Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 359 Simultaneous development of waterways and direct access to Xiangfan

The general trend of the world is sometimes like playing chess.

Jingzhou was originally a dead end, with Cao Jun in the north and Sun Quan in the southeast. They were attacked from both sides, and the retreat was also blocked by Sun Jiao. There was no way to go to heaven and earth, and almost no way out.

The best outcome for Shen Chen would be to fight Sun Jiao to the death in Yiling, or turn to Linju and escape from Fangling back to Yizhou.

But Huang Zhong's appearance is like a hand of God, igniting the whole chess game.

After the chess game is alive, it is time to launch a counterattack. On August 24, Jian'an [-], Huang Zhong marched into Zhouling, Gan Ning surrounded Shaxian, and Sun Quan was dead.

On September 8000st, Shen Chen's army began to attack Yiling and Yidao. At the same time, Zhuge Liang sent the last [-] men from Jiangzhou, led by generals Liao Hua and Zhao Rong, to attack Yidao from Jiangdao and attack Sun Jiao from east to west with Shen Chen's troops. .

Sun Jiao's food road was cut off, Lu Meng's army was destroyed, and the morale of the army was low. Although they stubbornly held on to the camp, an unknown number of soldiers fled every day, so that they soon fell into a desperate situation and were on the verge of collapse.

Shen Chen had plenty of troops at this time, when 5 men attacked Jiangling, Gan Ning took 6 away, but after joining Zhao Yun and Sha Moke, there were [-] more, and Liao Hua and Zhao Rong had [-].

After two days of fierce attack, Sun Jiao's army was left struggling to support. In an army of more than 3 people, not one out of ten has the morale of the army, and there are thousands of people who fled and surrendered overnight.

The sky was still gloomy, and the rain slowed down a little during the day for the past two days, and the torrential rain continued at night. At the beginning of September, the squalls and torrential rains struck again, and the thick clouds like ink covered the sky and the sun, brewing With terrible wind and rain.

Danyangju, located in the south of Yidao, is currently the garrison of Shen Chen's army.

Now Zhao Yun's troops occupied Huya Mountain, Shamoke seized Xiaoting, and the two attacked Yiling. Yiling's defenders were not as numerous as Yidao's, and Sun Jiao was not in Yiling.

The Liao Hua and Zhao Rong tribes were located in Jingmen Mountain to the north of Yidao, forming a double-teaming trend with Shen Chen's main force of Sun Jiao's tribe on Yidao.

Today, Shen Chen got the news that Zhao Yunbu and Shamoke had captured the Xiaoting stronghold within two days, and that the Yiling defenders had been beaten extremely hard, so he summoned the generals to discuss matters.

Many generals under his command gathered, and Shen Chen looked around in the tent and said, "Everyone, we have reinforcements coming."

"Are reinforcements coming?"

The morale of the soldiers was boosted, and the already high morale was boosted, and everyone had smiles on their faces.

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "Your Majesty has ordered Meng Da and Kou Feng to send all the more than 1 defenders of Shangyong and Fangling from Linjunan to help, and they should be able to reach Maicheng in two days."

"Great, we have more troops."

"At the beginning of this battle, everyone was beating drums. If it weren't for the general's supernatural power, the soldiers would have been afraid, but now, looking at it, the general has already made a clever plan."

"What nonsense are you talking about? We have always believed that the general can lead us out of our predicament. How can you not believe in the general?"

"Nonsense, I have always believed in it, aren't the soldiers under my command a little worried?"

Zhou Jian, Wang Jie, Wu Shuo, Han Hu, Zhao Jun, Li Ying and other former generals of the Jingzhou Army breathed a sigh of relief. After capturing Jiangling, the haze of the past was swept away.

Even Shen Chen felt a lot more relaxed. Although Liao Huakou sealed them off with a small number of reinforcements, they came at the right time.

Because it was Guan Yu and his own main force that Liu Bei attacked Guanzhong, and there were very few troops left behind in Yizhou, and this force was squeezed out like toothpaste, so in this battle, both sides have tried their best.

Shen Chen said to the crowd: "Sun Jiao's fall is imminent, but this man is quite capable. Yiling probably won't last long, but he may last ten days and a half months. I don't have time to waste time with him in Yidao. We plan to go northward and take Xiangyang directly, where is Zhang Xiu?"

"The end is here."

Zhang Xiu's heart trembled, he stood up and cupped his hands.

"Let you be the main general, command 2 people to station here, and attack Sun Jiao with Liao Hua and Zhao Rong."

I am the main general?

Zhang Xiu was stunned for a moment. He was nearly sixty years old, and after many years, he was only a second-line senior general of the Liu Bei Group, and he had been working under Shen Chen's command.

Now he has become the main general?
"Zhang Xiu?"

"only!"

Zhang Xiu only felt his heart surge, and said loudly: "The last general will not disgrace his fate."

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded in satisfaction, and said to Lu Chang: "Lu Chang, you lead 1 people to take a boat with me to Xiangyang."

"only."

