Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 204 Soldiers enter Lingyang
"not good!"

Shen Chen immediately realized the problem.

He also did not expect that the Wankou defenders were so courageous that they dared to leave the city.

Isn't the enemy guard afraid of setting up an ambush outside the city?

"General, what should I do?"

The guard next to him asked, "Shall we go save Zhang Sima now?"

Shen Chen immediately thought calmly and said: "We are too far away from the east city, you send someone to inform the eldest son to attack immediately, we attack the south city!"

"only!"

The whistle chief immediately ran back.

Shen Chen shouted: "Soldiers, breaking through Wankou means saving Jiang Xia, so follow me!"

"Kill!"

Immediately the soldiers rushed out one after another.

However, what they never expected was that hundreds of figures suddenly appeared on the top of the city at this moment, and someone shouted: "Hahahaha, I knew you would be like this, shoot me arrows!"

"Fire arrows!"

In an instant, arrows rained down, knocking Jiang Xia's navy who was caught off guard and fled.

Shen Chen used a knife to knock out two incoming arrows, his heart sank, and he immediately shouted: "The enemy has an ambush, retreat!"

"withdraw!"

The orderly's whistle sounded.

In fact, he didn't need to give orders, no matter how powerful the body was, it couldn't withstand the baptism of bows and arrows. The soldiers left thirty or forty corpses and ran back long ago.

Shen Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Hurry up, go north to support Zhang Sima."

Since there was an ambush at the South Gate, there was no way to attack, so it was better to save Zhang Nan.

It's just that the south gate is several miles away from the east gate, and by the time he arrived with his troops, the battle there was almost over.

Zhang Nan's army hadn't rested all night, and they kept making noises. They wanted to raid the city and take Wankou and go to sleep, but they were suddenly attacked, caught off guard, and couldn't resist it.

Han Dang and Lu Su personally led the troops and defeated them almost like a smashing bamboo. After killing and wounding hundreds of people, they escaped from the forest like a bereaved dog and ran to the south in the direction of Anqingting.

When Shen Chen came over, the Jiangdong army was waiting about 200 meters away. Both sides had already drawn out their bows and arrows, waiting for the other side to rush over.

However, Lu Su did not order to attack, but watched the small Jiangxia navy coming from the south gate, and ordered the soldiers to retreat slowly into the city.

Seeing that the enemy was so cautious, Shen Chen stood on a small slope three meters high and shouted from a distance: "Who is the guard in your city?"

"Liaoxi Handang!"

"Jiujiang Lu Su!"

The two responded loudly.

At the end Lu Su said again: "I haven't asked for advice yet!"

"Donghai Shenchen!"

"It turned out to be Shen Xiaolang, who is famous all over the world. We are lucky to meet you today!"

"I have also heard of Lu Zijing's name."

"How can some nicknames compare with Shen Xiaolang's three visits to Xudu?"

"Although Jiangdong has lived for three generations, it is not a good place. The public has a big weapon, so why not return it to the country as soon as possible?"

"Who is Sheji? Liu Biao?"

"Of course it's the imperial court."

While talking with Lu Su, Shen Chen greeted the soldiers to approach slowly.

When the distance between the two sides was about [-] meters, Chuochuo's figure was vaguely seen moving in the fog, and the other party was slowly approaching like him.

Relying on the direction of the voice, Shen Chen slowly bent his bow and set his arrow, aiming at the position where Lu Su made the voice just now.

Although it is despicable to do so, but in war, soldiers never tire of deceit. If you follow Song Xianggong to engage in a war of benevolence and righteousness, you will be laughed at by the world.

However, almost at the moment when he sent the arrow, he heard the sound of piercing through the air in front of him.

Shen Chen instinctively turned his body to avoid it, but a sharp arrow pierced through the sky like a cloud, cut his arm, and blood flowed down immediately.

"what!"

There was a scream from there.

"kill!"

Shen Chen regained his spirits, endured the pain and gave orders.

