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Chapter 346: Suicidal siege, drugging!
Two hours later, Sun's army gathered outside Chengde Military Town and launched attacks on all four city walls simultaneously.

On the northern city wall, 50,000 troops gathered and launched a suicidal attack. They didn't even have shield soldiers and could only hold a small round shield and charge towards the Chengde military town in the distance.

Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and Zhang He were all on this city wall. Only here was there a gap in the wall, which was destined to be an important attacking point for Sun's army.

Looking at the soldiers below who were charging forward fearlessly, Zhang Fei couldn't help but sigh.

"Our Liu Family Army is not the only one that has such a brave and valiant army."

"If they charge like this desperately, our bows and arrows won't last long. Rolling logs, falling rocks, and other city defense equipment are even more scarce. If they keep fighting like this, we may not be able to hold out for a day, let alone three days."

Zhang He frowned. Before he came to Jiujiang, Zhuge Liang gave him a treasure bag with the specific time for their support to arrive, which was three days later. So as long as they could hold on for three days, they would be able to join forces inside and outside to surround Sun Jian's army. With 350,000 Yellow Turban reservists and their 100,000 regular troops, Sun Jian's army was like fish on the chopping board for them, ready to be slaughtered at will.

"Brothers, kill!"

Under the city wall, shouts of killing rose to the sky. A dozen centurions at the forefront led their subordinates to the front. Before the war, they were summoned by Sun Jian, who told them that as long as they could take the lead in death, he could guarantee that their families and descendants would enjoy a lifetime of wealth and glory. Otherwise, not only would they die, but their families would also die.

They were just some scattered soldiers from a nearby military town, and their hometown was in Yangzhou. They could not escape Sun Jian's control no matter what. They had no choice but to agree to Sun Jian.

However, in order to reassure them and allow them to go to death with their subordinates with peace of mind, Sun Jian promised them that as long as they died on the battlefield, the Sun family would help them raise their children and take care of their elderly, and would never let their families suffer from any unnecessary disasters again. Only then did they agree to go to death with their brothers.

Two thousand cavalrymen were all the cavalrymen among these fifty thousand men. After all, it was too difficult to train cavalrymen. They all came from small counties or ordinary military towns. The fact that they could gather two thousand cavalrymen was already shocking enough for Sun Jian.

Now, these two thousand cavalrymen became the first echelon of their siege. They needed to advance quickly to the bottom of the city tower, and then try their best to break open the city gate so that the infantry behind them could attack the Chengde military town. However, what they didn't know was that they would never be able to reach the bottom of the city tower, let alone break open the huge city gate.

They were only used to gain experience for Zhou Yu and were destined to die on the battlefield.

After the cavalry entered the archers' shooting range, the 3,500 archers on the city wall were divided into five groups and shot separately. One round of shooting only took a dozen breaths to complete. It took about sixty breaths for the cavalry to enter the shooting range until they advanced to the bottom of the city wall and disappeared from their shooting range. It was enough time for the 3,500 archers to complete four rounds of shooting.

There were more than ten thousand arrows. How could a mere two thousand cavalrymen withstand such a dense rain of arrows? What's more, the shields in their hands were just crudely made standard shields, which could not withstand the attack of the archers with strong arm strength. One arrow could penetrate the shield, and the remaining force after the penetration could even take their lives.

After three waves of attack, only a few of the two thousand cavalrymen were left, and their eyes were full of astonishment. In their hometown, cavalrymen could fight ten enemies at a time, and a cavalryman was even more valuable than their local centurion. Therefore, they were used to being arrogant, including today's siege. They thought that they had shields and could easily break through the city gate if they could kill their way to the city gate.

But before they died, they didn't know what kind of enemy they were facing, nor did they know that they came here just to die.

A total of 50,000 troops were killed in the suicidal charge in just three hours. At the same time, Zhao Yun and his men had almost used up half of their arrows. In the end, nearly 5,000 troops rushed to the bottom of the city wall, set up siege ladders, and prepared to attack the city.

The 5,000-man army consumed the already limited logs and boulders, and only then did they kill all the 50,000-man army. In this battle, they consumed a full 70,000 arrows. Their total arrow reserves were only 200,000, and they had more than half as many logs and boulders.

