In late September 266, the rainy season in the Han River Basin completely ended and the mosquitoes decreased significantly. The 5,000 reinforcements from Luoyang had also arrived in Xinye. The Jingzhou Legion of Jin State finally began to go south to rescue Xiling.

At this time, three months had passed since the Jingzhou Legion of the Eastern Wu surrounded Xiling City.

For three months, for the Bu family in Xiling City, there is no pressure on food or something. But the problem is that they always sit in the city, and the morale of the defensive party actually dropped very quickly.

Morality is really a mysterious thing. Many strategic games in later generations have a morale setting: if you go out to marches and fight, your morale will be slow and you will not only reduce your offense and defense when your morale is low, but also reduce your offense and defense. If your morale drops to zero, then this army will collapse.

It must be said that this setting makes sense. At least Master Bu Er can clearly feel that his family soldiers are in a far worse state than when they just started three months ago.

If this continues, these family generals who used to be extremely respectful may not have no other ideas.

However, on the third day of the October 10, more than 10,000 Bujia soldiers in the entire Xiling City, more than 20,000 Bujia tenants who were forced to enter the city to defend by Bu Chan, and more than 30,000 elderly, weak, women and children trapped in Xiling City, were all collectively fed with chicken blood!

"The head of the family, the sound of killing sounds shook the sky fifteen miles north of my Xiling City. I think it was because the reinforcements from the Jin Dynasty arrived. What the subordinates meant that taking advantage of the strong morale of the private soldiers in the family, it would be better to open the city gate and go out to fight!"

"Well? Bu Ji, do you know what you are talking about? Open the city and attack at this time? Let's not talk about the bastards in Jin State deliberately let us sit in this lonely city for three months to consume the strength of the Wu army. Now they have just arrived, so we rushed out. I also want the Wu army to consume the strength of the Jin army. In this way, they can understand how valuable it is to withstand the Wu army here for three months!"

"So that's it, my subordinates understand."

While Bu Chan was still fighting against Xiao Jiujiu, the Jin army, who had just arrived outside Xiling City, had already started an attack on the simple city wall that had been completed shortly after Dongwu.

Lu Kang suggested that Lu Shu supervised the city wall, which was completed in just three months. Since it was necessary to completely encircle Xiling City, which was already very large, the height of the wall was very limited, only more than 1 zhang (2 meters and 5 meters). And the strength was even more pitiful: when building the walls, it was rainy season, and it was impossible to use the traditional rammed earth wall building method. Therefore, this wall was more of a skeleton with thorns as a skeleton, and poured mud directly onto it. From a distance, the wall looked so simple.

However, for the defensive party with more soldiers than the offensive party, having this wall is enough.

Because, in July, August and September of this year, there was really a lot of rain in Xiling.

Of course, Prince Sima Liang, the king of Runan, would not go on stage in person, so he just stood in Xiangyang from afar. The commander of this Jin army was General Yanglie Wang Hun Wang Xuanchong.

"General, outside the wooden wall is a three-mile-long mudflat, our army's catapults, arrow towers, etc. When we enter, we are trapped in the mud and cannot move forward at all!"

"Stupid! This wooden wall is at least twenty miles long, and there are mudflats here. Wouldn't it be enough to change to a dry place?"

"Well, the general forgives the crime. My subordinates walked around the mudflat and did not find any place suitable for heavy siege equipment to advance except for the previous official road. The section of the city wall built by Wu Gou near the official road is the highest and the strongest."

"Hmph, without the stone catapult and arrow tower to suppress the formation, wouldn't you ever attack the city? Pass the order and choose the lowest section of the city wall, the infantry will set up the formation, and attack with force!"

"promise!"

With Wang Hun's strict orders, the Jin army quickly completed the array outside the muddy flats. Then the archers and guns and shields were behind, slowly and neatly stepped into the muddy and soft muddy flats outside Xiling City.

"Paji~~" The first Jin army archer who stepped into this mudflat, he knew it was bad after stepping on his front foot. Sure enough, when he stepped on his back foot and wanted to lift his front foot out of the mud so that he could continue moving forward, his feet were out of control and did not pull it out for a long time.

It was nothing if he stood there and didn't move forward, but the problem was that this was the army. After the officer ordered the soldiers behind him to move forward. Then a soldier behind him hit him, and then the next soldier knocked the second soldier down.

"Stop! Stop!" Although the Jin army's Jingzhou army was a little worse than the Longxi Army back then, there was still some basic common sense. The middle and low-level officers on the front line quickly discovered the problem.

