Cai Mao, Cai Xun and others had long known that the gap would be difficult to hold for a long time and that the probability of being broken through by the enemy was extremely high, so they had made preparations in advance.
At the beginning of the war, they ordered the civilians to bring antlers, wooden fences and other objects to form a semicircular simple wall with the gap in the city wall as the center. This was the Yanyue Camp mentioned in the military book.
After the city wall was breached, the defenders immediately retreated into the simple wall and relied on the wall to fight again.
Chu Fang led his troops to pursue and defeat the enemy, and rushed into the city. It was about to be night, and his vision was unclear. It was not until he took a few steps that he discovered that the enemy had silently built a simple inner wall.
Chu Fang was shocked and could not think too much at this moment. He raised his spear with one hand and danced his halberd with the other, leading his soldiers to attack the enemy wall.
However, before approaching the wall, the enemy's arrows came like locusts. Although Liu Jing's soldiers were heavily armored, they were still unable to withstand the enemy's stormy attacks. The soldiers rushing in front fell like wheat.
Down.
Although the wall made of antlers and wooden fences was very crude, it could still provide a certain degree of protection. The defenders no longer had to engage Liu Jingjun hand-to-hand. They only had to hide behind the wall and shoot arrows. Before the wall was knocked down, Liu Jingjun quickly
It is difficult to pose a threat to them.
Seeing people from left and right rushing to the ground, many of whom died trying to block his arrows, Chu Fang's eyes were about to burst, like a crazy beast, he rushed straight to the wooden fence, held a halberd in both hands, and struck heavily from bottom to top.
On the wooden fence, the wooden fence immediately fell apart like flowers scattered by the rain.
The three or four Jiangling defenders in the rear were all hit by fragments of the wooden fence and retreated screaming. The rest looked at Chu Fang, who was extremely strong, but they were also timid before fighting, and lost ground in advance and retreat.
"Kill..." Chu Fang jumped over the wall, and the big iron halberd pierced the throat of an enemy soldier like lightning. With a strong pull, his head rolled to the ground, and blood spurted out from the broken neck.
Chu Fang's eyes were red, as if they were biting people, and the big iron halberd swept through the crowd like a windmill. If it touched him, he would be injured, and if he touched it, he would die. The enemy soldiers were like women and children in front of him, with no power to fight back, and they were instantly killed.
Killed and scattered.
At this moment, Liu Jing's soldiers also rushed into the wall along the gap, followed Chu Fang, and rushed through the enemy's formation, killing them crazily.
Although it was dark now, Chu Fang was particularly dazzling in Cai Mao's eyes. He urgently mobilized his elite troops to pursue and intercept Chu Fang and others. Chu Fang's advance was quickly blocked, and then he was besieged by the defenders from all directions.
Chu Fang was in danger and had to lead his troops to break out. At this time, the situation at the rear was also not good.
The gap in the city wall was only a few feet wide, so Liu Jingjun could only enter in batches. The semi-curved inner wall of the Jiangling defenders was able to attack Liu Jingjun entering the city from multiple directions. In addition, the sky was dark, and Liu Jingjun was attacked by the enemy before he could figure out the situation after entering the city.
The army killed more than half of them, and most of the remaining people fell in front of the enemy's wall.
After a bloody battle, Chu Fang successfully broke through the encirclement, but the people around him were gone, and everyone was injured. Chu Fang himself was not spared.
At this moment, a clear clang sounded outside the city.
Liu Jing obviously also discovered that his side was in an unfavorable situation, and any further fighting would only increase casualties, so he decisively paid for his troops and retreated.
Although Chu Fang was unwilling to do so, he could only accept the reality and lead his people to exit the city wall.
Cai Mao ignored the celebration of victory and once again ordered the civilians to collect wood, repair the wall, and prepare to block the gap in the city wall overnight and build a stronger inner wall.
In order to gather enough wood, he directly ordered the houses in the county government to be demolished. Liu Qi knew the seriousness of the matter and did not object.
Of course, Liu Jing did not want to see the enemy repairing the city wall, and sent people to harass them at night. Liu Jing's move greatly delayed the progress of repairing the city wall. It was not until late at night that the defenders used wooden palisades and stones to repair the two layers of the city wall inside and outside.
, seal the fracture.
The next day, Liu Jing once again dispatched hundreds of flying stone chariots to attack the gap, destroying all the wooden fences and stone barriers, and then launched another attack. At the same time, he ordered Gan Ning and Han Guang to attack the city from the east and west to divide the city.
Its guards.
Seeing that the city wall that had been repaired so hard was destroyed by Liu Jingjun's flying stone chariot in the blink of an eye, Cai Mao was extremely angry, but had no choice but to continue collecting wood and stones to repair it again.
In the next few days, the two sides launched an extremely brutal offensive and defensive battle around the break in the city wall. The area only a few feet wide was like a death whirlpool, constantly taking away the lives of soldiers on both sides.
The city wall needs to be repaired countless times every day. After all the houses in the county are demolished, Cai Mao orders the demolition of private houses. As for causing criticism from the scholars and the people, he can't care about that now. If Jiangling falls, he will most likely die. It's a matter of concern.
Your own life, everything else is secondary.
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In the middle of the night, the rain gurgled and slapped the eaves.
Cai Xun lay flat on the couch, his brows furrowed, his face changing, as if he had dreamed of something bad. Suddenly, Cai Xun woke up from his sleep, sat up, sweating profusely, and a look of panic in his eyes
.
Cai Xun looked around and saw that he was in his own house. He realized that he was dreaming and finally calmed down. The dream he had just now was really terrible. Looking back now, he still shudders.
In his dream, Jiangling fell, and he followed his brother Cai Mao to break out and escape all the way back to Caizhou, the land of the Cai clan. However, just as he was reunited with his family and sharing their family life, Liu Jingjun suddenly arrived and launched a bloody massacre of the entire Cai family, including men, women, and children.
, with no more chickens or dogs left, the once prosperous Caizhou was reduced to a place of death. Cai Xun was captured by Liu Jingjun at home. He watched helplessly as his parents, wife and children were hacked to death with random knives. After a frantic struggle, he woke up from his dream.
"I don't want to die..." Cai Xun muttered to himself as he sat in front of the bed with a blank expression.
Liu Jing seems to be the nemesis of the Cai family. In the past three years, the two sides have fought several times, including Cai Zhong, Cai He and other clan leaders. As many as ten of the Cai family's children died at the hands of Liu Jing. Almost all of the Cai family's military children died.
Cai Xun was very lucky and was one of the few people who survived.
But he is going to die soon!
No one knows the reality of Jiangling better than him, the northern city guard. Jiangling can hold on for another ten days at most. Considering the grudges between Cai Mao and Liu Jing, Liu Jing will never let him go after the city of Jiangling is destroyed.
And the children of the Cai family who hold high positions like Cai Xun are bound to be implicated to avoid future troubles. As for escaping back to his hometown like in the dream, the reality is not a dream after all. The chance of escaping is very slim, and even if he is lucky enough to succeed, in the end
Death is still inevitable.
In this war for Jingzhou, Cai Xun was more optimistic about Liu Jing. The latter would definitely win in the end, so there was no point in escaping.