The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 158

Zhuge Dan was also very worried when he heard that Xu Shu was advancing like a broken bamboo into Yangwu.But he deployed calmly, because Yangwu City is too small.Zhuge Dan thought about trying to contain the Hebei army. He cleverly used Yangwu City as his camp, and built two wooden villages on the high ground outside the city, each with [-] troops.Zhuge Dan asked people to cut down trees and erected wooden stakes outside the city gate. There were five rows of fifty trees in each row, and the distance between rows and trees was two steps away.Fill up a buffer zone outside the city.In this way, the Hebei Army would not be able to organize a large-scale charge to the city.Dig a trench in the city to prevent the enemy from attacking the city, and lay the foundation for street warfare in advance. Outside the wall, except for the moat, there are three trenches, each fifteen feet deep and one foot wide.The trenches are densely covered with bamboo sticks, and they will die when they hit the ground.

There are only [-] archers in the city, and none of the whole army stays, and all of them go to the city, even the cook and blacksmith.Zhuge Dan swore in front of the whole army that even if the whole city died, he would have to wait until Prime Minister Cao sent reinforcements.

On the morning of the third day, Xu Shu Wenchou brought someone to challenge him, and he was dumbfounded.If Zhuge Dan had the help of God, he could turn a small town into a golden city with iron walls in just a few days.

On a tower that is less than three feet high, there are no more than eight hundred crenels, two or three enemy towers, no more than fifteen or six miles from east to west, and twenty miles from north to south. Such a small city can hold back a hundred thousand cavalry.Wen Chou let out a contemptuous sneer from his nostrils.Is Zhuge Jin's elder brother insane?A mantis' arm is beyond its control.However, Zhuge Dan's soldiers and equipment can indeed be called excellent soldiers.The soldiers with bowstrings on the top of the city are all full of energy.Without exception, they were all wearing cowhide armor, and the bows, arrows, knives and spears in their hands were shining brightly.The murderous aura refracted in the sunlight shot straight into the sky, all of them were reckless guys.Although the thousands of defenders looked very thin in the eyes of the city, the gnashing of teeth and desperate momentum also made people feel apprehensive and shuddering.

Black smoke rose from the top of the city, which was emitted by hot tung oil.

Xu Shu pointed his horsewhip at the mighty general who was glaring at them from the top of the wall and said, "That is Zhuge Dan. I heard that this man has been beckoning desperadoes for many years, and many of his men are dead. He is quite famous as 'Tian Heng' among Cao's troops." .Wait for me to come forward to persuade you to surrender."

Xu Shu brought his horse to the city and shouted loudly: "Does Zhuge Gongxiu still remember the old man?" Straight old friend, I haven't seen you for many years, so you're fine." When Xu Shu heard it, there was a door.Then he had to make an inch and said, "I also miss my brother, and my brother has always been good."

Zhuge Dan heard the whispers from the soldiers behind him, realized that the army's morale was shaken, and suddenly grabbed a bow and arrow from the soldiers defending the city, and shot it in Xu Shu's face.Xu Shu was shocked, and leaned over on the horse in a hurry, shot the hair crown off his head with a bow and arrow, and his long hair immediately fell down in a mess.Zhuge Dan shouted loudly from the top of the city: "Whoever kills Xu Shu will be rewarded with a thousand pieces of gold and be made a marquis of ten thousand households."

Xu Shu's heart went cold all of a sudden, and he asked in surprise, "Brother, what do you mean?" Zhuge Dan lowered his head and shouted towards the city, "Go back quickly and organize the troops to attack the city, don't waste your time talking."

Xu Shu sighed, came back from the horse, and said to Wen Chou, "Nothing, I know Zhuge Dan's temper, and he will never surrender if he says he won't surrender. Let's attack the city."

Wen Chou didn't want to talk nonsense with him for a long time, and Fei spit to persuade him to surrender in such a small town, taking off his pants and farting.Hu Che'er was the first to ask for a fight; "The general will send me there, and I will take him down."

Wen Chou thought to himself, anyone can go, anyway, it is a free credit, since Lao Hu asked for it on his own initiative, then go.He nodded and said, "Take your people up."

Hu Che'er climbed the city first with a ladder.Zhuge Dan ordered the soldiers to turn over the ladder with a hook, and then threw fire from the city to burn the ladder. In this way, the Hebei army failed to attack the city with the ladder.Afterwards, Xu Shu made some rectifications, and attacked the city with hook carts and city-charging carts, but when they approached the city wall, they were smashed to pieces by the stones thrown from the city.

The next day Xu Shu ordered people to build ten wooden pagodas and shoot arrows at the city. Zhuge Dan ordered people to build fences on the city to strengthen the defense. Unable to approach.The wooden building siege strategy failed again.

