December, Pengze City.

The rammed earth walls are faintly visible with holes in the arrows. The female wall at the head of the city has changed from rammed earth to wooden wall, and the sword marks on it are obvious. A smashed car under the city tower, and a few people on the left and right who couldn't dodge were smashed by the wolf's fangs and their heads were opened.

Since Sun Quan and Zhou Yu besieged the city, all kinds of means have been used, but they can't help Peng Zecheng. Hit the city gate with a rushing car, Huo Jun chiseled the boulder, wrapped it in wolf teeth, made a wolf tooth racket, tied it with a kudzu rope, and used the principle of leverage to smash it down from the city tower.

Using the ladder ants to attack the city, Huo Jun sent people to throw weeds, water fire oil, and burn the ladder. Most of the Jiangdong soldiers who were attached to the ants to attack the city were burned to death, and the arrows and stones on the city were like rain, and the soldiers suffered many casualties.

Of course, Huo Jun did not fight back, and sent five hundred elites to hang down from the city tower with ropes at night, attack the Jiangdong camp at night, and break through the outer camp. The next day, Sun Quan adopted Zhou Yu's suggestion to build a long siege outside the camp and sent soldiers to guard it at night, dismantling Huo Jun's night attack strategy.

In this short period of two months, Huo Jun relied on the city, Zhou Yu relied on the army, and the two sides attacked and defended each other.

Today, Zhou Yu ordered the construction of the ladder car to be completed, and launched a wave siege.

What is a ladder truck?

Take the big wood as the bed, put six wheels under it, stand double teeth, and the teeth have a long ladder, stretch and fold, and fly in the air; The head has a long hook, which can be pillow on the city wall; The lower part contains a wooden warehouse, which can be hidden. The long ladder supports the wall, and the sergeant climbs the ladder to help the city.

Thousands of sergeants surrounded ten ladder carts, and approached the city with wooden curtains amid the shouts of the officers. The crossbowmen relied on their shield carts to shoot at the archers on the castle tower, and the arrows flew sideways in the air, and the soldiers sometimes let out the screams of arrows.

In the northeast corner, nearly 100 Jiangdong sergeants formed a shield wall, facing the rain of arrows on the city tower, clustering the ladder car and slowly moving forward, and from time to time you could hear the screams of the arrows of their colleagues on their side.

Soon, the ladder drove through the ditch they had filled in front of the city, and approached the tower.

"The ladder truck is coming!"

The Jingzhou soldiers on the city tower shouted hoarsely.

Shi Chang urged his soldiers and asked nervously, "Is it done?" ”

"Not yet!"

Zhang San wiped the sweat on his head, hurriedly filled the iron cage with oil, and said, "It's almost over!" ”

"Boom!"

Under the city tower, the ladder truck arrived at the city base, stretched out a double-toothed ladder, and stuck the city wall with an iron hook. The Jiangdong soldiers in the car were already eager to try, holding swords and shields, ready to climb the ladder and fight in the city.

"That's it!"

"Lift up!"

"Ignition!"

At the same time, after Zhang San finished filling the oil with oil, he and his soldiers raised the wood and lit the oil placed in the iron cage at the end of the wood, and the flames suddenly swelled.

At this time, the Jiangdong soldiers had already climbed up the ladder, almost approaching the city wall, and there were already soldiers on the city tower waiting for them, and they were about to start hand-to-hand combat. Zhang San and his colleagues lifted the wood and stretched it into the hole in the city wall that Huo Jun had ordered someone to dig open.

If you look from outside the city wall, you can see the burning iron cage sticking out of the hole, slowly extending to the middle of the ladder under the ladder of the ladder car. The wooden ladder was quickly ignited by the fierce fire, and a fire broke out on the ladder as the wind intensified.

The Jiangdong soldier who had already climbed on the ladder was terrified when he saw his ladder on fire, but how could the ladder that had been lit withstand the strength of everyone.

"Ahh

With a creak, the first soldier on the ladder who was about to fight saw this, let out a panicked shout, and was instantly thrown to the ground heavily. Falling from a height of four or five meters, and wearing heavy armor, these pioneers are not dead or disabled.

"Pour the gold juice!"

As the ladder burned, the sergeants on the towers who were preparing for hand-to-hand combat lifted the hot, foul-smelling gold juice and sloped down from the towers, burning the undead warriors to the point of wailing.

Not only in the northeast corner, but also the ladders were burned by the ten ladder cars, and more than 100 elite warriors who did not climb the city wall were either burned to death, fell to death, or burned to death by gold juice.

Outside the city, Zhou Yu watched the ladder car he had carefully built being destroyed by Huo Jun like this, and waved his fist angrily to express his dissatisfaction in his heart.

On that day, Pan Zhang and Quan Cong led their troops to attack the mountain, because of the mandarin duck array and the steepness of the mountain, Gao Xiang and Huo Yuan played an astonishing battle loss ratio of 10:300, at the cost of 10 casualties, beheaded more than 300 people, hundreds of people were injured, and the main general Pan Zhang was defeated by an arrow.

For several days in a row, Zhou Tai and Chen Wu went into battle continuously and led their troops to attack the mountain. Gao Xiang and Huo Yuan's thousands of people relied on Haoshan, and with the mandarin duck array, they beheaded more than 100 people, and they only had a few casualties.