The arrows could be retrieved, but now Sun's army had moved their camp within five miles. Once they dared to leave the city to retrieve the arrows, what awaited them would be either a charge by Sun's army or a rain of arrows from them.

On the city wall, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and Zhang He had heavy expressions on their faces. This suicidal method of siege was definitely not a simple siege; they must have a purpose.

"Could it be that they just want to use their lives to consume our arrows? There are still 130,000 arrows, and they will have to use at least tens of thousands of lives to fill the gap. Using human lives to exchange for arrows, this is too disrespectful of human beings."

Zhang Fei said angrily that although they were enemy troops, this method was really unacceptable. Zhao Yun shook his head slightly.

"That's definitely not the case. If you just want to consume our arrows, using shield soldiers is the best way. It's useless for those shield soldiers to just stand in front and let the rain of arrows hit them. There's no need to waste their lives."

Zhang He beside him also nodded.

"Zilong is right. They can completely rely on shield soldiers to consume arrows. Why would they need to sacrifice human lives? And when did Jiangdong have such courage to send 50,000 troops to their deaths?"

"Sun Jian of Jiangdong should have only a little more than 300,000 troops, definitely less than 400,000. He threw away 50,000 lives just like that. It's a bit too arrogant."

The more Zhao Yun thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He really couldn't think of any other reason for them to just throw 50,000 people to die.

"I feel that these people don't look like regular troops. Let's not talk about anything else. Just look at the armor and weapons they wear, as well as the mounts of the cavalry. They look too ordinary. They can't even be called ordinary. They should be called shoddy. If all the soldiers in Jiangdong were like this, we wouldn't be trapped here. I speculate that those people should be some irregular troops. As for why they were sent to die in vain, it is still unknown."

Zhang He’s reasoning was correct, but it was only limited to their identities. They still didn’t know why they were committing suicide.

"The other three walls were just feints, with loud thunder but little rain. From beginning to end, the total loss of soldiers on the three walls was less than a thousand. Now it seems that those soldiers were just sent to their deaths."

Zhang Fei said viciously, his eyes full of murderous intent.

"No matter what their ideas are, if they come, we will kill them!"

"Brother is right. As long as we don't get fooled, we can just kill as many as come."

Zhao Yun said calmly, holding his chin with his mouth open, thinking.

"Can we first demolish some of the military houses in the military town and use them to make log rolls? Some of the foundations can also be used to make stone rolls."

"Yes, as long as it does not affect the people in the city."

"Okay, then I'll arrange it right away and have them demolish the foundations of some unused houses in the city."

"Next time they attack the city, don't rain arrows at them. When they start attacking the city, use defensive equipment such as rolling stones and rolling logs."

"But what if they reach the city wall and start attacking the city gate? After all, this city gate was installed later, and it cannot be compared with the previous city gate. It should not be able to hold out for too long." After Zhao Yun said this, the three of them fell silent at the same time. They knew nothing about the real purpose of Sun Jun and could only make wild guesses.

"The soldiers will stop it, and the water will only cover it with soil."

Zhang Fei stood up.

"Since Zhuge Military Advisor said that support will arrive within three days, then we only need to hold out for three days. After that, arrows, rolling stones, and rolling logs will be useless. So in these three days, no, two days, we just need to hold on. It won't be a problem even if we run out of arrows and other things."

"Brother, what you said makes sense."

Zhao Yun and Zhang He both nodded slightly, agreeing with Zhang Fei's statement.

That night, the soldiers guarding the city suddenly blew the horn, and the sound of the horn resounded throughout the entire Chengde military town. Sun's army, which had just lost 50,000 soldiers, not only did not take any rest, but instead started the attack again in the middle of the night just two hours later. With another 30,000-strong army, they attacked the four city walls simultaneously.

The only difference between this time and the last time was that, in addition to the 30,000 troops on the north wall, there were also some sparsely charged troops on the other walls. Although not many, the three walls together had a total of 10,000 troops.

The 40,000-strong army lasted less than an hour and a half before they were all killed. The difference from the last time was that this time, the 40,000-strong army did not have any generals, only soldiers. In the afternoon, there were still some third-rate generals.

