Emperor Shuang: The counterattack started from the Gaopingling Incident Chapter 41 Cao Shuang captures Jingzhou (Part 2) Cao Shuang fakes his death and defeats Jingzhou in white clothes!
Chapter 41 Cao Shuang captures Jingzhou (Part 2) Cao Shuang fakes his death and defeats Jingzhou in white clothes!
Wang Ling continued stroking his beard and said with a smile: "This is a good plan, General. In this way, we can capture Jingzhou with fewer casualties. Then I will let all the generals take turns in the battle tomorrow morning, so that they can have the pleasure of fighting!"
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Cao Shuang smiled and said: "Generals Zhang and Le, tomorrow you two will take a hundred soldiers back to Xiling, look for more than ten merchant ships, buy several hundred dans of salt, four to five hundred sets of merchants' white clothes, and then invite the generals of Xiling
Only by coming together with the merchant Cai Mi can the generals under Zhuge Ke have more confidence in our identity as merchants."
Zhang Te cupped his hands and said: "General, I will obey the order. The two generals want to set off from the waterway overnight, so that they can reach Xiling at the end of Haishi tomorrow, and this can also save some time for the army to fight quickly!"
Cao Shuang patted Zhang Te on the shoulder and said: "I wanted the two generals to rest for one night before rushing on. Since the two generals are so keen on fighting, let's set off quickly tonight!"
Zhang Te and Le Fang received the military orders and led a hundred soldiers out of the Wei army camp, found a fighting ship, and headed down the river to Xiling.
Early the next morning, Wang Ling took Zhuge Dan, Guanqiu Jian, and Deng Ai out of the camp with 10,000 horses and went to the Dadong Gate of Jingzhou to call for a battle. Zhuge Dan held a short iron whip in both hands at the bottom of the city and shouted: "
General Ding Feng in the city, yesterday you severely wounded our general Wen Qin, and made our general so angry that he became seriously ill and bedridden. I will definitely kill you on behalf of General Wen Qin today!"
Ding Feng laughed and said: "Haha, the general of your family is so sick that he is bedridden? I think he used poison and burned him to death the night before yesterday. He drowned too many of my Jiangdong children. The heroes of Jiangdong came to ask for his life. I think he may die soon."
It’s over!”
Ding Feng raised his hand and said to Zhuge Ke who was standing aside: "Prefect, Cao's thieves are really too arrogant. I am willing to go out of the city to fight with Cao's thieves, so as to kill Cao's army with great prestige!"
Zhuge Ke said: "Chengyuan be careful. If you can fight, fight with all your strength. If you are no match for the enemy, then quickly retreat back to the city to prevent Cao's army from cheating!"
Ding Feng went to the city to get short soldiers and iron-spine snake spears, and asked the soldiers to open the city gate. He went out of the city to fight Zhuge Dan alone.
Ding Feng said sternly: "Thief general, take Grandpa's spear!" As he said that, he thrust out a spear. Zhuge Dan held up two short iron whips to resist, and his hands were hurt from the shock.
Zhuge Dan was not a vegetarian either. After dodging a sharp blow from Ding Feng's iron halberd and spear, he hit Ding Feng on the head with two whips and shouted: "Thieves will also take my two whips!"
Ding Feng hurriedly changed his posture, holding the spear horizontally in front of him, blocking Zhuge Dan's sharp attack. The horses on both sides were also pressed by the force of the two attacks to resist, and their front legs were bent, as if the mounts would be completely unable to support them if some force was exerted.
Under the weight of the two of them, he collapsed to the ground.
The two of them fought back and forth for a hundred rounds under the scorching sun in May, both of them dripping with sweat. Ding Feng's patience was almost exhausted today, so he pulled out a short knife from his waist and used it with one hand.
He held a spear to resist the attack of Zhuge Dan's double short whips, and slashed at Zhuge Dan's left wrist with the dagger. Zhuge Dan had to move away to dodge.
