Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Jian'an 24th August 27th.

When it was just dawn, Cao Jun launched an attack on Yuliangzhou again.

From the beginning of Yuzhong in the morning to the end of the evening in the evening, the two sides fought desperately around the river beach, slopes and camp gates.

Tens of thousands of Cao's troops attacked from the west and north sides, relying on a strong offensive, they finally reached the river beach, then attacked along the slope east of Yuliangzhou, and rushed outside the camp.

Since there is no moat, and the back and right side of the camp is the rolling Han River, it can be said that they are in a dangerous place. Zhou Buyi's army held on to it with great difficulty, and the camp was almost broken several times. Liangzhou has fallen.

The task Shen Chen gave them was too tight, and the time was too short; a normal camp not only had solid fences around it, various pits, ditches, horses, barbed wire, and a wide moat, even the Yunlou was very Difficult to attack.

But Zhou Bu doubted that they had only landed on Yuliang Island not long ago, and there was no time to build a large number of fortifications. There was no camp moat, and there were no pits and ditches to resist horses. There were only some barbed wire and arrows to resist.

In this case, Cao Jun even only needs to form a square formation outside the camp, push the wooden curtain and hold the shield to withstand the rain of arrows to the outside of the camp, and then set up a ladder to rush directly into the camp.

From here, we can see how difficult the predicament Zhou Buyi and the others are facing is.

Fortunately, I finally kept it.

In the evening, Cao Jun launched his last charge.

The blood of the soldiers on both sides was sprayed everywhere on a section of the wall that was less than one hundred and eighty steps away. In many places, the yellowish-brown rammed earth was completely soaked in blood, turning into a dark red.

Iron helmets and flip-leather hats can be seen everywhere on the wall, and feathered arrows with bald tails and broken weapons are thrown all over the place.

In the corners on both sides of the wall, the corpses of the soldiers who died in the battle were stacked randomly. Some corpses were kicked and trampled under the feet of the people before they had time to carry them.

There are more than 3000 Cao troops in the left camp, and more than 6000 on the right. At the gate of the middle camp, more than 300 Cao troops lined up in a square formation outside the gate, waiting for an opportunity to attack; Holding the sword at the head of the ring, howling like a wolf in his mouth, he followed the more than ten wooden ladders built on the wall of the village like ants.

The roars, echoes, weapons blocking, and howling and humming on the wall almost never stopped.From the beginning of the day to the end of the afternoon, the entire afternoon, the front of the camp was under test at any time, like a stubborn stone washed by the waves of the sea, and the tragic fight had no end in sight.

However, although Cao Jun's offensive is fierce, the terrain chosen by Zhou Buyu is also very particular. Backed by cliffs, there is a dense forest at the foot of the mountain, and a vast river is farther away. many.

Therefore, the two sides have gradually turned into a battle of fuel and attrition these days. Cao's army can only attack less than 1 people each time, and there are [-] people in Zhou Buyi's camp, relying on bows and arrows, quicklime, and barbed wire to barely defend.

At the end of August, the sky in Jingzhou seemed to be gloomy, and it was slightly better during the day. Dense, some are dispersed by the sun during the day, everyone knows that a storm may come at any time.

After the Cao army in the direction of the main gate of the camp was beaten back again with difficulty, a series of urgent horns suddenly sounded in the distance. With the sound of the horns, a group of Cao army in brown leather armor split from the large square formation, spinning and forming three Walking forward, it seems to fill the vacancy of the previous 300 people.

The leather boots kicked up a long circle of floating dust, and as the soldiers marched forward, they rhythmically slapped the ring-headed knives in their hands, making the leather shields protecting their chests ring loudly, so the team of more than 200 people seemed It has a somewhat majestic and majestic aura.

Deng Ai, who was fighting with the enemy on the wall of the stronghold, also heard the sound.He slammed the spear in his hand into an enemy's stomach, and knocked the Cao soldier out of the fence. Without even looking at the man, he took two steps and picked up a waist knife embedded in the wood. Hold and swing diagonally from top to bottom.

The leather armor on the back of a Cao Junbing who was facing him immediately split a long hole, and blood gushed out in an instant, and poured into their camp screaming in pain, and was stabbed to death by the soldiers surrounding him.

