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Li Chen personally brought a group of generals of the army to Chanling City.As the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy can make you invincible. If you want to capture Chanling City, you must first understand the layout of Chanling City.

Although Chanling City is not big, the city wall is very strong.The entire city is built with huge stones, and the city wall is about three feet high.Li Chen reckoned that such a city wall would be difficult to shake even if shells hit the wall.

And this week, Zhou Yu is the governor of Soochow Wu, he has learned a lot from a fall.After suffering the loss of Qin Jun's good guns, now he actually built a "sunshade" on the city wall.

Zhou Yu ordered people to build a shed with bamboo, wood and other materials on the top of the city wall of Chanling City, with a slope of forty or fifty degrees.This is like adding a roof to the city wall, if the Qin army is bombarding it with artillery.

It is difficult for these artillery to hit the city wall, but they will hit the roof first.The roof is a three-layer sandwich.The innermost layer is wood or bamboo, the middle layer is iron sheet, and the top layer is covered with a thick layer of mud.

In order to build this shed that can block the Qin army's artillery, Zhou Yu can be said to have painstakingly, almost exhausting the strength of Jiangdong's craftsmen.It was only then that the object was completely repaired before the Qin army attacked.

Even if Qin Jun's artillery is powerful, it is impossible for him to hit through the iron sheet.With this shed that can block the artillery fire of the Qin army, the Qin army will not be able to take advantage of the artillery.At that time, if the Qin army wanted to attack the city, they would have to pay for their lives.

In addition to the cannon shed, Zhou Yu also built many turrets and border towns outside Chanling City. These turrets protrude from Chanling City, and they can shoot the attacking Qin army with bows and arrows from all directions.

Even the outermost moat, Zhou Yu made people widen it by two or three feet. Now the moat is five or six feet wide, and it is not easy to cross the moat.

Let's put it this way, Chanling City is the Maginot Line of Defense built by Zhou Yu for Soochow.The German army could bypass the Maginot Line built by France, but Li Chen had to fight against the Maginot Line of Soochow.

There are many mountains and rivers in Jiangdong, and Chanling City is the only way to attack.It is impossible for Li Chen to take a detour, as there is no road in the entire vicinity of Chanling that can accommodate the entry and exit of the army.Taking a small path will inevitably divide the troops, and the Qin army will land and fight, and once the troops are divided, they will be defeated.

"Military Master, Chanling City is not easy to fight!" Li Chen sighed and said to Jia Xu.

Unexpectedly, Jia Xu was not panicked at all, and there was even a hint of a smile in the corner of her eyes.

"Ha ha!"

"Don't worry, King Qin, I can destroy this Chanling city in three days." Jia Xu laughed loudly.

"Oh! The military master has a strategy to defeat the enemy?" Li Chen asked Jia Xu.

"Naturally there is a strategy to destroy the city, and the city can be destroyed without abolishing a single soldier. However, this strategy cannot be told to the King of Qin. Telling the King of Qin will not work."

"Don't ask, King Qin, after three days, we will take Chanling." Jia Xu laughed.

Jia Xu did have a plan to break the city, but since Jia Xu is called a poisoner, his plan is a poisonous plan.Jia Xu can break Chanling City, but the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Chanling City may all die in Chanling City.

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Chapter 384 Jia Xu's plan

Li Chen asked again and again, wanting to know Jia Xu's strategy to defeat the enemy, but no matter what, Jia Xu just didn't say a word.Just let Li Chen wait, Chanling City will be destroyed in three days.

Li Chen thought about it, a capable person like Jia Xu has a very weird temper, so let's not talk about it, as long as he can take Chanling three days later, it will be the best.

It was night, the camp of the Qin army, and the big tent of the Chinese army.

"Military division, what is your strategy? You can break the city in three days without losing a single soldier."

"You can't tell King Qin, you have to tell me?" Chen Qingzhi asked Jia Xu.

Chen Qingzhi likes to fight blitzkrieg, but now that Chanling City is blocking the way, he is like lightning hitting Mount Tai, and he is powerless.

