Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 122 Flooded Jiangling
In the middle of the night at Jiangling City, Kuai Yue looked at the camp of the coalition forces outside the city, and Kuai Yue felt very uneasy now.

Since the tentative siege of the city a few days ago, the coalition forces have almost completely given up their plan to attack by force, and have turned to smashing Jiangling City with trebuchets day and night.Although this thing looks bluffing, Kuai Yue also knew that with Jiangling's strong city wall, he would never break it if he didn't smash it for three or four months.

"Could it be that Guan Yu wants to consume slowly?" Kuai Yue quickly denied his idea. If he used such a stupid idea, then Guan Yu's huge reputation would be too worthless.According to the defeated soldiers who fled from Xiangyang, Guan Yu was like a god of death and reincarnated, and even thinking about it would give him nightmares.

"What is Guan Yu's plan?" Kuai Yue couldn't figure it out.For a wise man like him, once he can't figure things out, the uneasiness in his heart will become more and more intense, and Kuai Yue is in such a state now.

The trebuchets under the city had been removed, and Kuai Yue was frightened by these trebuchets these days.On the second day when the catapults showed their power, Kuai Yue once sent a school lieutenant to lead 5000 people to kill the opponent's catapults, but the long-awaited coalition forces quickly made dumplings. Of the 5000 people, five returned in the end, and the rest were either captured or killed.Since then, Kuai Yue completely gave up the idea of ​​taking the initiative.

Not to mention Kuai Yue's uneasy mind, at this time in Guan Yu's big tent, Zhou Cang was reporting to him the situation of the dam construction. "At present, the water storage has exceeded three feet. I don't know when we can release the water?" Zhou Cang asked.

"Wait a little longer, the rain is not sufficient this year, so wait a few more days." Guan Yu thought for a while.After the discussion was over, Zhao Feng felt that his heart was heavy and he couldn't sleep for a while, so he put on his coat and walked out of the village gate to have a look.

"Kong Ming, you haven't slept yet?" Seeing a figure shaking a feather fan watching the flowing water by the river, it was Zhuge Liang, and Zhao Feng also stepped forward to ask.

"Can't sleep!" Zhuge Liang sighed.Since Guan Yu decided to flood Jiangling, Zhuge Liang became very silent.These days everyone was busy building dams to store water, except for Zhou Cang and others who were doing the construction, the rest of the people were relatively leisurely, and Zhuge Liang just wandered around with his fan all day long.

"Kong Ming, is it wrong for you to say that we sent troops to Jingxiang?" Zhao Feng asked suddenly. Zhuge Liang looked at Zhao Feng in surprise when he heard the words, but saw that the latter frowned, and immediately sighed and said: "This is It was a last resort, if Cai Mao and Kuai Yue did not do such rebellious things, why did this happen?" After a pause, Zhuge Liang also sighed: "Cai Mao has already been captured now, and nearly 30 people in Xiangyang City were burned to death by him that day. Now There are still [-] people in Jiangling, and when the flood occurs, I am afraid that half of them will survive."

"30 people?" Zhao Feng asked in surprise.Looking at Jiangling City in the distance, he didn't expect that this city had more people than the entire Lujiang County under his rule. "Jingbei is a densely populated place. The population of Jingbei is no less than 400 million, of which the counties in Jingbei add up to nearly 300 million." Zhuge Liang said in detail.

"That is." Zhao Feng admitted.Zhuge Liang told him the day before yesterday that after Li Yan pacified Wancheng, the population of Nanyang County had reached 50.If it were Nanyang County in Yuan Shu's era, including Xiangyang and Zhangling, the population would definitely be in the millions.The population of a county alone is almost as large as that of a medium-sized state, which shows that Jingxiang is rich.In this battle of Jingbei, apart from Zhangling, which was not damaged much because the defenders surrendered, the other four counties of Nanyang, Nanjun, Yidu, and Xiangyang were all ravaged by war.I don't know how many people are left after this battle.

"By the way, I'm reporting that Yuan Benchu ​​gathered his troops in Pingqiu, and it looks like he's ready to fight Cao Mengde again." Zhuge Liang suddenly changed the subject, but Zhao Feng frowned when he heard that. "Yuan Benchu ​​was eager to avenge Guandu, and it has only been a little over a year since he will fight again. Even though Hebei is rich and prosperous, it may be difficult for him to win. If he loses this battle again, he may be completely lost." Zhao Feng elaborated After thinking about it, Yuan Shao lost everything in the battle of Cangting this winter.If there is no accident, Yuan Shao will burp next year.His three incompetent children were about to fight for the land of Hebei, which made Cao Mengde cheap.However, what Zhao Feng never expected was that due to his butterfly effect, Yuan Shang, who was supposed to succeed to the throne, was now in Qingzhou to resist Zhang Fei, but Yuan Tan, who was supposed to be in Youzhou at this moment in history, was accompanying Yuan Shao to deal with Zhang Fei. Cao Cao.What will be the result of this battle is unpredictable for a while.

"Kong Ming, do you think the lord can take over Jingxiang after this battle?" Zhao Feng asked suddenly.Zhuge Liang lowered his head and thought for a while before he said: "Now that the chaos in Jingxiang is settled, the Cai family and the Kuai family will be wiped out. Of the other three great families, the Pang family has a scholar who is under the lord's account, and the head of the Huang family is Jiayue. Ji Chang and others from the Ma family have also admired the lord for a long time. It's just that among Liu Jingsheng's clan, there may be some people who will not allow the lord to easily take over Jingxiang. But these people have limited power and cannot affect the overall situation."

