Three Kingdoms Eschatology

When the two sides were more than [-] battles apart, the arrows and crossbow spears on the pontoon bridge had already rushed towards the Linjiang Army fleet.In the Liang Army fleet, the portable ballistas mounted on the Viking warships also ejected fist-sized explosive bombs.

Fireballs streaked across the arcs of smoke trails from the air, and smashed towards the pontoon bridge of the Linjiang Army.All the soldiers on board raised the specially prepared scull shields, and these scull shields were patched together, almost equivalent to adding a cover to the open cabin.Concentrated arrows shot at the cover, making a muffled thumping sound.From time to time, there would be one or two screams. It was a certain bed crossbow gun that shot through the scull shield and pierced through the body of a Liang soldier.

Only [-]-[-]% of the "fireballs" shot at the pontoon bridge landed on the bridge deck. The sound of cracking and deflagration of earthen jars sounded intermittently, and flames rose several feet high, forcing the Linjiang soldiers behind the wall to move and dodge.As a result, the arrows fired at Liang Jun's fleet became sparser.Also, the closer the Viking ship was to the pontoon, the higher the hit rate of these "fireballs".

These Viking ships were still more than [-] battles away from the pontoon bridge, and less than [-] battles away from the iron chain blocking the river. Let's paddle together.There are white waves rolling on both sides of each Viking ship, and the resulting track cannot be dissipated for a long time, dragging for a long time.

The speed of the Viking ship suddenly increased by nearly twice.The half-submerged and half-floating objects in the water between the ships also drew white tracks because of their high speed.These things are huge hardwoods felled by Liang Jun from the nearby mountains.These giant woods can only be embraced by two people, and the front end was cut into a wedge shape. Liang Jun also removed the metal ram on the stern of the galley warship and installed it on the wedge-shaped front end of the giant wood.

But when these Viking ships were still two or three battles away from the iron chain, the sailors on board immediately untied the ropes that pulled these giant logs.The giant logs with bronze rams rushed towards the iron chain at high speed with indestructible kinetic energy.

Following a series of loud noises, some iron cables blocking the river were cut off on the spot by the steel ram, while others were not.But the piles that fixed the iron cables on both sides of the bank were uprooted from the rock and soil.

In a short period of time, Liang Jun threw more than a dozen such giant logs into the river, hitting the steel horns.The five or six iron cables blocking the river in Mianshui were all destroyed one after another.Although these giant trees lost their initial high speed, they continued to rush towards the pontoon along the current.

Only then did the soldiers of the Linjiang Army on the pontoon recover from their shock.Looking at the giant tree in the water rushing towards him, he shouted loudly one after another:

"Careful, it's about to hit, get out of the way."

"Hurry up, don't be blown away."

"Use something to hold these giant trees..."

But they didn't have time to prepare.With a loud bang, sawdust splashed everywhere.The giant log floating in the front collided with the floating bridge.

Even though the Linjiang soldiers on the bridge were crouching, they all fell to the ground under the huge earthquake.This kind of loud noise kept coming, and almost all the soldiers of the Linjiang Army on the pontoon bridge staggered on the bridge.Part of the bridge deck has fallen apart, and several hulls supporting the bridge deck have been smashed by giant trees, and river water has begun to pour in.Fortunately, the pontoon bridge is anchored by wooden piles fixed to the bottom of the river, otherwise a huge gap would inevitably be opened.

However, the following Viking ships rushed over, and the two most front ones approached the pontoon one after another. The sailors and soldiers in the cabin held shields and swords and jumped from the cabin to the edge of the pontoon one after another.The two people at the front, who were still in the air, were shot into their bodies by random arrows.He fell on the edge of the bridge, and then the body slid back into the water.

Some Viking sailors in the back also just stood firm on the edge of the pontoon bridge, and before they had time to rush to the crenel, they only heard a few shouts of command from behind the crenel: "Kill!", Immediately afterwards, a forest of spears stabbed out from the crenel. The spears were too dense, and the soldiers of the Liang Army could block them, but they couldn't defend them. They could dodge to the left, but they couldn't hide from the right.All of them were stabbed into the river with plop plop.

