Chapter 18 Flooded Jiangling

On the head of Jiangling City in the middle of the night, looking at the battalion of the allied forces outside the city, Kwai Yue is very uneasy now.

Since trying to attack the city a few days ago, the coalition forces have almost completely given up their plan to attack and turned to smash Jiangling City with a threbum at night. Although this thing looks very in a hoar, Kai Yue also knows that with the strong wall of Jiangling, he can't break it for three or four months.

"Does Guan Yu want to consume slowly?" Kui Yue quickly denied his idea. If he used such a stupid idea, Guan Yu's big name would be too worthless. According to the defeated soldiers who fled from Xiangyang, Guan Yu was simply a reincarnation of killing gods, and he would have a nightmare when he thought about it.

"What on earth did Guan Yu have in mind?" I can't figure it out no matter how I think about it. For a wise man like him, once he can't figure it out, the uneasiness in his heart will become stronger and stronger. Now he is in such a state.

The throwers under the city have been removed, and the heart of the catapults has been shocked by these throwers these days. On the second day of the catapult, Kui Yue once sent a captain to lead 5,000 people to kill the other party's catapult, but he was quickly made dumplings by the long-awaited coalition. Five thousand people, and finally five people came back, and the rest were either captured or killed. Since then, K'e Yue has completely given up the idea of taking the initiative.

not to mention that Kuayue was in a bad mind, Zhou Cang was reporting to him on the construction of the dam in Guan Yu's account at this time. At present, the water storage has exceeded three feet. I don't know when it can be released? Zhou Cang asked.

"Wait a minute. There is not enough rain this year. Wait a few more days." Guan Yu thought for a moment. After the discussion, Zhao Feng felt a little heavy and couldn't sleep for a while, so he put on his coat and went out to have a look.

"Kong Ming, you didn't sleep either?" Seeing a figure shaking a feather fan looking at the flowing water by the river, it was Zhuge Liang, and Zhao Feng also came forward to ask.

"I can't sleep!" Zhuge Liang sighed. Since Guan Yu decided to flood Jiangling, Zhuge Liang has become very silent. These days, everyone is busy building dams to store water. Except for Zhou Cang and others who are constructing, the rest of the people are relatively idle. Zhuge Liang is wandering around with its fan all day long.

"Kong Ming, is it wrong for us to send troops to Jing Xiang?" Zhao Feng suddenly asked. Zhuge Liang looked at Zhao Feng with some surprise when he heard the words, but he saw that the latter frowned. At the moment, he also sighed and said, "This is a last resort. If Cai Mao and Kui Yue hadn't done this rebellious thing, how could it be like this?" After a pause, Zhuge Liang also sighed, "Cai Mao has been captured at the present, and nearly 100,000 people in Xiangyang City were burned to death by him. Nowadays, there are still 300,000 people in Jiangling. At that time, as soon as the flood is, I'm afraid it's good to survive half of it.

"Thirty thousand people?" Zhao Feng was a little surprised. Looking at Jiangling City in the distance, I didn't expect that there were more people in this city than I ruled the whole Lujiang County. Jingbei is a densely populated place. There are no less than four million people in Jingxiang, of which the counties in Jingbei add up to nearly three million. Zhuge Liang said in detail.

"That's it." Zhao Feng admitted. The day before yesterday, Zhuge Liang told him that after Li Yan pacified Wancheng, the population of Nanyang County had reached 500,000. If it were Nanyang County in the Yuanshu era, including Xiangyang and Zhangling now, the population would definitely be millions. The population of a county alone is almost up to a medium-sized state, and it can be seen that Jingxiang is rich. In this battle of Jingbei, except for Zhangling, which was not damaged by the surrender of the defenders, the other four counties of Nanyang, Nanjun, Yidu and Xiangyang were all raging places of war. I don't know how many people are left after this battle.

"Yes, the previous detailed report, Yuan Benchu gathered troops in Pingqiu, and it seems that he is ready to fight Cao Mengde again." Zhuge Liang suddenly changed the topic, but Zhao Feng frowned when he heard the words. Yuan Benchu was eager to avenge the official, and he had to fight again after more than a year. Even if Hebei was rich, it was difficult to win. If he loses this battle again, I'm afraid he can't turn over at all. Zhao Feng thought about it carefully and said that in history, it was the battle of Cangting this winter, and Yuan Shao lost to the sky. If nothing unexpected happens, Yuan Shao will burp next year. His three useless children were going to fight for the land of Hebei, and they took advantage of Cao Mengde for nothing. However, what Zhao Feng didn't expect was that due to his butterfly effect, Yuan Shang, who should have succeeded to the throne, was resisting Zhang Fei in Qingzhou at this moment, but Yuan Tan, who should be in Youzhou at this moment in history, accompanied Yuan Shao to deal with Cao Yan. What will happen if this war goes on, it is difficult to know for a while.

"Kong Ming, do you think the lord can join Jing Xiang after this battle?" Zhao Feng suddenly asked. Zhuge Liang lowered his head and thought about it before saying, "At present, after Jing Xiang's chaos has calmed down, Cai's Kuai's Kuai has been extinguished. Among the other three rich families, Shiyuan of the Pang family served under the master's account. The owner of the Huang family is Jiayue, and Ji Chang and others of the Ma family have also admired the master for a long time. It's just that among Liu Jingsheng's clan, I'm afraid that someone will not allow the lord to easily enter the Lord Jingxiang. However, these people have limited strength and it is difficult to affect the overall situation.

