The autumn wind hunts, the sound of killing in Xiangyang City shook the sky, and the flesh and blood flew sideways.
With the wave of Yue Feiling's flag, nearly 100,000 Han troops almost poured out and launched a fierce attack from the east and north gates of Xiangyang City.
Yue Fei had been stationed under Xiangyang City for three months since he raised his troops out of Wancheng in June, and only launched a few small-scale attacks in the middle, losing three or four thousand men and horses.
Later, because of Zhao Kuangyin's rebellion, it rained for half a month, and finally had to wait for Han Shizhong to attack Changsha, so Yue Fei never attacked the city.
And now, Han Shizhong has entered Jingnan from Jiangxia, landing from Dongting Lake to attack the pass-through Luo County, which must go south, in order to prevent Sun Ce from reinforcing Luo County, so Yue Fei ordered a large-scale siege.
"Soldiers, come with me" In the sound of whimpering horns, Gao Zhong rushed into battle on foot, carrying a golden tiger head spear, leading the first batch of three thousand fully armored shield soldiers to board the warship one after another, and then rushed towards Xiangyang City.
Seeing the high morale of Gao Chong's subordinates, Yue Yun was not to be outdone, and jumped onto a fighting ship with a pair of sledgehammers: "Brothers and brothers, we can't watch General Gao grab the battle every day, we must be the first to board Xiangyang City today and win the first success."
Under Yue Yun's encouragement, the morale of the three thousand elite soldiers was high, and they all agreed, and they all boarded warships of different sizes with weapons in their hands, carried ladders, and followed Yue Yun towards Xiangyang.
Yangyang is different from ordinary cities, its strength is not only because of the high walls of the city, but also because of the Han River that surrounds the city.
The moat of an ordinary city can be dug seven or eight zhang wide, and the depth of two or three zhang is already breaking the sky.
The Han River, which has been halfway around Xiangyang, is more than 100 zhang wide, and the current is turbulent, so if you want to get close to the foot of the city wall, you must use warships.
The distance of more than 100 zhang made it impossible for the attacking troops on the shore to attack the city wall at all, and even the strongest bows and arrows could not reach the city.
If you don't have enough ships, even if you have a million men on the shore, you can only stare dryly, but you can't use any strength The choppy Han River flows eastward around Yangyang, and the north and south banks are surrounded by lofty mountains, making it impossible for the attackers to cross the Han River and attack the south gate.
The west gate of Xiangyang also has a tributary of the Han River passing under the city, and a semicircle is drawn, and finally bypassing the south gate and flowing eastward.
Although the moat of the west gate of Xiangyang is not as wide as the east gate, and the water flow is also smoother, Fancheng, which is separated by a river, is a horn of each other, and the two face each other.
As long as a ship enters this moat outside the west gate of Xiangyang, it is a self-defeating road, and it is bound to be fiercely shot at the walls on both sides of the river.
In the southwest direction of Xiangyang and Fancheng is the majestic and precipitous, inaccessible Wudang Mountains, and the birds are sad.
If you want to attack Jiangling or even Jingnan, there are only two routes, either to take Xiangyang by force, or to make a detour through Jiangxia and trek 1,500 miles to attack the rear of Xiangyang from the waterway.
If you go to Jiangxia, the long-distance sergeants are tired, the supply of materials is easy to be cut off, and coupled with the treacherous flow of the Yangtze River, it is no less difficult than storming Xiangyang.
It is this dangerous terrain that makes Xiangyang hold the southern gateway and become the first city in the world.
If you take Xiangyang, you will control the Jiangnan portal, and if you can't take Xiangyang, it is equivalent to giving the portal to others Just when Yue Yun and Gao Zhong each led three thousand elites to attack the east gate of Xiangyang by boat; The two generals Yang Zaixing and Gao Changgong also led 3,000 troops each, and launched a fierce attack on the north gate of Xiangyang by warship.
Seeing the menacing Han army, the 30,000 Sun troops on the head of the city all bent their bows and arrows, prepared rolling stones and rolling wood, and waited for battle.
When the Han army drove to the center of the river, they fired crossbows and crossbows in unison, and arrows rained down.
For a time, the sound of killing on the river shook the sky, and there were countless people who fell into the water with arrows.
In just a few moments, the river was dyed red, and the corpses floated and fell on the surface of the river, which was shocking.
"Shoot back" Gao Zhong stuck his spear in the bow of the ship, picked up a three-stone strong bow, and fired several arrows at the head of the city.
Every time the bowstring sounded, a man would fall from the wall.
But ordinary soldiers could only draw ordinary bows and arrows, and the feathered arrows shot out fell into the river before they could fly above the city wall.
Some of them have excellent archery skills and can shoot farther, but they are too far away, but they are also the end of the strong crossbow, difficult to penetrate, and are easily resolved by Sun Jun on the city wall.
Yue Fei immediately shot horizontally under the banner of Shuai and watched the battle.
Seeing that the soldiers crossing the river encountered a strong resistance from Sun Jun, he waved his hand and ordered: "Thunderbolt car, stone throwing" With Yue Fei's order, sixty thunderbolts on the north bank of the Han River were thrown at the city wall at the same time, and for a time the sky was dusty and rocks were flying.
Although these thunderbolts were improved by Liu Ye, because the Han River was so wide, if you wanted to throw stones on the city wall, you could only throw some lighter stones, which made the threat of thunderbolts much less.
But even so, with the cover of land "artillery", the pressure on the Han army crossing the river was much lessened, and the crossbow arrows fired from the city were weakened by at least a third.
The Han soldiers on the boat rowed their oars one after another, shouting the trumpet and sailing towards Xiangyang City.
"Lu Meng, Dong Xian, lead the fleet to build a pontoon bridge, and attack the city gate with a rushing vehicle" Yue Fei waved the flag and ordered loudly.