In the rear, Gan Ning, who was in charge of the attack, was watching the battle closely from the watchtower of a building boat.Seeing this situation, he thought that there was no need to sacrifice his troops in vain, and immediately ordered: "Order the Viking ships in front to suspend their attack, and the warships in the back concentrate their ballista projectiles and shoot at the middle of the pontoon bridge."

With the sound of trumpets, Gan Ning's military orders were issued.The Viking ships that hit the pontoon bridge stopped advancing one after another, and retreated a certain distance, dropped their anchors, and moored in the river.The scull shield was put on the head by the soldiers again, forming a "turtle shell" covering the cabin again.The Liang Jun warship in the rear began to concentrate on the middle section of the pontoon bridge with the large ballista it carried.A stone bomb was fired, and the "fireball" flew into the sky one after another amidst the loud noise of the collision of the torsion spring baffle of the ballista, and smashed towards the pontoon bridge.

At the beginning, the hit rate of these ballista projectiles was not high, and most of them fell into the water of the Taotao River, causing sprays several feet high.However, as the ballista on the ship continued to adjust the shooting angle of the ballista, the shooting parameters such as the deep dive of the torsion spring, these projectiles finally fell on the bridge deck in the middle of the pontoon bridge.

Every time a stone bullet weighing tens of kilograms fell on the bridge, a big hole was created in the splash of sawdust.Every time a hot bomb lands on the bridge, it can ignite a six or seven-foot flame, and burn the rest of the battle into a sea of ​​flames.The soldiers of the Linjiang Army who had gathered in the center of the pontoon dodged to both ends one after another.Soldiers who couldn't dodge in time either fell into the river from the collapsed bridge pit, or were engulfed by flames and turned into burning men.

After less than half an hour of bombardment, the middle section of the pontoon bridge had completely disintegrated, and the broken wooden wreckage floated downstream.The Viking ship lifted anchor again and rushed towards the broken gap of the pontoon bridge.However, within half an hour, Guan Yu was not idle. Seeing Liang Jun attacking the pontoon bridge with all his strength, he understood what Liang Jun wanted to do, and hurriedly ordered: "Gather all the cavalry to garrison on the bank of the Mianshui River to prevent Liang Jun from entering our line of defense. Log in from behind!"

His military order was quickly issued in the city of Tiger Claw Shanguan, and it was also passed on to the city of Dalushanguan on the other side of the Mian River through semaphore.At the same time, a cavalry team of more than a thousand cavalry emerged from the Guancheng on both sides of the river, and began to cruise along the banks of the Mianshui River. They were closely watching the Viking warships going down the water.

Chapter 551 Lonely City

On the west bank of Mianshui, galloping horsemen along the river and the Viking fleet in the water.One is on the water and the other is on land, traveling in almost parallel directions.

The generals headed by Linjiang war cavalry turned their heads to look at the river from time to time to monitor the actions of these Viking warships.When he found that these warships were gradually approaching the shore, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, pay attention, the enemy ships are about to dock. Let's stabilize first, save horsepower, and rush over to them as soon as they land on the shore. Kill them!" They're all clean!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he found a dark object galloping towards him, with the sound of whistling through the air.The general reacted quickly, subconsciously tilted his head, and the thing brushed past his cheek.After that, he suddenly felt a burning pain, and at the same time felt a hot current flowing down his cheek.Stretching out his hand to touch it, he let out a howl of surprise and anger. It turned out that one of his ears had been cut off by a flying axe.

The sailor soldiers and spear shield soldiers on the Viking ship threw javelins and throwing axes at the riverside warriors on the shore less than a battle away from the shore.Some spear and shield soldiers also pulled the slingshots on their shields and shot towards the Linjiang war cavalry.