A wooden platform was built in the middle of the fence of the village wall, which is for the convenience of archers sticking out of the fence to shoot arrows. When Shen Chen entered Henan for the first time, there was no wooden board for the temporary camp, so Cao Hong sent Xiahou Cun to make a surprise attack. As a result, Shen Chen He set up a human ladder to allow the archers to shoot arrows over the fence, defeating Xiahou Cun.

At this moment, Deng Ai was standing on the wooden platform, surrounded by corpses of the enemy and us, but more corpses of the enemy were outside the camp.

When he poked his head out and looked at the Cao Jun who had come up again, it happened that Zhou Tai had also dealt with his opponent, with his left hand clutching his bleeding right upper arm and his right hand holding a ring-shoulder, he leaned over and squinted at the village. With a glance under the wall, he said, "I'm afraid I can't keep it."

"Not necessarily."

Deng Ai wiped the sweat off his face and said, "Uncle Master still has a way."

"We should withdraw too."

Zhou Tai didn't ask what was the solution, but said, "It's been nineteen days."

"It's time to withdraw."

Deng Ai nodded.

While speaking, Zhou Tai suddenly shouted in a low voice: "Bow your head."

Deng Ai lowered his head almost instinctively.

As soon as he lowered his head, a sharp air flashed past his ears, and when he saw a big knife slashing into the sky, he couldn't help being shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.

At the same time, Zhou Tai stepped forward and stabbed Cao Jun who was attacking Deng Ai behind him to death.

When Deng Ai turned his head, Cao Jun had already fallen.

He didn't say thanks, just nodded.

The two are of the same age.

Zhou Tai was born in Xinye Academy, and Shen Chen occasionally went there to give lectures, and he was regarded as a registered student.

Since Deng Ai is a member of the Deng family, he is eligible to enroll in the Deng's academy located in Huangmenting, so he is Shen Chen's direct disciple.

Fighting side by side these days, the two sides already have a great tacit understanding.

Zhoutai saved Deng Ai's life, and Deng Ai also saved Zhoutai's life, so there is no need to say thank you.

The brutal fighting continued.

As the sun sets, the sky gradually darkens.

It was the last hour of the afternoon, which was like five o'clock in the afternoon, but the sky was so dark that it seemed to be dusk.

"Papa papa."

At this time, the big raindrops suddenly fell.

Many people looked up to the sky.

The cloud that was originally just a thin layer became extremely thick at some point, covering the sky and covering the sun, with thunder and lightning.

Immediately afterwards, the pouring rain suddenly fell, covering the whole world in an instant.

"It's raining."

Zhou Tai muttered to himself, "It's raining heavily."

"Master Shijun said that this rain is even heavier than last time."

The last time Deng Ai referred to was the time when Cao Hong was flooded.

The flooding of Cao Hong can only be counted as the normal rainy season precipitation in Funiu Mountain, but Shen Chen can remember that this heavy rain flooded Xiangyang and Fancheng!

"Ding ding ding ding ding ding."

In Cao Jun's rear position, the clear and crisp sound of copper gongs finally came out.

Ming Jin withdraws his troops.

Countless soldiers of Cao Jun immediately evacuated like a tide.

Zhou Buyi's archers, who were almost driven off the wooden platform, made up for it again, shooting randomly, leaving hundreds of corpses behind.

It took nearly a quarter of an hour before the chaotic situation outside the camp returned to peace. Cao Jun returned to the ship and evacuated Yuliangzhou, and the situation became better again.

Zhou Buyu, who was supervising the battle outside, saw Cao's army retreating, ordered the soldiers to put on coir raincoats, cleaned the battlefield, and called the generals to discuss matters.

Needless to say, the content of the discussion is about to retreat.

Their record is also very good these days. Yu Jin lost more than 4000 people in that one time. These days Cao Jun made several strong attacks and lost soldiers and generals. The exact number was not counted, but it probably would not be less than [-].

All things added up, Zhou Buyu had already lost seven or eight thousand of Cao's troops on Yuliangzhou.Compared with the enemy army, his battle losses of more than 1000 people are almost negligible.

You must know that this is camping in a hurry, without a large number of fortifications, and persisting for so long is already considered an overfulfillment of the task.

"Everyone."

Inside the camp, Cai Du, Deng Ai, Zhou Tai, Li Ying, Huo Yang and others were seated.

Zhou Buyi looked at the crowd and said: "Senior brother ordered me to stick to it for [-] days, and it will expire tomorrow. I am confident that I can stick to it again, but I can't ruin the senior brother's plan. I will withdraw the army tomorrow morning."

"But it rained suddenly."

Li Ying heard the crackling sound of the rainstorm hitting the tent, and worried: "The river is raging, can our boat go?"

"It's okay."

Zhou Buyi waved his hand and said: "Brother also has a plan, the small boat can't go, General Wen will send a big boat from Xiangyang to pick us up, let the soldiers have a good rest tonight, pack up the camp immediately tomorrow morning, go down the mountain and leave from the east beach."

"That's good, that's good."

Everyone is relieved.

In history, Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army, and Pang De was captured by the waves when he was overturned in a small boat.

Small boats that can only accommodate a few or a dozen people in stormy weather are indeed more dangerous. Shen Chen has also considered this issue and left a group of warships in Xiangyang for preparation.

These big boats are very strong, not afraid of the waves.What's more, it has just rained now, and the river has not yet surged, so the warships are more than enough to deal with it.

And just when Zhou Buyi had perfectly completed the task of stopping Xiahou Dun from being banned for 20 days, at this time in Zhijiang, Zhao Yun's and Sha Moke's troops also retreated from Yiling and retreated to Zhijiang.

The current situation is completely different from the Battle of Xiangfan and the Battle of Yiling. In the Battle of Xiangfan, Guan Yu's rear road was completely cut off. He could only choose to go north of Maicheng, follow the Jushui into Jingshan, and arrive at Linju. Then retreat to Fangling.

The specific route is from Dangyang City in later generations to Yuan'an County to Baokang County, and from the outskirts of Shennongjia to Fang County. This is his only escape route, but unfortunately it was predicted by Lu Meng.

Now Shen Chen is not like Guan Yu, whose soldiers and horses dispersed on their own, resulting in isolation and destruction. He has an army under his command, and he can completely face the Jiangdong Army in Yiling head-on, and then open the way back to Sichuan and Shu.

It is a pity that Sun Jiao and Xu Sheng defended Yiling to the death, and Lu Meng sent Ding Feng 8000 people to help. Zhao Yun and Shamoke did not carry heavy siege equipment, and spent more than ten days outside Yiling without any results. Today I can only choose to withdraw to Zhijiang.

The news spread to Jinan. Shen Chen was reading in his tent at this time. He had inspected the camps in the morning. The soldiers at the lower level did not know the plans of the higher-ups. , The soldiers will all disperse.

"Report!"

The guards came in, cupped their hands and said, "General Zhao and General Sha failed to break through Yiling, so they have retreated back to Zhijiang."

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded slightly, and then said: "Don't spread the news about what is expected. Although the road back to Jiangzhou has not been opened, I already have a plan to win. Wait and be relieved."

His words immediately appeased the guards. The guards were by Shen Chen's side every day, so they naturally knew something about the situation in the army.

For example, in their view, the Cao army attacked from the north, and the Jiangdong army occupied Yiling, Jiangling and other places, attacking from both sides.

But Shen Chen was calm and calm every day, and his lack of panic also infected the guards. The guards had friends in the army, and passing news to each other could also appease everyone.

Therefore, why the generals in ancient times often had to collapse before the Taishan Mountains did not fall, it was for the purpose of stabilizing the morale of the army.

Cao Cao likes it like this. After his defeat in the Battle of Chibi, he had to laugh a few times and taunt the enemy constantly, just to stabilize the morale of the army.As a result, he was slapped in the face again and again, and it was true that he had no face.

On the other hand, Shen Chen was very confident. After all, unless something went wrong on Huang Zhong's side, at least it would not be a big problem to destroy the main force of the Jiangdong Army.

While speaking, Shen Chen thought for a while, put on the coir raincoat and got out of the tent, a gust of cold wind suddenly hit, making people shiver unconsciously.

The soldiers outside the tent were all wearing coir raincoats, and they were still orderly performing their tasks.

Now that we know it's going to rain, the coir raincoats have also become a strategic item, collected early, and now they are going to be put to great use.

The camp was full of potholes and muddy pits everywhere, Shen Chen didn't care, went straight to the gate of the South Camp, and climbed up a tall archery tower.

