees, boats, first boarding, etc., all of which are warships.

Not to mention that the number of fishing boats is not enough, and only a few hundred small fishing boats have been found in just two days. Even if there are enough of them, it is a dead end to go into the water and engage the enemy.

Therefore, even if they actually received the news that Yu Ban had come out to ask for help at noon, they didn't dare to go into the water to help Fancheng.

Shen Chen blocked them.

Hundreds of warships cruised back and forth in the flood, and although the enemy ships were sometimes scattered due to the width problem, everyone knew that once they rushed up to fight, they would kill themselves.

So whether it was Xiahou Yuan or Xu Huang, they all cowered and only dared to wait and see.

At this time, behind Shen Chen's main ship, a scout boat rowed on the water like an arrow, and soon came to Shen Chen's main ship, and the scout soldiers got on the boat and came to Shen Chen, knelt down on one knee and said: "General Huang, General Lu, and General Wen have occupied Fancheng, a large number of Cao troops have surrendered, and the enemy generals Niu Gai and He Mao have been killed, and the commander Yu Ban does not know where to go." ”

"Oh?"

After getting the news, Shen Chen nodded, waved his hand and said, "Return." ”

"Homecoming!"

As soon as the order was given, the soldiers on the pole waved their flags and gave the order to retreat to the other warships cruising in the distance.

Hundreds of warships turned their bows one after another and headed in the direction of Fancheng in the rear.

In the distance, Xiahou Yuan and Xu Huang stood on the top of the hill of Lingyang Slope and watched, seeing this scene, Xiahou Yuan was anxious and said: "What's going on, why did they leave?" ”

Xu Huang let out a long sigh and said, "Then Shen Chen came to intercept us, and now they are retreating, there is only one possibility." ”

"What is possible?"

"Fancheng....... I'm afraid that Fancheng is no longer guaranteed. ”

"What?"

Xiahou Yuan was furious, and slammed his knife at the stone on the ground, and roared angrily: "This thief, God, why is it raining so much, why!" ”

Bang!

It seemed that with his invective, a thunderbolt fell from the sky and smashed under the hillside not far away, causing many Cao Jun around to be startled and hurriedly ran away.

Only Xiahou Yuan didn't seem to care, his scarlet eyes looked in the direction of the evacuation of the southern Shen Chen warship, and his eyes seemed to be dripping blood.

The king of Wei ordered him to gallop to the aid of Xiangfan, and after four days of rapid marching, he finally reached the battlefield, but he could not get any results back.

Now if Fancheng is lost, how can he explain to the King of Wei?

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The battle in Fancheng has been decided, and Shen Chen returned home.

Hundreds of large and small ships set off in the direction of Fancheng.

After approaching Fancheng, an apprentice and general Shan Yi pointed to the distance and said, "General, there are a lot of Cao troops over there." ”

Shen Chen looked over.

I saw that there are still many hills and slopes around Fancheng.

After the city was breached, some escaped in boats, while others floated in the water using wooden planks as lifebuoys.

Some people floated on the flood, some were hit by the waves to the hillside, and some boats drifted with the waves, and the river was densely packed with ants everywhere Cao Jun.

Many people were even almost drowned by the floods.

Seeing this scene, Shen Chen waved his hand and said, "Save people and arrest all the prisoners." ”

"Yui!"

Shan Yi arched his hand should be.

After the military order was issued, hundreds of warships sailed to the vicinity of the west gate of Fancheng in the distance.

Within a few miles of the surroundings was the Cao army of Luoshui.

I'm afraid there are no less than thousands of people.

Shen Chen's fleet went up, constantly rescuing people, and capturing prisoners on the spot.

As his ship passed by a small hill, he saw dozens of ragged and embarrassed Cao soldiers on the hill.

Most of them had their armor and stomachs off to make it easier for them to escape, or they were shirtless or in tatters.

Only one person, although embarrassed, was actually wearing a smaller ring lock armor on his upper body.

The ring lock armor is a bit like chain mail, which appeared in the late Han Dynasty, and Cao Zhi also wrote the "First Emperor Bestows Ministers Armor Table" to record this kind of armor, which is a relatively light armor, which is not available to Cao Wei's senior generals.

Shen Chen was a person who knew the goods, although the man had a haggard face, was covered in mud, and was very old, but he stood on the boat and asked tentatively, "Yu Ban?" ”

Yu Ban looked at Shen Chen's familiar but unfamiliar face, he was already desperate, he knew that it was Shen Chen, this battle had been lost, his knees were paralyzed and knelt on the ground, he raised his hand to offer the treasure knife given by Cao Cao, and said sadly: "Yu Ban, I am willing to surrender!" ”