Jiang Qin didn't even discuss his idea with Xu Sheng, Lu Mian and other generals, and decided on his own. Lu Mian, who had just joined Cao's army, was fine, but Xu Sheng had an idea while remaining silent on the surface.
Make your own plans.
Early in the morning that day, Shouchun's patrolling soldiers stood on the North City defense and saw that a few hundred meters away from the North City, the camp of Cao's army, which had landed overnight, had been set up. And on the lake flashing in the morning light, hundreds of people
A warship is swaying with the waves.
Then the thunderous sound of drums sounded, and groups of Cao soldiers walked out of the camp in a hurry. The cavalry on their horses drove towards the center of the confrontation between the two sides.
Suddenly, a tense battle atmosphere began to envelope Shouchun City. After a while, a long sound of horns was also heard from the camps to the left and right in the north. Then many infantrymen, who had been recharging their strength for a long time, came out of the camp one after another.
They turned into pieces of black cloud and headed toward the same place, Shouchun North Gate, overwhelming the sky.
Although this is only the first day of formation, and there is still some time before the real battle in the confrontation stage, countless murderous intentions are inevitable within these few miles. The soldiers in Shouchun City
After a tense night, I realized that everything was no joke. Shouchun, the heart of their Zhong empire and the capital, was invaded by foreign enemies.
However, the battle did not unfold as the Shouchun defenders expected. Just after Cao Jun's ten thousand soldiers formed their formations, the Shouchun defenders, who were waiting carefully, guessed that Cao Jun would first choose to scold the formation, provoke and other methods, but directly attack.
When entering the city, there was a sudden roar from a large warship docked in the waters of the north gate.
For a time, gray stone bullets filled the sky, and the roar of the stone bullets and the long whistles that quickly cut through the air came and went. Compared with the menacing and well-formed army on the ground, it seemed as if a torrential rain fell from the sky first.
A huge lang came towards the Shouchun city wall.
With the sound of "Bang Bang!", the Shouchun City Defense experienced the test of the first round of stone-throwing attacks. But today's Shouchun City is no longer Chen Yu. The Shouchun City when Qiao Xuan was there. Back then, Jiang Qin only carried a "flying spear leg"
"The miracle of being able to blow up a section of Shouchun Urn City is gone forever.
Although Yuan Shu lived a luxurious life, he still spent a lot of money on Shouchun's city defense. No wonder he was so confident that with only 20,000 defenders in the city, he could withstand Cao Zhi's 100,000-strong army.
In the first round of stone bomb attack, no matter which part of the city defense the stone bullet hit, it was like hitting a giant beast. It only broke away a few pieces of earth and rocks, but it was like scratching the entire city defense, without any serious impact.
The effect of the arrows was easily deflected by the reinforced and thickened city walls. Only some splashed gravel caused some damage to the defenders behind the specially made tall arrow stacks. At this time, the entire Shouchun City seemed to be wearing a
Black and blue battle armor decorated with blue bricks.
Cao Jun seemed to have expected this, but he did not stop the stone-throwing attack. He just started to drive the warship, and as far as possible outside the water surrounding the city, like a giant rhinoceros, not caring about the waste of stone bullets, he began to move forward.
While driving, they took turns throwing stones at the city defenses within their reach.
Even though they had already tested out that these attacks were ineffective, they still insisted on launching a fierce bombardment. This situation immediately attracted the attention of Ji Ling, who rushed to Beicheng.
"General Yuan, Jiang Qin is conducting a test. He is trying to find out the weak points of our defense. I think he may know some internal intelligence about our city defense. Please ask General Yuan to immediately..."
"Fart!" Yuan Yin, who had been paying attention to Cao Jun's movements on the city defense, yelled before Ji Ling finished speaking, "Ji Ling, you are too presumptuous, what do you mean, do you want to say that we
Someone inside has rebelled again, and that person is Huang Yi, the consort?"
Ji Ling was very annoyed when he saw Yuan Yin blowing his beard and staring. However, Yuan Shu was injured and could not preside over military and political affairs. Now Yuan Yin is the spokesperson of Emperor Yuan Shu of the Zhong family, controlling the power of life and death for them. He
He could only swallow his anger, clasping his fists and bowing: "I don't dare!"
Yuan Yin didn't appreciate Ji Ling's humility at all, and just snorted loudly: "Ji Ling, I'm warning you, you won't tolerate interfering in royal affairs. The consort is also a hero, and the emperor loves him very much.
Huang Yi will never do anything to disgrace the emperor. Don't criticize yourself. Jiang Qin is relying on his long-range attack ability and is just blindly testing the city before attacking. The city's defense is impeccable, so just let him come.
We don’t care about this attack!”
"Yes..." Ji Ling was so scolded by Yuan Yin that he didn't dare to stand up straight. He kept saying yes, but his steel teeth were almost bleeding.
"Hmph!" After Yuan Yin snorted again, he turned his face and ignored Ji Ling. Amidst the rumbling noise, he shouted loudly to the nearby soldiers: "The defense of the capital is completely capable of resisting this kind of attack a hundred times. Soldiers
, we are ready to fight back!”
"roar!"
