Chapter 501: Plotting to Pacify Jiangdong (30)
In the east of Yuzhang City, where the main camp of Qin Xu's army was located, with a loud sound like thunder on a spring day, more than ten dazzling balls of light appeared in the sky as in the legend, and fell into the city with choking smoke. Before the Sun defenders who were stunned by such a situation could react, as if they had received a signal, the pious Qingzhou soldiers and the unruly Danyang soldiers began to attack the city on the east and west sides of Yuzhang City.
If it was placed in the past, even if Zhou Yuming knew the news that the two armies under Qin Xu's command that had grown up in iron and blood were attacking the city, Bacheng would not be too impressed. After all, the "work" of siege is not high-tech, as an attacking party, if there are no powerful siege tools and a steady stream of cannon fodder to fill the pit, if you want to capture a city with the same force, in Zhou Yu's view, it is tantamount to a fool's dream. Therefore, although Qin Xu's army was approaching day by day, and the battle in Jiangdong was like a bamboo, Zhou Yu, who had already made up his mind, had the intention of sticking to Yuzhang and dragging down Qin Xu's army, which was not smooth, was still able to arrange the defense line in an orderly manner and wait for Sun Ce to come back for help. But now, Zhou Yu finally knows what the things that are obviously ordinary tight, but make him always inexplicably irritable, are for.
However, the bamboo pieces of half the length of the body, hooped into a cylinder, were pulled out vigorously in the hands of the soldiers with good strength, and the round ball with the slightest trace of fireworks and phosgene flew up to the sky above Yuzhang City, and before the soldiers of this army could react to what it was, it suddenly exploded, as terrifying as in the legend. Even Zhou Yu, who thought that Mount Tai had collapsed in front of him and did not change his complexion, only felt a pain in his chest when he heard this sound at first glance. Not to mention the soldiers of this army guarding the head of Yuzhang City.
Zhou Yu finally knew Qin Xu's plan now, and looked at the big cockroach with white characters and black background written on the big Qin character behind the army formation not far away, and his eyes were almost bleeding.
Zhou Yu is a peerless wise man, after experiencing the initial moment of instinctive panic, he quickly calmed down, and soon discovered the fact that this homemade bomb is not very lethal except for the bright light and loud sound. But the problem is. Because of this sudden situation, the situation that the army's morale is gradually chaotic cannot be alleviated because of Zhou Yu's "awakening". The Qingzhou soldiers and Danyang soldiers who came with light and loud noise, taking advantage of this mighty momentum, have already left a not very good influence in the hearts of their own army. Just like the Danyang soldiers who are used to being rebellious, there has been no example of daring to disobey Qin Xu's orders, and they are almost the same as the Qingzhou soldiers who command Qin Xu like an arm, which is enough to show that knowing the truth of this thing and experiencing the power of this thing are actually two different things. Moreover, Zhou Yu knew very well in his heart that if it continued like this, let alone a counterattack, it would have become a luxury for the army to have the courage to raise a knife when the soldiers of the two battalions rushed to the city.
"Summoned the three generals Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang. Each leader of his own army, according to the plan to go out of the city to engage in battle! "Zhou Yu's plan with the three veterans who temporarily put aside the mustard in their hearts last night was to rely on the defense of Yuzhang Xiaocheng If they can't do their best to prevent Qin Xu from coming to the army, he will concentrate superior forces according to the advice of the three veterans who have not agreed with the passive defense very much. Priority is given to annihilating Qin Xu's army outside the city. This resolution was the last thing Zhou Yu wanted to see. Zhou Yu also had some understanding of Qin Xu. In addition to knowing Qin Xu's not very "glorious" background, Zhou Yu has also analyzed several key battles of Qin Xu's rise over the years. What makes Zhou Yu also puzzled is that these battles of Qin someone, to put it mildly, are almost all classic examples of death and then born, Zhou Yu thinks that he puts himself in his shoes to do it, although he also admits that he may have a chance to turn defeat into victory. But to achieve Qin Xu's untraceable like an antelope's horns, it is still difficult to do after all. Therefore, Zhou Yu expected that if Qin Xu was not unlucky, he would definitely be a character who did not play cards according to the rules, just looking at the Jiangdong incident, he easily cracked the four lines of defense laid by the Sun family, and knew that this guy would definitely not use the army of less than 30,000 people in a decent manner. Forced siege. There will inevitably be a trick. Therefore, Zhou Yu used Qin Xu's several battles as examples last night to persuade the Sun generals that they must not take Qin Xu seriously, so they put this not very clever hard plan. In the end, when it was really irretrievable, it was used again, but I didn't want to, this had not yet engaged Qin Xu's army, and it was forced to be taken out in advance.
The headquarters of Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and Huang Gai are waiting outside the east, west and south gates of Yuzhang City according to the plan, except for the momentum of meteors falling from the sky in the city, which has caused a certain amount of chaos, but because they have not seen the scene of Qin Xu's army with their own eyes, the impact is relatively small, and the soldiers' hearts can still be controlled. After receiving the military order from Zhou Yu, under the leadership of the three veterans, he quickly occupied the three city gates in the east, west and south, just waiting for Zhou Yu's order to send troops.
