Outside the city of Xiangyang, drums shook the sky......

"General-" At the Xiangyang garrison, the Mengyuan soldiers surveyed the battle in front of them, and hurriedly ran back to the house to report, "The enemy army is divided into two armies, water and land, and is attacking our army at the south gate and the east water gate!"

"It's finally here, isn't it......" The main general, Uliang Todo, seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and then stood up and ordered, "Order, order General Usu Erji to lead the main force to defend the city, and use all the weapons of the imperial city to defend the south gate - remember, only defend to the death, not go out of the city to meet the enemy!"

"Yes—" the soldier ordered.

Uliang Todo picked up the saber from the front of the case, turned around and continued: "The rest of the soldiers and others will follow the general to meet the enemy by the waterway of the east gate!

"Yes-" All the soldiers in the palace replied in unison, and the battle of Xiangyang was about to break out......

Outside the south gate, on the land side, Qin Yu personally led the crowd of ten thousand troops, with the strong pressure of the main force of infantry and cavalry, with dozens of sophisticated siege weapons, as if he was going to serve the city of Xiangyang in one pot......

"Knock-knock-" The sound of war drums shook the sky, the vanguard army rode chariots one after another, and the array of mountains and seas of ten thousand armies seemed to be like the momentum of a fierce tiger and wolf teeth, and the horns charged at the starting order......

Lu Jing was still sitting in charge in person, looking at Xiangyang guarding the city for a while, and then said to Qin Yu: "You can start ......"

Qin Yu nodded, turned around and ordered, "Start attacking the city!"

The sound of the war drums turned to a hurry, and the sound of the soldiers shouting to kill was like a huge wave, surging up with the tide of the sea, and soon swallowed up the yellow dust and flying sand that was hundreds of miles below the city......

It is quite similar to the battle of Yizhou, the siege of the city is slowly approaching the city, hundreds of thousands of soldiers under the city are rising together, and the army of the male tiger swarms to launch an extremely fierce attack on the ancient city of Xiangyang - the siege of the city is elevated in the middle of the city wall, the soldiers line up from the lower layer of the elevated, and jump to the top of the city wall one after another, and then use the bamboo raft and wooden ladder to build a bridge, and climb the enemy city tower in the shortest time.

However, Xiangyang is not as good as Yizhou, although the number of soldiers is not much, but the means of the imperial city are sophisticated and complete, even if the advanced weapons such as the siege elevated are pressed, it seems that they have not been able to take advantage.

"Demolish the enemy's wooden ladder for me!-" The Mengyuan garrison general Wusu Erji, who was ordered to defend the city, saw that the siege elevated was menacing, so he ordered his soldiers to "see the move".

When the defenders of Meng Yuan saw the other side coming from the elevated "bridge", they immediately set up an iron shield formation in an orderly manner, and constantly knocked on the rafts and wooden ladders on the elevated with the sharpness of the edge of the iron shield. The soldiers of the vanguard army had just tried to ascend the city from the elevated road, but the "bridge" was destroyed by an iron shield halfway, and the attack was immediately blocked. "Ahh......h

"Tear it down for me!-" In one place, the walls of the castle towers followed suit, and the iron shields turned into sharp spears, constantly tearing down the rafts that were besieging the city. "Ahh......h......h

The elevated soldiers did not intend to give up, and more than ten archers covered the soldiers who crawled up, and shot the Mengyuan defenders who were destroyed by the shield array with arrows at the three-story elevated road, hoping to open a "passage" for the siege soldiers who climbed the tower.

"Ahh......h There are only dozens of archers in the elevated chariots, but there are hundreds of bows and arrows on top of the castle tower, and there are also shield arrays for defense. Returning fire with arrows, it was still the Meng Yuan side that had a slight upper hand, and it didn't take long for the vanguard archers on the elevated highway to die one after another......

The elevated siege was met with stubborn resistance, and the traditional ladder attack did not work. Xiangyang is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and all passes on the city tower are guarded by Mengyuan elite soldiers. The ladder went up layer by layer, but was blocked by the enemy's iron weapons falling rocks, and the vanguard soldiers fell and died before they were halfway up the tower...... For a time, the corpses of soldiers piled up under the city tower, and the siege was greatly hindered......

Seeing that the vanguard generals in the distance saw this, they were a little breathless, and Murong Ying saw that such an offensive had no effect, so he immediately turned around and said: "No, this seems to be Xiangyang City, which has few soldiers, occupies a dangerous position, and is easy to defend and difficult to attack......

Qin Yu saw that he couldn't climb the tower, so he ordered: "Order, use the 'General God Chariot' to storm the enemy's city gate and force the enemy army out of the city to meet the battle, and the cavalry division had better encircle and prepare——"

"Yes-" Murong Ying received the military order, so the various armies of the branch issued the military order in the flag language......

"Even if you use the 'General God Chariot', I'm afraid the enemy army won't go out of the city to meet ......," Lu Jing pondered in the rear and said slightly.

