Zhou Yu was outside the city, and Wei Yan restrained and pulled each other.

Wei Yan tried to dig the embankment several times, but he didn't succeed, so he asked some people to contain Zhou Yu, and some people used explosives to blow up, they didn't plan to dig it, and directly blew up the embankment, so that the effect would be better.

However, Zhou Yu still made it impossible for him to succeed.

The assault rifle strafed and killed, and the people who were pinned down were quickly killed, Wei Yan had to give up blowing up the river embankment and continue to fight with Zhou Yu, at this time, it was raining again in the sky, and it was inconvenient for both of them to use their firearms outside the city.

The barrels of the rifle are waterlogged, which is also very troublesome.

Wei Yan saw this opportunity, divided his troops again, fought with Zhou Yu, and took the opportunity to dig the river embankment, but Zhou Yu's ability to lead the troops was obviously superior, and he once again killed Wei Yan.

Wei Yan really had no choice but to stalemate with Zhou Yu to the end until Xi Zhong came back with his troops.

As soon as Xi Zhong arrived, Wei Yan immediately called for help.

"Some people killed Zhou Yu, and some people dug the river embankment!"

When Xi Zhong learned of Wei Yan's predicament, he immediately passed down the order.

Zhou Yu saw that Cao Jun had returned, and knew that he was not an opponent, and after killing some of the people who intercepted him, he was going back to Fancheng.

However, Xi Zhong arranged for Cao Hong to block out of Fancheng and intercept Zhou Yu's way, and Sun Quan had to lead his troops out of the city to save people, and used artillery to blast away the people who intercepted and killed Zhou Yu, and took them into the city.

"What should I do?"

Sun Quan looked outside.

When they saw Zhou Yu entering the city, they prepared to blow up the river embankment.

Zhou Yu said: "After demolishing the houses in the city and making them into rafts, after the walls collapsed, we fought on rafts. ”

Judging from the current situation, they are not in a position to stop the actions of Xi Zhong and other Cao Jun.

Yang Zhao and the others only thought about preventing flooding Fancheng, but they didn't take into account that Xi Zhong fled back, Zhou Yu and the others couldn't prevent flooding, and Zhou Yu couldn't think about this in advance, so he fell into passivity for a while.

"In addition, drive the panic of all the people in the city, let them resist with us and attack the Cao army." Zhou Yu said again.

Now it is Fancheng that Xizhong wants to flood.

Once the city is flooded, Zhou Yu and the others can walk away, but it is the people in the city who suffer.

As long as the rhythm is brought well, the people in the city can easily have anti-Cao emotions and resist the siege of Cao's army.

Now that Yang Zhao has not arrived, they can only save themselves.

"I'll arrange it!"

Sun Quan said.

They worked together, with Zhou Yu in charge of leading the rhythm and Sun Quan in charge of demolishing the houses and making enough rafts temporarily.

Not long after they carried out the plan, a loud "boom" suddenly came from outside the city, which shook everyone in the city, obviously the sound of the river embankment being blown down, and the water surging into Fancheng.

The water came quickly, slammed into the outside of the city, and penetrated into the city by blocking the gaps in the gates.

During this time, continuous heavy rain, Hanshui, Baihe and other rivers, the river water has long risen to the edge of the embankment, at this time the embankment was blown open, the turbulent water found a vent, surging towards the low-lying plain Fancheng.

The people in the city saw the water rushing into the city, so they believed that Cao Jun really didn't care about their life and death, and wanted to flood Fancheng, Zhou Yu's rhythm rose, and the people hurried to rescue their food and clothing, and also took the initiative to demolish the house to help Zhou Yu build a raft to resist.

Because Zhou Yu said that when Yang Zhao came, he could help them rebuild their homes and give them food.

Yang Zhao will indeed do this.

If you don't help the people of Fancheng rebuild, then it doesn't make much sense to lay down Fancheng.

The enthusiasm of the people was driven by Zhou Yu.

Under Zhou Yu's arrangement, he was ready to fight back.

If they had a raft, they all went to the raft to help Zhou Yu fight Cao Jun.

If you don't have one, you can only climb on the roof, or climb the castle tower, etc., to take shelter from the flood.

Zhou Yu and Sun Quan gave them their weapons and arranged a counterattack together, and the soldiers and civilians gathered and waited for Xi Zhong outside the city to lead troops in.

Seeing that Fancheng was flooded, Xi Zhong led the troops to the north gate and sighed guiltily: "I can only use artillery to knock down the city wall with the people in the city!" ”

Although it was still raining, the soldiers of Cao's army built a rain shelter outside the city, and their cannons, lined up outside the flood, raised their muzzles, and bombarded the tower at the north gate with one shot.

"Let's go!"

When Zhou Yu saw the artillery, he immediately shouted.

The soldiers on the north side of the castle tower all retreated to the raft, and then a loud noise struck.

It rained so much in a row, and the city walls had already been softened.

At this time, it was bombarded, and it was suddenly partially collapsed, and then Xi Zhong outside the city ordered to continue firing cannons, and the shells came continuously, and the collapsed city wall became larger and larger, opening a hole in the city wall.

"Get on the raft and go into town!"

Seeing that it was almost over, Xi Zhong ordered again.

Cao Jun's raft was also prepared.

The soldiers boarded the raft and went to Fancheng.

"Zhongmou, here!"

Zhou Yu shouted: "Let the people behind prepare, we soldiers, hold this gap, protect the people, and don't let the people come out to take risks until they are forced to do so." ”

The order was passed down, and all the soldiers were ready with bows, crossbows, and guns.

Firearms are standard, but bows and crossbows are still available in the military.

There were also soldiers, carrying planks as shields for defense, and on rafts they were ready for defense and counter-attack.

As a native of Jiangdong, Zhou Yu is better at water warfare.

Under his arrangement, the soldiers were immediately ready.

As for the people behind, when they heard Zhou Yu and them, at this time, they still wanted to protect themselves, and they couldn't hold back anymore, so they all came over with the raft, ready to resist with Zhou Yu.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer.

Cao Jun killed the gap in the collapse of the city wall, and first pulled his bow and shot, not giving Zhou Yu a chance.

The arrows pierced through the rain curtain and shot straight at them.

Zhou Yu and the others wore robes and hats, raised their shields to block the rain of arrows, and then counterattacked with repeaters.

The two sides first exchanged arrows from a distance for a while, and as the distance continued to close, they finally began to fight in close quarters.

Not only the soldiers, but also the young adults in Fancheng, all joined the counterattack against Cao's army under Zhou Yu's arrangement.

"Sir."

Ma Liang frowned and said, "The people in the city were mobilized by Zhou Yu to resist us?" ”

Xi Zhong worried: "Flooding Fancheng is easy to use, but Zhou Yu is not a mediocre person, he knows how to drive the emotions of the people, I am afraid that if we do this, even if we succeed, we will lose the hearts of the people in the north of Xiangyang." ”

Cao Hong said: "As long as Fancheng can be brought back, the lost hearts of the people can still be recovered." ”

"General Cao is right."

Xi Zhong shouted: "Send troops over again and storm Fancheng!" ”

They didn't dare to break down the walls of Fancheng on a large scale.

Because after taking this city, it is necessary to drain the flood water and use the city to defend the north side of Xiangyang.

In the future, if Yang Zhao retreats, Fancheng is still the Cao family, and all of them collapse, then the amount of rebuilding work is very large.