At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The city wall is tall and majestic, and the city pool is generous, so it is very difficult to attack at first glance.

It is estimated that it would be very difficult to attack such a tall and strong city wall, even if Sun Ce's troops were more than three times the number of Wei's troops.

But besieging such a city requires at least [-] troops, right?

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu looked at each other, feeling a little embarrassed.

"I have never seen Hefei City so tall in the past. It must have been renovated. Could it be that Duke Wei had foreseen this day, so he specially repaired Hefei City?"

Sun Ce asked.

"It's really hard to say."

Zhou Yu shook his head, and said, "But I'm not surprised if Duke Wei is far-sighted, Bo Fu, as I said earlier, Duke Wei will not fail to think of things that we can think of. It depends on whose strategy is better, but who can carry out the strategy to the end."

Zhou Yu put forward the same military thought as Guo Peng, which was deeply endorsed by Sun Ce.

Soon, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce learned that the Wei army under the city of Hefei had completed their formation and had taken the lead, so they did not panic.

Zhou Yu ordered more troops to go ashore when there was still some distance, especially to let all the strong generals go ashore, and Sun Ce himself went ashore as the commander-in-chief of the entire army on land.

Han Dang, Dong Xi, Chen Wu, Yuan Xiong, Deng Dang, Sun Ben and other generals all went ashore, and cooperated with Xu Kun and Zhou Tai, who had already landed ashore, to perfect the formation. A sign of combat effectiveness.

Zhou Yu stayed in the water and led the navy with the veteran Huang Gai to serve as reinforcements, allowing the Jiangdong infantry to fight against the Wei army with the navy on their backs.

After all, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were still a little afraid of the fighting power of the Wei army, so they sent out their elites and generals, and tried their best.

The Jiangdong infantry and navy approached the city of Hefei majesticly, and a bloody battle was about to break out.

Seeing the tall city wall of Hefei, and the formation of the Wei army under the city of Hefei, ready to go, with the bright armor and banners fluttering, Sun Ce couldn't help but admire the elite of the Wei army.

Standing beside Zhou Yu on the building boat, Sun Ce's younger brother, Sun Quan, who is only 17 years old, is also looking at the tall and sturdy city of Hefei in a daze.

"Zhongmou, what are you thinking?"

After Zhou Yu ordered the navy to advance, he saw Sun Quan standing on the deck looking at the city wall of Hefei in a daze, so he stepped forward to ask.

"Brother Zhong, tell me, can we really capture such a tall city?"

Sun Quan had never seen such a tall city, even Wu County, Wu County, did not have such a tall city wall.

"Whether it is possible to capture a city is often determined by many factors, not just the number of troops, but also the food reserves in the city, the decision-making of the general in the city, the courage of the soldiers, and whether the enemy's reinforcements can arrive in time, etc. .”

"Then our army attacked Hefei, did we gain an advantage?"

Sun Quan looked at Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu nodded: "That's natural. Our army has an advantage in attacking Hefei. The most important point is that we used various means to contain the reinforcements who might come here before sending troops, making the entire Jiujiang County at most Only ten thousand enemy troops can stand against us."

"That's it."

Sun Quan nodded slightly: "That means we can definitely win?"

"No, no one dares to say that we can definitely win. We can only say that we have an advantage. With such an advantage, we have a greater chance of winning."

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "In the battlefield, no one dares to say that he is the final winner. We can only say that we will try our best to win a complete victory. No one dares to say that we will definitely win."

Sun Quan stopped talking and continued to look at Hefei City in a daze.

Zhou Yu looked at Sun Quan and nodded slightly.

Chapter 586 Zhou Yu's brain is blank

Zhou Yu felt that among Sun Ce's younger brothers, Sun Quan was the most talented.

Sun Quan and Sun Ce are different, Sun Quan's temper is more calm, Sun Ce's temper is too violent, Sun Quan is calmer, and Sun Ce is more impulsive.

Therefore, Sun Ce needs Sun Quan to help him calm down in time and try to stabilize his temper, while Sun Quan lacks Sun Ce's enterprising spirit and the ambition of not fearing the world's heroes.

It would be great if these two brothers could become one, maybe they could be comparable to Guo Peng.

In Zhou Yu's view, Guo Peng is the combination of Sun Ce and Sun Quan.

All he knew was that Guo Peng kept defeating his enemies and people who could threaten him along the way, so much so that he wiped out the Yuan family in Runan.

The popular Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the direct son of the Yuan family, were all potential candidates for the hegemony of the world in the early years, but they were defeated one by one by Guo Peng, who was not favored at the time.

Guo Peng eradicated countless enemies and eventually became the overlord of the north. The distance from unifying the north is actually a distance from Liangzhou.

Since he was 19 years old and followed the late Taiwei Lu Zhi to conquer the Yellow Turban Army, for more than ten years, he has achieved such great achievements. How can we not say that he is a hero that is rarely seen in a century?

