In mid-November, Wuling was already freezing.
With the concerted efforts of nearly 2,000 craftsmen, 1,000 Kong Ming lanterns that can carry people to fly were finally manufactured according to Zhuge Liang's requirements, as well as 1,000 Yuan Rong crossbows that could fire ten crossbows in a row.
Zhuge Liang named the first air force in human history the "Flying Tiger Army" and divided it into two battalions of 500 men each.
The landing camp was led by Yang Yansi, and the task was to quickly land in Wuling City, seize the east gate of Wuling, fall off the drawbridge, and receive the main army outside the city into the city.
Although the landing battalion led by Yang Qilang was a carefully selected elite, the number was too small after all; There are at least more than 10,000 defenders in the city, plus the Hakka Ding forcibly recruited by Lu Fan from the scholars in the city, and the defense force of Wuling City is at least about 15,000 people.
When they saw Yang Yansi leading his troops down from the sky, they would definitely launch a hysterical attack.
At this time, it was necessary for Yang Yuji to lead a shooting battalion composed of another 500 elites to cover, fly at low altitude to shoot Sun Jun at his feet, and cover Yang Qilang's landing camp to capture the city gate.
Just when Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying led the craftsmen to work day and night, making Kong Ming lanterns and Yuan Rong crossbows, Yang Yansi and Yang Youji also led a thousand warriors to practice flying in the air, and in half a month, these elites selected from 30,000 people have been able to skillfully control Kong Ming lanterns to rise and fall.
On a winter evening, the sun sinks in the west, and the vast fields are golden under the light of the setting sun.
There was a slight wind blowing in the sky above the Han army camp, and countless flags were waved in the wind.
It was a very good weather for air flight, and Zhuge Liang decided to attack Wuling in the middle of the night in the middle of the day.
"Yang Yansi listened to the order" Zhuge Liang, who was already more than seven and a half feet tall, sat behind the handsome case and gave orders without smiling.
The "last general" Yang Qilang, who was dressed in armor, strode out of the ranks and gave up his orders.
Zhuge Liang threw out an arrow and said loudly: "Order you to lead the Flying Tiger Army landing camp to take off from the Flying Eagle Gorge tonight, fly fifteen miles to the southwest, land in Wuling City, take the east gate of Wuling in one fell swoop, and then take Cheng Jinjin into the city."
"The last general commanded" Yang Yansi took the arrow and turned around to go.
Zhuge Liang set his eyes on Yang Youji again: "General Yang Guerrilla, order you to lead the Flying Tiger Army Shooting Battalion to carry the Yuanrong crossbow and rockets, and follow in the footsteps of General Yang Yansi to take off."
After entering Wuling City, first use rockets to ignite the Wuling granary, and then weaken the heat of pine resin, maintain a certain height in the air, and attack the defenders in the city to cover Yang Yansi to seize the east gate of Wuling. ” Yang Yuji bowed his hand to the ranks, and there was some hesitation on his face: "To control the flight altitude of the sky lantern, the last general and his brothers have mastered it almost the same, as long as the heat of pine resin is controlled within a certain range."
But the last general is difficult is that Sun Jun's granary is located in the southwest corner of Wuling, and it is not difficult for us to burn grain; The difficulty is that after igniting the granary of the Sun army, it will be blown out of Wuling City by the northeast wind, and then how to turn back and support General Yanji in the air" Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan in his hand, and said with a smile: "Although General Yang is relieved, the reason why Liang set the air attack on Wuling tonight is that he calculated that around the time of tonight, the northeast wind will definitely turn into a southwest wind."
If General Yang's troops had acted well, it wouldn't be long before the southwest wind blew back after burning down the granary in Wuling.
At that time, you can attack Wuling by air and cover General Yang Yansi to capture the east gate of Wuling; And if the Wuling granary is on fire, Lu Fan will definitely divide his troops to rescue, which will definitely weaken the force defending the city and increase the certainty that General Yanji will occupy the city gate."
"If this is the case, General Kong Ming's true god is also "raised by the five bodies admired by Ji to the ground, and took the order to go."
Zhuge Liang ordered He Yuanqing to lead 10,000 troops, and went out of the camp to the east gate of Wuling in Chenshi, and after Yang Yansi opened the city gate, he rushed into the city and controlled Wuling.
He also ordered Cheng Yanjin to lead 15,000 men to block the remaining three gates of Wuling, strive to completely annihilate the Sun army in the city, not let go of a single soldier, fight a beautiful battle, and boost the morale of the entire Jingzhou army.
And Zhuge Liang himself led the rest of the men and horses to guard the camp, waiting for the good news from all walks of life.
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the northeast wind blows non-stop.
Yang Qilang was the first to get into the huge Kong Ming lantern with a golden gun in his hand, and waved his hand to order: "The whole army will set off, and the brothers of the landing camp will follow me to parachute into Wuling and take the city gate."
Yang Youji also refused to lag behind, and waved his hand to greet the soldiers of the shooting battalion: "The sons of the shooting battalion will first burn the Wuling granary with me, and then turn back to attack the Sun army after the wind direction changes, cover General Yang to occupy the east gate of Wuling, and receive the main army into the city." ” Led by the two commanders, a thousand brave warriors descended into the huge Kong Ming lanterns, each lit pine resin, and continued to gather heat at the bottom of the canopy.
Although the wind on the ground was very calm, on the Flying Eagle Gorge, which was more than 500 zhang high, it was a cold wind blowing strongly.
