The Shuhan Empire of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 56 Surprise Attack on Jiangling
Raid on Gangneung
Liu A looked unwillingly at the treasury that was burning ragingly at this time, stomped his feet, "Retreat, go to the police" Liu Ah said these words with difficulty, but what surprised him was that the retreat would be even more difficult. difficult.

Liu Acai and his family had just arrived at the gate, but Zhuge Qiao just arrived, "Catch them all and don't let them go," Zhuge Qiao said, pointing to Liu A and his party.

With only one charge, the terrified Wu Jun was defeated, and Liu Ah naturally became a prisoner. Maybe he is regretting why he didn't run faster now, why he hesitated so much!

"Who is the prefect Liu Ah, stand up!" Zhuge Qiao shouted at them.I saw a rather burly man walking out with his head bowed, "I'm Liu Ah".

"Are you willing to surrender?" Zhuge Qiao asked
"Lord Wu treats me well, I can't betray him." Liu Ah's answer seemed very slow.

"Come on, drag Liu A out and kill him!" Zhuge Qiao shouted

"Wait a minute, general. I know Liu Ah well. Let me persuade you to surrender." Zeng Cheng saw that Liu Ah was unwilling to surrender, and when Zhuge Qiao was about to kill him, he suddenly stood up.

"I'll give you a quarter of an hour, remember it's only a quarter of an hour." Zhuge Qiao agreed with Zeng Cheng's opinion, but he was afraid that he would delay the time. In fact, Zhuge Qiao had already planned to make him surrender.

"Master Taishou, do you know me?" Zeng Cheng approached Liu A and said
"You, aren't you the county guard Zeng Kaiqi?" Liu Ah said in surprise

After that, Zeng Cheng deliberately approached Liu Ah, and he didn't know what to say. Only for a while, Zeng Cheng retreated again; but Liu Ah immediately knelt on the ground, "General, Liu Ah is willing to surrender."

"He who knows the current affairs is a hero. Liu Taishou's return has added a lot of help to our army. I also ask the prefect to rush to the city gates immediately so that the rest of the soldiers can return to their hearts, and let them gather in front of the mansion immediately." Zhuge Qiao He smiled and helped Liu A up.

After saying "this is natural", Jufu escorted Liu A to the gates of each city to recruit and surrender the rest of the Wu soldiers who were still resisting.For nearly an hour, the whole Wuling City finally returned to calm. In the hall of the prefect's mansion; Zhuge Qiao sat on the prefect's seat, "General, it is very difficult to count the soldiers because it is very late at night, and there are only more than [-] soldiers called now." Liu A reported.

"Guard Zhuge, there are still 2000 people left in our army, and they have all gathered at the gate of the mansion at this time," Yamen General Cai Ji also reported.

Listening to their reports, Zhuge Qiao did some calculations. He could mobilize nearly 1000 people. If he added the 500 people from Qin Jie who were still on the road, there would be a total of [-] people; he immediately felt lucky. After a while, but thinking about their goal is the tall Public Security City, the more than [-] people in their hands seem insignificant.

"Cai Ji, where is the sentence support?"

"the end will be"

"Order you two to lead the 500 people from the headquarters and the [-] people who have just joined our army to set off overnight and go straight to the Public Security City," Zhuge Qiao said.

"Liu Taishou, you also go with the army, you are the biggest reliance of our plan this time," Zhuge Qiao said to Liu A after giving orders.

"I will obey orders myself," Liu Aying said;
"Soldiers are precious, set off immediately; General Deng Jian will hand over Wuling City to you." Zhuge Qiao walked to Deng Jian's side and patted him on the shoulder.

"The city is here and the people are here." Deng Jian only said this sentence to show his determination, and Zhuge Qiao hurriedly left the hall with the other generals who had missions.

According to Zhuge Qiao's arrangement, he and Liu A led five hundred elite Han troops wearing Wu army's battle armor, and rushed to Gong'an as a defeated army, while Ju Fu and Cai Ji led the army behind, and the two armies kept a distance of about [-] For the distance of more than [-] miles, wait until you get close to the city wall of the police and then shorten the distance, pretending that the Wu army was defeated and chased by the Han army, and opened the gate of the police city in a fraudulent manner.

Gong'an City is now a county below Nanjun County. It is connected to Bashu in the west, Wuling Hengyang in the south, and Jiangling in the north. , seeking hegemony, so Liu Bei took the name of Gong'an County back then, and it was also Liu Bei's governing place in Jingzhou back then, but it was later moved to Jiangling, which is the second largest town in Nanjun after Jiangling.

On the road from Dangyang to Jiangling, nearly [-] Han soldiers were marching forward, and the leader was Fu Tong who had captured Dangyang City before. Why did he lead his lone army towards Jiangling?It turned out that before Liu Bei led the army to attack Yidao City, Fu Tong and Zhang Yi led [-] soldiers to leave the army, and marched towards Dangyang, and then attacked the empty Jingzhou City;
This was Liu Bei's own decree and he didn't discuss it with anyone, because when he learned about the battle of Lanshang from the scouts, the Wu army had mobilized most of the troops in Jingzhou, and there were only [-] troops left in Jiangling at this time. Defending the army is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Liu Bei planned to send out a surprise army to attack Jiangling directly. If Jiangling falls, the battle of Jingzhou will be over.

Fu Tong calculated the distance, and said silently, "It will take another day to see the city wall of Jiangling, success or failure depends on it."

It was another day when the east was rising and the west was setting. On this day, Fu Tong's 8000 troops finally arrived at the Jiangling city at dusk.But Fu Tong was not timid at all, and he was not prepared to set up camp and wait for the siege tomorrow; he commanded the army to line up the siege formation, and because it was a surprise army, he naturally did not carry large siege vehicles such as catapults and ladder vehicles. Equipment, only carrying simple ladders, three-bow bed crossbows and Hao bridges.

Following Fu Tong's order, the shield soldiers at the front began to advance slowly. They were carrying three-bow bed crossbows and seemed to want it to be closer to the city wall, but they came within the range of Wu Jun's bows and arrows, facing Wu Jun's attack. Under the suppression of the arrows, the Han army did not stop at all and continued to advance slowly with the shield on. The Han army stopped advancing at a position nearly 100 meters away from the city wall, and loaded the three-bow bed crossbow with arrows. The sound of the wind shot straight at Wu Jun.

The strange thing is that the arrows of the three-bow bed crossbow did not shoot at the city tower, but at the city wall; they all pierced into the city wall together, and many arrows were nailed to the stones of the city wall and bounced out. , but there were still some arrows stabbed in steadily; there was another burst of arrow rain, the targets were all city walls, and they only moved a little up and down.

After dozens of rounds of arrow shooting, nearly a thousand arrows were pierced on the city wall at this time, but I don't know why the Han army did this; Fu Tong gave an order, and the soldiers with swords and shields rushed to the city wall against the Hao Bridge. On top of the moat.

The Hao Bridge is also a tool for siege in ancient times. It is specially used to cross the moat. It is built on both sides of the moat so that soldiers of one's own side can cross the moat and attack the city directly.

The Hao Bridge had just been built, and the soldiers with swords and shields behind them were ready to attack the city with their ladders, and the heavy crossbows behind them also started shooting at the tower to suppress the attack of the tower.A siege battle is about to begin again, but the Han army has a full [-] elites, while the Wu army has only [-] county soldiers guarding it, but it has a tall city wall as a protection. For the Han army, this is indeed a gamble .

(End of this chapter)