In just a quarter of an hour, more than [-] Linjiang cavalry soldiers who were too close to the water fell off their horses.The rest of the warriors hurriedly turned their horses' heads away from the bank of the Mianshui River.

At this moment, seven or eight Viking warships rushed onto the river beach almost at the same time, and both the gun shield soldiers and sailor soldiers in the cabin jumped into the water one after another.In addition to carrying spears and guns, they also carried portable crossbows on their shoulders, wading towards the shore.

In just a dozen or so breaths, the more than a hundred spear and shield soldiers rushing to the front used their shields to form a crescent-shaped shield wall on the riverside, and the tips of more than a hundred spears protruded from the gap between the shields. The end is stuck in the soil.At the same time, they half-drawn the slingshot on the shield, ready to eject the buckshot from their fingertips at any time.

Those Viking warriors in chain mail also rushed behind the shield wall, crouched down, holding battle axes and spears in their hands, ready to throw them at any time.Some sailor warriors had run out of javelins, so they simply took off the extra spears on the backs of the spear shield soldiers in front and used them.

The first batch of soldiers of the Liang army who landed had just finished doing this, and those warriors riding along the river came back again. This time, they gradually raised the speed of their horses to the limit, and rushed towards the soldiers of the Liang army at lightning speed. .If they were ordinary infantry, they would lose their morale and flee in all directions just relying on the power of Linjiang warrior cavalry.But it's a pity that these Linjiang warriors faced the spear shield soldiers and sailor warriors of Liang Guo's first-class army.

Although these Liang army pawns looked tense, none of them showed any fear.Because Liang Jun's formation is in the shape of a crescent moon, the closer the charging Linjiang warriors are to Liang Jun's formation, the denser they will be.

When the battle cavalry in Linjiang was less than ten battles away from Liang Jun's formation, with a command "Let it go!", more than a hundred lead bullets shot towards the cavalry formation whose spacing had been reduced to the limit.With the sound of puff puff puff and the horse whistling and screaming in pain, the frontmost Linjiang army cavalry fell down like a log.In an instant, he was trampled into meat paste by the iron hooves of the warriors behind.

There was another command of "Throw!", and throwing axes and javelins were thrown towards the Linjiang war cavalry in the rear.Hulala fell down again.At this time, the ground in front of Liang Jun's army was full of human and horse corpses.There were also some wounded and frightened war horses that turned around and rushed backward like crazy, and collided with the war horses behind them, and their bodies were instantly smashed to pieces.

The follow-up war cavalry was already frightened, and was blocked by the piles of corpses and these running horses, and the speed of the impact suddenly dropped.Most of the war cavalry gave up charging, and the horses ran backwards.When a few warriors rushed to the shield wall, what they faced was the row of gleaming spear points.

Some war horses foolishly bumped into the tip of the gun, let out a mournful cry, and fell to the ground.Before the soldiers who fell behind the shield wall could react, they were beheaded by the broadsword of the Viking sailor warrior.Some war horses stopped, but the riders had their knees cut off with an axe by the sailor soldiers who rushed out from behind the shield wall, and fell off the horses screaming in pain.

The first wave of impact of the Linjiang army's war cavalry was easily disintegrated in this way.When they tried the second wave of impact, more Viking warships rushed onto the river bank, and more Liang Jun soldiers waded onto the shore, and expanded the Xuanyue formation around.At the same time, they also set up portable ballistas in the formation, and these ballistas smashed fist-sized stone bullets and explosive bombs at the Linjiang army cavalry thirty battles away.

The second charge of the Linjiang army's war cavalry was also easily shattered.Some infantry of the Linjiang Army also drove out of Guancheng under Guan Yu's order, trying to organize a third charge with the cavalry to drive Liang Jun down the river.

But at this time, those Liang Jun warships carrying a large number of soldiers were also approaching the shore.A large number of soldiers rushed ashore along the springboard, including many longbowmen.The Linjiang Army's third charge was destined to end in failure again.