As for the North Gate, almost all of the Sun clan's forces thought that it was the gate of life and death left by Qin's plan to surround the three and lack one, so they were all Sun generals who made up their minds to defend Yu Zhang, and no one suggested wasting troops to explore the truth of this road. Even Zhou Yu, because the Sun family only had Yuzhang rooted, and there was nowhere to go in the world, he did not object.
At this moment, outside Yuzhang City, the Qingzhou soldiers and Danyang soldiers who were carrying simple siege bamboo ladders, as Zhou Yu expected before, did not encounter too many obstacles, and they had already arrived at the city of Yuzhang. On the city wall, the Yuzhang soldiers who had prepared enough arrows and planned to give the incoming soldiers a hard blow, many of them couldn't even hold the bow steadily, which really provided considerable convenience for the incoming soldiers to attack the city.
In the face of the strange situation that the besieging side of the city is like a rainbow, and the defenders have almost no resistance at all, the sense of powerlessness in Zhou Yu's heart became stronger and stronger, seeing that Yuzhang was just a city wall more than three zhang high, almost replicating the Fuguan that the original plan almost captured, and at this moment it was just a matter of reversing roles, Zhou Yu finally gave up the "correct" strategy of sticking to and waiting for reinforcements before, and when there were already many Qingzhou soldiers and Danyang soldiers on the city wall, he had to give an order again, ordering Cheng Puhan to be Huang Gai and other Sun veterans, out of the city to fight.
And outside the city, as Zhou Yu summed up, Qin Xu's luck has always been quite good. The earthen bombs of the eldest brother of the "sister's cause" brought to Yuzhang this time had already been used up in Guangling before, and there were actually less than two hundred left in hand at the moment, even if they were all of high quality, they would not appear in the Nameless Valley against Cao Cao, at least seven or eight out of ten were not sounded, and they were distributed to the soldiers of the three gates, in fact, there were only fifty or sixty of them in each place. It seems like a lot, but in fact, when it is apportioned, the deterrence time that can be maintained for one stick of incense is already much more than Qin Xu's expectations.
Qin Xu himself didn't expect these low-lethal things to cause much damage, and what he asked for was just to minimize some unnecessary casualties when his army was attacking the city. To be honest, if it weren't for Wumei's inadvertent reminder, the grain and grass reserves in Hewangu County were not as abundant as expected, which made Qin Xu feel that instead of waiting for Fuguan to open the grain road, it would be better to take this opportunity to gamble and give it a go. What Qin Xu liked the most was actually the safe way to encircle the point and send reinforcements and slowly consume the Sun family's troops. After all, no matter what, the Danyang soldiers are okay, but the Qingzhou soldiers are one less than one, and they are all elites among dozens of people, or even one in a hundred, naturally the more the merrier, those so-called battlefield blood polishing the troops, for Qin Xu, who has seen the combat power of the Qingzhou soldiers several times, has always been scorned. Therefore, after seeing the power of the earth bomb called the divine thunder, which made the siege of the city quite smooth, and even so far there has not been too many casualties, the smile on Qin Xu's face became a lot thicker, and he couldn't stop pouting when he saw Wumei beside Qin Xu.
......Fortunately, the astonishing loud noise and the huge fire stopped after a long time of incense, and the frightened Yuzhang soldiers finally began to recover and began to organize an effective resistance after losing the urn city and a section of the city wall. And within the four gates of Yuzhang, after a few tooth-sore sounds, the three Sun veterans who had been waiting for a long time also began to launch a counterattack.
The rumor that there was no general in Qin Xu's army had been deeply ingrained in the hearts of the Jiangdong army as several battles spread. Therefore, this time Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and Huang Gai led the army out of the city, and they really had a little bit of a killing ring in their hearts, and made a great contribution to prove in front of Sun Ce that veterans are stronger than those young people. When the city gate was opened, the three veterans rushed out from the east, west and south gates.
However, it has been proven that it is not feasible for a layman to lead an insider, no matter what era it is. To say that in this era of cold weapons, the generals honestly fight the battlefield and fight for their lives, and the strategists do their best to control the overall situation and strategize, which is the most correct combination after countless blood-stained accumulations. If the strategist's plan is not clear, the general's heart is not followed, and the prediction is wrong because of misleading information, the ending will often make people very depressed, such as the current three generals of the Sun family.
The combat power of Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and Huang Gai has been tempered by countless battlefield battles, and from Qin Xu's eyes, in the entire late Han Dynasty, even if he can't rank the first-class generals, at least in terms of commanding troops, he is also a mainstay. If it was according to Zhou Yu's plan at the beginning, even after the invasion of Qin's "cheating" methods, he only needed to resist the initial period of panic, and it was impossible to say that if Qin Xu's army wanted to attack Yuzhang head-on, it would inevitably have to pay the corresponding price. After all, whether it is the Qingzhou soldiers or the Danyang soldiers, there is naturally nothing wrong with fighting on the plains, but it is used to siege the city, and it is estimated that after understanding the combat power of these two armies, only Qin someone, who still belongs to the category of two knives in military affairs, can do such a thing as killing chickens with a knife.
However, it is precisely as Zhou Yu's conclusion on Qin Xu that such a method of playing cards that does not follow common sense leads to the end that when Cheng Puhan and Huang Gai and the three of them came out of the city, they encountered the brunt of the Qin Xu army, which is currently "not a big general", and only three people can "take it......