Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 362 Yu Ban, Willing to Surrender

In the late autumn of August and September, the north wind kept whistling, and the heavy rain that was blown obliquely in the wind hit the soldiers of Cao Jun on Fancheng.

But the heavy raindrops can no longer give them a heavy pressure.

Because on the level of the flood in the distance, those undulating boats are the things that kill people.

Some of the soldiers of Cao Jun on the city wall looked indifferent, just glanced at the distance before squatting down and wiping their blades silently.Some eyes were terrified, trembling slightly.Some simply stepped back a few steps to get behind their colleagues.

Days of torrential rain had knocked their morale into the dust. Many people here were Cao Hong's troops stationed in Yingchuan back then, and most of them had even personally experienced that battle.

Maybe Yu Jin is the next Cao Hong, maybe Cao Hong is the last Yu Jin, who knows?The rain in Jingzhou has always been so heavy, enough to drown everyone here.

Soon under the turbulence of wind and rain, the fleet of the Jingzhou Army was getting closer and closer to the east gate. They lined up about one mile away from the east gate. This place used to be the ground, but now it is a river on the ground. heaven.

The two sides faced off one mile apart, and the Jingzhou army did nothing.But it was precisely because they did nothing that it gave Cao Jun, who was already at a huge disadvantage in morale, psychology, and numbers, a great sense of oppression.

Silence and uneasiness quickly spread in the army. Many people looked at each other in blank dismay. Standing behind the parapet, they looked anxiously at the fleet outside the city wall, feeling depressed.

"They...why don't they seem to be moving?"

"I don't know, let's take a look."

"Could it be preparing for a surprise attack?"

"Everyone, look over there."

The soldiers of Cao Jun whispered, and suddenly someone pointed to the north.

Many people saw another fleet of ships appear on the turbulent river in the north, and then slowly headed towards the north gate.

Immediately afterwards, a fleet of ships also appeared in the south, swaggering past the city and heading for the south gate.

"Surrounded by three ques and one!"

Yu Jin almost squeezed these words out between his teeth.

Deputy General He Mao said: "General, the enemy is so numerous that we may not be able to resist."

"Tell Niu Gai and Hao Zhou to block them desperately."

Yu Jin followed Cao Cao in the South and North Wars for many years, so he knew the situation naturally, and said: "The enemy will definitely set up an ambush at the west gate, so be careful. General Zheng Xi is collecting ships now, and will come to help soon."

"Yes."

He Mao hurried to convey the military order.

By noon, the three fleets were already in place, and with the melodious sound of the desolate horn spreading all over the place, Huang Zhongbu took the lead in attacking.

Countless ships started to set sail, and the sailors paddling in the cabin chanted rhythmically. They paddled with their hands and boarded the ship with their feet.

The paddles on both sides of the warships rotated crazily, splashing waves and blooming in the already tumbling flood.The dispersed fleet slowly approached the city wall, and then arranged in three rows, rushing towards the city.

The front of their boat was covered with wooden boards, and when they approached the city wall of Fancheng, they began to slow down, and then slowly approached the city, less than ten feet away, and then continued to move forward.

This is a technical task. No matter in ancient times or later generations, due to the inertia of the water surface, when a ship stops at a normal dock, it is very likely that the ship will crash into the dock if it does not stop in time.

However, many tires will be arranged on the pier in later generations to prevent ships from colliding, so this rarely happens.

In ancient times, although there were no rubber tires for cushioning, a lot of hay was usually laid on the dock, and the boat was either docked on the hay, or dragged by manpower to tie the boat to the dock.

It's just that Yu Jin in Fancheng now can't help the Jingzhou navy spread hay or drag it by manpower. He hopes that all the enemy ships will crash into them and smash them to pieces.

It's a pity that Huang Zhong's fleet is obviously not that rough in technology. They used hooks and anchors to gradually fix the ships, and then began to move forward.

Yu Jin gave the order to shoot arrows.

The wooden boards on the boat stood upright, and the jingling arrows shot over, turning the boards into hedgehogs, but did not damage the enemy behind.

When it was less than two feet away from the city, that is, four meters away, on the deck on the second floor of the Jingzhou navy fleet, an unknown number of crossbowmen appeared and began to shoot arrows into the city wall below.