During the siege in the afternoon, he was suddenly attacked by archers from two wooden villages outside the city from behind. Wen Chou had to order the siege to be suspended, and the two villages on the left and right were leveled first.However, when he sent troops to attack Zhaishan, Zhuge Dan opened the city gate and went out to attack Zhaishan.When Wen Chou got angry, there were many soldiers and generals anyway, so they attacked from all three directions. They sent Hu Che'er and Chang Xi to attack a village each, and focused on Yangwu City by themselves.But Changxi and Hu Che'er soon found that things were difficult to handle, and the Cao soldiers stationed in the wooden village did not fight them at all.As long as the two sent troops over, they would run away without hesitation, and as soon as they turned around, these people would run back.Because the enemy is familiar with the terrain, and there are not many people, they are very flexible, and there is nothing to do with them for a while.

Wen Chou is also in a state of desperation. Zhuge Dan's subordinates are very brave and fearless of death, just like a pack of wolves. Death will only arouse their more brutal killing intent, but not make them shrink back and cowardly.Wen Chou commanded [-] archers to shoot arrows at the city, and the arrows fell on the city in bundles, with an average of a dozen or twenty arrows per inch of ground, but Zhuge Dan asked the soldiers to stare at the shields and continue to fight back. .No soldier was afraid to run away.

What angered Wen Chou the most was that he had fallen for Zhuge Dan's trick of 'crossing the sea with the sky'. Even Xu Shu suffered a disadvantage because he didn't expect Zhuge Dan to be so courageous.

Zhuge ordered more than a thousand soldiers to bind grass, put on black clothes, and leave the city at night.When the Hebei soldiers found out, they thought it was a sneak attack, and they rushed to shoot arrows, thinking that they were so brave.When Wen Chou found out that it was a grass man, the Tang army had obtained [-] to [-] arrows.A few days later, Zhang Xun selected [-] soldiers and quietly set them down to the city in the dark. The rebels thought they were straw men this time and laughed unprepared.Wen Chou didn't care, and didn't tell Xu Shu that the five hundred soldiers took the opportunity to attack the Hebei Army barracks.Wen Chou fell into the trick again and again, and became angry from embarrassment, and continued to increase his troops to besiege the city.The enemy attacked and we defended, stalemate for five days, seven or eight battles, but they couldn't go beyond the thunder pool.Cao Cao's army has approached Guandu, Zhang He and Jia Xu and I have also arrived at the city of Yangwu.

Seeing that Cao Cao's army was coming soon, Xu Shu had no choice.After hearing the battle report, Jia Xu said that he would go to see it.When I came to the camp, I stopped and lingered for a while, then I entered in thought.The brow furrowed for a while and then relaxed.I said, "Sir, is there a way to break the city?"

Jia Xu said, "It depends on God's will."

Yu Jin's vanguard lightened their load and rushed a hundred li outside the city, but Jia Xu didn't send anyone to attack the city, instead he ordered the soldiers to carry firewood to the south of the city and pile it up.The firewood pile has a radius of about twenty feet and is built like a small hill.Everyone wondered, if they attacked the city by stepping on firewood piles, it was obviously too far from the top of the city.Jia Xu also asked the soldiers to cut the grass in the field, tie it into bundles, and cover the surroundings of the dry firewood.Then ordered the soldiers to return to camp to rest.Come to attack the city again after dark.

Everyone doesn't know what kind of medicine he sells in the gourd, and they just wait for the dark to reveal the mystery.

At the hour of You, a strong wind suddenly blew outside the tent, making people afraid to open their mouths and eyes. The flags in the village crackled, and the corners of the flags all turned to the northwest.

Jia Xu was playing chess with Jushou in the village, when he heard the wind blowing, he rushed out immediately; "That's great, I've succeeded in my plan." Jushou followed up and said, "It turned out that the master wanted to use the method of 'moving smoke', but he screwed me up." Confused."

Jia Xu came to the commander's tent and said to me: "My lord, God help me. Now the south wind is blowing, so we can march." I wondered, "How can you take a ladder to attack the city with such a strong wind?"

Jia Xu said: "My lord, let the crossbowmen and General Hao Zhao's crossbow chariot army prepare to shoot arrows at the top of the city. After a round of arrows, order the special forces to climb the city and open the city gate. Our army can rush in."

"It's not that easy, the opponent's defense is tight, and the special forces may not be able to go up." I worried.

Jia Xu said: "I couldn't go up before, but today it will be fine. My lord doesn't remember the firewood that Xu asked people to pile up during the day. When it is lit at this time, the sky must be covered with thick smoke, which is suffocating. The southeast wind will blow the smoke all the way. Entering Yangwu City, Zhuge Dan is made of iron, and he can't stand the smoke and fire. Our army is shooting him up. Should he let the soldiers die, or withdraw them from the city, nothing else Law."

