The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 635 Chapter 634 Sun Quan's Strategy

Huang Zhong followed Zhang Yan's instructions, step by step, and did not advance rashly. A few days passed in a blink of an eye. Although he captured many counties along the way, they were all empty cities. The Jiangdong Army had already given up defense, and the people in the city also heard the news Fleeing to the south, the city is in a mess, not even a grain of food can be found.

At the same time, Zhang Yan also led the horse-buried army to set off from Chaisang, and asked Tai Shici, Gan Ning, and Zhang He to lead [-] cavalry to explore the road first. And Zhang Yan himself led the army in the middle, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Ma Chao, Pang De, Lu Meng, Li Dian and others surrounded Zhang Yan, Jia Xu and Sima Yi always followed Zhang Yan's left and right sides , while Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and Ma Jun led the Tiangongfang team to the back of the entire army.

More than one hundred thousand troops, mighty and mighty, meandering forward, wherever they passed, they all fled when they heard the wind. When passing through the county town along the way, the places they passed were basically empty cities.

The situation encountered by the land and water armies is the same, which is a bit too strange. After the news was fed back to Zhang Yan, it gave Zhang Yan an illusion that this might be the enemy's strategy to fortify the wall and clear the field.

Later, news came from Zhao Yun's army that he had cut off the connection between the Sun family and Shanyue, and marched towards Nanchang according to the agreed time limit. However, what they encountered during the march, Just like what Zhang Yan and Huang Zhong encountered, they were all empty cities.

Faced with such a situation, Zhang Yan would inevitably have some guesses, so he sent Jin Yiwei to Nanchang to inquire about the news and see what the situation was like.

A day later, Jin Yiwei made a round trip from Nanchang and brought back the latest news in Nanchang. Sun Quan let go of all the people in the city, leaving only an army of 3000 people, ready to stick to Nanchang and resist to the death.

It is reported that in order to defend Nanchang City, the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army were united as one, fearing death as home, and blocked all the three gates of the East Gate, South Gate, and West Gate with bricks, leaving only the North Gate to welcome the arrival of Zhang Yan's army.

The north gate of Nanchang City is a water gate, and outside the gate is a moat. The water of this moat is drawn from Ganshui. It is the drainage place of Ganshui. The river is very wide, like a small lake.

The water gate of Nanchang City is just the urn of the city. If you want to enter Nanchang City from the north gate, you must enter through the water gate, and then enter the north gate through the water gate. This is the real entry into Nanchang City.

It seems that Sun Quan is planning to use the unique advantages of the North Gate to hold on.

However, in Zhang Yan's view, no matter how strong Nanchang City is, it will never be able to resist the secret weapon in his army. As long as this secret weapon appears, Nanchang City can be captured in an instant.

For Zhang Yan, Sun Quan's behavior this time was equivalent to putting himself in a tortoise shell. He thought it was very strong, but he didn't know that it was easy for a smart person to get the tortoise out of the tortoise shell.

Zhang Yan urged the army to speed up and must arrive at the city of Nanchang within three days.

However, in the afternoon of that day, the [-] navy led by Huang Zhong had all arrived at the city of Nanchang.

Although Huang Zhong arrived, he was not in a hurry to attack, but directly ordered the warship to drive into the wide moat outside the north gate.

Hundreds of warships lined up on the moat, the orange-red flags of the Han army fluttered in the wind, and the soldiers also wore orange-red military uniforms, and even the hulls of the warships were painted orange-red. The color echoes with the afterglow of the evening, and a piece of orange-red is also reflected on the water. From a distance, it is a beautiful red landscape.

After all, the moat was not wide enough to accommodate the warships of the Han army. The soldiers of the navy had to station on the banks of the Ganshui River, and then all the soldiers went ashore, set up camps on the bank, and built fortifications to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of it. They came out when their camp was not stable.

All these arrangements benefited from Huang Zhong's precise arrangement. Although Sun Quan had already sealed the four city gates, the Han army still slowly made a detour, turned around along the moat, and completely wiped out Nanchang City. surrounded.

On the tower of Nanchang City, Sun Quan had already wandered around, and was not surprised to see that the Han army surrounded Nanchang City, because all this was within his expectation.

Zhou Yu died, Lu Fan has no news so far, Sun Quan can only rely on his own wisdom to fight this battle.Sealing the city gates and cutting off the soldiers' desire to retreat, so that the soldiers can fight to the death, this is the method Sun Quan came up with himself.But he also guessed the purpose of the enemy's action. Whether it is the navy or the army, in his opinion, the Han army will not let him go, and will definitely surround Nanchang City with several times his strength. .

On this point, Sun Quan's guess was indeed accurate.But whether the next movement of the Han army will be as he guessed needs further verification.

