The three Han armies in the southern border launched a general attack at the same time, but the Wu army also launched a desperate resistance. In comparison, the Han navy that went down the river was advancing very quickly.
Because the main force of Quan Cong's 40,000 Dongwu navy has been defeated, the remaining 30,000 navy must not only defend Cao Wei, but also free up their hands to resist the Han army.
However, even if they all rushed to stop the Han navy, they would not be able to stop it at all. After all, the Han army not only had a numerical advantage, but also had more than 2,000 rocket launchers.
After more than half a month, the leading force of the 50,000-strong Han Navy arrived at the northern ferry of Wuchang City, which plunged the entire Wuchang into panic.
Originally, Sun Quan had decided to move the capital from Wuchang back to the old capital of Jianye, but he was opposed by the officials.
The reason for the opposition of the ministers is very simple.
The Han army is coming with force this time to destroy Soochow. Even if the emperor moves the capital to Jianye, the Han army will still lead his army to attack Jianye. Moreover, moving the capital will easily affect the morale of the army and the people. Although the Han army is now in full force, but the southern border has
The three Wu armies were still resisting desperately and did not allow the three Han armies in the south to break through quickly.
If they learn that the emperor has moved the capital, will their fighting power still be so strong?
If the Han army repelled the three-way blocking Wu army, even if they moved the capital to Jianye, they would eventually face the pressure of the Han army.
There was no other way, and in the end Sun Quan failed to realize his wish to escape, so he had to urgently recruit soldiers from surrounding counties and all of them were concentrated in Wuchang to protect the capital.
Originally, he wanted to bring back all the three Wu armies in the southern border, but Sun Quan quickly gave up this decision because there were nearly 200,000 Han troops in the southern border. If the three Wu armies in the southern border were transferred back, the pressure on Wuchang would be even greater.
To block the Han army in the southern border, Wuchang City only needs to face an attack of 50,000 Han troops. Currently, there are still 40,000 people in Wuchang City. Together with the county soldiers drawn from surrounding counties, the total number of troops defending Wuchang has reached more than 60,000.
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Enough——
There are more than 60,000 soldiers and horses guarding Wuchang, and the Han navy with only more than 50,000 people wants to quickly break through Wuchang City.
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September 3rd, the thirteenth year of the founding of the Han Dynasty (AD 252).
North of Wuchang City.
More than 50,000 Han navy troops abandoned their ships and landed ashore, forming an orderly formation at the foot of Wuchang City. At the head were nearly 30,000 cavalry brought by Liu Tan and Deng Ai, and in the rear were the remaining 20,000 Han navy troops under Li Feng's command.
At this time, the morale of the Han army officers and soldiers was high, because after several months of hard fighting, they finally reached the gates of Wuchang, the capital of Wu State.
"General Shizai!" Liu Tan looked at Wuchang City and asked with a smile: "What plan should we use to capture this city?"
The army has reached Wuchang and must break it.
"Go back to Your Highness!" Deng Ai responded: "The top priority is to attack the heart and the bottom is to attack the city!"
"Oh???" Liu Tan pretended to be confused and asked: "How to attack the heart?"
Deng Ai thought thoughtfully and said: "Our army is approaching Wuchang. The state of Wu is in danger. Moreover, our army is now dominated by cavalry. Sun Quan will definitely not dare to attack the city... If we attack the city by force, it will be difficult for the cavalry to attack the city."
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As he spoke, he paused and then said: "Although Sun Quan will choose to fortify the city and hold on, when our army approaches the city, the soldiers and civilians in Wuchang will inevitably panic, and our army may be able to force Sun Quan to surrender."
"Ha! What a great idea!" Liu Tan praised.
Using cavalry to attack a city is a bad idea in itself, and what's more, we are attacking the capital of Soochow, and Sun Quan is staying in the city. If we attack by force, Sun Quan will definitely defend it.
Moreover, Liu Tan already knew that there are now more than 60,000 Wu troops in Wuchang City.
Although the Wu army is not good at land warfare, they are still very powerful in defending the city. Otherwise, the late emperor attacked Wu, and Cao Wei also went south to attack Wu several times, but they all failed and returned without results.
Liu Chan had told him before that Soochow was good at defending but not good at attacking.