However, the opponent had already prepared for it, and suddenly the bows and arrows of both sides rained down like raindrops. The quality of Jiangxia's navy was not as good as that of the opponent, and they were quickly beaten back.

At this moment, the horn blared in the distance, and Liu Qi and Qu Gan came rushing with an army.

The Jiangdong army did not dare to fight, and quickly withdrew to the city.

After a while, Shen Chen, Liu Qi, Qu Gan and the others joined up. Seeing that he was injured, Liu Qi rushed up and asked, "Ah Chen, how are you doing?"

"No problem!"

Shen Chen picked up the arrow and looked at it before. There was no poison applied on it, just a simple skin trauma, so he said: "I shot the enemy general to death, and now we can attack the city."

"it is good!"

Liu Qi immediately issued all orders.

The soldiers carried wooden boards and ladders, came to the city under the rain of arrows, and began to climb the city wall.

Shen Chen was sitting on a hillside not far from the city to watch the battle, and beside him were soldiers bandaging the wounds with linen bandages.

The wound was scratched by the arrow, it was not deep, and the blood stopped quickly, but the severe pain may still affect the function of the arm.

However, this kind of minor injury has been suffered countless times in several battles against Cao Cao, so it is not a big deal.

So Shen Chen still watched the battle calmly.

I saw that the soldiers had successfully arrived at the city and were already attacking the city.

"Ah Chen, they rushed up."

Liu Qi next to him was very happy.

If he can win this battle, he must have contributed a lot, and he will gain a lot of points in front of his father.

However, just as he burst into a smile, the situation on the top of the city suddenly changed.

"Kill!"

The sound of shouts and killings shook the sky, and hundreds of Jiangdong troops on the top of the city began to throw things down.

The strange thing is that it's not the rolling stones, but the scarecrows.

Immediately after the kerosene was sprayed, the city suddenly turned into a sea of ​​flames, burning all the planks and ladders used by the Jiangxia navy to attack the city.

"I go!"

Seeing this scene, Shen Chen couldn't help but swear.

He suddenly remembered the figures that he saw on the city wall in the morning on the mountain. Those figures were not figures, but they were obviously some scarecrows.

Apparently the man in the city had seen through his strategy. When he sent people to make noise, they used scarecrows to disguise themselves as soldiers. It is already waiting.

"Ding ding ding ding ding!"

The clinking of golden gongs jingled, if it was raining, there would be no way to ignite the straw, but the rain had stopped, and the scarecrows were all on fire, and there was another continuous rain of arrows, Jiang Xia's navy had to start evacuate.

Shen Chen stood on the hillside, looking at Wankou City with deep eyes.

This is a rare city that he has not conquered since his debut. Although there are many objective reasons, such as lack of siege weapons, the quality of soldiers is far inferior to that of Huangmenting soldiers, and the enemy has sufficient arrows and resources, etc.

But if you think about it from a subjective point of view, he has seen through his strategy many times, otherwise, if he encounters an ordinary guard, he may have already taken it down.

The second of the four governors of Lu Su.

Really great.

No wonder they can be called Jiangdong's two great think tanks together with Zhou Yu. Although the rest of Lu Meng, Lu Xun and others are also the governors of Jiangdong, compared with Zhou Yu and Lu Su, I really don't know how far away they are.

"Shen Xiaolang!"

At this moment, Lu Su's energetic voice appeared on the top of the city, shouting to the outside of the city: "If you don't want to follow Liu Biao one day, the gate of Jiangdong will always be open for you!"

"It's a good intention."

Shen Chen responded loudly: "See you someday!"

The tinkling sound continued, Shen Chen turned his head, went down the hillside, and headed towards the Anqing Pavilion.

At this moment, on the top of the wall, Lu Su unconsciously touched his chest. The arrow just now was aimed at his chest. If the guards hadn't taken their lives to help him block it, he might have died at this time.

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and it was three quarters before sunrise. Han Dang looked out of the city, and with his increasingly bright vision, he saw Jiang Xia's navy receding like a tide.

"Lieutenant Lu, we repelled them."