Under the longbow shot, those war cavalry near the river were shot off their horses one after another at a super long distance of two hundred steps. The remaining cavalry were shocked, but under the strict orders of the generals, they still had to persevere The scalp rushes upwards.The infantry of the Linjiang Army advancing forward in an army formation were violently bombarded by ballistas.The ballistas that bombarded them were not only portable ballistas erected on the shore, but also large ship-borne ballistas.

In the end, these Linjiang soldiers were defeated before they had real contact with the Liang army, and retreated to Guancheng with their helmets and armor removed.Seeing all this, Guan Yu at the head of Guancheng also knew that the Linjiang army was no longer able to stop the Liang army from landing.He looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh, and ordered the soldiers to gather up the broken soldiers outside the city.

The battle situation at Dalu Mountain opposite Mianshui was basically the same as that at Tiger Claw Mountain, but the defeat was faster than at Tiger Claw Mountain.

While landing, the Linjiang army used the ballista on the boat to cover and blast the wall that penetrated into the water and connected to the pontoon bridge.Then, they took advantage of the building and boat ladder to seize this section of the wall.

However, the Linjiang Army had long been prepared for this, and the entire wall of the Tiger Claw Mountain line of defense could actually be isolated.They turned the capstan, and unexpectedly hoisted a large section of the tunnel at the top of the wall like a suspension bridge, cutting off the tunnel leading to the city at the top of the wall.

At this time, because the pontoon bridge was broken and Liang Jun landed behind the defense line, the two pass cities on both sides of the Mianshui River had actually become two isolated cities fighting against each other.

Liang Jun was not in a hurry to attack the city, but continued to transport more soldiers and equipment to the south of Guancheng by water in an orderly manner, and at the same time carefully deployed troops to besiege the two Guancheng groups.

In the evening, the Guancheng on the side of Dalu Mountain surrendered without a fight, and a white flag was hoisted.But the Guancheng on the side of Tiger Claw Mountain, which Guan Yu personally guarded, was quiet and there was no movement in the city.

Chapter 552

Guan Yu stood on the tower of Huzhuo Mountain Pass City, looking down at the situation below the city for a while, and at the sky for a while.Under the city, soldiers of the Liang army were preparing firewood behind the formation, obviously they wanted to use fire to attack.At this time, there was no cloud in the sky, and Guan Yu became more and more anxious.

When building the Tiger Claw Mountain pass, Guan Yu did not fail to consider the possibility of being attacked by fire, but in order to speed up the construction period, the entire project was only paved with fireproof stones on the north-facing side.Guan Yu in the south planned to rebuild slowly after the completion of the construction, but it is a pity that the fortification of this line of defense was not long after completion.Liang Jun went south in a big way.It took them only one day to break through the defense line from the waterway and encircle the north and south of Tiger Claw Mountain Pass.

At this time, a general next to Guan Yu reminded: "General, the enemy is obviously going to attack with fire. Our southern city defense facilities are all made of wood, and the water source has also been cut off. The water in Guancheng is only enough. Drink it daily for two or three days. Our army can’t use water to prevent fire. Therefore, I believe that our army must break out of the siege before the enemy sets fire to the city, so that at least a ray of life can be preserved, and the entire army will not be wiped out.”

Seeing that Guan Yu didn't speak for a long time, the general added: "The life and death of our army is a minor matter, but the general must not be trapped here, otherwise I will be in danger when I am facing the river. Even if we are in the underworld, we are ashamed of the king! "

Guan Yu's face changed, yes, if he died at the foot of Tiger Claw Mountain, the hinterland of Jingzhou would no longer be able to take charge of the overall situation.Liang Jun's tiger and wolf division can occupy more than half of Jingzhou within six to seven days. Even after the news of the real battle situation and his death, the counties and counties of Jingzhou may be called down one after another.

"How many troops are there in Guancheng?" Guan Yu asked in a deep voice.

