After the Han army's camp on the other side of Hutou Mountain was captured, the river blocking ropes in the Han River were naturally dismantled.
The Chu navy crossed the Han River and cut off the supply channel from Xiangyang City to the Hutoushan stronghold.
At the same time, the centipede ship and the ship loaded with bed crossbows bombarded the Hutoushan stronghold with artillery shells and "fire dragons" day and night.
The main force of the Chu army did not stop.
Half a day later, the vanguard arrived at the foot of Xiangyang City.
They chose a higher ground and began to build a fort.
The fort used a wide corridor to extend to the bank of the Han River, and a simple water fortress was built here.
When the fortress construction was completed, the Han army's stronghold on Hutou Mountain had raised the white flag and surrendered.
The defender of Xiangyang City was Zhou Chang.
He was shocked when he heard that the Chu army had arrived at Xiangyang City.
When the traces of the Chu army were discovered a few days ago, they had already sent fast horses to Nanyang to ask for help.
But he never expected that the Chu army would break through the painstaking Hutoushan defense line so quickly.
The soldiers seeking help may have just arrived in Nanyang.
It would take about three or four days for Liu Jia's reinforcements to arrive.
Zhou Chang, who was standing on the top of the tall city of Xiangyang, looked across the wide moat at the Chu army's barracks on the opposite side.
He loudly ordered: "Pass this order to recruit all the people in the city who are over thirteen years old and sixty years old."
The people below went to the top of the city to help the garrison defend the city. " There were 20,000 defenders in Xiangyang City, excluding the 3,000 Han troops at Hutoushan who were captured by the Chu army.
There are still 17,000 people in the city, plus tens of thousands of ordinary people and the strong and tall Xiangyang City Wall and wide moat.
Based on this, Zhou Chang thought that it would not be a problem to stick to Xiangyang for four or five days.
As soon as the Chu army's camp was completed, a partial division of 2,000 men was dispatched to occupy Xiangcheng, which had only a few hundred garrison troops.
Fancheng on the other side of Xiangyang originally had more Han troops, but Zhou Chang believed that the wall was low and it was impossible to defend Fancheng, which was undefendable, so he transferred most of Fancheng's troops to Xiangyang.
At this time, Xiangyang was completely alone.
There were a large number of Chu army warships parked on the Han River, and even in the wide moat, the Chu army's gondola boats were "walking all over the pond."
The trestle on the moat has long been dismantled, and now the only way to enter and exit the city gate is by ferry.
Uncharacteristically, the Chu army did not start the siege at dawn, but launched the attack at sunset.
There was no Yunlailou ship that Zhou Chang was worried about, but the Chu army sailed a large number of centipede ships into the moat and lined up horizontally along the river bank.
And started building the pontoon bridge, very quickly.
Dozens of small boats were lined up horizontally, and a pontoon bridge was quickly built on the wooden planks that had been prepared.
Almost at the same time the pontoon bridge was being built.
A modified stern actually entered the moat, with its bow directly facing the city gate and pressing against the shore.
Then the bow deck opened and fell, becoming a springboard.
Dozens of soldiers from the Chu army slowly disembarked from the boat, holding large shields and surrounded by a huge creature.
For such a long time, the top of Xiangyang City had no response to the Chu army's movements below the city.
This is because the side of the city that was under the main attack of the Chu army has become a dead place.
Two hundred crossbows, more than a hundred crossbows, and a large number of centipede ships docked along the outer edge of the moat, together carried out intensive bombardment on the 200-meter-long wall where the city tower was located.
Only the towers were hit with rocks and bricks broken, wood broken and tiles shattered, and some of the battlements were even completely collapsed by the bombardment.
Zhou Chang, who personally went to the top of the city to take command in order to boost morale, was "scattered" among the ruins.
First, a hole as big as a bronze mirror was blasted out of his chest, and then his body was smashed to pieces by rocks.
The characteristics of the ballista can accurately carry out ballistic strikes.
With the same gun emplacement firing angle, projectile pushing stroke, and the same projectile, the distance between the impact point of the previous shot and the next shot will not exceed two meters.
Therefore, after several rounds of corrections by the gunners, the shells fired by the crossbows almost all landed on the seven or eight meter thick city head.
