Three Kingdoms: copy Lu Bu's force at the beginning

Wu County.

On the top of the city, the soldiers who had been exhausted all day sat on the ground, leaning against the city wall, and dozed off.

To the east, west, and north, there are no enemy troops in a radius of dozens of miles.

To the south is the wharf. With Kuai Yue and his personal guards there, there is no danger.

Therefore, the defense at the top of the city looks like there are people, but in fact it is almost like no one.

Outside the south city gate, groups of Chinese troops were quietly approaching Wu County, all of them were archers.

The defense at the head of the city was in vain, making these Chinese troops quickly out of range, and then some soldiers quickly dug a small ditch on the ground.

Yes, it's out of range.

These archers are not ordinary archers, they are big archers with great strength and long range, trained by Tai Shici.

Because Tai Shici was the chief general of Bingzhou Flying Cavalry, after Cao Xing surrendered to Huayu, the chief general of Da Gong Ying was replaced by Cao Xing.

Cao Xing's ability to shoot arrows is hardly inferior to that of Taishi Ci.

After showing off his excellent arrow skills in the Big Bow Camp, everyone in the Big Bow Camp has been submissive to Cao Xing, the new general.

After the ditch was dug, some soldiers began to pour kerosene into the ditch.

Finally, a bright fire pocket was thrown into the kerosene ditch, igniting a bright flame line.

The soldiers of the Big Bow Battalion were ready, put on the bow, put the arrow cotton on the flame, and the arrow immediately became a rocket.

"Whoosh, whoosh..." Rockets lit up the dark sky and shot into Wuxian City like meteors.

Of course, some of the arrows fell on the city wall, but very few.

Before Yan Xing led his army out of Wu County, he asked the soldiers to pour kerosene on the ground in the city, and then covered it with a thin layer of dust as a cover.

Because the dust is very thin, after these rockets fell, they easily ignited the kerosene under the dust.

Not to mention, almost all the outer walls of houses in the city were also doused with kerosene.

As a result, a piece of fire oil ignited, and immediately spread to the surroundings quickly, and a fire that spread across Buwu County officially kicked off.

The Jingzhou army was unprepared, and immediately fell into chaos.

There is fire on the ground, and there is fire on the house.

Jingzhou soldiers who were sleeping were awakened by the fire, rushed out of the house one after another, but entered the sea of ​​flames.

So the soldiers hurried back to the house again.

But although there was no fire in the house, there was thick smoke, enough to suffocate people.

Wu County became a sea of ​​flames and a hell.

Lives were ruthlessly taken away, leaving behind an immobile corpse to be devoured by the fire.

The soldiers on the city wall were all dumbfounded, staring blankly at Wu County, which was slowly being engulfed by the fire, feeling extremely powerless.

I don't know who shouted: "Go to the east gate or west gate, rush out."

It can be seen clearly from the city wall.

Only the south gate had rockets shooting into the city, and the other three gates did not shoot into the city.

However, what they didn't expect was that Bingzhou Feiqi was rushing to the east gate, west gate and north gate, preparing to block the Jingzhou army in the city.

A man with two legs cannot run a horse with four legs.

When the soldiers swarmed and squeezed out from the east gate, west gate and north gate, they saw a group of Bingzhou cavalry waiting for their swords, shouting: "Surrender without killing, surrender without killing..."

These Jingzhou soldiers who survived the catastrophe were all dumbfounded.

Can this battle be fought?
There is a fire in the back, interception in the front, and a dead end in the front and back.

The morale of the Jingzhou soldiers dropped to freezing point all of a sudden, and the soldiers did not have any fighting spirit.

So these soldiers dropped their weapons one after another, held their heads, and squatted down in the open space on the left.

The fire continued to burn, and Jingzhou soldiers surrendered one after another, but there were not many, only five or six thousand in total.

But there are [-] Jingzhou soldiers in the city.

In other words, [-] Jingzhou soldiers were buried in the sea of ​​fire, including the main general Liu Pan.

Looking at the fire that could illuminate the sky, Yan Xing laughed and said to Xu Shu: "Yuan Zhi's plan is really brilliant."

"Our army wiped out [-] Jingzhou troops almost without a single soldier. This feat is great enough to be passed down to future generations."

There was no smile on Xu Shu's face, and he sighed slightly: "This plan hurts the peace of the world. Although it avoided the casualties of our army, it caused the death of tens of thousands of Jingzhou troops."

Yan Xing didn't take it seriously, he smiled and said: "It's a war, there is no one who can't die."

"The so-called, once successful, ten thousand bone dry, is the truth."

"Besides, my lord said that the current war and casualties are for future peace."

"The shorter the war, the less suffering the people will suffer, and the more beneficial it will be to the world."

When Hua Yu said these words, Xu Shu was also there, of course he knew, so he nodded and didn't think about anything else.

The fire burned for two full hours before it was gradually extinguished.

Yan Xing ordered the army to wait for an hour, until the smoke had almost dissipated, and then ordered the soldiers to enter the city and clean up the battlefield.

More than 2 people died at once, and they were all burned to death. If they cannot be dealt with in time, it will inevitably cause a plague.

In the great victory of Wu County, [-] Jingzhou troops either died or surrendered.

When the news reached Badong County, the defenders were shocked.

When Yan Xing led his army to the city of Badong, the county magistrate surrendered without hesitation.

Then there is Zigui City, which is also bloodless.

These cities, Yan Xing did not divide troops to guard them, but according to Hua Yu's order, some officials and wealthy families in the city who oppressed the people were beheaded and their homes were ransacked, and then some people with high morals and high prestige were selected to form a new official system.

In this way, the Chinese army can easily gain the hearts of the people, and then rush to the next city.

Hua Yu's thinking is obvious, to mobilize the most common people to defend the fruits of victory for them.

After Zigui, there was the famous Yiling City during the Three Kingdoms period, then Yidao City, and finally Jiangling City, Yan Xing's goal.

Chaoci Baidi's colorful clouds, thousands of miles of rivers and tombs returned in one day, so we can see how fast the waterway is.

Because it is in the south of Xiangyang, in the hinterland of Jingzhou, cities like Yiling and Yidao are guarded by hardly many troops, one is 500 people, and the other is 1000 people.

Facing the menacing [-] Chinese army, the two cities surrendered without hesitation.

Therefore, on this road, it is more appropriate to use the four words "Looking for the wind to return" to describe the situation of Yan Xingsuo's department on this road.

Gangneung.

It is the seat of Nanjun, the second largest city in South County, second only to Xiangyang, the seat of Jingzhou.

For Jingzhou, the strategic significance of Jiangling is no less than that of Xiangyang.

First, Jiangling is directly south of Xiangyang. Once Yan Xing takes Jiangling, it will cut off Xiangyang's retreat.

Second, Jiangling City is the place where Jingzhou's entire combat readiness and logistics are supported.

Ordnance, food and grass, etc., are all hoarded here.