If his blitzkrieg wanted to achieve miraculous results, he had to remove the mountain Taishan that blocked the way in Chanling City first.

"Of course I will tell the commander-in-chief about this strategy. Otherwise, how could I, Jia Xu, have ordered us soldiers."

"However, Marshal, I have to say this first. My plan is a poisonous plan. If you use this plan, maybe you will have to bear the name of Lord Wu An in the future."

"This plan has nothing to do with King Qin anyway. It was I, Jia Xu, who came up with the plan, and you, Chen Qing, gave the order. Even if you are notorious through the ages, you and I have to recite it." Jia Xu said seriously.

"Ha ha!"

"Military teacher is joking, if I, Chen Qingzhi, can get the name of Lord Wu'an, it would be infamy, it is a great honor." Chen Qingzhi laughed loudly.

Back then, Bai Qi killed more than [-] soldiers in the state of Zhao, and he has since been known as a human slaughterer.At this time, Chen Qingzhi already knew that Jia Xu's plan today would ruin Chanling City's life.

However, Chen Qingzhi has nothing to do with whether the Eastern Wu soldiers in Chanling City died or not.After breaking Chanling City, he must attack the city as quickly as possible.Therefore, he must take down Chanling City at the least cost.

"Since the commander-in-chief doesn't mind the infamy, then this plan will surely succeed."

"Nowadays, although there is cover on the city wall of Chanling, it is difficult for our Qin army's artillery to make great achievements. However, you must know that Zhou Yu's son has accumulated hundreds of thousands of troops in this county of Chanling." "The city wall How many people can be accommodated above? Most of the Wu army is preparing for battle in the city. Zhou Yu is trying to fight us round after round, exhausting our troops round after round. As the attacking side, if our troops are severely damaged. Then Even if you can conquer Chanling, it will be even more difficult if you want to go to Jiangdong later." Jia Xu explained to Chen Qingzhi.

Chen Qingzhi naturally understood this truth, Chanling County had to be taken, and he couldn't pay too much.Otherwise, it will inevitably affect the subsequent attack plan.

"I don't know what the military master's plan is, but it's okay to ask?" Chen Qingzhi asked Jia Xu.

Jia Xu smiled slightly, and said to Chen Qingzhi: "As the saying goes, fire and water have no mercy, I have a plan to attack with fire."

"Didn't Ms. Yueying make a lot of tung oil bombs? We can build an earthen platform outside the city that is higher than the city wall of Chanling. At that time, we will condescendingly launch tung oil bombs into the city. Once the city is on fire, the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Wu There must be no rush to put out the fire.”

Jia Xu's strategy can be said to be very vicious. Zhou Yu can build a shed on the city wall to block the ammunition, but he can never build a cover to block the Chanling City.

Now Jia Xu is doing the opposite, my cannons will not hit your city walls, I will hit your city walls.Judging from the current population density in the city, as long as the fire can burn, the Soochow soldiers will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

According to the normal artillery range, it is naturally difficult for this cannon to blast into the city, but if you want to fire the cannon into the city after building an earthen platform higher than the city wall outside the city, it will be much easier .

Chen Qingzhi was not an indecisive person. After Jia Xu told his plan, Chen Qingzhi immediately ordered his soldiers to build earthen platforms outside the city.

Chanling City.

government office.

Zhou Yu sat in front of the darkness, and on the table was a map of the entire Jiangdong area.

"Governor, how should we fight this battle?" Cheng Pu asked Zhou Yu, clasping his hands.

Ever since he heard about Huang Gai's death in battle, Han Dang and Zu Mao had no news at all, the old general Cheng Pu's mood was naturally not much better.

"The general will have the heart of death, and the scholar will not be greedy for life. This Chanling City is a millstone of flesh and blood."

"In the battle of Chanling, 20 soldiers of the Qin army can be wiped out. I can only be qualified to defend the land after Soochow. If this battle can wipe out 30 soldiers of the Qin army, the Qin army will stop there." Zhou Yu looked at the picture on the table. said the map.

