The Nameless of the Common Clans

Zhuge Liang felt a palpitation for no reason, and always felt that something bad was going to happen.

Perhaps he was too tired during this period.

Zhuge Liang thought so, but the vague feeling of uneasiness still lingered in his heart.

"Kong Ming!" Just as he was thinking about something, he saw Guan Yu and Zhang Fei walking in quickly.

"But the Ming army is here!?" Zhuge Liang stood up and looked at the two and asked.

"No, but Xu Huang suddenly withdrew his troops overnight!" Zhang Fei shook his head and frowned.

"It's impossible to be so fast. They have moved a lot of food and grass these days. It is obviously prepared for the army. If they withdraw, these food and grass cannot be withdrawn overnight!" Zhuge Liang hurriedly led everyone to run towards the city wall.

"Xu Huang left so quickly that he didn't even dismantle the barracks!" Guan Yu frowned.

"Have you sent people to explore the barracks?" Zhuge Liang asked.

"I have sent them, and they should be back by now." Guan Yu nodded.

As they were discussing, a man on a flying horse came to the city and said loudly: "General, there is no one in the camp, no food, and the warehouse is full of straw."

"Straw!?" Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then Zhuge Liang's face changed drastically, and he shouted: "Quick, blow the horn and order all the soldiers outside the city to withdraw to the city, quickly!"

Although he didn't understand why he did this, seeing Zhuge Liang so anxious, Guan Yu still ordered people to blow the horn, and the troops scattered outside the city gathered towards the city. But what made Zhuge Liang depressed was that the soldiers sent to dig the dam had not returned yet.

"Kong Ming, those soldiers who went to dig the dam have not returned yet, send someone to urge them?" Zhang Fei came to Zhuge Liang and asked.

"No need, they may not come back." Zhuge Liang shook his head bitterly and said, "Prepare for war, send an order to the soldiers to block all the city gates!"

Those who broke the dam will not come back. Xu Huang is just a trick. Chen Mo has obviously noticed the real threat in Jiangling. He sent Xu Huang here just to paralyze himself. He still couldn't count on this man.

"Why is this..." Zhang Fei frowned when he heard this. He didn't defend the city like this. But before he finished speaking, his voice was interrupted by Guan Yu.

"Listen to Kong Ming!" Guan Yu stopped Zhang Fei and then looked at Zhuge Liang: "Kong Ming, you mean the dam..."

Zhuge Liang nodded silently, and the feeling of powerlessness surged up again. He was powerless to turn the tide. This was Zhuge Liang's most real experience at this moment. Chen Mo was too careful. In this situation where the overall situation was in his control, he didn't have the slightest intention of succeeding. Instead, he was more careful. For such an opponent, Zhuge Liang even had the impulse to fight Chen Mo to decide the outcome. If only it could be like this.

Guan Yu did not ask any more questions. He took Zhang Fei and Ji Ling to deploy the troops and blocked all four gates of Jiangling. He even found a mason to cover the gaps of the gates with mud.

A day passed and nothing happened. But the next morning, Guan Yu and his men were awakened by their generals and went up to the tower. The scene in front of them stunned them.

The wall of Jiangling City had been reinforced several times and was four feet high. But standing on the wall and looking down, you could see the water surface in just one battle. The whole city seemed to have become an isolated island. Looking around, the ocean was everywhere.

"This..." Zhang Fei's eyes, which were already big, widened at this moment. This scene was really something he had never seen before.

"General, look!" A soldier suddenly pointed to the distance and exclaimed.

Guan Yu looked up quickly and saw boats rowing towards this side on the water in the distance. Rowing boats to attack the city was also something he had never seen before.

Thanks to Zhuge Liang's early detection yesterday, the city gates were sealed. Although there were still many places leaking water, it was not enough to flood Jiangling. However, the current situation was obviously very favorable for the attackers. The advantage of being high above was abolished by the flood. Moreover, as the ships approached, Guan Yu and others found that these ships were very large, and the side baffles were very high. It was unknown whether they were thick or not, but it was obviously to resist the Yuanrong crossbow carts.

"Prepare for battle!" Guan Yu's face sank, and he quickly ordered the generals to prepare to defend against the enemy. At the same time, he ordered people to adjust the direction of the Yuanrong crossbow carts. As long as the enemy's ships approached, he would first use the crossbow carts to give the enemy a thunderbolt attack. The northerners were not good at water battles. Although the Ming army was brave, it might not be the case when they were on the water.

"Second brother, something is wrong. You see, those ships seem to be connected together." Zhang Fei frowned suddenly.

Guan Yu frowned when he heard this. Indeed, these ships were not very clear from a distance. Now that they were close, he found that these ships were connected to each other and were very stable. It looked like a city was floating towards this side. The most important thing was that the wind was blowing towards this side at the moment.

On the huge linked boat, Chen Mo stood on the top of the building ship. These were the ships captured from Xiangyang and Fancheng and sent here through the river. Chen Mo asked the craftsmen to connect them with iron chains and wooden boards in order to eliminate the weakness of the Ming army soldiers who were not used to water battles. In order to prevent the opponent from using fire attacks, Chen Mo also wrapped the outer ships with cowhide, pig skin, and sheepskin to prevent fire. In addition, the north wind was blowing now, so even if the opponent wanted to use fire attacks, it would not be possible to burn them all at once.

