Bloodline of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 144
Early the next morning, the Youzhou Army formed a formation outside the city gate of Hanyang County, and Liu Long raised his eyes to look at Hanyang County in front of him.There is no difference between its city walls and those of other counties, only a little higher.However, the moat is wider than that of other counties.

Liu Long said to Guo Jia beside him: "Feng Xiao, this moat seems a bit weird. How did you get across this moat when you attacked the city before?" Because Liu Long found that the moat had not been filled up, this It is very unreasonable.After all, the Youzhou Army has also attacked Hanyang County several times, so it is impossible for the moat to remain like this anyway.

"My lord, you don't know that the moat in Hanyang County is indeed different. Yunchang and Zhongyi also tried to fill it up, but they all failed. We don't know the reason. So we several times They all built pontoon bridges." Guo Jia said to Liu Long.

Filling the injustice, Liu Long thought to himself.If the moat is not filled evenly, unless the river flows fast, but the water flow seems to be very stable, otherwise Guan Yu and the others will not be able to build a pontoon bridge.Then there is only one possibility that the river is too deep.But most of the moats are artificial rivers, and it is impossible to be too deep.

"Brother, how deep is the moat?" Liu Long asked.

"Although I don't know how deep it is, I can be sure that it is much deeper than other moats. When we first tried to fill up this moat, we threw a lot of sand into the river, but it didn't make any difference. In addition, the archers in the city are very good at shooting, so we had to give up in the end. It was the military commander who thought of the floating bridge, otherwise we would not even be able to touch the city walls of Hanyang County." Guan Yu said.

Sure enough, as Liu Long expected, it was because the path of harmony was too deep that it couldn't be filled.It is so difficult that it is connected to the Yangtze River.Thinking of this, Liu Long suddenly felt something, as if he had made a mistake somewhere.Feeling overwhelmed for a while.

"Brother Long, you misremembered the place. This is Hanyang County, which was called Tianshui in your time, not Hanyang." Xue Er said to Liu Long with a smile.Xue'er's words made Liu Long suddenly understand everything, that is, he was deluded by the place name.

But Tianshui Liulong is very familiar with it, it is the holy land of the human race.It is the hometown of Emperor Fuxi and the Holy Mother Nuwa.In an instant, all the information about Tianshui appeared in Liu Long's mind.

"It seems that the moat must be connected to the Wei River. Only in this way can this situation be caused. It is estimated that the moat is at least tens of feet deep, and it is not easy to fill it up. However, although the pontoon bridge can The soldiers were allowed to pass through, but it resulted in insufficient troops and the inability of large siege equipment to pass through. In addition, Hanyang County is an urn city, so it is normal that it cannot be attacked for a long time." Liu Long thought to himself.

"Has the guard of Hanyang County ever fought before?" Liu Long asked.

"Since we came to Hanyang County, the guard Niu Fu has never shown his head. As long as we don't attack the city, they will not make any movement." Guo Jia said.

"Okay, since they rely on the moat and the urn, let me let them feel the power of nature. They even diverted the Wei River into the moat, and I will let them swim out." Liu Long was full of confidence. Said.

Although no one knew what power of nature Liu Long was talking about, they believed that Liu Long could make Niu Fu in Hanyang County feel bad.After all, Liu Long brought them too many surprises.

"Brother, immediately order people to build a levee on the side of the moat, the higher the better. Second brother, you take people and Ma Teng to the Weishui River. You must find a place connected to the moat, and then cut off the Weishui River for me. Let all the water of the Wei River flow into this moat." Liu Long said.

"Master, you are going to flood Hanyang County." Guo Jia finally understood what Liu Long meant by swimming out.asked with a look of surprise.

"Yes, I want them to know what kind of existence our Youzhou Army is." Liu Long said to Guo Jia.When the generals heard Guo Jia's words, they all understood Liu Long's intentions.Immediately began to act according to Liu Long's arrangement.

The Xiliang soldiers on the city wall of Hanyang County originally thought that the Youzhou Army was going to attack the city again, but when they saw them coming towards the moat with cloth bags filled with sand, they couldn't help laughing secretly at the Youzhou Army's overestimation.But what they didn't expect was that the Youzhou army poured sand on the river bank, and it was still compacting.This made Xiliang's soldiers feel puzzled.But they knew that the Youzhou army must have some kind of conspiracy.So he reported to Niu Fu non-stop.

"What, you said that the Youzhou army piled up sand and soil on the bank of the moat, and they were still compacting it. It's hard for them to lose their minds." Niu Fu laughed and said.

"I said it's better to be careful, the general. The Youzhou army will never do this for no reason. There must be some conspiracy." A lieutenant general said to Niu Fu.

After hearing this, Niu Fu also felt that what he said was reasonable, and immediately got up and walked towards the city wall.He wanted to see with his own eyes what the Youzhou army was going to do.When he came to the city wall, the Youzhou Army had already built a dam around the moat around Hanyang County.

Niu Fu didn't seem to come up with a reason, and in the end he just ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows at the Youzhou Army, trying to stop their actions.But after shooting a round, Niu Fu discovered that the Youzhou army was not within the attack range of the bow and arrow at all.So there is no way to stop the Youzhou Army.Unless you go out of town and fight them.But Niu Fu was afraid of the fighting power of the Youzhou Army, so Niu Fu had no choice but to watch the dam get higher and higher.

More than ten days passed in a flash, and the embankment beside the moat was about a foot long, reaching half the height of the city wall.Seeing such a height, Liu Long felt that it should be almost the same.So people stopped the work of embankment. (The tallest city walls in the Three Kingdoms period are generally seven or eight meters high. Laolong also checked it on the Internet. If it is wrong, I hope you can remind Laolong.)
Seeing that the Youzhou army was not building embankments, Niu Fu felt that something big was about to happen.Otherwise, they won't stop, and it's probably time to reveal the answer.But after another few days, the Youzhou Army still hasn't seen any action.Niu Fu came up with an answer, that is, the Youzhou Army planned to surround Hanyang County, and then let them be trapped alive.But Niu Fu smiled when he thought that his own city would have enough food for several years.I am no longer worried about the conspiracy and tricks of the Youzhou Army.

Why didn't Liu Long flood Hanyang County with the Wei River immediately? It turned out that Liu Long was waiting for the water level to rise, and now the Wei River has been cut off by Liu Long.However, the water level was not too high, which also made Liu Long feel very depressed.After all, there is not enough water, so the plan to flood Hanyang County will be ruined.

(End of this chapter)