Sun Quan came to the barn city at the north gate again. He stood on the water gate that could directly lead to the city by water, looking at the warships lined up outside, a faint smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth. He said to himself: "There is a good show tonight..."

Huang Zhong commanded the navy to disperse around Nanchang City, firmly encircled Nanchang City, and dug a series of ditches, and put some horses and antlers on the side of the ditches, the purpose is to prevent the enemy from attacking them.

Therefore, there is no war order tonight, only the order to set up a camp. As long as the camp is established, you can confront the people in the city for a long time.

Huang Zhong was the vanguard of this war. As a vanguard officer, he definitely wanted to use the [-] navy he led to capture this city and cut off Sun Quan's head.But being cautious, he did not directly choose to attack, but first adopted a defensive stance to deal with emergencies, and prepared to rest for a night before launching an attack tomorrow.

When night fell, Huang Zhong's subordinates were still camping on the bank, while Chen Bing, the main force of the [-] water army led by Huang Zhong, was on the moat outside the water gate, guarding the water gate all the time, preventing the enemy from coming out to fight.

As soon as Huang Zhong arrived at Nanchang City, he took a boat and rode a horse to patrol around Nanchang City. He felt that although Sun Quan regarded the water gate as a fortification, for him who is familiar with water warfare, it is simply impossible to break through the water gate. It's easy, just send a large army close to the water gate, keep shooting arrows at the city wall to kill the enemy's vital forces, and secretly send water ghosts who are proficient in water to destroy the water gate.Once the water gate is destroyed, he will command the warship to go directly in, use a powerful arrow array to suppress the enemy's counterattack, and when the ship is close to the city wall, let the sailors take out the flying hook and hook it on the wall of the city wall Climb to the city wall, as long as someone climbs to the top of the city, they will be able to take Nanchang City.

Of course, these are just assumptions, and the real situation depends on the changes in the actual war.

After nightfall, the city of Nanchang was dead silent, as if there was no sign of life, there were no torches hanging on the city tower, and there was no light in the city, just like a dead city.

On the contrary, the situation outside the city was that the Han army was still camping, with torches everywhere, and the lights were shining like daylight, just surrounding Nanchang City.

Seeing that the last step of the camp was about to be completed, a group of black shadows suddenly rushed out from behind the Han army, killing anyone they saw, and even attacked the Han army, and the attack was so fierce that they did not give anyone any respite. Given the opportunity, the Han army was killed by surprise, and the screams were endless.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

After a while, there was a burst of shouting and drumming in the Han army.

After the Han army reacted, the group of black shadows retreated immediately, coming and going like the wind, and the Han army could not catch up.

This sudden change made the Han army feel very depressed. Although the number of deaths was not many, it made the Han army feel very sad. They didn't even see what the enemy commander looked like, because the enemy's face They were all covered with a black cloth.

These enemy troops came and went like the wind, and they were very skilled. At first glance, they were well-trained troops. The most annoying thing was that so many Han soldiers did not kill a single enemy, leaving only the corpses of the Han soldiers all over the place.

The east, south, and west city gates were all attacked to varying degrees, and the situations they encountered were also the same. The generals reported the incident to Huang Zhong one after another. After Huang Zhong heard about it, he was preparing to go forward. I went to inspect it, but suddenly found that there were raging fires in the east, south, and west directions, and the unfinished camp was also engulfed in the fire. The soldiers of the Han army rushed to escape outside the camp. Forgot to bring even armor and weapons.

It is not a coincidence that the three city gates caught fire at the same time, someone must have made a sophisticated arrangement.Huang Zhong saw thick black smoke rising from three directions, and couldn't help frowning, feeling that this matter was not simple.

Before Huang Zhong started to act, shouts resounded from three directions, and groups of people in black came out again, rushing directly to the group that had just escaped from the burning camp The Han army raised the weapon in their hands and slashed and killed.

The Han army had just narrowly escaped from the burning camp, and they still had lingering fears. Suddenly, they were attacked again, and the Han army collapsed immediately. The soldiers all ran to the shore, trying to board ships to escape.

Unexpectedly, those ships docked on the shore suddenly caught fire at this time. The warships are all made of wood. One, the fire spread extremely quickly, and before the people on board could react, the warship was already on fire, and the soldiers and sailors who stayed on the ship had to scramble to jump into the water.

What's more frightening is that the water is not safe. Groups of Jiangdong Army sailors holding sharp knives are waiting in the water. When they see a Han army jumping down, they hold a short knife and slash the neck fiercely, cutting off The throats of the soldiers of the Han army, the blood gushing out continuously, even dyed the river blood red...

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