"General Qi, plus the troops from Yicheng, there are a total of about [-] soldiers and horses in Guancheng, including [-] cavalry."

Guan Yu said in a deep voice: "It is impossible for the nearly [-] infantry to escape the pursuit of the enemy cavalry, so when retreating, we must do our best to ensure that the [-] cavalry break through." Fortunately, before the war, a certain general stationed most of the war cavalry in this pass city. Otherwise, the loss would be even greater."

The Liang army under the city was ready, and the crossbows erected under the city fired a salvo of explosive bombs, and the longbowmen lined up in a row also fired arrows at the top of the city.All this is to suppress the crossbowmen of the Linjiang Army at the head of the city.

I saw that the head of Guancheng was in flames, and the walls were filled with heavy arrows, and I heard screams one after another.But in fact, not a single soldier of the Linjiang Army was injured or injured, and more than [-] soldiers hid in the stairway, pretending to let out mournful cries.

Below Guancheng, a large number of soldiers of the Liang Army have already run down to Guancheng carrying firewood.Firewood piles quickly piled up under the city wall.

Just when Liang Jun was about to finish piling up these piles of firewood, the gate of Guancheng suddenly opened, and a large group of Linjiang Army infantry rushed out.The soldiers of the Liang army who were still rushing forward with their bundles of firewood were caught off guard. After bumping into them head-on, they were beheaded to the ground one by one.

Even Zhao Yun didn't expect this situation, so he hastily ordered: "Sing the gong to let the pawns who piled firewood withdraw quickly! The crossbowmen gather and shoot at the invading enemy! The heavy cavalry prepare to meet the enemy!"

At present, Liang Jun's troops are distributed on both sides of the Mian River, and there are four positions in the north and south of the Guanqiang.Zhao Yun personally led the troops to the south of the Tiger Claw Mountain Pass, but there were actually only [-] infantry and [-] cavalry.Most of the [-] infantry were doing the task of stacking firewood, so there was no manpower to form a long enough shield wall to stop these Linjiang soldiers, so they could only use highly mobile war cavalry to snipe them.

Zhao Yun's military order was quickly conveyed, and the thousand heavy cavalry patrolling behind the formation, and the thousand light cavalry flying feathers immediately gathered in the direction where the Linjiang army was rushing.

At this time, the thousands of Linjiang infantry had rushed to the front of the formation, and the archers of Liang Jun had already run away to both sides.The crossbowmen and a small number of gun shield soldiers guarding the crossbow also fled to both sides in panic.

The infantry of the Linjiang army began to slash at the ballista with knives and guns. Unfortunately, they didn't know where the ballista was, and they didn't cut it anywhere.

One of the soldiers of the Linjiang Army swung a broadsword and slashed at the crossbow arm twice, only to find that there were only two deep knife marks on the crossbow arm, which was of no great use.He cut off the string again, not paying attention to the key part - the torsion spring.

He raised his knife and was about to poke at the torsion spring made of knotted horse mane when, with a bang, an arrow pierced through the air and shot into his face.Before he fell down, seven or eight more arrows shot into his body with the sound of arrows piercing through the air.Liang Jun's Qingqi had already arrived, and circled around the thousands of Linjiang soldiers, arrows seemed to shoot at them endlessly.Immediately afterwards, Liang Jun's heavy cavalry charged towards the Linjiang Army, which had nearly half of their casualties.

At the same moment when Qingqi Feiyu surrounded and shot Linjiang army infantry.Another group of men and horses appeared in Guancheng. This team has about [-] men and horses, and all of them are all warrior cavalry.He ran towards Liang Jun's army from another position like a thunderbolt.Guan Yu himself was also hidden in the cavalry formation.

They rushed into Liang Jun's formation in the blink of an eye. At this time, those Liang soldiers who were stacking firewood had just begun to reorganize their formation, which could withstand the violent impact of these three thousand cavalry.Those who reacted quickly spread out to both sides, and those who reacted slowly were trampled into meat paste by the rolling iron cavalry in the blink of an eye.