In terms of national strength, Soochow is much worse than Daqin.And fighting is all about national strength. If Soochow wants to win, it can only trade space for time.

Zhou Yu knew from the very beginning that it was almost impossible to keep the front line of Chanling.The key to Soochow's victory lies in how much it paid for the capture of Chanling with the Qin army.

The purpose of Zhou Yu's defense in Chanling County was to consume the strength of the Qin army.As long as the strength of the Qin army is exhausted to a certain extent, after Chanling County, a blocking line of defense will be set up in every county.

As the saying goes, once the Qin army loses troops and generals in Chanling City, Zhou Yu can continue to deploy defenses and resist gradually in the counties behind Chanling City, and use space to buy time for Soochow.

At this time, Zhou Yu had already begun to study the battle after the Battle of Chanling.

"I, Soochow, have no way out. Even if I can't defend this Chanling, I have to let Qin Jun understand that I, Cheng Pu, are not easy to mess with."

"Even if he died, I, Cheng Pu, would have to eat a few pieces of Qin Jun's meat." Cheng Pu said viciously.

Zhou Yu wanted to use up the vitality of the Qin army in Chanling City to the greatest extent, but he didn't know that Jia Xu's plan was to destroy his Chanling City by attacking with fire.

"report"

"Commander, the Qin Army is turning into a pile of earth, what is it?" At this moment, a hurried voice came, and Zhou Tai rushed in from the outside in a hurry.

Hearing this, Zhou Yu's face suddenly changed. He knew that Li Chende's subordinates could be said to be counselors in the clouds, and fierce generals like rain.Since the earth hills were piled up outside the city, there must be a reason.

After receiving the report, Zhou Yu immediately brought Cheng Pu and Zhou Tai to the city wall and looked out of the city.

Sure enough, on the side of the moat of Chanling City, the Qin army was stepping up to pile up the earth mountain.There are many Qin soldiers, and the speed of this work is also very fast. At this time, these small earth mountains have been piled up for more than ten feet.

"Governor, what is Qin Jun doing?"

"Even if they built earth hills as high as our city walls outside the city, their bows and arrows would not be able to shoot so far. Now that our city walls are covered, they are not afraid of their artillery?" Zhou Tai asked puzzled .

"Governor, is the Qin army playing tricks and trying to lure us out of the city to harass them?" Cheng Pu asked Zhou Yu.

Chapter 385 Burning Chan Mausoleum

Zhou Yu couldn't figure out what the Qin army was trying to do when they built a high earth mountain outside the city.

After thinking about it, Zhou Yu didn't come up with a reason.In the end, Zhou Yu could only order to leave him alone.

Zhou Yu thought, anyway, I have the strong city of Chanling City.No matter what tricks you play, in short, I don't know how to do it anyway, and I want to see what you can do.

All in all, if you want to break the city, you always have to send troops to attack. Zhou Yu is now responding to all changes without changing, and is waiting for the Qin army to come to attack the city.

The Qin army outside the city began to pile up earth hills along the walls of Chanling City according to Jia Xu's arrangement.The Soochow army in the city seemed to be afraid of being tricked, and they didn't even harass them. The two armies fell into a strange calm.

This weird atmosphere is like the calm before a storm. The people in the city don't know that what awaits them is not a storm, but a rain of meteors and fire that is a hundred times more terrifying than a storm.

The Qin army was busy outside Chanling City for two full days, and small hillsides rose from the ground outside Chanling City.

In the evening, the Qin army, which had not moved for a few days, moved rarely. Under Chen Qingzhi's order, the Qin army sent out a full 10,000+ army, and set up a pocket formation like a fishing net outside Chanling City.

"Boom, boom!"

"Boom! Rumble!"

"Boom! Rumble!"

After the sky was completely dark, only the sound of roaring outside Chanling City was heard, as if thousands of troops and horses were passing through the border.

