The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 276
Zhuge Liang and the others said in admiration: "Your Majesty, you are so predictable. I didn't expect that Ma Chao not only took down Chang'an City, but also took down Tongguan. If the Xiliang army breaks through Hangu Pass again, they can go straight in and take Luoyang directly." , then Cao Cao will be in big trouble!"

Zhang Wuze said: "Ma Chao and Pang De are both fierce generals in the world, Xiliang iron cavalry is invincible in the world, Xiliang's army is in full swing, Zhong Yao is only a scholar, how can he stop it. If Ma Chao sticks to Tongguan and uses Chang'an as his base , Gradually occupy Guanzhong, with the bravery of Xiliang's iron cavalry, Cao Cao will be helpless for a while. But I expect Ma Chao will be defeated soon!"

Everyone was a little puzzled and asked why.

Zhang Wu said with a smile: "After all, Ma Chao is brave and foolish, and he is eager for revenge. He only wants to kill Cao Cao, and has no plans to separate Guanzhong. I have complaints from my heart. Cao Cao is an expert in the use of troops, and he does not have generals who can resist Ma Chao. He only needs to use some small tricks to defeat Ma Chao when the soldiers in Xiliang are exhausted."

More than 20 troops followed you to avenge you. Everyone must have been very excited and worked hard at the beginning of the battle, but then what?Fighting will be tiring, you will be injured, and you will die. You have stayed in that remote and desolate place in Xiliang for a long time. Now that you have come to such a rich Guanzhong and won the prosperous Chang'an City, can't you enjoy it? ?
As a result, Ma Chao only wants revenge and war. Even if your brothers are willing, Han Sui's people may not all be willing. After all, they are just here to help. After so many people died in the war, there must be some benefits.

Pang Tong said: "I'm afraid that Sun Quan and Zhou Yu in Chaisang City are also looking forward to Cao Cao's attacking Jingzhou, so as to rescue them? I expect Sun Quan will send someone to inquire about Cao Cao's news, why not slow down a little bit, so that Jiangdong's spies will also come This news was sent to the city. If Zhou Yu knew that Cao Cao was restrained by Ma Chao and unable to go south, in order to preserve his strength, he would definitely abandon the city and leave. My lord can order the attack on the city to put some pressure on them."

"Okay, pass on the order and start attacking the city tomorrow. Xingba and Chengyuan led [-] water troops to block the river to prevent the enemy from Lujiang, and the rest led troops to gather in the west of Chaisang City, and first attacked Chaisang with trebuchets."

"Yes, my lord!"

The next day, the Jingzhou army assembled in the west of Chaisang City, set up hundreds of catapults, and bombed Chaisang City.The Jiangdong Army once again tasted the power of the counterweight catapult, and this time it also tasted another secret weapon of the Jingzhou Army, the kerosene bomb.

After the Jingzhou army adjusted the range, they threw the sealed clay pots filled with kerosene on the walls and inside of Chaisang City, and then fired rockets to ignite them.

Petroleum has a low ignition point, high temperature when burning, and it flows around, so it is not easy to be extinguished, and water is useless.All of a sudden, the walls of Chaisang City and the places near the walls in the city were ablaze.The Jiangdong soldiers and the people of Chaisang City who helped defend the city were killed in the sea of ​​flames.

When the kerosene burned, it also released a large amount of poisonous smoke. Many Jiangdong soldiers were either burned to death or smoked to death.

Looking at the tragic situation on the city wall, Zhang Wu also had some sympathy for those Jiangdong soldiers who died tragically, but he had no choice. In the troubled times, if I don't kill you, you will come and kill me.

If you want to blame, you can only blame this world, blame that stupid emperor for causing chaos in this world; if you want to blame, you can blame Jiangdong and Jingzhou for being enemies, and blame that Sun Quan for messing with me again and again. I am not a fool!

To be kind to the enemy is to be cruel to one's own people, so Zhang Wu ordered to throw poisonous smoke bombs, at worst, razing Chaisang City to the ground.

