Looking at the obviously heightened city wall in front of him, Zhou Yu smiled. Such a wall could easily collapse under the attack of a catapult. Zhou Yu waved his hand and the rapid sound of war drums disappeared behind him. He looked at the city and said, "Zhou is here."
Wouldn’t Yuan Zhi come out to meet you?”
As soon as Zhou Yu's voice fell, a voice came from the city: "Gong Jin, Yuan Zhi, naturally has to prepare a lot when he comes here, otherwise he will not treat guests well." As soon as the voice fell, Xu Shu and several people appeared in the city.
People outside the city noticed that Xu Shu had just climbed onto the city wall, but Xu Shu and others had already been waiting on the city to hear Zhou Yu's words before following the steps next to the small house behind the city wall and climbing to the roof.
Seeing Xu Shu's appearance, Zhou Yu smiled and said, "Brother Yuan Zhi's invitation to entertain Gong Jin was not dared."
After two words of greeting, Xu Shu looked at the 40,000 troops outside the city and the siege equipment behind the army and sighed: "Gong Jin is really going to take action this time, with a total of 40,000 troops, hundreds of ladders, and ten wells."
Lan and the three catapults, Gong Jin, think highly of me."
Zhou Yu shook his head and said: "With Yuan Zhi here, it will be difficult for these 40,000 troops to capture Xiushui County." After speaking, Xu Shu looked at the city without talking nonsense and asked: "Yuan Zhi must continue to hold on.
"Once the troops and horses in the city are lost, Liu Qi will have nothing to rely on in the future." Zhou Yu obviously understood Liu Qi's situation very well.
Xu Shu sighed and said: "This place is so important, but Yuan Zhi is a little greedy and unwilling to let it go." He couldn't spit out the bones that were in his mouth.
Zhou Yu said: "Then we can only meet each other with armies." In fact, he didn't have high hopes. He had gotten to know Xu Shu a little bit in the past few days. After saying that, he waved his hand and the war drums raised high behind him sounded again, approaching Xiushui County.
The three square formations and three thousand soldiers and horses began to move. At the same time, a young general rushed out from behind Zhou Yu and came to the front of the formation. The three thousand soldiers and horses rushed towards Xiushui County on ladders.
The aura quickly filled the battlefield.
Xu Shu looked calm on the top of the city. The attack on the first day should not be very dangerous, because there were no huge stones in the catapult behind Jiangdong's army. It was impossible for Jiangdong's army to transport the huge stones from Jianchang to this place, so they could only just
The ground was mined. Xu Shu looked at Huang Zhong aside, and saw that the siege relied on strength and strategy and had little effect.
Huang Zhong raised his sword in front of Xu Shu and took a step forward with a boxwood bow on his back. He came to the city wall and stared at the Jiangdong soldiers and horses below the city. Looking at Zhou Yu who had not retreated into the army, Huang Zhong snorted coldly and casually moved his left hand.
He took off the boxwood bow behind him, took out an arrow from his waist with his left hand and right hand, put it on the boxwood bow and shot an arrow at Zhou Yu.
Bang! The bowstring vibrated and the arrow flew away from the string. It shot towards Zhou Yu at such a speed that it was difficult to see clearly. Zhou Yu, who was in front of the army, was shocked when he saw the flying arrow. The speed of the arrow was so fast that he could not even dodge it.
There was no way to avoid it. Zhou Yu was about to avoid the vital point, but he saw Taishi Ci on the side pull out his long sword with a "clop" sound and shot down the arrow with a clang. Just as Taishi Ci shot down the arrow, Han Dang on the side pressed the sword with his hand.
The handle was blocked in front of Zhou Yu.
The tip of the arrow suddenly sank into the ground. Taishi Ci and the other three explained that they were secretly surprised by how powerful the arrow was. Taishi Ci stepped forward and said: "The Governor should return to the formation." He was still vigilant as he spoke.
Looking at the city.
Looking at the arrows on the ground, Zhou Yu's pupils shrank, then he nodded, turned around and returned to the formation.