Qin Yu smiled and turned his head and said, "How is that possible, unless they have full confidence in defending the city gate-moreover, Brother Xiao's God Chariot is very powerful, if they don't go out of the city to destroy the chariot, the city gate will be breached sooner or later......"

"With such a stubborn defense of the enemy's troops, it is easy to block our army's siege viaduct, and it may not be difficult to defend the city gate and block the chariot...... Lu Jing continued to analyze calmly and said, "My intention is not to put the god chariot, but to ...... Will the enemy army leave the city......

"What do you mean...... Wouldn't it?" Qin Yu asked instead.

"Hmm......" Lu Jing nodded silently, and then said, "The defender of the enemy army is Wuliang Tuoduo, the descendant of the famous general Ashu of Mengyuan, who is well versed in the way of using troops - although Xiangyang occupies the natural danger, the troops are quite small, and sooner or later it will be broken by our army, he will not fail to understand this truth...... In this way, what Wuliang Tuoduo really wants to do is to delay the time and find an opportunity to lead the main force to evacuate from Xiangyang; on both the land and water sides, it is obvious that it is more reasonable for the waterway of the east gate to go north to Bianliang, if this is the case, I am afraid that the south gate of this land route, Wuliang Tuoduo is not ready to open from the beginning, even if it is at the moment ......when the city is broken."

"Are you saying that the enemy army has never opened the city gate......" Qin Yu also seemed to understand something, and said instead, "If this is the case, the main force of Urliang Tuodo will definitely be placed on the water army, and he will do everything possible to break through the obstruction of our army's waterway, and then escape from the waterway north......"

"That's right, so the fool and Brother Xiao are the ones who really face the test...... Lu Jing couldn't help but be a little worried, "Actually, I gave them an extra order in the water army this time......

"What order?" Qin Yu continued to ask.

Lu Jing's eyes wrinkled slightly, and her tone gradually became cold: "At all costs, kill Wuliang Tuoduo!"

"Targeting the enemy's commander?" Qin Yu said in surprise when he heard this, "Is it so important? For one of the enemy's generals......

"There is no need to guess, Wuliang Tuoduo will definitely take the waterway...... Lu Jing said categorically, "Wuliang Tuoduo is a big trouble for our army, and he is also the brother-killing enemy of the Zichuan brothers." This man is very scheming and makes good use of the art of war, and if he survives, he will surely become a disaster for our army! I am sure ......."

Qin Yu listened, and his eyes continued to be surprised. But he understood that Lu Jing's method of using soldiers and scheming were higher than ordinary people, and Lu Jing's thinking must be reasonable, so he simply didn't ask anything, but concentrated on commanding the siege troops.

"Fool, Brother Xiao, it's up to you to succeed or fail......" Lu Jing secretly cheered for Tang Zhan, Xiao Tian and the others in her heart, but for some reason, a bad premonition surged in her heart......

The strategy changed, and dozens of "Shoshen Chariots" rolled in the direction of the city gate. Covering the formation with foot cavalry, the god chariot traveled to the bottom of the city, and an inexplicable pipe mouth appeared on it. Just like the day of Tengzhou City to lure the enemy, the mouth of the pipe instantly fired a few feet long iron spear, like a shocking lightning, diagonally towards the Mengyuan soldiers defending the city.

"Ahh

Not over, this battle will be used for the siege of the city, deterring the enemy defending the city, the chariot lined up the peak, and the frontal charge towards the city gate, as if to break through the enemy city gate in one fell swoop.

However, as Lu Jing had predicted before, the Xiangyang defenders had excellent means of imperial city, although the soldiers in the front row were deterred by the chariots, but the sound of huge wheels rolling from the rear city tower seemed to be unusual.

The vanguard cavalry covering the chariot just felt strange, and was about to look up, just as he saw several thousands of pounds of boulders covering the sky and covering the sky, overwhelming the sky...... "Ah-ah......" The city tower suddenly turned bright red, and countless foot knights were killed by the boulders. If you look closely, there are wooden lifting equipment that pushes boulders on top of the enemy's tower, which is specially used to deal with the enemy's siege equipment.

The boulder was still falling, and the formation of the vanguard infantry was suddenly scattered, and the god chariot lost its cover, and the boulder that rolled down was in the middle of the chariot's body...... "Bang-bang-" only a loud noise was heard, and the chariots were smashed by the boulders falling from a high altitude......

"The enemy army is too tenacious, and even the 'God Chariot' can't deal with it......" Qin Yu watched the siege methods repeatedly blocked, but the obvious disparity in strength was that he couldn't make progress for half a day, and he who had always been calm began to be a little impetuous.

"It seems that this time Brother Xiao's 'baby belongings' are all useless......" Lu Jing first teased secretly, and she immediately comforted Qin Yu and said, "Brother Qin, don't worry, these are all temporary-the enemy army blocked our army's 'three-plate axe', and he himself will be greatly injured...... We have the absolute superiority of our forces, and we need no strategy but continuous pressure and strong attack, and within two days the enemy will be unable to hold on and abandon the city......"

"I hope that's good......" Qin Yu could only comforted himself silently and said.

