The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 254

"Jiangdong rats are used to sneak attacks. Don't blame me for being unrighteous!"

"Come on, starting tomorrow, the army will be attacking the city day and night in turn!"

Cheng Yuanzhi went up against the crime, and no longer had the heart to stand in a stalemate with Zhou Yu.

As soon as this order came out, Xu Shu, Jia Xu and Su Gai who stayed in the tent looked at each other and were stunned.

How can this be injustice?This is a general's anger, which is a taboo for military strategists!

Moreover, this order does not conform to the usual style of the prime minister (general).

For a long time, when encountering a difficult city, the prime minister (general commander) has always chosen to outsmart it, or surround the spot for reinforcements, and try to avoid a hard attack, so as to cause a large number of unnecessary casualties.

Could it be that being attacked by Sun Quan twice in succession made the always prudent prime minister (general manager) lose his mind due to anger?

If this is the case, the Northern Army will be cold!

The three of them have their own thoughts.

But the military order has been issued, and there is no change.

Some personal soldiers had passed on this order, and the whole army immediately took action to prepare for the siege of the city tomorrow.

Xu Shu bowed his hands and retreated, but Su Gai remained silent.

Jia Xu said: "The casualties of a hard attack on Nanye City are too great, please think twice."

Cheng Yuanzhi waved his hand and said, "Wen He doesn't need to say too much, I have my own opinion."

Jia Xu backed away as she said.

Cheng Yuanzhi looked back at Su Gai, "Xiao Gai, have your martial arts skills declined over the years?"

Su Gai patted his chest and said: "The commander-in-chief can always trust me! Like these Jiangdong rats, I can fight five... no, ten!"

"What about archery?"

"There are no false shots, and every shot is right!"

"What if it's a hundred paces away?"

"Ninety percent sure!"

"What about 150 steps away?"

"That's only [-]% sure!"

"If you can shoot Zhou Yu from 150 steps away, I will reward you with a step trainer... She is already an adult..."

Before Cheng Yuanzhi finished speaking, Su Gai waved his hand violently and said loudly, "If you want to say that, Commander, I'm [-]% sure!"

"That's good……"

Cheng Yuanzhi nodded, called the military medical officer, and asked, "Is there any poison in the army?"

The medical officer was stunned for a moment, and replied: "Go back to the prime minister, of course there are."

"Applied on the arrow, see the poison that seals the throat with blood, is there any?"

"That's not true." The military doctor shook his head.

It seems that this has touched his blind spot of knowledge... Cheng Yuanzhi frowned and began to think.

In this era, very few armies chose to apply poison to their arrows when fighting, but occasionally used them for assassination.

Mainly because the poison is hard to find.

Usually, the most frequently used poison is only arsenic.But arsenic is not produced artificially. If you can find it in the Xinshi mine, you will find a large amount of it;

In addition, there is another issue of dosage. Arsenic is applied on the arrow and injected into the human body. Firstly, the dose is too small to have a fatal effect. Secondly, the poisonous phenomenon is too obvious (the wound instantly turns black and blue), which is very easy to be detected. Rescue and come back.

In this era, snake venom is the first choice for the poison that can be smeared on arrows and kill blood, and snake venom is relatively easy to obtain.

But there is one bad thing. After 24 hours at room temperature, the snake venom will deteriorate and become invalid.

In other words, if you want to smear snake venom on an arrow, you need to catch a poisonous snake, kill the snake before the battle, and take its poison and smear it on the arrow.

But this move is too troublesome, Cheng Yuanzhi disdains to use it.

He has a better way.

For a large and organized combat group like the army, the simplest and most effective poison choice is: livestock manure.

Arrowheads soaked in livestock manure and rust, as long as they hit a person, it is very easy to cause wound infection.

As we all know, bows and arrows mainly cause breaches or penetrating injuries. If the injured still maintain a large amount of exercise after being hit by an arrow, and if the treatment is not timely, wound infection is inevitable.

Once infected, it involves the field of microorganisms.

Such an injury is equivalent to an incurable disease for doctors of this era.

Cheng Yuanzhi waved his hand to screen the medical officer away, and while ordering people to collect livestock feces to soak the arrowheads, he instructed Su Gai: "Tomorrow, when the army is attacking the city, you should hide in the dark, like this..."

Su Gai nodded again and again, patted his chest and promised: "Marshal, just watch!"

It wasn't until this time that Jia Xu, who had listened to everything, suddenly realized.

It turns out that this is injustice!
You sneak attack, I plot, insidious versus cunning.

No problem!
The prime minister looked at He Shan, and it turned out that he was a ruthless person just like me.

Jia Xu immediately figured out many unsolved mysteries, and even thought of Yuan Shao's bizarre death.

But these unsolved mysteries, he decided to rot in his stomach forever, not to speak out.

……

The next day, Cheng Yuanzhi brought his troops to the foot of Nanye City. He saw a forest of banners and soldiers waiting in line on the city, but Zhou Yu was nowhere to be seen.

Then he looked back at the generals and said: "Later, you and the commanders and soldiers will try their best to attack the city. Even if you can't go down with one drum, you must make the defenders scramble!"

The generals responded and dispatched soldiers to attack the city.

At this time, Su Gai approached, quietly pointed to a certain place on the top of the city, and said in a low voice, "Look, Commander, Zhou Yu is over there!"

Cheng Yuanzhi followed the direction of his gaze and saw a general in brocade robe surrounded by the crowd, who else could it be if it wasn't Zhou Yu?
Then he rejoiced and said: "Don't rush to shoot first, and wait until he commands the soldiers to defend the city and has no other care, then you can shoot again!"

Sugai naturally knew the basic rules of the hunter, so he didn't reply, just smiled, hid in the crowd, held the bow in his hand, and secretly aimed at the city, like an experienced hunter, waiting for the fighter to appear.

In a few moments, while the war drums were rumbling, the supervising general Zhang He shouted loudly:
"Soldiers, the prime minister has a word first, all those who climb the tower will be rewarded with thousands of gold and hundreds of households, and those who climb first will be rewarded with thousands of gold and thousands of households!"

Hearing this, the soldiers of the northern army, who were already full of murderous aura, rushed towards the north gate of Nanye City screaming like ants, climbing up the ladder like ants climbing a mountain.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man!
Despite the rain of arrows and stones, some of the first batch of soldiers holding their shields still rushed to the top of the tower, and the rest followed up, fighting desperately at the top of the city.

From the very beginning, the fighting situation went straight to the heat, omitting foreplay and temptation.

Nanye City is small, and there were not many soldiers in the first two batches, about 200 soldiers.

But these 200 people are the elite of the elite of the Northern Army. They are all brave and fearless, as strong as calves, and they tore a gap in the city in an instant, protecting the soldiers below the city to climb up.

Cheng Yuanzhi stopped his horse 150 steps away, and set up a pergola to look into the distance.Under the bright sun, thousands of weapons were waving, and the cold light shone brightly.With a serious face, Zhou Yu drove the soldiers under his command to move forward, trying to kill the soldiers of the Northern Army on the spot and drive them off the tower.

Suddenly, on the noisy battlefield, there was a barely audible sound of a sharp weapon piercing the air, and a long arrow shot out at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye. It crossed a distance of 150 steps and accurately shot into the wall that was commanding the soldiers on the top of the city. Zhou Yu's chest.

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The arrow was so powerful that it entered from Zhou Yu's chest, and a section of the arrow emerged from behind, bringing out a cloud of blood.

Zhou Yu yelled and fell on his back.

Sugai said "Yeah" with his fist, and shouted, "Master, I've shot it!"

"Hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it!"

Five sentences in a row of "Zhongla", Sugai happily looked like a child of three hundred catties.

Cheng Yuanzhi praised: "Good job! I will arrange for Bu Lianshi to marry you when I get back!"

Sugai was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, he laughed wildly in the middle of the formation.

After laughing, he had his luck in his chest and shouted loudly towards the city: "Hey! Jiangdong rats, Zhou Yu is dead now, why didn't you surrender earlier!"

Su Gai's voice was loud, like thunder, and it rolled out, suppressing the sound of fighting all over the sky in an instant.

It can be clearly heard above and below the city.

The Jiangdong soldiers on the city were shocked when they heard the news, and their morale quickly weakened; the morale of the Northern Army soldiers below the city was greatly boosted, and they desperately climbed up the city.

On the city, Cheng Pu fought back a group of northern soldiers with all his strength, turned around and shouted at Huang Gai, "There is nothing to be done, you protect the commander and retreat from the south gate, and I will lead the troops back!"

Huang Gai hurriedly ordered Zhou Yu to be lifted up and left the city.

More and more soldiers from the Northern Army gathered on the city. At a glance, most of the city walls were lost.

Cheng Pu knew that the situation was over, and when he was about to retreat in panic, another arrow was shot from the city, brushing his neck and piercing through the air.

Cheng Pu was so shocked that he didn't dare to fight, he quickly led the [-] soldiers who had withdrawn into the city and headed for the south gate.

As for the soldiers who couldn't withdraw, they could only resign themselves to their fate.

The battlefield is like this, cruel like a Shura field.

After a while, the northern army entered the city from the north gate, and the Jiangdong soldiers and horses were defeated and fled.

Huang Gai led more than [-] soldiers to protect Zhou Yu, and rushed a hundred miles to the village near the mountain.

When all the generals heard that Zhou Yu had been shot and seriously injured, they were all groaned.

At dusk, Cheng Pu led his army to join them, and after two rounds of statistics, it was known that 3 horses had lost half of their horses in this battle!
For a while, the morale of the army was even lower.

At the second watch of the night, Zhang He secretly led an army to chase and kill them, and penetrated the enemy camp.

The soldiers and horses in Jiangdong were in chaos, and Cheng Pu and Huang Gai couldn't stop them, so they had to lead the remaining troops to flee south.

Although these soldiers and horses are already the elite infantry under Sun Quan's command, they can only temporarily avoid their edge in front of the Northern Army with strong morale and good land warfare.

Of course, everyone knows that the reason for today's big defeat is that the coach Zhou Yu was shot, otherwise, it is not yet known who will win.

At dawn, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai led the army to rush another hundred miles, and they were exhausted before they completely threw off the northern army.

After two defeats, the second waved his heart and sighed.

Zhou Yu braced his body and said to the generals: "Victory and defeat are commonplace in military affairs. Although we lost cities and lost troops here today, we won great victories in Lingling and Guiyang. I will return to Jiaozhou to recuperate and recharge. I will make a comeback in the future." .”

Hearing this, the generals calmed down and protected Zhou Yu and retreated slowly to Jiaozhou.

(End of this chapter)