Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 1462 Cai Mao’s rebellion

Chapter 1460: Cai Mao rebels

This is the third time Yue Fei has attacked Jiangling. After the previous two failed, Yue Fei has carefully and carefully studied Jiangling's city defense, and his understanding of Jiangling City has definitely reached a terrifying level.

Deng Yu was the governor of Nanjun appointed by Liu Xiu, but even his understanding of Jiangling City was not necessarily as good as that of Yue Fei, an outsider.

After Deng Yu took over the defense of Jiangling, he immediately made changes to the defense. After all, Yue Fei had already seen the last arrangement. If he did not change it, he would definitely be targeted by Yue Fei.

Deng Yu’s idea was not wrong. The fault was that his changes were not thorough enough. He only made adjustments according to Liu Xiu’s arrangements, but the core was still the same as Liu Xiu’s.

Yue Fei didn't know everything about Liu Xiu's arrangement, but he already knew about it. Deng Yu only made adjustments to the defense without changing the core arrangement left by Liu Xiu. This also played into Yue Fei's plan. .

Under Yue Fei's personal command of the siege, the Qin army always pointed at the weak points of the Chu army, and also had a group of fierce generals to attack, as well as many sharp weapons such as catapults, wells, fire oil bombs, etc. as assistance, so they were able to achieve a close offensive and defensive casualty ratio. One to one record.

Deng Yu also noticed that there was something wrong with the defense. Yue Fei knew the defense of Jiangling very well. If he had not deployed the defense himself and had not told anyone, he would have suspected that there were spies of the Qin army around him.

Now that the war has begun, it is impossible for Deng Yu to change the defense deployment before the battle. Not to mention that it will be too late. Even if it is too late, Yue Fei will not give him a chance. The result will definitely be even worse.

Following the Qin army's fierce fighting for fifteen consecutive days, the Qin army suffered a total of 12,000 casualties and 3,000 auxiliary troops. The Chu army also suffered equally, losing nearly 10,000 troops.

The Qin army, which is rich and well-off, has a total strength of 600,000. The loss of 10,000 to 20,000 troops can be quickly made up for.

But the Chu army is different. The Chu army, which only has a total of 150,000 troops, is now fighting against the four princes at the same time. If it is exhausted with the Qin army, it will completely defeat the Chu army and it is impossible to hurt the Qin army.

There were only 40,000 defenders in Jiangling City. In just fifteen days, a quarter of the defenders were lost. The strong men who assisted the defenders also suffered heavy losses, which also greatly reduced the morale of the entire army.

Deng Yu realized that this was not going to work. If he couldn't figure out a way to solve it, Jiangling City would be destroyed sooner or later. After all, the Chu army could not defeat the Qin army at all costs.

Before the war, Liu Xiu gave Deng Yu 40,000 troops and asked Deng Yu to hold on for a year.

Originally, Deng Yu thought that with a main force of 40,000 in hand and a fortified city like Jiangling nearby, it would not be a problem to hold off Yue Fei for a year if he defended the city.

 One year later, the lord Liu Xiuding had occupied Jiaozhou, and reinforcements would naturally come to rescue Jiangling.

Deng Yu admitted that he thought of the problem too simply. He did not expect that Yue Fei would attack so fiercely from the beginning, and he was determined to use this lose-lose style to compete with him.

If this consumption continues, Deng Yu may not be able to hold on to Jiangling City for three months, let alone one year.

With no choice but to do so, Deng Yu had to take risks and make changes to the core defense layout overnight, and this change was carried out throughout the city.

 It's easy to tell for a day or two, but if it goes on for a long time, it's impossible to hide it from Yue Fei.

After realizing Deng Yu's intentions, Yue Fei attacked the city overnight, hoping to directly attack Jiangling City before Deng Yu's arrangements were completed.

Deng Yu was also aware of Yue Fei's intention, and personally led all the generals and death squads to guard the city overnight, and completed the defense changes before all the death squads were killed.

Although Jiangling City had a new defensive layout, many of the defensive equipment on the city towers had been destroyed by the Qin army in the previous process.

Now that Jiangling has changed its layout, although its defensive power is stronger than before, it is only a little. It cannot completely reverse the war situation, but it will also increase the losses of the Qin army. Outside the city, Yue Fei was still directing the fierce attack, but a conspiracy was being hatched inside Jiangling City.

In Jiangling City, in a courtyard of the Cai family, some Jingzhou aristocratic families gathered together, and the leader was Cai Mao.

"Everyone, Liu Xiu overestimated his capabilities and started a war with the four major princes at the same time. He is destined to be destroyed. But we can't bury him with him. We should make plans in advance." Cai Hao said with a gloomy face, feeling extremely regretful about that decision. Support Liu Xiu's decision to fight Qin Hao.

  What is the purpose of the Jingzhou family helping Liu Xiu like this? Isn't it just to keep the land in hand?

But what about Liu Xiu? After the incident was completed, he immediately turned his back and refused to admit it. Not only did he want to take away the hidden population of the family, but now he even wanted the land. This was simply a white-eyed wolf.

Cai Hao was once Liu Xiu's biggest supporter, because he united with the aristocratic families who were dissatisfied with Qin Hao to help Liu Xiu, but he didn't expect that Liu Xiu was not only ungrateful, but also took care of his Cai family, and even asked him to do it himself. Host in person.

At that time, Cai Mao wanted to rebel, but he did not dare, because if Liu Xiu dared to hand over power to him, there would definitely be a countermeasure. If he rebelled, the Cai family would definitely be exterminated.

Cai Mao resisted the idea of ​​rebellion and personally went out to suppress those families who had been attracted by him to support Liu Xiu. This also made him, the former leader of the Jingzhou family, completely at odds with most of the Jingzhou families.

Cai Mao has endured the humiliation and endured the heavy burden until now, just to wait for today's perfect opportunity to personally destroy Liu Xiu, who he had personally promoted.

“Everyone, tell me whether you want to be buried with Liu Xiu or find another way out.”

Hearing what Cai Mao said, these families were also very moved. However, because Liu Xiu had accumulated power for a long time, everyone did not dare to place bets without authorization before his defeat was a foregone conclusion. After all, if the bet was wrong, the family would be exterminated.

"snort…"

Cai Mao snorted dissatisfiedly when he saw this, and said coldly: "Have you forgotten what Liu Xiu did to us?

In order to help Liu Xiu, our Jingzhou family invested most of our family in money, food, and people, but how did Liu Xiu repay us?

 Suppress, suppress, suppress again. "

As soon as this statement was made, it immediately aroused the indignation of many people present.

“Lord Cai is right, our Jingzhou family did not fail Liu Xiu, it was Liu Xiu who failed our Jingzhou family.”

"Yes, we can't go on like this. We must resist and let Liu Xiu know how powerful our Jingzhou family is."

 …

Seeing the excitement of the crowd, Cai Mao also smiled, and then said with a wry smile: "I, Cai Mao, was blind at first and mistrusted Liu Xiu, which caused great harm to all the major families. Now the opportunity has come. I, Cai Mao, must change this mistake."

“Master Cai, just tell me what to do? We all listen to you.”

"Yep…"

A cold light flashed in Cai Mao's eyes: "Gather the clan troops, open the city gate, and give Jiangling City to the Qin army."

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