The two failures provided Zhou Yu with 510% and 735% bonuses to all attributes respectively. Up to now, Zhou Yu has had a full 2100% attribute gain.

All day on the next day, no soldiers came to attack the city again, until the evening of the next day, when night was about to fall, another 20,000 troops began to attack the northern city wall. The 20,000 troops, just like they did yesterday at midnight, launched a suicidal charge and were quickly slaughtered.

This time, Zhou Yu was once again provided with a full 1100% attribute gain. So far, Zhou Yu's indomitable characteristic has provided him with a 3200% bonus. At the same time, all the death row prisoners, vagrants, and militiamen in Yangzhou were brought here by Sun Jian and were all killed.

In the Sun army camp, Sun Jian held a meeting overnight to prepare for the final attack.

All the civil and military officials gathered in the big tent. Sun Jian sat in the first seat with a gloomy look on his face, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking. Lu Meng, who sat in the fourth seat below, had a smile on his face.

Sun Jian turned his gaze to Lu Meng, and the scene of Lu Meng's strategy for him that day emerged in his mind.

That night, in the big tent, the two men sat opposite each other, with Sun Jian smiling.

"Tell me, what is your plan?"

"My lord, before I came here, I observed Chengde and his surroundings and found that Chengde has a fatal flaw, which is lack of water!"

"Water shortage? Chengde is so close to the Yangtze River, how can there be water shortage?"

Sun Jian looked at Lu Meng with some doubt. In any case, Chengde had nothing to do with water shortage. Lu Meng smiled mysteriously.

"My lord, the water shortage I'm talking about is not a real water shortage. It means that they don't have running water flowing through the area. There is only one water supply canal dug from the Yangtze River to supply water to Chengde. In other words, Chengde only has this one water supply canal."

"You mean, we can cut off their water supply? Leave them without water?"

"My lord, this plan is also very good, but it can be even better."

"Oh? How is it better?"

At this moment, Sun Jian was completely led by Lu Meng and fell into Lu Meng's plan step by step.

"My lord, this plan to cut off the water supply channel is a good idea. However, after cutting off the water supply channel, there will still be some water reserves in Chengdejun Town. If they really hold out until the arrival of the big-eared thieves, then all their efforts will be in vain. So I think that we should not cut off their water source, but give them drugs instead."

"Drug them? Poison them to death?"

Sun Jian's heart skipped a beat, and Lu Meng quickly bowed.

"No, we don't need poison. After all, we still have our people in Chengde Military Town. We can use knockout drugs. As long as they drink the water mixed with knockout drugs, I believe their fighting power will be much worse than before. In addition, they have not had a good sleep in the past few days. If they drink the knockout drug water, won't they be sleepy? We are well rested and I believe we will be able to win easily. The people in the military town will not be harmed. What do you think, my lord?"

"Well... this plan is feasible, but what if the water in the drainage ditch flows back into the Yangtze River?"

"Don't worry, my lord. I have already observed it in advance. Chengde is low-lying, and the drainage canal goes from shallow to deep. It will definitely not flow back."

"So good."

So, that's why dozens of riders suddenly left the camp at noon that day, and no one knew where they were going. They were going to some nearby military towns and cities to get knockout drugs. After all, no one would carry so many knockout drugs when marching, so they could only look for them.

This is why Sun Jian’s laughter resounded through the sky that day.

Lu Meng did contribute a good strategy to Sun Jian, a strategy that would allow them to easily capture Chengde.

Before the meeting tonight, Sun Jian had already sent people to pour more than a hundred kilograms of knockout drugs into the canal. Now, they just had to wait until the soldiers guarding the city fell asleep in the middle of the night, and then they would quietly launch an attack. By then, a group of soldiers who had been drugged and felt dizzy or had simply fallen asleep would not be able to stop their army, which was well rested and gathering strength.

Sure enough, at about 1 a.m., there were only a few scattered lights on the city wall. The soldiers guarding the city were either lying or sprawled, soundly sleeping. One could only see a few soldiers lying unconscious on the battlements on the tower.

"Gongjin, you are the commander-in-chief of the three armies for this siege. All three armies are under your command. Whether we can capture Chengde Military Town tonight depends on you."

(End of this chapter)