As long as you win Chaisang, you can go down the river to harass and attack Jiangdong's base camps Danyang County, Wu County, and Kuaiji County at any time, further compressing Jiangdong's living space, consuming Jiangdong's vitality, and at the same time ensuring that Yuzhang and Luling two County security.

It happened that Cao Cao was restrained by Ma Chao in Guanzhong and was unable to lead his army to help Jiangdong rescue the siege. This was really a God-given opportunity.When Cao Cao defeated Ma Teng and Han Sui, stabilized the situation in Guanzhong, and then led his army to come, at least two months later, Zhang Wu planned to do his best to take Chaisang, even if he lost some soldiers, it was acceptable. of.

Zhang Wu ordered the catapults to keep throwing kerosene bombs and poisonous smoke bombs into the city. The morale of the defenders in the city was low, and reinforcements had not arrived for a long time.The thick smoke from the kerosene burning and the poisonous smoke from the poisonous smoke bomb almost enveloped the entire Chaisang City, and there was nowhere to hide, unless you hid in the house.

Seeing this, Sun Quan was very anxious. He already knew about the war in the north, but Cao Cao was restrained by Ma Chao and Han Sui, unable to lead his army south.If Cao Cao didn't bring his army south, Zhang Wu wouldn't send troops back to help, so the outside reinforcements wouldn't be able to break through the blockade of the Jingzhou navy, and the soldiers in the city wouldn't dare to go out to fight the Jingzhou army.

Now the Jingzhou military catapult fired a very flammable kerosene that burns at a very high temperature. The city of Chaisang was full of flames and poisonous smoke all day long. If this continues, you will be burned to death even if you don’t starve. Smoked to death.

"Gongjin, now that Cao Cao is restrained by Ma Chao, it seems that he can't help us out. The Jingzhou army launches kerosene into the city every day with catapults. Now the city walls are almost burnt down, and the soldiers in the city are almost collapsed!" Sun Quan said. .

It turned out that the west wall of Chaisang City was burned by kerosene every day, and it was completely burned, and Jiangdong soldiers dared not even go up the wall.After Zhang Wu discovered this situation, he ordered to cut down bamboo to make many large water guns, pump water and shoot them on the city wall. After repeated alternating cold and heat, the city wall collapsed everywhere.

Zhou Yu did not expect that Cao Cao would be restrained at this time. If Cao Cao did not lead his troops south, Zhang Wu would not retreat, and the siege of Chaisang would not be resolved.Although there are still more than 4 soldiers in the city, Cheng Pu still has [-] soldiers in Lujiang, and tens of thousands of troops can be gathered from Wujun and other places, but the warships of the Jiangdong Army are almost lost, and it is impossible to compete with Jingzhou. The navy is at war.

Zhang Wu only needs to arrange [-] sailors to block the waterway of the river with iron chains and boats, Cheng Pu will never be able to break through, and if the [-] Jiangdong troops in the city dare to go out to fight the Jingzhou army on foot, they will definitely die miserably.Needless to say, Zhang Wu is a pervert. The strength of generals such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Huang Zhong has also been taught by Jiangdong's generals.

"My lord, for the current plan, we can only try to break through. The [-] troops in the city are the most elite troops in Jiangdong. If they die again, we may not even be able to defend against them in the future." Zhou Yu said.

"Now that the enemy has blocked the waterways and throws kerosene and poisonous smoke every day, how can we break through?" Sun Quan asked.

Zhou Yu coughed a few more times, but because the cough involved the wound, he sweated in pain.

Sun Quan hurriedly asked people to come forward to check, and wiped Zhou Yu's sweat.

Zhou Yu waved his hands to indicate that he was fine, and continued, "Old General Cheng must have assembled his troops in Lujiang, but he couldn't break through the blockade of the Jingzhou navy. There are mountains to the south of Chaisang City. We are facing the north and the north, but only deployed a small amount of troops on the waterway in the east, Zhang Wu is trying to force us to retreat from the east gate."

(End of this chapter)