Ding Feng seized the opportunity, turned his spear, and stabbed Zhuge Dan in the chest. Zhuge Dan couldn't dodge, and he was about to be stabbed with blood and a small hole in his chest. Wang Ling saw that the situation was not good.
Then he said loudly: "Zhong Gong, Shi Zai, please come forward and lend a helping hand to Duke Xiu!"
Guanqiu Jian and Deng Ai immediately rode forward. Guanqiu Jian held a fine iron sword and rushed forward quickly. He shouted: "Thieves, take my sword!" They attacked Ding Feng's vital points, but Deng Ai
He held Deng Ai's sword, which was more than three feet long. Without saying a word, he swung away the spear that was about to pierce Zhuge Dan's chest. The sound of the weapons from both sides colliding continued.
When Zhuge Ke saw three Wei generals fighting against Ding Feng, he was afraid that he would be unable to stand alone, so he loudly shouted: "Get my sword!" After a moment, the trusted soldiers beside him took Zhuge Ke's sword. Zhuge Ke immediately carried the long sword and went down to the tower.
He got on his horse and headed out of the city.
Zhuge Ke said loudly: "Don't panic, Chengyuan, I'm here to help you!" The five of them immediately fought together, with the sound of swords and spears clashing. After another hundred rounds of fierce fighting, both sides were exhausted, so they
Let's make a truce and wait until tomorrow to fight again.
Zhuge Ke and Ding Feng thought that they could have a truce today, but unexpectedly in the afternoon Wang Ling led 40,000 horses out of the camp and prepared ladders, wooden blocks, thunder chariots, and wooden curtains (an ancient attack machine with wooden planks as cover).
City chariots), hook chariots (a destructive siege equipment) and other siege implements, each of the east, south, west and north gates was divided into 10,000 troops, and a nest chariot more than ten feet high was placed at the east gate.
Inspecting the movements of the Wu army in the city, Guanqiu Jian, Deng Ai, and Zhuge Dan each attacked one gate, while he personally fought at Yinbin Gate in the east.
The "Thunderbolt Chariot" is a stone-throwing device. Cao Cao used a stone-throwing vehicle in the Battle of Guandu. Because the sound when throwing stones was very loud, it was named "Thunderbolt Chariot". It is the earliest stone-throwing device recorded in history books (
Zizhi Tongjian: Yuan Shao built a mountain of earth in the camp, built tall buildings, and shot arrows at Cao Cao's camp...Cao Cao built a thunder chariot, used huge rocks to attack the tall buildings, and destroyed them one by one).
The chariot, also known as the chariot, was mainly used as a strategic weapon for sieges in ancient times. It was a lookout cart specially used to observe the enemy's situation. The cart was equipped with wheels at the bottom and could be pushed. Two long wooden poles were erected on the cart.
A pulley shaft (pulley) is set at the top of the column, and a small wooden house is tied to the pulley with a rope. The wooden house is nine feet high and four feet square. There are twelve lookout holes on all sides. It is covered with rawhide to prevent enemies.
Arrow stone destruction.
The house can accommodate two people, and it is raised several feet by a pulley. During the siege, the situation of enemy soldiers in the city can be observed. During the Battle of Yanling in 575 BC, the King of the Chu Communist Party, accompanied by Dazai Bo Zhouli, personally boarded the nest.
The chariot was used to observe the enemy's situation. When Wang Mang's army besieged Kunyang in 23 years, a large nest chariot with a height of more than ten feet was built to observe the dynamics of the defenders in the city. It was called a cloud chariot.
Zhuge Ke scolded Wang Ling, an old man, for his lack of martial ethics at the head of the east gate city. He had agreed to a truce today and would fight again tomorrow? At the same time, he hurriedly ordered his soldiers to fight and defend.
Outside the east gate, Wang Ling boarded the Chao Chao to observe the movements of the Wu army in Jingzhou City. Following the orders of the four siege generals, the artillery continued to fill the Perak Chariot with stones weighing about twenty kilograms, and threw 290
Outside the Jingzhou City Wall, dense rain of stones kept coming towards the Jingzhou City. For a while, the Jingzhou City Wall kept making thunderous noises. Although it could not directly destroy the high walls and thick fortifications, it could also create shallow holes on the city wall towers.
