Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Mi Fang, Zang Ba and others were in the commander's tent. Zhou Ping led Zhuge Liang into the tent, while Zhang Wu stood outside the tent and went to the branch gate with Chen.
"Lord, Shucheng has a plan to defeat it."
Zhou Ping walked over and saluted Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed. He quickly stood up and walked over, holding Zhou Ping's hands, and said with a smile: "Hahaha, I know you must have a good idea, tell me quickly."
"This is Zhuge Kongming's plan." Zhou Ping turned to Zhuge Liang and said, "Kongming, come and talk to the lord."
"Oh, is it Kong Ming's plan?"
Liu Bei couldn't believe that this boy who was only sixteen years old had a plan to break the city.
Zhuge Liang told Liu Bei his plan.
Liu Bei was deeply worried after hearing this: "With such a hasty attack, there will be many casualties. If the city cannot be taken out, morale will be lost. Sir, is there no other good strategy?"
Zhou Ping replied: "My lord, if you want to break Shu City urgently, this strategy is very suitable. Wu Jing and Sun Ben are not good at fighting and defending. Now that Sun Ce has captured two counties in Jiangdong, his military strength is very strong, and he has long been determined to break away from Yuan Shu and stand on his own. These two
We are Sun Ce's uncle and uncle, and they are not willing to defend Shu City for Yuan Shu. Our attack is becoming more urgent, and we have left the southern city free to persuade them to abandon the city and flee. As I expected, they will abandon the city. If Shu City is destroyed,
Then stay in your nest and be afraid. When our troops approach the city, Zhang Xun is afraid that he will not attack but flee."
"My lord, Su also agrees with this strategy. If we delay the attack and wait until Sun Ce captures Kuaiji, his power will be stronger. If he leads troops to help, it will be more difficult for us to attack Lujiang."
Lu Su cupped his hands and said.
Now all the generals in the army call Liu Bei their lord.
"Brother, the enemy soldiers dare not go out to fight, and I also think we should attack urgently." Zhang Fei continued.
Zang Ba, Cao Cheng Mifang and others also agreed to attack urgently.
Liu Bei looked at everyone and said happily: "Since all the generals are willing to attack urgently, then we will attack urgently from three sides and break the city quickly."
"Zhang Yide and Zang Xuangao, you two lead 10,000 people to attack the east side of the city. Lu Zijing, lead your troops to attack the west side of the city. Li Gongliang, you lead 5,000 people and stay on the south road to guard against reinforcements from the south.
, and intercepted the deserters from Shu City, and the rest followed me to attack the north of the city."
Liu Bei ordered loudly.
"promise."
The generals responded with arms raised.
Li Jia first led 5,000 soldiers to set off, and detoured to the south of Shu City twenty miles away to lie in wait.
In his opinion, it was impossible for Zhang Xun from Juchao to lead troops to help. Even if Yuan Shu ordered him to bring troops to help, it was impossible to bring all the 10,000 soldiers from Juchao.
If he only brought five thousand soldiers, he would simply be giving credit to Li Jia.
Therefore, the key thing Li Jia needs to guard against is that the enemy soldiers in Shucheng will flee southward after leaving the city. When the time comes, they can all be stopped and no one can be spared.
Zhang Fei and Zang Ba led 10,000 troops to camp in the east city, while Lu Su led more than 13,000 troops to camp in the west city. The soldiers and horses from three sides built siege ladders at the same time, preparing to attack by force.
"My lord, soldiers are cunning. There is a saying in the art of war. Show what you can't do when you can, and show when you don't use it. Now if we want to attack by force, we must make the enemy generals think that we don't want to attack by force, so as to make them unprepared."
Zhou Ping said to Liu Bei.
"It would be better if the city's defenders could be made unprepared, but how can we make them unprepared?" Liu Bei asked.
"Since we have built the ladder to climb the city together on three sides, we can go to the city gate and shout to the city, saying that we are going to attack by force. The defenders in the city will definitely not believe it and will relax their guard."
Liu Bei was surprised and said: "Speak directly? Then shouldn't the enemy generals need to be more on guard?"
Zhou Ping smiled and said: "Not necessarily. If we tell the enemy generals directly, they will think that we are bluffing and want to scare them away. They may think that we are bluffing and we are real, but they don't expect that we are real and real.
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Liu Bei nodded and said, "Well, what you said makes sense, sir. If you tell them the truth, they won't believe it. Please go, sir."
Zhou Ping took Zhang Wu and rode to the city a hundred steps away.
Looking at the two generals on the city, he shouted: "Are these two generals Wu Jing and Sun Ben on the city?"
Wu Jing and Sun Bi stood on the city gate tower and looked at the two people outside the city. They saw only one person wearing silk clothes.
There was a wine gourd hanging on his waist, and one glance showed that he was not the leader of the army.
Another man was dressed in short clothes, carrying a long bow behind his back and a quiver on his waist. The horse he was riding was completely naked and was clearly a BMW.
According to what they heard, these two people were clearly Zhou Wen'an and his bodyguards.
"Exactly, are you Zhou Ping?" Wu Jing replied on the city.
