Three Kingdoms, I open a tavern in Xudu

Chen Yang camped out and rested almost before he came to the side of the moat and looked to the other side. Unexpectedly, the guards of Xiangyang expanded the moat to such an extent in order to prevent him from going south.

He asked people to survey the moat, but it was simply connected to the river outside. The water flow was not rushing, but very gentle, but the river span was very wide and seemed to be very deep.

"My lord, are we going to cross the river on the floating bridge?"

Zhang Liao said after looking at it.

Chen Yang said: "The enemy generals are watching from the other side of the river. They won't give us a chance to cross the river with the pontoon bridge. As long as we do it, they will attack them halfway. Their purpose in doing this is to cover Sima Yi from escaping, so they will try every means possible. Delay us here."

Zhang Liao looked at the wide moat and said worriedly, "What should we do? Why don't we give up attacking Xiangyang and chase Sima Yi instead?"

"It doesn't work either!"

Chen Yang looked towards Xiangyang, made a simple judgment, and said, "There are at least [-] to [-] guards in Xiangyang City. If we go after Sima Yi, they can attack Xinye, but they still have to come back."

Zhang Liao scratched his head and said, "This is very troublesome!"

Chen Yang was very disapproving of this and said: "I can't say how troublesome it is, I have a way to solve it, you go back and ask all the soldiers to prepare a lot of cloth bags."

Zhang Liao couldn't understand the meaning of this operation, but after Chen Yang ordered him to do so, he did everything and quickly passed the order back.

Chen Yang looked at the other side of the river for a while, and then went back to the main tent to rest.

Seeing that Chen Yang had finally left, Zheng Wen heaved a sigh of relief, as long as he didn't have to fight.

If he did it, he didn't have the confidence to compete with Chen Yang.

"Be careful, if you see any changes on Chen Yang's side, come back and tell me right away!"

Zheng Wen passed on his order.

Those soldiers didn't dare to neglect or rest, they all stared closely at Chen Yang on the other side of the river, and this state was maintained until the next morning.

It was just dawn, and before Zheng Wen woke up, a soldier ran over to wake him up.

"General, something has happened to Chen Yang!"

As soon as Zheng Wen heard that he lost all sleepiness, he felt that something was wrong, so he hurried outside to have a look, and found that Chen Yang's soldiers were dumping bags of soil into the moat.

He looked at it for a while, then smiled and said, "Chen Yang was like this before, I thought he could have some way to cross the river, it's not worth mentioning."

It is almost impossible for Zheng Wen to kill him by filling the moat. Even if he could do it, Sima Yi would have gone far.

The moat is so wide and deep, when will they have to fill it in?

Zheng Wen continued: "Looking at them is enough, you must not take the initiative to do anything."

the other side.

Chen Yang could guess Zheng Wen's disdain for him, but he didn't care. He mobilized tens of thousands of troops and kept pouring the soil from the bag into the moat.

But as soon as the soil entered the water, it was washed away by the river, which seemed to be a futile effort.

"If you do this, you might as well build a pontoon bridge and kill them."

Gu Jie shook her head and said.

"The pontoon is wobbly and very unstable. It's not as effective as mine. It will soon have results."

Chen Yang is very confident and doesn't mind their doubts.

The number of bags of soil per person in tens of thousands of troops is still huge. From morning to afternoon, Chen Yang finally filled out a dam.

Still, it doesn't work and is easily washed away by water.

"Tonight, everyone will take turns to rest. You don't need your cloth bags, and you don't need to pour out the soil and throw them into the water together."

Chen Yang ordered again: "Wenyuan, send people back to Xinye and Wancheng immediately, and ask them to prepare a large number of cloth bags and send them over."

Doing this during the day is just Chen Yang's way to confuse the enemy.

After nightfall, cloth bags were continuously thrown into the moat one by one. The soil did not disperse after entering the water, and the shackles bound by the cloth bags sank directly to the bottom of the water.

As time passed, when it was almost dawn, Chen Yang and the others had already filled in a wide passage in the moat, and they had penetrated into the middle of the moat to intercept most of the water flow.

Since they took turns to rest, the soldiers did not stop from night to dawn, and some people continued to throw cloth bags into the water.

The soldiers of the Jin army on the other side of the river were all stunned when they saw this. They had a lazy sleep last night. How could they have changed so much after waking up? Someone hurriedly told Zheng Wen.

Walking to the river, Zheng Wen was also stunned. Compared with yesterday, today is completely different. He said quickly: "Chen Yang is really cunning, fight back immediately!"

Soon there were soldiers of the Jin army shooting at Chen Yang's soldiers with bows and arrows.

The soldiers dropped their cloth bags and hurriedly retreated out of the enemy's range.

"Pull out the cannon!"

Chen Yang waved his hand when he saw it.

Zhang Liao immediately ordered the cannon to be pulled up, and fired at the archer on the opposite side.

boom!

A loud noise fell, and the enemy's archers were blown away on the spot.

"Pull out our artillery to fight back!"

Zheng Wen was very unwilling, and could not let Chen Yang succeed.

However, the Jin army's artillery just appeared, and Chen Yang's artillery bombarded it, and a shell directly destroyed it.

"continue!"

Chen Yang said.

The soldiers kept digging and filling the river.

As long as the enemy stopped him a little bit, they would hit him with a cannonball, making Zheng Wen completely lose his temper.

In the afternoon, the filled passage was about to reach the other side of the river. Chen Yang ordered not to fill it in again. Finally, he paved it with wooden planks and prepared shields. Under the cover of the artillery, he successfully reached the other side of the moat.

As soon as they landed, they began to massacre the enemy first, pressing the guards of Xiangyang to rub against the ground.

Zheng Wen ordered everyone to retreat back to the city, not daring to fight Chen Yang's soldiers.

Chen Yang and the others crossed the passage and arrived at the foot of Xiangyang City. The muzzle of their cannons was already aimed at the entrance of the city gate where Zheng Wen had just retreated, and they fired out with one cannon. Before they had time to block it, the city gate was easily broken.

"Go and block it, don't let Chen Yang in!"

Zheng Wen screamed in panic.

He didn't expect that Chen Yang's soldiers had arrived at the city, and it took less than three days to break through the city gate.

All the archers of the Jin army stood beside the city gate, bowing their bows and setting arrows to suppress the soldiers who were about to rush in.

"Give me the shield, and I'll help you get in first!"

Gu Jie offered to propose.

"it is good!"

Chen Yang agreed without thinking about it.

The shield was ready quickly, Gu Jie asked people to approach the city gate with the shield, and most of the arrows from the enemy were blocked.

"shot!"

Gu Jie calculated the gap between them changing arrows, and ordered people to shoot. The sound of gunfire was deafening all of a sudden, and the archers of the Jin army were caught off guard, without even a chance to dodge, and fell down one by one.

Chen Yang ordered people to prepare the ladders, raised their shields, and climbed desperately to the tower of Xiangyang against the rain of arrows from the tower.

"kill!"

Just as Zhang Liao landed on the edge of the tower, he shouted vigorously and personally guarded the entrance of the ladder, allowing more of his soldiers to climb up.