Although Lu Chang wondered if it would be too early to go directly to Xiangyang before Sun Jiao was captured and Sun Quan had no news, but he never questioned Shen Chen's orders.

"Everyone."

Shen Chen looked around at the crowd and said in a deep voice: "In this battle, I will not only destroy Sun Quan's main force, take advantage of the situation and go straight to Jiangdong, but also cut off Cao Cao's claws extending to Nanyang. None of his 10 people in Xiangyang will escape. After destroying Sun Jiao, you will immediately go north and go straight to Xiangyang, do you understand?"

"only!"

Everyone bowed their hands and should be.

After the military order was issued, 1 people were assigned to Shen Chen's camp today and headed south by boat.

At the same time, several military orders were sent to other places.

Huya Mountain and Xiaoting in Yiling, Zhao Yun and Sha Moke also received orders, ordering them to quickly deal with the defenders in Yiling and head north to Xiangyang to join them.

The Wenpin and Zhou Buyi troops who retreated from Xiangyang to Yicheng and Nanzhang also received Shen Chen's military order two days later.

There are also Kou Feng and Meng Da from Maicheng, Liao Hua and Zhao Rong from Jingmenshan, etc.

Now in the area around Jiangling in the south of Guangnan County, the Liu Bei Group has 3 troops, and in the Xiakou area, more than 20 people from Huang She have also been rescued, plus Huang Zhong [-], Gan Ning [-], The total force is [-].

Shen Chen left Zhang Xiu to continue stationing in Danyangju, and ordered them to quickly deal with Sun Jiao and go north, while he went south by boat, and arrived at Xiakou from Xiashui two days later.

At this time, Xiakou's soldiers and horses had already numbered [-], and they surrounded Sun Quanli in Sha Xian three floors outside.

Although Sun Quan ordered the withdrawal of troops that day, how easy is it to withdraw troops in a short time?The pier was also surrounded by the Jingzhou army, and the river was densely packed with ships. Unless Sun Quan killed himself and forcibly rushed through the pass, it would be difficult to fly with his wings.

Shen Chen just looked at the city from a distance outside Sha Xian, and then left quickly.

It doesn't matter whether Sun Quan is dead or not.

The most urgent task now is to let Cao Jun all die in Xiangfan.

On September 5, amidst the storm, Shen Chen ordered Huang She to be the commander-in-chief, leading [-] people to continue to attack Shaxian, while he and Huang Zhong led an army of [-] to attack Xiangyang.

The current situation is clearly clear.

Shen Chen has a big appetite. Not only Sun Quan will stay in Jingzhou forever, but Cao Jun in Xiangfan must not let them escape. This battle must hurt Cao Wei so that they will be completely unable to send troops to support in the battle to eliminate Jiangdong.

Soon the fleet went northward along the Han River, passing Jingling and Pangguo, and joined Zhou Buyi and Wenpin Department in Yicheng area, with a total of 5000 people.

On September [-]th, the sky was covered with dense clouds. From the end of August to the beginning of September, it had been raining continuously for seven or eight days. Xiahou Dun and Yu Jin were in a very bad mood.

At this time, the two were stationed in Xiangyang and Fancheng respectively. Today's weather has eased a little, but the continuous rainstorm has caused the Han River to rise by two or three feet. Not very smooth.

Just after lunch time in the morning, Cao Jun stationed on Yuliang Island saw the densely packed ships on the Han River in the south. The sound of humming horns soon resounded throughout the sky, and the sound of enemy attacks spread throughout Xiangfan.

Xiahou Dun was still in Xiangyang City, and when he got the news, he hurried out of the city in the rain. Looking at the Han River from a small mountain in the east of the city, he saw that the vast Han River was full of Jingzhou navy.

Xiangfan in the Han Dynasty was very small, and Xiangyang was the small old city surrounded by a moat in later generations, and Fancheng was directly opposite it, across the river.In the later generations, a large area of ​​Xiangyang city was in the plain area at this time, and Shen Chen's army was on the triangular river of Yuliangzhou, Xiangyang, and Fancheng.

Soon his army landed towards Fancheng. The place where it landed was called Yuju at that time. Later generations probably located in the area of ​​Jiangtan Park in Fancheng. Its south is Xiangyang City, its west is Fancheng, and its east is Yuliang. continent.

Yu Jin was stationed in Fancheng right now, and when he saw Shen Chen's army starting to come ashore, he didn't dare to go out of the city, so he could only stick to the tortoise, which made the Queyue Formation that Shen Chen had originally placed useless.

The so-called Queyue formation is a semi-circular formation. Chariots are arranged on the periphery. Soldiers hold spears and crossbows in the vehicles, and the rear is backed by the river. If you organize a formation to counterattack, you can use the Queyue formation to resist, which was created by Liu Yu in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Seeing that Jin Jin was less courageous than flea droppings, Shen Chen calmly arranged for the army to go ashore, and stationed the camp at the highlands of Yuju, including the slopes of Dengsai Mountain in the north, because the river had already surged and flooded the ground at this time, so they had to garrison on the hill.