"Sun Bofu is leading an army to attack Kuaiji. If the two generals don't go to help, why are they guarding the gate for Yuan Shu?"
Wu Jing didn't know how to answer for a while, but Sun Bi replied: "Bo Fu is so brave and Kuaiji can be defeated in just a day, so why should we go there? General Liu Xuande is not in Xuzhou, but he raised his troops here. Why?"
"Liu Zhengli, the shepherd of Yangzhou, was attacked by Yuan Shu. Of course my lord came here to revolt under the imperial edict. However, I heard that when the two generals were appointed governor of Danyang and captain of Danyang, they welcomed Liu Yangzhou to cross the river, but were captured by Liu Yangzhou again.
Therefore, my lord thought that the two generals had made great contributions to Liu Yangzhou in the past, and did not want to take their lives. We will attack this city by force in five days, but left the southern city empty and did not attack, in order to let the two generals leave.
I hope you will cherish the opportunity!”
After Zhou Ping finished speaking, he left.
"Hmph, what a threat. If they really wanted to attack the city, why would they come and tell us the date?"
Wu Jing didn't believe Zhou Ping's words.
"Having said that, we still have to be on guard. And looking at the stairs they created to climb the city, it seems they really want to attack the city. Let the soldiers step up their defenses in the past few days!"
Sun Ben was rather worried.
"Boyang, you are worrying too much. In my opinion, Zhou Ping must have thought that we, like the general Shouchun, would rebel out of fear. Liu Bei surrounded three people but only one was missing. He just wanted to force us away. He wanted to
If we abandon Shu City, he can seize the city without spending a single soldier. Hmm, he has a good idea."
"When you say that, I think they are bluffing," Sun Ben said.
"They were just bluffing, so we can rest easy." Wu Jing said with a smile.
Although Wu Jing and Sun Bi did not believe that Liu Bei would really attack, they still asked their soldiers to step up their defense.
So on the fifth day, they kept all the soldiers in the city awake to prevent the enemy from attacking the city.
But after waiting for a whole day, there were no signs of enemy troops attacking the city outside the city.
"Hahaha... I just said they were just bluffing and didn't dare to attack the city." Wu Jing laughed.
Sun Ben looked outside the city and found that the enemy soldiers outside the city no longer built ladders to climb the city. They seemed to be gathering in the camp and waiting for orders.
"Liu Bei may want to attack the city at night." Sun Ben expressed his judgment.
"Attack the city at night? How is that possible?" Wu Jing didn't believe it.
"Let all the soldiers go to the city to defend it tonight."
"That's fine." If you don't believe it, you still have to be careful.
After another night of guarding, there was still no movement outside the city. Until daybreak, no enemy soldiers outside the city came to attack the city.
Wu Jing completely didn't believe that Liu Bei would attack the city by force, and even Sun Bi didn't believe it either.
Two days later, not only did they not believe that Liu Bei would attack by force, but the soldiers in the city also didn't believe it. They had been waiting without sleep for the past few days, but could not find any enemy soldiers.
Now, except for the soldiers who took turns defending, the other soldiers were resting in the camp.
It was June 18th in the first year of Jian'an, which was the day Liu Bei and Zhou Ping agreed to attack the city.
Before dawn, each battalion was gathering troops and horses. As soon as the sun rose, they would attack the city with all their strength from three sides at the same time.
To the north, Liu Bei asked Xu Chu to lead the troops to charge into the city, and he personally supervised the battle from behind.
To the east, Yin Li led the troops to charge into the city, with Zhang Fei and Zang Ba supervising the battle from behind.
To the west, Lu Su personally supervised the battle, and Liu Bei told them not to attack too hard. After all, they were just a mob, as long as they could contain some of the enemy soldiers in the city.
Wu Jing and Sun Ben had just woken up when they heard soldiers rushing to report: "General, the enemy soldiers have begun to attack the city."
"How is it possible? From which side did they attack the city?"
"Except for the south, they attacked from three sides. They suddenly rushed to the bottom of the city and their attack was very fierce."
"Boyang, you go and defend the east side, and I'll defend the north side. We must defend the city."
Wu Jing came to the north wall.
The enemy soldiers outside the city were still filling in the trenches. Next to the trenches stood a row of shields that were taller than people. Behind the shields, in addition to the man holding the shield, there was also a crossbowman who was shooting at the city with a crossbow to cover the city.
Other soldiers filled in the trenches.
These crossbowmen stepped out of their shields and raised arrows to shoot at the city. After shooting the arrows, they immediately retracted behind their shields to load the arrows.
With the counterattack of these crossbowmen, the garrison on the city could not shoot at the people filling the trench at will, and dozens of people had been shot to death.
But the enemy soldiers filling the trenches outside the city were shot to death even more, and two to three hundred people had been shot down.
"Ziwei, put on your armor and go over there and shoot their commander."
Zhou Ping asked Zhang Wu to put on his armor, and several others walked to the trench with a large shield.
There were two people specifically looking for targets for him, mainly those who commanded the soldiers in battle.
Whenever he found an outcrop, he told Zhang Wu its location. Zhang Wu immediately drew out his shield and shot an arrow, which was sure to hit the target.
