The Wu army began to encircle Hefei in March (AD 222), and then launched a water attack. Lü Meng built embankments on three sides to encircle the siege, which seemed impeccable. However, looking at the entire Huainan war situation, the situation was still extremely delicate: although Zhuge Liang was in charge of Hefei at this time,
However, there were only 5,000 defenders, which was by no means the real main force of the Han army. The reason was that the rest of the Han army was divided into two parts, one was led by Du Ji and was stationed near Lu'an, and the other was led by Ma Dai
He led the troops and stayed behind at Shouchun, the base camp. One to the west and one to the north, they were like tigers peeping into the mountains, making the Wu army look like awns on their backs.
When the Wu army was encircling and building the weir, Zhuge Liang sent a message to the two troops to arrange the encirclement. He thought that the Wu army was encircling the encirclement with all its strength. Although its force was large and its siege was tight, it would take several months to break the city. At this time,
The Wu army is like a dead thing sitting in the long siege. The Han army can criticize and attack the weakness and send troops to Liyang, Longshu and other places. Once the Wu army can be forced to divide their troops to rescue them, the Han army can either directly return to the army to relieve the siege, or
Setting up an ambush and reinforcements halfway can greatly alleviate the dilemma of the siege of Hefei.
By April, the dams around Hefei were built, and the Wu navy entered the lake in large numbers, approached the city with huge ships, and tried to engage the Han army in Hefei. However, when they approached, they found that the Han army's response was unconventional. The Wu people
Arrows flew like locusts from the building ships, but the Han army defending the city hid behind the city ultimatum and did not fight back at all, as if they allowed the Wu people to approach the building ships. The Wu forwards did not dare to make their own decisions and immediately reported the matter to their coach Lu Meng.
Lü Meng was also very surprised, but since he could safely approach the city, there was no reason not to use troops to try. After a slight hesitation, Lü Meng ordered his soldiers to attack against the wall.
In this attack on the city, Lü Meng used four tower ships. They stood side by side and were huge in size. They looked like the legendary Kunpeng from a close look. The tower ships carried six thousand Wu troops inside, making them a veritable fortress on the river. Lü Meng ordered them to attack first.
To the south of Hefei City, once a breakthrough is made, five ships from the rear will come to respond and seize the city of Hefei in one go.
At this time, the wind was southeasterly, and the Wu people's building ships sailed with the wind at an extremely fast speed. In a moment, they were close to the Han army's arrow range. However, just as the situation seen before, the Han army did not take the initiative to fight back.
They continued to remain silent and waited for the building boat to move forward. At this time, the Wu people were also extremely careful. They slowed down the speed of the boat and prepared the wooden ladders and long rails for attack on the ship's side. Then they held their breath and waited until the building boat was in contact with the city wall.
The moment of collision.
After a "click" sound, a thunderous drum sound suddenly sounded from the high platform of the building ship, which was the order to attack. The soldiers also shouted and swarmed like ants towards the junction of the ship's side and the city wall. Because the building ship
The deck of the ship was already extremely high, and since the beginning of summer, the water level had also risen sharply, causing the side of the Wu people's ship to be almost flush with the Hefei city wall, and some were even several feet higher. The Wu people easily set up the wooden ladder.
Then they climbed up and attacked the city wall. In their expectation, they would need to occupy a section of the city wall and wait until reinforcements arrived to win.
But it was at this time that the Wu people who were engaged in the battle suddenly discovered that among the flags flying at the top of Hefei City, there were some long poles without flags, which were bare and dazzling. It is worth noting that these long poles were not
It is upright, but slightly tilted, and the end seems to be wrapped with something. Under the thing, there seems to be a rope connected to some mechanism, and it looks like a nondescript racket.
Before they could get any closer to observe, a blast of stones pierced the air, breaking the din of war drums. In the blink of an eye, these long poles like lightning fell down like lightning, driving straight into the side of Wu's ship.
To Wu's surprise, the deck on his side seemed to be made of paper. When the rods fell, the objects on top fell out, smashing the fir trees into pieces almost instantly, and further damaging the elm wood in the lower part of the hull.
Only then did the Wu people realize that the tops of these long poles were installed with special stones! These giant beasts, which were said to be invincible on the river, were riddled with holes due to stone attacks in just a quarter of an hour. There were also some
The pole missed the boat and hit the water surface, causing a large number of huge waves.
The Wu people never expected that they would encounter such a terrifying weapon: with just one blow, the sides of the four building ships were torn open with wounds that could not be ignored, and a large amount of lake water poured into the ships.
Such fragments were floating across the river, and there were some unspeakable bloody pieces of flesh. And they didn't even have time to pay attention to how many casualties there were. They only had one idea: turn around and evacuate immediately! If they continued to stay at the city head and the river water poured in, it would cause the building to collapse.
The ship sank completely, and the Wu people were completely unable to board the city in this situation.
The brief sound of drums disappeared and was replaced by the golden sound that meant the withdrawal of troops. However, the ship was so heavy and heavy that it was usually extremely difficult to turn around. But now that there were a lot of cracks, how could they withdraw safely? The Wu army gave up the siege.
While they were busy instructing the sailors to turn around, the Han troops on the top of the city also used turntables and ropes to gradually put away the fallen shooting poles. The Wu people watched helplessly as they pulled the shooting poles up to a high place, praying in their hearts that they could quickly
It is a pity that it is impossible for them to leave.
Seeing that the building ship had not left the attack range, the Han army was not dragging its feet at all. After loosening the rope again, dozens of racket poles exerted force again, slowly crossing the top of the parabola, and then rapidly falling towards the Wu fleet.
