Maybe it was the power of yesterday's replica of the Pili Car that gave Zhou Lang too much confidence.
It may also be that Zhou Yu really didn't expect that even though Cao Cao in the north was busy with the Hanzhong war, he would still be able to influence the war situation in Hefei.
Of course... Yi Xiaotian, who suddenly came to Xiangyang to disrupt the situation, is even more "sinful".
But none of this can be changed - in just one day, with only 200 people and two cavalry reinforcements, Hefei City's defense became far stronger than yesterday.
Zhou Yu, who had just opened his eyes from sleep and was ready to welcome the new day, was now standing on the south bank of Shishui, standing on the high earth fortress, eyes wide open, hoping that he had fallen asleep and looked at
What an illusion.
Unfortunately, after a while, Sun Quan's angry and confused voice completely woke Zhou Yu up.
"This... how is this possible! In one night! How did they build the city wall and then widen and thicken the city wall!!"
You're right to be shocked.
According to the spies, a group of troops had been sent out from Hefei City before. Although they did not know who led them, Zhou Yu and Sun Quan, who knew this, subconsciously thought that Hefei was no different than an empty city.
"Only with their ten thousand weak defenders? How is this possible!!"
Sun Quan screamed so hard that his saliva came out.
It's not his fault. Anyone who has fallen from being confident of victory to having no confidence will have the idea of expletive. Sun Quan may have restrained himself enough.
But while he was howling like this, Zhou Yu beside him had no ability to answer him.
After brewing for who knows how long, maybe because he recognized the reality, Zhou Yu finally responded in a low voice:
"Zhong Mou... I may have thought wrong before..."
"Fortunately, we haven't made any big mistakes yet——"
Some make up for it, this is a reality that Zhou Yu recognizes, because if the other party really seizes the opportunity like last night when they relaxed their vigilance, maybe he has already made the same mistake as Zhang Zhao.
——
In the next half day, the soldiers of Soochow, who had lost all illusions, carried out an extremely brutal siege battle under the command of Sun Quan, who was on the verge of collapse, and Zhou Yu, who was suppressing his anger.
In order to defeat the Hefei City surrounded by iron walls, Zhou Yu, who broke the pot and broke it, directly ordered the excavation of the river——
As long as the water supply is diverted and bypassed Hefei, the city of Hefei will fall into a state of water shortage in the shortest possible time.
Although he didn't know how much food the other party had in stock, since the other party didn't transport food, Zhou Yu could only make a fuss on the water.
Zhou Yu, who had the advantage of water and land, almost regarded Shishui as his own moat, and he could dig as much as he wanted.
Tens of thousands of soldiers stormed Hefei, while the rest took the opportunity to dig river channels.
In one day, the water was diverted. Such a huge project, even if it was not a wartime strategy, was enough to be recorded in the annals of history.
However…
In the next three days, Zhou Yu understood what it meant to wait until the flowers had withered——
The imagined water shortage in Hefei City never came.
If there hadn't been a spy in the city who desperately sent the message and told Zhou Yu: Zhang Liao listened to Liu Ye and others' suggestions and dug countless wells in the city long before they dug water -
Here we are going to talk about the topography of Hefei City.
Of course the ancients would not have noticed this, but within Cao Cao's camp, some tips or warnings that Yi Xiaotian accidentally spread would be widely disseminated.
For example, when fighting an enemy's water cutoff, the first thing to analyze is your own terrain.
Surrounded by mountains, the city is generally low-lying - so don't be afraid of being cut off from water, because as long as you are not unlucky, you can get water anywhere in the city by drilling wells.
After knowing this, Cao Jun had never encountered such a situation before, and it happened to happen this time.
Under the leadership of Zhang Liao, Cao's army, which was digging wells in the city one after another, had extremely high morale.
Wave after wave of attacks by Soochow soldiers were repelled.
And Zhou Yu, who wasted two days without achieving any effect, was so angry that his head was about to smoke.
However, Zhou Yu could certainly withstand these setbacks.
After all, after experiencing Xiangyang's brutal conspiracy, Zhou Yu would not collapse easily no matter what.
——
If cutting off the water supply fails, it is natural to find other methods.
A frontal force attack is indeed a good method - when attacking a city, besiege it five times and attack it ten times. Although the current ratio of Soochow and Cao's troops is less than ten times, it is definitely enough to be able to directly encircle it.
quantity.
But it was precisely because of this that Zhou Yu fully understood the tenacity of Hefei City.
"Thunderbolt car, charging car, shield array, high ladder - everything that can be used has been used! It's not enough... It's still not enough!!"
Sun Quan looked anxious. In order to fight this war, he really emptied his entire family fortune.
In the past, when he sold his teammates, he sold them quickly because the soldiers were not his own. Of course, he didn't feel it.
But these soldiers and horses now have been silently trained by Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others in the past ten years. There are even a group of soldiers who have experienced the Battle of Chibi and are absolutely meritorious, but they were all dragged to the battlefield by Sun Quan.
But now, watching the siege battle that should have ended magnificently, it unexpectedly fell into a stalemate, and Sun Quan bit his lip until it bled.
"Zhongmou...don't...don't be anxious...I...I still have a way!"
The reason for panic is very simple. Although Zhou Yu said so, he was still a little stretched.
He really didn't expect that against the well-trained soldiers he sent to pile up soil, the other party would actually raise the city wall faster than they did.
He just wanted to build slopes that extended from under the city wall to above the city wall to provide a slope that was enough to buffer the soldiers who climbed the city.
However, he built a steep slope ten feet high in one day, and the other party built a city wall fifteen feet high in half a day.
It was all rammed earth, so there was no need to laugh at each other. In a short period of time, this earth slope did not send anyone up to the city wall. After a while, it was smashed into pieces by Cao Jun with thick wooden poles.
The key is...because it's a slope, good guys, all the rolling logs and rocks collected by Zhang Liao before were put to use.
As a result, Zhou Yu made no progress at the end of the day, but suffered heavy casualties.
——
However, we have already reached this point.
At night, Zhou Yu knelt down in front of Sun Quan sincerely. Now he reported to Sun Quan completely as a coach:
"Lord! Give me three more days! I will definitely be able to capture that wall of Hefei! If one side is broken, it will be broken on all sides. Please...please give me another chance, Lord!"
What Zhou Yu said was so sincere that Sun Quan, who had been feeling pain for a long time, could not help but bow down to Zhou Yu.
Sun Quan, who had known each other as his brother in the past, really had no way to blame Zhou Yu for being so decisive.
But it’s a pity…
Three days later, Zhou Yu was even more desperate than he was when he knelt down that night.