Because of the rising water level, the first deck of the ship was almost flush with the city wall, and the second deck was even higher than the city wall.

In the past, in siege battles, they shot arrows from the city wall. They were on the high ground, and they bullied others on the low ground.As a result, the two levels are now reversed, and the offense and defense are easily transformed.

Cao Jun on the city wall was shot and ran away with their heads in their arms. The crossbowmen could hardly fight back. They could only curl up behind the shield with their shields upright, trembling listening to the clanging sound outside.

The eastern section of the city wall, which is three or four miles long, is densely packed with Cao troops, and outside the city wall is an endless fleet of ships. The ships of Huang Zhong's department not only crowded the entire section of the city wall, but also lined up three rows behind. The sterns are connected and built with planks to form a moving castle.

Now it's like two cities colliding with each other, with arrows flying horizontally. From Cao Jun's ability to resist at the beginning, to the condescending advantage in the end, Huang Zhong's troops have already occupied the long-range offensive, and even Huang Zhong himself stood on the bow of the ship and shot. Number of people.

Cao Jun's city wall was already in chaos, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the wooden planks on the ship fell down one after another, and were erected on the ship and the city wall. .

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The Jingzhou army shouted the slogan of rushing to kill, the voice was loud, and they rushed directly to the city wall along the wooden planks and ladders, and began to compete fiercely with Cao Jun on the city wall.

The roars, echoes, weapons blocking, and howling and humming on the wall almost never stopped.

I don't know how many Jingzhou troops rushed to the city wall to fight with Cao's army, not only here, but also in the south city and the north city. Huang Zhong personally went into battle, beheaded Yu Jin's lieutenant He Mao, and then continued to march.

Cao Jun retreated steadily, from the end of the noon to the beginning of the afternoon, the whole noon, the two sides fought around the three sections of the city wall, and the tragic fight could not see the end.

The section of the city wall within a hundred or eighty steps in the center of the east city gate near the tower was the concentrated outbreak of the battle between the two sides. The blood of soldiers from both sides was sprayed everywhere. 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.

Yu Jin had already retreated to the section of the city wall in the northeast corner, and the densely packed Jingzhou army rushed up like a tide. The Cao army, whose morale was already low, was almost unstoppable. In less than an hour, a large section of the city wall in Dongcheng had been seized by the enemy. Swords and halberds flew horizontally, and corpses piled up like mountains.

Even at the end, Cao Jun could no longer stand on the city wall and was forced to retreat step by step. Many people jumped directly into the water in the rear of the city. The roof is full of fleeing Cao Jun.

Niu Gai was beheaded in the rebellion, and Yu Jin retreated to the north city gate, and retreated to the west gate with his subordinate Hao Zhou.Right now, the defenders of the west city gate are safe and sound. The problem is that after the defeat of the east city gate, the north and south gates and city walls will not be able to resist for long.

The rain was still falling, and under the scouring of the water, the blood on the city wall gradually soaked into the rammed earth of the city wall.There are corpses floating everywhere in the floods inside and outside the city, most of them are soldiers of Cao Jun, among them, a few died in battle, and most of them fell into the water and drowned because they did not escape in time.

But Yujin couldn't resist the front. After retreating to the west city, the remaining Cao troops who resisted at the east gate had basically surrendered. This trend also infected the entire Fancheng. Blockbuster.

The situation in Fancheng was basically settled in the wind and rain. Huang Zhong, Lu Chang and Wen Pin ordered the soldiers to escort the prisoners back to the ship, and led some soldiers to go to the west gate from two directions at the same time.

Yu Jin hurried to the city wall of the west city gate, and saw that the soldiers were already in chaos. Many people robbed the boats used to transport supplies, dragged the boats from the city to the city wall, and then moved the boats from the city wall to the west city gate. Extrapolation—the city was flooded, and there was really no way to open the city gate and escape.

Seeing this scene, Yu Jin was furious and said, "What's going on, where is Hu Xiu?"

"General Hu has already run away, General Zuo should also run quickly. There are too many enemies, and the soldiers can't resist at all."

A school lieutenant yelled at the ban while towing the ship.

Yu Jin has no big boats, only small boats, or Fancheng itself is the ferry of the Han River wharf. When the wind and rain came, they were snatched from the wharf, and more than 3 people could not escape.