It is not enough to say that he is a hero, he is not only a hero, but also a hero.

Zhou Yu took a deep breath.

This is him taking advantage of others' danger, and he is taking advantage of Guo Peng's main force being pinned down in Sansuke's land and going north to take advantage of others' danger. Although his actions are a bit despicable, this is a strategy.

And if even the [-] Wei army's frontier defense force can't break through, how can this battle continue?

If even the 3 border guards in this area can't deal with it, can the Sun Wu regime still go north?Is there any way to go north?

If the Wei army cannot be defeated with all the advantages, then there is really no need to fight this battle, and the future of the Sun Wu regime can also be predicted.

Only by obtaining Jiujiang and Lujiang, taking the initiative, and annexing Guo Peng's accumulation in Jiujiang and Lujiang counties over the past few years, can Jiangdong's power be greatly expanded and Jiangdong's further expansion opportunities won.

This battle must be fought, and it must be won.

Zhou Yu couldn't even imagine what would happen if he lost this battle.

So when the war was about to break out, when Zhou Yu watched the huge stone bullets flying through the sky and hit the Soochow battleship fiercely, his brain was just like Cheng Pu before, blank, and there was nothing left. .

All the noise, shouts, and screams disappeared.

There is only a miserable scene in front of me.

Thirty counterweight trebuchets were launched together, and thirty huge stone bombs soared into the sky, piercing the sky.

They either smashed into the Jiangdong army's formation, or fell straight into the water. While destroying the general's formation in a mess, they also pierced, sunk, and shattered all the wooden warships.

This is how the army formation led by Sun Ce watched helplessly. At a distance that was unlikely to be attacked, when the crossbowmen of the Wu army were not ready to attack, they were blasted into the army formation by seven or eight boulder bullets. , was attacked unprepared.

Immediately, a burst of smoke exploded, accompanied by the flesh and blood of an unknown person, and it exploded, spreading all over the bodies and faces of the surrounding people.

The shock caused by the large stone bomb falling to the ground also lifted the surrounding people into the air, and the tight military formation was smashed out of seven or eight large vacuum areas in an instant.

The blow to the military formation is not considered big, because the main target is not the military formation, but the warship.

The water supply channel is relatively narrow, which is not very convenient for the maneuvering of large fleets, and it is not easy to advance and retreat. Facing the prepared trebuchet, the defenseless Sun Wu Navy is a living target.

The large and small warships and baggage ships of the Jiangdong Navy, which were densely distributed on the surface of the water, were smashed, broken, and sank to the bottom of the water.

People and things on board were killed, smashed, and fell into the water together.

It’s okay to talk about things, if they are gone, they will be remade, and if people are gone, they will really be gone.

A large building ship was hit by two large stone bombs, penetrated, and immediately began to seep water on a large scale. The soldiers on the ship screamed in panic and jumped into the water to survive. Some small warships were smashed to pieces. Or be overturned by the waves, overturned into the water.

Even though most of the soldiers in the Jiangdong army can swim and are good at water, under such circumstances, under panic, it is inevitable that they will not choke on the water and have cramps.

So he sank into the water and drowned.

There are too many uncertainties, and too many people have died.

Facing the sudden flying stones, Wu Jun was terrified and chaotic at the stalls. The bombardment of the four-wheeled trebuchet ended. The excited and indescribable Zhang Liao gave an order, and the war drums rumbled. Sitting on the ground, draw the bow and string the arrow.

"put!!"

The commander roared loudly, the war drums rang loudly, and thousands of arrows shot up from the ground, pierced the sky and rushed forward, and fell steadily on the head of Wu Jun on the shore and on the water.

Wu Jun's army formation and ships were instantly covered by arrow rain.

Wei Jun fired arrows at an extremely fast speed, with a high frequency and a high rotation rate, and could achieve continuous firepower suppression within a certain period of time. efficiency.

After the flying stones came the rain of arrows. At the same time as the rain of arrows was fired, the trebuchet fired again, and another round of flying stones struck.

Huge stone bombs and dense bows and arrows fell from the sky and covered it, which dealt a huge blow and damage to the Wu army.

The army on the shore and the ships on the water suffered heavy losses, and they completely lost their command and rules.

The soldiers lost their orders because of panic, and turned around and fled backwards. The soldiers behind blocked the road before they could react.

The soldiers on the ship also wanted to turn the bow of the ship and row the boat to escape because of panic, but there were ships in front, back, left, and right.

Or it was a broken ship that hadn't sunk and couldn't open the road at all. Some soldiers couldn't wait and panicked, and simply jumped into the water and fled back with a piece of wood in their arms.

The private troops of the generals of the various armies on the land were fairly conscientious, and the first thing they thought of was not to escape by themselves, but to flee with the stupid generals.