Only then did Zhao Yun realize that he had been duped by the Linjiang army. At this time, his two thousand cavalry had already sneaked into the encirclement and suppression of the Linjiang infantry, and it was too late to call back immediately.Three thousand Guan Yu cavalry quickly rushed past Liang Jun's formation and fled south.

Zhao Yun ordered the left and right soldiers in a cold voice: "Heavy orders, the heavy cavalry continue to besiege the infantry of the Linjiang army, and the spear and shield soldiers continue to besiege Guancheng. Qingqi Feiyu chases the fleeing Linjiang army at full speed, Guan Yu must Those who hide in this team will be rewarded with a thousand taels! The officer will be promoted to three ranks!"

After Qingqi Feiyu got the order, the whole cavalry team immediately turned around and chased after Guan Yu's cavalry team.A quarter of an hour later, Qingqi Feiyu, who was known for his speed, caught up with Guan Yu's men and horses, and the arrows poured down towards the Linjiang warriors like rain.Amidst the people shouting and neighing, people were constantly being shot off their horses.

Guan Yu saw that if things went on like this, the whole army would be shot to death within a short distance, and it was impossible for him to run.He secretly sent an order: "Send my military order! Everyone separate and retreat!"

Although it may break the entire team into pieces, it is better than annihilation of the entire army.Soon, following the issuance of Guan Yu's military order, the entire cavalry formation began to disperse, and more than a dozen cavalry fled around in groups.

Liang Jun's Qingqi Feiyu also had to be divided into several groups accordingly. In order not to spread too much in his team, if the target was too small, he had to give up.

Chapter 553 Relentless pursuit

Under the pass city of Tiger Claw Mountain, most of the soldiers of the Linjiang Army who rushed out of the pass to attract the troops of the Liang Army turned into tattered corpses under the iron hooves of heavy cavalry.

Liang Jun's gun and shield soldiers and the heavy soldiers were busy again.Against the sparse arrows from the top of the wall, they piled up enough firewood under the closed wall, and poured naphtha on the pile of firewood.More than a dozen "fireballs" were thrown towards the pyre, and the fire quickly ignited.Several high flames even covered the top of the city.An hour and a half later, the outer wall on the south side collapsed in the raging fire, and the fire continued to spread into the Guancheng...

The thousands of Linjiang soldiers in Guancheng finally couldn't hold it anymore, opened the north gate of Guancheng, and fled outwards.However, Gao Shun's troops were waiting at the north gate and surrounded them.Desperate, they could only obediently raise their hands and surrender.

It didn't take long for the Guancheng of Tiger Claw Mountain to be conquered, and the Yibiao cavalry team had returned from afar.It was Qingqi Feiyu who went to chase Guan Yu.There are several heads hanging on the necks of each of their war horses, obviously they have gained a lot.The two captains of the battalion headed by flying horses came to Zhao Yun and reported: "Commander, we have chased and defeated the enemy for more than [-] miles, and captured the first [-] levels, and the remaining remnants of the enemy scattered in all directions."

Zhao Yun said good, and continued to ask: "Guan Yu, have you captured it?"

The two captains of the battalion replied: "Commander, there is no one in the enemy army who is obviously wearing the uniform of a general. Yesterday I waited a long way from the front of the battle, and I didn't see Guan Yu's face clearly. So I don't know if we have captured Guan Yu. But we will try our best to All the heads of the enemy troops were cut off, so that those who are familiar with Guan Yu's appearance can carefully identify him, and then we can know whether he was killed by our army."

Zhao Yun immediately selected a few prisoners from the Linjiang Army, including himself and several Liang Army soldiers who had seen Guan Yu's face up close, and carefully identified the head brought back by Qingqi Feiyu.It took half a day before Zhao Yun confirmed that Guan Yu was not among them.