This sound was the sound of the Qin army transporting artillery. These artillery pieces of the Qin army were all cannons unloaded from the ship.These cannons are all made of pure copper, and the weight of a cannon is as heavy as a thousand catties.

Usually, if these guns are mounted on giants such as three-rail gunboats and chasing boats, they will naturally show nothing.However, it is very inconvenient to transport it to use it on the ground now.

You know, there are no mechanized transport vehicles such as tractors in this era.These cannons are transported by horse-drawn people.

According to the observers, there are no asphalt roads or cement roads in this era.The best way to go is the official road of rammed loess.However, there is no official road in front of Chanling County.

In order to transport these artillery from the shore to the forward position, the soldiers of the Qin Army were exhausted.

And in order to prevent the artillery from being seen by Soochow soldiers in the city, with precautions, the Qin army could only transport these artillery at night.The road was not easy to walk in the first place, and it was dark at night, so it was difficult to see clearly. The transportation of these hundred artillery pieces lasted from just dark to midnight.

Outside Chanling City, on the earth hill built by the Qin army, a hundred or so artillery pieces were neatly arranged in a row.

Beside these artillery pieces, there are shells one after another.These shells are not conventional solid and blooming shells, but incendiary shells.

In the battle of the water army, the fire attack is the first.These incendiary bombs were originally invented by Huang Yueying, a great inventor, to deal with the ships of the Soochow Navy.However, the manufacture of these incendiary bombs is very complicated. Now that they have just been mass-produced, the water war is over.

Originally, these incendiary bombs were basically useless, but Jia Xu thought of this poisonous trick temporarily, and just used these things.

In addition to conventional gunpowder and sulfur in incendiary bombs.Also packed a lot of tung oil and catkins.Catkins are very light, and once they catch fire, they fly around and quickly spread the fire.

At this time, on the earth hill outside Chanling City, the Qin Army's artillery and ammunition were ready, and they were waiting to smash all these incendiary bombs into Chanling City.

On the dirt hill, Jia Xu stroked his beard and said to Chen Qingzhi: "Commander, give me an order, you will bear this eternal infamy for the rest of your life.

"Ha ha!"

"You, Jia Xu, came up with this plan. If people in this world want to scold you, they must scold you, Jia Xu, before scolding me, Chen Qingzhi." Chen Qingzhi laughed loudly.

After laughing, Chen Qingzhi returned to normal, and shouted to the messenger beside him: "Command, calibrate the gun position."

"Squeak! Squeak!"

Chen Qingzhi gave an order, and there was a sound of gears being pulled from above the earth mountain, and the Qin army's artillery was aiming its muzzle at the city.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, all the artillery is aimed at the city!" The messenger replied.

Chen Qingzhi straightened his expression and ordered: "Fire freely, throw all the shells into Chanling City for me."

"fire!"

The artillery commander of the Qin Army shouted loudly, waving the command flag heavily in his hand.

Outside Chanling City, on the dirt hill, Qin Army's hundreds of cannons let out bursts of roaring sounds, and countless shells were condescendingly smashed into Chanling City.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The artillery of the Qin army, the ones that shot into Chanling City were all incendiary bombs. After these incendiary bombs were shot into the city, they immediately set the city in flames.

Because these incendiary bombs were mixed with a lot of catkins, the fire spread quickly, and most of the city's buildings were made of wood.It was almost less than a stick of incense, and half of the city had already been spread by fire.

"Fight the fire! Quickly put out the fire!"

"Fire! Fire!"

The city was on fire, and these soldiers in the city naturally had to find a way to put out the fire, but the water source in the city was limited.Nowadays, almost every well is surrounded by soldiers fetching water.

At this time, the veterans Cheng Puzheng and Zhou Tai were patrolling the city wall. Zhou Yu went back to the government office to rest early today because of excessive practice these days.

"report"

"Report to the deputy governor, the south of the city is on fire!"

The orderly had just knelt down when "Putong" knelt down again.

"The north of the city is on fire."

"The east of the city is on fire."