Chapter 26 Siege Wu County

"Lord, be careful!" Seeing more than a hundred boulders flying head-on, most people were stunned, but as Sun Quan's personal guard, the annoyance army reacted at the first time and quickly gathered forward to block in front of him with the big shield in his hand.

"Ban Bang!" Two boulders hit the shield, and the two soldiers who raised the shield shook their bodies. Finally, they couldn't help sitting on the ground, spitting out blood in their mouths. Although Sun Quan was safe and sound, he was also very embarrassed to see this situation.

"Master, avoid it quickly!" The rest of the guards quickly took advantage of the gap after the first wave of stone rain to protect Sun Quan under the city. As soon as I got to the top of the stairs, the second wave of stone rain came again. Sun Quan heard the roar of boulders in his ear, and in his busy schedule, he still looked back at the situation on the head of the city at this moment. Compared with the unpreparedness of the first wave of stone rain, this time the defenders are finally a little defensive. Some blocked with shield weapons, and some began to dodge. But how much space can there be in the city? Several people bumped into each other while dodging, but they didn't have time to dodge and were hit by a stone. As for the block, the situation is not very good. Even if it blocks the flying boulder, it often can't stand the huge force, and it is so shocked that it vomits blood.

"Go!" Sun Quan only looked back at it, which was already shocking. At present, he didn't dare to stay longer and hurried back to his house. At the same time, after about seven or eight rounds of stone rain, the defenders in the city finally understood that whether they were moving or blocking, they could not resist the stone by their personal ability. At present, there were three or five groups of turtles huddled behind the female wall. What city are you still guarding from here? When the next commander-in-chief of the war, Du Bo began to urge them to get up and prepare for the battle. Unfortunately, few responded. And after the soldiers were scared and began to escape intentionally or unintentionally, these grass-roots officers began to become the main bearers of the stone rain.

In fact, in these seven or eight rounds of stone rain, there are only hundreds of stones really thrown at the head of Wu County, and it is impossible to hit a hundred, so the actual casualties are also quite limited, with a total of more than 300 people. But because this "death" is really shocking enough, they are all hit by stones. Even the veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time can't help but be scared when they see it, not to mention those county soldiers.

"Fill the river and shoot arrows!" Zhao Feng was a little scared to see that the soldiers in the city had been suppressed, and then issued two more orders. There were another two groups of people in the phalanx of the Xuzhou army. The first group rushed to the moat under Wujun City with pockets full of sand and threw their pockets into the river. Another group of people pushed the crossbow car and rushed to the dirt slope built last night, and aimed at the defenders on the head of the city.

"Why is the range of their crossbows so far?" The whole comprehensive guard in charge of the head of the city saw that the other party's crossbow car could shoot at him across the moat and far away, and his eyes almost jumped out. According to Zhao Feng's suggestion, the attack on Wu County was not a large crossbow car that was guarding Shouchun before, but a smaller model. There is no reason. First, there is no condescending advantage, and only by changing small arrows can increase the range. In addition, isn't shooting those huge arrows to Sun Quan an enemy? That thing can be used as a long gun.

"Hey!" The whole comprehensive opened a long arrow from the face. I wanted to fight back, but I knew that my bow and crossbow was not as good as that of the Xuzhou Army, so I could only retreat and let them attack the soldiers who filled the river under the city. For a while, the arrows in and out of the city were fired together. Although the soldiers had not yet been connected, the screams were already shocking.

Zhao Feng has not experienced this kind of high-in-cause siege before, but before, he relied on the high danger of the city wall and bullied others with sharp bows and arrows. It was unprecedented to attack the city like this. Seeing a wave of soldiers carrying sandbags to fill the river in units, 200 people often lose at least dozens of people when they come back, which can only be done under the effective fire suppression of throtes and crossbows. If you rely on Jinglant to suppress the defenders as before, I'm afraid that this song will die at least half of the time.

Look at Liu Bei and others around him, they all look relatively indifferent. They are used to killing, so naturally they don't care about this small casualty. Zhao Feng asked himself that he had been in this world for nearly nine years, but he still more or less retained the characteristics of a surname as a descendant. Such a tragic casualty was what he did not want to see, but he also knew that there would be many such things in the future. The only thing we can do is to end this troubled world as soon as possible.

The first day of the siege was basically consumed in this river filling. After all, if you can't even fill the moat, how can you take the ladder to carry out the next step? When it came to the west side of the day, the moat was finally basically filled in, at least to ensure that I could take the ladder more leisurely the next day.

"Shi Yuan, do you think you can use this moat to pour Wu County?" Before filling the river, Zhao Feng consulted Pang Tong.

Pang Tong thought about it carefully, and finally shook his head and said, "General, this matter is a little difficult. It's just the beginning of spring, and the river has not risen. What's more, the city of Wujun is built high, and the city wall is high and dangerous. In this way, even if the embankment is broken and the water is released, it is difficult to be filled.

"That's it!" Zhao Feng didn't expect much. Seeing Pang Tong say so, he could only give up. Throughout the whole Romance of the Three Kingdoms, only Cao Yan once diverted water to irrigate the city when attacking Pi and Ye City. This method is not available. And once this is implemented, it will inevitably cause heavy casualties to all the soldiers and people in the city, and it will be difficult to appease people's hearts at that time.

As for smashing the city wall with a catapult, this method is not theoretically not possible. However, looking at the solid wall of Wu County, Zhao Feng estimated that it would take at least two or three months to work.