Unwilling to give up, Zhao Yun checked the corpses of the Linjiang infantry who were used as bait and died in front of the Guancheng, and even the half-burnt corpses in the Guancheng. At the same time, he carefully interrogated the captives.Only then was it confirmed that Guan Yu had indeed escaped.Zhao Yun was very annoyed, he beat his feet and his chest and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity, it's all a mistake by a certain person. A certain person should mobilize more troops to come, and after everything is safe, he will pile up firewood and burn the city. Guan Yu must not escape."

Seeing this scene, the other generals who had already gathered around Zhao Yun hurriedly persuaded him.Gan Ning said: "Brother Zilong, it's useless to regret these things. Besides, winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs, and we just didn't win completely. But after all, our army has wiped out the only main force of the Linjiang Army in the north. Now the commander arranges as soon as possible. Let's sweep the matter of Jingzhou."

Only then did Zhao Yun recover his emotions, and immediately arranged the next action plan for the generals one by one in the temporary tent of the Chinese army.On the same day, the iron cavalry of Yan Yan's army drove out of the camp and went straight to Yicheng.Because Zhao Yun learned from the prisoners of the Linjiang Army that Yicheng is an empty city, and if we don't take it now, we will wait when.

At dawn on the second day, Liang Jun's heavy soldiers and the reclamation soldiers who came to support them rushed to work all night, and finally cleared up the sunken ships in the Mianshui channel and dredged the main channel.

Gan Ning's naval fleet carried the Gan Ning Army and the additional Zhao Yun Army and continued to drive downstream. The Gaoshun Army and the Huaxiong Army accompanied the shore. .

Along the way, they were like a broken bamboo, and easily captured Jingling, Yundu, Lingxian and other large and small cities along the way, and finally arrived at the entrance of Mianshui, the seat of Jiangxia County - Lushan City after seven days.

After Liang Jun's Xu Rong army separated from Zhao Yun's main force, they marched west alone, captured Dangyang first, continued to advance southwest, and then contacted Liao Hua's army who came from Bashu Yidao, and encircled Yiling from east and west. In the city, the defenders of the Linjiang Kingdom surrendered without a fight.

After Guan Yu escaped from Liang Jun's pursuit that day, he fled back to Yicheng without stopping.At this time, there were only less than [-] old and weak conscripts in Yicheng, and trying to defend Yicheng with this was tantamount to nonsense.

Guan Yu naturally knew this too, but he still had illusions in his heart.After losing the Tiger Claw Mountain pass, Yicheng is the last strategic location.If a certain amount of troops can be stationed here, it can still prevent Liang Jun from penetrating into the hinterland of Jingzhou.Even if Liang Jun crossed the city from the east and west sides of Yicheng and entered the rear of Jingzhou, the defenders of Yicheng could directly threaten their supply and food roads.

Guan Yu thought to himself that after the Liang army captured Tiger Claw Mountain, they would have to rest overnight, and there were still many things to do in the aftermath.So if they want to come to capture Yicheng, they have to wait until the next afternoon at the earliest.If he can take advantage of this time difference and urgently ask for help from nearby counties and counties, as long as he can gather [-] standing army infantry, he is still confident that he can hold Yicheng.

After Guan Yu made up his mind, he immediately wrote a number of orders in hand, and sent more than a dozen soldiers to ask for help in Jingling, Jiangling, Dangyang and other cities.Then, after a tiring day, he fell asleep on the couch.

At the head of Yicheng City, groups of conscripts were walking back and forth patrolling with torches in one hand and weapons in the other.Their weapon is a broken rusty knife, or a rough short spear.Most of the people did not wear armor, and those who wore armor actually had a bellyband-like Zhajia curtain hanging around their necks.

These old and weak soldiers suddenly heard a sound like thunder.An old man who thought it was going to rain couldn't help but looked into the sky, only to find that the bright moon was still hanging in the sky.There was no wind and no rain fell.

Then, they felt the top of the city tremble, and someone shouted: "It's the enemy cavalry! There are enemy cavalry under the city!" More and more people shouted, and their voices became louder.

