Chapter 258: Iron Cable
Zhang Wei and Shamoke discussed carefully for a long time, but in the end, they couldn't fight the upsurge of sleepiness, and Shamoke took his leave first to let Zhang Wei rest.
Whether it is as the king of Wuxi or the magistrate of Hanshou County, Shamoke still has a lot to do.
Now the entire Hanshou battlefield has been beaten and broken, and the ground is full of corpses.
Han'er and Wu Lingman were lying here together, and the two sides facing each other didn't look much different at the moment.
Shamoko patrolled the ruins and rubble, and then sighed deeply.
"War ......"
Shamoke muttered the word, he had secretly gone to see Sun Cao fighting over the red cliff from a distance, and the flames burned the sky and the river was red.
At that time, Shamoke was infinitely yearning, and in his opinion, the war was that Cao Gong only needed a word, Jingbei was overthrown, and 800,000 athletes went out with it.
It is Zhou Yu's heroic appearance, talking and laughing to destroy the enemy, and the man's soul is dead and famous.
But now in Hanshou, Shamoke really heard the reactions of the athletes involved in the war.
The moaning and wailing are all over the field, and the silence of the silent is all over the mountain.
Almost subconsciously, Shamoke remembered the intelligent Mr. Ma, the questions he raised before had never been difficult for Mr. Ma, if he was here at the moment, he must be able to solve his doubts.
However, weak thoughts and expressions will not appear on this Wuxi barbarian king, even if he has any doubts, he must first win this battle for Xuande Gong and destroy the enemy to level the world!
Zhang Wei, who rarely had a good night's sleep, got up and got a message from Shamoke:
"Han Dang has withdrawn?"
Breakfast is a local fruit of Hanshou with some steamed cakes and a little roast animal meat, Zhang Wei does not refuse to eat Si Swenwen but fast.
Shamoke had obviously gotten up earlier, just to accompany Zhang Wei to dinner and tell about what he had seen during the scouts in the morning.
According to what the scouts saw, the Jiangdong Army's barracks were very orderly, and nothing that should have been taken away was left behind, and it was a very neat empty camp, which showed that it was retreating in an orderly manner.
In the early hours of the morning, the scouts expanded their search area, and unsurprisingly found that they were marching north.
Zhang Wei listened quietly while eating, and after all the food on the table was swallowed like a wind, he said:
"There is a change in Gangneung, and it is time for us to set off."
The situation in Jingzhou is already very clear, and there is no need for a smart head like Mr. Lu or Mr. Zhuge to see it.
Now that the Jiangdong Army's intention to sweep away the Wuling Army is shattered, the only one left who can make a fuss is Jiangling.
As long as he tries to capture Jiangling and rely on this fortified city, it is enough to make Xuandegong feel like he is in his throat.
Slowly plotting the strategy, it is not difficult to finally enter Jiangdong in Jingnan.
And of course they will go to this battle!
"If I were Han Dang'......" Zhang Wei frowned and thought, then looked at the sketchy map contributed by Shamoke and said slowly:
"If I am Handang, I will be assigned an army to be stationed in the north of Lishui."
"The Wuling army is not good at water warfare, and it only needs more than 1,000 people to defend across the river, so you can sit back and relax, and the Chinese army can also rest assured that it will come to the aid of Jiangling."
After carefully observing the map, Shamoko also agrees that what this Brother Zhang said is very reasonable, but:
"What's so hard about that!" Shamoko laughed:
"Our ancestors of Wuling have been rooted here for generations, if we are familiar with geography, who can compare with us?"
"If you want to rush to the aid of Jiangling, Brother Zhang will lead the army to follow us! Let the Wu people guard the water and watch the fish! ”
Zhang Wei was overjoyed, even if it was a gift:
"That being the case, I'm tired of Brother Sha!"
Shamoko humbly waved his hand and said:
"Why should you be like this under the command of the same Xuande Gong? It's all ......."
Shamoke sighed lightly and said word by word: "They are all big men." ”
Looking to the north, Zhang Wei and Sha Moke guessed not badly, and now the attack on Jiangling has entered a white heat.
For Lü Meng, the result of the army's siege of Jiangling and finally not returning was not what he wanted to see.
However, it is impossible to set up an attack from the land west of Jiangdong City.
After all, compared to facing a strong crossbow, the soldiers would rather kill the army privately and abscond, and this frontal assault really can't be defeated.
After receiving the news that the Jingzhou Navy Division had gone to Jiangdong, Lu Meng prepared to return as soon as he was unwilling.
But the secret letter handed out in Jiangling City that night made Lu Meng slightly moved.
The name of Pan Jun, Lu Meng is impressed.
As Sun Hou's personal general, Lu Meng even saw the secret letter sent by Pan Jun with his own eyes when he was in Jianye.
Although this Pan Jun was not Liu Bei's cronies, so there was no useful news, but the letter said that Liu Bei and his subordinates had secret discussions every three months, which made Lu Meng quite impressed.