What Jia Xu said was correct. After hundreds of soldiers lit the dry firewood doused with tung oil, the flames first blazed. Puffs of thick smoke billowed from the woodpile.Puffs of thick smoke and sparks only rose into the sky, and were pushed by the strong wind to the head of Yangwu City.The thick smoke, darker than the night, is like a thick wall blown down by the wind, sweeping across the air, and turning into mountains and hills, the black smoke hundreds of feet high is like covering the sky in a desert in a windy weather. Sun-blocking gravel.The black devil opened its huge mouth and swallowed the entire Yangwu City.The air was filled with a sticky smell that made the throat dry and itchy.

The defenders of Yangwu happened to be in the downwind of the thick smoke. At first, they only smelled the smell of dry wood and fire, which choked the nasal membranes, and then they felt tears in their eyes and uncomfortable throat.In the blink of an eye, the bonfire on the top of the city lost its function of lighting, and the huge Yangwu was shrouded in a black mist that suffocated people to death.The soldier's eyes seemed to be covered with a black cloth, he inhaled the thick smoke in his lungs, and immediately spit it out again desperately, his heart was burning like a flame, burning his throat, mouth and tongue, making them dry. The organs become hard, stiff, and dry.The eyes that were open and had no time to close tightly seemed to be stabbed by thousands of steel needles suddenly, and the pain wanted to be pulled out.Everyone yelled at the same time, scratching their necks and chests with their thick nails.Hissed and shouted.But the more he shouted, the more uncomfortable he became, and some soldiers passed out after a while.

Zhuge Dan was on the top of the city, and he felt the same way.He was so smoky that he couldn't see, and he was dizzy because of the suffocation. It took him a while to realize, where is the thick smoke coming from?
Seeing that many soldiers passed out and choked to death, Zhuge Dan decisively ordered to retreat from the tower for a while.Wait for the wind to subside and come up.But before the order was sent out, there was a humming sound in the black mist, and tens of thousands of powerful arrows were woven into an airtight fishing net in the black mist, and they were stuck on the unprepared Cao Bing.Cao Bing, who was running and struggling in the thick smoke, shot seven or eight out of ten arrows.Even Zhuge Dan had an arrow pierced through his left arm.

Now the soldiers couldn't wait for his order, and rushed down the city in a swarm.These people may not be afraid of death, but the pain of smoke is more uncomfortable than death, but they are unbearable.

Hao Zhao's [-] crossbow carts and the [-] crossbowmen dispatched by Wen Chou did not take aim, but shot densely into the thick smoke, and stopped after shooting five rounds of arrows.Twenty special soldiers covered their faces with wet cloths, squinted their eyes, climbed the smooth tower with barbed iron locks, and successfully entered the unsuspecting Yangwu City under the cover of black fog and thick smoke.Not to mention that there are no defenders on the city tower at this moment, even if there are, it is useless, everyone can't see who is who, and can't tell the enemy from ourselves.

Relying on their agility and superior skills, and the vital capacity gained from rigorous training, the special forces soldiers held their breath and went down from the top of the city to the center of the city, approaching the city gate in the dark according to the route they remembered.

Zhang He and Wen Chou were waiting outside the city gate with the black dragon rider, and they couldn't see anything in pitch black.There was a rumbling sound from the heavy city gate, and someone shouted: "Brothers, come into the city quickly, hurry up."

Zhang He shouted, and was the first to charge in.Because the thick smoke billowed in the city, it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, so Jia Xu only let the black dragon riders participate in the battle, which meant that anyone who did not ride a horse would be killed.There is no other way, this is the only way to go, who blocked our sight.

Zhuge Dan heard a commotion at the city gate, and knew that the enemy had already attacked in the thick smoke, but he couldn't help it. The soldiers were so smoked that they couldn't straighten up, howled on the ground with their eyes closed, and few of them had the fighting power. of.He himself also felt that his body was resisting a few pieces of adobe, his legs, feet and back were extremely heavy, and he could barely draw out the sword hanging from his waist.

Even though the Black Dragon Knight covered his face with a wet cloth, it was quite uncomfortable. The soldiers all wanted a quick victory.So there was no chance for anyone to surrender, as long as they saw a figure, they would kill them with a knife.Zhuge Dan screamed desperately and led a few hundred soldiers to resist in the corner, rushing towards the Black Dragon Rider, but was mercilessly reimbursed by the Black Dragon Riders who were eager to complete the task, leaving no one alive.Zhuge Dan was also confused, and he didn't know who had taken his head off.When cleaning the battlefield the next day, Xu Shu found his body wearing an armor and a sword, and couldn't help crying. Chang ordered people to find the head.After it was sewn up, it was buried on the spot, and then someone was sent to inform Zhuge Jin to know.I personally wrote a letter, even saying that I had to, it was manslaughter, I hope Mr. Zhuge's condolences will change.Although Zhuge Jin was sad, he was reasonable. The two countries were fighting for their own masters, and casualties were inevitable, which was understandable.

But Mr. Zhuge Kongming, who was far away in Longzhong, burst into tears and was very indignant—— shouted: "My brother is gone, my brother is gone—"

(End of this chapter)