Chapter 572 Starry sky lights, lighting up the Southeast River
Chapter 572: Starry sky lights, lighting up Southeast River
This night, Xiangyang City seemed to be the same as before.
Xiangyang is always so quiet at night. On the city gate, there are Cao soldiers patrolling around, but that's all.
On the surface, Xiangyang may seem quieter than before.
But under this tranquility, something is happening that many people even within Cao Jun are unaware of.
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For example, outside the city, on the upper reaches of Fan River, where it intersects with the river, a cavalry team of no more than a hundred people suddenly appeared under the cover of night.
If you can look closer, you can actually see more clues.
Just from the armor on their bodies, it can be seen that they are covered in mud at this moment, almost blending in with the environment of the mountains and rivers on both sides of Fanshui.
And judging from their wet collars, it was very likely that they had been waiting on this mountain three days ago.
Because it had just rained in the upper reaches of Fanshui three days ago. The rain washed away a lot of mud and sand, but it also washed away the mud under some huge rocks on the mountain. It was so loose that it could be easily broken with just a little force.
Push those large rocks into the river in the valley.
The bright moon is in the sky, right above the heads of these "mud figures".
Suddenly...the melodious flute sound rang out all over the mountains and plains. The sound of the flute spread from one end of the mountain to the other, across the river valley, and seemed to wake up the entire mountain forest.
The whole mountain is "awakened"...
Nearly a hundred "clay figures" hidden throughout the mountains and forests responded to the call of the flute.
Finally...a burly man wiped his face with cold eyes, seemingly wiping away a lot of mud and water.
He held the leaf stem in his mouth and blew a series of rapid flute sounds with all his strength.
"Good guys, it's time to let these 'fish' from Jiangdong know that when fish are out of water, they are nothing!"
Rumble——
Accompanied by a thunderous noise, the huge rocks were wrapped in loose soil and rolled all the way along the ridge line, breaking countless thick trees, and rolled straight into the valley below the mountain.
The same thing happened everywhere in this narrow valley at the same time.
A rock rolling down from one place seemed like a drop in the bucket, but at one time nearly a hundred huge rocks rolled down, carrying countless debris with them. It only took less than a cup of tea to pour them into the deep river in the valley.
A magical thing happened. After this seemingly pointless act of Jingwei reclamation, although the river was not completely blocked, the fast river that had previously been able to carry large and small ships in parallel turned into a trickling stream.
This is the case upstream, and further down, the water becomes more and more subtle, until after flowing out of the valley, the river completely cuts off its trace.
Cheers like a roaring mountain and a tsunami came from both sides of the valley. Countless "mud figures" were excited that they had perfectly completed the task assigned to Yi Xiaotian.
The exhausted burly man sat on the top of the cliff, panting heavily, taking off the helmet on his head, and glancing down the river. That was where they started, and there was someone who could turn decay into magic.
Man, all the soldiers here trust him immensely.
"Mr. Yi, Yu Jin is fortunate to have lived up to his command."
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On the Xian Mountain, Zhuge Liang had a rare opportunity to investigate the situation in Xiangyang before the battle.
He may not know that the position he is standing is where Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were standing before, but even if he knew it, he would think it was just some boring coincidence.
He and Zhou Yu waited nervously for the fire in the city.
As long as there is fire, the soldiers who are ambushing behind them, like wolves and tigers, will rush forward, break through the city gate as quickly as possible, scale the city wall, and catch Cao's army off guard.
Zhou Yu sneered and said:
"It seems they don't know that we are already so close..."
"Sure enough... they no longer have the energy to send out so many informants... General Huang, look at the time... it should be about to start."
Zhuge Liang's eyes were rarely filled with murderous intent, and his voice was cold. He was still waving his feather fan rapidly at this moment - he was very nervous.
However, no one cares about this now.
They are all waiting for the killing cry from the east of the city...
Suddenly... there was a violent explosion from the east of the city.
From a distance, both Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu could clearly see that from the water in the distance, densely packed rockets were flying towards the east gate of Xiangyang like pear blossoms in a rainstorm.
"here we go!"
Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel excited in their eyes.
And after looking closer...
Above the Fan River, Huang Gai was full of energy and strength. He took the lead and shot an arrow at the east gate of Xiangyang. From a distance, he seemed to see a figure falling down, and a smile appeared on his lips.
"The whole army obeys the order! One team lights the fire, and the second team continues to replenish the fire arrows! Quickly suppress the defenders on the city wall!"
"The rest of the soldiers, follow me to the city!"
The heat evaporated by the flames formed a bulging cyclone on the river. While the flags were flying, Huang Gai gave an order. On top of the nearly 100-story ship, extremely thick pillars were poked out towards the distant east wall of Xiangyang.
Bamboo poles... You can see clearly only when you get close. These bamboo poles are not ordinary bamboos cut from the bamboo forest.
Instead, they were tied into a bundle, enough to carry dozens of people walking on it at the same time——
Huge bamboo bundles fell from the sky, and under the cover of the "rain of fire", they directly set up on the east wall of Xiangyang.
The heavy sound directly hit the sky above Xiangyang and thunder continued.
Under such circumstances, Soochow's navy was showing Cao Jun how the navy attacked the city.
Tens of thousands of naval forces attacked in unison. Amidst the thundering shouts of killing, a large number of soldiers sprinted on the bamboo bundles with shields and knives. From a distance, they looked like individual Soochow soldiers flying in the sky between the river and the city wall.
, it is really spectacular.
However…
Huang Gai laughed, but he only laughed for less than half a cup of tea.
He originally thought that Cao Jun in Xiangyang was really weak and had no room for resistance. He was extremely pitiful... But before his compassion could fall on the opponent's head, he saw the silence in the distance.
On the silent city wall, Cao Jun sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain.
The extremely patient Xu Huang and Cao Ren have been waiting for a long time. Just as Yi Xiaotian ordered, no matter how arrogantly the other side shoots arrows, all they need to wait for is a signal from the sky upstream of Fanshui River.
At this moment, just above the valley upstream of Fanshui, which Huang Gai had no idea about, a ray of light appeared in the center of the dark night sky.
The firelight was swaying and constantly drifting towards the sky, and this... was the signal that Yi Xiaotian wanted them to wait for - the Kongming Lantern... or rather, it should be called a "Sky Lantern" now!
A sky lantern swayed in the night sky, followed by ten, then a hundred... The weak firelight seemed insignificant under the starry sky, but the hundreds of sky lanterns connected together actually lit up the sky in the southeast of Xiangyang.
"That boy Yu Jin..."
"Now that Yu Jin has succeeded, Zixiao...it's time to give these "fish" from Soochow some color!"
Xu Huang showed an extremely confident smile, and Cao Ren looked at each other. The two of them stood upright on the city wall, and then with a wave of their hands, hundreds of carefully selected strongmen in the city finally squeezed out of the special hall of the craftsman's workshop.
A special "water division" weapon developed for this battle - Flying Bamboo Scissors.
