They had only one mission, to help Huang Zu defend Xiakou and prevent Sun Ce's men from taking away this important military fortress. But they could only hear the rumbling sound of rock bombs hitting the ground, which was still far from them, and they had not even seen the smoke of gunpowders in Xiakou City. Jiang Qin's navy was still far from reaching Xiakou's attack.

No one expected that Zhou Yu's men would come so quickly, and they would come so resolutely and aggressively. Many people even believed that Sun Ce would not value this small town that was mainly used to collect taxes and transport various commodities and goods between the three rivers on weekdays.

This included Le Jin himself, who accepted Cao Zhi's order to advance quickly, so he was not in a hurry. But they all ignored the wisdom and courage of Zhou Yu, a Confucian general, and when reinforcements were urgently needed at Xiakou, the navy and land armies led by Le Jin exposed a big problem, and their speed was not fast.

Why is this happening?

It turned out that Jiang Qin and Le Jin both believed that the entry into Xiakou was a kind of deterrence of force, so they both chose the super-large ship that was recruited from Jingzhou to serve as the main warship for their trip.

This huge ship tower has a deterrent power. It is indeed very powerful to sit on it and cut the waves all the way, and the momentum it creates is also huge. Along the way, Jiang Qin and the old Yangzhou navy were complacent all the way, believing that the era of dominating the river has arrived. The march that is stable and rushing is very good, but once you need to invest in actual combat, the weaknesses of this ship are exposed. It turns slowly, lacks flexibility, and is slow. Only then did Jiang Qin realize that this ship is not used for actual combat, which is even more unfavorable and has a speed.

Now Zhou Yu's offensive troops have been put into actual combat, who will be more powerful than him, but it is impossible to let Jiang Qin abandon such a warship. At this time, he can only shout out his own paddle sailors to row hard!

"Shake, stroke, quick stroke..."

"quick!"

When Jiang Qin whipped his paddling soldiers with a whip and made the 100-meter-long big guy move at all costs, Li Dian took the lead in boarding the attacked Dongcheng City Defense.

When Li Dian led his troops to the East City, which Huang Zu was personally commanding, he knew that he was leading three thousand cavalry and would be difficult to play a role. The cavalry was not used to defend the city, nor was it conducive to defending the city. They were used to go out of the city to attack the enemy, so he wanted to find Huang Zu to open the gate of the East City, rush out, and attack the enemy, so that he and his cavalry could play their due role and combat effectiveness.

"Huang Zu, is that Huang Zu?" Li Dian, who brought a hundred people to the Dongcheng City Defense, rushed to a battlement and lying out of the arrow hole to check the situation under the city while calling Huang Zu's name.

"Is this prefect's name you called me?" Huang Zu suddenly appeared behind Li Dian with a dusty face.

"I am Li Dian, don't be fucking verbose. Open the city gate, I want to fight out!" Li Dian was unwilling to get too involved with Huang Zu, and the fighter opportunity would not allow him to lose.

"No, they only have naval troops, and not many people attacked, so there is no need to open the city gate to attack them!" This is Huang Zu's answer to Li Dian, who was kind-hearted to garrison.

Li Dian was stunned by Huang Zu's answer. With the sound of a rock bullet hitting and bursting, Li Dian led the splashing limes and dragged him over Huang Zu's clothes, dragged him to the place where he had just checked the enemy situation, pointed to the countless warships under the city, and shouted to Huang Zu: "Look clearly, this is Zhou Yu's army. Zhou Yu's navy comes from the river, and Cheng Pu's cavalry and infantry will come from the land. If you don't attack now, wait for their cavalry later. Once the infantry arrives, we will have no buffer zone when we want to go out, and they will have the advantage. Do you understand?"

Li Dian said it very excitedly and his behavior was not very friendly. Huang Zu broke free from Li Dian's pull and stood up straight and replied loudly: "Why don't you call me when I fight? When I was fighting on the battlefield, you were still sipping. Don't think that you can command me by being reinforcements. If you want to help, let your people come up. If you don't want to help, get out!"

Two men, one old and one young, were not very mature, just like this, they rubbed and had a big fight on the city where the dust of dust was flying all over the sky, and then they turned around and left in anger.

Huang Zu rushed towards the fierce battle of the city defense and continued to command the navy troops fighting against Zhou Yu's siege. Li Dian, who had just entered the East City, turned around and walked a few steps in anger, and stopped again.

The military order asked him to support Huang Zu, and now he had a close fight. Cao Zhi instructed them to control the strategic throat of Xiakou. Li Dian hurriedly plundered Huang Zu's remaining troops, only a few thousand people, covering the entire Xiakou City was probably not enough. Without their support, Huang Zu would undoubtedly be defeated.

The passionate military order and earnest instructions were about to let go, and Li Dian, who was leaving in anger, rang in his ears.