The failure of the attack on Haoshan made Zhou Yu and Sun Quan helpless. So he gave up the plan to attack the mountain, and only sent people to block the road down the mountain and closely monitor Gao Xiang's department. Then the target turned to Pengze City, which was garrisoned by only more than 2,000 people in the city.

Zhou Yu used all his strength, using all kinds of siege equipment, and almost all of them were disintegrated by Huo Jun. Today, seeing that the ladder truck he spent more than a month to build did not even move forward and approached the city, it was destroyed like this, and more than 100 elite soldiers were killed and injured for no reason, how could he not be angry.

"Withdraw!"

Sun Quan looked at the 'Huo' flag standing at the head of the city, his whole body was numb, and he finally had to hold back a sentence.

"No!"

As the retreating trumpets sounded, the soldiers under the city retreated like a tide, leaving behind a messy battlefield.

"Lord, our sergeant has picked up a letter outside the city!" When Sun Quan returned to the army, his attendants presented a letter shot from inside Pengze City.

With curiosity, Sun Quan opened the letter, and when he saw the content of the letter, a smile appeared on his face.

"Peng Zecheng can be broken!"

……

In the tent, the generals sat in separate columns, and their morale was a little low.

Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu beside him with a scrutinizing gaze, and after his performance in the past few months, he had to doubt Zhou Yu's ability. It took 20,000 troops two months to conquer a small Pengze City.

Sun Quan coughed lightly, stabilized his emotions, and said: "Gong Jin, Cheng Gong's department was blocked by Guan Yu, and the soldiers were not allowed to enter Yuzhang. Liu Bei is an old revolution, good at using soldiers, Sun Yuzhang and Sun Luling retreated to Xingan, if they can't break Peng Zecheng again, I'm afraid that Yuzhang and Luling will be lost! ”

Guan Yu was limited by the fact that he had just arrived in Jiangdong, and his subordinates had just been expanded, and his combat effectiveness was not strong. Playing against Cheng Pu, there are mutual victories and defeats, and they are in a stalemate.

Liu Bei annexed Tai Shi Ci's subordinates, and let Tai Shi Heng be his halberd bearer, so that the soldiers returned to their hearts. With Gan Ning and Zhang Fei as the vanguard, Liu Pan and Wen Ping as the wings, they won a battle with Sun Ben and Sun Fu and took Nanchang, and the two had to retreat to Xingan.

Judging from the current situation, as Sun Quan said, if he doesn't find a way to take Pengze City, the two counties of Yuzhang and Luling may be gone.

Zhou Yu felt the questioning gaze of everyone, and said calmly: "Huo Jun is not an ordinary person, he is brave and wise, and the soldiers under his jurisdiction are brave and good at fighting, especially good at defending the city, which should not be underestimated. Yu thought that he could take advantage of Huang Zu's unpreparedness to attack Chaisang and cut off Liu Bei's grain road. ”

"Turning to Chaisang?"

Hearing this, everyone in the tent talked about it, in their eyes, now in Pengze City, it has taken so long, several generals have been killed and wounded, thousands of people have been killed and wounded, and they gave up after half of the battle, and turned to attack Chaisang, who started from scratch, which made it difficult for them to accept.

In addition, Zhou Yu saw that the attack on the mountain was unfavorable, so he gave up attacking Haoshan and switched to attacking Peng Zecheng, so they had to doubt Zhou Yu's military ability.

In the face of everyone's doubts, Zhou Yu said: "Under your command, our army has been blocked under Peng Ze for a long time, and Huang Zu will not see the enemy, so he will slack off. Peng Ze to Chaisang is only a few hours, early out of the night, rushing to attack the Huang Zu army, when it can be successful! ”

Zhou Yu wanted to attack Chaisang, not on a whim. He insisted on attacking Peng Zecheng before, underestimating Huo Jun's ability, but he didn't expect Huo Jun to be so able to defend the city. Now that the army is in Pengze City, there has been no results for two months, and if it drags on any longer, he is really worried that something will happen to Yuzhang.

At the same time, as Zhou Yu said, Huang Zu saw that the Jiangdong soldiers and horses were blocked by Peng Ze, and he was indeed relaxed. If the sailor turns to attack the Jiangxia sailor, there may be an unexpected surprise.

Sun Quan took out the letter from his bosom and said, "Lonely in the city received the letter of surrender, which was offered by the children of the local wealthy families in Pengze. He said that he was a son of Peng Ze Zhou, who was forcibly recruited into the army by Zhao Yun, and is now the commander of the tun, and is willing to open the north gate for our army to surrender. I wonder if you think this person can be trusted? ”

"Surrender to the North Gate?"

"Peng Ze Zhou has heard that his head Zhou Mansion sent grain and grass to our army a few days ago, thinking that it was for the labor army."

Sun Quan looked at the two of them with expectant eyes and asked, "What about Dongfang and Gongjin?" ”

Zhang Hong pondered for a while and said: "Your command, it is better to order someone to bring the Zhou Mansion and ask one or two to see if there is indeed someone, so as not to be a deceitful surrender of the enemy." ”

"Your command, this is the enemy's strategy to surrender, and it can't be trusted!"

PS: There is one more chapter

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