Not to mention, once a person gets better, a series of things will go smoothly. Since the seven days since the Battle of Shaxian-Chirie Cliff, the Han army has been very smooth in all directions.

Now, when it was time to attack Xiakou City, Li Su had arranged the work of Taishi Ci, Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai. That morning, another wave of good news and reinforcements came, making Li Su's victory even more for sure.

It turned out that it was a gentleman agreement with Han Dang, who had made a reorganization work with Zhao Yun, who had made a bloodless city in Jiangling at the cost of letting the Wu cavalry cross the water and retreating. He finally completed the reorganization work of the rear, and took his two thousand iron-armored cavalry all the way to enclose land, took Jingling, Hanjin and other counties, and also came to Xiakou to meet with Li Su, and also reported the situation in the rear.

The Kaicheng of Jiangling City was actually the afternoon before yesterday. However, after taking over Jiangling, Zhao Yun took another two days on the way. Fortunately, he only brought the cavalry vanguard and left the infantry to defend the rear so that he could walk so fast.

When Li Su learned that Zhao Yun was coming, he went out to greet him in person:

"I guess Zilong has completely settled behind him, and I have no worries. When the Xiakou breaks, he will go down the river and go straight down like a bamboo. With Zilong's cavalry, he will be able to circle those places where the generals have no intention of fighting. Zilong, come and talk about the battle results in the rear."

While pulling Zhao Yun into the tent side by side, Li Su ordered the soldiers to serve rice wine and good dishes.

The army was fighting outside, and the conditions were more difficult. Xiakou was surrounded by swamps and small lakes, and there was really a lack of forest hunting, so the mountain and wild beasts could not be caught.

Li Su's kitchen could only make a few sturgeons from Liangzi Lake, four-gill perch, turtle turtle pots with ginger, frogs roasted with iron plates and pepper powder, all of which were aquatic products and amphibians to drink.

Zhao Yun looked a little ashamed, and when there was no one around, he bowed to explain to Li Su:

"Sikong, this time I didn't want to ask for instructions, so I made my own decision to agree to Han Dang let him and his direct cavalry leave at the cost of peaceful opening of the city. I am also afraid of many changes. Sikong is victorious in the front and advances too fast. If the rear is not cleared immediately, there will be loopholes at that time..."

Zhao Yun carefully recounted the conditions for peace negotiations between him and Han Dang.

Li Su poured the pot of wine for Zhao Yun, and also stayed in the air for a few seconds. Then Li Su put down the pot and patted Zhao Yun on the shoulder: "Since Zilong felt that it would not be a credit for not completely annihilated the enemy. At that time, the battle in Jiangdong will come, and when I report to Your Majesty, I will say that this is what I asked for."

Li Su said this very beautifully: Not only did I not pursue it, I also thought that such a disposal was the best. It was also a credit to drive Han Dang away and let the rear lose an uncertain factor.

Zhao Yun and Li Su had been in love for ten years. When Li Su said this, he no longer had pretentiousness. He drank and ate fish with Li Su to celebrate the merits. After Xiakou was restored, he led the cavalry and the light army to advance quickly and helped to enclose the land together.

Since the war with Sun Ce started this time, Zhao Yun has only been in a field battle in Changbanpo, Yang County, annihilated 20,000 troops from Jiangdong. He really didn't get the opportunity to fight in the future, and they were all in a stalemate. Li Su had the account in his heart, and was anxious. When he grabbed the city, he would also let Zhao Yun show his face.

Li Su: "Zilong should rest and rest and be content. In these two days, he will see through Lu Meng. Unless he is so calm that he will never leave, he will find out immediately."

Zhao Yun: "Is there any point that can be useful to my cavalry?"

Li Su: "It has been arranged long ago. The surrounding area of ​​Xiakou is muddy, not inferior to Yunmengze, and the cavalry is inconvenient to move. The news will be for you and I to drink tonight."

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At the same time, Lu Meng's armor was covered with dust and blood on the top of Xiakou City, leaning against the city tower, filling the cold water with a large mouthful.

Although it was winter, it was still very hot after defending the city all morning.

Fortunately, there are too many lakes and wetlands around Xiakou City, and the terrain is low and muddy. There are not many points that the Han army can attack. The two sides of the southeast are combined, and it is enough to defend the wall section that is less than 400 feet long.

Lu Meng had three thousand elite combat soldiers and more than 4,000 peasant soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, who only guarded four hundred feet in front, which made him feel that he could breathe and the soldiers could also rotate to recover their physical strength.

However, if you can defend it, Lu Meng can also see the change in the sharpness of the Han army's offensive during these days.

In the early three or four days, the offensive invested more troops and became more chaotic. At that time, the Han army even drove the captured Jiangdong soldiers to carry soil to fill trenches and build trenches and bridges, expanding the attacking front regardless of casualties.

From yesterday afternoon to this morning, the attack conditions of the Han army were more complete, with more heavy equipment, but less troops were invested. At the same time, the Han army naturally suffered fewer casualties, and the exchanges with the Wu army were getting better and better.

Lu Meng keenly noticed that the Han army no longer allowed cannon fodder to carry out the work of filling the moat. It was originally filled as much as it had. However, the water level of the moat was falling, and many of them were almost filled in the previous two days, but the mud in the riverbed had not yet appeared on the water surface.

This morning, as the water level itself dropped, the mud was exposed. After a morning of sunshine, some places even became dry and hard, and they could push the city-digging donkey cart through.

During lunch break, Lu Meng came to a conclusion: the Han army led to the mouth of the moat on the southeast of Liangzi Lake and Xiakou at the Fanshui River in the cofferdam! The Yangtze River water diverted less from the Fanshui River inlet!

Half of the entrance of the Yangtze River to Fanshui was blocked, which means that the warships on both sides could not leave. The Han army's fighting ships could not enter Liangzihu from Xiakou, and the Wu army's ferry could not leave.

Lu Meng easily thought that Li Su's move also had a great guarantee effect on "preventing the Han army from Xiakou's marsh from the south city after the Han army passed around the city, and then entered the Yangtze River from the west entrance of Fanshui to intercept the Han army's grain transport fleet."

In other words, the Han army wanted to abolish this waterway fairly during this battle, so that neither the big ships of both sides could pass through even if the big ships of the Han army were larger, and they were more restricted when the waterway was closed.

All these signs are clear, and it is really hard for Lu Meng not to associate in the direction Li Su hopes that he will find:

The Han army didn't care whether to kill all Lu Meng immediately. What the Han army cared about was that as long as Lu Meng was not allowed to drag the strategic deployment of the Han army around the city to the back, Lu Meng would live for a few days and slowly clean up with the means of sacrificing as little as possible.

This cannot be blamed for Lu Meng's lack of IQ. Today, Lu Meng is still the original version of Wu Xia Ameng. He doesn't read much, and his battlefield command depends entirely on practical experience. He cannot say that his magical military strategy is the most important.

Li Su was deceived and was not shabby.

In the afternoon of the same day, Lu Meng ordered the confidant officers around him to prepare to pack up manpower, equipment and ships, prepare dry food for a few days, and then break through.

The defenders in Xiakou were quite obedient to Lu Meng's command, mainly because this place was the defense area of ​​Lu Meng's brother-in-law Deng Dang before the war. Deng Dang later lay ill for several months and had recently passed away.

Among the elite combat soldiers commanded by Lu Meng, the backbone of the Deng family's private soldiers and servants were still relatively dependent on their masters. Even if the environment is very difficult, they still have a certain degree of cohesion.

Considering that the local peasant soldiers who were temporarily forced to recruit were not very strong in combat and their morale was not guaranteed, they were easily burdened when breaking through, so Lu Meng left more than half of the peasant soldiers, about 2,500 people, and did not tell them anything, so they asked them to continue defending the city as planned.

A total of 5,000 people were taken away by him, including 3,000 elite soldiers from the level of the family, 2,000 peasant soldiers who were eager to Sun Wu and were more ambitious.

In this way, after Lu Meng left the city at night, the Han army would not immediately find that Xiakou had become an empty city, and would not pursue him with all their might. It would be more than one day to hold him back. Even if the morale collapsed the next day and the city was captured for one day, it would not matter.

Lu Meng already knew that Xiakou Gucheng could not hold Li Su's army longer, and there was no need to make unnecessary sacrifices.

At the beginning of the second hour that night, Lu Meng ordered to open a water gate in the southeast corner of Xiakou, and then sat on thirty trunks and more than a hundred boats, entering Liangzi Lake from Fanshui and walking eastward.

I just walked out of the city for more than a second time. By midnight, at midnight, I walked out about 30 miles, which was equivalent to passing through the branch ports of Donghu, Wuhan in later generations. Everything was quiet and no one intercepted me, which made Lu Meng feel a little relieved.

However, there is no change in the front, which does not mean that there is no change behind it. At about the same time, fire suddenly appeared in the direction of Xiakou City behind it, and the flames of flames were shaking the ground. It turned out that the Han army launched a night attack to attack the city.

It turned out that Li Su's scout had already watched Lu Meng leave, but Li Su didn't dare to let the soldiers shout and rush to kill when Lu Meng first left the city, for fear of scaring Lu Meng back into the turtle shell.

Later, after Lu Meng walked a little further, it was difficult to chase him immediately, because the ship at Li Su was not good. As long as Lu Meng was far away from the shore, the troops on the shore would not be able to catch up. Anyway, there was Zhou Tai in front, and Huang Zhong was waiting for his work, so why should Li Su have to do more? As for the credit, everyone should be divided according to the plan. It would be best if it could be implemented smoothly.

However, when Lu Meng could still hear the movement behind him, he shouted and set fire to attack the city at Xiakou, which could at least hit the morale of Lu Meng's breakthrough troops, making them realize immediately that "everything is in the control of the enemy Li Sikong, and it was his arrangement to make you break through. Breakthrough itself is a trap."

In the direction of Xiakou, the front commander who attacked the city overnight was Dian Wei. This was also Li Su who compensated Dian Wei for being a bodyguard for him before, so he could not get the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. After all, even such a major battle in the Battle of Red Cliff, Dian Wei was watching on the Iron Flagship.

Now, let him harvest the nice and not difficult soft persimmon that captures Xiakou City.

Dian Wei had been very frustrated. After some firepower preparations, he led a group of axe and shield soldiers to rush up to the city wall and was knocked down by wooden donkeys and stone catapults, and chopped all the way.

The arrows on the top of the city seemed sparse, because Dian Wei's siege troops kept shouting that Lu Meng had left, the thieves in the city had been abandoned by Lu Meng, and there was a way out for surrender. Where did the scum of all the peasants and soldiers get the determination to resist? They were easily rushed up under the chaos.

Dian Wei's double iron halberd flew over, slashed dozens of people, killed two Qu Junhous at the highest, and captured the South Gate Tower, and finally let out a sigh of anger. In the fourth update, the remaining enemies in Xiakou City completely eliminated and surrendered.

...

While Dian Wei completely cleared Xiakou City, Lu Meng traveled twenty miles eastward on the surface of Liangzi Lake at the fourth update, and his morale was extremely low.

Everyone looked at the fire behind and the faint clamor and shouting. No matter how Lu Meng explained and encouraged the morale of the army, everyone believed that Xiakou had fallen, which means that he was indeed trapped by the enemy.

Originally, this kind of long-distance water marching was sailing on the quiet inner lake. It was important for soldiers to row in batches to maintain their strength. Those who were not on the boat should rest quickly. However, in panic, everyone was nervous and alert to sleep. Most people were already tired at the fourth day of the fourth day.

When the fleet passed through the lake waist at the junction of Liangzi Lake and West Lake, Zhou Tai suddenly rushed out with two hundred small boats, which made Lu Mengjun a little frightened.

"Lu Menggou thief, you have fallen into the trap of my Sikong! He asked you to leave the city so that the people of Xiakou will not suffer any trouble. Otherwise, it would be easy to kill all of you on the lake outside the city! If you want to survive, surrender immediately!"

Zhou Tai stood at the bow of a walking boat, shouting loudly, and letting his scolding team shout along with him, disrupting the morale of the enemy.

Although Lu Meng was a little nervous, he still scolded with great momentum: "Bah! Your lord promotes my brother-in-law to the grassroots. If our Deng family and Lu family had not had a lord, how could the official position come from!

I heard that even if Li Su is a general, he has to take the exam for "knowing the army" and has to study and understand his strategies to be given to officials. How can we be so angry at the kind of corrupt scholars? We are all illiterate brothers, and we can only have a future with General Sun!"

If the persuasion failed, there was nothing to say. The two armies drove their boats in the dark, and for a moment, arrows and stones flew away, and the boats passed by, and used their hooks to pull and kill each other.

Zhou Tai organized ten boats as planned, each boat was equipped with two mines and powder barrels, and one boat could originally have twenty soldiers at full capacity.

But considering the danger of the mission, Zhou Tai arranged eight sailors per ship, usually six paddlers, and when it was time to get out of thunder, four people took a pole and four people rowed the boat. This was the smallest preparation to ensure that the ship did not reduce its mobility, and both archers and melee soldiers were saved.

In case of being taken to the enemy and jumped from the ship, only eight sailors would pick up short swords and fight with each other. When covered by arrow rain, there was no way, and it was very fragile.

However, Zhou Tai also considered this issue, so he did not let the ten thunders go up from the beginning. He would rather use ordinary melee combat and crossbow to fight the opponent to death, and to attract firepower by holding the hatred value.

It was agreed that when one quarter of the incense stick after the fire exchange, the lightning strike boat broke out from both wings in the dark.

This quarter of the incense stick of time was naturally a bit difficult. Zhou Tai personally led his personal soldiers to attack the big boat with a small boat and shot against Lu Meng, and soon fell into a disadvantage.

The boat is a small boat with no piles and bunkers. When the bows and arrows are shot, the casualties are much higher than those with piles and bulwarks. The only thing Zhou Tai can do is to try to stick them on and jump the ship and kill them, and not shoot against the other party.

In just seven or eight minutes of fighting, Zhou Tai was hit by three arrows, all of which could penetrate his armor. If all those without armor were included, it would be at least twice as many.

Fortunately, Zhou Tai is a man who is very patient with pain, and he is still crying out and fighting endlessly, which has stopped Lu Meng's hatred.

The lake surface at the beginning of the fourth hour was dark, relying on a little bit of lower crescent moonlight and the torches on the boat. Zhou Tai's lightning boat did not ignite the torches, and it was very low-key. However, the melee boats in front lit the torches, so the lightning boat easily broke through.

Zhou Tai's lightning boat was afraid of accidentally hurting friendly forces fighting, so he did not choose the front row of Lu Meng's thunderbolts, but instead stared at Lu Meng's thunderbolts that were executing firepower output in the back row.

Five or six muffled sounds in succession, corresponding to the entire side of the five or six crafts being exploded. The lake water surged in, which shocked Lu Meng's army from the beginning to the state of frightening birds.

"It's the kind of thunder in the river dragon again! Why can Li Su even let go of thunder in the small boat? How can the battle of the sky killing fight!"

Zhou Tai's death-striking lightning boat opposite was actually not uncomfortable. Two lightning boats were also shattered on the side of the ship and sank together. They didn't even have the chance to use the second thunder.