"All soldiers, listen up. This is your only chance. We must win this battle. After today, it will be difficult to break into the city!" Chen Mo looked at the approaching Jiangling City and shouted loudly, "Whoever enters the city first will be promoted three levels and rewarded with a thousand gold coins. Whoever kills the enemy general will be promoted three levels again and rewarded with ten thousand gold coins. Kill!"

"Kill, kill, kill~" 30,000 elite Ming troops stood on the deck, listening to Chen Mo's promise, and they were full of murderous intent, roaring and holding up their swords.

"Prepare bows and arrows!" Seeing that Jiang Ling was approaching, the enemy's crossbow carts had begun to show their power. One after another, iron arrows fell on the baffle wrapped in cowhide, making a series of muffled sounds, and some even directly pierced the thick baffle and cowhide. Dozens of crossbow carts exerted force at the same time, but failed to stop the fleet from approaching.

Zhuge Liang ordered people to prepare kerosene, and threw it on the ship after approaching. The cabin finally caught fire, but the fleet had already leaned against the city wall. The special ladders that had been prepared long ago were placed on the edge of the ship. One by one, the Ming soldiers crossed the burning sea of ​​fire and rushed towards the city. At the same time, the ships in the rear continued to suppress the enemy with arrows under the command of the generals.

The Jingzhou troops defending the city were all newly recruited soldiers and had never seen such a battle. If there were a city wall, it would be better. Now the other side has reduced the difficulty of climbing the city by this means. When the Ming army soldiers rushed up, the Jingzhou soldiers panicked and many were killed.

"Kill them!" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei attacked at the same time, wandering on the top of the city, constantly killing the Ming army soldiers who rushed up the city wall, while the Ming army soldiers rushed up one by one fearlessly, even Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also felt that they could not be killed.

Fortunately, Zhuge Liang asked the soldiers holding crossbows to come up and stabilize the situation, but the city wall was captured by the Ming army. As the Ming army continued to rush up the city, it was seen that the city wall was about to be lost. Zhuge Liang asked people to set up a simple catapult at the corner of the city wall and throw fire bombs and stone bombs at the huge ship. Chen Mo's side suddenly caught fire.

"Your Majesty, the fire is getting bigger! Let's go!" Dian Wei rushed to Chen Mo in a hurry. On the ground, he could be fearless, but on the boat, Dian Wei always felt a little uneasy.

"Why go?" Chen Mo looked at the wall that had been captured for the most part and said: "Now the wind is blowing towards Jiangling, and it can't burn over. Let the soldiers continue to attack the city!"

The wind direction is very important in this battlefield, especially in water battles. If the wind is blowing towards this side at this moment, then Chen Mo's large group of ships may have been burned, but now it is blowing towards Jiangling. Although it is not friendly to the soldiers attacking the city, it will not make them retreat. As Chen Mo said, he commanded the soldiers to dismantle the ships and disperse to climb the city.

Now that the city wall is full of Ming troops, there is no need to rely on stability to climb the city. As long as you get close to the city wall, you can basically climb up, and the iron chain boat is no longer needed.

The sky was overcast at some point, and the drizzle gradually became heavier. The fire originally ignited by Zhuge Liang was gradually extinguished.

Chen Mo looked up at the sky and suddenly laughed. On the other side, Zhuge Liang saw this scene and leaned against the wall helplessly. Is even the sky helping Chen Mo?

The defenders on the city wall were defeated step by step. Even if Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ji Ling and other generals took the lead and killed many people, they could not make this group of rabble have the strength to resist the Ming army.

"Military Advisor, retreat to the city quickly!" Seeing several Ming soldiers holding swords and shields and rushing towards Zhuge Liang, Ji Ling killed a Ming soldier with a sword and stopped beside Zhuge Liang, roaring.

The guards around him hurriedly helped Zhuge Liang to walk down the city. When Ji Ling was distracted, he was stabbed in the waist and abdomen by a Ming soldier. Ji Ling trembled and raised his sword to kill the opponent, but another Ming soldier cut off his arm holding the sword.

"Roar~" Ji Ling roared like crazy, holding the Ming army with his remaining hand and rushed towards the parapet, wanting to take them out of the city, but saw two Ming soldiers tacitly lowered their bodies and cut the blades across Ji Ling's legs, followed by two more knives, one from behind, and the other directly into Ji Ling's neck. Ji Ling, the former number one general under Yuan Shu and who had made great military achievements under Liu Bei, was killed here by several soldiers.

"Ji Ling!" Guan Yu roared when he saw Ji Ling being killed, and rolled up the big knife in his hand, cutting off three Ming soldiers in half, and then rushed to Ji Ling after pulling out his waist knife and killing several people. When he looked down, Ji Ling was dead and couldn't die anymore. His eyes suddenly turned red. Looking at Zhang Fei who was surrounded over there, Guan Yu brandished his knife again and rushed into the crowd, killing Zhang Fei, pulling Zhang Fei to fight and retreat, retreating to the city, and the city wall was completely lost...