By September [-]th, Shen Chen's army had already set up camp outside the city. Xiahou Dun and Yu Jin were so anxious that they sent people to send letters to the north while stepping up military affairs to resist the Shen Chen army who would attack at any time.

In the early morning of September 3, Shen Chen ordered Wenpin and Zhou Buyi to stick to the camp, while he took a boat and led [-] people to the Han River and began to storm Xiangyang.

The sky was torrentially raining, and Shen Chen stood on the boat wearing a coir raincoat. The water of the Han River slammed against the shore, and the big boat swayed with the waves. He raised his head to look at the cloudy sky, and the bean-sized raindrops kept falling, causing countless ripples and ripples on the surface of the Han River. .

"General!"

Lu Chang came to report: "The soldiers have landed."

"Ah."

Shen Chen looked at the familiar Xiangyang City in the distance, and said, "The torrential rain will continue for the next few days, and the water level on the river will still rise sharply. We must station our troops on higher ground."

"Xianshan?"

Lu Chang looked at the high mountain in the south of Xiangyang.

If you say which mountain is the highest around, it is naturally the highest mountain, and you should not have to worry about being submerged if you are stationed on the mountain.

However, Shen Chen shook his head and said sternly: "Mount Xian must not be stationed. Every time it rains, mountain torrents will erupt on Mount Xian. The academy was flooded once that year. We can only find a small hill with a height of more than ten feet. If you can't find it , build the soil by yourself.”

"only."

Seeing that Shen Chen was serious, Lu had no choice but to agree.

In history, Lu Chang was the defender of Xiangyang. At that time, Guan Yu focused his energy on Fancheng and did not attack him, but he was not enough.

A flash flood broke out in Xianshan, and he was almost submerged. That is to say, Guan Yu's main force was only 4 to [-], and he was concentrating his forces against Cao Ren and Yu Jin, otherwise Lu Chang would probably be cold.

Although Shen Chen didn't know about mountain torrents in Xianshan in history, he had lived in Xiangyang for more than 20 years. Every time there was a heavy rain in Xiangyang, mountain torrents would occur in Xianshan. How could this be the place where he was stationed?

At present, Shen Chen's 3 people camped in a large area of ​​hills and small high slopes in the east of Xiangyang.

This is the land of the Pang family. Pang Tong's ancestral home is in the east of Xiangyang City. There used to be a thousand miles of fertile fields, but the people all moved to the south, and now it has become an empty village.

After camping, Shen Chen calmly waited for the heavy rain to continue.

Historically, it rained from the end of August, and the torrential rain lasted for more than half a month, so that when the Han River was at its highest, it soared by five or six feet, with a height of more than ten meters, submerging Xiangfan.

Now half of the heavy rain has fallen, he just needs to wait patiently for the right time.

On September [-], the Han River continued to surge to a height of three feet. At this time, it almost submerged half of Xiangyang. The water gates in the city continued to discharge floods, but it was of no avail. The speed of the inflow was far behind.

Xiahou Dun closed seven or eight water gates in the north and west to slow down the water inflow speed in the city and let the water flow out from the lower east and south water gates.

But this undoubtedly made the water level of the moat on the southeast sides extremely high.

Seeing that there was an opportunity, Shen Chen immediately issued an order, and the mighty fleet sailed from the Han River into the Xiangyang moat. The moat was as wide as [-] meters. Against the background of the water level, the warships and other ships were already at the same level as the city.

The Jingzhou navy only needs to drive the boats out of the city, build a ladder with wooden planks, and walk directly into the city.

After the ship sailed into the moat of Xiangyang, relying on the parapet on the second deck, the two sides launched a fierce bow and arrow shooting. The distance between the two sides was less than [-] feet. Even if the bow and arrow were disturbed, it would not affect the lethality and range.

The shooting lasted for a morning, and both sides suffered casualties.In the afternoon, boards were set up on Shen Chen's military ship, and under the rain of arrows, he ordered the ship to get close to the base of the city wall, intending to forcibly board the city.

Xiangyang is surrounded by water on all sides, and there is no land outside the city. Ships can go directly under the city wall, and the two cities are side by side.

Xiahou Dun resisted desperately in the rain, and went to the city to fight in person, repelling the enemy with difficulty.

But at this time, the morale of the soldiers was extremely low. Even if they were more numerous than the Jingzhou army, they couldn't stop them at all. At one point, the Jingzhou army rushed to the city wall and almost broke through Xiangyang.

If Xiahou Dun hadn't fought to the death, I'm afraid Xiangyang would have changed hands by this time.

It wasn't until evening that the sound of the Jingzhou Army's Mingjin sounded, and the soldiers withdrew to the ship like a tide, and then the ship swaggered away in front of Xiahou Dun.

When the Jingzhou army drove out of the moat of Xiangyang and watched their leaving backs, the worried Xiahou Dun raised his head to look at the sky that was still raining and the river outside the city that was surging like a flood.

This heavy rain.

When can we stop!
(End of this chapter)