The unlucky Wu Jun soldiers were smashed until their brains burst...
Relying on the high height of Jingzhou's city and its thick walls, Zhuge Ke was not afraid of the Wei army's thunderbolt chariots and stones. As long as he had enough troops and food to hold on for half a year, he would not worry about the city walls being smashed. The new city of Jingzhou was built by Guan Yu, using black clay and yellowish brown.
The bottom is sandy soil, which is rammed layer by layer. The rammed layers are thick and covered with large hard city bricks. Curved cities are built outside each city gate. Each curved city is not the same. They are all adapted to the local situation and are shaped like a semi-circular main city.
The gate is surrounded by a fixed gate, and another gate is opened in front of the curved city. Together with the main city gate, it forms a double gate. The space between the double gates is called Wengcheng.
Only the Xiaodongmen Public Security Gate is a water gate. There is no land connection with the outside world. Entry and exit are all by boat. Only one gate is enough.
The generals fought like this in the morning, and the Wei army's siege lasted for three days in the afternoon. The city of Jingzhou remained motionless and extremely strong. During this period, Sun Quan also sent the senior general Lu Dai, who commanded the right side of Wuchang, to lead an army of 30,000 in a boat division to come to the rescue.
Wang Ling used some ships to connect with iron ropes on the Jingzhou River, and used fire to block them back...
The two armies of Cao Wei and Sun Wu were at Jingzhou City like yesterday. The generals clashed in the morning, and the Wei army attacked the city in the afternoon. After three days of fierce fighting, the Wei army's camp suddenly hung out white flags. The Wei army all said that Cao Shuang died of illness due to acclimatization, and that Cao Shuang faked his death in the camp.
Further deceive Wu Jun.
At the beginning of Hai hour on the third day, the two generals Zhang Te and Le Fang fulfilled their mission and invited Cai Mi to transport hundreds of tons of salt, more than ten merchant ships, and five hundred sets of merchants' white clothes.
On the second day, Cao Shuang led Zhang Te, General Le Fang and Cai Mi, and five hundred elite Tiger Guards put on merchant white clothes. Each boat was divided into twenty men, and ten of them were rocking the boat on the deck.
Ten people were hiding inside and outside the cabin, wearing white clothes and armor. They hid the rest of their weapons and armor in the dark cabin of the cabin so that the Wu army could not search them out.
At the fifth quarter of Yinshi, when the public security gate opened, he drove to the public security gate with hundreds of pounds of salt, several boats of wine and meat, and several boats of gold and silver.
As soon as Cao Shuang led his soldiers into the public security gate, he "gifted" gold, silver, property, wine and meat free of charge to the soldiers guarding the city gate and searching people coming and going.
In this way, Cao Shuang led Zhang Te and Le Fang led the Five Tiger Guards of 500 people to sneak into the city smoothly.
When daylight dawned, although Cao Jun's general "died", the entire army was under the leadership of Wang Ling, and all the generals, including Wang Ling, showed their filial piety to start the daily duel between generals.
In the afternoon, the Wei army began to attack the city again, taking 80,000 troops. Cao Shuang first bribed the water gate guards, and then led 500 elite troops to Dadongmen to join forces with the Wei army outside the city.
First kill the defenders in the city gate cave, open the city gate, then attack on the city wall, lead Zhang Te and Le Fang to fight bloody battles, lower the drawbridge, and let the Wei army file in.
Seeing that Jingzhou could no longer be defended, Zhuge Ke hurriedly killed the city tower and took advantage of the chaos to return home. He took his wife Lu Qing with Ding Feng to guard him and rushed to the public security gate. Cai Lin stayed behind to fight for his lord Zhuge Ke... Cai Lin shouted hoarsely amidst the noisy slashing sounds: "Master, leave quickly, someone will come and break the rear!"