"Go and inform the general!"

"Call the brothers over here!"

These so-called soldiers with no battlefield experience shouted at one go.

There was a sound of piercing through the night sky, and with a few screams, several soldiers dropped their torches, some fell down while clutching the arrows on their chests, and some were hit by arrows in the face, and fell directly to the ground .Some were shot in the abdomen or limbs by arrows, and screamed in pain.

Arrows continued to fly in. Most of these soldiers didn't know how to squat behind the walls or throw away their torches. Most of them avoided the arrows by recklessly running to the back of the city or down the stairs.

Dozens of black shadows flew towards the city like attacking long snakes. They were fired from crossbows with hooks and claws with ropes.The hook claws firmly grasped the edge of the wall with clanging sounds, and dozens of Liang Jun's heavy cavalry jumped off their horses and climbed up to the top of the city along the ropes.

A brave Linjiang soldier tried to cut the rope with his rusty broken knife, but he was shot into a hedgehog by random arrows as soon as he got close to the stacking wall.

After a while, the gate of Yicheng opened wide, and Liang Jun's heavy cavalry poured in.

Chapter 554 Lushan City

Guan Yu was hastily woken up by his own soldiers, he was sleepy and thought it was morning, but when he looked out the window, it was still dark.He was about to lose his temper when the soldiers said eagerly: "General, hurry up, Liang Jun took the night to break through the city!"

Guan Yu was taken aback. He didn't expect Liang Jun to bite him so tightly that he followed him to Yicheng that day and night.He didn't even have time to put on his armor, so he just took his own Qinglong Yanyue Saber, took a dozen of his own cavalry, got on the horse in a hurry, and fled towards the south gate.A quarter of an hour before Liang Jun rushed to the south gate, he rushed out of Yicheng.

Not long after, Guan Yu and others came to a three-way intersection.To the south is Jiangling, the capital of Linjiang Kingdom.To the east is to go to the main force of Linjiang and Jiangxia County where Liu Bei is located.He thought for a while before the intersection, and then ordered a few soldiers to go east to report to Liu Bei in Jiangxia, and then he rode his horse and ran south.

It stands to reason that he should have gone to Jiangxia to join Liu Bei, because even if Jiangling could hold it, it would not have any strategic significance.But Liu Bei's family members are all in Jiangling, what if they are captured by Liang Jun?So Guan Yu had to go to Jiangling first. As for whether to defend Jiangling, he had to see how the war situation changed.

Guan Yu and others, with a number of horses, hurried all night, and finally fled back to Jiangling in the evening of the next day.Fortunately, Liang Jun's pursuers did not chase after him again, so Guan Yu was relieved.After entering the city, he immediately made special arrangements for Liu Bei's family members, and made preparations to withdraw to Jiangxia downstream at any time, and prepared a large number of ships at the Jiangling Ferry.

But on the seventh day, Yan Yan's army, which occupied Yicheng, went south again.Moreover, Guan Yu had heard that Liang Jun had successively captured Dangyang Yiling within these seven days.

Although there were no new Tang reports from the western front, Guan Yu could also guess that the Liang army occupying Yiling must have rushed towards Jiangling City.He guessed right, Liao Hua's army and Xu Rong's army who rushed out from Xiajiang Yidao joined forces and forced to land on Yiling's Linjiang garrison.Guan Yu had no choice but to take [-] white-eared elite soldiers from Jiangling City, escort Liu Bei's family, and flee to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River by boat.

Guan Yu didn't know that Zhao Yun's main force had already arrived at Lushan City in Jiangxia County.If Liang Jun can capture Lushan, Liang Jun's Inland River Navy can sail into the Yangtze River and intercept his fleet.However, a Linjiang team rushed into Lushan City before the Linjiang army.The main general of this army is Wei Yan.

A few days ago, on the endless Pengze Lake in Yuzhang County, which is later called Poyang Lake, Liu Beijun's naval warships can be seen everywhere.