"That's true, people like Liu Pan will definitely not agree." Zhao Feng also nodded and said, these days Liu Pan often pretends to be a Jingzhou person in front of them, and keeps a distance from them intentionally or unintentionally, which also makes Zhao Feng quite unhappy.It's just that what happened later was not what they could have predicted on paper.

A few days later, Zhou Cang came to report that there was enough water, and the boats and rafts for water battles had been packed.Guan Yu ordered that the dam be dug in the middle of the night, and the water would be released to destroy Jiangling City.At the same time, Gan Ning and Zhou Tai, who had just arrived, were ordered to lead [-] soldiers each to prepare to enter the city on rafts to fight.

That night, Zhou Cang led his men to dig a hole in the embankment.The river water, which had been suppressed for a long time, suddenly began to flow into the river channel behind the dam.It was relatively gentle at first, but the water was getting bigger and bigger, gradually breaking down the entire embankment, and then rushing towards Jiangling City.

The thunder-like roar woke up many sleeping Jiangling soldiers and civilians. Just when they wondered why there was still thunder in October, the flood had already rushed up the city wall.The west city wall, which had been taken care of by the trebuchet before, couldn't bear the huge force, and a big gap was opened, and the river immediately poured into Jiangling city.

When a catastrophe suddenly struck while they were sleeping soundly, the soldiers and civilians in Jiangling panicked. Many people lost their lives in their sleep.In half an hour, the water in the city had reached ten feet.

"My lord, Guan Yu sent people to kill him by boat!" Cai He, who didn't even have time to put on his armor, rowed a small raft to Kuai Yue, who had just boarded a high ground, and said.The latter didn't seem to hear Cai He talking, but just looked at the vast ocean in front of him, and suddenly laughed wildly.

"Liu Pan, Guan Yu, you are ruthless! Jiangling City is destroyed, you don't want to have a better life! You are ruthless, ruthless!" Kuai Yue laughed wildly as if he had lost his mind.Cai Hezheng didn't know how to deal with it, and suddenly felt a chill in his back, and he was shot by an arrow.Turning around to look, he saw a general on a small boat just put down the long bow in his hand. Cai He, who was about to lose consciousness, remembered that he was Gan Ning, the general of Xuzhou who cooperated with his side to conquer Yuzhang.

"Take it away!" After taking the distraught Kuai Yue into the boat and tying him up, Gan Ning ordered someone to send him to Guan Yu, and continued to eliminate the remnants of the enemy himself.On the other side, Huang She led hundreds of soldiers to fight to the death, and was hacked to death by Zhou Tai at the end, and the rest all fled.

"My lord, the accumulated water in the city has begun to recede, and General Zhou Tai is leading a fierce battle against the remnants of the enemy."

"My lord, Kuai Yue was captured by General Gan Ning, Captain Zhou Cang is escorting him here."

"My lord, the upstream dam has been rebuilt, and the water level has returned to normal."

A series of information was reported to the coalition army camp outside Jiangling City like flowing water. Guan Yu, who was sitting in the commander's seat, listened silently, but his expression was silent. It seemed that he was not very happy about conquering Jiangling quickly. thing.

Guan Yu bowed his head. Except for the generals who were still fighting fiercely, almost everyone was there, but they were not too excited.As people from Jingxiang, Zhuge Liang and Liu Pan naturally didn't want to see the water overflowing three feet in their hometown.Zhao Feng didn't like killing innocent people indiscriminately, so he didn't use this kind of strategy as he could.Even though the rest of the generals wanted to congratulate, they wisely chose to shut up when they saw the indifferent expressions of these big shots.

Not long after, Zhou Cang escorted Kuai Yue, who had been tied up by Wuhuada, to this place. Although the latter was in a panic, he looked extremely stubborn. As soon as he entered the tent, he cursed: "Guan Yu, you will be punished by heaven for committing such a poisonous scheme. You will definitely be punished within three years." Death! Liu Pan, as a native of Jingxiang, you actually helped the emperor to do evil, and you will die in the future!" Kuai Yue was completely unaware of being a prisoner, and yelled at him as soon as he entered.

Guan Yu has always been contemptuous of scholars, that is to say, Zhuge Liang can obey his temper and let him give him some face.Now Kuai Yue is so arrogant, and Guan Yu is not in a good mood, and his face is even worse.Just when he was about to attack, he saw Zhuge Liang jumping up, stepped forward and kicked Kuai Yue down, and then punched Kuai Yue.

"Kuaiyue dog thief, if you hadn't committed the rebellion, how could the people of Jingxiang have suffered such a disaster!" Zhuge Liang yelled while beating him, his punches and kicks were not in the usual manner.Guan Yu and Zhao Feng looked at each other in blank dismay, but they didn't bother to bother. As the chief culprit, Kuai Yue deserved the beating.

Zhuge Liang was a farmer at last, and he still had some strength. The pampered Kuai Yue's nose was bruised and his face was swollen and covered with blood, so he stopped and sat down to catch his breath.Guan Yu ordered people to drag Kuai Yue, who had been beaten half to death by Zhuge Liang, and then sent envoys to inform Liu Bei and Liu Biao, and at the same time stepped up efforts to drain the stagnant water in Jiangling City, and arrested Cai and Kuai's related people.

A few days later, the water in Jiangling City receded, and the Cai and Kuai clans totaled more than 30 people. Except for a dozen or so people who were lucky enough to escape, all of them were captured.The number of casualties was also counted. There were nearly 30 civilians and [-] defenders in Jiangling City, but less than half of them remained after the flood retreated.Among them, the defenders only captured less than [-] prisoners, the rest died in the flood and chaos, and the remaining [-] residents were less than [-].

(End of this chapter)