Han Dang breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Su shook his head and said: "You can't underestimate the enemy's carelessness, the general should immediately send scouts to follow."

"it is good."

After this night, Han Dang had already convinced Lu Su, and immediately sent scouts out of the city.

On the other side, Liu Qiqu dared to lead the soldiers and horses back, took in the soldiers, and 600 soldiers came out. Now at least [-] people were killed or injured, which can be described as quite embarrassing.

After Shen Chen returned to the Anqing Pavilion, he looked around and saw that the morale of the soldiers was low and their brows were tightly knit together.

The literacy of Jiangxia's navy is indeed not comparable to that of the northern army.

"Achen."

At this time Liu Qi came over and asked him: "What should we do now? Continue to attack?"

Shen Chen shook his head and said: "The soldiers are tired and hungry, and Lu Su is a formidable man, I'm afraid we won't be able to attack this city, let's go back to the boat first, let me think about it."

"it is good."

Liu Qi ordered the soldiers to return to the ship to recuperate.

All the Jiangdong ships at Anqingting Wharf had been destroyed, and now there are only those eight big ships left.

After returning to the boat, Shen Chen thought carefully, and Liu Qi came over to ask.

"Continue to go down the river!"

"Go down the river?"

Hearing Shen Chen's final decision, Liu Qi was taken aback, and said, "Isn't that suicide?"

However, Shen Chen shook his head and said: "If we go back now, Jiang Xia may fall, so we must win at risk. I remember going south from Qingshui to Lingyang, so we can sail into Poshui."

There was no Poyang Lake in the Han Dynasty, but there was Poshui, which was connected to the Yangtze River. Its upper reaches were called Qingshui, probably the Qingtong River and Shuxi River in Qingyang County in later generations.

The former flows southward from Qingyang County into Taiping Lake, and continues southward to become Shuxi. When Shuxi reaches Yixian County, it becomes Poshui and flows into Penglize.

Therefore, if you go down this route, it will probably be from Qingyang County in Anhui Province to Yi County in later generations to Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province, and finally enter the Ganjiang River.

Liu Qi said: "There is indeed this river, but it is a branch of a big river. There are many cities along the line. Are we going to attack it?"

Shen Chen said: "The problem now is that Jiangdong's army intercepted from the road while General Huang was withdrawing. General Huang may have been defeated at this time. If we can't threaten Jiangdong's rear, Jiangxia will lose. Now Wankou can't take it. Naturally, we can only continue down the south to make them feel that we are threatening Jiangdong, but we went from Qingshui to Nanchang to join General Liu Pan."

"Is this a bluff?"

Liu Qi asked tentatively.

Shen Chen nodded and sighed: "Yes, this Lu Su is really powerful. If Wankou can't take it down, he can only take Lingyang first and force Jiangdong Army to return to defense."

"it is good."

Liu Qi nodded: "Then let's go to Lingyang."

So he immediately went out to issue orders, and when it was close to three o'clock in the morning, the tired and hungry Jiangxia navy set sail again, not planning to go north and return to Peng Lize, but to continue to Jiangdong along the river.

After about a quarter of an hour, the scouts from Wankou who had gone out to investigate had returned and reported to Lu Su and Han Dang: "Report, General, Colonel, the enemy has withdrawn their troops."

"Where did they go?"

Lu Su asked.

The scout replied: "Go down the river and go to the east of the river."

"what?"

Lu Su turned pale with shock: "Quickly, explore again and find some boats to follow behind."

"only!"

The scouts immediately found some airships, scouts and other reconnaissance ships from the city, and quickly sailed from Wanshui into the Yangtze River, following behind Shen Chenjun.

After the scouts left, Lu Su and Han Dang looked at each other with unsightly faces.

They were actually not afraid of Shen Chen going to Jiangdong, they were afraid of him going to Lingyang.

Lingyang is only more than 200 miles away from Wankou. If you go down the river and then go down Qingshui, you can get there in only two or three hours.

The most terrifying thing is.

At this time, Lingyang's defenders were less than five hundred, and Sun Quan was in Lingyang City!

(End of this chapter)