Lu Meng and Dong Xiqi, who had long been ready to go, agreed and each commanded the warships to build a temporary pontoon bridge on the river.
Using the boat as a bridge pier, the wooden planks were spread out on the ship, and a pontoon bridge was slowly built, extending from the north shore of the Han Dynasty to the bottom of Xiangyang City.
The fierce battle continued, and the crossbow arrows on the river surface were like flying locusts, and rocks of various shapes flew over their heads like cannonballs with whistling sounds, and smashed heavily on the city wall of Xiangyang.
From time to time, Sun Jun's smashed brains burst and fell to his death, and more Han soldiers were shot and fell into the boat, making the floating corpses on the river dense.
After repeated tentative charges, in the evening, Gao Chong and Yue Yun each led about 2,000 dead soldiers, riding 100 warships of different sizes, approaching the land under Xiangyang City.
If the city wall is built by the river, it will be flooded by the river every day, and it will definitely collapse often.
Therefore, at the foot of the four city walls of Xiangyang, there was a buffer zone of about 15 zhang away from the river, and the ships of the Han army had docked at this moment.
Gao Zhong and Yue Yun each charged first with their weapons, leading the soldiers to carry the cloud ladder and storm Xiangyang.
"Smashing Wood" It was Zhou Dong who commanded the defense at the head of the city, and with his order, Sun Jun, who had long been ready to attack, viciously smashed down a hundred and ten round logs at the same time.
With the rumbling sound, countless Han soldiers let out one after another screams, and their flesh and blood were blurred by the wood falling from the sky, and they died on the spot.
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"Get out of the way, let me come" Gao Pet strode to the front, brandishing a tiger-headed chisel golden gun like a beast, struggling to dial the wood falling from the sky, and each shot would save the lives of many ordinary soldiers.
With the roar of Gao Pet, he picked up the pieces of wood one by one and threw them under the city wall, which greatly shocked Sun Jun on the city wall, and he gasped one by one, "This man is so brave."
"Sprinkle lime" Zhang Ren, who had been lying in ambush under the battlement, suddenly burst out and shouted.
With Zhang Yi's order, hundreds of Sun soldiers threw out the prepared lime powder at the same time, and for a while, the sky was full of dust, choking the Han soldiers under the city who couldn't open their eyes and coughed one after another.
"Shoot the Arrow" Zhang Ren got up suddenly, bent his bow and aimed at Gao Chong, and shot a quick and fast arrow.
Hundreds of well-trained crossbowmen flashed out from behind the female wall at the same time, firing a flurry of arrows at the foot of the wall.
"Look at me" A heroic figure flashed in the crowd, it was Sun Shangxiang.
I saw her holding a treasure carving bow in her hand, bending the bow and arrows, and running to the high pet to send three shots in a row, as fast as a meteor.
The pervasive lime powder choked Gao Pet's eyes and ears heard the arrows above his head like flying locusts, so he could only wave his spear and dial the eagle feather.
But there was still a powerful crossbow arrow that pierced through Gao Chong's defenses, penetrated through the armor, and shot Gao Chong in the shoulder.
At the same time that Gao Zhong encountered a powerful sniper, Yue Yun, Yang Zaixing, and Gao Changgong were also unable to move an inch, and they were smashed back by the fierce rain of arrows and rolling stones and trees on the city.
At the same time, Zhang Dingbian and Su Fei led the army out of Fancheng, riding dozens of brisk boats to take the middle of the Han army's pontoon bridge.
Zhang Dingbian was invincible with a spear, and the Han soldiers on the bridge fell into the water one after another, and Sun Cejun took advantage of the situation to set fire to the pontoon bridge of the Han army.
Just when Zhang Dingbian burned the pontoon bridge built by Lu Meng, Sun Ce also led the army to go around by boat from the south gate, and the killed Dong attack could not resist it, so he threw pine oil, sulfur and other flammable materials on the pontoon bridge in the same way, and set it on fire.
"Mingjin Collects Troops" Looking at the twilight of the day, it was expected that an inch of land was rare, so Yue Fei had no choice but to order the troops to be withdrawn.
Seeing that the Han army was retreating, Sun Ce did not chase after him, waved the flag, led the ships of his headquarters down the river, turned around and returned to the south gate, and retreated into Xiangyang.
Zhang Dingbian and Su Fei also led the men and horses of the headquarters to retreat to Fancheng, continuing to defend strictly, not daring to be careless.
The Han army retreated to the camp, counted the losses, and after a day of fierce fighting, more than 7,000 people were killed.
In addition to the general Gao Zhong who was shot and wounded, there were still more than ten captains and partial generals who died under the random arrows.
Just when Yue Fei's strong attack on Xiangyang was frustrated, without waiting for Zhuge Liang's reinforcements to arrive, Han Shizhong launched a strong attack on Luo County, facing the strict defense of Zhou Dewei, Cheng Pu, and Lu Dai, and also took the lives of four or five thousand people, and Luo County still stands.
Zhuge Liang said to Yue Fei and Han Shizhong respectively: "Sun Ce's heavy troops are concentrated in Xiangyang and Luoxian, with strong fortifications and sufficient crossbow arrows.
It was difficult to capture it in a hurry, so it was better for You Liang, Yang and Cheng to lead their troops across the lake south of Dongting Lake and attack Wuling to the west.
If Wuling is taken, it can cut off the connection between Changsha and Xiangyang and Jiangling, and second, it can attack Changsha from the west, and the east and west will attack each other, echoing each other from afar. ” After Yue Fei read it, he wrote back: "This plan is feasible, Kong Ming can lead the people of his headquarters to attack Wuling, make his own choice, and act when the opportunity arises." t1706231537: