: The iron chain blocks the river

"I have it!" Zhang Song said, "There is a countermeasure."

Zhang Xiu said anxiously: "Sir, what countermeasures should I do?"

Zhang Song said: "The general can quickly ask the soldiers to collect charcoal, dry firewood, charcoal, white grass and other flammable things, and then throw these flammable things from the top of the city, pour them with tincture oil to ignite them, and then throw wet cloth pieces from the top of the city to generate thick smoke. Hehe, if necessary, you can also pour some manure from the top of the city. Cowhide can prevent fire attacks, but the Cao army soldiers hidden underneath cannot withstand the continuous baking and smoke of the fire, right?"

"Good solution!" Zhang Xiu was overjoyed when he heard this, "Where is Zhang Xian?"

Deputy General Zhang Xian rushed forward and replied: "The last one will be here."

Zhang Xiu waved his hand and shouted: "Take people to collect charcoal, dry firewood, charcoal, white grass and other things that cause fire, and try to collect some rags and thorny jackets, and let the people in the city carry dozens of loads of manure and bring them up!"

"What? Feces?" Zhang Xian said in surprise, "What's the use of feces?"

"Stop talking nonsense." Zhang Xiu shouted, "You might as well go."

"The last general takes the order."

Zhang Xian agreed to the promise and took the order and left.

In less than two hours, Zhang Xian led his soldiers to collect a large number of fire-driven objects from the city, and also collected all the people in the city wearing rags and coats that they didn't wear. When the people in the city heard that Zhang Xiu was going to collect manure and guard the city, they volunteered to carry the manure and go to the top of the city. Soon, buckets of manure were filled with buckets of manure and the thick stench was stinking.

With Zhang Xiu's order, a large number of fire-induced objects were thrown from the city. As a pot of boiling turbid oil poured down from the city, the foot of the city wall quickly turned into a sea of ​​fire. Although the cowhide covered in the rushing car blocked the invasion of flames, the Cao army soldiers hidden in the car were difficult to withstand the high-temperature moxibustion and roasting, especially the large amount of wet rags dropped from the city wall, and thick smoke rose up at the foot of the city wall.

There were also large buckets of boiling manure poured from the top of the city wall, and almost became a boiling manure tank at the foot of the city wall. The scorching smoke accompanied by the choking stench spread with the air. Many Cao soldiers in the car were suffocated to death. The soldiers who were lucky enough not to suffocate were barely climbed out of the car and were shot and killed by the defenders on the city.

Soon, dozens of rushing cars at the foot of the city wall completely disappeared.

Cao's army's rear formation.

"Damn it!" Zangba waved his fist in annoyance and shouted, "Damn it, it was actually cracked?"

"Haha." Zhuge Liang smiled, "General Zangba, now it is said that the Liang army has cracked our army's plan to rush the car. It seems too early. The war has just begun. Our army has only lost hundreds of sprinters. The dozens of rushing the car are still intact, but the defenders in Yong'an City have almost exhausted all the fire-driven objects and tinder oil!"

"Yes." Cao Cao nodded heavily and said loudly, "Send the order, the second team rushed to another section of the city wall and started to hit the city!"

With Cao Cao's order, dozens of other rushing cars drove out of the Cao army formation, bypassing the messy city walls, and re-selecting a complete city wall to start a new round of city collisions. Zhang Xiu urgently ordered Zhang Xian to collect the fire-induced objects again, but Yong'an is a small city, and the fire-induced objects in the city are not abundant, and the fire-induced objects collected for the second time are pitifully few.

Moreover, Cao Cao learned from the first round of confrontation. As soon as the defenders threw something that caused fire from the city, Cao's rushing car would turn around and retreat without hesitation, and then choose a complete section of the city wall to start hitting the city again. After several rounds of attacks and defenses, even the feces in Yong'an City began to get anxious! However, Cao's rushing carts gathered more and more.

Zhang Xiu then ordered Liang army soldiers to throw rolling wood and rocks from the top of the city, and formed obstacles at the foot of the city wall to prevent Cao's army from approaching, but this had no effect at all. Cao army stretched out dozens of long poles from under the rushing car, poking the obstacles scattered on the road ahead of the rushing car one by one, and soon approached the city wall.

Zhang Xiu ordered Zhang Xian to lead 500 dead soldiers out of the city to attack, but was defeated by Cao's general Zangba, and almost took the opportunity to seize the city gate by Cao's army! When it was dark, Cao's army had already crashed into dozens of large holes on the southern section of Yong'an City. Several caves were several feet deep. At this speed, the Yong'an city wall would definitely be knocked down in the ten days.

That night, the Yong'an Prefect's Office.

Zhang Xiu and Zhang Song sat opposite each other, staring at the oil lamp on the table in a daze. After a while, Zhang Xiu broke the silence and said to Zhang Song: "Mr. Zhang, this will not work. You must find a way to break Cao's car crashing into the city."

Zhang Song stroked the sparse goatee beard under his chin and frowned and said, "Why... send troops out of the city to attack at night?"

"It's definitely not possible." Zhang Xiu shook his head and said, "Cao Cao even feared his lord. With your ability to do it, it's better not to take risks."

"That's true." Zhang Song nodded, "If you fail to take the risk, you might even lose Yong'an City."

Zhang Xiu thought for a while and said, "Why do you want to get a city-slamming car to take apart? Then attack its weaknesses? The last general doesn't believe this evil. No matter how powerful Cao's city-slamming car is, can he really not have weaknesses?"

"Get a car hitting the city?" Zhang Song said with a wry smile, "How to do it? Send troops out of the city to grab it?"

"This is definitely not possible." Zhang Xiu shook his head and said, "If you can send troops out of the city to rob, then why should you rob it back? Wouldn't it be faster to smash it directly?"

"What other ways can I do besides sending troops out of the city to grab it? You can't put a few lassoes to drive the Cao army into the city directly, right?" Zhang Song suddenly said this and said with a gaze, "Hey, lasso? Just carry the city directly? Haha, there is! I thought of a solution! General, I thought of how to crack Cao army's crash into the city."

Zhang Xiu said: "How to crack it?"

Zhang Song said: "The general can send people to make large winch wheels overnight. It is best to make them larger and stronger than the winch wheels that lift the city gate, and then fix these winch wheels to the city wall. When Cao's army drove the city car to hit the city wall at dawn, use a bed crossbow to launch a giant crossbow with a barbble to nail it into the thick wall of the city car. Tie an iron cable at the end of the crossbow and use a winch wheel to twist the iron cable. Wouldn't it be possible to twist the Cao's army's rushing car to the top of the city?"

"This is a solution." Zhang Xiu nodded, "If Cao Cao sent infantry to protect the city-hit car, we can first let the archers shoot all the Cao army infantry. The city-hit car is not afraid of bows and arrows, fire, or rolling wood and rocks, but the Cao army's soldiers are not good. In this way, if the Cao army wants to protect the city-hit car, it will inevitably suffer a lot of casualties, and the war will return to the old routine, haha."

Zhang Song smiled yinly and said to Zhang Xiu: "General, I have thought of another powerful weapon to defend the city!"

Zhang Xiu said: "What weapon?"

Zhang Song said: "Since we can hang up the Cao army's city-slamming car, we can naturally release it. General, please think about what kind of killing will it cause if these city-slamming cars weighing hundreds or even thousands of kilograms fall from the city walls that are several meters high and hit the heads of Cao army soldiers? If sharp and sharp antlers are nailed to the walls of the city-slamming car, will the lethality become stronger?"

A strange scene suddenly appeared in Zhang Xiu's mind. A city-killing cart covered with sharp antlers rose up, falling, rising, and falling again. Every time the city-killing cart fell, a large area of ​​Cao's soldiers fell in the pool of blood, leaving huge dents at the foot of the city wall, with blood fuzzy in the dents, as if Shura Blood Prison.

"God, Lord Zhang, you are such a genius!" Zhang Xiu took a breath and said in a lost voice, "Fortunately you are a colleague of the general. If you are the enemy, then I will have to have nightmares when I go to bed at night."

"hey-hey."

Zhang Song grinned, and the beard on his cheeks twitched slightly, and his expression was really indescribable.

Two days later.

Cao's city-killing car had already collapsed a large piece of the foot of the city wall in the southern section of Yong'an City. The two large winch wheels that Zhang Xiu sent people to make urgently were finally completed successfully. Zhang Xiu immediately sent people to carry the two winch wheels to the city wall, fix them with iron piles and stones, and then installed pulleys and bed crossbows on the corresponding battlements, and then tied the end of the giant crossbow arrow with iron cables. When everything was ready, Zhang Xiu raised his right arm and waved it down hard.

“Buzz!”

With the violent tremor of the bowstring, two slow arrows shot down from the city's head like lightning. The cluster of arrows with barbs had penetrated deeply into the thick wooden wall of the Cao army's slamming city car. Zhang Xiu gave another order. The dozen soldiers guarding the edge of the winch quickly turned the two giant winch wheels, connecting the crossbow arrows, and the noose that tightened the pulleys quickly.

Before Cao's army responded, a bulky city-slamming car had been carried off the ground.

"What's going on?" More than a dozen Cao army soldiers poked their heads out of their heads from under the city-killing car and looked around in panic, "What happened?"

"So so!"

A sharp arrow fell from the city wall like lightning. Before the two unlucky Cao soldiers could figure out what was going on, they had already become the souls of Liang's archers' arrows. The remaining dozen Cao soldiers hurriedly retreated, climbed the handrails in the car wall with both hands, and tried their best to ensure that they would not fall from the car.

Obviously, hiding in the car can barely save your life. If you lose the protection of the car hitting the city, you will immediately worry about your life.

However, as the city-killing car grew higher and higher, the Cao army soldiers in the city-killing car lost their support and climbed the handrail with their hands. Finally, they lost their strength and fell from mid-air. Then they were shot into hedgehogs by the Liang army archers on the city wall without mercy. When the city-killing car rose to the top of the city wall, the Liang army soldiers quickly stripped off the cowhide on the surface and cut off the crossbow arrow with a sharp axe.

The heavy city-killing car fell heavily, hitting the ground with a bang, and instantly shattering into a pile.

Cao's army's rear formation.

Seeing this amazing scene, Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang stood up almost at the same time!

"Huh?" Cao Cao exclaimed in surprise and asked Zhuge Liang, "Kong Ming, what's going on?"

"Oh no!" Zhuge Liang frowned and said, "It seems like a winch!"

As Zhuge Liang finished speaking, another city-slammed car was strangled effortlessly.

"But that's the case." Zangba said disapprovingly, "Isn't it enough to just send troops forward to cut off the crossbow arrows that were nailed into the chariot?"

"No, in this way, in order to protect the city-hit car, there will inevitably be a large number of casualties. Our army is now in the lonely army and cannot be replenished in time, so we cannot fight hard and can only take the lead." Zhuge Liang said this and turned to Cao Cao, "Lord, now we can only order to stop the troops for the time being, and we will attack the city again after we find a way to counterattack."

"Well, what Kong Ming said is not without reason." Cao Cao nodded, "Transfer the order, rush the car and retreat, and suspend the attack!"

With Cao Cao's order, a crisp and pleasant sound sounded in the rear formation of Cao's army. The remaining dozens of rushing cars heard the sound of the slam and started to retreat in a hurry. In less than a moment, they retreated cleanly from the south wall of Yong'an City. On the top of the city, Zhang Xiu and Zhang Song couldn't help but slamming each other, and the soldiers of the three armies cheered and cheered.

Huainan.

The flooding flood finally receded, but the tens of thousands of hectares of fertile fields on the Huainan Plain have been destroyed. The victims who just survived the flood soon faced a new crisis. The flood not only swept away all the livestock, but also flooded all the crops. Now they have no food, no clothing, and even no place to live.

In order to save millions of people affected by the disaster in Huainan County, Ma Yue personally led 100,000 Hebei surrendered troops to quickly cross the Huaihe River and settle in Huainan counties. While maintaining the chaotic order after the disaster, he did his best to assist the people of Huainan to rebuild their homes. At the same time, the only military rations in the generals were taken out to provide relief to the victims, and ordered Xu Huang to urgently transport military rations from Nanyang to Huainan to solve the urgent problem.

However, at this moment, what Ma Yue and Jia Xu were most worried about still happened!

Relying on the crisscrossing water networks in Huainan County, the Eastern Wu naval army launched endless harassment on the Xiliang army. In just half a month, hundreds of attacks occurred in succession, and a large amount of precious food was burned by the Eastern Wu naval army. The situation in Huainan County became even worse. Now, not only more than 3 million victims have no food and clothing, but even the 100,000 Xiliang army is in trouble.

Shouchun.

An open space was split out from the muddy street, and a tent was set up on it, which became Ma Yue's temporary residence. In the tent, Ma Yue was gathered with Jia Xu, Li Su, Lu Su, Kuai Yue and others in front of the screen to discuss countermeasures.

Lu Su frowned and said to Ma Yue worriedly: "After the flood, Huainan land was sunny for more than ten days. A large number of refugees and livestock corpses who died of the flood had begun to rot, and a large number of corpses penetrated into rivers and lakes. The people in Huainan used these unclean water sources and could easily induce plague."

As Lu Su finished speaking, Kuai Yue said again: "What is most worrying is the more than three million victims. Due to the lack of food, thousands of people die every day. I heard that hungry people in Chengde County have caused trouble and attacked two barracks of our army. Although the riot was finally suppressed, it has caused hundreds of casualties to soldiers. If this continues, the situation will one day be completely out of control."

Li Su said angrily: "What is particularly outrageous is the Eastern Wu navy! It's time now, and it's still wandering in Huainan. Our army has worked hard to transfer food from the rear, but it is often burned by these bastards. If this continues, even if there are more food stored in Guanzhong and Hebei, I'm afraid it won't be able to fill this unsolidated hole!"

Jia Xu sighed and said, "General Ganning's Jinfan Navy was outnumbered and could only retreat to Xiaoyaojin and stayed unstoppable. Now the Eastern Wu Navy has completely blocked the Feishui and Huaihe River, and the plan for the disaster victims in Huainan to Lujiang, Qiao County, and Xuzhou is difficult to implement! In addition, the garrisons in Huainan counties have increased their vigilance after being attacked. The Eastern Wu Navy has failed to attack several times, and the generals have lost their troops and turned their targets to innocent people. As of yesterday, thirty-six villages have been attacked, and more than 23,000 innocent people have died tragically under the butcher knife of the Wu army!"

"Zhou Yu's son is so crazy!" Ma Yue punched the table hard and shouted sternly, "He really wants to kill everyone!"

"Lord, the situation is very bad now." Li Su said, "Due to the blockade of the Eastern Wu naval army, the food outside cannot be transported in, and the victims in Huainan cannot be transferred. More than three million victims have no choice but to sit and wait for death!"

"Lord, a plague may break out in Huainan County at any time, and it has become a dead place!" Kuai Yue also said, "With General Gan Ning's Jinfan Naval Army still having the power of fighting, I will first find a way to withdraw the army to the west of Feishui. If the Eastern Wu Naval Army really captures Xiaoyaojin or the plague breaks out, the more than 100,000 Xiliang troops stationed in various counties in Huainan will be in danger of being robbed."

"Oh." Ma Yue sighed, "Is there really nothing I can do?"

"If I hadn't really thought of a solution, who would have wanted to watch more than three million victims die in hunger?" Kuai Yue said sadly, "You must know that these more than three million people are not just huge sources of troops, but also make Huainan County a super granary. With this granary, the lord no longer has to transfer a piece of military ration from Guanzhong. Hebei will be enough to support the need for tens of thousands of troops to conquer Jiangdong."

Ma Yue walked out of the tent with his hands behind his back, looked at the scorching sun in the sky and was stunned, and suddenly asked, "Wenhe, what month is it now?"

Jia Xu said: "Go back to the lord, it's already mid-April."

"Mid April?" Ma Yue shook his head, sighed again, and said sadly, "It's already mid-April, and it's summer soon, but Gu Zhen hopes that it's still winter now. It would be even better if there was a heavy snowfall. Although the winter is cold, there will be no plague. We can slowly find ways to transport food in. If we keep these more than three million people, we will also preserve the vitality of Huainan County. With the support of Huainan County, the destruction of the Sun Family in Jiangdong can be at least ten years ahead of time..."

Jia Xu said sadly: "Lord, manpower is sometimes poor."

"I know." Ma Yue nodded gently and suddenly shouted, "Let me..."

Everyone in the tent quickly straightened their bodies and their eyes fell on Ma Yue's back.

Ma Yue shouted without looking back: "Pei Yuanshao, Zhou Cang, three 100,000 cavalrymen left Huaibei Daying today and returned to Mobei. Gaoshun, Xu Chu led 20,000 elite troops out of Liyang (Lujiang County), Fang Yue, Ma Dai led 20,000 elite troops out of Jiangdu (Guangling County), and attacked Jiangdong in two left and right directions, forcing the Eastern Wu navy to join forces to return to defend Niuzhu and Dantu. When the Eastern Wu navy divided its troops to go south, Gan Ning led the Jinfan navy to attack from Xiaoyaojin and responded to the army to cross the Feishui west."

Now that things have come to this point, manpower can no longer make things happen.

The fate of more than three million people in Huainan is already destined, so why bother to spend more than one hundred thousand Xiliang soldiers to pay for their funeral? It’s just a pity that Huainan, a fertile land, will soon become a barren land without a crowd.

"Master, wait!"
To be continued...