Some generals reacted quickly. Seeing that the formation could not be stabilized, they immediately demanded that the troops try their best to stop the deserters, kill the deserters, and try their best to stabilize the formation.

However, the collapse of the front army brought a large number of rout troops to rush back, which directly disrupted the positions of the central and rear troops. Panic spread rapidly, and the firepower of the Wei army also quickly extended. When the Wu army was in a panic, it was impossible to stop the counterattack. Under such circumstances, Wu Jun was killed and wounded in a big fight.

Seeing that the time had come, Zhang Liao roared through gritted teeth.

"The whole army is attacking!!!"

The short and rapid sound of war drums was rumbling, and the Wei army's formation began to move forward at full speed, and the infantry marched in formation like a wall.

The cavalry rode their horses and galloped forward, charged into the Wu army's formation in one fell swoop, beheaded a large number of Wu army's former soldiers, and encountered no obstacles at all, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

The rain of arrows also covered the chaotic warships of the Wu army on a large scale. The soldiers on the battleships fell into the water one after another, but falling into the water could not stop the Wei army from shooting them.

For a while, a large number of Wu soldiers who jumped into the water were also shot, and the blood gradually stained the water surface.

Sun Ce, who was in the large formation of the Chinese army, was stunned.

Chapter 587 Battle of Liuhefei

Just now, Sun Ce, who was chatting happily with his cousin Sun Ben next to him, was stunned when faced with such a situation.

How is this going?

Why does it feel like the situation has collapsed in such a short period of time?

It took a sharp turn, and there was no room for turning around at all.

Wu Jun clearly had the upper hand, but right now, Wu Jun was as fragile as a child, facing Wei Jun's fierce attack, he was almost powerless to fight back.

The cavalry of the Wei army has already penetrated into the Wu army formation, and has torn the Wu army formation.

Zhang Liao commanded the infantry to follow closely behind, dividing and encircling the torn Wu army, ready to devour them bite by bite.

The Wu army's formation has completely collapsed, and it has completely fallen into a chaotic situation of retreat and fighting on its own.

A small number of generals' private soldiers have strong combat effectiveness, and fighting desperately to protect the generals from the encirclement can also cause some troubles for the Wei army.

Wu Jun's former army didn't have the courage to resist at all, and was affected by panic and retreated directly.

Their retreat directly impacted the central and rear troops of the Wu army, causing Wu Jun's central and rear troops to be infected by this panic, and soldiers who fled appeared.

At this time, it is still the private troops of the generals that can play their due role, forming formations to resist the attack of the Wei army and protect their generals.

These well-trained and relatively well-equipped soldiers can bring some troubles to the Wei army, cause certain damage to the Wei army, and resist the Wei army's invasion to a certain extent, without causing the central and rear troops to collapse too quickly.

But the situation on the battlefield has been formed, and the panic has affected the entire Wu army. Many soldiers immediately felt that they had been defeated when they saw the retreat of the former army, and they fled together without even thinking about it.

The sense of awe brought by the trebuchets of the Wei army was so strong that the soldiers of the Wu army who had never seen this kind of weapon even thought it was a demon method, and it was not a normal weapon.

After having such an idea, it is not incomprehensible to retreat.

But even so, there is no shortage of troops who dare to fight. Xiang Yu's soldiers are not so easy to admit defeat.

Sun Jian's nephew, Xu Kun's personal guard, who was the Empress General of the Wu Kingdom, protected Xu Kun while fighting and retreating.

But the Wei army surrounded them, and pointed their sharp spears at these brave Jiangdong children, stabbing them mercilessly, killing them one by one, and blood spilled all over the ground.

The Wei army was protected by a large shield, and Xu Kun's troops lost a lot of weapons and equipment in the chaos, so they were gradually unable to resist the superior siege of the Wei army, and all died in battle. In the end, only Xu Kun was still fighting with a knife.

Seeing that all the soldiers died in battle, Xu Kun was heartbroken. In a rage, he fought desperately and yelled again and again.

With three spears under his arms, he slashed forward and killed two Wei soldiers in a row, but was immediately stabbed by two other Wei army spearmen who came up with their spears. chest.

Xu Kun was powerless to resist, and could only watch the spear piercing his body, his eyes widened, he vomited out a mouthful of blood, then his arms dropped powerlessly, the sword around his head fell to the ground, and he fell on the ground with blank eyes. On the land in the north of the river, he never got up again.

Wu Guo's rebellious general Chen Wu was brave and fearless, and his personal guards were also very brave. He formed a square formation on his own and fought while retreating.

Cheng Lian pointed his bow and arrow at Chen Wu, who was struggling to fight, and shot the arrow. The arrow pierced through the fighting crowd, and hit Chen Wu's head. The arrow pierced through his helmet, and Chen Wu was shocked. , and then fell powerlessly to the ground, dying in battle.