Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 676
After Zhu Wei rewarded Zhou Yu with a copy of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", Zhu Wei found that Zhou Yu's loyalty had indeed increased to 95.

Zhu Wei believed that the game system of the Three Kingdoms must have had some influence on Zhou Yu's thinking secretly, so that Zhou Yu could completely let go of the previous separation from Zhu Wei, and change his sincerity to assist Zhu Wei.

Anyway, now Zhu Wei felt much more at ease with Zhou Yu, and he could find time to release Zhou Yu to lead the army alone.

Zhou Yu is best at water warfare. To be honest, Zhu Wei brought Zhou Yu to participate in the Central Plains war. At most, he only used his intelligence expertise, but greatly wasted his water warfare talent.

Zhu Wei felt that Zhou Yu should command the navy in the south. In this way, through the Yangtze River estuary, Zhou Yu could sail the warships north along the coastline to harass Beihai, Donglai, Lelang, Liaodong, Liaoxi and other places, and then go around to Yuan Shao's secluded territory by sea. Yuan Shao's rear was disrupted by surprise attacks in the hinterlands of Yuanzhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou.

Of course, Zhou Yu could also go south along the waterway to Jiaozhou, and attack Jiaozhou for Zhu Wei, reducing the cost of land marches. Then Zhou Yu could go south along the sea route, thus opening up a maritime era of the Han Dynasty.

Well, this is a bit far-fetched, but Zhu Wei can no longer be afraid to use Zhou Yu. With the loyalty guarantee of the Three Kingdoms game system, Zhu Wei can let Zhou Yu go out to play tricks.

As for the whereabouts of the "Delu" famous horse, Zhu Wei had no tangled arrangements at all, and it happened to be given to Zhang Liao.

It can be said that the arrival of this treasure horse is very timely. After being given to Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao's loyalty will directly reach 99, and then the direct cavalry commanded by Zhang Liao can obtain the mobility bonus of the treasure horse. .

Although Zhu Wei still doesn't know what kind of mobility bonus this precious famous horse can have on the army in the real world, Zhu Wei believes that since the Three Kingdoms game system recognizes it as a treasure, it will definitely play a special role.

Anyway, although the Tiger Wing Battalion is nominally headed by Zhang Xiu, the Tiger Wing Battalion is almost under Zhu Wei's direct control, so Zhu Wei can naturally make Zhang Liao a lieutenant general with real power in charge of the army.

Zhu Wei roughly planned to let Zhang Xiu be in charge of the heavy armored cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion, responsible for charging and entering the formation, while Zhang Liao would be in charge of the light cavalry, responsible for running and breaking the formation.

So Zhu Wei really wanted to find time to see what kind of surprises Zhang Liao could bring to Zhu Wei when Zhang Liao, who owned the treasured and famous horse "De Lu", led the light cavalry into battle.

Well, it can be said that in the last season of 198, nothing major happened on Zhu Wei's side.

If I had to say something important, it would be that as time went by, Wang Yuyan's belly was getting bigger day by day in Zhu Wei's harem, and according to the time, April or May of next year would be the delivery period.

And the war in Yizhou during this period of time was neither hot nor dry.

After Gan Ning and Zu Lang entered Berkshire, they were still engaged in an offensive and defensive battle with Pang Xi, a general under Liu Zhang in Yizhou, in Jiangzhou City for the time being. Obviously, Gan Ning's initial surprise attack strategy failed, so he went to Jiangzhou City. Caught in the "hard battle" of the siege.

In 316 BC, Qin Prime Minister Zhang Yi built the first "Jiangzhou" city recorded in historical materials, which was slightly smaller than Chengdu Shaofu City.

Jiangzhou City faces Ershuikou, with Fu Nei Water (now Jialing River) on the right and Shu Outer Water (Yangtze River) on the left. It can be seen that Jiangzhou City is actually like a peninsula-shaped city extending from the Bajun Mountains in Shu to the river. .

In fact, Jiangzhou City was originally built here to facilitate the waterway shipping from Shu to the outside world, so Jiangzhou City is more like a transit station for Shu to the outside world.

Today, this Jiangzhou City is still an ancient city left over from the Qin Dynasty, not the new city built by Li Yan on the Yuzhong Peninsula during the Shu Han Dynasty.

In fact, relatively speaking, today's Jiangzhou City is not that difficult to attack, but after all, this Jiangzhou City is also a city built among the steep mountains of Shu. If you think about Chongqing being called a mountain city in later generations, you can know that Jiangzhou City at this time Zhoucheng can also be regarded as a special city built in the mountains and close to the Jialing River and Yangtze River waterways.

Therefore, although there are many barbarian soldiers in the army brought by Gan Ning and Zu Lang this time, it is still not easy to go ashore and attack Jiangzhou City from land. state city.

In this way, the barbarian fighters who were originally intended to be the main force of the siege would not be very useful. These barbarian fighters may be able to display good combat effectiveness on the mountain, but most of them are unstable on warships and river boats. People are still seasick.

Therefore, the main force for attacking the city seems to have to be handed over to Gan Ning's Jiangjiao camp water army, but after all, Gan Ning's Jiangjiao camp water army has only 7000 to [-] people, and some troops are insufficient if they want to storm Jiangzhou City up.

At this time, it was Liu Zhang's general Pang Xi who was guarding Jiangzhou City. Originally, after he succeeded in attacking Jiangzhou City with [-] Shu troops, he planned to continue to send troops to Brazil.

According to the original history, Pang Xi should have captured Brazil County, and was then named the governor of Brazil by Liu Zhang. He has been helping Liu Zhang guard Brazil to defend Zhang Lu.

It can be said that in the later period, Pang Xi was also entrenched in Brazil County to support himself as a soldier. On the surface, he seemed to help Liu Zhang defend Zhang Lu, but in fact he became a vassal of his own.

Later, when Liu Bei attacked Yizhou, Zhuge Liang personally led his troops into Shu along the Yangtze River. He first conquered Jiangzhou City, and then sent Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei to capture Jiangyang County and Brazil County respectively. As a result, Pang Xi who was entrenched in Brazil County also So he surrendered to Liu Bei.

But not long after Pang Xi took Jiangzhou City, Zhu Wei's army came to Jiangzhou City. Pang Xi was worried that his back would be cut off, so he took the initiative to withdraw from Brazil County to Jiangzhou City.

In this way, Pang Xi was guarding Jiangzhou City with an army of [-] people, but he also had plenty of troops, which naturally made Jiangzhou City even less easy to capture.

Although Zhu Wei uses gunpowder to blow open the water gate, the problem is that the water gate in Jiangzhou City is located in a special place, as if it is recessed inside the walls on both sides, so the boats sent by Gan Ning cannot easily approach the water gate. There is no way to blow open the water door directly.

At the same time, Gan Ning's navy could not directly launch any offensive against the water gate. It seemed that they could only find the city wall to break through.

However, the Jialing River and the Yangtze River around Jiangzhou City have become natural moats. Although the city wall still leaves hundreds of paces of tidal flats away from the rivers, many of the equipment that Zhu Wei's army usually uses to attack the city cannot be transported and erected on the tidal flats. In fact, this restricted Zhu Wei's army's siege methods a lot.

In desperation, Gan Ning had no choice but to transport the Thunderbolt catapult to a large riverboat and warship. Using the riverboat as a base, he bombarded the city wall of Jiangzhou with the catapult, suppressing the defense of Jiangzhou City.

Then send river boats to transport the barbarian fighters hired by Zu Lang to the beach in Jiangzhou City, and finally use those hired barbarian fighters as the main force to attack the city...

(End of this chapter)