The Shouchun defenders, who were still frightened at first, saw that Cao Jun's initial attack was not so sharp, and coupled with Yuan Yin's instigation, they immediately burst into a burst of shouts, and under Yuan Yin's order, they also launched stone hurling in the city.
car and began to counterattack.
Ji Ling wanted to stop him again. He thought that since they knew that Cao Jun was trying to test, they would hold their troops still and wait for Cao Jun to actually launch an attack before launching a counterattack. Moreover, their catapults were not as sophisticated as Cao Jun's, and their range was not far enough.
It may fall apart after just one use, requiring re-repair and assembly, which consumes resources and costs a lot of money.
But Yuan Yin ignored Ji Ling's suggestion. He advocated boosting the morale of our army in a timely manner. Even if it was a waste, he knew that their catapults had no effect on the enemy troops outside the city, but they still had to launch them to boost morale and enhance the prestige of our army.
Is it good too?
After a while, the roar of stone throwing was heard in Shouchun City. Dozens of stones were thrown out of Shouchun City at once. They also flew straight out with strong wind and hit the ground with a bang. But unfortunately, it was just as Ji Ling expected.
, the furthest distance of their catapults was only a hundred meters, but Cao Jun's ground siege troops were far from reaching this distance. The catapults in Shouchun City were purely airdrops.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom!" Under the powerful stone bombardment from both sides, at a glance, there were pieces of black light in the air on both sides. In each piece of black light, there were dozens of kilograms of stones being thrown around.
, the sky outside Shouchun City is so lively.
It's a pity that most of Cao Jun's stones were concentrated on the Shouchun City Wall. Yuan Jun's stones were just a few hundred meters away from where Cao Jun gathered. They had the effect of shaking the ground and creating a deep hole. How could it be done?
What threats arise.
The soldiers of Yuan Jun cheered loudly when their catapults roared at the beginning. However, every time Yuan Jun's launches were not intensive, it usually took three or four rounds of Cao Jun's attack before a batch of catapults were thrown in Shouchun City, and they
Soon they also discovered that their throwing stones could not cause damage to the enemy, and they couldn't help but talk happily. Besides, they had to avoid the stones flying on the city defense from time to time. They gradually understood what the advantages of weapons were.
inferior.
On the contrary, the originally solemn officers and soldiers of Cao's army couldn't help but make a buzzing commotion after waiting for two rounds of Yuan's army throwing stones:
"Damn it, what is that? Why did it hit the open space?"
"I was shocked. I was originally planning on how to dodge Yuan Jun's stones, but now it seems I don't have to, haha..."
"Yuan Jun knows he can't vote for us, but he still throws random votes. Isn't it unnecessary to take off his pants and fart..."
Soon the group of soldiers ignored the generals' scoldings and began to laugh and make up jingles for Yuan Jun in the city.
"Hello Yuan Jun, Yuan Jun is wonderful. Throwing stone bullets is really awesome. Taking off your pants and farting is really loud, really loud..."
Amidst the thundering laughter of Cao Jun outside the city, Ji Ling returned to the west city angrily. At this moment, everyone in Yuan Jun's officers and soldiers felt that they were ashamed. Only Yuan Yin was still shouting: "What we have are stone bullets, this wave of stone throwing is not
Not to hurt the enemy, but to enhance the power of our army!"
Jiang Qin, who was on a cruising warship, also heard Cao Jun's scolding, sarcasm, and clamor. He chose to stone attack in today's first battle, indeed to verify Huang Yi's confession yesterday.
When he heard the jingle "Take off your pants and fart", he also laughed. But he kept focusing on the damage caused by the stone bullets bombarded on the wall of Shouchun North City. After a while, he na na
He said to himself: "It seems that the Shouchun North Gate is no longer the North Gate of a few years ago!"
Xu Sheng on the side heard this and immediately bowed and said: "General, do we want the ground troops to launch an attack?"
When Jiang Qin heard this, he thought for a while and then said: "Where are Zhang He's troops and horses?"
Xu Sheng was stunned and immediately replied: "According to their speed, they should be almost at Yinling by now, right?"
#########At noon of that day, when the sun was blazing in the sky and the heat of the autumn tiger was unbearable, the rumble of war horses sounded outside Yinling City, and the black Yangzhou army was coming from far to near.
is close to here.
In this autumn season when tigers are raging, it is really not easy for the Yangzhou soldiers and horses to travel long distances. But fortunately, most of the soldiers are not short of water, and there is no shortage of lakes, rivers, and tens of thousands of people in Huainan.
The infantry followed closely behind the cavalry who opened the way in front, and these strong soldiers endured the scorching sun without a care.
These Yangzhou soldiers, mainly Danyang soldiers, are one of Cao Zhi's most direct troops. Not only did they follow Cao Zhi in the north and south, but with the increase in the number of outstanding military generals around Cao Zhi in recent years, they also accepted good military training.
His training, endurance of hard work, and combat capabilities cannot be compared to what they were when Cao Zhi first arrived in Yangzhou.
Besides, today's soldiers and horses look very energetic. They all look in high spirits. On such a hot day, their backs are straight and their steps are particularly powerful. Why are they working so hard?
What? Because there has been news in the army that Cao Zhi has arrived in Yangzhou in person and will come to the Jiujiang front line to supervise the battle at any time.