"General, let's go down, or stay?" A soldier's reminder woke up the stunned Li Dian.

"Notify the brothers under the city to draw a thousand people up, let's stay!" With Li Dian's loud shout, the more than a hundred soldiers behind him turned around and ran behind him quickly, running towards the city defense that was most aggressively attacked.

More than half an hour has passed since the beginning of the siege. Zhou Yu's navy has climbed more and more onto the shore embankment and docks. At this time, they lacked siege equipment, and even a few basic ladders were transported. Without ladders, Zhou Yu's brave soldiers used ropes to put iron claws on it, then flew to the top of the city to climb onto the wall and stones. Xiakou City is not high, and the iron claws of countless shuttles were mounted on the top of the city like countless galaxy branches. Countless Sun Army soldiers followed and quickly climbed upwards. The soldiers who were climbing in the front were caught in an arrow and fell down the city wall. The soldiers with steel knives behind did not look at it, and continued to climb up hard. Their goal was very clear. If they climbed to the top of the city, they could avenge the soldiers who fell down.

"Cut the rope quickly!"

Li Dian, full of anger, rushed to a place where the enemy climbed up several arrows by the enemy, and the battle was already chaotic under the arrows. Fortunately, Li Dian's thousand reinforcements also boarded the Dongcheng City Defense at this time. The elite soldiers under him immediately filled the gaps everywhere and guarded the city defenses that were broken through by the Sun's army. The enemy troops below did not form a breakthrough here.

"ah!"

Li Dian took the lead in cutting off the rope under the iron hook with two swords. More than a dozen enemy soldiers fell heavily to the ground like crabs with broken lines, groaning, screaming and blood splashing on the area under the city.

The narrow section of the city defense was only two square inch-sized bushels, and no matter how many people could set them up, Li Dian's hundreds of elite soldiers in a hundred battles, one man was in the pass, and ten thousand men could not open it. He protected the gap tightly, and hundreds of enemy troops below could not be defeated for a while.

The Jiangxia soldiers who reacted were no longer busy throwing stones and wood to the enemy troops who were attacking them. They picked up the swords beside them and slashed at the ropes that climbed the city hard.

One after another, one after another, one enemy warrior fell off the city wall, but as long as each warrior fell, the people behind would rush up several or even dozens without hesitation.

The enemy in front of them is numerous and there is not enough siege equipment. They are not even full-time siege infantry. But they are like the elite Cao army, who are fearless soldiers. They are as good generals as Cao army, and they have excellent general training and leadership. Just give them an order or a belief, they can sacrifice their heads and shed their blood under this city wall.

At the moment of the war, Huang Zu's Jiangxia defenders relied on the advantage of the city defense and could still steadily gain the upper hand. The Sun soldiers who rushed towards him fell under the rain of arrows, rolling wood and beating stones fell in pieces. Too many people fell down before they even rushed to the city wall. However, Zhou Yu's subsequent naval forces continued to continue. There were too many. They rushed forward in batches with desperate attempts as the flags were waving, as if they were willing to use their lives to exchange for an arrow from the other party and exchange for a gap in the other party's city defense. After all, the current proportion of troops is still Zhou Yu, with 20,000 people, and Huang Zu only has more than 3,000 defenders. Even if they added the 1,000 cavalry from Li Dian to defend, it was still a four-to-one ratio.

In just half an hour, the corpses under the city wall had accumulated into a mountain of corpses, hundreds of corpses were traversing across the ground, and their angry eyes were still blooming with their last violent fighting spirit.

The Sun Army soldiers who even lacked the local chains would simply climb up the ladder. When there were enough dead soldiers, they gathered all the items that could be piled up, including the corpses, and then stepped on them and climbed up desperately.

If you look down from the city, then there will be almost everywhere on the walls of several miles.

The crisis was also revealed at the beginning of the battle.

In this symphony of blood and flesh, Han Dang, who was standing behind Zhou Yu to watch the battle, sighed in a low voice: "Zuo Governor, if this continues, the casualties will be too great. Is it worth it to make an optional small city? We can take advantage of the enemy fleet before it comes up, bypass Xiakou City, rush to their sluice, and go straight into the river. There is no difference whether to seize this city or not!"

"Nonsense, Han Dang can do what you say now..." Zhou Yu, who should have been angry, suddenly calmed down when he turned around suddenly. Looking at Han Dang's subordinate who was not affiliated with him, he suddenly smiled. After pausing his words, he turned around and stopped getting angry, but said lightly: "If you can't figure it out, you don't need to think about these things. You don't need to consider this whole battle situation in my lord and I. Winning this battle and taking this city is the beginning of the lord's foundation for a hundred years. If you can't take it... everyone, fight hard, it's not the time to think about these things..."
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