Now it is in the trend of defeat. Soldiers either flee by boat, surrender, die in battle or drown. There is no other way to choose.

Although Liu Bei's army has never had records or rumors of abusing or killing prisoners of war, the problem is that they are soldiers from the north, who wants to leave their families and stay in the south as prisoners?

Therefore, in order to escape for their lives, many soldiers chose to use the material boats in the city to escape.

Even because of the shortage of boats, the soldiers fought for their lives. The former comrades have now become enemies, fighting each other in small groups, regardless of the friendship of comrades.

Seeing such a scene, Yu Jin only felt very sad.

I think he, as the leader of the generals with foreign surnames Cao Wei, has followed Cao Cao for many years in the South and North.

But a defeat caused his comrades to fight among themselves, and ruined his fame for a lifetime. How could he not make Yu Jin despair?
However, this time is no longer the time for him to be sad and angry.

There were only two paths before him, one was to follow the captain to escape, and the other was to yell at the soldiers to stop them.

You can see the chaos around you.

The army was defeated like a mountain, and his troops were only 3 people who were demoralized and demoralized.

The enemy's army is more than [-], and their morale is high. Just shooting arrows outside the city can make no one dare to stand on the city wall. They are not opponents for Huang Zhong and Lu Changwen to hire them.

The soldiers crowded inside and outside the city wall even ignored the approaching enemy in order to snatch a ship. Who would listen to his orders again?

Thinking of this, Yu Jin could only let out a long sigh, and said in pain, "Get on the boat and go."

At the moment, Yu Jin's personal guards also immediately joined the queue to snatch the boats, helping Yu Jin and Hao Zhou to snatch two small boats, pushing them into the flood outside with difficulty, jumping onto the boats and escaping.

There was chaos outside the city, there were dozens of small boats in Yu Jin's hands, the small ones could only carry four or five people, and the big ones could only carry more than ten people.

But now these boats are basically overloaded. The small boats can hold more than ten to twenty, and some of the larger ones can carry three to forty people. The boats are swaying in the wind and rain. There are countless people throwing corpses.

In the chaotic scene, Yu Jin and Haozhou's boats were also loaded, and their personal guards couldn't sit still, and Yu Jin couldn't bear to let his personal guards who had followed him for many years die in Fancheng.

In this way, the two lone boats drifted in the flood with difficulty. They only rowed a hundred feet before being overturned by a big wave of the rolling flood tide.

Fortunately, there was a small hillside in that area, and the boat happened to be floating under the hillside. After the boat capsized, Yu Jin was picked up by the guards to the hillside, almost rolling and crawling, covered in mud, and extremely embarrassed Climb up the slope.

Looking at Fancheng in the distance, the Jingzhou army had already reached the wall of the west city. A large number of Cao troops who could escape in the future either fell into the flood, were submerged by the waves, or were beheaded by the enemy, or knelt down and chose to surrender.

Only a few lucky ones escaped by boat, and the entire Fancheng fell into the hands of the Jingzhou army.

With disheveled hair, Yu Jin watched all this with dull eyes.

he knows.

Even if he went back alive, he would be finished.

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"Report!"

Just when Huang Zhongwen hired Lu Chang to attack Fancheng, Yu Jin was trapped on the hillside outside the city.

About ten miles away from the northwest corner of Fancheng, in the area of ​​Lingyangpo, Shen Chen was standing on a boat looking into the distance.

The flood flooded both sides of the bank for tens of miles, but the water level became shallower as you went north. After reaching Lingyang Slope, the water level dropped to less than three feet.

Therefore, Shen Chen's fleet had to be two miles away from Lingyang Slope, cruising in the water.

To the north of Lingyang slope is Yancheng. At this moment, Xia Houyuan and Xu Huang's army dragged a large number of ships, hesitating on the slope, not daring to go into the water at all.

Their boats are all small boats collected nearby, which belong to the fishing boat sequence, while Shen Chen's are small and medium-sized boats specially used for combat, such as 艨艟, Doujian, Maotu, Luwei, Goge, Xiandeng, etc. It is a warship.

Not to mention that the number of their fishing boats is not enough, they only found hundreds of small fishing boats in just two days.Simply put, even if the number is enough, going into the water to fight the enemy is a dead end.

Therefore, even if they actually received the news that Yu Jin sent out to ask for help at noon, they didn't dare to go into the water to help Fancheng at all.

Shen Chen blocked them.

Hundreds of warships cruised back and forth in the flood. Although due to the problem of width, sometimes the enemy ships were scattered, but everyone knew that once they rushed up to start a battle, they would only seek their own death.

So whether it was Xia Houyuan or Xu Huang, they were all timid and only dared to wait and see from afar.

At this time, behind Shen Chen's main ship, a scout boat rowed across the water like an arrow, and soon arrived at Shen Chen's main ship. The scout soldiers boarded the boat and came in front of Shen Chen, knelt down on one knee and said, "General Huang, General Lu , General Wen has captured Fancheng, a large number of Cao's troops surrendered, the enemy generals Niu Gai and He Mao were beheaded, and the commander Yu Jin is missing."

"Oh?"

Upon receiving the news, Shen Chen nodded, waved and said, "Go back."

"Return!"

As the order was issued, the soldiers on the ship's pole waved the flag and issued an order to retreat to other warships cruising in the distance.

Hundreds of warships turned their bows one after another and headed in the direction of Fancheng behind.

In the distance, Xia Houyuan and Xu Huang stood on the hilltop of Lingyang Slope and watched. Seeing this scene, Xia Houyuan said anxiously: "What's going on, why did they leave?"

Xu Huang sighed, and said: "Then Shen Chen came to intercept us, now they retreat, there is only one possibility."

"What is possible?"

"Fancheng. Fancheng is probably lost."

"what?"

Xia Houyuan was furious, and slashed at the stone on the ground with a knife, roaring: "My God, why is it raining so much, why!"

Boom!

It seemed that following his swearing, a thunderbolt fell from the sky and hit the foot of a hill not far away, which shocked many Cao Jun around and ran away in a hurry.

Only Xia Houyuan didn't seem to care, his scarlet eyes looked towards the direction where Shen Chen's warship was evacuating in the south, blood seemed to drip from his eyes.

The king of Wei ordered him to rush to help Xiangfan. After four days of rapid marching, he finally arrived at the battlefield, but he could not get any results back.

Now if Fancheng is lost, how can he explain it to King Wei?
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The battle in Fancheng has been decided, and Shen Chen sails back.

Hundreds of ships, large and small, set off in the direction of Fancheng.

After approaching Fancheng, Shan Yi, an apprentice and general, pointed to the distance and said, "General, there are many Cao troops over there."

Shen Chen looked over.

I saw that there are still many hills and slopes around Fancheng.

After Fancheng was breached, some people fled in boats, and others used wooden boards as lifebuoys to float in the water.

Some people floated on the flood, some people were hit by the waves to the hillside, and some boats drifted with the waves, Cao Jun was densely packed like ants on the river.

Many people were even nearly drowned by the flood.

Seeing this scene, Shen Chen waved his hand and said, "Save people, arrest all the prisoners."

"only!"

Shan Yi handed over should be.

After the military order was issued, hundreds of warships sailed towards the west gate of Fancheng in the distance.

Cao Jun from Luoshui is everywhere within a few miles around.

I'm afraid there are no less than a few thousand people.

Shen Chen's fleet went up, kept saving people, and captured prisoners on the spot.

When his ship passed by a small hill, he saw dozens of ragged and distressed Cao Jun on the hill.

Most of them took off their armor for the convenience of escape, or were shirtless, or their clothes were in tatters.

There was only one person, although he was in a mess, but he was still wearing a smaller ring lock armor on his upper body.

The ring lock armor is a bit like a chain armor. It appeared in the late Han Dynasty. Cao Zhi also wrote "Armor Boundary Given by the First Emperor" to record this kind of armor.

Shen Chen is a man of knowledge. Although the man was haggard, muddy and very old, he stood on the boat and asked tentatively, "Yu Jin?"

Yu Jin looked at Shen Chen's face that seemed familiar but unfamiliar, and was extremely desperate. He knew that it was Shen Chen. The battle had been defeated, and he knelt down with his knees limp. He raised his hand and offered the precious sword bestowed by Cao Cao, and said sadly : "Yu Jin, willing to surrender!"

(End of this chapter)