Huang Zhong on top of the city looked at Zhou Yu who retreated into the formation and sighed inwardly. If he had really shot Zhou Yu to death just now, the battle would have been much easier. But Huang Zhong just gave it a try with Tai Shi Ci.
It is very unlikely that the two generals Han Dang can shoot Zhou Yu to death here.
Huang Zhong withdrew his gaze and shifted his focus to the battlefield in front of him. At this time, Jiangdong's three thousand soldiers and horses, led by the young general, had already approached the city wall, and ladders were about to be mounted on the city wall. Huang Zhong once again drew his bow and shot arrows.
, the arrow left at high speed as the bowstring vibrated.
The young general Jiangdong who was leading his soldiers forward seemed to have caught something. He looked up and saw a flash of light. With a pop, the arrow penetrated the armor and shot through the heart of the young general. The young general looked in front of him in disbelief.
The body of the still trembling arrow slowly fell down. The three thousand Jiangdong soldiers and horses behind him did not flinch. Two soldiers stepped forward and sent the young general's body back to the formation. The others still thought about Xiushui County and rushed towards it.
After Huang Zhong shot the arrow, the archers who had been prepared on the city wall released their hands at the same time. The arrows fell like rain into the middle of Jiangdong soldiers and horses, and screams immediately sounded. After a round of arrow rain, dozens of Jiangdong soldiers and horses were killed and injured.
, and the second round of arrow rain has arrived, and the sound of arrows penetrating armor can be heard from time to time, and a famous Jiangdong soldier also falls down.
After three rounds of arrows, the Jiangdong soldiers and horses finally arrived at the city wall with ladders. The ladders clattered up against the city wall, and then a famous soldier climbed up along the ladders.
Huang Zhong on the city didn't pay attention. He ordered the archers to continue shooting and asked the soldiers on the city to prepare the rolling logs and boulders. When the soldiers from Jiangdong below the city climbed to two-thirds of the city, Huang Zu gave the order to roll the rocks one by one.
The boulder held by the two men was thrown down the city. The soldiers on the ladder were accidentally rubbed and immediately fell off the ladder.
The huge boulder fell from the sky and fell among the Jiangdong soldiers gathered under the city, causing another death and injury. The boulder rolled among the Jiangdong soldiers and then rolled across the moat towards Jiangdong's army. The wooden planks laid by Jiangdong's soldiers on the moat were immediately crushed.
The smaller stones followed and fell into the moat.
Zhou Yu, who was in the army, looked at the boulders rolling towards the army, turned his head and said behind him: "Move these boulders to the back."
As soon as Zhou Yu finished speaking, another young general from Jiangdong took the order and left. The young general came to the square formation in front and waved his hands. A thousand soldiers and horses quickly dispersed, and each team of one hundred people went to intercept the huge stone in front of the army. In less than a quarter of an hour, the army was in front.
The rolling boulders had been stopped and moved to the rear of the army.
Xu Shu, who was on the city wall, frowned, "This Xu Shu is so smart. He collected dozens of huge stones without even trying. He can even use a catapult."
Huang Zhong, who was on the side, looked a little ugly when he saw Jiangdong's army collecting the boulders. He turned around and waved to the soldiers who were about to drop the boulders. The soldiers in the city immediately put the boulders down and replaced them with buckets of hot tung oil, and poured them down the ladder.
Going down, the tung oil still rolling in the barrel immediately made a tingling sound as soon as it touched the ladder. The tung oil flowed along the ladder and onto the soldiers who were climbing up. It immediately appeared a bright red and even a little burnt. Some of the soldiers on the ladder were a little burnt.
Covering their necks, some covering their faces, some covering their heads, and some rubbing their hands back and forth on their bodies, the unsteady soldiers immediately fell off the ladder and fell into a pulp.
Zhou Yu, who was in the army, looked at the situation and waved his hand. Another young general left and rushed forward with a thousand soldiers and horses.