With the continuous burning of pine resin, the heat continues to condense under the umbrella cover of the Kong Ming lantern, and more than 1,000 Kong Ming lanterns begin to take off one after another, and then under the blowing of the north wind, they drift towards Wuling, densely packed like stars in the sky.
The night was deep, and the cold wind was like a knife.
Since the Han army did not attack the city again in the recent period, the defenders in the city were slack, thinking that the Han army was afraid of the severe cold of winter and began to rest.
Optimistic people even judge that before the beginning of spring next year, the Han army will not attack the city again.
Regarding this situation, Lu Fan was not at ease.
Although the surface of the river has frozen, it has not yet reached the level of freezing three feet in the north and the angle bow is difficult to control.
Therefore, the soldiers defending the city are always reminded to strengthen their precautions and not to be careless.
It's just that Lu Fan reminded Gui that once the soldiers' tense hearts relaxed, they couldn't get nervous for a while.
Seeing that the first half of the night was peaceful, many people began to gather into a pile to live warm.
On the walls of the entire Wuling City, bonfires are lit, and more than ten soldiers gather around every hundred and ten zhang, chatting while keeping warm.
"It's not good to report a big thing" The sound of horses' hooves under the city startled the defenders at the head of the city, and they all picked up their swords and guns and looked under the city walls.
I saw a few scouts running out of breath with their horses in this winter night, and shouted anxiously on the other side of the moat: "Report to General Lu quickly, the big thing is not good, the Han army is divided into three routes, and they are coming straight to Wuling, and the forward troops are only five or six miles away from the city gate."
Chen Ying, who was drinking and warming himself in the city gate tower, was startled, and when he touched the steel fork, he blew the horn and reported to Lu Fan, "Everyone is bowed and arrowed, hide behind the female wall and wait, and swear to guard the Wuling Tomb."
With the sound of the melodious horn, the defenders in the entire Wuling City woke up from their sleep, put on their helmets and armor, picked up their weapons and boarded the city, and followed Bao Long and Chen Yinger to strengthen their defenses.
All of a sudden, the walls of Wuling were illuminated by torches as if it were day.
In a moment's effort, He Yuanqing and Cheng Yanjin led more than 20,000 Han troops to approach Wuling City for about a mile, but they were not in a hurry to attack the city, but kept beating drums and shouting, and feints to attack the city.
"The Han army doesn't attack the city, it only waves its flag and shouts, but why is it coming" Sun Ce's uncle Sun Jing looked puzzled, "Could it be that the Han army is just feintting" Lu Fan was also puzzled, staring at the long dragon-like torches under the city, and fell into deep thought: "Look at this scale, the Han army has almost poured out, it shouldn't be a feint."
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"Look at the sky," Sun Jun, who was the first to discover the Kong Ming lantern, began to shout, "Look at what is in the sky."
More than 10,000 defenders on the city wall raised their heads almost at the same time, only to see the sky full of "stars", and then look closely like lanterns, floating from the northeast, gradually getting lower and lower.
"What is this?"
"It's the stars, right?"
"You've seen a fucking star like this" "Why do I look like a ghost fire?"
"You've seen lights flying so high and so dense, I look like a big lantern" Yang Qilang, who was flying in the sky, controlled the Kong Ming lantern to land slowly, seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the east gate of Wuling, and Sun Jun under his feet was getting clearer and clearer, and he was the first to pull the trigger of Yuan Rong's crossbow: "Shoot me" Five hundred Han soldiers poked their heads out of the bamboo baskets one after another, aimed their crossbows at the defenders at their feet, and fired thousands of arrows in unison.
In the blink of an eye, thousands of crossbow arrows were rained down, with the sound of whistling wind, and the lethality was amazing.
In an instant, more than 2,000 defenders of the entire Wuling East City Gate were suddenly overturned on their backs by the shots, and the screams came and went; In the face of the high-frequency shooting of Yuan Rong's crossbow, there was nowhere to escape, even if he dodged the first arrow, he couldn't dodge the second arrow that followed.
A rain of arrows poured down, killing at least seven or eight hundred defenders on the city wall, making the originally dense crowd suddenly become much thinner.
Sun Jun, who was lucky enough to dodge the crossbow arrows, was also frightened, and looked for objects to avoid the rain of arrows overhead.
"It's the Han army, it's the Han army, the Han army actually came down from the sky" "Is this the Han army or the heavenly soldiers, how did the Han army fly in?"
At this moment, the east gate of Jinling City was crying, and the chaos of the killed camp frightened the courageous Sun Jun's confidence was collapsing, and the timid man's legs were trembling, and he could no longer walk, and even his tongue was trembling.
"Kill" Yang Qilang was the first to land, brandishing the Suyingzhan golden gun and knocking over several defenders at once, and roared loudly: "We are heavenly soldiers and generals, and those who descend will not die."
Five hundred warriors of the Flying Tiger Army followed Yang Qilang's footsteps to release the heat in Kong Ming's lantern one after another, controlling the lantern to land, as if landing a meteor shower that had slowed down countless times; An endless stream descended on the walls of Wuling, on the houses, on the streets, and even on the trees.
The defenders at the east gate of Wuling were so frightened that they didn't react for a while, and they forgot to shoot back.
The 500 Flying Tiger Army landed easily, and most of them were safe and sound, only a few unlucky ghosts were injured or buried when they landed.
"Kill, those who descend will not die" Under the leadership of Yang Qilang, nearly 500 warriors of the Flying Tiger Army, all of whom raised their swords and guns, launched a fierce offensive against the defenders of the east gate of Wuling, in an attempt to control the city gate in one fell swoop and let the main army outside the city enter the city. t1706231537: