Chapter 2053: The battle is dangerous and Dangyangqiao is defeated
In the early morning, there was some mist.
Surrounding the north of Xiangyang is a stretching camp.
The surging Han River has washed away some of the war smoke and blood that filled the vicinity of Xiangyang. After the defeat of Ganning, Xiangyang City lost the protection of the Han River, and only the shell of the city wall remained.
After days of fighting, the area around the Han River in Xiangyang was covered with various traces left over from the battle, including but not limited to corpses of various forms, as well as broken flags, broken arrows, coagulated blood, and charred corpses.
The equipment and the entire battlefield were extremely brutal, which really taught the people of Jingzhou, who had rarely experienced battles, a real lesson.
Occasionally, a team of more than ten people will come out of the camp and patrol the battlefield. Usually these people are searching for the remains of their comrades, and they will also pick up some useful artifacts. Of course, most of the time they will not.
Finding something good, but occasionally getting a small gain, is the small happiness between life and death for these people on the battlefield.
The two sides have temporarily ceased fighting, but on the top of Xiangyang City, the figures are still shaking, and they still look a little scared.
In recent years, Cao's army has conquered cities and territories in the south and north, mainly relying on infantry. It has rich experience in siege warfare, which the Jingzhou soldiers did not expect.
In the previous five days, Cao Jun, commanded by Xiahou Dun, launched an attack from two aspects. The offensive was like a tide, and there seemed to be no time to stop. In addition, the combat effectiveness of Cao Jun's soldiers was generally better than that of Jingzhou soldiers.
, If Wenpin on the city wall had not resisted desperately, the war preparations in Xiangyang City were indeed relatively sufficient, and I am afraid it would not have been captured by Cao's soldiers long ago.
It is precisely because they saw the power of Cao Jun's soldiers that even if Cao Jun did not attack for the time being, the soldiers at the top of Xiangyang City did not dare to relax, for fear that in the next moment, Cao Jun would roar and launch a new wave of offensive...
Although Wenpin was tired, he still patrolled the city. Compared with Cao Jun's offensive outside the city, he was more worried about the soldiers inside the city and the morale of the people.
Morale, an invisible and intangible thing, greatly affects the success or failure of cold weapon battles, and the strong strength displayed by Cao's army caused the original morale in Xiangyang City to be rapidly consumed.
Wenpin couldn't help but look up at the city gate tower.
Liu Cong, who was in the city gate tower, barely showed his face on the first day of Cao Jun's attack, and then never showed his face again.
Are you afraid?
Wenpin can understand, but understanding does not mean support.
Ordinary people can be afraid, fearful, or even hate war, but now as Liu Cong, as the heir, as the heir to Jingzhou's great cause, if he does not stand up when he should stand up, then in the future...
The reason why Liu Biao specifically placed Liu Cong here, in Wenpin's view, was naturally to force Liu Cong to grow up as quickly as possible. However, in such situations, sometimes there is indeed an epiphany, and sometimes it is just pulling the plug.
Wenpin lowered his eyes and continued to move forward, but in his heart, he didn't know how far he could go on this road.
The war is fierce and the war is dangerous. The Jingzhou natives in Xiangyang City have finally lost their thoughts on drinking wine and singing coloratura. Every household has fallen into panic. Facing the unknown future, it is inevitable that a kind of feeling rises from their hearts.
The emotion of fear then gave rise to something else.
Historically, before the Battle of Chibi, most of the Jingzhou natives behaved aloof from the world, acting like reclusive masters. They often gathered to drink and sing, looked down upon Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and did not have much favorable impressions of Cao Cao.
.Fishing with coir raincoats, bamboo horses, and a solitary boat, it seems like a paradise.
But now, what is presented in Xiangyang City is another kind of ecological environment.
The long streets were basically temporarily requisitioned by the war. There were soldiers sitting or lying down, various instruments horizontally or vertically, and complete or incomplete weapons and armors, all of which were filled with the smell of blood and
The smell of sweat, dust and dirt, plus the smell of death from rotting and suppurating wounds, makes it look like a beggar camp. How does it look like the Jingchu Cultural Holy Land in the past?
The houses near the city wall were all demolished. One was to replenish the consumption of rolling stones and wood, and the other was for the convenience of gathering troops. Many ordinary civilians were forced to become wartime laborers, responsible for transporting supplies and equipment. Some people with identities also looked like
Just like being in jail, you can't travel easily. Of course, even if you can travel, you can't go anywhere.
When the war has not come, everyone is fearless. They pat their chests and say that war is nothing. I am full of courage! If I really want to go to the battlefield, I will be unambiguous about how to kill everyone. But really.
When we saw the war, those guys who always called me "I" in words and patted their chests in deeds, all looked like they were suffering from jaundice due to too much bile. They shrank their necks like frightened quails.
He huddled his head under his armpits and shivered.
In such an environment, some people gathered secretly and started some conversations.
"Keeping one's health and losing one's life without regrets is the beginning of the king's way... Now, haha, where can one keep one's health? Haha..."
"Maybe there should be an argument, "It's not me, it's a soldier." Hum..."
"Those who drove the people for Tang and Wu were Jie and Zhou..."
"What's going on now?"
"The people are the most noble, the country is second, and the king is the least. Therefore, the people are the emperor, the emperor is the princes, and the princes are the officials. If the princes endanger the country..."
"Hmph..."
"hehe……"
"嘁嘁……"
"Chacha..."
In the dark room, vague lights and shadows were shaking. Although they were speaking human words, they looked like ghosts.
……U·ェ·*U……
Changbanpo, Dangyang Bridge.
If Mr. Luo hadn't been so eloquent about this, I'm afraid he might not have gained much fame.
After Jiangdong Pan Zhang captured Maicheng, the Jingzhou soldiers who were originally in Nanjun fled north, and learned that Cao Jun had besieged Xiangyang. Jiangdong naturally took over various places in Jingzhou Nanjun and began to search for them.
Changbanpo is the north-south passage, and it is an area that must be passed through when transporting from the surrounding area, so there are naturally soldiers and horses from Jiangdong stationed there. The main generals are Sima and Ma Zhong under Pan Zhang.
Ma Zhong was originally a hunter in the mountains. Apart from anything else, his archery skills were quite good. Since he followed Pan Zhang north to Jingzhou, he has naturally gained a lot of benefits, but he can't help but feel a little anxious these days.
Jingzhou has good water and soil, a large population, a lot of pigs, sheep, dogs, and chickens, and a dazzling array of various materials, large and small. Once you start searching, you feel that you can't miss any of them, and you need to transport them back to Jiangdong.
Come on, there is naturally a problem with manpower and transportation capacity.
On the Changban slope in Dangyang, there is a gathering of hedgehogs, which is so blocked that the convoys coming from various places do not give way to each other. Everyone has to pass first. The captains and captains of the transfer army who led the auxiliary soldiers and civilians seized the horses.
Zhong, there was an endless quarrel around him, and everyone said they wanted to pass here as quickly as possible, but even though Ma Zhong has four heads and eight hands and can coordinate effectively, he can't get more out of thin air.
Generate enough chariots and horses to transport so many things in a short time?
Some have to travel by water, some have to travel by land, and ships, mules and horses need to be deployed. In addition, Ma Zhong is from a lower background, and these guys who plunder resources from Jiangdong may not necessarily have higher positions than Ma Zhong, but they are more or less the same as Ma Zhong.
The Jiangdong family had some connections, and they naturally treated Ma Zhong without any courtesy. Sometimes Ma Zhong had to hold back his anger, nodding and bending to reconcile. All day long, he was dealing with these trivial matters.
But I couldn't get angry, I could only hold it in, not to mention how depressed I was.
They all came from a humble background, but Pan Zhang could not give face to the Jiangdong family, but he could not be loyal. The reason is very simple. If you don't understand it, you don't need to hang out in Jiangdong.
In some people's minds, there are two types of people that are most annoying in the world. One is those who don't line up properly and jump in line randomly, and the other is those who don't let me jump in line when I want to.
Therefore, after Ma Zhong was accommodating once, he found that not only did he fail to solve the problem, but it caused more problems, and these problems conflicted with each other and even became more complicated. He went back and forth.
After a long day, Ma Zhong finally waited until dusk, and the transportation work came to an end. He felt as if he was stepping on cotton under his feet, and he was swaying softly. He couldn't help but curse in his heart, "I'm so damn tired than going into battle!"
Just when Ma Zhong couldn't hold it any longer and was about to go back and have a good sleep, he suddenly felt the ground shaking. At first, Ma Zhong thought he was tired, but when he saw the surrounding soldiers, they all turned pale and stared.
When he was on the ground, he was suddenly shocked and shouted, "It's the cavalry! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
There are not many cavalry in Jiangdong, so who else can come? It must be the enemy!
In the dim sky, the figures of groups of cavalry suddenly appeared in the distance, filling the entire eye field. Needless to say, these cavalry also wrapped cloth on the horses' hooves, and waited until they approached Changbanpo.
A sudden attack was launched!
When Ma Zhong discovered these cavalry, Cao's cavalry who suddenly appeared on Changbanpo had already raised their horses to the highest speed, holding their long swords high and waving their swords, and ran towards Ma Zhong's temporary camp!
The screams came one after another: "The enemy is attacking! The enemy is attacking! Cao Jun! It's Cao Jun!!"
Everyone in Jiangdong who was resting in the camp was alarmed. They rushed out without thinking. Some remembered to take swords and guns, and some rushed out empty-handed. In the end, they ran back halfway and then met with the soldiers behind them.
They collided together and rolled around on the ground.
No one thought that Cao Cao's army would appear here. Whether it was Pan Zhang, Ma Zhong, or other Jiangdong generals, they all thought that Cao Cao must conquer Xiangyang first before he could go south. When would he see Xiangyang conquered?
It is not too late to prepare for war against Cao Cao, so everyone in Jiangdong is busy transporting and searching, and for the time being, no one is focusing on guarding against Cao Cao...
Then Cao Jun's cavalry rushed in front of him and hit Ma Zhong in the face!
Changbanpo, near Dangyang, was originally the north-south passage. It was blocked by a flat river from the south. When Cao Jun's cavalry rushed in and attacked fiercely, Mr. Zhang couldn't help but scream twice to embolden himself and then demolished the Dangyang Bridge and fled. Not to mention
Talk about Ma Zhong and these Jiangdong soldiers.
Indeed, Jiangdong's army is very tyrannical on the water, but on land, let's give it a 20% discount first...
The problem is that Jiang Dongbing didn't realize this at the beginning.
During the Han Dynasty, the climate in the south was hot. Without air conditioning, it was difficult for fat people to survive. Under the circumstances of survival, most of the Jiangdong people living in the south of the Han Dynasty were slightly short, flexible in stature, and had a low center of gravity, making them
It is easier to find the center of gravity on the undulating ship surface, and even toss and jump as if walking on flat ground.
People in the north, especially those in the white mountains and black waters, need to resist the cold without special warm clothing, and without fat layer, it is relatively difficult to survive, so the colder the place, the bigger the body.
, the thicker the fat, the stronger the ability to resist beating. Simply put, it means thicker blood and resistance to beating.
If you usually fight alone, it is difficult to draw a conclusion as to whether you are more flexible or have stronger health. However, in a military formation, when you are facing a group of hundreds or thousands of people gathered together, there is no doubt that the blood will be stronger.
The thick one occupies a natural advantage. In the military formation, there are people on both sides. No matter how flexible you are, where can you hide? The Jiangdong people who fell down after being hit saw the Qingzhou soldiers who were still fighting with bloody wounds all over their bodies.
Naturally, the liver and gallbladder are trembling.
Of course, this does not mean that Jiangdong soldiers are completely useless. When facing Cao Jun’s cavalry, Jiangdong soldiers also carried out a certain counterattack. Most of Jiangdong soldiers are part-time archers in the navy, and almost everyone is equipped with bows and arrows, so even if
Without any special instructions, he instinctively started shooting at Cao's cavalry.
Including Ma Zhong.
Within fifty steps of the bow and arrow, the penetrating power and lethality were astonishing. Cao Jun's cavalry who was shot almost immediately fell to the ground, and the men and horses rolled into a ball, but the distance of fifty steps could only make Jiangdong
The soldier only shot one or two arrows, and then the cold blade whizzed down the tip of his nose!
On the other side, for Cao Cao's cavalry, attacking the infantry, especially the archers, which are not in formation, is simply the most comfortable thing. They can charge as much as they want, and they can charge in whatever shape they want. Although
After saying that Cao Jun's cavalry fell some men and horses due to the counterattack of Jiangdong soldiers, but the next moment, Jiangdong soldiers cried for their fathers and mothers and were attacked into the shape of Cao Jun's cavalry.
At the extreme horse speed, the horses seemed to be galloping with their hooves in the air. Cao Jun's cavalry should huddle behind the horse's neck and minimize the area where arrows are received. Then, when they break into the Jiangdong soldiers' formation, they should use their sharp swords.
It suddenly shines and rises, bringing up pieces of flesh and blood!
Ma Zhong shot and killed several Cao Jun cavalry, and then Cao Jun cavalry rushed in front of him. With the use of horse power to chop down the saber, Ma Zhong almost couldn't resist. Then he saw the next Cao Jun cavalry stabbing him with a spear, which was frightening.
He let out a scream, no longer caring about his image and dignity, and rolled away like a lazy donkey.
In the blink of an eye, the long slope was a mess, filled with fireworks, and a sea of blood and corpses.
The Jiangdong soldiers were supposed to have a camp for shelter, but now there is a problem with the defense system itself. The passing convoys and mules are congesting the intersection and occupying a large area. In order to make these transferred materials safe and orderly, they can defend themselves in the camp.
The Jiangdong soldiers had to extend their management outwards, thus exposing the key points outside the original defense system.
Cao Jun came in for a surprise attack. If these baggage convoys could respond effectively, integrate, and form an array of baggage vehicles for confrontation, it might be a different situation. However, these transporters are all under different subordinates, and there is no such thing as Changbanpo.
General Jiangdong was in charge of the situation, how could they coordinate?
As a result, even Ma Zhong was running for his life in embarrassment, and Jiangdong's soldiers at Changbanpo naturally collapsed.
The cavalry of the Cao army that followed the charge rushed into the Jiangdong camp, throwing flammable objects everywhere, and killing and killing indiscriminately. Jiangdong soldiers and civilians were mixed together, running aimlessly on the battlefield while shouting. And those who had been there before
Sima, the transfer army lord who was coaxing in front of Ma Zhong, is not much better now. He is even more rude than the common people, just trying to escape with his tail between his legs!
Changbanpo, Dangyang Bridge.
Jiangdong soldiers played the role of Liu Bei's army in history. They were driven everywhere by Cao Jun's cavalry. The collapsed array could not be dealt with. Many of them had the same goal, which was the Dangyang Bridge on the Dangyang River!
Thousands of people rushed towards Dangyang Bridge, and then they were crowded on the bridge.
Then it was like constipation, stuck at the bridge end.
It was clear that the bridge was spacious after crossing it, but the Jiangdong soldiers and civilians crowded on the bridge were unable to move forward. The people who were stuck on the bridge blushed, and wanted to move forward, but they couldn't move.
I don't know how many people were squeezed out by the people behind and fell into the water. They were swept up by the river and floated downstream.
More and more fires were rising, and the goods that Jiangdong soldiers had finally plundered were ignited. Smoke filled the air, and among the flames, there was the sound of the cavalry's hooves getting closer and closer, plus the sound of control in the ears.
The constant panic and screaming this time have more and more destroyed the only sanity of these Jiangdong soldiers and civilians, and also caused them to lose the ability to think. They just want to escape along the flow of people, and then aggravate the danger of Dangyang Bridge.
The burden makes constipation more and more serious.
Cao Jun came closer, and then threw all the cloth, grease, etc. collected by Jiangdong soldiers towards the crowded crowd at Dangyang Bridge, and even drove the mules and horses directly to hit them, followed closely by torches...
There are so many people on the bridge and under the bridge. In fact, if it really burns, it may not be possible to burn them all at once. However, when people's natural fear of fire is ignited, even if they are not directly burned, they will scream in various ways.
Howl, the sound shook the sky. More and more people crowded on the bridge. The Dangyang Bridge, which was originally not very strong, could no longer support it. With the dense crowd on the bridge, it suddenly fell from the middle, splashing large pieces of water.
The water splash aroused even more shocking shouts!
