The fire that spread all over the sky not only burned down all the catapults and sealed the roads, but also burned all the hopes raised by Yan Liangwen, Chou Minchun and others to ashes, leaving not even a piece of wreckage left.
Everyone's face was ashen. Three large ships were lying between the city and the other side like three mountains. The windlass and ropes used to transport grain and grass were all completely destroyed. They wanted to use catapults to fight back.
They have already prepared Molotov cocktails, so how can we fight now?
This is not the key yet.
The key thing is that during this period they have been wasting time on building roads and making catapults. Now the catapults have been completely burned by fire and the roads are blocked. Let alone attacking the building boats in the middle of the river, even if they want to
Come here and die, there is no chance.
Because when you come to clean up the wreckage, other people's arrows can already threaten your life.
Therefore, this war has reached a stalemate. People's big boats are lying across the middle of the river, forcing you to be unable to transport food and grass into the city, but you have nothing to do with them. The final result is nothing more than eating up the food, and then everyone
They all just starved to death.
In the next few days, Yuan Jun stopped for a while.
When the food supply in Anyang City bottomed out and it was about to become unbearable, Yuan Tan, Xin Ping and others outside came up with another idea.
Since they have Molotov cocktails on their boats, let's just set them on fire.
The ship is made of wood, so it is easy to catch fire. There are a lot of flammable materials on the ship. As long as the fire breaks out, the ship will be completely burned.
This method can be said to be the ultimate method that Yuan Tan, Xin Ping and other generals and counselors came up with after brainstorming.
Whatever they wanted to do, Yuan Tan, Xinping and others loaded fish paste and a large amount of firewood on boats on the upper reaches of the Huan River at midnight. After lighting them, they let the boats float down the river, trying to play the Battle of Red Cliff.
Zhou Yu’s same routine.
But they didn't know that when they were transporting boats and fire starters upstream during the day, their every move was already under the sight of the upstream scout surveillance point.
So when dozens of fireboats floated down in a mighty manner, the Luoyang officers and soldiers who had already controlled both sides of the river immediately pulled up an interception net. Several iron ropes were placed across the river, blocking all the boats until they were completely burned by the fire.
, and put the iron rope into the water. No matter how many fire ships the enemy comes, they will all be in vain.
Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and others outside Anyang City could only watch the boats being burned, but they could not touch the sides of the building boats.
Seeing this scene, they were in despair.
Ever since Anyang was flooded, the two sides had been fighting wits and courage. You used a windlass to transport grain, and I used a building boat to cut off the road. You used a catapult, and I used a Molotov cocktail, and you used a fire boat, and I used an iron rope. You came and went, and in the end,
Yuan Jun still had nothing to do with the three large ships on the river.
However, the problem is not that they are unable to continue the battle of wits and courage with Chen Mu, but that time does not allow them.
Tens of thousands of Yuan's troops in Anyang City were eating, drinking, and eating every day, and their food supplies were dwindling. These days, even gruel was almost unbearable.
After another three days, the food and grass supply in Anyang City was completely exhausted.
Yan Liang, Wen Chou and both Yan Liang and Wen Chou were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, because starting from yesterday, after the food and grass bottomed out, most of the soldiers, except for some generals, had not eaten for two days. As of today, many soldiers are heading to the granary.
Li Chong.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Min Chun lied to the soldiers, saying that the food and grass could last for another half month. If he persisted for another half month, Yuan Jun outside the city would be able to send food to the city.
But they haven't eaten for two days. Even if we believe Min Chun's words, since there is still half a month of food and grass, we should have some gruel. But there is nothing, so the soldiers can't tolerate their random thoughts.
However, the food shortage had just begun, and this trend was quickly suppressed by Yan Liang, Wen Chou. By the fourth day, the soldiers had been hungry for four days. They were starving one by one, with their chests pressed against their backs, and they no longer had the intention to fight.
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The city was already flooded, and it seemed to be an isolated city. Tens of thousands of people were crowded inside. Morale was low, people's hearts were floating, and the atmosphere gradually became restless.
By the fifth day, the atmosphere had gone from restless to downright weird.
No grain of rice had been eaten for several days, and the wells in the city had become turbid and difficult to drink because of the flooding of Huan water that seeped into the groundwater.
People began to starve to death in the city, and their bodies were cut into pieces and eaten by hungry people. Now in the entire city, not to mention food, even rat meat, ants, spiders, geckos and other living things were fed into the soldiers
of mouth.
By the time someone started eating human flesh, Min Chun already knew that if this continued, soon Anyang would not need an enemy attack and the city would collapse from within.
When people go crazy with hunger, not to mention eating dead bodies, the living people may not survive, and killing and division will be inevitable.