The Wu people could only retaliate with arrows. As a result, the sound of the rocks falling into the river and hitting the building boats completely overwhelmed the Wu people. The continuous huge waves caused by the stones were only
It can only be described as landslides and earth splitting, mountains and rivers changing color. Since the advent of building ships, no one has ever used such a method to counter the navy. On calm waters, they directly used countless stones to attack the navy.
Ship and body completely destroyed!
The five buildings and ships watching the battle from a distance and ready to join the battlefield at any time could only have a lucky mood to escape. They watched their comrades being destroyed bit by bit, crushed, collapsed, disintegrated, until they overturned and
It sank. After a while, countless corpses slowly began to surface, all over the river, drifting with the current. There were also countless disintegrated wooden boards of various sizes floating up and down, and the fragments were spinning and hitting each other on the water. After the Han army stopped sending shots,
, the waves on the water surface finally became calm, and the four huge buildings disappeared.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It turns out that Zhuge Liang has already thought about the situation of Wu Jun using water attacks. In his opinion, if he just shoots arrows against Wu Jun in the city, it is equivalent to sitting on nothing. Once the arrows are used up,
The defenders had no countermeasures, and it was only a matter of time before they fell. So he thought hard all night and designed a new type of weapon called the clap pole, specifically to target Wu Jun's navy.
This was his inspiration based on the stone-throwing chariot. Although manpower is used to throw stones, although the destructive power is huge, it is difficult to hit when approaching the enemy, and there is a high probability that the stone-throwing chariot will be used. Therefore, the stone-throwing chariot is only used when attacking a city. However, Zhuge Liang inspected
After passing the Wu people's boat master, I suddenly had a whim. What if instead of throwing stones directly, I used a wooden pole with a huge stone fixed at one end? The principle is similar to that of a trebuchet. It is nothing more than setting up a fifty-foot-high pole at the top of the city.
A long log with a polished boulder attached to one end, and the other end fixed with a pulley. The ups and downs were pulled by a rope wheel. Once an enemy ship approached within fifty feet of the city, the soldiers relaxed the rope, and a section of the boulder suddenly fell down.
, it will definitely be able to penetrate the ship. I tried it today, and it really worked wonders.
After the Wu army lost four large ships, they temporarily gave up the idea of attacking the city directly. Instead, they turned to a long-term siege, intending to use the navy to starve the Han army to death. But next, Ma Dai and Du Ji
It was time for the troops to take action. The two of them waited until late June, when the rainy season stopped, and divided their troops into two groups, one on the left and the other on the right, to break into the rear of the Wu people. Du Ji was in charge of Shu County, which is located in Chaozhou and near the lake.
Dai was responsible for the area around Liyang, Fuling, and Quanjiao. Since the Wu people did not leave many defenders behind, the two of them easily defeated them all. The Wu people only had control of Ruxuwu.
In mid-July, after Sun Quan learned the news, he knew that Lü Meng could not withdraw his troops, so he personally led 30,000 naval troops to Ruxuwu to supervise the formation, and strictly ordered Lü Meng not to look back and continue the siege. When Du Ji and Ma Dai saw Sun Quan's arrival in person, they realized that
The terrain of Ruxuwu was difficult to capture easily. After a few days of trial attack, they chose to abandon the original plan. Du Ji believed that since Sun Quan came to help, Lu Meng and others thought that the rear was safe and they must relax. It was the Han army who turned around to break the siege.
It was a good opportunity. After he persuaded Ma Dai, he also withdrew his troops from Ruxuwukou late at night. At the same time, he ordered to abandon the cities in Huainan that had been conquered and immediately go to Hefei to relieve the siege.
It was early autumn at this time, and the Han army's horses were getting fat. It had not rained for more than ten days, so it was a refreshing autumn day. The Han army was galloping on the flat ground, showing off its famous speed. Sun Quan only discovered the Han army in the morning.
The army withdrew, and by noon, Du Ji and others had already appeared under the weir dam in Hefei. The Wu army on the weir dam had been besieged for a long time and was indeed not ready to meet the enemy. Many people were still resting in the camp and were not included in the list.
When they were in formation, they were rushed down the weir embankment by Han cavalry.
After Du Ji occupied a camp, the two sides immediately acted as planned: Ma Dai led half of the soldiers to stand firm when encountering the enemy, while he led the other half to immediately start digging the dike. By late that night, the Wu army tried to recapture the camp several times, but was defeated several times.
Ma Dai was defeated. However, the Han army successfully dug up the embankment. Thousands of waves suddenly poured out from the gap, turning into floods and sweeping down, turning the surrounding land into a marsh. Many Wu people were swept away and disappeared.
, and most of the large ships and large ships that originally surrounded Hefei quickly ran aground due to the drop in water level, and only small boats were able to return to Shishui.
However, the actions of the Han army ended here. After the dam collapsed, Hefei was surrounded by swamps, which was no longer suitable for the two armies to attack and fight, especially for the cavalry. However, after the arrival of autumn, it was impossible for the Wu people to use water again.
The tactics used to attack Hefei and allow them to break through the city with huge casualties were obviously impossible. Both sides knew that this battle could no longer continue, so they stopped making more attempts to fight.
In early August, after the Wu people dragged all the stranded ships into Shishui, they no longer stayed and slowly retreated to Ruxuwu under the watchful eyes of the Han army. This also meant that this year's war between Han and Wu had finally come to an end.
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