An area of more than 1,000 square meters withstood the impact of thousands of stone bullets.
You can imagine the scene at that time.
The size of this batch of artillery shells is intentionally made with slight differences so that the impact points can be evenly distributed under the same gun position, shooting angle, and projectile stroke.
The cannonballs are coated with kerosene and a torch is placed at the muzzle of the ballista, so that the impact point can be clearly observed at night.
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This is why the Chu army launched an attack at night.
The behemoth that "drove" down from the stern finally pushed under the tall and solid city gate of Xiangyang.
At this time, the pontoon behind it was also built.
Soldiers of the Chu army were pouring in from the pontoon.
This behemoth is of course a city-breaking machine, but it is much larger than the one in the previous time and space, and its components are more reasonable and precise.
The city-breaking hammer weighs ten thousand kilograms.
There was a loud "boom", sawdust and planks of wood flew everywhere, and the reinforced Xiangyang city gate was hammered open.
The iron bars behind the gate fell off in a twist, and several iron door latches were completely twisted and deformed and fell off the gate.
A large number of Chu soldiers who had crossed the moat from the pontoon quickly entered Xiangyang City from both sides of the city-breaking machine.
Strangely, they encountered no resistance near the city gate.
This was because the more than 17,000 Han troops in the city were in chaos.
The general and the deputy generals who followed the general were killed in large numbers, and the command system completely failed.
The first to advance into the city was the trapping camp of the reclamation army, but it had nothing to do with the trapping warriors.
This was compiled by Ji Bu based on the warriors of the Overlord's Guards.
There were only 500 of them, so they were one of the best in a hundred.
Compared with the warriors trapped in the trenches, except for the differences in individual soldier quality, skills and team awareness, as well as differences in equipment, they are almost the same.
These trapped soldiers also wore mail armor, carried three-foot large shields and hundred-refined steel ring swords, but did not use crossbows.
They traveled unimpeded along the way, only killing some scattered Han soldiers who came up to them in confusion.
Only when they reached the Xiangyang government office did they encounter large-scale resistance.
A Han army captain and more than 2,000 soldiers from his headquarters blocked the main street.
The soldiers trapped in the camp rushed forward in a simple battle formation with swords and shields in hand without saying a word.
The two sides soon broke into a fight.
A soldier who was trapped in the camp held up his shield to block the halberd blades attacking him.
After approaching the Han army's line, he stabbed three Han army halberdiers with the ring-headed steel knife in his hand.
But he didn't notice that a Han soldier on the side was holding a two-meter spear and pierced the mail on his ribs.
He endured the severe pain and slashed the blade of the Huanshou knife across the throat of the Han soldier closest to him.
Then he fell to the ground and murmured: "One for four, it's worth it."
Immediately, the head of the Han army spearman was split open by the blade of another soldier trapped in the camp, and his brain was immediately exposed.
Dozens of crossbow bolts flew towards the Han army array and fell to pieces.
A Chu army crossbowman panted and shouted: "Brothers trapped in the camp in front, run slower, we can't keep up."
Behind him, a large number of Chu army halberdiers and swordsmen also came up to kill.
The three thousand Han army was already beaten back by the five hundred dead soldiers.
As soon as the Chu army's reinforcements arrived, they were quickly defeated.
The head of the leading captain was already in the hands of the soldiers trapped in the camp.
The Chu army continued to pursue them without mercy unless the opponent dropped their weapons and knelt down to surrender.
At this time, groups of Huben heavy infantry also entered the city and spread out throughout the city along the streets and alleys of Xiangyang City.
The main wall of the city had already been occupied by the Chu army, and they were attacking the other three walls along the corridor at the top of the city.
Since all the trestles outside the city gates were demolished by Zhou Chang's order, the 17,000 Han troops in the city had no way to escape.
In the end, they had only two endings: death or surrender.
At midnight, the four towers and the government offices in the city all changed their flags.
Starting from the early morning of the second day, boats and teams of prisoners were escorted to the surrender camp in Nan County in the rear for six months of screening, training and reorganization.
Xiangyang fell into the hands of the Chu army so easily
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