Therefore, when he saw this person's letter at this moment, Lu Meng believed most of it at the first time.
There are also a large number of boastful words about Hanshou Pan's family, and the words of clinging to the corner, these Lu Meng are not interested, and how this person will stay in the future depends on Sun Hou's meaning.
What made Lü Meng pay attention to the spirit was the two news sent by Pan Jun, one of which said that Liu Bei secretly raised barbarian soldiers in Hanshou in Jingnan, and the Hanshou Pan family suffered greatly from it, and now Sun Hou wants to take Jingnan, this barbarian army must not be ignored, if you want to get rid of it, Hanshou Pan is willing to serve.
The second is to offer a suggestion to break the Gangneung.
Lu Meng, who was holding the secret letter at that time, vaguely remembered that Yun Mengze had sent a message before, saying that Dong attacked and rushed to attack Linyuan, but there was no news after that.
Before, Lu Meng didn't care about it, he just thought that Dong Xi had secretly privateered people again.
After all, this matter was very common when conquering Shanyue, and Jiangdong's surnames favored Shanyue slaves, and they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, and Lu Meng thought that Dong Xi was returning to his old business.
Now seeing this news, and thinking back that this Linyuan is only a few dozen miles away from Hanshou, Lu Meng guessed that Dong Xi was most likely kicked to the iron plate.
In the early morning of the second day, Sun Quan's order arrived, forcing Lü Mengbi to take Jiangling, and saying that he would personally guard the construction industry, so that Lü Meng did not need to worry.
Lü Meng, who got Sun Quan's handwriting, immediately kowtowed heavily to the east, and then vowed to take Jiangling with tears.
With Lü Meng's determination, Wu Jun near Gong'an County began to recycle and split into three:
First of all, he pointed to a naval army to return to Jiangdong, and yesterday's 20,000 to rescue Sun Hou, although he said not to rescue, but Lu Meng is very sensible, which orders in the warrant need to be meticulously executed, and which need to be thought about, he weighed it very clearly.
Then another 10,000 soldiers and horses were handed over to Pan Zhang, and Han Dang, who was stationed in Yunmengze, to attack Hanshou together, and be sure to find out the truth of this barbarian.
The rest of the men and horses were going to fight to the death with him outside Jiangling, and Lu Meng, the strategy for breaking the city, also had a preliminary idea.
In the secret letter sent by Jiangling, what was said was actually quite simple, just that Jiang Wan, the Taishou of Jiangling, had joked before, saying that Jiangling was as solid as iron in the west and crisp as bamboo in the east.
Pan Jun suggested that if you want to take Jiangling, you might as well consider this aspect, and said that there are twenty dead soldiers in the palace, and at a critical juncture, you can help the general to seize the city gate inside and outside.
Lu Meng didn't expect to work with a scrap material inside and out, but what he said about breaking the city from other locations in Gangneung made a lot of sense.
Jiangling City, the voice of silk and bamboo on General Zhenwei's mansion is still the same, and Jiang Wan is still an old friend Zhou Qun.
The movement of arresting Pan Jun and the others was not big, but it was not a secret to Zhou Qun, so when chatting with Jiang Wan, he asked directly:
"As far as I know, Hanshou does have a Wuling barbarian, wouldn't Gongyan's plan make this barbarian army in an embarrassing situation?"
Jiang Wan's tone was indifferent:
"The secret letter is not enough to believe, and there is no room for it, and it is convincing when it is false and real."
"As for the ...... of that Wuling barbarian"
Jiang Wan also had a little apology in his tone:
"If you can detect the movements of the Jiangdong army after living in Wuling for a long time, you only need to flee into the mountains, what can Jiangdong do?"
Zhou Qun nodded slowly, he was born in Langzhong, and when he was in Yizhou, he had also heard about the conquest of the barbarians in Nanzhong and Yizhou.
But in this way, Zhou Qun is inevitably curious:
"In this way, Gongyan is putting the hope of breaking the siege in the north?"
Jiang Wan was silent for a moment, and replied:
"At this time, Xuande Gong should have entered Chang'an, and I really want to see it with my own eyes."
Zhou Qun was stunned, but he didn't expect Jiang Wan to have so much confidence in Xuande Gong.
However, Jiang Taishou didn't want to talk more, so he drank the cold tea in one gulp and got up and said:
"Next, I'm afraid Lu Meng will do everything he can."
Jiang Wan pondered for a while, and wanted to explain that Zhou Qun stayed in Liu Zhang's mansion and studied hard and didn't go out, but when the words came to his mouth, the ghost turned into a question:
"Zhongzhi, I heard General Zhenwei say that your face-to-face skills are no less than Zhang Yu?"
These words made Zhou Qun unable to answer for a while, after all, Zhang Yu's head was cut off by General Zhenwei with his own eyes.