It only took one day to fill the moat, and the progress was relatively smooth. At one o'clock in the evening, the number of casualties was probably nearly 2,000. Basically, the soldiers who filled the river were killed by the defenders in the city. It's not easy to fill the moat with only 2,000 casualties!" After learning the number of casualties, Liu Bei was also quite happy, as did Huang Zhong and others who discussed together. Usually, it is not realistic to fill up a moat of this scale without putting nearly 10,000 people. Now it is not easy to have only 2,000 casualties. As for the reason, they also knew that the defenders were suppressed passively by the firepower of crossbows and catapults, and failed to shoot arrows at the soldiers who filled the river.

At night, the Xuzhou army still camped in an orderly manner, patrolled and guarded, and sent people out to collect the stones needed for the threter the next day. In fact, Zhao Feng really hoped that Sun Quan could have some courage and send someone out to attack, so that he could take the opportunity to bite him. Unfortunately, this man never made him do what he wanted.

Contrary to Liu Bei's others, at this time, Sun Quan and others were a little heavy in Wu County. Has the Xuzhou army filled the moat? Sun Quan frowned and asked.

'Exactly!' Lv Meng, the next one, bowed his head and replied. Last time the three of them were defeated and returned to Wu County. Tai Shici and Jiang Qin were transferred by Zhou Yu to guard Poyang and Chai Sang. Lv Meng's official rank was not high, so Sun Quanso left him to guard Wu County. He didn't want to encounter such a thing today.

"How about the casualties of the defenders today?" Sun Quan asked another key question.

"Our army suffered only a few hundred casualties." Lu Meng replied honestly. Although the stone rain at the beginning was relatively terrible, the defenders saw that the Xuzhou army only filled the river, so they were more or less hard, dodging more and less counterattacking, and the casualties were not great.

"It is said that Liu Bei is going to wave his army to attack the city. All the public should work together to defend the city." Sun Quan thought for a moment and had nothing else to say, so he could only explain the scene. At this time, Zhang Zhao came out to calm down the atmosphere and said, "Don't be surprised. Liu Bei's army is only 70,000 to 80,000 people. Our Wu County garrison has removed 30,000 elite soldiers. We and other families have some private soldiers, and we can still gather thousands of people. Even if the Xuzhou army is good, it is delusional to rely on 70,000 people to break through the city guarded by more than 30,000 people.

"Exstence, what Mr. Zhang said is not bad!" Pan Zhang nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and the rest of the civil servants who were not familiar with the military strategy suddenly felt a little relieved when they heard the words. It's just that when it's time to recruit your own soldiers, it's basically almost exhausted. After listening to Zhang Zhao's words, several people inadvertently communicated with each other. They knew exactly what it meant, but Sun Quan and others did not notice this small abnormality for a while.

In the early morning of the second day, the Xuzhou army began to attack the city on a large scale. A group of soldiers rushed down the city carrying the ladder. After putting it on the head of the city, they began to climb up the ladder. Unfortunately, the defenders will not let them climb up so easily, shoot arrows, and hit stones. Even if it is not enough, he will stab him with a spear when he is about to climb to the top of the city. At the same time, the jars full of fire oil were also smashed down one after another, and then ignited, and many soldiers who attacked the city suddenly fell into a sea of fire.

However, the Xuzhou army was not only beaten and fought back. The crossbows and catapults on the slope are still faithfully performing their duties, smashing waves of arrows and stones at the head of Wujun City. Each wave of arrows will harvest at least dozens of lives.

"It's so tragic!" Zhao Feng looked at the head of Wu County, which was already like a purgatory in the world, and was also shocked. A wave of Xuzhou troops rushed up one after another, and then turned into corpses and were thrown down. These were all soldiers trained hard by him and Gao Shun, and they were gone. However, after shock, Zhao Feng still reminded himself to concentrate and command the siege at any time.

"General Zhao, the Jiangdong army will not retreat. Our army has suffered a lot of casualties!" At this time, Huang Zhong ran out of breath. Early this morning, Huang Zhong took the initiative to call for the battle, trying to lure the other party out of the city to fight. Unexpectedly, Sun Quan was determined to stick to it, and he was indifferent to this half-hundred old man, so he had to attack.

"Old General, don't worry, Wu Junfei can break it!" Zhao Feng said in a low voice. Seeing that the defense of the Jiangdong army on the left side of the city wall was a little weak, he hurriedly asked the catapult to turn around and smash it for two rounds, and then a commando took the opportunity to kill it.

"It's a pity!" The commandos only killed more than a hundred people. It was obvious that the Jiangdong army of the reserve suddenly surrounded and strangled them, at least three or four times the number of people of the commandos. The commandos were outnumbered, and in the end, except for more than 30 people with injuries, the rest stayed at the top of the city.

On this day, the garrison of Jiangdong lost nearly 2,000 people, but the Xuzhou army also suffered nearly 4,000 casualties. If this war continues like this, both sides will die in a month. That night, Liu Bei summoned everyone to discuss the matter. Pang Tong and Lu Su both said that it was not appropriate to attack again, or to besiege. Wait until the defenders relax, and then do the matter. Liu Bei heard what everyone said. In addition, the casualties were really too big for such a hard fight, and now he only nodded and agreed.

At the same time, Zhou Yu also suddenly summoned the generals in the Jiangdong military tent on the west bank of the Jiangxi River. Ladies and gentlemen, I intend to lead troops back to Wu County!" Zhou Yu suddenly said that this statement would be in an uproar.

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