"The whole army stops moving forward!" "The whole army is suspended! Rest in place!" "They will build a battalion, cut down big trees, cut wooden boards and pave the road!"

"Hahaha, the reaction was very timely. Unfortunately, I won't give you the opportunity to lay wood boards so calmly."

On the other side of the battlefield, Lu Mu, who had just retreated from the front line, hid behind the simple wooden wall and saw the dynamics of the Jin army. He gently pulled his beard: "Captain, start!"

"Wow~~~!!"

With Lu Mu's order, more than ten catapults from the rear of the Eastern Wu front were launched together. The huge rolling stones rose into the air driven by powerful inertia, and then drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then fell heavily into the Jin army's team.

A series of shrill screams rang over the battlefield. The originally orderly team was completely in chaos in an instant.

"Hahaha~~~~The thieves in Jin, you are just like this." As Lu Meng's youngest son, Lu Mu was forty-eight years old this year. However, although he was middle-aged, Lu Mu's battlefield experience was not rich - the good thing of fighting Shanyue to increase the population of their respective manors has always been the patent of the Jiangdong clan. When was it your turn? Most of the main generals in the middle and late stages of the Eastern Wu Dynasty were produced from the novice village of Shanyue.

In fact, the volley of the rock bullets just now looked spectacular, but the actual effect was minimal: In ancient China, it was not until the Yuan Dynasty attacked the Southern Song Dynasty in the 13th century that a counterweight catapult (comprehensive application of the physical principles of lever and pulley). Before this, it was a man-powered catapult (no counterweight rods, and a large amount of manpower was used to realize the function of the counterweight rod) and a lever-type catapult (reducing manpower, but poor accuracy). Now the Wu army is about three miles away from the Jin army. If you can throw it on the head of the Jin army with a leverage catapult, it is simply a huge character! Most of the stone bullets actually fell in that mudflat.

Therefore, Lu Mu, who thought he had performed well, was quickly scolded by Shi Ji, the rear: What kind of stone bullets are thrown? Are you afraid that Jin thieves would not avoid the cover of their bows and arrows when laying wooden boards later? Stop them and ask them to lay the wooden boards. After entering the range of the bows and arrows, they tried their best to shoot arrows for me. The bows and arrows are so small that even if they can't hit the ground, they will not become the other party's refuge.

So, Lu Mu, who was scolded, calmed down next.

He calmed down, and the Jin army was not slow. He quickly cut the camp to a large area of ​​big trees. Then he quickly cut into countless wide wooden boards. Then the Jin army soldiers quickly began to lay wooden boards on the tidal flats near the home.

"Hiss~~~" Although he was not very experienced in the battlefield, he was almost fifty years old. When Lu Mu saw the way the Jin army laid wooden boards, he couldn't help but feel a toothache.

"Shouldn't they just lay a route from their positions that can be advanced? Why are they all spread out on such a long front? Oh? Zuo Dasima, why did you come to the front line? Isn't it important to have Xiling City?"

"Hmph! Bu Zhongsi, that waste, has no courage to rush out. I am too lazy to care about him. But you, a 50-year-old man, are you still so naive? The Jin army is not stupid, how could you lay such a narrow passage? Will you line up to let you shoot one by one? I came here to remind you: Look at the Jin army project, you will not launch an attack today. I came here to remind you: Don't think about going to a night attack at night, tearing down the enemy's wooden boards or something. The other party is obviously a well-trained elite, and it is impossible to be unprepared for the night attack."

"Uh, I really planned this way. Thank you, Grand Sima for your reminder. I obeyed the order!"

"Well, but your people should also arrange night duty. If the Jin general on the opposite side is smart, he will not send someone to steal the camp if the wooden boards on his side are not fully laid and the rear road is not smooth. But he will definitely lay the wooden boards overnight. You must pay attention to the progress. Once you enter the range of the bow and arrow, whether you see or not, just diffuse to the sound!"

"No! The general will take the order."

There was nothing to say all night. It was two minutes on the fourth day of the 10th month.

With the morning light, Lu Mu, who woke up, saw the situation on the battlefield clearly through the thin mist, and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air again.

On the other side, the Jin army camp, a new generation of beautiful bearded men like Guan Yu's grandfather, had already sat on the tall horse with a neat and majestic look on the tall horse.

"Report to General Annan, according to the general's method of throwing wooden boards with a catapult, our army has completed the construction of the wooden boards of one mile wide and three mile long last night. Now, the paths facing the enemy's wooden walls have been opened!"

"Shan, all of you, under the order of General Yang Lie, today's battle will be commanded by me. Now order the entire army to assault!"

"Wow~~~!!!"
Chapter completed!