After a moment of confusion, Zhou Qun said vaguely: "It's just that I've read some books." ”
Jiang Wan didn't care, turned his head to look at Zhou Qundao:
"A certain should not be short-lived, and the coming day should be unspeakably precious."
Zhou Qun was dumbfounded, staring at Jiang Wan's appearance, and finally nodded:
"Taishou is longevity, and it is indeed indescribably expensive."
Jiang Wan smiled a little more between his eyebrows, nodded towards Zhou Qun and said:
"The next battle will definitely be fierce, if Zhongzhi is fine, he doesn't have to go out of the house."
After saying that, Jiang Wan laughed and left, and Zhou Qun shook his head with a smile in his footsteps.
In order to attack Jiangling, Lü Meng planned to attack at any cost, and he did so.
The Jingzhou sailors broke through Jiangxia and gave Lü Meng inspiration, so at noon, the defenders of the north gate of Jiangling made a loud noise:
"Fireship! There are fireboats! ”
After being informed, Jiang Wan also quickly boarded the north gate.
The defense on the four sides of Gangneung was uneven, and because the west side had land to facilitate the siege, the western wall was also the strongest defensive force, and it was full of crossbow machines.
The other three walls are much inferior, because there is no land, and the city walls are directly facing the river, so there is not even a foothold for the besieging side.
The most special thing is the north side, there is a water gate on the north side of Gangneung Fortress, which usually allows small boats to enter the city directly for trade.
What Jiang Wan watched was two warships burning with small flames crashing straight towards the city gate on the water to the north.
The boat was not strong, and it quickly fell apart when it hit the strong gate, and the contents of the ship flowed directly through the cracks in the ship.
"Kerose!" Many soldiers looked a little happy: "Fortunately, there are only two warships." ”
But the soldier who said this soon wanted to give himself a big mouth.
From this position, they could clearly see that after the two fireships collided and broke apart and ignited a fire, the Jiangdong army on the north shore erupted in cheers.
Then the three ships sailed out, and the target was still undisguised, and they continued to hit the city gate.
Jiang Wan's face also became serious, if it is changed to fire oil in the north, it is still a precious thing, but Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Jiangdong are all rich in this thing.
If this Lu Meng is hard work, it is really hard to say how many ships of fire oil can be mobilized.
The soldiers immediately erupted in a buzzing sound, and some people urged the crossbowmen to use the giant crossbow to sink the fireship, but all they got was a helpless answer:
"I tried it just now, and the crossbow bolt will either get stuck in the hull of the ship, or it will shoot through directly, and it will take a while and a half to sink it."
Jiang Wan frowned, shook his head and said:
"Send a batch of pilot rockets and try it."
The cronies were ordered to go down to the city quickly, and then the runners went to carry out Jiang Wan's orders.
Soon several special crossbow arrows were picked up, and the crossbowman swallowed his saliva, seeing that the crossbow arrows were loaded onto the crossbow machine, he immediately heard Taishou order:
"Aim."
"Ignition."
"Shoot."
The hollow shaft of the crossbow is also filled with fire oil, and the smoldering twine in it is ignited before it is shot, and when it is shot, it bursts open and ignites the fire oil, and the principle is not complicated.
Jiang Wan saw that there was a crossbow arrow that made a fireboat ignite a fire, and it had stopped before it hit the city wall, obviously burning too fast, and the soldiers had already jumped ship in order to save their lives.
Shaking his head, Jiang Wan no longer had hope for the fireboat made of crossbow arrows, but he tried his best to explain, just let the crossbowmen do their best, and if they had spare strength, just shoot the soldiers who jumped off the ship.
And Jiang Wan himself began to transport soil to the north gate with his soldiers, preparing to extinguish the fire.
In the following days, Jiang Wan also saw Jiangdong's financial resources, and the ships filled with fire oil hit the north gate directly one after another, and the people who floated on the water and burned the city gate by relying on the fire oil to burn the city gate.
The inland river leading to Jiangling has been directly blocked and filled by Jiang Wan and Zhou Qun, and fireproof oil drifts into the inner city along the current, causing even greater riots.
After burning like this for a few days, the defenders of the entire North Gate, including Jiang Wan, felt a little disgraced. target
And these ships seem to be just a drop in the bucket for Koto.
After the boat ran out, Jiang Wan saw a chain of iron cables.
Medium-sized ships such as the ships were connected by iron cables, and one boat was locked to form a large and long fleet, and then they were driven down from the upper reaches of the river.
There were so many ships that it temporarily locked the river, and Lu Meng obviously wanted this effect.
The redundant structures on these boats have been removed and turned into the shape of a board boat, and after being connected to each other, Jiang Wan thought of something very familiar: a pontoon bridge.
It's just that the scale of this pontoon bridge is too arrogant today.
But just like that, with the help of dozens of ships and hundreds of ships, the Jiangdong Army also arrived under the city of Jiangling in a real sense.
A crazy smile pulled up on Lu Meng's face: Jiangling, it should be Jiangdong!
(End of chapter)