"That's true. If Liu Pan and the like, they will definitely not agree." Zhao Feng also nodded. These days, Liu Pan has always been self-consided as a Jingzhou native in front of them, intentionally or unintentionally keeping a distance from them, which also made Zhao Feng quite unhappy. It's just that what happened later was not what they could predict on paper.

After the week, the warehouse came to report that the accumulated water was enough, and the water warship and raft had been packed up. Guan Yu ordered to cut the dike in the middle of the night and let the water to wash down Jiangling City. At the same time, Gan Ning and Zhou Tai, who had just arrived, were ordered to lead 5,000 sergeants to take a raft to prepare for the battle in the city.

That night, Zhou Cang led people to dig a hole in the dam. The river, which had been suppressed for a long time, immediately began to flow into the river behind the dam. At first, it was relatively flat, but the water was getting bigger and bigger, and the whole dike gradually collapsed, and then rushed to Jiangling City.

The roar like thunder woke up many sleeping soldiers and civilians in Jiangling. Just when they wondered why there would be thunder in October, the water had rushed to the wall fiercely. The west wall, which had been taken care of by the threshing machine before, suddenly couldn't stand this huge force. It was knocked into a big gap, and the river immediately poured into Jiangling City.

In the middle of a deep sleep, the army and people of Jiangling suddenly panicked, and many people had been killed in their sleep. But in half an hour, the water in the city has reached ten feet.

"Your excellency, Guan Yu sent someone to kill by boat!" Cai He, who had no time to put on his armor, rode a small raft and rowed in front of Guoyue, who had just climbed to a high ground. The latter didn't seem to hear Cai He talking, but just looked at the ocean in front of him and suddenly laughed wildly.

"Liu Pan, Guan Yu, you are so cruel! Jiangling City has been destroyed, and you don't want to have a good time! You are cruel enough, cruel enough!" Kui Yue laughed as if he was crazy. Cai Hezheng didn't deal with it for a while, and suddenly felt that his heart was cold and he had been hit by an arrow. He turned around and saw a general in a small boat who had just put down the long bow in his hand. Cai He, who was about to lose consciousness, remembered that he was Gan Ning, a Xuzhou general who cooperated with his own side to conquer Yuzhang.

"Take it away!" After tying the dejected Kui Yue on the ship, Gan Ning ordered someone to send him to Guan Yu and continue to eliminate the remnant enemy. On the other side, Huang She led hundreds of soldiers to fight to the death, and was finally killed by Zhou Tai, and the rest fled.

"Tou Junhou, the water in the city has begun to retreat, and General Zhou Tai is leading the people and the remnants of the enemy to fight fiercely."

"The Marquis, Kuai Yue was captured by General Gan Ning, and Captain Zhou Cang is escorting him here."

"I would like to your Majesty that the upstream dam has been rebuilt and the water level has returned to normal."

A series of information was reported to the allied battalion outside Jiangling City like a running price. Guan Yu, who was sitting in the position of the commander-in-chief, listened silently, but his expression was silent. It seemed that it was not too happy for him to quickly conquer Jiangling.

Guan Yu's head, except for the generals who were still fighting fiercely, almost everyone else was there, but they were not too excited. Zhuge Liang and Liu Pan, as Jing Xiang people, naturally do not want to see the water in their hometown. Zhao Feng doesn't like to kill innocent people indiscriminately. He can't use this kind of strategy. Even if the rest of the generals were in their heart to celebrate, as soon as they saw that these bosses were indifferent, they wisely chose to shut up.

In a short time, Zhou Cang came here with Kuai Yue, who was tied up by five flowers. Although the latter was embarrassed, he looked extremely stubborn. As soon as he entered the account, he scolded: "Guan Yu, you, you will be punished by God for such a poisonous trick, and you will surely die in three years! Liu Pan, as a native of Jing Xiang, you actually helped Zhou to abuse him. He said that he would not die!" Kiao Yue had no sense of being captured at all. As soon as he came in, he cursed.

Guan Yu has always despised scholars, that is, Zhuge Liang can follow his temper and make him lose face. Now Kuai Yue is so arrogant, and Guan Yu is not in a good mood, and his face is even more ugly. When he was about to attack, he saw Zhuge Liang jump up, stepped forward and kicked Kuo Yue down, and then punched him.

"Kaiyue dog thief, if you hadn't made trouble, how could the people of Jingxiang have suffered this disaster!" Zhuge Liang scolded while beating, and the punching and kicking did not have the same attitude as Liswen at all. Guan Yu and Zhao Feng looked at each other in the face, but they didn't bother to pull. As the culprit, Kuai Yue deserved to be beat.

Zhuge Liang is finally a person who has farmed the field, and he still has a few strengths. This meal of pain flattened Kuai Yue's face is blue and his face is full of blood. Then he stopped with hatred and sat down to gasp. Guan Yu ordered people to be dragged down by Zhuge Liang's half-dead Kuai Yue, and then sent an envoy to inform Liu Bei and Liu Biao, while stepping up the elimination of the accumulated water in Jiangling City, and arrested Cai and Kuai's related people.

After counting, the accumulated water in Jiangling City retreated. In addition to more than 10 people who were lucky to escape, a total of more than 800 people from the Cai and Kuai clans were also captured. Guan Yu's life was temporarily detained in the camp, waiting for Liu Bei and Liu Biao to deal with. The number of casualties has also been counted. There are nearly 300,000 people and 50,000 defenders in Jiangling City, but less than half of them are left after the flood retreats. Among them, the defenders could only catch 20,000 prisoners, the rest died in floods and chaos, and the remaining 300,000 residents will be more than 100,000.

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