There are seven or eight small boats with good skills. Some of them have the first round, but the pole is broken and the side of the boat is slightly cracked, but they are probably able to sail for a few more minutes before sinking. So, take advantage of the residual heat before sinking, use the second round of lightning, and find a target that is close enough.

Twenty mines finally successfully triggered fourteen. Three were wasted because the boat sank and wasted by the tide. Three were duds. Ten small boats replaced the fourteen trunks carrying more than one hundred people, and instantly completely destroyed Lu Meng's fighting spirit.

"Turn south! You can't go to E County! Turn south to the corner of the lake, abandon the boat and go to Jiuling Mountain to Yangxin County! You can also retreat from Yangxin County along Fushui to Chaisang!"

Lu Meng decisively issued an order, and fled to the south side of Liangzi Hunan with less than 2,000 remaining private soldiers and hundreds of auxiliary soldiers. After Zhou Tai's parting, he lost half of his troops. The half left was exhausted, and his combat power further dropped to the bottom.

Finally, he sailed until the fifth hour and three o'clock, and about another half hour before Lu Meng fled to the southernmost section of Liangzi Lake and began to abandon his ship and march along the Jiuling Valley. When he walked into Huang Zhong's ambush circle, it was already dawn.

...

"Naeweng! The soldiers worked hard for the middle of the night and rolled so many hay balls, and they were all in vain! It was dawn, and the fire was shining! "

Huang Zhong was waiting at the entrance of Jiuling Valley, and was very helpless. He thought several times that Li Sikong had always had a clever plan. He wouldn't have miscalculated this time, right? Was it because Lu Meng was so trapped and lured out of the city to break through, or was Zhou Tai not stopped? Why haven't he come yet?

He didn't know that after Lu Meng was hit by Zhou Tai, there were more damaged ships and his speed was slower, so it took him half an hour to drive to the southernmost end of Liangzi Lake. In addition, he had been entangled with Zhou Tai for longer than expected, and the enemy's morale was weaker and slower. Various factors led to the arrival so much later in the end.

It was not until Huang Zhong saw Lu Meng abandoning the boat and hiking into the valley, and the scouts quickly returned the news that he let out a sigh.

"Captain, will our hay fireballs still push to the bottom of the valley in a while?" The officer beside Huang Zhong asked carefully when he saw the chief general impatiently.

Huang Zhong also had a bad temper. After waiting for a long time, he was in a bad mood. He shouted: "What are you in a bad mood? You don't have to take it back after you have done it. Just click it and go down! Don't use them to illuminate it, burn hundreds of enemies to death!"

After a while, Lu Meng was tired and hungry and had no energy to the bottom of the valley. He felt that the environment was good. He ran all night from the second day to the dawn of the year, so he should take a break and eat some dry food and find some water to drink.

As soon as he sat down, he took out the rice balls, and more than a hundred hay balls with fire were rolled down from the hillside of Jiuling. The thick smoke blocked his way. Lu Meng quickly drew his sword and raised his shield to prepare for the battle. Unfortunately, their entire army abandoned the ship and landed on the shore, and there was not even a horse from the officer.

The crossbows on both sides of the mountains were fired at the same time. Before Huang Zhong led his troops to rush down, he had already shot Lu Meng's remaining soldiers into pieces.

Lu Meng himself was taken care of by Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong asked the crossbowmen around him to aim at the soldiers wherever he aimed. Several rounds of arrow rain covered and suppressed him, and Huang Zhong himself had extraordinary shooting skills, at least he shot Lu Meng's five arrows.

Hundreds of crossbowmen around him followed him and covered many rounds, shooting all the soldiers within dozens of feet of Lu Meng. Finally, he went down the mountain to collect the corpses and counted the results. He pulled out more than seventy arrows from Lu Meng himself alone.
Chapter completed!