Zhang Xiu, the guard of the southern camp, heard that Shen Chen was coming, so he hurried over to accompany him.

They were located about five miles north of Jiangling, with Jiangling city in the south and Jishan in the north. Nanzhen was at the foot of Jishan in the next century, and it was called Jinan Township at this time.

Shen Chen looked at the distant city that was shrouded in mist and rain.

In history, Jiangling was Guan Yu's administrative seat in Jingzhou. He guarded the place for many years and built a tall city wall outside the original old city.

According to the archeology of later generations, the city wall built by Guan Yu was 5.2 meters high, about 2.3 feet.

In fact, the city pools of the Han Dynasty were generally relatively low. Later generations archaeologically found that the city of Chang’an in the Western Han Dynasty was 12 meters high, but in fact there was a 3-meter-deep moat outside the city wall, and a 1-meter-high battlement wall on it, so the actual height was 8 meters.

The height of the city in an ordinary county town is about three or four meters. It is already very high when it is built up to 5.2 meters like Guan Yu's. With the trenches of the moat and the walls, the overall height is about 9 meters. It was already an important town at that time.

No wonder it was heard in history that after Lu Meng had occupied Jiangling, Guan Yu could only sigh: "This city I built cannot be attacked."

But now Liu Bei's seat in Jingzhou is Xiangyang, and Jiangling is just an ordinary city, and no one has built a new building for him, and there is no later water city on the periphery. There are quite a lot of water gates. The outside world is connected, and the entry and exit are all based on boats.

The height of the city is only about four meters, which is far incomparable with the Jiangling City built by Guan Yu.

Even so, it is difficult to break through an ancient city that lacks the ability to attack fortified battles. Zang Hong led thousands of people to guard a small county town in Dongwuyang.

The main difficulty lies in the moat. Large-scale siege equipment like Yunlou cannot get through. Simply relying on trench bridges and ladders to pile up the number of people, the defense power of the moat has increased by more than ten times.

Although the current Jiangling is not as good as the Jiangling built by Guan Yu later, the moat ditch connecting the Yangtze River and Yunmengze is indeed indestructible.

Seeing Shen Chen looking at the city, Zhang Xiu asked, "What is the general thinking?"

"I'm thinking."

Shen Chen looked at the town with deep eyes, and said softly: "Is the tunnel dug before still useful? Can the hands and feet of the water channel I made be able to enter the door?"

"The general is afraid that Lu Meng will find out the clues?"

Zhang Xiu asked.

"That's not it."

Shen Chen shook his head: "I'm afraid that the foundation of Jiangling City will be unstable, the city will sink, and the wind and rain will come soon. What if the city collapses early and Lu Meng runs away?"

Jiangling City is located on the edge of the Yangtze River and Yunmeng Lake, and has collapsed many times in history.It was not until the reconstruction of the Ming Dynasty that in order to prevent the foundation from collapsing again, green bricks and lime glutinous rice slurry were used to build the city foundation, which completely stabilized the city foundation.

Shen Chen didn't know that there were records of Jiangling City collapsing many times later, but he had been fighting north and south for many years, and he also knew that the city structure of the Han Dynasty was a rammed earth structure, and more than [-]% of the city was basically an earthen city, and the number of brick cities was relatively small. few.When it is flooded, the water will soak the foundation and it will easily collapse.

Shen Chen had seen and heard about the collapse of the city many times before. Among other things, Cao Cao flooded Xiapi and Yecheng just to collapse the city walls.In later generations, when he went to the country as a designer to study architectural design, he also heard about the collapse of the ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi due to heavy rain.

So this time when I heard the torrential rain outside, I suddenly remembered that the few tunnels I dug about five meters below the city of Jiangling were about to have a torrential rain, and the flood was coming. The city wall, which was already unstable due to the digging of the tunnel, collapsed, so what should I do?

At that time, Lu Meng would probably be frightened and foolish, and there is a high probability that he would choose to run away.

As soon as he ran away, Shen Chen was embarrassed.

It's unacceptable for the dog to run away before the door is closed to beat the dog, so at this time Shen Chen is worried about the safety of Jiangling City.

"I hope the heavens will bless you, and Jiangling City can last a little longer."

Shen Chen raised his head and looked at the sky.

The rain is still falling.

The whole world has become a swamp country.

The storm has come, and the war is coming.