After shooting several military commanders to death, the garrison on the city did not dare to show their heads again, and the soldiers were also quite frightened. Many people did not dare to be exposed for a long time, and hurriedly shot the bows and arrows in their hands, regardless of whether the shot was accurate or not.
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The crossbows on the city were slightly suppressed, the ditch filling speed was faster, and the casualties were also reduced.
Two hours later, several passages were filled in. Xu Chu shouted and led the city warriors to carry the hook ladder for climbing the city. They rushed to the bottom of the city, erected the hook ladder and put the hook on the female wall.
"General, they're climbing up."
The guards on the city had never seen this formation before, and they screamed in fright.
After the enemy soldiers rush to the city, the bows and crossbows are useless.
"Quickly, smash down the wooden rocks and rocks, don't let them get on the city."
Wu Jing shouted all the way, but he saw that the enemy soldiers outside the city were attacking fiercely, and they seemed not to be afraid of death. They knocked down a few, and some others continued to climb up by grabbing hooks and ladders.
The situation in the east siege was similar, because Zang Ba's army also had a sharpshooter, this man was Yan Kuan, nicknamed Yan Mei.
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When I was in Langya before, it was difficult to win or lose compared with Zhang Wu.
According to Zhou Ping's suggestion, Yan Kuan, like Zhang Wu, approached the trench under the protection of a shield and shot military targets at the city.
Moreover, most of Zang Ba's troops were common people from the mountains. There were many people who were good at shooting, and their shooting rate was also very high. They actually suppressed the defenders on the city harder and filled the trenches faster.
Now Yin Li is leading his soldiers to climb the ladder to attack the city, while Zhang Fei and Zang Ba are supervising the attack from behind.
The offensive in the west was much weaker. The Chaohu thieves led by Lu Su lacked training and had few crossbowmen. When the other two sides had already attacked the city wall, they were still unable to fill in the passage and suffered casualties.
It is also larger than the other two sides.
"Lord, look, Xu Zhongkang was the first to board the city."
Zhou Ping kept a close eye on Xu Chu, fearing that he would be hit by a big rock, which would be totally worthless.
It wasn't until he saw Xu Chu climbing up the city wall with a big sword that Zhou Ping shouted happily.
Liu Bei looked from a distance and saw that the tall Xu Chu had indeed boarded the city, followed closely by his brother Xu Ding and other knights from the Hushi Camp.
"Zhongkang is really a tiger warrior!" Liu Bei praised.
With the first person climbing the city, it will be much easier for the second person, and with the second person, it will no longer be difficult to climb the city.
Xu Chu led the Hu Shiying camp to the city wall, slashed them with his sword, and allowed other soldiers on the ditch ladder to board the city wall smoothly.
The defenders in the city had never thought that the enemy soldiers would attack the city, but now they saw that the enemy soldiers were continuously scaling the city wall, and those who were the first to climb the city were as brave as tigers and leopards descending the mountain. They fought all the way, almost without stopping.
People can stop it.
Wu Jing first shouted an order: "Quick, go and stop them. Don't let the enemy soldiers board the city again."
But his orders have lost their effect. uu Kanshu www.uukanshu.com The soldiers also want to obey his orders and they can't stop him.
Wu Jing saw more and more enemy soldiers ascending to the city, but his own soldiers were being killed and were retreating. He knew that it would be difficult to defend the city.
He hurriedly led dozens of people down the city wall, and then sent people to the east to call Sun Ben and ask him to leave together.
Because one side was breached, the city was untenable, and if they didn't escape, they would have no chance. Fortunately, Liu Bei was kind and left the south side unattacked, allowing them to abandon the city and escape.
Wu Jing rode his horse and ran to the south gate, only to find that Sun Ben was already waiting for him here.
"The east side has been breached, the enemy troops have boarded the city, and we cannot defend it."
Sun Ben said anxiously.
"I really didn't expect that Liu Bei would actually attack the city and attack it with such force. Stop talking and let's leave quickly."
Wu Jing and Sun Bi led more than a thousand southern guards out of the city and headed south.
As soon as Wu Jing and Sun Bi ran away, the soldiers defending the city stopped resisting and did not follow them out of the city. At this time, they all dropped their weapons and begged to surrender.
Soon, the north and east gates were opened, and Liu Bei asked Mi Fang to lead his troops into the city. Zhang Fei and Zang Ba also led their troops into the city from the east.
After Wu Jing and Sun Ben ran for more than ten miles, Sun Ben asked: "Where should we go?"
"Of course we are going back to Jiangdong. If we go back to Wancheng like this, General Yuan will probably kill us," Wu Jing said.
"But our wives and children are all in Wancheng. If we abandon them like this, wouldn't we be harming them?"
"No, Sun Bofu is now in great power. General Yuan will not dare to harm him. We can go to Jiangdong to ask for help from Bofu."
Sun Bi hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, then let's go to Jiangdong and ask Bo Fu to lead the army to defeat Liu Bei."
The two of them reached a consensus and continued to move forward, but unexpectedly, a group of soldiers and horses suddenly appeared in front of them, blocking their way.