Because Soochow relies on the support of aristocratic families, most of Soochow's soldiers and horses come from aristocratic families. If they are asked to capture other countries' territories, they will not fight so hard, but whoever wants to capture Soochow's city will do so.
Resist desperately.
Because when you capture the territory of another country, the cities you occupy belong to the country and the emperor, but the cities in Soochow belong to these aristocratic families.
They will fight tooth and nail to defend their city.
At this time, hearing that Deng Ai was more interested in attacking the city than in attacking the city, Liu Tan quickly made his decision: "Send an order to bring all the rocket launchers to me."
"Your Highness!" Li Feng was also stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, Your Highness, didn't you just agree with Deng Ai's plan?
Why do we still want to attack Wuchang now?
Liu Tan said with a smile: "If you want to scare Sun Quan, this rocket launcher is a good thing..." He paused, sighed, and said: "Now our army only has a total of more than two thousand rocket launchers left, and the rocket launcher is not as good as
Explosive packs are very powerful, so it is still difficult to blow up Wuchang City."
All the generals have heard that when the Han army was in the Western Regions, every time they attacked a city, they first used explosives to blow open the city gate, and then led the army to charge in - the city was immediately destroyed.
But now the Han army's rocket launchers have reduced the weight of gunpowder in order to increase the range. It is not easy to use them to blow open the Wuchang city gate.
Unless all these two thousand rocket launchers are piled at the gate of Wuchang City.
But——
The Wu army in Wuchang City is not a decoration. They will never let the Han army send rocket launchers to the city gate.
"Push all the bed crossbows two hundred steps away from the city!" Liu Tan said loudly: "All the bed crossbows do not need to shoot at the city gate. Let me shoot a hundred of them into the city first."
"???"
The generals were shocked when they heard this and understood what Liu Tan was thinking.
This move is too cruel.
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Half an hour later.
More than a hundred three-bow bed crossbows have been pushed to a place about two hundred steps away from the Wuchang City Gate. At this time, the Wu army at the head of Wuchang City is using their three-bow bed crossbows to continuously fire long spears at the Han army, trying to kill them.
Han Army.
It’s just that Liu Tan asked his soldiers to carry special shields and block the Han army’s crossbows.
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Liu Tan, who was standing behind the bed crossbow, looked at the spears falling not far away and couldn't help but shake his head slightly and sighed. These Wu army's spears did not cause much damage to the Han army.
Because except for more than a hundred bed crossbows and hundreds of soldiers, the rest of the Han army was outside the range of the Wu army's bed crossbows.
Suddenly——
Liu Tan pointed his long sword, and a small school commander in front of him who was commanding the crossbow immediately shouted: "Let go!"
Just waiting for the small school to shout loudly, more than a hundred crossbows were launched at the same time.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
More than a hundred rocket launchers flew out of the bow in an instant. These rocket launchers did not fire at the top of Wuchang City, but crossed the top of the city and shot straight into Wuchang City.
Bang bang, bang bang bang, bang bang.
In an instant, explosions were heard one after another in Wuchang City, and thick smoke was everywhere.
After the first round of shooting, the primary school student shouted again: "Let go!"
This time, it was not that more than a hundred crossbows fired a salvo, but only about twenty of them fired rocket launchers.
Bang, bang bang, bang bang bang.
More than twenty rocket launchers flew to the top of the city and directly hit the archery tower on the top of the city. The rockets exploded on the top of the city tower, and the wooden roof was blown into pieces.
In just the blink of an eye, the originally exquisite roof of the watchtower was blown into a mess.
Rocket launchers... This is rocket launchers... The Wu troops at the top of the city were so frightened that their faces turned pale. They had heard of the Han army's rocket launchers. Previously, Sima Quancong's navy was defeated by the Han army's rocket launchers.<
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But before that, they had only heard about the Han army's rocket launchers. Now that they saw its power with their own eyes, they were still shocked and dumbfounded every one of the Wu army officers and soldiers.
The power of this damn thing is too terrifying, isn’t it?
The roof of the house can be blown down. We mortals like us are not allowed to be blown into a pulp. Moreover, even though the Han army just bombed the roof, the debris generated by the explosion still injured more than ten Soochow soldiers.
It's so scary.
It's so scary.
There is no way to fight this battle.
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