Therefore, in desperation, Min Chun could only find Yan Liang and Wen Chou to discuss breaking out of the encirclement.
Although it was very difficult to break out of the water that covered the waist, even if they managed to rush out of the city, there was no telling how many people could escape safely despite the enemy's obstruction.
But there is still good news. As the days go by, the time has reached the end of December. The end of December in the lunar calendar is the end of January in the solar calendar, which is almost February.
Heavy fog rises.
Although the temperature of the river is still very cold now, at least it is not as freezing as it was last month. With the thick fog as a cover, it is not impossible to swim through the water if you force your way out of the city.
Yan Liang Wenchou also knew that the final moment had come. Although he did not want to give up the important town of Anyang, he had no choice but to finally agree to Min Chun's plan to break out of the encirclement. He decided to find an opportunity to break out of the city in these two days.
They took out the last bit of food they had saved for the generals, cooked it into gruel, and gave the soldiers a full meal. On the morning of the sixth day, they were officially ready to set off.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Perhaps it is God's favor. As early spring approaches, the fog is thicker than the previous two days. Inside and outside the city, there is a vast expanse of white. You can't see anyone five or six meters away.
When the thick fog gradually rose in the early morning, the east gate of Anyang quietly opened. The spring water was still flowing on both sides of the river. Although the river water was a little warmer than in the cold winter, it was just a little warmer. Early spring originated from the depths of the Taihang Mountains.
The spring water is still freezing cold, making people shiver.
Water-stained cotton clothes are even more painful and despairing. But compared to starving to death, Yuan Jun in Anyang City would rather enter the river to look for opportunities. At least there is hope of survival after breaking out of the siege, and he will continue to stay in this dead city. The final
The ending is nothing but certain death.
At the east gate of Anyang City, under the leadership of Yan Liang Wen Chou and generals and officers at all levels, the soldiers who had eaten some gruel in the morning managed to cheer themselves up and slowly walked out of the city into the waist-deep ice.
In the water.
Anyang City was built between Hanoi and Wei County. Yecheng is about one hundred miles due north, which is almost the distance from Anyang City to Ci County in later generations. Hanoi County is to the south, and Dangyin is about seventy miles due south.
, that is, the distance from Anyang City to Tangyin County in later generations.
As for the east, it is along the downstream direction of the Huanshui River. The Huanshui River was actually the Anyang River in later generations, flowing all the way into Huangzezhong, Neihuang County, which has disappeared in later generations.
In the Han Dynasty, Huangze was similar to large lakes such as Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake. According to the records of "Hanshu" and "Houhanshu", Huangze was not big, covering only dozens of miles, and was similar to Dangshui, Huanshui, and so on.
Connected by clear water.
The lower reaches of the Huan River are now submerged. If you continue walking, you can only reach the shore of Huangze. You have to pass Huangze to reach Neihuang County. The two places are about 130 miles apart. However, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and others had no choice but to
Neng bravely led the soldiers and horses to wade through the water outside the East City Gate and began to move towards Neihuang County with difficulty.
As mentioned before, the flood has been submerged for more than a month, and the mud inside and outside the city has long been soaked into soft mud. There are also a lot of high and low slopes, forming a deep water area. If you are not careful, you may collapse.
Go in.
Yan Liang, Wen Chou and the others are not like the Luoyang Army who have explored several safe roads. Every time they travel, they must be accompanied by countless lives.
Many Yuan soldiers either fell into swamps, were washed away by water, or even fell into deep water and drowned.
Even before the battle started, hundreds of people were lost.
However, compared to the tens of thousands of troops, these sacrificed people were only a few after all. Yan Liang, Wen Chou and the others spent their lives exploring another life passage and continued to move eastward.
When they were taking action here, the Luoyang army outside actually didn't know.
Because of the heavy fog in the morning, even if scouts were arranged to monitor, the movement could not be seen clearly due to the thick fog. It was not until near noon, after the fog dissipated, that the scouts from Guanhai Guanping and others downstream discovered the situation.
Chen Mu had long expected that the enemy could only escape through the east gate, so as early as the first day of opening the gate to release water, he asked Guan Yu to station people downstream.
But he definitely couldn't calculate the specific time, but he found that the fog today was heavier than usual, and he vaguely felt that today might be the opportunity for the enemy to break out, so Chen Mu also sent someone early to notify Guan Hai and Guan Ping, asking them to
Pay attention to Yuan Jun's movements.
It's just that Anyang was trapped in the water, and they themselves were also in the water, so it was inconvenient to send a message. By the time they wanted to send a message to Guan Hai, Guan Ping and the others, it would definitely be too late.
Of course, it doesn't matter if it's late or not. Because the lower reaches of the Huan River are also almost flooded. Along the way, both sides of the river are covered with water. If you want to march quickly, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky.
After Yan Liangwen and Chou Minchun left Anyang, they led the army to the southeast. First, they stayed away from the river bank and moved closer to the slightly shallower water. Second, they also knew that Guan Yu was building a dam downstream and there were troops stationed there.
, they are unwilling to confront the garrison over there head-on.
Unfortunately, after they finally made a detour of more than ten miles, at the key entrance from the water, Guan Hai and Guan Ping, who had been ambushing downstream, came out with an army of 10,000.
Suddenly, gongs and drums rang in the sky, and the Luoyang officers and soldiers shouted angrily to kill. Yuan Jun, who was so shocked that he was already frightened, collapsed instantly.
Yuan Jun's entire army was hungry and wet, and had no fighting power. Even if they were large in number, they were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, without the ability to resist.
Therefore, when the ambush troops came out, there was a sudden chaos. Yuan's troops fled in all directions, some panicked and even jumped back into the water.
Yan Liang, Wen Chou mustered up his remaining courage, led more than a thousand of his guards, and fought hard. Finally, relying on their personal bravery, they managed to fight their way through the army. More than 10,000 people followed them to break out, and the other two
Almost most of the tens of thousands of people surrendered on the spot and became prisoners.
At this time, Guan Yu learned the news and immediately led his troops to pursue him. Guan Yu's troops were strong and his horses were strong. The soldiers were well fed, slept well, and had full physical strength. Yuan Jun's side was demoralized. He could not eat well and sleep well, and his physical strength was very low.
But after all, he was a poor bandit who only wanted to escape. In the desperate situation, his adrenaline surged. In a short period of time, he actually marched at an extremely fast speed, and Guan Yu could not catch up.
Until the evening, from the last moment of sunrise in the morning to the third quarter of sundown, five and a half hours, 11 hours, Yan Liang, Wen Chou's army ran nearly a hundred miles in one breath, that is, more than 40 kilometers.
This speed is neither fast nor slow. After all, our army once covered 120 kilometers in a day and night, and also had a record of running 72.5 kilometers in 14 hours.
But we must know that Yuan Jun is at the end of his strength. Whether it is willpower or physical strength, he is far inferior to the outstanding soldiers of our army. Being able to march at such a speed and at a very extreme forced march is very taxing on the body.
On the contrary, Guan Yu was already more than twenty miles behind, and the enemy only wanted to escape, so they chased for a whole day without catching up, which was quite helpless.
By the next day, Yan Liangwen, Chou Minchun and more than a dozen generals finally fled into Neihuang County with more than 10,000 remaining soldiers.
Guan Yu never caught up, so he had to give up.
However, the fall of Anyang brought turmoil to Yecheng no less than the turmoil experienced by Cao Cao in Xudu after the Seventh Army was flooded in history.
Anyang was only a hundred miles away from Yecheng. After the fall of Anyang, within a hundred miles from Hanoi to Yecheng, there was almost no danger except for the deployment of sporadic large armies. If the Luoyang army attacked, they could even directly bypass them and attack Yecheng.
For a time, the whole Ye City was in turmoil, and a large number of troops and horses from the periphery were mobilized to defend Ye City. Yuan Tan also immediately withdrew his troops to Ye City, and then sent someone to notify Yuan Shao and report the situation to him.
In the next few days, it was the Luoyang Army's turn to show off its power.
Chen Mu released the dam on the lower reaches of the Huan River, and the boat went down the river and entered Huangze. Neihuang County is on the edge of Huangze, and the Luoyang boat was on the Huangze Lake overlooking the Neihuang City Pool.
Zhu Jun led his army northward, blocking the canals leading to Huanshui from rivers such as Dangshui and Danshui, and stationed in Guan Yu's original camp. After the water level in Anyang City dropped, he sent a large army to occupy Anyang, thus reversing the attack and defense, turning Anyang into a It became the bridgehead for Luoyang to attack Wei County.
At the same time, Guan Yu and Chen Mu joined forces and marched into Neihuang. Zhao Yun led the army to the north to take control of Dangyin. Ju Yi, who was training troops in the rear, took over the army affairs in Chaoge and other places, and used the newly captured prisoners for farming. matters.
Xu Huang's troops also left Linlu Valley and went upstream from the Huan River, slowly approaching Zucheng, Jiuhou City and other places, and began to threaten the surrounding areas of Yecheng.
Luoyang's army attacked from three sides and began to encircle Wei County. The entire Wei County was in panic overnight. Many dignitaries from Yecheng rushed to Luoyang to deliver letters to their former relatives and friends, hoping to be present at court. In short, be prepared to surrender to the enemy immediately when Yecheng is defeated.
For a time, Wei County was in dire straits and was on the verge of collapse.