"yes, I hope so...... It's okay on our side, I hope they don't make any mistakes...... fools" Lu Jing also secretly reconciled in her heart......

At this moment, in terms of the East Gate Naval Army, the fierceness of the battle is not inferior to that of the South Gate of Xiangyang......

The cannon fire on the waterboat did not stop for a moment, and the vanguard army and the Mengyuan army attacked each other head-on...... However, from the current point of view, the Mengyuan troops of Wuliang Tuoduo were not good at water warfare, and the gunpowder was not as sufficient as the vanguard army......

"Whoosh-bang-" A cannon shot crossed the waves, swept across the hot current, and hit the mast of the ship commanded by Ura Todo, and there was a loud noise, and the hull shook violently.

"Ahh

"General be careful—" The soldier beside him reminded loudly of the danger.

"Damn, the enemy's artillery fire is too fierce to see the battle situation ahead...... Uliang Todo paused his fist at the ship's plank, gritted his teeth and stood up, "Our naval army is short of gunpowder and cannot fight for a long time...... Order, concentrate the main force of the navy, and attack me at the center of the enemy's fire!"

However, when the soldiers beside Uliang Todo heard this, he immediately reminded: "The general must not be reckless, the huge waves on the river are so fierce that you can't see the local ship formation, in case you go too deep and fall into an ambush of the enemy...... The surface of the river is not as good as the land, and if it is ambushed, it will be even more difficult to get to it-"

"If you can continue to defend here, you can only sit and wait!" "Wuliang Todo still insisted on the same way, "Although I can't see the enemy's ship formation clearly, the enemy army has already contained the pass of the river channel, and if our army wants to evacuate north, we must at least break through this pass...... The enemy must have seen the importance of this pass, and must have set up heavy troops at the pass, and the center of fire must be there -- our army does not have much gunpowder, and this is probably the last chance to break through the encirclement, give me a strong attack with artillery fire, and fight with bayonets at close range!"

"Yes, General-" Wuliang Tuoduo said not without reason, now Jiangguan is a dangerous road, and he must fight to the death, so the soldiers next to him are no longer different, and he has to answer......

Sure enough, the Mengyuan naval army regrouped, and all the warships surrounded one place, strengthened the offensive firepower in a rectangular formation, and broke through the Jiangdao Pass in the north......

And the naval army guarding the Jiangdao Pass is the main force of the vanguard naval army led by Tang Zhan. The vanguard army, which was better at water warfare, had long seen the movement of Wuliang Tuoduo - the Mengyuan warships were grouped together and were concentrating towards the crossing.

"General, the enemy is concentrating its firepower on the river mouth of our army--" The soldiers of the vanguard army assumed out the enemy's situation and immediately reported to Tang Zhan.

"Very good, they have taken the bait-" Tang Zhan seemed to have expected it, and immediately ordered his soldiers to pass the order, "Order, order General Xiao Tian to lead the naval army branch to outflank the side of the fork, and wait until the enemy naval army enters the urn and our formation, and immediately take a flank attack to encircle it!"

"Yes—" When the soldier received the order, he turned around and informed the various directions.

Tang Zhan did not stop, and continued to order all the generals on the ship: "The whole army has an order, the Chinese army at the crossing will concentrate firepower, block the enemy's naval army from breaking through head-on, and continue to tug of war with the enemy; if the enemy army is close to the ship and attacks with bayonets, the whole army will be armed and equipped to fight, and the Miyagi square formation will not allow the enemy army to pass through the Jiangdao Pass for half a step!"

"Yes—" All the officers and men on board said in unison.

"Very good, the next thing is to see Brother Xiao, your outflanking, whether you can completely annihilate the enemy army on the river, ...... in one fell swoop" Tang Zhan finished the military order and pinned his hopes on Xiao Tian......

On Xiao Tian's side, the naval army led by him was waiting for the military order at the fork on the south side of the river, and the Tang Zhan military order was issued, and Xiao Tian's side also got the news as soon as possible......

On the surface of the river, a light shadow was dotting the water, stepping on the top light skill, and flew back to Xiao Tian's warship. This person is Su Jia, and the task of receiving military orders is fully entrusted to Su Jia, who is very good......

"Jia'er, have you gotten the news?" Su Jia had been watching the instructions of the Tang Zhan troops across the river, and since he came back, he must have received a military order, so Xiao Tian asked anxiously.

"Brother Tang Zhan gave the order, and the enemy army began to concentrate ships and launched a general attack on the Jiangdao Pass......" Su Jia said seriously, "We are now leading the naval army to raid from the flank, and take the enemy army by surprise and trap the enemy army in the Yangtze River area with a combined siege formation——"

"Okay-" Xiao Tian nodded excitedly, and then ordered, "The whole army has an order, the fleet is in a Xuanxiang formation, and attack the enemy's flank!"

"Yes—" The whole army responded in unison, and the ships and warships suddenly set sail, and they rushed towards the flank of the Wuliang Todo naval army in Jiangdao...... (To be continued.) )